Business Combination, Contingent Consideration Arrangement - Equator

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- Definition

Amount paid to to settle the remaining contingent consideration liability with the Equator sellers

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- Definition

Value of Equator contingent consideration after payment to sellers

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- Definition

Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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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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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 820

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 2

-Subparagraph (c)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=36462937&loc=d3e19207-110258

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FAIR VALUE (Details) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
FAIR VALUE (Details) - USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2015	Sep. 30, 2014	Sep. 30, 2015	Sep. 30, 2014	Dec. 31, 2014
Fair Value, Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis, Unobservable Input Reconciliation [Line Items]
Business Combination, Contingent Consideration Arrangement - Equator	$ 0	$ 0	$ 7,591,000	$ 37,924,000
Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring
Fair Value, Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis, Unobservable Input Reconciliation [Line Items]
Fair value of acquisition related contingent consideration	$ 3,800,000		3,800,000		$ 11,600,000
Equator LLC [Member]
Fair Value, Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis, Unobservable Input Reconciliation [Line Items]
Payment made to extinguish Equator contingent consideration			500,000
Value of Equator contingent consideration after payment to sellers			$ 0