DERIVATIVE LIABILITY

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2012

Notes to Financial Statements

DERIVATIVE LIABILITY

NOTE 9 – DERIVATIVE LIABILITY

In April 2008, the FASB issued a pronouncement that provides guidance on determining what types of instruments or embedded features in an instrument held by a reporting entity can be considered indexed to its own stock for the purpose of evaluating the first criteria of the scope exception in the pronouncement on accounting for derivatives. This pronouncement was effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2008. The adoption of these requirements can affect the accounting for warrants and many convertible instruments with provisions that protect holders from a decline in the stock price (or “down-round” provisions). For example, warrants or conversion features with such provisions are no longer recorded in equity. Down-round provisions reduce the exercise price of a warrant or convertible instrument if a company either issues equity shares for a price that is lower than the exercise price of those instruments or issues new warrants or convertible instruments that have a lower exercise price.

We evaluated whether convertible debt and warrants to acquire stock of the Company contain provisions that protect holders from declines in the stock price or otherwise could result in modification of the exercise price under the respective convertible debt and warrant agreements. We determined that the conversion feature in the convertible notes described in Note 6 contained such provisions and recorded such instruments as derivative liabilities. Derivative liabilities were valued using the weighted-average Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model, which approximates the Monte Carlo and other binomial valuation techniques, with the following assumptions:

				Fair value at
	June 30,			Date of
	2012			Issuance
Conversion feature :	(unaudited)
Risk-free interest rate		0.04	%		0.04	%
Expected volatility		74	%		74	%
Expected life (in years)		2.83			3.08
Expected dividend yield		0	%		0	%
Fair value	$	968,325		$	592,326

The risk-free interest rate was based on rates established by the Federal Reserve Bank. The Company based the expected volatility assumption on a volatility index of peer companies as the Company did not have sufficient market information to estimate the volatility of its own stock, and the expected life of the instruments is determined by the expiration date of the instrument. The expected dividend yield was based on the fact that the Company has not paid dividends to common stockholders in the past and does not expect to pay dividends to common stockholders in the future.

During the three and six months ended June 30, 2012, the Company recorded a charge to other expense to reflect the change in fair value of the derivatives of $375,999 for both periods.