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FAIR VALUE
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2012
Fair Value [Abstract]  
Financial Instruments Disclosure [Text Block]
FAIR VALUE

Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) guidance on fair value measurements, which defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and expands disclosures about fair value measurements for our financial assets and liabilities, as well as for other assets and liabilities that are carried at fair value on a recurring basis in our consolidated financial statements.
FASB guidance establishes a three-level fair value hierarchy based upon the assumptions (inputs) used to price assets or liabilities. The three levels of inputs used to measure fair value are as follows:
Level 1—Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities,
Level 2—Observable inputs other than those included in Level 1, such as quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets or quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in inactive markets, and
Level 3—Unobservable inputs reflecting our own assumptions and best estimate of what inputs market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability.
The common stock warrant liability is recorded at fair value. We are required to record this instrument at fair value at each reporting date and changes are recorded as an adjustment to earnings. The gains or losses included in earnings are reported in other income (expense) in our Statement of Operations.
The common stock warrant liability is considered a Level 3 financial instrument and is valued using a Monte Carlo simulation. This method is well suited to value options with non-standard features, such as anti-dilution protection. A Monte Carlo simulation model uses repeated random sampling to simulate significant uncertainty in inputs. Assumptions and inputs used in the valuation of the commons stock warrants are broken down into four sections: Static Business Inputs; Static Technical Inputs; Simulated Business Inputs: and Simulated Technical Inputs.
Static Business Inputs include: Our equity value which is was estimated using our stock price at the Valuation Date of $1.20; the amount of down-round financing, the timing of the down-round financing, the expected exercise period was 4.86 years from the valuation date and no other potential fundamental transactions are expected during the term of the common stock warrants.
Static Technical Inputs include: volatility of 55% and the risk-free interest rate of 1.04% based on the 5-year U.S. Treasury bond.
Simulated Business Inputs include the probability of down-round financing which was estimated to be 10% for simulated equity values below the down-round financing cut-off point.
Simulated Technical Inputs include: Our equity value in periods 1 -10 follows a geometric Brownian motion and is simulated over 10 independent six-month periods; a down-round financing event was randomly simulated in an iteration based on the 10% discrete probability of a down-round financing for those iterations where our simulated equity value at the expected timing of down-round financing was below the down-round financing cut-off point.

During the three months ended March 31, 2012, the changes in the fair value of the liability measured using significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) was comprised of the following:
 
 
 
Dollars in Thousands
 
 
For the Three Months Ended
 
 
March 31, 2012
Balance at March 31, 2012
 
$
3,100



We had no Level 3 liabilities at December 31, 2011. The change in unrealized gains or losses of Level 3 liabilities are included in earnings are reported in other income (expense) in our Statement of Operations.