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Dye, not bleach. I used a level three dye, loreal possibly, and it wasn't the shade i wanted. That's the perils of trying to describe "medium brown".
Anyway, i wasn't sure how long i had to give my hair a break before i do it again.
Anyway, i wasn't sure how long i had to give my hair a break before i do it again.
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Re: how soon can you re-dye hair?Sun, August 17, 2008 - 9:41 PMAre you going to stay at the same level or darker? Or do you want it lighter?
If it's too dark, I'd give it a few days, wash it a few times, and see if it fades a bit. If that's not enough, you may have to use a color remover or bleach. Color won't lighten color. If you do want it lighter, I'd recommend going to a professional, as bleaching at home can be a disaster.
If it's the tone, you can use a semi-permanent color to adjust (i.e. if it's too gold or too ash) as soon as you like. You can use permanent color right away, but the health of your hair would be compromised. I'd give it a couple of weeks, otherwise, if you can stand it.
Re: how soon can you re-dye hair?Sun, August 17, 2008 - 9:46 PMhmmm. Well, my hair is dark brown, i was looking for a lighter, richer brown without getting too far from my true shade and what i wound up with was, umm......a different shade of dark brown? I mean, really it's kinda hard to describe a million different tones of the same color. It actually looked darker than my natural color, but now that i've washed it once it's lightening up. If it continues to lighten with each shampoo it *will* hit the shade i was wanting pretty soon. Maybe i'll wait.
So what's the difference between a "tone" that you're talking about and a whole 'nother color?
Re: how soon can you re-dye hair?Mon, August 18, 2008 - 8:08 AMSo, Level is lightness or darkness. Generally, the scale goes from 1-10 or 1-12, depending on the color line-1 being black, or the darkest, and 11-12 being the lightest blond.
Tone is the underlying color-gold, ash, red, etc.
So a cooler tone, i.e. Ash, Violet, are going to look darker.
Warmer tones, gold, etc. reflect more light, so appear lighter. Make sense? do you still have the box from the color you used? it will say if it's ash or gold, or whatever.
So it sounds like you ended up with a different tone of the same level, if that makes sense. the same level of darkness, but the underlying pigment color was changed. and if it was the same level, but seemed darker, it may have been more ash, or cool toned.
Re: how soon can you re-dye hair?Mon, August 18, 2008 - 8:16 AMAlso, for everyone's info-permanent haircolor can have primary and secondary pigments-the primary pigments are a smaller molecule, and will penetrate into the cortex of the hair. The secondary pigment are a larger molecule, and will sit halfway in the cuticle. Sometimes with permanent color, the first time or two you wash it, you'll get some bleeding of the color. That is the secondary pigment washing out. The secondary pigment will also make a color appear darker at first.
So if you find you've gotten a color that seems to dark, give it a few washes to get the secondary pigment out, and see if that makes a difference, before trying a chemical to change the color.
Re: how soon can you re-dye hair?Mon, August 18, 2008 - 8:18 AMOne more thing, Jessica-was your hair colored or lightened before you put this color on? If your hair is really porous from previous processing, color can grab and end up darker than you expected.
Re: how soon can you re-dye hair?Mon, August 18, 2008 - 8:24 AMyep, my hair is never exactly the color i want when i first dye but after a few days to a week it sets in to what i want. give it a little time before you mess with it again.
Re: how soon can you re-dye hair?Mon, August 18, 2008 - 8:33 AMjessica my heart is with you.
I have to go through this againmyself.
I love the color after about a week and 2 or 3 washings.
i am going to try henna this time for fun.
Re: how soon can you re-dye hair?Mon, August 18, 2008 - 9:44 AMbe careful with henna.
I read this on a discussion board just now:
"Compound henna often reacts badly with synthetic hair dyes and other chemical hair products! If you use compound henna soon after you have done your hair with para-phenylenediamine dyes, your hair may be brittle, trashed, and may turn frog butt green or offshore sewage outlet black. Compound hennas have metallic salts which react disasterously with the ammonia in synthetic hair dye. Problem is ... many pre-mixed henna powders do NOT have these ingredients listed!
I haven't had experience with this-as a colorist I don't use henna-but I have heard of people having bad experiences using synthetic color over henna. I don't know about putting henna over synthetic color.
General advice is that if you are going to use henna, look for body-quality henna.
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Re: how soon can you re-dye hair?Mon, August 18, 2008 - 10:40 AMHenna should never be used on chemically colored hair. It won't take or it will damage.
Chemical color should not be applied to recently hennaed hair, I would wait several weeks and do a lot of shampooing.
If you are going to color, you have to commit to one or the other. I'm glad I chose henna, almost 15 years ago.
Re: how soon can you re-dye hair?Mon, August 18, 2008 - 1:08 PMat any rate, I'd recommend doing a test strand if you are planning on using henna on previously color-treated hair.
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Using this simple system, between 1976-96 he was able to generate 23% average annual returns, which was at least 7.5% better than the total value stock universe. He also shorted stocks that ranked very poorly with his system.
