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Power Integrations Inc (POWI) Q2 2020 Earnings Call Transcript
POWI earnings call for the period ending June 30, 2020.
Jul 30, 2020 at 11:01PM
Power Integrations Inc (NASDAQ:POWI)
Jul 30, 2020, 4:30 p.m. ET
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. And welcome to the Power Integrations Second Quarter Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. [Operator Instructions]
I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Joe Shiffler, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.
Joe Shiffler -- Director of Investor Relations
Thanks, Stephen. Good afternoon, and thanks everyone for joining us. With me on the call today are Balu Balakrishnan, President and CEO of Power Integrations; and Sandeep Nayyar, our Chief Financial Officer. Our discussion today, including the Q&A session will include forward-looking statements denoted by words like will, would, believe, should, expect, outlook, forecast and similar expressions that look toward future events or performance.
Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or implied. Such risks and uncertainties are discussed in today's press release and in our most recent Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 7, 2020.
During this call, we will refer to financial measures not calculated according to generally accepted accounting principles. Non-GAAP measures exclude stock-based compensation expenses, amortization of acquisition related intangible assets and the tax effects of these items. A reconciliation of non-GAAP measures to our GAAP results is included in our press release.
Finally, this call is the property of Power Integrations and any recording or rebroadcast is expressly prohibited without the written consent of Power Integrations.
Now, I'll turn the call over to Balu.
Balu Balakrishnan -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Joe, and good afternoon. Second quarter revenues were $106.8 million in line with our guidance and up 4% year-over-year in spite of a challenging demand environment. The year-over-year growth was driven by communications and industrial categories. Industrial grew high single digits year-over-year and was our largest revenue category in the quarter at 35% of sales.
We saw a combination of the recovery and broad-based industrial applications as well as incremental growth across diverse range of verticals, where trends like home and building automation, electrification are creating opportunities for our products. On the automation side, we are seeing growth in USB wall outlets, smart meters, and other IoT applications such as network thermostats and door locks, where high reliability, compact size, low standby power consumption are critical factors.
Meanwhile, electrification is creating opportunities in applications like lawn equipment, vacuum cleaners, and personnel transportation such as scooters and e-bikes, where rechargeable batteries are replacing traditional power sources. Growth in these areas was offset somewhat by lower revenues from high-power due to softer demand in the energy exploration and a slowdown in infrastructure projects due to the pandemic. However, high power has its own attractive verticals with strong long-term growth prospects including renewable energy, long distance DC transmission, and electric transportation.
Our gate drivers are in use today in electric buses and locomotives and are in testing at several automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers for drivetrain and charging applications in next generation electric cars. Several of our Scale iDriver ICs are also automotive qualified as we have discussed on prior conference calls.
We are also aggressively pursuing low power opportunities in electric cost, which can contain as many as 10 power supplies to drive various subsystems from main high voltage battery. Our InnoSwitch 3 and LinkSwitch-TN2 ICs and our Qspeed diodes have been qualified for automotive use and we are building a pipeline of design opportunities that should begin to generate revenues in 2021.
Turning to the communications category. Revenues grew more than 20% year-over-year in Q2 driven by the continued adoption of fast chargers for mobile devices. We believe we are the leading supplier of power conversion ICs for smartphone chargers as our InnoSwitch products continue to win a sizable share of designs, spanning a wide range of power levels, form factors and customers, including both inbox and aftermarket designs.
We won more than a dozen new inbox designs in Q2 with power levels ranging from 15 watts to 50 watts. End-users are becoming increasingly aware of differences in charging speed and the OEMs are steadily rolling out new higher power charger models. We expect this trend to continue as 5G devices incorporate larger batteries to support increased consumption of medial and other power heavy functionality.
While inbox OEM chargers account for vast majority of the market today, aftermarket brands are proliferating rapidly, thanks to USB PD technology. These new designs commonly feature power levels as high as 65 watts and are capable of powering nearly any mobile device including notebooks. Many aftermarket chargers also include two or even three USB outputs to enable charging of multiple devices. Such designs dramatically increase our dollar content since we typically sell one chip for each USB port.
Our GaN-based InnoSwitch devices are providing -- proving successful in aftermarket chargers, thanks to their exceptional efficiency, which is crucial to achieving small form factors. Our GaN technology is also being adopted in fixed USB wall outlets installed alongside AC outlets. Because spaces behind the wall is limited, these power supplies must be extremely compact. Limited space also allows for very little heat dissipation, making efficiency a critical factor.
Standby consumption is also crucial since these devices are continuously connected to the AC mains and would otherwise cause a significant waste of electricity. Clearly, the charging ecosystem for mobile devices is changing rapidly and gaining in strategic importance, thanks to emerging technologies such as USB PD, GaN, and 5G and Power Integrations is extremely well positioned to benefit from and drive the continued evolution of the market.
Turning to the consumer category, revenues declined at a double-digit rate year-over-year in Q2, offsetting much of the growth in Communications and Industrial categories. Appliance sales have been severely impacted by the pandemic and this effect was magnified in Q2 by an inventory correction following strong shipments in the prior quarter. This is especially true in air conditioning, where sales fell more than half sequentially in what is typically a peak quarter for this application.
We expect consumer revenues to be roughly flat sequentially in Q3 with the inventory situation improving, but demand is still affected by the pandemic, as well as seasonality in air conditioning. Longer term, we expect healthy growth from consumer market driven by growing electronic content in appliances, increasing energy efficiency requirements, demand from the expanding middle class in emerging markets, and the adoption of our BridgeSwitch motor drive ICs in appliances using brushless DC motors.
We also expect GaN to play a significant role in consumer end market and have a number of designs in progress for TVs and appliances as well as notebook chargers and monitors and server standby power supplies in the Computing category. Overall, we remain cautious on the demand environment in light of the economic impact of the pandemic, but we are maintaining an elevated level of inventory to be prepared in the event of a sudden recovery in demand.
Considering the long shelf lives of our products and the fact that most of our products can be used in a variety of applications, particularly when kept in wafer form, we believe this is a prudent approach to the current situation. In Q3, we expect revenues to increase sequentially, driven by continued growth in fast-charging. At the midpoint of our revenue range, we would be up slightly on a year-over-year basis in Q3, and up about 8% for the first nine months of the year, which would put us on track to outperform the broader analog industry by a significant margin for the full year.
And now, I'll turn it over to Sandeep.
Sandeep Nayyar -- Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Balu, and good afternoon. As usual, I will focus my remarks, primarily on the non-GAAP results, which are reconciled to GAAP in our press release tables. Our Q2 results were on target with revenues of $106.8 million down 3% sequentially. Consumer revenues were down more than 25% sequentially with air conditioning and major appliances both down sharply reflecting weaker demand and an inventory correction as Balu noted.
All other revenue categories increased sequentially. Communications revenues were up more than 25% on strength in smartphone chargers as well as residential networking, driven by work-from-home. The computer category also benefited from work-from-home in addition to normal June quarter seasonality, increasing more than 25% sequentially with strength in desktops and monitors.
Industrial revenues were up low-single digits sequentially with increases coming from broad-based industrial applications as well as high-power battery operated tools and home automation, which includes IoT connected devices as well as USB charging receptacles. Revenue mix for the quarter was 35% industrial, 31% consumer, 28% communication, and 6% computer. That's a decrease of 10 percentage points in consumer from the prior quarter and an increase of 6 percentage points for communication. This shift resulted in lower gross margins with non-GAAP gross margin falling 150 basis points sequentially to 51.1% in line with our guidance.
Non-GAAP operating expenses were $34.7 million roughly flat on a sequential basis. Expenses were moderately below our expectation, driven partly by unanticipated credits and employment incentives in Asia related to the pandemic. Other income for the quarter was $1.5 million, down from prior quarter, due to the lower interest rate environment, which reduced income on cash and investments.
The non-GAAP effective tax rate for the quarter was just under 7% resulting in non-GAAP earnings of $0.66 per diluted share. Cash and investments on the balance sheet increased by about $23 million during the quarter driven by operating cash flow of $36.7 million. The strong Q2 cash flow was driven in part by a decline in accounts receivable due largely to the timing of collections.
Capital expenditures for the quarter were $10 million. We paid out $6.3 million in dividends, following the dividend increase we announced last quarter and used about $600,000 for share repurchases. The average price per share on the repurchases during the quarter was $82 and change.
Internal inventories rose by about $7 million during the quarter, and we had 178 days of inventory on hand at quarter end. We continue to earn on the side of the higher-than-normal inventories given the long shelf lives of our product and the uncertainty of supply and demand environment in light of the pandemic.
We also prefer to maintain a minimum level of activity at each of our foundries to help maintain capacity though we have slowed wafer starts in light of the weaker demand environment. I expect inventories to gradually begin declining, trending down in Q3 and to return to our target range by second half of 2021. Channel inventories fell slightly during the quarter ending June at 7.3 weeks, compared to 7.6 weeks in the prior quarter. Looking ahead to the third quarter, we expect revenues to be in the range of $115 million, plus or minus $5 million with a sequential increase driven mainly by the communication category, reflecting both seasonality and the ramp of new cellphone designs.
