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Next Photo Tour of India dates: November 15th – 28th, 2020
This photo tour of India takes the photographer from bustling Delhi, straight to the heart of North India. Locations including the Delhi, Taj Mahal, Pushkar, Jaipur, Udaipur, and Jodhpur.
Rajasthan, land of Rajputs and Maharajas, an epic photo adventure to fairytale palaces, magnificent forts, and of course the dizzying Pushkar Camel Fair.
Do you love to travel and also want to learn to take better photos? Maybe you've taken a photography class or two, but want something different, something more about the experience, in a cool location.
How about putting it all together in this customized photo tour of India, with a photography leader as your tour host and photography coach?
Photo Tour of India: Taj Mahal to Pushkar over 14-days
- Where: India
- When: November 15th – 28th, 2020
- Length: 14 Days
- Who: 12 photography enthusiasts. Spouses and non-photography types are more than welcome to join us in India as well (the price is the same for them).
- What: A 14-day (13 nights) photo tour catering to photographing in the best light of the day, in the field practice in a fun small group setting, and a flexible schedule to allow us to decide how long we stay at each location!
- Why: Get tips for taking better photos, immerse in some local culture, and have a whole lot of fun in India!
- Tour Extension: Spend an additional 4 days after the tour exploring the country.
- Jump to: Tour itinerary, or the FAQ's
I have been on four of Darlene's photography tours
I have been on four of Darlene's photography tours and all of them are full of adventure, learning opportunities, and fun!
Darlene creates situations that allow you to be creative with your photography and gives you advice on trying new techniques, all in beautiful settings.
How much is this photo tour?
This tour is designed to offer you both adventure and comfort.
We stay in comfortable and clean rooms in properties with local character, history, and style when possible.
All your meals are included (except when you have free time) and we also take care of little incidentals like water daily, entrance fees for all attractions, and snacks on the transport for a smooth easy experience.
NOTE: Please make note if you are shopping for a photo tour to India that this one is 14 days! Many of the others are 11-12 so their prices may seem lower, but compare the cost per day and see which is the better value. Ours works out to just under $375/day ($415 for a small group).
Others are over $500/day and do not include all the meals (we do!). So make sure you compare and shop wisely. We have many happy past tour members who have traveled with us 4, 5 and 6 times and keep coming back. In fact, this is what one of those people had to say:
"Darlene, your tours, both Morocco and India, are the gold standard as far as I'm concerned." – Peter Simon
|Group Size
|8-12 People
Nice group size with a maximum of 12 people
|6-7 people
Small Group supplement applies
|4-Day Tour Extension
Join us for an optional 4 extra days exploring India after the tour (see below for details)
Maximum group size: 12
Remaining Spots: 12
Please add yourself to our waitlist for notifications of the next dates or if a spot becomes available on this tour. Members of the wait list will be notified first when registration becomes available.
NOTE: We have made the maximum number of participants on this tour set to 12. This is less than many other India photo tours which include 15 or more people – please look at that when researching and comparing tours!
This fewer number of guests allows for a smaller, more intimate group in order to give you the best experience. This means you will have more time with the tour leader, and it's a really nice group size for wandering through the attractions in India.
Single Supplement Price:
- Prices quoted are for double occupancy. NOTE: You will be paired with someone of the same gender if you do not have a travel partner and request a roommate – if one is not available you will be charged the single supplement.
- Price for a single room is an additional $1295 USD
Optional 4-Day Tour Extension:
Please consider adding an additional 4 days to explore more of India after the tour.
Read more about the extension and itinerary here.
Thanks again for a marvelous trip
Photo tours are a great way to experience "aha" moments.
My first experience with Darlene was on her photography workshop in Drumheller, where the positive guidance provided encouraged me to join the Morocco and India photo tours. Because Darlene's tours have the itinerary completely arranged, you can concentrate on the techniques and information she shares. AHA!
Really loved the India tour. I was totally exhausted when I got home, which is what I like as it means I gave it my all.
The Best Light
This adventure is designed to guide you to the most stunning locations, chase light, and interact with locals in their natural environment.
Few regions on earth offer such cultural and diverse opportunities for documentary and travel photography.
Come join us as this is a once-in-a-lifetime journey.
We'll embark on a quest not only to capture the essence of this magnificent place and people but to forge new like-minded friends and memories that will last a lifetime.
The Best Locations
This is NOT the kind of tour that goes to your typical tourist locations.
Where others might go in, we go around. Where others have their map, we wander and get lost on purpose. Imagine a bicycle rickshaw ride through the streets of Old Delhi. Yup we do that!
This is a custom designed travel tour, by a photographer, for photography enthusiasts.
Be prepared to visit one of the world's largest camel fairs in Pushkar. Apart from the buying and selling of livestock, it has become an important tourist attraction and is a highlight of the trip for many of our guests.
Less Rushed
We get to fully explore each location, which allows you to discover all the hidden gems and meet people on a deeper level.
It will be a full two weeks of activities, but you won't feel rushed or pressured.
If you want to opt out of an activity to hang out at the hotel, get a massage, or go shopping on your own, you will be able to do just that.
Our adventure will commence in hectic Delhi, a captivating city dotted with dusty bazaars, Mughal-era architecture, massive fortifications, incredible temples, and vibrant people. It's a city where magic and mystery can be found at the turn of every corner.
From Delhi, we'll continue on to explore India's crown jewel, Rajasthan, which is truly the Land of the Kings. Pride and tradition are the best ways to describe the Rajasthani. A place full of heritage, built by this medieval society where each palace and fort seem like they are straight out of a Bollywood movie set.
We'll hit all of the most important places – the Taj Mahal, Jaipur, Pushkar, Udaipur, Jodhpur and more. Rajasthan is a festival of colors and tradition almost impossible to ignore; incredible warm people dressed in red turbans, the contrasting green and yellow saris and the lure of one of the most picturesque festivities completes an amazing journey into the past.
The India photo tour was one of my best trips ever
The tour exceeded my expectations.
No amount of preparation can truly prepare a person for their first experience with India but I have to say that the up close experience with the people, the streets and the Pushkar camel fair made the India photo tour one of my best trips ever.
Pushkar Camel Fair is a Highlight!
Every first full moon in November, the holy city of Pushkar, India transforms itself. Thousands of people travel to the banks of Pushkar Lake where the camel fair takes place.
This is Asia's largest camel and livestock fair. Men buy and sell their camels, horses, sheep, and goats, while the colorful stalls full of bracelets, clothes, textiles, and fabrics attract the women. Camel races, music, and competitions of all sorts are just a few of the abundance of activities worth mentioning.
This is a tentative schedule, may not be exactly as shown here:
- Day 1 Delhi (D)
- Namaste – Welcome to India.
You'll be greeted at the airport and then transferred to our hotel where you'll meet the other guests and your tour leader(s) and have your first Indian dinner together.
- Day 2 – Delhi (B/L/D)
- We'll start the day photographing the Jama Masjid, the largest mosque in India at first light.
After breakfast, we'll take a walking tour around the Khari Baoli, the famous spice market, and enjoy a bicycle rickshaw ride through the lanes of Chandni Chowk, the shopping center of Old Delhi.
This afternoon we'll see the India Gate and drive past the Parliament House.
Later visit Bangla Sahib Gurudwara (Sikh Temple) and see the community kitchen and volunteers where they serve thousands of free meals every day to those in need, or anyone who wishes to eat. You can even pitch in and help by making some chapatis if you want!
- Day 3 – Delhi > Agra (B/L/D)
- Today we drive to Agra, home of the world-famous Taj Mahal. Agra is one of India's prime tourist destinations for precisely this reason, though its attractions also extend to an array of other impressive historical sights the Taj remains as one of the most remarkable architectural wonders of the world. With that in mind, we'll photograph the Taj Mahal from different vantage points and under different lighting conditions.
Upon arrival, we'll check in and have lunch in our hotel. Later we will visit Itmad ud Daulah. This tomb was built in 1622; it is beautifully conceived in white marble, mosaic, and lattice
Our next stop will be Mehtab Bagh which is on the back side of the Taj Mahal separated by Yamuna River.
This will be our first encounter with the Taj, and we'll have the opportunity to photograph it at sunset light.
