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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times;" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times;" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times; MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Other assets&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times;" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times;" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times;" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;319&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times;" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times;" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times;" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times;" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times;" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times;" valign="bottom" colspan="2" align="right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times;" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times;" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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