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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000950134-09-008916
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	DEF 14A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20090528
FILED AS OF DATE:		20090430
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20090430
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20090430

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			AMERICAN SHARED HOSPITAL SERVICES
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000744825
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SERVICES-MEDICAL LABORATORIES [8071]
		IRS NUMBER:				942918118
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			CA
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DEF 14A
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-08789
		FILM NUMBER:		09783221

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER
		STREET 2:		SUITE 3700
		CITY:			SAN FRANCISCO
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94111-4107
		BUSINESS PHONE:		415-788-5300

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER
		STREET 2:		SUITE 3700
		CITY:			SAN FRANCISCO
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94111-4107
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>SCHEDULE 14A</B></DIV>
<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>(Rule&nbsp;14a-101)</B></div>
<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN PROXY STATEMENT</B></div>
<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION</B></div>
<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section&nbsp;14(a) of the Securities<BR>

Exchange Act of 1934</B>
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    <TD colspan="3" valign="top" align="left">Filed by the Registrant <FONT face="Wingdings">&#254;</FONT></TD>
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    <TD colspan="3" valign="top" align="left">Filed by a Party other than the Registrant <FONT face="Wingdings">&#111;</FONT></TD>
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    <TD colspan="3" valign="top" align="left">Check the appropriate box:</TD>
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<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><FONT face="Wingdings">&#111;</FONT>
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Preliminary Proxy Statement</TD>
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<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><FONT face="Wingdings">&#111;</FONT>
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Confidential, For Use of the Commission Only (as permitted by Rule&nbsp;14a-6(e)(2)</TD>
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<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><FONT face="Wingdings">&#254;</FONT>
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Definitive Proxy Statement</TD>
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<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><FONT face="Wingdings">&#111;</FONT>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Definitive Additional Materials</TD>
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<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><FONT face="Wingdings">&#111;</FONT>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Soliciting Material Pursuant to Rule&nbsp;14a-11(c) or Rule&nbsp;14a-12</TD>
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<DIV align="Center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 6pt"><b>American Shared Hospital Services</b></div>

<DIV align="Center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt">(Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)<BR>
(Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if Other Than the Registrant)

