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This is an exciting and fascinating Bill and there will be great debates. I look forward to the Committee stage, where I suspect that I will probably learn much more than I contribute.
Baroness Deech: My Lords, I declare an interest as a former chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for more than seven years.
I welcome the periodic review by Parliament of this area of the law. I note that in the Bill there is confirmation in every respect of decisions taken by the authority. All the scientific provisions in the Bill, which I regard as excellent, confirm decisions already taken by the authority. There is evident respect for the way in which the authority has approached its job and I hope that noble Lords are pleased that the HFEA is not to be amalgamated with another body.
It is where the Bill crosses over into the organisation of family life that I have more concerns. There is a risk in the unfolding of IVF and the consequent science that our humanity and the respective roles of men and women are ignored. It would be extraordinary if this House were to ignore the contribution made by half of
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There would be fewer concerns if the NHS provided more IVF and if such provision as there is were spread more evenly across the country. It is important to note that the public do not take IVF for granted. Treatment rolls on into new areas and blurs into research. I hope that the House will resist the siren voices that say that IVF has become commonplace and there is no need to regulate it. Clause 7 requires regulation to be proportionate. However, I should tell your Lordships that, speaking from experience, the pressure from politics and the media are such that, whenever a relatively small but unavoidable human error occursfor example, a lost embryothere is a hue and cry and a call for more regulation, and it would be wise to err on the side of safety. Furthermore, private doctors in this field are among the wealthiest clinicians in the country. It is of course in their interests to ensure that, by using many embryos, the woman becomes pregnant, but the costs of multiple births fall on the National Health Service. This is unfair and I look forward to the day when no more than one embryo at a time may be used.
In this field, the law is paramount but we should not forget the need for moneyproper resources to enforce, to register and to fight casesbecause all the time judicial review is being used to challenge interpretations, no matter how watertight the definitions may seem. Then of course there are ethics. The authority has indeed worked out ethical principles: autonomy, safety, welfare, respect for the embryo and the saving of life.
In the scientific field, the Bill confirms the wider use of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. That is good. I hope that your Lordships will be pleased that the deliberate choice of an embryo that is, for example, likely to be deaf will be prevented by Clause 14. The Bill confirms saviour siblings, no selection of sex for social reasons, and extended purposes for research in embryology, first allowed in the 2001 regulations. That research, once legitimated, put the UK at the forefront of world stem cell research. Interspecies embryos will be legitimated and I think that that is right. The Bill reaffirms the importance of consent. There is to be no use of gametes taken from comatose or dead persons without their prior consent, as set out in paragraphs 5, 9 and 10 of Schedule 3. I also welcome the cooling-off period of one year when consent is withdrawn to avoid further sad cases such as that of Natallie Evans, which went to the European Court of Human Rights.
However, I feel that I should take issue with two clauses. Clause 14 would omit a childs need for a father as a consideration in the assessment of welfare that has to be carried out by the doctor proposing to treat a woman. I hope that this new clause can be removed so that we revert to the law as it standsthe careful and sensitive compromise worked out in 1990, as described by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay, which has held firm for all that period. The requirement is, after all, only to consider the need; it is not an absolute ban on treatment by any means,
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Does a child really not need a father? Clearly, the need for a mother remains unchallengedit is implicit in the way that the law works. I think that a child needs a father. First, we are where we are. To remove the requirement that a child needs a father is to make a fresh statement to the effect that a child does not need a father. It sends a message to men, at a time when many of them feel undermined as providers and parents, contrary to government policy in this field. Government policy is that men should pay for their children after divorce and separation and that they should take responsibility. Divorce law judges hold that contact with a father after divorce is a good thing. Recently, the Government have sought to encourage single women to name the father of their babies on the birth certificates. We are told that children who find out that they are adopted or created by donor insemination need to know their fathers. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child says that every child has the right to know and to be cared for by both parents and of course anonymity has been removed from sperm donors, which must mean that they are important.
