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<br />POWER OF AT T(lRNEY
<br />INTERN ATI ONAE FIDEEITYINSt.JRANCE COMPANY
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<br />HOME OFFICE: ONE NEWARK CENTER, 20TH FLOOR
<br />NEWARK. NEW JERSEY 07102-5207
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<br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized and existing
<br />laws of the State of New Jersey, and having its principal office in the City of Newark, New Jersey, does hereby constitute and appoint
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<br />LYNNEM. LUDWIG, ROBERT W. BABCOCK, DANIEL LAW, JENNYHON
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<br />MILPITAS, CA.
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<br />its trUe and lawful attorney(s)-in-factto execute, seal and deliver for and on its behalf as surety, any and all bonds and undertakings, contracts of indemnity and
<br />oth~r writings obligato. ry.. III the nature thereof, which are or may be allowed. required or pernùtted by law, sta~~ rule, reg,ulation, contract or otherwise, and
<br />the exec\1tion of such instrUment(s) in pursuance of these presents, shall be as binding upon the said U'fl j,RNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE
<br />C9~ANY, as fully and amply, to all intents and purposes, as if the same had been duly executed and acknowledged by its regularly elected officers at its
<br />pnnclpal office.
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<br />This Power of Attorney is executed, and may' þe revoked, pursuant to and by authority of Article 3-Section 3, of the By-Laws adopted by the Board of
<br />Directors of INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY at a meeting called and held on the 7th day of February, 1974.
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<br />The President or any Vice President, Executive Vice President, Secretary or Assistant Secretary, shall have power and authority
<br />(l) To appoint Attorneys-in-fact, and to authorize them to execute on behalf of the Company, and attach the Seal of the Company thereto, bonds and
<br />undertakings, contracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof and,
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<br />(2) To remove, at any time, any such attorney-in-fact and revoke the authority given.
<br />Further, this Power of Attorney is signed and sealed by facsimile pursuant to resolution of the Board of Directors of said Company adopted at.a meeting
<br />duly called and held on the 29th day of April, 1982 of which the following is a trUe excerpt:
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<br />Now therefore the signatures of such officers and the seal of the Company may be affixed to any such power of attorney or any certificate relating thereto by
<br />facsimile, and any such power of attorney or certificate bearing such facsimile signatures or facsimile seal shall be valid and bindmg upon the Company and any
<br />such power so executed and certified by facsimile signatures and facsimile seal shall be valid and binding upon the Company in the future with respect to any
<br />bond or undertaking to which it is attached.
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<br />IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY has caused this instrument to be
<br />signed and its corporate seal to be affixed by its authorized officer, this 29th day of August, A.D. 2003.
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<br />STATE OF NEW JERSEY
<br />County of Essex
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<br />On this 29th day of August 2003, before me came the individual who executed the preceding, instrument, tolIle jJersonally known, and, being by me duly
<br />sworn, said the he IS the therein described and authorized officer of the INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY; that the seal affixed to
<br />sajd instrument is the Corporate Seal of said Company; that the said Corporate Seal and his signature were duly affixed by order of the Board of Directors of
<br />said Company.
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<br />IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand affixed my Official Seal,
<br />at the City of Newark, New Jersey the day and year first above written.
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<br />A NOTARY PUBLIC OF NEW JERSEY
<br />My Commission Expires Nov. 21, 2005
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<br />CERTIFICATION
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<br />I, the undersigned officer of INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY do hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing copy of the
<br />Power of Attorney and affidavit, and the copy of the Section of the By-Laws of said Company as set forth in said Power of Attorney, with the ORIGINALS ON
<br />IN THE HOME OFFICE OF SAID COMPANY, and that the same are correct transcripts thereof, and of the whole of the said originals, and that the said Power
<br />of Attorney has not been revoked and is now in full force and effect
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<br />September, 2005
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