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I am a tad late for The Canal bandwagon, but I'm glad I finally made it! I was a little leery at first by the generic cover art of the film- one version showing a "Ring" movie-inspired, looking girl with her face covered by her hair and the other on Netflix showing a ghost-like girl with lifeless eyes reaching towards the viewer. It leaves a lot to be desired but I have read good reviews on this Irish film so I finally decided to give it a go. I am so glad I did because The Canal exceeded all of my expectations and then some.
The opening scene leads you to believe this will be a Ring inspired film with its creepy video montage, but this is not the case. Far from it, actually. David (played by Rupert Evans) is a film archivist who suspects his wife, Alice, is cheating on him and obsesses over thoughts of infidelity. He follows Alice one night and witnesses his worst nightmare followed by another nightmare that is more evil than he could ever imagine. Without going into much detail, his wife has disappeared and David may have witnessed the potential murder or possibly committed it himself. Did David actually see what happened that night? Or it is a manifestation of his warped insecurities?
While looking into the disappearance of his wife, David also discovers that his home is the location of multiple murders from the past. David's fanatical personality leads him to believe these murders and his wife's disappearance are linked by uncanny similarities, though the investigator on the case (played by Steve Oram from Sightseers) thinks he is crazy and is his main suspect. David's dreams and fears portrayed on film hold some very disturbing imagery as the audience tries to decide what David's involvement in all this is. Even though David has a lot of negative personality traits, you can't help but root for him and hope he isn't the bad guy. He is a surprisingly likable and relatable character despite his flaws, which can sometimes be a difficult feat for filmmakers. But director, Ivan Kavanagh, pulls it off seamlessly. Once this realization hit me, I knew this movie would be fantastic.
I like it because you are constantly questioning what is going on, what is real or imagined, or even if this is a supernatural film or not. I like movies that keep you guessing. So often horror movies start out interesting and then lose ground with stunted development. The Canal, on the other hand, keeps a steady pace and is actually scary. I even jumped in my seat a few times. A frightening atmosphere can make or break a film and is also something that is lacking in a lot of modern horror films. The atmosphere created in this film is conductive to fear with the grimy alleys, graffiti walls, blinking lights, and quick flashes of brutal imagery that come out of nowhere in grainy black and white footage. This is one of the better horror films I've seen in a while that has gotten little recognition. This slow-burn psychological thriller is captivating from beginning to end and I think it will get better with subsequent viewings to catch all the clever nuances and layers to this distinctive and moody film.
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Brother Demos Shakarian Prophesied over me 40 years ago. I am slow, it took me till now to understand what the Holy Spirit said through him.
He told me I needed to build an FGBMFI Net, like a Web, to catch the souls of men. After that date, I received the Lord, helped build the Internet, and to make a long story short, I finally understand what I should do…
I am the web-servant of the Lord! I am your servant!
I have a simple job, make an online presence for every chapter of FGBMFI in the World! Now some people say that is 6,000, others say 7,000 or 9,000 chapters. It really doesn't matter, I started out with the idea for enough room for 65,000 Chapters!
Online presence means a webpage!
I had to start somewhere. So I started praying for a website for each National Office. Recently a conversation made me realize, we now have the means to make a website for every chapter in the world! Last week, in the middle of my dawn prayers, I just blurted out, Lord, let me focus on one isolated country and start there. Only after the words came out of my mouth did I hear them! One isolated country? What in the world did that mean.
So I started praying, "Lord, show me the country you want first?" A week went by and nothing. I get messages all the time asking about FGBMFI in far away places… But then I got two messages today. The first message was from a man saying he was planning a business trip to Sydney Australia, and could I give him chapter contact information there. The second message asked me to add the 2012 Australia National Convention, which I was happy to do. However, he made a statement a small statement about how Australia was the most isolated country on earth, and the only country continent there is. I have been down under before, but never thought about the fact that there is no road there from some other country! He also gave me the following list of 50 Australia Chapters!
