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Amount of investment in debt and equity securities categorized neither as trading securities nor held-to-maturity securities and intended be sold or mature one year or operating cycle, if longer.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 320

-SubTopic 10

-Section 25

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- Definition

Fair value of financial instrument classified as a liability measured using unobservable inputs that reflect the entity's own assumption about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 820

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 2

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.

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FAIR VALUE FAIR VALUE (Details) (USD $)	0 Months Ended	3 Months Ended
FAIR VALUE FAIR VALUE (Details) (USD $)	Mar. 17, 2015	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2014
Fair Value, Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis, Unobservable Input Reconciliation [Line Items]
Available for sale securities - investment in HLSS		$ 26,681,000		$ 0
Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring
Fair Value, Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis, Unobservable Input Reconciliation [Line Items]
Fair value of acquisition related contingent consideration		11,800,000		11,600,000
Common stock \| HLSS
Fair Value, Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis, Unobservable Input Reconciliation [Line Items]
Number of available-for-sale shares acquired (in shares)	1,600,000
Available for sale securities - investment in HLSS		26,681,000	0
Common stock \| HLSS \| Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring \| Fair Value, Inputs, Level 1
Fair Value, Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis, Unobservable Input Reconciliation [Line Items]
Number of available-for-sale shares acquired (in shares)		1,613,125	0
Available for sale securities - investment in HLSS		$ 26,681,000
Available-for-sale Securities \| Common stock \| HLSS \| Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring \| Fair Value, Inputs, Level 1
Fair Value, Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis, Unobservable Input Reconciliation [Line Items]
Price per share (in usd per share)		$ 16.54	0