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ECSI Receives $1.2 Million in Orders for Its Core Technologies and Services
Monday August 7, 11:22 am ET
Affirms Company's Position as Chief Source of Perimeter Security Products
CLIFTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 2006--ECSI (Electronic Control Security, Inc. (OTC BB:EKCS - News) a global leader in perimeter security systems today announced it was awarded a purchase order for over $1,200,000 to secure chemical and petrochemical facilities in North Africa.
ECSI will supply three of its premiere product lines designed to prevent unauthorized entry or access to large facilities. The Infrared Perimeter Intrusion Detection System (IPIDS®), Fiber Optic Intelligent Detection System (FOIDS®) and Intrusion Detection & Monitoring System (IDMSS®) will be deployed to protect five chemical/petrochemical sites during the next five to six months.
Arthur Barchenko, CEO of ECSI said, "This is the first of a number of contracts for chemical/petrochemical facilities that we expect to secure during the coming months. We have submitted proposals to supply our core technologies on four other major chemical/petrochemical, LNG facilities and pipeline projects in the United States, Central America and Africa."
About ECSI
ECSI is recognized as a global leader in perimeter security and an effective quality provider for both the Department of Defense and Homeland Security programs. The company designs, manufactures and markets physical electronic security systems for high profile, high threat environments. The employment of risk assessment and analysis allows ECSI to determine and address the security needs of government and commercial-industrial installations. The company has teaming agreements with ARINC, Hudson Marine Inc., Lockheed Martin Transportation & Security Solutions, Parsons Infrastructure & Technology Group, SERCO, Inc., Raytheon Technical Services Co. LLC, Stratos Global and other industry leaders. ECSI is located at 790 Bloomfield Avenue, Bldg. C-1, Clifton NJ 07012. Tel: 973-574-8555; Fax: 973-574-8562. For more information on ECSI and its customers, please go to http://www.anti-terrorism.com.
re: Brinker Update: Len you left out the following:
"Put/Call ratio history tells us that these bears are seldom if ever rewarded when they assemble in such large numbers."
All time record high reading of 1.05 in 60-day late July reading.
We shall see. I have a 40% confidence in it!!! LOL
MDF: Bob & Mike, thanks. I will be a buyer again. Waiting for lower prices, not sure yet how low!
MDF'ers: Whats up with the stock? I would have thought that the recent PR regarding enrollments would have helped. Stock seems to be in free fall today. Any thoughts?
beigledog, although I have no reason to doubt what you say, Our Pet's experience with Walmart is 180 degrees from every other Walmart vendor I have ever heard about. They may pay as agreed, but they squeeze margins and are very demanding of vendors.
A four-page medical summary issued by the White House a year ago said Bush remained in the ``superior'' fitness category for a man of his age.
A separate statement signed by nine doctors who conducted the 2005 physical said there is ``every reasonable expectation that he will remain fit for duty for the duration of his presidency.''
I would question if he has ever been fit for duty. NLOL
HWEB: JOB, you know as well as I do that markets are not rational. I made a lucky sale of my JOB @ 2.01/2.02 the other day. I fully expected it would go higher, maybe to $2.40 or so. I felt I was in the mid point between it going up 40 cents or down an equal amount. For once recently I was correct. I have been only a seller the last few months of all things stock related. However JOB is getting close to a buy.
btw - I bought Schwab Value Advantage money market with my proceeds!
JOB: They had a similar cash position last Q and the stock traded down into the $1.40's. The economic outlook is less clear at this point. Will be a buyer again if it dips down to the 1.50 area. Anyone who bought in the 1.40- 1.50 area recently would still be getting out with a profit here!
lentinman: from VMC you said: " they survived to build the greatest country on earth"
"We are grossly spoiled and I like to bring myself back to earth every now and then just to determine what it is that I can live with"
Yes, they built the greatest country on earth of spoiled people! The egotistical view is what kills us. Most people in the US have this sense of entitlement. The rest of the world (mostly) hates us. How long do you think we will get away with it? It is rapidly catching up with us. How do you think Americans would react to having rockets launched at us on a daily basis. NO heat, air conditioning, water, etc.
