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Dividends | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2013
Dividends [Abstract] |
Dividends | Dividends During the six months ended June 30, 2013, we paid regular quarterly cash dividends approximating $22,931,000 as follows:
| Quarter Ended
| March 31, 2013 |  | June 30, 2013
Cash dividend per common share | $ | 0.16625 |  |  | $ | 0.16750 |
Total cash dividends paid | $ | 11,415,000 |  |  | $ | 11,516,000 |
Record date | February 22, 2013 |  |  | May 10, 2013 |
Payment date | March 15, 2013 |  |  | June 14, 2013 |
Additionally, on July 9, 2013, our Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.16875 per common share, which will be paid on September 20, 2013, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on August 16, 2013. Cash dividends on our outstanding weighted average number of basic common shares for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 was as follows:
| For the Three Months Ended June 30, |  | For the Six Months Ended June 30,
| 2013 |  | 2012 |  | 2013 |  | 2012
Cash dividends per common share | $ | 0.17 |  |  | $ | 0.16 |  |  | $ | 0.33 |  |  | $ | 0.32 |
Our Board of Directors reviews our dividend policy on a quarterly basis. Although there can be no assurance that we will continue to pay dividends or the amount of the dividend, we expect to continue to pay a regular quarterly cash dividend. In connection with the establishment of our dividend policy, we adopted a Dividend Reinvestment Plan in 2003.

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