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<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">2. </font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Significant
Accounting Policies</font>
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<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The
preparation of consolidated financial statements in
conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates
and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets
and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and
liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial
statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses
during the reporting period. These judgments are difficult as
matters that are inherently uncertain directly impact their
valuation and accounting. Actual results may vary from
management’s estimates and assumptions. The
Company’s significant accounting policies are disclosed
in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2012.</font>
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<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Recent
Accounting Standards</font>
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<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In
December 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-11, “Balance
Sheet (Topic 210) – Disclosures about Offsetting Assets
and Liabilities.”  This ASU requires entities
to disclose both gross information and net information about
both instruments and transactions eligible for offset in the
balance sheet and instruments and transactions subject to an
agreement similar to a master netting arrangement. An entity
is required to apply the amendments for annual reporting
periods beginning on or after January 1, 2013, and interim
periods within those annual periods. An entity should provide
the disclosures required by those amendments retrospectively
for all comparative periods presented.<font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline"> </font> The
adoption of the new guidance did not have a material impact
on the Company’s consolidated financial
statements.<font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline"> </font></font>
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<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In
July 2012, the FASB issued ASU 2012-02,
"Intangibles—Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Testing
Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets for Impairment," which
provides entities with the option to assess qualitative
factors to determine whether the existence of events and
circumstances indicates that it is more likely than not that
the indefinite-lived intangible asset is impaired. If the
entity concludes that it is more likely than not that the
asset is impaired, it is required to determine the fair value
of the intangible asset and perform the quantitative
impairment test by comparing the fair value with the carrying
value in accordance with Topic 350. If the entity concludes
otherwise, no further quantitative assessment is required.
ASU 2012-02 is effective on January 1, 2013. The adoption of
the new guidance did not have a material impact on the
Company’s consolidated financial statements.<font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline"> </font></font>
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<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In
January 2013, the FASB issued ASU 2013-01, “Balance
Sheet (Topic 210): Clarifying the Scope of Disclosures about
Offsetting Assets and Liabilities.”  The
amendments in this ASU clarify the scope for derivatives
accounted for in accordance with Topic 815, Derivatives and
Hedging, including bifurcated embedded derivatives,
repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements and
securities borrowing and securities lending transactions that
are either offset or subject to netting
arrangements.  An entity is required to apply the
amendments for fiscal years, and interim periods within those
years, beginning on or after January 1, 2013.  The
adoption of the new guidance did not have a material impact
on the Company's consolidated financial statements.</font>
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<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In
February 2013, the FASB issued ASU 2013-02,
“Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Reporting of Amounts
Reclassified Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive
Income.”  The amendments in this ASU require
an entity to present (either on the face of the statement
where net income is presented or in the notes) the effects on
the line items of net income of significant amounts
reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive
income.  In addition, the amendments require a
cross-reference to other disclosures currently required for
other reclassification items to be reclassified directly to
net income in their entirety in the same reporting
period.  Companies should apply these amendments
for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years,
beginning on or after December 15, 2012.  The
adoption of the new guidance did not have a material impact
on the Company's consolidated financial statements.</font>
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