- Day 4 – Agra > Jaipur (B/L/D)
- Today, get ready for the Taj Mahal.
We'll have an early start and reach the venue before sunrise. Few words can describe the magnificence of this monument. Marvel and take wonderful photos as the morning light and colors transform this stunning monument in the beautiful rising sun's glow.
We'll return to the hotel for breakfast after thoroughly exploring the grounds and monument.
We'll then start our drive to Jaipur and will stop at Chand Baori Stepwell enroute. This is one of the largest stepwells in the world and also one of the most beautiful.
- Day 5 – Jaipur (B/L/D)
- After breakfast, we will visit the Hawa Mahal (Wind Palace) for some photography. Then we'll spend time in the oldest and busiest of markets in the walled pink city at Johori Bazaar, a real feast for the senses.
Aromatic spices fill the air, while oxcarts, rickshaws, cows, bejeweled women and men with shocking pink turbans jostle through the labyrinthine streets. Just imagine street photography at its best.
After lunch, we will visit the Elephant Village. Surrounded by the wilderness, the community is just a few hamlets housing the local villagers. There we will be introduced to elephants, the way of life of its caretakers, and have the opportunity to photograph them.
- Day 6 – Jaipur (B/L/D)
- This morning we will begin with an exhilarating photo tour to Amber Fort. Perched on a hillside, this is a beautiful and exceptionally well-preserved structure. We will descend the fort by jeep and walk around the lanes at the foothill, passing by shops and homes to complete a beautiful morning of photography.
Later in the afternoon, we will proceed to the lake where you can photograph Jal Mahal (Water Palace). The lake is a thirst quenching place for animals including the (water) buffalos. If you are lucky, you can capture them with your camera while they are bathing.
- Day 7 – Pushkar (B/L/D)
- Today we'll drive to Pushkar. We'll check in and have lunch in our hotel with some time for rest in the afternoon or enjoy a swim in the resort pool.
Later at sunset, we will visit a marigold farm nearby. There we will have an arranged photo shoot with some local dancers in typical dresses over the mesmerizing and colorful backdrop. Just for us!
Dinner at the hotel. Pushkar Resorts offers a variety of cuisines ranging from traditional Rajasthani to European and continental. The focus is on the use of fresh homegrown ingredients.
Produce like lettuce, mangoes, cherry tomatoes are grown in-house and used for the daily preparations.
- Day 8 – Pushkar (B/L/D)
- Up before dawn to photograph the herders with their camels at the Pushkar Camel Fair. Then we'll be back at the hotel in time for breakfast.
Later on, we'll photograph the fairgrounds. Witness the group dance – various tribes show their local performance through dance. See the art and craft market with displays of local produce.
After our mid-day break, we'll head back to Pushkar Lake, where we will partake in a pooja ceremony (you can get blessed by an Indian holy man) on the holy ghats. We'll also witness and shoot the Aarti ceremony and the opening festivities of the legendary camel fair.
- Day 9 – Puskar > Udaipur (B/L/D)
- Today we'll drive to Udaipur, better known as the "Venice of the East," but before that, we'll have a second chance to photograph the camel herders as they start their daily chores. You might even get invited to have coffee with them.
We'll also have the opportunity to take an optional hot air balloon ride over Pushkar (for an extra fee)
We'll drive to Udaipur after breakfast.
We'll arrive in the afternoon, and will have the opportunity to capture blue hour from a rooftop overlooking Lake Pichola before dinner.
- Day 10 – Udaipur (B/D)
- We will start our day with a walk through the street and the ghats. Visit the Sahelion ki Bari (the Garden for the Maids of Honour), an ornamental pleasure garden with fountains and marble kiosks.
You'll have some free time to wander the narrow streets near our hotel and have lunch on your own today. There's a great restaurant overlooking the lake right across the street, or you can find something more to your liking.
In the afternoon we will take a boat ride on Lake Pichola, which is fringed with hills, palaces, ghats, embankments, temples and offers spectacular views of the city.
- Day 11 – Udaipur > Jodhpur (B/L/D)
- Today we'll drive to Jodphur, home of the fantastic Megharant Fort and other magnificent jewels of Rajasthan.
Upon arrival at the hotel, we'll have some time to rest and later on, we'll have a sunset photo shoot from a rooftop with incredible vistas of the city and fort.
- Day 12 – Jodhpur (B/L/D)
- Prepare for an action-packed day, as we start our morning with a hike around the Rao Jodha Desert Park where we'll shoot the Jaswant Thada.
We'll return to the hotel for breakfast and then continue to visit the Meherangarh Fort. Situated on a low sandstone hill it is one of the most impressive forts in Rajasthan.
We'll descend to the town by the back alleys and see the locals going by their daily activities. We'll also have the opportunity to photograph the blue city.
You'll have time on your own to get lunch and explore. In the afternoon we'll explore the area around the clock tower and visit the Sadar Market where you will meet traders of spices and pickles.
- Day 13 – Jodhpur (B/D)
- We will take it easy today. After breakfast, we'll visit and photograph the Jodhpur Railway station to see how the majority of Indians travel in non-metro cities.
For Indians, in general, the railway is a lifeline. Here we'll have the opportunity to photograph this activity. The station is now being used every day by around 156,000 passengers.
You might opt to get your hand painted with henna (for the ladies) while in Jodhpur, and the afternoon is at your leisure.
- Day 14 Jodhpur > Delhi / Home (B)
- Today we make our way back to Delhi by flight. You'll be transferred to the airport for your flight home.
You can certainly choose to stay for a time in India on your own if you've made other arrangements.
As most international flights are after midnight, there are no accommodations booked for this day. So if you're staying on in India, you'll have to make sure you've got a place to stay ahead of time.
Last day of India photo tour: November 28th, 2020
The tour was non-stop and full of photographic opportunities that one would not normally have.
I like my time to be filled with planned events or visits and this tour had minimal down time. Even though some of our bus trips were long, the bus that we had made it easy to handle.
The tour was non-stop and full of photographic opportunities that one would not normally have.
The people of India were amazing but when I look at my photos, I realize the highlight of my trip was the Pushkar camel fair.
Your Photo Tour Leader
One of your tour leaders for this India photo tour is Daniel Korzeniewski. Daniel is a Miami-based travel photographer whose work has appeared in several publications. He contributes to various stock photography outlets and often leads photo travel tours.
Daniel contributes articles about travel photography here on Digital Photo Mentor and is the photo leader for this photo tour of India, our Morocco photo tour, and also Peru and Vietnam.
Cost of Photo Tour of India
The pricing will be a little different than for our past tours. Based on feedback from other tours we have decided to reduce the maximum number of participants to 12! This means you will have more time with the tour leaders, and a really nice group size for wandering through the narrow streets of India.
The minimum number of people required to run the tour is four.
|Group Size
|8-12 People
Nice group size with a maximum of 12 people
|6-7 people
Small Group supplement applies
|4-Day Tour Extension
Join us for an optional 4 extra days in India, after the tour (see below for details)
Maximum group size: 12
Remaining Spots: 12
Join the waiting list above to get notified early and grab a spot.
Single Supplement Price:
- Prices quoted are for double occupancy. NOTE: You will be paired with someone of the same gender if you do not have a travel partner and request a roommate – if one is not available you will be charged the single supplement.
- Price for a single room is an additional $1295 USD
The price of the tour includes:
- Airport pickup and return (airport transfers) on the start and end dates as indicated. If you arrive early or stay later you will be responsible for your own airport transportation. We can arrange it for you if you wish at an extra cost.
- 15 nights accommodations.
- Meals – 15 breakfasts, 11 lunches, and 15 dinners (includes non-alcoholic beverages and tips).
- Air-conditioned transportation – included driver, fuel, and insurance.
- Professional English speaking guide, licensed for tourism.
- Activities including a rickshaw ride in Delhi, tuk-tuk rides, camel rides, Jeep safari, board ride, and elephant ride (subject to availability).
- Entrance fees to any historical sites, museums, and paid locations.
- Photography tips on the bus and image reviews in a one-on-one setting (as time permits).
- Photography tutoring and help as needed, you just have to ask.
- Portage tips for bags.
- Bottled water daily.