We are not as great as we think we are!
Lentinman: If you ever decide to save energy by wearing the same underware for 2 months, please don't let us in on it!
LOL
Our tax dollars are working for us. Who exactly thought up the idea to study this topic?
Watermelons Are Healthier When Served Warm
07.31.06, 12:00 AM ET
MONDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News) -- For many Americans, nothing is better on a hot day than biting into an ice-cold slice of watermelon.
But scientists now say the juicy summer fruit is most nutritious when stored and served at room temperature.
Reporting in the Aug. 9 issue of the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, the researchers based their premise on a tally that compared the levels of key antioxidants in whole watermelons that were either refrigerated or stored at room temperature for two weeks.
"What we found was very surprising," said study author Penelope Perkins-Veazie, a plant physiologist at the South Central Agricultural Research Laboratory with the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Lane, Okla.
"The amount of lycopene in watermelons went up about an average of 20 percent when we left them out uncut at room temperature, while beta carotene actually doubled," she said.
Perkins-Veazie noted that, like tomatoes, the red flesh of watermelons owes its coloring to an abundance of lycopene, an organic pigment from the carotenoid family that ranges in shade from pale yellow to deep red.
Beta carotene -- another carotenoid -- is also a nutritional feature of watermelons, although at far lower levels.
Antioxidants gobble up cancer-causing free radical molecules that can damage cells.
While it is known that light, temperature and moisture changes which occur during harvesting and packaging can alter a watermelon's lycopene content by 10 percent to 20 percent, the researchers realized that little was known about the impact storage can have once the heavy fruit is in the kitchen.
To fill in the blanks, Perkins-Veazie and her USDA colleague Julie K. Collins focused on three popular seeded and seedless varieties of watermelon.
All were described by their Oklahoma harvesters as "fully ripe" when acquired. Whole, uncut samples of each of the melons were kept in a cooler for one night at 68 degrees Fahrenheit (F) before being cut up and sampled for color, condition and carotenoid content.
Twenty samples of each melon variety were then weighed and stored in coolers set at either 41, 55, or 70 degrees F.
After two weeks, the researchers found that lycopene levels were dependent on storage temperature.
Compared to measurements taken at picking, carotenoid levels in melons stored at room temperature were up between 11 percent and 40 percent, depending on the variety.
As visual proof of this biochemical development, the authors observed that, after the 14 days of storage, the flesh of all three varieties of watermelons kept at room temperature was darker than they had been when they were freshly picked -- a sign of increased pigmentation from the lycopene boost.
These room-temperature melons also had thinner rinds, a sign of continued ripening.
The flesh of melons stored at either of the below-room temperature levels, by contrast, had not experienced any gains in carotenoids.
Such melons either lost color or maintained the same color as when picked, with no change in rind thickness.
The researchers posited that a drop in carotenoid enzyme activity at the colder temperatures might have halted a ripening process that continues the build-up of beneficial antioxidants.
"But we don't want people to think they can take cut watermelon and just leave it out in room temperature, because that's a safety issue," cautioned Perkins-Veazie.
"If it's cut, you want to leave it in the fridge," she advised. "If it's uncut, it's perfectly alright to leave it on the counter for a day or two, and if you like cold watermelon -- which a lot of people do -- it's perfectly alright to put it in the fridge to let it cool down a little before eating it."
Lona Sandon, an assistant professor of clinical nutrition at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, agreed that food safety takes precedence over antioxidant concerns.
"But you can leave certain fruits sitting out," she added. "If you're not going to eat it right away, they don't have to be taking up space in your fridge. In fact, there are several fruits that ripen better when left out -- peaches, bananas -- that not only end up having better nutrient quality but also perhaps better taste."
Connie Diekman, director of nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis, did not think the study considered all the nutritional factors related to the temperature issue.
