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display: inline;"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/font&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="26" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Payments due by year&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Less than 1 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Year&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;1 to 2 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;years&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;2 to 3 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;years&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;3 to 4&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;years&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;4 to 5 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;years&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Thereafter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Total&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 30%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Long-term debt obligations&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;400,000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;125,000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;525,000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 30%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Interest payments on long-term debt (1)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;49,281&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;49,281&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;49,281&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;49,281&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;10,781&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;207,905&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 30%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Operating lease obligations&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;12,443&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;17,871&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;18,226&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;17,708&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;14,245&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;14,653&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;95,146&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 30%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Purchase obligations (2)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;127,357&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; 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  <us-gaap:OrganizationConsolidationAndPresentationOfFinancialStatementsDisclosureTextBlock contextRef="c20120101to20120331">&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;(1)&amp;#160;&amp;#160;General Information&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Business&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;GeoEye is a leading provider of geospatial information and insight for decision makers and analysts who need a clear understanding of our changing world to protect lives, manage risk and optimize resources. Each day, organizations involved in defense and intelligence, public safety, critical infrastructure, energy and online media rely on GeoEye's Earth imagery, geospatial expertise and enabling technology to support important missions around the globe. Widely recognized as a pioneer in high-resolution satellite imagery, GeoEye has evolved into a complete provider of geospatial intelligence solutions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;We own and operate two Earth-imaging satellites, GeoEye-1 and IKONOS, and three airplanes with advanced high-resolution imagery collection capabilities. GeoEye-1 is the world's highest resolution and most accurate commercial Earth-imaging satellite.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;In addition to our imagery collection capacities, we are a global leader in the creation of enhanced satellite imagery information products and services. We operate state-of-the-art high-resolution image processing and production facilities in St. Louis, Missouri and Thornton, Colorado. Our St. Louis, Missouri facility processes imagery from numerous commercial and government sensors, in addition to our own enhanced satellite imagery information products and services, to produce a variety of value-added products. We believe we are the only major commercial imagery satellite operator who can produce imagery from multiple Earth imagery sources in addition to our own enhanced satellite imagery information products and services.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;GeoEye's information services allow its customers to collect, process and analyze vast amounts of geospatial data to quickly see precise changes on the ground and anticipate where events may occur in the future. Our Web-based information services platform, EyeQ, can provide imagery services and other layers of geospatial information on demand. EyeQ combines imagery products with on-demand tools for managing geospatial information and project-based collaboration. GeoEye Analytics, which provides geospatial predictive analytic solutions, has expertise in analyzing multiple layers of intelligence, including human geography, to discover patterns in order to gain insights that protect lives, optimize deployment of resources and mitigate risk.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;We believe the combination of our highly accurate satellite and aerial imaging assets, our high-resolution image processing and production facilities-especially our multi-source production capability-our color digital imagery library and our information services differentiate us from our competitors. This combination enables us to provide "elevated insight" by delivering a comprehensive range of Earth imagery, geospatial expertise and enabling technology to our diverse customer base.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;We serve both domestic and international customers with imagery, products and information services. Our principal customers are U.S. government agencies. Most of our government contracts are funded incrementally on a year-to-year basis. Our largest government contract, the EnhancedView Service Level Agreement, or SLA (see Note 2), has up to eight additional one-year renewal options. Changes in U.S. government policies, priorities or funding levels could materially and adversely affect our financial condition, liquidity and results of operations. For the three months ended March 31, 2012, U.S. government agencies represented approximately&amp;#160;66 percent of our total revenues.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Basis of Presentation&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;The condensed consolidated financial statements of GeoEye have been prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. The financial information included herein, other than the condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2011, has been prepared without audit. The condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2011, has been derived from, but does not include, all the disclosures contained in the audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2011. In the opinion of management, these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include all adjustments and accruals that are necessary for a fair presentation of the results of all interim periods presented herein and are of a normal recurring nature.