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Income Taxes (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2015
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Income Tax Expense and Effective Tax Rates | For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014, the Company's income tax expense and effective tax rates on forecasted pretax losses were:
|  | Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in thousands, except for rate) |  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Income tax expense |  | $ | 44 |  |  | $ | 113 |  |  | $ | 151 |  |  | $ | 155 |
Effective tax rate |  | (1 | )% |  | (3 | )% |  | (1 | )% |  | (5 | )%

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