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Financial Assets And Financial Liabilities (Level 3 Financial Liabilities) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	6 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2014
Financial Liabilities Level 3 Rollforward [Abstract]
Beginning balance	$ 3
Transfers in and/or out of Level 3 (Liabilities)	74
Ending balance	$ 77

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- Definition

Amount of transfers of financial instrument classified as a liability into (out of) level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.

+ References

No definition available.

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- Definition

Fair value of financial instrument classified as a liability measured using unobservable inputs that reflect the entity's own assumption about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing.

+ References

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 820

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 2

-Subparagraph (c)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=25499696&loc=d3e19207-110258

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