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So we prayed…

It’s Narcissist Friday!

So we prayed!  Some have been here to say that things were different this year.  Some said nothing.  All, I hope, felt a little more protected and loved through these challenging days.  I also hope we will keep praying.

Some of you might not have had wonderful answers to our prayers.  Maybe your Christmas was awful because of your narcissist.  Again.  And you wonder if it mattered that we prayed for you.  I understand.

Many Christians feel compelled to offer excuses for why God doesn’t answer the prayers of our hearts in the way we feel we need.  “God is teaching you.”  “God is working on the narcissist.”  “God has a longer plan.”  “It would have been worse if you hadn’t prayed.”   All or any of these could be the right answer, but I am not going to go there.  I don’t have to give God an excuse.  He says that He hears our prayers and that He loves us.  I believe He is both wise and good, therefore I have to leave these things in His hands.

I wrote a post a while back that seems to fit here.  It may be a word of encouragement, even in your disappointment.  Whatever you feel right now, please know that the love of God is real.  You are not alone.  We will continue to pray.

Here’s the post:

Why Does God Allow It?

If God is good and God is strong and God knows everything, why doesn’t He change the circumstances that hurt us so much? This question haunts many believers and non-believers. Some would say that they became unbelievers because of this question. If they were honest, some may say that they became unbelievers because of the answers they were given.

In our comments this past week this question has come up in the context of the painful narcissistic relationship. How can God allow some people to use and abuse and cause so much pain to others? How can God stand by while we lose so much? Why doesn’t God deal with the abusers?

What I have found over the years is that the pat answers, no matter how good they sound to the one who gives them, rarely give real help to those who are hurting. Here are a few:

  1. It’s because of sin in your life. If you obeyed better, these terrible things wouldn’t be happening to you.
  2. It’s for your good. God loves you and sent the abuser to make you what He wants you to be.
  3. God is preparing you to be strong because something worse is coming.

Now, I don’t find any of those to be helpful. The first one makes evil my fault. The second one makes evil God’s fault. The last one makes my future seem dreadful. There is no comfort in any of these.

Please understand that this is one of the great mysteries of the faith. The answers we have do not come easily. This post will take a topic that could encompass many pages and boil them down to one, and that will be less than satisfying for any of us.

So here’s what I know:

  1. God is good and He loves me. He is not malicious or wrathful. He does not send trouble into my life to hurt me.
  2. God is strong enough and wise enough to stop the pain and change the circumstances. The fact that He doesn’t, does not change the fact that He could.
  3. God does not initiate evil, nor does He send it on us. His plan for us is good. The abuser is responsible for the evil he does.
  4. The world is broken, not working the way it was meant to work. Evil is a natural part of this brokenness. Those who do evil, narcissists and other abusers, participate in evil without any prompting by God.
  5. God does use difficult circumstances to draw us to Himself and He is able to turn curses into blessings. While He is not the author of the evil we suffer, He can use it for good in our lives.
  6. There are worse things than the pain we suffer. In the moment it is very hard to feel the reality of this, but it is true. The loneliness and confusion and emptiness of life apart from God’s love is one thing I would consider worse.
  7. All evil is temporary. Most of it will end in this life, but all will be gone in the next. That which is broken will be re-created and pain will be gone forever.
  8. In my pain I am never alone. The Lord is always with me, always near when I cry out to Him. Even when I cannot feel His presence, I can take comfort in knowing that He is with me.
  9. Those who look to Him and trust Him in the midst of their pain do find a special grace, an ability to live above their circumstances and to find their identity apart from their suffering.

Does this help me? Yes, it does. It reminds me that I don’t need the pat answers. As much as I want to understand, I really don’t need to. My desire to understand is usually a desire to control. I want to approve of my circumstances, even the difficult ones. If I know the purpose, then I might be able to give permission. But that is not my place. When I am able to trust Him, I find the peace He wants me to have.

No, I do not find this easy. I wish I could just live this way consistently, no matter what happens. But I am just as weak as anyone, just as fearful and just as doubtful. The only thing I have is the one thing I know—Jesus loves me.

Do I still wish He would change things sometimes? Of course! I pray against pain and suffering, in my life and in the lives of others. But as long as we are in this world, the brokenness will affect our lives. Sometimes, some amazing and wonderful times, God reaches in and changes things. The pain ends and life is good again for a while. I praise Him and rejoice in my peace. But I am learning to find that peace even in the times of struggle. Learning slowly, but learning.

No more pat answers. Don’t blame evil on me or on God. It just is. There may be causes and explanations, but none of them help my situation. What helps is to look on the One who loves me and trust Him.

That’s my prayer for each of you. Look to Him and trust in His love. Do what He leads you to do. If you can leave the narcissistic relationship, do it. If you cannot, then look to Jesus and find His overwhelming love in the midst of your struggle. He is there for you.

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38 responses to “So we prayed…

  1. JB

    Thank you for these reminders of such great truth.

  2. grace551

    This is the most amazing post and so helpful. I didn’t see it first time round, so thank you for sharing it again. You have so much wisdom!

  3. Jmom

    Your posts always bless, lift and strengthen my walk with the Lord. Thank you! I felt humbled to be able to pray for everyone last weekend and know that I was being prayed for as well.

  4. sooz1n

    i love this guy. he gets it.

    answers 1, 2, & 3 were the explanations given to me all my life. It wasn’t until I hit 25 & rock bottom that i realized it was all total bs.

    Sent from my iPhone

  5. crashdavis777

    Thank you for the post. Greatly appreciated.

  6. Tabby

    Thank you
    I always appreciate the encouragement I get from
    “Grace for My Heart”
    I suffer greatly in my own life and in my heart for others and their sufferings It absolutely crushes my heart to hear of others pain (especially Children’s)
    I don’t ask God why anymore
    He tells us “to lean not on our own understanding but in all our ways acknowledge Him and He will make our paths straight ”
    Every time I would ask why that word from God would forceably but lovingly come to heart and mind I have finally surrendered to it
    I still hurt and breakdown in sorrow from time to time but I come away with trust and surrender to Jesus my God declaring “I choose you God”
    Why I cannot explain other than
    “I just know that I know it is right”

  7. Pamela K Faro

    Wow! This came at such an optimum time. I love the way you write the truth, no holds barred. Truth does set us free. I am passing this along to my friend who is in a work situatioon with an “n”, who is making her life miserable. Thank you, thank you for this

  8. Anonymous

    This is exactly what I needed to hear! Thank you so much for posting this! Narcissism is the new buzz word and I have been accused of being one as well as my son while we suffered at the hands of his bipolar father as well as an ex girlfriend of my son and her family who actually took him to court accusing him of stalking when none of it was true. I am constantly praying for my enemies and knowing that while I pray for them I do gain special graces for rising above their accusations. Evil has nothing to do with me or my children, it just is. That opened my eyes once again to the fact that I can rise above and find my peace. I can own my story. I can analyze it with being brutally honest about just the facts. When I take all emotion out, then it really does point to the facts of whatever goes on around me. The emotion is a flag about what needs to be rebalanced in my life. The evil will always be there.
    Again thank you!!!

  9. Rachel

    Tabby, thanks for the reminder to “lean not on our own understanding”.
    This scripture has come back to me over and over by others pointing it out.
    It reminds us that evil is a mystery just as love is and the truth and beauty of God.
    We can’t fathom out evil with our own minds, it’s beyond us.
    And very distressing as you articulate clearly.
    God has given you a tender heart which can feel some of the pain that He feels when he sees how much people harm each other.
    This is a gift. The tears are a gift too.
    Thankyou Lord for this gift.
    I pray that Jesus and you can carry this pain together.
    Today I heard a priest saying that we should carry our cross with joy!
    I was struck by that and immediately thought “impossible!”
    But ” nothing is impossible to God”.
    Let’s support each other with our crosses,
    Blessings to you and yours xxxx

    • Tabby

      Wow I am awe struck
      Thank you Rachel
      Evil is a mystery
      Carry our cross with Joy
      Gifts from God
      Yes let’s “support each other with our crosses”
      Your heart really understands
      God has blessed me through you
      I am most grateful
      I thank God for you and lift you up in prayer
      May God give you strength to bear your cross
      With joy
      In His love

      • Rachel

        Thankyou Tabby, I am blessed by you in your words.
        Life is very difficult for me at present, it seems to be impossible to live each day due to circumstances beyond my control.
        The cross is heavy.
        But the Lord will make our paths straight when we acknowledge Him in all things. Yes, that is so true.
        I suppose “in all things” means in the dreadful, painful, awful stuff as well as the joyful and wonderful stuff. That’s the hardest part, to acknowledge that He is still there with us (Emmanuel) in those bits.
        But He proved this by dying on the Cross for us, very messy, painful, undeserved.
        I’ll keep praying for you and all here, xxx

  10. one of the little people

    I remember years ago I had experienced something very painful and something very precious had died. I kept asking God the question why. I just really needed to understand. One night I had a dream. I was in a graveyard and its name was, “Leave It At The Cross”. I kept repeating the name over and over and it was even on my lips when I woke up.

