EXHIBIT 23


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY



           The undersigned, General Electric Capital Corporation, a Delaware
corporation (formerly known as General Electric Credit Corporation and herein,
the "Corporation"), does hereby make, constitute and appoint each of the
following persons as the Corporation's true and lawful agent and
attorney-in-fact (each hereinafter sometimes referred to as the "Attorney") to
act in the name and on behalf of the Corporation for and with respect to the
matters hereinafter described.

           Name of Attorney(s): Kevin Korsh

           Each Attorney (acting alone) shall have the power and authority to do
the following:

           To execute and deliver any Schedule 13D, Schedule 13G or Forms 3, 4
or 5 or any amendments thereto required to be filed with Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 on behalf of the
Corporation with regard to any securities owned by the Corporation or any of its
subsidiaries.

           And the Corporation hereby grants and gives each Attorney (acting
alone) the power and authority to do any and every act and to exercise any and
every power that the Corporation might or could do with respect to the foregoing
and that the Attorney shall deem proper and advisable, the Corporation intending
to vest in the Attorney a full power of attorney for the purposes aforesaid, and
the Corporation hereby ratifies and confirms all prior acts of each Attorney on
behalf of the Corporation in connection with the aforesaid purposes.

           And in connection with the foregoing, to execute all documents,
acknowledgments, consents and other agreements and to take such further action
as may be necessary or convenient for the Corporation in order to more
effectively carry out the intent and purpose of the foregoing powers.



           Agreements, documents, instruments and other writings executed by the
Attorney in accordance with the terms hereof shall be binding upon the
Corporation without attestation and without affixation of the seal of the
Corporation. The power of attorney conferred hereby shall not be delegable by
the Attorney. The Attorney shall serve without compensation for acting in the
capacity of agent and attorney-in-fact hereunder.

           This Power of Attorney and the authority of the Attorney hereunder
shall automatically terminate on December 31, 2004.

           IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Power of Attorney
to be executed, attested, and its corporate seal affixed pursuant to authority
granted by the Corporation's Board of Directors as of April 30, 2003.


                                      GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION

                                      By: /s/ Joseph Parsons
                                          ------------------------------------
                                          Joseph Parsons,
                                          Vice President


/s/ Paul Mundinger
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Paul Mundinger,
Attesting Secretary




State of Connecticut     )
                         )  SS:  Stamford
County of Fairfield      )


Before me, a Notary Public, personally appeared Joseph Parsons and Paul
Mundinger, known to me to be a Vice President and Attesting Secretary,
respectively, of General Electric Capital Corporation, who each executed the
foregoing and attached Certificate pursuant to authority granted by the Board of
Directors of said Corporation.



                                                  /s/ Valerie Benedetto
                                                  ---------------------------
                                                  Notary Public



My commission expires:  March 31, 2008


Dated:  April 30, 2003