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Head coach Steve Englehart and the Florida Tech football team will unveil its 2016 signing class on Wednesday, Feb. 3 beginning at 7 a.m. ET. The day marks National Signing Day, the first day that newcomers can officially sign their letter of intent.
This Signing Day Central page will have full bios and video highlights of the team's new student-athletes. The page will be updated as faxes are received and officially approved.
Fans looking to receive instant updates and a behind the scenes view of FIT's Signing Day can follow Panther Football's Twitter account, @FLTechFootball.
A complete release recapping the program's fifth recruiting class will be posted to FloridaTechSports.com at the end of the day.
Per NCAA rules, FIT Athletics will announce a signee when the program has received and FIT Athletics Compliance has verified the signee's National Letter of Intent. Signees are not officially Panthers until approved and listed on this webpage.
- OT, Jr., 6-4, 280
- North Miami Beach, Fla. (ASA Miami)
Previous School: Attended ASA College in Miami, Florida...played on the Silver Storm offensive line.
High School: Attended J.P. Taravella High School in Coral Springs, Florida.
- DE, So., 6-1, 235
- Columbus, Ohio (Iowa Western CC)
Previous School: Attended Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, Iowa...played linebacker for the Reivers.
High School: Attended Beechcroft High School in Columbus, Ohio.
- WR, Jr., 6-1, 185
- Bradenton, Fla. (New Mexico Military)
Previous School: Attended New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico...played wide receiver for the Broncos...caught 15 passes for 289 yards and five touchdowns as a sophomore...also completed one pass for a 17-yard touchdown.
High School: Attended Braden River High School in Bradenton, Florida.
- OL, Sr., 6-4, 315
- Miami, Fla. (Jackson State)
Previous School: Attended Jackson State University in Jackson Mississippi...as a junior, was a member of the offensive line that helped lead the JSU offense to score 252 points and record 4,089 total yards (1086 rushing yards and 3003 passing yards)...as a sophomore, was a member of the offensive line that helped lead the JSU offense to score 310 points and record 4,513 total yards (1227 rushing yards and 3286 passing yards)...as a freshman, was a member of the offensive line that helped lead the JSU offense to score 313 points and record 4,571 total yards (2,140 rushing yards and 2,431 passing yards).
High School: Attended Valero High School in Miami, Florida.
- WR, Jr., 6-0, 185
- Hialeah, Fla. (New Mexico Military)
Previous School: Attended New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico...played wide receiver for the Broncos...caught 15 passes for 306 yards and a pair touchdowns in only four games as a sophomore...caught 12 passes for 285 yards and a score as a freshman.
High School: Attended Weston Hialeah High School in Hialeah, Florida.
- DL, Jr., 6-2, 260
- Ocean Springs, Miss. (Murray State)
Previous School: Attended Murray State University in Murray, Ky...also attended the University of Southern Mississippi and Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.
High School: Attended Ocean Springs High School…was named First Team All-State and all-region…recorded 102 tackles as a senior…also played basketball.
Personal: Son of Fred and Lizabeth Howell…has eight siblings…career goals are to coach football and teach…chose Florida Tech because, having grown up in Satellite Beach, he knows the school and wanted to be a part of something special…most admires his parents because of the way they have raised their large family.
- QB, Jr., 6-4, 230
- Clearwater, Fla. (Presbyterian)
Prevoius School: Attended Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina...started eight games as a sophomore, passing for 1,472 yards and eight touchdowns...completed 128-244 passes with eight interceptions...also ran for 360 yards and made five trips to the end zone on the ground...as a freshman, appeared in six games passing for 560 yards and four scores.
High School: Three-year letterwinner...played for Mark Everett at Dunedin HS...two-star recruit by ESPNU...threw for 2,800 yards and 33 touchdowns as a freshman...totaled 1,100 passing yards as a junior...had 20 total touchdowns that season, including eight on the ground...recorded 1,500 yards passing his senior season...had nine passing touchdowns and three rushing scores as a senior...named to the All-GFL squad his rookie campaign...two-time team captain...earned all-district honors as a junior...garnered honorable mention all-Suncoast accolades as a senior...led the squad to three district titles.
Personal: Son of Jeff and Colleen Singer...has two brothers, Jeffrey and Michael
- LB, Jr., 5-11, 205
- Titusville, Fla. (South Dakota State)
Prevoius School: Attended South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota...Played in all 14 gamesas as a true freshman with 14 starts...recorded tackle for loss in collegiate debut, at Missouri...registered seven tackles, including one for loss, and a pass breakup in home debut, versus Cal Poly...blocked a kick, forced a fumble and made three stops in win over Wisconsin-Oshkosh...in first career start, matched season high with seven tackles and tallied first career interception in regular season matchup at North Dakota State...posted first career sack in road win at Indiana State...started final three games in November, including Football Championship Subdivision playoff game at Montana State...closed season with five-tackle performance in playoff contest at North Dakota State.
High School: Attended Astronaut High School in Titusville, Florida...recorded more than 100 tackles in each of his varsity seasons...earned all-conference, All-Space Coast and second-team all-state honors during a prep career in which he forced 20 fumbles, intercepted five passes and scored four touchdowns.
- OL, Fr., 6-2, 292
- Miami, Fla. (Christopher Columbus HS)
High School: Attended Christopher Columbus High School in Miami Florida.
Personal: Son of Michele Mazin…career goal is to own his own physical therapy facility…chose Florida Tech for the pre-med program…admires his uncle because he is very goal oriented and accomplishes his goals…in school, he was a member of the national Honors Society.
- QB, Fr., 6-1, 190
- Clearwater, Fla. (Countryside HS)
High School: Attended Countryside High School in Clearwater, Florida…in football, he recorded 19 throwing touchdowns, 12 running touchdowns and broke the record for most yards in a season and most completions…in football, won districts after 4 years going 9-1.
Personal: Son of Jim and Stacy Chmelik…brothers James and Cody played Division II football…career goal is to work in the field of astronomy…chose Florida Tech because it is close to home and its great academics…admires Coach Sabock because he is a good guy.
