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Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.
None.
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures.
An evaluation was performed under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including
our Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer) and Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer),
of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (Exchange Act), as of the end of the period covered by this
report. Based on that evaluation, our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial
Officer, concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2008 and
designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit under the
Exchange Act, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and
forms of the SEC and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required
disclosure.
Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial
reporting as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act. Our internal control over financial
reporting is designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the
preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting
principles.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect
misstatements. Therefore, even those systems determined to be effective can provide only reasonable assurance
of achieving their control objectives.
Our management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of
December 31, 2008. In making this assessment, our management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of
Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in Internal Control—Integrated Framework.
Based on our assessment and those criteria, management believes that we maintained effective internal control
over financial reporting as of December 31, 2008.
Our independent registered public accounting firm, Ernst & Young LLP, has issued a report on our internal
controls over financial reporting as of December 31, 2008. See “Item 8. Consolidated Financial Statements and
Supplementary Data.”
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There have not been any changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended
December 31, 2008 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal
control over financial reporting.
Item 9B. Other Information.
None.
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