Exhibit 3.1


                            ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

                                       OF

                                   ROEX, INC.



                                       I.

The name of this corporation is ROEX, INC.


                                       II.

The purpose of this  corporation  is to engage in any lawful act or activity for
which a  corporation  may be  organized  under the  General  Corporation  Law of
California  other than the banking  business,  the trust company business or the
practice  of a  profession  permitted  to  be  incorporated  by  the  California
Corporations Code.


                                      III.

The name and address in the State of  California of this  corporation's  initial
agent for service of process is:  William M.  McCarty,  3067 Fifth  Avenue,  San
Diego, CA 92103.


                                       IV.

This  corporation is authorized to issue only one class of shares of stock;  and
the total  number of shares which this  corporation  is  authorized  to issue is
25,000.


                                         /s/ LEWIS E. LAUGHLIN
                                             -------------------------------
                                             Lewis E. Laughlin, Incorporator

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ENDORSED-FILED
In the office of the Secretary of
State of the State of California

October 5, 1994

TONY MILLER, Acting Secretary of State


                            CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

                                       OF

                            ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION


Rodney H. Burreson and Derek Burreson certify that:


1.  They  are  the  president  and  secretary,  respectively,  of Roex  Inc.,  a
California corporation.


2. Article IV of the articles of incorporation of this corporation is amended to
read as follows:

                                       "IV

         "The total number of shares which this corporation  shall be authorized
         to issue is: 55,000,000.  Said shares shall be in two (2) classes to be
         designated  Common  shares and  Preferred  shares.  The total number of
         Common shares  authorized shall be 50,000,000,  no par value per share;
         and the total number of Preferred shares shall be 5,000,000 at $.01 par
         value per share.

         "The  Preferred  shares may be issued  from time to time in one or more
         series.  The Board of  Directors  is  authorized  to fix the  number of
         shares  of  any  series  of  Preferred  shares  and  to  determine  the
         designation  of any  such  series.  The  Board  of  Directors  is  also
         authorized to determine or alter the rights,  preferences,  privileges,
         and restrictions  granted to or imposed upon any wholly unissued series
         of Preferred shares and, within the limits and  restrictions  stated in
         any  resolution  or  resolutions  of the Board of Directors  originally
         fixing the number of shares  constituting  any  series,  to increase or
         decrease  (but not below the  number  of  shares  of such  series  then
         outstanding) the number of shares of any such series  subsequent to the
         issue of shares of that series."


3. the foregoing  amendment of articles of incorporation  has been duly approved
by the board of directors.




4.       The  foregoing  amendment  of articles of  incorporation  has been duly
         approved  by the  required  vote of  shareholders  in  accordance  with
         Section 902 of the  Corporations  Code. The total number of outstanding
         shares of the corporation is 5,238,584.  The number of shares voting in
         favor of the  amendment  equaled or  exceeded  the vote  required.  The
         percentage vote was more than 50%.

We further  declare  under  penalty  of  perjury  under the laws of the State of
California  that the matters set forth in this  certificate are true and correct
of our own knowledge.

Date:  September 22, 1999




/s/ RODNEY H. BURRESON
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    Rodney H. Burreson, President



/s/ DEREK BURRESON
    ----------------------------
    Derek Burreson, Secretary