- DL, Fr., 6-3, 240
- Weston, Fla. (University School of NSU)
High School: Attended University School of NSU in Davie, Florida.
Personal: Son of Pablo and Valeria Savotinsky…chose Florida Tech for its football team…admires his dad because he is a hard worker…in school he was a member of the National Honors Society.
- WR, Fr., 5-11, 160
- Maitland, Fla. (Edgewater HS)
High School: Attended Edgewater High School in Orlando, Florida…participated in basketball, football and track….in football, he recorded 37 career touchdowns and 2000+ receiving yards.
Personal: Son of Bradley and Betsy Watkins…career goal is to play professional football…chose Florida Tech for its academics and football…admires his parents.
- DB, Fr., 5-11, 170
- Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (St. Thomas Aquinas HS)
High School: Attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida…played football and participated in track & field…helped team win back-to-back state championships in 2014 and 2015 in football…track & field team also won state championships…received Brad McKinney Memorial Award in track & field in 2015…member of Unity Council for football team…academically, he was a member of several National Honor Societies.
Personal: Son of Dennis and Veda Wright…father Dennis played football at Auburn University…career goal is to be an entertainment lawyer…chose Florida Tech because of the football coaches and players…admires his father because he knows him the best.
- OL, Fr., 6-4, 280
- San Antonio, Texas (Clark HS)
High School: Attended Clark High School in San Antonio, Texas…was a member of the Cougar's offensive line.
- OL, Fr., 6-4, 290
- Vero Beach, Fla. (Vero Beach HS)
High School: Attended Vero Beach High School in Vero Beach, Florida….awarded ESPN top 32 and all area 1st team as a junior.
Personal: Son of Ed and Sherry Hendricks.
- TE, Fr., 6-4, 230
- Tamarac, Fla. (J.P. Taravella HS)
High School: Attended J.P. Taravella High School in Tamarac, Florida…in football, he was the team leader in receptions and receiving yards.
Personal: Son of Ken and Maragaret Hiteman…career goal is to work in psychology or be a firefighter…chose Florida Tech because it is a good fit for him.
- DB, Fr., 6-2, 180
- Rockledge, Fla. (Rockledge HS)
High School: Attended Rockledge High School in Rockledge, Florida…participated in football, basketball and track…awarded team MVP in 2014 and placed fifth in the regional triple jump competition.
Personal: Willie Parker and Willette Hill…chose Florida Tech because of the high profile education and up and coming football program…career goal is to find a job that pays well and suits his character and personality…admires his mother because she raised him and his siblings as a single mother.
- OL, Fr., 6-3, 305
- Coral Springs, Fla. (J.P. Taravella HS)
High School: Attended J.P. Taravella High School in Coral Springs, Florida…participated in football and wrestling.
Personal: Son of Jerry and Barbara Sheridan…Step dad Jerry played football in college…chose Florida Tech for its academics and believes it is a good fit for him.
- TE, Fr., 6-3, 220
- Pompano Beach, Fla. (Pompano Beach HS)
High School: Attended Pompano Beach High School in Pompano Beach, Florida…participated in football and basketball…won back-to-back SFC championships…recorded 45 rec, 862 yards and 8 touchdowns.
Personal: Son of Victoria Young…career goal is to be a C.E.O…chose Florida Tech for its football program and rigorous engineering classes…admires his mother for raising him single handedly.
- DE, Fr., 6-3, 225
- North Miami, Fla. (Champagnet Catholic School)
High School: Champagnet Catholic School in Hialeah, Florida…In 2015 participated in the TOC Miami-Dade North vs. South All Star Game.
Personal: Son of Joseph and Marie Lucas…chose Florida Tech because it is close to home and its academics.
- DE, Fr., 6-3, 200
- St. Petersburg, Fla. (Palmetto HS)
High School: Attended Palmetto High School in Palmetto, Florida…participated in football and weightlifting…awarded defensive captain of the year.
Personal: Son of Darrell Pittman and Gina Henry…chose Florida Tech for the engineering program.
- WR, Fr., 6-3, 190
- Pickerington, Ohio (McArthur HS)
High School: Attended Flanagan High School in Pembroke Pines, Florida…participated in football and track…won district and regional championships.
Personal: Son of Sharese Watkins…chose Florida Tech because of the influence of the coaches and the football program… admires both of his parents because they have been through a lot and are successful.
- DB, Fr., 5-8, 155
- Fort Myers, Fla. (Riverdale HS)
High School: Attended Riverdale High School in Fort. Myers, Florida…in football, he recorded 9 interceptions and 82 tackles.
Personal: Son of Daniel and Marie Maliuert…brother Edwin plays football at Central Iowa...sister Lovely plays basketball at Hillsborough Community College…career goal is to be a mechanical engineer…chose Florida Tech for its academics and because the coaches treated him like family.
- DB, Fr., 5-11, 170
- Simpsonville, S.C. (Hillcrest HS)
High School: Attended Hillcrest High School in Simpsonville, South Carolina…participated in football and track….in football, helped team win 1st state championship in 2014….in track, won 1st region track championship in 2015.
Personal: Son of William and Vannetta Martin…career goal is to work in the field of Aerospace Engineering…chose Florida Tech for its Aerospace Engineering program…admires his parents.
- WR, Fr., 5-8, 180
- Greenville, S.C. (Hillcrest HS)
High School: Attended Hillcrest High School in Simpsonville, South Carolina….participated in football and track…in football, helped win state championships in 2014….in track, won the 4x100 state championship in 2015.
Personal: Son of Brian Spurgeon and Yolanda Fleming…chose Florida Tech for its academics.
- LB, Fr., 5-8, 190
- Miami, Fla. (Miami Northwestern HS)
High School: Attended Miami Northwestern High School in Miami, Florida…awarded most tackles on the football team for two years…awarded student-athlete award and played in the Miami-Dade North vs. South All Star Game.
Personal: Son of Henry and Kimberly Banks….career goal is to teach at an elementary school…chose Florida Tech for academics and its environment…admires his mom the most because she overcame obstacles and raised him well.
- DL, Fr., 5-11, 270
- Pembroke Pines, Fla. (Flanagan HS)
High School: Attended Charles W. Flanagan High School in Pembroke Pines, Florida….participated in Football and won state championships.