    I lay in bed reflecting and believe I was given an answer. I believe God said, “I answered all your questions at the cross. I proved that I’m good at the cross. I proved I love you at the cross. Leave this thing that has died there, at the cross.” It wasn’t the kind of answer I wanted – one of God’s holy non sequiturs (Jesus was and expert at those) – but from then on, when the questions would haunt my mind, I would say, sometimes aloud, “I leave that at the cross.” Eventually, I stopped asking and the answer became enough.

    I may never know or understand. I thought peace could only come through and explanation, but many times the only thing we can do is rehearse that God is good and he loves us. He’s already proven that.

  11. raswhiting

    I struggle with “find their identity apart from their suffering”. I find that when I am suffering, especially when I was beaten down by the narcissist, I was in such pain, I no longer could find my identity, except that I was in Christ. But who the me was, and my purpose, really got lost. So when I read this, I “hear” since I don’t know my identity and I am swamped not living above the circumstance of trial, I am a failure. I know God will forgive my failings and the times when I have not been able to live above my circumstances. But my failings depress me.

    • AES

      I had been victim of two people with narcisstic characteristics one for 20 years and a recent one for short few months and both really did a number on me. I was so broken and in deep depression from the first one and God healed me. A short time after somehow I fell right back in to becoming another victim of a man whom I thought was a Godly loving man and it was all too picture perfect but once married the flip flop began and once again I felt so broken and confused at how could I have ignored some subtle red flags and fell in to this yet again and it really tore me up inside however in the midst of the horrible emotional pain from all this and feeling like I just didn’t want to be around that I just had to make my self give this to God and trust God and know that God does loves us and will never leave us nor forsake us and knowing that no matter what the why is that all things are gonna work for my good. All this has caused me to really trust in God and lean on him and not my own understanding even at times i feel myself falling into sadness i pray and learning to trust and some of the scriptures that have helped me and continue to: (Isaiah 41:10 – Fear thou not for I am with thee be not dismayed for I am thy God I will strengthen thee yeah I will help thee yea I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness; Deuteronomy 31:6 – Be strong and of a good courage fear not nor be afraid of them for the Lord thy God he it is that doth go with thee he will not fail thee nor forsake thee.; Jeremiah 32:27 – Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh is there anything too hard for me?; Proverbs 3:5-6 – Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths.) It’s hard it’s so hard at times I know it is for any of us no matter what the situation but every time we get these negative thoughts push them right back out with prayer and the word of God and draw strength and grace from God and know that it will work out as what was meant for evil will work for our good.

  12. raswhiting

    I should say oppress me.

  13. Freedom feels good

    This is an incredible article. I was so comforted and drawn back to Christ as well as having a deeper understanding and awareness that although we live in a fallen world God is working and His love and purpose are real. I currently live with a narcissist (mother) and most of the family is against me, though as the oldest, was her rescuer and scapegoat for years. I was so used to being used by her and treated as her doormat from a young age,, this transferred to every area of my life. God has shown me some extremely painful truths these last few years that I have not been able to face prior – and I am 54 years old. Thank you for sharing this and the insight you, give every week. I am so excited when I see your email has arrived every Friday because I have learn Biblical principles that apply to my situation and every single time am encouraged. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

    • one of the little people

      Hello Friend (Freedom Feels Good), I feel I can call you that. I am 51 and only realized in the past two years that my mother is a narcissist. It has been freeing to finally understand that she is responsible for her bad behavior. Nothing I can do, no hoops I jump through, will change that. It is indeed liberating. I have gone Low Contact, although I do still have residual guilty feelings about that. I am sorry you don’t have that option as you still live with your mother. I understand what it feels like to be blamed. I pray God strengthens you and the truth would become crystal clear. May 2017 be a year of even greater liberation!

  14. Sunflower

    Why doesn’t God stop this? Because He doesn’t break His own laws, that’s why. He said, “Let Us make man in Our image, and let THEM have dominion.” The only way that ‘God is in control’ is if we let His Spirit live in us and we, in the spirit, wrestle against the enemy that others have invited into them. That is why we have Christmas! God’s spirit in a human body to crush the head of the serpent!!!! The only way God could legally intervene is in a body, with God’s perfect blood shed for our sins (medically a baby’s blood is inherited from the father and does not mix with the mother’s blood at all). That is why the satan entered the serpent and is constantly looking for openings in people, because he is spirit and also needs a body to operate.

    It’s not the Ns that are the enemy, it’s the enemy that they have invited into them and choose not to evict. The whole earth groans, waiting for ‘us’ to manifest God’s power on earth. That is why we pray, stand together, and take action in all these situations, because for too long we have tried to placate the enemy and it’s been laughing at us.

  15. Irene

    I had to read this and cry for awhile before responding. It felt like you knew exactly like what i was struggling with when you wrote it. Thank you!

    At the end of a year filled with death and mean words and disappointments, I sit here watching my husband give other people gifts again (it’s too hard to give his wife anything at all) and nursing my dying dog. I think about our daughters–at 27 one has been in a couple of abusive relationships and rejected Christ and the other has scapegoated me and cut me from her life and lives in legalism.

    I think again of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the song he left us–I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day–after his wife had died and his son was injured in the Civil War. He understood how hard things can be.

  16. guardyourheart

    this is so helpful and reassuring

    I had one of narcs send me a message on Christmas day implying that it is my responsibility to forgive for the things he did and his destructive behaviour, even using a part of a bible verse. I deleted it knowing that forgiveness and reconciliation are two different things. Just a few weeks earlier he was sending abusive messages despite being asked to stop and being reported to the police.

    Pastor Dave, I found your No3 particularly helpful – … His plan for us is good. The abuser is responsible for the evil he does.

  17. LM

    My desire to understand is usually a desire to control. <–yes. Thank you. nice post.

  18. What a blessed post.
    The final paragraph summed it up and is my precious prayer since I have tried to leave thinking that was God’s intention. It has not worked out so I remain … “That’s my prayer for each of you. Look to Him and trust in His love. Do what He leads you to do. If you can leave the narcissistic relationship, do it. If you cannot, then look to Jesus and find His overwhelming love in the midst of your struggle. He is there for you.”

    I covet prayers as it is not just ‘him’ but this includes, children, siblings and many other fair-weather professing Christians who just don’t get it but continue to put more burden and blame on me. 😦

  19. Adele

    Dear Pastor Dave, This was very comforting, very helpful. Thank you. Blessings to you and your loved ones in the New Year.

  20. Beth

    Thank you so much for all you share and all your prayer. Bless you for allowing God to be manifested as “our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble”(Psalm 46:1) through your writings, for I believe they are a gift from God that help indeed.

  21. Sandra

    All I can ever think of to say to your wonderful posts is “thank you, Pastor Dave”. Thank you, thank you. I am so helped by your wise post.

  22. Georgette

    Has any one read the book ‘The Shack’? Paul Young is the author. Movie is coming out March 3rd. He tells his story which to me sounds like he might have been a narcissist and turned his life around. He talks about a thin veneer he has to protect himself and how he pretends to be ‘godly’ but he moves so his mask does not fall off, except when he gets married.Here is the link if anyone is interested in his story:

    . Curious on your thoughts.

    • I have serious concerns about Paul Young and the book, The Shack. I read it a few years ago. Wonderful story, but bad theology. Young is an “inclusionist,” which is a fancy way of saying “universalist.” He teaches with a group that says that all people are already saved, but just don’t know it yet. Personal faith is unnecessary, nice but not required. The only hell is what people make for themselves in their unbelief. There is much in his teaching that sounds good but is wrong and, ultimately, harmful to people.

      Now, to be fair, I understand that some teachers worked with Paul to correct the theology presented in the latest editions of the book and in the movie. What changes they made, I don’t know. It still concerns me that the foundation of the material has such a serious error. It also concerns me that some people will think Young is a good teacher because of what they read.

      Again: good story, bad theology.

      For more information on inclusionism, check out my friend, Paul Ellis:

  23. onmyway

    Hello all- I have been reading Dave’s posts for quite some time now but have never posted a comment. I do so now because I have decided to separate from my narcissistic husband of 11 years. We have 2 children together and have tried to stay well but feel the cost is too much for me. After waking up 2 years ago to the reality — I tried hard to get him “to understand” and put boundaries in place- his behavior has gotten a little better..less overt but still a lot of covert…but there seems to be no real change of heart or attitude. For those who are “staying well” – may I ask how you do it without breaking down? How do you live with and raise children with someone you can’t really trust? Just posting this for prayers and support as I figure out the best way to execute…and hoping I have the courage and strength to follow through…

    • Sunflower

      onmyway, I’m one of those trying to ‘stay well’. I’ve had to detach emotionally and expect nothing. Like living in the same house but not really married. I tell myself I’m a ‘maid’ (ok, with benefits) and it does seem fake, but for now that’s how it is. At first it took a lot of self discipline in dragging my thoughts to praise and prayer, sometimes every few seconds, because my mind wanted so badly to ruminate in the ‘trying to explain’ thing. Trying to make sense of it. So I’m learning to cling to the Lord and let go of everything else. Live my own life, find my own friends and hobbies, take myself out on dates, etc. I did set boundaries such as not allow myself to be spoken to disrespectfully. Which means we talk hardly at all, he’s on the computer or outside all the time. I’ve learned to be thankful for that. Not sure if that helps, but that’s my story at this point. Blessings to you! Oh, and I use these blogs as prayer lists. 🙂 🙂

      • onmyway, My life is much like Sunflower’s except we are at a point where there is no conversation; leaving notes and to the point of emailing for some information.
        It’s terrible because the adult children seem to accept this and yet definitely favour ‘him’ and spend more time with him than me.
        I have made some precious friends who ‘believe’ what I was covering up for years. Just wish my children and their spouses would do the same …
        The local churches have been non-supportive. 😦

        You can move on slowly… as you build up pure, solid friendships.
        Praying for you and many others in vulnerable situations.