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    <TD colspan="3" valign="top" align="left">Payment of Filing Fee (Check the appropriate box):</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><FONT face="Wingdings">&#254;</FONT>
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">No fee required</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><FONT face="Wingdings">&#111;</FONT>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Fee computed on table below per Exchange Act Rules&nbsp;14a-6(i)(1) and 0-11.</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">(1)
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Title of each class of securities to which transaction applies:</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">(2)
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Aggregate number of securities to which transactions applies:</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">(3)
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Per unit price or other underlying value of transaction computed to Exchange Act Rule&nbsp;0-11
(set forth the amount on which the filing fee is calculated and state how it was determined):</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">(4)
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Proposed maximum aggregate value of transaction:</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Total fee paid:</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><FONT face="Wingdings">&#111;</FONT>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Fee paid previously with preliminary materials:</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><FONT face="Wingdings">&#111;</FONT> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Check box if any part of the fee is offset as provided by Exchange Act Rule&nbsp;0-11(a)(2) and
identify the filing for which the offsetting fee was paid previously. Identify the previous filing
by registration statement number, or the form or schedule and the date of its filing.
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">(1)
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">(2)
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Form, Schedule or Registration Statement no.:</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">(3)
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Filing Party:</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">(4)
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<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#000">NOTICE OF 2009 ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS To Be Held on May 28, 2009</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#001">PROXY STATEMENT 2009 ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS May 28, 2009</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#002">INTRODUCTION</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#003">PROPOSAL NO. 1 ELECTION OF DIRECTORS</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#004">CERTAIN ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#005">COMPENSATION OF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#006">CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#007">AUDIT COMMITTEE REPORT</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#008">PROPOSAL NO. 2 RATIFICATION OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#009">SHAREHOLDER PROPOSALS</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#010">ANNUAL REPORT</A></TD></TR>
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">AMERICAN
    SHARED HOSPITAL SERVICES<BR>
    <FONT style="font-size: 10pt">Four Embarcadero Center,
    Suite&#160;3700<BR>
    San&#160;Francisco, California 94111</FONT></FONT></B>
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">NOTICE OF
    2009 ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS<BR>
    To Be Held on May&#160;28, 2009</FONT></B>
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    <FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF
    AMERICAN SHARED HOSPITAL SERVICES:
    </FONT>
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to a call of the Board of
    Directors, the 2008 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the
    &#147;Meeting&#148;) of American Shared Hospital Services, a
    California corporation (the &#147;Company&#148;), will be held
    at the Conference Center, Four Embarcadero Center,
    San&#160;Francisco, California 94111 at 9:00 am (Pacific time),
    on Thursday, May&#160;28, 2009 to consider and to act upon the
    following matters, all as set forth in the Proxy Statement.
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    1.&#160;<I>ELECTION OF DIRECTORS.</I>&#160;&#160;To elect the
    following four nominees to the Board of Directors to serve until
    the next Annual Meeting of Shareholders and until their
    successors are elected and have qualified:
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    Ernest A. Bates,&#160;M.D.&#160;
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    John F. Ruffle
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    Olin C. Robison
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    Stanley S. Trotman, Jr.
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    2.&#160;<I>RATIFICATION OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC
    ACCOUNTING FIRM.</I>&#160;&#160;To ratify the appointment of
    Moss Adams LLP as the Company&#146;s Independent Registered
    Public Accounting Firm for the year ending December&#160;31,
    2009.
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    3.&#160;<I>OTHER BUSINESS.</I>&#160;&#160;To transact such other
    business and to consider and take action upon any and all
    matters that may properly come before the Annual Meeting and any
    and all adjournments thereof.
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    The Board of Directors knows of no matters, other than those set
    forth in paragraphs (1)&#160;and (2)&#160;above, that will be
    presented for consideration at the Meeting.
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    The Board of Directors has fixed the close of business on
    April&#160;24, 2009 as the Record Date for the determination of
    shareholders entitled to vote at the Meeting.
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    WHETHER OR NOT YOU EXPECT TO ATTEND THE MEETING IN PERSON,
    PLEASE DATE, SIGN AND MAIL THE ENCLOSED PROXY IN THE ENVELOPE
    PROVIDED AS PROMPTLY AS POSSIBLE. THE PROXY IS REVOCABLE AND
    WILL NOT AFFECT YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE IN PERSON IF YOU ATTEND THE
    MEETING. IN ORDER TO FACILITATE THE PROVISION OF ADEQUATE
    ACCOMMODATIONS, PLEASE INDICATE ON THE PROXY WHETHER YOU PLAN TO
    ATTEND THE MEETING IN PERSON.
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    By Order of the Board of Directors
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    <IMG src="f52258def5225801.gif" alt="-s- Willie R. Barnes">
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    Willie R. Barnes
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    <I>Corporate Secretary</I>
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 0%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    Dated: April&#160;30, 2009
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    San&#160;Francisco, California
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">AMERICAN
    SHARED HOSPITAL SERVICES<BR>
    <FONT style="font-size: 10pt">Four Embarcadero Center,
    Suite&#160;3700<BR>
    San&#160;Francisco, California 94111</FONT></FONT></B>
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">PROXY
    STATEMENT<BR>
    2009 ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS<BR>
    May&#160;28, 2009</FONT></B>
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">INTRODUCTION</FONT></B>
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    This Proxy Statement is being furnished to shareholders of
    American Shared Hospital Services, a California corporation (the
    &#147;Company&#148;), in connection with the solicitation of
    proxies by the Company&#146;s Board of Directors for use at the
    2009 Annual Meeting of Shareholders scheduled to be held at the
    Conference Center, Four Embarcadero Center, San&#160;Francisco,
    California 94111 at 9:00 am (Pacific time) on Thursday,
    May&#160;28, 2009 and at any adjournment or adjournments thereof
    (the &#147;Meeting&#148;). It is anticipated that this Proxy
    Statement and the Proxy will first be sent to shareholders on or
    about May&#160;7, 2009.
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    The matters to be considered and voted upon at the Meeting will
    be:
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    1.&#160;To elect four persons to the Board of Directors to serve
    until the next Annual Meeting of Shareholders and until their
    successors are elected and have qualified.
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    2.&#160;To ratify the appointment of Moss Adams LLP as the
    Company&#146;s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for
    the year ending December&#160;31, 2009.
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    3.&#160;To transact such other business as may properly be
    brought before the Meeting and any and all adjournments thereof.
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    Only shareholders of record at the close of business on
    April&#160;24, 2009 (the &#147;Record Date&#148;) are entitled
    to notice of and to vote at the Meeting.
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Revocability
    of Proxies</FONT></B>
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    A proxy for use at the Meeting is enclosed. Any shareholder who
    executes and delivers such proxy may revoke it at any time prior
    to its use by filing with the Secretary of the Company either
    written instructions revoking such proxy or a duly executed
    proxy bearing a later date. Written notice of the death of the
    person executing a proxy, before the vote is counted, is
    tantamount to revocation of such proxy. A proxy may also be
    revoked by attending the Meeting and voting in person.
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Solicitation
    of Proxies</FONT></B>
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    This proxy solicitation is being made by the Board of Directors
    of the Company. The expense of the solicitation will be paid by
    the Company. To the extent necessary to assure sufficient
    representation at the Meeting, proxies may be solicited by any
    appropriate means by directors, officers, regular employees of
    the Company and the stock transfer agent for the Common Shares,
    who will not receive any additional compensation therefor. The
    Company will request that banks, brokers and other fiduciaries
    solicit their customers who own beneficially the Common Shares
    listed of record in names of nominees and, although there is no
    formal arrangement to do so, the Company will reimburse such
    persons the reasonable expenses of such solicitation. In
    addition, the Company may pay for and utilize the services of
    individuals or companies not regularly employed by the Company
    in connection with the solicitation of proxies, if the Board of
    Directors of the Company determines that this is advisable.
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Outstanding
    Securities</FONT></B>
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    The Board of Directors has fixed April&#160;24, 2009 as the
    Record Date for the determination of shareholders entitled to
    notice of, and to vote at, the Meeting. At the close of business
    on the Record Date, there were estimated to be outstanding and
    entitled to vote 4,690,938 Common Shares. The Common Shares are
    the only class of securities entitled to vote at the Meeting.
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Vote
    Required and Voting Procedures</FONT></B>
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    Each holder of Common Shares will be entitled to one vote, in
    person or by proxy, for each share standing in its name on the
    books of the Company as of the Record Date for the Meeting on
    each of the matters duly presented for vote at the Meeting,
    except as indicated below in connection with the election of
    directors.
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    In connection with the election of directors, shares are
    permitted to be voted cumulatively, if (i)&#160;a shareholder
    present at the Meeting has given notice at the Meeting, prior to
    the voting, of such shareholder&#146;s intention to vote its
    shares cumulatively and (ii)&#160;the names of the candidates
    for whom such shareholder desires to cumulate votes have been
    placed in nomination prior to the voting. If a shareholder has
    given such notice, all shareholders may cumulate their votes for
    candidates in nomination. Cumulative voting allows a shareholder
    to give one nominee as many votes as is equal to the number of
    directors to be elected, multiplied by the number of shares
    owned by such shareholder or to distribute votes on the same
    principle between two or more nominees. Discretionary authority
    to cumulate votes is hereby solicited by the Board of Directors.
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    In connection with the solicitation by the Board of Directors of
    proxies for use at the Meeting, the Board of Directors has
    designated Ernest A. Bates,&#160;M.D. and Craig K. Tagawa as
    proxies. Common Shares represented by properly executed proxies
    will be voted at the Meeting in accordance with the instructions
    specified thereon. If no instructions are specified, the Common
    Shares represented by any properly executed proxy will be voted
    FOR the (1)&#160;election of the four nominees for the Board of
    Directors named herein and (2)&#160;ratification of the
    appointment of the Company&#146;s Independent Registered Public
    Accounting Firm.
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    The Board of Directors is not aware of any matters that will
    come before the Meeting other than as described above. However,
    if such matters are presented, the named proxies will, in the
    absence of instructions to the contrary, vote such proxies in
    accordance with the judgment of such named proxies with respect
    to any such other matter properly coming before the Meeting.
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    All outstanding shares of the Company&#146;s Common Stock
    represented by properly executed and unrevoked proxies received
    in time for the Meeting will be voted. A shareholder may, with
    respect to the election of directors, (i)&#160;vote for the
    election of all four nominees named herein as directors,
    (ii)&#160;withhold authority to vote for all such director
    nominees or (iii)&#160;vote for the election of all such
    director nominees other than any nominee(s) with respect to whom
    the shareholder withholds authority to vote by so indicating in
    the appropriate space on the proxy. Withholding authority to
    vote for a director nominee will not prevent such director
    nominee from being elected. A shareholder may, with respect to
    the proposal to ratify the appointment of the Company&#146;s
    Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, (i)&#160;vote for
    the ratification, (ii)&#160;vote against the ratification, or
    (iii)&#160;abstain.
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    A proxy submitted by a shareholder may indicate that all or a
    portion of the shares represented by such proxy are not being
    voted by such shareholder with respect to a particular matter.
    This could occur, for example, when a broker is not permitted to
    vote stock held in street name on certain matters in the absence
    of instructions from the beneficial owner of the stock. The
    shares subject to any such proxy which are not being voted with
    respect to a particular matter (the &#147;non-voted
    shares&#148;) will be considered shares not present and entitled
    to vote on such matter, although such shares may be considered
    present and entitled to vote for other purposes and will count
    for purposes of determining the presence of a quorum.
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    A majority of the Common Shares outstanding on the Record Date
    must be represented in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting
    in order to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
    In the election of directors, the four candidates receiving the
    highest number of votes will be elected directors of the
    Company. The proposal to ratify the appointment of the
    Company&#146;s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
    requires that a majority of those voting in person or by proxy
    to vote FOR this proposal, in order for this proposal to be
    approved.
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    The Board of Directors has appointed Geraldine Zarbo of American
    Stock Transfer&#160;&#038; Trust&#160;Company, the registrar and
    transfer agent for the Common Shares, or her designee, as the
    Inspector of Elections for the Annual Meeting. The Inspector of
    Elections will determine the number of Common Shares represented
    in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting, whether a quorum
    exists, the authenticity, validity and effect of proxies and
    will receive and count the votes. The election of directors will
    not be by ballot unless a shareholder demands election by ballot
    at the Annual Meeting before the voting begins.
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">PROPOSAL&#160;NO.&#160;1<BR>
    </FONT></B>
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">ELECTION
    OF DIRECTORS</FONT></B>
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Board of
    Directors</FONT></B>
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    The Company&#146;s Bylaws provide that there shall be no fewer
    than five nor more than nine directors and that the exact number
    shall be fixed from time to time by a Resolution of the Board of
    Directors. The number of directors currently is fixed at five.
    There is currently one vacancy on the Board of Directors,
    following the resignation of Mr.&#160;Ernest R. Bates as a
    director in February 2007 to accept a position as Vice President
    of Sales and Business Development with the Company. The Board of
    Directors believes that its membership is currently adequate to
    perform its duties but will fill such vacancy in the future if
    it determines that it needs an additional member.
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    The Board of Directors is proposing the persons named below for
    election to the Board of Directors. Each of the persons
    identified below will be nominated for election to serve until
    the next Annual Meeting of Shareholders and until their
    successors shall be elected and qualified. Votes will be cast
    pursuant to the enclosed proxy in such a way as to effect the
    election of each of the persons named below or as many of them
    as possible under applicable voting rules. If a nominee shall be
    unable or unwilling to accept nomination for election as a
    director, it is intended that the proxy holders will vote for
    the election of such substitute nominee, if any, as shall be
    designated by the Board of Directors. Each of the nominees named
    below has notified the Board of Directors that, if elected, he
    is willing to serve as a director.
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    Set forth below is certain information regarding each of the
    nominees.
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    <B>THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE &#147;FOR&#148; THE
    ELECTION OF THE NOMINEES NAMED BELOW. PROPERLY EXECUTED PROXIES
    RETURNED TO THE COMPANY WILL BE VOTED &#147;FOR&#148; THE
    NOMINEES NAMED BELOW UNLESS OTHERWISE INSTRUCTED.</B>
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Nominees</FONT></B>
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    Ernest A. Bates,&#160;M.D., founder of the Company, has served
    as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive
    Officer since the incorporation of the Company. He is Emeritus
    Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Johns Hopkins
    University, a member of the Board of Trustees at the University
    of Rochester, a member of the Board of Overseers of the
    University of California at San&#160;Francisco School of Nursing
    and a Board Member of the Museum of African Diaspora.
    Dr.&#160;Bates is also a member of the State of California
    Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth, a member of the Board
    of Directors of Salzburg Seminar, a board member of the Center
    for Fastercures-Milken Institute and a member of the Brookings
    Institution. Dr.&#160;Bates is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins
    University and the University of Rochester School of Medicine.
    Dr.&#160;Bates is 72&#160;years old. Dr.&#160;Bates is the
    father of former Board Member and current Company Vice President
    of Sales and Business Development, Ernest R. Bates.
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    OLIN C. ROBISON has been a director of the Company since 2003.
    He is currently President Emeritus of Middlebury College.
    Mr.&#160;Robison was President and Chief Executive Officer of
    the Salzburg Seminar from 1991 to 2005. He was President of
    Middlebury College from 1975 to 1990. He is a Director of The
    Investment Company of America, American Mutual Fund and AMCAP
    (all of the American Funds Group) and has served on the Council
    (Board) of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in
    London. He received his undergraduate degree from Baylor
    University and holds the Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford
    University. Mr.&#160;Robison is 72&#160;years old.
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    JOHN F. RUFFLE has been a director of the Company since 1995. He
    retired in 1993 as Vice-Chairman of the Board and a Director of
    J.P.&#160;Morgan&#160;&#038; Co. Incorporated and Morgan
    Guaranty Trust&#160;Co. of New York. He is a member of the Board
    of Trustees of certain mutual funds in the J.P Morgan family of
    mutual funds and certain investment funds managed by J.P Morgan
    Investment Management, Inc. and a Trustee Emeritus of The Johns
    Hopkins University. He is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins
    University, with an MBA in finance from Rutgers University, and
    is a Certified Public Accountant. Mr.&#160;Ruffle is
    72&#160;years old.
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    STANLEY S. TROTMAN,&#160;Jr., has been a director of the Company
    since 1996. He retired in 2001 as a Managing Director with the
    Health Care Group of UBS Securities, and formerly with Paine
    Webber Incorporated, which had acquired PaineWebber, an
    investment banking firm in 2000. Mr.&#160;Trotman had been with
    PaineWebber Incorporated since 1995 following the consolidation
    of Kidder, Peabody, also an investment banking firm, with
    PaineWebber. He had previously co-directed Kidder,
    Peabody&#146;s Health Care Group since April 1990. Formerly he
    had been head of the Health Care Group at Drexel Burnham
    Lambert, Inc. where he had been employed for approximately
    22&#160;years. He is also a Director of Web MD Health Corp. He
    received his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1965
    and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1967.
    Mr.&#160;Trotman is 65&#160;years old.
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Meetings
    of the Board of Directors</FONT></B>
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    The Board of Directors of the Company held four regular meetings
    and four special meetings during 2008. All directors attended at
    least 75% of the aggregate number of meetings of both the Board
    of Directors and of the Committees of the Board on which such
    director served during the year.
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    Shareholders may communicate with the Board by writing to: Four
    Embarcadero Center, Suite&#160;3700; San&#160;Francisco, CA
    <FONT style="white-space: nowrap">94111-4107,</FONT>
    Attention: Ernest A. Bates. We encourage directors to attend our
    annual meeting and all directors attended the 2008 Annual
    Meeting in person. All shareholder communications to directors
    are forwarded to them.
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Committees
    of the Board of Directors</FONT></B>
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    The Company has standing Compensation, Nominating and Corporate
    Governance and Audit Committees, each of which is described
    below. The Company is in compliance with The NYSE Amex Stock
    Exchange (&#147;AMEX&#148;) enhanced board and board committee
    independence requirements that became fully applicable to the
    Company effective July&#160;31, 2005. Thus, a majority of our
    directors (Messrs.&#160;Robison, Ruffle and Trotman) are
    independent under the AMEX rules and
    <FONT style="white-space: nowrap">Rule&#160;10A-3</FONT>
    under the Securities Exchange Act and each of the Committees
    described above is comprised of these three independent
    directors. Each of the Audit, Compensation and Nominating and
    Corporate Governance Committees has adopted a formal written
    charter. These, as well as our Code of Professional Conduct and
    Ethics, are available on our website at <U>www.ashs.com</U>. You
    may also request a copy of these documents free of charge by
    writing our Corporate Secretary. We intend to post on our
    website any amendments to our Code of Professional Conduct and
    Ethics, as well as any waivers for directors or executive
    officers (including our chief accounting officer and controller
    and anyone else performing similar functions) within five
    business days after the date of any amendment or waiver. The
    information on our website is not part of this proxy statement.
    The Company&#146;s independent directors meet at least annually
    without management and the non-independent directors, as
    required by the AMEX rules.
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    The Compensation Committee&#146;s functions are to
    (i)&#160;establish compensation arrangements and incentive goals
    for executive officers, (ii)&#160;administer compensation plans,
    (iii)&#160;evaluate the performance of executive officers and
    award incentive compensation, (iv)&#160;adjust compensation
    arrangements as appropriate based upon performance, and
    (v)&#160;review and monitor management development and
    succession plans and activities. The Compensation Committee did
    not meet during 2008. The Compensation Committee consists of
    Mr.&#160;Robison, Mr.&#160;Ruffle, and Mr.&#160;Trotman.
    Mr.&#160;Robison is Chair of the Compensation Committee.
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    The Compensation Committee is authorized to delegate its
    authority to a subcommittee when appropriate. It is authorized
    to hire independent compensation consultants and other
    professionals to assist in the design, formulation, analysis and
    implementation of compensation programs for the Company&#146;s
    executive officers and other key employees. In determining or
    recommending the amount or form of executive officer
    compensation, the Compensation Committee also takes into
    consideration information received from the Company&#146;s Chief
    Executive
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    Officer. In doing so, however, the Compensation Committee
    customarily considers the comparative relationship of the
    recommended compensation to the compensation paid by other
    similarly situated companies, individual performance, tenure,
    internal comparability and the achievement of certain other
    operational and qualitative goals identified in the
    Company&#146;s strategic plan.
</DIV>

