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Other Comprehensive Income (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 29, 2013
Notes To Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Schedule of Comprehensive Income (Loss) | were as follows (in thousands):
| Currency Translation Adjustment |  | Pension Benefit Costs |  | Unrealized Gain/(Loss) Interest Rate Swap |  | Total
Beginning balance | $ | (5,355 | ) |  | $ | (5,597 | ) |  | $ | (1,447 | ) |  | $ | (12,399 | )
Other comprehensive income before reclassification | (7,965 | ) |  | 240 |  |  | 946 |  |  | (6,779 | )
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income | — |  |  | — |  |  | (34 | ) |  | (34 | )
Net current-period other comprehensive income | $ | (7,965 | ) |  | $ | 240 |  |  | $ | 912 |  |  | $ | (6,813 | )
Ending balance | $ | (13,320 | ) |  | $ | (5,357 | ) |  | $ | (535 | ) |  | $ | (19,212 | )

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=20435746&loc=d3e526-108580 + Details
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