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I want to talk to you today about the worst thing that you can believe—that somewhere in your life, you do believe—and I’m going to talk about how you can overcome that in a pretty straightforward fashion.
First off, what is the most destructive belief you can have? We’ll get right to it: The most destructive belief you can have is the belief that what you do doesn’t matter.
If you have a belief somewhere in your life that what you do doesn’t matter, that’s it. It’s game over at that point. That’s gonna take the wind out of your sails. That’s gonna stop everything.
I run into this sometimes, just like other people. Right now I’m working on an online facilitation training course—a massive amount of work. And in the last couple days things have come up and I haven’t been able to get much done on it, and I start thinking to myself, “Well, it doesn’t really matter how much I do on this because it’s never going to be enough. It’s so much work that it’s running off infinitely into the future.”
And we all have places in our lives where we feel like that—that the thing we want to accomplish, we’re just simply not going to be able to accomplish. And so for me, because it’s so much work—getting this facilitation course done is so much to do—it’s “too much.” And I start to believe that no matter how much I do, no matter how early I get up, no matter how many hours I put in, it doesn’t matter. I’m never going to get it done.
And you’ve got a place in your life like this too, or maybe more than one place, where it’s like, “No matter how hard I try, I have learned from the harsh realities of life that it doesn’t matter and I’m just never going to get anywhere on this thing.”
That’s important. That’s critically important. I have godchildren who grew up in the ghetto in Chicago, and watching that I really saw the one thing the ghetto wants to teach them is what they do doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if you comply, it doesn’t matter if you punch a cop, it doesn’t matter what you do. You’re screwed no matter what happens.
And while that’s a really big example, we all have places we believe that what we do doesn't matter.
Think about it—what change do you want to make in your life, what thing do you want to create that’s important to you, that your heart truly longs for—that you have bought the idea that it doesn’t matter how hard you try? It doesn’t matter if you work on it or don’t work on it because it’s never going to happen.
For me, the hole that my heart fell into was, “I want to create this amazing online facilitation training, which a lot of people want, but because it’s an infinite amount of work that runs off in the future forever, and I work and I work and I work and it looks like nothing’s really changing, I start to believe that it doesn’t matter how hard I work, nothing’s ever going to happen.”
And you need to find the part in yourself that has bought that idea that no matter how hard you try, this thing that’s important to you won't happen, that what you do doesn’t matter.
Because as I said, that lets the air out of your tires. That takes the wind out of your sails. That ends everything.
So what do we do about it? Maybe you’ve found the place in your life where you feel like, “I’ve given up on having the relationship that I want,” or, “I’ve given up on having the body that I want,” or, “I’ve given up on having the career I want,” or wherever you’ve bought this idea that what you do doesn’t matter.
So you’ve identified that. What do you do about it? What we do about it is simple. Maybe not easy, but simple. We bring healing, in the same way we bring healing to everything. If you’ve been watching my videos you know what I’m about to say: We bring healing by finding that part of yourself that has bought the idea that what you do doesn’t matter, and we bring love to that part.
We bring compassion to that part. We bring mercy to that part. We pull back that curtain and let in the light of—maybe it’s your higher self, maybe it’s the way you would talk to a discouraged friend, maybe it’s your sense of the Divine.
Really asking that question, “How does Goodness and Love feel about me even when I’ve bought the idea that what I do doesn’t matter in this area that’s so critically important to me?”
Because what we find is when light and love and unconditional acceptance—the word for this is actually “blessing”—touches those areas in us that have given up, that’s when we start to have new hope. So I did this myself. “I feel discouraged. No matter what I do in this program I’m making, it’s never going to happen. It doesn’t matter what I do.”
And I really started bringing love to that part: “Wow, that is a hard way to live.” And I’m kind of looking at myself and saying, “I can see you’ve really bought that idea. Wow. And it’s amazing, because it destroys you, Dmitri, when you believe that you can’t bring into the world what you feel called to bring into the world. I mean, that’s like the most destructive—it’s almost compelling, it’s such a destructive, corrosive belief.”
So I brought love to that: “Wow, that’s a really difficult way to live. And I’m here with you. And you’re okay with me. And I love you even though you feel that way.”
And it started to loosen up, which is what happens when we do this. It started to loosen up and I started to realize, “You know, it isn’t all on me. Even though I’m doing this project, the more that I put stuff out into the world, the more it shakes things loose, and people talk to me, and opportunities happen, and synergies happen, and it gets an energy going in the world that’s unpredictable and positive.”
And I’m thinking to myself, “Yeah, wow, that’s true. That’s pretty cool.” I started to get this conviction of, “The energy I put in the world is really what makes a difference. Yes, it’s important to work on my project and create this course. But the energy I put in the world while doing it, that’s what really makes a difference. That’s what starts that flywheel of really good things happening.”
And I wasn’t thinking this before. And this isn’t something I’m just telling myself as a consolation prize—I’m getting that in my heart. “Wow, okay. I can start doing things again. And I can start right now.”
And so this is what I want you to have. I want you to find that place inside yourself where the thing that’s important to you, you’ve bought the idea that no matter what you do it doesn’t matter, and just love that part. And see what happens. See how it starts to soften. Don’t try to change it, don’t give it advice. Don’t beat up on it! Don’t try to buck it up. Just see. “Wow, I see you feel backed into this corner and you feel discouraged and broken. Love love love love love, exactly the way you are. Trying to fix you can wait for another day.”
And take the time that it needs. See what new inspiration starts to arise. Because if you give it the time it needs, a new inspiration will arise.
I want you to have a life where the things that you really care about, you get to have. That the things that you’re called upon to bring into this world, you bring into this world. So, hey, if you can relate to this at all, maybe just do a brief comment. Say, “Hi,” or, “I’m here,” or, “Hello.” And share this too, if you want to share this message. And let me know if you’re interested in this facilitation course I’m working on. That’ll also help charge me up. Anyway, whatever you want to do there, thanks very much for watching this. Thanks for sharing yourself in the comments. And this is Dmitri. I’ll talk to you soon.

