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Yardway Group Ltd. Due Diligence Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis

Date: August 15, 2018
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Yardway Group Ltd. Due Diligence Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis
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Yardway Group Ltd. Due Diligence Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis
Yardway Group Ltd. Due Diligence Report provides a complete overview of the company’s affairs. All available data is presented in a comprehensive and easily accessed format. The report includes financial and SWOT information, industry analysis, opinions, estimates, plus annual and quarterly forecasts made by stock market experts. The report also enables direct comparison to be made between Yardway Group Ltd. and its competitors. This provides our Clients with a clear understanding of Yardway Group Ltd. position in the Wholesale and Distribution Industry.

  • The report contains detailed information about Yardway Group Ltd. that gives an unrivalled in-depth knowledge about internal business-environment of the company: data about the owners, senior executives, locations, subsidiaries, markets, products, and company history.
  • Another part of the report is a SWOT-analysis carried out for Yardway Group Ltd.. It involves specifying the objective of the company's business and identifies the different factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective. SWOT-analysis helps to understand company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and possible threats against it.
  • The Yardway Group Ltd. financial analysis covers the income statement and ratio trend-charts with balance sheets and cash flows presented on an annual and quarterly basis. The report outlines the main financial ratios pertaining to profitability, margin analysis, asset turnover, credit ratios, and company’s long-term solvency. This sort of company's information will assist and strengthen your company’s decision-making processes.
  • In the part that describes Yardway Group Ltd. competitors and the industry in whole, the information about company's financial ratios is compared to those of its competitors and to the industry. The unique analysis of the market and company’s competitors along with detailed information about the internal and external factors affecting the relevant industry will help to manage your business environment. Your company’s business and sales activities will be boosted by gaining an insight into your competitors’ businesses.
  • Also the report provides relevant news, an analysis of PR-activity, and stock price movements. The latter are correlated with pertinent news and press releases, and annual and quarterly forecasts are given by a variety of experts and market research firms. Such information creates your awareness about principal trends of Yardway Group Ltd. business.

About Yardway Group Ltd.

Yardway Group Limited, an investment holding company, engages in the trade of vehicles and spare parts, machinery, and transportation and logistics related equipment in Hong Kong, other parts of Mainland China, and Europe. It offers train and track maintenance equipment, airport ground support equipment, coaches, trucks, and spare parts of bus. The company also involves in the manufacture and trade of dredging equipment and components. In addition, it engages in the design and installation of production lines; trade of securities; and provision of engineering services, including warranty and maintenance, and after-sales services. The company was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in Wanchai, Hong Kong. As of November 30, 2009, Yardway Group Limited operates as a subsidiary of Gentle International Holdings Limited.

The above Company Fundamental Report is a half-ready report and contents are subject to change.
It means that we have all necessary data in our database to prepare the report but need 2-3 days to complete it. During this time we are also updating the report with respect to the current moment. So, you can get all the most recent data available for the same price. Please note that preparation of additional types of analyses requires extra time.

1.1. Key facts
1.2. Financial Performance
1.3. Key Executives
1.4. Ownership and Major Holders
1.5. Company History

2.1. Business Description
2.2. Major Products and Services
2.3. Markets and Sales Activities
2.4. Locations, Subsidiaries, Operating Units

3.1. Overview
3.2. Strengths
3.3. Weaknesses
3.4. Opportunities
3.5. Threats

4.1. Financial Statements
  4.1.1. Income Statement
  4.1.2. Balance Sheet
  4.1.3. Cash Flow
4.2. Financial Ratios
  4.2.1. Profitability
  4.2.2. Margin Analysis
  4.2.3. Asset Turnover
  4.2.4. Credit Ratios
  4.2.5. Long-Term Solvency
  4.2.6. Growth Over Prior Year
  4.2.7. Financial Ratios Charts
4.3. Stock Market Snapshot

5.1. Yardway Group Ltd. Direct Competitors
5.2. Comparison of Yardway Group Ltd. and Direct Competitors Financial Ratios
5.3. Comparison of Yardway Group Ltd. and Direct Competitors Stock Charts
5.4. Yardway Group Ltd. Industry Analysis
  5.4.1. Wholesale and Distribution Industry Snapshot
  5.4.2. Yardway Group Ltd. Industry Position Analysis

6.1. News & PR Activity Analysis
6.2. IR Corporate News
6.3. Marketing News
6.4. Corporate Events

7.1. Experts Opinion
7.2. Experts Estimates

9.1. Political Factors
9.2. Economic Factors
9.3. Social Factors
9.4. Technological Factors
9.5. Environmental Factors
9.6. Legal Factors

10.1. Internal Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.2. External Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.3. Internal External Matrix

Yardway Group Ltd. Key Facts
Management Effectiveness
Income Statement Key Figures
Balance Sheet Key Figures
Cash Flow Statement Key Figures
Financial Performance Abbreviation Guide
Yardway Group Ltd. Key Executives
Key Executives Biographies1
Key Executives Compensations1
Yardway Group Ltd. Major Shareholders
Yardway Group Ltd. History
Yardway Group Ltd. Products
Revenues by Segment
Revenues by Region
Yardway Group Ltd. Offices and Representations
Yardway Group Ltd. SWOT Analysis
Yearly Income Statement Including Trends
Income Statement Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Balance Sheet Including Trends
Balance Sheet Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Cash Flow Including Trends
Cash Flow Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yardway Group Ltd. Profitability Ratios
Margin Analysis Ratios
Asset Turnover Ratios
Credit Ratios
Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Financial Ratios Growth Over Prior Year
Yardway Group Ltd. Capital Market Snapshot
Yardway Group Ltd. Direct Competitors Key Facts
Direct Competitors Profitability Ratios
Direct Competitors Margin Analysis Ratios
Direct Competitors Asset Turnover Ratios
Direct Competitors Credit Ratios
Direct Competitors Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Wholesale and Distribution Industry Statistics
Yardway Group Ltd. Industry Position
Company vs. Industry Income Statement Analysis
Company vs. Industry Balance Sheet Analysis
Company vs. Industry Cash Flow Analysis
Company vs. Industry Ratios Comparison
Yardway Group Ltd. Consensus Recommendations1
Analyst Recommendation Summary1
Price Target Summary1
Experts Recommendation Trends1
Revenue Estimates Analysis1
Earnings Estimates Analysis1
Historical Surprises1
Revenue Estimates Trend1
Earnings Estimates Trend1
Revenue Revisions1

Yardway Group Ltd. Annual Revenues in Comparison with Cost of Goods Sold and Gross Profit
Profit Margin Chart
Operating Margin Chart
Return on Equity (ROE) Chart
Return on Assets (ROA) Chart
Debt to Equity Chart
Current Ratio Chart
Yardway Group Ltd. 1-year Stock Charts
Yardway Group Ltd. 5-year Stock Charts
Yardway Group Ltd. vs. Main Indexes 1-year Stock Chart
Yardway Group Ltd. vs. Direct Competitors 1-year Stock Charts
Yardway Group Ltd. Article Density Chart

1 – Data availability depends on company’s security policy.
2 – These sections are available only when you purchase a report with appropriate additional types of analyses.
The complete financial data is available for publicly traded companies.

