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Income Taxes (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018
Income Taxes |
Schedule of income (loss) before income taxes and income tax expense (benefit) |
|  | Three months ended March 31, |
|  | 2018 |  | 2017 |
Loss before income taxes |  | $ | (16,057 | ) | $ | (8,887 | )
Income tax benefit |  | $ | (230 | ) | $ | (10,527 | )

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