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a-Amino Alcohol Derivatives of Methyl P-Nitrophenyl Acetate
Date: 1947
Creator: Prindle, Hershel B.
Description: This thesis describes the synthesis of a series of dialkylaminoalkoxy derivatives of methyl p-nitrophenylacetate for testing as anti-histamine or hay fever drugs.
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Analysis of Acid Gas Emissions in the Combustion of the Binder Enhanced d-RDF by Ion Chromatography
Date: August 1988
Creator: Jen, Jen-Fon
Description: Waste-to-energy has become an attractive alternative to landfills. One concern in this development is the release of pollutants in the combustion process. The binder enhanced d-RDF pellets satisfy the requirements of environmental acceptance, chemical/biological stability, and being storeable. The acid gas emissions of combusting d-RDF pellets with sulfur-rich coal were analyzed by ion chromatography and decreased when d-RDF pellets were utilized. The results imply the possibility of using d-RDF pellets to substitute for sulfur-rich coal as fuel, and also substantiate the effectiveness of a binder, calcium hydroxide, in decreasing emissions of SOx. In order to perform the analysis of the combustion sample, sampling and sample pretreatment methods prior to the IC analysis and the first derivative detection mode in IC are investigated as well. At least two trapping reagents are necessary for collecting acid gases: one for hydrogen halides, and the other for NOx and SOx. Factors affecting the absorption of acid gases are studied, and the strength of an oxidizing agent is the main factor affecting the collection of NOx and SOx. The absorption preference series of acid gases are determined and the absorption models of acid gases in trapping reagents are derived from the analytical results. To prevent ...
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An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Computer Assisted Instruction in General Chemistry at an Urban University.
Date: May 2002
Creator: McGuffey, Angela
Description: The science-major General Chemistry sequence offered at the University of Houston has been investigated with respect to the effectiveness of recent incorporation of various levels of computer technology. As part of this investigation, questionnaire responses, student evaluations and grade averages and distributions from up to the last ten years have been analyzed and compared. Increased use of web-based material is both popular and effective, particularly with respect to providing extra information and supplemental questions. Instructor contact via e-mail is also well-received. Both uses of technology should be encouraged. In contrast, electronic classroom presentation is less popular. While initial use may lead to improved grades and retention, these levels decrease quickly, possibly due to a reduction in instructor spontaneity.
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The Analysis of Volatile Impurities in Air by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry
Date: May 1993
Creator: Talasek, Robert Thomas
Description: The determination of carbon monoxide is also possible by trapping CO on preconditioned molecular sieve and thermal desorption. Analysis in this case is performed by gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy, although the trapping technique is applicable to other suitable GC techniques.
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An Application of the Reformatsky Reaction to the Thiophene Series of Compounds
Date: 1949
Creator: Hicks, Howard A.
Description: In view of the increasing importance of thiophene derivatives as chemotherapeutic agents, it was considered of interest to apply the Reformatsky reaction to the synthesis of compounds containing the thiophene nucleus with the thought that these might serve as intermediates for further syntheses.
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Applications of Nanomanipulation Coupled to Nanospray Mass Spectrometry in Trace Fiber Analysis and Cellular Lipid Analysis.
Date: December 2008
Creator: Ledbetter, Nicole
Description: The novel instrumentation of nanomanipulation coupled to nanospray mass spectrometry and its applications are presented. The nanomanipulator has the resolution of 10nm step sizes allowing for specific fine movement used to probe and characterize objects of interest. Nanospray mass spectrometry only needs a minimum sample volume of 300nl and a minimum sample size of 300attograms to analyze an analyte making it the ideal instrument to couple to nanomanipulation. The nanomanipulator is mounted to an inverted microscope and consists of 4 nano-positioners; these nano-positioners hold end-effectors and other tools used for manipulation. This original coupling has been used to enhance the current abilities of cellular probing and trace fiber analysis. Experiments have been performed to demonstrate the functionality of this instrument and its capabilities. Histidine and caffeine have been sampled directly from single fibers and analyzed. Lipid bodies from cotton seeds have been sampled indirectly and analyzed. The few applications demonstrated are only the beginning of nanomanipulation coupled to nanospray mass spectrometry and the possible applications are numerous especially with the ability to design and fabricate new end-effectors with unique abilities. Future study will be done to further the applications in direct cellular probing including toxicology studies and organelle analysis of ...
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Applications of Single Reference Methods to Multi-Reference Problems
Date: May 2015
Creator: Jeffrey, Chris C.
Description: Density functional theory is an efficient and useful method of solving single-reference computational chemistry problems, however it struggles with multi-reference systems. Modifications have been developed in order to improve the capabilities of density functional theory. In this work, density functional theory has been successfully applied to solve multi-reference systems with large amounts of non-dynamical correlation by use of modifications. It has also been successfully applied for geometry optimizations for lanthanide trifluorides.
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An Approach Towards the Total Synthesis of Clonostachydiol
Date: August 1995
Creator: Maiti, Tushar B. (Tushar Baran)
Description: The syntheses of the unsymmetrical 14-membered bismacrolides have been reviewed. A total synthesis of clonostachydiol, the latest to join this family, has been attempted using trimethylsilyl acetylene as the builiding block and palladium catalyzed reactions for the formation of key bonds. The alkyne groups were introduced by Stille coupling of trimethylstannylethynyltrimethylsilane with an acid chloride for one fragment and by addition of lithiotrimethylsilyl acetylene to an aldehyde for the other. Lactic acid derivatives were chosen as starting materials for both fragments, thus introducing two of the chiral centers. The remaining stereocenters were introduced using stereoselective reductions of ketones.
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Aromatic Amino Acid Studies
Date: December 1970
Creator: Sullivan, Patrick Timothy
Description: Pyridine ring analogs of the aromatic amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine were synthesized and studied in microbiological and mammalian systems.
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The Ascorbic Acid Metabolism of Fifty College Women in the North Texas State Teachers College
Date: 1943
Creator: Harshbarger, Marjorie
Description: A study of the ascorbic acid metabolism of a group of fifty college women in the North Texas State Teachers College between the months of April and July, 1943.
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Attempted Synthesis of 5-Allyl-5-(2-Thienyl)-Barbituric Acid
Date: 1947
Creator: Skinner, Charles Gordon
Description: This thesis describes attempts to synthesize 5-allyl-5-(2-thienyl)-barbituric acid as an improved anticonvulsant.
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Attempted Synthesis of Dibarbituric Acid
Date: 1944
Creator: Pickard, Porter Louis
Description: This study is an attempted synthesis of dithienyl barbituric acid.
