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Property and Equipment	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2011
Property and Equipment [Abstract]
Property and Equipment	7. Property and Equipment. The Company has capitalized costs related to its various technology initiatives. The net book value of the property and equipment related to software development was $7.7 million as of September 30, 2011 and $7.9 million as of December 31, 2010, which includes work-in-progress of $3.9 million and $3.0 million, respectively.

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Disclosure of long-lived, physical assets that are used in the normal conduct of business to produce goods and services and not intended for resale. Examples include land, building and production equipment. This disclosure may include property plant and equipment accounting policies and methodology, a schedule of property, plant and equipment gross, additions, deletions, transfers and other changes, depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, net, accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization expense and useful lives, income statement disclosures, assets held for sale and public utility disclosures. This element may be used as a single block of text to include the entire PPE disclosure, including data and tables.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher AICPA

-Name Accounting Principles Board Opinion (APB)

-Number 12

-Paragraph 5

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