Of course, anyone who can generate these sort of gains is open to criticism of enormous proportions. Some claimed that his system did not pick better stocks on average, but that some error must have been made to include value stocks that went on to make abnormally high returns.
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Piotroski had a two-prong investment system that he wrote about in 2000. First he bought stocks that ranked highly in his "strong and increasing" fundamental scan, and he shorted stocks that ranked poorly.
We will not go so far as to suggest shorting these S&P 500 stocks, but will only recommend selling them if you have read his paper and believe that his theory holds true. Which stocks in the S&P 500 rank poorly using his nine-point system?
- AK Steel (NYSE:AKS)
- Allegheny Technologies (NYSE:ATI)
- Baker Hughes (NYSE:BHI)
- Electronic Arts (ERTS)
- Genzyme (GENZ)
- Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ:HBAN)
- Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE:IPG)
- Invesco (NYSE:IVZ)
- Monster Worldwide (NYSE:MWW)
- Omnicom Group (NYSE:OMC)
- Roper Industries (NYSE:ROP)
- Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S)
- SCANA Corp. (NYSE:SCG)
- Tesoro (NYSE:TSO)
- MEMC Electronic Materials (WFR)
- Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB)
- United States Steel (NYSE:X)
Briefly Looking at a Couple Examples of Low FSCORES
United States Steel has negatives across the board when it comes to profit margin, operating margin, return on assets and equity, gross profit, and net income. The debt ratio is very high. The book value is under 2, since this stock is being hammered. The high short ratio of 16.6% is deserved. Negative earnings surprises have been the three-quarter norm.
MEMC Electronic Materials is plagued by missing EPS estimates for the last three quarters as well. While it expects a massive turnaround with quadruple digit EPS growth this quarter, and 500% growth next year, the past five years of negative 35.56% growth provides lingering doubts. Also, with a PE over twice the Industry average, this is already highly valued. The PEG is not low with 1.91 and average analyst consensus seems to suggest holding. Although it has a marginally positive profit margin slightly below 1%, the operating margin is negative, as is return on assets. It also carries substantial debt which will prove troublesome if markets decline.
Not everyone will agree with this type of fundamental scanning, just as I imagine recommending to sell some of their S&P 500 holdings will seem unsatisfactory to some. After performing due diligence and reading up on how the FSCORE system works, you may want to consider selling off these stocks, or at least putting in well-calculated stop-losses. Keeping a close eye on how the S&P 500 reacts as it nears the 1300 resistance (breakout stocks listed here) will provide other trading suggestions.
Stay tuned, as in the future I will combine this strategy with momentum investing for a statistically improved result borne out in published research papers.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.


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Since Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) released earnings last Wednesday, shares have taken a 12.07% hit. After reaching the $180 benchmark, the stock is now predicted by the self-learning algorithm to increase in value again, making this a good opportunity to get into TSLA.
The electric car manufacturer delivered decent earnings, however actual delivery numbers were below expectations of 6,457, yet still higher than guidance of 6,400. The company's production numbers were also higher than guidance at 7,535, with revenues and earnings surpassing analyst expectations as well. Refuting the frequent bear argument that demand in North America is slowing, demand has actually grown 10%. Sales in China didn't start until last month, so they were not included in the Q1 2014 results. Major variables affecting Tesla's long-term value are contingent upon progress in China, Tesla's response to state bans and the implementation of its Gigafactory.
Tesla In China
Tesla and the Model S have been prevalent in the Chinese media since its delivery of its first Model S in the country on April 22nd. Coverage has been favorable, except for some customer complaints for vehicle delivery not being timely. The city of Shanghai announced incentives for the car almost as soon as the car was made available. Shanghai is waiving the cost of license plates, a price tag that costs as much some cars do. Shanghai consumers can bypass the $15,000 license plate fee by purchasing a Model S, but they need to act now, as the exemption is only available for 3,000 vehicles per automaker. Shanghai is one of four cities in China now imposing quotas limiting car purchases in order to curtail traffic and pollution.
While China is the worlds largest auto market, Tesla's management does recognize the challenges of creating a charging infrastructure in cities where there are only one fifth as many millionaire families as in the states. Tesla expects to invest "hundreds of millions of dollars" building charging infrastructure in China. Tesla is competing with Daimler AG's (DAIGn.DE) Mercedes Benz and BMW (BMWG.DE) for a share of China's emerging green vehicle market, something the Chinese government wants to develop quickly. The company intends to cooperate with China's two major power network operators, State Grid Corporation of China and China Southern Power Grid, in order to build an infrastructure that is sufficient for Tesla drivers. Tesla also will work with China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd., which will provide communications solutions such as navigation, remote monitoring and other services.
