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Note 3 - Investments

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

3. INVESTMENTS

The following table summarizes the Company’s investments (in thousands) at both March 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011:

		Amortized Cost				Unrealized Holding Gains				Unrealized Holding Losses				Fair Value
Auction-rate securities		$	1,000			$	—			$	(216	)		$	784

As of March 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011, the Company’s investments consisted entirely of auction-rate securities. Please refer to Note 12 “Fair Value” for further discussion of auction-rate securities.

- Definition

The entire disclosure for investment holdings. This includes the long positions of investments for the entity. It contains investments in affiliated and unaffiliated issuers. The investments include securities and non securities (i.e. commodities and futures contracts).

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