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes included in GeoEye's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011. The results of operations for the interim periods presented are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2012.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Principles of Consolidation&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of GeoEye and all of its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Use of Estimates&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, or GAAP, requires management to make judgments, estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the Company's condensed consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Restricted Cash&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;The Company is party to irrevocable standby letters of credit, in connection with contracts between GeoEye and third parties, in the ordinary course of business to serve as performance obligation guarantees. As of March 31, 2012, the Company had $9.8 million classified as restricted cash as a result of the irrevocable standby letters of credit. $3.9 million is available within one year and is classified as current, and the remaining $5.9 million is available through 2022.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Investments&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;We record our investments in debt securities at fair value, and classify these securities as short-term investments on the consolidated balance sheet when the original maturities at purchase are greater than ninety days but less than one year.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;The Company's short-term investments consist of variable rate demand notes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;As of March 31, 2012, and December 31, 2011, we categorized all of our investments as available-for-sale, and all of these outstanding short-term investments mature within one year. Although the variable-rate demand notes have long-term contractual maturity dates of 20 to 30 years, the interest rates reset weekly. Despite the long-term nature of the underlying securities, they are classified as short-term due to our ability to quickly liquidate or put back these securities.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Goodwill and Intangible Assets&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Goodwill represents the purchase price paid in excess of the fair value of net tangible and intangible assets acquired. Goodwill is tested for impairment annually on October 1 or whenever an event occurs or circumstances change that could reduce the fair value of a reporting unit below its carrying amount. As a result of the acquisition of SPADAC Inc. in December 2010, we determined that a new reporting unit was created. As of March 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011, GeoEye's reporting units are GeoEye, Inc. and GeoEye Analytics.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;In assessing the recoverability of goodwill, we calculate the fair market value at the reporting unit level, based upon discounted cash flows that utilize estimates in annual revenues, gross margins and other relevant factors for determining the fair value. If the carrying amount of the reporting unit exceeds the fair value of the reporting unit, the Company compares the implied value of goodwill with its carrying amount. If the carrying amount of the goodwill exceeds the implied fair value of goodwill, an impairment loss would be recognized for the difference between the carrying amount and the implied fair value of goodwill.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Intangible assets arising from business combinations are initially recorded at fair value. We amortize intangible assets with definite lives on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives, which are generally two to ten years. We review for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of such assets may not be recoverable.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Impairment of Long-Lived Assets&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;We review long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of an asset may not be fully recoverable or that the useful lives of these assets are no longer appropriate. Impairment losses are recognized in operating results when the sum of expected discounted net future cash flows is less than the carrying value of the assets. The amount of the impairment is measured as the difference between the asset's estimated fair value and its carrying value. Fair value is determined primarily using projected future cash flows.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Preferred Stock&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;In September 2010, the Company issued Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, or the Series A Preferred Stock, par value of $.01 per share. Cumulative dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock are payable at a rate of 5 percent per annum of the $1,000 liquidation preference per share. At the Company's option, dividends may be declared and paid in cash out of funds legally available therefore, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors of the Company. If not paid in cash, an amount equal to the cash dividends due is added to the liquidation preference. Dividends payable in cash are recorded in current liabilities. All dividends payable, whether in cash or as an addition to the liquidation preference, are recorded as a reduction to our retained earnings.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Earnings per Share&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing net income available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Net income available to common stockholders is equal to net income less preferred stock dividends and income allocated to participating securities. The Company's preferred shares are participating securities and require the two-class method of computing earnings per share. Diluted earnings per share is calculated by dividing net income available to common stockholders as adjusted for the effect of dilutive common equivalent shares by the weighted average number of common and dilutive common equivalent shares outstanding during the period. Common equivalent shares consist of the common shares issuable upon the conversion of the convertible preferred shares and those issuable related to stock options, deferred stock units, employee stock purchase plan shares and nonvested stock (using the Treasury stock method). For purposes of computing diluted earnings per share, the if-converted method will be used to the extent that the result is more dilutive than the application of the two-class method.