SWOT Analysis

SWOT, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, is an analytical framework that identifies the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable for a company.

Enhanced SWOT Analysis

Enhanced SWOT is a 3×3 grid that arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats into one scheme:

  • How to use the strengths to take advantage of the opportunities?
  • How to use the strengths to reduce likelihood and impact of the threats?
  • How to overcome the weaknesses that obstruct taking advantage of the opportunities?
  • How to overcome the weaknesses that can make the threats a reality?

Upon answering these questions a company can develop a project plan to improve its business performance.

PESTEL Analysis

PESTEL (also termed as PESTLE) is an ideal tool to strategically analyze what influence different outside factors – political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal – exert on a business to later chart its long term targets.

Being part of the external analysis when carrying out a strategic assessment or performing a market study, PESTEL gives an overview of diverse macro-environmental factors that any company should thoughtfully consider. By perceiving these outside environments, businesses can maximally benefit from the opportunities while minimizing the threats to the organization.

Key Factors Examined by PESTEL Analysis:

  • Political – What opportunities and pressures are brought by political bodies and what is the degree of public regulations’ impact on the business?
  • Economic – What economic policies, trends and structures are expected to affect the organization, what is this influence’s degree?
  • Sociological – What cultural and societal aspects will work upon the demand for the business’s products and operations?
  • Technological – What impact do the technological aspects, innovations, incentives and barriers have on the organization?
  • Environmental – What environmental and ecological facets, both locally and farther afield, are likely to predetermine the business?
  • Legal – What laws and legislation will exert influence on the style the business is carried out?

IFE, EFE, IE Matrices

The Internal Factor Evaluation matrix (IFE matrix) is a strategic management tool helping audit or evaluate major weaknesses and strengths in a business’s functional areas. In addition, IFE matrix serves as a basis for identifying and assessing relationships amongst those areas. The IFE matrix is utilised in strategy formulation.

The External Factor Evaluation matrix (EFE matrix) is a tool of strategic management that is typically utilised to assess current market conditions. It is an ideal instrument for visualising and prioritising the threats and opportunities a firm is facing.

The essential difference between the above mentioned matrices lies in the type of factors incorporated in the model; whilst the latter is engaged in internal factors, the former deals exceptionally with external factors – those exposed to social, political, economic, legal, etc. external forces.

Being a continuation of the EFE matrix and IFE matrix models, the Internal External matrix (IE matrix) rests upon an investigation of external and internal business factors integrated into one suggestive model.

Porter Five Forces Analysis

The Porter’s five forces analysis studies the industry of operation and helps the company find new sources of competitive advantage. The analysis surveys an industry through five major questions:

  1. What composes a threat of substitute products and services?
  2. Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?
  3. What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?
  4. How big is the bargaining power of buyers?
  5. How significant is the bargaining power of suppliers?

VRIO Analysis

VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization. This analysis helps to evaluate all company’s resources and capabilities and bring them together into one aggregate table that includes:

  • Tangible resources
    • Financial
    • Physical
    • Technological
    • Organizational
  • Intangible resources
    • Human
    • Innovation and Creativity
    • Reputation
  • Organizational capabilities

The result of the analysis gives a clear picture of company’s competitive and economic implications, answering the questions if the resources mentioned above are:

  • Valuable?
  • Rare?
  • Costly to imitate?
  • Organized properly?
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A wee Sovereign Scot

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Boromir: ESTJ

Guest Post by E. J., INTJ

Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien

Dominant Te: Boromir is eager to lead other people. When Faramir wanted to go to Rivendell to learn the meaning of a strange dream (which Faramir had dreamed frequently, but Boromir had only dreamed once), Boromir insisted that he was more capable of making the journey than Faramir. Given that both of them were mature war leaders, the more likely explanation is that Boromir simply wanted to take charge of the situation. Faramir suspects that a rivalry would have sprung up between Aragorn and Boromir if Boromir had lived longer: regardless of whether Boromir claimed to accept Aragorn’s right to the throne, learning to defer to another man would have been difficult for him. Boromir can be very blunt, and he does not mind interrupting other people–even Gandalf–if he disagrees with them or thinks they are misrepresenting the facts. Boromir prefers to make his decisions using strictly empirical evidence, which sometimes brings him into conflict with the Ti-based choices of Gandalf and Aragorn.

Auxiliary Si: As soon as Boromir is allowed to make a speech at the Council of Elrond, he begins talking about Gondor’s role in upholding the traditions of Númenor, as well as his own memories of fighting to uphold those traditions. Unlike his Ne-using brother Faramir, however, he does not look far enough into the past to realize that Gondor’s current traditions under Denathor’s leadership are not entirely traditional. He defines the traditions of Númenor according to his own experiences and what his father has taught him. Boromir is unwilling to admit (despite abundant evidence to the contrary) that Gondor is weakening. His tendency to be more confident in his city than the circumstances warrant is the reason he wants to take the Ring to Gondor as soon as he learns of its discovery.

Tertiary Ne: Boromir can be receptive to new ideas–at least, if those ideas will protect Gondor and its traditions. As a result, he is willing to use the Ring, despite warnings from Gandalf and Elrond about its corrupting nature. He can occasionally suggest explanations that surprise others with weaker Ne. For instance, Boromir guesses that the mountain snow is due to Sauron’s interference in the weather, and the more knowledgeable Gandalf confirms that Boromir’s speculation actually has some validity.