While electric cars are making headway in Europe, with 52,729 electric vehicles sold on the continent in 2013, China, on the other hand, has catching up to do. In 2012, Chinese consumers purchased only 11,375 electric vehicles out of 19.3 million sold. However, having environmentally-friendly vehicles is important for the far-east nation and growth will catch up. As a part of its efforts to put 5 million alternative energy-powered vehicles on the country's roads by 2020, Beijing is providing purchase subsidies for electric car buyers. CEO Elon Musk stated that a large part of support from the Chinese government will enable the company to more competitively price its cars would dictate whether the country could become Tesla's biggest market share.
The Model S is available for 734,000 Yuan ($118,000) in China, which is much lower than expectations, but still 50% more expensive than in United States. Musk stated:
I think there are some contingencies there, because right now there are pretty significant import duties on the car, and our car is not eligible for (China's) electric vehicle incentives, so that makes the car really almost twice as expensive as it would otherwise be.
Local production in China would qualify Tesla to avoid import duties and become eligible for the government's green vehicle subsidies. There is a catch though, as Tesla would be required to form a joint venture with a Chinese partner.
Competition will be increasing, as BMW plans to deliver its i3 this year, Volkswagen aims to sell more than 15 green vehicle models in China by 2018 and Daimler AG has already formed a joint venture with Chinese Carmaker BYD Co LTD. General manager of Tesla Motors for the China region, Veronica Wu, said in January that the company aims to open stores in 10 to 12 Chinese cities by the end of 2014 in addition to its flagship store in Beijing that opened late last year. The company expects China to support one third of its global sales growth in 2014.
Tesla Motors vs. The National Automobile Dealers Association
While the company has gained tremendous support and popularity, including extremely enthusiastic customers, there are also plenty of people who want the electric car company to fail. In particular, the National Automobile Dealers Association feels threatened by the electric car company.
Even the Federal Trade Commission has recently argued that state bans on direct sales are "protectionist," buttressing the traditional dealership business model. The FTC continued by stating that it's not the law but the "competitive process" that ought to decide the better sales model. Instead, the regulator believes what is really at risk is the old way of buying cars. Now that consumers have research tools on the internet, they can skip the sales pitch. Criticism by the FTC has stopped short of any action.
The National Automobile Dealers Association disputes that those customers lose bargaining power. Tesla argues that auto dealerships have a fundamental conflict of interest between promoting gasoline cars, which constitute virtually all of their revenue, and electric cars, which constitute virtually none, as dealerships make most of their money from servicing vehicles. Electric cars such as Tesla's Model S require much less service, and most "repairs" consist of software upgrades similar to a smartphone. Elon Musk explains why Tesla is taking the difficult route on the company blog.
Tesla's direct sales model has already has been banned in five states, including New Jersey, Virginia, Texas, Arizona, and Maryland. In these states, the stores act more as galleries, since representatives are not salespeople, as they are not even allowed to tell you the price of the car, nor can they facilitate the purchase of one. In Maryland, potential customers are at least allowed to take a test drive of the electric vehicles. Two other states have imposed some level of restrictions, and two more have pending legislation. Musk stated that he is "evaluating judicial remedies to correct the situation."
Missouri is the next state to block Tesla's direct sales method by recently inserting language into a bill that had previously been focused on off-road vehicles. The new bill's language was already passed in the Senate last week, after zero public consultation and could soon move to the House floor for a final vote, essentially without debate, stated the company on its blog.
They continue by explaining that the current statute only bars franchisors from competing against their franchisees (for example, Ford cannot compete against Ford dealerships). Tesla, which has one store in Missouri, currently complies with the statute, because the company does not compete with any franchise. The problem, Tesla claims, is that they are redefining the word "franchisor" to mean "manufacturer." Tesla has already invested $2 million in the state, employing 15 people, and the company plans to open a larger service center in Kansas City, MO, employing an additional 15 people and investing another million dollars. The map below illustrates which states have placed restrictions on Tesla's sales model.
The Gigafactory
In February, Musk announced plans for the world's largest lithium-ion battery factory that he proclaims can reduce Tesla's pack cost by 30% and produce cells for stationary power-storage devices. The investment in the Gigafactory is expected to be an opportunity for reducing expenses and encouraging innovation, as Tesla is talking with mining companies, especially nickel mines, as they constitute the biggest expense.
States being considered for the location of the plant are Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and now California is back in the running. While Musk admits that locating the Gigafactory is improbable, it is possible again. The governor and his staff are doing everything they can to make the state as appealing as possible, however, California has quite a complex and lengthy process for approval of Greenfield sites compared to some other states that have a more streamlined approach.
Panasonic has also signed a letter of intent to be a partner in the Gigafactory. Chief Technology Officer Jeffrey B. Straubel expressed in the conference call that they are "progressing smoothly… and we feel confident" that its heading toward final agreements in the later part of 2014.