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Revenue Recognition&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Our principal sources of revenue are from imaging services, the sale of satellite imagery directly to end users or value-added resellers, the provision of direct access to our satellites, associated ground processing technology upgrades and operations and maintenance services. We also derive significant revenue from value-added production services where we combine our images with data and imagery from our own and other sources to create sophisticated information products. Additionally, new sources of revenue include the dissemination and hosting of imagery and the provision of consultation, integration, data analysis and other professional services related to geospatial information systems.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;We record revenues from the sale of satellite imagery directly to end users or value-added resellers based on the delivery of the imagery. This revenue is recognized when the products are delivered to the customer, and, generally, these arrangements are contracted for separately on a stand-alone basis.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Sales of direct access to our satellites ordinarily require us to provide access over the term of multi-year sales contracts under subscription-based arrangements. Accordingly, we recognize revenues on such imagery contracts on a straight-line basis over the delivery term of the contract. However, certain multi-year sales contracts are based on minimum levels of access time with adjustments based on usage. In addition to the sale of direct satellite access, we may separately sell ground processing technology upgrades and operations and maintenance services to a customer in a bundled arrangement. If the satellite access service is combined with the sale of ground processing technology upgrades and operations and maintenance services, and the requirements for separate revenue recognition are not met, we recognize revenues on a straight-line basis over the combined delivery term of the services. In other arrangements when the separation criteria are met, total arrangement consideration is allocated to each separate unit of accounting using relative fair value. Revenues are recognized over the appropriate service period: access and operations and maintenance are recognized over the contract term; and ground processing technology upgrades are recognized when delivery and acceptance is complete. We consider a deliverable to have standalone value if the product or service provides value to the customer independent from other elements in the arrangement or if the product or service is sold separately by us or if it could be resold by the customer. Our revenue arrangements generally do not include a general right of return relative to the delivered products.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Revenue is recognized on contracts to provide value-added production services using the percentage-of-completion method. Revenue is recognized under different acceptable alternatives of the percentage-of-completion method depending on the terms of the underlying contract, which include input measures based on costs and efforts expended or output measures based on units of delivery or completion of contractual milestones. Total unbilled accounts receivable were $4.4 million and $6.6 million at March 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively. Generally, these arrangements are sold on a standalone basis and are not bundled with other product offerings. To the extent that estimated costs of completion are adjusted, revenue and profit recognized from a particular contract will be affected in the period of the adjustment. Anticipated contract losses are recognized as they become known.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;We record revenues generated from the information services base offerings, including dissemination and hosting of imagery, on a straight-line basis over the subscription period.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Revenues for consultation and professional services are recognized as the services are performed. Revenues from time and materials contracts are recognized based on man-hours utilized, plus other reimbursable contract costs incurred during the period. Revenues from firm-fixed price contracts are recognized on a percentage of completion basis, utilizing the relationship of contract costs incurred and management's estimate of total contract costs. Revenues from cost-reimbursable contracts are recognized based on costs incurred, with applied estimated or contractually specified indirect cost rates and our contractually specified fee or profit margin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Deferred revenue represents receipts in advance of the delivery of imagery or services. Revenue for other services is recognized as services are performed. In addition, cost-share amounts received from the U.S. government are recorded as deferred revenue when received and recognized on a straight-line basis over the useful life of the satellite.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-style: italic; display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Recent Accounting Pronouncements&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;In June 2011, the FASB issued guidance on the presentation of comprehensive income. 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We had no other customers for whom revenues exceeded 10 percent of total revenues during the three months ended March 31, 2012 or 2011.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;The Company has two product and service lines: (a) Imagery, including the NextView cost-share, and (b) Production and Other Services.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Total revenues by these lines were as follows (&lt;font style="font-style: italic; display: inline;"&gt;in thousands&lt;/font&gt;):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;2012&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; 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text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;For the Three Months Ended &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;March 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;2012&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Domestic&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;65,832&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;67,066&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;International&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;23,451&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;19,560&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 4px; width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 18pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Total revenues&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;89,283&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;86,626&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Our property, plant and equipment and ground systems are held domestically.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:SegmentReportingDisclosureTextBlock>
