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Income Taxes (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Tax Expense

(in thousands)	2016	2015
Current:
Federal	$   -	$   -
State	-	-
Foreign	-	-
Deferred:
Federal	(309)	662
State	(44)	(102)
Foreign	-	-
Income tax (benefit) expense	$ (353)	$560

Income Tax Expense in Financial Statements

(in thousands)	2016	2015
Continuing Operations	$     (353)	$     560
Discontinued Operations	-	998
Other Comprehensive Income	353	(1,558)

Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities

(in thousands)	2016	2015
Deferred tax assets:
Loss carryovers	$8,168	$6,982
Stock option compensation expense	-	7
Royalty	1,482	1,482
Unrealized loss on derivative securities	-	38
Other	105	105
Valuation allowance	(9,118)	(8,571)
Total deferred tax assets	637	43
Deferred tax liabilities:
Unrealized gain on derivative securities	196	-
Unrealized gains on marketable equity securities	395	41
Other	46	2
Total deferred tax liabilities	637	43
Net deferred tax liabilities	$    -	$    -

Reconciliation of Income Taxes

(in thousands)	2016	2015
Expected income tax benefit	$(701)	$(976)
Reversal of disproportionate tax effect in other comprehensive income	-	1,558
Equity based compensation	366	575
Foreign tax rate differences	6	3
State income tax	(237)	(606)
True-up of deferred taxes	-	267
Tax attributes of disposed subsidiary	1,652	3,941
Previously unrecognized basis in disposed subsidiary	(1,884)	(4,170)
Change in valuation allowance	547	(40)
MH-LLC investment	-	1
Permanent differences and other	(102)	7
Income tax (benefit) expense	$   (353)	$    560

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Tabular disclosure of the components of income tax expense attributable to continuing operations for each year presented including, but not limited to: current tax expense (benefit), deferred tax expense (benefit), investment tax credits, government grants, the benefits of operating loss carryforwards, tax expense that results from allocating certain tax benefits either directly to contributed capital or to reduce goodwill or other noncurrent intangible assets of an acquired entity, adjustments of a deferred tax liability or asset for enacted changes in tax laws or rates or a change in the tax status of the entity, and adjustments of the beginning-of-the-year balances of a valuation allowance because of a change in circumstances that causes a change in judgment about the realizability of the related deferred tax asset in future years.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-Section 50
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Tabular disclosure of the components of net deferred tax asset or liability recognized in an entity's statement of financial position, including the following: the total of all deferred tax liabilities, the total of all deferred tax assets, the total valuation allowance recognized for deferred tax assets.

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Tabular disclosure of the reconciliation using percentage or dollar amounts of the reported amount of income tax expense attributable to continuing operations for the year to the amount of income tax expense that would result from applying domestic federal statutory tax rates to pretax income from continuing operations.

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