- Adelaide Eastern
- Adelaide North
- Adelaide North East
- Adelaide South
- Albury/Wodonga
- Alice Springs
- Aspley
- Ballina
- Blacktown
- Bowen
- Brisbane
- Busselton
- Cairns
- Callide-Dawson Valley
- Canberra
- Central Highlands
- Charters Towers
- Chinchilla
- Dandenong
- Fassifern
- Frankston
- Geelong
- Gilgandra
- Gold Coast
- Goulburn Valley
- Granite Belt
- Hobart
- Kingborough
- Mackay
- Mount Gambier
- Naracoorte
- Noosa District
- North Canberra
- North West Coast
- Northern Suburbs
- Parramatta
- Peninsula
- Perth South
- Port Macquarie
- Port Stephens
- Queanbeyan
- Redlands
- St George
- Sunshine Coast
- Sutherland
- Sydney Chinatown
- Tenant Creek
- Toowoomba
- Traralgon
- Waverley
Chapter Websites
I want someone from each of those chapters to contact me and work with me to build a chapter website. It is not hard and I will do everything, even take you by the hand, to help you get your chapter website up and running. A Chapter website can be as simple as just contact information. Or as complete as your chapter would like, it with announcements of your meetings, and reports of lives that are changed. How you use your chapter website, to bring glory and honor to the Lord, is up to you.
My ministry is to teach you how. Every chapter in Australia has a Chapter Web-Servant who is more than able to put your chapter online. Together we will develop the tools and instruction you need.
Australia, I am praying for you!
I have no idea how to contact you, but Australia, I am praying you will see this, and tell me below that you want a website for your FGBMFI Chapter, and Name Where Your Chapter Is At!
A Sigh From God!
If you are in Australia, and you are reading this, it is a sign from God that God wants you to be involved in this project! God led you to find this page! So tell someone about it! Pray about it! Make sure your chapter has a WebServant and a website!
Let's work together so that Australia is the first country on the Earth to have a working website, for every chapter! I have plenty of tools to help you. If you can do email, you can make a chapter website! If you think you are too old, then let your kids contact me, my 10 year old can make one of these sites! (Oops! He will not be 10 until next March 2012!)
If you have a teen age daughter, she can to this for you, online, with the help of my teen age son! If you have a 20 something godly son, he can do this for you, with the help of my 20 year old daughter!
I am not trying to suggest anything here, other than ANY Godly person, with a love for God, and basic email skills, can make an website!
The Cost : FREE!
That is right, we are not asking for money, we work for the Lord!
If everyone starts now, there is plenty of time to have every FGBMFI Chapter in Australia have their Chapter Website running before your National Convention…
What To Do…
To get your chapter website, just put a comment below, with a valid email address. We NEVER spam and NEVER give email addresses away! (See our Privacy Policy) In your comment tell me what chapter you want to build a site for.
For Ideas, you may also want to read about Lan City, or other pages on this site.
Telephone Book Vs Google
Here is one last thought. 2011 was a history making year. It is the first time in history, since telephone books were invented, that more people Googled, for what they wanted, rather than look in a phone book! That even includes online phone books.
The Test!
Here is a test, type "FGBMFI" into Google followed by your city.
Something like …
FGBMFI Lan City Philippines
Can you find your chapter's contact information on one of the first five results pages?
How about the first 10 results?
First 20 results?
Not at all?

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Thank you for considering Overton Grange as a possible place to study beyond 16. We are very pleased to say that the Sixth Form here is a 'Good' feature of this successful school and has consistently achieved very good exam results for our students over the years. It is also a community within a community. We aim to create a college environment within the larger school and local community which will provide a stepping stone between school and either university or the adult world of work. Please click on the link below to see a copy of the Prospectus.
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The Rolling Stones - On Air', a collection of rarely heard radio recordings from their formative years. The songs, including eight the band have never recorded or released commercially, were originally broadcast on bygone UK BBC shows such as Saturday Club, Top Gear, Rhythm and Blues and The Joe Loss Pop Show between 1963 and 1965. Released on CD, double CD deluxe edition, and heavy-weight vinyl these flashbacks offer an insight into the band as a vital and constantly surprising live unit. Such was the frequency with which they visited BBC studios in the 60's, the group constantly set out to offer listeners something different. As well as songs that never appeared on singles or albums, there are seven tracks that were debuted over the airwaves before featuring on albums or EPs. The group's take on familiar R&B staples like 'Roll Over Beethoven', 'Memphis, Tennessee' and 'Beautiful Delilah' (all originated by Chuck Berry) illustrate the verve and energy the Stones regularly brought to their live shows. The BBC would urge them to perform their current singles, and while happy to do so they also relished the opportunity to showcase a fuller picture of their prowess as Britain's foremost blues outfit, packing clubs and ballrooms night after night. Among the 32 tracks, first heard ringing out of transistor radios over a period of just under two years, is 'Come On', the group's debut single and also the first number laid down for the iconic Saturday Club, hosted by the late, legendary Brian Matthew. 'Come On' is released as the first track from the album and is available now on digital and streaming services. Other highlights include the strutting 'Fannie Mae' (originally recorded by bluesman Buster Brown in 1959), Tommy Tucker's 'Hi Heel Sneakers', and Bo Diddley's 'Cops And Robbers'. The variety of radio shows from which the material is compiled is testament to the special relationship the Stones had with the BBC from the very beginning of their recording career. The music speaks for itself, but 'On Air' also serves as an important historical artefact, and an essential of the group's impressively evergreen canon. 'The Rolling Stones - On Air' offer a unique insight into the formative days of The Rolling Stones a few years before 'The Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World' became a reality this was a band playing the music they loved so much - Blues, R&B, Soul and even the odd country song. Performing these songs night after night in clubs and dancehalls meant they are all honed to perfection and performed with the genuine love and affection that The Stones have for their musical heritage.