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This story is by Tor-Arne Sandstrak and was part of our 2016 Winter Writing Contest. You can find all the Winter Writing Contest stories here.
It was such a morning, that the fog kept vision just good enough, that you could see the lights of other places. Sounds carried longer than you thought, but shorter than you needed. It was such a morning, that I decided. To take the sabbatical.
Misty mornings, the first morning of the next academical term. The same term the remaining four classical teachers take a sabbatical. We spend the sabbatical searching the lands we can reach for students. I can get to most of the known world. Through the work of my own two feet, or a combination of that and magical warrens.
Breathing a few spell-tinders, before grabbing breakfast. It would be my last breakfast in a while. The students had already left, most on their respective missions. Some, of course, stayed behind, to make use of their unlimited access to the library. It always took a few weeks for our minds to recognise them as equals. Mages in their own right. Some even got prestigious Warlocks licenses.
I was often impressed with the grit of some of the kids, they had survived the mental onslaught of the system.
My thoughts returned to Flick, the most promising of the kids my scrying tools revealed. As always: The tools had garbage accuracy. But they were the best we had.
If there was one thing I always ended up missing, it was Madame Irene’s Tavern. It was the finest there was. It was one of those establishments where one by atmosphere alone, was happy to pay the tab.
Opening the door to my office, I picked up the suitcase containing everything I owned. Taking a last look into the scrying mirror, I saw Flick and Lisa working animals. A pang of regret, I never liked sending my assistant out on missions. She had an easy way with boys and liked bedding them.
The girl was brimming with skill, and her handling of dangerous magic was up there among the best. Her mind, was in other places though. Lisa would stabilise his magic, that much she could do. She would likely start testing his abilities as well. I hoped I could get to him in time.
A knock on the door, it was the headmistress. “Enter” I said. Her small frame was as deceptive as her feminine dress. It was clear who Lisa drew her genes from. The witch stood there, Staring for half a second. “You’re really going today? Really Really?” the sound of her voice, like that of a young schoolgirl. She was skipping around the now cleaned out office.
“I Am” I said. She smiled. “You know what they’ll say we should use this room for” She smiled at me, all the way to the tip of her pretty green eyes. “I do not care what they will say, and let them if they insist. I’ve left some surprises” My smile was gleeful. I knew, both of us had that same gleeful expression.
Walking past the woman who had placed herself by the door, I tipped my imaginary hat to her. “Headmistress” the woman smiled, still gleefully. “Come back with some kids with guts! I want next year to start with chaos. Just like every year you come back with new students” her words forced a chuckle out of me.
“Don’t you worry, I’ll do my best” her eyes followed me out the door. I was by the gate when the headmistress caught up. “I forgot something” stopping me by the gatehouse, she grabbed my hand turning me around. “You forgot this” her face was flushed from running, and I could see the pink colour on her face as she moved closer. The kiss was fast, deep, and over before I knew what had happened. The woman smiled, winked and then vanished. I swear she’s channelling her daughter.
Walking never grew old to me, especially not on mornings like this. The light always played with your eyes. In the thick fog of the early morning, the darkness helped, making you see shadows. And if you had read a lot of descriptions of animals and magical beasts. Then you would be all the more likely to find yourself hallucinating one of those.
I didn’t have to walk far though. The closest warren knot was not far, and it would allow me to get close to the first ping. Placing a dimensional anchor. Shifting between the planes was easier on me. Usually, peoples core self would destabilise while travelling the dimensions. Spells working with dimensional work: tearing, construction, and repair came easily to me. And I was good with them. Spitting swamp water, grabbing branches, and trees I managed to get up.
Calling a boat was easy. Getting noticed, but not shot by the clan security perimeter, was a bit harder. My badge helped a lot. Daggers sticking in the back of a skull, the tips poking out through the eyes. A badge I didn’t often wear. I was travelling far, and this badge often bought access for the one wearing it. I will get back to the badge at some other time. Suffice to say, the three people that approached me, each in their own boat. Eyed me suspiciously.
Then grumpily guided me to the edge of their floating metropolis.
Where a grumpy short woman stood. The woman led me to a small cottage. Where she droned on and on about rules, and regulations. Knowing these people were xenophobes towards magic. I found it strange that the woman leaked a bit of magic. Walking about the hut, while she spoke.
“I will not disturb the ceremonies” these people held all their ceremonies in one long-winded week. I had arrived when the most important one would happen. “So long that the ceremonies do not impede my mission here”. I felt a sliver there, the tingle of a low-quality targeting spell. “Spells are for pussies,” I thought. Twisting out of the path, the knife flew through the window.
The woman looked at her hand in confusion. “I’m guessing that’s a possessed arm” the woman whimpered. I moved towards her bringing out a ceremonial knife. The knife was not one of the expensive ones. But it was a good one. A small wound tricked a drop of blood out of the hand.
The blood fought against spells swathed in layers across my hands for protection. Feeling the magic trying, I dumped more into my protection spells. As I did, something grumbled deep beneath us, something primal. I dropped most of the magic. And let the woman slowly float to the ground. Her mind was like an open book, somehow. Instead of reading it all, I searched for the one that cursed her hand.
“You lost your hand in an accident. And lived here, then one day, a magician gave you a new hand. Vivian, I will have to disarm you.” The woman stood, eyes glazed over. Reinforcing the knife, I attempted a clean chop. Grisly but almost effective. The spells in the arm were harsh, and could not be allowed to live. And, since the arm was made by magic, it was impossible to purge it. Especially on a schedule. The knife broke, on the bone. Scraping around inside someone’s arm for a knife blade is a bad idea.
A slight bit of gruesome magic solved both my problems. As soon as the arm was off, the woman snapped back. Her eyes were clear, her mind focused. And her hatred for the arm was evident. “Hold for a second.” My voice had her focus on my eyes. The healing spell closed the wound. And the woman stood there.
Glaring at the arm. That now tried, desperately to escape through the window, which was still closed. The magic, dispelled by a single flick on the right magical thread. Dispersing into the floor, the magical energy would soon attract beasts. Not that these people would mind. The woman left.
