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Is there anyway yet to get heirloom items from a Horde character to an Alliance one?
Is there anyway yet to get heirloom items from a Horde character to an Alliance one?
Create your alliance character and send a mail. They fixed that if I am not misstaken.
If they're on the same server you can just mail them, I believe.
<Insurgency> (13/13M) is recruiting !
I am the one who knocks ... because I need your permission to enter.
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on the same realm yes, just send it trough mail
Thx for the info. Didn't realize they finally changed that.
This is a toon I made 3 years ago, and at that time, cross-faction heirloom-mailing WAS NOT NEW --> http://www.warcraftrealms.com/char/115583527
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Heirlooms were made cross-faction compatible at the launch of 3.2, when they also allowed people to play both factions on PVP realms.
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PeteHawk Jan 2, 2013 4:46 AM
in response to XyritZz
Dear Apple,
I'd like to have my birthday on the 1st of April as it has been every year of my life so far!
Thank you
p.s. setting it to last only an hour didn't work for me...
Lexiepex Jan 2, 2013 4:57 AM
in response to BruBoyle
@Bru and @ Rene
expect an update for iCal.
In this thread are temperary solutions offered.
I just put in an entry on the first of April time 00:30, and an all day entry also, no problems at all. iPad2.
Maria Romana Jan 2, 2013 5:31 AM
in response to PeteHawk
Dear Apple,
This is not just about Peter's birthday... you have been aware of this problem since April last year. It is an important issue. We need action, fast.
Lexiepex Jan 2, 2013 5:35 AM
in response to Maria Romana
This is not Apple, just users here. As far as I know this is not know since more than a week or two.
Maria Romana Jan 2, 2013 5:40 AM
in response to Lexiepex
Fully aware we are not talking to Apple directly, just following on with Peter's joke. You gotta laugh.
The issue was first raised in this very same conversation on April 12. Go to page 1 of this thread and check for yourself.
rodc7 Jan 2, 2013 5:42 AM
in response to Lexiepex
This issue has been known ever since the New iPAD 3 came out and the reason of date 1st April.
I reported it to Apple then and despite assurances it would be fixed, still remains an issue. Not holding out for a fix any time soon.
racey43 Jan 2, 2013 12:02 PM
in response to Sickofpcs
I can't delete either all-day event in April 1st. they are from a subsribed calendar.
As I've said, I'm quite happy with the free CalenMob app.
It's a poor show from Apple, though, that such a universal problem on one of their own apps doesn't work properly.
Diplodock Jan 3, 2013 6:40 AM
in response to XyritZz
Thanks to Charles Arthur at the Guardian Newspaper (UK) for highlighting this issue today:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2013/jan/03/technology-links-newsbucke t
If link doesn't work - look up his Technology Blog 'Boot Up'.
Suggest that you contact media - as even Apple may take notice of them.
Eichhoernle Jan 4, 2013 3:16 AM
in response to Diplodock
Called yetserday the German support hotline - the Girl at the end of the line was not aware of the problem .
Her recommendation was to reset the iPad and configure is as a new iPad. As I'm a nice guy I give it a try - expecting that this will not solve the isssue... but OK.
As long as there was no all day entry on April 1st month view worked fine. After entering an all day appointment on April 1st the problem was there again - q.e.d.
Today I called again the support hotline and the girl was a little bit more knowledgeable and gave me the tip which is already discussed here in the forum - change all day events on April 1st to timed events....
Well, as April 1st is Easter Monday my company has this as an all day event in our company holiday calender and so I'm not able to change it - after the next sync there is again the all day event and the calender crashes.
The girl tried to calm me down with the information that Apple technicians working on this bug....but hey they working on it since months ... I assume that they will not fix it as March will be over in 12 weeks and according to the girl from the hotline many users are happy with the workaround
So - if you call the hotline with this porblem please save your time and do not reset your iPad. This will not solve the issue - change all day events to timed events, use an other calendar app or buy a Samsung tablet runing with Android....
Umm err Jan 4, 2013 1:03 PM
in response to XyritZz
Just discovered I have this problem, can not change all day events on the 1st April as 3 of them are subscribed calendars which I need and the 4th is my wedding anniversary (why should I have to change them, and what about all the people born on the 1st of April) simply deleting/changing these events is not a fix for lots of us. Maybe since apple don't seem to care about our March maybe we should boycott them for that month unless they solve the problem. They have been going downhill in my opinion since apple maps anyway.
Clive Cass Jan 4, 2013 1:05 PM
in response to Eichhoernle
I subscribe to a calendar of Jewish festivals and sabbath times which rolls on year after year. Festivals are all day events and so I cannot delete or change to a timed event a festival that occurs on April 1st. I would have to not use this calendar for several months to enable myself to use march without it crashing
Umm err Jan 4, 2013 1:21 PM
in response to Clive Cass
You can view it in week view if you don't want to/can't change events on 1st April, which is what I'm doing (but I'm not happy about it) at the moment there is no real fix, hopefully as march descends upon us more people will start to notice and apple will be forced to fix it. Maybe the Mayans got their calander slightly wrong and the world is goin to end in march this year instead. AKB (apple know best!)
kaykrum Jan 6, 2013 10:57 AM
in response to XyritZz
Yup, the problem is alive and well (or not well) on iPad 3 as well. The work-around approach taken by Apple (delete all-day entries on April 1st and you'll be fine) sounds to me like a lame April Fools' Day joke. Especially since this problem has been around for months. Apple is obviously sitting this one out (after all, March will be long gone in a few weeks). But what does that say about programming ethics at the company? Better late than never, guys. Admit the problem and get it fixed! You're driving customers away!! Remember the mobile connection problem on the "new" iPad which Apple also denied for weeks and weeks and still hasn't been fixed in all parts of the world? It's giving the other tablets a good boost.
Tyll of Hamburg Jan 7, 2013 8:28 AM
in response to XyritZz
To make things worse...
The workaround is not fixing the crash at my 'new' iPad.
It still crashes even when I delete every entry on the 1. of march.
Feels like not only Steve died but the genius in Apple itself.
Maria Romana Jan 7, 2013 8:32 AM
in response to Tyll of Hamburg
I feel the same...
