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| EQUITY AND CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURES FINANCING:     | EQUITY AND CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURES FINANCING: On June 1, 2011, the Company entered into a debenture purchase agreement (the “Debenture Purchase Agreement”) with entities affiliated with Wynnefield Capital, Inc. (the “Debenture Purchasers”), providing for a standby commitment pursuant to which the Debenture Purchasers agreed to purchase convertible debentures (the “Convertible Debentures”) in an aggregate principal amount of up to $350,000 (the “Total Commitment Amount”). In addition, the Company issued the Debenture Purchasers warrants to purchase an aggregate of 53,846 shares of common stock (the “Warrants”) in consideration of their agreement to provide the Total Commitment Amount. The Debenture Purchasers are entities affiliated with Wynnefield Capital, Inc., the Company’s largest shareholder. Mr. Peter Black, a member of the Company’s Board of Directors, is an employee of Wynnefield Capital. On July 28, 2011, the Company drew down the entire amount of the Total Commitment amount available under the Debenture Purchase Agreement and issued the Convertible Debentures in the aggregate principal amount of $350,000 to the Debenture Purchasers. The Warrants were exercisable at a price of $0.96 until June 2016 and the conversion rate of the convertible debentures was $1.25. In October 2013, Wynnefield Partners Small Cap Value, L.P. I, the holder of a principal amount of $210,000 of convertible debentures elected to convert such debentures in full into 168,000 shares of common stock.  The $140,000 balance of the convertible debentures plus accrued interest was paid at maturity on October 28, 2013. In addition, in October 2013, the holders of the Warrants exercised such Warrants in full for 53,846 shares of common stock. A non-recurring gain of $119 thousand was recognized related to the closure of the convertible debt.   Additionally, expense of $20 thousand was recorded in the three months ended December 31, 2013, related to fair valuation of the  warrants. The accrued liability of $61 thousand with respect to the fair value of the warrants was reflected as additional paid in capital upon their exercise.  The shares of the Company’s common stock s issued upon conversion of the debentures were issued in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The shares of the Company’s common stock s issued upon exercise of the Warrants were issued in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.    On March 16, 2012, the Company filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a rights offering in which existing stockholders of the Company received non-transferable rights to purchase $4.2 million of additional shares of its common stock. Under the terms of the rights offering, the Company distributed, at no charge to the holders of its common stock as of the record date of April 10, 2012, non- transferable subscription rights for each share of common stock owned on the record date.  Each subscription right entitled the holder to purchase 0.532 shares of the Company’s common stock at a price of $1.30 per share. The rights offering also includes an over-subscription privilege, which entitled a holder who exercises its basic subscription privilege in full the right to purchase additional shares of common stock that remain unsubscribed at the expiration of the rights offering, subject to the availability and  pro rata  allocation of shares among persons exercising this over-subscription right. In connection with the rights offering, on April 30, 2012, the Company entered into a standby purchase agreement with Wynnefield Capital, Inc. (“Wynnefield Capital”), which owned, prior to the rights offering, approximately 21% of the Company’s Common Stock through certain affiliated entities. Pursuant to the standby purchase agreement, Wynnefield Capital (or affiliated assignees) agreed to acquire from us in the rights offering, subject to the satisfactions of specified conditions, the shares of common stock that relate to any rights that remain unexercised at the expiration of the rights offering. We entered into a registration rights agreement with Wynnefield Capital whereby we agreed, at our cost and expense, to register for resale under the Securities Act of 1933, all shares of common stock beneficially owned by Wynnefield Capital, including shares purchased by Wynnefield Capital in the rights offering as well as shares potentially received upon exercise of the conversion feature of the Convertible Debt and upon exercise of the associated warrants. This registration statement was declared effective by the SEC in January 2013. The Company completed the closing of the rights offering on June 15, 2012 and raised gross proceeds of $4.2 million from the sale of 3,230,769 shares of its common stock.  As a result, the total number of shares of the Company’s common stock outstanding increased to 9,305,702 shares.  Officers and directors purchased an aggregate of 137,678 shares in the rights offering and entities affiliated with Wynnefield Capital purchased a total of 2,840,251 shares of our common stock. |

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