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Diluted EPS is computed based on the weighted-average number of shares of the Company's Common Stock outstanding and other dilutive securities. Securities that contain non-forfeitable rights to dividends or dividend equivalents (whether paid or unpaid) are participating securities and are required to be included in the computation of basic EPS and diluted EPS pursuant to the two-class method. The Company's Series A preferred shares are participating securities.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;The following is a reconciliation of the numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted EPS computations &lt;font style="font-style: italic; display: inline;"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/font&gt;:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 66%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; width: 22%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;For the Three Months Ended &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;March 31,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 66%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; width: 10%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;2012&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; width: 10%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 66%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Numerator for basic and diluted earnings per share:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="width: 10%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="width: 10%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 66%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 18pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Net income&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;15,756&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;12,247&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 66%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 18pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Preferred stock dividends&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(997&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(986&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; width: 66%; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Net income less preferred stock dividends&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;14,759&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;11,261&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 66%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Income allocated to participating securities&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(1,592&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(1,224&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 4px; width: 66%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Net income available to common stockholders&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;13,167&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;10,037&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 66%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 66%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Denominator:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 66%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 18pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Weighted average shares outstanding used to compute basic earnings per share&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;22,235&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;22,043&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 66%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 18pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Dilutive effect of:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 66%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 27pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Stock options, deferred stock units, restricted stock units, employee stock purchase plan shares and nonvested stock&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;558&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;714&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 4px; width: 66%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 18pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Weighted average shares outstanding and dilutive securities used to compute diluted earnings per share&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;22,793&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;22,757&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;For the three months ended March 31, 2012, 2.7 million potential common shares from the conversion of preferred stock and 0.8 million stock options and nonvested stock awards were excluded from the calculation of diluted EPS, as their inclusion would have been anti-dilutive.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;For the three months ended March 31, 2011, 2.7 million potential common shares from the conversion of preferred stock and 0.1 million stock options and nonvested stock awards were excluded from the calculation of diluted EPS, as their inclusion would have been anti-dilutive.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Changes in Stockholders' Equity&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Changes in stockholders' equity for the three months ended March 31, 2012, consisted of the following &lt;font style="font-style: italic; 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width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 68%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Net income for the three months ended March 31, 2012&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;15,756&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 68%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; 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display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(1,121&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 68%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Stock-based compensation&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;3,107&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 68%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Foreign currency translation adjustment&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(82&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 68%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Preferred stock dividends&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 9%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(997&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 4px; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;March 31, 2012&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;December 31, 2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Land and buildings&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;6,818&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;7,419&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Furniture, computers, equipment and software&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;56,499&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;53,113&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Leasehold improvements&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;19,702&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;19,405&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Vehicles and