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Long-term debt (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Long Term Debt | Long-term debt was comprised of the following:
|  | March 31, |  |  | December 31, |
|  | 2015 |  |  | 2014 |
Senior Secured Credit Facilities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Term Loan A |  | $ | 962,500 |  |  | $ | 975,000 |
Term Loan B |  |  | 3,473,750 |  |  |  | 3,482,500 |
Senior notes |  |  | 3,775,000 |  |  |  | 3,775,000 |
Acquisition obligations and other notes payable |  |  | 63,102 |  |  |  | 69,045 |
Capital lease obligations |  |  | 239,439 |  |  |  | 218,097 |
Total debt principal outstanding |  |  | 8,513,791 |  |  |  | 8,519,642 |
Discount on long-term debt |  |  | (15,562 | ) |  |  | (16,208 | )
|  |  | 8,498,229 |  |  |  | 8,503,434 |
Less current portion |  |  | (118,076 | ) |  |  | (120,154 | )
|  | $ | 8,380,153 |  |  | $ | 8,383,280 |
Scheduled Maturities of Long-term Debt | Scheduled maturities of long-term debt at March 31, 2015 were as follows:
2015 (remainder of the year) |  |  | 92,475 |
2016 |  |  | 117,586 |
2017 |  |  | 145,940 |
2018 |  |  | 156,733 |
2019 |  |  | 730,811 |
2020 |  |  | 55,617 |
Thereafter |  |  | 7,214,629 |
Derivative Instruments | The following table summarizes the Company’s derivative instruments as of March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014:
|  | March 31, 2015 |  |  | December 31, 2014 |
Derivatives designated as hedging |  | Balance sheet |  |  |  |  |  | Balance sheet |  |  |  |
instruments |  | location |  | Fair value |  |  | location |  | Fair value |
Interest rate swap agreements |  | Other short-term liabilities |  | $ | 1,439 |  |  | Other short-term liabilities |  | $ | 1,457 |
Interest rate swap agreements |  | Other long-term assets |  | $ | 1,291 |  |  | Other long-term assets |  | $ | 3,281 |
Interest rate cap agreements |  | Other long-term assets |  | $ | 7,177 |  |  | Other long-term assets |  | $ | 13,934 |
Effects of Interest Rate Swap Agreements | The following table summarizes the effects of the Company’s interest rate swap and cap agreements for the three months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014:
|  | Amount of gains |  |  |  |  | Amount of |
|  | (losses) recognized in |  |  |  |  | losses reclassified |
|  | OCI on interest rate swap |  |  |  |  | from accumulated |
|  | and cap agreements |  |  | Location of |  | OCI into income |
|  | Three months ended |  |  | losses reclassified |  | Three months ended |
Derivatives designated |  | March 31, |  |  | from accumulated |  | March 31, |
as cash flow hedges |  | 2015 |  |  | 2014 |  |  | OCI into income |  | 2015 |  |  | 2014 |
Interest rate swap agreements |  | $ | (2,694 | ) |  | $ | (2,764 | ) |  | Debt expense (including refinancing charges) |  | $ | (722 | ) |  | $ | (4,006 | )
Interest rate cap agreements |  |  | (6,757 | ) |  |  | (1,347 | ) |  | Debt expense (including refinancing charges) |  |  | (610 | ) |  |  | (1,507 | )
Tax benefit |  |  | 3,691 |  |  |  | 1,606 |  |  |  |  |  | 520 |  |  |  | 2,154 |
Total |  | $ | (5,760 | ) |  | $ | (2,505 | ) |  |  |  | $ | (812 | ) |  | $ | (3,359 | )

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