Represents details about measures that determines an executive's payout from an equity-based plan.

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Represents the percentage payout from the incentive plan upon achievement of certain goals.

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Represents the executive's eligibility for payout from an equity-based plan based upon a percentage weighting of the entity's earnings per share performance as a criteria for payout.

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Represents the executive's eligibility for payout based upon a percentage weighting of the entity's return on assets as a criteria for payout.

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Represents the executive's eligibility for payout from an equity-based plan based upon a percentage weighting of the entity's total shareholder return as a criteria for payout.

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Represents the expense recognized during the period arising from equity-based compensation arrangements (for example, shares of stock, unit, stock options or other equity instruments) with employees, directors and certain consultants qualifying for treatment as employees.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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The number of grants made during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).

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STOCK PLANS AND STOCK BASED COMPENSATION - Performance Measures and Additional Disclosures (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Jun. 30, 2015	Mar. 31, 2015
Additional disclosures
Shares of common stock granted	358,000	1,341,000	14,084,000
Compensation expense	$ 89			$ 90
Performance units \| Executive officers
Performance Measures
Return on assets criteria (as a percent)	50.00%
Total shareholder return criteria (as a percent)	25.00%
Earnings per share criteria (as a percent)	25.00%
Additional disclosures
Vesting period	3 years
Shares of common stock granted	16,152			11,171
Compensation expense	$ 26			$ 0
Threshold \| Performance units \| Executive officers
Performance Measures
Performance levels (as a percent)	0.00%
Target \| Performance units \| Executive officers
Performance Measures
Performance levels (as a percent)	100.00%
Superior \| Performance units \| Executive officers
Performance Measures
Performance levels (as a percent)	150.00%