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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    The purpose of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
    is to recommend candidates for election to the Board of
    Directors. The Company adopted a Nominating and Corporate
    Governance Committee Charter in 2006 which is available on our
    website. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee did
    not meet during 2008. In 2009, the Board as a whole nominated
    Dr.&#160;Bates, Mr.&#160;Robison, Mr.&#160;Ruffle and
    Mr.&#160;Trotman for election to the Board. Mr.&#160;Robison,
    Mr.&#160;Ruffle and Mr.&#160;Trotman serve on the Nominating and
    Corporate Governance Committee. Mr.&#160;Trotman is Chair of the
    Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
</DIV>

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    The purpose of the Audit Committee is to review the financial
    reporting and internal controls of the Company, to appoint the
    independent auditors, and to review the reports of such
    auditors. The Audit Committee consists of Mr.&#160;Robison,
    Mr.&#160;Ruffle, and Mr.&#160;Trotman. Mr.&#160;Ruffle is Chair
    of the Audit Committee. During the year 2008 the Audit Committee
    held four regular meetings and three telephonic meetings. For
    further information concerning the Audit Committee, refer to the
    &#147;Audit Committee Report.&#148; Mr.&#160;Ruffle is a
    &#147;financial expert&#148; and meets the applicable
    independence requirements of AMEX and
    <FONT style="white-space: nowrap">Rule&#160;10-A-3</FONT>
    under the Securities Exchange Act.
</DIV>

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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Identifying
    and Evaluating Director Nominees</FONT></B>
</DIV>

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    The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee uses various
    methods to identify director nominees. The Nominating and
    Corporate Governance Committee assesses the appropriate size and
    composition of the Board and the particular needs of the Board
    based on whether any vacancies are expected due to retirement or
    otherwise. Candidates may come to the attention of the
    Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee through current
    board members, shareholders, or other sources. All candidates
    are evaluated based on a review of the individual&#146;s
    qualifications, skills, independence and expertise.
</DIV>

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    The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will consider
    director candidates submitted by shareholders to: Four
    Embarcadero Center, Suite&#160;3700, San&#160;Francisco, CA
    <FONT style="white-space: nowrap">94111-4107,</FONT>
    Attention: Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Such
    recommendations should be accompanied by (i)&#160;evidence of
    the shareholder&#146;s stock ownership over the last year,
    (ii)&#160;a statement that the shareholder is not a competitor
    of the Company, (iii)&#160;a resume and contact information for
    the director candidate, as well as a description of the
    candidate&#146;s qualifications and (iv)&#160;a statement
    whether the candidate has expressed interest in serving as a
    director. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
    follows the same process and uses the same criteria for
    evaluating candidates proposed by shareholders as it does for
    candidates proposed by other parties. The Nominating and
    Corporate Governance Committee will consider such candidacy and
    will advise the recommending shareholder of its final decision.
    A shareholder who wishes to nominate a person for director must
    provide the nomination in writing to the Secretary at the
    Company&#146;s principal offices pursuant to the notice
    provisions in the By-laws. Such notice must be received not less
    than 60 nor more than 90&#160;days prior to the Annual Meeting
    or, if less than 70&#160;days&#146; notice of the date of such
    meeting has been given, then within 10 business days following
    the first public disclosure of the meeting date or the mailing
    of the Company&#146;s notice. Any such notice must contain
    information regarding the nominee and the proponent. Details
    concerning the nature of such information are available without
    charge from the Company.
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 12pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">

    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Director
    Compensation</FONT></B>
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    The following table sets forth information regarding the
    compensation earned by or awarded to each non-employee director
    during the 2008 Fiscal Year.
</DIV>

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&nbsp;
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&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Fees Earned or Paid<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Stock Awards<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Option Awards<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>All Other<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
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&nbsp;
</TD>
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<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
    <B>Name<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>in Cash ($)(1)<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>($)(2)(3)<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>($)(4)(5)<BR>
    </B>
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&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Compensation ($)<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Total ($)<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
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&nbsp;
</TD>
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<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
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    <B>(a)</B>
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>(b)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>(c)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>(d)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>(e)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>(f)</B>
</TD>
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&nbsp;
</TD>
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<TD>&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="background: #CCEEFF">
<TD align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Olin C. Robison
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    20,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    2,088
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    7,640
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    0
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    29,728
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    John F. Ruffle
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    20,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    2,088
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    7,640
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    0
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    29,728
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
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<TD align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Stanley S. Trotman
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    20,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    2,088
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    7,640
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    0
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    29,728
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
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    <BR>
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    (1) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    Consists of the annual retainer fees for service as members of
    the Company&#146;s board of directors.</TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">
    (2) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    The amounts in column (c)&#160;reflect the dollar amount
    recognized for financial statement reporting purposes for the
    fiscal year ended December&#160;31, 2008, in accordance with
    FAS&#160;123(R) of stock awards granted to each non-employee
    director and thus include amounts from awards granted in and
    prior to 2008. Assumptions used in the calculation of this
    amount are included in Note&#160;9 to the Company&#146;s audited
    financial statements for the fiscal year ended December&#160;31,
    2008 included in the Company&#146;s Annual Report on
    <FONT style="white-space: nowrap">Form&#160;10-K</FONT>
    filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
    March&#160;31, 2009. The grant date fair value of each
    <FONT style="white-space: nowrap">500-share</FONT>
    restricted stock unit award automatically granted during the
    2008 fiscal year under the Company&#146;s 2006 Stock Incentive
    Plan, computed in accordance with FAS 123(R), was $1,150. For
    further information concerning the restricted stock unit awards
    granted under the 2006 Stock Incentive Plan, see the section
    below entitled &#147;<I>Directors&#146; Equity Grants</I>.&#148;</TD>
</TR>


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<TR>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">
    (3) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    As of December&#160;31, 2008, the following non-employee
    directors each held stock awards granted during 2008 covering
    500&#160;shares of the Company&#146;s Common Stock:
    Mr.&#160;Robison, Mr.&#160;Ruffle, Mr.&#160;Trotman.</TD>
</TR>


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    (4) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    The amounts in column (d)&#160;reflect the dollar amount
    recognized for financial statement reporting purposes for the
    fiscal year ended December&#160;31, 2008, in accordance with
    FAS&#160;123(R) of stock options granted to each non-employee
    director and thus include amounts from awards granted in and
    prior to the 2008&#160;year. Assumptions used in the calculation
    of this amount are included in footnote 9 to the Company&#146;s
    audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended
    December&#160;31, 2008 included in the Company&#146;s Annual
    Report on
    <FONT style="white-space: nowrap">Form&#160;10-K</FONT>
    filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
    March&#160;31, 2009. The grant date fair value of each
    2,000-share annual stock option award granted during the 2008
    fiscal year at an exercise price per share of $2.30 under the
    Company&#146;s 2006 Stock Incentive Plan, computed in accordance
    with FAS&#160;123(R) was $7,764. For further information
    concerning the stock option awards granted under the 2006 Stock
    Incentive Plan, see the section below entitled
    &#147;<I>Directors&#146; Equity Grants</I>.&#148;</TD>
</TR>