However, the date is 1st April: you should delete all day events on 1st April. Hope it works....


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This is a nice historic ballast bottle embossed Rossâe(tm)s onone side and Belfast ( Ireland ) on the other side. Crude with some tiny pings and one golf tee shaped open bubble bu no chips or cracks. Legally recovered from coastal shoals along the New England coast of Maine. Shipwreck item. It has an unusual or non-typical mold-blown bottle form with a seam up both sides and applied lip. The round bottom is unmarked dating it to the late 19 th century. Bottle measures 9 ½ inches long and has some mud staining. It has an applied finish lip that is a cross between a blob (large and one-part) and the oil style (flattened and tapered outside surface), applied ribbon lip for wiring the cork, was blown in a true two-piece mold, and exhibits no apparent mold air venting evidence. Rounded bases were designed to do the opposite of most flat bottle bases and ensured that the bottle was not left standing upright. The rounded bottom was to ensure that the bottle was left on its side so that the wired down cork would not dry out and shrink allowing the contents to loose carbonation and/or evaporate as stated in Riley 1958. Rounded base bottle were made of thick heavy glass and used for carbonated soda, mineral water, and in particular, ginger ale as referenced in Munsey 1971. Some rounded bottom soda bottles actually have a small flattened area in the middle of the base that allows for the bottle to stand upright though somewhat precariously. These are referred to as "club" or "tenpin" in shape, "semi-round", or "egg-shaped" as referenced in McKearin & Wilson 1978, Elliot & Gould 1988, and Jones & Sullivan 1989. These type bottles are commonly referred to as "round bottom sodas" or "ballast bottles" since many of them were imported from England as "ballast" (keel weight) in ships returning to the United States . A common variation is the "torpedo" bottle which is distinctly more pointed on the end with a bulging "amphora-like" body. The torpedo style was first used in England at least as early as 1809 when a patent was granted to William F. Hamilton. These type bottles are often referred to as " Hamilton 's" by English collectors as referenced in McKearin & Wilson 1978. Torpedo bottles are also known by some as "bombs" as referenced in Elliott & Gould 1988. Round bottom and torpedo bottles were usually produced in a true two-piece mold w the neck, shoulder, body, and entire base (and sometimes all or a part of the finish) were produced by the two halves of the mold. As such these type of bottles are simply a rounded base version of the "hinge" mold and exhibit one continuous mold seam that runs from one side of the body, around the base, and then up the other side. The lip is then applied in a fat ribbon style to allow for wiring of the cork. The majority of round bottom or torpedo bottles date from the 1870âe(tm)s to the 1910âe(tm)s, though t are some American made torpedo bottles (Eastern Seaboard) that date back as early as the 1840's as referenced in McKearin & Wilson 1978, Baltimore Bottle Club 2002. Most have a blob style finish, occasionally an oil or mineral finish, though some were made with a Codd finish/closure and later ones (early 20th century) were produced with a crown finish as referenced by Elliott & Gould 1988.


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Yoleni has had several loans from Fundación Mujer and has demonstrated an excellent repayment history. She is very hard working and responsible and strives to get ahead in life.
Yoleni started out with the sum of 10,000 Costa Rican colones. She started selling because her sister was widowed and she herself was unemployed and in financial need because she was not able to buy her son's medicines. The two of them started selling products. Yoleni also does cleaning work for her neighbors. She irons and cleans clothes as well.
Yoleni plans to invest her loan money in buying merchandise in order to have more working capital since Mother's Day is approaching and it is a good time of year for her.
Through this loan, Yoleni and her son who suffers from anemia will improve their well-being and she will have more capital so that she can continue investing and enjoying a better quality of life.
Con la Fundación Mujer ha tenido varios Crédito los cuales ha mantenido una excelente moral de pago, es muy trabajadora y responsable, luchadora por salir adelante
Doña Yoleni empezó con un monto de 10,000.00 colones, el motivo de que ella empezara a vender fue que su hermana quedo viuda y ella estaba desempleada y con necesidades económicas ya que no podía comprar las medicinas de su hijo, entonces entre las dos empezaron a vender, también la señora va y hace las labores domesticas donde sus vecinas y aplancha y lava ropa para ayudarse en el negocio
La señora piensa invertir en la compra de mercadería para tener más capital de trabajo ya que viene el día de la madre y es una época muy buena para ella.
La señora Yoleni con este crédito podrá tener un mejor bienestar para ella y su hijo que padece de anemia, y podrá tene ,mas capital para seguir invirtiendo y tener una calidad de vida mejor
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In 1711–1712, Peter the Great's Russian army, in alliance with the Saxons and Danes, had entered the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in Northern Germany. Thus, the Northern War, which Russia, Saxonia, Poland, and Denmark had begun against Sweden in the regions near Riga and Narva, had reached the borders of Germany. The allies' aim was the Swedish crown's possessions in German Pomerania. By 1716, only the town of Wismar located on the Mecklenburg shore of the Baltic remained in Swedish hands. The allied forces laid siege to Wismar, and a Russian corps commanded by General Anikita Repnin was dispatched to assist them.
By that time Tsar Peter and Charles Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg, had established rather friendly relations. Having ascended the throne in 1713, the duke considered friendship with the great tsar, the victor of Poltava, advantageous. First, Peter had promised his aid in returning to Mecklenburg the town of Wismar; second, the presence of Russian forces in the duke's domain suited Charles Leopold just fine, for his relations with the local nobility were strained, and he was hoping that with the help of the Russian club he would be able to subdue the noble-born freethinkers who were discontent with his tyrannical ways.


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The past decade has brought a significant increase in attention to the role that food and nutrients might play in fighting cancer. Media response to incremental news has sent consumers scurrying to eat more blueberries, cherries, tomatoes, broccoli, carrots, cranberries, and leafy green vegetables, and to drink green tea and red wine in hopes of warding off disease.But whether these foods actually can help prevent cancer, or whether they are best utilized at the molecular level or in combination with other treatments once tumors have been discovered, are questions researchers are still exploring. Support for such research is on the rise, but results are coming in fits and starts as promising foods or nutrients become the latest favorites, stimulate controversy, or fade in the stretch.