While communication should increase meaningfully as a percentage of revenue, the resulting gross margin pressure will be largely offset by cost improvements. As a result, I expect just a slight reduction in non-GAAP gross margin into a range of 50.5% to 51%. Non-GAAP operating expenses should tick-up after lower than expected result in Q2. Specifically, I expect non-GAAP opex of around $36 million for the September quarter. Thanks to reduced litigation spending and belt-tightening measures such as the reduced pace of hiring and savings on travel and events, we are on track for growth of roughly 2% this year in our non-GAAP opex. That is in spite of the fact we gave normal salary increases in April and have not reduced headcount in response to the pandemic.
Other income, which is driven mainly by interest income, will continue to trend down as higher earning securities rollover into lower rate instruments. Specifically, I expect other income to be around $1 million in Q3. The non-GAAP effective tax rate should remain around 7%. Finally, as noted in our press release, our Board has approved a two-for-one stock split in the form of a stock dividend with one share of common stock to be issued for each outstanding share.
The additional shares will be distributed on August 18 to stockholders of record as of August 14. Our quarterly cash dividend, which was $0.21 per share pre-split, will now be $0.11 per share equivalent to $0.22 on a pre-split basis. At this new level, our quarterly payout will have risen by almost 30% over the past three quarters.
Operator, please open up for questions.
[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Tore Svanberg of Stifel. Your line is open.
Tore Svanberg -- Stifel -- Analyst
Yes, thank you. First question for Balu. Balu, you talked a little bit more about automotive and it does sound like the automotive revenue is going to come in a little bit earlier, because I think in the past you've talked about being more 2022, but it sounds like you expect to get some revenues already next year.
Hi, Tore. Well, we will get a little bit of revenue from the low power products starting, I would say, next year we will get tiny revenue this year because we introduced the Qspeed diodes a couple of years ago and we'll get a traction of $1 million this year, but next year onwards we will see a gradual increase. But the real revenue, significant revenue won't happen till 2023 or 2024. When we get into the second generation drivetrains and chargers and on-board DC/DC converters and so on. So yes, we will get some revenue but it won't be significant in the next couple of years.
Very good. And moving onto Communications. You mentioned about a dozen new inbox design wins for fast-charging and I think you said the range was about 15 watt to 50 watt. Could you elaborate on the mix there? I mean is it toward one range or the other. And are the most of these phones 5G phones?
Well, it's a combination. I would say that the center of the -- center of gravity of the power is used to be around 20 watts, but some of them are going as high as 25 watts to 30 watts, it's kind of moving up and on top of that, the fast chargers are not only offered with the high-end phones, including the 5G phones, but they're also using them in medium and low-end phones, especially in China. In China they are really pushing toward that faster charging, higher power level and they're also expanding fast-charging to medium level and low levels phones.
Very good. Just one last question on the industrial, you mentioned high power taking a bit of a breather here. Do you have any visibility as to when that business could potentially start growing again.
So in terms of the infrastructure type projects like renewables and DC/DC -- sorry DC transmission lines and wind turbines and so on, but the wind is actually doing well. It's the solar that's a little bit right now. And DC transmission lines, it's just delayed. There is no -- the programs are still on, but they just seem to be delayed. So I think they will come back hopefully in the next few months. So in the long run nothing changes. High-power market is a very, very long-term market. The projects last many years. So we are not concerned about it. It's just a short-term pandemic driven softness.
Very good, thank you very much.
Thanks, Tore.
Your next question comes from the line of Ross Seymore of Deutsche Bank. Your line is open.
Ross Seymore -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst
Hi guys, thanks for letting me ask a question. I just wanted to follow up on the industrial side. For the third quarter guide, you gave the color for the comps would be up strongly, the consumers flat, what are you thinking about industrial from a sequential point of view. And if you said it in there and I missed it, I apologize.
I mean industrial is a little bit, basically flat. We don't see any significant change in industrial in Q3.
And then as I look at the business, how are you thinking the percentage of your inbox versus kind of accessories sold separately and the charger market will unfold over the next 6 months to 12 months. And does it really matter to you either way? Is there a difference in profitability or price because those two channels can be different in some ways?
Yeah, right now, I would say that the aftermarket type products are probably in the mid-single digit percentage, now that's due to the total inbox. So inbox basically dominates. But that is changing rapidly. We are seeing a lot more aftermarket design wins and the revenues are growing very quickly in that space. As far as the OEMs deciding to move the charger out of the box, I think it really varies a lot from OEM to OEM. For example, the OEMs in China are really using faster charging as a major selling point, and so they like to put it in box because [indecipherable] has a significantly higher power and capability.
But it's very possible that in the long run some of them, some of the OEMs may choose to not sell the charger with the box. In this case, the consumer has to either have a charger from their past division phone or they have to buy a new one. In the short term they have to buy a new one, because the older ones that are not the USB PD compatible, or they don't have the fast-charging, they can't charge fast. So we are optimistic that even if they go out of box, the attach rates will be reasonably good. And so, there are pluses and minuses. A number of units that will come down, obviously, if you go out of the box.
On the other hand, we will have exposure to the entire product line. For example, right now our attach rate is very small, because they are only on the high end, the faster chargers on the high-end phones. If the consumer has to make the decision, even the consumer who buys a lower end phone can't buy faster chargers or a higher power chargers for multiple reasons. Most of the lower end phones can't handle faster charging, they just don't come with it in box because of cost reasons. So we think that attachment rates could be significant, obviously not 100% but it is in the 10s of percent range, maybe 30%, 40% but it applies to the entire product line, not just the high end.
So that's the plus of it. The minus of course is that the overall unit volume is lower. So it's not clear to us exactly how it's going to impact us, because these higher power chargers are higher ASP and also some of them are multi-port, which means you get 2 times or 3 times the ASP. So it's -- I think that there are pluses and minuses, but this is something we've known for a long time. We have talked about it in the past. And so this is not a surprise to us and it's not clear how many will actually follow that path.
Thanks for the detailed answer there, Balu. One, I hope relatively quick one for Sandeep. On the gross margin side, incredibly impressive that the third quarter gross margin is not really going to change sequentially despite the mix. I know you said you're doing some cost cuts, some efficiency gains, etc. Any sort of color on, are those really sustainable. Just a little more color on how you're pulling that off on the gross margin would be great.
Yeah, it's going to be slightly down, right as I guided to 50.5% to 51%, it's slightly down because the impact of the communication sector is largely being offset and even in Q4, I think the mix will kind of be similar to what is in Q3. So I think the 50.5% to 51% non-GAAP will continue into Q4. And for the year, I have been talking nearly for about three or four quarters that approximately 51% and it's pretty much aligned to what I've been saying for a while.
Got it. Thank you.
And the cost reductions come from assembly and test area.
Perfect. Thanks, Sandeep.
Your next question comes from the line of Christopher Rolland of SIG. Your line is open.
David Haberle -- SIG -- Analyst
Hi, David Haberle on behalf of Chris Rolland. Thanks for taking our questions today. I guess first question, you touched on consumer yet. Maybe you can talk a bit about the consumer seasonality for the back half of the year, as I think about the front half, I think you had a similar issue last year where there was an inventory correction and you kept seeing sell-through kind of better than sell-in and it sounds like you experienced that same phenomenon here in the second quarter. Maybe just talk about what you think for the back half of the year? Is seasonality changing given this is kind of the second year in a row, we're working through inventory in the second quarter.
Well, the main reason for the inventory build is because in the first quarter, they were very concerned of our supply chain disruptions. So they ended up buying a lot of products. So there's a little bit of a different reason for inventory build in the first quarter. Having said that, we think that other than the AC, air conditioning market, the rest of the market will actually recover a little bit in the second half, but because of the seasonality of AC in Q3, we think that it will be offset by the AC seasonality and therefore we are projecting roughly flat revenue in consumer.
Now in the long run, consumer will do just fine. Right now, the pandemic is impacting the consumer market, more than any other market. You can imagine with so many people out of work around the world and the GDP contracting, it's not surprising that people are not buying appliances and TVs and so on and so forth. So, but once we are over this problem, there will be a pent-up demand and we think that in the long run, we will do extremely well for multiple reasons. We have our share of dollar content is growing significantly in appliances. And on top of that we have new products like BridgeSwitch that will go into the motor control.
And so we see a number of -- our number one and number two competitors are moving away from that market. So we are gaining share as we speak. It's just that in the short term the pandemic is really pushing the demand down, but in the long run we are not worried about it at all.
Understood. Thank you there. And then my follow-up on kind of the inventory side, your internal inventory levels are kind of hitting as high as you've seen in years, and they are all time highs or not, but is this really concentrated. I think the color at the beginning was talking about inventory levels for consumer and I know a lot of the products go across end markets? Or is this possibly kind of smartphone that you are shipping more direct to OEMs and need more inventory in front of that. Any additional color on the inventory would be great?
