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Subsequent Event (Details) - Scenario, Forecast [Member]	Jan. 01, 2017
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Ownership percentage	49.00%
Temp Holdings [Member]
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Percentage of equity method investment held by other party	51.00%

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Percentage of equity method investment held by other party.

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The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 323
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=66011266&loc=d3e33918-111571

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Detail information of subsequent event by type. User is expected to use existing line items from elsewhere in the taxonomy as the primary line items for this disclosure, which is further associated with dimension and member elements pertaining to a subsequent event.

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