Among the most promising studies are investigations into pomegranate juice that researchers at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are conducting.
Allan Pantuck, MD, MS, director of Translational Research at the UCLA Kidney Cancer Program, is the principal investigator in a study in which it was found that drinking an 8-ounce glass of pomegranate juice each day increases by nearly 4-fold the period during which prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels remained stable in men being treated for prostate cancer.
Pomegranate juice is known to inhibit inflammation—which is thought to play a role in many cancers—and contains high levels of antioxidants, which are believed to protect the body from free-radical damage. Specifically, it contains polyphenols, natural antioxidant compounds found in green tea, as well as isoflavones commonly found in soy, and ellagic acid, which is believed to play a role in cancer cell death.
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In that phase II Simon 2-stage clinical trial, men with rising PSA levels after surgery or radiotherapy were treated. Eligible patients had a detectable PSA >0.2 and <5 ng/mL and Gleason score of v7. Patients were treated with 8 ounces of pomegranate juice daily (Wonderful brand, 570 mg total polyphenol gallic acid equivalents) until disease progression. Clinical endpoints included safety and effect on serum PSA, serum-induced proliferation, and apoptosis of human prostate cancer (LNCaP) cells, serum lipid peroxidation, and serum nitric oxide levels.2
Researchers are now conducting a phase III, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study that is one of the most advanced of the current food and nutrient clinical trials, Pantuck said.
Drinking a glass of pomegranate juice or taking a pill each day "would be ideal" as a treatment with minimal side effects, he said.
Pantuck is sufficiently impressed by the results that he has added pomegranate juice to his own diet several times a week as part of his personal practice of eating a rainbow of foods. "I try to eat what I call a colorful diet," he said, in keeping with the belief that the substances that give color to a food are an indicator of the antioxidants contained within.
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This just in: prosecutors say Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was the ringleader of a Republican criminal conspiracy to coordinate the activities of so-called independent conservative political action groups, which spent millions of dollars during his state's 2011 and 2012 during his state's recall elections.
Also breaking: the sun rises in the East most mornings and the Earth is round.
In its Thursday editions, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported that unsealed court documents allege Walker – said to be among the GOP's 2016 contenders – knew his top two deputies, R.J. Johnson and Deborah Jordahl, were working with 12 outside conservative political groups.
The goal of the alleged conspiracy: raise (and spend) millions of dollars on the governor's own campaign and the campaigns of two Republican state representatives facing recall votes at the time.
According to the Sentinel:
The documents include an excerpt from an email in which Walker tells Karl Rove… that Johnson would lead the coordination campaign. Johnson also is Walker's longtime campaign strategist and the chief adviser to Wisconsin Club for Growth, a prominent conservative group.
"Bottom-line: R.J. helps keep in place a team that is wildly successful in Wisconsin. We are running 9 recall elections and it will be like 9 congressional markets in every market in the state (and Twin Cities)," Walker wrote to Rove on May 4, 2011.
Walker has rejected the accusations, and hasn't been criminally charged.
We've seen for awhile that, at the very least, Walker seemed to be using Wisconsin as a not-so-secret laboratory for conservative groups' ideology, road-testing their union-busting, tax-cutting, vote-restricting, recall-pushing agenda in real time. Therefore, it's not surprising to me that the right would use Walker to push other ideological envelopes, too.
What's amazing, though, is how – shall we say, casual – Walker allegedly was in committing the malfeasance.
Citizens United aside, it doesn't take a genius of a candidate to avoid breaking a fairly routine election law. If you don't talk to, appear with or do anything else that would give a reasonable person the impression you're working with an outside group, you're good.
But if you, let's say, send an email to a high-profile political operative, in which you brag about how "wildly successful" your team has been in breaking the law, you might get caught.
If proven true, Walker's email to Rove wasn't the smartest move ever by a man with presidential ambitions. Then again, given how he was punked into a boot-licking performance by a pair of deejays posing as Charles and David Koch (video below), Walker probably isn't among the GOP's brightest in the first place.
Joe Williams (@VerbDC) is a BNR contributing editor and a former White House correspondent for Politico. He's a writer and blogger based in Washington.


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Photos from airplane windows: tips for getting killer shots every time you fly
It's always tempting to try and take aerial photos from airplane windows when travelling. Though it might seem like you're quite limited in what you can do in this situation, there are a few ways you can ensure you get quality snaps. Click to see our tips for getting killer photos from airplane windows every time you fly.


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What is it with the super rich and the bottom of the sea? Only days after Titanic and Avatar director James Cameron returned from his
What is it with the super rich and the bottom of the sea? Only days after Titanic and Avatar director James Cameron returned from his one-man voyage to the deepest part of the ocean (with Paul Allen nearby on his gigantic yacht tweeting the hell out of it), Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, worth roughly $18.1 billion according to estimates, announced that he's put together a team of "undersea pros" intent on raising the engines of Apollo 11, currently residing 14,000 feet below water.
If successful in raising more than one from the watery depths, Bezos says he plans to lobby NASA - who still owns the engines - to let Seattle's Museum of Flight display one of the historical relics. If only one engine is raised, Bezos says NASA will likely give the Smithsonian first dibs.
Bezos notes online that no public money is being used in the endeavor; it's a completely private endeavor.
That's the nice thing about being worth $18.1 billion.
Bezos explains the efforts online:
We don't know yet what condition these engines might be in - they hit the ocean at high velocity and have been in salt water for more than 40 years. On the other hand, they're made of tough stuff, so we'll see.
MSNBC and the Puget Sound Business Journal reported Bezos' deep-sea plans yesterday.


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January 5, 2012
By Daniel P. Elkins, Mission and Installation Contracting Command Public Affairs Office
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FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Admittedly, growing up on the streets of Atlanta in the late 1970s searching for trouble was producing a harsh reality for a teenager whose alternative of leading a straight path in uniform was furthermost from his thoughts. Like many teens whose angst after graduating high school is often typified by a contemptuous demeanor, 18-year-old Clinton Jackson didn't want anybody, let alone his parents, telling him what to do.
It was a little more than a year after high school and his own experiences with parenthood that he believes provided the direction lacking in his life. As an initial step of getting his "act together," Jackson enlisted in the Army in September 1980, a few weeks after his celebrating his 19th birthday.