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<TR>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">
    (5) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    As of December&#160;31, 2008 the following non-employee
    directors held options to purchase the following number of
    shares of the Company&#146;s common stock: Mr.&#160;Robison,
    27,000&#160;shares; Mr.&#160;Ruffle, 15,000&#160;shares; and
    Mr.&#160;Trotman, 15,000&#160;shares. The options were granted
    under the Company&#146;s 2006 Stock Incentive Plan. For further
    information concerning the grant of options to non-employee
    directors under such plan, see the section below entitled
    &#147;<I>2006 Stock Incentive Plan</I>&#148;.</TD>
</TR>

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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 2%; margin-right: 0%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">

    <B><I><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Directors&#146;
    Annual Retainer Fees</FONT></I></B>
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    In 2008, non-employee directors were paid an annual retainer of
    $20,000, payable quarterly. Non-employee directors also received
    reimbursement of expenses incurred in attending meetings. No
    payment is made for attendance at meetings by any director who
    is a full time employee of the Company.
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 12pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 2%; margin-right: 0%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">

    <B><I><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Directors&#146;
    Equity Grants</FONT></I></B>
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    Under the 2006 Stock Incentive Plan (the &#147;2006 Stock
    Plan&#148;), each individual who first becomes a non-employee
    director will, at the time of his or her election to the board,
    receive an option grant to purchase a specified number of shares
    of our common stock and a restricted stock unit award covering
    an additional number of shares of our common stock, provided
    that such individual has not previously been in the employ of
    the Company or any of its parents or subsidiaries. The specific
    number of shares subject to the initial award will be determined
    by the Compensation Committee of our Board of Directors, but
    will not exceed 10,000&#160;shares for the option component or
    3,000&#160;shares for the restricted stock unit component. In
    addition, on the date of each Annual Shareholders Meeting, each
    individual who will continue to serve as a non-employee director
    will automatically be granted an option to purchase a specified
    number of shares of our common stock and a restricted stock unit
    award covering an additional number of shares of our common
    stock, provided such individual has served as a non-employee
    director for at least six months. The specific number of shares
    subject to the annual award will be determined by the
    Compensation Committee of our Board of Directors, but will not
    exceed 3,000&#160;shares for the option component or
    750&#160;shares for the restricted stock unit component. There
    will be no limit on the number of such annual awards any one
    eligible non-employee director may receive over his or her
    period of continued service on the Board of Directors, and
    non-employee directors who have previously been in the
    Company&#146;s employ will be eligible to receive one or more
    such
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    annual awards over their period of service on the Board of
    Directors. Each initial stock option and restricted stock unit
    award will vest in four equal annual installments upon the
    individual&#146;s completion of each year of service. Each
    annual stock option and restricted stock award will vest in one
    installment upon the individual&#146;s completion of one year of
    board service.
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    On the day of the 2008 Annual Meeting, non-employee Board
    members Mr.&#160;Robison, Mr.&#160;Ruffle and Mr.&#160;Trotman
    each received an option to purchase 2,000&#160;shares of the
    Company&#146;s common stock at an exercise price of $2.30 per
    share, the fair market value of the Company&#146;s common stock
    on that date, and a grant of 500 restricted stock units pursuant
    to the terms of the 2006 Plan.
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    On the day of the 2009 Annual Meeting, upon re-election to the
    Board, non-employee Board members Mr.&#160;Robison,
    Mr.&#160;Ruffle and Mr.&#160;Trotman will each receive an option
    to purchase 2,000&#160;shares of the Company&#146;s common stock
    at an exercise price per share equal to the fair market value of
    the Company&#146;s common stock on the date of the Annual
    Meeting, and a grant of 500 restricted stock units pursuant to
    the terms of the 2006 Plan.
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">CERTAIN
    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</FONT></B>
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Security
    Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management</FONT></B>
</DIV>

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    The following table sets forth certain information regarding the
    beneficial ownership of the Company&#146;s Common Shares as of
    April&#160;1, 2009, of (i)&#160;each person known to the Company
    to own beneficially 5% or more of the Common Shares,
    (ii)&#160;each nominee for director of the Company,
    (iii)&#160;each executive officer named in the Summary
    Compensation Table, and (iv)&#160;all directors and executive
    officers as a group. Except as otherwise indicated in the
    footnotes to the table or for shares of common stock held in
    brokerage accounts, which may from time to time, together with
    other securities held in those accounts, serve as collateral for
    margin loans made from such accounts, none of the shares
    reported as beneficially owned are currently pledged as security
    for any outstanding loan or indebtedness.
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<TD nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="6" align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Common Shares Owned Beneficially</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Amount and Nature of<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Beneficial<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Percent of<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; width: 1%; padding-bottom: 1px">
    <B>Name and Address of Beneficial Owner</B>
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Ownership(2)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Class(3)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="line-height: 3pt; font-size: 1pt">
<TD>&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="color: #000000; background: #CCEEFF">
<TD align="left" valign="top">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Directors and Named Officers
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD align="left" valign="top">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Ernest A. Bates,&#160;M.D.(1)
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    903,507
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    19.0
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
    %
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD align="left" valign="top">
<DIV style="text-indent: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="color: #000000; background: #CCEEFF">
<TD align="left" valign="top">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Olin C. Robison(1)(4)
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    23,883
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">

</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
    *
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD align="left" valign="top">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    John F. Ruffle(1)(4)
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    212,294
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    4.5
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
    %
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="color: #000000; background: #CCEEFF">
<TD align="left" valign="top">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Stanley S. Trotman, Jr.(1)(4)
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    178,670
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    3.8
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
    %
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD align="left" valign="top">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Ernest R. Bates(1)(4)
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    59,545
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    1.3
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
    %
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD align="left" valign="top">
<DIV style="text-indent: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Vice President of Sales and Business Development
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="color: #000000; background: #CCEEFF">
<TD align="left" valign="top">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Craig K. Tagawa(1)(4)
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    123,323
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    2.6
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
    %
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="color: #000000; background: #CCEEFF">
<TD align="left" valign="top">
<DIV style="text-indent: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Senior Vice President, Chief Operating and Financial Officer
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD align="left" valign="top">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    All Current Directors&#160;&#038; Executive Officers as a Group
    (6&#160;people)(4)
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    1,501,252
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    30.7
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
    %
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="color: #000000; background: #CCEEFF">
<TD align="left" valign="top">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    5% or More Shareholders
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="top">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 20pt">
    None
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

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<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

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    <TD width="98%"></TD>
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    <TD valign="top">
    * </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    Less than 1%</TD>
</TR>

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<DIV style="margin-top: 3pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

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    <TD width="1%"></TD>
    <TD width="97%"></TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">
    (1) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    The address of each such individual is
    <FONT style="white-space: nowrap">c/o&#160;American</FONT>
    Shared Hospital Services, Four Embarcadero Center,
    Suite&#160;3700, San&#160;Francisco, California 94111.</TD>
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<TR>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">
    (2) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    Each person directly or indirectly has sole voting and
    investment power with respect to the shares listed under this
    column as being owned by such person.</TD>
</TR>


<TR style="line-height: 3pt; font-size: 1pt"><TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>

<TR>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">
    (3) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    Shares that any person or group of persons is entitled to
    acquire upon the exercise of options or warrants within
    60&#160;days after April&#160;1, 2009, are treated as issued and
    outstanding for the purpose of computing the percent of the </TD>
</TR>

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    class owned by such person or group of persons but not for the
    purpose of computing the percent of the class owned by any other
    person.</TD>
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<TR>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">
    (4) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    Includes shares underlying options that are currently
    exercisable or will become exercisable within 60&#160;days
    following April&#160;1, 2009: Dr.&#160;Bates,
    54,167&#160;shares; Mr.&#160;Bates, 42,716&#160;shares;
    Mr.&#160;Robison, 22,883&#160;shares; Mr.&#160;Ruffle,
    10,883&#160;shares; Mr.&#160;Trotman, 10,883&#160;shares;
    Mr.&#160;Tagawa, 59,691&#160;shares; and Directors and Executive
    Officers as a group, 201,223&#160;shares.</TD>
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">COMPENSATION
    OF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS</FONT></B>
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Compensation
    Discussion and Analysis</FONT></B>
</DIV>

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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    <I>Introduction.</I>&#160;&#160;It is our intent in this
    Compensation Discussion and Analysis to inform our shareholders
    of the policies and objectives underlying the compensation
    programs for our three executive officers, Dr.&#160;Ernest A.
    Bates, Chairman of our Board and our Chief Executive Officer,
    Craig K. Tagawa, our Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating
    Officer, and Ernest R. Bates, our Vice President of Sales and
    Business Development. The Compensation Committee of our Board of
    Directors administers the compensation programs for our
    executive officers with the objective of providing a competitive
    compensation package. However, we believe that the compensation
    paid to our executive officers should also be substantially
    dependent on our financial performance and the value created for
    our shareholders. For this reason, the Compensation Committee
    also utilizes our compensation programs to provide meaningful
    incentives for the attainment of our short-term and long-term
    strategic objectives and thereby reward those executive officers
    who make a substantial contribution to the attainment of those
    objectives.
</DIV>

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    <I>Compensation Policy for Executive Officers.</I>&#160;&#160;We
    have designed the various elements comprising the compensation
    packages of our executive officers to achieve the following
    objectives:
</DIV>

