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Financial Instruments And Marketable Securities | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2011
Financial Instruments And Marketable Securities [Abstract] |
Financial Instruments And Marketable Securities | Note 2. Financial Instruments and Marketable Securities We follow a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities (Level 1) and the lowest priority to measurements involving significant unobservable inputs (Level 3). The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are as follows:
| • |  | Level 1 inputs are quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
| • |  | Level 2 inputs are quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets or inputs that are observable for the asset or liability, included in Level 1 that are observable either directly or indirectly.
| • |  | Level 3 inputs are unobservable for the asset or liability, but are based upon our own assumptions used to measure assets and liabilities at fair value.
The level in the fair value hierarchy within which a fair value measurement falls is based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. The following table presents the placement in the fair value hierarchy of assets that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis:
|  |  | $00,000 |  |  |  | $00,000 |  |  |  | $00,000 |  |  |  | $00,000 |
December 31, 2011: |  | Total |  |  | Level 1 |  |  | Level 2 |  |  | Level 3 |
Common stock |  | $ | 320 |  |  |  | 320 |  |  |  | 0 |  |  |  | 0 |
Government and agency securities |  |  | 26,845 |  |  |  | 26,845 |  |  |  | 0 |  |  |  | 0 |
Total available-for-sale securities |  | $ | 27,165 |  |  |  | 27,165 |  |  |  | 0 |  |  |  | 0 |
|  |  | $00,000 |  |  |  | $00,000 |  |  |  | $00,000 |  |  |  | $00,000 |
December 31, 2010: |  | Total |  |  | Level 1 |  |  | Level 2 |  |  | Level 3 |
Common stock |  | $ | 223 |  |  |  | 223 |  |  |  | 0 |  |  |  | 0 |
State and municipal bonds |  |  | 5,152 |  |  |  | 0 |  |  |  | 5,152 |  |  |  | 0 |
Government and agency securities |  |  | 25,844 |  |  |  | 25,844 |  |  |  | 0 |  |  |  | 0 |
Total available-for-sale securities |  | $ | 31,219 |  |  |  | 26,067 |  |  |  | 5,152 |  |  |  | 0 |
There were no transfers between levels during 2011 and 2010. As of year end, our financial assets that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis are common stock and debt securities. The government and agency securities have a maturity of twelve months. Marketable securities, all treated as available-for-sale securities, consist of the following:
|  |  |  |  | Gross |  |  | Gross |  |  |  |
|  | Amortized |  |  | unrealized |  |  | unrealized |  |  |  |
December 31, 2011: |  | cost |  |  | gains |  |  | losses |  |  | Fair value |
Common stock |  | $ | 197 |  |  |  | 123 |  |  |  | 0 |  |  |  | 320 |
Government and agency securities |  |  | 26,851 |  |  |  | 0 |  |  |  | (6 | ) |  |  | 26,845 |
Total available-for-sale securities |  | $ | 27,048 |  |  |  | 123 |  |  |  | (6 | ) |  |  | 27,165 |
|  |  |  |  | Gross |  |  | Gross |  |  |  |
|  | Amortized |  |  | unrealized |  |  | unrealized |  |  |  |
December 31, 2010: |  | cost |  |  | gains |  |  | losses |  |  | Fair value |
Common stock |  | $ | 183 |  |  |  | 40 |  |  |  | 0 |  |  |  | 223 |
State and municipal bonds |  |  | 5,164 |  |  |  | 0 |  |  |  | (12 | ) |  |  | 5,152 |
Government and agency securities |  |  | 25,851 |  |  |  | 0 |  |  |  | (7 | ) |  |  | 25,844 |
Total available-for-sale securities |  | $ | 31,198 |  |  |  | 40 |  |  |  | (19 | ) |  |  | 31,219 |
The unrealized gains and losses recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income and the realized gains and losses recorded in earnings were immaterial during the three years reported in these consolidated financial statements. Future maturities of our available-for-sale securities consist of the following:
|  | Less than 12 months |  |  | Greater than 12 months |
|  | Amortized |  |  |  |  |  | Amortized |  |  |  |
December 31, 2011 |  | cost |  |  | Fair value |  |  | cost |  |  | Fair value |
Common stock |  | $ | 197 |  |  |  | 320 |  |  |  | 0 |  |  |  | 0 |
Government and agency securities |  |  | 26,851 |  |  |  | 26,845 |  |  |  | 0 |  |  |  | 0 |
Total available-for-sale securities |  | $ | 27,048 |  |  |  | 27,165 |  |  |  | 0 |  |  |  | 0 |

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