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The Attempted Synthesis of some Heterocyclic Sulfones
Date: 1949
Creator: Compton, William David
Description: This thesis describes two experiments: one related to antihistamines, and the other related to antitubercular compounds.
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Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation of 1,7- & 1,9-dibromopentacyclo[5.4.0.02,6.03,10.05,9]undecane-8,11-dione
Date: May 2004
Creator: Akinola, Adeniyi O.
Description: Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of 1,9-dibromopentacyclo[5.4.0.02,6.03,10.05,9]undecane-8,11-dione (1,9-dibromo-PCU-8,11-dione) was performed by using an excess amount of m-chloroperbenzoic acid (3 equivalents) and resulted in the formation of the corresponding monolactone. The reaction would not proceed to the dilactone stage. The structure of the reaction product was established unequivocally via single crystal X-ray diffraction. Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of 1,9-dibromo-PCU-8,11-dione using ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN) was also performed and afforded a mixture of lactones. Only one of these lactones, which also contained an alkene functionality, could be isolated and characterized. 1,7-dibromo-PCU-8,11-dione was also reacted with CAN, yielding the mono-lactone, which has also been characterized.
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Barbituric Acids as Anticonvulsants. IV. 5-Substituted-Mercapto Derivatives of 5-Phenylbarbituric Acids.
Date: 1951
Creator: Shahan, Howard Wayne
Description: This study involves compounds of the barbituric acid series are well known for their use as anesthetics and sedatives.
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Barbituric Acids. VI. 5-substituted-mercapto Derivatives of 5-ethylbarbituric Acid
Date: June 1954
Creator: Jeanes, Cecil Byron
Description: The reaction of 5-bromo-5-ethylbarbituric acid with mercaptan and pyridine in cold ether solution was studied and was found to be satisfactory for the preparation of the compounds reported in this work.
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Barbituric Acids. VII. 5-alkyl-derivatives of 5-ethoxy-barbituric Acid
Date: January 1955
Creator: Hyde, Harold Wayne
Description: A great deal of research has been devoted in recent years to the search for new drugs for the treatment of epilepsy and related convulsive disorders. This emphasis is occasioned by the fact that no one drug is effective for all patients, and also by the fact that the toxicity of a drug varies considerably from one patient to another. Among the most effective drugs are certain members of the hydantoin and barbituric acid series. For some time there has been in progress in this laboratory an investigation of members of these two series in which a hetro atom attached directly to the hetrocyclic nucleus is introduced into the side chain at position five of these two series.
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Barbituric Acids. VIII. 5-substituted-5-(1-pyrrolidyl)barbituric Acids
Date: 1957
Creator: Compton, Ross Davis
Description: The purpose of this investigation then was the preparation of a series of 5-substituted-5-(1-pyrrolidyl)barbituric acids in which R would consist of alkyl groups ranging in size from methyl to amyl, and other groups such as phenyl and benzyl. These compounds are to be tested elsewhere for hypnotic and anticonvulsant activity.
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Barbituric Acids. V. 5-substituted-mercapto Derivatives of 5-isoamylbarbituric Acid
Date: August 1952
Creator: Peterson, Paul Eugene
Description: Since no mention has been found in the literature of any 5-substituted mercapto-5-alkyl derivatives of barbituric acid, it was thought to be of interest to prepare a series of compounds containing sulfur attached directly to the barbituric acid nucleus. 5-substituted mercapto-5-isoamylbarbituric acids were chosen as representative of barbituric acids in which the alkyl group has a fairly high molecular weight.
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Base Effects on the Thermal Decomposition of Sec-butyllithium Solutions
Date: June 1966
Creator: Adams, George Michael
Description: The pyrolysis of sec-butyllithium in solution was studied in an attempt to understand the loss of stereo-specificity and the atypical kinetics that have been reported. Additionally, the effect of added lithium alkoxides was studied to determine their effects on the highly reactive sec-butyllithium substrate.
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Biological Inhibitors
Date: December 1971
Creator: Sargent, Dale Roger
Description: Four isosteric series of plant growth-regulating compounds were prepared. Using an Avena sativa coleptile assay system, derivatives in series I and IV inhibited segment elongation to a greater degree than did comparable derivatives in series II and III.
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Bis Ammonium Salts of Dialkylaminoalkoxypropionitriles
Date: August 1957
Creator: Woods, Roy Jack
Description: This paper concerns the preparation of some bis derivatives of dialkylaminoalkoxypropionitirles from trimethylene, hexamethylene, octomethylene, and decamethylene bromides. These compounds are to be tested for curariform activity and anesthetic values by Parke, Davis and Company.
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Bonding Studies in Group IV Substituted n,n-dimethylanilines
Date: December 1971
Creator: Drews, Michael James
Description: The purpose of the present work is to study the effects of the trimethylsilyl and trimethylgermyl substituents on the N,N-dimethylamino ring system. Both ground and excited state interactions were studied and their magnitudes determined. The experimental data were then used in conjunction with molecular orbital calculations to differentiate among, and determine the importance of, d-p bonding, hyperconjugation or polarization of the trimethylsilyl group on the ground and excited state bonding.
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Bonding Studies on Organolithium Compounds
Date: August 1968
Creator: Peyton, Gary
Description: This study is concerned with the nature of the relatively unusual bonding which occurs in organolithium compounds as a direct result of the oligomerization and possible explanations for that bonding.
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Squeeze Display is a full screen application that shows what is currently playing on your Squeezebox, it's primarily designed to act as a "Now Playing" screen on a tablet.
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The challengers believe the lead players' lawyers negotiated away compensation for the key complaint in the original lawsuit, a brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, because the science is still being developed.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Buffalo Bills running back LeSean McCoy is under investigation over the alleged assault of two off-duty police officers at a Philadelphia nightclub.
The incident occurred early Sunday after an argument broke out between McCoy's party and the officers over a bottle of champagne.
After one 40-year-old officer was knocked to the ground, he was punched, kicked and stomped multiple times on his body and head, police said Monday.
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The former district attorney who declined to arrest Bill Cosby on sex-crime charges a decade ago testified Tuesday that he believes his decision shields the comedian from ever being prosecuted in the case.
Former Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor took the stand in a bid by Cosby's lawyers to get the case against the TV star thrown out long before trial because of what they say is a non-prosecution agreement with Castor.
The current district attorney insists there is no record of any such promise.
PHILADELPHIA — Former players appealing the NFL's $1 billion plan to address concussion-linked injuries asked a court on Thursday to reject the settlement because it excludes what they call the signature brain disease of football.
Critics insist that any deal include future payments for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the brain decay found in dozens of former players after their deaths.
PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania pastor who broke church law by presiding over his son's same-sex wedding ceremony and then became an outspoken activist for gay rights can return to the pulpit after a United Methodist Church appeals panel on Tuesday overturned a decision to defrock him.
