COMPREHENSIVE LOSS

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

15. COMPREHENSIVE LOSS

Total comprehensive loss, net of taxes, consists of net loss and the net changes in foreign currency translation adjustment and net unrealized gains and losses on marketable securities. The following is a summary of the Company's comprehensive loss for the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended June 30,						Six Months Ended June 30,
	2011			2010			2011			2010
Net loss	$	(11,862	)	$	(12,906	)	$	(16,979	)	$	(26,388	)
Net changes in:
Foreign currency translation adjustment		2,168			(6,018	)		7,560			(10,253	)
Unrealized gains from defined benefit plan		445			-			445			-
Unrealized losses on marketable securities		-			-			-			(4	)
Total comprehensive loss	$	(9,249	)	$	(18,924	)	$	(8,974	)	$	(36,645	)

- Definition

This label may include the following: 1) the amount of income tax expense or benefit allocated to each component of other comprehensive income, including reclassification adjustments, 2) the reclassification adjustments for each classification of other comprehensive income and 3) the ending accumulated balances for each component of comprehensive income. Components of comprehensive income include: (1) foreign currency translation adjustments; (2) gains and losses on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (3) gains and losses on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (4) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (5) unrealized holding gains and losses on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (6) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (7) the net gain or loss and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans.

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