- Flight from Jodhpur back to Delhi.
The price DOES NOT include:
- Your international flight or other travel to India.
- Tips for your guide, driver, and tour leader.
- Lunch on your free days.
- Alcoholic beverages.
- Personal spending.
- Optional activities like spa treatments.
Flights to India: We travel to India through Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, so book your flights to Delhi. We have arranged transportation to the hotel in Delhi for you when you arrive. We just need your flight arrival information to get you picked up at the airport.
Flights home from India: The tour ends and we depart from Delhi so make your travel arrangements accordingly. Airport transfer is included if you fly out on the last day of the tour. The last day of this India photo tour is November 28, 2020.
I felt well looked after the whole trip
I felt well looked after the whole trip, that our safety and comfort were important to the tour leaders and the local tour providers. I felt well informed about what to expect both before and during the tour and any concerns were addressed. that allowed me to relax and enjoy the experiences
What is the physical fitness level needed for this tour?
There are many stairs and hills and some of our accommodations do not have elevators. If you are in good health and fitness level you will be fine. But this tour is NOT recommended for people with mobility issues (bad knees for example).
What if I don't have a roommate but don't want to pay the extra for a single?
If you request to share a room and we cannot match you with a roommate you will be required to pay the single supplement fee. We do our best to pair everyone up but due to gender mismatches, we may not always have equal numbers of males or females. You can certainly ask a friend to join you and come along to share.
What skill level do I have to be in photography?
We encourage all skill levels to join us on this tour. It is not about what you know it's about doing photography together, enjoying the adventure, and learning a few things along the way. Whatever your level you can get some tips from the tour leader. You don't even have to be a photographer, but can come along and appreciate the relaxed pace of this tour.
What about the food in India?
A lot of people love Indian food and we try to eat at local places to try new things and enjoy it as part of the culture. But we also understand that this type of food is not for everybody.
If you do not like trying new things, you dislike curry and Indian food in general, or you cannot eat food with a lot of spices (not just hot/spicy but spices in general like pepper, cumin, coriander, etc.) – there may not be a lot of choices available for you in India.
We eat in local restaurants and sometimes in our hotel, and while they always try to accommodate a western palette, there are usually only very few options. For example, you may end up eating a lot of pasta, plain rice, and plain naan bread at every meal.
So if you are not willing or able to adapt to trying new things – we would suggest either you either accept this fact and bring along your own food supplements (such as meal protein shakes or power bars) to handle your nutritional needs, or this may not be the tour for you.
What if I want to buy some things like a carpet, textiles, silver, etc.?
This is first and foremost a photography tour and time for shopping has not been planned into our schedule.
If you wish to do those things in your free time that is up to you to organize and handle, our local guide can help you out as well with some tips. We will NOT be stopping as a group at tourist places where you can buy such things.
If you wish to do a lot of shopping, you may wish to extend your time in India after the tour concludes so you aren't rushed.
Explore the country on this photo tour of India. Meet fellow photographers from around the world and make new friends.
Tour Extension
Get a jump on seeing more of India before the main tour even starts! We hate to have you wanting more so we have devised this 4-day tour extension, perfect for the more adventurous photographer.
In this pre-tour add-on extension, you'll spend 3.5 days exploring India and the local attractions a few days before the main photo tour starts.
Dates: November 28th – Dec 1st, 2020
Day 1 – Delhi (no meals inc.)
You'll arrive in Delhi and be transported to the hotel where we'll have our meet and greet and get to know one another. You can have dinner any time on your own in the hotel.
DAY 2 – Fly to Varanasi (B/L)
We'll depart Delhi for our flight to Varanasi and be transferred to our hotel where we'll have lunch.
In the afternoon, we will walk down the ghats and arrange to photograph some kids jumping into the Ganges river and flying kites.
In the late afternoon, we'll see the famous Aarti ceremony (lighting of many candles and religious ceremonies) on the main ghat. We will go by boat, but we'll also do some photography from the ghat, closer to the action.
Dinner is at the hotel.
DAY 3 – Varanasi (B/L)
Get up early today for a pre-dawn photo shoot of some Sadhus and Aghori holy men on boats. Sadhus are the painted face holy men of India you may have seen images of before.
We will have 1-2 Sadhus per boat so everyone will get a chance to photograph them. Your tour leader will have some lighting equipment that you can try out as well (everyone can have a go) so you can learn a bit about using flash.
We'll photograph the Sadhus by one of the Ghats (seating on the steps or a platform looking at the Ganges) and make a stop across the river on a sandbar as well. This will be a spectacular morning and a likely highlight of the tour for many.
Back to the hotel for breakfast before an arranged photo shoot (just for our group) with Krusti Wrestlers at a private gym.
Free time for lunch and rest before an afternoon walk around Varanasi's narrow lanes and markets for some street photography, unlike anything you've ever seen. Cows, sadhus, monks, ladies in colorful saris, water buffalo, and monkeys are all things you may see within just a block or two!
DAY 4 – Varanasi (B/L)
Today we will be going by boat to a fishing village in the early morning. Photograph the fisherman throwing nets at the river, then we'll walk through the village where you'll see faces of the many children that will be so overjoyed to see you. In fact, many will want their photo taken, or to get a selfie with you! It's really quite an experience.
From there we continue to a coal mine by car where we will have a chance to make portraits and photograph the miners. We'll then head back to the boat to get back to the hotel.
We'll have lunch and rest up before a walk in the streets of the old town again. If time permits, you might want to get some of your images reviewed by the tour leader or get some processing tips during the free time.
Day 5 – Varanasi (B)
Last morning before departing Varanasi, we'll have one last ride boat early morning to photograph activities and rituals of the ghats from the boats.
Please note: Varanasi is famous as a holy place for cremations and where they send the ashes of the deceased into the river. It is considered in very poor taste to photograph this. So we will observe it from the boats, but we ask our guests to please be respectful and refrain from taking photos.
Back to the hotel for breakfast before we make our way back to Delhi to rest up before our main photo tour of India starts.
Group size: 4-8 people (need a minimum of 4 to run this extension)
Dates: November 28th – December 1st, 2020
Prices for 4-day extension:
- 4-8 people: $TBD
- Single supplement price: $TBD
- All transport from Delhi to Varanasi and return.
- Lodging for all nights as double occupancy.
- Airport shuttles in Delhi and Varanasi.
- Meals as follows: 3 breakfasts, 2 lunches.
- A chance to hang out and shoot with the tour leader and explore together in a small group workshop setting.
- All organized photo shoots, models and transporation in country.
Explore the country on this photo tour of India. Meet fellow photographers from around the world and make new friends.
Vietnam was my favorite of the 4 DPM Photo Tours/Workshops I've attended.
I had such a great time in Vietnam and would go back in a heartbeat.
My memory of the beauty of the country and the smiles of the people is very special. Being able to see parts of the country where other tours do not go has been a huge bonus and it was because of your care in tailoring a tour for photographers.
Thanks again for a marvelous trip
Photo tours are a great way to experience "aha" moments.
My first experience with Darlene was on her photography workshop in Drumheller, where the positive guidance provided encouraged me to join the Morocco and India photo tours. Because Darlene's tours have the itinerary completely arranged, you can concentrate on the techniques and information she shares. AHA!
Really loved the India tour. I was totally exhausted when I got home, which is what I like as it means I gave it my all.
I felt connected. And that difference, shows in my pictures.
I never had a tour guide so good as yours for this tour of Morocco. He made a Huge difference between an average trip and a WOW one.
His love of Morocco showed in every way and made us look at the country and his people with different eyes.The way he taught us, how to behave, how to talk to the people, made a huge difference from my other trips.
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Well done Google!
Yep - I have pretty much given up.
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Those of you who wish to see their sites, there are two FAITHFUL DCs, which are Google Datacenters Watchers friendly :-)
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I am not complaining... but WIKI seems to take top positions and that is like giving a dictionary top billing...I wouldn't call it great results but it's not my search engine.
If that is what G wants their results to look like...So be it.
Matt Cutts has posted today a detailed weather report about new infrastructure, PR update etc..
Fall weather forecast [mattcutts.com]
Very interesting indeed.
Thanks Matt. Much appreciated.