  24. This is wonderful!! Thank you, Pastor Dave!

  25. Carl Feather

    Perhaps God allows it because we are the only knight in the narcissist life, only Bible he will read. Let your light so shine among men … does not make it any less painful or lonely, emotionally exhausting or hopeless.. We do come to understand his great love and sacrifice for us. His love is to be all sufficient and I wish I was at that point in my walk but my narc spouse denies me the emotional and physical intimacy I long for as punishment for being stupid.

  26. Please help

    Please help me – I have been following your blog for years now and it’s been an absolute blessing. My mother exhibits all of the
    narssasistic traits. I left home when I was 14 and never went back. I call and see her once a year as I cannot mentally handle her horrible comments and manipulation towards me. She was a very abusive mother and I with the grace of God worked through it and can accept her as she is now but I keep a little distance. What I despatately struggle with is what is it that God expects of me in relation to my mother? Do I as I have done continue to keep in contact suffer her morbid perspective on life, her negative comments about me in order to??? I don’t know what but cannot feel that God would ever be ok with me just walking away from her. Also she holds my large inheritance over me CONSTANTLY she never not reminds me of her will and also makes stupid irrational comments to suggest it could all be taken away from me by people. What people I don’t know it’s just her way of saying ‘it’s not a guarantee that all this is yours it could just disappear in a flash. It causes me such anxiety this carrot she dangles knowing I would need it and knowing in order to receive it I have to ‘play nice’. I would be so deeply eternally grateful if you could provide insight and anyone else

    • Please help

      Sorry for the poor grammar clearly auto spell check wasn’t working

    • Welcome! First, I would encourage you to read this post:

      This is not a game you can win. She almost certainly will not change, especially if she has something you want. So, yes, you may have to “play nice” as long as you want what she has. At the same time, remember that this is a game to her. She will probably not do anything to change the inheritance. Distance and boundaries will be your friends. I would carefully control the time you spend with her, in and out, even on the phone. You make the choices, whenever you can.

      Here’s another post that might be helpful:

      • Please help

        I cannot thank you enough for the reply and articles you shared which I reread like they were honey for my heart. Thankyou for giving me permission to to think those thoughts as I did feel evil and ungodly thinking and wishing. I do not wish harm to my mother and I find comfort knowing I have never mistreated her. I do stand my grounds and don’t see her often. I praise God for stumbling across your blog Thank you for helping me and so many others with what would otherwise feel a deeply lonely experience.

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Frog Level

One does not expect a pond filled with frogs to tell a drunk man how to name the pond. Yet, it happened in South Carolina.

Frog Level

A pre-1827 settler built a combination homestead and general store near a wilderness pond northwest of Columbia, which is now the capital of the state, but was then merely a fort. Of course, the settler manufactured and sold home-brewed alcohol. Nobody lived near him, so his customers were the occasional traveler. One traveler got so drunk on the settler’s home-brew that he passed out near the pond. It was this traveler who heard the frogs speak to him over and over again. He relayed to the settler that the frogs endlessly repeated, “Frog Level!” After the traveler departed, the settler began to refer to the pond as “Frog Level.” Years later, a steam locomotive railroad was put into service between the South Carolina towns of Greenville, Newberry, and Columbia. Newberry was the county seat where Frog Level was located. The large pond was a natural whistle-stop location for the locomotives, which required water for their boilers (to use to make steam).

Since locomotives stopped at Frog Level to get water, the general store owner was able to use that time to negotiate a wider selection of salable goods for his store. Since his store acquired a greater variety of goods and since it was possible to hitch a ride on passing trains, other settlers moved nearby. In 1873, those combined settlers petitioned to give their settlement a name soon after the railroad was acquired by the Southern Railway Company. The area had been referred to as Frog Level for some time, but many of the settlers objected to that name. However, everyone could not agree on a new name, so a decision was made based on a majority count. The settlers were very independent people, yet most of them did affiliate with one organized religion or another. The Presbyterians were in the majority. They chose to name the town after their church, which they called Prosperity. .

Still Frog Level

My Grandfather lived in this town all of his life. He was not a Presbyterian. He was a Methodist. He still called the town Frog Level. He had a large house on a hill within the town limits. He was fortunate in that his uncle had worked in the land tax assessor’s office. Uncle Dove was in the position to see when folks could not or would not pay taxes on their land. If he could scrape together the money to do it, he paid the taxes and the land became his. The area around Frog Level became his honeycomb of tiny parcels of land, some of which could be only gotten to by pig path trails, sometimes through someone else’s property. These parcels became his gift to succeeding generations of his family. My Grandfather’s gift was himself. He stopped what he was doing to say hello, to have a pleasant chat, to see if that person needed his help, and he did help, every time, all of the time. Between my ages as a toddler and ten, I only knew my Grandfather Roy as fun. We played games: board games, card games, chase games, hiding games, and games that he or my cousins and I made up. He discovered the game of croquet and turned it into a form of modern golf. He convinced other local men to build elaborate croquet courses on the flat areas of their lawns. Then, they would visit each other on the weekends to have a “shootout croquet match” – while each one of them had a Grand-kid as a partner! My God that was fun! Mostly, I watched my Grandfather artfully knock my croquet ball where it needed to be by his skillful shooting of his croquet ball. My Grandfather passed on soon after I was ten. I have never seen so many people come to a funeral they way folks did to his. He had thousands of attendees from all walks of life, some of whom told me and my cousins stories of things that our Grandfather had done for them. I have spent the rest of my life correcting my behavior to be like him. I am getting closer now that I am nearing the age that he was when he passed. But, I won’t get it completely right. That is OK. He will marvel that I have tried. The town continues to grow, and I have heard that it is now a trendy place to live. But, do you know what? It is still Frog Level!

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Tojitsuki Hajime: Sakitcho Dakedemo

I enjoyed this collection, but I really wanted to read more about the DJ and the MC. I wanted to read more about all of the characters, even the ones that didn’t move me–they were all interesting in their own way. It’s hard to pin down or rather, there’s a word or short phrase that perfectly describes Tojitsuki’s work, but I don’t know what it is, but I like it regardless. Although, she’s another one that likes to leave you hanging.

When I first read this I was really confused because her art changed quite a bit. From long, lanky, sinuous bodies to stockier, squatter frames. However, I can still see a good bit of her previous style in the facial features. I like the urban style and setting she uses in the newer stories. I thought her character designs/silhouettes were reasonably diverse before, but I think using the urban style sort of broadened the variety of features in her toolbox. I was happy to see that she commented on the style in her atogaki.

Pensive, contemplative … something like that. The words will come to me eventually.

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In the Manger

In the Manger

They process down the center aisle
while the pastor reads the story from Luke,
Mary and Joseph, angels and shepherds,
now my grandson with a paper crown

bearing treasure to his savior;
Mary in a bathrobe holds a plastic baby
in a yellow receiving blanket
but in the pew behind me

my daughter-in law cradles
two month old Amelia, premature,
less than 5 pounds at birth, even now
just about the heft of a healthy

Middle Eastern newborn boy –
why not lay her in the manger?
For today in the city of David is born
to us all a savior, anointed one, and this

shall be the sign – we shall find
the babe wrapped in a pink blankie
and lying in a manger, and we shall call
her name Wonderful, Counselor,

Bringer of Peace, Mighty One,
and in her presence we will hear angels
singing, Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth Peace to all creatures.

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Bill Griffin
Christmas Day 2015

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. . . to look a lot like . . . just another Christmas book or movie, another Christmas song or poem.  Is there anything you can write or say or perform for Christmas that hasn’t already been done, and better, sometime in the past 2000 years? There can’t be a more evocative metaphor for the arrival of the Messiah than “dancing day,” and yet we continue to compose new musical settings.  The Nativity has been retold in every possible medium, from clay-mation to post-modern irony (though perhaps not yet in RealD).  And yet . . .

. . . every year we search the shelves for the next perfect Christmas book for our grandson.  Now that Linda’s Mom (nickname, Conan the Librarian) is no longer able to go book shopping for the entire family, Linda and I are mailing copies of our favorites to the newest nephew.  And when I saw Sally Buckner’s latest collection on the Main Street Rag website, Nineteen Visions of Christmas, I had to have it.