Algorithmic Prediction
Tesla fell 15.86% in accordance with an algorithmic forecast on May 6th 2014, for the 1-3 day time horizon. The market prediction system is based on artificial intelligence, machine learning and incorporates elements of artificial neural networks as well as genetic algorithms in order to model and predict the flow of money between markets from 3-days to a year. It separates the predictable part from stochastic (random) noise and then creates a model that projects the future trajectory of the given market in the multi-dimensional space of other markets. The algorithm outputs the predicted trend as a number, which in turn, is used by traders to identify when to enter and exit the market. While the algorithm can be used for intra-day trading, the predictability tends to become stronger over longer time-horizons such as the 1-month, 3-month and 1-year forecasts. Chart 1 shows the I Know First algorithmic forecast that was shared in an exclusive report the day before earnings were released.
The forecast is color-coded, where green indicates a bullish signal and red indicates a bearish signal. Deeper greens signify that the algorithm is very bullish as it does at the top of this forecast. Tesla had a signal of -2.42 and a predictability of 0.04. The signal is the number flush right in the middle of the box and the predicted direction (not a specific number or target price) for that asset, while the predictability is the historical correlation between the prediction and the actual market movements. In other words, the signal represents the forecasted strength of the prediction, while the predictability represents the level of confidence. Further explanations are available here.
In the most contemporary forecasts since the earnings release, the algorithm indicates that shares will increase in value over the 1-month and 3-month time horizon. Chart 2 displays the latest algorithmic forecasts for Tesla.
These forecasts display an increasingly bullish forecast for Tesla. In the 3-month time horizon, Tesla has 6.41, 8.32 & 28.55 signals for May 7th, 8th and 9th, respectively. The algorithm indicates increased strength of the predicted movement in the most up-to-date forecast with a deeper green. However the predictability is not very strong in either the 1-month or the 3-month time horizon. Algorithmic forecasts are intended to be utilized in conjunction with traditional forms of analysis in order to reduce risk and optimize returns.
The market prediction system has been noticeably accurate with predictions made for Tesla. The chart below displays TSLA's actual market movement against the algorithmic predictions performance so far in 2014.
The thick blue line shows the actual historical prices versus the signal forecasted in each of the six time horizons from three days to one year ahead, as thin broken color lines. The positive or negative (up or down) signals of the forecast were added to the actual last known price at the time of the forecast. Thus, when the signal line is above the actual line, it indicates a "buy" signal, and if below, then a "sell" signal. Each point on this chart was taken from the actual daily forecast published in the morning before the next market open.
These three factors play a crucial role in evaluating Tesla's future value. While it should be expected that Tesla will have hiccups and run into walls, this is not as important as how effectively the company deals with these problems. Growth in China is an extremely important market for Tesla to gain market share. The company needs to stop more states from banning sales and even work to reverse this trend.
Finally, the success of the Gigafactory has tremendous weight on the company's ability to deal with demand. Not only do these factors impact the more or less short-term issues, such as meeting demand this year or even the release of the Model X, but it also gives a strong indication of how well Tesla's leadership can handle setbacks in the future that the company will inevitably face. Currently, the algorithm has a bullish signal of TSLA, indicating a buying opportunity.
Business disclosure: I Know First Research is the analytic branch of I Know First, a financial startup company that specializes in quantitatively predicting the stock market. Joshua Martin, an I Know First Research analyst wrote this article. We did not receive compensation for this article (other than from Seeking Alpha), and we have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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Satcon Technology Corp. (SATC) Q2 2009 Earnings Call August 13, 2009 5:00 PM ET
Leah Gibson - Investor Relations Manager
Steve Rhoades - President and Chief Executive Officer
John Peacock - Corporate Controller
Adam Krop - Ardour Capital
Dale Pfau - Cantor Fitzgerald
Welcome to Satcon's second quarter 2009 conference call. Today's call is being recorded. You may listen to the webcast on Satcon's website located at www.satcon.com. In addition, today's news release is posted on the website for those of you who did not receive it by email.
With us today are Satcon's President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Steve Rhoades, Investment Relations Manager, Ms. Leah Gibson, and Corporate Controller, Mr. John Peacock. At this time for opening remarks, I would like to turn the call over to Ms. Gibson.
Leah Gibson
The comments made on this conference call today may include forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. For this purpose, any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements and may include the words "believes", "anticipates", "plans", "expects", "intends" and similar expressions which are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those inferred by such forward-looking statements are set forth under the caption Risk Factors in Satcon's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the year ended July 4, 2009. These factors are included there for reference. Copies of the 10-Q are available from Satcon upon request and are posted to the company's website at www.satcon.com.
Today's call is being recorded, and a webcast replay will be available on the Satcon Investor Relations website. This conference call and associated recordings belong to Satcon and are prepared for the benefit of our investors. No unauthorized recording of this call or preparation of transcript is permitted without the written permission from Satcon management.
I would now like to turn the call over to our President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Steve Rhoades.
Steve Rhoades
I'll begin today by providing a brief review of our top line results before highlighting our current operational efforts and product roadmap. Then John will take you through the detailed financials before we turn the call to your questions.
