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Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended, 42 U.S.C. sec. 6101
Nomenclature changes to part 20 appear at 68 FR 51355, Aug. 26, 2003.
The purpose of these regulations is to set out DOC's policies and procedures under the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 and the general age discrimination regulations at 45 CFR Part 90. The Act and the general regulations prohibit discrimination on the basis of age in programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance. The Act and the general regulations permit federally assisted programs or activities, and recipients of Federal funds, to continue to use age distinctions and factors other than age which meet the requirements of the Act and its implementing regulations.
(a) The Act and these regulations apply to each DOC recipient and to each program or activity operated by the recipient which receives Federal financial assistance provided by any entity of DOC.
(b) The Act and these regulations do not apply to:
(1) An age distinction contained in that part of a Federal, State, or local statute or ordinance adopted by an elected, general purpose legislative body which:
(i) Provides benefits or assistance to persons based on age; or
(ii) Establishes criteria for participation in age-related terms; or
(iii) Describes intended beneficiaries or target groups in age-related terms.
(2) Any employment practice or any employer, employment agency, labor organization, or any labor-management joint apprenticeship training program, except for any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance for public service employment.
As used in these regulations, the following terms are defined as follows:
(1) Funds; or
(2) Services of Federal personnel; or
(3) Real and personal property or any interest in or use of property, including:
(i) Transfers or leases of property for less than fair market value or for reduced considerations; and
(ii) Proceeds from a subsequent transfer or lease of property if the Federal share of its fair market value is not returned to the Federal Government.
(1)(i) A department, agency, special purpose district, or other instrumentality of a State or of a local government; or
(ii) The entity of such State or local government that distributes such assistance and each such department or agency (and each other State or local government entity) to which the assistance is extended, in the case of assistance to a State or local government;
(2)(i) A college, university, or other postsecondary institution, or a public system of higher education; or
(ii) A local educational agency (as defined in 20 U.S.C. 7801), system of vocational education, or other school system;
(3)(i) An entire corporation, partnership, or other private organization, or an entire sole proprietorship—
(A) If assistance is extended to such corporation, partnership, private organization, or sole proprietorship as a whole; or
(B) Which is principally engaged in the business of providing education, health care, housing, social services, or parks and recreation; or
(ii) The entire plant or other comparable, geographically separate facility to which Federal financial assistance is extended, in the case of any other corporation, partnership, private organization, or sole proprietorship; or
(4) Any other entity which is established by two or more of the entities described in paragraph (j)(1),(2), or (3) of this section.
The rules stated in this section are limited by the exceptions contained in § 20.5.
(a) General rule: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of age, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
(b) Specific rules: A recipient may not, in any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance, directly or through contractual licensing, or other arrangements, use age distinctions or take any other actions which have the effect, on the basis of age, of:
(1) Excluding individuals from, denying them the benefits of, or subjecting them to discrimination under, a program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance, or
(2) Denying or limiting individuals in their opportunity to participate in any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
(c) The specific forms of age discrimination listed in paragraph (b) of this section do not necessarily constitute a complete list.
(d) If a recipient operating a program or activity provides special benefits to the elderly or to children, such use of age distinctions shall be presumed to be necessary to the normal operation of the program or activity, notwithstanding the provisions of § 20.5.
(1) Age is used as a measure or approximation of one or more other characteristics; and
(2) The other characteristic(s) must be measured or approximated in order for the normal operation of the program or activity to continue, or to achieve any statutory objective or the program or activity; and
(3) The other characteristic(s) can be reasonably measured or approximated by the use of age; and
(4) The other characteristic(s) are impractical to measure directly on an individual bases.
The burden of proving that an age distinction or other action falls within the exceptions outlined in § 20.5 is on the recipient of Federal financial assistance.
Each DOC recipient has primary responsibility to ensure that its programs or activities are in compliance with the Act, the general regulations, and these regulations, and shall take steps to eliminate violation of the Act.
(a) Each DOC recipient will provide an assurance that the program or activity for which it is receiving Federal financial assistance will be conducted in compliance with all requirements for the Act and these and other DOC regulations. A recipient also has responsibility to maintain records, provide information, and to afford DOC
(2) Whenever an assessment indicates a violation of the Act and the DOC regulations, the recipient shall take corrective action.
Where a recipient passes on Federal financial assistant from DOC to subrecipients, the recipient shall give subrecipients written notice of their obligations under the Act and these regulations.
Upon DOC's request, each recipient shall provide access and make information available for DOC to determine whether the recipient is complying with the Act and these regulations.
(a) DOC may conduct compliance reviews and pre-award reviews or use other similar procedures that will permit it to investigate and correct violations of the Act and these regulations. DOC may conduct such review even in the absence of a complaint against a recipient. The review may be as comprehensive as necessary to determine whether a violation of the Act and these regulations has occurred.
(b) If a compliance review of pre-award review indicates a violation of the Act or these regulations, DOC will attempt to achieve voluntary compliance with the Act. If voluntary compliance cannot be achieved, DOC will arrange for enforcement as described in § 20.15.
(a) Any person, individually, or as a member of a class, or on behalf of others, may file a complaint with DOC alleging discrimination prohibited by the Act or these regulations based on an action occurring on or after July 1, 1979. A complainant shall file a complaint within 180 days from the date the complainant first had knowledge of the alleged act of discrimination. However, for good cause shown, DOC may extend this time limit.
(b) DOC will attempt to facilitate the filing of complaints wherever possible, including taking the following measures:
(1) Accepting as a sufficient complaint, any written statement which: identifies the parties involved and the date the complainant first had knowledge of the alleged violation; describes generally the action or practice complained of; and is signed by the complainant;
(2) Freely permitting a complainant to add information to the complaint to meet the requirements of a sufficient complaint;
(3) Considering as the filing date, the date on which a complaint is sufficient to be processed;
(4) Notifiying the complainant and the recipient of their rights and obligations under the compliant procedure, including the right to have a representative at all stages of the process;
(5) Notifying the complainant and the recipient (or their representatives) of their right to contact DOC for information and assistance regarding the complaint resolution process.
(c) DOC will return to the complainant any complaint outside the jurisdiction of these regulations, and will state the reason(s) why it is outside the jurisdiction of these regulations.
(a) DOC will refer to a mediation service designated by the Secretary all sufficient complaints that:
(1) Fall within the jurisdiction of the Act and these regulations, unless the
(2) Contain all information necessary for further processing.
(b) Both the complainant and the recipient shall participate in the mediation process to the extent necessary to reach an agreement or to make an informed judgment that an agreement is not possible.
(c) If the complainant and the recipient reach an agreement, the mediator shall prepare a written statement of the agreement and have the complainant and the recipient sign it. The mediator shall send a copy of the agreement to DOC. DOC will take no further action on the complaint unless the complainant or the recipient fails to comply with the agreement.
(d) The mediator is required to protect the confidentiality of all information obtained in the course of the mediation process. No mediator shall testify in any adjudicative proceeding, produce any document, or otherwise disclose any information obtained, in the course of the mediation process without prior approval of the head or the mediation service.
(e) The mediation will proceed for a maximum of 60 days after a complaint is filed with DOC. Mediation ends if:
(1) 60 days elapse from the time DOC receives the complaint;
(2) Prior to the end of that 60-day period, an agreement is reached;
(3) Prior to the end of that 60-day period, the mediator determines that an agreement cannot be reached.
