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Note 17 - Stockholder Rights Plan
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2012
Schedule of Stockholders' Equity Note, Warrants or Rights [Table Text Block]
17.   Stockholder Rights Plan

On June 8, 2010, the Board of Directors of the Company approved a stockholder rights plan and declared a dividend distribution of one Right for each outstanding share of Common Stock of the Company.  Each Right entitles the holder to purchase from the Company a unit consisting of one one-hundredth of a share (a “Unit”) of the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Shares of the Company.  The dividend was declared on June 8, 2010 (the "Rights Dividend Declaration Date") to stockholders of record as of the close of business on June 21, 2010 (the “Record Date”).   Each Right will entitle the holder to purchase from the Company, upon the occurrence of certain events, one Unit at a purchase price of $13.50.

Generally, if any person or group acquires beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the Company's outstanding Common Stock (“Stock Acquisition”), each Right (other than Rights held by such acquiring person or group) will be exercisable at the $13.50 purchase price.  Upon the acquisition of 50% of the Company, the Board may exchange all or part of the Rights for Common Shares having a value equal to the spread between the value of the Common Shares issuable upon exercise of a Right and the exercise price.  At any time until ten days following the Stock Acquisition date, the Company may redeem the Rights at a price of $.001 per Right. The Rights expired on June 21, 2011; the Board could adopt a similar plan in the future should it deem it to be in the best interest of the Company.