Personal: Son of Devin Bus and Jemeica Ray…chose Florida Tech because of the great coaching staff.
- DB, Fr., 6-0, 180
- Pembroke Pines, Fla. (Pembroke Pines Charter HS)
High School: Attended Pembroke Pines Charter High School in Pembroke Pines, Florida...was a varsity team captain...received a 3.23 S.T.E.A.L.T.H. rating...was a member of the S.T.E.A.L.T.H. top-35.
Personal: Son of Jakub and Kay Martinek…would like to go to medical school after graduation…chose Florida Tech for its excellent academic program and football program…admires his family for always supporting him.

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Birth Control Health Center
Cervical Cap for Birth Control - Topic Overview
The cervical cap is a barrier method of birth control. A cervical cap, which is made of rubber, fits tightly over the opening to the uterus (the cervix). It is used with a spermicide. You can insert the cap ahead of time or just before sex. To work best, the cap should be left in place for 6 hours after sex. Do not leave it in for more than 48 hours total. If you have sex more than one time while the cap is in place, you'll need to add more spermicide and check the position of the cap. To do this, put a small amount of spermicide on your finger, then insert your finger into your vagina to reach the cap. Make sure the cap is still in place. Don't remove the cap.
Prescription method
The cap requires a prescription from a doctor. Getting a cervical cap may require two visits to a doctor: one visit to fit the device, and a return visit with the cap already in place to be certain the woman is using it correctly.
Effectiveness in preventing pregnancy
The cervical cap is less effective for women who have had a vaginal birth. It is a better choice for women who have not had a vaginal delivery.
The difference in cervical cap failure rates for women who have borne children vaginally and those who have not may be due to changes in the cervix after vaginal delivery.
Effectiveness in preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
The cervical cap does not protect against sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including infection with HIV. The use of spermicides with nonoxynol-9 may increase your risk of getting HIV/AIDS. So be sure to use a condom for STI protection unless you know that you and your partner are infection-free.
Advantages of cervical cap
- It does not affect future fertility for either the woman or the man.
- It is used only at the time of sexual intercourse.
- It is safe to use while breast-feeding.
- It is less expensive than hormonal methods of birth control.


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I don't know if I'm in the right place or not. I apologize if this gets long. I just need some help with my son. I have suspected that he may have some sensitivities for quite awhile. Up until a couple of weeks ago, I've managed to keep everything under control. Then we had his 4 month shots...and nothing has been the same since. At first I thought it was just fall out from his shots. With the first round it was at least a week before he was back to normal. But it's been 3 weeks and it's just getting worse.
After the immunizations, he had a fever for 2 days. He has had patches of excema on his scalp, arms and a bit on his back since about 2 mos of age, I've controlled with 1 % hydrocortisone, dye free/perfume free detergents and organic fragrance free shampoo and lotions. All of a sudden the excema got worse and he got bright red spots on the back of each knee. I've stepped up the hydrocortisone and the knee spots are under control...but still there.
In addition to that he started having really weird poops. Not diarrhea, but really foul smelling, almost a gel consistency with "curdled" looking stuff, like large curd cottage cheese (sorry for the pictoral). Not too much of a rash with that, very controllable, but still worrisome. He also started spitting up/vomiting a lot more than ever. He would vomit up to an hour...hour and a half after he drank his bottle. Sometimes it would come up as partially digested formula, other times, clear fluid that smelled like vomit (and all he gets is formula, no juice, no water, no solids yet).
Last week he started to decline starting WEdnesday as far as his appetite. Keep in mind that through all of this, he's a happy boy. He doesn't scream with the spit up. Very interactive. No fever past the first 2 days post vax, 3 weeks ago. By Friday he had gone from 32 oz of formula per day...to only 10 oz...and I'm not sure how much of that he actually kept down. He only had 1 wet diaper. Still interactive. A little fussier than usual...but still talking and giving smiles. No fever. No diarrhea. We took him to the ER at the suggestion of the on call dr. I called because I was concerned about his lack of appetite. The ER doc was really worthless in my opinion. He said that he though it was a GI virus and that I should give him pedialyte and watch him closley and that he should be "done with it" in a couple of days.
Ok. So we did Pedialyte and 1/2 strenghth formula for about 24 - 36 hours. He finally seemed to be hungry...so we gave him full strength formula which he gulped down. Then the weird poop started. It's not diarrhea, but it's not normal either. Sometimes it's just a squirt and liquidy brownish/green. Other times it's bight green and soft. And there are other variations. This started Sunday night. Since then, he has had the worst rash. Bright red and spotty and so painful. I've been putting yeast/anti fungal cream on it. Giving plenty of air time. No wipes...etc, and he is just miserable...and still doing the whole spit up thing.
My instinct is that he has developed an allergy. I don't know how or why. My thought is that somehow the damn immunizations triggered it. I know there are different things out there...Alimentum, Nutramigen, Soy based. My fiance just got deployed. I just started a full time job. I'm in the middle of finding a new pediatrician. Life is stressful right now. I don't want to add more stress by picking the wrong thing to do. My first thought was Nutramigen, but as I read...I see that a lot of babies have allergies to that! Alimentum is like $25 for the small can! And Soy formula...well I know lot's of babies are allergic to that too...and it causes such gas and consitpation.
Along with all of the above, he has had minor nasal congestion for about 4 weeks without explanation. And today when I picked him up from daycare, his voice was hoarse...I don't know if he had been crying, if it's allergy related or if he's also getting a cold on top of everything else.
Help. Any advice. Any knowledge. Any support is welcome. Sorry for such a long post.


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After a few weeks without action -- and one very forgettable event overseas -- the UFC returns with The Ultimate Fighter finale on FX this Saturday night. The card, headlined by bantamweights Urijah Faber and Scott Jorgensen, will determine the reality show's 17th season.
The 17th season of the UFC's reality competition, where fighters compete for a contract, had 14 middleweights train under UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones and, the man he'll face on April 27, Chael Sonnen. This season is being lauded as one of the best ever. It combined great production with amazing fights to give viewers an enjoyable product each week. After three months, the fighters' journey concludes.