The current law does no more than require that a doctor checks whether there is a male in the social circlefor example, a grandfatherand causes parents to reflect on how to cope with the situation. Indeed the requirements have been much watered down by the HFEA code which has done its utmost to ensure that there is no discrimination without good reason. I would argue that the present law is not discriminatory. It applies to men and women: heterosexual couples, homosexual couples, married, cohabiting and others. Even if it were discriminatory, it is justified on the ground that the welfare of the child is paramount.
There is a wealth of research showing that children need fathers, not just a parent. Children need to see complementary roles, the relationship between the sexes, a microcosm of society as they grow up. There is also research showing that children born to lesbian parents do well, but it is limited research, mostly carried out by one researcher in this country and of necessity the children are very young. Some research shows that those children suffer from the inevitably confused and secretive family relationships that occur.
Recent reports have placed Britain at the bottom of the international league tables for the welfare of children and we know that boys without parents fail at school, that they turn to worse role models and that fathers play a great part in the upbringing of their children as well. A survey reported this morning shows that 77 per cent of the public would keep the law the way it is. After all, if a woman is pregnant and her husband dies during the pregnancy, do we not say that is a tragedy?
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Finally, I put in a plea. It takes courage to stand up for what is right for children; women have won respect for their bodies and their roles in the past few years; but it is time to take care of and to support men in this enterprise as well.
The Lord Bishop of St Albans: My Lords, I have the very considerable privilege of being a member of the Joint Committee which met for a few weeks in the early summer of this year. I too want to put on record not only my appreciation of the chairmanship of Mr Phillip Willis but also the work of the Clerk to the committee. We were all working under great pressure and they were outstanding. To meet the deadlines we had to put to one side some of the ethical issues that underlie the Bill, although in the time available we were able to consider briefly just a few.
It is relatively easy to expose the ethical issues by asking a simple question: does the kind of scientific endeavour and therapeutic treatment which this Bill allows need regulation at all and why not let scientific and therapeutic market forces rip? As soon as one asks the question one begins to realise what some of the ethical issues are. Unregulated research and treatment could jeopardise our common understanding of what it means to be human; it could jeopardise our understanding of what we believe to be the meaning and purpose of human life; it could jeopardise our understanding of human relationships; and an unregulated free-for-all could and might lead to the unscrupulous treatment of the most vulnerable and could and might lead to some appalling abuses of power.
I outline again the four major philosophical ethical areas: first, the meaning of our humanity; secondly, the meaning and purpose of our lives; thirdly, the meaning, purpose and value of human relationships; and, fourthly, the right use of power. Those four ethical issues are accompanied by othersfor example, because we have the ability to carry out research and treatment, how do we decide whether we should, and what criteria should we use to determine this? How are we to decide whether the kind of research and treatment outlined by the Bill is likely to harm or enhance individuals in society? And, conversely, what might be the effects on individuals in society if we fail to carry out the proposed research and treatment? In my view the moral questions inherent in the Bill tumble over each other in rapid succession.
I again remind noble Lords that our ability in the Joint Committee to tackle some of those questions was hampered by two thingsfirst, as I have said, lack of time, and, secondly, having to spend time on whether the HFEA and the HTA should be coalesced into RATE. That proposal has wisely been abandoned, but the time the Joint Committee spent on that could have been spent on some of the ethical questions. In that committee some of us became aware of both the significance and the accuracy of what Sir Liam Donaldson described as the,
Some consider that medical ethics are somehow subservient to the science being undertaken. The then Minister said in her evidence to us:
It is a mixture of science and ethics in these areas and part of getting the ethics right is taking public opinion with you in terms of support for the science.
I do not share that utilitarian view of ethics.
Our lack of time as a committee also meant that we were unable to explore in as much depth as some of us would have liked not only the questions I have outlined, but the one that is key to this whole enterprise: what is the moral status of the human embryo? Does every embryo from the moment of fertilisation have a unique indelible moral status or does the moral status of the embryo change as the embryo develops? I recognise that the Warnock reportand many philosophers and theologians have before and sincedebated this question, but ethically that question lies at the heart of this Bill, and, because of changes in science and technology and changes in public attitudes, it needs to be debated again.
