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Note 5 - Derivative Financial Instruments (Details) (USD $)	3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2013	Sep. 30, 2013 gal
Note 5 - Derivative Financial Instruments (Details) [Line Items]
Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Foreign Currency Translation Adjustment, Tax, Portion Attributable to Parent		$ 9,000
Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Derivatives Qualifying as Hedges, Tax		3,000
Price Risk Cash Flow Hedge Gain (Loss) Reclassified to Earnings, Net	$ 44,000	$ 47,000
Derivative, Nonmonetary Notional Amount, Gallons (in US Gallons)		1,400,000
Minimum [Member]
Note 5 - Derivative Financial Instruments (Details) [Line Items]
Derivative, Nonmonetary, Number of Gallons Range (in US Gallons)		10,000
Underlying, Derivative Volume (in Dollars per US Gallon)		2.75
Maximum [Member]
Note 5 - Derivative Financial Instruments (Details) [Line Items]
Derivative, Nonmonetary, Number of Gallons Range (in US Gallons)		50,000
Underlying, Derivative Volume (in Dollars per US Gallon)		3.21

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The number of gallons in a derivative contract expressed in nonmonetary units. For example, the number of gallons specified in a fuel forward purchase contract.

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Amount of tax expense (benefit), after reclassification adjustments of gain (loss) on foreign currency translation adjustments, foreign currency transactions designated and effective as economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity and intra-entity foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, attributable to parent entity.

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

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 810

-SubTopic 10

-Section 45

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Amount of tax expense (benefit), after reclassification adjustments, of increase (decrease) in accumulated gain (loss) from derivative instruments designated and qualifying as the effective portion of cash flow hedges and an entity's share of an equity investee's increase (decrease) in deferred hedging gain (loss).

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

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The amount of net gains or losses on price risk cash flow hedges reclassified during the period to earnings from accumulated other comprehensive income.

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Specified interest rate, security price, commodity price, foreign exchange rate, index of prices or rates for a derivative contract measured in volume but not the derivative contract itself.

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