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Income Taxes (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2017
Income Taxes |
Schedule of income (loss) before income taxes and income tax expense (benefit) |
|  | Three months ended June 30, |  | Six months ended June 30, |
|  | 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2017 |  | 2016 |
|  | (in thousands) |
Loss before income taxes |  | $ | (31,285 | ) | $ | (31,068 | ) | $ | (40,472 | ) | $ | (46,073 | )
Income tax expense (benefit) |  | $ | (12,897 | ) | $ | 1,014 |  | $ | (23,179 | ) | $ | 1,542 |

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