The final is between knockout artist Uriah Hall and wrestler Kelvin Gastelum. Both middleweights took different paths to the finals. Hall finished each of his three opponents via KO/TKO, including his vicious KO of Adam Cella. On the other hand, there's Gastelum. He won two of his three bouts via submission including his semifinal win over Josh Samman. Both fighters were members of Team Sonnen.
Understandably, Hall is the much hyped favorite to win it all. He's even been dubbed by UFC President Dana White as possibly the best TUF contestant ever. It'll be up to Gastelum to prove everyone wrong.
With the crown of TUF 17 and a UFC contract on the line, it's easy to forget how stacked the card is.
For example, the UFC women's bantamweight division continues its growth as Miesha Tate and Cat Zingano square off. There's more than just pride on the line with an extra incentive for the winner.
White announced that the winner of Tate vs. Zingano will coach opposite of UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey on the 18th season of The Ultimate Fighter. It will be the first time the show will have female coaches and it will include 135-pound fighters -- men and women. Not only will the winner coach opposite Rousey, but they will also earn a title shot.
Tate, who lost her Strikeforce title to Rousey, is looking to end Zingano's undefeated start and get her rematch with Rousey. Zingano, who few knew of before her signing, is looking to prove she belongs and should be considered an elite fighter in the ever-growing division.
Two other bantamweights are also on the verge of title contention in the men's 135-pound division.
Sacramento's Urijah Faber goes up against Scott Jorgensen on the card's main event. Faber, coming off of a submission victory over Ivan Menjivar at UFC 157 on Feb. 23, is back in the octagon less than two months later. It was rumored that Faber was on the verge of being released from the promotion and another loss could signal his end. Faber answered those rumors with one of his best performances in recent years and, with a win, could be next in line for the bantamweight title.
On the other hand, Jorgensen has been out of action since last December. A victory over Faber could help stabilize his career and give him momentum in a shallow division.
The top three fights on the card should give fans plenty to talk about and look forward to, but there are ten other fights hoping to steal the show:
Faber vs. Jorgensen: Faber
Hall vs. Gastelum: Hall
Tate vs. Zingano: Zingano
Travis Browne vs. Gabriel Gonzaga: Browne
Robert McDaniel vs. Gilbert Smith: McDaniel
Josh Samman vs. Kevin Casey: Samman
Luke Barnatt vs. Collin Hart: Hart
Dylan Andrews vs. Jimmy Quinlan: Andrews
Clint Hester Vs. Bristol Marunde: Hester
Cole Miller vs. Bart Palaszewski: Miller
Sam Sicilia vs. Maximo Blanco: Sicilia
Justin Lawrence vs. Daniel Pineda: Pineda
Nitesh Dutt is a production assistant at Comcast SportsNet Bay Area. Follow him on Twitter @NiteshDutt.


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New Crisis Grips Yugoslavia Over Rotation of Leadership
By CELESTINE BOHLEN,
Published: May 16, 1991
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, May 15— The leadership of Serbia plunged this volatile country into a constitutional crisis today by blocking the installation of a Croat as federal President, a position that in the decade since the death of Tito has automotically rotated each year among the six republics.
The maneuver by Serbia, the largest of the country's six republics, was seen as a last-minute attempt to maintain dominance over the fragile federation. It left the country without a head of state or a commander of the armed forces as of midnight tonight, as members of the federal presidency, the supreme constitutional body, adjourned to resume talks on Thursday.
Although there is some hope that a compromise will emerge, many fear this latest crisis will only hasten the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia.
Under Yugoslavia's Constitution, it was Croatia's turn today to assume the leadership of the eight-member federal presidency. But at a meeting that had been expected to be a ceremonial transfer of power, the departing Yugoslav President, Borisav Jovic, who represents Serbia, stunned the country by leading the voting against Stipe Mesic, the representative of Croatia. Until now, the voting has been a formality.
"Serbia has staged a camouflaged coup d'etat," said Milan Kucan, the President of the republic of Slovenia. "At this moment there is no Yugoslavia."
If he is able to take the post, Mr. Mesic would become the first non-Communist to assume the chairmanship of the collective presidency. In the 1970's, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges that he was a member of a Croatian terrorist group.
Although the 57-year-old Mr. Mesic had the support of Slovenia, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as Croatia, a federal President cannot be seated without a majority, or five votes. Representatives of Serbia's two internal provinces -- which had been autonomous until last year -- joined Mr. Jovic in voting against Mr. Mesic, while the representative of Montenegro, a close ally of Serbia in Yugoslavia's political disputes, abstained.
As he left the meeting tonight, Mr. Mesic said that as long as talks continue a full constitutional crisis could be postponed, adding that further attempts to keep him from the Presidency would have the most dire consequences. 'The Constitution Is Clear'
"It just cannot happen," he said. "The Constitution is clear. It should be and it must be me and those who voted against me must reconsider. They are breaking Yugoslavia apart and ruining the Presidency."
One possible resolution could involve the seating of Montenegro's designated representative to the federal presidency. The confirmation of Montenegro's nominee was held up last week in the federal Parliament, along with those of the Kosovo and Vojvodina, the two Serbian provinces that were stripped of their autonomy last year. In explaining his vote to abstain, Montenegro's acting representative, Momir Bulatovic, said he could not support Mr. Mesic as long as his republic's nominee, who is in line for the vice-presidency, is not seated.
No matter what the outcome of Thursday's talks, the actions by Serbia today again served to heighten the bitter rivalry between Serbs and Croats, the two largest nations in Yugoslavia's multi-ethnic mosaic. In the last year the Serbs and Croats have revived their historic enmity, and recent violent incidents in areas within Croatia with sizable Serbian populations have polarized the two nations, prompting extremists on each side to call on civilians to take up arms.
At the forefront of Serbia's new assertiveness is the republic's President, Slobodan Milosevic. A leader of Yugoslavia's Communist Party, now called the Socialists, Mr. Milosevic was re-elected to the Serbian leadership last December. 'Fingers Are on the Trigger'
Although many experts on Yugoslav politics suggested that Serbia was bluffing in the hope of getting political concessions, they warned the consequences of the move were still dangerous. "Fingers are on the trigger all over the place," said one Western diplomat.
