2. New Accounting Pronouncements

In September 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued SFAS 157, Fair Value Measurements, which defines fair value, creates a framework for measuring fair value in generally accepted accounting principles, and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS 157 is effective for financial assets and liabilities and recurring non-financial assets and liabilities issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007, and the interim periods within those fiscal years. The FASB has provided a one-year deferral for the implementation of SFAS 157 (fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2008) for all non-financial and non-recurring assets and liabilities, which include our long-lived assets, goodwill and intangible assets. We will adopt the provisions of SFAS 157 for all financial and recurring non-financial assets and liabilities on the effective date. We will adopt the provisions of SFAS 157 for non-financial and non-recurring assets and liabilities as of the deferred effective date. Based on the provisions of SFAS 157, the difference between the carrying value and fair value will be recognized at the adoption date as a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings. SFAS 157 will not have a material effect on our financial statements.

In February 2007, the FASB issued SFAS 159, The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities, including an amendment of SFAS 115.
SFAS 159 permits all entities to choose to measure many financial instruments and certain other items at fair value that are not currently required to be measured at fair value at specified election dates. SFAS 159 does not affect any existing accounting literature that requires certain assets and liabilities to be carried at fair value. The objective of SFAS 159 is to improve financial reporting by providing companies with the opportunity to mitigate the volatility in reported earnings caused by measuring related assets and liabilities differently without having to apply complex hedge accounting provisions. The associated unrealized gains and losses on the items for which the fair value option has been elected shall be reported in earnings. SFAS 159 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. We will adopt SFAS 159 on the effective date. Based on the provisions of SFAS 159, the difference between the carrying value and fair value will be recognized at the adoption date as a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings. SFAS 159 will not have an effect on our financial statements.

In December 2007, the FASB issued SFAS 141(R), Business Combinations. SFAS 141(R) establishes principles and requirements for an acquirer, which improves the relevance, representational faithfulness and comparability of information provided by a reporting entity in its financial reports about business combinations and its effects. SFAS 141(R) is effective prospectively to business combinations with an acquisition date on or after the beginning of the first annual reporting period beginning on or after December 15, 2008. Currently, we are not able to estimate the impact SFAS 141(R) will have on our financial statements.

In December 2007, the FASB issued SFAS 160, Noncontrolling Interests in Consolidated Financial Statements (an amendment of ARB No. 51). SFAS 160 establishes accounting and reporting standards designed to improve the relevance, comparability and transparency of the financial information provided in a reporting entity's consolidated financial statements. SFAS 160 requires:

• ownership interests in subsidiaries held by parties, other than the parent, to be clearly identified, labeled and presented in the consolidated balance sheet within equity, but separate from the parent's equity,
• net income attributable to the parent and the noncontrolling interest to be clearly identified and presented on the face of the consolidated statement of income,
• changes in the parent's ownership interest to be accounted for as equity transactions, if a subsidiary is deconsolidated and any retained noncontrolling equity investment to be measured at fair value,
• and that entities provide sufficient disclosures that clearly identify and distinguish between the interests of the parent and noncontrolling owners.

SFAS 160 is effective for fiscal years and interim periods beginning on or after December 15, 2008.

Currently, we are not able to estimate the impact SFAS 160 will have on our financial statements.