Other Assets Other Assets (Details Textuals)	12 Months Ended	24 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($) investment	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($)
Investment [Line Items]
Equity Method Investment, Other than Temporary Impairment	$ 1,000,000.0	$ 764,000
Equity Method Investment, Other than Temporary Impairment, Number \| investment	8
Equity Investments Without Readily Determinable Fair Value Upward Adjustments	$ 286,000

Line items represent reporting concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 323
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-Section 35
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