I have read something about the science involved in human fertility research and treatment. I found much of that science breathtakingly interesting. I recognise that it is carried out in some instances with remarkable humilityit is very movingbut I am among those who believe that this Bill is of such fundamental importance that greater and further consideration of the ethical issues should and must be given.
I share the view of the Joint Committee that a joint bioethics committee of Parliament should be set up. If noble Lords want the details they should look at paragraph 295 on page 77 of the Joint Committee's report. I hope that that recommendation will be acted on as a matter of urgency. Such a committee should be appointed not to provide retrospective reflection on legislation but to provide a lot of prospective thinking.
We hear mucheven today we have heard muchabout impact assessments. What is the point of impact assessments if they do not include the ethical dimensions of the issues before us? Of course I recognise the beauty and humanity of much of the science, but it would be tragic if that beauty and humanity were to be damaged by any deficit in ethical thinking in this Parliament. It would be even more appalling if those who might be brought to birth as a result of the proposals outlined asked of us: Why? Why were they in such a rush? Why didnt they have the courage or the wisdom to give deep and long consideration to the morality of the proposals before rushing into law?.
The Bill is not only about us in our generation. It is not only about our place in the world scientifically and technologically. It is also potentially about generations of people yet to come. It seems to me that we owe it to them to ensure that we give as much attention to the ethics as we do to the science and to the regulatory mechanisms. It is for their sake that we must get the ethics, and therefore the legislation, right.
Baroness Jay of Paddington: My Lords, the House will be very grateful to the right reverend Prelate for raising the basic moral issues that lie behind this important legislation. I rise, in this debate of experts, as a lay person who has none the less followed the issues closely for 20 years, to say that I very much welcome the Bill as the latest and most sensible step in a process that has been exemplary of good governance since the 1980s. After all, in an era when Parliament, the Executive and even independent regulators are often under fire for various inadequacies, it is good that we can be confident that in this very complex area of IVF and embryo research, we have been extraordinarily well guided and organised, both in policy and in practice.
As the Minister said in his introduction to the Bill, we are now a world leader in this field. Importantly, the strength of the relationship that has grown up between scientists, policymakers and regulators has meant that as technology has developed, the ethical debate has continued and the Government have notas is so often the caselagged behind advances in science or changes in public opinion, but have been able to keep pace with and reflect exciting new opportunities and differences in people's views.
That is obviously the purpose of the Bill. I must congratulate the Government, as other speakers have done, on the process of extensive consultation and pre-legislative scrutiny that has produced these very thoughtful proposals. Particular thanks are obviously due to those Members of your Lordships' House and Members of another place who took part in the Joint Scrutiny Committee on the draft Bill, most of whose substantive recommendations I agree with and, much more importantly, the Government have accepted. Noble Lords who were members of the scrutiny committee have spoken and will speak about the specific changes from the draft Bill that they welcome. I simply say that I am delighted to see the disappearance of RATE. It is my very strong view that the right architecture for providing a clear statutory framework based on the principles of devolved regulation is now the backbone of the Bill.
In the context of both clinical practice and research, I have always personally supported the flexibility of permissive legislation plus, needless to say, very firm regulatory boundaries, with the boundaries derivedhere I perhaps part company with the right reverend Prelatefrom the gradualist approach to the developing moral status of the embryo, which I was first convinced of by the report produced by the noble Baroness, Lady Warnock. I appreciate of course that others prefer a more explicit, absolutist approach, but I am happy to continue with the way in which we have satisfactorily reached the position that we have during the past 17 years. None the less, I would agree with the right reverend Prelate that the suggestion made by the scrutiny committee of the joint standing bioethics committee in Parliament has attractions, which I hope we can debate further at later stages of the Bill.