"This has taken us to the top of the political crisis with unforeseen political consequences for all of us," said Vasil Tupurkovski, Macedonia's representative on the presidency, after learning an hour before the meeting of Serbia's intentions. "I am struck by the irresponsibility of the decision."
Both Yugoslav and foreign observers interpreted Serbia's move as a bald attempt to keep control over the national political dialogue as the country lurches from crisis to crisis. Privately, Serbian leaders have said they can not accept a Croatian president at a time when other top positions in the federal government are held by Croats, among them Prime Minister Ante Markovic.
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Electronics for Imaging, Inc. (NASDAQ:EFII)
2012 Citi Technology Conference Transcript
September 4, 2012 10:30 AM ET
Vincent Pilette - Chief Financial Officer
Jim Suva - Citigroup
Asiya Merchant - Citigroup
Jim Suva - Citigroup
Good morning, everyone. And thank you for joining us here to Citigroup Technology Conference. This session is for Electronics for Imaging. My name is Jim Suva. I'm the IT Hardware and Technology Supply Chain Analyst here at Citi. On the stage we are very pleased to have with us the Chief Financial Officer, Vincent Pilette. Also on our stage is Asiya Merchant, who works with me.
To begin things, Vincent has a handful of slides, about 10 to 15 slides, just to give a brief overview of Electronics for Imaging, as well as some recent results and trends. I already have had a few investors approach me with a questions and my response has been, I think it's a great opportunity to ask Vincent some questions. So we are going to reserve a majority of the time here for investor's questions-and-answers.
As a reminder, this is being webcast. So we ask that you raise hand to make sure the microphone get to you. As a warning to let you know, not to be alarmed mid-way during this presentation, I will excuse myself as I hand hosting the keynotes, and I do have to go get some makeup put on, simply to look good, I do need to get a [tan] in between now and the next hour.
Accordingly, I'll turn it over to wonderful, Vincent, as well as Asiya, and again, thank you for joining us. This is Vincent, the CFO of Electronics for Imaging. Vincent?
Vincent Pilette
Thank you, Jim. I'm coming from California the needs in the [tan] makeup. Good morning, everyone. This morning someone confused Electronics for Imaging with Electronic Arts. So I thought I would use a few slides to quickly give you an overview of what we are doing.
We are a company focus on developing hardware and software solutions for the print industry, and before I go into the market and the structure of the firm, let me just quickly refresh Q2 results.
Q2 finishing in June reported record revenue of $164 million, 16% year-over-year, and for our company it was the 10th consecutive quarter of year-over-year double-digit growth. For company -- technology company it's not that extraordinary, for technology company addressing the print industry is definitely very good result.
We've had record revenue for a many of our segments that we are now have diversified into over the last few years, record revenue for our Inkjet segment, record revenue for our software business, record revenue for our recurring revenue, 10 years ago, if I was a transactional base company today we have about 26% our revenue stream on the recurring basis and that's also maintenance and ink revenue.
We've been growing profit margin and EBITDA faster than revenue. We see here EPS in Q2 up 30% year-over-year versus revenue of 16%. And then, lately, we announced the sales of our headquarter building creating or increasing our cash per share of $3, when the transaction will be close in October we'll have about $7 per share of cash no debt, 45% of our market cap in cash.
Considering the macro environment, we gave cautionary guidance for Q3 with growth of 2% to 5% and EPS of $0.25 to $0.27.
So we are a niche player. We're focusing on developing technology solutions for the print industry. The overall print industry is over a trillion dollar is indicative decline, but within that there is lot of activities that are still produced in an analog way and that will move towards the digital way of producing printing, and that's what, yes, I will be focusing on.
We've positioned our portfolio on those growth segments, transformative segments within that print industry and we've created an ecosystem of hardware, software, ink and maintenance solution if you want to help print professionals migrate toward those high-end, color on-demand type of print activity.
And we've transform our business model from 10 years ago being 100% control for multifunction printers into now being a diversified portfolio focusing on production and industrial printers migrating from analog into digital printing.
The market dynamics we've been leveraging over the last few years are three-fold. First, there is a lot of printing activities still migrating from black and white printing, high volume printing into the first analog short run color printing activity and as a result, as request a lot faster turnaround more CPU power, software power for print professional to produce those on-demand print material.
Secondly, there is a lot of industrial aspect of printing, like printing on labels, printing on ceramic, that are still very much analog today that are being transform as new digital solution are being introduced. Those are activity of printing as will not be indicative decline if there is no electronic counterpart if you want like in the up its way if I not or like any somebody do casual printing.
And then the third dynamic is that, commercial printers as industries consolidate have an increasing need for our robust software ERP tailored for their print production environment and have adapted software technology to automate their business processes. Those are the three fundamental market dynamics that we've been leveraging.
We organize the company in three segments. The first one is the industrial segment, about 45% of our revenue, long-term gross model of 10% to 15% and we've been delivering that for the last two and half years, its mix of printer revenue and ink revenue. Gross margin expanding as we introduce new product into the environment and as the ink revenue is also increasing as they install these increases.
The Fiery segment, that's where EFI started, the controller for high-end multifunction printers becoming really and the client sitting in front of multifunction printers leveraging that more on-demand color quality printing that being required and in the -- and that's about 35% of our revenue steam today growing at about GDP plus overall.
And then the third segment is the Productivity Software, ERP for print professionals automating the business processes for commercial and industrial print manufacturers or print producers. It's a segment that is being going 10% to 20% on an organic basis and has been expanding the margin as we scale the software business.
You can see here that we have been the fast growing company for the print industry 2010, 26% supplying gross, 2011, 17%, in the first half 14% to 150 in Q2, the -- driven by gross in our two direct sales of business, the business where we sale directly to print professionals, the industrial Inkjet and the Productivity Software. And then we have Fiery, that's more on a cyclical basis, on the long-term basis, having a gross more align to our GDP business.
