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Commitments and Contingencies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2012
Commitments and Contingencies [Abstract] |
Schedule of Future Minimum Rental Payments [Table Text Block] | Non-cancelable minimum payments applicable to operating and capital leases as of October 31, 2012 were as follows:
|  | Operating Leases |  | Capital Leases
2013 |  | $ | 1,068 |  |  | $ | 135 |
2014 |  | 1,049 |  |  | 83 |
2015 |  | 725 |  |  | 16 |
2016 |  | 86 |  |  | — |
2017 |  | 7 |  |  | — |
Thereafter |  | — |  |  | — |
Total |  | $ | 2,935 |  |  | $ | 234 |

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