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ASU 2011-05 allows an entity to present components of net income and other comprehensive income in one continuous statement, referred to as the statement of comprehensive income, or in two separate, but consecutive statements. ASU 2011-05 eliminates the option to present the components of other comprehensive income as part of the statement of changes in stockholders&amp;#8217; equity. In December 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-12 &amp;#8220;Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Deferral of the Effective Date for Amendments to the Presentation of Reclassifications of Items Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income in Accounting Standards Update No. 2011-05.&amp;#8221; ASU 2011-12 deferred the effective date of the specific requirement to present items that are reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive income to net income alongside their respective components of net income and other comprehensive income. While the new guidance changes the presentation of comprehensive income, there are no changes to the components that are recognized in net income or other comprehensive income under current accounting guidance. ASU 2011-05 is effective for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2011 and must be applied retrospectively. 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  <us-gaap:CashCashEquivalentsAndMarketableSecuritiesTextBlock contextRef="D2011Q4YTD" id="Fact-CBA5298E583E0DBF6484FDBD42CD9D29">&lt;div style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Note &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;6. Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Marketable Securities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-indent:24px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities consisted of the following at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; (in thousands):&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left:0px;text-indent:0px;line-height:normal;padding-top:10px;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="9" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="76%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, &lt;br clear="none"/&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, &lt;br clear="none"/&gt;2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Cash and cash equivalents:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:20px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Cash&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;579,241&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;742,200&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:20px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Cash equivalents:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:36px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Commercial paper&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;1,200&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:36px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Money market mutual funds&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;26,378&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;22,289&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:52px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Total cash and cash equivalents&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;605,619&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;765,689&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:20px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Marketable securities:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:36px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Commercial paper&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;9,193&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;13,343&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:36px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Corporate debt securities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;55,011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;98,602&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:36px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Federal agency debt&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;50,081&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;45,875&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:36px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Foreign agency debt&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;10,928&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;133,165&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:36px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Foreign government obligations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;9,120&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;9,143&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:36px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Supranational debt&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;45,991&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;48,032&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:36px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;U.S. government obligations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;2,014&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:52px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Total marketable securities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;182,338&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;348,160&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:68px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Total cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:3px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:3px double #000000;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;787,957&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:3px double #000000;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:3px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:3px double #000000;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;1,113,849&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:3px double #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:25px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;We have classified our marketable securities as &amp;#8220;available-for-sale.&amp;#8221; Accordingly, we record them at fair value and account for net unrealized gains and losses as a part of accumulated other comprehensive income. We report realized gains and losses on the sale of our marketable securities in earnings, computed using the specific identification method. During the year ended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, we realized &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$0.9 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; in gains and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;an immaterial amount&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; in losses on our marketable securities. During the year ended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, we realized &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$0.9 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; in gains and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$0.6 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; in losses on our marketable securities. During the year ended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;26, 2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, we realized &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$0.2 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; in gains and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;an immaterial amount&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; in losses on our marketable securities. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;See Note 10. &amp;#8220;Fair Value Measurement,&amp;#8221;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; to our consolidated financial statements for information about the fair value measurement of our marketable securities.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:25px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:25px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;All of our available-for-sale marketable securities are subject to a periodic impairment review. We consider a marketable security to be impaired when its fair value is less than its carrying cost, in which case we would further review the marketable security to determine whether it is other-than-temporarily impaired. When we evaluate a marketable security for other-than-temporary impairment, we review factors such as the length of time and extent to which its fair value has been below its cost basis, the financial condition of the issuer and any changes thereto, our intent to sell, and whether it is more likely than not that we will be required to sell the marketable security before we have recovered its cost basis. If a marketable security were other-than-temporarily impaired, we would write it down through earnings to its impaired value and establish that as a new cost basis. We did not identify any of our marketable securities as other-than-temporarily impaired at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:25px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;The following tables summarize the unrealized gains and losses related to our available-for-sale marketable securities, by major security type, as of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; (in thousands):&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left:0px;text-indent:0px;line-height:normal;padding-top:10px;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="17" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="52%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="15" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;As of December 31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:justify;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:justify;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:justify;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Security Type&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Amortized&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Cost&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Gross&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Unrealized&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Gains&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Gross&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Unrealized&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Losses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Estimated&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Fair&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Value&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Commercial paper&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;9,192&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;9,193&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Corporate debt securities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;55,150&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;13&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;152&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;55,011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Federal agency debt&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;50,035&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;54&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;8&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;50,081&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Foreign