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Description of Business (Details)	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 29, 2012 segment service
Description of Business
Number of broad areas of services	2
Number of business segments	1

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Represents the area of services broadly offered by the entity.

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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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