"I could not find where they looked at some of the water-soluble nutrients in the melon which we know are very sensitive to light and air," Diekman said. "So, I would be curious to know if there were changes to any of those on a negative side that might have offset this positive."
More information
For more on fruit safety, visit the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
China: Stanu said "and I heard the workers over there are more diligent (hard-working) compare to us"
As a communist country they will ultimately fail unless they move away from communism. Americans work harder than most other employees around the world.
beigledog: My rule, which I learned from many years of experience is to hold off on non essential home renovations for 1 year. This way you can be sure that you like the house, neighborhood, etc. before sinking cash into it.
I also would never pay 27% financing charges. LOL
Some interesting Israel info:
> * The Middle East has been growing date palms for centuries. The
> average
> tree is about 18-20 feet tall and yields about 38 pounds of dates a
> year.
> Israeli date trees are now yielding 400 pounds/year and are short enough
> to
> be harvested from the ground or a short ladder.
>
> * Israel the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the
> world's
> population, can lay claim to the following:
>
> * The cell phone was developed in Israel by Israelis working in the
> Israeli
> branch of Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.
>
> * Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed by
> Microsoft-Israel.
>
> * The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.
>
> * Both the Pentium-4 microprocessor and the Centrino processor were
> entirely designed, developed and produced in Israel.
>
> * The Pentium microprocessor in your computer was most likely made in
> Israel.
>
> * Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
>
> * Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the
> US
> in Israel.
>
> * The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger ICQ was developed in
> 1996 by four young Israelis.
>
> * Israel has the fourth largest air force in the world (after the U.S.,
> Russia and China). In addition to a large variety of other aircraft,
> Israel's air force has an aerial arsenal of over 250 F-16's. This is
> the
> largest fleet of F-16 aircraft outside of the U. S.
>
> * Israel 's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate
> neighbors combined .
>
> * Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per
> capita.
>
> * According to industry officials! , Israel designed the airline
> industry's most impenetrable flight security. US officials now look
> (finally) to Israel for advice on how to handle airborne security
> threats.
>
> * Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population
> in
> the world.
>
> Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation
> by
> a large margin - 109 per 10,000 people --as well as one of the highest
> per
> capita rates of patents filed.
>
> In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of
> startup
> companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the largest
> number
> of startup companies than any other country in the world, except the
> U.S.
> (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).
>
> With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and startups,! Israel has the
> highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world -- apart from
> the
> Silicon Valley, U. S.
>
> Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind
> the
> U. S.
>
> Outside the United States and Canada, Israel has the largest number of
> NASDAQ listed companies.
>
> Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East.
>
> The per capita income in 2000 was over $17,500, exceeding that of the
> UK.
>
> On a per capita basis, Israel has the largestnumber of biotech startups.
>
> Twenty-four per cent of Israel's workforce holds university degrees,
> ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United States and
> Holland and 12 per cent hold advanced degrees.
>
> Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.
>
> In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of
> 22,000 Ethiopian Jews (Operation Solomon) at Risk in Ethiopia, to safety
> in
> Israel.
>
> When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became
> the world's second elected female leader in modern times.
>
> When the U. S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya was bombed in 1998, Israeli
> rescue teams were on the scene within a day
> -- and saved three victims from the rubble.
>
> Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship -- and the highest
> rate among women and among people over
> 55 - in the world.
>
> Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing
> nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy, religious
> freedom, and economic opportunity.
> (Hundreds of thousands from the former Soviet Union)
>
> Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process,
> an
> international standard that certifies diamonds as "conflict free."
>
> * Israel has the world's second highest per capita of new books.
>
> Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century
> with
> a net gain in its number of trees, made more remarkable because this was
> achieved in an area considered mainly desert.
>
> * Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.
>
> * Medicine... Israeli scientists developed the first fully
> computerized,
> no-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.
>
> An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper
> administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical
> treatment. Every year in U. S.
> hospitals 7,000 patients die from treatment mistakes.