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    <TD width="94%"></TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>    &#149;&#160;
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    attract, retain, motivate and engage executives with superior
    leadership and management capabilities,
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    provide an overall level of compensation to each executive
    officer which is externally competitive, internally equitable
    and performance-driven,&#160;and
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    ensure that total compensation levels are reflective of our
    financial performance and provide the executive officer with the
    opportunity to earn above-market total compensation for
    exceptional business performance.
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    Each executive officer&#146;s compensation package typically
    consists of three elements: (i)&#160;a base salary, (ii)&#160;a
    cash bonus tied to our attainment of financial objectives or the
    individual officer&#146;s personal performance, and
    (iii)&#160;long-term, stock-based incentive awards designed to
    align and strengthen the mutuality of interests between our
    executive officers and our shareholders. In determining the
    appropriate level for each element of such compensation, the
    Compensation Committee has generally reviewed relevant market
    data, but does not seek to set compensation levels at any
    particular percentile when compared to such data. The
    Compensation Committee also subjectively reviews and evaluates
    the level of performance of the Company and the executive&#146;s
    level of individual performance and potential to contribute to
    the Company&#146;s future growth, and seeks to set compensation
    at a level that is both reasonable and equitable based on that
    assessment. Consistent with our philosophy of emphasizing pay
    for performance, the total compensation packages are designed to
    pay above the target when the Company exceeds its goals and
    below the target when the Company does not achieve its goals.
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    <I>Elements of Compensation.</I>&#160;&#160;Each of the three
    major elements comprising the compensation package for our
    executive officers (salary, bonus and equity) is designed to
    achieve one or more of our overall objectives in fashioning a
    competitive level of compensation, tying compensation to the
    attainment of one or more of our strategic business objectives
    and subjecting a substantial portion of the executive
    officer&#146;s compensation to our financial success as measured
    in terms of our stock price performance. The manner in which the
    Compensation Committee has so structured each element of
    compensation may be explained as follows.
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    <I><U>&#160;Base Salary</U>.</I>&#160;&#160;The Compensation
    Committee reviews the base salary level of each executive
    officer each year. The base salary for the executive officers is
    determined on the basis of their level of responsibility,
    experience and individual performance. No changes were made in
    fiscal 2008.
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    <I><U>Cash Incentive Compensation</U>.</I>&#160;&#160;Because
    the Compensation Committee believes that the significant
    interests which Dr.&#160;Bates, Mr.&#160;Tagawa and
    Mr.&#160;Bates have in our common stock provide them with a
    substantial incentive to contribute to our financial success and
    the attainment of our financial goals, the Compensation
    Committee does not typically implement annual incentive
    compensation programs for them. From time to time, the
    Compensation Committee awards cash bonuses in recognition of
    their personal performance, and for the 2008 fiscal year, the
    Compensation Committee approved a cash bonus of $47,500 to
    Dr.&#160;Bates, a cash bonus of $30,000 to Mr.&#160;Tagawa and a
    cash bonus of $25,000 to Mr.&#160;Bates.
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    In 2006 the Board approved the Company&#146;s Long Term
    Incentive Compensation Plan (the &#147;Incentive Plan&#148;),
    which was subsequently approved by the Company&#146;s
    shareholders at the 2006 Annual Meeting. The Compensation
    Committee has the discretion under the Incentive Plan to
    implement one or more performance periods, each consisting of
    one or more calendar years up to a maximum of five years. The
    Compensation Committee will establish the specific performance
    goals for each performance period and the specific formula for
    calculating the bonus to which the executive may become entitled
    within the first ninety days of that performance period, and
    will establish threshold, target and maximum levels of
    attainment. The maximum bonus payable per participant will be
    determined by multiplying the number of calendar years in the
    performance period by $250,000. To date, we have not used the
    Incentive Plan.
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    <I><U>Equity Compensation</U>.</I>&#160;&#160;In 2006 the Board
    approved the 2006 Stock Incentive Plan (the &#147;2006
    Plan&#148;) to replace the Company&#146;s 2001 Stock Option
    Plan, and the 2006 Plan was approved by our stockholders at the
    2006 Annual Meeting. For many years stock option grants were the
    sole form of equity award granted to our executive officers, and
    we continue to use stock option grants to provide long-term
    incentives to our executive officers. However, we structured the
    2006 Plan to provide us with more flexibility in designing
    equity incentives in an environment where a number of companies
    have moved from traditional option grants to other stock or
    stock-based awards, such as stock appreciation rights,
    restricted stock and restricted stock units. Accordingly, with
    the 2006 Plan, we have a broad array of equity incentives to
    utilize for purposes of attracting and retaining the services of
    key individuals, including stock options, stock appreciation
    rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, and other
    stock-based awards. We continue to rely on equity incentives
    because we believe that such incentives are necessary for us to
    remain competitive in the marketplace for executive talent and
    other key employees.
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    The Compensation Committee reviews and considers equity awards
    in connection with the annual review of the performance of our
    executive officers and other key employees. However, there may
    be variance from this practice when warranted by special
    circumstances. Each grant is designed to align the interests of
    the executive officer with those of the shareholders and to
    provide each individual with a significant incentive to manage
    the company from the perspective of an owner with an equity
    stake in the business. In past years, the equity awards have
    been in the form of stock options which generally vest and
    become exercisable in a series of installments over a five year
    service period, contingent upon the officer&#146;s continued
    employment with us. Accordingly, each such option will provide a
    return to the executive officer only to the extent he remains
    employed with us during the vesting period, and then only if the
    fair market value of the underlying shares appreciates over the
    period between grant and exercise of the option. In the
    2008&#160;year options were awarded to executive officers as
    follows: 50,000 to Dr.&#160;Bates.
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    <I>Market Timing of Equity Awards.</I>&#160;&#160;The
    Compensation Committee does not engage in any market timing of
    the equity awards made to the executive officers or other award
    recipients. As indicated above, awards for existing executive
    officers and employees are considered in connection with the
    annual review process which typically occurs in the fourth
    quarter each year. There is no established practice of timing
    our awards in advance of the release of favorable financial
    results or adjusting the award date in connection with the
    release of unfavorable financial developments affecting our
    business. Equity awards for new hires other than executive
    officers are typically made at the next scheduled Compensation
    Committee meeting following the employee&#146;s hire date. All
    stock option grants issued under our 2006 Plan have an exercise
    price per share no less than the fair market value per share on
    the grant date.
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    <I>Executive Officer Perquisites.</I>&#160;&#160;It is not our
    practice to provide our executive officers with any meaningful
    perquisites.
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    <I>Other Programs.</I>&#160;&#160;Our executive officers are
    eligible to participate in our 401(k) plan and our flexible
    benefit plan on the same basis as all other regular
    U.S.&#160;employees.
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    <I>Deferred Compensation Programs.</I>&#160;&#160;We have not
    implemented any non-qualified deferred compensation programs for
    our executive officers or any supplemental executive retirement
    plans.
</DIV>

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    <I>Compliance with Internal Revenue Code
    Section&#160;162(m).</I>&#160;&#160;Section&#160;162(m) of the
    Internal Revenue Code disallows a tax deduction to publicly held
    companies for compensation paid to certain of their executive
    officers to the extent such compensation exceeds
    $1.0&#160;million per covered officer in any year. The
    limitation applies only to compensation that is not considered
    to be performance-based under the terms of Section&#160;162(m).
    The stock options which have been granted to date to our
    executive officers have been structured so as to qualify as
    performance based compensation. Non-performance-based
    compensation paid to such officers for 2008 did not exceed the
    $1.0&#160;million limit per officer. However, we believe that in
    establishing the cash and equity incentive compensation programs
    for our executive officers, the potential deductibility of the
    compensation payable under those programs should be only one of
    a number of relevant factors taken into consideration, and not
    the sole governing factor. For that reason, we may deem it
    appropriate to provide one or more executive officers with the
    opportunity to earn incentive compensation, whether through cash
    bonuses under the 2006 Incentive Plan or through equity awards,
    which together with base salary in the aggregate may be in
    excess of the amount deductible by reason of Section&#160;162(m)
    or other provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. We believe it
    is important to maintain cash and equity incentive compensation
    at the levels needed to attract and retain the executive
    officers essential to our success, even if all or part of that
    compensation may not be deductible by reason of the
    Section&#160;162(m) limitation.
</DIV>

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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Summary
    Compensation Information</FONT></B>
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    The following table provides certain summary information
    concerning the compensation earned for services rendered in all
    capacities to the Company and its subsidiaries for the year
    ended December&#160;31, 2008 by the Company&#146;s Chief
    Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of
    Business Development. No other executive officers who would have
    otherwise been includable in such table on the basis of total
    compensation for the 2008 Fiscal Year are required to be
    included by reason of their termination of employment or change
    in executive status during that year. The listed individuals are
    hereinafter referred to as the &#147;named executive
    officers.&#148;
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&nbsp;
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&nbsp;
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&nbsp;
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<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
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&nbsp;
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&nbsp;
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&nbsp;
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    <B>All<BR>
    </B>
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&nbsp;
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&nbsp;
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&nbsp;
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&nbsp;
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&nbsp;
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<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Option<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Other<BR>
    </B>
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<TD>
&nbsp;
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&nbsp;
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&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Salary<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Bonus<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Awards<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Compensation<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Total<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
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<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
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    </B>
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&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Year<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>($)(1)<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>($)(2)<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>($)(3)<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>($)(4)<BR>
    </B>
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&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>($)<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
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<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
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    <B>(a)</B>
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&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>(b)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>(c)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>(d)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>(e)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>(f)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>(g)</B>
</TD>
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<TD>&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
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<TD align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Ernest A. Bates, M.D.
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    2008
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    475,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    47,500
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    31,713
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    29,316
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    583,529
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="color: #000000; background: #CCEEFF">
<TD align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Chairman of the Board and
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    2007
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    475,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    47,500
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    0
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    29,026
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    551,526
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="color: #000000; background: #CCEEFF">
<TD align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Chief Executive Officer
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Craig K. Tagawa,
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    2008
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    300,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    30,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    34,755
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    16,268
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    381,023
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Chief Operating Officer and
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    2007
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    299,231
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    30,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    4,380
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    15,768
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    349,379
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Chief Financial Officer
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="color: #000000; background: #CCEEFF">
<TD align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Ernest R. Bates,
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    2008
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    250,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    25,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    22,691
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    15,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    312,691
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="color: #000000; background: #CCEEFF">
<TD align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Vice President of Business
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    2007
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    240,385
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    25,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    21,726
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    14,887
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    301,998
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="color: #000000; background: #CCEEFF">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: 0pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Development
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