Well, so the inventories. It is -- the majority of it is in wafer form. So, as you know our products go across the board. So it's kind of spread very well, and as I mentioned on my script that you'll start seeing it come back, we have started adjusting the wafer purchases, but we have to do it gradually, because we have very long-term partnerships and we kind of moderated because we want to keep our capacity, but our plan as I indicated is that by the second half of 2021, we will get back into our model, which is the 110 days to 125 days.
But we have intentionally kept it a little higher and bulk of it is in wafer form. So we can quickly convert it into the different products that they need.
That's very helpful. Thank you.
Your next question comes from the line of David Williams of Loop Capital. Your line is open.
David Williams -- Loop Capital -- Analyst
Thanks. So I certainly appreciate it. I wanted to see if maybe you could talk maybe a little bit about the 5G handsets and what you're seeing there in terms of maybe the power levels and maybe if you could kind of maybe give us the split of what you're seeing in 5G in the comms segment versus legacy or 4G handsets, that mix would be helpful.
Yeah, I heard the cellphone -- the other one is --
IoT 5G.
Oh 5G. Okay. So we are somewhat what we call, octagonal to 5G, meaning that the faster charging applies to both 5G phones and non-5G phones. But the 5G phones are more likely to use higher power faster chargers, simply because they can run down the battery lot faster than their 4G phones. The applications that will be used on 5G are power hungry applications. So 5G for practical purposes has to have a fast charger, otherwise you will have a hard time keeping the charge on the phone. You may have to charge it more than a once a day.
So that is the benefit of 5G driving the faster charging market. In terms of power levels, the center of gravity, I would say if you had asked me last year, I'd have said it's roughly around 20 watts is where most people are, but we are definitely seeing that power level move up to 25 watts to 30 watts now. Some of the high volume designs in China are around 30 watts, outside of China, it's between 20 watts and 25 watts. So that's kind of the power range. But in the real high end, there are people using 50 watts and even 65 watts. We talked about a 65 watts design about six months ago and that was a cellphone charger design. That's probably on the real high-end. But we are, in general, seeing power levels increasing.
Okay, great. And in terms of maybe design win traction, are you seeing more design wins around the 5G-type handsets?
As I said, you know, we are kind of octagonal to 5G. 5G benefits us to the extent it does require a faster charger but fast chargers that we sell -- the same charger can go to 5G and 4G phones.
But 5Gs will most likely demand a fast charger, whereas 4G can do both fast and slow charging.
Okay, that makes good sense. And then maybe on the Qualcomm announcement, I guess earlier about the -- up to 100 box for their Quick Charge 5.0. What do you think in terms of how that maybe drive that market maybe domestically more so than internationally, but do you think that this helps maybe drive the adoption rates anymore quickly than it maybe what you would have thought previously?
Absolutely. I mean, the higher the power more ASPD we have and more it drives the customer toward -- because when you go to a 100 watt charger, the charger becomes huge unless you use our technology, the GaN technology, poly GaN technology. I think the poly GaN will become much more attractive as the power levels go up. Even at 65 watts, the charge will be too big unless you use the GaN technology. So we see that as a significant advantage to us because we have the only commercially successful GaN technology to date.
So we do have customers who are asking for 100 watts, we have customers who are asking for 65 watts for their cellphones. So we are working on them as we speak.
Great. And then the last one, if you can kind of frame-up the magnitude of revenue that you're receiving from GaN-based products today -- can you provide any color maybe directionally on how you expect that revenue to trend?
Last year, for example we did in the mid single-digit millions, this year, we think we will double that roughly and then next year it could be more than double, based on the design wins that we are working on designs, we are working on -- next year could be even bigger jump.
Great, thanks so much. Certainly appreciate your time.
[Operator Instructions] Your next question comes from the line of Gus Richard of Northland. Your line is open.
Gus Richard -- Northland -- Analyst
Yes, thanks for taking the question. On the consumer business, revenue in that product line or end market peaked in -- '17 has been down, '18-'19 and looks like it's going to be flat to slightly down again. Over that arc of time, what's been happening to cause pressure in the growth?
Well, they are all different reasons each year. If you remember there was a downturn in China in appliances. And then this year of course is the COVID that is impacting the demand for appliances. Especially in places like China and India where they are completely shut down. India, the demand for appliances and cellphones has come down dramatically. I think cellphones as you said is down by 50%.
So having said that, if we look at the sales gains, we are continuing to gain share. Our number one competitor in that market has been losing share to us and our number two customer -- competitor, which is primarily in the Japan market has actually left the market. So I think that we will continue to gain share, which is what we normally do even in a downturn and when we come out of it, we will be in very good shape. But you're right, for one reason or the other, the consumer market has been down, but it's not because of share. We are not only gaining share. Our dollar content is increasing.
Okay, got it. And then on the cellphone market, I know you're not working with Huawei, because they're banned, but they did announce a 65 watt charger, I think this quarter and I believe it's Richtek they're working with. I'm not absolutely sure and I'm just wondering is Richtek showing up at other accounts or is it just a function of -- Huawei is the only -- it doesn't have access to your technology?
They have certainly gone to a number of customers in China, but our solution is so much more superior that we have always won against them, primarily the component count. Their component count is more than 2 times up our component count, it makes it very difficult to fit it into a small compact form factor. But in case of Huawei, they don't have a choice. So they have to go with that. But I think that there is a choice people would choose our solution.
In fact, there is really no other solution that has the advantage of component count, advantage of efficiency and size. We really have the best technology for the cellphone charger market.
And Balu, if Huawei kind of goes away or struggles to gain traction in the market, because I think it was a number one phone company last quarter. If that starts to rollover does that accelerate your communication business or an accelerant and -- are you seeing that?
Well, it certainly well because the share will go to either the remaining Chinese companies or the non-Chinese competitors outside of China. So if they decline, we will see a positive impact on our revenue.
Okay, got it. All right. Thanks so much.
Thanks, Gus.
There are no further questions over the phone lines at this time. I'll turn the call back over to the presenters.
All right. We will leave it there. Thanks everyone for listening. We will have a replay of this call available on our investor website which is investors.power.com. Thanks again for listening, and good afternoon.
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"Although I knew I was in no danger, since every precaution was taken to protect my skin," says Scott, "I believe I suffered as much torture as if I were ac¬ tually being sacrificed at the stake. "The heat was indescribable, and at time the flames, directed by unforeseen drafts, leaped to within a few inches of my body. As a matter of fact my eyebrows were singed and heat blisters were raised all over my skin. The deafening din of war whoops and gun shots added to my general discomfort and the realization that I couldn't free myself from the circle of fire that surrounded me created a definite feeling of fear." Major Duncan Heyward, Hawk- eye's rescuer, is played by Henry Wilcoxon. Others in the cast in¬ clude Binnie Barnes, Bruce Cabot, Heather Angel and Phillip Reed. The film is being re-re¬ leased by Producers Releasing Corporation. Barrat's Profile Causes Comment In profile, Robert Barrat, who plays Chingachgook in "The Last of the Mohicans," coming next .... to the .... Theatre, looks exactly like the "head" side of the Indian nickel. Born in New York, of a French family, Barrat made his acting debut in a little stock company in Springfield, Mass. He appeared in many Broadway productions and made his film debut in "Cap¬ tain Blood." Other films in which he has appeared include "Charge of the Light Brigade," "I Married a Doctor" and "The Country Doc¬ tor." In "The Last of the Mo¬ hicans," which is being re-released by Producers Releasing Corpora¬ tion, he appears with Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes and Henry Wilcoxon. Leading Lady Mat No. IB Heather Angel, lovely leading lady, in a scene from "The Last of the Mohicans," which is com¬ ing to the .... Theatre, through a re-release by PRC. From the Bard To the Indians Born at Oxford, England, the daughter of a chemistry professor at the University, lovely Heather Angel found her way into the the¬ atre through her interest in Shakespeare. Completing her education in Switzerland, Miss Angel made her first appearance in Shakespearean repertory at the Old Vic Theatre in London. She remained with the troupe for a year and then went on tour of the British Isles in "The Sign of the Cross." The fol¬ lowing year she sailed for the East with a repertory company which presented plays in Egypt, Burma, Ceylon and India. Turning to films, Miss Angel then had important roles in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and other famous pictures. After a brief return to the stage, she came to Hollywood and appeared in "The Informer," "The Three Mus¬ keteers" and "A Perfect Gentle¬ man." She appears in "The Last of the Mohicans," which is now playing at the .... Theatre, with Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes and Henry Wilcoxon. Others in the cast include Bruce Cabot, Phillip Reed and Robert Barrat. The pic¬ ture is being re-released through Producers Releasing Corporation. 'Mohican' Males Are Six-Footers Every male principal in "The Last of the Mohicans" stands six feet tall and three of them—Ran¬ dolph Scott, Henry Wilcoxon and Phillip Reed—top this mark by two inches. Not quite so tall are Binnie Barnes and Heather Angel, who play the feminine leads in the picturization of the James Feni¬ more Cooper classic which comes next .... to the .... Theatre. The film is being re-released by Producers Releasing Corporation. Before the Massacre Mat No. 2A Randolph Scott, Henry Wilcoxon and Binnie Barnes are the stars of "The Last of the Mohicans," in a scene from the picture which is now playing at the .... Theatre. Page Nine

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Fruity quick breads are kinda my life right now. Banana bread, carrot raisin muffins, zucchini bread… it's my current breakfast of choice. Maybe it's a pregnancy thing. I'm already mourning the fact that I'll have to give it up for one single solitary Tuesday next week so I can go to the doctor for a glucola test. (To make sure I don't have gestational diabetes.) That's how into fruity quick breads I am right now.