(f) The mediator shall return unresolved complaints to DOC.
(a) Informal investigation:
(1) DOC will investigate complaints that are unresolved after mediation or are reopended because of a violation of a mediation agreement.
(2) As part of the initial investigation, DOC will use informal factfinding methods, including joint or separate discussions with the complainant and recipient, to establish the facts and, if possible, settle the complaint on terms that are mutually agreeable to the parties. DOC may seek the assistance of any involved State agency.
(3) DOC will put any agreement in writing and have it signed by the parties and an authorized offical at DOC.
(4) The settlement shall not affect the operation of any other enforcement effort of DOC, including compliance reviews and investigation or other complaints which may involve the recipient.
(5) The settlement is not a finding of discrimination against a recipient.
(b) Formal investigation: If DOC cannot resolve the complaint through informal investigation, it will begin to develop formal findings through further investigation of the complaint. If the investigation indicates a violation of these regulations, DOC will attempt to obtain voluntary compliance. If DOC cannot obtain voluntary compliance, it will begin enforcement as described in § 8a.15.
A recipient may not engage in acts of intimidation or retaliation against any person who:
(a) Attempts to assert a right protected by the Act or these regulations; or
(b) Cooperates in any mediation, investigation, hearing, or other part of DOC's investigation, conciliation, and enforcement process.
(a) DOC may enforce the Act and these regulations by:
(1) Terminating the Federal financial assistance to the recipient under the program or activity found to have violated the Act or these regulations. The determination of the recipient's violation may be made only after a recipient has had an opportunity for a hearing on the record before an administrative law judge. If a case is settled during mediation, or prior to hearing, Federal financial assistance to the program or activity will not be terminated.
(2) Any other means authorized by law including but not limited to:
(i) Referral to the Department of Justice for proceedings to enforce any rights of the United States or obligations of the recipient created by the Act or these regulations.
(ii) Use of any requirement of or referral to any Federal, State, or local government agency that will have the effect of correcting a violation of the Act or these regulations.
(b) DOC will limit any termination under this section to the particular recipient and particular program or activity or part of such program or activity DOC finds in violation of these regulations. DOC will not base any part of a termination on a finding with respect to any program or activity of the recipient which does not receive Federal financial assistance from DOC.
(c) DOC will take no action under paragraph (a) until:
(1) The head of the organization providing the financial assistance has advised the recipient of its failure to comply with the Act and these regulations and has determined that voluntary compliance cannot be obtained.
(2) Thirty days have elapsed after the Secretary has sent a written report of the circumstances and grounds of the action to the committees of the Congress having legislative jurisdiction over the program or activity involved. The Secretary will file a report whenever any action is taken under paragraph (a).
(d) DOC also may defer granting new Federal financial assistance to a recipient when a hearing under § 20.16 is initiated.
(1) New Federal financial assistance from DOC includes all assistance for which DOC requires an application or approval, including renewal or continuation of existing activities, or authorization of new activities, during the deferral period. New Federal financial assistance from DOC does not include increases in funding as a result of changed computation of formula awards or assistance approved prior to the beginning of a hearing under § 20.16.
(2) DOC will not begin a deferral until the recipient has received a notice of an opportunity for a hearing under § 20.16. DOC will not continue a deferral for more than 60 days unless a hearing has begun within that time, or the time for beginning the hearing has been extended by mutual consent of the recipient and the head of the organization providing Federal financial assistance. DOC will not continue a deferral for more than 30 days after the close of the hearing, unless the hearing results in a finding against the recipient.
(3) DOC will limit any deferral to the particular recipient and particular program or activity or part of such program or activity DOC finds in violation of these regulations. DOC will not base any part of a deferral on a finding with respect to any program or activity of the recipient which does not, and would not in connection with the new funds, receive Federal financial assistance for DOC.
Certain DOC procedural provisions applicable to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 apply to DOC enforcement of these regulations. They are found in 15 CFR Part 8, § 8.12 and § 8.13.
(a) Where DOC finds that a recipient has discriminated on the basis of age, the recipient shall take any remedial action that DOC may require to overcome the effects of the discrimination. If another recipient exercises control over the recipient that has discriminated, DOC may require both recipients to take remedial action.
(b) Even in the absence of a finding of discrimination, a recipient may take affirmative action to overcome the effects of conditions that resulted in limited participation in the recipient's program or activity on the basis of age.
(a) When, under the provisions of these regulations, DOC terminates the funding of a recipient, the Secretary may, using undisbursed funds from the terminated award, make a new award to an alternate recipient,
(b) The Secretary will require any alternate recipient to demonstrate:
(1) The ability to comply with these regulations; and
(2) The ability to achieve the goals of the Federal statute authorizing the Federal financial assistance.
(a) A complainant may file a civil action following the exhaustion of administrative remedies under the Act. Administrative remedies are exhausted if:
(1) 180 days have elapsed since the complainant filed the complaint and DOC has made no finding with regard to the complaint; or
(2) DOC issues any finding in favor of the recipient.
(b) If DOC fails to make a finding within 180 days or issues a finding in favor of recipient, DOC shall:
(1) Promptly advise the complainant of this fact; and
(2) Advise the complainant of his or her right to bring civil action for injunctive relief; and
(3) Inform the complainant that:
(i) The complainant may bring a civil action only in a United States district court for the district in which the recipient is located or transacts business;
(ii) A complainant prevailing in a civil action has the right to be awarded the costs of the action, including reasonable attorney's fees, but that the complainant must demand these costs in the complaint;
(iii) Before commencing the action, the complainant shall give 30 days notice by registered mail to the Secretary, the Attorney General of the United States, and the recipient;
(iv) The notice shall contain the alleged violation of the Act, the relief requested, the court in which the complainant is bringing the action, and whether or not attorney's fees are demanded in the event the complainant prevails; and
(v) The complainant may not bring an action if the same alleged violation of the Act by the same recipient is the subject of a pending action in any court of the United States.


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7.4.3 Land Hydrology, Runoff and Surface-Atmosphere Exchange
Soil moisture conditions directly influence the net surface energy balance and determine the partitioning of the surface heat flux into sensible and latent contributions, which in turn control the evolution of the soil moisture distribution. There have been studies of the importance of soil moisture anomalies for episodes of drought (Atlas and Wolfson, 1993) and flooding (Beljaars et al., 1996; Giorgi et al., 1996), and the impact of initial soil moisture conditions on mid-latitude weather (Betts et al., 1996; Schär et al., 1999). Results from other GCM studies (e.g., Milly and Dunne, 1994; Bonan, 1996; Ducharne et al., 1996) and regional and global water budgets analyses (e.g., Brubaker et al., 1993; Brubaker and Entekhabi, 1996) have deepened our appreciation of the importance of land-surface hydrology in the regional and global energy and water exchanges. In relation to climate change, such mechanisms are relevant since they might lead to, or intensify, a reduction in summer soil moisture in mid-and high latitude semi-arid regions under doubled CO2 conditions (Wetherald and Manabe, 1999). Most of these studies reported some impact of soil conditions upon land precipitation during episodes of convective activity, and there is observational evidence from lagged correlation analysis between soil moisture conditions and subsequent precipitation over Illinois that this mechanism is active in mid-latitudes (Findell and Eltahir, 1997). The formulation of surface runoff and baseflow has been calculated to have an indirect but strong impact on the surface energy balance (Koster and Milly, 1997).