Waking, to screams and splashes. I moved towards the screams. Certainty setting in as soon as I saw the face of the next child to be thrown in. I had to get him. A breath of concealment spells. A mirror image stood where I had stood, and I lowered myself into the swampy waters.
Swimming downwards, I felt myself drawn towards a tear. The boy was swimming ahead of me. I managed to grab his ankle as his magic reacted to the rift ripping us through.
Blinding sunlight and great breaths of desert sand met us on the other side. Home, I knew this world. We’d have to move fast. I could sustain myself permanently, but we would still have to move fast.

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If we learned anything in quarantine, it’s that we have all have spent our fair amount of time on the social media platform, Tik Tok. The app has been our source of entertainment since it came into the forefront in the beginning of 2020 where a person can become famous for their content in as little as fifteen seconds. With bars and clubs being obsolete during the pandemic, musicians and creators have started dance craze challenges across social media and has propelled many songs up the Billboard charts from artists such as Megan Thee Stallion, Ariana Grande and more. One artist that has seen success this way already is singer/rapper Doja Cat.
In 2020, Doja Cat’s album, Hot Pink was critically acclaimed spawning several singles including Juicy, Like That and Say So which helped the artist receive her very first number single on Billboard Hot 100 with the assistance of the dance challenge on Tik Tok. In 2021, in the midst of working on her next studio album, one of the album standouts, ‘Streets’ began to receive traction on Tik Tok as it was used apart of a new craze called the Silhouette challenge, in which users would conduct a sexy dance behind a red light filter showing only the person’s silhouette.
The song is a moody, R&B ballad discussing a previous breakup and wanting to rekindle the relationship with her former lover. The track also finds Doja Cat switching from singing and rapping verses, the style she has become known for in her music. One moment I found intriguing in ‘Streets’ was her ability to interpolate the popular video game series, Final Fantasy into her call to get her lover back in the second verse.
The way in which we receive new music is everchanging. There’s so many different avenues artists can get their music out to fans. Whether it’s released during an album’s rollout, planned or unplanned, music listeners ultimately choose the success as we see in Doja Cat’s single, ‘Streets’. After listening to the track, head over Tik Tok and take a look at the dance challenge that propelled the song up the charts.
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It’s 1:27 AM
The only thing fucking
Is you gotta be fucking kidding me
Streets was calling
You love and then you flee on me
Operate like dms
You answer then slid on me
Nothing could compare to the things you did to me
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I used to give you my everything
Yet you didn’t want just any thing
You wanted us to be a thing
Intangible, materialistic by expression
Couldn’t see the facade by your facial expressions
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Now in 2021, myself I’m invested
So stop playing these games
Trying to block blessings like you Robinhood
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You won’t hear it in Ibiza, it receives little media attention and doesn’t trouble the download charts; but acid techno is the soundtrack to raves and festivals – legal and illegal – all over the world. Mixmag investigates how the genre keeps going – and keeps growing
Welcome to the alternative. Unfeted, unfashionable, and yet undaunted, for the past 23 years the fiercely underground genre of acid techno has been smashing up clubs, free parties and festivals across the globe. Having ebbed and flowed during its double-decade lifetime, the sound is currently on the rise, with new labels springing up everywhere from Norfolk to Japan. No longer only the soundtrack to squat and free parties, just this year in the UK, acid techno has featured at festivals like Boomtown, Symmetry, Illusive, No Man’s Land, Surplus, Beat-herder and Bearded Theory. Two recent nights in London saw established acid techno promoters and labels team up with London Warehouse Events (better known for running parties with Cocoon, Drumcode etc) to pull in thousands, while overseas, big events like the Acid Resistance parties in Colombia, Tekno Mulisha in Australia, La Cova in Barcelona, Transformer Sounds in Ireland, Fierce Sounds & Mass in Japan and the Kazanatip festival in Georgia have all showcased the genre. Popular with old-skool ravers, punks and, increasingly, younger people who are just discovering electronic music, the acid techno scene is thriving – yet remains largely ignored by mainstream media.
The musical style was born in the early 90s and took inspiration from Chicago acid house, hard techno and punk by those who felt ‘bored by minimal and electro’ and the other electronic music on offer. Developed by a group of DJs from the London squatter scene, many of whom were also in punk bands, the genre always had anti-establishment overtones. In 2014, acid techno is far removed from the purely squat or traveller identification yet still actively maintains its message of anti-fascism and anti-capitalism.
Technically, the acid sound is unique and distinctive. Using Roland’s classic TB-303 bass synthesizers alongside drum synthesizers TR-808 and TR-909 and a range of other equipment originally built for guitarists to create demos or accompany themselves, acid producers turn the levels up to overdrive in order to create that powerful distorted electronic sound which forms the backbone of all acid techno tracks.
Two tracks from different decades that really encapsulate the sound are 1997’s ‘London Acid City’ by Lochi and 2006’s ‘One Night in Hackney’ by Dynamo City (and all its many subsequent remixes). Propulsive, distorted and atmospheric, they race along at a typical BPM of 150–155, but with a paradoxically playful energy.
Every weekend, huge acid techno warehouse raves are put on in London by soundsystems such as Stinky Pink, Manic, Hard Sounds, Malfaiteurs and Hackney Sounds. This is as well as events in clubs like Brixton Jamm, the Black Swan in Bristol, The Waterfront in Norwich and 69 Below in Glasgow to name a few – and that’s just in the UK. There are regular events as far as Australia, Colombia, USA, Poland, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Spain and Portugal.
Having celebrated its 100th vinyl release, underground acid techno label Stay Up Forever is still sovereign when it comes to spreading the message of fat 303s, full-on rigs and a fuck-you attitude. Set up and run by Chris and Aaron Liberator (with DJ Rachel Rackitt managing the DJ agency side), the SUF label takes acid techno to a professional level, never failing to sell out of a new vinyl release. 909 London is SUF’s digital cousin, giving DJs and fans the choice between wax and download.