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Inferior Fi: Boromir has a tendency to let practical considerations override moral questions. He usually thinks more in terms of what needs to be done rather than what ought to be done. Boromir’s relatively weak moral code leaves him overly dependent on his father’s opinions, but he pays little attention to the opinions of other people, even those demonstrably wiser than his father. Boromir is less concerned with preserving harmony than with convincing others to do what he considers best. Nevertheless, he does care about the lives of his relatives and companions. Despite their father’s favoritism toward Boromir and dislike of Faramir, Boromir consistently protects his younger brother, and a good relationship exists between them. Boromir ultimately sacrifices his life to save Merry and Pippin, although they are not of central importance to the quest.

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  1. See that? This is what you tell people–including me–who say Te-doms are nothing but bossy and annoying:

    “I would have followed you . . . my brother . . . my captain . . . my king.”

    *goes away and cries because BOROMIR*

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Late Again

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The phone rings, he reaches out from under the sheets.

“Dammit Gary, this is the third time you’ve been late this week, what the hell is going on?”

“I’ll be there in a second” and he hangs up, he knows that the lecture can wait until he gets down to the shop.

He looks over at the empty space in his bed, he frowns. He used to wake up on time every morning, like a machine.

What’s the point?

Gary slides into his jeans quickly, sprays the sort of body spray that all of the ads claim will provoke the adoration of swarms of women. Gary knows better than that, he pulls on his shirt.

Gary used to eat breakfast. Gary used to wake up early and make breakfast for two, all before he went to work, dutifully, on schedule.

What’s the point?

Gary pulls out of his driveway onto Coronation Street. He is not a highly educated man, but a stoner friend of his had once subjected him to a series of youtube videos about quantum mechanics. They had claimed that a stream of electrons behaved differently depending on whether it was being observed or not.

His stoner friend had asked him, “Isn’t that like… trippy man?”

Gary was completely sober; he had no thoughts on how “trippy” it was. But he could sympathize with the electrons.

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“Ultimately, “The Dark Tower” rendered me grumpy and unhappy from a fan’s point of view and worried that the episode was not suitable for children at all.  As a lover of horror, I quite enjoyed the really scary parts of the episode and I was impressed with the writing in the first two-thirds of the episode.  I think there were some inconsistencies in the latter part of the episode and a lot of things just didn’t add up but I’ll have to see how future episodes play out before making a final judgement on that.”

Addicted to Media summs up my opinion quite nicely as well, the episode felt rushed and not suitable for children. Not very Merlin-like at all. As to Guinevere being the one AGAIN to fall under a spell from Morgana, seriously doesn’t she ever learn?

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Vince Staples burns through nihilism and house beats on 'Big Fish Theory'
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Vince Staples is the hip-hop equivalent of a great character actor moonlighting as a prestige leading man. This is not a slight on the rapper, but an observation: Despite his current rep as a wisecracking TV personality and celebrated everyman emcee, Staples, the 23-year-old from Long Beach, is hard to pin down. He entered the public sphere via the coattails of Odd Future's early shock-raps; he dabbled in Earl Sweatshirt’s dim aesthetic around the time of his Shyne Coldchain series of mixtapes, in the first half of this decade; he graduated to high-def gangsta rap with his late-2014 EP Hell Can Wait; and he was then cast as a Kanye-esque visionary with the double-disc creation myth Summertime '06, his universally acclaimed 2015 full-length debut.

His nimble voice allows him to slide in the pocket of most beats, a Trojan horse tactic that sneaks his straightforward and poignant songwriting onto all kinds of songs. (His 2016 EP, Prima Donna, existed mostly as a rapping exercise, rifling through as many styles as Staples could muster). More recently, he floated atop a dramatic Clams Casino beat on the producer's 2016 LP, 32 Levels, and on Gorillaz song earlier this year — and was equally impressive on both.

Given how familiar fans are with Staples' versatility by now, it's no small feat that Big Fish Theory, his second full-length album, surprises as much as it does. Here, the Vince Staples experience is condensed and sharpened to startling cohesion — 12 tracks that span just over 36 minutes, including a smattering of interludes — and set to a new kind of backdrop, one filled with mutating trip-hop and house-inspired beats.

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In a recent Reddit AMA, Staples said, "Hip-hop is electronic. Go listen to 'Planet Rock,'" a truth that nonetheless doesn't quite prepare you for the album's jarring, Tricky-esque opener "Crabs in a Bucket." Staples is right — hip-hop isn't all break beats and soul samples. But the gulf between the type of music that Staples has made for most of his career thus far and the wide, jittery electronic canvases that make up Big Fish Theory is striking. The new direction almost recalls Danny Brown's Old, the 2013 record that followed the Detroit rapper's career-defining breakout, 2011's XXX. With Old, Brown attempted to unite the two modes that then dominated him as an artist: the psyche-baring lyricist and the hedonistic, festival-crowd-pleasing emcee who wants to dabble in EDM. Big Fish Theory isn't as cynical as that record — Vince isn't making pill-popping party music — but the wildly divergent sounds on this album can leave fans feeling detached from the guy who wrote tightly woven, comparatively traditional hip-hop songs like "Blue Suede" and "Norf Norf."

Still, Staples remains a confident, engaging rapper. The record's almost-title track, "Big Fish," is a minimal, disembodied banger with a Juicy J hook that feels dropped in from another song, emphasizing an alienation and dread that flows throughout the entire album. "I was going crazy not too long ago/ Women problems every morning like the Maury show/ Swimming upstream while I'm trying to keep the bread from the sharks/ Made me want to put the hammer to my head," he raps, presumably a call-back to the headspace he occupied on 2016's paranoid Prima Donna. On the jumpy, Rick Ross-interpolating "Homage," Staples free-associates to a head-turning degree: "Won't no label have me in limbo/ Too much tempo, in Richard Prince mode/ Robert Longo, black as the Congo/ Pay me pronto or it's no convo."

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There are other moments where everything snaps into stunning clarity: "745" is one, the album's most straightforward slice of swagger-rap, in which producer Jimmy Edgar's burping electronic beat emulates G-funk with crayons — which is to say it's a worthy imitation, but you can sense something's off. "Yeah Right," the eyebrow-raising collaboration with art-pop auteur Sophie and Kendrick Lamar, mostly sounds how you think it would: Sophie's cartoonishly boisterous beat vaporizes the track, while Kendrick is on autopilot mode, raising goosebumps before getting out of the way.

