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Fried (Dilly) Salmon Patties
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 20 mins
This reminds me of deviled crab but is made with canned salmon. Its a recipe I put together on short timing.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 (15 ounce) canned pink salmon
- 1⁄3 cup chopped green pepper
- 1⁄3 cup chopped onion
- 2 tablespoons dill relish
- 1⁄2 cup garlic Italian breadcrumbs
- 1 egg (slightly beaten)
- black pepper (to taste)
- olive oil
- Drain canned salmon.
- In a medium bowl, combine salmon,green pepper, onion, dill relish, garlic Italain breading and egg.
- Mix well and make into patties.
- Heat olive oil in frying pan.
- Fry patties on low to medium heat until browned.
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Marsha, This really hits the mark. Great flavors and lots of crispiness. I did make a little ahead to let the patties set up in the fridge for easier frying. YUMMY!
I just made these, and they are very good, but they didn't completely wow me. They taste much like crab cakes, and are easy to prepare. I served them with Pat's Aioli (recipe on this site), and it was a good match. I will probably make them again, but I might experiment a little with the flavors.


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All the world's water! This picture from the United States Geological Survey shows the size of a sphere that would contain all of Earth's water in comparison to the size of the Earth. I think that puts things into perspective.
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Blown away every time I see these types of graphics. Trendable!
Check out the humans vs microbes sphere comparison.
Check out the humans vs microbes sphere comparison.
The oceans are extremely thin when viewed from a global perspective... so, they fit into a "droplet" that's quite small compared to the Earth.
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Frankwood Williams
|Frankwood E. Williams
|18 May 1883
|24 September 1936
Frankwood E. Williams (18 May 1883 – 24 September 1936) was an American psychiatrist[1] concerned with the science of human nature. He worked with the National Committee for Mental Hygiene to elevate the science of psychiatry with the goal of lowering the number of mental illness cases through prevention. He also shared the committee's second major goal of helping those patients who were already institutionalized. His life's work included a study of New York county prisons that indicated high rates of mental illness in the inmate populations, as well as showing that the childhood period was a critical time of life for mental health formation. He was influenced by the 1929 stock market crash, and the Soviet Union's structure and politics.[2][1]
- ^ "Williams, Frankwood". American National Biography. Oxford University Press. Subscription needed.
- ^ Frankwood E. Williams (1883-1936)
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JAKKS Pacific, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAKK)
Q2 2013 Earnings Call
July 17, 2013 4:45 pm ET
Stephen G. Berman - Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President, Secretary and Director
Joel M. Bennett - Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Executive Vice President
Stephanie S. Wissink - Piper Jaffray Companies, Research Division
Edward M. Woo - Ascendiant Capital Markets LLC, Research Division
Sean P. McGowan - Needham & Company, LLC, Research Division
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining the JAKKS Pacific Second Quarter 2013 Earnings Call with management. Today, JAKKS will review the results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013, which the company released earlier today.
On the call today are Stephen Berman, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Joel Bennett, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Berman will first provide an overview of the quarter, then Mr. Bennett will provide detailed comments regarding JAKKS Pacific's financial and operational results. Mr. Berman will then conclude the prepared portion of the call with highlights of the product lines and current business trends prior to opening up the call for your questions. [Operator Instructions]
Before we begin, the company would like to point out that any comments made about JAKKS Pacific's future performance, events or circumstances, including the estimates of sales and earnings per share for 2013, as well as any forward-looking statements concerning 2013 and beyond are subject to Safe Harbor protection under the federal security laws. These statements reflect the company's best judgment based on current market trends and conditions today and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in forward-looking statements. For details concerning these and other such risks and uncertainties, you should consult JAKKS' most recent 10-K and 10-Q filing with SEC, as well as the company's other reports subsequently filed with the SEC from time to time.
With that, I will now turn the call over to Mr. Berman.
Stephen G. Berman
Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. The toy landscape continued to be challenging and we are disappointed in our second quarter results and lower guidance for 2013. Several factors contributed to the downturn, including poor sales performance on some of our key product lines, including Monsuno and the Winx Club. Unusually cool weather also affected some seasonal toy sales, and we can see more aggressive markdowns occurring at retail, thus being cleared for back-to-school products selling season. Movie properties have shorter windows at retail now, which has impacted sales of our Smurf products and, throughout the industry, few movie toys sales are meeting expectations.
Struggling retailers both in the U.S. and internationally are plagued with slow toy sales and weakening international currencies, which have resulted in decreased orders and changes in purchasing policies, including one of our largest international customers in Europe experienced financial issues, which resulted in the discontinuation of their credit insurance coverage. Retailers in general are more focused on mitigating risks and, thus, managing their orders tightly. Higher expenses and operating costs are also contributing factors to our 2013 performance.
In response to this, we are undertaking several initiatives to return the company to profitability and growth, including a suspension of our quarterly dividends and a deep restructuring plan designed to reduce operating costs. In addition, we are working to accelerate our initiatives and process to develop our DreamPlay Toys offerings for 2014 and beyond in an effort to keep up with today's evolving play patterns. We believe the decline in sales reflect the growth of the digital age with kids increasingly turning to smart devices for play and entertainment.