It also reverts to an older one, and then sticks there, if you suddenly link to a bad neighbourhood from that page. I wrote about that effect several times before.
site:domain.com - returns all the live "200 OK" pages from the site as normal listings, followed by Supplemental Results for URLs that are now redirecting or are 404. This is much as before.
site:www.domain.com -inurl:www - lists all pages that are Supplemental, those that redirect, those that are 404, and those that are simply "historical supplemental" results. This is much as before, but you MUST try it both with and without the &filter=0 parameter to see what is going on.
This is new (as far as I know):
site:domain.com inurl:foo - lists normal results from the site that include "foo" in the URL, followed by all of the Supplemental Results for any URL on the site that is now a redirect, or is 404, or is a "historical supplemental". That is any Supplemental URL, none of which had "foo" within that URL. That is new to me.
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Thanks. Done.
So it seems that the new infrastructure might take few other months to migrate to all the DCs. Maybe we are talking around the end of 2006.
I.e it has taken more than a year to deploy our good friend BigDaddy.

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Walton County, located midway between Atlanta and Athens, is named for George Walton, one of the three men from Georgia who signed the United States Declaration of Independence.
The county seat, Monroe, boasts a farmers market in the downtown area where locals and visitors can buy fresh, locally-grown products and goods each Saturday; the Monroe Art Guild, which houses a gallery, members' gallery, student gallery, black and white darkroom and pottery studio; and Childer's Park, a 17-acre passive park in the heart of the city, just two blocks from the county's historic courthouse.
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Located in both Gwinnett and Walton counties, Loganville lies centrally between Atlanta and Athens, making it convenient for students commuting to the University of Georgia, Gwinnett Technical College and any of the other major metro Atlanta universities. The unique blend of hometown-feel combined with modern conveniences draws companies and organizations to open their doors and prosper in Loganville.
This county seat boasts an amazing farmers market, beautiful galleries and is home to the largest antique mall in the Southeast — Ian Henderson's Warehouse Antique Mall — in addition to Walton County being called the "Antiques Capitol of Georgia."


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The Microsoft Surface RT was initially launched in select locations and only through Microsoft's Online Store or its brick-and-mortar stores. This partial rollout of the tablet was heavily criticized as most people had no access to live units of the device to use it before making the purchase. Although Microsoft Stores had the tablet in display, the volume of these stores were very less which meant that most potential buyers had to rely on third party accounts of the device or merely check out images of the device on Microsoft's Online Store.
But all that is set to change now with Microsoft deciding to finally make the device available in stores other than Microsoft's own. Starting with Australia and the U.S, the tablet will go up on sale on the shelves of electronic retailers. Although MS didn't mention exactly which retailers will get it, in the U.S it was confirmed that Staples and Best Buy will have the device in stock beginning today. Other reports claim that the device could be hitting retailers like JB-HiFi and Harvey Norman in Australia. More countries will follow suit in the coming months, apparently. Microsoft issued a statement yesterday which detailed the wider roll out of the device.
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Correct Perspective with Your Nikon D5200
When you photograph a tall building and tilt the camera up to get it all in the frame, a convergence or keystoning effect occurs. This effect causes vertical structures to appear to be leaning toward the center of the frame.
Buildings sometimes even appear to be falling away from you, as shown in the left image in this figure. (If the lens is tilting down, verticals instead appear to lean outward, and the building appears to be falling toward you.) Through the Retouch menu's Perspective Control feature, you can right those leaning verticals, as shown in the after photo on the right in the figure.
Note, though, that you lose some area around the perimeter of your photo as part of the correction process. So when you're shooting this type of subject, frame loosely — that way, you ensure that you don't sacrifice an important part of the scene due to the correction.
To try out the feature, follow these steps:
Display your photo in single-image view and press OK to bring the Retouch menu to life.
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You see a grid and a horizontal and vertical scale, as shown on the right in the figure.Press the Multi Selector to adjust the correction type and amount.
Press the Multi Selector left and right to move the out-of-whack object horizontally.
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Moral Capital: Strong Fathers = Strong Families = Strong Societies
From the politically incorrect but always sensible Anthony Esolen, a Providence College (PC…the irony) prof I'd love to meet. Unless you're rich, you don't have the luxury to dabble in non-traditional gender roles, college isn't for everyone, raise manly boys and girly girls with virtue, and society depends on the strength of fathers and the family.
From Crisis Magazine:
Moral Capital
Let us suppose we are looking at people who are not going to Yale or Harvard, or even to the local state university. First, they can't afford it, and second, they lack the capacity to immerse themselves in absurdity for the sake of a few courses here and there that will deepen their understanding of the world, or that will at least help them make a living. They are not going to write papers on Herbert Marcuse and Woodstock. Perhaps their intelligence lies elsewhere. Or perhaps their backs and their arms are stronger than their minds. What capital can we give them to help set them up in life?
Currently, we don't give them any at all. We flush many billions of dollars into higher education, often of very dubious quality, so that our "best" students can afford to go to college. The colleges themselves count on that money, floating their sticker prices upward to take it all in. State schools milk the population quite well, taking in many thousands of students who have developed neither manual nor intellectual skills, squeezing them for what they are worth, and conferring upon them degrees that mean little more than that the graduate usually shows up to work on time and follows directions.
The net result, as I see it, is twofold. First, a skilled working man — let's say a carpenter who has learned his trade well and has worked hard, who has a child with the intellectual capacity to attend one of the elite colleges — will be less able to afford it now than in 1940, when four years' tuition at Harvard cost one and a half years of the national median household income. Second, that same man, if he does not have a child capable of going to one of those schools, will be rifled for all he is worth to send his children to lower-tier schools, or will watch helplessly as the children flit from service job to service job.
Again I ask, what capital can we give to people who are not going to become doctors, lawyers, teachers, accountants, stock brokers, or business executives? Maybe I could put it this way instead: What capital of theirs have we rifled these last several generations?
I call to mind here my grandfathers, who were hard workers but not saints, not by a long shot. One worked for 15 years in the coal mines. That was brutally hard and dangerous work. Imagine swinging a pickax against a wall for nine hours a day, when the ceiling is so low you can't straighten up. Then, one day, he couldn't take it anymore. He had a nervous breakdown. He would collapse if he were away from his home for even a day. By then, he was well on his way toward middle age, and he and his wife had three boys and three girls. The state took pity on him and considered him permanently disabled. So they received a monthly check.
It wasn't much. They lived poor enough — but they did not live in squalor. For poverty is one thing, and squalor is another. You're poor when you don't have money, but you're squalid when you don't have any decency, and that is primarily a moral condition, not a material one. They kept clean by taking the weekly bath, with hot water poured from buckets into a metal tub. The privy was outside. Each child had one or two changes of clothes, handed down from one to the next. My grandmother cooked and washed constantly. That meant scrubbing the clothes on a washboard, wringing them out, and hanging them to dry on the line, just as all the neighbor wives did. It also meant trooping up the hill to the coop every so often, grabbing a chicken, cracking its neck, and plucking out all the feathers, to get it ready for soup.
My grandfather should never have been a coal miner. He should have been a farmer. He didn't stay idle at home. The house came with a sizable piece of property, so he cut it into terraces, just as they did in Calabria, where he was a boy, and he farmed it. He once told me that he could put a seed in the ground and spit on it, and it would grow. He tended that land, his garden, as well as any piece of land could be tended. They got from it all the vegetables they needed: beans, peas, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, radishes, corn, zucchini. They got plums, apples, peaches, and grapes. They got figs from a fig tree that had no business surviving so far north. They got eggs and chickens, and I believe he kept a pig or two for a while. They made do.
They had the advantage then, too, of no television, and so there was still a considerable sense of community. They knew all their neighbors. In fact, they knew their neighbors across the generations. That meant that they were never really alone. Italian was spoken up and down the street, though my grandfather did not want his children to speak it, and as they grew older they forgot what little they ever knew. When it came time to build a house, the men of the neighborhood would get together to do that. My grandfather himself had built the house his family lived in.