After growing accustomed to the album's amorphous textures, the impression that lingers most is just how sharp Staples sounds on every track. But lyrically, this effort doesn't feel as memorable as his earlier work. "Samo," a Basquiat reference and another Sophie production, is trap music fit for the uncanny valley age, and it's among my favorite songs because Staples is able to create a compelling argument for the enduring allure of the goofy PC Music aesthetic, which Sophie helped establish. On most of the album, a beat's dynamism overwhelms how nuanced a writer Staples is. R&B crooner and longtime collaborator Kilo Kish takes up a large amount of real estate as the album's co-star, appearing on a number of outros and saving Staples from completely dissolving into Big Fish Theory's gumbo of sounds. Appearances from Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, Damon Albarn and A$AP Rocky are largely unrecognizable.

Vince's current ambitious muse is commendable, yet Big Fish Theory's short runtime suggests that is something like a purge. This sort of feels like it's Vince getting out from underneath the long-gestating hype for a proper follow-up to Summertime '06 — like how Kendrick fired off this year's streamlined Damn. a scant two years after 2015's massive To Pimp a Butterfly.

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The late Amy Winehouse is quoted in the intro to "Alyssa Interlude," from an interview featured in the 2015 documentary Amy: "Sometimes you have to get all the crap out the way before you hit the good stuff, then you're like, OK, I'm getting good stuff now." Whatever led him to this dizzying, defiant new direction, Big Fish Theory is mostly good stuff that leaves you awaiting better stuff to come.

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Bitcoin can’t stay out of the headlines at the moment. Today it has now broken another landmark of $12,000 per token. That is a 12000 times growth this year.

Starting at below $1000 in January is has seen an exponential growth this year as hype for the cryptocurrency gets out of control. In October it broke $5000 and just two months later it has more than doubled in price.

With Wednesday morning’s spike, the cryptocurrency now has a total market value of about $203 billion — more than twice Goldman Sachs’ market cap.

At the same time, Governments are starting to realise they can not ignore the importance of this new currency. Here in the UK, the Government plans on regulating Bitcoin and other digital, decentralised currencies with plans to eliminate the anonymity of users to curb money laundering and other illegal activities.

The official statement from the Treasury states:

We have clear tax rules for people who use cryptocurrencies, and like all tax rules, these are kept under review. We also intend to update regulation to bring virtual currency exchange platforms into anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regulation.

And Stephen Barclay, the UK’s Economic Secretary has said:

The UK government is currently negotiating amendments to the 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive that will bring virtual currency exchange platforms and custodian wallet providers into Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing regulation, which will result in these firms’ activities being overseen by national competent authorities for these areas. The government supports the intention behind these amendments. We expect these negotiations to conclude at EU level in late 2017/early 2018.

One of the original selling points of this cryptocurrency was the privacy it affords, so these changes will no doubt irk some users. However, this could also be seen as a positive movement for many investors as it helps legitimise Bitcoin as a legitimate currency.

Many economists are warning about the dangers involved with investing in the currency, it is exhibiting a strong speculative bubble trend, and it is thought that the bubble has to burst sooner or later.

Unfortunately for people such as myself who thought the bubble would burst closer to $1000, Bitcoin seems to just keep on going and going.  Stephen Roach of Yale University has even said:

I’ve never seen a chart of a security where the price really has a vertical pattern to it. And bitcoin is the most vertical of any pattern I’ve ever seen in my career.

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Help Anupama Get A Kidney - Get A New Life

Hi, I am Balakrishna seeking help to get Kidney Transplant done for my daughter Anupama. She's suffering from Chronic Kidney Disease wherein the Kidneys stop functioning. Anupama is 34years of age but the kidney has shrunk to size is of an 6 year old child's kidney .She's currently on dialysis.   Request you all to help me save her.

Transplant need to be done at the earliest as dialysis has lot of side effects and very painful.  The amount contributed here will be used for surgery and after care.
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Tests are going on n many more to go, until now all the tests reports have been favourable,  hopefully everything goes well here on as well.

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Thank you everyone for such continued support, really means a lot to us.

Update on the Process:
1st hurdle, as in the tests to check if my wife's kidney will match my daughter is crossed.  Both of them took the cross matching test yesterday and the results are favourable.

Further they will have to go through complete check up like gynecology, psychology, cardiology and others. If all that is perfect then we might get to know the next step.
Will keep you people informed about the progress.  Thank you again.
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We have decided that my wife Brunda will be the donar and initial process as in blood test,scanning and other preliminary of the donar has started. So, once the doctor confirm that we can proceed than rest of the tests will be initiated. It will take about 1.5months I guess for the Surgery.
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Hi ! my name is Priyamrita Chatterjee and I am raising funds for my childhood friend Susmita Mazumder Bhuyan. She is fighting with cancer and is currently under treatment at Christian Medical College Vellore. She has lost her husband  three years back. By working in a private school she was earning for she and her 11 years old son. But presently she is jobless due to health condition. which has made it difficult for her to arrange funds for her huge  treatment cost . She has no other way than to survive for her fatherless son but without fund it impossible to complete the treatment . Her treatment cost is approximately 5 lac ( Please Note: The estimate uploaded here is devoid of Surgery and Radiation cost as CMC will give separate estimate for those)  .  Seeing her condition I am trying to help her. Your little contribution can help her to fight the deadly disease and survive for her  little child.
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Ode to the “Spirited Ones”

Cheers to the spirited ones, the energetic, the spunky, the precocious, and all the other euphemisms people politely use for you instead of a total handful.

When people talk about wanting a demure little girl instead of a wild little boy, I literally laugh in their faces.

In your hot little hands, you grab live fish, expensive objects, and my sanity. And then you squeeze with reckless abandon.

You see a new dinosaur exhibit at the museum that all the other kids are afraid of, and before I can catch you, you scale the security wall and try to climb the dino’s leg.

When you were 3 years old, you walked up to a group of 8-year-old girls playing princesses on the playground.

“Who is your queen?” you asked.

You then introduced yourself, looked around the circle of girls, cleared your throat and announced that you were their queen.

You have the greatest imagination, but refuse to play alone — insisting I take on the personalities of seven stuffed animals simultaneously while you loll on your bed, directing and critiquing my dialogue and plot structure.

Once at a baseball game, you picked the man who looked the least comfortable around kids, sidled up next to him, introduced yourself, patted his leg, and offered him a sip from your water bottle.

“What are you doing honey?” I called over, flashing that apologetic smile I flash 500 times a day.

You smiled at me wickedly, “just talking to strangers.”

Taking down the queen, naturally.

We waited a long time to have a second because we honestly weren’t sure if we could handle another you.

