12. Stock Options

In October 2000, the Company approved a Stock Incentive Plan which was effective for a ten-year period commencing on October 25, 2000 and ended on October 24, 2010. The aggregate number of shares of Common Stock as to which options and Stock Appreciation Rights may be granted to participants under the original Plan was not to exceed 7,000,000. The most recent amendment to the Plan increasing the number of shares that may be issued under the Plan by 3,500,000 shares and extending the Plan for another ten years was approved by the Company's Board of Directors on February 1, 2008 and approved by the Company's shareholders at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on June 2, 2008. Options are not transferable, are exercisable for 3 months after voluntary resignation from the Company, and terminate immediately upon involuntary termination from the Company. The purchase price of shares subject to this Plan shall be determined at the time the options are granted, but are not permitted to be less than 85% of the fair market value of such shares on the date of grant. Furthermore, a participant in the Plan may not, immediately prior to the grant of an Incentive Stock Option hereunder, own stock in the Company representing more than ten percent of the total voting power of all classes of stock of the Company unless the per share option price specified by the Board for the Incentive Stock Options granted such a participant is at least 110% of the fair market value of the Company's stock on the date of grant and such option, by its terms, is not exercisable after the expiration of 5 years from the date such stock option is granted.

Stock option activity in 2011, 2010, and 2009 is summarized below:


	2011				2010				2009
	Shares		Weighted Average Exercise Price		Shares		Weighted Average Exercise Price		Shares		Weighted Average Exercise Price
Outstanding, beginning of year	1,571,000		$	0.60	3,021,000		$	0.42	2,931,000		$	0.38
Granted	186,745		$	1.01	396,000		$	0.44	500,000		$	0.54
Exercised	(50,000	)	$	0.57	(1,831,000	)	$	0.27	(410,000	)	$	0.27
Expired/cancelled	(236,745	)	$	0.82	(15,000	)	$	0.58	-			-
Outstanding end of year	1,471,000		$	0.61	1,571,000		$	0.60	3,021,000		$	0.42

The following table summarizes information about stock options outstanding and exercisable at December 31, 2011:


	Weighted Average	Options Outstanding	Weighted Average	Options
	Exercise Price	(shares)	Remaining	Exercisable
			Contractual Life	(shares)
			(years)
$	0.57	400,000	1.1	400,000
$	1.44	75,000	1.4	75,000
$	0.70	75,000	2.0	75,000
$	0.50	400,000	3.8	160,000
$	0.43	75,000	3.1	75,000
$	0.44	296,000	3.7	296,000
$	1.08	75,000	4.3	75,000
$	1.16	25,000	4.3	25,000
$	0.84	25,000	4.5	25,000
$	0.72	25,000	4.8	25,000

		1,471,000		1,231,000

During 2011, the Company issued the following options to each of the non-executive directors that remain outstanding as of December 31, 2011. These options vested upon grant date.


Options Issued to	Total Options Issued to
Each Non-executive	Non-executive Directors		Exercise Price	Grant Date	Expiration Date
Director
25,000	75,000	$	1.08	3/17/2011	3/16/2016
6,250	25,000	$	1.16	4/1/2011	3/31/2016
6,250	25,000	$	0.84	7/6/2011	7/5/2016
6,250	25,000	$	0.72	10/3/2011	10/2/2016

The weighted average fair value per share of options granted in 2011 was $0.55 and 2010 was $0.24 calculated using the Black Scholes option pricing model.

Compensation expense related to stock options was $0.2 million in 2011 and was $ 0.1 million in 2010 and $0.2 million in 2009. At December 31, 2011, there was $0.06 million of total unrecognized compensation costs related to unvested options that is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately 1.75 years.

The fair value of stock options used to compute share based compensation is the estimated present value at grant date using the Black Scholes option pricing model with weighted average assumptions for 2011 of expected volatility of 59.3%, a risk free interest rate of 3.64% and an expected option life remaining from 1.1 to 4.8 years. The weighted average assumptions for 2010 were expected volatility of 62.4%, a risk free interest rate of 3.77% and an expected option life remaining from 2.1 to 4.7 years. The weighted average assumptions used for 2009 were expected volatility of 100%, a risk fee interest rate of 3.67% and an expected option life remaining for 0.3 years to 5.7 years.