The feedback mechanisms between soil moisture conditions and precipitation are particularly relevant to climate change studies since they may interact with, and determine the response to, larger-scale changes in atmospheric circulation, precipitation and soil moisture anomalies. The modelling of soil moisture-climate interactions is complicated by the range of time-scales involved, as soil moisture profiles can have a "memory" of many months, and the interaction of vertical soil moisture transfers with the larger-scale horizontal hydrology. Work is continuing to improve the realism of vertical water transfers, the effect of soil water on evapotranspiration rates, and the parametrization of sub-grid scale variability in land hydrological components (e.g., Avissar and Schmidt, 1998; Wood et al., 1998). To date, there have been few attempts to describe the effects of within-grid horizontal transfers of water, but there has been success in connecting river routing schemes to GCMs (Dümenil et al., 1997; see also Chapter 8, Section 18.104.22.168). Development in this area has lagged significantly behind that of vegetation canopy processes, despite the fact that the former are critical to a land-surface scheme's overall performance.
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The abstracts (see full list below) highlight Prometheus's innovative technologies aimed at helping healthcare providers personalize patient care with the goal of ultimately helping to improve patient outcomes. Topics span across a wide spectrum of scientific and clinical research that offers novel solutions to current and future patient needs. "We are proud to continue to lead the way toward personalized medicine. We are committed to continue to advance our novel technology platforms and partner with the GI community to help bring valuable products to market with the goal of continuing to improve patient outcomes." said Joseph M. Limber, President and Chief Executive Officer of Prometheus.
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Does America need a raise?
When full-time workers need to turn to government assistance to make ends meet, it would profit everyone to give the minimum wage a boost.
By Charles M. A. Clark, a professor of economics and senior fellow at the Vincentian Center for Church and Society at St. John's University in New York.
[Sounding Boards are one person's take on a many-sided subject and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of U.S. Catholic, its editors, or the Claretians.]
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At this year's State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama stated that "America needs a raise" and he proposed that Congress increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour. On the surface, President Obama's push to raise the minimum wage appears to be directed towards a small portion of the working population. But the real target is the dramatic rise in income and wealth inequality in America, which has essentially divided the country into two societies. And much of the president's case for raising the minimum wage comes directly from the Catholic Church's own "just wage" doctrine.
The negative reaction from some against raising the minimum wage is based on protecting the economic and political gains of the rich, which have come at the expense of the poor and middle class, and their argument that raising the minimum wage will cause inflation or unemployment is based more on ideology than evidence. The $26.7 billion in bonuses paid by Wall Street firms to 165,000 employees in 2013 illustrates the general redistribution of income away from workers and toward the financial elite. As the Institute for Policy Studies recently noted, this largesse is greater than the total yearly compensation of all full-time minimum wage workers combined—the income of those nearly 1.1 million workers totaled $15.1 billion in 2013, just over half of what the Wall Street executives received in bonuses.
Distributing this money to the already overpaid creates one-third less economic growth and job creation than distributing it to lower paid workers, but the more fundamental issue is why Wall Street has $26.7 billion to pay out in bonuses. No doubt the practitioners of "casino capitalism" would paraphrase John Houseman from the classic 1970s Smith Barney commercial: "We make money the old-fashioned way … we earn it." In an ironic sort of way, they would be right, because the "old-fashioned way" of creating wealth is the use of force and fraud. Whether it's the Roman Empire or the British Empire, Viking raiders or corporate raiders; Conquistadors or Russian Oligarchs, slave traders or stock manipulators, force and fraud have been a main part of how people or countries got rich.
The modern way to create wealth is to increase productivity, expand and improve physical capital, improve management efficiency, and most importantly, increase the education and skill level of workers. When mutually beneficial trade is the model of economic activity, both wages and profits go up, as the economic pie is expanding. This is what happened from the end of World War II until the swing to the right with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Since then nearly all of the gains in income have gone to the top 1 percent, with the bottom 80 percent having rising debt instead of rising wages.
This creation of a society of extreme inequality is due primarily to two changes in the economy: rewriting the rules regulating finance to benefit speculators and fraudsters; and the removal of supports for low income workers. Besides out and out theft that is rampant on Wall Street (barely a week goes by that we don't see a headline on illegal activity by the major firms), finance increases its share of income by increasing the amount of economic activity that passes through their hands, allowing them to take a cut each time. Housing, health care, higher education, building roads and bridges, even basic food commodities are all merely means to the higher end of commissions and capital gains. And all these activities can be more efficiently produced and distributed without Wall Street involvement.
The second major factor increasing income inequality has been the withdrawal of support of low and moderate income workers. Contrary to the dominate ideology, which argues that incomes are based on productivity, most wages are determined by the relative bargaining power of workers versus employers. If workers bargain as one, such as they do if they have a union, then they can force the firm to share some of the surplus created by technological change with them. Minimum wage laws—along with other forms of social protection like a strong social safety net, universal education, and a commitment to full employment—will also support the bargaining power of workers.
The obvious inequality in bargaining power between workers who have little income security and employers is so great that almost every developed country has some form of minimum wage law to prevent the extreme exploitation of the poor. We see around the world that when there are no social protections, or when certain groups are excluded from them (as with undocumented in America) forced labor and other forms of slavery appear. Allowing the minimum wage to decline in real terms (not adjusting it for inflation), hostility towards unions, weakening the safety net, artificially keeping unemployment high, and neglecting the issue of immigration reform have all weakened the bargaining power of low income workers, thus allowing employers to impose exploitative wages and working conditions.
Often this merely shifts the cost onto the local or national government. Walmart founder Sam Walton is the quintessential example of this strategy, as he is reportedly known for saying, "I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment." The result is that the retail giant had $17 billion in net income in 2013, but many Walmart workers receive government assistance—proof that Walmart is paying less than subsistence wages, with taxpayers making up the difference. Walmart has been able to spin taxpayer money into Walton family gold. Another example of earning it the old fashioned way.
The main argument for subsidies and tax breaks (welfare) for very rich is that they are "the makers" and "job creators" and us common folk need them to be in control of society's productive assets. As Aristotle put it, "From the hour of their birth some are made for subjection, others for rule." Behind the paternalism in the rhetoric, "trickle-down" economics is essentially blackmail. If the rich do not get what they want, everyone suffers. Pope Francis has correctly noted that trickle-down economics has never promoted "greater justice and inclusiveness." This should not surprise us, as blackmail rarely works out well for those being blackmailed.
However, trickle-down economics has not been a very successful economic growth policy either, because it is inefficient and wasteful. As famed Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith once noted, trickle-down economics is based on the horse and sparrow model, that is if you feed a horse enough oats, some will pass thru the horse to the road, providing food for the sparrows. So if the goal is to help the poor, we should just give them the money.
Catholic social thought and its preferential option for the poor also offers strong support for increasing the minimum wage. The Catholic claim that workers deserve a just wage as a matter of justice, and not as charity, is based on the argument that wages should provide sufficient resources for meeting the material and spiritual needs of workers and their families. It is this teaching that the U.S. Catholic bishops have pointed to in their recent efforts to call on Congress to raise the federal minimum wage. Surprisingly, or maybe not so surprisingly, prominent Catholic politicians like Congressman Paul Ryan and Senator Marco Rubio have voiced strong opposition to raising the minimum wage. Both feel that government intervention into the wages of the poor will be harmful to the economy, creating inflation and unemployment, and ultimately harming those it is intended to help.