agency debt&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;11,473&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;545&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;10,928&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Foreign government obligations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;9,128&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;9&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;9,120&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Supranational debt&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;46,380&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" 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style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;45,991&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;U.S. government obligations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td 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style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Corporate debt securities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;98,148&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;592&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;138&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;98,602&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Federal agency debt&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;45,858&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;21&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;4&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;45,875&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Foreign agency debt&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;132,860&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;425&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;120&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;133,165&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Foreign government obligations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;9,137&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;8&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;9,143&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Supranational debt&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;47,917&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br 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style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;48,032&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:36px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Total&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;347,260&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;1,164&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;264&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;348,160&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:25px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Contractual maturities of our available-for-sale marketable securities as of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; were as follows (in thousands):&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left:0px;text-indent:0px;line-height:normal;padding-top:10px;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="17" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="52%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="15" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;As of December 31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:justify;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:justify;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:justify;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Maturity&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Amortized&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Cost&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Gross&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Unrealized&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Gains&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Gross&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Unrealized&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Losses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Estimated&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Fair&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Value&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;One year or less&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;66,146&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;30&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;30&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;66,146&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;One year to two years&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font 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style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;398&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;8&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;167,889&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;One year to two years&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;177,268&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;759&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;256&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;177,771&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Two years to three years&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;2,493&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;7&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;2,500&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:36px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Total&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;347,260&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;1,164&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;264&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;348,160&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:24px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;The net unrealized loss of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$1.0 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; and the net unrealized gain of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$0.9 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; as of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, respectively, on our available-for-sale marketable securities were primarily the result of changes in interest rates. We typically invest in highly-rated securities with low probabilities of default. Our investment policy requires investments to be highly rated and limits the security types, issuer concentration, and duration to maturity of our marketable securities.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:24px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;The following table shows gross unrealized losses and estimated fair values for those marketable securities that were in an unrealized loss position as of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, aggregated by major security type and the length of time that individual securities have been in a continuous loss position (in thousands):&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left:0px;text-indent:0px;line-height:normal;padding-top:10px;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="25" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="28%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="23" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;As of December 31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="7" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;In Loss Position for&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Less Than 12 Months&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="7" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;In Loss Position for&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;12 Months or Greater&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="7" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Total&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:justify;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:justify;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:justify;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Security Type&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Estimated&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Fair&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Value&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Gross&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Unrealized&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Losses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Estimated&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Fair&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Value&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Gross&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Unrealized&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Losses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Estimated&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Fair&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Value&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Gross&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Unrealized&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Losses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Corporate debt securities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;47,763&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;152&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td 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style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Gross&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Unrealized&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Losses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Estimated&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Fair&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Value&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Gross&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Unrealized&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Losses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Corporate debt securities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;33,018&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px 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style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;138&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td 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style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;138&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Federal agency debt&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font 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style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;11,721&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;4&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Foreign agency debt&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;46,134&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;120&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;46,134&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;120&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Foreign government obligations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" 