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Asset Liquidation Investments and Investments (Tables) | 9 Months Ended | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2014 | Dec. 31, 2013
Schedule of Results of Operations Attributable to the Company from the Joint Ventures in Which it is Invested [Table Text Block] |
|  | Nine months ended |
|  | September 30, |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |
Gross revenues | $ | 46 |  | $ | 5,056 |
Gross profit (loss) | $ | (53 | ) | $ | 907 |
Income (loss) from continuing operations | $ | (53 | ) | $ | 1,265 |
Net income (loss) | $ | (53 | ) | $ | 1,265 |
Schedule of The Company's Other Investments [Table Text Block] |
|  | September 30 , |  |  | December 31, |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |
Knight’s Bridge Capital Partners Internet Fund No. 1 GP LLC | $ | 107 |  | $ | 19 |
Polaroid Corporation (“Polaroid”) |  | 1,393 |  |  | 1,750 |
Total investments | $ | 1,500 |  | $ | 1,769 |
Schedule of The Company's Investment in Polaroid [Table Text Block] |
|  | Capital |  |  | Equity in |  |  | Capital |  |  | Net |
Unit type |  | invested |  |  | earnings |  |  | returned |  |  | investment |
Class A | $ | 2,492 |  | $ | 269 |  | $ | (1,660 | ) | $ | 1,101 |
Class D |  | 628 |  |  | 64 |  |  | (400 | ) |  | 292 |
Total | $ | 3,120 |  | $ | 333 |  | $ | (2,060 | ) | $ | 1,393 |
|  | Capital |  |  | Equity in |  |  | Capital |  |  | Net |
Unit type |  | invested |  |  | earnings |  |  | returned |  |  | investment |
Class A | $ | 2,492 |  | $ | 209 |  | $ | (1,300 | ) | $ | 1,401 |
Class D |  | 617 |  |  | 50 |  |  | (318 | ) |  | 349 |
Total | $ | 3,109 |  | $ | 259 |  | $ | (1,618 | ) | $ | 1,750 |

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