While the church has always rejected the argument that people should be treated like commodities, prudential judgment does require us to look at the inflation and unemployment arguments against the minimum wage. Minimum wage increases could, in some circumstances, cause inflation, but only if wages go up faster than productivity. If the minimum wage had kept pace with labor productivity it would be more than $20 an hour today, double what the president is proposing. Also, if our economy was at full employment the extra purchasing power in the hands of low income workers might cause inflation, but we have high unemployment and the risk is towards deflation, not inflation.
Furthermore, the evidence doesn't show that increasing the minimum wage leads to higher unemployment. In fact, the opposite is true: the number of new jobs created by increasing the purchasing power of low-paid workers, which in turn increases spending levels, outnumber the jobs that might be lost by employers deciding to lay off workers because labor is more expensive.
Increasing the minimum wage is nowhere near enough to combat 30 years of rising income inequality, much less the even greater wealth inequality. A real commitment to job creation is needed, especially targeted at the long-term unemployed. And we have to recognize that part of the increase in income and wealth inequality is due to fraud, and one effective way to reduce the fraud-created income and wealth inequality is to go after the fraudsters, take the money back, and put them in jail.
The last dramatic rise in inequality that nearly destroyed America hit its peak in the 1920s. It took the trauma of the Great Depression and World War II to reverse that dangerously unbalanced economy and society. Let us hope a little common sense and evidence-based economic policies, starting with a federal minimum wage increase, can provide for a less painful correction.


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As the weather is getting chillier, I was excited to try this interesting and easy natural remedy — If your feet tend to be on the cold side, try sprinkling some cayenne pepper inside your socks. Supposedly this should help your feet warm up because it encourages increased blood flow.
So this morning I finally remembered to put a little cayenne pepper in my socks because of course, I had to see if it actually worked and how messy it was (it's SO messy), etc before I recommended it to you. Well, I would definitely NOT recommend this. My feet are not even feeling a little bit warmer 1.5 hours after spicing up my socks, BUT the sole of my right foot is currently on fire. And not in a warm, pleasant way. It feels like my foot just ate a way too spicy hot pepper.
Bottom line: I would keep the cayenne pepper out of your socks, but I would put it in your next stir fry or soup because it will help to get the circulation going and warm you up internally.
Ok, I gotta go, my right foot needs a glass of milk. This is bad news. Have a great weekend!


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It is the unabridged, aduiobook CD of Nick Hornby's touching tale "Juliet, Naked". Read by Jennifer Wiltsie, Bill Irwin and Ben Miles. Annie's put fifteen years into safe, slightly obsessive Duncan, and now she's like her money back, please. It's time to move on. But she lives in Gooleness, the north's answer to a question nobody asked. Is she really going to find real, proper, fell-it-deep-down-in-your-boots love on a damp and windy seafront? Or perhaps she should follow her heart and pursue Tucker, the reclusive American rock star, who keeps emailing her his smart advice. But between Annie and her second chance lie a few obstacles. There's Malcolm, the world's most judgemental therapist, and Barnesy, the north's most extrovert dancer. There's what men and women will do and won't do for love. And, of course, there's Tucker...Hilarious and tender, this bestselling novel will move you in ways both profound and surprising. It's Nick Hornby at his brilliant best. If you like David Nicholls, David Sedaris and Jonathan Coe you will love this book. "Hornby's best novel to date". ("Spectator"). "Sharply funny, touching". ("Daily Telegraph"). "Pitch-perfect". ("Observer"). Nick Hornby has captivated readers and achieved wide critical acclaim for his comic, well-observed novels "About a Boy", "How to be Good", "A Long Way Down" (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award), "Slam" and "High Fidelity". His three works of non-fiction, "31 Songs" (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award), "Fever Pitch" (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award) and "The Complete Polysyllabic Spree" are also available from Penguin.
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Nick Hornby was born in 1957. He is the author of five previous novels, High Fidelity, About a Boy, How To Be Good, A Long Way Down (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award) and Slam; three works of non-fiction, Fever Pitch (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award), 31 Songs (shortlisted for the National Books Critics Circle Award) and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree; and a Pocket Penguin book of short stories, Otherwise Pandemonium. He has also edited two anthologies, My Favourite Year and Speaking With the Angel. In 1999 he was awarded the E. M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2002 he won the W. H. Smith Award for Fiction. He recently wrote the screenplay for a film, An Education. Nick Hornby lives and works in Highbury, north London.Excerpt. � Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:
They had flown from England to Minneapolis to look at a toilet.
The simple truth of this only struck Annie when they were actually inside it: apart from the graffi ti on the walls, some of which made some kind of reference to the toilet's importance in musical history, it was dank, dark, smelly and entirely unremarkable. Americans were very good at making the most of their heritage, but there wasn't much even they could do here.
"Have you got the camera, Annie?" said Duncan.
"Yes. But what do you want a picture of?"
"Just, you know . . . "
"Well . . . the toilet."
"What, the . . . What do you call those things?"
"The urinals. Yeah."
"Do you want to be in it?"
"Shall I pretend to have a pee?"
"If you want."
So Duncan stood in front of the middle of the three urinals, his hands placed convincingly in front of him, and smiled back over his shoulder at Annie.
"Got it?"
"I'm not sure the fl ash worked."
"One more. Be silly to come all the way here and not get a good one."
This time Duncan stood just inside one of the stalls, with the door open. The light was better there, for some reason. Annie took as good a picture of a man in a toilet as one could reasonably expect. When Duncan moved, she could see that this toilet, like just about every other one she'd ever seen in a rock club, was blocked.
"Come on," said Annie. "He didn't even want me in here."
This was true. The guy behind the bar had initially suspected that they were looking for a place where they could shoot up, or perhaps have sex. Eventually, and hurtfully, the barman had clearly decided that they were capable of doing neither thing.
Duncan took one last look and shook his head. "If toilets could talk, eh?"
Annie was glad this one couldn't. Duncan would have wanted to chat to it all night.
Most people are unaware of Tucker Crowe's music, let alone some of the darker moments of his career, so the story of what may or may not have happened to him in the restroom of the Pits Club is probably worth repeating here. Crowe was in Minneapolis for a show and had turned up at the Pits to see a local band called the Napoleon Solos which he'd heard good things about. (Some Crowe completists, Duncan being one, own a copy of the local band's one and only album, The Napoleon Solos Sing Their Songs and Play Their Guitars.) In the middle of the set, Tucker went to the toilet. Nobody knows what happened in there, but when he came out, he went straight back to his hotel and phoned his manager to cancel the rest of the tour. The next morning he began what we must now think of as his retirement. That was in June 1986. Nothing more has been heard of him since—no new recordings, no gigs, no interviews. If you love Tucker Crowe as much as Duncan and a couple of thousand other people in the world do, that toilet has a lot to answer for. And since, as Duncan had so rightly observed, it can't speak, Crowe fans have to speak on its behalf. Some claim that Tucker saw God, or one of His representatives, in there; others claim he had a near-death experience after an overdose. Another school of thought has it that he caught his girlfriend having sex with his bass player in there, although Annie found this theory a little fanciful. Could the sight of a woman screwing a musician in a toilet really have resulted in twenty-two years of silence? Perhaps it could. Perhaps it was just that Annie had never experienced passion that intense. Anyway. Whatever. All you need to know is that something profound and life-changing took place in the smallest room of a small club.