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Anna-Jonesboro Community High School is welcoming support for the Jill Pearce Bell Memorial Scholarship.
Mrs. Bell was an A-JCHS teacher and coach for over 35 years.
The scholarship will be awarded to an outstanding A-J female athlete with superior academic performance, including completing four years of Spanish class, and involvement in school and community activities.
Donations to help support the scholarship can be mailed or dropped off to the superintendent's office.
Checks are to be made payable to A-JCHS, indicating the Bell Scholarship as the beneficiary.


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Thank you for all your help, I love my new car! I drove it back to Kitchener tonight and it drove so nice and smooth and quiet and it is so cute! I love it! Thank you thank you!
Make sure you give Jerry another big thank you for me because I don't have his email address. Reta was so sweet to!
You guys are all awesome!
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Comfortable Shaping Kitchen Corner – 20 ideas
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There are different variations to make the corner cabinet in the kitchen. A corner unit as shown in the example above is inherently practical and the kitchen utensils did are easy to reach. Your kitchen has HOWEVER not seeking a Variant, as already Mentioned can incorporate different system, with easier reach of pots, pans and other things. A roundabout or merry-go-round so called, is very popular for the facilities of the corner cabinet in the kitchen. This roundabout can be Rotated around its own axis to 360 degrees. So, for example, distribute your pots on it to accomplish did by simply turning what you need. Prevents annoying get out and again put in in the cupboard and cumbersome stacking together is not be be necessary.
Another variation for the corner cabinet in the kitchen is a search system. It consists of Several surfaces, dragged out of the closet, making all the pots, pans, or the dishes but perfectly to achieve. All levels of the cabinet can be used. Through a folding system design with the push arranges again is in the closet. This system for a corner cabinet in white is a variant of the disc. Two shelves are fixed to one axle and be Obtained manually by turning out of the closet. The shelves are Individually moveable. With a search system, so the rear area of the corner cabinet in the kitchen can be fully used and is perfect to reach. The Cabinet with an ordinary door is closed.
The shape of the storage shelves can be chosen freely. So you can them depending, for Which she will be used, as well as the size of the Cabinet be adjusted. This optimization of free space in the corners of guaranteed more stowage space Which otherwise is mostly lost and neglected.
The storage surfaces in the form of a tablet can be Obtained in Several ways out of the closet. There is the already Mentioned variant near pull them by hand. A system for the corner cabinet in the kitchen, where the shelves are attached the cabinet door is more practical. When the door is opened, the system will automatically emerge out of the closet.
Here, you see a search system, Which We have Described above. This the kitchen corner Cabinet has two levels, Which are pulling the door itself to the fore. An axis Allows turning the door in a different direction. Sealing is Carried out just as Easily and quickly.
There through the use of the corner cabinet with Rondelle did inside of the cabinet is much neater than before, can you even afford to leave the corner cabinet in the kitchen. Of course, this is a matter of taste. Otherwise, a Kraussel is Necessary did is adjusted and cut the corner form.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 9:13 am, Port Alberni, BC
Rather pooped all yesterday: from running those hills! A good kind of fatigue, though.
The day was intermittently rainy, so we did not hike. Instead I concluded reading Cicero's On the Orator (I) – about 100 pages – and quite enjoyed it. Precepts have not changed in 2500 years: to be excellent at what you do, it is necessary to have enthusiasm for the endeavour: "a passion just short of love."
