The significant components of foreign deferred income tax expense (benefit) (Details) (USD $)	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
The significant components of foreign deferred income tax expense (benefit)
Deferred tax expense (benefit)	$ 1,406,000	$ (1,041,000)	$ (1,268,000)
Net operating loss carryforward expired (generated)	(15,000)	(79,000)	496,000
Valuation allowance (decrease) increase	(1,391,000)	1,120,000	772,000
Provision for Income taxes	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0

Amount of other deferred income tax expense (benefit) pertaining to income (loss) from continuing operations. For example, but not limited to, acquisition-date income tax benefits or expenses recognized from changes in the acquirer's valuation allowance for its previously existing deferred tax assets resulting from a business combination and adjustments to beginning-of-year balance of a valuation allowance because of a change in circumstance causing a change in judgment about the realizability of the related deferred tax asset in future periods.

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