Comprehensive Loss	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2011
Comprehensive Loss [Abstract]
Comprehensive Loss	(11) Comprehensive Loss Comprehensive income is comprised of net earnings, foreign currency translation adjustments, and unrealized gains and losses on available-for-sale securities. Total comprehensive loss for the three months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 was $1.9 million and $257 thousand, respectively, and total comprehensive loss for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 was $6.0 million and $4.2 million, respectively. The difference from net loss for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 consists of foreign currency translation adjustments and unrealized gains and losses on available-for-sale securities. Accumulated other comprehensive loss as reflected in the Consolidated Statement of Stockholders’ Equity and Comprehensive Income (Loss) includes cumulative foreign currency translation adjustments of $175 thousand and unrealized gain on available-for-sale securities of $1 thousand.

Comprehensive Loss

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

(11) Comprehensive Loss

Comprehensive income is comprised of net earnings, foreign currency translation adjustments, and unrealized gains and losses on available-for-sale securities. Total comprehensive loss for the three months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 was $1.9 million and $257 thousand, respectively, and total comprehensive loss for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 was $6.0 million and $4.2 million, respectively. The difference from net loss for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 consists of foreign currency translation adjustments and unrealized gains and losses on available-for-sale securities. Accumulated other comprehensive loss as reflected in the Consolidated Statement of Stockholders’ Equity and Comprehensive Income (Loss) includes cumulative foreign currency translation adjustments of $175 thousand and unrealized gain on available-for-sale securities of $1 thousand.

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The entire disclosure for comprehensive income. Includes, but is not limited to, the following: 1) the amount of income tax expense or benefit allocated to each component of other comprehensive income, including reclassification adjustments, 2) the reclassification adjustments for each classification of other comprehensive income and 3) the ending accumulated balances for each component of comprehensive income. Components of comprehensive income include: (1) foreign currency translation adjustments; (2) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (3) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (4) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (5) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (6) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (7) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans.

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