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Accumuated Other Comprehensive Income Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Jun. 27, 2015
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income [Abstract] |
Schedule of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Table Text Block] | The following tables summarize the changes in accumulated balances of other comprehensive income for the periods presented:
| Three months ended June 27, 2015 |  | Nine months ended June 27, 2015
| Foreign Currency Translation |  | Marketable Securities |  | Pension Plans |  | Hedged Interest Rate Caps |  | Total |  | Foreign Currency Translation |  | Marketable Securities |  | Pension Plans |  | Hedged Interest Rate Caps |  | Total
Beginning Balance | $ | (23.2 | ) |  | $ | 5.7 |  |  | $ | (1.5 | ) |  | $ | (1.6 | ) |  | $ | (20.6 | ) |  | $ | (4.7 | ) |  | $ | 8.9 |  |  | $ | (1.6 | ) |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 2.6 |
Other comprehensive income (loss) | 4.5 |  |  | (0.7 | ) |  | — |  |  | (0.7 | ) |  | 3.1 |  |  | (14.0 | ) |  | (3.9 | ) |  | 0.1 |  |  | (2.3 | ) |  | (20.1 | )
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income | 9.6 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 9.6 |  |  | 9.6 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 9.6 |
Ending Balance | $ | (9.1 | ) |  | $ | 5.0 |  |  | $ | (1.5 | ) |  | $ | (2.3 | ) |  | $ | (7.9 | ) |  | $ | (9.1 | ) |  | $ | 5.0 |  |  | $ | (1.5 | ) |  | $ | (2.3 | ) |  | $ | (7.9 | )
The reclassification out of accumulated other comprehensive income to restructuring and divestiture charges for the three and nine months ended June 27, 2015 was $9.6 million related to writing off the cumulative translation adjustment related to the MRI breast coils product line (see note 3).
| Three months ended June 28, 2014 |  | Nine months ended June 28, 2014
| Foreign Currency Translation |  | Marketable Securities |  | Pension Plans |  | Total |  | Foreign Currency Translation |  | Marketable Securities |  | Pension Plans |  | Total
Beginning Balance | $ | 1.6 |  |  | $ | 9.9 |  |  | $ | (0.9 | ) |  | $ | 10.6 |  |  | $ | 8.6 |  |  | $ | 12.1 |  |  | $ | (0.3 | ) |  | $ | 20.4 |
Other comprehensive income (loss) | 3.3 |  |  | 4.2 |  |  | — |  |  | 7.5 |  |  | (3.7 | ) |  | 2.0 |  |  | (0.6 | ) |  | (2.3 | )
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Ending Balance | $ | 4.9 |  |  | $ | 14.1 |  |  | $ | (0.9 | ) |  | $ | 18.1 |  |  | $ | 4.9 |  |  | $ | 14.1 |  |  | $ | (0.9 | ) |  | $ | 18.1 |

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