The challenging economic environment continued to adversely affect the commercial solar market and in turn Satcon's ability to meet our revenue and cost targets for the second quarter. Total sales for the quarter were $9.2 million, down from $13.4 million in the same quarter in 2008. Gross margin was also significantly below our previous performance and well below our targets for 2009. This was caused by several factors, including lower than expected unit volumes partially due to major customers' burning down inventory as opposed to placing recurring orders as well as costs associated with releasing new solutions, such as Satcon's Prism, our S-type PowerGate invertors, and the soon to be generally available Solstice.
Also contributing to our lower than expected margins was the costs associated with executing our worldwide manufacturing strategy. Continuing to meet the global demand for our products while our manufacturing solution in China comes on line is costly. While this will quickly lower our profitability breakeven point, it has had a short term impact on our cost structure and margins.
On the positive side, in the first half of 2009, we did see a modest increase in our solar business when measured against the first half of last year. This was primarily driven by our corporate commitment to the utilities scaled renewable energy power conversion market that continues to strengthen our brand equity and global market share in the solar industry.
Although the continued strain on the global market diminished the funds available for large scale commercial and utility solar projects and pushed most renewable energy developments out to the second half of the year, this early year trend significantly bolstered our pipeline into the second half and contributed to the solid upward trend in our backlog. In fact, our bookings in the first 5-1/2 weeks of the current quarter have already topped what we booked in all of Q2.
In addition to a strong global pipeline and increased sales activity, we see positive signs coming from the US and foreign governments accelerating the recovery of the solar market. For instance, the US Department of Energy announced last week that it will make available $30 billion in loan guarantees for advanced renewable energy and electric grid modernization projects. This government-backed program is expected to boost capital that has otherwise been unavailable for renewable projects during the recession.
In addition to the loan guarantee, the DOE is continuing to directly support critical R&D projects focused on creating solutions for the wide-scale adoption of the solar power by utilities. The goal of these programs is to accelerate the penetration of solar PV energy resources onto the national grid, while at the same time modernizing the energy network through the utilization of distributed advanced power electronics. An example of these important programs is the solar energy grid integration system or SEGIS project backed by the DOE and Sandia National Laboratories.
For the second year in a row, Satcon has been granted a significant award out of the SEGIS program. We're honored by the DOE's selection of Satcon as a key partner in the development of utility ready renewable energy technology. We plan to focus the investment of these grant funds toward the ongoing development of next generation solar PV solutions which will provide utilities with the ability to effectively manage and control their cellular power plant assets and support the nation's power grid.
In executing against our overall strategy to be cash positive exiting the year, we continue to invest I operational enhancements to better serve the global renewable energy market as well as lower our overall cost structure. In June, we announced the opening of our manufacturing plant in China that added 200 megawatts to our total capacity and which is expected to grow to 600 megawatts by mid 2010. This new plant, coupled with a more refined supply chain strategy, will allow us to lower material and overhead costs while increasing quality and meeting the growing demand for our solutions around the world.
While the significant slowdown in worldwide demand for commercial solar equipment caused the second quarter to come in well below our expectations, we remain very optimistic about the future. We continue to execute on our strategy that will allow us to generate cash on a run rate by the end of this year. Executing this strategy required driving topline growth through the introduction of high-value solutions such as Prism and Solstice for large scale utility market, continuing to develop strategic partnerships with utilities, major system integrators, and panel manufacturers as well as aggressive expanding operations in Asia. We must also complete our established plan of manufacturing and sourcing in low cost regions and tightly control below the line expenses.
Despite the slow start to 2009, we believe that the worst part of the slowdown is behind us, and we're in a good position to capitalize on our leadership in the solar industry in the coming quarters and be cash positive on a run rate basis by the end of the year. For instance, truly looking at the business from the volume perspective, the company signed more than 168 megawatts of multiyear supply and distribution agreements during the second quarter. That number includes 7 new distributor partners throughout North America, China, and Europe. In the third quarter so far, we have approximately 120 megawatts in agreements, bringing the total number of signed deals year to date to over 400 megawatts as we continue to strengthen our presence in key growth markets around the world.
Included in the Q3 signings are distribution and supply agreements with two major Chinese solar panel manufacturers that total over 100 megawatts on an annual basis. These two new partnerships will ensure a tight sales relationship for us in both North America and the emerging Chinese utilities solar market.
Another key element of our growth focus is on leveraging our industry-leading intellectual property and systems expertise to establish the new standards for quality, performance, and return on investment in the large scale solar industry.
Looking at our sales during the quarter, our 500 KW inverter continued to gain momentum in the market representing more than 44% of the total megawatts of renewable sales shipped by us during the quarter. To date, we have shipped more than 335 of our 500 KW units since its introduction to the market in 2005, representing more than 500 KW units in the field than any other manufacturer. One 1 MW solution is also gaining traction, already representing over 10% of our system sales in the quarter.
To further support out long-term growth, we continue to leverage our industry leading intellectual property and systems expertise to develop new products and service offerings that established the new standards for quality and performance. Recently, we introduced Prism, a fully integrated 1 MW medium voltage optimized for utility scale solar installations. Leveraging our PowerGate Plus PV inverter platform, Prism is a customizable solution that includes factory integrated transformers, switch gear, and electronics. Prism's single enclosure packaging enables rapid installation through a modular design, dramatically increasing the ease and speed of a typical utility scale solar installation.