The nine-person panel ordered the church to restore Frank Schaefer's pastoral credentials, saying the jury that convicted him last year erred when fashioning his punishment. He was then transferred to the California conference of the church, effective July 1.
PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge is slowing down the proposed $765 million settlement of NFL concussion claims, questioning if there's enough money to cover 20,000 retired players. U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody denied preliminary approval of the plan on Tuesday because she's worried the money could run out sooner than expected. She also raised concerns that anyone who gets concussion damages from the NFL would be barred from suing the NCAA or other amateur football leagues.
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Jung Kyung Ho Receives a Torrent of Hate After Following Girls Generations Sooyoung on Instagram
The global is in point of fact filled with wonderful, superb people. yet for each and every one of them, there is an equivalent and contrary crazie.
They — the crazies — rolled out in complete force on Jung Kyung Ho's Instagram, tearing him a new one simply because he committed the heinous act of following Girls' Generation's Sooyoung — his female friend — on Instagram.
Jung Kyung Ho posted a photo on his Instagram on October 15 of him with Yoon Do Hyun, congratulating the veteran artist for his 20th anniversary at his concert. In serious contrast to the glad smiles in the photo, the comments to the correct were hateful and incredibly rude.
One commenter says, "Listen. I can't trust this. While you like your girlfriend so much, then be a little considerate. Have you learnt of the reality that Sooyoung is an idol? I don't notice what you're doing, when she is keeping quiet. enthusiasts most effective wish to see Sooyoung, so when other folks get started getting involved, they honestly hate it. You couldn't undergo to stay your mouth close even sooner than the dating news got here out, and now you're just doing whatever. Think a bit of about what ramifications your movements have and who bears the load of them. You're so frustrating."
Another commenter ironically says, "I actually don't curse and criticize individuals dating idols like every those crazy fans, and i suspect it's reasonably embarrassing to do so, but I have to mention anything to you." The commenter is going on to claim how Jung Kyung Ho is so thoughtless and that he should think so little of Sooyoung's fans, etc.
The list of equivalent comments goes on and on: "Following Sooyoung isn't respectful to Sooyoung's fans," "We truly don't like you," "You're so selfish," "Do you now not care because you're not famous?"
However, thankfully, interspersed between the entire hate are fans in full give a spice up to of Jung Kyung Ho and Sooyoung: "I think that's enough. Is it a crime for a guy to observe his girlfriend? i am hoping they get married! Stay in combination forever! I'm rooting for you," and "To Sooyoung's fans! If you need the individual you love to be happy, forestall announcing the ones things. Move Jung Kyung Ho!"
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These early animations have been digitized by Richard Balzer, offering an intriguing insight into the nineteenth century mind.
In 1829, Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau invented the Phenakistoscope, an early animation device.
1. It used a spinning disc attached vertically to a handle.
2. The user would spin the disc and look through the moving slits at the disc's reflection in a mirror.
3. The Phenakistoscope, otherwise known as the Phantascope, is commonly regarded by historians as the first "moving picture" machine.
4. And generally speaking, what Victorians wanted to see when they peered into these machines was mad, psychedelic stuff.
5. Like devils getting their heads chopped off.
6. Or children being swallowed by giant lampposts with gaping mouths.
7. Or hypnotic spinning discs.
8. Occasionally the animations depicted everyday things too, like horse riding.
9. And gymnastics.
10. And dancing.
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Dr. K was great, he was very thorough in explaining the procedure with me. Even though he preforms more invasive sugeries on the regular, I was happy that he took the time to make me feel like it was important bc it was imprtant to me, and he listened to any concerns that I had. I will mention that he had me laughing a lot. I would highly reccomend him!!!
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I highly recommend Dr. K. His work greatly exceeded my expectations, and I am well pleased. He performed a tummy tuck in August 2010, and the outcome is simply remarkable. My goal was to get rid of my "kangaroo pouch" and his excellent surgical skills left my tummy fat free, and rock hard. In addition, my love handles are gone as well! I truly have a waist again. Dr. K spent a gread deal of time ensuring that all of my questions were answered and my concerns were met. His staff is warm, friendly, and efficient. He has flexible office hours, and his fees are very reasonable. Having a tummy tuck has been an all-around positive experience and I wholeheartedly recommend Dr. K.
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The sale of his "winnower" had brought him five hundred francs, and these five hundred francs gave him courage to defy the world.
While the artisans fought on the barricades he was painting "The winnower."
The medium takes the head-axe, and then the two women take hold of the winnower with their free hands.
The payment to the winnower is at the rate of fourpence per five bushels.
The spirit was followed, by Gīlen, who bade the lad take hold of one side of the winnower, while he held the other.
These she placed on a winnower, which in turn was set on a rice-mortar.
As soon as the chaff was removed she emptied the rice into her basket and covered it with the winnower.
This accomplished, the grain is freed from chaff by tossing it in a winnower.
The winnower is raised a few inches above the ground, and the woman asks the child its name, then drops it.
So Millet painted his first wonderful peasant picture "The winnower," and just as the family were starving he sold it--for $100.
Old English windwian, from wind "air in motion, paring down," see wind (n.1). Cognate with Old Norse vinza, Old High German winton "to fan, winnow," Gothic diswinþjan "to throw (grain) apart," Latin vannus "winnowing fan."
Corn was winnowed, (1.) By being thrown up by a shovel against the wind. As a rule this was done in the evening or during the night, when the west wind from the sea was blowing, which was a moderate breeze and fitted for the purpose. The north wind was too strong, and the east wind came in gusts. (2.) By the use of a fan or van, by which the chaff was blown away (Ruth 3:2; Isa. 30:24; Jer. 4:11, 12; Matt. 3:12).


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I have a question: Did anyone buy the X3s without using Paypal and straight through Credit Card? Im not too familiar with paypal and am not sure about the handling fee if i used paypal with C.C.
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i asked this in the other longer thread:
what full-sized cans are in the direction the M3's are headed? i'm not sure how else to ask:
i really like what the M3s are doing to my non-classical music and i want more. what full-sized cans will give me a sound that improves on the M3 sound? i've only listened to HD580 and HD600s critically thus far...
Might as well sign in. I'm liking these homely little guys, especially with the small V-MODA vibe tips. Very nice. We'll see how they hold up (or down) to the Atrio M5 when that arrives...
You can purchase them for $57 shipped anywhere from Jaben: http://www.jaben.net/shopping.html
The guy who runs the shop (Uncle Wilson) is very friendly and I have yet to hear any complaints about him or his shop in Singapore.