But there was much more. Here I dearly wish that Catholics would actually read the encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII, rather than rely upon commentators who reduce them to a single political position, as for instance that workers have the right to form unions. For Leo's social vision was an intricate and coherent whole, with the church and the family at the heart of it. The family, he saw, was itself a society, with its own duties and rights, and its own sphere of governance, with the father as the head. He wrote quite movingly about the dignity of the wife and the mutual love that characterizes a true Christian marriage. But a society needs a head, and without any sense of being controversial, as at that time he was not, he affirmed that the head was the father. He saw, too, that the growing ambitions of the state — he was thinking particularly about socialism in its various forms — came at the expense of the father. That is, he saw that to weaken the father is to weaken the family, and that weak families are exactly what the enlightened wanted. And this has not changed.
But my grandfather, as debilitated as he was in his spirit, was not a weak father. He might have been too stern in his bearing; he grew up believing that it was not a father's place to be overly affectionate with his children, that he would lose their respect, and that that would hurt the children in the end. I don't believe he was right about that, but that is what both he and his wife took for granted. But he did more than tell his children he loved them: He did love them. He made sure that they grew up respectful of their elders. He made sure that they worked hard. The girls did not fall backward into shamelessness. The boys did not get other people's daughters pregnant. They did not cheat or lie or steal, or even use foul language. My grandfather — one of those old Italian men with a great respect for religion, though he did not himself often attend Mass — made sure that they all went to church, the boys included.
They had, you see, a great fund of moral capital. All the children worked when they were old enough for it. All the money, too, went back to the family. Even when my mother was engaged, she worked as a seamstress in one of the many local dress factories and gave her whole paycheck to her parents. The boys lent themselves out in the summer as seasonal farm workers. All three of them entered the service, one of them lying about his age to try to enlist at the end of the Second World War. All six children were married, without any out of wedlock births, and without divorces. All six, with some straying here and there, remained in the Church. All had families that thrived in a material way, at least. All of them ended up living within a half mile of their parents. When their parents needed the house painted, the boys were there to do it. Same thing with paving the driveway, installing pipes for plumbing, and putting siding over the old asphalt shingles. They wanted for nothing. And the 19 grandchildren were at that house constantly, eating homemade cookies and pie, watching television, or playing in the backyard. Their stricture against showing affection didn't apply to grandchildren, so we were made much of.
My grandmother was a saint. I could write a great deal about her unfailing charity and her cheerful deference to a man who was often difficult to get along with. I mean to take nothing from her when I say that she couldn't have raised those children without him there as the head of the family. The boys were physically strong and active; the girls were stubborn. They would have been unmanageable if she had been alone. But she wasn't alone: He was there, powerfully built and remarkably intelligent — he with his second-grade education could put many of my students to shame, with his general knowledge of the world. He and she made that family into a society that spanned several generations.
Through their example, we can see that the main fund of capital for people whose children are not going to be doctors, lawyers, and Indian chiefs is moral. Now let us see how the well-to-do rob them of it.
The first thing to do is to cripple the family. That can be done most quickly by crippling the father, or removing him altogether. How do we accomplish that? We take aim at his authority. We say, for a while, that we merely wish that the marriage be egalitarian; but what we really want is that it should be egalitarian and weak. It's not as if we are going to take some of the authority of the father and lend it to the mother. For the secret is that a good and strong father — not a patsy, and not a tyrant — enhances the authority of his wife, and a weak or absent father compromises it or destroys it altogether. So we look kindly upon single motherhood and invade the woman's home with social workers. We embrace feminism. That always was a revolt of some women against other women: in our day, mainly well-to-do women, college graduates, against women whose husbands are not professionals and who might actually wish to raise their own children at home, with neither monetary assistance nor moral interference from the state.
I am thinking now of a family I know. The father is a manual laborer of considerable talent. He doesn't drink, doesn't go to the casino, and doesn't sleep around. He works hard when he comes home, too, so the back yard is now half vegetable garden, half park. The children are bright but not the right fit for college. If this were a sane world, if the elites had not polluted the moral watershed upstream, there would be order in this household. That is, the family would exist as a zone of authority and law-abiding in its own right, and it would span the generations. It would not be truncated by divorces and made chaotic with out-of-wedlock births. The sons and daughters would be preparing themselves, in a clear and coherent way, for assuming the duties of fathers and mothers. It would resemble the family of my grandparents.
But though the mother and father are genuinely good people, they have no moral capital. It has been rifled. They cannot depend upon the local school to preach such difficult virtues as chastity, manly courage, and piety. The school preaches quite the opposite. The television is an open sewer. The local drug stores peddle porn. The churches have capitulated and preach niceness rather than holiness; and people, bored with niceness, turn instead to what is neither nice nor holy, but simply material — riches, if they can get them, and sexual thrills, in any case.
After we've crippled the family with no-fault divorce, easy sex, smiling upon unwed motherhood, abortion on demand, and perversion parades — after we have cut its muscles to ribbons, and made it a cringing ward of the state, hurting rich families somewhat, and devastating the poor and the working class — we go after the boys. Back during the potato famine in Ireland, a certain family named Harkins pooled its little money to send one boy, a "likely lad" of 14, alone to the United States, to keep the family alive there. He arrived in New York, worked hard, and raised a family. His grandson became the first bishop of the diocese of Providence and was the founder of the college where I teach.
He and thousands like him built bridges and skyscrapers, mined coal, farmed the land, paved roads, and raised churches, not with money in the collection plate, but with their own hands. Of course they had the inestimable assistance of their wives, who had to be strong, too, and far stronger and more skilled than most of our college graduates are today. But the Brooklyn Bridge was not going to be built by people named Mary. We have depreciated work that is done with back and hands, because we don't have to do that work; we're educated, you see, and can do such necessary things as come up with Five Year Plans for the teaching of gender diversity.
I have no quarrel with studying the humanities. It's how I earn my living. But I know well that all that I'm privileged to do, I do upon the bent backs of thousands of men who sweated more than I ever will. I am reminded of it every time I take a walk; I see roads, and houses, and bridges, and stone walls, miles of stone walls that once were the boundaries of farms and pastures in my neighborhood, and I know that all those stones came from the acres and acres of fields cleared by man and horse, and all those walls were built up of stones either muscled into place by the men, or lifted to their place by winch and pulley.
My reasoning here is simple enough. Suppose your family is not going to do well or even survive if it places all its hope in academic study. Then your children have to make their way by skilled hands or strong back or both. But that means, as a brute practical fact, that you are going to have to raise boys and girls to be men and women. Those boys will have to learn a trade. They will have to be carpenters, roofers, road builders, plumbers, welders, auto mechanics. And they will have to be more, not less, traditional in their morals and in their view of manhood. The boy who is encouraged to be effeminate is not going to repair motorcycles.
Perhaps it's easier to see these things by applying them to a specific family. Let's say we have what my grandparents came to America with; not much schooling, not much money, and no real hope that the children would go to college. There are millions of such families in the United States now. Let's also grant them an intact marriage, and no illegitimate children on the side. Let's grant them both boys and girls. As I've said, these are not going to be doctors, lawyers, and Indian chiefs. What does this family need to do to ensure that, a hundred years hence, it will still be recognizable?
The boys have to be trained to be men. That is a sine qua non. They cannot be allowed to play around in effeminacy. The son of Lord Marchmain can do that, because he has a lot of money and a huge estate. The son of two college professors can do that, for the same reason. Not that the effeminacy will do those boys any good; it will hurt them, but they'll still get by. But the working-class family has not that same margin for foolishness. They don't get to pass their moral license along, hurting others more than themselves. They are at the base, not the top, of the watershed. If we are going to be depending upon Stan's skilled hands and Sam's strong back, then those hands had better soon be chapped and rough with calluses, and that back had better be straight and the shoulders broad.
In other words, if we really wanted to help the poor and the working class, we'd be preaching manliness and chivalry to the boys and training them up in hard but well-remunerated work. But if we didn't care about them, we'd just continue in our own self-indulgent feminism, and let them go hang.
Next, we would cripple what was left of their neighborhood. Not much would be left; there isn't much of a community once we've tossed the hand grenade into the family. But whatever is left would have to be dealt with. We remove their schools from their proximity and from their influence. We turn policemen into "safety officers," who do not know the people they are charged with protecting, and who in some cases are no match for the boys now hanging about and delving into crime. Not satisfied with removing the father from the home, we remove the mother too, so that children spend most of their time with people who do not love them, and who move in and out of their lives as transients through a slum.