… the fields which have produced the smallest number of distinguished exponents are poetry and oratory. (p. 239)
But if he [the speaker] is called upon to take on some theme he knows nothing about, once he has picked up its technicalities from the experts he will speak about the subject far better than they themselves ever could. (p. 259)
For since any sort of talking, except when absolutely necessary, is a silly activity, talking about talking must surely be the most imbecile procedure in the world. (p. 275)
It is true that the mass of lawsuits that crop up, and the illiterate rabble who crowd into the Forum, give even the most deplorable speaker a chance. But that is no reason why we should lose sight of our ideal. On the contrary, we must adopt the same standards as we apply to those arts which aim not at indispensable utility, as oratory does, but at intellectual pleasure pure and simple. (p. 277)
… the essence of art is taste – though … that is the one thing an instructor in the art cannot possibly teach. (p. 282)
'You [Crassus] are kind enough to assure us that our own natural endowments for oratory are not totally deficient. Well, then, we should like to know what we need to supplement them.' Crassus smiled at this, and said: 'You need just one thing: enthusiasm – a passion little short of love! Without such a passion, no one is going to achieve anything outstanding in life, least of all what you are looking for…. 'Nevertheless, nobody can reach any objective at all, however hard he tries, without first mapping out the path which will lead him to his goal. (pp. 282-3)
… eloquence is not derived from the rules: it is the other way round. (p. 286)
… nothing ought to delight us so much as our own country. (p. 304)
… I am convinced that if the two of you are really determined to embark on the pursuits which Crassus indicated, you must first manage to open the gateway and get through the door, and then you will find the rest of the journey quite easy. (p. 308)
… there is no earthly reason why a man should limit himself to the knowledge of one art and one only. Neither nature nor statute nor usage demand any such restriction. (p. 313)
In the early afternoon, though, we did drive to the water bombers' base — immense flying machines — and into town for groceries.
We have relaxed considerably during our stay here; and this cabin has been one of the best of its kind that we have stayed in.


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Having very recently experienced the incredibly precious and life changing event of being pregnant and becoming parents, I cannot encourage parents more, to capture this moment in time. The creation of another human being is nothing short of miraculous and as it is such a tiny fraction of ours and their life, it is worth treasuring forever- with a little help from photographs. Whether it just for mummy and daddy to have as keep sakes or for the world to see, Purdey Lee Photography can help you store this memory forever.
Ever since I was in school I found babies and infants truly spectacular to photograph. All you need is a little bit of patience and no stress on time- to let them get comfortable, and then just capture them just as they are.
I know children, especially young ones, can be strongly effected by their surroundings. That, to get them truly natural you need to be where they know and trust. This is why I take my studio to them, why sittings rarely have set times and why there is never any stress or worry if baby needs a feed or a nap.
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We asked you via @TheKWCBlog Twitter page and our personal Facebook pages: what are your top 10 cartoons of all-time? After two weeks worth of entries and with several hundred submissions, we've tallied the votes together to get our full list. I will count down 101-51 via standard blog posts, revealed in a format similar to how we did our other lists. We've already revealed 76-100, and 51-75.
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Joshua Sason began investing in penny-stocks from his college dormitory in 2009, with a small loan and no training in finance. In a few short years, he had transformed that small loan into Magna, a New York-based investment firm with over $200 million invested in unconventional and innovative opportunities. In an industry dominated by tradition, Magna's young, creative perspective set them apart—as did their returns.
But despite the originality of their perspective, culture, and investments, the way they came to life in the market was quite conventional. Their brand design and expression reflected a traditional, old-school financial firm, not the different kind of investors that they are. We needed to capture their strong internal culture and brings it to life externally to create a brand that was intriguing and valuable for partnerships and deals they needed.
The brand idea "the power of an open mind" took a bold stance and turned their openness of character into their greatest strength.
By capturing Magna's unique culture and approach through smart design and open, accessible language, we helped partners pre-align, self-select, and set expectations for working with magna. This brand works to make more successful partnerships.
The punctuation mark of the dot is about being conversational and definitive, speaking simply and clearly. It acts as a piece of language and provides the openness to include other pieces of language between Magna and the dot. This attention to smart design stood out in the category, and gave them the bold sophistication they needed.
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It takes a brave company to to zag when the competition all zig. But Magna recognized that they were different, and saw that they needed to start thinking of their difference as a strength, not a weakness. Brand empowered the clients to be true to themselves in a market that tends to stifle originality.