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Certificate of Incorporation - Castle Creek Partners GP Inc.

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                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

                                       OF

                         CASTLE CREEK PARTNERS GP, INC.




                                    ARTICLE I

                               NAME OF CORPORATION

                          The name of this corporation
                                      is:

                         CASTLE CREEK PARTNERS GP, INC.


                                   ARTICLE II

                                REGISTERED OFFICE

       The address of the registered office of the corporation in the State of
Delaware is 9 East Loockerman Street, in the City of Dover 19901, County of
Kent, and the name of its registered agent at that address is National
Registered Agents, Inc.


                                   ARTICLE III

                                     PURPOSE

       The purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity
for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of
Delaware.


                                   ARTICLE IV

                            AUTHORIZED CAPITAL STOCK

       The corporation shall be authorized to issue one class of stock, to be
designated "Common Stock"; the total number of shares that the corporation shall
have authority to issue is One Million (1,000,000); all such shares shall have a
par value of one cent ($0.01).



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                                    ARTICLE V

                                  INCORPORATOR

       The name and mailing address of the incorporator of the corporation is:


                      Tami Gerardi
                      c/o National Corporate Research, LTD.
                      9 East Loockerman Street
                      Dover, Delaware 19901


                                   ARTICLE VI

                          BOARD POWER REGARDING BYLAWS

       In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute,
the Board of Directors is expressly authorized to make, repeal, alter, amend and
rescind the bylaws of the corporation.


                                   ARTICLE VII

                              ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

       Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the bylaws of
the corporation shall so provide.

                                  ARTICLE VIII

                        LIMITATION OF DIRECTOR LIABILITY

       To the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law
as the same exists or may hereafter be amended, a director of the corporation
shall not be liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages
for breach of fiduciary duty as a director. If the Delaware General Corporation
Law is amended after the date of the filing of this Certificate of Incorporation
to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal
liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the corporation
shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware
General Corporation Law, as so amended from time to time. No repeal or
modification of this Article VIII by the stockholders shall adversely affect any
right or protection of a director of the corporation existing by virtue of this
Article VIII at the time of such repeal or modification.



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                                   ARTICLE IX

                                 CORPORATE POWER

       The corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any
provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now or
hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred on stockholders herein
are granted subject to this reservation.

                                    ARTICLE X

                       CREDITOR COMPROMISE OR ARRANGEMENT

       Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this corporation
and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this corporation and its
stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within
the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of this
corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application of
any receiver or receivers appointed for this corporation under the provisions of
Section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on the application of trustees in
dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for this corporation under
the provisions of Section 279 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code, order a meeting
of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of
stockholders of this corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such
manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing
three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the
stockholders or class of stockholders of this corporation, as the case may be,
agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this
corporation as a consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said
compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by
the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the
creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of
stockholders, of this corporation, as the case may be, and also on this
corporation.

       THE UNDERSIGNED, being the incorporator hereinbefore named, for the
purpose of forming a corporation to do business both within and without the
State of Delaware, and in pursuance of the Delaware General Corporation Law,
does make and file this Certificate.

Dated: April 13, 1998



                                  /s/  Tami Gerardi
                                  ----------------------
                                  Tami Gerardi
                                  Incorporator





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