Anyone with even a passing knowledge of acid techno will have heard of the founders of the label, the Liberator DJs. Chris, Aaron and Julian have pushed the genre relentlessly over the past two decades, gigging regularly across the world. “The only other underground genre that has maintained that same level and impetus is psy-trance,” says Chris. “It has the same quality of global reach and appeal to a wide demographic.”
Sterling Moss is another key name in the genre. Once resident at Dance Valley in Holland, his repertoire also includes playing funky techno in the clubs of Ibiza, working alongside Roland Japan as an official programmer for their MC-909 Groovebox, releasing sample packs and a solo electro blues project, Reverend Rockwell. Moss has current residency of the Harley Davidson festivals. “I’ve been playing eclectic sets for Harley Davidson all around Europe for nearly a decade now – not acid, eclectic beats, but showing we have diversity in our sound throughout the collective,” he says. Of course, Moss is most famous for his acid techno productions, headlining some of the world’s most prestigious venues: Berlin’s Berghain, London’s Fabric and La Cova in Barcelona. Like the Liberators, he continues to play small club nights and parties despite his global success. It’s a feature of the genre, says acid techno fan Sasha Robinson, 31: “There are no egos with the DJs in the scene and they are not put on pedestals by the punters.”
But while Moss and the Liberators have been at the apex of the scene for many years, a new wave of younger DJs has been developing across the UK, often increasingly far away from the squat party epicentre of the Capital. The SUSS twins, based in Swansea and aged 25, are playing a big part in the progression of the Welsh scene, having run Subversion Techno for the past five years. Ceri and Robi SUSS’s style is fast, 150bpm rolling acid and Ceri is due to have a track released on a new label run by OB1 and Tassid, Techno Against Fascism. Ceri feels that the new wave of younger producers is really positive. “The new, up-and-coming acid techno DJ’s/producers are making a good impression on the scene, getting new labels running and developing new styles of acid techno.”
Benji303, 20, is an acid techno producer from Manchester who was introduced to techno and DJing by his Dad. He’s won a following in the North playing clubs such as Beaverworks in Leeds, The Wagon & Horses in Birmingham and 69 Below in Glasgow, as well as hundreds of warehouses and fields up and down the UK. He’s now set up his own label, 303 Alliance, featuring his own tracks and stuff from other young artists like Josh Inc and AP.
The genre has been a solid influence on many new experimental underground rave styles that are now popular in their own right. Jungle Tek producer Mandidextrous now runs her own sub-label, Amen4Tekno, on 909 London. “The acid techno movement is a huge inspiration to me day in and day out,” she says. “It’s an honour to be part of it.”
But perhaps the de facto figurehead of the scene, Chris Liberator, should have the last word. “I think the reason for the longevity and accessibility of acid techno lies in the fact that it’s hard, fast and rebellious in its musicality and lyrical content, background and the lifestyle that goes with it, so it appeals to youth subculture (ie the ‘underground’) – but at the same time the music itself isn’t obtuse or dark. It’s fun, accessible and one of the best and most uplifting forms of rave music on the planet. It literally is life-changing,” he says. Here’s to another two decades.
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Danielle ChubbStaff member
Danielle’s main research interests are the policy dynamics of the Korean peninsula, the role of non-traditional actors in security arenas, human rights activism, and the interaction of policy and public opinion in Australia.
Danielle has published books on Australian foreign policy and North Korean human rights.
- Australian Public Opinion, Defence and Foreign Policy examines attitudes and trends in Australian public opinion since 1945. It is co-authored with Professor Ian McAllister (ANU) and published in 2021 with Palgrave.
- North Korean human rights: activists and networks is a Cambridge University Press volume edited with Andrew I. Yeo (Catholic University of America in Washington DC). It examines transnational advocacy over the north korean human rights issue and was published in hardback in 2018, and in paperback in 2019.
- Contentious activism and inter-Korean relations, Danielle’s first book, was published by Columbia University Press in 2014. The book was officially launched by the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG. The book examines the role played by political activists in shaping the discussion of inter-Korean relations as they pursue the separate yet connected agendas of democracy, human rights, and unification.
Danielle joined Deakin in 2012, after working as a Research Fellow at the Honolulu-based security studies think tank, Pacific Forum CSIS. She has also worked as a lecturer at The Australian National University and Hawaii Pacific University, and as a researcher in the Australian Parliamentary Library’s Social Policy branch. Danielle completed her PhD at The Australian National University, in the College of Asia and the Pacific.

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Have you realized yet that the U.S. federal government is waging a one-sided war against you?
The IRS plans to hire around 87,000 new armed IRS employees — the exact number is disputed; what they are being hired to do is not. The job posting, before they edited it, said new hires must be willing to use deadly force — against you. Think about it: they will only be hired if willing to use deadly force against their bosses. They are being hired to “Sheriff of Nottingham” you into destitution. A government that is on your side wouldn’t do this.
Then there’s the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s home. I’m not a Trump supporter, but this politically biased enforcement is not a good sign. The FBI and the Department of Justice are more politicized than ever — and they have never been exactly non-political. Now they are being used to target the current regime’s political enemies. Probably as a way to keep Trump from running for the presidency again, although this may backfire on them.
If the FBI can raid Trump’s house, there’s no one safe from their overreach. If you make the wrong enemies, be ready for that early morning flash-bang.
The legislation mill is also reaching new levels of dishonesty. You can almost guarantee any new bill will do the exact opposite of whatever they name it.
The “Inflation Reduction Act” will not reduce inflation, but will make it worse. An honest name would be the “Inflation Expansion Act.”
All the various “safer community” or “save our children” acts invariably make communities and children much less safe by empowering criminals and disarming good people.
The “Patriot Act” was probably the most dishonest example in history. It was, and is, the most anti-American legislative tyranny ever foisted on us. No patriot would have supported this rejection of everything America stood for.
If a bill can’t be named honestly, it needs to be scrapped. No matter how “essential” its supporters claim it is. Either give it an honest name or put it in the shredder.
I wonder if the federal government is trying to incite rebellion so it has an excuse to crack down even harder on the population. Open rebellion would give justification for nationwide martial law and all the Soviet-style governing that goes with it.