To successfully compete in such an environment and to cater to the growing new digital market, we are working to develop product that creatively combines the power of digital content with the inherent value of the physical product. Combining all the capabilities of the iD technology with amazing content, kids will be able to bring their toys to life from the physical world to the digital world starting this fall with DreamPlay Little Mermaid products. This will give kids the best of both worlds, the toys they love and the smart devices and gaming that they increasingly spend more time on combined into a one seamless experience. This marks an effortless evolution in entertainment. The possibilities are endless. With the convergence of this historic technologies and expansive product line, we will be bringing a vast library of content to life like never seen in any way.
We are building our DreamPlay infrastructure with talented individuals, who have come to JAKKS from across content development, animation and technology companies. Our DreamPlay development team is working aggressively to create rich and compelling content, game features and more to deliver genre-defining innovation this fall. 2013 is the year we laid down the foundation of our DreamPlay venture, and we expect to see the fruits of our labor in 2014 with new consumer demand for our products. We expect DreamPlay to help JAKKS achieve substantial long-term and long-range growth and profitability, justifying the investment in the technology and content that we are making.
At the same time, we remain focused on our core evergreen brands and categories that continue to do a solid business day in and day out. We are looking to our core business to continue as the constant platform of our business. These are the areas in which we are one of or the category leaders such as CDI role-play and Dress-Up, Moose Mountain foot-to-floor ride-ons and play environments, Kids Only! kids licensed outdoor furniture and outdoor kids products, Maui Toys Sky Balls for all different areas of sports, hula hoop and Funnoodles, Tollytots pre-school products including Disney Dolls, Graco dolls and evergreen doll accessories and our Disguise Halloween business. Our core JAKKS boys' and girls' basic non-promoted product lines such as MXS, Train World, Kidfetti, El Chavo product, our successful 31-inch figure line of giant licensed action figures and our Nintendo licensed line of Plush figures and other toys are all constant evergreen businesses. The list goes on and are great examples of everyday toys that are under-tween crowd loved to play with and enjoy, and that parents and caregivers feel good about buying.
Our industry prospects are increasingly tied to developing countries, rising middle class and their newfound willingness to spend money on toys for their kids. Growing our International business continues to be a top priority, and we recently finalized agreements to ship our Disney Princess products to Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American countries. Our Tollytots Disney Princess Dolls are shipping to Mainland China, and we are in the process of fulfilling reorders for these products for China. With this strong approach, our basic business and our DreamPlay initiatives, we believe we will lay the groundwork for a more profitable 2014 and beyond.
I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Joel Bennett to review our financial results for the second quarter of 2013, and then I will give a further update of our business this year and beyond. Joel?
Joel M. Bennett
Thank you, Steven, and good afternoon, everyone. Net sales for the second quarter of 2013 were $106.2 million compared to net sales of $145.4 million reported in the comparable period in 2012. The reported net loss for the second quarter was $46.9 million or $2.14 per diluted share, which included charges for license minimum guarantee shortfalls of $14.1 million and inventory impairment charges of $12.2 million. This compares to net income of $200,000 or $0.01 per diluted share reported in the comparable period in 2012, which included $1.7 million or $0.05 per diluted share for legal and financial advisory fees and expenses related to the 2011 unsolicited indication of interest.
Net sales for the 6 months ending June 30, 2013, were $184.3 million compared to $218.8 million in 2012. The net loss reported for the 6-month period was $74.4 million or $3.40 per share, which includes $800,000 of pretax charges for the financial and legal advisory fees and expenses, and charges for license minimum guarantee shortfalls of $14.1 million and inventory impairment of $12.2 million. This loss compares to a net loss for the first 6 months of 2012 of $15.8 million or $0.61 per diluted share, which included $3.1 million of pretax charges or $0.09 per diluted share of financial and legal advisory fees and expenses.
Worldwide sales of products in our traditional toys and electronics segment, which includes dolls, action figures, vehicles, electronics, plush and pet products were $45.6 million for the second quarter of 2013 compared to $72 million for the second quarter of 2012. And sales for traditional toys were $83.7 million for the first 6 months of 2013 versus $113.6 million for the first 6 months of 2012. Sales this quarter in this segment were led by our Disney Princess Dolls, foot-to-floor ride-ons and Smurf toys, though it was down overall this quarter.
Worldwide sales from our role play, novelty and seasonal toys segment, which includes role-play products, novelty toys, Halloween costumes, indoor and outdoor kid's furniture and outdoor activity and pool toys were $60.6 million in the second quarter of 2013 compared to $73 million for the second quarter in 2012. And sales for role-play, novelty and seasonal toys were $100.6 million for the first 6 months of 2013 compared to $104.9 million for the first 6 months of 2012. Disney Princess dress up and role-play, Halloween costumes from Disguise and outdoor products dominated in this category this quarter though it was also down overall this quarter.
