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Stock Incentive Plan Stock Incentive Plan (Performance Awards Earned and Issued) (Details) - Performance Shares - shares	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
Schedule of Share-based compensation arrangements by share-based payment award, performance shares earned and issued [Line Items]
Shares earned	0	286,804
Shares withheld for taxes on the earned awards		113,334
Shares issued subsequent to year-end	0	173,470

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[Line Items] for Schedule of Share-based compensation arrangements by share-based payment award, performance shares earned and issued [Table]

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Share-based compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Issued

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The number of equity-based payment instruments, excluding stock (or unit) options, that vested during the reporting period.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)(2)(iii)(2)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6415400&loc=d3e5070-113901

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For net-share settlement of share-based awards when the employer settles employees' income tax withholding obligations, this element represents the number of shares the employees use to repay the employer.

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