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Equity Method Investments (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2014
Schedule of Results of Operations Attributable to the Company from the Joint Ventures in Which it is Invested [Table Text Block] |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |
Gross revenues | $ | 2,177 |  | $ | 7,589 |
Gross profit | $ | 143 |  | $ | 1,200 |
Net income | $ | 143 |  | $ | 1,200 |
Schedule of the components of assets and liabilities attributable to the Company from the Joint Ventures in which it is invested [Table Text Block] |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |
Current assets | $ | 1,095 |  | $ | 1,415 |
Noncurrent assets | $ | — |  | $ | 87 |
Current liabilities | $ | 117 |  | $ | 122 |
Noncurrent liabilities | $ | — |  | $ | — |
Schedule of The Company's Other Investments [Table Text Block] |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |
Knight’s Bridge GP | $ | 156 |  | $ | 19 |
Polaroid |  | — |  |  | 1,750 |
Total investments | $ | 156 |  | $ | 1,769 |

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