Some investor asking me, how we've been posting those results by looking the print industry. And I think the main, the core of that is, how we position the portfolio, where we are not is in the analog and what we call the commodity printing.
So we not, we don't have any analog revenue stream to offset and we don't have, some of our product positions on what we call commodity printing, let take the office for example, these people will print less emails, people will print less presentation, that's where we are not.
We are where people are really producing material as a profession if you want. Is the out-of-home advertising, labeling the ceramic, it's those areas, and that's what has enabled us at the core to produce the gross which has been produce.
Our total addressable market is around $4 billion, half of that is from the industrial Inkjet space where different industries are growing at different pace, whether it's construction for ceramic or graphics, or out-of-home advertising for display graphics, but in which the growth rate have been accelerated by the transition from analog to digital.
After that we have the Productivity Software segments, $600 million display graphics, none has been, if you add the ERP for label market, growing at 5% to 7%. Overall, it's a big market that still needs to be penetrated from a digital solution perspective.
EFI main competitive advantage is at the core of the technology that it brings basically an ecosystem of hardware and software integration to help with the process of making print production more efficient in the digital space.
As I mentioned about five to seven years ago, we posted record revenue quarter and the company was very different than today. Q2 of 2012, five years later is also record revenue but a much more balanced company.
At the time, the economy was strong, today obviously customers require very clear ROIs. Financing solutions are not as easy and the environment requires us to explain the ROI of our solution a lot better.
We had over 65% that's coming from the controller Fiery business that takes down to 35% and the portfolio is a lot more balanced. We've build overtime a direct sales force, today about 68% of our revenue is coming from a direct sales force, when 10 years ago it was 100% to print manufacturers, so a very diversified go-to-market model as well.
We have the ecosystem as the main competitive advantage that compares have not replicated and we focus not only on innovation but also customer intimacy and operational excellence.
So that has enabled us to grow double-digit now for 10 quarter on a year-over-year basis and expand profit margin pretty healthily, as a result of gross margin expansion and OpEx leverage.
We've been focusing also on optimizing working capital and creating cash flow from operations at about one-time operating profit, so good cash generation business. And then as I mentioned, we have, at this point in time $92 million of cash and cash equivalent to which we are going to add $150 million of cash, net of tax from the building sales in California.
We established a long-term business model, about 10% year-over-year growth, with the main growth coming from the Inkjet segment and the software business. Gross margin in target model of 55% to 57%, we are at this point in time at the bottom of that range and going into that range, an OpEx leverage of 40% to 44%. For the first time last quarter, we are below the 44%.
And as business model continues to shift towards Inkjet solutions, we are going to have a lower OpEx rate. And that enabled us to get into the 12% to 15% operating profit margin, 12% in Q2 of 2012.
That's in a nutshell what implies about a growing addressable market through the transition from analog to digital, very good solid momentum profit expansion in our core business. We have lots of new product innovation in the Inkjet and software space.
We've built some resilient in our business model, with now 26% of our revenue being recurrent. We've demonstrated obviously that we could operate on our initial opportunity and we have a very strong balance sheet at this point in time.
So, I'll stop here.
Question-and-Answer Session
Jim Suva - Citigroup
Great. Thank you very much and thank, again, come have see with us here. So as we kind of look at things, maybe if I could start things off, the clock has 11 minutes. So actually have 10 additional minutes beyond that also for investor Q&A. But when we think about the big picture current demand environment, can you maybe characterize what you're seeing to date from an end demand, say maybe, first half of the year versus currently as the evolving company?
Vincent Pilette
Yeah. So we have really two dynamics going on. The first one is in the direct business, what we call the direct business, which is really Inkjet and Software. We've been growing those businesses at around 40% year-over-year in the first half of 2012, some of that is coming from acquisitions. The organic growth is being double-digit in each of those product segments and we see that growth rate to continue in the second half of 2012 and going into '13.
Now by quarter it maybe slightly different but at the core it's really the migration from analog to digital, creating better ROI for print professionals and those trend are structuring nature and while they may impact the curve on the short-term due to macro volatility, we will see -- we will continue to see a strong growth.
So we've guided Q3 for those two businesses at 25% and 20% year-over-year, we see slightly lower than the first half, the difference is very good, healthy gross rate on an organic basis.
Jim Suva - Citigroup
And Vincent, any particular geographic areas that are stronger versus weaker?
Vincent Pilette
Yeah. And to talk about the geographic environment, the two dynamics were Inkjet and software, and the second dynamic is on the Fiery business on the controllers. And in that area, our growth rate is more aligned to the product innovation from the print manufacturers, our partners, semi terminals are recalled and we see 2012 being kind of the weak year with new products, multifunction products coming out more at the end of the year and first half of '13. So we still expect the second half of 2012 to be weak like in the first half as well.
From a geographic perspective, we've seen very good growth in Asia. Admittedly, still a small part of our business about 15% to 18%, so we've seen increasingly for high quality pricing where color on-demand printing starts to matter more and more. And in Q2, all of our business lines outside of Japan, in Asia we're growing double digits, so very strong growth in Asia.
When we talk about more volatile and uncertain environment, obviously Europe comes to mind. Our end-users are still doing very good business and we measure that through basically the in-consumption, which we get daily reports on. We still see good activities from that perspective, but big capital purchases are being more questioned or pushed out considering the overall financing concern.
Jim Suva - Citigroup
So, as we think about your intended use of cash, you have a very healthy balance sheet. Can you talk about your priorities for cash such as stock buyback, which you gave this morning, had an important announcement that maybe you can remind people who are traveling here today?
Vincent Pilette
Jim Suva - Citigroup
Dividend, acquisitions and investors before the meeting start actually asking, why doesn't the company go private?
Vincent Pilette
Yeah. So a couple of things. When we think about cash, my first focus and the first focus of the management team was through 2010 and 2011, coming out of the recession was to improve working capital and cash generation. We believe we'll achieve a good momentum in 2011 generating cash from operations at about one-time operating profit. Last year it was $72 million.
So that's the primary focus. When it comes to using that cash, our number one priority is to continue the momentum on M&A that we've had. We have a very good M&A framework. In software, we have a unique position where we are the number one player, having ERP sales for the print industry.