I won’t be baited. I’ve never trusted them. I can’t be shocked or disappointed by anything they do.


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UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones, speaking publicly for the first time since it was revealed he tested positive for cocaine,took responsibility for using the drug late last year but said he has never been more than a recreational user and does not have a drug problem.
"I had done it quite a few times in college, I had experimented with it, but that's really it. It has never been an issue," Jones said in an interview with Fox Sports 1 that aired Monday night.
Jones tested positive for a metabolite found in cocaine during a random urine test administered by the Nevada State Athletic Commission on Dec. 4 leading up to his title defense on Jan. 3. He said he did not use cocaine at any time between the positive test and UFC 182.
Jones did not reveal whether he had used any other illicit drugs, saying only, "I have dipped and dabbled in my share of partying."
He was adamant that he does not have a drug problem.
"My friends and family know that there's no room in my life to be a cocaine addict," Jones said.
"I don't know what came over me to make such a poor choice, but I did and now I live with it," he added. "The whole situation has been embarrassing. ... Cocaine is such a dirty drug. ... I've had to explain to so many people that I'm not a cocaine addict -- I'm not even a frequent user. I just made a really dumb decision. I really got caught with my pants down in this whole situation, and there's no excuse for it."
Jones said he knew as the test was being administered that he likely would fail it.
"It was a nerve-wracking day," said Jones, 27. "I knew that I had done something wrong, and I knew that the test would show that. ... I knew the test would come out positive. But I knew there was nothing I could do about it. I was stressed out about it, but I thought I'd focus on what I could control, which was the fight."
He was worried he might be suspended. However, as the fight approached, his fears subsided.
"It did cross my mind, being suspended and not being able to fight," Jones said in the Fox Sports 1 interview. "But once I got to weigh-ins and no one said anything to me about it, maybe the test didn't pick it up or something."
Asked why he would use cocaine so close to the fight, Jones said he simply made a poor decision.
"I definitely don't have an excuse. I'm not here to make excuses for what happened," he said. "I did it. I had a party. But I think a coward would sit here and try to come up with this elaborate reason or try to blame something. And I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to blame my friends or pressure or stress. I'm not going to blame anything. But what I will say is I messed up. It wasn't a mistake because I consciously did it."
There remains controversy as to why the Nevada State Athletic Commission made the results of the tests public. Cocaine, while illegal, is not listed on the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned substance list during periods referred to as out of competition.
"There are a lot of things my attorneys and myself are trying to figure out," Jones said. "At this point, I'm not going to comment on whether I am going to take any action against [the Nevada State Athletic Commission]."
Jones also maintained that he has never taken any performance-enhancing drugs despite test results showing lower-than-normal epitestosterone levels for both Jones and opponent Daniel Cormier.
"The athletic commission did some tests that tested for street drugs and testosterone levels. And they tested me and Daniel, and supposedly both of our levels came back a little bit lower than what is standard," Jones said. "Every man has different levels of testosterone. A lot of people wrote articles that, possibly, we were steroid guys. ... I have never take performance-enhancing drugs. Ever."
According to Jones, he voluntarily entered a rehabilitation program, during which he was evaluated by three doctors who concluded he needed only outpatient counseling. Jones said he will continue to be tested for drugs on a weekly basis and have a counselor visit at least twice a week.
Jones has been fined $25,000 by the UFC for violating its athlete code of conduct. UFC officials said the fine would be donated to a substance-abuse prevention program.
"I'm not going to sit here and say I'm not ever going to have a drink or enjoy life," Jones said. "The important thing is to learn when we fall down to get back up. Don't beat yourself up about it too much and just try to do things better."
Information from ESPN.com's Brett Okamoto was used in this report.


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Kostov, Y., Harms, P., French,J.A., Soliman, H., Anjanappa,M., Ram,A., Rao G. (2005) Design and Performance of a 24-Station High Throughput Microbioreactor, Wiley InterScience, online
Two prototype 24-unit microbioreactors are presented and reviewed for their relative merits. The first used a standard 24-well plate as the template, while the second consisted of 24-discrete units. Both systems used non-invasive optical sensors to monitor pH and dissolved oxygen. The systems were used to cultivate Escherichia coli. Both designs had their merits and the results obtained are presented. In addition, dissolved oxygen control was demonstrated at the milliliter scale and 24 simultaneously monitored fermentations were successfully carried out. These results demonstrated high quality high throughput bioprocessing and provide important insights into operational parameters at small scale.
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Taking a page out of the "Madden" playbook, EA Sports' newest "NCAA Football" game is having an election to decide which school will grace its next cover.
Currently in the first round of voting, there are 32 teams primed to advance to the second. Notre Dame leads the pack fo far, followed by Oregon and LSU. Big Ten schools in the top 32 are Ohio State (fourth), Nebraska (sixth), Michigan (seventh), Penn State (10th), Wisconsin (16th) and Iowa (27th). Northwestern and Illinois are, unfortunately, nowhere to be found.
The first round of voting closes soon, as those advancing will be announced on Facebook during halftime of the BCS National Championship Game on Jan. 7. Facebook is also the place to vote, where fans can do so on the game's page.
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The book begins with a presentation of the Clusters of Innovation Framework> that identifies the salient components, behaviors, and linkages that characterize an innovation cluster, followed by an analysis of the archetypal cluster, Silicon Valley.
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Today, innovation performance is a crucial determinant of competitiveness and national progress. Moreover, innovation is Innovation Performance and Clusters book to help address global challenges, such as climate change and sustainable development.
But despite the importance of innovation, many OECD countries face difficulties in strengtheningFile Size: KB. Clusters, Innovation and Entrepreneurship performance, and the challenges faced for further expansion.
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Regional cluster, innovation and export performance The original discussion of industrial districts (or regional cluster) has its origins in the Alfred Marshall’s () book Principles of Economics (), who discussed the phenomenon of theCited by: 6.
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Industry cluster Knowledge management Innovation performance Mediation effects Research on industrial clusters mostly focuses on the effects of the competitive advantage they generate.