So combine that with the fact that I have about two gallons of canned "tropical fruit salad" leftover from a work event a few weeks ago… I think you can see the obvious solution I came up with!
So if, like me, you find yourself with an abundance of canned pineapple today… OR if you just think this sounds like the kind of breakfast you'd like to join me in this week… here's how you make it!
P.S. I think it would really send it over the top if you whip up a little cinnamon sugar butter to spread over a warm slice.
Preheat oven to 350. Spray a standard-size loaf pan with a little canola spray.
In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
In a larger separate bowl, mix oil, melted butter, eggs, vanilla, and sugar. Add in chopped pineapple. Then stir in the flour mixture until just combined. Pour batter into greased loaf pan, and use a knife or spatula to cut a line into the middle of the surface of the batter (this promotes a nicely domed loaf.) Sprinkle a packet of raw sugar evenly over the top of the batter.
And that's it! It's a little too easy really.
Really there's nothing better on a Saturday than smelling a fresh loaf of bread baking in the oven. I couldn't resist eating a thick slice while it was still warm.
Nice silver tray – I have a smiliar one. Beautiful looking bread too.
I love love love your cake stand! gorgeous cake too!
Love this easy recipe. Thank you and have a Great Weekend.


Insurance companies can no longer deny coverage or increase your premiums based on your health. Many had difficulty buying insurance because of pre-existing conditions. Insurance companies only wanted to insure healthy people that had a lower probability of needing services. It was better for the companies, but it left many people uninsured.
Insurers also had economic incentive to get rid of anyone that got sick using any contractual reason or excuse that they could. Many people had insurance dropped because of honest errors on applications, things like forgetting to list minor surgeries that you may have had as a child. Pre-existing conditions and most application errors are no longer a factor.
Gender discrimination is no longer tolerated. Previously, insurers avoided insuring, or charged more for women in their child bearing years.
Unjustified rate hikes have been eliminated. Yeah, I know some will snicker at this because rates still keep on going up, but at least now they're based on actual medical expense ratios. As a personal example, I once had health insurance through a small business group. Rates were great for a while, but soon started to climb drastically. The group had other plans that were less expensive but I didn't qualify because of high blood pressure. My rates went up and up as the healthy people in the group moved to the new plan leaving only us less healthy individuals that the insurer wanted to dump.
Lifetime dollar limits were eliminated. This was a sneaky part of some policies that limited the amount that insurance companies needed to pay. Sometimes it was a cap on all coverage, sometimes it was on certain conditions. Medical costs build up real quick with major illnesses. Many people who thought they were insured found that their plan limits left them only partially covered.
Young adults often had difficulty finding insurance on their own. Entry level jobs often didn't provide insurance and those going to school were left stranded. One of the Obamacare benefits is that they can now stay on their parent's plan until they reach 26.
Insurance companies always had an appeal mechanism for disagreements, but they were often slow and difficult. Appeal rights have been standardized so they are streamlined and accelerated.
Finding coverage has become easier. You can still buy coverage through your personal insurance agent but a key feature of Obamacare is in expanding coverage to tens of millions by subsidizing health insurance costs through the Health Insurance Marketplaces (HealthCare.Gov and the state-run Marketplaces). Millions of people are currently taking advantage of this subsidy.
Regulations requiring most businesses with over 50 employees are required to provide health insurance coverage are being phased in. There are some tax benefits to offset part of the cost.
All plans need to meet set of minimum benefits. This caused some controversy when President Obama mistakenly said that "you can keep your old policy". Policies that didn't include what is considered as the 10 essential benefits had to be updated. These essentials include free preventative care,OB-GYN services with no referrals, free birth control, and coverage for emergency room visits out-of-network.
CHIP Insurance (Children's Health Insurance Program) was expanded and coverage has been made easier to get.
And there were some improvements to Medicare, even though seniors on Medicare don't participate in the Affordable Care Act.


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If you wanted a sporty hatch like the C30, but needed a bit more room, then Volvo has you covered with the all-new V40. This Euro model (Sorry, Yanks) features a cool new design in the same style as the handsome S60 but with the fun, sporty profile of a hatch.
The stance of the car is low and wide and when coupled with the sharp headlight design, the V40 looks aggressive, a nice change from the usual look of Volvo. To give the interior a nice airy feeling, there is an available large glass panorama roof.
The new Volvo is available with several engine options. Gasoline mills include a pair of 4-cylinder turbos both displacing 1.6-liters. The rather deceivingly named T3 outputs 150 horsepower, while the T4 sends a higher 180 hp to the wheels. Both engines have a torque rating of 240 lb ft.
Being a Euro model, the V40 is also available with several diesel engine choices. The D2 car comes with a 1.60liter diesel with 115hp. The D3 and D4 engines are both 2.0-liter 5-cylinder engines producing 150 hp and 177 hp respectively.
To get all the details about this new hatch take a look at the fool press release which we have included below our high resolution gallery.
The all-new Volvo V40 features a luxury look and feel that emphasises the aura of a compact car with large-car content and characteristics.
The driver-centric approach is enhanced with a new, fully graphic instrument cluster that allows the driver to personalise instrument layout and the information provided.
The all-new Volvo V40 also boasts class-leading driving dynamics thanks to focused attention to a number of vital areas.
Adding several new high-tech features to a full deck of safety and support systems from larger models makes the V40 the most IntelliSafe car in the segment.
The classic V-shaped bonnet is further enhanced by bolder expressive lines. The high-gloss grille is low and wide in order to create a sporty, close-to-the-ground feel. The lower opening is surrounded at the corners by sculpted bodywork, stretching from one wheel arch to the other. The sculptured corners not only add character, they also direct the airflow to improve aerodynamics. Daytime Running Lights are set into the lower corners of the front end, sweeping upward from direct front view. The "blade design" of the front headlights creates an attractive light pattern in the dark.
The wide shoulder line stretches back from the headlamp with a sharp line to echo the rising beltline. As it reaches the end of the rear door it sweeps up into an integrated "hook", inherited from the legendary P1800. The highlight continues rearward into a very full powerful section that resolves into the tail lamps.
The roof silhouette contributes to the impression of a car leaning forward – eager to take off. The car is finished with a dynamically sculpted rear to further emphasise its width and muscular stance, with the lower area "blacked out" to achieve an athletic, low and wide look.
The all-new Volvo V40 is available with a fixed panorama glass roof that stretches from the front windscreen to the backrest of the rear seats.
The interior of the all-new Volvo V40 is designed around people with a strong emphasis on ergonomics, comfort and an engaging driving experience.
The wide instrument panel, together with the fluidity of the door design, creates a spacious, "large-car" feeling. The interior is designed to offer the driver and passengers a spacious and relaxing atmosphere with a true Scandinavian flavour. The choice of materials and colours emphasises the luxurious feeling of quality and craftsmanship.
The V40 is available with a new, fully graphic instrument cluster that expresses emotional functionality, always displaying the most important information in any given situation right in front of the driver. The driver can choose between three graphic themes: Elegance, Eco and Performance.
In Volvo Sensus, all information is presented on a five-inch or seven-inch colour screen in the upper part of the instrument panel. The integrated screen makes it easy for the driver to keep his or her eyes on the road.
All the functions can be operated from the steering wheel or via controls located directly below the colour screen.
The Volvo V40 can be equipped with Bluetooth® technology that enables wireless communication. The Bluetooth connection allows not only hands-free phone conversations but also music streaming from your preferred Bluetooth enabled portable music player. Volvo is actually the only brand to offer Bluetooth music streaming throughout the entire vehicle range.
There is also a mobile application that makes sure that the driver can stay in touch with the parked car via an iPhone or Android smart phone. The mobile application is an extension of Volvo On Call.
The mobile application opens up a range of connectivity possibilities. The mobile app is free and downloaded via the iPhone and Android application stores. The app is designed to offer the owner an intuitive, easy-to-use relationship with the car from a distance.
The Dynamic chassis is standard. The rigid body and low centre of gravity promote an alert, quick-responding character that focuses on the driving experience, yet without compromising ride comfort.
The optional Sport chassis is lowered 10 mm compared with the Dynamic chassis. Springs and shock absorbers have a firmer setting, resulting in responsive driving pleasure with full control.
The steering column's thick tubing and stiff insulator increase torsional rigidity. This also contributes to the enhanced feeling of direct contact with the wheels and the road.
The Electrical Power Assist Steering (EPAS) uses an electrical motor to support the steering rack and the driver can choose between three levels of power assistance.
