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EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT PLAN EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT PLAN (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Jul. 31, 2013
Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract] |
Projected Benefit Obligation and Plan Assets [Table Text Block] | Changes in the Plan's projected benefit obligation and plan assets since the acquisition are as follows (in thousands):
Change in projected benefit obligation: |  |
Acquired projected benefit obligation |  |  | $14,539 |
Interest cost |  | 95 |
Benefits paid |  | (160 | )
Projected benefit obligation as of July 31, 2013 |  |  | $14,474 |
Change in plan assets: |  |
Acquired plan assets |  |  | $11,674 |
Expected return on plan assets |  | 128 |
Benefits paid |  | (160 | )
Plan assets as of July 31, 2013 |  |  | $11,642 |
Schedule of Net Benefit Costs [Table Text Block] | Components of net benefit income since the acquisition within the Company's Condensed Statement of Operations are as follows (in thousands):
Expected return on plan assets |  |  | $128 |
Interest cost |  | 95 |
Net benefit income |  |  | $33 |
Schedule of Expected Benefit Payments [Table Text Block] | Estimated future benefit payments to be made from fiscal 2014 to fiscal 2023 are as follows (in thousands):
Year ending October 31, |  |
2014 |  |  | $965 |
2015 |  | 936 |
2016 |  | 920 |
2017 |  | 904 |
2018 |  | 892 |
2019-2023 |  | 4,280 |

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