You refuse to be labeled, to be boxed in by society’s standards of what is expected of you. You jump off cliffs, roll in the mud, race the boys on the playground but are obsessed with femininity, constantly complimenting other women’s nails, hair, dresses and jewelry — charming the pants off of them while I’m picking oatmeal out of my hair and trying to catch my breath for the first time that day.

Often we muse that you’re either destined for extreme greatness or prison — we can’t imagine anything in between.

We think you’re brilliant, but maybe you’re just average, and we know we need to be OK with that, too, because a challenging kid doesn’t always mean special or gifted or easy in other ways.

You refuse to be my masterpiece — my monkey, my cute accessory piece — because you’re bent on becoming your own masterpiece, whatever that ends up being.

As I guess kids are intended to do, you humble me daily and make me question my ability in all areas of life — mother, wife, sister, teacher, manager, boss, daughter and human.

You keep me on my toes, you bring me to my knees, and you ensure that my house is always stocked with wine.

Maybe karma won’t smile on us; maybe you won’t be a mellow teenager or a responsible adult. Maybe this is you. Fearless, insolent, charming, and possibly a sociopath.

You madden me, you magnificent, 3-foot-tall beast, but I wouldn’t change a thing.

In fact, I’d be lucky to be a little more like you as I grow up, too.

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  1. Chas February 1, 2018 at 9:25 am #

    Brava, Julie! Keep up the good word. Love to you, Jared, Ruby and Gabe.

  2. stephaniemitchell April 18, 2018 at 10:32 am #

    This made me smile and brought a little tear to my eye. This is my child, my wild boy, who I literally think sometimes what if I just set you free, he pushes me to my limits EVERY single day… yet when he tucks in to go to sleep I cant help but think about how much i love every little part of him and his craziness. Helps to know other mothers get it 😉 Thank you for sharing from Mid-Michigan Moms Blog!!!

  3. Colleen Jeruzal April 18, 2018 at 2:31 pm #

    Love this. As a mother to a spirited one. Hope she never loses her fire! ❤

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I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed for an article on dealing with life post-chemo for our local newspaper, the Dallas Morning News. I say pleasure, but it was actually tough to talk about that time in my life, even though I think about it all the time. Looking at photos of that time was even tougher.

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Strikeforce: ‘Diaz Vs Noons 2’ – TV Ratings

Saturday night’s Strikeforce: Diaz Vs Noons 2 event on Showtime pulled in an average of 350,000 viewers on it’s first-run.

That leaves the show 4th in the six ‘arena’ shows that Strikeforce have hosted in 2010, up 42,000 from the ‘Heavy Artillery’ show headlined by Alistair Overeem Vs Brett Rogers in May, but down 167,000 from the year’s high point so far at Strikeforce: Miami headlined by Diaz Vs Zaromskis in January which was backed up by a strong supporting cast including Hershel Walker and Bobby Lashley.

Strikeforce ‘Arena’ Events In 2010 (Average Viewing Figures)

  • 517,000 viewers, “Strikeforce: Miami” (January)
  • 412,000 viewers, “Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Werdum” (June)
  • 367,000 viewers, “Strikeforce: Houston” (August)
  • 350,000 viewers, “Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Noons 2” (October)
  • 308,000 viewers, “Strikeforce St. Louis: Heavy Artillery” (May)
  • 164,000 viewers, “Strikeforce: Los Angeles” (June)

The good news for Saturday night’s show was that viewing figures spiked significantly for the main event though, a grudge rematch between welterweight champion Nick Diaz and KJ Noons, peaking at 509,000 viewers.

That’s up 39,000 from the peak rating seen at Strikeforce’s last event in Houston in August.

Overall the figures make reasonable sense.  Diaz Vs Noons was a solid main event that caught fans attention, but the rest of the main card, which was made up with fighters promoted from the ‘Challengers’ series like Sarah Kaufman, Tyron Woodley and Andre Galvao along with new signing JZ Cavalcante are not yet able to draw the same level of interest as some of the promotion’s more established stars to help boost the overall ratings average.

The promotion now look ahead to their next major show on December 4th which has a strong line-up including the return of Dan Henderson against ‘Babalu’ Sobral, Paul Daley’s debut against Scott Smith, and the inclusion of guaranteed ratings booster Herschel Walker, and should give them a chance to end the year on a high.

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Read this article written by Jessica Davis, Healthcare IT News. Davis interviews M*Modal’s CMIO, Dr. Gilan El Saadawi and discusses how she is working on an AI-driven virtual assistant to better capture clinical documentation from conversational speech during patient-physician interactions. But as with any rapidly-advancing technology, El Saadawi said “we have to ensure that disruptive technology makes a positive impact on healthcare by saving the lives of patients and creating time for physicians.”

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I resigned from teaching in February of 2013, to stay home and help on the ranch. I had taken a leave of absence the year before to see if my mind could handle not teaching. There is something about teaching that enables your mind to always grow.  New challenges and learning from the students keeps my mind busy and active  I know it sounds weird but if I’m not doing something my brain aches.  I feel like I have to learn something new all the time and challenge myself.

Well I found that with ranching there was lots for me to learn and time to begin new hobbies. Oh and also the fact that I needed to be the taxi for my growing kids.   At times I wish I was teaching, I think life was less hectic then. But kids will grow, and need taken to various activities and if I was teaching, well they wouldn’t get to go.

We raise red angus cattle and use border collie dogs to help with just about every aspect of life on the ranch. We had three awesome dogs. They worked great. However when we moved cows it seems I was always left with no dog, because they are extremely loyal to my husband. Yes, he can tell them to stay or even just leave one. But the moment they hear a command he gives ton another dog, they too must go over to show themselves, how dare they be left with this boring lady.   So alas I am always alone and darn it sometimes you need a dog to get those cattle moving.

In November of 2012, I flat decided I was getting a dog. Not just any border would do, I wanted a registered red and white. So I found Abingdon Border Collies out of Oregon. I ordered my little Jipsey and she flew into Casper.

At three months old she is working with no fear.   Now that’s great. However she is my puppy. That means special treatment. Yes, she sleeps in our bed. Oh, she is bathed often and really doesn’t care for the delightful scent of oatmeal that her doggie shampoo gives her. But she gets it anyway.

