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INCOME TAXES	6 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2018
INCOME TAXES [Abstract]
INCOME TAXES	INCOME TAXES The Tax Cut and Jobs Act (the Tax Act) was enacted on December 22, 2017. The Company applied Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) 118 when accounting for the enactment-date effects of the Tax Act at December 31, 2017 and recorded estimates primarily related to the revaluation of deferred tax balances and the one-time transition tax. As of June 30, 2018, the Company has not completed the analysis for all of the tax effects of the Tax Act and has not recorded any additional adjustments to the amounts recorded at December 31, 2017.

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The entire disclosure for income taxes. Disclosures may include net deferred tax liability or asset recognized in an enterprise's statement of financial position, net change during the year in the total valuation allowance, approximate tax effect of each type of temporary difference and carryforward that gives rise to a significant portion of deferred tax liabilities and deferred tax assets, utilization of a tax carryback, and tax uncertainties information.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2144680

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