All competitors in that space are very small in nature with $100 million annual run rate of revenues compared to our $5 million to $10 million, and rolling up acquisitions there to acquire customer list is a priority, establishing each heads in different countries where we are not yet to be able to upsell our currency. It is a strategy you can -- you continue to see activities in that area. We didn't do M&A framework of certain strategy to expand the addressable market.
We've acquired Cretaprint in January of this year. Basically, taking our ecosystem I talked about to move it from display graphic and labels where we were into now printing on ceramic tiles and bringing that expertise to the ceramic industry. And we continue to explore opportunity to increase this.
And so rolling up software, increasing international revenue stream and increasing addressable market. In the M&A strategy, you will see more active -- you'll continue to see activity in that area in using cash. Second priority in term of cash usage is dividend. Sorry, it's a buyback.
It's a buyback. We've announced this morning a $100 million buyback which the board authorized. We intend to execute that in the next 18 months, finishing it hopefully by Jan of 2013. Obviously, we believe we undervalued with about half of our market captivity in cash to be less than half. Definitely buying back stock is a good opportunity and that's what we started.
And then we -- post dividend, we continued to explore all different options to optimize cash usage but there is nothing in different to point to out.
Jim Suva – Citigroup
Great. And Vincent, when you look at it, rank the company as CFO and welcome with your executive management team, for investors who are looking at EFI for the big picture. What are some of the key factors? Do you look at unemployment rate? Do you look at GDP? Do you look at CPI? What are kind of the some of the bigger metrics that you look at as you run your company?
Vincent Pilette
So before joining EFI, I was at HP for 14 years and in that area, you can really look at unemployment GDP by country and that matters for your business. In our case, really a niche player and so it's a lot more less relevant, I would say to look at the big mean driver.
I would say outside of Fiery where I would align Fiery to GDP type of growth. GDP plus because we had some opportunity to gain share and I can explain that. GDP for Fiery is the main one.
For the other businesses, you could look for ceramic tile printing construction for display, graphic, out of home advertising. For labeling, you can look at different things like food industry et cetera but in reality, we are positioned as the niche player trying to transform analogs into digital print production processes. And there is no big macro level there to measure.
And even if at GDP, for example, GDP is not as strong as we would want, you may still have a lot of print producers that seems force to automate the business pluses to move from analog into digital space, which give us the growth opportunity that we have.
Asiya Merchant - Citigroup
Great. I'll carry forward for Jim. Can you talk a little bit about the competitive dynamics in your space?
Vincent Pilette
Asiya Merchant - Citigroup
Who are some of your major competitors? Obviously, HP, Xerox, Cannon, they are large printers.
Vincent Pilette
Asiya Merchant – Citigroup
But who else plays in this niche market that you've talked to us about?
Vincent Pilette
So couple of things. First, you need to look at bi-segment from a competitive perspective. There is no company that has a similar portfolio than EFI from that perspective. We are unique. When you look at Fiery, 35% of our revenue stream, we are almost -- we are the leading provider of third party digital front-end for multifunction printers.
The other competitor or third party CLEO that Kodak has, it has all of the dynamic associated with Kodak's bankruptcy. I think they are convincing customers to when they buy multifunction printers to buy a digital front-end is really what we are working on and trying to get ship from CLEO and making sure we can increase the attach rate to a multifunction printer.
When you look at inkjet, 45% of our revenue stream, the two main competitors are HP and Durst. URC a private company in Europe, HP is present in display graphics and label. Durst is present in display graphics, labels and ceramic like we are. I would say there is different market share by market sub segments roughly about this insight in some of the market share.
But the company dynamic is very different and EFI's unique proposition is to integrate the software solution, the information of the work flow with the hardware solution and ink solution and have an ecosystem that enables the print professionals to automate their business process.
Our vision is to have like a data center a live house print production model where there is no more need for laborer under print production flow is an example. And then when you come to software, it's really a unique position. I think we remember one player by wide margin. The market juristic are very special in this very fragmented market and is still a lot of home growing [tools if you want some as] operations and to moving from home growing to professional ERP is the dynamic in that market.
Asiya Merchant - Citigroup
Okay. Talking a little bit about margins, clearly an impressive improvement in margins and you commented on how continued shift towards your Inkjet business will help to further drive your margins towards your long-term model. Can you comment -- can you elaborate on that a little bit?
Vincent Pilette
Couple of things or two or three dynamics happened in the P&L. So first of all, on pure segment rate business, we'd been working on improving operations, improving our cost structure and expanding the profit margin of each one of the individual business segment as you've seen on the chart.
When we talk about the overall EFI, we have a mix shift. Fiery is a very profitable business. Software is a very profitable business with software characteristics. Inkjet is profitable but with different characteristics, different gross margin, different operating profit margin. And so when you have this mix shift with more Inkjet and less Fiery, the difference we have in gross margin pressure and gross margin trending down. Some of that is upset by improvement in margin rate in software and inkjet but is not really enough to fully offset that.
However, inkjet also carries less OpEx, less R&D dedicated to software development like a software business in the inkjet space. And therefore the OpEx that an inkjet segment carries a percent of revenue is lower than a software segment and that helps us getting into this 40% to 44% long-term range of OpEx as a percent of revenue.
Last quarter was a first quarter we were within that range, on the sub end of the range and as we continue to migrate the business model, you can see that range diminishing.
Asiya Merchant - Citigroup
Okay. Any questions from investors, we have got 10 more minutes. And if you can please raise your hands, you'll have the microphone.
Question-and-Answer Session
Unidentified Analyst
(Inaudible) new to the store, can you talk a little bit more about analog and digital transition. Why it's important and why may be similar transitions in other parts of the printing industry didn't pan out?
Vincent Pilette
Yeah. So different segment of the print industry has been digitized at different level. If you talk about display graphics, the out of home advertising, the billboards et cetera and from an output perspective, digital roughly used in different numbers but from 40%, 45% digital from an output view. And the dynamic is really driven by the market peers, the marketing people asking more on-demand personalized short and long timeframe where only the digital solution can provide that.