The Prism launch met with great response from our customers with 9 MW sold in the first of release. Our dedication to developing industry leading utility scale solutions was also represented by the introduction of our next generation power conversion solution—Solstice. Solstice provides higher total power production with the combination of benefits of both large central and micro-inverters. It optimizes panel level performance management and remote controllability without altering traditional system design or adding significant costs. Solstice is currently in alpha testing at our Boston facility with several of the world's largest solar panel manufacturers and will be available in North America in the fourth quarter.
We also introduced the company's S-type PowerGate Plus inverters targeted at the next generation thin film solar panels. Satcon's S type inverters are optimized to operate at high efficiency over the wider voltage range, making them the preferred choice for these new panel technologies. All of these next generation product offerings demonstrate our continued focus on innovation and solutions that will enable the large scale integration of renewable energy into the grid.
Although the market very slow in the first half of the year, we believe as the commercial and utilities solar sector rebounds in 2010, Satcon is uniquely positioned to take advantage of the expected high growth of utility scale solar projects. In June, on the strength of our market position and our successful strategic and operational performance in 2008, we were able to raise $23 million from the public market. This infusion of capital strengthens our balance sheet and provides the cash required to execute our plan and effectively manage the company to profitability.
With that, I'll turn the call over to John, our Corporate Controller, who will review our financial results.
John Peacock
Revenue for the second quarter ended July 4, 2009, was $9.2 million, a decrease of approximately 31% or $4.2 million over the same period in 2008. For the six months ended July 4, 2009, revenue was $24.1 million, a decrease of approximately 3% or $671,000 over the same period in 2008. Total revenue for the second quarter of 2009 consisted of renewal energy product revenues of $7.3 million for the period, combined with $300,000 in industrial power supply product revenue and $1.6 million in funded research and developed revenue.
Total revenue for the 6-month period ended July 4, 2009, consisted of renewal energy product revenue of $16.5 million combined with $300,000 in industrial power supply product revenue, $4.2 million in legacy product revenues, and $3.1 million in funded research and development revenues during the period.
For the second quarter of 2009, our gross margins were essentially zero compared with 11.4% for the same period in 2008. The overall decrease in gross margins was due to a decrease in production volumes, costs associated with executing our worldwide manufacturing strategy, and additional costs associated with new product introductions during the period. Going forward, we anticipate improved gross margins as we continue to implement operational and manufacturing efficiencies.
For the sixth months ended July 4, 2009, gross margin was approximately 6% compared with 9% of the same period in 2008. The decrease in our gross margin for the 6-month period ended July 4, 2009, was for the same reasons previously mentioned.
Our operating loss for the quarter was approximately $7 million compared with an operating loss of $5.1 million for the same period in 2008. The main drivers for the operating loss during the quarter were lower margins on our product revenues, an increase of $1.1 million in research and development related to new product development, certification, and engineering staffing.
Operating loss during the second quarter of 2009 was also offset by $600,000 in restructuring charges taken in 2008 as compared to the same period in 2009 and lower selling, general, and administrative costs of approximately $100,000.
Our operating loss for the six months ended July 4, 2009, was approximately $12.1 million compared with an operating loss of $7.8 million for the same period in 2008. The main drivers for the operating loss during the period as compared to 2008 was due to the reasons previously mentioned in addition to increased non-cash employee stock-based compensation of approximately $600,000 during the period and $1.5 million related to general increases in sales and marketing to support our global expansion and continued growth in our product offerings.
Net loss from continuing operations for the second quarter of 2009 was $5.8 million, compared to a loss of $7.5 million for the same period of 2008. During the period, we recorded $1.8 million non-cash gain related to valuation of our warrant liabilities. This compares to a non-cash charge of $2.4 million that we recorded in the same period of 2008.
In addition, during the second quarter, we modified certain provisions of our Series C preferred stock warrants resulting in our ability to reclassify these warrants to equity from warrant liability. We will no longer be required to mark these warrants to market in future periods. In addition to the capital raised mentioned by Steve, this further straightens our balance sheet.
Net loss from continuing operations for the six months ended July 4, 2009, with $16.6 million compared with the loss of $10.4 million in the same period of 2008. Year to date, we recorded a $3.6 million non-cash charge related to the valuation of our warrant liability. This compares to the non-cash charge of $2.9 million in 2008.
Now turning to the balance sheet, in June, we successfully completed a public sale of 17.9 million shares of common stock resulting in approximately $21.5 million in cash, net of underwriters' fees and transaction cost. As we stated last quarter when we filed out self-registration statement, we will use this capital to fund our future growth plans.
We ended the quarter with approximately $22.9 million in cash, up approximately $12.9 million from our balance at December 31, 2008. Accounts receivable at the end of the second quarter were approximately $8.6 million, down from $11.5 million at December 31, 2008. The overall decrease in accounts receivable was due to increased efforts on collections and lower sales volume during the period.