"I already had my path figured out, but saw it was heading down a dead-end road," said Jackson, the command sergeant major for the Mission and Installation Contracting Command here. "I look back on myself in high school and what I used to do, and the Army put me on the right path. It turned me into a success story."
Having found his new path, the next step involved another life-changing event only a few months later when on holiday break from basic training Jackson married Sonya Bray, with whom he now shares three children.
As Jackson prepares to retire following a change-of-responsibility ceremony Jan. 9, he points to that youthful characteristic of instigator as a key trait in his success of reaching the highest enlisted rank.
"I've always been one of those people who ended up being a leader, even if it was mischief with my buddies," the 31-year veteran said.
Jackson enlisted in the Army initially in the supply military occupation specialty and began his basic training at Fort Dix, N.J. But a bout of pneumonia hospitalized him for six weeks, forcing him to reclassify into a new MOS.
"I asked for food service since it was the quickest way to make rank," said Jackson, who made staff sergeant in his first three years. "Over those three years, I fell in love with it. So, I stayed in food service for 22 years."
Along the way he's completed culinary training, has been a team captain for four culinary art teams and is a certified chef.
"Food service was very good to me; however, my whole goal and motivation throughout my career has been to lead Soldiers," Jackson said.
It was through food service that he honed his leadership skills. As a dining facility manager, he had opportunities to lead groups of food service Soldiers numbering more than 120 and 150. Yet, he acknowledges that beyond platoon sergeant and first sergeant, opportunities to lead a greater number of people were limited in the food service MOS and that he "wanted to lead more people."
After serving eight months as a staff sergeant major, he was selected to be a command sergeant major -- only the fifth food service Soldier at the time -- for the 561st Corps Support Battalion at Fort Campbell, Ky. It was with the 561st CSB that he cut his teeth as a command sergeant major, having 2,200 Soldiers under his command and taking the unit to Iraq for a year.
"That deployment was the highlight of my career. After all, I joined the Army because it was the only legal way to fight," Jackson admitted with a vigorous laugh.
It was during his yearlong deployment that Jackson's profound respect for those filling the Army's junior NCO ranks grew immeasurably as he watched young Soldiers mature overnight.
"The biggest ballplayers in Iraq were the young sergeants and staff sergeants. They're out there stepping up to the plate running and leading convoys," the command sergeant major said. "Everybody's lives in those convoys depended on those young sergeants and staff sergeants."
Jackson's battalion didn't lose a single Soldier during that deployment.
"That's when you feel proud of what you've done. I still receive letters today from Soldiers thanking me for their experience. That's when you know you've made a difference in somebody's life," he said.
Upon return from his deployment, Jackson set his sights on his next leadership opportunity, becoming the command sergeant major for the U.S. Army Garrison Japan at Camp Zama, a small, close-knit community rich in culture that stands out as his most memorable assignment.
"We used to always say you're in a fish bowl because everyone sees everything that goes on -- you get to know every little rock, every little cranny," he said.
As garrison command sergeant major, his wife and family also joined Jackson in the opportunity to become intimately involved in their local community that has been recognized for outstanding services and facilities.
"Everybody was embedded in my mission and had their own part," Jackson said. "Whether it was working with orphans or abused kids, we made a difference in their lives and had the satisfaction of seeing the outcome."
Following his brigade leadership position, he applied for his first dominative position and was selected as the command sergeant major for the MICC, led by Brig. Gen. Stephen Leisenring.
"I've been in this organization since it was first established. I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly," he said. "I've seen civilian employees go from working as an agency, with each separate section doing their own thing, to becoming a command and becoming one team, one fight, working together.
"My goal from day one was to make it to the top, and the top is becoming a command sergeant major. Once you've done that, to make it to the general officer level is top," Jackson said. "I couldn't have picked a better battle buddy to work for and time to retire. When you finish a military career, you want to finish knowing that you have accomplished what you set out to do and on a good note. Everything about the MICC has been positive. I've met a lot of dedicated and professional civilians."
Jackson plans to stay in the local area following his retirement next month, but is confident that he'll remain involved with helping Soldiers and families.
"Being a command sergeant major has always been my goal since I was a private. The only problem is, the higher you get up on the food chain as a command sergeant major, the further away from the Soldiers you become," he said. "I'll miss the Soldiers most."


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Vince McMahon Appearing On Raw Tonight?, Mark Briscoe Tries To Auction Teeth
by Amish Patel - December 03, 2012
– The official WWE website teased Monday night that Vince McMahon may appear on Raw. Their message states, "WWE.com has learned Mr. McMahon has been spotted in Greensboro, N.C., host of tonight's Raw. What is the Chairman of the Board doing in Greensboro? Is he going to be on Monday Night Raw? Tune in at 8/7 CT on USA Network to follow this developing story."
– Mark Briscoe of Ring of Honor attempted to auction off his false teeth on eBay last week but the listing was later removed by the website since auctioning human remains and body parts is prohibited. Here is a video ROH put out promoting the auction.
– The official WWE website has released a poll asking whether AJ Lee and John Cena will kiss tonight on Raw. According to the poll results, 74% believe they will smooch.
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Company marches to help homeless children
July 28, 2014
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WAHIAWA, Hawaii -- Seven members of Delta Company, 53rd Signal Battalion marched 20 miles July 4 to raise more than $2,000 for Project Hawaii in support of homeless youth on the island of Oahu.
The team was led by Chief Petty Officer Shane Moss, Austrailian Defence Force senior enlisted member, and 1st Lt. Courtney Richards, D Company executive officer, and comprised Sgt. Mark Proctor, Sgt. Patrick Potts-Szoke, Spc. Joseph Meyers, Pfc. Jim Mullaney and Ben Lee. Richards and Lee provided a safety vehicle throughout the event in case of an incident.
The company, located in Wahiawa on Oahu, became aware of impoverished conditions of homeless children on the west coast of Hawaii in May. The West coast of Oahu, primarily the Waianae region, consists of a 20-mile length of the Farrington Highway, where the sea meets sheer mountain faces and sparsely pocketed housing. Dotted along the coastline are tent cities, makeshift structures and abandoned vehicles; where approximately 20,000 homeless people take shelter.