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Foot Locker, Inc. (NYSE:FL)
Q4 2009 Earnings Call
March 4, 2010 9:00 am ET
Peter Brown – SVP & IR
Ken Hicks – President & CEO
Robert McHugh – SVP & CFO
John Zolidis - Buckingham Research Group
Robby Ohmes - BofA/Merrill Lynch
Chris Svezia - Susquehanna Financial
Bernard Sosnick – Gilford Securities
Sam Poser - Sterne Agee
Robert Samuels – Oppenheimer
Michael Vinetti - UBS
Bob Drbul - Barclays Capital
Tom Shaw – Stifel Nicolaus
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the fourth quarter 2009 earnings release conference call. (Operator Instructions) This conference may contain forward-looking statements that reflect management's current views on future events and financial performance.
These forward-looking statements are based on many assumptions and factors, including the effects of currency fluctuations, customer preferences, economic and market conditions worldwide, and other risks and uncertainties described in the company's press releases and SEC filings.
We refer you to Foot Locker Inc. most recently filed Form 10-K or Form 10-Q for a complete description of these factors. Any changes in such assumptions or factors could produce significantly different results and actual results may differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements.
If you have not received yesterday's release, it is available on the internet at www.prnewswire.com or www.footlocker-inc.com.
Please note that this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the call over to Mr. Peter Brown, Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, and Investor Relations. Mr. Brown, you may begin.
Peter Brown
Good morning. Overall our fourth quarter results were in line with our expectations going into the quarter which we discussed with you during our November conference call. They reflect some encouraging signs as we enter 2010.
On a GAAP basis our net income was $0.14 per share for the fourth quarter of 2009 versus a loss of $0.81 per share last year. Included in our results were charges of $0.10 per share this year and $1.06 last year that we highlighted in our press release and excluded in a non-GAAP comparison.
As this comparison shows on a non-GAAP basis we earned $0.24 per share this year versus $0.25 per share last year. During our prepared comments, we will refer to our financial results on a non-GAAP adjusted basis to help facilitate your analysis of our financial results.
Robert McHugh, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will begin our prepared remarks with a review of our financial results, including the charges that we have excluded in our non-GAAP adjusted comparison. Ken Hicks, our Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, will follow with an operational review and provide some color on current business initiatives. We will conclude the program with a question-and-answer session.
Our pre-tax income from continuing operations increased $2 million versus the same period last year. The primarily factors that contributed to this improvement were as follows. Our total sales increased 0.6%. Our gross margin rate which includes our occupancy expenses improved by 10 basis points, and our SG&A expenses in constant currency dollars declined $6 million.
Our cash flow for both the quarter and full year was also very encouraging and as a result we ended the year with our total cash position net of debt $185 million favorable to last year. I will now turn the call over to Robert McHugh.
Robert McHugh
Good morning, our fourth quarter adjusted earnings were at the high end of the range of our expectations going into the quarter and in line with the Wall Street consensus estimate. As Peter mentioned I will discuss both our quarterly results for this and last year on a non-GAAP adjusted basis, which excludes the adjustments detailed in our press release.
I will discuss each of these adjustments separately. Besides achieving our EPS target for the quarter we also had a number of other positive developments that we believe bode well for 2010. Our comp store sales improved fairly meaningfully on a sequential basis throughout the quarter.
In fact during the month of January our comp store sales increased high single-digits at our international operations and were flat at our US operations. Our merchandise margin rate for the quarter improved by 20 basis points, reflecting a lower markdown rate than last year. We remain diligent with our expense management benefiting from reductions in both our occupancy costs and SG&A expenses.
And our depreciation expense was below last year reflecting a lower asset base. All these factors taken together contributed to our $2 million pre-tax profit increase for the quarter. We also began to implement some important strategic initiatives during the fourth quarter in line with our new strategic plan that we will communicate next week.
For the fourth quarter comparable store sales by region and segment were as follows. Our combined US store operation decreased mid double-digits. Footlocker.com generated a small increase, Europe increased mid single-digits, Foot Locker Canada had a small decrease, and Foot Lock Asia Pacific decreased high single-digits.
By month comp store sales declined high single-digits in November, declined low single-digits in December, and increased low single-digits in January. We are very encouraged by the significant improvement in our sales trend in each of our US and international regions as we progressed throughout the quarter.
The sequential improvement in our sales trend continued through February with our comp store sales results up mid single-digits in both domestic and international markets, as well as out dot com business for the month. Also of note is that February is our most difficult monthly comparison versus last year.
Our fourth quarter gross margin rate improved by 10 basis points versus last year reflecting a 20 basis point improvement in our merchandise margin rate and a 10 basis point decline in our buying and occupancy rate. The improvement in our merchandise margin rate reflected a reduction in our markdown activity versus the fourth quarter of last year.
The markdown reduction is encouraging considering that we stepped up our promotional activity during the month of January to clear slow selling apparel as we began our transition to a new apparel strategy. We believe that in order for our new apparel strategy to be a success requires that we tighten our inventory aging standard.
To achieve this new aging standard at year end required that we record a $14 million inventory write-down during the fourth quarter. Our fourth quarter buying and occupancy expenses stated in constant currency dollars were $5 million below last year primarily reflecting the impact of closing 73 underproductive stores during the first three quarters of this year.
Our occupancy expenses will benefit further in 2010 from the closing of an additional 106 underperforming stores during the fourth quarter most of which were shuttered at the end of January. Fourth quarter SG&A expenses increased $6 million versus last year. The strengthening of foreign exchange rates versus the US dollar since last year effected our SG&A expense comparison negatively by $12 million.
On a constant currency basis our fourth quarter SG&A expenses decreased by $6 million. Expense reductions in store wages and other store expenses were partially offset by higher marketing expenditures, store closing costs, and pension expense. We will continue to work hard at identifying additional opportunities to reduce expenses strategically across each of our businesses.
At the same time maintaining the appearance of our stores, providing superior customer service, and investing prudently in marketing and branding strategies will not be compromised. Our fourth quarter SG&A expense rate was 22.3%, favorable to each of the first three quarters of the year.
Depreciation expense for the fourth quarter was $27 million or $6 million favorable to last year. The decrease in depreciation expense primarily reflects the asset impairment write-downs. Net interest expense for the fourth quarter was $2 million, $1 million higher than last year primarily reflecting lower interest rates on our short-term investments.
Our income tax provision for the fourth quarter was 32.8%, higher than last year's rate of 28.6% which included an income tax adjustment so that the full year tax rate was properly reflected. Therefore while our pre-tax profit was $2 million higher than last year our net income and EPS were flat with last year and $0.01 per share lower than last year respectively reflecting the higher income tax rate and a slightly higher diluted share count.
