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Related Party Transactions
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions

12. Related Party Transactions 

 

On April 1, 2009, we entered into an agreement with Sierra Partners LLC (“Sierra”) pursuant to which Sierra agreed to provide us with support and analysis of our general corporate finance and strategy efforts.  A founder and partner of Sierra is also one of our directors. As compensation for these services, we have agreed to pay Sierra a monthly retainer fee of $10 for the duration of the agreement.  We have issued 90,000 stock options to Sierra and recorded stock based compensation of $94 since inception of our relationship.  As of September 30, 2012, we had made payments to Sierra under the agreement totaling $420, of which $30 and $90 had been paid during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, respectively.