Included in the category numbers are International sales of $19.9 million for the second quarter of 2013 compared to $29.5 million for the second quarter of 2012. International sales for the first 6 months of 2013 and 2012 were $36.6 million and $39.1 million, respectively. Disney Princess Dolls and Smurfs drove second quarter sales in the International market.
Gross margin for the second quarter of 2013 and 2012 were 2.1% and 32.3% of net sales, respectively. And gross margin for the first half of 2013 was 13.9% of net sales compared to 32.2% of net sales in the first half of last year. The significant decrease as a percentage of net sales in 2013 is primarily due to charges taken in the second quarter, a $14.1 million for license minimum guarantee shortfalls and a $12.2 million for related inventory impairment charges due to lower-than-expected sales. Normal margins are expected to be achieved in the third and fourth quarters.
SG&A expenses in the second quarter of 2013 were $46.5 million or 43.8% of net sales as compared to $46.8 million or 32.2% of net sales in 2012. SG&A for the first half of 2013 was $93.7 million or 50.9% of net sales compared to $89.8 million or 41% of net sales. The increases as a percentage of net sales for the quarter and year-to-date are primarily attributable to lower net sales and the addition of incremental overhead and amortization related to our Maui acquisition, DreamPlay start-up and development expenses, as well as the write-off of tools and molds related to underperforming or discontinued products, though offset in part by the full quarter impact of Q4 2012 and Q1 2013 headcount reductions.
Operations used cash of $36.9 million for the second quarter of 2013 compared to having used cash of $25.4 million in 2012. As of June 30, 2013, the company's working capital was $117 million, including cash and equivalents and marketable securities of $70 million. Depreciation and amortization was approximately $5 million in the second quarter of 2013 compared to $5.5 million for the second quarter of 2012.
As for our tax rate, the anticipated tax benefit of $5.3 million that shifted from the first quarter to the third quarter will not be realized due to the expected U.S. full year taxable loss. Capital expenditures were $1 million for the second quarter of 2013 compared to $4.4 million for the second quarter of 2012 and in line with our expectations. For the full year, we expect capital expenditures to amount to around $14 million. Accounts receivable as of June 30, 2013 were $94.9 million, down from $121.6 million at the end of the second quarter of 2012 due to lower sales in 2013. DSOs in 2013 increased modestly to 80 days, up 5 days from 2012. Inventory as of June 30, 2013, was $56.7 million, down from the June 30, 2012, level of $60.8 million as we continue to manage inventory levels in light of sales levels resulting in slightly lower DSIs of 69 days in 2013, down from 68 days in 2012.
Turning to our revised guidance for 2013, the company currently anticipates net sales for the full year of approximately $620 million with revised net loss of approximately $56.1 million or $2.56 per diluted share, including the second quarter charges taken and also third and fourth quarter nonrecurring restructuring and other charges of $4.5 million. The revised guidance represents a reduction from our previously anticipated full year net sales of $694 million to $700 million and diluted earnings per share in the range of $0.63 to $0.68 per diluted share, excluding financial and legal advisory fees relating to the 2011 unsolicited indication of interest. In addition, due to current business conditions, our Board of Directors has suspended the company's quarterly dividend, which it will reevaluate upon a return to profitability.
Lastly, we will commence a restructuring plan in the third quarter to substantially reduce leased space, employees and other overhead expenses. Despite the reported loss this year, JAKKS is expecting to return to profitability in 2014.
And with that, I will return the call back to Stephen Berman.
Stephen G. Berman
Thank you, Joel. Although technology is becoming more and more prevalent in children's play habits, parents and caregivers are still looking for a balance in the toy box. The top contributors for the quarter were centered on many of our evergreen core brands and categories such as dolls, dress-up, role-play and pre-school toys, which continue to be the foundation of our business. Toys from the Disney animated show Sofia the First have exceeded initial sales expectation for the second quarter. Ads and end-caps and catalogs have been secured across accounts to maximize this brand throughout fall this year and beyond. Disney Princess Dolls dress-up and role-play continue to be a big segment of our portfolio with our Little Mermaid product line launching at all key accounts this fall, and excitement is picking up for our first Disney Frozen line of dolls dress-up and role-play launching later this year.
Sales have met or exceeded expectations this quarter at our major retail partners for our Fisher-Price, foot-to-floor ride-ons and ball pits and arcade games. And the trade excitement is starting to pick up for the launch of our Duck Commander Deluxe TV games based on A&E's hit show Duck Dynasty. And although the boys properties are down overall within the industry, we are staying optimistic with the launch of our 31-inch Darth Vader figure line this fall.
New items we introduced at our spring previews have caught a lot of interest with the trade, and we are optimistic for spring 2014 main line launches for Kidfetti, a line of sprayable, washable chalk art, and My World is a line of mini-play boutiques and environments based on young girls' favorite brands including Claire's Fashion boutiques, Sweet Factory Candy Shop, Dairy Queen food store, Opi Nail Salon and Sprinkles bakery, to name a few. This will also be enhanced with our DreamPlay technology and innovation.