Annie and Duncan were in the middle of a Tucker Crowe pilgrimage. They had wandered around New York, looking at various clubs and bars that had some kind of Crowe connection, although most of these sites of historic interest were now designer clothes stores, or branches of McDonald's. They had been to his childhood home in Bozeman, Montana, where, thrillingly, an old lady came out of her house to tell them that Tucker used to clean her husband's old Buick when he was a kid. The Crowe family home was small and pleasant and was now owned by the manager of a small printing business, who was surprised that they had traveled all the way from England to see the outside of his house, but who didn't ask them in. From Montana they flew to Memphis, where they visited the site of the old American Sound Studio (the studio itself having been knocked down in 1990), where Tucker, drunk and grieving, recorded Juliet, his legendary breakup album, and the one Annie liked the most. Still to come: Berkeley, California, where Juliet—in real life a former model and socialite called Julie Beatty—still lived to this day. They would stand outside her house, just as they had stood outside the printer's house, until Duncan could think of no reason to carry on looking, or until Julie called the police, a fate that had befallen a couple of other Crowe fans that Duncan knew from the message boards.
Annie didn't regret the trip. She'd been to the U.S. a couple of times, to San Francisco and New York, but she liked the way Tucker was taking them to places she'd other wise never have visited. Bozeman, for example, turned out to be a beautiful little mountain town, surrounded by exotic-sounding ranges she'd never heard of: the Big Belt, the Tobacco Root, the Spanish Peaks. After staring at the small and unremarkable house, they walked into town and sipped iced tea in the sunshine outside an organic café, while in the distance the odd Spanish Peak, or possibly the top of a Tobacco Root, threatened to puncture the cold blue sky. She'd had worse mornings than that on holidays that had promised much more. It was a sort of random, pin-sticking tour of America, as far as she was concerned. She got sick of hearing about Tucker, of course, and talking about him and listening to him and attempting to understand the reasons behind every creative and personal decision he'd ever made. But she got sick of hearing about him at home, too, and she'd rather get sick of him in Montana or Tennessee than in Gooleness, the small seaside town in England where she shared a house with Duncan.
The one place that wasn't on the itinerary was Tyrone, Pennsylvania, where Tucker was believed to live, although, as with all orthodoxies, there were heretics: two or three of the Crowe community subscribed to the theory—interesting but preposterous, according to Duncan—that he'dbeen living in New Zealand since the early nineties. Tyrone hadn't even been mentioned as a possible destination when they'd been planning the trip, and Annie thought she knew why. A couple of years ago, one of the fans went out to Tyrone, hung around, eventually located what he understood to be Tucker Crowe's farm; he came back with a photograph of an alarmingly grizzled-looking man aiming a shotgun at him. Annie had seen the picture, many times, and she found it distressing. The man's face was disfi gured by rage and fear, as if everything he'd worked for and believed in was in the process of being destroyed by a Canon Sure Shot. Duncan wasn't too concerned about the rape of Crowe's privacy: the fan, Neil Ritchie, had achieved a kind of Zapruder level of fame and respect among the faithful that Annie suspected Duncan rather envied. What had perturbed him was that Tucker Crowe had called Neil Ritchie a "fucking asshole." Duncan couldn't have borne that.
After the visit to the restroom at the Pits, they took advice from the concierge and ate at a Thai restaurant in the Riverfront District a couple of blocks away. Minneapolis, it turned out, was on the Mississippi—who knew, apart from Americans, and just about anyone else who'd paid attention in geography lessons?—so Annie ended up ticking off something else she'd never expected to see, although here at the less romantic end it looked disappointingly like the Thames. Duncan was animated and chatty, still unable quite to believe that he'd been inside a place that had occupied so much of his imaginative energy over the years.
"Do you think it's possible to teach a whole course on the toilet?"
"With you just sitting on it, you mean? You wouldn't get it past Health and Safety."
"I didn't mean that."
Sometimes Annie wished that Duncan had a keener sense of humor—a keener sense that something might be meant humorously, anyway. She knew it was too late to hope for actual jokes.
"I meant, teach a whole course on the toilet in the Pits."
Duncan looked at her.
"Are you teasing me?"
"No. I'm saying that a whole course about Tucker
Crowe's twenty-year-old visit to the toilet wouldn't be very iinteresting."
"I'd include other things."
"Other toilet visits in history?"
"No. Other career-defi ning moments."
"Elvis had a good toilet moment. Pretty careerdefi
ning, too."
"Dying's different. Too unwilled. John Smithers wrote an essay for the website about that. Creative death versus actual death. It was actually pretty interesting." Annie nodded enthusiastically, while at the same time hoping that Duncan wouldn't print it off and put it in front of her when they got home.
"I promise that after this holiday I won't be so Tuckercentric," he said.
"That's okay. I don't mind."
"I've wanted to do this for a long time."
"I know."
"I'll have got him out of my system."
"I hope not."
"What would there be left of you, if you did?"
She hadn't meant it cruelly. She'd been with Duncan for nearly fifteen years, and Tucker Crowe had always been part of the package, like a disability. To begin with, the condition hadn't prevented him from living a normal life: yes, he'd written a book, as yet unpublished, about Tucker, lectured on him, contributed to a radio documentary for the BBC and organized conventions, but somehow these activities had always seemed to Annie like isolated episodes, sporadic attacks.
And then the Internet came along and changed everything. When, a little later than everyone else, Duncan discovered how it all worked, he set up a website called "Can Anybody Hear Me?"—the title of a track from an obscure EP recorded after the wounding failure of Crowe's first album. Until then, the nearest fellow fan had lived in Manchester, sixty or seventy miles away, and Tucker met up with him once or twice a year; now the nearest fans lived in Duncan's laptop, and there were hundredsof them, from all around the world, and Duncan spoke to them all the time. There seemed to be a surprising amount to talk about. The website had a "Latest News" section, which never failed to amuse Annie, Tucker no longer being a man who did an awful lot. ("As far as we know," Duncan always said.) There was always something that passed for news among the faithful, though—a Crowe night on an Internet radio station, a new article, a new album from a former band member, an interview with an engineer. The bulk of the content, though, consisted of essays analyzing lyrics, or discussing infl uences, or conjecturing, apparently inexhaustibly, about the silence. It wasn't as if Duncan didn't have other interests. He had a specialist knowledge of 1970s American independent cinema and the novels of Nathanael West and he was developing a nice new line in HBO television series—he thought he might be ready to teach The Wire in the not-too-distant future. But these were all fl irtations, by comparison. Tucker Crowe was his life partner. If Crowe were to die—to die in real life, as it were, rather than creatively—Duncan would lead the mourning. (He'd already written the obituary. Every now and again he'd worry out loud about whether he should show it to a reputable newspaper now, or wait until it was needed.)