Our days sales outstanding or DSO was 76 days at the end of the period compared to 57 days at December 31, 2008. The increase in our DSO is due to our extending payment terms to a few large international customers for sales in the first quarter of 2009. We have not experienced any significant collection issues and continue to work closely with our customers to ensure we collect balances owed to us through these tough economic times.
Inventory at quarter end was $6.7 million, down from $11.5 million at year end. The decrease in inventory was related to the value of the frequency converter revenue recognized during the first quarter and our continued focus effort on managing our working capital.
Our backlog which consists of firm fixed purchase orders with our customers currently is $16 million as compared to $12 million at the end of the first quarter of 2009. With that summary, I will turn this call back over to Steve.
Steve Rhoades
Despite a challenging economy in the first half of the year, Satcon's total value proposition remains strong. We continue to execute against our strategy to reduce expenses, to move to a low-cost manufacturing and supply chain solution while introducing industry-leading next generation solution with the commercial and utility solar market. As the market recovers, demand for Satcon's solutions remains strong and our global market share continues to grow. With bookings up significantly in the first half of Q3 and our backlog growing steadily, we believe that while the second half will remain challenging under the current economic climate, we will still meet our goal of cash positive on a run rate at year end, and with that I'll take questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
We'll now be conducting a question and answer session. (Operator Instructions). Our first question comes from the line of Dale Pfau with Cantor Fitzgerald.
Dale Pfau – Cantor Fitzgerald
How is Q3 shaping up to be from a revenue perspective and maybe you can tell us how that's breaking out in terms of products, the 500 KW or the 1 MW, that you expect to be shipping in Q3?
Steve Rhoades
We're not going to give revenue guidance because we said backlog is up, but we are not going to give revenue guidance for the quarter. What we are seeing as we look at the first half of year is that our higher power solutions that are dominating our sales in terms of both the megawatt shift and in terms of the revenue, that was true in the first half, and I expect that to continue as we look in the second half of the year.
Dale Pfau – Cantor Fitzgerald
You said that your bookings in the first five and a half weeks or so of Q3 were greater than your bookings for all of Q2. Is that correct?
Steve Rhoades
That's right, and we currently sit at about $16 million in backlog total for the company.
Dale Pfau – Cantor Fitzgerald
Is that currently or is that with backlog at the end of Q2?
Steve Rhoades
That's the current backlog.
Dale Pfau – Cantor Fitzgerald
What was the backlog at the end of the quarter?
Steve Rhoades
$9.9 million.
Dale Pfau – Cantor Fitzgerald
Could you talk a little about the competitive landscape, any pricing pressure out there Steve?
Steve Rhoades
It's a tough climate, and there is some pricing pressure. As I said before, we haven't faced the kind of pressure that the panel manufactures have, but we have seen some aggressive deals done. We're continuing to develop high value solutions, and as I said we are heading toward a rate where we can generate cash and little bit higher revenue number as we role into 2010, but we seen some decrease in ASP.
Dale Pfau – Cantor Fitzgerald
In the quarter, could you tell us where your shipments were on a geographic basis?
Steve Rhoades
Yes, I can. Inside the quarter, it is a little over 80% in North America and not quite 20% international.
Dale Pfau – Cantor Fitzgerald
On your backlog, is that about the same split or is there is a difference?
Steve Rhoades
I don't have that breakout in front of me.
Dale Pfau – Cantor Fitzgerald
Where are you seeing the strength in your bookings if you have seen a big uptick here in Q3? Where is most of that coming from?
Steve Rhoades
It's a mix of international and North America. We're seeing it from both the European region and the US. Most of our shipments in the second quarter, 80% North America, so most of our bookings are also in North America, but we have seen increasing strength in Europe as well.
Dale Pfau – Cantor Fitzgerald
The projects that you're seeing that are coming in, are they in the 1 to 10 megawatt category or some of them, are we seeing any of the really big projects move forward?
Steve Rhoades
We haven't seen a lot of the multi-tens of megawatt projects move forward, and we have seen a mix of projects up to 1 megawatt and projects between 1 and 10. There is a lot of talk about big deals out there, and we're involved in a lot of them ourselves, but we haven't seen any of the really big deals close during Q2 or even at the beginning of Q3. Your characterization is right. It's the stuff under 10 megawatt that's getting funded, and we're seeing deals.
Dale Pfau – Cantor Fitzgerald
Are you seeing any revenues yet out of China? Your China facility is great. The deals with the Chinese panel manufacturers are great. What are you anticipating over there? We're certainly hearing a lot of buzz about the Chinese stimulus. Tell us how you're thinking about that, whether you're looking for projects next year, what were your thoughts there?
Steve Rhoades
I think it's going to be an exciting market. I think like most of the solar markets, it's going to take time for it to get large and real, but we feel that we're very well positioned. We have manufacturing both in the US and in Asia right now, and we are developing solid partnerships in China. I think it's going to be an interesting market as we roll into next year. There is not a lot of deals closing right now, but I do think it's going to develop well as we look into next year.