She has had her moments in training. Her first big trailing of yearlings she just didn’t know where to be so she chased yearlings till she ended up right in the middle and then was so mesmerized by all the yearlings around her, she just laid down. Yep, smack dab in the middle. When those of us on horseback got to her, she was wide eyed and just lost. It was the funniest thing. Of course she hadn’t really mastered commands, so getting her back to me wasn’t going to happen.

She also has a passion for chasing anything near the house. She must be watched like a hawk. My husband came in a couple of weeks ago carrying fencing stretchers and told me “your dog is tied up outside, you have two gates to fix. “. Yes, my sweet dog chased our long horns and the kids cow calf pairs from 4-H through two pastures. She can definitely cause a wreck.

Well yesterday we moved 200+ pair on the mountain and she did a darn good job. We had some really snotty mommas who were not real excited to have this dog chasing them. They took her more than I can count, but Jipsey just circled around and put them into the herd. The more she works, the more she is coming into her own. Plus she stays with me and that is the best.

She is the sweetest little thing, and a very aggressive working dog. However like all dogs sometimes she is just a pain in the tail.

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ANYONE with the slightest understanding of how cultures work knows that defining a culture, saying what it is for members of that culture, is always a major and, even in undemocratic societies, a democratic contest. There are canonical authorities to be selected and regularly revised, debated, reselected, or dismissed. There are ideas of good and evil, belonging or not belonging (the same and the different), hierarchies of value to be specified, discussed, rediscussed and settled or not.

Moreover each culture defines its enemies, who stands beyond it and threatens it. For the Greeks, beginning with Herodotus, anyone who did not speak Greek was automatically a barbarian, an Other to be despised and fought against. An excellent recent book by the French classicist François Hartog, The Mirror of Herodotus (1), painstakingly shows how deliberately Herodotus set about constructing an image of a barbarian Other from the Scythians, more even than from the Persians.

The official culture is that of priests, academies and the state. It provides definitions of patriotism, loyalty, boundaries and what I have called “belonging”. It is this official culture that speaks in the name of the whole, that tries to express the general will, the general ethos and idea, that inclusively holds the official past (the founding fathers and texts, the pantheon of heroes and villains) and excludes what is foreign or different or undesirable in the past. From it come the definitions of what may or may not be said, those prohibitions and proscriptions that are necessary to any culture if it is to have authority.

It is also true that besides the mainstream or official or canonical culture there are dissenting or alternative, unorthodox, heterodox cultures that contain many anti- authoritarian strains in competition with the official culture. These can be called the counterculture, an ensemble of practices associated with outsiders - the poor, immigrants, artistic (...)

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Edward Said was professor of comparative literature at Columbia University, New York, and author of numerous works including Orientalism (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978), Culture and Imperialism (Vintage Books, 1994), Peace and its Discontents (Vintage, 1995) and The End of the Peace Process (Granta Books, 2002). This text is extracted from “The Clash of definitions” in Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Harvard University Press, 2000)
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(1) François Hartog, Le Miroir d’Hérodote, Poche, Paris, 2001.

(2) Arthur M Schlesinger, The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, WW Norton, New York, revised edition 1998.

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See Tesla's D in 60 seconds
See Tesla's D in 60 seconds

"The D" touted by Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is here, and it's a dual motor, all-wheel-drive sedan with mind-bending performance numbers.

The improvements build on the company's current Model S, offering better traction, more driving range and futuristic automated features. And some serious speed.

Model S sedans equipped with Tesla's 85 kWh battery pack and the dual-motor all-wheel-drive system will be able to go from zero to 60 miles an hour in just 3.2 seconds. That puts it in the same league as high-performance cars including the Porsche 911 Turbo and the Mercedes-Benz E63.

To reach those speeds, the cars will have three driver-selectable settings: "Normal," Sport" and "Insane."

The car will have slightly more driving range on a full charge than the two-wheel-drive version. That means that with an 85 kWh battery pack the all-wheel-drive car will go 275 miles instead of 265 with rear-wheel-drive car.

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Elon Musk: Big risks 'make me unhappy'

Tesla is also adding semi-automomous driving features to its cars that will allow owners to leave some of the driving to the car's on-board computers. The features will come standard, and the automaker has been building them into cars on the assembly line for the past two weeks.

These systems use sensors and cameras to help keep the car in its lane on highways while maintaining a safe following distance behind cars ahead.

The car will be able to automatically change lanes while avoiding other vehicles when the driver uses the turn signal. It will also change the car's speed automatically to adjust to different speed limits as determined by cameras that read speed limit signs.

While using these "autopilot" features, drivers will not be required to keep their hands on the steering wheel.

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The car will be able to park itself and, when on private property, an owner will be able to summon the car. The car will also be able to connect with the owner's calendar so that it can be ready when needed.

Related: Car shopping tips for the modern world

With both the active driving features and all-wheel-drive systems, Tesla is matching technologies offered by other luxury automakers but adding additional features. Other automakers offer "active cruise control" systems but require a driver's hands to stay on the steering wheel. They also don't change lanes automatically.

Tesla's all-wheel-drive system provides added traction but also added performance efficiency.

Related: Cool cars from the Paris Motor Show

Until now, the Model S has been a strictly rear-wheel-drive car. All-wheel-drive is commonly offered by Tesla's luxury car competitors including Mercedes, BMW, Cadillac and Jaguar.

Particularly among luxury car brands, all-wheel-drive is considered a necessity to be competitive in major northeastern markets. About three quarters of luxury cars sold in northern states have all-wheel-drive, according to data from the automotive Web site Edmunds.com.

Tesla (TSLA)'s shares were down 5% early Friday.

Even without all-wheel-drive, used Tesla Model S cars currently re-sell for almost as much as new cars. Consumer Reports has hailed it as the best model it has ever tested -- although the magazine later noted the car did suffer from a few reliability issues -- and it won Motor Trend's Car of the Year award in 2012.

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Top 5 Moving Scams and How to Prevent Them

11 Feb by Dr Dan Amzallag, PhD (Expert Mover)

Top 5 Moving Scams and How to Prevent Them

Up to 40 million people move every year in the US, making the moving company active everywhere. There has been a rise in the number of complaints by consumers against several moving companies who either exploit them or charge awful prices. It can be better for you to know a few important things to prevent any type of moving scams and stay well-informed. Here are the top 5 things you should look out for when hiring a moving company.

  1. Being Lazy with a Full Inspection

If a mover is not visiting your house or company for scanning the whole place, they are being lazy and may ask for more money afterward. Homeowners may have a large number of belongings that they have actually estimated before. When you are clearing out, you might gouge extra things which are stored under the bed, behind the cupboard, or in the garage. The moving price depends more on the entire weight of your belonging and the space it covers inside the truck rather than on the mileage.