Finally, we would preach moral relativism, the rot that destroys the soul. If I have money, if I've graduated from Yale, if I teach at a nice college, I can indulge myself in intellectual nonsense, and perhaps my children will be eager enough for material comforts and worldly prestige that they too will go on to graduate from Yale. I can dump battery acid into the river with a carefree heart, knowing that I get my own water from somewhere else. But the virtues are sometimes the only thing a poor family has. The boy sent to America from Ireland had a few coins in his pocket but a great deal more in his soul. He had courage, perseverance, self-control, obedience to authority, and willingness to learn. My uncles had those same virtues. They were sufficient.
That, readers, is what Catholic social teaching builds upon. Outside of an integrated Catholic vision of life — outside of the virtues, and of family — it makes no sense. If we want to help the poor, we can begin by restoring some of the moral capital we have robbed.
Instead of Sponge Words Use Square Facts
Fr. Dwight Longenecker is a Catholic priest from South Carolina who is married with children, is an author, blogger, and all around sensible thinker. I guess that means I agree with him! I have reposted some of his articles and I link to his site under blogs I follow on the right–>
Here's his latest:
Sponge Words Square Facts
Has anyone else noticed what I call the 'sponge words' we use increasingly? These are words that are amorphous, vague and spongy. They soak up huge amounts of sub-text, innuendo and connotation, but they can mean virtually anything.
Take the word 'inappropriate'. What on earth does that mean? I hear it in the confessional all the time, "I did something inappropriate with my girlfriend." Huh? So I say, "Son, you'll have to be a little bit more precise. I don't want the juicy details, but nobody really knows what 'inappropriate' means. Did you cheat at miniature golf? Rob a bank like Bonnie and Clyde? Use the wrong fork when you went out to dinner? Gossip about a friend? Hold her hand at the movies or have sexual intercourse?" Honestly, people have different standards, and the word 'inappropriate' can mean anything or nothing at all.
When it comes to sexual behaviors in our society today what is 'inappropriate'? College kids who are 'hooking up' every weekend might think it 'inappropriate' to hook up with more than two people on one weekend. A couple who are dating might think it perfectly 'appropriate' to spend the night together or go on vacation together. Things are not what they once were. Standards in our society have shifted. I've known priests, for example, who think it totally 'appropriate' to have a sexual partner because, they argue, their vow of celibacy just means they can't get married.
The word 'appropriate' or 'inappropriate' is used to excuse sin and let ourselves off the hook, but it can also be used to condemn people unjustly because nobody really defines what the word means. Instead they throw it around at their own convenience. So Nancy Smith says in a shocked tone about a Catholic school teacher, "He had an inappropriate relationship with my daughter!" Turns out the poor had the girl's cell phone number on his cell phone contacts list because he had to contact the girl when they were on a school field trip and now, due to the gossip everyone thinks he was sleeping with the girl.
Another sponge word is 'affair'. "My husband is having an affair!" or "My wife was having an affair with another man for five years!" It turns out that it was "an emotional affair" which consisted of flirting and texting and meeting up for a meal. OK, such behavior doesn't help a marriage. It's a form of betrayal. It breeds jealousy and is dumb, and it can even be sinful. It destroys trust and can wreck a relationship, but it's not an affair. An affair means adultery. Adultery is when you have sexual intercourse with someone who is married to somebody else, or with someone who is not your spouse. I know one woman who told everyone her husband was having an affair. His reputation is wrecked and all the other woman look down on him as a dirty beast when all he did was chat with an old girlfriend on Facebook.
The third sponge word is 'abuse'. How do I hear, "My father was abusive!" or "My wife is abusive to the kids." or "My boss is abusive." This used to mean that a guy came home drunk three times a week, gave his wife a black eye, kicked his kids down the stairs, and locked his mother in law in the closet. Now, when you check the facts you find out that the 'abusive father' loses it and shouts at the kids sometimes, or the 'abusive mother' gets stroppy once a month and swears at the kids and maybe spanks them once in a while. Then there is 'emotional abuse' and even 'spiritual abuse'. Yes, I suppose all these things happen, but too often these spongy words contribute to a whiny, victim culture.
Meanwhile the 'abusive institution' may well be a Catholic school that has high standards of discipline and expects kids to behave themselves. I had a guy complain of 'an abusive priest' once and I thought he'd been molested by some pervert priest. It turns out that the man, when he was a kid, turned up to be an altar server wearing sneakers and the priest told him that he couldn't serve wearing sneakers.
Instead of sponge words we need square facts. In general conversation, keep to the facts and avoid gossip and detraction and sponge words that are loaded with innuendo. In confession tell the priest what happened clearly and objectively without going into gory details. Use circumlocution and discreet language by all means to soften the shock and shame, if shocking and shameful it is, but be honest and transparent and don't use weasly, cowardly spongy words like 'inappropriate', 'affair' and 'abuse'.
Solemnity of the Ascension
Office of Readings: From a sermon by Saint Augustine
|No one has ever ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven
The Feast of the Visitation
|The Visitation (The Cortona Altarpiece) Fra Angelico 1433-1434
From a Sermon by St. Bede the Venerable
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my saviour. With these words Mary first acknowledges the special gifts she has been given. Then she recalls God's universal favours, bestowed unceasingly on the human race.
Saint Philip Neri, Patron of Rome
It's been 4 weeks since I posted anything — life gets pretty hectic — but I would be remiss if I let the feast day of my great patron, Philip Neri, go by without a mention. This blogs 3rd anniversary is approaching on the feast of Pentecost and I'll be back at it in no time.
At eighteen, Philip was sent to the town of San Germano, where he lived with a childless relative who had a business there to train as an apprentice and heir. Philip had a strong aptitude for business. Soon after his arrival, Philip began speaking of his conversion, which dramatically changed his life. He left his relative's home and set out for Rome, as he had a vision that he had a mission to fulfill there. He left without money or a specific plan, trusting in God's providence.
In Rome, he found shelter in the home of Galeotto Caccia who offered him an attic and a few basic necessities in exchange for tutoring his two sons. During his first two years there, he lived as a recluse, spending time in prayer and eating small meals. Then, for the next three years, he studied philosophy and theology at the Sapienza and St. Augustine's Monastery, where he was a brilliant student. Quite suddenly, he stopped taking classes, sold all his books and gave his money to the poor. Philip now set about on a new venture – to evangelize the people of Rome.
He started out in a very direct manner, making friends with people on street corners and in the public squares. His warm, friendly manner, his cheerfulness, and his wonderful sense of humor would catch the attention of passersby, and once caught, they found it difficult to escape. He had a magnetic personality and an appeal that drew others to him and held their interest. His usual question, "Well brothers, when shall we begin to do some good?" frequently brought a positive response. Without hesitation, he would take them with him to visit and care for the poor in the hospitals or to pray in the Seven Churches. His days were given up totally for others, but his nights were filled with solitude as he spent them either in a church porch or in the catacombs along the Appian Way.
During the Easter season of 1544, while praying in one of the grottos along the Appian Way, he received a vision of a globe of fire, which first entered his mouth and then his chest. He felt a dilation of the chest. He was filled with such strong divine love, that he fell to the ground, crying out in joy, "Enough, enough, Lord, I can bear no more!" When he stood up, he discovered a swelling over his heart, which gave him no pain.In the year 1548, when Philip had been carrying on his mission for ten years, he founded the Confraternity of the Most Holy Trinity – a group of laymen who met regularly for spiritual growth. He also popularized the devotion of the forty hours – exposing the Blessed Sacrament for forty hours, on three successive days, in honor of the forty hours Christ spent in the tomb. Philip had accomplished much by the time he was thirty-four, but his spiritual director felt he could be even more effective as a priest.
On May 23, 1551, he was ordained. He carried on his mission mainly through the confessional. He started hearing confessions before dawn and continued for hours, while men of women of all ages and social rank flocked to him. In his later years, Philip became weak and suffered from many illnesses, each of which was cured through prayer.
