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ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) (Block) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Net of Tax [Abstract] |
Comprehensive Income Note Text Block | 14. A CCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) The Company's accumulated comprehensive income (loss) consists of net income (loss) and other items recorded directly to the equity accounts. The following table summarizes the types of other comprehensive income (loss) recorded to the statements of comprehensive income (loss) for the periods indicated:
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
|  |  | Years Ended December 31,
Category |  | 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2010
|  |  | (amounts in thousands)
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) beginning balance |  | $ | - |  | $ | (7,277) |  | $ | (13,432)
Interest Rate Derivatives |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Prior period correction |  |  | - |  |  | 5,998 |  |  | -
| Net gain (loss) on derivatives |  |  | - |  |  | 5,643 |  |  | 6,155
| Income (taxes) benefit |  |  | - |  |  | (2,149) |  |  | (2,431)
| Net gain (loss) on derivatives, net of taxes and |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| before valuation allowance |  |  | - |  |  | 9,492 |  |  | 3,724
| Valuation allowance - (decrease) increase |  |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | (2,431)
| Net gain (loss), net of taxes |  |  | - |  |  | 9,492 |  |  | 6,155
| Reclassification to the income statement due to hedge ineffectiveness |  |  | - |  |  | (2,215) |  |  | -
| Net activity |  |  | - |  |  | 7,277 |  |  | 6,155
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) ending balance |  | $ | - |  | $ | - |  | $ | (7,277)
Prior Period Tax Provision Correction Included in the year ended December 31, 2011 is a prior period correction for the year ended December 31, 2008 of $6.0 million that was made to record an income tax benefit to other comprehensive income (loss) and to increase deferred income tax expense by the same amount. The prior period financial statements were not restated as t his correction was considered to be immaterial to both the Company's previously reported and current results of operations and financial position and had no i m pact on previously reported cash flows from operating, financing or investing activities.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for comprehensive income. Includes, but is not limited to, the following: 1) the amount of income tax expense or benefit allocated to each component of other comprehensive income, including reclassification adjustments, 2) the reclassification adjustments for each classification of other comprehensive income and 3) the ending accumulated balances for each component of comprehensive income. Components of comprehensive income include: (1) foreign currency translation adjustments; (2) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (3) 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; (4) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (5) 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; (6) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (7) 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 55 -Paragraph 2 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920433&loc=d3e998-108581 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 15 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e689-108580 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 11 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e637-108580 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 17 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e716-108580 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 14 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e681-108580 Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Glossary Reclassification Adjustments -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6522872 Reference 7: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS) -Number 130 -Paragraph 14-26 -LegacyDoc This reference is SUPERSEDED by the Accounting Standards Codification effective for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. This reference is included to help users transition from the previous accounting hierarchy and will be removed from future versions of this taxonomy. Reference 8: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 12 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e640-108580 Reference 9: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 505 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (SX 210.3-04) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6959260&loc=d3e187085-122770 Reference 10: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 13 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e653-108580 Reference 11: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 16 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e709-108580 + Details
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