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Nature of Operations - Additional Information (Detail)	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2012 Segment
Number of reportable segments	4
Number of units	2

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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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