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border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 751.150000pt; height: 14.200000pt; top: 19.200000pt; left: 31.700000pt;" > <LAYER top=25.600000px left=42.266667px width=1001.533333px height=18.933333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,1001,18" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 729.600000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Rock Around The World April 1978 7 </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 752.250000pt; height: 78.500000pt; top: 361.900000pt; left: 23.800000pt;" > <LAYER top=482.533333px left=31.733333px width=1003.000000px height=104.666667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,1003,104" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P class=Style3 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.810000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 16.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Arial Narrow,sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-size: 110.628000pt; letter-spacing: -1.130000pt;" >JOURNEY </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 752.250000pt; height: 22.500000pt; top: 440.400000pt; left: 23.800000pt;" > <LAYER top=587.200000px left=31.733333px width=1003.000000px height=30px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,1003,30" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P class=Style3 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.950000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 33.600000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 24.549000pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" ><SPAN style=" text-decoration: underline;" >Fourth Dimension </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 752.250000pt; height: 16.150000pt; top: 462.900000pt; left: 23.800000pt;" > <LAYER top=617.200000px left=31.733333px width=1003.000000px height=21.533333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,1003,21" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P class=Style3 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.290000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 110.400000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >by Marc Shapiro </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 748.800000pt; height: 8.150000pt; top: 479.050000pt; left: 27.250000pt;" > <LAYER top=638.733333px left=36.333333px width=998.400000px height=10.866667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,998,10" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P class=Style3 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.950000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 820.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Gregg Rolie </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 317.100000pt; height: 14.850000pt; top: 347.050000pt; left: 173.600000pt;" > <LAYER top=462.733333px left=231.466667px width=422.800000px height=19.800000px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,422,19" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P class=Style3 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.260000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"We weren't kidding around when we decided to start this band." </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 237.400000pt; height: 483.700000pt; top: 487.200000pt; left: 35.050000pt;" > <LAYER top=649.600000px left=46.733333px width=316.533333px height=644.933333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,316,644" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P class=Style3 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 19.200000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >The guy who came up with the statement "mighty oaks from little acorns grow2-inust have had this gig in mind. </SPAN></P> <P class=Style5 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >On stage Journey was putting the finishing touches on <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >a set that had five hundred of the locals begging for </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >more. Fine. Any band with the chops can have an </SPAN>audience foaming at the mouth if the music is good and <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >the crowd isn't too far into the homegrown to respond. </SPAN>But, unbeknownst to the throng, their response to Journey's material was being gauged as an indicator of better things to come for the group. </SPAN></P> <P class=Style5 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 7.200000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Since the band's formation (as a result of what Journey afficienodos claim was Gregg Rolie and Neal Schon's refusal to follow Carlos Santana to the promised land) <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Journey has been the </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >victim </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >of what has been described </SPAN>as the "kissing your sister" syndrome of rock and roll. </SPAN></P> <P class=Style3 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 14.400000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >The band's musical concoction (something along the lines of the Moody Blues meet Black Sabbath) seemed a natural in the progressive rock dry spell that was 1973. This was the ideal rock package! There's no way this band can stiff. </SPAN></P> <P class=Style5 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >1973: Journey's first LP and one of the best singles recorded in the last decade, "To Play Some Music," lands with a resounding thud. </SPAN></P> <P class=Style5 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Undaunted, Journey (which also contains the talents <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >of Ross Valory and Aynsley Dunbar) released </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Look Into </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >The Future, an </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >earthier extension of the band's predominantly instrumental bent. It too went to bubbling under with an anchor before sinking like a stone. Ditto </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >their third LP, </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Next, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >which continued the group's stature </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >as the gods of northern California. Unfortunately, </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Next </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >and a ton of touring couldn't get Journey arrested anywhere outside the bay area. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=Style5 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >All of which brings this odyseey to 1977 and two additions that will, doubtless, push Messers Rolie, Schon, <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Valory and Dunbar at long last into the black. One was </SPAN>the production hand of Roy Thomas Baker whose deft <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >hand on Journey's latest LP, </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Infinity, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >added just the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >right polish to the band's rough edges. The other being </SPAN>the presence of lead singer Steven Perry, a mouthpiece whose soulful vocals and commercial leanings would seem to have bridged the final gap to Journey's commercial success. </SPAN></P> <P class=Style5 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 9.600000px; margin-right: 9.600000px; margin-bottom: 4.800000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Between sets in Santa Clara, Ca., Rolie, Perry and Valory talked about various aspects of Journey's pursuit of the brass ring. The concensus of this round table <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >discussion was that </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Infinity </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >was not a new Journey </SPAN>rising phoenix-like out of the old. </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 237.400000pt; height: 483.700000pt; top: 487.200000pt; left: 282.450000pt;" > <LAYER top=649.600000px left=376.600000px width=316.533333px height=644.933333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,316,644" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P class=Style5 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"It's <SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman;" >just </SPAN>a new growth curve for the band," explained Steven. "It was something that was bound to happen in <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >the natural evolution of the band. The first two LPs </SPAN>were made with the idea of showing off the group's instrumental capabilities. Once those strengths were established the logical way to go was to develop equally strong vocals. The <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt;" >Next </SPAN>album was transitional in the development of the vocals and <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt;" >Infinity </SPAN>is all the band's strengths finally realized." </SPAN></P> <P class=Style5 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Also flowering to maturity is a fully blown commerical sound that harnesses Journey's spacey brand of hard rock <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >into a pop vein that immediately puts the group's </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >recorded efforts into that rarified air of similiar efforts </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >by Boston and Foreigner. Perry's hooks and pop-</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >oriented melodies seem at the core of the turnabout and </SPAN>so it seemed appropriate that he should explain the intricacies of the change. </SPAN></P> <P class=Style5 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 7.200000px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"I've always been into things like hooks and melodies. With me it's always been an attitude of 'hey! The best songs have something that stick out in people's minds.' So with <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt;" >Infinity </SPAN>it was a matter of coming up with some catchy hooks and sticking them into the band's instrumental arrangements in a way that would please us creatively and, at the same time, strike a responsive medium between commercial and progressive with our audience." </SPAN></P> <P class=Style5 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 7.200000px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >A momentary <SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman;" >lull </SPAN>in the conversation allowed Ross <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >to make the observation that Journey as a performing </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >unit was going into it's fifth year. Good natured woofing </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >by all three followed, but at a time when the wrong deodorant is grounds for dismissal, it seemed a miracle that Journey had persevered (if not profited) this long. Ross explained it not so much as a miracle as it was a thoroughly professional attitude by a group of veteran musicians who had been at it for a while. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=Style5 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 7.200000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"When you've been doing this sort of thing as long as we have you have some kind of set goals in mind. One of our goals is to stay together over a long period of time. <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >We're not into taking the money and running like a lot </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >of groups. We want to be stars as well as creative </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >musicians. Yes, it is possible to be both but in order to </SPAN>do so you have to be able to gather and hold a large listening audience. Their support allows you to grow as creative musicians and, in turn, allows the audience to <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >grow along with you. We want to stay around a while </SPAN>and <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt;" >Infinity </SPAN>is just the next step in making that happen." </SPAN></P> <P class=Style5 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 9.600000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.400000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Gregg echoed Ross' sentiments while citing individuals pulling together for the good of the group as Journey's </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 237.400000pt; height: 254.550000pt; top: 716.350000pt; left: 529.850000pt;" > <LAYER top=955.133333px left=706.466667px width=316.533333px height=339.400000px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,316,339" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P class=Style5 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.130000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >musical foundation. </SPAN></P> <P class=Style3 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"We weren't kidding around <SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman;" >when </SPAN>we decided to start <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >this band. A lot of bands are made up of people who care only about themselves and the group itself comes second. But having been around awhile we've seen how that </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=Style3 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >attitude can screw up a band. We're devoted to each other and to the band. Everybody in this band is identified and recognized as an individual but <SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman;" >it </SPAN>all boils down to it being done as a group. </SPAN></P> <P class=Style5 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"And it's that devotion to the group that keeps us creative. You'd think after nearly five years we'd begin running out of things to say musically. That isn't the case with us. Right now we have more ideas than we can deal. with. There's never a lack of creativity or new influences. <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Every day somebody comes in with a new idea and we'll </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman;" >sit </SPAN>down and add our own ideas to it. The result's always been a fine piece of music." </SPAN></P> <P class=Style5 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 7.200000px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >A knock at the door signalled five minutes before the <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >start of the second set. The response proved twice that </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >of </SPAN>the first show and lit the fuse that was the backstage celebration later. </SPAN></P> <P class=Style3 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 19.200000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"Today Santa Clara, tomorrow the world," cried a happily drunk roadie. </SPAN></P> <P class=Style5 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4.800000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >A sage he wasn't, but it's doubtful that more prophetic words were uttered that night. </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 751.150000pt; height: 13.350000pt; top: 973.050000pt; left: 31.700000pt;" > <LAYER top=1297.400000px left=42.266667px width=1001.533333px height=17.800000px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,1001,17" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Gregg Robe <SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman;" >by Lauren Hoffman </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 736.550000pt; height: 324.200000pt; top: 37.700000pt; left: 31.700000pt;" > <LAYER top=50.266667px left=42.266667px width=982.066667px height=432.266667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,982,432" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" ><CENTER> <IMG src="0427O007_Picture1.jpg" alt="Picture" align="top" height="432" width="982"></CENTER> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 237.400000pt; height: 229.150000pt; top: 487.200000pt; left: 529.850000pt;" > <LAYER top=649.600000px left=706.466667px width=316.533333px height=305.533333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,316,305" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <DIV style=" margin-top: 3.533333px; margin-right: 3.800000px; margin-bottom: 4.066667px; margin-left: 0.066667px;" ><CENTER> <IMG src="0427O007_Picture2.jpg" alt="Picture" align="top" height="297" width="312"></CENTER> </DIV> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" border-top: 2.266667px solid #000000 ; width: 746.200000pt; height: 0pt; top: 34.300000pt; left: 28.100000pt;" > <LAYER top=45.733333px left=37.466667px width=994.933333px height=0px CLIP=" 0,0,994,0" class=Box style="" > </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" border-top: 1px solid #000000 ; width: 208.100000pt; height: 0pt; top: 463.200000pt; left: 57.850000pt;" > <LAYER top=617.600000px left=77.133333px width=277.466667px height=0px CLIP=" 0,0,277,0" class=Box style="" > </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" border-top: 1px solid #000000 ; width: 231.200000pt; height: 0pt; top: 481.900000pt; left: 35.500000pt;" > <LAYER top=642.533333px left=47.333333px width=308.266667px height=0px CLIP=" 0,0,308,0" class=Box style="" > </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: transparent; border: 1.200000pt solid #000000 ; width: 756.150000pt; height: 953.550000pt; top: 22pt; left: 23.650000pt;" > <LAYER top=29.333333px left=31.533333px width=1008.200000px height=1271.400000px bgcolor=transparent CLIP=" 0,0,1008,1271" class=Box style=" background-color: transparent;" > </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Boxlistheight style=" width: 1072.333333px; height: 1444.133333px; top: 25.600000px;" > </DIV> </ILAYER> </DIV> <HR NOSHADE size=3 align=center><CENTER> <TABLE width="80%"> <TR> <TD align="left" ></TD> <TD align="right" ></TD></TR></TABLE></CENTER> </BODY></HTML>