The future of the industry clearly lies in the marriage of technology and toys as increasingly to where children are turning more and more to smart devices for additional entertainment. For that reason, we are developing a very large segment of our portfolio and integrating gadgets, technology and interactive elements to new toy offerings to entice the children of the digital age. We are in the midst of developing some really amazing products for 2014 under the DreamPlay umbrella with JAKKS' own brand and other licenses. Maximizing digital play is integral to our strategy to compete in this changing landscape, and our DreamPlay line will bring us to the forefront of digital play and innovation. The industry as a whole, toy makers, retailers and content owners, need to view digital, now and in the future, as complementary to the traditional toy plays.
Beyond the strength of our evergreen core brands, core business and core categories, our new DreamPlay portfolio, we believe there's a lot of value in JAKKS. We have licensing relationships with top kids' entertainment companies and our diverse product portfolio combines popular licenses and proprietary brands. We have products across multiple categories with value-driven and strategic pricing. We have retail customers in virtually every sales channel and an experienced management team to drive our business forward. We continue to expand upon our International opportunities, and we believe the joint venture we entered in with NantWorks to produce DreamPlay technology, enhanced with toys, will bring countless new opportunities for our business.
Thank you for your time. And with that, we will wrap up the prepared portion of the call and open up the call to Q&A. Thank you very much.
Question-and-Answer Session
[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Steph Wissink from Piper Jaffray.
Stephanie S. Wissink - Piper Jaffray Companies, Research Division
I just had a couple of questions from us guys. First and foremost, Joel, if you could give us an insight into how we should pace the back 2 quarters for the year from a sales and earnings perspective, I think that would be really helpful. Full year, it looks like right around 6 20, but how should we think about the balance between Q3 and Q4? Is it consistent with prior years or slightly different just given the comments that you made around the industry-buying patterns? And then secondly, if we could just get some insight into the restructuring plan. What's the timeline? How sizable? Kind of where are you at in that evaluation process.
Joel M. Bennett
Sure. The back half will be consistent between 3 and 4 as we've been historically, third quarter being our highest volume quarter.
Stephanie S. Wissink - Piper Jaffray Companies, Research Division
And then on the restructuring plan, guys, any comments there in terms of size or pacing around timing, when we can anticipate that in the model?
Joel M. Bennett
It'll start in the third quarter and roll into fourth quarter. We have a number of different operations that have different seasonality, so it's deep in general. But as far as the specific timing, again, it'll be pretty balanced over the third and fourth quarter, again, managing the ongoing needs of the business.
Stephanie S. Wissink - Piper Jaffray Companies, Research Division
Okay, then maybe just one follow-up. Joel, with respect to the model again, I'm looking at the first half, looks like the sales were down kind of mid-teens. The second half the guidance would imply down low-single digits. Can you just give us some insight into your confidence and acceleration at that pace from kind of down mid-teens to down low-single digits here in the second half?
Joel M. Bennett
Sure. Percentage-wise, it's going to be much higher than the front half, which is proportionately lower in sales overall. And at this point, more of the sales are on an FOB basis. I mean, historically, on the back half, they're more on an FOB basis. And at this point, we're booked at 6% higher than we were at this time last year. Also with FOB sales, we have purchase orders well in advance compared to when we have sales and orders on a domestic basis, so we're very comfortable about the numbers.
Our next question comes from Ted Woo from Ascendiant Capital.
Edward M. Woo - Ascendiant Capital Markets LLC, Research Division
Yes, I had a question. When is your DreamPlay product being launched? And what is your anticipation and retailer anticipation of the product?
Stephen G. Berman
The retail product is actually starting to ship it off first week of August; it will be on shelf the latter part of September. The app launches -- September 1. The receptiveness from the retailers that we had our initial plans with, extremely strong, not just on the product but on the advertising and signage. And going forward into 2014, one of the biggest areas that we are expecting from what we've gone through over the last 6 months with retailers is the DreamPlay product offering both be rolled out in domestic and U.S. and having quite a nice growth that we see going forward.
Edward M. Woo - Ascendiant Capital Markets LLC, Research Division
Was there a change in guidance related to DreamPlay at all?
Stephen G. Berman
I'm sorry?
Edward M. Woo - Ascendiant Capital Markets LLC, Research Division
Was that change in guidance related to your DreamPlay expectations at all?
Stephen G. Berman
Our next question comes from Sean McGowan from Needham.
Sean P. McGowan - Needham & Company, LLC, Research Division
I have a couple of questions starting probably with the simplest, should we infer from this proposed convert that there is no bank line or did you get a bank line? What's the status of that?
Joel M. Bennett
That is correct. The convert is one of our or has been one of our options, and it was decided to go with that. Having said that, we're limited to what we can say because it's currently being marketed, so we'll just refer you to the press release.
Sean P. McGowan - Needham & Company, LLC, Research Division
Okay. I just didn't know if there had been an extension of the other bank line or you've been operating without one since... Well, didn't it expire in April?
Joel M. Bennett
Yes, that one expired in April, and we have been working on the new one with a similar structure -- an asset baseline.
