Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Award Performance Period

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Grants in Period, Expected to Convert

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The number of grants made during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)(2)(iii)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=96867065&loc=d3e5070-113901

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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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Equity-Based Compensation (Equity Based Awards - Settled in Stock) (Details) - Performance stock units - shares	1 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Apr. 30, 2017	Feb. 28, 2017	Sep. 30, 2017	Sep. 30, 2016
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Units awarded (in shares)			108,748	0
Performance period			1 year
2015 Incentive Plan
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Units awarded that will convert to shares (in shares)	5,266	78,482
Units awarded (in shares)	5,000	20,000
Performance period		3 years