This study takes a different approach, conducting empirical research on three types of Taiwanese parks (export pro. Better yet, this is a double-sided book. Create the Future is paired with The Innovation Handbook, a revised edition of Jeremy's award-winning innovation bestseller, Exploiting Chaos.
Exploiting Chaos is an Inc Best Book for Business Owners, Axiom International Book Award Winner, and was #1 on CEO Read for four months. Buy Now on Amazon. The preexistence of a cluster means that an industry hotspot has passed the market test. By contrast, efforts at wholesale invention will likely be fraught with selection issues, inefficiency, and probable failure and waste.
Use data and analysis to target interventions, drive design, and track performance. innovation systems in creating, diffusing and using knowledge. A large share of market-based or informal knowledge flows occur within industrial clusters that can be seen as reduced-form innovation systems.
Policies to stimulate innovation at national and local levels must both build on and contribute to the dynamics of innovative clusters. This book. clusters yield innovation. However, the empirical evidence on how firms acting in technology clusters may benefit in their innovation activities is scarce.
This paper contributes to the micro-foundation of cluster effects by examining characteristics and activities of the cluster firms that are linked with the firms’ innovation performance. Setting Performance •Research and networking •Policy action •Commercial co-operation •Education and training •Innovation and technology •Cluster expansion •Initiation and planning •Governance and financing •Scope of membership •Resources and facilitators •Framework and consensus •Momentum •Business environment •Policy.
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Downloadable. In recent years clusters have become an important component of the policy maker’s toolbox, particularly in respect of endogenous pressures for growth and innovation. Academic and policy interest in clusters has emerged from the observation that many industries tend to cluster and the ex post analyses of the economic and innovation performance of a number of high-profile by: The Cluster Initiative Greenbook, prepared for the 6th Global TCI Conference and financed by VINNOVA, takes a closer look at CIs around the world, mainly in OECD countries.
It is built on a unique data-set of over cluster initiatives, derived from the edition of the Global Cluster Initiative Survey (GCIS) and a series of case studies.
Clusters and Innovation Districts: Lessons and a recent book by Fred Bakker and Antoine van facilitator of cluster performance, and he notes that chance factors can be important.
The effects of industry cluster knowledge management on innovation performance Article in Journal of Business Research 67(5)– May with Reads How we measure 'reads'. A new UK Tech Innovation Index, published by The Data City, shows the most active innovation communities in the UK by innovation categories, captured in an interactive map.
The index goes beyond standard predetermined geographies, enabling it to reveal previously unseen vital business and academic links across cities and county boundaries, and demonstrating that innovation communities are.
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The secret U.S. government memo outlining the justification for the use of drones to kill American terror suspects abroad was released by court order Monday, yielding the most detailed, inside look yet at the legal underpinnings of the Obama administration’s program of “targeted killings.”
The 41-page memo — whose contents had previously been summarized and released piecemeal — was heavily redacted for national security reasons, with several entire pages and other passages whited out.
But it argues among other things that a targeted killing of a U.S. citizen is permissible under a 2001 law passed by Congress soon after 9/11. That law empowered the president to use force against organizations that planned and committed the attacks.
“The release of the memo will allow the public to better assess the lawfulness of the government’s targeted killing policy and the implications of that policy,” said Jameel Jaffer, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney who argued for release of the memo. “Despite the release of this memo, the public still knows scandalously little about who the government is killing and why.”
He said the memo contains the first formal acknowledgment by the government that the CIA is involved in the program.
The July 2010 memo was written by a Justice Department official who is now a federal appeals court judge. It was released after a yearlong legal battle by The New York Times and the ACLU.
The memo specifically provided the legal justification for the September 2011 killing in Yemen of Anwar Al-Awlaki, an al-Qaida leader and one-time cleric at a Virginia mosque who had been born in the United States, and another U.S. citizen, Samir Khan, who edited al-Qaida’s online magazine. An October 2011 strike also killed Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, al-Awlaki’s teenage son and also a U.S. citizen.
Al-Awlaki had been involved in an unsuccessful attack against the U.S. and was planning other attacks from his base in Yemen, the memo said.
It said the authority to use lethal force abroad may apply in certain circumstances to a U.S. citizen who is part of the forces of an enemy organization.


One of the strongest, wittiest and best-written comedies on TV right now is What We Do in the Shadows. Based on the movie of the same name, the FX comedy started its third season on Sept. 2, 2021. With this comedy taking audiences by storm, it is understandable that streaming fans want to know if they can quench their thirst for the show on Netflix.
Set in modern-day Staten Island, What We Do in the Shadows follows four vampires, Nandor, Laszlo, Nadja, and Colin Robinson, alongside Guillermo, Nandor’s familiar, as they attempt to live their immortal lives in present-day society. While Nandor, Lazslo, and Nadja present the common look of the stereotypical vampire, Colin Robinson gets his fix as an energy vampire, working a mundane 9-5 cubicle job where he drains the energy of his coworkers with boring, dry conversation.
What We Do in the Shadows does a great job of exploring the complexities of modern human existence through the lens of ancient, immortal vampires, and relishing in the comedic value that provides. The show is filmed in the documentary-style format that the former Netflix show, The Office, used. This includes exasperated Jim Halpert-style glances to the camera, breaking down the fourth wall.
Fans of shows like The Office, Ash vs Evil Dead and Seinfeld, and comedy fans in general, can expect to enjoy and want to binge What We Do in the Shadows as the show puts a creative spin on the genres that those shows defined. With comparisons to those classic shows, it is expected that people want to know if they can watch this show with a subscription to Netflix.
Is What We Do in the Shadows on Netflix?
The only downside to What We Do in the Shadows is that it is currently not available on Netflix. Since FX and Hulu currently have an agreement in place, it is unlikely that these likable characters will make their Netflix debut anytime soon.
Until then, viewers can rest easy knowing that Netflix is home to other comedies like Ash vs Evil Dead and Happy!
Where to watch What We Do in the Shadows?
What We Do in the Shadows airs on FX Thursdays at 10 p.m. and is available for streaming on Hulu.