The income statement adjustments for the fourth quarter that we have excluded from non-GAAP comparison for 2009 are as follows. A $14 million inventory write-down as I just discussed, a $5 million restructuring charge related to our Lady Foot Locker organizational change, and costs associated with corporate staff reductions, an income tax benefit of $7 million related to the inventory write-down and restructuring charge, partially offset by a $4 million tax expense related to the write-down of Canadian deferred tax benefits due to a Canadian tax law change.
Last year's charges reflect the write-down of the value of certain underperforming assets at our US store operations in accordance with GAAP. Moving to our balance sheet our merchandise inventory position at the end of the fourth quarter was 7.4% lower than at the same time last year. On a constant currency basis our inventory was approximately 10% lower than at the end of last year and approximately 6% lower on a square foot basis.
Our cash flow for the year was very strong as we generated $468 million of positive cash flow from operations from which we invested $89 million in capital expenditures, funded $100 million to our pension fund, and paid $94 million in shareholder dividends. We made a $60 million contribution to our pension fund during the fourth quarter thereby increasing the funded status of our North American qualified plans on a GAAP basis to 87% from 72% at the end of last year.
At year end we had $589 million of cash and short-term investments and $138 million of long-term debt. Our cash position net of debt was $185 million favorable to the same time last year. As we look towards 2010 we are cautiously optimistic that our comp store sales will begin to increase as we refine our merchandise assortments and the external environment begins to improve.
As I said earlier our sales results in February are cause for cautious optimism. Regardless of these factors we will remain diligent in controlling the more controllable aspects of our business model including inventory, markdowns, operating expenses, and cash flow. With that as a prelude our outlook for the year versus our adjusted results for 2009 is as follows.
We expect our comp store sales to increase low single-digits and as I already indicated we are off to a good start based on our February results. We expect both our gross margin rate and our SG&A rates to improve slightly versus last year reflecting our more favorable inventory position, and continuing prudent expense management.
Our annual depreciation expense is expected to be approximately $10 million below 2009 depending of course on foreign exchange rates. Interest expense should be relatively flat with last year at approximately $10 million. And our income tax rate is expected to be approximately 37%. We are not providing EPS guidance for the year but do expect to produce a double-digit percentage increase.
For the full year we do not expect that foreign currency translation will have a meaningful impact on our EPS comparison with last year based on current exchange rates in Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
Obviously that outlook could change as foreign exchange rates fluctuate during the course of the year. By quarter we expect to generate EPS increases in each of the first, third, and fourth quarters of this year with the most meaningful increase during the fall season. Our second quarter comparison to the same period last year will be our most difficult due to the expense reductions reflected in the 2009 numbers.
Looking beyond 2010 we are encouraged that we are at an inflection point for a meaningful and sustainable longer term improvement in our financial results. I will now turn the program over to Ken Hicks.
Ken Hicks
Thanks Robert, and good morning. As announced last night we will be hosting an Investor Meeting at our corporate headquarters building next Tuesday morning at 10:00 am Eastern time. The purpose of the meeting is to review our new strategic plan and highlight the financial objectives that we will work hard to achieve over the next several years.
In the meantime during today's call my prepared comments are concentrated on discussing our fourth quarter results and the strategic to actions that we've already taken. I am pleased with the operational execution of our associates worldwide, which led to our improving financial performance and strong cash flow that we've posted for the quarter.
As already mentioned from a financial perspective we achieved what we expected to for the quarter. At the same time we also began to take some meaningful strategic steps each carefully designed to position our company better for the future. As we do this we are encouraged by our significant sales trend improvement as we progress through the quarter including a high single-digit increase at our international operations and a flat sales performance at our US operations in January.
I am also pleased to report that our sales have improved further in the month of February with mid single-digit comp store sales gains at our US, international, and dot com businesses. We also executed well from an operational standpoint. Our merchandise margin improved reflecting a lower markdown rate. Our occupancy costs were reduced as a result of closing underproductive stores and negotiating effectively with our landlords.
Our SG&A expenses were reduced by negotiating aggressively with our vendors. Our depreciation expenses were below last year due to lower fixed asset base. And we generated strong cash flow reflecting the impact of our expense initiatives, improved working capital management, and lower capital spending.
As a result we ended the year at a very strong cash position and our inventories are positioned appropriately for 2010 due to the actions we took during the fourth quarter including the steps on inventory aging. In the US our athletic footwear sales declined low single-digits, where athletic apparel and accessories declined double-digits.
We generated a small comp store gain in men's footwear, low single-digit decline in women's footwear and a mid single-digit decline in kid's footwear. During the fourth quarter we began to see two important fashion trends emerge that we believe bode well for our company. First the toning category contributed to the higher sales and is breathing new life into the women's business.
And second both men's and women's technical running shoes are quickly gaining momentum. We generated solid sales gains during the fourth quarter in the running category through various key styles from Nike, Asics, New Balance, and Puma. In the marquee basketball category we continued to post strong gains in Jordan Retros as well as Griffy, Kobi, and Lebron endorsed footwear.
Classic styles from Converse, Puma, and adidas sold well. As highlighted in the women's category the biggest buzz in the industry is the strength of the toning category which has contributed to the athletic look regaining its popularity. We generate strong sales gains during the fourth quarter with the Reebok Easy Tone style and Sketchers Shape-Ups.
We also generated strong sales gains in women's running shoes in both higher priced technical and mid priced value zones led by Asics, Nike, and New Balance. In total our average footwear selling prices in the US increased low to mid single-digits for the quarter reflecting our continuing mix shift towards higher priced footwear and a lower markdown rate.
Our apparel business in the US was very tough throughout the quarter even as we began to clear dated assortments. Clearly improving our apparel business is one of our significant sales and profit opportunities for our company and will be an important strategic objective that will be a focus for us over the next several years. We will discuss the initiatives behind this strategy next week.
Moving to our international businesses, our comp store sales in Europe increased mid single-digits during the fourth quarter in both footwear and apparel. During January our comp store sales in Europe accelerated to nearly double-digits with a strong gain across each of the major countries in which we operate.
By category, we had our strongest increases in basketball which is becoming a more significant piece of our business in Europe. We also generated some meaningful sales gains in skate styles as well as Nike, adidas, and LaCasse [Flim] Soles. Our most powerful category in Europe is running, our running sales were relatively stable during the fourth quarter. Our increase in apparel sales in Europe included branded tee's, outerwear, and licensed apparel.
Sales at Foot Locker Canada declined slightly for the quarter but like our business increased meaningfully during the month of January. Foot Locker Canada generated a small profit increase for the quarter by managing both its markdowns and operating expenses effectively. Our Asia Pacific business had a difficult fourth quarter with the comp store sales down high single-digits and profits below the fourth quarter of last year.