On the feast of Corpus Christi, May 25, 1595, Philip was in a radiantly happy mood. All day he had heard confessions and met with visitors. About midnight, he had a severe hemorrhage and the other priests were called to his bedside. They prayed over him and then he raised his hand in Benediction to bless them one last time. As he raised his hand, he passed to his eternal reward.
Six years later, he was beatified and Pope Gregory XV canonized him in 1622. He was known not only as "The Humorous Saint", but also as the "Apostle of Rome."
Quotes From St. Philip Neri
"Bear the cross and do not make the cross bear you."
"Sufferings are a kind of paradise to him who suffers them with patience, while they are a hell to him who has no patience."
"The greatness of our love for God may be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His sake."
"Cheerfulness strengthens the heart and makes us persevere in a good life. Therefore the servant of God ought always to be in good spirits."
~ Excerpted from Gold in the Furnace, Jean M. Heimann, copyright 2004
Divine Mercy Novena: Good Friday to the Beatification of Ven. John Paul II
Jesus asked that the Feast of the Divine Mercy be preceded by a Novena to the Divine Mercy which would begin on Good Friday. He gave St. Faustina an intention to pray for on each day of the Novena, saving for the last day the most difficult intention of all, the lukewarm and indifferent of whom He said:
"These souls cause Me more suffering than any others; it was from such souls that My soul felt the most revulsion in the Garden of Olives. It was on their account that I said: 'My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass Me by.' The last hope of salvation for them is to flee to My Mercy."
In her diary, St. Faustina wrote that Jesus told her:
"On each day of the novena you will bring to My heart a different group of souls and you will immerse them in this ocean of My mercy … On each day you will beg My Father, on the strength of My passion, for the graces for these souls."
The different souls prayed for on each day of the novena are:
DAY 1 (Good Friday) – All mankind, especially sinners
DAY 2 (Holy Saturday) – The souls of priests and religious
DAY 3 (Easter Sunday) – All devout and faithful souls
DAY 4 (Easter Monday) – Those who do not believe in Jesus and those who do not yet know Him
DAY 5 (Easter Tuesday) – The souls of separated brethren
DAY 6 (Easter Wednesday) – The meek and humble souls and the souls of children
DAY 7 (Easter Thursday) – The souls who especially venerate and glorify Jesus' mercy
DAY 8 (Easter Friday) – The souls who are detained in purgatory;
DAY 9 (Easter Saturday) – The souls who have become lukewarm.
The Chaplet of Divine Mercy may also be offered each day for the day's intention, but is not strictly necessary to the Novena.


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Buying a car is not a small decision, but the internet has made it really easy to search for the vehicle that suits your requirement perfectly. Like for instance, if you stay in Mumbai then just type 'cars in Mumbai' or 'used cars in Mumbai online' in the search engine and you will get hundreds of results immediately. One thing that a person should be really sure before buying is if he or she wants to go for a brand new car or a second-hand model.
It's best to go through the pros and cons of buying a second-hand car as it will help in making an informed decision.
Pros of Buying a Used Car:
The biggest benefit of going for a second-hand car is the cost savings. The new car depreciates the most in the first year of purchase and if you go for a car that is 3-4 years old you can buy it at nearly 40% of the original cost, which is a big saving. Thus, it's the first owner who takes the maximum blow of the depreciation. Not only this, the road tax is already paid for life time, which is again a big relief. Even the insurance of a three to four-year-old car comes down drastically.
Cons of Buying a Used Car:
The biggest disadvantage is that you might need to compromise on colour or style or may be some extra features that are available in the latest model. The other drawback can be that if the car is more than 3 years old there might not be any warranty left from the manufacturer. But you can find if the company is willing to provide extended warranty.
If you buy from the certified dealers, they often provide some extended warranty on the vehicle. Always get the car thoroughly inspected by an able mechanic else there are chances of getting duped. The last but not the least drawback is that if you want the vehicle to be financed then most of the banks charge higher rates for financing the used vehicles.
In a nutshell, if you are a little cautious and go for a vehicle that is some 3-4 years old then there is nothing to worry. You can really save some serious money.


text: Are you a first-time home buyer, moving to a new home, or refinancing your current conventional or FHA loan? The FHA offers loan programs that allow you to purchase a home with a low down payment and flexible guidelines. It can be challenging to pay the upfront costs of purchasing a new home. To help overcome this hurdle, many local and state agencies offer down payment assistance programs in the form of grants or second mortgages. The FHA has loan limits that determine how much you can borrow. Look up the requirements for your state to see what type of FHA home loan is available.


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Lignacite Blocks won the Ridgeons Overall Supplier of the Year award.
Ridgeons celebrates suppliers at its 10th anniversary awards
Published: 23 May, 2017
On 10 May, Ridgeons held its 10th annual Supplier of the Year Awards at Quy Mill in Cambridge.
The Awards celebrate the commitment and service the suppliers offer the business and were attended by Ian Northen, chief executive of Ridgeons, Richard Gray, head of operations, as well as key Ridgeons staff and winning suppliers.
Award categories included Hardware and Decorating, Heavyside, Lightside, Timber and Sheets, Supplier Sales Representative of the Year, Commercial Team and Overall Supplier of the Year.
Bob Butler, head of purchasing at Ridgeons, said: "At Ridgeons the quality of products we offer our customers and the high level of service we are able to give is predominantly down to the suppliers we work with. It is fantastic to be able to thank the people we work with by doing these annual awards. Everyone at Ridgeons would like to congratulate the winners and we look forward to many more successful years of working together."
The award winners were:
- Ridgeons Overall Supplier of the Year – Lignacite Blocks
- Hardware and Decorating - Akzo Nobel
- Lightside winner - Ceramic Tiles
- Heavyside winner - Lignacite Blocks
- Timber and Sheets winner - Meyer Timber
- Supplier Sales Representative of the year – Kevin Edwards – Marshalls & Stonemarket
- Commercial team winner - Ecotherm.


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Others liked their jobs and all the benefits that go along with it. The separation from family and associates was onerous on all of them. I spoke to a lot of principals who were suggested by NYC Department of Education to begin out handing out Us. Some have chosen to disregard this verbal edict. I am so disenchanted on this school, and I thought I was getting an excellent training once I enrolled.
The argument that the applicant could not be educated and held that important schooling" underneath the Constitution included the coaching of handicapped children was rejected. That's why you have got so many individuals with a Bachelor's diploma working outdoors of their chosen predominant, a lot of them doing menial jobs they might have finished with a mere highschool diploma. The Department of Education might aid you restore your mortgage to its unique phrases by making 9 continuous month-to-month funds on it. After this preliminary interval of 9 months, your mortgage will seemingly be out of default standing and you'll apply for financial aid once more.
Allowing for lodging equivalent to giving extended time throughout testing or reviewing directions doesn't give college students with disabilities an unfair benefit, nevertheless it does assist stage the taking part in discipline for a pupil who needs additional help (Byrnes, 2011, pp. 235-236). If you're a school student who's looking for uncommon scholarships, you may be glad to hearken to that they're many.
After taking down soiled Albany politicians Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, Preet Bharara has set his sights on city's Department of Education. If the coaching cycle is made longer, households and college college students may cease to see education as an answer to poverty and determine to work as an alternative of examine to offer an revenue for the household (ACT, 2012). That doesn't mean that I'm not scared of being a part of an education system morphing into something that I do not imagine in – and in some ways, already one thing I don't think about in.
I graduated last march 2012, and handed the LET September 2012The solely instructing experience i had was my 5month scholar instructing at a SPED Center. In NYC and many various districts, teachers are pulled out of their lecture rooms for as a lot as three days to realize these exams. Take an energetic, albeit respectful, operate in your kid's coaching so your youngster can win the training race, and by no means be left inside the mud. Goal and goal statements are sometimes periodically revised as local student and human helpful useful resource desires change.


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As our seventh-grade daughter is on the verge of becoming an official teenager, I have learned that: (1) I am the bane of her existence, (2) I am irrelevant (unless there is a request for a sleepover or a new book), and (3) I am the stupidest mom EVER! The good news is that her teen self and new longing for independence are all right on track developmentally. The bad news is that I just have to weather the next few years and look forward to the day when she emerges from that black hole of teen-dom.