As an educator and writer and proponent of poetry, Sally Buckner’s name is known to everyone active in the North Carolina poetry scene.  But in private discourse Sally has blessed her family and friends every year with an annual Christmas poem.  This book presents many of those poems to the public for the first time.  It’s a diverse blend with something for the child and the adult, something contemplative, something exultant, something to make you grin.  I’m fond of The Morn After Christmas – I challenge anyone to recite a line in anapestic tetrameter without conjuring Clement Moore.  I choked up reading The Ballad of the Innkeeper’s Wife; I could see it being adapted for the stage.  As could The North Wind Catches Christmas.

But my favorite of the series is one that’s clearly very personal to Sally, and through its distinctives and details it evokes in the reader something much larger.  How many seemingly minor memories of our own past Christmases have we forgotten?  How many stories have we wrapped in tissue and left boxed in the attic?  Entering the world of one of Sally Buckner’s childhood Christmases, I find images flooding my mind.  Day after tomorrow, when we gather around the tree, I’ll try not to forget – the best gift is to share what binds us together in love.

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Sally Buckner

Always cedar.
Fir trees didn’t grow in Iredell County,
and George never considered pine or hemlock,
which suited me fine: I loved the scent of cedar
spicing the entire house from the very minute
those feathery branches ruffled through the door
until right after Christmas, when we flung
its carcass, picked as clean as chicken bones
outside where it could dry till fit for firewood.

In early years, he’d combine his search
for a tree with a hunting trip, return grinning,
tree on one shoulder, rabbits on the other.
Later, when whatever disease the doctors
couldn’t find a name for drew the muscles
in his legs so tight he could barely walk –
lurched like a drunken sailor – he would drive
far out in the country, scanning the winter roadside
till he found a likely candidate, straight and full,
which he could manage to clamber to, cane
clasped in one hand, ax in the other.

Never paid or asked permission.  Lord, why would he?
We were all tree-poor those days, wouldn’t miss a cedar
more than a dandelion.  Nobody thought
of using tillable land for Christmas trees.
When Hoover was still making promises,
who would have laid down a cherished dollar
for something to toss away after just a week?

When George got home, he’d nail two boards in an X
for the tree’s support.  I’d swath them with a blanket.  The
girls would help him string the lights, then wind
cellophane garlands through the greenery.
Meanwhile I’d whip Lux flakes to a frothy lather;
dried in the branches, if you’d squint your eyes,
you’d swear that it was snow.  Altogether,
it was some kind of pretty.

Eighteen years now, he’s been gone.  At first,
my boy still at home, I’d buy a tree –
resenting every dollar – fix it up
the best I could all by myself.  Then later,
hoisting trees got to be beyond me.
I purchased one advertised as “everlasting,”
needles, branches, trunk – all aluminum.
Don’t use lights, just big red satin balls.
The children, When they come, don’t complain.
The grandchildren exclaim, “Red and silver”
Look at it shine!”
And it lasts year after year –
not half the trouble of a woodland tree.

But I still miss the scent of cedar.

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Sally Buckner, former journalist and English professor, is the author of two additional poetry collections: Strawberry Harvest and Collateral Damage.  She also edited the anthology Word and Witness: 100 Years of North Carolina Poetry, which is an essential volume of your poetry collection; if you don’t own a copy, contact me and I’ll let you know how to order one!  Sally resides in Cary, NC.

Nineteen Visions of Christmas (copyright 2011): the new poetry chapbook by Sally Buckner is available from Main Street Rag Publishing.

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Sally Buckner

Though forg has shrouded sky and hill,
I dare to dream this Christmastime
that you may tread a steady trail
with hands to hold you as you climb.

May candles fling their bravest flame
against the claim of bleakest night,
and great bells sound their silver chime
to sing the presence of the light.

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Not-Super-Scientific, but Cool Piece on Whether Fat Skis Increase the Risk of Injury

October 17, 2010

Just saw this and thought it was interesting. I kinda take it with a grain of salt except for what Brad Holmes said about the “fast” part. I agree with that. In my experience, speed + big tele boots +Hammerheads with the six-screw toe + Volkl Explosivs with a metal topsheet = Bad News Bears. A trip to the operating room and some percocet for the trouble. YEE HAWWWWW!!! 🙂

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  1. November 2, 2010 6:14 PM

    Finally updating the Blog! Good news.

    • Colin permalink*
      November 2, 2010 6:17 PM

      Word. I actually need to do a brief initial review of my new carbon-fiber footbeds. I ran in them the other day.

  2. January 14, 2011 11:43 PM

    Glad to see that carbon-fiber review is quick coming 😉

  3. January 14, 2011 11:52 PM

    I haven’t had a chance to use them because I can’t run and I can barely ski. So eat it.

    I’d put up other stuff but you seem to have the TR market cornered. 😛

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Mercer 2010 “Sharp Sisters” red

50% Merlot, 34% Syrah, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Petit Verdot; 14.1% ABV
Columbia Valley, WA
$8 at the Oakland, CA, store on 26 May

Mercer_2010_SharpSistersRedI thought this looked like an interesting blend, from a pretty good year, from a producer who gave us a few decent-value whites.  I also hoped that, at this price, it should be more substantial than our usual GO fare.  However, it was not to be.

On the first night, the wine tasted of lighter red, tart fruit, but chewing on the taste gave the impression of buried layer of richer, darker fruit that would emerge with more air.  However, even after a couple hours, it never seemed to.

The second night, the saved single-glass screw-cap bottle was richer and a little darker, but still rather acid and not especially tasty.  Overall, although there’s nothing obviously wrong with it, I can’t really recommend this wine, especially at this price.  Once again, I may have gotten an off bottle.  Has anyone had better experiences with it?

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  1. RW

    Same experience here as BW. The initial nose from the first pour was not bad, but disappeared quickly. Taste of tart fruit. Though, nothing obviously wrong. Definitely not recommended for the price.

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NBC 'War Wing' vs UT Austin

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    Tonite America watched Martin Sheen portray seduction of the US Prez into military interventionism on NBC s West Wing But, hours earlier Austin s University
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      Tonite America watched Martin Sheen portray seduction of the US Prez into military interventionism on NBC's 'West Wing' But, hours earlier Austin's University of Texas campus erupted into AntiWar protest. And, oh yeah, ex Prez Clinton spoke about peace at the nearby Erwin center today too; www.statesman.com

      UT students protest war
      Updated: 2/12/2003 9:03 PM
      By: Antonio Castelan

      After spending Tuesday night camped out on campus, many UT students gathered to protest the U.S.'s possible war with Iraq. More than 3,000 students and university faculty walked out of class Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. to protest a possible war with Iraq. The peace rally also included government supporters.

      With the Texas Capitol in the background, a sea of anti-war demonstrators filled UT's South Mall. Protesters were out in full force with signs and chants.

      Student Michael Young said the war effort lacks foresight. "If we attack now, we incur the wrath of the Muslim world, and we just can't deal with that right now," he said.

      Government supporters were also on hand to show their support for President Bush. Students Allison Sharp called the protest "a waste of time. A stupid reason for kids to get out of class."

      "They don't make sense. I feel like the people here, though well intentioned, don't know the world they are talking about," government supporter Josh Gottesman said.

      Jerry Kraft, a Korean War veteran, was out to support the anti-war effort. He doesn't believe young people should lose their lives in Iraq.

      "We are going to unleash something. A problem in Korea is that we lumped the Koreans and Chinese together," he said.

      Austin City Council member Daryl Slusher spoke at the rally.

      "I think we need to give the inspectors more time, and not rush into a war which is going to have untold consequences and plunge the whole world into a war. That's not good for us in the city of Austin," Slusher said.

      If a war with Iraq happens, protesters promise they'll be out on a daily basis to push for peace. They also said this is the first time a walk-out of class time has happened since the late 1960's.

      A global day of protest is planned for Feb. 15 on the steps of the Texas Capitol.

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Out of the Weeds

IMG_4155I have to move on from the somber subject of my last official blog entry here. There Are No Words was a cathartic piece to write but the experience of my friend’s loss rattled me more than I realized. As a result, I’ve spent much of the time between late November and now reflecting on the brevity and uncertainty of life.

It’s time to focus on the many positives that have occurred since last year’s tragedy. For one thing, my youngest child turned 5 (and the parents among us know that 5 is a huge milestone in the parenting world).

Once your youngest child turns 5, my husband and I refer to it as the point in parenthood when you finally get to “come out-of-the-weeds.” Five means we are just months away from full-day kindergarten, and isn’t sending your final child to kindergarten the chance to reclaim self again?

When DH and I brought our first-born home from the hospital in 2006, life as we knew it turned on its head. When your first baby comes home, everything in life has to adjust to a new baby. When your second baby (or third or fourth) comes home, the baby has to adjust to its new life as part of your family. More

I Can Read!

My oldest child has loved books for a very long time. In fact, for her whole life. Before she was born, I didn’t know what to look for in board books and children’s tales, all I knew were classics from my own childhood but the kid lit world had exploded since then and there was so much to discover.

To get me on the path of knowledge, I joined a book club, entirely devoted to reading and reviewing picture books. Through it, I discovered many fantastic books like this, this and this, as well as a whole children’s publisher that I really liked.