airplanes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;2,181&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;2,181&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Accumulated depreciation&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(39,365&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(36,713&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 18pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Subtotal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;45,835&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;45,405&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Property, plant and equipment in process&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;4,634&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;2,660&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 4px; width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 18pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Property, plant and equipment, net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;50,469&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;48,065&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;We record property, plant and equipment at cost. We also capitalize certain internal and external software development costs incurred to develop software for internal use. Costs of major enhancements to internal use software are capitalized while routine maintenance of existing software is charged to expense as incurred. Property, plant and equipment in process includes costs incurred in connection with our Thornton facilities expansion, as well as other additional computer hardware and software costs. In the first quarter of 2012, we disposed of our facility in Norman, Oklahoma, resulting in an immaterial gain. Depreciation expense related to property, plant and equipment was $3.4 million and $2.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:PropertyPlantAndEquipmentDisclosureTextBlock>
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The carrying amounts of cash and cash equivalents, available-for-sale short-term investments, restricted cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued expenses approximate their respective fair values due to the short-term nature of these instruments.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;The following table provides information about the financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of March 31, 2012, and December 31, 2011 &lt;font style="font-style: italic; display: inline;"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/font&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; 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margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;December 31, 2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td rowspan="2" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" rowspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Carrying&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; 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At any time on or after October 1, 2013, the Company may, on one or more occasions, redeem all or part of the 2016 Notes at 104.313 percent of principal for the subsequent 12-month period; at 102.156 percent of principal on October 1, 2014, for the subsequent 12-month period; and at 100 percent of principal on October 1, 2015, and thereafter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;The 2016 Notes are unconditionally guaranteed, jointly and severally, on a secured second-priority basis, by all existing and future domestic restricted subsidiaries of the Company. The 2016 Notes and the guarantees are secured by a lien on substantially all of the assets of the Company and the guarantors. Except for a minor investment in a foreign subsidiary, the Company does not have any independent assets or operations other than its ownership in all of the capital stock of its subsidiaries. Since inception, all of the Company's operations have been conducted through its wholly owned subsidiaries.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;On October 9, 2009, the Company issued $400.0 million aggregate principal, net of original issue discount of $20.0 million, of 9.625 percent Senior Secured Notes due 2015, or the 2015 Notes. Interest is payable on the 2015 Notes semi-annually in arrears on April 1 and October 1 of each year. At any time on or after October 1, 2013, the Company may on one or more occasions redeem all or part of the 2015 Notes at 104.813 percent of principal for the subsequent 12-month period and at 100 percent of principal on October 1, 2014, and thereafter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;The 2015 Notes are unconditionally guaranteed, jointly and severally, on a senior secured basis, by all existing and future domestic restricted subsidiaries of the Company. 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This competitively awarded contract supports the EnhancedView program by providing products and services that will help meet the increasing geospatial intelligence needs of the intelligence community and the Department of Defense. During 2011, the Company successfully completed all critical design review milestones related to the GeoEye-2 satellite development under the EnhancedView contract.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;The EnhancedView program award provides for a new satellite imagery delivery SLA with the NGA. The EnhancedView SLA initially provides for continued monthly payments by the NGA of up to $12.5 million ($150.0 million per year), subject to a maximum reduction of 10 percent in the base year and 15 percent in the option years based on performance metrics. Under the EnhancedView SLA, to the extent that less than $12.5 million is paid by the NGA for any month, the shortfall can be applied to future products and services or used to fund an extension of the contract. When GeoEye-2 becomes operational and meets NGA certification requirements, which we currently expect will occur in 2013, the EnhancedView SLA provides for payments to increase by an additional $15.3 million per month ($183.6 million per year), also subject to a maximum reduction of 15 percent based on performance metrics. The initial term of the EnhancedView SLA was one year, with nine one-year renewal options exercisable by the NGA. Imagery deliveries under the EnhancedView SLA began on September 1, 2010, and the imagery is collected by the Company's existing satellite constellation, with GeoEye-2 to collect additional imagery when it becomes operational.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;As part of the EnhancedView contract, the NGA agreed to contribute 42.1 percent of the cost, up to a maximum of $337.0 million of the overall construction and launch costs of the GeoEye-2 satellite and associated ground station equipment. The contract provides that the contribution should be made in two cost-share payments: the first payment of approximately $111.0 million when the GeoEye-2 satellite is ready for integration and testing; and the second payment, and balance of the cost-share, when the GeoEye-2 satellite becomes operational and meets NGA certification requirements. To date, the NGA has obligated funding of $181.0 million on this contract to cover these cost-share payments. We currently expect to receive the first cost-share payment in the third quarter of 2012. This award component will be initially recorded as deferred revenue and recognized as revenue over the expected operational life of the satellite. It is expected that any credits due to the government will be determined and will be factored into the final payment amount when the final cost-share payment is made.