It is the pure research questions which will continue to throw up the most tricky problems for both those concerned with ethics and the regulators. We have all
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However, clinical advantages of being able to use stored embryos in many social situations quickly became obvious. On the medical research side, the possibilities of using spare frozen embryos were already opening up. Today, freezing and storing are common practice. This Bill, in dealing with todays realities, expands the definitions of so-called permitted embryos to include, as we have heard, interspecies embryos, which were unthought of at least by this lay person in the 1980s.
I was very appreciative of the strictures that the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, addressed in his contribution about the definitions of those interspecies embryos and I hope that we will return to that at a later stage. I clearly understand that the very existence of interspecies embryos can create the sort of apprehensions that I felt when I first saw those steaming vats of frozen embryos two decades ago.
However, I believe that some of the same arguments about offering better solutions to the infertile, as well as significantly improving disease research, apply here at least as strongly to the new technologies as they did to some of the older ones. As I understand it, the most convincing argument for using specially created interspecies embryos is that there is a shortage of specially created human embryos donated for research. The research potential is simply too valuable to be limited in this way. After all, we have already seen early progress in understanding such complex conditions as Parkinsons disease and Alzheimers disease. I am particularly impressed by the valuable insights from pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. If assisted reproduction techniques can help to diminish the appalling burden of inherited genetic diseases, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy or Huntingtons Chorea, it will rightly seem a medical and social triumph. I am grateful to those members of the Medical Research Council and other scientists who have given me very detailed briefing on this, to which again I hope we will return in detail when we consider some of these possibilities.
It is interesting that the general public appear broadlyas we all know, this does not always happen in todays worldto support the work of scientists and doctors in this field. Tolerance, presumably, is based on the appreciation of the practical help given by IVF to infertile couples and hope for a breakthrough in some of the familiar, intractable diseases. I suspect that public confidence is also based on the record of good governance in this field.
None the less, the scrutiny committee was right to look critically at the way in which evidence of public
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I was pleased that the committee also noted that those of us who served on the earlier committee on the assisted dying Bill introduced by the noble Lord, Lord Joffe, had similar problems when trying to assess the weight of public opinion on relevant questions. It is a very important issue, particularly in sensitive policy areas where stakeholders and interest groups may be loudly vociferous and appear to be numerically strong but do not necessarily represent the broad democratic position. I agree with the scrutiny committee that the Government should take a more proactive approach in supporting public awareness and understanding of these issues, and look, too, closely at how public opinion is sampled and reported in this and other areas of bioethical interest.
On practical service provision, I follow the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, in saying that I would like to see IVF provided by the National Health Service to many more people. It would mean not only an improvement in service equity, but it might also, as the noble Baroness suggested, lead to regulatory advantage. In the past and no doubt in the future, I understand that the activities to have caused the HFEA the greatest problems have usually been found at the margins of the commercial sector where services are offered to women who are desperate for any form of treatment. I have no doubt that as the technology develops, it will be here that the ethical horror stories, such as cloning and inappropriate implantation, will be found. The more that can be done by the NHS, the easier it will be to squeeze out dubious commercial practice and regulate more thoroughly.
The question of the role of fathers has already arisen this afternoon, and for myself I take an unusually agnostic position. I listened with great interest to the contribution of the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, and I look forward to the speech of my noble friend Lady Hollis of Heigham, who I believe is to speak in the gap. She, too, was a member of the committee on this Bill.
In conclusion, the process which led to this Bill was rightly described by the noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Harries of Pentregarthwho has also been closely involved in this fieldin the Queens Speech debate as a model of good practice. The principles of permissive statute backed by tight regulation have brought us very successfully from the early days of IVF technology to today. Now I hope that those same principles can take us forward to the next stages, both in clinical practice and in scientific discovery. In my view, it would be a very great pity if this model of good practice was diverted or distorted by attempts to introduce other matters such as abortion into our consideration of the Bill. I was glad that it appeared that all Front Benches were agreed on this. I look forward to further discussion on these very complex issues, and to the Committee stage.