The five-cylinder 2.5-litre turbocharged T5 engine has a power output of 254 hp and 400 Nm of torque, including 40 Nm overboost delivered during acceleration. The T5 is also available in a 2.0-litre version with 213 hp and 300 Nm of torque. The mid-range offer includes two versions of a 1.6-litre GTDi engine: T4 with 180 horsepower and T3 with 150 horsepower.
The 180 hp engine offers maximum torque of 270 Nm, including 30 Nm overboost. The 150 horsepower T3 engine offers 270 Nm of torque, including 30 Nm overboost. Volvo's engine experts have managed to bring fuel consumption on the T3 down to 5.4l/100 km in the V40. This corresponds to CO2 emissions of 125 g/km.
A 2.0-litre five-cylinder T4 engine with 180 hp and 300 Nm of torque is available on certain markets.
The T5 version comes with a six-speed automatic gearbox, while the T4 is available in combination with the automatic six-speed Powershift transmission or a six-speed manual gearbox. The T3 comes with a manual gearbox.
The five-cylinder 2.0-litre D4 turbodiesel has been optimised for fuel-efficient driving pleasure.
This engine delivers 177 hp and has torque of 400 Nm across a wide rpm range. Acceleration from 0-100 km/h takes 8.3 seconds with the automatic gearbox (8.6 sec with manual). Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are 4.3 l/100 km (114 g/km) with a manual gearbox and 5.2 l/100 km (136 g/km) with the automatic (EU Combined).
In addition there is the 2.0-litre D3 producing 150 hp and 350 Nm of torque.
Both turbodiesels are available with a six-speed automatic transmission or six-speed manual gearbox.
The D2 version of the Volvo V40 comes with CO2 emissions as low as 94 g/km – corresponding to fuel consumption of just 3.6 l/100 km. The 1.6-litre diesel engine has 115 hp and 285 Nm of torque, including 15 Nm overboost. The D2 engine is combined with a six-speed manual gearbox and start/stop function.
The new Park Assist Pilot makes parallel parking easy and precise by taking over and operating the steering wheel while the driver handles the gearbox and controls the car's speed.
Lane Keeping Aid helps the driver stay in the lane. This feature applies extra steering torque to the steering column when the car gets close to a lane marking and is about to leave the lane. The system is active at speeds between 65 km/h and 200 km/h.
The V40 is the first Volvo to offer the enhanced Blind Sport Information System (BLIS), which is radar-based. The technology can now also monitor and alert the driver to rapidly approaching vehicles up to 70 m behind the car. Of course it still informs the driver about vehicles in the blind spots on both sides of the car.
Cross Traffic Alert uses the radar sensors at the rear end of the car to alert the driver to crossing traffic from the sides when reversing out of a parking space. This is especially helpful in tight and crowded areas where the side view might be limited due to infrastructure, vegetation or other parked cars.
Road Sign Information supports the driver by displaying road signs in the instrument display. Road Sign Information can be combined with the Speed Alert function, which provides the driver with a visual warning in the speedometer if the speed limit is exceeded.
The new Active High Beam technology in the Volvo V40 helps the driver utilise high beam more efficiently. It offers automatic switching between high and low beam at the right moment.
The all-new Volvo V40 can be equipped with Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), which promotes comfortable driving by using radar to automatically maintain a set time gap to the car in front.
The Queue Assist function on cars with automatic gearbox maintains the set gap all the way down to standstill.
Pedestrian Detection with full auto brake is a technology that can detect if a pedestrian steps out into the road in front of the car. If the driver does not respond in time, the car can warn and automatically activate the brakes. No other car in this class features a similar technology.
Sensors in the front bumper register the physical contact between the car and the pedestrian. The rear end of the bonnet is released and at the same time elevated by the deploying airbag.
The inflated airbag covers the area under the raised bonnet plus approximately one third of the windscreen area and the lower part of the A-pillar.
Pedestrian Detection with Full Auto Brake is a further development of the Collision Warning with Auto Brake technology already introduced by Volvo Car Corporation. The all-new V40 can also detect, alert and automatically brake if the car risks colliding with another vehicle in front.
The all-new V40 is the first Volvo that features an upgraded City Safety system. This system is now active at speeds up to 50 km/h (previously 30 km/h).
The car automatically brakes if the driver fails to react in time when the vehicle in front slows down or stops – or if the car is approaching a stationary vehicle too fast.
Driver Alert Control is designed to detect and warn tired drivers. The system can also cover other situations where the driver is distracted. Sensors register the car's movements. The control unit stores the information and calculates whether the driver risks losing control of the vehicle.
The all-new Volvo V40 also features world-class crash safety including a safety cage with effective deformation zones and various grades of high-strength steel.
The driver's side is also fitted with a new knee airbag. It is installed in the dashboard above the pedals and deployed together with the other airbags in the event of a frontal collision.


Christensen, CN, Iles-Smith, J, Petersen, TS, Mørk, J & McCutcheon, DP, 2018, 'Driving-induced population trapping and linewidth narrowing via the quantum Zeno effect'. Physical Review A, vol 97.
Gerhardt, S, Iles-Smith, J, McCutcheon, DP, He, YM, Unsleber, S, Betzold, S, Gregersen, N, Mørk, J, Höfling, S & Schneider, C, 2018, 'Intrinsic and environmental effects on the interference properties of a high-performance quantum dot single-photon source'. Physical Review B, vol 97.
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"Achieving the proper balance between entrepreneurial risk and enterprise value protection is the most difficult task of risk management and internal control, according to a new report from the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO)"
IRDA has now made it possible for insurers to offer dematerialized policies similar to other dematerialized financial products. Insurer stands to gain by savings in processing while customer also benefits since it will be easier for the customers to buy and manage their multiple life insurance policies in a single demat account. Regulator had proposed that every insurance company would tie up with designated repositories - SDL Database Management, Central Insurance Repository and SHCIL Projects, Karvy and CAMS Repository Services.
An NBFC will view training as to how it adds to the employees' immediate ability to generate revenue or prevent losses . Given below are some recommendations on how to maximise training budgets.
1) Credit structuring needs to be discusses in great detail as a NBFC would want to do deals which normally banks do not do, but would want to reduce risk to acceptable levels.
Often, companies undertake a very comprehensive internal audit of their processes and operations. But often, the legal, compliance aspects are ignored. We provide a few guidelines below to be fully compliant with Legal regulations, which is now the single biggest compliance risk.
It is very important that legality of Environmental Law should be verified that is EIA, Environmental Consent, etc. Also the compliance needs to be verified with respect to Factories Act regarding Factory Licence, Standing orders, etc.


Split Screen 2-Way features four direction splits (left, right, bottom, top) and an optional border (width and opacity). Split can be set with an OnScreen Control. Parameters for panning the clip and scaling horizontally or vertically to obtain a "squeeze effect".
This effect is not automated like the iMovie version. Keyframing animations is easy and the latitude of variation is much greater (for example, split at greater or less than mid-screen and change the direction of the out animation).
Set the Split value and keyframe the Pan direction to "reveal" a video from center screen!
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HBO declares war on Game of Thrones pirates, but it may be a losing battle
More than 90 million fans pirated the season's first episode, says one source
Season seven of Game of Thrones has only just begun, and already HBO is cracking down on people illegally downloading the wildly popular TV series.
But it's questionable how successful the TV network's attack will be, especially when many pirates are turning to streaming — a form of piracy that's hard to track but easy to do, even for Luddites.
"It's just a lower technical bar," says Dan Deeth of Sandvine, a broadband equipment company that tracks home internet usage.
According to TorrentFreak, a news site that covers piracy issues, HBO is targeting people suspected of illegally downloading Game of Thrones by sending notices to their internet provider.
The letter asks the provider to immediately inform the customer that they've behaved badly and need to stop.
The notice also encourages the provider "to inform the subscriber that HBO programming can easily be watched and streamed on many devices legally by adding HBO to the subscriber's television package."
Last year, HBO sent a similar message to pirates and raised the ire of many Canadian Thrones fans. That's because new episodes of the show are only available to Canadians with a pricey, top-tier TV subscription.
"It's just not viable for me to spend 150 bucks for HBO," says Josh Randell, who lives in Corner Brook, N.L. He received two warning letters last year telling him to stop downloading Game of Thrones and informing him it's never been easier to legally watch the series.
"It's never been easier, then why can't I get it easy?" says Randell. He says he would happily pay $14.99 US a month for HBO Now, a streaming service only available in the U.S. that offers full access to Game of Thrones shows.
Streaming is king
Despite the warning letters, Randell continues to pirate Game of Thrones, and so do many other people across the globe.
According to the U.K.-based piracy monitoring firm, MUSO, this year's season opener was pirated an astonishingly high 91.74 million times around the world.
"It's a big number but it's a big show and there's high demand," says MUSO CEO Andy Chatterley.
The company based its data on internet traffic to more than 23,000 piracy sites. It found that in most of the cases — a whopping 84.9 per cent — pirates used unauthorized streaming to watch the episode.