Its important to note that during the fourth quarter of 2008 consumers in Australia were provided with economic stimulus checks from the government that contributed to our comp store sales increasing mid teens at this division last year. Therefore the unfavorable comparison in Asia Pacific to the fourth quarter of 2008 was due to the strength of last year's results, not due to a slowdown in the tone of our business this year.
For the full year Foot Locker Asia Pacific posted record profits and a high single-digit division profit margin rate. The division profit of our core FootLocker.com Eastbay division was flat with last year with a slight comp store sales increase. The division profit margin rate of the core FootLocker.com Eastbay business remained very strong in the low teens.
Our sales results at CCS declined mid single-digits for the quarter. We continue to learn a great deal from our two test CCS stores that we opened earlier this year. The first in Santa Monica, California and the second in Garden State Plaza in New Jersey. Based on the results of these two stores, we decided to expand the test in 2010 adding an additional 10 stores.
We ended the year with 3,500 owned stores reflecting 38 new stores and 179 closed stores for the year. We also remodeled or relocated 188 stores this year. These projects were funded under our capital expenditure program that totaled $91 million for 2009. During 2010 we plan to open approximately 40 new stores, and close approximately 150 underperforming stores as we continue to improve the productivity of our store fleet.
Our capital expenditure plan for 2010 has been increased by approximately 20% from 2009 to a total of $110 million. This increase primarily reflects the funds required for several sales-driving technology projects including the continued rollout of a new POS system in Europe. As we enter 2010 there are encouraging signs that the external environment is beginning to emerge from the recessionary environment of the past few years.
As mentioned we've experienced a very meaningful sales trend improvement each month since last November with a positive comp store sales gain for the last 10 weeks. We believe the steps that we have already taken to improve our merchandise offerings have contributed to our stronger financial results.
A considerable amount of time has been devoted over the past several months by our management team to develop a new strategic plan for the company. This plan which we will communicate at our Investor Meeting next week is designed to result in a significant improvement in our financial performance beginning this year.
We will outline the company's strategic vision, near-term tactics, long-term strategic priorities, and new financial objectives. Due to limited space attendance at the meeting is by invitation only. However the meeting will be available live at 10:00 am Eastern time, to all interested parties from our website at www.footlocker-inc.com. In addition to this we also plan to be more active meeting with the investor community this year than we have in the past.
Robert already provided some color on our expectations for 2010 and the various levers that drive our profitability. As always we will strive for operational excellence by executing effectively at all levels of our organization. We will maintain an ongoing focus on controlling the controllables such as capital expenditures, working capital, inventory, and operating expenses.
At the same we will also pursue meaningful growth opportunities. As we look to increase shareholder value over the years ahead, we are building on a strong foundation. Our organization and people are strong. Our financial position is sound, our fixed and variable costs are being reduced, our merchandise inventory is current and inline with sales, and our infrastructure is solid.
We will now be happy to answer your questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from the line of John Zolidis - Buckingham Research Group
John Zolidis - Buckingham Research Group
Congratulations on seeing some improving results, I want to ask a question about the mid price strategy that had been discussed on some previous calls, you did disclose that your average selling price was up and there seemed to be more interest in some of the technical running shoes, are you still trying to diversify the product assortment and add in more mid price point offerings, is that something that's going on.
Ken Hicks
We'll talk more about that on Tuesday but the answer is we trade from mid to marquee level shoes and we will continue to offer a meaningful assortment at all levels and we have in the past focused our mid level shoes on clearance and we will make sure that we have a consistent offering at those price points as well as maintain our position as the place for marquee shoes.
Your next question comes from the line of Robby Ohmes - BofA/Merrill Lynch
Robby Ohmes - BofA/Merrill Lynch
Just a couple of questions on your outlook on the product side as you move through this year, I guess one is if you could comment on Nike's Fresh Air campaign that they've talked about a lot, what kind of role Foot Locker is expected to play in the Fresh Air campaign and does it build as you move into back to school and then maybe a follow-up question I think you called out toners and women's running, what do you think could be the driver to get the men's business comping positive or more positive as you move through back to school this year. Any kind of thoughts on how you're going to drive that would be great.
Ken Hicks
We feel very good about the product line up coming, we see a number of significant introductions this year that we think will have an impact. We work very closely with Nike and we feel that we have a strong program with them on Air going forward something that we will announce later this spring. I think you'll feel its very exciting and will keep that program strong and vibrant.
And we'll go into back to school which as you know is an important selling period for us. On the toners we're very enthusiastic about that business, obviously its performing well. We continue to see new product coming and the men's product is really just now hitting and I think again there's some new introductions this spring that will help make that a more viable business in the men's as it is in the women's.
Robby Ohmes - BofA/Merrill Lynch
And just to clarify some of the introductions, do you feel like you're, the exclusives that you're going to be getting with Nike are as strong or maybe stronger than they were last year. How does that look.
Ken Hicks
We have a tremendous relationship with Nike and I think that will continue and we will have product that will drive traffic into Foot Locker.
Your next question comes from the line of Chris Svezia - Susquehanna Financial
Chris Svezia - Susquehanna Financial
First I was wondering if you could just maybe elaborate as you saw the improving trends in February just maybe talk to what I know apparel is a long-term strategy but maybe tell us what's going on in apparel if you saw any improvement there as well.
Ken Hicks
We really focused recently on clearing our apparel, making sure that's it right but we've got some programs, we have a strong apparel business in Europe and we're going to be bringing some of those ideas to the United States, some of the branded. We also have brought in a new team that is really positioning us well in apparel in our US stores, so I think it's a little early to call but some of the new things that we're doing with regard to our performance, our branded apparel will help us.
And we're seeing the trend has improved so far this year but its still not to the level we want but as the team that we've got starts to kick in and more of that product hits the floor I think we'll see a benefit from the apparel business.
Chris Svezia - Susquehanna Financial
And then on store closures for one second, as you've progressed over the years and you look at areas or clusters of areas where you've closed stores, whether multiple concepts in one mall and you've closed one or two of them, can you just comment on what you've seen on those remaining stores in those malls or in those close proximities, just in terms of the comp performance and the trends in terms of what's happening as you've closed those stores in those areas.
Ken Hicks
Generally speaking what we hope for is that when you close a format in the mall that we do drive some of the business to the remaining formats in the mall. That's always the objective and we think we see some of that. We have for the most part seen pick ups but whenever you do close a store there's a transfer loss but what you expect to do is pick up in the expense benefits so there's a sales impact but what you're looking for is a positive expense and profit impact.
And we have seen that in most of the closures that we've had.