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The H10 Las Palmeras Hotel sits next to the Playa De Las Americas beach where you can lay back and enjoy the sunshine or try your hand at jet skiing, paragliding, windsurfing or banana boat rides while on your holiday to Playa De Las Americas. Hotel H10 Las Palmeras is close to the resort centre with many shopping and partying opportunities and families will feel right at home in this resort with a wealth of family-friendly activities including the Tenerife Zoo, the Octopus Aquapark, the Ecological Park and the Camel Park.
If you're after some non-beach activities to try on your holidays to Playa De Las Americas why not try go-karting, bungee jumping, horse riding, camel riding and quad biking or bowling. If golf is your thing, there is a course just outside of the resort or why not book a boat and island hop to one of the other Canary Islands. A great day out on your Tenerife holidays is a trip to the capital of Santa Cruz or the Mount Teide National Park where you can jump on the cable car to the top of the mountain to check out the views. When the evening comes, be prepared to party till the early hours on your Playa De Las Americas holidays with a fantastic selection of bars, pubs and clubs on offer.
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The hotel has a main restaurant called "Garo�" that serves an international buffet with cold and hot dishes and show cooking area with the following meal times:
Breakfast service: 07:00 - 10:00
Self-service for coffee, milk, infusions, juices and mineral water in vending machines. Station of sparkling wine.
Lunch service: 13:00 - 15:30
Dinner service: 18:30 - 21:30 in winter, 19:00 - 22:00 in summer.
Other restaurants onsite include the Italian Restaurant "Specchio Magico" serving dinner between 18:30 - 21:30. One free evening meal for every seven day stays, booking in advance, subject to availability.
There is also the snack bar restaurant "La Choza" serving breakfast a late breakfast with coffee, infusions and pastry products, lunch and snacks at the following times.
Breakfast service: 10:00 - 12:30
Light lunch service: 12:30 - 15:30
Afternoon snack service: 15:30 - 18:30
Beverage service, all-inclusive: soft drinks, juices, mineral water, beer and wines in vending machines. Wine list and special drinks chargeable.
The Big Ben Bar serves drinks between 18:00 - 01:00 List of drinks "All-inclusive" and extra charge, served at bar.
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There are 2 swimming pools and 1 children's pool.
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The company has officially opened a factory in Linz, Austria, that produces organic semiconductors, which are chips made by spraying intricate patterns of specialized ink onto layers of foil and polymer.The factory is capable of producing 40,000 square meters of semiconductors a year, says Wasiq Bokhari, CEO of Bioident, a related company that will market Nanoident chips to the health market. The initial customers will be sister companies of Nanoident, but the company has also formed alliances with water testing companies and other industrial concerns.A traditional factory that can produce 40,000 square meters of silicon computer chips would cost about US$1.3 billion and require about 5,000 employees, he said in an interview. The Nanoident factory costs about US$10 million and can be run by about 50 people.Organic semiconductors, however, won't function as memory chips in computers or as processors. They are far slower and degrade over time. Instead, organic semiconductors will be targeted at one-time-only applications such as water purity testers: insert a water drop and the chip will analyze the chemicals floating inside of the drop. The company has also devised lab-on-a-chip chips that can extract data about a person's health through a blood sample.Organic materials have already crept into some fields. Cell phone manufacturers already sell phones with screens made from organic light emitting diodes, or OLEDs, but few other commercial applications exist. Most of the time, organic chips appear as part of scientific papers. At University of California at Berkeley, for instance, researchers have printed an organic semiconductor that can tell its user if a bottle of wine has gone bad.Traditional silicon chips are too expensive for these types of applications, which now are conducted on lab equipment, the company says.The company currently has yields–a measure of the number of good chips that come out of a manufacturing run–of about 70 percent and will get to 80 percent, Bokhari said.