MUSO stands by its data but Sandvine's Deeth believes the statistics should be viewed as an estimate, claiming it's hard to track some forms of piracy. But he does agree with the company's findings that streaming, instead of downloading, is now the preferred way to steal content.
"Streaming is just easier to now do because the technology has gotten better," says Deeth, who's based in Waterloo, Ont. "Things like those Android boxes have made it easier for the average consumer."
He's referring to TV boxes loaded with special software that are often advertised with the promise of "free TV," and sold for a one-time fee, typically around $100. Once buyers connect the device to a TV, they can easily stream a vast selection of pirated movies and shows — including Game of Thrones.
"It's as easy as Netflix," says Deeth.
But the shift to streaming will make it even more difficult for TV networks like HBO to catch pirates. Deeth says illegal downloading is public, which means the anti-piracy police can at least figure out the internet provider involved and get it to send the suspect a warning letter.
But he says unauthorized streaming is much harder to track because the content is often encrypted.
"It's impossible to tell what file's what, who's sharing what," says Deeth. "The content is anonymous."
Give them what they want
Deeth suggests the best solution is to offer people easy and affordable streaming services that include premium TV shows.
"If you give people the services they want at a price they think is appropriate on the devices they want to watch it on, they'll pay for it," he says.
Thrones fan Randell agrees. "The content creators deserve their money," he says. "But I want to pay for the content I want, not the content I want plus a bunch of extra crap."
Bell Media owns the rights to HBO content in Canada. It told CBC News that while it continues to look at other options, for now Game of Thrones remains only available to traditional TV subscribers.
"We strongly discourage piracy, which hurts content creators, and encourage all Game of Thrones fans to subscribe to HBO Canada," said spokesperson Scott Henderson in an email to CBC News.
CBC News also asked HBO for comment."HBO aggressively protects its content but finds it counterproductive to publicly discuss our anti-theft tactics," said spokesperson Jeff Cusson in an email.
CBC News, July 30, 2017 (Sophia Harris)
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Joint committee on veterans' and military affairs.
(1) There is hereby created a joint committee on veterans' and military affairs. The committee shall consist of: (a) Eight members of the senate appointed by the president of the senate, four of whom shall be members of the majority party and four of whom shall be members of the minority party; and (b) eight members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker, four of whom shall be members of the majority party and four of whom shall be members of the minority party. Members of the committee shall be appointed before the close of the 2005 legislative session, and before the close of each regular session during an odd-numbered year thereafter.
(2) Each member's term of office shall run from the close of the session in which he or she was appointed until the close of the next regular session held in an odd-numbered year. If a successor is not appointed during a session, the member's term shall continue until the member is reappointed or a successor is appointed. The term of office for a committee member who does not continue as a member of the senate or house of representatives shall cease upon the convening of the next session of the legislature during an odd-numbered year after the member's appointment, or upon the member's resignation, whichever is earlier. Vacancies on the committee shall be filled by appointment in the same manner as described in subsection (1) of this section. All such vacancies shall be filled from the same political party and from the same house as the member whose seat was vacated.
(3) The committee shall establish an executive committee of four members, two of whom are members of the senate and two of whom are members of the house of representatives. The executive committee shall appoint one cochair from the two executive committee members who are senators and one cochair from the two executive committee members who are representatives. The two cochairs shall be from different political parties and their terms of office shall run from the close of the session in which they are appointed until the close of the next regular session in an odd-numbered year. The executive committee is responsible for performing all general administrative and personnel duties assigned to it in the rules and procedures adopted by the joint committee, as well as other duties delegated to it by the joint committee.
(4) The joint committee on veterans' and military affairs has the following powers and duties:
(a) To study veterans' issues, active military forces issues, and national guard and reserve component issues, and make recommendations to the legislature; and
(b) To study structure and administration of the department of veterans affairs and the military department, and make recommendations to the legislature.
(5) The joint committee shall adopt rules and procedures for its orderly operation. The joint committee may create subcommittees to perform duties under this section.
(6) The regulating authorities for the department of licensing and the department of health shall file reports to the legislature biennially and the Washington state military transition council annually beginning January 1, 2018, and appear annually before the joint committee on veterans' and military affairs, to provide updates on progress in their efforts to implement the requirements of chapter 18.340 RCW, chapter 32, Laws of 2011, and chapter 351, Laws of 2011. By January 1, 2018, the department of labor and industries and the professional educator standards board must each submit a report to the legislature, including an assessment on how its licensing, certification, and apprenticeship programs apply training and experience acquired by military members and their spouses outside of Washington, and recommendations about whether such programs should be included in the reporting schedule within this subsection.
[ 2017 c 184 § 1; 2005 c 141 § 1; 2001 c 268 § 1.]


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Fashion Must Close the Gap Between Sustainability Targets and Tracking
CFDA and NYC Ready to Spend on US Manufacturing Innovation
photo credit: Arthur Friedman
The Fashion Manufacturing Initiative Grant Program, a $6 million public-private partnership funded by the New York City Economic Development Corp. and the Council of Fashion Designers of America, is now accepting applications through Aug. 24 for the fifth round of program.
The FMI Grant Program allows fashion production facilities to grow through the acquisition of innovative equipment, advanced technology, workforce training, business consulting services, relocation costs and capital improvements.
In addition to NYCEDC, the FMI Grant Program is made possible through the support of partners and underwriters such as Andrew Rosen, Theory, The Coach Foundation, and Ralph Lauren, as well as preferred vendors Gerber, Lectra and Optitex.
Since 2013, the FMI Grant Program has awarded $2.3 million in grants to 22 factories across the five boroughs of New York City. The grants and matching investments, totaling $3.9 million to date, have facilitated innovative and cutting-edge acquisitions, including body scanning technology, thermal bonding machinery and 3-D design software.
Seven New York City-based fashion production companies are set to receive nearly $750,000 in grants to purchase advanced manufacturing equipment and other operational materials and services. Over $2.3 million FMI grants have been distributed to date to spur technological advancement and innovation in local fashion manufacturing.
In April, the fourth round of grant recipients of FMI were announced. This year's grant recipients are HC Contracting Inc., a full-production manufacturer located in New York City's Garment District that offers a wide variety of sewn goods services; Create-a-Marker, a computerized grading and marking company; Design Incubator, which develops designs for several major fashion houses in New York City and helps emerging designers launch their new businesses; Funtastic Furs, an atelier that helps develop, sample and produce fur accessories and apparel; New York Binding Co., a fourth-generation family business provider of binding, pleating, slitting and trimming services; Zoila's Sample Room, which offers precise alterations and samples for garment production, and New York Embroidery Studio, a full-service textile manipulation and garment decoration studio.
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Cal McNeil, senior associate of strategic partnerships at the CFDA, said, "The support from all levels of the fashion ecosystem has been a core factor for the success of the FMI program. Fashion brands, the local NYC administration, our partners and key industry stakeholders alike have all come together with a common goal of nurturing local manufacturing, as well as the entrepreneurs and skilled workers who work within it. We've expanded our network of factories since the inception of FMI and in turn, we've seen a consistent growth of applicants each round of the Grant Fund, and overall engagement from the community at large."
McNeil said between the FMI Grant Fund, NYC Production Directory, national partnerships with Barneys New York, Banana Republic and Macy's, and events, factory showcases and apparel skills training courses, the program "has been able to create a more consistent conversation around Made in New York and Made in America."
He said, "Within our network of designers, there has been a growth of brands that are considering and implementing more local production channels in both the apparel and jewelry categories. We've seen proven impact on the local industry through this program and hope that will expand in to other markets."
New York City's fashion industry accounts for about 5 percent of the city's workforce, paying $11 billion in wages and generating nearly $2 billion in City tax revenue annually. The city's semi-annual Fashion Week's create a total economic impact of about $900 million in revenue to the city.
All this begs the question of where does the program and Made in New York and America go from here.
"A large focus on enabling continued advancement of technology and innovation within manufacturing will grow with the program, as well as aiming our efforts at workforce development for the next generation of skilled workers," McNeil added. "With our expanding CFDA membership in the Greater Los Angeles area, our level of support for that fashion community grows. We are beginning to implement similar programs for the West Coast under the manufacturing arm of CFDA and are looking forward to exploring opportunities with brands and companies who share the goal of replicating the success we've seen in New York City."
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Rajitha's son accused of 'abducting' underaged girl, She came to stay with us entirely of her own volition – Rajitha
By Don Asoka Wijewardena Courtesy Island
A 17-year-old Dinithe Aloka Ranasinghe, daughter of businessman Gamini Ranasinghe of Kirulapana was abducted on February 24, 2014 while she was returning home after school and her whereabouts had not been known since then.
Father of the victim, Gamini Ranasinghe, addressing the media yesterday blamed Health and Indigenous Minister Dr Rajitha Senaratne's second son Eksath for the disappearance. He said Minister Senaratne and his family had been intimate friends for a long time before the incident.
Ranasinghe said his daughter had gone to school on Feb. 24 but never returned. Later he came to know that Minister Senaratne's second son Eksath Ranasinghe (26) had taken his daughter to the official residence of Minister Senaratne.