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</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

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<TR>
    <TD width="2%"></TD>
    <TD width="1%"></TD>
    <TD width="97%"></TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">
    (1) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    Includes amounts deferred under the Company&#146;s Retirement
    Plan for Employees of American Shared Hospital Services, a
    qualified plan under section&#160;401(k) of the Internal Revenue
    Code.</TD>
</TR>


<TR style="line-height: 3pt; font-size: 1pt"><TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>

<TR>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">
    (2) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    Bonuses were accrued in the year indicated and were paid in
    fourth quarter 2007 and first quarter 2009.</TD>
</TR>


<TR style="line-height: 3pt; font-size: 1pt"><TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>

<TR>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">
    (3) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    The amounts in column (e)&#160;reflect the dollar amount
    recognized for financial statement reporting purposes for the
    fiscal years ended December&#160;31, 2008 and 2007, in
    accordance with FAS&#160;123(R) of stock options granted to each
    named executive officer and thus include amounts from awards
    granted in and prior to the applicable year. Assumptions used in
    the calculation of this amount are included in Note&#160;9 to
    the Company&#146;s audited financial statements for the fiscal
    year ended December&#160;31, 2008 included in the Company&#146;s
    Annual Report on
    <FONT style="white-space: nowrap">Form&#160;10-K</FONT>
    filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
    March&#160;31, 2009.</TD>
</TR>


<TR style="line-height: 3pt; font-size: 1pt"><TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>

<TR>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">
    (4) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    The amounts in column (f)&#160;include matching contributions
    under the Company&#146;s 401K plan, automobile and parking
    allowance, income attributable to life insurance coverage paid
    by us, and premiums paid by the Company for long term disability
    coverage.</TD>
</TR>

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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Outstanding
    Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End</FONT></B>
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    The following table provides information concerning outstanding
    equity awards held by the named executive officers as of
    December&#160;31, 2008.
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<TABLE border="0" width="100%" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
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    <TD width="2%">&nbsp;</TD>	<!-- colindex=02 type=gutter -->
    <TD width="5%" align="right">&nbsp;</TD>	<!-- colindex=02 type=lead -->
    <TD width="1%" align="right">&nbsp;</TD>	<!-- colindex=02 type=body -->
    <TD width="5%" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>	<!-- colindex=02 type=hang1 -->
    <TD width="3%">&nbsp;</TD>	<!-- colindex=03 type=gutter -->
    <TD width="6%" align="right">&nbsp;</TD>	<!-- colindex=03 type=lead -->
    <TD width="1%" align="right">&nbsp;</TD>	<!-- colindex=03 type=body -->
    <TD width="6%" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>	<!-- colindex=03 type=hang1 -->
    <TD width="3%">&nbsp;</TD>	<!-- colindex=04 type=gutter -->
    <TD width="2%" align="right">&nbsp;</TD>	<!-- colindex=04 type=lead -->
    <TD width="1%" align="right">&nbsp;</TD>	<!-- colindex=04 type=body -->
    <TD width="2%" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>	<!-- colindex=04 type=hang1 -->
    <TD width="3%">&nbsp;</TD>	<!-- colindex=05 type=gutter -->
    <TD width="16%">&nbsp;</TD>	<!-- colindex=05 type=maindata -->
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<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="13" align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Option Awards</B>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Number of<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Number of<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Securities<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Securities<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Underlying<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Underlying<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Unexercised<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Unexercised<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Options<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Option<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Option<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Options<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Unexercisable (#)<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Exercise<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Expiration<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; width: 1%; padding-bottom: 1px">
    <B>Name</B>
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Exercisable&#160;(#)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>(1)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Price&#160;($)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Date</B>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="line-height: 3pt; font-size: 1pt">
<TD>&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="color: #000000; background: #CCEEFF">
<TD align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Ernest A. Bates,&#160;M.D.&#160;
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    30,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    120,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    3.036
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD align="center" valign="bottom">
    December 5, 2014
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="color: #000000; background: #CCEEFF">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    0
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    50,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    2.959
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD align="center" valign="bottom">
    March 7, 2015
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Craig K. Tagawa
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    20,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    0
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    3.00
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD align="center" valign="bottom">
    May 20, 2009
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    8,700
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    5,800
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    6.16
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD align="center" valign="bottom">
    June 15, 2015
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    20,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    80,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    2.76
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD align="center" valign="bottom">
    December 5, 2014
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="color: #000000; background: #CCEEFF">
<TD align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Ernest R. Bates
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    10,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    40,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    6.50
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD align="center" valign="bottom">
    February 7, 2014
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="color: #000000; background: #CCEEFF">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    50,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    20,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    2.76
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD align="center" valign="bottom">
    December 5, 2014
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

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</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

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<DIV style="margin-top: 3pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>



<TABLE width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">

<TR>
    <TD width="2%"></TD>
    <TD width="1%"></TD>
    <TD width="97%"></TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">
    (1) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    The option shares vest in five equal annual installments over
    the five year period measured from their issue date (which was
    seven years before the expiration date, or ten years in the case
    of Mr.&#160;Tagawa&#146;s grants expiring in 2009 and 2015),
    provided each employee continues to provide services to the
    Company through each applicable vesting date. None of the option
    shares authorized under these awards had been exercised as of
    December&#160;31, 2008.</TD>
</TR>

</TABLE>

<DIV style="margin-top: 18pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">

    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Grants of
    Plan-Based Awards</FONT></B>
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    The following table sets forth stock options granted in 2008 to
    each of the Company&#146;s executive officers named in the
    Summary Compensation Table. The table also sets forth the
    hypothetical grant date present value, assuming the weighted
    average assumptions noted below. The actual future value of the
    options will depend on the market value of the Company&#146;s
    Common Stock.
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

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&nbsp;
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<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Percent of Total<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Options Granted<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Grant Date<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Options<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>to Employees in<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Exercise or<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Grant<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Fair Value ($)<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; width: 1%; padding-bottom: 1px">
    <B>Name</B>
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Granted</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Fiscal Year 2008</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Base Price</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Date</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>(1)</B>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="line-height: 3pt; font-size: 1pt">
<TD>&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Ernest A. Bates,&#160;M.D.&#160;
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    50,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    100.0
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
    %
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    2.959/share(2
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
    )
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    3/8/2008
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    40,500
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

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</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

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<TR>
    <TD width="2%"></TD>
    <TD width="1%"></TD>
    <TD width="97%"></TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">
    (1) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    The Grant Date Fair Value of the Company&#146;s stock-based
    awards to employees was calculated using the Black-Scholes
    valuation model. Assumptions used in the calculation of this
    amount are included in Note 9 to our audited financial
    statements for the fiscal year ended December&#160;31, 2008
    included in our
    <FONT style="white-space: nowrap">Form&#160;10-K</FONT>
    filed with the SEC on March&#160;31, 2009.</TD>
</TR>


<TR style="line-height: 3pt; font-size: 1pt"><TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>

<TR>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">
    (2) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    Options are incentive options granted to a 10% Shareholder
    granted pursuant to the Company&#146;s 2006 Stock Incentive
    Plan, and accordingly have an exercise price equal to 110% of
    the closing market price per share of the Company&#146;s Common
    Stock on the American Stock Exchange on the grant date.</TD>
</TR>

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<DIV align="center" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">

    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Payments
    upon Termination or Change in Control</FONT></B>
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    Under our 2006 Stock Plan, in the event a change in control
    occurs, each outstanding equity award under the Discretionary
    Grant Program will automatically accelerate in full, unless
    (i)&#160;that award is assumed by the successor corporation or
    otherwise continued in effect or (ii)&#160;the award is replaced
    with a cash retention program that preserves the spread existing
    on the unvested shares subject to that equity award (the excess
    of the fair market value of those shares over the exercise or
    base price in effect for the shares) and provides for subsequent
    payout of that spread in accordance with the same vesting
    schedule in effect for those shares. In addition, all unvested
    shares
</DIV>

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    <BR>
    11
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 0%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    outstanding under the Discretionary Grant and Stock Issuance
    Programs will immediately vest upon the change in control,
    except to the extent our repurchase rights with respect to those
    shares are to be assigned to the successor corporation or
    otherwise continued in effect. Each outstanding equity award
    under the Stock Issuance Program, including RSUs, will vest as
    to the number of shares of common stock subject to that award
    immediately prior to the change in control and the underlying
    shares will become immediately issuable, unless that equity
    award is assumed by the successor corporation or otherwise
    continued in effect or replaced with a cash retention program
    similar to the program described in clause&#160;(ii) above.
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    The plan administrator has the discretion to structure one or
    more equity awards under the 2006 Plan so that those equity
    awards will vest in full either immediately upon a change in
    control or in the event the individual&#146;s service with us or
    the successor entity is terminated (actually or constructively)
    within a designated period following a change in control
    transaction, whether or not those equity awards are to be
    assumed or otherwise continued in effect or replaced with a cash
    retention program.
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    Options granted under our 1995 and 2001 Stock Option Plans
    provide that in the event of (i)&#160;a change in control of the
    company in which the holders of the Company&#146;s common stock
    receive consideration other than shares of common stock
    registered under Section&#160;12 of the Securities Exchange Act
    of 1934, (ii)&#160;any person acquiring beneficial ownership of
    25% or more of either the corporation&#146;s outstanding common
    stock or the company&#146;s outstanding voting securities, or
    (iii)&#160;a hostile take-over of the Company&#146;s board,
    options will be cancelled in exchange for a cash payment from
    the Company in an amount equal to the number of shares of common
    stock at that time subject to such option, multiplied by the
    excess, if any, of the greater of (A)&#160;the highest per share
    price offered to the stockholders of the Company in any
    transaction whereby the change in control takes place or
    (B)&#160;the fair market value of a share of common stock on the
    date of occurrence of the change in control over the exercise
    price per share of common stock in effect under that option.
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    Upon a qualifying change in control of the Company, executive
    officers would potentially receive compensation pursuant to
    unvested option grants originally awarded under the 1995 plan.
    Assuming a change in control occurred on December&#160;31, 2008
    and the change in control consideration paid per share was equal
    to the closing selling price of our common stock on
    December&#160;31, 2008, which was $1.05 per share, each option
    strike price is greater than the closing selling price on that
    date, and so no compensation would have been paid to the named
    executive officers.
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 18pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">