If Tucker was the husband, then Annie should somehow have become the mistress, but of course that wasn't right—the word was much too exotic and implied a level of sexual activity that would horrify them both nowadays. It would have daunted them even in the early days of their relationship. Sometimes Annie felt less like a girlfriend than a school chum who'd come to visit in the holidays and stayed for the next twenty years. They had both moved to the same English seaside town at around the same time, Duncan to fi nish his thesis and Annie to teach, and they had been introduced by mutual friends who could see that, if nothing else, they could talk about books and music, go to fi lms, travel to London occasionally to see exhibitions and gigs. Gooleness wasn't a sophisticated town. There was no arts cinema, there was no gay community, there wasn't even a Waterstone's (the nearest one was up the road in Hull), and they fell upon each other with relief. They started drinking together in the evenings and sleeping over at weekends, until eventually the sleepovers turned into something indistinguishable from cohabitation. And they had stayed like that forever, stuck in a perpetual postgraduate world where gigs and books and films mattered more to them than they did to other people of their age.
The decision not to have children had never been made, and nor had there been any discussion resulting in a postponement of the decision. It wasn't that kind of a sleep over. Annie could imagine herself as a mother, but Duncan was nobody's idea of a father, and anyway, neither of them would have felt comfortable applying cement to the relationship in that way. That wasn't what they were for. And now, with an irritating predictability, she was going through what everyone had told her she would go through: she was aching for a child. Her aches were brought on by all the usual mournful-happy life events: Christmas, the pregnancy of a friend, the pregnancy of a complete stranger she saw in the street. And she wanted a child for all the usual reasons, as far as she could tell. She wanted to feel unconditional love, rather than the faint conditional affection she could scrape together for Duncan every now and again; she wanted to be held by someone who would never question the embrace, the why or the who or the how long. There was another reason, too: she
needed to know that she could have one, that there was life in her. Duncan had put her to sleep, and in her sleep she'd been desexed.
She'd get over all this, presumably; or at least one day it would become a wistful regret, rather than a sharp hunger. But this holiday hadn't been designed to comfort her. There was an argument that you might as well change nappies as hang out in men's lavatories taking pictures. The amount of time they had for themselves was beginning to feel sort of . . . decadent.
At breakfast in their cheap and nasty hotel in downtown San Francisco, Annie read the Chronicle and decided she didn't want to see the hedge obscuring the front lawn of Julie Beatty's house in Berkeley. The...
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Also, I dream of finding a vulnerability in a major software, like IE or Chrome. Is it easy? Is it systematic or is it random? What books do I need to read to detect them in due time?
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1 A point enough?
A draw in Monchengladbach will almost certainly be enough for Man City to progress to the knock-out stages of the Champions League.
A draw would mean even if the Germans won their final game away to Barcelona and Man City lost to Celtic, the Blues' head-to-head is better over the two games played and would be decisive.
If Man City win at Borussia Park, neither Monchengladbach nor Celtic could catch Man City who would progress with one match to spare.
Defeat would mean Man City needed a win against Celtic to go through, provided the margin of loss was less than the 4-0 score-line against Monchengladbach at the Etihad.
For Celtic to overhaul both Man City and Borussia, the Hoops would need to beat Barcelona at Celtic Park and then win at the Etihad Stadium.
Barca would need to drop at least two points in their remaining games if Man City are to overhaul the Catalans at the top of the group – if Man City and Barca finish level on points the La Liga side's 4-0 triumph at the Nou Camp means they would finish higher courtesy of the head-to-head record.
On paper, the Blues and Barcelona look strong favourites to progress, but Monchengladbach and Celtic will no doubt have something to say about that.
2 Monchengladbach poor home run
Man City beat Monchengladbach 2-1 on the last visit to Borussia-Park with goals from Martin Demichelis and Sergio Aguero completing an impressive fight-back by the Blues.
But the German side, so strong on their own patch last season, have won just one of their last six games on their own soil.
While defeat to Man City will end hopes of making it to the Round of 16, Borussia may have already banked enough points to claim a Europa League spot if all else fails with Celtic still to play Barcelona and the Blues.
3 Pep's return
While he took Man City back to Germany for a friendly with Bayern Munich in pre-season, this will be Pep Guardiola's first competitive return to Germany as the Blues' coach.
Monchengladbach proved something of a jinx team for Pep Guardiola while he was boss of Bayern.
In his final year in Germany Bayern drew 1-1 at the Allianz Arena and lost 3-1 at Borussia Park.
The season before, Monchengladbach won 2-0 at the Allianz and held Bayern 0-0 at home so the 4-0 Etihad win in September will have been a relief to the Catalan manager who hasn't had many teams get the better of him in his managerial career!
4 Make mine a treble
Aguero is chasing an unprecedented third Man City hat-trick in the Champions League this season.
Having already notched a treble away to Steaua in the play-off round, the Argentina star bagged another hat-trick in the first group game against Borussia Monchengladbach.
Given he scored the last time he was at Borussia-Park, Aguero now has four goals in two games against BMG – and let's not forget he scored a hat-trick against Bayern Munich a couple of years back, too – safe to say he enjoys playing against German sides.
5 Bundesliga stars to shine
Will Pep recall Ilkay Gundogan and Leroy Sane on Wednesday evening?
They are two players who know the Bundesliga better than most, and while Gundogan is almost certain to start, Borussia-Park could be the perfect launchpad for Sane to really get his Man City career off and running.
Oh, and there's the former Bundesliga Player of the Year, Kevin De Bruyne to throw in the mix...
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Currently, the most godless country in the world seems to be…Brazil. Somebody is doing a good job of promoting it down there, I think.
Get on the list. As a bonus, I think every participant gets the Mark of the Beast and is automatically enrolled in a sweepstakes where the grand prize is an evening with the Whore of Babylon. Also, any Christians who try to skew the poll will be instantly damned to hell by Jesus. Just warning you.


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Sensi Paradise Beach Resort
27 Moo 2 Koh Tao
Koh Tao, Suratthani 84360
Koh Tao, Mae Haad
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Sensi Paradise Beach Resort is located on the eastern side of Koh Tao, at the quiet end of the island's longest beach, lies Sensi Paradise Beach Resort - an unobtrusive masterpiece of luxurious, tranquil living perfectly blended with the natural beauty of its environment. Sensi Paradise Beach Resort is a good choice for all different kinds of guests. There are more than forty guestrooms, all individually decorated with different themes and designs to suit different preferences, ranging from conservative wooden villas for an affordable price to luxury suites that provide much more than your creature comforts.
All accommodation has its own bathroom/ shower and toilet, plus fans or air conditioning. We have a wide selection of styles, sizes and prices, and all rooms are close to the beach
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Date of stay:
Jan 06, 2018
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Lovely Hotel just by the beach that really captured the atmosphere of Koh Tao. Perfect location as it is within walking distance from the two villages on the island and the pier.
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Jan 09, 2018
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Amanda Wibom
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Mar 30, 2017
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Very good hotel. Nice staff. Very friendly, helpful and smily. Very good food. Beautiful swingpool. Very good location. Quit but just a short walk to bars and restaurants. We will come back.