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The Pension Crisis concerns the changing demographic profile of the economy: an increasing number of elderly persons supported by fewer young people. Governments around the world are responding to this impending crisis by shifting their pension policies away from pay-as-you-go systems towards individual savings schemes. These savings need to be converted into a pension at retirement, and annuities provide this function. This book is a comprehensive study of annuity markets. The book starts by outlining the context of public policy towards pensions, and explains the different types of annuities available, focusing on the UK which has the largest annuity market in the world. It examines how annuities are priced, and describes the techniques of mortality measurement. As a background, it provides a history of annuities, and the experience of annuity markets in a number of other countries. The book outlines the economic theory behind annuities, and explains how annuities insure consumers against longevity risks. It goes on to describes how annuities markets function: how they work, and whether they are efficient, leading onto a discussion of the annuity puzzle. The book concludes by discussing the regulatory framework, assets available to back annuity liabilities, and recent developments in annuity markets.
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Despite on numerous occasions publicly announcing their interest, Blumhouse Productions has shot down the consistent rumours that the studio is planning to reboot the beloved slasher franchise, Scream.
According to Blumhouse executive Ryan Turek, there is no intentions to move forward with a new Scream project after responding to a claim from WeGotThisCovered that the studio is working on a reboot with a “Ha, I wish” caption.
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— Ryan Turek? (@_RyanTurek) August 20, 2019
Beginning in 1996, the Scream franchise, created by Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson, took the familiar horror tropes and cliches from the over-saturated slasher genre at the time and began deconstructing them in hilarious fashion whilst maintaining the horror theme. The original Scream launched three sequels in 1997, 2000, and 2011, and three seasons of a TV series of the same name that is still continuing to this day.
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the secret history of country music
Dean Dillon ‘Got Good and Drunk’ Writing George Strait’s Breakout Hit
Dillion co-wrote "Unwound" with Frank Dycus -- but Strait only got a chance to record it by pure luck!
Dolly Parton Says She Got Her Tattoos to Cover Up Scars
It's true -- Dolly's got ink!
Gretchen Wilson Was ‘Very Frustrated’ With a Couple of Songs While Making Her ‘Here for the Party’ Album
Looking back, however, she's glad she included the songs she did.
Vince Gill Defended the Dixie Chicks During 2003 Backlash
There were plenty of country stars who didn't like Natalie Maines' anti-George W. Bush comments one bit -- but Gill thought things had gone a little too far.
Brooks & Dunn Weren’t Friends (Yet) When They First Became a Duo
Brooks & Dunn's 2009 breakup seemed sudden, but it was actually the result of years of ups and downs.
The Song That Made Chris Stapleton Famous Was Never a Single — No, Really!
Nope, "Tennessee Whiskey" was never a single.
Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow Co-Wrote ‘Picture,’ But He Originally Cut It With Someone Else
Didja know? Crow didn't even sing on the first version of the song.
Florida Georgia Line’s ‘Cruise’ Started Out as a Ballad [WATCH]
Would you still have had this song on repeat if it were a slow jam?
Luke Bryan’s First Band’s Name Was a Head Scratcher [WATCH]
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1591: A Three Museum Day
Tuesday 14th July 2020
We are spending a couple of days along the Danube. The Danube Bend, no less! For the uninitiated, the Danube Bend is known for pretty villages and where hills on both sides, force it to flow southward. We visited the source of the Danube (Donauquelle) in Germany, crossed and stayed along it several times this trip.
The day started well – a run along the Danube up to the prison.
Vac Prison was high security and housed Rupert Murdoch at one time! I think it is now a detention centre for 1000’s of refugees who cut Hungarian barbed wire and came in from Serbia.
Three museums would, on the face of it, be trop / OTT / too much. However they were all small and absorbing.
1. Another Atlasobsura suggestion – the Mummies Museum / Memento Mori Exhibition
Buried between 1731 and 1838 in the crypt of the neighbouring church, a number of naturally preserved and fully dressed mummies, in their decorated coffins were forgotten for over 150 years and only discovered in 1994 during the church’s renovation. Reflecting a wide sample of Vác residents, the mummies include three nuns, 30 priests, the wife and child of the local postmaster, surgeons, and the founder of the Vác hospital and first director of the town’s school for the deaf. The mummies prooveed to be an entomologist’s dream … giving lots of evidence on health, cause of death (89% had at some time been infected with tuberculosis).
Records detailed the corpses by name and, in many cases, their life stories and the manner of their deaths can be pieced together from written sources. Most of the mummies have been transferred to the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest for further research, but three are on display.
We visited the Capuchin Corpses on display in Palermo, Sicily, which we really did not like, but this felt less of a spectacle and more of a historic find.
The main square and church where the mummies were found.
2. Micro Museum / Mikrocsodak Múzeuma
After a sneaky burger, why is it a sneaky one … guilty, but yummy more like, we relocated a few miles south on the Danube bend to Szentendre. Danny and Lisa, now a few days ahead of us, had sent us a pin for a handy car park … we were lucky as we got away with not buying a parking ticket. Just plain forgot!
The museum was small, but not as small as the super tiny exhibits. The last one viewed is on the dissected end of a hair, with decoration on the cut end! … I couldn’t even see the hair. It is only possible to see the detail of all the exhibits with powerful microscopes. And the detailing was phenomenal. A Ukranian created all these by hand … often making a stroke between breaths. Not often you have to shut one eye to see exhibits! Worth looking also at Atlasobscura’s site as their images better show how tiny these works of art are. It blew us away.
Don’t drop it, you’d hoover this up in a flash.
And this is the book!
3. The Szamos Marzipan Exhibition
After walking through the patisserie and marzipan chocolate shop, I bought a ticket (J declined this one) and was given a sample. I didn’t go back and buy some, but headed past the kitchens and display of equipment up to the marzipan models exhibitions. Again and attention to detail and some models were a lot of fun.
A full size of Michael Jackson too …were he and Diana really the most interesting to make into life sized characters?
We will not visit Budapest this trip, but now I’ve seen the Houses of Parliament.
