Shareholders' Equity (Details) - $ / shares	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
Shareholders' Equity
Dividend declared (in dollars per share)	$ 0.375	$ 0.375	$ 0.30	$ 0.30
Common Stock, Dividends, Per Share, Cash Paid	0.375		0.30
Common Stock, Dividend Declared Prior Quarter Paid Current Quarter	$ 0.375		$ 0.30

The per share amount of a dividend paid during the period which was declared in a prior period.

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Aggregate dividends paid during the period for each share of common stock outstanding.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.3-04)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=27012166&loc=d3e187085-122770

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Aggregate dividends declared during the period for each share of common stock outstanding.

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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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