Dr. Rajitha Senaratne, contacted for comment said that Gamini Ranasinghe's daughter Dinithe Aloka Ranasinhe had to stay with them as she was forced to help the business activities of Gamini Ranasinghe. "Dinithe came to stay with us voluntarily and did not want to go back to her parents. It is not proper to accuse my second son of abducting her.
"Dinithe has given a statement to the police that she does not want to stay with her parents. I have never used my political power to harass Gamini Ranasinghe's family. Let him complain to President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. I am thinking of instituting legal action against Gamini Ranasinghe, who has given false information to the media," Dr. Senaratne claimed.
Gamini Ranasinghe said that he had made a complaint to the Child Protection Authority about the issue and it gave an order for her to stay with her aunt in Piliyandala, because Dinithe was preparing for GCE O/L examination, but on February 4, 2014 she was again taken by Eksath from her aunt's house.
Ranasinghe said he had lodged several complaints at the Peliyandala police station and police headquarters about the case but no action had been taken because Minister Senaratne had personally asked the police and the relevant authorities to refrain from taking any action.
Ranasinghe said that he was appealing to President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe to intervene in the matter to see that justice was done. He said his family had been in tears for a long time. "I am asking the media to help my family seek justice. I have tried my best to get the help of the police, but it is in vain because of political influence. My family and I have been mentally sick due to absence of my daughter. I hope justice will be done."
13 Responses to "Rajitha's son accused of 'abducting' underaged girl, She came to stay with us entirely of her own volition – Rajitha"
Susantha Wijesinghe Says:
GAMINI RANASINGHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN TRUTHFUL, THAT HIS DAUGHTER WENT AWAY VOLUNTARILY. IF SHE TOLD THE POLICE THAT SHE DOES NOT WANT TO GO BACK TO THE PARENTS, THEN THE CASE IS CLOSED.
INTERFERENCE WITH THE POLICE WILL NEVER STOP, BY THESE WILD ASS POLITICIANS. BEST TO PUT THE IGP IN A SKIRT AND BLOUSE.
IF THE GIRL IS UNDER-AGE, WHAT IS THE CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT DOING ???
SCARED OF THE WILD ASS POLITICIANS EH ????
Independent Says:
She does not want to go back ? Why ?
They have said they all are "Family Friends". Surely this girl has run away with Rajitha's son, who is 9 years older. If an inquiry is made and found that the Son (of a ..) has taken this girl as his wife, this bugger must be jailed as it is considered Rape.
On the other hand the girl might say she was abused at home.
Where is Yahapalanaya ? Yahapalaynaya in this case is not doing justice to anyone but showing the public that there is law and order in the country and it applies to all.
Lorenzo Says:
Thank you lankaweb for publishing this.
This must be the DIRTIEST of all recent political acts.
When we supported My3 we DID NOT vote for these dirt. They are riding on My3's victory. KICK OUT these dirty bastards My3. Like mother like son!!
This shit foul mouthed Dentist should be Investigated for his corruption cases first then he should be questioned on this Dinithe's disappearance before everything as he was from the Yahapalana Regime. There is no Yahaplanaya in any of these bulshit politicians in the current regime. What is that beauty queen Rosy is doing? Why not go and catch Rajith's BB's and question him? Why No police Investigations for them? If they can take Opposition to question why not their thieves? What is happening to our country where's the law and who is in charge of the law? How can we stand idle while they play with our lives? Think my people before too late. If we allow them to have a national Govt more misery for us sure therefore get rid of them as soon as possible. Rally behind the Nugegoda Man and show your anger and frustration towards this Jarapalana Regimeya.
It seems (Dr. or kudu) Mervin is clean man now for he has not just joined the Hitan 'yahapalanaya' gang but also appointed a central committee member of the SLFP. Needless to say, now, Mervin has the privilege of getting his son become a member of the most prolific team of women abusers (Champaka) and underage girl snatchers.
Nimal Says:
He and his son should be punished according to the law of the land. This kind of behaviour should not be tolerated.
SA Kumar Says:
She came to stay with us entirely of her own volition – Rajitha
Minister sham on you Sir if a Girl yet 16+ is living in your home .
MS please sack this minister put him & his son in the jail immediately !!!
Kumar, Read (in dbsjayaraj.com) how Sirisena had gone out of the way to protect his drunkard and rowdy son Daham who is said to have assaulted a young holidaying couple (a DIG's son and his wife) brutally in a hotel in Pasikudah beach together with a few thuggish friends. Can you expect fair play from such a man. I wonder.
MR son, MS son , Rajitha son all sons are problem poor fathers We are so Ranil / Mangala way of living is suitable for us (:-(
end of the day they our children
Mr. Bernard Wijeyasingha Says:
SA Kumar
MAYBE YOU LIKE UNDERAGE GIRLS AND BOYS COMING TO YOU "ON THEIR OWN VOLITION" OF WITHOUT LETTING THEIR PARENTS KNOW WHERE THEY HAVE GONE SO YOU CAN DO WITH THEM WHAT YOU WANT. HOW UNDERAGE DO THEY HAVE TO BE KUMAR? 9? 8? 7? 6? 5?
IF A 5 YEAR OLD GIRL CAME TO YOU WITHOUT TELLING HER PARENTS IT IS FINE WITH YOU? WHAT STANDARDS OF MORALITY DO YOU EVEN HAVE? DON'T YOU THINK IT IS YOUR DUTY TO CALL HER PARENT IMMEDIATELY OR DO YOU THINK YOU SHOULD BE SILENT ABOUT IT TILL YOU HAVE YOUR WAY WITH HER THEN WHEN THE ISSUE BECOMES PUBLIC YOU STATE SHE CAME TO YOU, A MERE CHILD, ON HER OWN VOLITION. CLUE KUMAR A CHILD DOES NOT HAVE THAT LIBERTY.
Mr. Bernard Wijeyasingha My sinhala brother Son & Mother & father & victim family should taken to court immediately
SA Kumar: what are you babbling about? I placed a question to you. If a child came to you ON HIS OR HER OWN VOLITION THEN IT IS YOUR DUTY TO CALL THE POLICE AND OR THE PARENTS OR BOTH. AT LEAST THAT IS THE CASE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.
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4-Ingredient Keto Peanut Butter Brownies | Low-Carb, So Simple!
The brownie batter is really easy to prepare: Just combine all the ingredients in a bowl, mix quickly until well combined and that's it. Actually, it's important NOT to overmix — always mix just until the ingredients are combined and no longer — because otherwise the brownies might turn out rubbery. I don't know why this is, but it happens: I experienced it myself when I beat the batter for more than a minute or two.
For the sweetener, I recommend an erythritol-based brown sugar substitute such as Sukrin Gold. Sukrin Gold is my top choice for a brown sugar substitute, and that goes for these brownies, too. Regular erythritol crystals work as well, but they make the brownies slightly harder. Plus, the taste isn't quite as "warm".
The peanut butter swirl on top of the brownie is fully optional, but as it really adds to both the brownies' taste and texture, I highly recommend it. Don't worry: like the rest of this recipe, it's super-quick and simple to make, as we'll soon see.
Another important thing is to keep your eye on the brownies while they're baking. Whatever you do, don't bake them too long! You really want that fudgy interior, and that won't happen if you overbake them. When you see the edges rising while about 3 inches (7.5 cm) of the center remain flat, that's the correct time to remove them from the oven.
Told you these brilliant brownies were quick to make! Mix quickly, bake quickly, and you're done.
Take a medium bowl. Add the ingredients; the order doesn't matter (remember to leave some PB and Sukrin Gold aside for the swirl).
…until just combined. This shouldn't take longer than half a minute.
Transfer the batter to a greased 9×9-inch (23×23 cm) glass or ceramic baking dish. You can also use a silicone pan; then you don't have to grease it.
Next, take the remaining peanut butter. Place it in a small bowl and add the remaining Sukrin Gold.
Mix well. If your peanut butter is stiff, you can heat it in the microwave in 10-second spans to make it runnier and thus easier to mix and drizzle. Or, if you don't want to use microwave, just place the PB (glass) jar into hot water and mix until runnier.
Drizzle the peanut butter and Sukrin Gold mixture on top of the brownies.
Take a spoon and create some beautiful swirls so that the peanut butter mixes with the brownie batter a bit (my swirls here could be a bit prettier, frankly!).
Keep your eye on the brownies to avoid overbaking. This way the center will be fudgy.
Let cool until slightly warm, remove from the pan and cut into 16 pieces.
This recipe is another one from my long to-do list. I decided to give them a try now, since it's finally fall; I thought they've be wonderfully comforting and a great way to beat the chill.
But I didn't have a recipe for the comforting brownies I was dreaming of: all I had was—well, my dream. The brownies should definitely be slightly fudgy inside and crunchy outside, I thought. And with a peanut butter swirl on top, maybe they'd look and taste even better.
So, I had a clear idea in mind about the kind of brownies I was aiming for. For my Low Sugar, So Simple book, I had developed a fudgy brownie recipe; maybe I could use that as a starting point by adding peanut butter and removing the coconut flour?