Trips to local libraries always result in massive acquisitions.  My kids pick books by themes of interest (rockets, trains, nature, school) and we stockpile books, which temporarily reside on shelves, already More

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Character Matters Sooner Than Later

Teenagers may think that the middle and high school years don’t matter much, and that having fun is paramount. Or they might think that making good grades, making the team, or being popular is what matters most. Those are common viewpoints held by teens and by the culture at large.

Everybody has their value system, but here is a different way of looking at the teen years. We’ve all heard that the teens are building character, one mistake and life lesson at a time. Let me put it a different way: Teens are building a reputation right now, and that reputation will follow them, unfair as that may be.

If I could speak to every 7th grader in the world, I would say something like this:

“Kids, listen up. Who you are right now in school does matter, and here’s why. Who are you are now is how others will remember you 20, 30, even 60 years from now. It’s a snapshot etched in their memory. It may not be fair, but it’s a fact. People will remember what kind of person you were, and it’s that lens that they will see you through, until you are able to replace that lens, which takes a lot of time. Continue reading “Character Matters Sooner Than Later”

The Social Combat of Being 13

A New World Order for Young Teens

tired stressed girl7th and 8th grade is when the social life of a child amps up in three ways: importance, intensity, and consequences.

At 13, a child’s social standing becomes extremely important to them, as it has become more important to all the other 13 year olds. For some, it is the most important aspect of life itself. Most teens would rather go without food and shelter than suffer any sort of social trouble.

At 13, a child’s feelings of insecurity, awkwardness, and fear are at an all-time high. The hormones are raging, the insecurities are constant, and the emotional swings are intense. The biggest concern of every day is how to get through that whole day without any public embarrassment. Their fears are fueled by the intense anxieties of their peers. It’s a sea of fears as far as the adolescent eye can see. Continue reading “The Social Combat of Being 13”

Your Family. Your Culture.

The most common theme among parents of young teens lately is that they want to live differently than the culture. Most parents do not want their kids to ingest the current culture of materialism, comparison, busyness, and anxiety. They don’t like what the culture is teaching and demanding.

Most parents want to be connected with their community, but they don’t want to live just like everyone else (too busy and too anxious). And they certainly don’t want the values of the pop culture to become the values of their children. On the other hand, they don’t want their kids to be social freaks, always on the outside looking in. It’s an everyday dilemma.

Without a doubt, it is difficult to grow up well when immersed in today’s youth culture, which is filled with empty entertainment, rampant consumerism, unhealthy body imagery, and every type of narcissism. It consumes them and then uses them as consumers.

It is so rare to get wisdom from youth pop culture today that it actually makes the news. Recently, Robert Downey Jr., the actor who plays Ironman in the Avenger movie series, said at the MTV Movie Awards“I advise you to dream big, work hard, keep your noses clean, be of service, and because you can, define your generation.” This was a shocking statement because it is so countercultural in the Hollywood / MTV world. The cultural norm is the opposite: have fun, be sexy, and take everything you can from this life.

But it’s not just youth pop culture that is toxic; it’s everywhere. It’s in the cafeteria, on Instagram, in the classroom, and in other families’ homes. The culture is teaching our kids to always look good, have all the right gadgets, and be the best at everything, in order to keep up with everybody else. It’s a culture of discontentment, comparison, and competition that is making our kids more anxious and less happy than ever. It’s never enough. It’s an insatiable more.

As a concerned parent, the question is, “How do you create a family life that is what you want?”  Continue reading “Your Family. Your Culture.”

The Power of Kindness

Josh was a normal teenager whose father died. His mother moved them from their home in the country to the city, with the hope that a fresh start would improve their lives.

But Josh was ridiculed in his new school for no good reason. In fact, he was ridiculed for a horrible reason.

Instead of responding with hatred or melting into melancholy, Josh chose to be kind. To everyone. Simply kind. And his world changed.

Josh’s kind strength is what our boys and girls should imitate in their own ways.

Advice for Middle School Kids

Recently, I asked my Facebook friends to give me advice for my 7th graders. Here’s what my friends have learned in their 30 years of growing up since 7th grade.

  • Be cool to everyone because there’s a good chance you will either marry, work with, or work for one of them one day.
  • “It’s not about the shoes, it’s about what you can do in them.” – Michael Jordan
  • The stuff you are worried about is probably the wrong stuff.
  • Everywhere you go, leave it better than you found it.
  • Sometimes it’s best to just take the butt whoopin’ you deserve and move on.
  • The prettiest girls are the ones you don’t notice right away.
  • The measure of success you hold now won’t be the same in 20 years. Be good to everyone. Many who aren’t “successful” now will be very successful in 20 years.
  • If you want to know what you are like, look around at the people you hang with.
  • You can pick you friends, you can pick your nose, but don’t ever ever pick your friend’s nose.
  • The person who chooses not to read is no better off than the person who can’t read.
  • Manners matter! Always.
  • How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
  • Some days you are the dog, and some days you are the fire hydrant. That’s life.
  • There is no such thing as normal…it is only a setting on the dryer.
  • Never miss a good chance to shut up.
  • “20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Leave the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Discover. Dream.” ~ Mark Twain
  • Those who hate you don’t win, unless you hate them back.
  • Sometimes you just have to accept that “It is what it is” and sometimes you should fight it. Pray for the wisdom to know the difference.
  • “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

Chasing Health

GoodHealthChoicesIf you are a parent of young children or teens, then you cannot afford to be unhealthy. Futures depend on your personal health. For many of us, it feels like chasing after the wind.

My wife and I are in our mid-forties, and our health is not even close to what it used to be, even though we live a relatively healthy lifestyle. We eat healthy. We exercise. We are not overweight and don’t smoke. Sometimes it seems futile, but it’s just mid-life. We can do the right things, and yet our bodies are just going to be breaking down from here on out.

In this second half of life, there are some things that just won’t heal, that lifestyle won’t fix. Neither my eyes nor my ears will be getting better, no matter how healthy I try to live. It’s just decay. We get wrinkles, cysts, and gray hair.

In addition to the natural aging process, stress is slowly killing most 40-somethings. Continue reading “Chasing Health”

The Distance Run

CSC_0569I coach middle school cross country, which is not a glamorous job, but it is uniquely rewarding. For young distance runners, the hardest part is embracing the pain that creates stronger legs and faster times. I try to make practices and meets fun, but there is no way of getting around the fact that running really fast for 15-20 minutes is going to be painful, especially for growing little bodies.

Most of the kids who run cross country learn that without a healthy dose of pain every day they will not improve. No pain, no gain. Convincing kids of this is no easy task, but over time the sport tends to naturally reward those who fight through physical pain and emotional weakness.

When a young person develops some mental and physical toughness, they are growing up well. It’s incredibly rewarding to see the progress that these kids make over a season.

Some of my fellow coaches, Doug and Jennifer Meyer, use a fairy tale metaphor when explaining the need to persevere over a long distance. It also applies to many of life’s challenges that require stamina.

Parenting is a distance run, after all.

The Wolf

Somewhere in the middle of the race, there is a big bad wolf lurking around the corner. He will try to get you to slow down.

He sneaks up next to you and says things like, “Slow down. You’re hurting yourself. This is crazy. What’s the point of this? It’s not like you can win the race. You’re not very fast. Doesn’t this hurt? Just take it easy. No one will notice.”

The wolf doesn’t want you to work hard to achieve your goals. Continue reading “The Distance Run”


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Friday, 20 June 2014

Stilts step forward

A lot of time has been spent over the last year or so thinking about birds that may colonise the UK.  The latest influx of Black-winged Stilts was totally predictable and resulted in clusters of birds being found both along the south coast and inland.  Breeding immediately looked likely at several sites.  After a failed attempt in Cambridgeshire and display elsewhere, birds settled onto nests at Cliffe Pools and Medmerry. Breeding populations have been increasing recently in France and in the Netherlands with generally more breeding attempts in The Netherlands per year since 1989 than during the previous two decades.

The breeding attempt at Medmerry is a notable success for this new site.   It is the largest open-coast managed-realignment scheme in Europe, and the RSPB's newest reserve. It was created between 2011 and 2013 by the Environment Agency, with RSPB input and advice, and consists of mudflats, tidal lagoons and saltmarsh.  The scheme was designed to protect people and property from flooding as well as creating coastal habitat.  The birds are breeding on a freshwater flood storage lagoon (photo above) that forms part of the site and looks a good choice by the stilts.  Cliffe Pools supports around 10% of the UK's saline lagoon habitat in old clay excavations adjacent to the river Thames. The stilts are breeding on islands within the lagoons, amongst Avocets and Black-headed Gulls.  This looks a poorer choice but we shall see.

So what do Stilts require?  They generally prefer temporary, shallow brackish and freshwater pools.  They feed on adult and larval insects, particularly flies, beetles, bugs and dragonflies, which they pick from the surface of the water or forage for in shallow mud.  In Western France, their favoured breeding pools usually dry out in late summer,  between June and late September, and re-flood before the end of the year. These pools typically have a salinity of 2-5 parts per thousand (ppt) in winter, rising to about 15-20 ppt in spring. They are usually fairly well vegetated, typically containing Brackish Water-crowfoot and Sea Club-rush.  Black-winged Stilts typically prefer slightly less saline, and more vegetated, water bodies than Avocets. It is probably important to flood pools early enough in autumn to enable pools to be colonised by aquatic invertebrates before these become inactive in winter.