This was my favourite.
Szentendre is a reasonable sized town with lots of narrow streets, attractive architecture and more craft shops. Again, I thought them a little pricey, but this is a day trip from Budapest. Lovely to wander around, but again it must be horrendous with crowds in non-Covid times.
Hibiscus – one of my favourite shrubs.
We drove north from Szentendre along the Danube in the search of a toilet and ended up slightly away from the river in parkland. – Hazelnut Hill Playground, near Mogyoro-hegi Vadaspark – a walk with wild animals. Walking trails, toilets are open all hours, and there are taps too – camping and having fires is encouraged. Alone here other than 3 young’uns with their tents and smoky fire. Lovely, we even forgave the car with blaring music that arrived late and left at 3.30 a.m.
Neither of us was sleeping well anyway … we had a third furry body in the bed. Corrie had refused to come when called on an early evening walk; she’d been hovering up by a fire pit … guess she ate bones. At about 10.00 p.m. she started licking the floor and trying to chew the edge of the carpets. Refused water, and when I took her out, she frenetically tried to eat grass. Obviously trying to be sick. I rang our out of hours vet in the UK … really good advice from the on duty nurse … she will either vomit up, in which case check she doesn’t have it stuck or she will excrete it. Keeping and eye on her turned into her sleeping in bed my side … stroking her tummy reminded me of a comforting a poorly Maddy, although always involves jam tarts! The upshot was that Corrie had a super comfortable night, but neither J nor I did! All this too after she’d rolled in something really stinky and had to have a washing up bowl bath, which she hates. If only she understood cause and consequence!
1592: Visegrad Views
Wednesday 15th July
We had every intention of exercising, but poor sleep … and Corrie seems right as rain. We walked to the top of the hill to the viewpoint.
Walk passed snow blowing and clearing machines and the ski lifts.
Walk destination was this tower for the views.
CO2 waiting patiently.
View of the Danube and across to Visegrad castle / citadel.
The Danube in the other direction.
The descent took us past the Forestry Centre designed by the local architect Utak Makovecz in 1984. He also did the toilet block in our overnight parking.
Soup back at the van and J caught up in some zzz’s. I was pleased to get my knitting out … only to discover a dropped stick some rows back! We drove up the the citadel, but no room at the inn, so headed down into Visegrad. Rather than see if the town was as busy, we parked at a free car park by the Solomon Tower. We all, CO2 included, climbed this for the views.
Solomon Tower, mostly restored after a fire in 1950. Rubbish museums in side, but the views were good.
You can clearly see the hills that forced the Danube Bend.
The Palace, we opted to have an ice cream rather than go in.
Back to the same parking overnight … laundry done and BBQ, since we can. And Corrie is now muzzled around here.

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Wolf Song on the Rebound
Air Date: Week of September 22, 2023
A pack of gray wolves howling in their habitat. (Photo: F. Svehla, Flickr, CC BY 2.0)
For years, wolves were missing from Yellowstone National Park, leaving an eerie silence in the air. But now that the wolf population is recovering, the Park’s acoustic landscape is reviving. Reporter-in-Residence Jennifer Jerrett’s audio postcard brings us a harmonious chorus of howling wolves.
CURWOOD: Wolves are fully protected and very vocal in Yellowstone National Park, reporter Jennifer Jerrett went out to listen with a wolf expert.
MCINTYRE: I’m Rick McIntyre. I work for the park service in Yellowstone National Park, and my title is Biological Technician.
MCINTYRE: One of things that I often think about when we hear wolves howling is...I’m sure you know the story...that it was the last of the original Yellowstone wolves that were killed in 1926 about a half a mile from where we’re standing. And so for any visitor that had come to Yellowstone from 1926 to 1995 when wolves were brought back and re-introduced and re-established...I’m sure they had a great experience visiting the world’s first national park and would have seen a lot of great stuff, but there’s one thing they missed out on. There would have been an unnatural silence here. But luckily we realized what a big mistake that was and figured out how to rectify it. So we’re experiencing that right now. That silence is over.
CURWOOD: That's biologist Rick McIntyre...and friends. Reporter Jennifer Jerrett brought us that audio postcard from Yellowstone National Park.
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Sea of Many Returns
Text, $32.95 pb, 305 pp
Australia’s obsession with Greece goes back a long way; it has not always been as warm as we might like to think. The George Johnston–Charmian Clift–Sidney Nolan kind of love affair with the islands could sometimes turn a bit sour: think of Patrick White or demeaning references to the ubiquitous Olympic Café in films and stories. The temptation of writing in these well-established furrows is to exploit the subject matter rather than explore it.
There is male dancing, but no Zorba the Greek handkerchief-waving, in Arnold Zable’s new novel. In poignant fact, he reminds us of the earlier reception of Greeks in this country, during World War I, when our pleasant forbears – challenging etymology among other things and denying any connection with forbearance – rioted, smashed and looted Greek stalls and stores, and chased off those early refugees. Our cultural practices were entrenched from an early age. ‘Go back to where you fuck’n came from’: I’m not convinced that would have been the idiom in 1917. Where is the great sanguinary expletive? But you get the message. As against which the narrative invites us into a circle of listeners: ‘The fire is burning. And the fire loves you.’In Australia that reads as more threatening than welcoming.
Sea of Many Returns, only approximately a story, is rather an interweaving of stories which define the culture of Ithaca last century, and of those Ithacans who relocated to Melbourne, some of them via Kalgoorlie, and the tension of the unsevered links between them, links between brothers and families, intimate and extended. In this it develops the manner and mannerisms of Zable’s well-received Café Scheherazade (2001). Nostalgia is the underlying and crippling malaise of the Ithacans too, the pain of home-longing.


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A choral tour de force; this unaccompanied Gloria Patri crackles with energy. Rhythmic vitality partners with harmonic richness; making the piece essential for concerts and a memorable addition for worship services. The appearance of the time-honored “All Creatures of Our God and King” connects the dots of our faith foundations and is an excellent choice for blended worship formats. New; fresh and effective!
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| 1st Publication Date||02/2021|