"I was disturbed by the severity of the conditions of homeless youth in the region," said Moss, a father of five. "After exploring requirements and assessing the risks, we commenced training with the help of 1st Lt. Richards. My aim is to heighten awareness of homeless youth in Hawaii; and assist in support of providing food, health and education services.
"I chose July 4 as the day of the march to capitalize on the symbolism of hope, freedom and liberty," continued Moss, who is completing a three-year tenure with the U.S. Army as a cooperative project person to the Wide-Band Global Satellite Memorandum of Understanding between the governments of the United States and Australia. "The length of the march symbolizes the length of the Waianae coast, and the weight to be carried by each member, about 45 pounds, symbolizes the average weight of a healthy 7 year old. We conducted the march from midnight to sunrise to symbolize a new day."
Project Hawaii, a not-for-profit organization in the Waianae area and also on the "Big Island" of Hawaii, aims to break the poverty cycle of affected children and offer hope through support programs, medical and hygiene assistance, and in the provision of education services. The organization is completely reliant on charity, fund-raising and donations from the public. Project Hawaii completes back-to-school programs; provides assistance in the form of food and clothing; and also hosts summer camps and teen mentoring programs.
"I am overjoyed by Delta Company's efforts," said Magin Patrick, Project Hawaii's director. "I proudly informed children and their families of what had occurred. "
A total of $2,040 was raised for the organization mainly through campaigning within the company and with the help of social media. The check was presented to Project Hawaii July 7 by Moss, Richards and Potts-Szoke.
The effort is commensurate with other fundraising activities conducted by the company, who regularly raise money to provide a positive impact on the community. Other notable efforts to support Army Community Services events include: assisting elementary schools; engaging with USO Hawaii; fundraising for the Walk for Autism; and, for the Women's sex abuse treatment center -- a Sexual Harassment and Awareness Response Program initiative. Family Readiness Group fund-raising activities to support the families of Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the company are also regularly held and realize a completely integrated team.


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Man charged in Sunday shooting on Maides Avenue
Published: Thursday, May 8, 2014 at 9:52 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, May 8, 2014 at 9:52 a.m.
Wilmington | Carl Antonio Scott, who was arrested Monday on drug charges, has been charged in a Sunday shooting, according to the Wilmington Police Department.
Scott was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or seriously injure and possession of a firearm by a felon in relation to a shooting in the 500 block of Maides Avenue, said Linda Rawley, a WPD spokeswoman.
Darryl Taylor, 33, was taken to New Hanover Regional Medical Center shortly after 5 p.m. Sunday with wounds in his throat and chest. His wounds are not believed to be life-threatening.
Scott was also charged Monday with 28 counts of trafficking heroin, six counts of possession with intent to sell or deliver heroin, maintaining a dwelling or vehicle for the manufacture or sale of drugs, six counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, simple possession of marijuana, possession of firearm by a convicted felon and conspiracy to traffic heroin.
Scott is in New Hanover County jail with a total bail set at about $5.6 million.
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Confronting Speech Delays Without Family Support
Dear Amy,
Last week, my daughter was diagnosed with a speech delay. She's nearly 21 months old and has a grand total of four "words" (all animal noises). Her receptive language is fine–she understands everything we say–and they found her right on track or advanced for her age on all the other developmental indicators they looked at. For a while I had also been privately concerned about some sort of sensory processing issue, as she wouldn't touch or walk on sand or grass, or eat anything smooth, but in the past couple of months she seems to have gotten over that. I was not surprised when the therapists conducting the evaluation told me there was a delay (it's 50%, meaning she has the expressive language skills of a child half her age), and in fact I was glad to hear it. Her lack of spoken language (she has about 70 signs) is frustrating for all of us, and now she qualifies for free services to help her (weekly individual therapy, for the time being). What's bad about that?
Well, it apparently is bad because means that I am an overzealous parent who will not acknowledge the complete perfection of my mother-in-law's only grandchild. I knew she thought that going for the evaluation was silly, but she asked to be called when we knew what was going to happen. Now there are lots of comments (many directed to the baby while I am nearby) about how she'll talk when she's ready and surprise us all and there's nothing wrong. She keeps questioning me about the evaluation (don't they know the baby uses sign language to communicate? don't they realize that kids that reach the physical milestones relatively early are sometimes a little later on verbal skills?) and telling me about other children she knows who didn't talk until they were three! Four, even! And look, now they are at Harvard Law! Or finding the cure for cancer! Seriously, more than once this weekend I've wanted to say, "Yeah, I mean, look at us early talkers. We just grow up to be housewives." Luckily we only see my husband's parents once a month, and I can avoid the phone calls (it just happened that this month's visit fell the weekend immediately after our evaluation and diagnosis). I am trying to be as patient as I can, but it's just so frustrating to feel this disapproval.
It's not the first time my mother-in-law has expressed her dislike of how we do things. I'm still nursing and co-sleeping with my toddler, I quit my job to stay home when she was born, and I even use cloth diapers. Clearly I am just a crazy hippie, right? But those are all parenting choices, things that work for us (and that I know are not for everyone), and if she doesn't like it, it doesn't particularly bother me. But this disapproval stings, because this is really about my baby's well-being, you know? This is about seeing how my child is held back in her interactions with people, and finding a way to help her along. When our pediatrician gave us the referral to Early Start at the 18-month check-up, she told us that she wasn't particularly concerned about the baby's level of speech now, but that it would be better to get things checked out now than wait until she was two and still not talking, and then have to deal with the wait to get an evaluation and then set up with services and everything. So I feel that we are being proactive and trying to help our daughter, and I'm being frowned on for that.
(I feel I should also note here that my husband also wants to go ahead with the therapy but isn't taking his mom's displeasure as personally as I am.)
I'm sorry.This has gotten terribly long. I guess I don't even really know what my question for you is here. I suppose I'm simply looking for support from someone who has dealt with a speech delay and had to explain things to family members.
