Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Recent Accounting Developments (Details)	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]
Tax benefit from cumulative effect of adoption of ASU 2014-01 [Table Text Block]	406

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