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Subsequent Event
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
Subsequent Events [Text Block]
(12)  Subsequent Event
 
The Company has been under an Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) audit, and although not finalized, on April 23, 2014 received a Notice of Proposed Adjustment from the IRS relating to the disallowance of the write-off of goodwill and other intangible assets in connection with a business that the Company sold in 2010. While the Company disagrees with the proposed adjustment and is currently in the process of providing more facts and information to the IRS, the Company is planning on appealing this adjustment, if needed. If the IRS position is upheld, the result could have a materially adverse effect on the Company’s financial position.
 
On April 30, 2014 the Company’s Board adopted a stockholder rights plan (the “Rights Plan”).
 
In connection with the adoption of the Rights Plan, on April 30, 2014, the Company’s Board declared a non-taxable dividend of one preferred share purchase right (a “Right”) for each outstanding share of common stock to the Company’s stockholders of record as of the close of business on May 14, 2014. After the Rights Plan takes effect, any person or group that acquires beneficial ownership of 4.99% or more of the Company’s common stock without approval from the Board would be subject to significant dilution in the ownership interest of that person or group. Stockholders who currently own 4.99% or more of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock will not trigger the preferred share purchase rights unless they acquire shares representing a percentage of common stock that exceeds by 0.5% or more the lowest percentage of common stock that such stockholder had at any time since April 30, 2014. In addition, in its discretion, the Board may exempt certain persons from acquisition of securities and may also exempt certain transactions.
 
The Rights will expire on the earliest of (i) the close of business on April 30, 2017 (unless that date is advanced or extended by the Board), (ii) the time at which the Rights are redeemed or exchanged under the Rights Plan, (iii) the repeal of Section 382 or any successor statute or (iv) the beginning of a taxable year of the Company to which the Board determines that no net operating loss carryforward (“NOL”) may be carried forward.