  1. Brief Inspection

Movers who give you a quote by inspecting the house rapidly without checking the things on the shelves or the furniture in your rooms are not reliable and go off-target sometimes. An experienced estimator will ask you many questions such as whether you will eat the food or move it into the pantry while moving or if you are going to sell some furniture. It is essential for you to provide all the information firsthand. Many movers don’t return the belongings unless you pay more money so it is better to resolve things.

  1. The Name Change

To detect a scammy mover, search for their business names on the internet because they change names after every few months. From a local address to having a legal license for moving your belonging, make sure you check everything before hiring movers. If the movers refer to themselves as moving services instead of their legitimate business name, they are often suspicious and might exploit you. You can ask about their personal history with a client and get in touch with those people to know about their experience with the company.

  1. Packaging Costs and Extra Fees

When it comes to hiring movers, a slight contradiction is they will not be responsible for damages while moving your belonging if you have packed it on your own. If you allow the movers to pack your belongings, you are dividing the high prices for packing several boxes and extra packing materials combining all the labor and time. If you are shifting from or to an 8th-floor apartment, you have to pay extra charges for it. You also have to pay a surcharge if the moving truck is bigger and is unable to fit in the narrow street you are shifting in.

  1. The 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Quote

Federal Law issues two different kinds of moving contracts, one is a binding estimate and the other one is a non-binding estimate. A non-binding estimate means the moving company cannot ask for more than 10% of the initial estimate due within a month of delivery. Whereas a binding estimate is the final guaranteed price you have to pay including the extras. If further services are requested in a binding estimate like unpacking the boxes, the added fees are due within a month of delivery. The prices do not necessarily increase unless the weight of your belongings exceeds than the original estimate.

How to Prevent Moving Scams Effortlessly

  • Ask referrals or consult your friends and family members to give you a few contact numbers of reliable moving companies. Speak to a real estate agent who can be a better guide and experienced in such matters.
  • Always check twice before hiring a moving company. Make sure the movers have an official website and a local address. Check all the blacklisted companies too.
  • If the company doesn’t send anyone to your house for an inspection, don’t hire them. Many reliable moving companies spend 15 minutes or more with their clients to answer relatable questions and offering tips.
  • Don’t pay more than 30% down payment or a large upfront fees or even half the decided amount.

Author Bio: Ilean Jane is fun loving and loves to blog. She is a story teller, a foodie and looks forward to anything adventurous. Currently she is working for Irvine Residential Living.

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Bourbon & Whiskey Theme 30th Birthday

Jess turned 30 on December 29 so I decided to throw her a Bourbon and Whiskey themed birthday party.

I picked up some empty cigar boxes which I bought for a few dollars at a local cigar shop and found some prohibition signs online to print out. I had a friend use the Jack Daniels design to make Old No. 30 decals with her Cricut machine for glasses I picked up at our local thrift store.

 To tie in with the theme, I made Bourbon Meatballs, Bourbon Pulled Pork Sliders and Bourbon Lil’ Smokies. These were great for a party because I could throw them in the crockpot and leave them to cook while I finished setting up.

This was a fun and inexpensive way to spice up a big birthday! Everyone had fun and even our pup Jack was pooped at the end of the night.

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Bear Festival

Speed Sculpting Competition rules 2018

Speed sculpting competition of bears in Ilomantsi, Finland, 18 August 2018

The Championships Speed Sculpting Competition will be held on Saturday, 18 August 2018. Its theme Wild Nature offers endless possibilities for participants to express their creativity freely. The sculptors will describe their own relationship with wild nature. Does wild nature have any place in a world where urbanisation is spreading? Can wild nature still be found?

Rules of the competition

  • Applications for the competition will be open from 1 March to 15 May 2018. Please register using the form that can be found on our website at
  • A maximum of 25 sculptors will be entered in the competition in the order of the receipt of applications.
  • If there are places left, sculptors can enter the competition at the Bear Festival competition office on the day of the competition, Saturday, 18 August 2018 from 8-10 am.
  • Those who have entered the competition will receive a letter with more details about matters such as the competition site, accommodation and catering. The competitors pay their own travel and accommodation expenses.
  • Competitors must be 16 or over. A consent from parents must accompany an application from an applicant younger than 18.

  • The speed sculpting competition will be held at the Bear Arena in Katri Vala Cultural Centre on 18 August 2018. The competition will begin by preparing the block of timber at 11 am, and the competition runs from 11.30 am until 1 pm.

Sculpting, tools, equipment and safety

  • The competition theme is Wild Nature. The organiser hopes that the competitors express a personal and creative take on the theme.
  • A chainsaw must be used for sculpting. Other tools can be used for finishing the sculpture.
  • The competitors will bring their own chainsaw and other tools, fuel and chain oil (eco-friendly) as well as extension cords if necessary.
  • As a minimum requirement, the competitors must wear cut-resistant jackets, trousers and safety footwear, as well as hearing and eye protection. The competitors must bring their own safety equipment to the competition site.
  • Each competitor must ensure that they are fully insured.
  • The sculptors must commit to working in a manner that considers the safety of themselves, other competitors and the audience.

Judging and prizes:

  • The three best sculptures in the speed competition will be determined by the audience vote. The voting will take place immediately after the sculpting time is over. Prizes: 1st prize EUR 700, 2nd prize EUR 400, 3rd prize EUR 300.

Ownership of the competition sculptures:

  • The competition sculptures will be owned by the Vaara-Karjala Cultural Association of the Association for Rural Culture and Education.
  • Some bears will be reserved as so-called ‘sponsor bears’ for companies supporting the activities. The future owners will be responsible for the display, maintenance and storage of the sculptures.
  • The Association for Rural Culture and Education reserves the right to select two sculptures for its ITE art collection.

Photographs and videos

  • The organisers have the right to use photographs and other recordings taken during the competition in their competition-related communications.

  • The main organisers of the competition are the Association for Rural Culture and Education and its regional organisation, the Vaara-Karjala Cultural Association. The competition is part of the 2018 Bear Festival.


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The King’s Speech

In theaters.

At first, the subject of The King’s Speech seems embarrassingly trivial. With World War II looming, soon to give rise to all manner of suffering and pain and death, this is a movie about a ludicrously privileged man fighting a speech impediment, a figurehead trying to become the very best figurehead he can be. Unchallenging, relentlessly pleasant, it screams “middlebrow.”