First of all, for what little it's worth, I think you're doing a wonderful thing for your daughter, and I'm confident it's exactly the right thing for her. Honestly, your path to Early Intervention sounds a lot like ours — initial concerns at 18 months, referral for services and evaluation at 21 months. My son's delay was not as pronounced as your daughter's (he was more like 25% delayed for expressive since he had a few simple nouns), but the sensory issues were pretty obvious, and he didn't have any sign language at the time. All told, pretty similar tales, so I feel pretty good at promising you a happy ending here. Speech therapy will be GREAT and once you get out of the interminable limbo of WAITING for speech therapy to begin, your confidence in your decision will be constantly boosted by positive results, and your mother-in-law's words will bounce off you much easier, because seriously. There's no reason to defend what's obviously working for your daughter.
But you aren't at that point yet, and I remember being where you are, stuck in that hand-wringing No Man's Land before services actually start and IT IS HARD. Confronting these problems is HARD. Admitting that your child isn't a perfect, incredibly-advanced genius is HARD. And that's where your mother-in-law's "disapproval" lies. She just isn't there yet. She can't (or won't) see that a problem exists. Partially because speech therapy just wasn't given to toddlers back when she was raising her children (and just talk to any mother who has had to argue with grandparents about newborns not needing bottles of water anymore and that THEY MUST SLEEP ON THEIR BACKS, and you'll know that these old parenting techniques are hard for previous generations to shake). And partially, perhaps, because she sees shades of one of her children in your daughter. A child who maybe would have benefitted from early therapy, but instead just had to wait and "catch up" at their own pace.
(Fast-forward 30 years or so, and imagine your daughter looking up at you over her own baby and telling you that nursing into toddlerhood has been proven to cause such and such problem, or cloth diapers have been banned because of such and such other problem, or that she's putting her baby in daycare because she's been told it's essential for her immune system and social development, or…SOMETHNG. Imagine being told that a decision you made out of love and total confidence that it was the right way to do things was absolutely wrong, according to modern medical advice.)
I noticed this sort of thing from my own family — who were, really, very supportive for the most part. But they still did cling to the stories about who didn't talk until he was three and who just outgrew their stutter one day. I think they meant them as a form of comfort to us, but it IS easy to read as disapproval or as judgement of overly neurotic modern parenting where every tantrum gets slapped with a neurological diagnosis.
I definitely noticed this sort of thing from comments on my website. People would openly JUDGE US for getting our son the help that his doctor and our county agreed he needed, and would tell me straight up that I was being ridiculous and pushy and you know, if I just turned off the TV for a few minutes a day or read him a damn book occasionally he'd be JUST FINE. It was often very easy to read through the lines and see a parent defensively defending THEIR parenting choice to ignore a delay, desperate to find a way to blame ME for Noah's problems, to assure themselves that my kid was autistic or I was just a bad mother or a crazy drama queen.
Luckily, these people were far and few between, and were easily outnumbered by the parents who DID tackle their children's problems head-on and were there to testify that it was the best decision they ever made. It would have been harder, I think, if the judgey "OH CALM THE EFF DOWN" people had my home phone number like your mother-in-law does, but I advise you to take her comments just as seriously as you would take comments from the anonymous online peanut gallery.
And hey, tackling Noah's problems head-on and pursue speech therapy for him was probably the best decision we ever made. I'm confident your daughter will benefit greatly from services and will enjoy them, and you'll be amazed at the progress you'll see after just a few months. And when that happens, your mother-in-law's comments will go from empty chatter (yes, yes, so-and-so didn't talk until he was four, but he also likes Vaseline on toast, so…) to something you can just tune out completely, because your choice — your overreactive, neurotic choice! — will prove to be the right one. It will, because it is. You know your daughter, you know what's best, you know the success rates for tackling delays before the age of three, you know it's better to swallow your pride and ask for the help she needs.
You know all of this, you do. I don't need to sit here and type all the possible justifications you can use on your mother-in-law. You don't need to sit there and argue with her and attempt to change her mind. This is YOUR daughter, your decision. It's wonderful — WONDERFUL — that your husband is on-board with you (trust me, I've gotten emails from mothers who are COMPLETELY alone in this, with partners who refuse to acknowledge obvious problems and give the exact same sound bites as your mother about EINSTEIN DIDN'T TALK UNTIL HE WAS THREEEEE). (And look, Einstein had a LOT of problems growing up, genius aside. Personally I'd be JUST FINE with my son not having that much in common with Einstein.)
Let your husband deal with his mother as much as possible, change the subject when she brings it up with you, cut her off with a curt statement about how you simply don't see the POINT in NOT pursuing the FREE FREAKING THERAPY — it's a nice teacher coming over with TOYS, for God's sake, not strapping the kid to a chair and showing them flashcards all Clockwork-Orange style — because if it MIGHT help, why not? It's certainly not going to hurt her. The end.
You might never change your mother-in-law's mind. She might still believe that any success your daughter achieves in therapy would have "just happened" anyway. (We get that too.) But it does get easier to ignore. Try to recognize that her judgement says much more about her than you. It really isn't about you, or even about your daughter. She is not open-minded or intuitive enough to see and accept the truth about your daughter and what she needs, but you are, thank goodness, and since YOU are the parent here, that's all. That. Matters. Also. The. End.
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15 Responses to "Confronting Speech Delays Without Family Support"
When we started pursuing evaluation and therapy (speech and occupational) for our son, my in-laws had a similar reaction, because they thought their grandson was perfect as he was. Luckily, they were not super pushy and took it well when I finally said, "well, we're concerned and this is what we're doing." Now, 18 months later, they have said to me on multiple occasions that the therapy has brought amazing changes and they're so glad we did it.
Which is a way of saying, "What Amalah said."
foodmomiac Oct 03 at 4:38 pm Reply
When Max was speech delayed, we heard that ALL the time. "Oh, I didn't speak until I was 3." "Oh, Michael's dad didn't speak until he was 4 and his dad FORCED him to!" "It's just genetic!"
Turns out that Max had a hearing problem, which we would have NEVER known had we not pursued the speech therapy. Hang in there – you're doing the right thing!!!
Diana Oct 03 at 6:15 pm Reply
When my MIL and I disagree about baby matters, I try to stick to my assigned talking points until I can change the topic. Which in this case would be a combo of: can't hurt, it's free, and my daughter has SO much fun at the sessions. With as rapid as possible switch to – how about them Red Sox (or whatever topic you know she can talk about endlessly).
