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&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; display: inline;"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 9pt;" id="tab2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;#160;At March 31, 2012 and 2011, the Company had receivables due from ADT Security Services, Inc. (&amp;#8220;ADT&amp;#8221;) in the amount of approximately $2.7 million and $0.3 million, respectively.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;During the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011, ADT accounted for 11% and 21%, respectively, of&amp;#160;&amp;#160;net sales.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:ConcentrationRiskDisclosureTextBlock>
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&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;
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