Chris Svezia - Susquehanna Financial
And the last question I have to what extent you can comment on this, but I visited your new run by Foot Locker store and I'm just curious in terms of maybe you want to save this for Tuesday of next week but any thoughts behind it, any color you could add, what you've seen. I know its been very, very early but just any thoughts behind that concept would be helpful.
Ken Hicks
Well thanks for visiting the store and hopefully you're excited about it as we are and we know that running is a trend that is performing well. Its also a significant part of the business that stayed reasonably stable through time. We feel that as a business running is an opportunity and we have learnings both from this idea and we'll determine whether or not it's appropriate or not and we'll talk more about that next week, but also we're having learnings for the Foot Locker chain as to what shoes and ideas work and we will apply those appropriately.
Your next question comes from the line of Bernard Sosnick – Gilford Securities
Bernard Sosnick – Gilford Securities
With regard to the online business which has been sluggish I'm sure you're going to be detailing this more during your discussions next week, but could you give us some indication as to whether or not there are technological investments that need to be made or other approaches that could help stimulate that side of the business.
Ken Hicks
We have made some significant changes in late fall to our websites and we've actually received some very high ratings from people who review websites and have seen a pick up in business. One of the key things to understand is our store banner websites are actually performing extremely well in the double-digit category and the Eastbay business had been tougher but its now improved and its also running positive but where we are really seeing gains are on the websites for each of our banners.
And that's a result of changes we've made to the websites to make them more interactive. We've added ratings to our websites. We have done the widescreen, easier checkout, its faster, more product shown, easier to navigate, and since we've done that we've seen some very good results and we feel optimistic about what's happening on dot com.
Your next question comes from the line of Sam Poser - Sterne Agee
Sam Poser - Sterne Agee
First of all you've got your inventories down over the last few years to quite a degree, how much lower reasonably with the store closures and stuff do you think you can get them, let's say from an average stock position.
Robert McHugh
We still think there's an opportunity in inventory really through improving the turns. There would also be a benefit from closing more stores obviously when we're going to close 150 stores but we still think the combination of both of those, we're going to be able to make a meaningful reduction in our inventories.
Sam Poser - Sterne Agee
What is turn goal let's say, your short-term goal.
Robert McHugh
We're going to talk about that next week.
Sam Poser - Sterne Agee
And then can you give us both the composition and the timing of your store closing plans.
Robert McHugh
For the most part most of the store closings occur at year end which is when most of our stores have their natural lease expiration.
Sam Poser - Sterne Agee
And then the composition, the different concepts.
Robert McHugh
We're working on those closures as we speak and quite frankly we haven't identified all of where they will occur and over the course of the year that will develop.
Sam Poser - Sterne Agee
Is this a conservative number or is this a number that could go higher.
Robert McHugh
It could go higher, it really depends on the environment out there and the store performance and what we think we can make of the stores that are out there that have the possibility for closure.
Sam Poser - Sterne Agee
What other, besides the store closures, what other expense saving opportunities do you see.
Robert McHugh
I think one of the areas we continue to make a lot of progress in is just we do a lot of e-procurement or online auctions of the basic goods and services we buy for store supplies and other company supplies and we think there's still opportunities there. We do still think there's some things we could do from a productivity standpoint in terms of taking advantage of some technologies.
We also have a very rigorous profit improvement program with the company where we encourage our associates to develop ideas and we reward them for that. Some of the things we've done in the past year is we developed some new reporting to help our stores reduce some of their freight and we've also had some good progress on procurement with store fixturing as well as store hours.
People talk a lot about cutting store payroll but that's something that's easy to say, hard to do particularly with the size of the fleet we have and we've done a lot of work in that area and saved significantly without harming customer service because first and foremost that's what our objective is, to continue to have the outstanding service that we have in the stores.
Ken Hicks
One of the things that we are investing in as part of the capital for next year is improved store scheduling and we feel that that will help us both in terms of the service that we're able to give but also the expense management of our labor.
Sam Poser - Sterne Agee
Can you restate what you said the men's, women's, and kid's businesses were in the US for the fourth quarter.
Ken Hicks
For the fourth quarter we had a small comp gain in men's, low single-digit in women's, decline in women's, and a mid single-digit decline in children's.
Sam Poser - Sterne Agee
And I would assume that Sketchers is going to get a nice part of the kick in to help your kid's business with all those sparkly shoes for girls.
Ken Hicks
Yes, Twinkle Toes is a good program.
Your next question comes from the line of Robert Samuels – Oppenheimer
Robert Samuels – Oppenheimer
Can you just help me understand a little bit the delta between the negative 2.3 comp and the total sales number and then also can you just talk about the recently announced partnership with the NBA and how you're thinking about differentiating the concepts from one another.
Robert McHugh
The delta between the positive and the negative was really FX.
Ken Hicks
And then the partnership with the NBA [inaudible] Champs, is really setting up a very strong position in each of our stores, each of our Champ stores to support the NBA in particular the NBA team of a particular city in each of the stores, so they'll have a dedicated presentation and if you go into the Champ stores you'll be able to notice with both the visual and the level of merchandise the strength of the offering for NBA apparel and accessories.
Robert Samuels – Oppenheimer
Are you planning on doing any other types of exclusive with any of the other divisions.
Ken Hicks
We are constantly working on new ideas that will help us, for example we've got a very strong position with Nike on the House of Hoops, and we've opened House of Hoops stores at the same time we have strong House of Hoops presentations in many of our Foot Locker stores. And we're looking at other opportunities like that with different vendors.
Your next question comes from the line of Michael Vinetti - UBS
Michael Vinetti - UBS
Congratulations on a nice quarter there, I was wondering if you could help us with a little bit color on what gives you confidence in the low single-digit comp outlook for the year. Obviously we've seen quite a few quarters of negative comps looking backwards, and if I look at the transcripts over the past few years there's been some instances where we've heard the outlook improve based on some emerging trends that you have seen, but I don't think you'd say that the results have hit the company's targets, or that the results that maybe you were optimistically hoping for, so I think it would really help us to get a little more color besides a few year of easy comparisons to help us get some confidence in that number.
Ken Hicks
Well a number of actions and we'll talk about them in more detail next week but when you look at first of all we are going to trade broader. We're stepping up our effort for example in the running category which is a category that is performing well as well as maintaining our strong position in basketball. We've seen a better performance with recent launches as we've continued to learn and understand what's worked well with the launches of marquee shoes.
There are some exciting trends, the whole toning trend is exciting and there are some new ideas and new technologies that are coming out from a number of our vendors such as Zig from Reebok and we've got some new ideas coming from Nike and several of our others. The apparel business, we are working very hard so that's not a drain on what we're doing and we're making a number of changes there to improve that.