But as I continue to reassure myself that her attitudes toward me are perfectly natural and something I have to manage in my own head, along comes a new study just in time for her 13th birthday to add fuel to that never-ending good mother/bad mother fire. It's conclusion? If our teen daughters are unhappy at this point in their lives, it's our fault!
Just how does this new study lay our daughters' teen anxiety at our feet? Find out at my column, The Spin Cycle at Babble.
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Please Help the Citizens of Northern Colorado
First of all, we hope all of our fellow Coloradans are OK! We are taking a break from wedding talk to show some flooding photos and ask you to donate to the Red Cross. It's going to take a while for all of us here in Northern Colorado to dig out. We don't even have a handle on how bad it is up here yet.
As I've said before photojournalism is an itch that I just have to scratch sometimes. When something like all this flooding happens I feel compelled to go out and cover it. After I was sure that my family and friends were safe, I bagged my cameras and walked a few blocks down to the St. Vrain River to see what was happening.
Its funny how earlier in the week all the rain was welcome and was conducive to a good night's sleep. The last two nights it was quite the opposite. Now I wake up every few ours to check my basement and check the news for updates.
When I got down to the flood plain Thursday morning the water was visibly rising by the minute and people were trying to do whatever they could do stem the flow of water towards their homes. I picked up the camera and went to work. I still believe that it is important to inform the public during events such as this. What do you think?
Again, if you want to donate to the Red Cross here is the link. We hope all of our industry friends in Lyons, Estes Park and Boulder are as well as they can be at this point. And please everyone be safe!


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Breaking News Alerts
Judge orders Condit to pay $42,000 in libel case
WASHINGTON – Gary Condit's legal and financial travails keep worsening, as an Arizona judge has ordered the former congressman to pay $42,680.42 for filing a frivolous libel lawsuit.
Condit's lawsuit against the tiny Sonoran News for a story referring to murder victim Chandra Levy amounted to "harassment," Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Kristin Hoffman ruled this week. Condit's actions showed "he was aware the lawsuit should never have been brought," Hoffman added.
"Gary Condit is a serial plaintiff who has filed libel actions across the country to try to intimidate the news media and silence press coverage of him," Sonoran News' attorney Daniel Barr said Wednesday. "(The judge's) decision shows that Condit has filed at least one libel lawsuit too many."
The July 2005 Sonoran News story in question briefly recounted the 2001 disappearance of Levy, a one-time Modesto resident who interned at the federal Bureau of Prisons. She was last seen in public April 30, 2001. A year later, her remains were found in Washington's Rock Creek Park. Her murder remains unsolved.
Condit does not deny multiple news accounts that he told law enforcement investigators that he was having an affair with the much-younger woman. Condit's reported concession came in his third police interview, about two months after Levy's disappearance.
Condit's widely criticized handling of the Levy case caused his defeat in the March 2002 Democratic primary. The primary winner, former Condit aide Dennis Cardoza, went on to win the general election and now represents the Northern San Joaquin Valley.
Condit left Washington and moved with his wife, Carolyn, to the Phoenix area. His ex-con brother Darrell has also lived in the area, and in July 2005 Darrell drew the scornful attention of the Sonoran News. The article further characterized former congressman Condit as "lying to investigators about his affair" with Levy.
Condit disputed the characterization and claimed it ruined his reputation. He has filed numerous similar lawsuits over for the past five years, all but one of which have now been dropped or settled.
Hoffman dismissed the Condit's lawsuit in July, prompting Barr to seek repayment of his attorneys fees. In the ruling dated Sept. 24, but obtained Wednesday, Hoffman noted that Condit would not answer key questions crucial to his case.
"(Condit) did not deny that he lied to authorities with regard to his relationship with Chandra Levy," Hoffman wrote.
Instead, Condit resisted as "not relevant" questions about what he told law enforcement authorities. This unwillingness to talk proved fatal to his case, and convinced the judge that Condit was not serious about pursuing the lawsuit.
"He failed to provide information that would establish the truth or falsity of the statement at issue in this litigation," Hoffman wrote. "Proving the falsity of the statement by clear and convincing evidence was an essential element of his cause of action."
Hoffman's ruling means Condit must now reimburse the newspaper's editor and publisher. Lacking libel insurance, they have had to pay for their attorney's work out of their own pockets.
The judgment comes, moreover, as Condit's former partners at Baskin-Robbins are about to take him to trial for allegedly breaking a franchise agreement with the giant ice cream company. Condit recently had to change lawyers in the case, just weeks before the Oct. 16 trial is scheduled to start.
In one sign suggesting the state of the Condit family's legal affairs, his son Chad recently filed a handwritten document with the judge handling the ice cream case.
Separately, Condit is pursuing another defamation lawsuit against author Dominick Dunne. His initial lawyer in that case dropped out after concluding the suit had no merit, but Condit was able to find another lawyer to step in.
"One counsel's opinion as to the merits of a claim may reasonably differ from another," Condit's current attorney Sandra Rampersaud declared earlier this year.


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I came across this cool competition called the eBay Motors Masters I thought my American visitors may find interesting. Basically you put together a short video showing off your skills and if you win you get a free trip to Las Vegas for SEMA to show off your project.
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Thank you for shopping with Industrial Wheels and Castors, please note that we are currently closed due to
Christmas holidays. Please be assured that business will resume as usual on Monday the 8th of January
2018. We will respond to all enquiries and process orders on our return.
The team at Industrial Wheels and Castors wishes you peace, joy and prosperity throughout the coming year.
The team at Industrial Wheels and Castors
Dear Customers,
Thank you for shopping with Industrial Wheels and Castors. Please be aware that any nylon coated trolley
orders received after Friday 8th December 2017 will not be processed until business resume on Monday the
8th of January 2018. We will respond to all enquiries and process orders on our return.
The team at Industrial Wheels and Castors wishes you peace, joy and prosperity throughout the coming year.
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Overtime. Score deadlocked. Virginia basketball. 17 seconds on the clock in the biggest basketball game ever played in the brand new John Paul Jones arena. The Wahoo faithful are on their feet. The nine-game losing streak to the despised Duke Blue Devils is finally poised to end. With one second left, Cavalier superstar point guard Sean Singletary hits a falling one-handed floater over the outstretched arms of 6-foot-10 Duke forward Josh McRoberts. The arena explodes into mayhem and Singletary looks right at the camera, a moment that will be No. 1 on Sportscenter that night. There's no hesitation in the stands. Everyone knows it's time to rush the court for the first time in the arena's history. As the buzzer sounds, we stream from the stairwells onto the hardwood; students, alumni and even adolescent kids pour onto the court at the John. It doesn't matter who you're next to – every fan is your best friend at that moment. Belting out the Good 'Ole Song with thousands of orange-clad fanatics around you – that memory will never fade.
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The Belmont Abbey women's lacrosse team scored ten first half goals and added seven more in the second as the Crusaders cruised to an easy 17-5 victory over Lake Erie College this afternoon at Alumni Field.
The victory gives Belmont Abbey its first 4-0 start in the eight year history of the program, bettering the previous best of 3-0, set last year. Lake Erie, which fielded only ten players (two shy of the maximum) and no substitutes, falls to 0-2.
Belmont Abbey controlled the contest from the start, bolting out to a 5-1 lead in the first 7:04.
After the Storm netted two straigth to cut the lead to 5-3, Belmont Abbey unleashed an 8-0 run to move ahead 13-3. The Crusaders scored the final five goals of the first half and continued its momentum by scoring the first three in the second half. The first three second half goals came in the opening 2:46.
The Crusaders outscored the Storm 7-2 in the final period, most of which was played with a running clock due to the ten goal lead.
Katy Connery and Kassie Easter led the Crusaders with four goals each. Molly Schaefer added a pair while Katelin Glass Shanin Darley, Gina Colella, MacKenzie Miller, Jordan Hofmeister, Ariel Walker and Megan Patterson all had one.
Schaefer won four draw controls and scooped up six ground balls.
Darley totaled four assists and two caused turnovers. Connery, the Conference Carolinas leader in ground balls, scooped up eight while winning four draw controls and causing a pair of turnovers.
Nathasha Whitman stopped seven shots in the cage, including all six of the Storm's free positon shots.