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As always a Very good service
Apr 01, 2017
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Laila Hongslo
Date of stay:
Feb 03, 2017
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Très bel hôtel tout en raffinement, décorations intérieure comme extérieures superbes, Piscines en retrait de la plage, au calme et entourées d un écran de verdure avec une décoration exceptionnelle. Personnel agréable, hôtel très propre Seul point faible la proximité du port entraînant un peu de bruit à l'extérieur mais on entend rien dans les chambres)
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Réservation facile, dommage que l on doive payer la totalité à la réservation
Feb 06, 2017
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Stéphane MERCATI
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Jan 02, 2017
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The forced new years eve dinner was a joke. For this money from 8 persons we could have eat for a week in another place
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Jan 08, 2017
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Mikael Ronny Nilsson
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Aug 19, 2016
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The best resort in koh Tao, it was the fifth time we came to Sensi and we still think that is the best one...
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Perfect as usual
Aug 21, 2016
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Carla battistini
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Aug 02, 2016
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All is excellent
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Aug 08, 2016
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Giulio Michele Zucca
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Jul 11, 2016
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hotel correct avec un restaurant pas très cher pour un resort mais attention du bruit en permanence nuit et jour car très proche de l émbarcadère pas très reposant...
Jul 19, 2016
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May 21, 2016
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Nur die Nähe zum Hafen trübt den Aufenthalt ein wenig. Hat allerdings den Vorteil, dass man schnell im Zentrum ist. Je nach Lage des Bungalows hört man die Schiffe bis in die Nacht hinein. Die Zimmer sind rustikal eingerichtet und sehr sauber. Wir waren mehrmals da und würden immer wiederkommen! Das Personal ist sehr freundlich und aufmerksam
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Empfehlenswert !!
May 31, 2016
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Christa Hesse
Date of stay:
Mar 13, 2016
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Hotel PARFAIT.Nous avions la chambre Romantic room vue mer,sur les rochers avec terrasse équipée d une table et d un lit extérieur!. L'hôtel est situé sur le coté de la plage a l opposé de sairee beach avec un chemin piétonnier a faire pour aller sur les plages (Sai nuan beach 1 magnifique avec ses cocotiers).Petit dejeuner super! .Repas un peu plus cher de 100 bhats(2.5€!) mais la qualité est la!Le personnel est aimable et nombreux,le double piscine est super! en bref: SUPER SEJOUR!
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pas de probleme
Mar 20, 2016
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Mar 12, 2016
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Ci siamo trovati bene a livello di resort anche se le aspettative dai commenti erano maggiori; il bungalow un po buio, il bagno originale (per fare la doccia allaghi totalmente il pavimento, bene comunque la location in generale, la colazione ok, bene i servizi (ottimi), bene la piscina,ottima la vicinanza al paese, un pò più deludenti spiaggia e ristorante. Nel complesso nonci sono stata male ma non credo lo sceglierei la prossima volta; luce e sole in camere sono troppo importanti per me, anche se poi ci si sta bene.Anche perchè a Ko Tao resort veramente belli mi sembra ce ne siano pochi, e questo penso sia uno dei migliori
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Non è arrivata al resort la mia prenotazione gia pagata!!!!
Mar 20, 2016
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Volpato Sabina
Date of stay:
Mar 04, 2016
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Trés bien situé et cadre superbe.Dommage que la piscine ouvre tard et ferme tot. Proche du port et personnel trés agréable. Une trés belle adresse
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Mar 07, 2016
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Stora Jean Louis
Date of stay:
Feb 26, 2016
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very good!
Mar 04, 2016
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Sensi Paradise Beach Resort
Living along a white sandy beach facing the azure sea, where the powdery sand meets the lush tropical forest, is the very first international quality resort in the world's newly discovered diving paradise of Koh Tao. This perfect location is also a short distance from the beautiful island of Nang Yuan, another superb diving spot.
Thanks to its terrific location along beach overlooking the blue sea, the Sensi Paradise is an extremely romantic and tranquil place for people who appreciate nature, especially couples who are looking for an exotic and romantic place for their honeymoon.
Besides honeymooners, the Sensi Paradise Beach Resort is a good choice for all different kinds of guests. There are more than forty guestrooms, all individually decorated with different themes and designs to suit different preferences, ranging from conservative wooden villas for an affordable price to luxury suites that provide much more than your creature comforts.
Imagine the beach in front of you immaculate and pristine with warm clear water that is perfect for swimming and snorkeling. There is no doubt you will discover the stunning beauty of the underwater world while staying with us.
It is time to sense the magical charm of Koh Tao with the Sensi Paradise Beach Resort, a magnificent slice of paradise managed by a professional Thai and Dutch management team.
Traditional Thai-style Bungalows, Houses and Villas.
Sensi Paradise Beach Resort offers family houses, romantic suites and beach bungalows. All accommodation has its own bathroom/ shower and toilet, plus fans or air conditioning. We have a wide selection of styles, sizes and prices, and all rooms are close to the beach.
Family Houses.
We designed this house with peace and comfort in mind. The whole house is hand-crafted in traditional Thai style and the atmosphere in the moonlit night is straight from a story-book. 3 Bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, fan-cooled.
Every one of our guest-houses has its own unique design and special features. Some have private access to the sea, others have a private open-air bathroom so you can bathe in the sun and balmy air. Most rooms have a veranda or a large deck where you can enjoy panoramic views of the ocean, sky and mountains from the comfort of your hammock or be soothed by the sunset while sipping wine with your sweetheart.
All of Sensi Paradise is hand-crafted from selected local wood and stone and each building has been designed to compliment the natural paradise in which the resort is set. Our buildings are eco-friendly constructions, most of their materials coming from the island itself. When you come to stay with us, you will see the love and care that has been invested in all parts of Sensi Paradise. Almost every surface is made from a selected piece of wood, aged and polished to perfection. Houses are adorned with hand-carved Thai decorations, accented, carefully selected combinations of color and texture, wood and stone.
:: Superior House A/C - 16 Units ::
These are bungalows with tropical decoration. Each bungalow can occupy 2 people. We offer Twin Beds near the road between hotel Sensi and Charmchuree, Double bed not near the road and indoor shower room. You can enjoy your afternoon tea and the view on your large balcony.
:: Deluxe House A/C - 17 Units ::
A bungalow has 1 bedroom with 1 king size bed, indoor shower room and Hot shower. You can enjoy the view of our tropical garden or swimming pool from your large balcony.
:: Family House no.4 A/C - 7 Units ::
Most selected accommodation for friends and families. A house has 2 connecting bedrooms, share indoor shower room and Hot shower. First bedroom is 1 king size bed. Second bed room is 1 queen size bed. You can enjoy the garden view from your balcony.
:: Romantic Sea View A/C - 3 Units ::
A sea view bungalow has 1 bedroom with 1 king size bed, large balcony, indoor shower room and hot shower. It is one of the most reserved houses for couples.
:: Sea View Suite A/C - 2 Units ::
A bungalow has 2 connecting bedrooms. First bedroom is air conditioning bedroom with 1 king size bed. Second bedroom is a fan bedroom with 1 queen size bed. Both bedrooms share outdoor shower room, Hot shower and a large balcony with sea view.
:: Romantic Suite A/C - 1 Unit ::
This is a perfect choice for honeymooners. Our romantic suite is a largest house for couples. It is air conditioning house with 1 king size bed, indoor shower room and Hot shower. You can see the best view of Koh Tao from your balcony.
:: Family Seaview A/C - 3 Units ::
has 2 separate bungalows with connecting large balcony. Each bungalow with 1 bedroom with a king size bed, 1 bathroom, with hot and cold shower, for 4 person. The room will not be suitable for family with a small child under 11 years old.
