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Comprehensive Income and Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2011
Comprehensive Income and Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss [Abstract] |
Components of Comprehensive Income | Comprehensive income represents net income plus the changes in certain amounts deferred in accumulated other comprehensive loss related to hedging activities and changes in fair market value of an available for-sale security. The following table sets forth the components of comprehensive income:
| Year Ended December 31,
| 2011 |  | 2010 |  | 2009
Net income | $ | 47,971 |  |  | $ | 72,303 |  |  | $ | 61,694 |
Other comprehensive income: |  |  |  |  |
Unrealized gain/(loss) on tax increment financing bond | 234 |  |  | (177 | ) |  | 293 |
Unrealized gains/(losses) on cash flow hedges | (2,202 | ) |  | — |  |  | 937 |
Amortization of settled cash flow hedges | (118 | ) |  | 237 |  |  | (249 | )
Sale of cash flow hedge related to disposition of investment in unconsolidated affiliate | — |  |  | 103 |  |  | — |
Total other comprehensive income/(loss) | (2,086 | ) |  | 163 |  |  | 981 |
Total comprehensive income | $ | 45,885 |  |  | $ | 72,466 |  |  | $ | 62,675 |
Components of Accumulated Comprehensive Loss | Accumulated other comprehensive loss represents certain amounts deferred related to hedging activities and an available for-sale security. The following table sets forth the components of accumulated other comprehensive loss:
| December 31,
| 2011 |  | 2010
Tax increment financing bond | $ | (2,308 | ) |  | $ | (2,543 | )
Settled and outstanding cash flow hedges | (3,426 | ) |  | (1,105 | )
| $ | (5,734 | ) |  | $ | (3,648 | )

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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 -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Publisher FASB -Number -Article -Subparagraph -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Paragraph 1 -Section 45 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e526-108580 + Details
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