And yet, somehow, it finds its way to something meaningful. Colin Firth delivers a masterful performance as the ludicrously privileged king in question, revealing the vulnerable man underneath the stiff formality, but The King’s Speech accomplishes more than simple humanization. It directly confronts the fact that the king is a figurehead—powerless, seemingly pointless. Underneath the pleasantries, this is a movie about what it means to be a figurehead, what makes a good one, and why it might not be so trivial a position as cynical snobs like, oh, me might believe. The King’s Speech might not be edgy, but it’s more provocative than I first credited.

Firth plays the Duke of York, second son of King George V (Michael Gambon). Plagued by a terrible stutter, the duke can barely make it through a single sentence, much less a full speech. His wife (Helena Bonham Carter) takes him to numerous speech therapists, finally resorting to Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), an Australian (gasp!) whose unconventional methods and determinedly informal manner make the duke bristle but nonetheless begin to prove effective. Meanwhile, the duke’s elder brother (Guy Pearce), heir to the throne, is alarming everyone by carrying on an affair with Wallis Simpson (Eve Best), a twice-married American heiress who could never become queen. (As leader of the Church of England, the king is not permitted to marry a divorcée in contradiction of Church teachings, and Wallis’s abrasive, domineering behavior and rumored Nazi sympathies don’t inspire anyone in the political or religious establishment to make an exception.) Speech therapy becomes more and more urgent as it grows increasingly likely that the Duke of York will not remain a duke; he may, in fact, become king.

(Just as an aside: Writing about royals is incredibly awkward. The protagonist of The King’s Speech is known to his family as Bertie, short for Albert, but he will eventually be crowned George VI. His older brother is known to the family as David, but he will be crowned Edward VIII. Bertie/George’s wife is named Elizabeth, as is their daughter, the future Queen Elizabeth II. It’s a complete muddle. I never known how to refer to any of the characters in the movie, what with the multiple names and double names and changing titles—very frustrating.)

Anyway, the cast is strong all around. Rush could pull off Lionel’s genial iconoclasm in his sleep, and Bonham Carter is effortlessly adorable as the devoted Elizabeth. (She’s become increasingly goth with her performances in the Harry Potter movies and Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd and Alice in Wonderland, but she’ll always be Lucy Honeychurch of A Room with a View to me, so I was delighted to see her get back to her costume drama roots.) Pearce probably has the meatiest supporting role, playing our protagonist’s often cruel elder brother with princely hauteur and childish self-absorption. On paper, Edward’s abdication can be seen as romantic—renouncing the throne for the love of his life!—but in practice, both Edward and Wallis are far too nasty to serve as fairy tale characters. The contrast between future kings—Edward VIII and George VI—is one of the most compelling elements of the movie.

The King’s Speech unquestionably belongs to Firth, though. From the moment we first see the Duke of York, he’s locked in a silent tumult of fear and self-loathing. His stutter isn’t a cute Porky Pig stammer but an almost unbearably physical ailment. Words seem to lodge in his throat, choking him, leaving him gasping for air and composure. It’s difficult to watch and difficult to hear. You can understand why people avert their eyes, embarrassed, and why the duke resents them so much for doing so—and himself along with them. He’s not a warm, fuzzy character, easy to like. He clings to his royal status with unattractive superciliousness, and he has a temper, which he repeatedly inflicts on Lionel. A lesser performance could have been insufferable, but Firth never loses sight of how the man’s prickly, wounded nobility is part and parcel of his sense of noblesse oblige, which brings out his best traits: duty, determination, love of country.

For the irony of The King’s Speech—the subtlety of David Seidler’s screenplay—is that though poised, articulate Edward would seem to make the stronger figurehead, his pitied younger brother, awkward, faltering George, is actually the far better candidate. And if that is true—and it is—the position isn’t so superficial and meaningless as one might think. Edward understands only privilege, but George understands the responsibilities that come along with it. His resolve to be a king whom his subjects can be proud of, who can inspire them and give them hope as the country enters a very dark time—that resolve ennobles him in a way that mere titles do not. The King’s Speech doesn’t pretend that George ever becomes a great orator, but in a strange way, in a terrible time, the obvious effort expended in his radio address to his people is what gives that speech—and the movie—its power.


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Acai Bowl DIY

Oh hey beach babe! Feeling peckish? Oh, we’ve got something scrumpdidyumptioas to curb that!

For those in Australia, you will know the warm summer feeling has begun to take effect. The sun is setting later, and the nights are getting balmier. And the best part of it all is the style that is shifting with it. We love the way this season allows for flowwy playsuits and a simple slip for when the sun sets to still look effortlessly striking.

Summer is about sandy toes & salty skin, and bathing under the sunshine for hours on end. Whether or not you’re inclined to spend your long days at the beach, I think we can all agree summer carries a vivacious energy that is bound to make you smile. So in light of all this pre-season talking, we thought we would put together our FAVE summer food for your DIY enjoying; the Acai Bowl!

In order to achieve best results, the freshest fruit is always preferred! But the key is finding delicious Acai. We used Amazonia Acai (which we would recommend to everyone!) You can source all of these ingredients from your local health food store.

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Wholesome, nutritious and simply delicious – this south American influenced meal is going to quench your summer thirst and leave you feeling light and bright for a day in the sun!

5 reasons to ACAI:

Antioxidants! Did you know the anthocyanin’s in antioxidants contain anti-aging properties?
Low sugar! All the sugar in Acai bowls are natural and only contain the sweet goodness of fruit!
Healthy fats! Omega fatty acids keep you revitalised and energised, while protecting your skin, hair, heart and brain development!
Fiber! Did you know Fiber encourages your digestive flow, regulates your blood sugars and lowers blood cholesterol levels!
Yum! Umm with a taste that good, do we need another reason?

Now that we’ve covered the essentials (food, duh) – we’ve put together some of our favourite summer styles for any beach day!

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Shop the Solance playsuit here!

IMG_9160Shop the Wild and Free playsuit here!

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And if you liked the look of our nutritious DIY goodness, head to Miss Bliss for more scrumptious and healthy delights! Located in West End Brisbane – this eccentric and cosy restaurant is just perf for a Sunday brekky with bae or afternoon bliss with the girls! (Psst, they’re doing Christmas workshops too!)

Happy Summer babes, x x x