Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Short Term Investments and Marketable Securities (Tables)

Short Term Investments and Marketable Securities (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Aug. 31, 2012

Short-term Investments and Marketable Securities [Abstract]

Schedule of cost and market values of the investments


	August 31, 2012				November 30, 2011
	COST		MARKET		COST		MARKET
Current:
Corporate obligations	$	250,000	$	250,901	$	970,461	$	964,357
Preferred stock		—		—		223,373		234,445
Common stock		148,692		148,218		454,855		382,340
Limited partnership		223,373		280,305		443,818		557,827
Mutual funds		—		—		285,480		223,027

Total Current		622,065		679,424		2,377,987		2,361,996


	August 31, 2012				November 30, 2011
	COST		MARKET		COST		MARKET
Non-Current
Corporate obligations		754,492		743,988		754,518		734,418
Preferred stock		—		—		2,404,581		2,248,608

Total Non-Current		754,492		743,988		3,159,099		2,983,026

Total	$	1,376,557	$	1,423,412	$	5,537,086	$	5,345,022

Schedule of fair value of securities


					Significant
			Quoted Market		Other
			Price in		Observable
	August 31,		Acitve Markets		Inputs
Description	2012		(Level 1)		(Level 2)
Corporate obligations	$	994,889	$	—	$	994,889
Limited partnership		280,305		280,305		—
Common stock		148,218		148,218		—

Total	$	1,423,412	$	428,523	$	994,889


					Significant
			Quoted Market		Other
			Price in		Observable
	November 30,		Active Markets		Inputs
Description	2011		(Level 1)		(Level 2)
Corporate obligations	$	1,698,775	$	—	$	1,698,775
Limited partnership		234,445		234,445
Preferred stock		2,630,948		2,630,948
Common stock		557,827		557,827
Mutual funds		223,027		190,302		32,725

Total	$	5,345,022	$	3,613,522	$	1,731,500

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of assets, including [financial] instruments measured at fair value that are classified in stockholders' equity, if any, by class that are measured at fair value on a recurring and/or nonrecurring basis. The disclosures contemplated herein include the fair value measurements at the reporting date by the level within the fair value hierarchy in which the fair value measurements in their entirety fall, segregating fair value measurements using quoted prices in active markets for identical assets (Level 1), significant other observable inputs (Level 2), and significant unobservable inputs (Level 3).

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