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Mr. Mancuso would bring to the Board his significant experience as a senior corporate officer as well as in all facets of corporate management. Based on the recommendation of the Company’s Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, Mr. Mancuso is a new nominee for election by the shareholders to the Board. Mr. Mancuso retired in June 2006 from General Dynamics, a leading supplier of high-level defense systems to the United States and its allies, where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In this role, Mr. Mancuso was responsible for corporate-wide financial management, consolidation and reporting, information systems and real estate. Mr. Mancuso also had operations management responsibility for General Dynamics’ Resources group in aggregates and coal. He was named Chief Financial Officer of General Dynamics in 1994 and was elected Senior Vice President in March 1997. Prior to his employment at General Dynamics, Mr. Mancuso held several senior financial positions with United Technologies Corporation (UTC), including Vice President and Controller for UTC’s Pratt and Whitney Commercial Engine business unit. Mr. Mancuso began his career with General Electric, where he served over 20 years in various financial management positions. Mr. Mancuso also serves on the board of directors for SPX Corporation, a publicly-held industrial manufacturer headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, LSI, Inc., a publicly-held global leader in semiconductors for storage, wireless data, and public and enterprise networks, and The Shaw Group Inc., a publicly-held company which provides premier engineering, design, construction, and maintenance services to government and private-sector clients in a wide array of industries, including the energy, environmental, infrastructure, and emergency response markets. | 