    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Shares
    Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation
    Plans</FONT></B>
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    The following table provides information as of December&#160;31,
    2008 with respect to shares of our common stock that may be
    issued under our existing equity compensation plan.
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

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<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Number of Shares to<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>be Issued Upon<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Weighted Average<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Number of Shares<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Exercise of<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Exercise Price of<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Remaining Available<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Outstanding Options,<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Outstanding Options,<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>for<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; width: 1%; padding-bottom: 1px">
    <B>Plan Category</B>
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Warrants and Rights</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Warrants and Rights</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="2" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Future Issuance</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="line-height: 3pt; font-size: 1pt">
<TD>&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="background: #CCEEFF">
<TD align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Equity compensation plans approved by security holders(1)
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    619,930
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
    (2)
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    3.72
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
    (3)
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    123,070
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
    (4)
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    N/A
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    N/A
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    N/A
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="background: #CCEEFF">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    Total
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    619,930
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    3.72
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    123,070
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD width="97%"></TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">
    (1) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    Consists of our 2006 Plan.</TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">
    (2) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    Includes 1,500&#160;shares of our common stock subject to
    restricted stock unit awards that will entitle each holder to
    one share of our common stock for each such unit that vests over
    the holder&#146;s period of continued service.</TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">
    (3) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    Calculated without taking into account 1,500&#160;shares of
    common stock subject to outstanding restricted stock unit awards
    that will become issuable, as those units vest, without any cash
    consideration or other payment required for such shares.</TD>
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    (4) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    Shares reserved for issuance under the 2006 Plan may be issued
    upon the exercise of stock options or stock appreciation rights,
    through direct stock issuances or pursuant to restricted stock
    units or other stock based awards that vest upon the attainment
    of prescribed performance milestones or the completion of
    designated service periods.</TD>
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Compliance
    with Section&#160;16(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of
    1934</FONT></B>
</DIV>

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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    Reports filed under the Exchange Act and received by the Company
    on or after January&#160;1, 2008, indicate that during
    2008&#160;directors, officers and 10% shareholders of the
    Company filed all required reports within the periods
    established by applicable rules, with the following exceptions:
    (1)&#160;On November&#160;19, 2008 Stanley S. Trotman purchased
    8,860&#160;shares of the Company&#146;s stock, which was not
    reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission until
    November&#160;26, 2008; (2)&#160;On November&#160;26, 2008
    Stanley S. Trotman purchased 4,075&#160;shares of the
    Company&#146;s stock, which was not reported to the Securities
    and Exchange Commission until December&#160;2, 2008.
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">CERTAIN
    RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS</FONT></B>
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Compensation
    Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation</FONT></B>
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    None.
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Policies
    and Procedures</FONT></B>
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    The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors is responsible for
    reviewing and approving all related party transactions as
    defined under Securities and Exchange Commission rules and
    regulations. While we do not have a formal written policy or
    procedure for the review, approval or ratification of related
    party transactions, the audit committee must review the
    materials facts of any such transaction and approve that
    transaction.
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    To identify related party transactions, each year we submit and
    require our directors and officers to complete director and
    officer questionnaires identifying transactions with the Company
    in which the director or officer or their family members have a
    conflict of interest. The Company reviews the questionnaire for
    potential related party transactions. In addition, at any
    scheduled meeting of the audit committee, management may
    recommend related party transactions to the committee, including
    the material terms of the proposed transactions, for its
    consideration.
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    In making its decision to approve or ratify a related party
    transaction, the audit committee will consider all relevant
    facts and circumstances available to the committee, including
    factors such as the aggregate value of the transaction, whether
    the terms of the related party transaction are no less favorable
    than terms generally available in an arms&#146; length
    transaction and the benefit of such transaction to us.
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">AUDIT
    COMMITTEE REPORT</FONT></B>
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    The following Report of the Audit Committee does not constitute
    soliciting material and should not be deemed filed or
    incorporated by reference into any other filing of the Company
    under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act
    of 1934, except to the extent the Company specifically
    incorporates the Report by reference therein.
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    The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors consists of three
    directors, all of whom are &#145;independent&#146; as defined in
    the listing standards of the AMEX. The primary purpose of the
    Audit Committee is to review the financial reporting and
    internal controls of the Company, to appoint independent
    auditors, to review the reports of such auditors, and to review
    annually the Audit Committee charter. During 2008, the Audit
    Committee held seven meetings, three of which were held
    telephonically. Mr.&#160;Ruffle is Chair of the Audit Committee.
</DIV>

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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    The Audit Committee reviewed and held discussions with
    management and the independent auditors regarding the financial
    statements of the Company for the fiscal year ended
    December&#160;31, 2008. These discussions included the quality
    of the Company&#146;s internal controls, the audit plans, audit
    scope and identification of audit risks. In addition, the
    Committee assured that the independent auditors reviewed and
    discussed with management the interim financial reports prior to
    each quarterly earnings announcement.
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    The Company&#146;s independent auditors provided a formal
    written statement that described all relationships between the
    auditors and the Company with respect to the auditors&#146;
    independence as required by Independence Standards Board
    Standard No.&#160;1, &#147;Independence Discussions with Audit
    Committees,&#148; and the Audit Committee satisfied itself as to
    the auditors&#146; independence.
</DIV>

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    The Audit Committee discussed with the Independent Registered
    Public Accounting Firm all matters required to be discussed by
    Statement on Auditing Standards No.&#160;61, as amended,
    &#147;Communication with Audit Committees&#148; and, with and
    without the presence of management, reviewed and discussed the
    results of the independent auditors&#146; examination of the
    Company&#146;s financial statements. Management, being
    responsible for the Company&#146;s financial statements,
    represented that the Company&#146;s consolidated financial
    statements were prepared in accordance with generally accepted
    accounting principles. The independent auditors are responsible
    for the examination of those statements.
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    Based on the Audit Committee&#146;s discussions with management
    and the independent auditors, and the Audit Committee&#146;s
    review as described previously, the Audit Committee recommended
    to the Board of Directors that the Company&#146;s audited
    financial statements be included in its Annual Report on
    <FONT style="white-space: nowrap">Form&#160;10-K</FONT>
    for the fiscal year ended December&#160;31, 2008, as filed with
    the Securities and Exchange Commission.
</DIV>

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    Submitted by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors:
</DIV>

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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 49%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 0%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    John F. Ruffle (chairman)<BR>
    Olin C. Robison<BR>
    Stanley S. Trotman, Jr.
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">PROPOSAL&#160;NO.&#160;2<BR>
    </FONT></B>
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">RATIFICATION
    OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM</FONT></B>
</DIV>

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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    The Company&#146;s consolidated financial statements for the
    years ended December&#160;31, 2008, 2007 and 2006 have been
    audited by Moss Adams LLP. The Audit Committee has appointed
    Moss Adams LLP to be the Company&#146;s Independent Registered
    Public Accounting Firm for the fiscal year ending
    December&#160;31, 2009, subject to Shareholder ratification at
    the Meeting (see Proposal&#160;No.&#160;2).
</DIV>

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    Representatives of Moss Adams LLP are expected to be present at
    the Annual Meeting to respond to appropriate questions and will
    be given an opportunity to make a statement if they so desire.
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    The aggregate fees billed by Moss Adams LLP and their respective
    affiliates for professional services performed for 2008 and 2007
    are as follows:
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&nbsp;
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&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Audit-<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Audit<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>Related<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
    <B>All Other<BR>
    </B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
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<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom" align="center">
<TD nowrap align="center" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Fees(1)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Fees(2)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Tax Fees(3)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Fees(4)</B>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD colspan="3" nowrap align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">
    <B>Total Fees</B>
</TD>
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<TR style="line-height: 3pt; font-size: 1pt">
<TD>&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    <B>2008</B>
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    150,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    10,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    111,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    0
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    271,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
<DIV style="text-indent: -10pt; margin-left: 10pt">
    <B>2007</B>
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    146,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    41,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    90,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    0
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD>
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    $
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom">
    277,000
</TD>
<TD nowrap align="left" valign="bottom">
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    (1) </TD>
    <TD></TD>
    <TD valign="bottom">
    Consists of fees billed for professional services rendered in
    connection with the audit of our consolidated financial
    statements and review of interim condensed consolidated
    financial statements included in our quarterly reports and
    services normally provided in connection with statutory and
    regulatory filings or engagements.</TD>
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    (2) </TD>
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    Audit related fees were primarily related to meetings with the
    audit committee, attendance at the annual stockholder meeting,
    accounting advice, review of comment letter received from the
    SEC and advice related to Section&#160;404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley
    Act.</TD>
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    Consists of tax compliance and preparation and other tax
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<TR>
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    Consists of fees for all other services other than those
    reported above.</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    All of the above services were approved by the Audit Committee.
    The Audit Committee pre-approves all audit and permissible
    non-audit services provided by the independent auditors.
</DIV>