I didn't do too many calculations: I just wanted to start experimenting. So, for my first experiment, I took 1 cup (240 ml) peanut butter, 2/3 cup (160 ml) erythritol crystals, 1/4 cup (60 ml) cacao powder, 1 tablespoon baking powder, and 5 eggs. I beat everything together and poured the batter into a brownie pan.
After baking the brownies for 20 minutes at 350 °F (175 °C), I removed them from the oven and noticed the result was far too cake-like. Nothing fudgy there. Maybe reducing the number of eggs would yield a fudgier result? And perhaps omitting the baking powder as well?
At this point, I made my first pumpkin peanut butter brownie experiments, which turned out too fudgy and moist – almost raw! For both recipes, I needed something in between: fudgy, but not too moist and not too dry.
For my next peanut butter brownie experiment, I took 1 cup (240 ml) crunchy peanut butter, 1/2 cup = 120 ml dark cacao powder, 2/3 cup (160 ml) Sukrin Gold, and 5 eggs. Like I said, Sukrin Gold is my preferred brown sugar substitute and I thought it would be just perfect here with its warm, caramel-ish note.
I was also planning to use fewer eggs, but since the batter looked too thick after beating it for a couple of minutes, I added some more and ended up using 5 eggs. This time, I also made a peanut butter swirl on top. I had no idea if I needed more ingredients for the swirl than just PB and sweetener mixed together (perhaps an egg was necessary?), but first I tried it with just a mixture of PB and sweetener drizzled on top.
Speaking of not having a clue, I have to confess that I had no idea how to make a beautiful swirl in the brownie batter! I'd never done it before. I took a large spoon and made big, careful swirls, trying to gently mix the brownie batter with the peanut butter and sweetener mixture. To my surprise, the result was gorgeous! At least, it is to me: what do you think? (Photo below). I think it turned out even more beautiful than my later swirl experiments!
So, the resulting brownies were just perfect on top, but they were depressingly rubbery inside. What a disappointment! I was hoping for a fudgy interior, but I sank my teeth into a stiff, rubbery square. Not a nice experience!
What on earth should I change to get a properly fudgy result? Fewer eggs? More PB? More cacao powder? I decided to add more eggs just to see if the result would be fudgier. I used 1 cup (240 ml) PB, 2/3 cup (160 ml) Sukrin Gold, 1/2 cup (120 ml) dark cacao powder, and 6 eggs. Since the batter got really thick really fast when I was beating it, I decided to just mix it briefly, only until the ingredients were combined. Maybe that would help reduce the rubberiness, too? I also decided to decrease the baking time by 5 minutes.
Now the result was just perfect! I had gotten the fudgy interior I was after, plus the crisp surface. The peanut butter swirl added some crunchiness, and it also tasted heavenly! It was definitely a good idea to add it. And for this last experiment, I had increased the amount of PB in the swirl: earlier I had used only 1/4 cup (60 ml), but 1/3 cup (80 ml) worked wonderfully here.
I'm so enthusiastic about this recipe; let me know how it works for you!
Grease a 9×9-inch (23 cm × 23 cm) brownie pan generously with butter or use an ungreased silicone pan.
Combine 1 cup (240 ml) peanut butter, 2/3 cup (160 ml) Sukrin Gold, the dark cacao powder and the eggs in a medium bowl.
Beat with an electric mixer until just combined, maximum 1 minute. Don't beat for too long.
Transfer the batter to the brownie pan.
Combine the rest of the peanut butter (1/3 cup = 80 ml) and the Sukrin Gold (2 tablespoons) in a small cup. Mix until well combined.
Drizzle the peanut butter and Sukrin Gold mixture over the brownie batter. Take a spoon and make large swirls so that the peanut butter mixture mixes with the batter.
Bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes, or until the center is still a bit fudgy. Don't overbake!
Let cool, remove from the pan, and cut into 16 pieces.
Best enjoyed fresh and warm!
N.B. The nutritional values highly depend on brands of ingredients used. Try to choose brands that are as low in carbs as possible.
You can vary the basic brownie recipe as much as you like. You can add chopped salted peanuts or dark chocolate chips to the batter, or season the batter with a dash of vanilla extract. For some reason, I prefer a hint of vanilla in my peanut butter goodies, so I often add some vanilla extract to them — especially if there is no chocolate in the recipe.
Instead of the peanut butter swirl (or even in addition to it!), you can make a simple frosting from chocolate ganache: Heat 1/2 cup (120 ml) heavy cream or coconut cream in a saucepan until piping hot. Don't let it boil. Add 4 oz (115 g) chopped dark chocolate (cocoa content minimum 85%) and let stand 5 minutes. Mix until thick and smooth and pour evenly over the brownie before cutting it into slices. Let set in the fridge overnight. Remove from the fridge the following day and cut into pieces.
If you don't want to make frosting, you can always drizzle melted dark chocolate on top of the brownie when it's still warm after removing it from the oven. For ultimate indulgence (and a beautiful presentation!), you can even add sugar-free white chocolate chunks, salted crushed peanuts and/or dark chocolate chips on top before the melted chocolate sets. Dessert doesn't get better than this!
Hello! Could I use Swerve? They made a brown sugar replacement that I haven't tried before but it's available at my grocery store. Would it be in the same quantity as Sukrin Gold? Thanks!
Hi, yes, you can use brown Swerve. Personally, I really prefer Sukrin Gold as brown Swerve has more of the cooling aftertaste typical to erythritol and Sukrin Gold is simply tastier. Usually Swerve makes great sweeteners, but I was disappointed with Swerve brown!
I wonder what went wrong. Followed all instructions but the batter came out really liquid. After Baking it the structure was still too runny. Could not cut them at all into nice pieces.
So sorry to hear! Did you use large eggs instead of normal eggs? Which peanut butter brand did you use?
I love the step by step pictures. Thanks for all yo do for the low carb & keto community.
Do you think I can replace Sukrin Gold for Truvia? Same quantity?
If you blend a tiny bit of blackstrap molasses to the Truvia, you get Sukrin Gold. 😉 And, yes, it is a lot cheaper to do it this way.
These came out absolutely amazing! They were a huge hit with my chocolate loving husband. I felt the ultimate test was my niece and nephew because kids can be super picky. Before we even realized it, they'd finished the entire container of brownies!
The brownies were moist and so flavorful. I did add a tsp of pure vanilla extract to the batter. (sugar-free) I know I prefer a good quality vanilla in baked goods and implemented your suggestion.
Thank you for the amazing recipe!
Hi Michele, you're welcome! So happy to hear your family liked the brownies so much!
Sounds like the PB was too stiff. Did you try to heat it as advised? You can maybe add a dash of water to make it more fluid.
would you know that the nutritional information for the finer would be ?
Sorry, can you elaborate more what is finer?
According to my calculations, they would have some 2-3 grams fiber per serving.
Can you use honey in replacement of sukrin gold?
In case you don't need a low-carb version, why not. The heating just destroys close to 200 components (like antibacterial ones and enzymes) in honey so I don't know if it's really worth.
Could I use regular brown sugar ?
Sure, if you don't want to reduce carbs so a high-carb version is okay with you.
I wonder if reducing the eggs would help, so use 5 eggs instead of 6.


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All manufacturing plant activities lie at a hub of a large and complex value chain that is composed of an upstream supply chain that gathers materials and services and a downstream sales chain that moves goods to market and sells and services goods. Manufactured goods are also intermediate inputs in non-manufacturing industries' supply chains.
The MAPI Foundation's report "The Manufacturing Value Chain is Much Bigger than You Think" accounted for all of these economic activities. Their results showed that the industry is actually responsible for 33 percent of our country's GDP, basically triple what is traditionally reported. This and other findings eclipse even our own numbers here at CMTA. More reasons for California policymakers to always account for manufacturing impacts in new legislation.
Most (54 percent) of the value-added in manufactured goods destined for final demand is from the downstream sales chain; the upstream supply chain accounts for the remaining 46 percent.
Domestic manufacturing accounts for only 22 percent of the value chain of manufactured goods for final demand. Non-manufacturing value-added is 53 percent and imports are another 25 percent.
60 percent of manufacturing imports ($1,024 billion) are final goods; these directly enter the downstream sales chain. The other $694 billion of manufacturing imports enter the value stream in the upstream supply chain of domestic manufacturing.


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When the queen of the tabloids, Juliette Cadbury, decides to film a movie in Fort Rosalie, Mississippi, local Tourism Bureau executive Mary Dell Hoskins is given the unenviable task of setting up a whirlwind inspection tour of the town´s three bed-and-breakfasts, only one of which can win the right to host the outrageous actress and her hunky actor boyfriend during their three-month location shoot. All genteel hell soon breaks loose as a local ladies´ group organizes a protest against the ´´Hollywood morality´´ of the live-in couple, and the competition among the quirky bed-and-breakfast owners takes on a life of its own. Sparks fly, tempers flare, and all sorts of people fall in and out of love as Hollywood´s fast-lane meets Deep South hospitality. 1. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Marosz. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000601/bk_bkot_000601_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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