Towards the northern limits of their range in Europe, most Black-winged Stilts breed at shallow, temporary, nutrient-rich fresh water bodies. The Reserve de Grand-Laviers, near Abbeyville in Northern France (photo below), consists of 81 ha of former sugar beet lagoons, most of which dry out each year in late summer and re-flood in early winter. In 2013 these lagoons supported 16 pairs of breeding Black-winged Stilts, as well as 42 pairs of Black-necked Grebes.  Now what else is predicted  as a potential colonist?  Ah yes, Short-toed Eagle.


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Why does your business need a successful website?

For the small scale industry, website designing is essential because they can reach out to maximum people through their sites. Now people are spending more time on their social media and internet searching, and if your business does not have any online existence, then you will miss out major opportunities. In this regards you can hire some competent Web Designing Company in Delhi, and they can accelerate the growth of your online businesses.

Web Designing Company in Delhi

Web Designing Company in Delhi

Why do you need a website for your business

  • Cost saving: if you have a small business and you may think that you cannot afford the website designing cost, then you can go for some cheap companies offering Website Designing in Gujranwala Town, because these designers offer several website designing options, at minimum costs and you can easily afford them.
  • Information: your website is your company’s information portal, and you need to include content related to your products, services and upcoming events in your website on a regular basis. If you hire agencies that deal with Website Designing in Rajouri Garden, then they can do this entire updates for you.
  • Accessibility: your website must have accessibility throughout the year, and people must be able to avail your products and services at anytime. Apart from that when you deal with specific agencies offering Website Designing in Kohat Enclave, you must ask them about the customer care auto responsive system. Your customers can get instant notification and company confirmation automatically from your site.
  • SEO: You also need to make your website with Search Engine Optimization tools and in this segment you have to incorporate with many things like, rich content, well researched resources, link building, online advertising, white hat technology and social media marketing strategies.

If you do not have any idea about website designing then you must hire some of the best online designers dealing with Website Designing in Shastri Nagar, and it can save your cost and time too.

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Importance of a Website and Web Designing

The web designing is not a single term, rather it constitutes several other disciplines involved in the production as well as maintainence of the website. There are several small-scale as well as large-scale companies, that are offering economical and budget friendly web related services to varied kinds of industries. GTM Infotech is one such company, established in the year 2005 at G.T.K road, Kamla Nagar in Delhi that provides highly reliable and trustworthy solutions to every kind of industries. The clients are from across India and the retention is over 75 percent. Being a highly appreciated and well established Website Designing Company in Delhi, GTM has been awarded with several awards and recognition. This company has a set of well-experienced experts that provides reliable Website Designing in Delhi. To offer such a dedicated and sincere service, the experts need to equip themselves with skill set that is updated with latest industrial standards. The team is well aware of latest tools and techniques, softwares as well as languages used to provide the client with highly reliable web services. A designed final website must adhere to certain standards to be termed as genuine. These are:

  1. It must be quick loading, with easy navigability and an easy user interface
  2. The content, images and videos incorporated in the website must be relevant
  3. Proper HTML integration using latest backend technologies
  4. Universally accessible, search engine friendly as well as browser friendly website
  5. Customizable design for easy further enhancements

GTM Infotech is highly professional and among the top ranking Website Designing Company in Delhi, that has so far able to complete over 5000 projects with 99.99 percent success ratio. The company provides Website Designing in Delhi to multiple clients belonging to different kinds of industries. There are 100 percent satisfied clients that seek the help of the company for every kind of web related queries. Being a vital component of accessibility and marketing, a website must be given importance for it is the mark of identity for a business venture or a product. For any kind of services related to website, GTM is a one stop destination.

Web Solutions at Par Excellence

GTM Infotech is a web service provider, in service since 2005. The company, which was established at Kamla Nagar, near Delhi University in Delhi has been a professional firm offering reliable and trustworthy Web Services in Delhi. The services are not limited to website designing only, rather it offers variety of related services like web development, website maintainence, Internet marketing solutions, domain name registration, search engine optimization or SEO, web hosting services, software development services, e-commerce or shopping cart services, outsourcing services to India, payment gateway integration, website designing services among the others. These services are offered under one roof which makes GTM a leading company to provide Website Designing in India. Not only at the region of incorporation i.e. Kamla Nagar, the company is active in many other prominent parts of the capital city. It provides genuine Website Designing in Indirapuram, serving client base belonging to different sectors. The client’s are provided with 100 percent guaranteed solutions, which makes them satisfied to avail service for a longer term.

Website designers need to be fully aware of the latest tools and techniques used in the designing process. These tools are updated from time to time using new standards, as a result of which web designers utilizes these latest tools to provide customizable websites as per client requirement. Due to constant endeavor to gain excellence in the domain, the firm has gained severing accolades and awards:

  1. It offers Web Services in Delhi with 100 percent satisfaction guaranteed
  2. 10+ years of experience with more than 5000 successful projects

Website Designing in India has taken a new turn with inception of several small scale and medium scale organizations offering full web related solution across India. Web designing is one of the key components of successful business venture. So it must be given utmost importance. The team at GTM offers full-fledged Website Designing in Indirapuram, with fully functional and informative websites that meets the standards of the industry. These websites follow certain guidelines to be considered useful:

  1. Quick loading and easily navigable
  2. Universally accessible alike
  3. Easy and understandable user interface
  4. Browser friendly and search engine friendly website
  5. Website redesigning
  6. Proper HTML integration using latest backend technologies
  7. Customizable websites to accommodate future changes of the clients

The entire platter of web services provided by GTM Infotech is highly business centric. The experts analyze the business requirements and accordingly plan strategies to reach the ultimate goal.

Effective Web Solutions in and Around Parts of Delhi

Website Designing is a skill that encompasses various disciplines. It is a perfect combination of science and creativity that leads to the formation a unique eye catchy web design. A website represents the identity of the business- an organization or a product, so it is important to make the website as informative and creative as possible to drag more visitors. More the number of visitors more will be the traffic to the site, which will hike the profitability. GTM Infotech is a web service provider based in the city of Delhi and offering services since last few years. Owing to its prime location at Kamla Nagar, near Delhi University, the company has been able to grab attention of many small scale and large-scale business organizations. The services are limited to Kamla Nagar and the company offers affordable and reliable Website Designing in Wazirpur, Website Designing in Keshav Puram as well as trustworthy Website Designing in Azadpur. The team here at GTM understands the requirement of the business and plans accordingly to design and develop a proper functioning website at the most competitive price package.

Website Designing in Wazirpur

A website is mandatory and the most vital component of business today, since a large part of the population rely on Internet for various activities. Some established forms also take services of firms like GTM to refurbish their existing websites. Being a prime location, Wazirpur plays host to several small scale and large-scale business organizations. This increases the requirement for having a proper reliable website designing company service in and around Wazirpur.

Website Designing in Keshav Puram

GTM Infotech having its region of incorporation as Kamla Nagar, offer wide range of services to other locations of Delhi as well. One such locality is Keshav Puram. Not only web designing, the company offers cost effective solutions related web marketing that includes SEO, SMO, PPC, software development, mobile application development, web development and many more. Apart from Keshav Puram, GTM provides budget friendly and trustworthy Website Designing in Azadpur as well.

The company deals on genuine web designs that are customizable to support future needs of the client. To have a functional website, it is important for it to be universally accessible and supported in every kind of platform.

Web Designing and Development Company Delhi

Website designing is a mix of science and innovation. It is the technique of developing a proper functional website incorporating creativity and innovation to the level that it attracts the visitors. Website Designing in Delhi has reached a new height with the development of many start-up firms offering tough competition to their established large-scale counterparts. One such developing start-up Website Designing Company in Delhi is GTM Infotech. Incorporated at the capital city of Delhi in close proximity to Delhi University, the company started its functioning in the year 2005. Since then the company has been able to provide services at affordable price to many kinds of industries. The client list belongs to different parts of the state and there has been more than 75 percent client retention as well.

The start up firm has a reputation of delivering on time services at the most economical price packages that are customized to suit the requirement of the client. Being one of the reliable and trustworthy Website Designing Company in Delhi, GTM Infotech offers variety of services not limited to Website Designing in Delhi. These services includes the following:

  1. Website development
  2. CMS development
  3. Web portal development
  4. E-commerce solution
  5. Online digital marketing
  6. Search Engine Optimization
  7. Pay Per Click
  8. Social Media Optimization
  9. Software Development
  10. Mobile Development

GTM is a fast growing company that aims to offer services that can solve Internet related queries of small scale as well as high scale business organizations. The need to have a vital Internet presence is evident today and to have a global accessibility of the company, it is important to have a proper website. An efficient team that is well versed in their respective domain has done Website Designing in Delhi effortlessly. Due to their expertise and vast knowledge of the field, the task has been made easy with 100 percent client satisfaction as well. The team understands the need of every business and that the need might vary according to the nature and type of business. Accordingly they plan strategies to rule out and effective and creative design that can meet the requirement to ultimately develop a website that meets the following criteria:

  1. Quick loading and globally accessible
  2. HTML integration using backend technologies

3, Customizable and browser friendly

  1. Platform independent with easy user interface
  2. Informative and creative
  3. Search engine friendly
  4. Easily navigable with incorporation of appropriate images and videos

GTM Infotech is a developing Website Designing Company in Delhi that has high potential to meet the growing demands of its clients with satisfaction.