>
> Israel's Given Imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so
> small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the
> inside, cancer and digestive disorders .
>
> Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the
> heart
> pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among those
> with
> heart failure. The new device is synchronized with the camera helps
> doctors diagnose heart's mechanical operations through a sophisticated
> system of sensors.
>
> * Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in
> the
> workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U. S., over 70
> in
> Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work force
> employed in technical professions. Israel places first in this category
> as
> well.
>
> A new acne treatment developed i! n Israel , the Clear Light device,
> produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrow-band blue
> light
> that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct -- all without damaging
> surrounding skin or tissue.
>
> An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale
> solar-powered and fully functional electricity generating plant, in
> southern California's Mojave desert.
>
> All the above while engaged in regular wars with an implacable enemy
> that
> seeks its destruction, and an economy continuously under strain by
> having
> to spend more per capita on its own protection than any other county on
> earth.
>
> AND THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR IN ENGLAND SAYS :
>
> "ISRAEL IS NOTHING BUT A SHITTY LITTLE COUNTRY"
>
> Please spread this e-mail to 36 friends or more...TODAY
>
>
>
What would the other reason be? Because we are doing so well? Things are just peachy?
US troop levels in Iraq to climb to 135,000.... Thanks George you are doing a bang up job!
Now the new Iraqi leader is calling the shots. He comes to Washington and gets more American soldiers to die for them.
beigledog: Congratulations... depends on your financial situation and the interest rate involved.
can't let that go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Montana
len, crazy is going to write his own contract, so not sure that it matters.
As for writing on the check itself, you might be correct, ask the guy mentioned below: LOL .. what an idiot!
06/29/2006 11:22 PM ID: 55391
Man Charged with Contempt for Comment Written on Check
38-year-old Michigan resident Robert Militzer is facing up to a month in jail if convicted on charges of contempt, after Berkley District Court got a $10 check in the mail from him for a parking fine. The memo line read "BULL (expletive) MONEY GRAB."
Militzer said he always obeyed the signs at night in front of his friend's house, but claimed they were gone when he was ticketed. He said, "I thought they were gaming me, collecting fines without giving people a fair chance to avoid it."
He is being accompanied by an ACLU attorney in order to argue that his comment is protected speech. His "choice of words may not be the best, and it may offend some people, but it's not illegal," said lawyer Elsa Shartsis.
crazy, I am also not an attorney... However basic business law taught in every college in America will point out that Real Estate transactions must be written, verbal does not mean anything. No contract means no deal. All parties involved must sign a contract. You only had an offer. Who is to say why the guy gave you a check.
That being said, HONOR means you do the deal if you agreed to it. Use an attorney.
CRGO has been on an upward path recently with big volume. I own some from the old days of CPLY. I have a long way to go to get even.
NOT a recommendation to buy, just could go much higher as it looks like a big time pump in the works!
New website for EKCS. I emailed them in April 0f 2004 that they needed a new website. It took them over 2 years to wake up.
bbotc, I switched to Logitech trackballs many years ago. Never caused a problem. Currently using a wireless digital Logitech mouse with scroll wheel. Seems like it is working well.
Now of course my back is killing me from golfing 3 times a week with my son. Can't win! Golf is a financial and emotional drain like no other. 102 degrees today out on the course, brutal!
OTC: LOL, I have members of the media in my family. I have learned how to tune them out. I would drop leaflets on the middle east warning them of our intent to bomb them back to the stone age, and five minutes later blow them up!
otc: I have to admit it, I agree with you on this issue. Bush & company are doing the right thing by sitting back and letting Israel bomb the terrorists.
lentinman, enjoy it while you can. now all the Money readers will be packing up and moving to your neighborhood. they will come!!!
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beigledog, it is a nice house. Besides shoveling snow, what kind of jobs are in Rochester to support someone buying that house? I thought the economy was in the dumps?
OT: Online brokers, https://www.tradeking.com/ have not used them but looks like a good deal.
