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Other Current Assets | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2011
Other Current Assets [Abstract] |
Other Current Assets | Note 7. Other Current Assets Other current assets at October 31, 2011 and October 31, 2010 consisted of the following:
|  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |
Advance payments to vendors (1) |  | $ | 4,378 |  |  | $ | 4,033 |
Interest receivable (2) |  |  | 48 |  |  |  | 55 |
Note receivable (3) |  |  | 804 |  |  |  | — |
Prepaid expenses and other (4) |  |  | 2,236 |  |  |  | 1,165 |
Total |  | $ | 7,466 |  |  | $ | 5,253 |
(1) |  | Advance payments to vendors relate to inventory purchases. The October 31, 2010 amount has been reduced by a lower of cost or market adjustment $0.1 million. There was no lower of cost or market adjustment at October 31, 2011
(2) |  | Interest receivable relates to amounts due on investments in U.S. Treasury securities.
(3) |  | Current portion of long-term note receivable.
(4) |  | Primarily relates to other accounts receivable related to POSCO royalties and other prepaid vendor expenses including insurance, rent and lease payments.

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