Sean P. McGowan - Needham & Company, LLC, Research Division
Okay. All right, so we'll just see. As long as this gets done, then that's a moot point. Second question, this isn't the first time, by any means, that minimum license guarantees have been the source of some reduction and I'm surprised at this point that there would be the magnitude of $14 million. What does this say about the viability of those underlying licenses? I mean, this must be some pretty big properties if there's $14 million of guarantees being written off.
Stephen G. Berman
They come from several different licensee content -- licensor content holders. Some of them were previous deals done back with previous management in specific divisions. So the deals that were done and set forth were quite rich and due to the environment and the, call it the shrinkage of retail space, the minimum guarantees were not met with the decline in sales. The other license shortfall is from a property that was no longer put on air as we had expectations that this property was being on air for quite a few years of obligation and on strip. So based off of what we see, those 2 areas of businesses, we ended up having to take the write-off of the shortfalls. But we -- in addition to what you're asking, Sean, there's about a -- 85% to 90% of our business is extremely constant, solid and evergreen, which goes from our Kids Only! outdoor furniture product to our foot-to-floor ride-on Moose product to our Tollytots Pre-School division to Maui to so on. What we've realized in this new environment is we need to enhance that play pattern with the, call it, iD technology, which is enhancing the, call it, physical world with the digital world. You can play with the physical world without the digital component. You can play with the digital component without the physical. But when you combine them both when a child wants to, it just is a magical experience, and we've seen it from working with Lego with our technology and they do a lot of testing. Their feedback and their focus groups was truly breathtaking. So with our core business is where we're really solid, what we realize now and what the industry is and we've seen it, the likes and days of launching an item, and I'll use as we launched 4 years ago, our night vision goggles that did 20 million, 30 million, 40 million, 50 million in sales and a Furby, call it, that has done, those days of the euphoric items of marketing and TV advertising and looking for these euphoric items to take off is few and far between because retailers won't bid on the inventory. There's not the top 20 retailers anymore. Where our segmentation of retail, which we're very proud of, spans throughout the mass retailers that we all know about -- the Target, the Walmart, the Toys"R"Us', the Sears, but it goes to Sports Authority, Dicks Sporting Goods, Sports Chalet, Big 5, Kohl's, Spencers, Ross, Party City. So while we're diversifying the customer base, we're focusing on the basic play pattern, which is primarily we see around under 6 is where the key play pattern for children are with playing with toys. But at the same time, they're utilizing smart devices. So the enhancement of what we're doing, and we've seen it, is a magical combination.
Sean P. McGowan - Needham & Company, LLC, Research Division
I can't disagree. This actually dovetails into my final question. I can't disagree, the kids are certainly interested in these technology products. But this isn't like it happened overnight and yet your sales shortfalls go back several years and you say 80%, 90% of it is rock solid. The sales decline suggests that maybe even there's weakness there. But my question is how much confidence can you have that you're making the right bet when there's still going to be a lot of business that needs to be done in basic, traditional toys that don't have a technology element? I'm saying that other companies are not seeing their business decline as much as your business is declining. Lego couldn't be lower tech and they just keep crushing it year after year. So somebody else is doing something that you guys aren't doing to generate sales of traditional non-technical toys. So I'm not disagreeing that there needs to be some technology component to your toys, but you can't abandon the non-tech part either and you got to get that right.
Stephen G. Berman
I would say on our basic evergreen singles and doubles business, which is probably about 85% to 90%, we do have it right. We're the category leaders. What we also have had to address is some of our major customers, both International and the U.S., the credit facilities that we've had or insurance were discontinued, and we also, at that time, don't want to take a financial risk as we've had in the past when Woolworths claimed bankruptcy or years ago when Kmart claimed bankruptcy or KB, so we're taking a very prudent step of not taking that type of risk factor. So when we're looking forward, we are taking in that in consideration. But when you take our non-tech area of business, Halloween is a extremely solid area of business for us, our Kids Only! our Moose, our Tolly, but that area of business, Sean, is an area of business that primarily is, I'll use 6 and under, where we've seen that's where kids are truly still continuing to play. We're very close with Lego and we understand what they're doing in the -- from their sales in both U.S. and abroad. They have done a great job in managing their businesses and diversifying with their hotels, with their parks and so on. So they're an anomaly and I think they're a terrific company as well, but we are also looking at the retail environment and not -- we won't allow ourselves to get caught where we were years ago with any of the retailers that are maybe less with strength in their balance sheet and less able to pay us in the future, so we're also taking that into consideration.
And we have no further questions in queue at this time. I'll now turn the call over to Stephen Berman for closing remarks.
Stephen G. Berman
Thank you, everyone, for joining the call. We are getting ready for our fourth quarter, second half of the year fourth quarter, but more primarily the restructuring and consolidating the offerings of the core JAKKS business. And at the same time, we are very aggressively engaging with the launch of our DreamPlay technology with our current application in toys and future. And to the parties that have seen it, from some of the top Fortune 100 companies, the receptiveness from them has been tremendous and from our trade. So with that, we appreciate the time and effort of everyone taking this call. Thank you.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. This concludes today's conference. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.