If you trade a lot, then Schwab could be a good choice. They are @ 9.95 but you can negotiate that downward to compete with Fidelity @ 8.00. You can park your money in Schwab Value Advantage which pays over 4.7%
Since all the flags proudly display "made in china", I see no problem with burning them at will. I was amazed today at our July 4th community party that China & Taiwan were so well represented.
I have no confidence in congress other than the desire by them to be re-elected.
Had I been in charge, the terrorists who were captured would never have seen the light of day. They would have been dealt with silently and quickly. Without a trace, as I assume we have some military people capable of keeping secrets!
nonsense .. the supremes wanted to knock the executive branch of government down a peg or two. they did so. not a get out of jail card for the terrorist. congress will wind up authorizing some other method of dealing with the terrorists in holding.
smoke and mirrors, and you fell for it.
No online trading of stocks is nuts! If your account is in good standing and has the cash, I see no reason why they stop people from doing trades. Next thing you know and they will stop people from doing drugs!
"Homeowners 'mistakenly think Government would pay their mortgage"
How does one combat stupidity? These are the same people who just gave my son a package of golf balls for trying on golf shoes. The actual promotion was a package of balls for buying golf shoes. LOL
She was however good looking, so she has a chance.
OT: Stanu, that article gave me a LOL moment. Very simplistic from my point of view. Since I am beyond those years 30's, that is, I can only share what I did. I have almost always worked for myself. I would find it very difficult to work hard for someone else. If I am making big $$$$ for another company, then think about how much they are making off of me. I always lived within my means, which often times still allowed me to spend like a drunken sailor! I sold my most successful business right after revenues peaked in my opinion and it turns out my timing was 1 week prior to 9/11, which from a financial standpoint was great for me, but from an emotional standpoint felt very strange being unemployed with too much time to think about the current state of the world.
Happily semi-retired!
flemsnopes, just a guess here... but that 200K trade that happened and then did not happen may have been put back out to the market yesterday in smaller orders.
lentinman: "There is ALWAYS a deal to be had. But, you give up your deal-making rights the minute you say (or think)... "I want that one."
LOL - You mean by giving the seller a letter outlining why they should sell it to you. You don't consider that a cry for "wanting the damn house".
Thanks for making my point so clearly!
lentinman, that is the seller that we are talking about. the next guy might not care or be offended, it is in my opinion better to NEVER give them the reasons why you are giving a low offer! Beigle's wife cares about this house, he has to live with her. He wants to buy this house, he is a newbie home buyer and needs to hear your ideas and mine as well.
my idea is better <g>
"I disagree with death. Who cares if they are offended???????"
The sellers care! Pride. If you hurt someones pride in a negotiation and they are not sophisticated at it, the deal is dead. Unless of course they prove me wrong. <G>
Waiting them out and offering them less might shock them into some kind of counter offer. If they are not seeing any other offers, eventually they might come around.
But as I have said before, amortize the difference in price over 30 years and figure out if quality of life is more important. Is it worth your wife nagging you about moving? There are so many factors beyond price that have to be considered.
BTW - a GREAT realtor would be helping you with all this and showing true negotiation tactics. An average realtor would be doing nothing. Food for thought.
beigledog, as I previously mentioned I did not think giving them the letter was a good idea. You effectively gave them all of your cards and turned them off to dealing with you. In their minds, right or wrong, you wanted to steal the place from them. I have received low ball offers from some very creative types. I had one doctor who would call the listing agent on all the new listings and try to use them to represent both sides of the deal. They hoped to get the agent to chip in on the deal by lowering the commission. Then they presented the lowball offer with a sob story of how he just finished his residency and his wife was just out of college and pregnant, etc. and all they could afford was 15% below my asking price. The agent wanted me to play the game and I told her she could trim her commission by as much as she wanted to but still get me my desired net. The next week I got a full price offer and did the deal with nice people who let me rent the place back for a few months at a below market rate!
If the property is still on the market a month from now, offer them $5,000 less, no letter!