And so that has happened 10, 15 years ago and has been in full swing. When we talk about other areas, there are different stages. There are about printing on ceramic tile for example. They have penetrated about 10% digital within the acceleration of the penetration rate since 2009.
Before that it was fully analog in virtual prepresses and people coming with a lot of price inventories et cetera to produce and the Inkjet technology is now good enough for that manufacturing environment which is very dirty edit environment and the ROI has been very compelling for ceramic tile manufactures to up a different applications that Inkjet can offer, analog cannot offer. And so that has clearly the acceleration of the penetration rate and we believe that there is no limit, could be 100% digital in a few years and we were at the beginning of that process.
If you look at labels, its about 9.2% digital and it's a slow adoption rate. And the two reasons for that, one is the technology from an Inkjet perspective for Inkjet to very small fonts on a box, medicine for example. The technology it not as equipped as the analog technology. And then the second driver is the supply chain in that industry has not we adapted to on demand packaging or labeling yet.
We believe it will happen, the question is when and the need for that the technology to have fully course to the analog price remain lot more same. So different dynamic in each industry, which create different space of adoption from analog to digital perspective.
Asiya Merchant - Citigroup
To Mike (inaudible).
Unidentified Analyst
Do you -- how do you confirm what I call the new generation of print companies just the print in the other on demand printers, there is another one that recently went public?
Vincent Pilette
Yeah. Yeah. So we cannot serve on the same dynamics. So Vistaprint is using basically internet collect your print job in Q1 and have massive print production environment to producing scale and lower the price and bit of on demand.
And offering if you want enables commercial printers to compete with that buying web-to-print software, for example to put their store online and also capture some of that demand online. So it basically offering similar dynamics then Vistaprint enabling those commercial printers to compete.
We brought a small company in Germany, December of last year when I visited them, one customer of that company we acquired was going to go bankrupt and rather than filling bankruptcy, they started to outsource their printing operations to bigger scale commercial printers and involved web-to-point solutions to just leave -- alive the share of the brand name in that local town and acquired job online and then outsource them to a bigger commercial printers. That's one application of that kind of software. That's why our software business has been going double digit now for -- from encore.
Asiya Merchant - Citigroup
Question here please.
Unidentified Analyst
Could you comment on the Wide-Format opportunity and how that's maybe tied in with economy and marketing spend?
Vincent Pilette
Yeah. So obviously, the Wide-Format and Superwide-Format offering side to the out-of-home advertising dynamic if you want with billboards, point of purchase signage et cetera are being now printed in a digital way on demand personalized and short run. The out-of-home advertising is the second advertising segment in term of gross right behind internet and then below that you have some negative one like TV marketing as an example. So, it still growing, obviously it will fluctuate with overall macro level environment. Last year, it was falling and this year, it still growing.
Currently, the dynamic there we've seen is still very positive. We've had over 11 quarter of double digit ink volume growth and that's our way to measure how our customers are doing from a business perspective. So double digit growth from an ink volume perspective the 11th quarter now and Q2 was in line there. So very strong growth from there, We believe they're gaining jobs from the analog ways and from the out-of-home advertising board that we have seen.
And then the third dynamic is that we continue to innovating that environment. We continue to come up with new products. We -- EFI has about four new products coming out in the next six months in the second half of 2012.
Last year, we came out with a new technology, the LED carrying the ink in a cold environment rather than heated environment which increased the application and lowered the cost. And innovation is really the way to continue to drop the printer growth in that segment. The printer growth is CapEx related and maybe more impact to what the macro level environment is.
Jim Suva - Citigroup
And how penetrated is that markets with digital?
Vincent Pilette
From a market perspective, we believe its 40, 45.
Jim Suva - Citigroup
Can you talk about your ink business and what the competitive dynamics there looks like and what percent of penetration of your existing customer base you have in that business?
Vincent Pilette
Yeah. Yeah. So, in the inkjet segment, industrial inkjet 45% of EFI revenue, we still have more printer revenue than ink revenue. And the reason is that the conversions from analog to digital is still going in full swing. And therefore the goal is really to dismiss the analog guys and increasing the installed base for us. So we're focusing on the printer revenue. It still the majority of our revenue stream in that inkjet segment.
Second to that is the ink revenue, which has a better margins and is really proprietary to the printer. So those are big machines that to buy $0.5 million purchase price and you need to buy the ink and have EFI ink, you have an EFI printer service and warranty et cetera.
And so the attach rate to the printer is roughly 98%. The vast majority of our printer as attached ink. We provide -- we manufacture and provider the ink for the display graphic brands as VUTEk and Rastek. We manufacture and provide the ink for the labeling printer, which is the label for Jetrion and then we acquired Cretaprint for the ceramic tile printing industry that was printer only. And in that market, the ceramic tile manufacturing market, the ink is not proprietary to the printer and its provided by [Greece] companies for main big provider and that's obviously an opportunities for us to continue to turn that into be applied on, manufacture our ink and attach it to our product.
Unidentified Analyst
Can you comment in on how that announcement by Lexmark to, in case, that might affect in your sales?
Vincent Pilette
So, Lexmark is more in the office on the inkjet. They are not in the industrial inkjet segment that's why we are not. There is one of the confusion people had many times when we hear about HP result asking how does the inkjet on the debt committing back you assigned, the answer is none.
We are uniquely focused on industrial inkjet, which means providing again hardware and software and increasing for print professionals that has for their profession cruising on different materials could be ceramic tile printing with the construction industry, could be display graphics for the marketing industry and that's why we're not impacted by that, we not in the office.
Asiya Merchant - Citigroup
And does that also relate to your Fiery business, so the controllers there the multifunction printer controllers?
Vincent Pilette
So, Fiery, is also positioned on the high-end multifunction printers, where someone will have fully profession to managed the print floor with multiple printers and we need to have professional training to manage those suit. You will not find the Fiery in a whole way of a lot.
Asiya Merchant - Citigroup
Okay. I think we're out of time. At this point, we'll wrap it up.
Vincent Pilette
Thank you.
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I enjoyed reading Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette." It was a quick, amusing read and I found her quirky characters interesting.
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