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To The Reader's Forum:
When I saw in the Reader's Forum (10-20) that "Government is the solution, not the problem," I wondered what exactly it's solving after putting us into 17 trillion dollars of debt.
The IRS improperly handed out 130 billion dollars in tax credits over the past decade. Nearly 30% of Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) cases are fraudulent. As Obamacare subsidies will likely have less verification oversight than the EITC, how will it solve Titanic-sized fraud looming ahead if it can't get its own website right?
Recently it came out that government has made taxpayers spend 3.7 trillion dollars on welfare in the last 5 years. At a cost exceeding 15 trillion dollars, the "war on poverty" has barely lowered rate of poverty since the war on it began in the 1960's under Lyndon Johnson. Prolific 20th century novelist Taylor Caldwell raised concern not so much over "Big Brother," but "Big Mommy." After all the truckloads of taxpayer dollars have been dumped into welfare, dependency on government has ravaged the family. From redefining to devaluing the family, the basic building block of our society is under great pressure from the weight of "Big Mommy."
The letter mentioned that wealth distribution is Christian principle. Not so fastdoes "wealth distribution" mean the phony form of compassion of government making people give under threat or true compassion freely given from the heart? There's a big difference from voluntary wealth distribution (biblical) and coerced wealth distribution (unbiblical).
"Government is the solution." You won't find that in Scripture. Where the Bible speaks of good government, it's small, limited and discreet (Romans 13). The Bible commands us to be fair and kind to the poor, needy and disadvantaged, but nothing in the Bible commands government to give entitlements to anyone, neither does the Constitution. Bad government is intrusive, heavy-handed and top-heavy (I Samuel 8 and Revelation 13). "Government is the solution" supersizes "Hi! I'm the government and I'm here to help you."
When I read, "Government is the solution," I asked, "The solution for what?" Whatever is meant by that, it comes nowhere near the solution God has in His gospel for our sin. Besides is there even a place for God, if government is the solution? If we buy into the notion of government being the solution, we hardly get anything better than what a title of a book calls, "Sham Pearls for Real Swine."
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Hum… Makes me think I forgot to celebrate the Happy Mother's Day… How nasty boy I am!…
I rode with my 2 daughters to the McGill Rose Garden here in Charlotte then stopped for pizza for lunch. It was about 7 miles roundtrip. It was the first Mother's Day since my youngest is 8 and can keep up pretty well now. I think I'll make it a tradition.
I went on a long bike ride on the Saturday before Mother's day and saw a mother-daughter tandem pair pass us along the way. I thought that they were way cool! They looked like they were out for a long ride.
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Holiday Abundance and ADHD
Kevin Dooley via Compfight Christmas is a time of abundance. This may be especially true for those of us with ADHD. Yes, there is more chocolate (always a good thing). But there's also more impulsivity and more serious consequences for the future. Unless you want a diet, an overdrawn bank account, and emotional burnout in your post-holiday future, heightened impulsivity will not serve you well at this time. Whether you're celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, or nothing at all: there's more. More of being overwhelmed. More distraction. More emotional stress. More disorganization, more time management challenges, more opportunities for social faux pas.
What we do need more ofSo how do we avoid getting more of the ADHD "gifts" that we'd rather return? When asking for gifts this year, just remember that "S" does not just stand for "Santa:" it's also for simplicity, support, supplements, serenity, and surrender: five things we do need more of.
ADHD Awareness Month Road Trip
Sometimes I feel like I don't have to explain ADHD at all. Just watch me live my life, and you'll pretty much have it. I don't mean "have it" as in have it. ADHD, thank goodness, is not contagious (as far as we know, but to watch some people's reactions when I tell them I've got it, you'd think it was). My life is in and of itself a pretty good crash course on how ADHD looks to the outside world. Let me share with you some, we'll call them "highlights" although I'm pretty sure that's not the right term, from last week's ADHD roadtrip to illustrate what I mean. My mini-speaking tour was truly exemplary when it comes to walking the talk and living la vida loca (which, come to think of it, would make a marvelous theme song for ADHD).
My First ADHD Coaching Experience!
Coaching is said to be one of the most beneficial non-pharmaceutical approaches to treating ADHD. While I know of countless ADHD coaches, I can't think of one person I know who has one. I am therefore offering myself up as a guinea pig.
ExpectationsI'm not quite sure what I expect from coaching (which, when I think about it, is probably an indication that I need one). I'm thinking it will be something along the lines of paying someone to nag me, not unlike when my mom used to yell at me to "pick up my room," but without the yelling.
Defining Success When You Have ADHD
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." - Maya Angelou Before I knew about ADHD, I often felt like a failure. Instead of summiting the mountain, I was more likely to fly into it (flying without an air traffic controller will do that to you). After my diagnosis, I understood that I was working with a different brain and a highly sensitive nervous system. I also realized that the popularized notions of success were set by the dominant culture, in other words, by non-ADHD brains. I needed to find my own definition of success and ways to achieve it; otherwise, I'd be doomed to perpetually slam into mountains.
