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Goodwill Goodwill (Details)	Sep. 30, 2016
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Goodwill [Line Items]
Percentage of fair value in excess of carrying amount	17.00%

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Percentage of fair value of reporting unit in excess of carrying amount.

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