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style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;4,515&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:36px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Total&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double 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style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;95,388&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;264&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br 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Statement of Cash Flows&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;The following table presents a reconciliation of net (loss) income to net cash (used in) provided by operating activities for the years ended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;26, 2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; (in thousands):&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left:0px;text-indent:0px;line-height:normal;padding-top:10px;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="13" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="64%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Net (loss) income&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(39,493&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;664,201&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;640,138&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Adjustments to reconcile net (loss) income to cash (used in) provided by operating activities:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:20px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Depreciation and amortization&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;235,231&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;156,093&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;129,628&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:20px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Impairment of assets and liabilities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;57,414&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;5,692&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;1,118&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:20px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Impairment of project assets&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div 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style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;5,277&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td 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style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:20px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Accounts receivable, trade and unbilled&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(529,809&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div 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style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(69,680&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(52,058&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:20px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Project assets and deferred project costs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(368,619&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(25,770&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(48,506&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:20px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Accounts payable&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;94,674&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;17,854&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;31,121&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:20px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Income taxes payable&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;95,132&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;74,830&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(63,460&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:20px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Accrued expenses and other liabilities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;647,162&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" 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style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;42,011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div 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style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Total adjustments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;6,030&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br 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style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;35,055&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(33,463&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;705,492&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;675,193&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br 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Commitments and Contingencies&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Financial Guarantees&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:25px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;In the normal course of business, we occasionally enter into agreements with third parties under which we guarantee the performance of our subsidiaries related to certain service contracts, which may include services such as development, engineering, procurement of permits and equipment, construction management, and monitoring and maintenance related to solar power plants. These agreements meet the definition of a guarantee according to ASC 460, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;"&gt;Guarantees&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;. As of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, none of these guarantees were material to our financial position.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Loan Guarantees&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:25px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;At &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, our only loan guarantees were guarantees of our own debt, as disclosed in &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Note 15. &amp;#8220;Debt,&amp;#8221;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; to these consolidated financial statements. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Commercial Commitments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:29px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;During the normal course of business, we enter into commercial commitments in the form of letters of credit and bank guarantees to provide financial and performance assurance to third parties.&amp;#160;Our revolving credit facility provides us the capacity to issue up to &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$600.0 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; in letters of credit at a fee equal to the applicable margin for Eurocurrency revolving loans and a fronting fee.&amp;#160;As of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, we had &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$148.7 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; in letters of credit issued under the revolving credit facility with a remaining availability of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$251.3 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, all of which can be used for the issuance of letters of credit. The majority of these letters of credit were supporting our systems business. In addition, as of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, we had &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$48.0 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; in bank guarantees issued outside of our revolving credit facility, some of which were posted by certain of our foreign subsidiaries.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:29px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Lease Commitments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;We lease our corporate headquarters in Tempe, Arizona and administrative, business and marketing development, customer support, and government affairs offices throughout the United States and Europe under non-cancelable operating leases. These leases require us to pay property taxes, common area maintenance, and certain other costs in addition to base rent. We also lease certain machinery and equipment under operating and capital leases. Future minimum payments under all of our non-cancelable leases are as follows as of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; (in thousands):&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left:0px;text-indent:0px;line-height:normal;padding-top:10px;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="13" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="64%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" 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style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Capital&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Leases&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Operating&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;"&gt;Leases&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Total&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;492&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;13,113&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;13,605&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;2013&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;554&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;14,320&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;14,874&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;2014&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;462&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;13,009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;13,471&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;2015&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;454&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;12,970&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;13,424&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;2016&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;454&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;11,778&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;12,232&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Thereafter&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;423&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;29,994&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;30,417&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Total minimum lease payments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;2,839&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;95,184&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;98,023&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Less amounts representing interest&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(399&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Present value of minimum lease payments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;2,440&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Less current portion of obligations under capital leases&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(379&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Noncurrent portion of obligations under capital leases&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;2,061&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:4px double #000000;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Our rent expense was &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$16.1 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$16.3 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$9.6 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; in each of the years ended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;26, 2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, respectively.