Investments - Short term invesmtments (Details) (USD $)	Sep. 30, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Notes to Financial Statements
U.S. treasury money market fund	$ 284,958	$ 6,802,126
Short-term U.S. treasury bills	73,278,111	30,288,668
Bank money market accounts	4,481,581	1,046,813
Bank savings accounts	1,762	1,862
Total short-term investments	$ 78,046,412	$ 38,139,469

Investments which are intended to be sold in the short term (usually less than one year or the normal operating cycle, whichever is longer) including trading securities, available-for-sale securities, held-to-maturity securities, and other short-term investments not otherwise listed in the existing taxonomy.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 210

-SubTopic 10

-Section S99

-Paragraph 1

-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.2)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6877327&loc=d3e13212-122682

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-Publisher SEC

-Name Regulation S-X (SX)

-Number 210

-Section 03

-Paragraph 1

-Subparagraph g

-Article 7

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