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INCOME TAXES (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities [Table Text Block] | Significant components of the Company’s deferred tax liabilities and assets as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 are as follows:
|  | DECEMBER 31, |
|  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |
Deferred tax liabilities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Fixed assets |  | $ | (7,218,000 | ) |  | $ | (6,839,000 | )
Total deferred tax liabilities |  |  | (7,218,000 | ) |  |  | (6,839,000 | )
Deferred tax assets: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net operating loss carryforwards |  |  | 3,767,000 |  |  |  | 3,330,000 |
Accruals and allowances |  |  | 233,000 |  |  |  | 415,000 |
Tax credits |  |  | 334,000 |  |  |  | 298,000 |
Other – net |  |  | 77,000 |  |  |  | 75,000 |
Total deferred tax assets |  |  | 4,411,000 |  |  |  | 4,118,000 |
Valuation allowance |  |  | (163,000 | ) |  |  | (224,000 | )
Deferred tax assets net of valuation allowance |  |  | 4,248,000 |  |  |  | 3,894,000 |
Net deferred tax liabilities |  | $ | (2,970,000 | ) |  | $ | (2,945,000 | )
Schedule of Condensed Financial Statements [Table Text Block] | These amounts are presented in the financial statements as follows:
|  | DECEMBER 31, |
|  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |
Current deferred tax assets |  | $ | 310,000 |  |  | $ | 490,000 |
Deferred income taxes (non-current) |  |  | (3,280,000 | ) |  |  | (3,435,000 | )
|  | $ | (2,970,000 | ) |  | $ | (2,945,000 | )
Schedule of Components of Income Tax Expense (Benefit) [Table Text Block] | The components of the provision for income taxes consist of the following:
|  | YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, |
|  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |
Current: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Federal |  | $ | 18,000 |  |  | $ | - |  |  | $ | (25,000 | )
State |  | $ | 65,000 |  |  | $ | 128,000 |  |  | $ | 23,000 |
Foreign |  |  | - |  |  |  | 4,000 |  |  |  | - |
Total current |  |  | 83,000 |  |  |  | 132,000 |  |  |  | (2,000 | )
Deferred: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Federal |  |  | 95,000 |  |  |  | 305,000 |  |  |  | 142,000 |
State |  |  | (41,000 | ) |  |  | (229,000 | ) |  |  | 26,000 |
Foreign |  |  | (30,000 | ) |  |  | - |  |  |  | - |
Total deferred |  |  | 24,000 |  |  |  | 76,000 |  |  |  | 168,000 |
|  | $ | 107,000 |  |  | $ | 208,000 |  |  | $ | 166,000 |
Schedule of Provision for Income Tax [Table Text Block] | The provision for income taxes differs from the amount computed by applying the U.S. federal statutory tax rate (34% in 2012, 2011 and 2010) to income before taxes as follows:
|  | YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, |
|  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |
Computed expected federal income tax |  | $ | 49,000 |  |  | $ | 243,000 |  |  | $ | 76,000 |
State income taxes, net of federal benefit |  |  | 38,000 |  |  |  | (144,000 | ) |  |  | 80,000 |
Non-deductible expenses |  |  | 24,000 |  |  |  | 41,000 |  |  |  | 39,000 |
Other |  |  | (4,000 | ) |  |  | 68,000 |  |  |  | (29,000 | )
|  | $ | 107,000 |  |  | $ | 208,000 |  |  | $ | 166,000 |

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