Class Of Warrant Or Right, Expiration Period

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Common Stock, Collective Ownership Threshold For Joint Filers

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Common Stock, Minimum Percent Ownership For Exercise Of Rights

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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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- Definition

Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 235
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.4-08.(i)(4))
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=26873400&loc=d3e23780-122690

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- Definition

Number of securities into which the class of warrant or right may be converted. For example, but not limited to, 500,000 warrants may be converted into 1,000,000 shares.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 235
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.4-08.(i)(2))
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=26873400&loc=d3e23780-122690

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- Definition

Face amount or stated value per share of common stock.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.29)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6877327&loc=d3e13212-122682

Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher SEC
-Name Regulation S-X (SX)
-Number 210
-Section 02
-Paragraph 30
-Article 5

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Stockholders' Equity (Details) - $ / shares	Oct. 08, 2015	Dec. 15, 2008	Dec. 31, 2016	Sep. 30, 2016
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Common stock, par value (USD per share)			$ 0.01	$ 0.01
Minimum percent ownership of common stock for exercise of rights		15.00%
Series A Preferred Stock
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Common stock, par value (USD per share)		$ 0.01
Number of securities called by warrants or rights (in shares)		0.001
Exercise price of rights (USD per share)		$ 51.60
Rights expiration period		10 years
Collective ownership threshold for joint filers	19.90%