Yoga and ADHD Treatment – Part II
Conner Downey via Compfight In Yoga and ADHD Treatment - Part I, I talked about some similarities between the discipline of yoga and ADHD treatment. Today, I'll cover some specific yoga components that might be helpful in managing ADHD symptoms. Be prepared for some surprises!
A few of my favorite yoga thingsBesides wearing comfy, funky Lululemon clothes (with the notable exception of the see-through pants, that's just not a good look for me), I gained a lot of positive benefits from my experience as a member of a Kripalu Yoga Centre oh-so-many years ago.
ADHD and Hey Look! A Squirrel!
In keeping with my goal of digging deeper into the issues that surround ADHD, today's post offers some penetrating insights into a now-ubiquitous cultural phenomenon. I'm sure you've heard the jokes, worn the t-shirts, and seen the photos with the caption connecting ADHD and the sudden verbal outburst of "Hey look! A squirrel!" This punchline is commonly used as shorthand to illustrate the high level of distractibility in those of us with ADHD. But let's see if we can crack that old chestnut.
An ADHD Christmas Miracle
I am aware that some people with ADHD are perfectly capable of managing in the kitchen. I am not one of them, especially if someone else is in the kitchen with me. This might help you understand how Christmas 2013 put my ADKD (Attention Deficit Kitchen Disorder) to the test on a scale heretofore unimagined. Like every year for the past several, once again I got together with my dear friend Elaine for Christmas. Unlike every other year, Elaine and I were on our own making the Christmas feast. Did I mention we both have ADHD? Worse, we were both unmedicated. This is not my usual state, and my ADHD fog was thicker than the gravy. This did not help my already flagging confidence in the combined abilities of Elaine and me in regard to our kitchen prowess. For several days before the actual event, I started to think our plans to cook this festive meal together were ho-ho-hopeless.
Zoë's Christmas Turkey
I was heading into the Christmas season calm, cool, and collected. Note that I said, "was." So how did things go so terribly wrong? Let me tell you. Through a simple act of kindness, that's how. I helped a neighbor dig out after a snowstorm, and she rewarded me by leaving a 15-pound frozen turkey hanging on my side door.
A Report from the 5th Annual CADDAC ADHD Conference
As promised, here's a report from Toronto's 5th Annual CADDAC ADHD Conference. I attended on Sunday, the day devoted to adults with ADHD.
On meeting my idolI'm happy to say that my loyalty to the work of Dr. Margaret Weiss has not been misplaced. Dr Weiss' presentation was packed with research-backed information and anecdotes from inside the ADHD trenches (i.e., from her decades-long work as a clinical psychiatrist). Weiss was a lively and entertaining presenter, proving she knew her audience - knew us very well, indeed. Right off the top, she looked at us point-blank and said, "We all know there's nothing worse to a person with ADHD than boredom." We laughed. She delivered. Her talk was anything but boring.
Going back, way backMy devotion to Weiss began in 2008 when I wrote Spinning Out Of Control, my first article on adult ADHD for the now-defunct MORE magazine. When searching for experts to interview, I came across a book called Hyperactive children grown up: ADHD in children, adolescents, and adults1. This book was the result of a landmark long-term study that established most kids with ADHD do not outgrow it. It was co-authored by Dr. Gabrielle Weiss, who (as it turns out) is Dr. Margaret Weiss' mother. As ADHD runs in families, so does ADHD research, at least in the Weiss family.
Am I Ready for My Closeup, Mr. DeMille? ADHD and Fame
It's often said that acting is a great career for people with ADHD. After all, it's a job with constant change: costumes, locations, and roles. Anything but boring, right? (and we all know that people with ADHD actually can die from boredom). I too assumed it was the highly stimulating nature of the work that made acting such a great job for people with ADHD. I was wrong. Okay, partially wrong. I'm sure the frequent change-ups are great. But I'll let you in on a little secret: there's another reason.


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2013 oh what a year!
December 2013
It's me Mar . . . ok not.
Well I'm back on my yearly personal review, as you can see at the blog most of my personal side remained untouched, I guess that this situation was a side effect of a lack of social relationships due research responsibilities. As many of my friends know this year I started and
almost finished my Msc. dissertation. Hopefully the day that this post will be published I'll have the first draft of my dissertation "ready and emailed" to my advisor, in general it has been one of the busiest years of my life and I felt a lack of motivation in many areas due this (I don't work well under pressure).
I'm not a big fan of setting goals in yearly basis, because the years as we know it are a product of a poorly chosen calendar (your fault Gregory!) if compared to other systems with more accuracy. Anyway I always write posts like this on new year's eve since I finally have time to do it, so . . . lets review the things that I did at 2013.