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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 0%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    <B>Policy on Audit Committee Pre-Approval of Audit and
    Permissible Non-Audit Services of the Independent Registered
    Public Accounting Firm</B>
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    The Audit Committee pre-approves services performed by the
    Company&#146;s independent registered public accounting firm in
    order to assure that the provision of such services and related
    fees do not impair the independent registered public accounting
    firm&#146;s independence. The independent registered public
    accounting firm must provide the Audit Committee with an
    engagement letter outlining the scope of the audit services
    proposed to be performed during the applicable calendar year and
    the proposed fees for such audit services. If agreed to by the
    Audit Committee, the engagement letter will be formally accepted
    by the Audit Committee as evidenced by the execution of the
    engagement letter by the Chair of the Audit Committee. The Audit
    Committee approves, if necessary, any changes in terms,
    conditions and fees resulting from changes in audit scope,
    Company structure or other matters. The Audit Committee may
    grant pre-approval for those permissible non-audit services that
    it believes are services that would not impair the independence
    of the independent registered public accounting firm. The Audit
    Committee may not grant approval for any services categorized as
    &#147;Prohibited Non-Audit Services&#148; by the Securities and
    Exchange Commission. Certain non-audit services have been
    pre-approved by the Audit Committee, and all other non-audit
    services must be separately approved by the Audit Committee.
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    <B>THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS A VOTE IN FAVOR
    OF PROPOSAL&#160;NO.&#160;2. PROPERLY EXECUTED PROXIES RETURNED
    TO THE COMPANY WILL BE VOTED &#147;FOR&#148; THE RATIFICATION OF
    THE APPOINTMENT OF MOSS ADAMS LLP AS THE COMPANY&#146;S
    INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM FOR THE YEAR
    ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2009.</B>
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">SHAREHOLDER
    PROPOSALS</FONT></B>
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 1pt">&nbsp;</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    Shareholders who intend to have a proposal considered for
    inclusion in the Company&#146;s proxy materials for presentation
    at the 2010 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the &#147;2010
    Annual Meeting&#148;) pursuant to
    <FONT style="white-space: nowrap">Rule&#160;14a-8</FONT>
    of the Exchange Act must submit the proposal to the Company no
    later than January&#160;1, 2010. Pursuant to
    <FONT style="white-space: nowrap">Rule&#160;14a-4(c)</FONT>
    of the Exchange Act, shareholders who intend to present a
    proposal at the 2010 Annual Meeting without inclusion of such
    proposal in the proxy materials are required to notify the
    Company of such proposal not later than March&#160;16, 2010, so
    long as the 2010 Annual Meeting is not advanced or delayed by
    more than 30&#160;days from May&#160;28, 2010 (the anniversary
    date of the prior year&#146;s annual meeting). If the Company
    does not receive notification of the proposal within that time
    frame, the proxy holders will be allowed to use their
    discretionary voting authority to vote on such proposal when the
    proposal is raised at the 2010 Annual Meeting. A
    shareholder&#146;s notice should list each proposal and contain
    a brief description of the business to be brought before the
    meeting; the name and address of the shareholder proposing such
    business; the number of shares held by the shareholder; and any
    material interest of the shareholder in the business.
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">ANNUAL
    REPORT</FONT></B>
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    The Company&#146;s 2008 Annual Report, which includes financial
    statements, but which does not constitute a part of the proxy
    solicitation material, accompanies this proxy statement.
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 49%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 0%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    By Order of the Board of Directors
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    <IMG src="f52258def5225801.gif" alt="-s- Willie R. Barnes">
</DIV>

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    Willie R. Barnes
</DIV>

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    <I>Corporate Secretary</I>
</DIV>

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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 0%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    Dated: April&#160;30, 2009
</DIV>

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    San&#160;Francisco, California
</DIV>

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<DIV align="Center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 6pt"><b>AMERICAN SHARED HOSPITAL SERVICES</b>

</DIV>

<DIV align="Center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><B>For the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held May 28, 2009</B>

</DIV>

<DIV align="Center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><B>THIS PROXY IS SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS</B>

</DIV>

<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt; line-height: 15pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;THE
UNDERSIGNED HEREBY NOMINATE(S), CONSTITUTE(S) AND APPOINT(S) ERNEST A. BATES, M.D. AND CRAIG K. TAGAWA,
AND EACH OF THEM, ATTORNEYS, AGENTS, AND PROXIES OF THE UNDERSIGNED, WITH FULL POWERS OF SUBSTITUTION TO
EACH, TO ATTEND AND TO ACT AS PROXY OR PROXIES OF THE UNDERSIGNED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF
AMERICAN SHARED HOSPITAL SERVICES TO BE HELD ON MAY 28, 2009 AT 9:00 AM PACIFIC TIME AT THE CONFERENCE CENTER,
 4 EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, OR ANY ADJOURNMENTS THEREOF, AND TO VOTE AS SPECIFIED
 HEREIN THE NUMBER OF SHARES THAT THE UNDERSIGNED, IF PERSONALLY PRESENT, WOULD BE ENTITLED TO VOTE.
</DIV>


<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt; line-height: 15pt">THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE &#147;FOR&#148; THE ELECTION OF THE FOUR PERSONS NOMINATED FOR ELECTION TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND &#147;FOR&#148; THE RATIFICATION OF MOSS ADAMS LLP AS THE COMPANY'S INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM FOR 2009. YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO SPECIFY YOUR CHOICES BY MARKING THE APPROPRIATE BOXES. THIS PROXY WHEN PROPERLY EXECUTED WILL BE VOTED AS DIRECTED.
 IF NO DIRECTION IS MADE, IT WILL BE VOTED, SUBJ
ECT TO THE PROXYHOLDER&#146;S DISCRETIONARY AUTHORITY TO CUMULATE VOTES, &#147;FOR&#148; THE ELECTION OF THE PERSONS NOMINATED
 ON THE REVERSE SIDE, AND WILL HAVE THE EFFECT OF WITHHOLDING DISCRETIONARY AUTHORITY TO CUMULATE VOTES AND &#147;FOR&#148; THE RATIFICATION OF INDEPENDENT
 REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS IS NOT AWARE OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT WILL COME BEFORE THE ANNUAL MEETING, OTHER THAN THOSE
 DESCRIBED IN THIS PROXY. HOWEVER, IF SUCH MATTERS ARE PRESENTED, THE NAMED
 PROXIES WILL, IN THE ABSENCE
OF INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CONTRARY, VOTE SUCH PROXIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE JUDGMENT OF SUCH NAMED PROXIES WITH RESPECT TO ANY SUCH OTHER MATTER
 PROPERLY COMING BEFORE THE MEETING. THIS PROXY MAY BE REVOKED PRIOR TO ITS EXERCISE BY FILING WITH THE SECRETARY OF THE COMPANY AN INSTRUMENT IN W
RITING REVOKING THIS PROXY OR A DULY EXECUTED PROXY BEARING A LATER DATE. THIS PROXY ALSO MAY BE REVOKED BY ATTENDANCE AT THE MEETING AND ELECTION TO
 VOTE IN PERSON.

</DIV>

<DIV align="Center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><B>(Continued and to be signed on the reverse side)</B>

</DIV>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">14475</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF</B>
</DIV>


<DIV align="Center" style="font-size: 22pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>AMERICAN SHARED HOSPITAL SERVICES
</B>

</DIV>

<DIV align="Center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 6pt"><B>May 28, 2009</B>

</DIV>

<DIV align="Center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 40pt"><u><B>NOTICE OF INTERNET AVAILABILITY OF PROXY MATERIAL</B>: </u><BR>
The Notice of Meeting, Proxy Statement, Proxy Card<br> are available at www.ashs.com.
</DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 30pt">Please sign, date and mail<BR>
your proxy card in the<BR>
envelope provided as soon<BR>
as possible.
</DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 8pt; margin-top: 10pt"><FONT face="symbol" style="font-size: 10pt">&#175;</FONT>&nbsp;&nbsp;Please detach along perforated line and mail in the envelope provided.&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT face="symbol" style="font-size: 10pt">&#175;</FONT>
</DIV>

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</DIV>
<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 7pt; margin-top: 0pt"><B>The Board of Directors recommends a vote FOR election of the directors nominated herein, <br>and FOR the ratification of independent registered public accounting firm.<br>
PLEASE SIGN, DATE AND RETURN PROMPTLY IN THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE. PLEASE MARK YOUR VOTE IN BLUE OR BLACK INK AS SHOWN HERE&nbsp;&nbsp;
</B><FONT face="Wingdings">&#253;</FONT>
</DIV>


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<TD colspan="9" valign="top" align="justify"><div align="justify">To elect four of the persons named below to the Board of Directors to serve until the
 2010 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and until their successors are elected and have qualified.</DIV></TD>
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O
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Olin C. Robison</TD>
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Stanley S. Trotman, Jr.<br>
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(See instructions below)
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</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="justify">To withhold authority to vote for any individual nominee(s), mark &#147;<b>FOR ALL
EXCEPT</b>&#148; and fill in the circle next to each
nominee you wish to withhold, as shown here: (<FONT face="symbol" style="font-size: 10pt">&#183;</FONT>)</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="justify">To cumulate your vote for one or more of the above nominee(s), write the manner in which such votes shall be cumulated in the space to the right of the nominee(s) name(s). If you are cumulating your vote, do not mark the circle.
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the box at right and indicate your new address in the
address space above. Please note that changes to the
registered name(s) on the account may not be
submitted via this method.
</DIV></TD>
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</TD>
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    <TD align="justify" valign="top">RATIFICATION OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM.
To ratify the appointment of Moss Adams LLP as the Company&#146;s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2009.
</TD>
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</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 8pt; margin-top: 10pt">This proxy when properly executed will be voted in the manner
directed herein and in the discretion of the proxy holders and all other matters coming before the meeting. If no direction is made, this proxy will be
 voted FOR the election of directors recommended herein, and FOR Proposal No. 2.
</DIV>

<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 8pt; margin-top: 10pt">The Board of Directors recommends a vote FOR election of the directors
nominated herein and FOR the ratification of independent registered public accounting firm.
</DIV>

<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 8pt; margin-top: 10pt">The undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that
 said attorneys and proxies, or any of them, or their substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof, and hereby revokes any
and all proxies heretofore given by the undersigned to vote at the Meeting. The undersigned acknowledges receipt of the Notice of the Annual Meeting
 and the Proxy Statement accompanying such Notice.
</DIV>

<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 8pt; margin-top: 10pt">PLEASE MARK, DATE AND SIGN AS YOUR NAME APPEARS ABOVE AND RETURN IN THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE.
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