Kaye Oct 03 at 6:20 pm Reply
I didn't talk much as a very small child due to a stuttering problem that only became more pronounced as I got older. I started speech therapy in the public schools when I was six. By the time I was 11 (and switched to private school, which incidentally did not have speech therapy available) I had learned exercises and techniques to working through the stutter which has drastically improved. Over the next year, it disappeared completely, and five years after that, I went to state on our school's speech and debate team, speaking dozens of times in front of roomfuls of people–without a trace of a stutter. Stuttering is hereditary in my family (my grandma has it) and we are a study in contrasts of what a difference speech therapy can make.
My son didn't say a thing at 1 year… no animal sounds, no words, almost no babbling. Our pediatrician said, "Why not start the evaluation process? He's probably going to need therapy, so why not start early?"
We started therapy when he was about 13.5 months old. Now, at just 16 months… he makes tons of animal noises and says more than 20 words. I think we can confidently say SPEECH THERAPY WORKS!
Even though some relatives rolled their eyes and wondered why a BABY needed this service, they can't argue with the results, can they?
Good luck!
My daughter doesn't have speech delays, but she has "lazy eye" and food allergies. There are always people who will judge. When Lucy got glasses, people had the gall to ask, "isn't that making her eyes worse?" or "can't she just do eye exercises?" She ended up getting surgery to correct the lazy eye and it took me awhile to get over the myriad voices asking if I was doing this for "vanity" reasons. After the surgery (at age 4), we couldn't be happier and her ability to run and play actually improved (she crawled and walked late). Turns out we–and our doctors–did know what the heck we were doing. The point is, there is always someone who will judge and blame. All the best with your mother-in-law, and your son.
Molly Oct 05 at 9:49 am Reply
I could have written your post too! My older son had gross and fine motor skill delays and a severe stutter. At age 3 he was in PT, OT, and speech. My in-laws and probably a lot of our friends thought we were crazy since he was very smart and "looked" fine. Until we had him evaluated and he was 50% delayed in gross and fine motor skills, and his stutter was so terrible that he would cry when speaking. "Mama, help me talk!" He is in 3rd grade now and bears no trace of any of these problems, and my husband and I are grateful every day for the amazing professionals who helped him catch up. My in-laws as well were extremely disapproving that we were sullying the supposed perfection of their grandchild. Great-grandma even laughed at him stuttering which broke his little heart. Not helpful.
Which brings us to #2, who would not eat as a toddler and preschooler. "When he's hungry, he'll eat!" was a common refrain. From my own mother too – and our pediatrician. Just relax and leave him alone. As he got skinnier and skinnier and his behavior got worse and worse. And his belly began to distend like a starving child. Finally I forced my dr. to run tests and turns out? He has celiac disease and he was, quite literally, starving. Now he has major anxiety about eating- who wouldn't if every bite made you sick? and he still won't eat more than 4 or 5 foods. All a long-winded and poorly written way to say that YOU know you are doing the right thing for your kid and that is all that matters. Tell them all to go f themselves and wait and see what an amazing difference the therapy will make for your kid.
Best of luck.
Jessica Oct 05 at 10:41 am Reply
I think Amalah is (as always) right on. I'd stick with saying, "it is free and can't hurt" to her and if she continues and it really bothers you, I don't see an issue with saying, "hey, look… this is hard for all of us, and yeah, some kids are late talkers but this is something we are concerned with and I'd appreciate your support" or something like that. I think most people would get the freaking hint!
Good luck. You are doing the right thing. Parenting is all about choices – to nurse or not to nurse, to co-sleep or not, to confront reality or not – and it's up to individual parents to make those choices. You guys are doing great
Luckily, we did have family support to pursue my son's speech delay; what we didn't have was "enough" of a delay to qualify for New York City services, although my son was 20 months and had no spoken words and only two or three consonant sounds, period. (He had no other delays, which would have guaranteed the services.)
I could communicate with him fine, because I knew the 200 signs he used. But what about the rest of the universe? And the excessive drooling and low facial muscle tone? We were told by the Early Intervention people to re-evaluate in 4 to 6 months, to which I said AS IF I am going to wait that long (the speech pathologist who did the eval was certain he'd need therapy, and lots of it) and got him a space at a well-regarded university speech clinic–almost as much as a bargain as EI, at $150 per semester.
After a semester's worth of twice weekly therapy, he had just four words and animal sounds, plus more consonants. But then we got our fairy tale ending and over the summer things just exploded, and now (at 2.5 yo) we've got pretty typical 2 year old speech. (Later in the summer we also did 8 weeks of private therapy, which was $$$ but helped too.)
This is my very long-winded way of telling Elizabeth that you are absolutely within your rights to play Mama Bear and protect the best interests of your daughter. If you can share some of the "blame" with a trusted pediatrician, even better. And I wish your daughter and your husband and you the very best on your speech therapy journey; don't be discouraged if it goes slowly at the beginning!
LGraves65 Oct 06 at 4:57 pm Reply
Dear Elizabeth,
You did exactly the right thing, and your MIL can just sack up and deal. Because in OUR family, I have a 9-year-old nephew with untreated speech defects because his dad (my husband's brother) and my MIL kept telling my then-SIL that, "Oh, there's nothing wrong with him," and "We understand him just fine."
He has a tongue-tie that has never been clipped, and a tongue/palate malformation that has never been fixed. He sounds like he's talking around a mouth full of marbles, poor kid. It's almost child abuse what they've done to him.
Lara Oct 06 at 7:40 pm Reply
My son was diagnosed at his 2 year checkup with a 50% speech delay. We tried speech therapy for months, and for us, it did not help a bit. I think it was more frustrating for him and he refused to talk even more. After a few months, I quit taking him but I continued to use the tips that I learned from the therapist and now, at 3 years old, he can say whatever he wants. AND I frequently get comments on what a huge vocabulary he has. Not saying that speech therapy isn't helpful for everyone, but for us it wasn't.
Hang in there.
