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NET INCOME PER COMMON SHARE (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2013
Earnings Per Share, Basic and Diluted, Other Disclosures [Abstract] |
Schedule of Earnings Per Share Reconciliation [Table Text Block] |
| Three Months Ended
| March 31, 2013 |  | March 31, 2012
| (amounts in thousands, except share and per share data)
|  |  |  |  |  | Net Loss |  |  |  |  |  |  | Net Loss
| Net Loss |  | Shares |  | Per Share |  | Net Loss |  | Shares |  | Per Share
Basic net loss per common share: | $ | (251) |  | 37,138,186 |  | $ | (0.01) |  | $ | (1,049) |  | 36,482,887 |  | $ | (0.03)
Impact of equity awards |  |  |  | - |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | - |  |  |
Diluted net loss per common share: | $ | (251) |  | 37,138,186 |  | $ | (0.01) |  | $ | (1,049) |  | 36,482,887 |  | $ | (0.03)
Equity Award Impact Schedule [Table Text Block] |
|  |  | Three Months Ended
|  |  | March 31,
Impact Of Equity Awards |  | 2013 |  |  | 2012
|  |  | (amounts in thousands,
|  |  | except per share data)
Dilutive or anti-dilutive for all potentially dilutive equivalent shares |  | anti-dilutive |  |  | anti-dilutive
Excluded shares as anti-dilutive when reporting a net loss |  | 904 |  |  | 1,126
Excluded shares as anti-dilutive under the treasury stock method: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Options |  |  | 39 |  |  |  | 46
| Price range of options: from |  | $ | 6.99 |  |  | $ | 6.16
| Price range of options: to |  | $ | 48.21 |  |  | $ | 48.21
| RSUs with service conditions |  |  | 269 |  |  |  | 960
| RSUs with service and market conditions as market conditions not met |  |  | 200 |  |  |  | 200
| Total RSUs |  |  | 469 |  |  |  | 1,160

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