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Purchase Commitments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;We purchase raw materials for inventory, services, and manufacturing equipment from a variety of vendors. During the normal course of business, in order to manage manufacturing lead times and help assure an adequate supply, we enter into agreements with suppliers that either allow us to procure goods and services when we choose or that establish purchase requirements. In certain instances, these latter agreements allow us the option to cancel, reschedule, or adjust our requirements based on our business needs prior to firm orders being placed. Consequently, only a portion of our purchase commitments are firm, non-cancelable and unconditional. At &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, our obligations under firm, non-cancelable, and unconditional agreements were &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$1,516.5 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, of which, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$81.7 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; was for commitments related to capital purchases. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$407.2 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; of our purchase obligations are due in fiscal &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Product Warranties&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;We offer a limited warranty on our products and record an estimate for the claims expected under such warranty at the time of sale of our solar modules based primarily on the number of solar modules under warranty, our historical experience with warranty claims, our monitoring of field installation sites, our in-house testing of and the expected future performance of our solar modules, and our estimated per-module replacement cost. See also Note 2. &amp;#8220;Summary of Significant Accounting Policies&amp;#8221; for further discussion on our limited warranty obligation. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Normal product warranty activities during the years ended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;26, 2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; was as follows (in thousands):&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left:0px;text-indent:0px;line-height:normal;padding-top:10px;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="13" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="64%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, &lt;br clear="none"/&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, &lt;br clear="none"/&gt;2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;December&amp;#160;26, &lt;br clear="none"/&gt;2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Product warranty liability, beginning of period&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;27,894&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;22,583&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;11,905&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:20px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Accruals for new warranties issued (warranty expense)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;22,411&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;18,309&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;16,654&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:20px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Settlements&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(24,425&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(24,616&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(2,431&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:20px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Change in estimate of product warranty liability (1)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;131,862&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;11,618&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(3,545&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td 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style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Current portion of warranty liability&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td 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style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;16,668&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;14,367&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;padding-left:48px;text-indent:-24px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="width:48px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;padding-left:24px;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(1) &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Changes in estimate of product warranty liability during 2011 includes increases to our best estimate during the fourth quarter of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$114.5 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; primarily related to: (i) &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$70.1 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Such estimated increase was primarily due to additional information received during the quarter from completed remediation efforts at certain sites and from the evaluation of information available after completion of the analysis on certain outstanding claims.  Such additional information provided a further understanding of, and additional data regarding, the number of replacement modules expected to be required in connection with our remediation efforts; and (ii) &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;$37.8 million&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; for an increase in the expected number of warranty claims primarily due to increases related to future claims expected due to modules installed in certain climates. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Legal Matters&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;We are a party to legal matters and claims that are normal in the course of our operations. While we believe that the ultimate outcome of these matters will not have a material adverse effect on our financial position, results of operations, or cash flows, the outcome of these matters is not determinable with certainty and negative outcomes may adversely affect us.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Sales Agreements&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;We are party to supply contracts for the sale of our solar modules with certain European solar power system project developers, system integrators, and operators. Under these contracts, we agree to provide each customer with solar modules totaling certain amounts of power generation capability during specified time periods. Our customers are entitled to certain remedies in the event of missed deliveries of the total kilowatt volume. These delivery commitments are established through a rolling forecast (such forecast being four weeks or four quarters, depending on the customer) that defines the specific quantities to be purchased and schedules the individual shipments to be made to our customers. In the case of a late delivery, our customers are entitled to a maximum charge of up to &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;6%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; of the delinquent revenue. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Systems Repurchases&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;background-color:#ffffff;"&gt;Under the sales agreements for a limited number of our solar power systems, we may be required to repurchase such systems if certain conditions, such as funding of the project within a certain timeframe, are not met.  Although we consider the possibility that we would be required to repurchase any of our solar power systems to be unlikely, we believe our current working capital and other available sources of liquidity would be sufficient in order to make any required repurchase. If we were required to repurchase a project, we would have the ability to market and sell such project.  Our liquidity may be impacted as the time between a repurchase of a project and the subsequent sale of such repurchased project may take several months.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:CommitmentsAndContingenciesDisclosureTextBlock>
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Comprehensive Income&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:26px;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Comprehensive (loss) income, which includes foreign currency translation adjustments, unrealized gains and losses on derivative instruments designated and qualifying as cash flow hedges, and unrealized gains and losses on available-for-sale securities, the impact of which has been excluded from net (loss) income and reflected as components of stockholders&amp;#8217; equity, was as follows for the years ended &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;, and &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"&gt;December&amp;#160;26, 2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt; (in thousands):&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left:0px;text-indent:0px;line-height:normal;padding-top:10px;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="13" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="64%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="9%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="1%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="vertical-align:bottom;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:8pt;font-weight:bold;"&gt;2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Net (loss) income&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(39,493&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;664,201&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;640,138&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;border-top:1px solid #000000;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Foreign currency translation adjustments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(18,034&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;(35,825&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-right:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;13,303&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;Change in unrealized gain on marketable securities, net of tax of $(3,561), $(658), and $(377) for 2011, 2010, and 2009, respectively&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;18,660&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="none"/&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;" rowspan="1" colspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="overflow:hidden;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;background-color:#cceeff;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;" rowspan="1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family:inherit