Jenny A Oct 07 at 9:12 pm Reply
I had speech problems with the "R" until my son was almost 3 (I was 31 at the time)
I live in Peru and speak spanish so it's a Huge deal not to be able to say words with "R". In school and college I never wanted to speak in public because I was embarrased, my friends undestood me, but people who didn't knew me weren't as supportive.
When everybody (family, friends, including the doctor who had to give me the reference for free ST) told me that he was too litle and would learn with time I said: "look at me, I've waited 30 years and can't speak well" 😀 He gave me the reference.
Now 3 years later my son speaks perfect and I've learn to speak with him, ST is amazing, you just need to practice DAYLY (the therapist told me WE had to practice the exercises 3 times a day, easier said than done when you are an adult).
I feel like I could have written your question. My son had 1 word at 1 – which raised the pedi's flag – we started the eval process – where we found out he had a fine motor delay, which we got weekly therapy for. At 2 he graduated from OT work and since he had about 10 words then, said let's go for the full speech eval. Since he was delayed we started speech for 7 months – and now at 3 he talks like a champ. When I started this process I my family said I was being a crazy-overprotective-hypocondract mom….my family. Needless to say, I was frusrated at their lack of support. I felt like the therapy sessions taught me as much as they taught him.
You are doing the right thing for your sweet girl.
Jenni Apr 13 at 3:13 am Reply
I am grateful to all the comments on this page. While we discovered my son's delay earlier than you (12 months), he's now 18 months and still hasn't received therapy (we moved because of the military right before we got to start, then at the new base the ONLY <3 ST got sick right before we got to start). While my husband and I agree on the course of action, our families do not. They think "he'll talk when he's ready" and "some babies just talk later than others" and if I hear "Einstein didn't talk until he was 3" one more time I might have to punch someone. My favorite is them blaming me for teaching him sign language. They're convinced it's why he isn't talking. So today I'm sending e-mails to both Grandmas (the main culprits) about how signing HELPS language development, and DOES NOT hinder it! Sheesh, like I'd purposely do something to delay my kid. It's really nice to hear other people going through the exact same things.
Becky Worthman May 09 at 1:41 am Reply
I could have written this myself! Except for the MIL, replace with other family (My husband's parents are both deceased). My girl signs but doesn't talk and I want to get started with Early Intervention. (I also cosleep and cloth diaper.) I love you thanks for asking your question, so I can get this answer, because I was becoming filled with self-doubt instead of your approach which was to find support. Good idea! Thanks again!


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Good afternoon, everyone. We're pleased to host this conference call regarding the company's fourth quarter fiscal 2008 results which were issued this afternoon. Joining me today is Sandy Cochran, our Chief Executive Officer and Terry Finley, our President of our Merchandising Group.
Before we begin I'd like to remind everyone that management's comments in this conference call, which are not based on historical facts, are forward-looking statements. It should be noted that the company's future results may differ materially from those anticipated and discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those described in periodic reports filed with the SEC.
I'd like to begin this afternoon with a discussion of our financial performance for the fourth quarter and then I'll turn the call over to Sandy for a discussion of our current business trends.
Our net sales were $168.3 million for the quarter, and $535.1 million for the full year ended February 2, 2008. Excluding the impact of the extra week and additional income from gift card breakage in prior years recognized during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2007, net sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008 increased 3% and comparable store sales decreased 1.6%. For the full year, net sales increased 5.1% and comparable store sales increased 1.4% when compared with the same 52-week period in fiscal 2007.
Two unrelated events were primarily responsible for increasing our total net sales in the 2007 fourth quarter and fiscal year when compared to 2008. First, the 2007 fourth quarter and fiscal year each included one more week than the 2008 fourth quarter and fiscal year. This additional week produced $9 million in net sales. Also during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2007, we recognized additional sales of $2.2 million related to gift card breakage from prior years.
At quarter end, we were operating 208 total stores. During the quarter, we opened two superstores. We also closed three superstores and one Bookland.
Gross margin as a percent of sales for the fourth quarter was 32.7% compared to 33.6% on a comparable non-GAAP operating basis. The decrease as a percent to sales was primarily due to additional promotional activity and de-leveraging of our occupancy cost.
Operating expenses as a percent of sales for the fourth quarter increased slightly to 18.9% compared to 18.8% last year on a comparable non-GAAP operating basis. Our increase as a percent of sales is primarily due to the impact of lower comparable store sales and the de-leveraging of our selling, general and administrative expense.
Depreciation expense decreased $54,000 to $3.6 million from $3.7 million. We recorded interest expense in the fourth quarter of $606,000 compared to interest income of $124,000 in the prior year quarter due to higher average debt balances as a result of our special dividend and share repurchase program in fiscal 2008.
Our effective tax rate for the quarter was 37.6% versus 36.7% in the prior year. On a GAAP basis, net income for the fourth quarter was $11.9 million or $0.76 per diluted share compared with net income of $15.1 million or $0.90 per diluted share for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007.
On a comparable non-GAAP operating basis, net income for the fourth quarter was $11.9 million or $0.76 per diluted share compared with $13.1 million or $0.78 per diluted share in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007.
Now to provide you with some balance sheet highlights for the quarter, our cash balance at the end of year was $5.6 million compared to $34.1 million in the prior year. Inventory was $206.8 million compared to $200.3 million in the prior year. Net property plant and equipment was $53.5 million compared to $51.5 million in the prior year and our total debt was $34.9 million compared to $7.1 million in the prior year and our shareholders' equity was $99.1 million compared to $157 million in the prior year.
Our capital expenditures for the fourth quarter decreased to $4.4 million versus $4.6 million in the prior year quarter.
I'll now turn the call over to Sandy for a general business update.
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Thank you, Doug and thank you to everyone participating on the call today. I am pleased that we are able to deliver these solid earnings in spite of difficult economic conditions in the fourth quarter. Our focus on the fundamentals of the business contributed to these results.
While our core book business was down slightly, several categories performed well and provided solid comparable gains. Sales in the fiction category were very strong, driven throughout the holiday season by a great lineup of new commercial fiction from big name authors like James Patterson and Nicholas Sparks and the late January release of John Grisham's legal thriller The Appeal and Stephen King's latest work Duma Key provided additional momentum for that category at year end.
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