:: Family Pool View A/C - 2 Units ::
A house has 2 separate bedrooms. Both bed rooms have air conditioning, indoor shower room and hot shower. This house is close to the swimming pool.
:: Family Seafront A/C - 2 Units ::
A sea view house has 2 separate bedrooms, 2 indoor shower rooms and Hot shower. Two bedrooms with air conditioning bed room with 1 king size bed inside each room. Connecting balcony on the rocky beach and very close to the sea.
:: Royal Villa A/C - 1 Unit ::
A sea view house has 3 separate bedrooms. First bedroom is air condition bedroom with 1 king size bed. Second and third bed rooms bedrooms with queen size beds and air condition. From a balcony only few steps to the sea.
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The Service at Sensi Paradise Beach Resort we wish to offer you something special. Please read on about what you can expect and about what services and facilities we offer.
Sensi Paradise is happy to arrange your boat tickets from Samui or Chumphron to Koh Tao and back. The Lomprayah Catamaran company provides free transfer from Samui Airport to the ferry pier. Check-in time at Sensi Paradise Resort is usually 1 p.m. However, if accommodation is available we will do our best to check you in immediately.
When (if ever) you are ready to depart Sensi Paradise Beach Resort, we can arrange your journey on any of the outgoing boats to the other islands or the mainland. Check-out time at Sensi Paradise is usually 10am, Depending on the demand for rooms, it may be possible to arrange a late check-out.
Room Service:
All dishes from the restaurant menu can be served to you in your guesthouse. Room service operates during restaurant hours - 8 am. to 10 pm.
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The villas are cleaned daily. Fresh towels are provided every day, though our eco-conscious guests are free to specify otherwise. Beach towels are also provided.
Laundry Service:
Laundry bags are collected from your room and returned the following day.
Fax, E-mail and Telephone Service:
Due to a lack of cable between Koh Tao and the mainland, we are unable to provide full internet services at the moment. Guests at Sensi Paradise can receive fax and email messages free of charge. All messages can be delivered directly to your room. The price of making a phone call or sending a fax from Koh Tao depends on the destination.
Ticket Service:
For confirmation of all plane, boat, train tickets and checking of any other travelling details, such as flight times.
Boat Trips and Taxis:
Sensi Paradise Beach Resort provides a range of options for short journeys around Koh Tao to enhance your holiday and to help you explore all that the island has to offer.
Boat trips around the island:
- Snorkel and swim with black tip sharks, visit unforgettable water worlds, stop at any of the countless secluded beaches.
- This is the only way to see the real Koh Tao!
Expeditions with equipment provided and a professional advisor to guide you. Both day and night fishing trips are available.
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A private car or boat to the destination of your choice.
Though Sensi Paradise Beach Resort does not operate its own dive centre, there are dozens on the island and many that are located within a few minutes of the resort.
Sensi Paradise would be delighted to host your wedding. Whether you'd like your ceremony at our resort or out on the beach, under the palms, with beautiful Mae Haad bay and majestic Koh Nang Yuan Island as your backdrop, we can cater for your wedding and help organize the ceremony At your request, Sensi Paradise can arrange for your wedding ceremony to be blessed by a local Buddhist priest. We can also arrange for an official from Koh Phangan to attend your ceremony, in order to provide legal witness.
Sensi Paradise is always happy to arrange a romantic dinner for honeymooning couples. Imagine the warm waters of the South China Sea lapping right against the stonework of our terraced restaurant, the setting sun turning Mae Haad bay red-gold and the atoll of Nang Yuan rising from the sea, seeming close enough to touch - a time and a place you'll always remember.
At the end of Mae Haad beach, Koh Tao. The island resort you will always remember! Resort with a natural feeling bungalow a beauty wooden Thai style. Setting on a gentle slope leading to the beach with a beautiful coconut - fringed gardens.
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I am supplicating your help.
A few days ago I got an email from a woman who had just started doing one of my Mom's MTC lessons with her boys ( 8, 5, and 3). She wrote:
... I got ready to do honesty this week and started today because my oldest son was staying the night at his cousin's house and I thought things would go better with just the two younger ones. So, it went ok, but I realized that I am just not a very good teacher! It's not one of my talents and the kids barely tolerated me reading the two scriptures and listening to the song. They absolutely refused to listen to a scripture story. I really want this to work! I feel like this is what I'm supposed to be doing, but help!
How do you make it "fun" for the kids instead of making them feel like you are subjecting them to some torturous lecture? If my two youngest aren't going to enjoy the material in the way I tried to present it, my oldest son, who has ADHD, is never going to go for it. Do you have any tips for presenting the material? I wish I could come see how you present the lesson to your kids, but since I can't any tips would be appreciated for someone who struggles to be an interesting teacher. Thanks for any help you can give me!
As I read her email I felt lots of sympathy and kinship with her, because despite how organized and orderly the lessons appear on my blog they very rarely turn out picture perfect. In fact, it has been a really big struggle for me to get my kids to pay attention and to maintain some semblance of family love during our "school" time. I especially find it really hard to keep Asher, my busy five-year-old interested for long. Rose doesn't seem to have trouble, but getting my little boy to focus can be hard!
|Not my boy, but could be.
Here was my best attempt to respond to her question:
Some days my lessons with my kids go really well and other days they fall apart and are disasters! I have found that what has helped my kids more than anything is routine and consistency. For the first month we did lessons my kids struggled, but I just kept going and I had the same order and routine every day. Chores, pledge of allegiance, song, scripture story or story book , and activity (or no activity if things were too wild). After awhile they got comfortable with the routine and it got easier, but it was a struggle at first.
As far as being an interesting teacher. I think what has helped me the most is to let go of the "teacher" mode and just be a mom. I don't have to assume the role or persona of a teacher. I just need to be their mom, to love them, and have fun. They don't have to sit quiet and reverently like they do at church, I don't expect that. I just expect that we are going to have fun and learn together, and hopefully feel the spirit.
Awhile ago I read a book called "Godly Play" by Jerome Berryman and basically his idea is that the true aim of religion is to get us to a point where Christ is our "friend" and not just an authority figure in out lives. Christ calls himself a friend several times throughout the scriptures when the person he is talking to has reached the point where they truly are friends (see D&C 84:77). Berryman's argument is that when children "play" with religious ideas and are free to explore them in a play-like situation they learn to make Christ a friend, an integral part of their life rather than someone to be feared or overwhelmed by. So that has been my overarching approach, to make spiritual learning fun and play centered rather than lecture or listening centered. But like I said, it doesn't always turn out great at our house either ;)
Don't be too hard on yourself. The key is just to be consistent and to experiment with what works with your kids. The more you pray to know what to do for your kids the more the lord will guide you!
I also have found that it makes a HUGE difference how prepared I am. If I haven't done my own scripture study, or prayed or mediated then things usually fall apart. Yet when I have prepared a lesson the night before AND have taken care of my own spiritual needs... things go much better. The days I am not prepared usually are the days that fall apart, mostly because I am cranky and impatient.
That was all the suggestions I had for her and I found myself wishing I had more to give her. I feel sort of like a hypocrite giving suggestions about getting kids to pay attention, because that is something I struggle with too.
I would love to hear from other parents what tricks they have found to keep their children engaged as they teach them, during scripture study, virtue lessons, homeschool, tying their shoes, or whatever. Any help would be appreciated.