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;The EnhancedView program award also provides for up to an estimated $702.0 million for value-added products and services and our EyeQ Web Mapping Services to be delivered over the life of the EnhancedView SLA. A portion of this award includes funding for the design and procurement of additional infrastructure to support government operations, which will be initially recorded as deferred revenue and recognized as revenue over the contractual term of the EnhancedView contract.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;On October 4, 2011, the Company entered into an amendment to the EnhancedView SLA with the NGA exercising the first renewal option under the contract to extend the EnhancedView SLA for the period of October 5, 2011, through August 31, 2012. Previously, on August 30, 2011, the Company signed an amendment to its SLA with the NGA to extend the performance period of the base year to October 4, 2011. The amendment also changed the date by which the NGA may exercise its first of nine one-year renewal options under the EnhancedView SLA from August 31, 2011, to October 31, 2011. The first of the one-year renewal options was shortened by the amount that the base year was extended by this amendment, so that the date by which NGA may exercise the second option year is August 31, 2012.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;This program replaced the NextView program, except that GeoEye will continue to fulfill existing NextView value-added product and services orders until such orders are complete. New value-added product and services orders are expected to be placed under the EnhancedView contract. The NextView SLA portion of the NextView program was replaced by the EnhancedView SLA as of September 1, 2010. We recognized $37.5 million and $36.4 million of imagery and other revenue under the EnhancedView SLA during the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively. Additionally, during the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011, we recognized $6.0 million of deferred revenue related to the recognition of the cost-share amounts from the NextView contract.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</geoy:EnhancedViewProgramTextBlock>
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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;March 31, 2012&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;December 31, 2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Satellites&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;411,105&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;411,105&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Ground systems&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;89,984&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;89,984&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Accumulated depreciation&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(182,785&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(169,281&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 18pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Subtotal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;318,304&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="width: 1%; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;331,808&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 9pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Satellites and ground systems in process&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;642,897&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;581,646&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 4px; width: 80%;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: -9pt; display: block; font-family: times new roman; margin-left: 18pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Satelllites and related ground systems, net&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;961,201&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: left; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: right; width: 7%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;913,454&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px; width: 1%; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;The capitalized costs of the Company's satellites and related ground systems include internal direct labor and project management costs, internally developed software and material costs related to assets that support the satellites' construction and development. The cost of the Company's satellites and related ground systems also includes capitalized interest incurred during the construction, development and initial in-orbit testing period.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;As of March 31, 2012, and December 31, 2011, we have incurred total capitalized costs of $639.1 million and $578.7 million, respectively, related to the Company's development efforts for EnhancedView, primarily consisting of costs for the development of and construction of GeoEye-2. Included in these costs is capitalized interest of $76.4 million and $63.0 million, as of March 31, 2012, and December 31, 2011, respectively.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;We maintain in-orbit insurance policies covering our GeoEye-1 and IKONOS satellites. We capitalize the portion of the premiums associated with the insurance coverage of the launch and in-orbit commissioning period of our commercial satellites. Accordingly, prior to the start of GeoEye-1's commercial operations, we capitalized a portion of insurance premiums in the cost of the satellite that will be amortized over the estimated life of GeoEye-1, which is nine years. Following launch and in-orbit commissioning, insurance premium amounts related to in-orbit operations are charged to expense ratably over the related policy periods.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;The Company maintains insurance policies for GeoEye-1 with both full coverage and total-loss-only coverage in compliance with our indentures. As of March 31, 2012, we carried $260.3 million of in-orbit insurance for GeoEye-1, comprised in part by $195.8 million of full coverage to be paid if GeoEye-1's capabilities become impaired as measured against a set of specifications, which expires on December 1, 2012. We also carry $64.5 million of insurance in the event of a total loss of the satellite, which expires December 1, 2012.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Our IKONOS satellite was fully depreciated in June 2008. The IKONOS satellite is insured for $4.3 million of in-orbit coverage which expires on December 1, 2012.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; margin-left: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Total satellite and related ground systems depreciation expense was $13.5 million and $13.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</geoy:SatellitesAndRelatedGroundSystemsTextBlock>
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