(Operator Instructions). The next question comes from the line of Adam Krop with Ardour Capital.
Adam Krop - Ardour Capital
It sounds like you missed internal projections on the revenue line, and it certainly missed our projections as well. Could you comment whether or not you missed internal projections due to cancellations or was it more pushouts of orders? Can you just comment on that?
Steve Rhoades
Just delay. We started to see orders pick up at the end of May, and order volume has continued to trend well since the end of May, but it took a while for it to get restarted. We just hit a really nasty dip in the solar industry here at the beginning of the year, and it's taken a while to work through the system.
Adam Krop - Ardour Capital
And then the inventory days were up, that 76-79 number, should we be looking for that as a run rate going forward or do you see that ticking back down towards the 50 range in the near term?
John Peacock
That was the DSO number—days sales outstanding?
Adam Krop - Ardour Capital
John Peacock
We would anticipate it that it would start ticking down.
Steve Rhoades
We gave terms for a couple of deals in the quarter, but it's not something where we're seeing a lot of, so I think we'll see that. We're not having any collection issues Adam.
I do want to point out, maybe it's not so clear with the capital raise, but the team here has been very aggressive on working capital management. We did a good job of managing receivables. We did a great job of bring down inventories, so the actual cash burn inside of the quarter net of the capital raise was only about $3.2 million, so I think we have done an creditable job on working capital management.
Adam Krop - Ardour Capital
I was hoping we could talk a little about the deal with Ecostream. Obviously, that business was acquired. Can you talk about that contract a little bit? Have you been making any deliveries?
Steve Rhoades
We have taken orders to get that contract. They did get picked up, and we're continuing to work with the new people there. We have taken bookings against that contract, so we still think that's going to be a valuable partnership or relationship for us in Europe going forward. I think they have scaled back their plans a bit, but I think it's still going to be a very valuable partnership for us.
Adam Krop - Ardour Capital
Just as you look at both the European market and the Chinese market, can you just talk about any changes in the product architecture that you might need to address to get into those markets or any licensing issues that you need to address to get into those markets?
Steve Rhoades
That's an interesting question. One of the big expenses we had inside of the quarter was doing all the testing and certification that we needed on our PowerGate lines for all of the different European markets, and it was a significant expense, one that we're largely through, we're almost completed on that, but it did take quite a bit of effort and spending for us for testing and certification for our standard lines to bring them into the different European countries, so that is an issue for us as a company going forward as we develop products, we have to develop both UL versions, CE versions, and then there are specific testing requirements in some countries, and it's something we're planning for as we look forward on our new products.
There are no further questions at this time. I would like to turn the floor back to Mr. Rhoades for any closing comments.
Steve Rhoades
Thank you, everyone, and we'll look forward to speaking to you again on our third quarter conference call.
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U.S. Tennis to Build 100-Court Facility for National Development
The U.S. Tennis Association said it's planning to build a new 100-plus court facility in Florida that will serve as the sport's new national home.
The USTA's Player Development Division in Boca Raton, Florida, and its Community Development Division in White Plains, New York, will move to the 63-acre facility in Lake Nona, Orlando, the USTA said in a news release.
"Our goal is simple: to continue to raise the bar for our sport," Gordon Smith, the USTA's executive director and chief operating officer, said in a statement. "Our new facility in Orlando will help ensure we develop the next generation of players, coaches, tennis providers, officials and volunteers."
No American man has won a Grand Slam tournament since Andy Roddick captured the U.S. Open in 2003. The highest-ranked American on the ATP World Tour is John Isner at No. 11. Sam Querrey is the next-highest ranked American, at 66th. U.S. women fare better in the WTA Tour rankings, with French and U.S. Open champion Serena Williams ranked No. 1. Six others are in the top 50: Sloane Stephens (16), Venus Williams (32), Jamie Hampton (35), Alison Riske (44), Madison Keys (47), and Varvara Lepchenko (49).
The Orlando center is targeted for completion during the fourth quarter of 2016. It will have hard and clay courts, a dedicated Team USA area, a section that will serve as the home of the University of Central Florida's men's and women's tennis teams, and smaller-sized courts for youth development.
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Destination: Europe - British Isles & Western
Embarkation: Southampton
We had often wondered would we enjoy a large cruise ship after the ultimate experience of Azamara could anything be better than that.,so when I saw a 2 night cruise to Zeebruger to visit Bruges and try all that chocolate and special price balcony cabin same as inside i booked it.
What a mistake from the moment of check in at Southampton to the chaos of disembarkation nothing lived up to expectation,Too many people, nowhere quiet to relax,queues for everything from breakfast to lifts, buses,everywhere you went people pushing and so much noise.
The cabin clean and bed very comfortable ,best of all cruises we,ve had,plenty of hot water and good shower.
No water in the room to drink and 2 sachets of coffee a day!!!
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Staff fairly indifferent but polite chatted a lot to each other.
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