Our international business continues to be strong. I've got to find some wood real quick and tap on that and then frankly when we, as we continue to close our poorer performing stores, that allows the rest of the fleet to move up. So those are just a few of the actions and we'll go into more detail next week and talk about other things that we're planning on doing that give us some optimism.
As well as the overall environment at some point its going to pick up. I'm not an economist. There are people in Washington that are a lot smarter on this than me and they have a better understanding but we are seeing in parts of the country that it is picking up. And so you say okay you've got all that stuff in and you've said that before does it really mean anything, well we've talked about the good start we had in February and that was our last comp plus month so we were up against a tougher month.
We had snow storms to beat the band, and we still had a good performance for the month. And because of the things that I mentioned earlier.
Michael Vinetti - UBS
It might be helpful next week if we could see maybe the delta between some of the stores you're closing and the stores you're keeping open as far as the run rate comps.
Ken Hicks
I can tell you that the one's we're closing are performing significantly worse than the one's we're leaving open. We won't go public with the delta but we're not closing our good performing stores.
Michael Vinetti - UBS
And just to hit on one point you brought up there, if you could talk a little bit about your early thoughts for the Lady Foot Locker brand specifically the trends there have been sluggish for a number of years and we've seen you accelerating the store closures there lately but then that's been called out by a lot of companies as one of the positive points in the industry right now, I'm curious do you feel like you're shrinking your exposure of that business at the right time and maybe you could just give us some color on that.
Ken Hicks
No, and again we'll talk more about that next week but we feel the women's business is a strong opportunity for us but its an opportunity for us both in terms of women's Foot Locker and Foot Locker. And so the question is you close the women's Foot Locker or consolidate it in with Foot Locker we've already started to see some significant benefits in our Foot Locker stores by that action and strengthening the Lady Foot Locker stores.
The expression we use is the cannons are now turned out and not in, we're not competing with ourselves, we're competing with the competition and we're being much smarter about what we do with each of the banners within the mall and next week Dick Johnson is going to talk about how we're going to differentiate that Lady Foot Locker because that is different than just the Foot Locker and I think you'll see that we've got a good plan and that's why the question was asked earlier about are you targeting store closures.
We think we're at a good size with Lady Foot Locker overall, there will be some poorer performing stores that we will close but overall its about right for what we should be able to get us into a lot of the right places.
Michael Vinetti - UBS
Can you give us a little color on your decision about how you're closing stores at this point or maybe how that decision has changed and how you think about the hurdle rates for the stores, maybe how that's different than how you have closed stores in the past and how you're looking at that.
Robert McHugh
I don't think there's been any change at how we decide how we close stores, it really is as we've said before a case by case basis. We look at first of all what causes us to look at first of all is for the most part they're stores that are coming up for renewal or lease expiration and whether we want a renewal. So we look at that particular store, the prospects for that store in that mall, the prospects for that mall, how our other formats are performing in that mall and whether or not we think we would be better off closing it or not.
And then of course what kind of rent we would be looking at going forward in terms of the negotiation on a renewal we might be having with the landlord is a factor as well. So as I said its really a case by case and we just try to, its not objective to close a store if we can get the right kind of metrics. But we're not changing our hurdle rates.
Ken Hicks
And so we look at that financially and then we put that together with the competitive position in that market and in that mall and with the other stores, how much of it can we capture, how are we positioned in that particular market and we put all of those elements together and probably I guess the thing that's a little bit different is we are, as we look at those competitive factors and our positioning we're making sure that we have the opportunity to capture the most business possible and if closing the store allows us to do that, and the economics work out, or keeping a store open we determine what's the best and in a number of cases for example we've moved from one store to another location because it was a better location and closed a smaller location but wound up with a bigger Foot Locker store which is able to accommodate whatever other element we might have closed.
Your next question comes from the line of Bob Drbul - Barclays Capital
Bob Drbul - Barclays Capital
Can you talk a little bit how much is the toning category driving the comp improvement and then how sustainable do you think that trend is for the business and then on the 10 CCS stores for 2010 are those new stores or are those converted other Foot Locker owned or controlled stores that you're converting over.
Ken Hicks
On the toning the good news is that what we're seeing in women's, the women's business is fairly stable without toning because I ask that every week. I say okay what would the comp be without toning and its coming in flat to up slightly so that business has stabilized significantly without toning which gets to something that we're also using is while toning is a business now, its driving new traffic in and we are using that to sell other parts of the business, our running, our apparel, our accessories and so people are getting to know Lady Foot Locker again or Foot Locker and we're, its been a significant plus for us in helping to drive in traffic.
With regard to the sustainability there's new product coming out and new ideas and I think that will help sustain it for a period of time. The long-term sustainability quite frankly will depend on what women's behinds look like over a longer period of time, but right now I will tell you, I've been in a lot of stores recently watching people buy it, talking to them, understanding, they really like the product.
The number of women who have come back to buy a second or third pair of shoes is quite impressive because they feel that they're getting some results which makes me happy. With regard to CCS what we're doing with the 10 additional stores, they'll be spread across the country so we'll get a better feel for how that model works in different markets and they are for the most part new locations.
Your final question comes from the line of Tom Shaw – Stifel Nicolaus
Tom Shaw – Stifel Nicolaus
Just a little more detail maybe on February I'm curious can you just mention the weather but how much of an impact may that have been from not only a store closure type perspective but maybe how it maybe benefited the category.
Ken Hicks
I never let anybody be a weather man, I watch the evening news, and I can get the weather there so we did have some store closures, it did have an impact, but we were able to overcome that. It did not significantly impact our boot business because for the most part by February if they haven't bought a pair of boots, they're not going to buy them or they're buying our clearance boots and its, we're moving out of that, it's the same amount of clearance as we had last year.
So boots was not a significant impact for us. We feel good, the overall tone of the business across all the different categories of business across all the divisions was good and so while weather was a bit of a negative next year we'll look forward to picking up those days.
Tom Shaw – Stifel Nicolaus
On the gross margin guidance for kind of up slightly in 2010, can you just elaborate some of the pieces there, occupancy should continue to work in your favor, merchandise margins probably based on the initiatives you'll discuss next week should work, what other factors are in there that may be it tones down that guidance from what we might expect.
Robert McHugh
I don't think its toned down, we expect our margins to improve but I think we probably expect to see more improvement in the merchandise margin rate than perhaps the occupancy and buying side of that.
Tom Shaw – Stifel Nicolaus
The 40 new stores, a quarter of those are going to be CCS what should we expect the bulk of the remainder of that international.
Ken Hicks
Yes, and we'll talk more about that next week.
Peter Brown
I just want to thank everybody for their participation today and we look forward to telling you more next week. Thank you.
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