Web Designing and Development around Delhi

For any kind of business to have an effective global presence, it is important to have a proper informative website. A website is very similar to an identity card, that gives a face to the business organization or a product. It is here when the process of website designing comes into picture. GTM Infotech is a full-fledged web service provider, that offers complete website related services under one roof. The service is not limited to one site, rather it provides reliable Website Designing in Timarpur, trustworthy and reliable Website Designing in Majnu ka Tilla as well as Website Designing in Rana Pratap Bagh.

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Website Designing in Timarpur

GTM Infotech is a web service provider company located in the city of Delhi at Kamla Nagar, in close to Delhi University. The company is into the business of being the most trusted name in website designing since 2005. Soon after its inception, the company gained the reputation of providing all kind of web services like website designing, website development, SEO, SMO and many more all under one roof. Timarpur being a prime location of Delhi, has certain types of small-scale business ventures that are in requirement for website designing, GTM therefore offers valuable services to several companies in Timarpur.

Website Designing Company in Delhi

Website Designing in Majnu ka Tila

Similar to the services in Timarpur, GTM Infotech also hosts range of web related solutions to leading firms at Majnu ka Tila. GTM not only offers reliable Website Designing in Majnu ka Tila, but also offers the services at quite affordable price in comparison to other companies. Due to the growing demands of website in effective business success, many companies are coming up in near future to provide affordable and trustworthy solutions.

Website Designing in Delhi

Website Designing in Rana Pratap Bagh

Rana Pratap Bagh also boasts of several MNC’s that are part of different kinds of industries. They are in constant lookout for firms that provide customizable websites as per their requirements. The team at GTM understands that every business requirement is different and plans accordingly to deliver customizable web designs. These websites are compatible in any kind of platforms, any kind of browsers and are universally accessible.

A Brief on Website Designing

Website Designing in India has taken a new face with development of new languages and tools for effective website designing. There are several new start up firms that are coming up with fresh interpretation to the concept of Website Designing in Delhi. One such initiative is GTM Infotech that has started its functioning in 2005, at Kamla Nagar in Delhi is one such name that offers reliable and trustworthy web solutions to clients in and around Delhi.

Website Designing in Rajouri Garden

Web designing in a broader sense encompasses multiple disciplines and skills that are required for proper functioning and maintainence of a website. A website is the face of a organization, a company is globally accessed and recognized by its website which is informative and unique at the same time. To develop such a masterpiece, the professional requires skill set that are updated on a daily basis. GTM Infotech boasts of such talented executives that offers their clients with customizable Website Designing in Rajouri Garden.

GTM Infotech is one of its kind company that offers budget friendly Website Designing in Delhi, which adheres to the standard of business client and salient features include the following:

  1. Quick loading and universally accessible websites
  2. Easily navigable with easy graphic user interface
  3. Search engine friendly website designs
  4. Browser compatible websites
  5. Customizable designs to accommodate future requirements of the business entity
  6. Proper HTML integration with latest backend technologies

Website Designing in India is not limited to developing interesting and appealing websites, but it must be informative as well. Depending on the nature of business, there are two types of websites that can be created namely static and dynamic websites. A static website is one that stores a unique file for every page of the website i.e. whenever a page is requested it will return the same value. However, in case of dynamic websites, server side technology is used to generate web pages and they extract data from back end databases.

For web designing, there are two kinds of job roles possible:

  1. Website designer
  2. Website developer

Web developer involves overall functioning of a website, while a web designer works on visual aspect of the website. For both roles, it is essential to be aware of the Internet tactics, mark up languages, HTML integration, CSS etc.

To be able to output an informative and appealing website design as per business needs, it is of importance to understand the fact that every business is different and so is its requirement.

Web Designing Components

Website designing or development is a discipline that has various components included in it like design, software, SEO or Search Engine Optimization etc. All these components are vital for proper functioning of a website. There are several multi national companies, that hires professionals or fresh graduates who have skills in either all these components or either of them. In Delhi itself, there are established firms as well as new start up companies that offer reliable and cost effective web designing solutions to various business proposals. The competition in this particular sector is quite high and to be upfront, one needs to have complete information about latest tools, techniques, business trends etc.

Website Designing in Keshav Puram

To be able to provide reliable Website Designing in Keshav Puram, the company needs to equip itself with young, dynamic, energetic team who have skills to develop engaging websites that is informative as well as creative at the same time. There are two kinds of websites that can be generated: static and dynamic websites. A static website is one that stores a unique file for every page of a static page i.e. it returns same content whenever that page is requested. However, a dynamic website utilizes server side technologies to generate web pages. The pages of such website extract content from one or more back end databases. The complexity is less in case of static websites in comparison to dynamic website. For Website Designing in Keshav Puram, basically the job of designer and developer are integrated. Web designers are usually responsible for visual aspect including the page layout.

Website Designing in Ashok Vihar

Website designing as a science is basically an art of developing an informative and creative websites. Apart from the duties of a website designer and developer, Website Designing in Ashok Vihar utilizes services from other sectors to develop a complete website. Theses includes:

  1. UX Designer or user experience designer, who focuses mainly on user needs like info architecture, easy user friendly layout, visual friendly design etc.
  2. Graphic designers are those talented people who create visuals in a site like logos, layouts and buttons.
  3. SEO content specialists, who are responsible to create engaging search engine friendly contents to be incorporated in a website.
  4. Online marketing executives, who create that constant buzz about the website on the World Wide Web, for it to be globally accessible.

The team here at GTM Infotech, Delhi is promising and enthusiastic enough to design competitive user-friendly websites for different kinds of industries. Every business is different and so are their needs. The team is efficient enough to understand the requirement and accordingly furnish a customizable website with proper HTML integration using backend technologies. The websites work properly on every platform, every browser without any hassle.

All about Web Designing in Delhi

To have a successful and effective Internet debut, it is vital to have a website. As they say, a website is the global mark of identity for any other kind of business irrespective of domain, size, and type. To design that perfect website, a business must hire a reliable and trustworthy Website Designing Company in Delhi that can develop all platform friendly, customizable and user friendly Website Designing in Delhi. The search ends at GTM Infotech. The company, that started its unstoppable journey in 2005, is located at Kamla Nagar, Delhi, very close to Delhi University. It is a professional Website Designing Company in Delhi, which has client set from across India. Apart from website designing, the company provides every other kind of business solutions that includes the following:

  1. CMS development
  2. Web portal development
  3. Online digital marketing
  4. E-commerce solution
  5. SEO or Search Engine Optimization
  6. SMO or Social Media Optimization
  7. Pay per click
  8. Software Development
  9. Mobile Development

The company boasts of some of the named business clients belonging to multiple industries. All this is achieved within a very short time span with the aid of skilled set of manpower, which are really good at their respective jobs. Website Designing in Delhi is a challenging task, since many new startup companies are day-by-day evolving. To stay focused and in competition, it is very much important to understand business requirements and develop strategies accordingly.

Web development requires innovation, creativity, that zeal to learn new techniques and above all the understanding of business. It is implementing all these on World Wide Web, so that viewers can access it from across the globe. Today, it is also important that a website must be mobile compatible. Other vital features of a good user friendly website are listed below:

  1. Proper HTML integration using backend technologies
  2. User friendly interface
  3. Informative and creative
  4. Browser and platform compatible
  5. Search engine friendly
  6. Fast loading
  7. Intuitively navigable
  8. Globally accessible

To provide all these features in a single functional website, the team must be aware of latest technologies also. GTM offers affordable and budget friendly packages for website designing as well.

All about Website Designing

Website designer is a professional in the field of website designing, who has a clear-cut idea of functionalities and working of every kind of business website. There are various components involved for any website to be error free and functional. These components include SEO, content development, appropriate images and videos incorporation. There might be different teams for each task. GTM Infotech is a Delhi based web designing company who provides reliable and 100 percent error free Website Designing in Kashmiri Gate as well as Website Designing in Kingsway Camp. The company, which started it’s functioning in 2005 at Kamla Nagar, very close to Delhi University, is a one- stop solution to every kind of business requirement. Web designing usually overlaps web engineering many times. The process of web designing is mainly used to describe the process of creation from front end including writing mark up and all.

The company provides reliable and efficient Website Designing in Kashmiri Gate, which is customizable as per the requirement of business client. Since every business is different as well as needs are different of each client, the team here at GTM is dynamic and enthusiastic enough to understand client needs and design a fully compatible websites which adhere to the requirements of business. To provide Website Designing in Kingsway Camp, the professionals need to upgrade their technical and designing skills utilizing latest techniques and tools.

