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<br />THIS POWER OF ATTORNEY IS NOT VALID UNLESS IT IS PRINTED ON RED BACKGROUND.
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<br />This Power of Attorney limits the acts of those named herein, and they have no authority to bind the Company except in the manner and to
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<br />LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
<br />BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
<br />POWER OF ATTORNEY
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<br />KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS: That Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (the 'Company"), a Massachusetts stock insurance
<br />company, pursuant to and by authority of the By-law and Authorization hereinafter set forth, does hereby name, constitute and appoint
<br />CHARLES L. SHAMBAUGH, JAMES M. PADDEN, CORINNE J. BEHRENS, CAROLYNJ. THOEN, DANIEL W. WERNER, ALL
<br />OF THE CITY OF FARGO~ STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA ..................... ...................................................................................
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<br />, each individually if there be more than one named, its true and lawful attorney-in-fact to make, execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver, for and on its
<br />behalf as surety and as its act anddee. d, an...v....El.n. d all Und. e. Ita.. '..kings, bonds, rec. ogn.izances and othe.r. surety obligation.s in the penal sum not exceeding
<br />THIRTY MILLION AND 00/100**********"'***1<***** . . .' . DOLLARS ($ 30,000,000.00***** . ) each, and the
<br />execution of such undertakings, bonds, recognizances and other surety obligations, in pursuance of these presents, shall be as binding upon the
<br />Company as if they had been duly signed by the presidentl'lOdattested by the secretary of the Compahy in their own proper persons,
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<br />That this power is made and executed pursuant to and by authority of the following By-law and Authorization:
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<br />ARTICLE XIII - Execution of Contracts: Section 5. Surety Bonds and Undertakings.
<br />Any officer of the Company authorized for that purpose in writing by the chairman or the president, and subject to such limitations as the
<br />chairman or the president may prescribe, shall appoint such attorneys-in-fact, as may be necessary to act in behalf of the Company to make,
<br />execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver as surety any and all undertakings, bonds, recognizances and other surety obligations. Such
<br />attorneys-in-fact, subject to the limitations set forth in their respective powers of attorney, shall have full power to bind the Company by their
<br />signature and execution of any such instruments and to attach thereto the seal of the Company. When so executed such instruments shall be
<br />as binding as if signed by the president and attested by the secretary.
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<br />~ -! On this 22nd day of September , 2004 , before me, a Notary Public, personally came Garnet W. Elliott, to me known, and acknowledged
<br />0._ that he is an Assistant Secretary of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company; that he knows the seal of said corporation; and that he executed the above
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<br />:; ~ IN TESTIMONY WH unto subscribed my name and affixed my notarial seal at Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, on the day and year
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<br />Pursuant to Article XIII, Section 5 of the By-Laws, Garnet W. Elliott, Assistant Secretary of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, is hereby
<br />authorized to appoint such attorneys-in-fact as may be necessary to act in behalf of the Company to make, execute, seal, acknowledge and
<br />deliver as surety any and all undertakings, bonds, recognizances and other surety obligations.
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<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Power of Attorney has been subscribed by an authorized officer or official of the Company and the corporate seal of
<br />Liberty Mutual Insurance Company has been affixed thereto in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania this 22nd day of September
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<br />CERTIFICATE
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<br />ByC1--4 U_ ~.
<br />Garnet W. Elliott, Assistant Secretary
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<br />Teresa Pastella, Notary Public
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<br />I, the undersigned, Assistant ecretary of Liberty Mutuallrisurance Company, do hereby certify that the original power of attorney of which the foregoing
<br />is a full, true and correct copy, is in fult force and effect on thedateofthis certificate; and r do furthercertifythatthe officer or official who executed the
<br />said power of attorney is an Assistant Secretary specially authorized by the chairman orthe presidentto appointattorneys-in-fact as provided in Article
<br />XIII, Section 5 of the By-laws of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company:
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<br />This certificate and the above power of attorney may be signed by facsimile or mechanically reproduced signatures under and by authority of the
<br />following vote of the board of directors of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company at a meeting duly called and held on the 12th day of March, 1980,
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<br />VOTED that the facsimile or mechanically reproduced signature of any assistant secretary of the company, wherever appearing upon a
<br />certified copy of any power of attorney issued by the company in connection with surety bonds, shall be valid and binding upon the company
<br />with the same force and effect as though manually affixed.
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<br />IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the corporate seal of the said company, this
<br />May , 2005.
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