In addition to my dissertation, I started this year with other expectancy: to do good research and publish results. In this area I have mixed feelings because I had a list of conferences in Brazil that I wished to attend but I received "kick in the ass" responses from those events, however and surprisingly my publications came from "let's try to publish" events. I know that rejections are common on academic life and my advisor never got angry due this (In fact he helped me a lot to fix the papers), however I got angry with myself many times discovering that I'm a perfectionist guy and I'm not accustomed to fail. In the end I didn't receive the rejections very well, so I took the pieces of my heart (yes, they broke my heart 😀 ) and assuming a SCRUM approach I got publications anyways. As a Christmas gift my key paper (that paper that gives you comfort in the Msc. defense) was accepted, so lets say that I got a 50/50 for this area.
With this try and error process, I also experienced other dilemma: to be or not to be a "salamist". As Peter Highs stated some weeks ago, the salami science is more than a reality in modern academia and the people at research programs is obsessed with the quantity of papers that they publish. In their defense I must say that is not their fault, is system's fault. Most if not all academic programs over the world consider the number of publications as productivity, and many institutions use this productivity as one of the strongest criteria for academic promotions, jobs, funds, etc. I don't like this model because if forces you to decide between two options 1) To publish slices in small events and get more publications or 2) Took the risk and try to publish in strong events. Although every publication has its own impact factor and different weights, the real danger appears when you took the risk and decide to try the option two but you get as a result 0 publications due the waiting periods of peer reviewing (that means less curriculum, less opportunities and less job expectations . . . what a nightmare).
(Yes I know that I just discovered sugar-flavored water but . . . I born in a country with no research at all in computer science so it's new for me :D).
In this area I did it surprisingly well, in fact now I'm an official Portuguese speaker (Brazilian Portuguese specifically), and as a result of my academic
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In my writing journeys I also discovered that Power Metal maybe is not the best music to read and write papers. So I cultivated an old preference for two music styles:
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At the time that I wrote this post (between 25 and 31 dec of 2013) I started to face the reality and my life at Brazil is close to the end (unless I get a PhD opportunity). I'm in the middle of a limbo because there isn't a clear path from here and I need to fix some issues and to see my family at Guatemala, so It's very probably that I'll spend at least 2 months there.
I really don't want to settle roots in Guatemala considering that academic production in computer science is lower than in Congo, the crime rate has increased since I left the country and the capital city got a shame trophy of being the ugliest touristic big city of the world (yahoo!). I know that the grass is always greener on the other side, but If the other side becomes your side and you still like it more … well that's a huge problem.
Maybe is the time to create a startup, become a hippie or take a one-way trip to live in Thailand, who knows? 😀
(Disclaimer: In my defense I must say that I have all the disposition to help my country, but Guatemala is a country that don't want to be helped . . . or at least the democratic decisions of the people say that).
Finally some photos of my trips of this year to fill space :-).
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Good morning! I am a current LPN working on pre-requisites for application to the CCC-NP for Fall 2013! I'm taking most of my courses at Holyoke Community College and hope to transfer to... Read More
Apr 8, '13 by NurseWannaBe86toonsis, what are you gonna do if you don't get into micro for the summer or fall? You need to take it during your NUR 101 semester at the latest! they won't let you continue if you don't take during Fall 2013 at the latest
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Apr 9, '13 by HelenaHandbasketMy status tab has been gone for a couple weeks too. I think they all have. No decision link again today. I'm studying for a lab quiz tomorrow. I have to leave for my fitting at 10:30a, then to work 3-11p. I'll check again tonight when I get home. If it's not up tomorrow, I'm going to assume we won't be getting results this week.
I have to take Micro as well this summer and need to know whether I should transfer to CCC now so I can take it there or just stay at HCC. I also will need to meet with financial aid to figure out my student loan/financial aid/scholarship situation at CCC should I end up transferring. There is a lot for me to do if I get accepted. I think I'm just going to register for Micro at HCC so I can insure I get a spot at least. If I am accepted I will drop it and transfer.
VIP registration ends this Saturday, so I need to get a move on!
Apr 9, '13 by susannej21I really hope we find out tonight. This is real torture.
Apr 9, '13 by WannaBNurse23Quote from susannej21I agree!!!! I can't stop thinking about it. Or checking my commnet.I really hope we find out tonight. This is real torture.
They told me today. But nothing yet as of 1005. My nerves are pretty much done now. I'm kind of fed up actually. Once all the grades get put into the computer it should be online. They aren't going through each app individually and reading essays and what not like a 4 year university does.
Apr 9, '13 by jan286Quote from RNN34I always wondered why the Community Colleges took so long! I think it has to do with everything getting streamlined to Hartford (Board of Regents). If each college handled their own, we would probably find out sooner! But you are right, no essays and references to read! So why on earth does it take so long? If they process everything as stuff comes in (starting November 1), it really should not take until mid-April!!!!They told me today. But nothing yet as of 1005. My nerves are pretty much done now. I'm kind of fed up actually. Once all the grades get put into the computer it should be online. They aren't going through each app individually and reading essays and what not like a 4 year university does.
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Apr 9, '13 by WishingOfBeingNurseThis is the email i got back from the TRCC nursing admissions advisor.
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I know it doesn't help one bit!!!!
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