The tools are updated from time to time b newer standards, to accommodate the changing trends of users. There are two types of web pages i.e. dynamic and static web pages. A professional web designer uses W3C standards like HTML and CSS, which can be manually coded or by using relatable software. The design must be interactive with easy graphic user interface. A portion of user interface is affected by the quality of page layout. To top it all, appropriate content integrated with appropriate images and videos, rules the world of website designing. To be satisfactory and reliable, a website design must adhere to following criterias:

  1. The design must be simple and beautiful
  2. Intuitive navigation
  3. The website must be responsive and browser compatible
  4. The website must be 100 percent error free and functional
  5. Content is the king and it must be original and plagiarism free

GTM is a fast growing business solution provider company with vast work experience and 99.99 percent success strike for almost 5000 plus client base to boast of. Satisfaction of client is the motto here and website designing is provided for all kinds of business venture, be it small-scale business or large scale established business project.

Web Services at Timarpur and G.T. Karnal Road

GTM Infotech is a web service provider company, which is in operations since 2005. A pioneer in web development services, GTM has developed responsive and creative websites for many companies till date. GTM Infotech operates from North Delhi and provide dedicated services including Website Designing in New Delhi, Website Designing in Timarpur, Website Designing in G.T. Karnal Road, web designing at Pitampura, GTB Nagar, Rajouri Garden and many other localities in Delhi NCR.

Website Designing in New Delhi

With a blend of some of the creative and dynamic experience professional and technical tools, GTM Infotech provides a quick loading and responsive website loaded with appropriate images and videos. Some of the languages and technologies integrated in the process of website development includes: Adobe Photoshop, flash, php, mysql database, html, JavaScript, css and many more. A website designer must be competent enough to accommodate all needs of the client and develop a customizable website so that it can be redesigned as per the client requirement. GTM is specialized in developing responsive websites, static websites, and dynamic websites using latest technical tools.

Website Designing in Timarpur

Website designing is one of the most vital part of generating a strong Internet presence. For this reason, it is of very much importance that the website must adhere to Internet rules and regulations. GTM has developed websites for small, medium and high-class business enterprises. At Timarpur, many clients from business field, education domain etc/ have associated with GTM for creating a unique website. Existing website can also be refurbished with latest requirements and tools. The team here is dedicated to deliver quality and create websites that distinguishes you from other business competitors.

Website Designing in G.T. Karnal Road

With out of the box unique web applications, the company though new has been able to create a positive buzz in the web domain. GTM has excelled itself in web designing, redesigning, digital marketing, software development, SEO and other related web services. The designing package is also economical.

It is useless if even after spending loads of money in web development, it’s not profitable. Rather than wandering where to consult, GTM is the right place to get solutions for all web related queries under one roof.


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Are You down to try something New & Spicy?

As I was doing my rounds checking on what’s new on the market given that the weather is bring everyone out. I checked out and … Volia!!!

Now, This is where thigs get a little spicy…
These next pieces are an sure fire wya to heat the kitchen or any area! Checkout these pieces out!

*Fantasy Maid Apron

*Honeymoon Hottie Apron

* Say Ahh! Apron

*Tempataion Apron

*Midnight Affair Apron

*Midnight Affair 3-piece set

Every time I see what’s out and what’s selling I get excited and inspired! These aprons are inspirational pieces for me, I like the concepts and the designs are fun & flirty!

These next pieces are c’est Bon!

*Collection: Harlow Style: Bustier
Two Words: Simply Bananas!!!
This bustier is interchangable!!! The exciting and endless possibilities!!! Got to Love this!!!

*Cage Dress

Merci! Spicy Lingerie for such a tantalizing list!!! Trust, there is plenty more where this came from!!! I encourage you to checkout the website:!!!!

Au Revoir!!!

Lets Talk TRASHY!!!

If you have ever looked for a lingerie website that tickles your nasty side, should be in your favs! Here is a few pictures featured in their Spring line: the Stepford collection…

^ Scalloped Corset

…{I have designed a few “sexy” aprons, but I like where they went this concept!}

^ High waisted scalloped apron

^ Apron w/ cupless bra

^ w/ cups

^Double scalloped apron

^Lapel bra w/ Garterbelt

^Lapel Bra set

^Halter Lapel Edy Bra

^Halter Corset w/ Apron

^Lapel Corset

^Mariah apron

^Meri apron

^Single Layer apron

Aren’t these delish!!! Thank you!!!!

Check this Out!!! Agent Provocateur Summer looks!!!

THIS JUST IN!!!! Agent Provocateur just posted their Summer 2010 collections!!! OMG!!! They definitely reflect the season and will look fabulous as outerwear with the right pieces!!!

We will start off with the Fenella Collection:

*Waspie (waist cincher set)

*Bra — Both pictures are made with satin, the gold rings decorate the sleek black straps.

Next! Eleanor:

*Bra & Panty

*Bra with a “Rollon” aka Suspenders

*Slip w/ Panty— These pieces are made with star-design mesh, frills on the edges and baby pink bows with star charm

*Bra & Panty set w waspie: Push-up w/ removeable padding, Waspie aka Waist cincher (the ribbon defines the waist) & panty — all has a white scallop trim and red ribbon and bow detailing, giving an awesome silhouette.

*Bra & Panty w/ Suspender — made with sheer, pleated tulle and French Chantilly lace. <– this is the black version to the white bridal pieces!

Thank you AP!!! I definite must have for the summer!!! LOVE it!!!
Check out!!!
Mind you this isn’t your ordinary lingerie store, get your $$$ up!!!

Au revoir!!!

HOT Link!!! Corsets!!! Corsets!!! Corsets!!!

LADIES!!!! Spring’s mating season is in FULL swing! The weather is certainly promoting skin out wear. Here is a few cute corsets you should checkout! –courtsey of Lingerie Diva.

* Fuschia Mushroom Brocade Front-Zip Corset *

* Polka Dot Mesh Corset w/ Padded Cups *

* Sequin Embroidered Corset *

* Sequin Embroidery & Sheer net Babydoll *

There are Plenty more!!! Check out Thank yooooooou Lingerie Diva!!! =D
Thery’re ON SALE!!! You have GOT to Love that!!!

Oh La La! More Bridal Undies!

As promised I have some more tres belle bra and panty set that’s soon to come on the Agent Provocateur website.

Isn’t this HOT ?!?!?!?! This piece is made with Ivory silk satin decorated with French lace! The panties has huge satin tie up bows!!! You gotta Love this!!!

Bridal Goodies from Agent Provocateur

I love, LOVE Agent Provocateur! They have some the most exotic yet sophisticated undergarments!!! A sample for those who may not know, Check out these new comers in theirr Bridal division:

This is the Fifi Collection. The model is wearing a Bra, Panty & Suspender set that made from French Chantilly lace!!!

And these!!!

The Imelda Collection!

(The butt doesn’t do the panty any justice, but the panty is still CUTE!)

I’ll post more tomorrow…

Does talking about your underwear make you nervous?

In viewing the stats of my questionnaire, I come to realized that people will look but won’t comment or participate.

Why is that?
Is the openess of the questionnaire makes you uncomfortable? or
Does talking about your underwear make you uncomfortable?

Please let me know!
We are in the information age and yet when someone is asking for information, none is given…

What’s the problem if there is any???

I am conducting a survey for demographic and my business plan. I am adament about creating the ideal and ultimate underwear that’s comfy, stylish and healthy. <– Yes! Healthy undies! I know it sounds crazy, bonkers BUT knowing the stream of different types of materials and how fabrics are made really opened my eyes! What we wear can effect our health!

So, please help me understand what it is that like/love about your undies. If you're NOT an undie person then let me know what you like as a loungewear or what do you like to wear under your clothes, if anything it all.

I, in all honesty, REALLY appreicate your cooperation!

=) Salut!


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VMark on 16 cores: AMD vs Intel

luglio 4, 2008 Lascia un commento

At least AMD has released its Quad-Core Opteron CPU and we also have a comparison in term of VMark.

It seems that 16 cores AMD Opteron 8360 SE @2.5 Ghz have a better overall score than 16 cores Intel X7350 @3.0 Ghz (both on DELL Platform R900 and R905).

The VMark Results are here.

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VMware Virtual SMP: the more not always is the better

luglio 2, 2008 Lascia un commento

An interesting post from performance blog about the scheduler of VMware ESX and the so called “Simultaneous scheduling”.

It’s an ineresting proof of the fact that adding more vCPU to a VM not always take you the expected benefit.

As an aside note, in this post there are interesting considerations about the scalability in term of performance of Web servers.


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Nintendo DrumAxe controller

We can’t remember the last time a new cart or peripheral for the NES was released, but [Tony Amendolare] at ElektroKraft has just changed that. In conjunction with, [Amendolare] created Super Synth Drums, a NES-compatible cartridge that turns button presses on the NES gamepad into drum sounds synthesized by the NES’s sound chips. To complement his software, he created the Sonic DrumAxe, a controller that looks a bit like a potato gun and is played like a guitar.

Continue reading “Nintendo DrumAxe controller”


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