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One of the key differences between regular and organic semiconductors is how transistors get laid down. In standard chips, lithography machines sketch a circuit pattern. Trenches are then dug into silicon and filled with metal through a complex series of chemical spraying and etchings.With organic semiconductors, 128 inkjet nozzles spray a pattern onto foil or polymer. Researchers, though, have to account for interactions between the ink and the different layers, and the performance character of the ink.Printed semiconductors have far larger features than silicon chips. Nanoident's first chips will have features measuring 10 to 100 microns wide. That's more than 100 times larger than the features inserted into silicon chips. Current silicon chips sport 65-nanometer features (a nanometer is one thousandth of a micron)."We can go below 10 microns, but what are the applications that would require that?" Bokhari said. "We'd need a compelling reason for high-speed devices."Organic semiconductors, however, can come in a variety of sizes. Nanoident has built some that measure 160 centimeters a side, or more than 1.5 meters wide. These large devices are used as sensors."You can't do that with silicon," he said.


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Strategic Interaction and Knowledge Sharing in the KDE Developer Mailing List
In stark contrast with the fully participative "bazaar" imagery of open source software (OSS) development, some recent empirical research has pointed out that much of the OSS development is carried out by a small percentage of developers. This raises serious concerns that concentration of development effort on a few will limit knowledge sharing and underutilize the available resources. Using the notion of strategic interaction, this paper argues that individual developers often interact strategically with other highly resourceful developers by forming a smaller but better organized structure to intensify the types of epistemic interactions that matter most to the OSS development. A general framework of strategic interaction including participation inequality, conversational interactivity, and cross-thread connectivity is proposed to examine its impact on knowledge sharing, and validated using 128 discussion threads from the K Desktop Environment (KDE) developer mailing list. The findings indicate that strategic interaction has expanded knowledge sharing but with the caveat that extreme concentration of development could have an opposite effect. For researchers, this study dovetails the incentive logic by proposing and validating the strategic aspects of OSS participation to better understand the collective dynamics underpinning OSS development. Practitioners can use this approach to evaluate and better support existing knowledge-sharing initiatives.
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Atlantic City's high homicide rate has prompted Gov. Chris Christie to attack Mayor Lorenzo Langford, saying he has failed the city.
"I've said all along that I have grave concerns about the leadership in that city, and I've made that very clear over and over again," Christie told reporters Tuesday. "The mayor there has failed, and he's impossible to work with in any kind of significant way."
Christie, who answered questions from the press following a tour of a family center in Jersey City, said he is concerned Atlantic City has had 15 homicides in 2012 — on track to make this year among the most violent in the city's history. The Republican governor, who has made the revival of the tourism and casino industry in Atlantic City a priority of his tenure, appeared to blame Langford, a Democrat, for some of the city's problems.
"He is very difficult," Christie said of Langford. "If you talk to anybody who tries to work down in Atlantic City, it is very difficult to work with the mayor, and I think that's really indicative."
The mayor is away this week and could not be reached for comment.
But while critical of Langford's management of the city — "in the outer parts of the city" — the governor praised the beautification and safety improvements that have been made inside the city's Tourism District. The district was created by legislation last year, and state officials were given more regulatory control over that area.
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Glass said, "It's basically a 24/7 job that we all take seriously."
The governor has made his public criticism of political opponents a hallmark of his leadership style, said Brigid Harrison, a professor of political science and law at Montclair University.
"I really think it's his brand of politics," she said of Christie. "Across the board, we've seen the governor call political opponents to task."
At the same time, Langford was elected by citizens of Atlantic City and blaming him for its woes isn't helpful, said Harrison, a Galloway resident and unaffiliated voter.
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Vince Polistina, a former Republican state assemblyman from Egg Harbor Township who, when he unsuccessfully ran for a state Senate seat, had the backing of Langford, said he didn't agree with Christie's characterization of the mayor.
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We enjoyed every second. The villa, the beach, the neighborhood, nearby places and activities are great. We had a memorable Family Vacation.
This was our first trip to Puerto Rico and I have rented through VRBO several times. For the most part I have been very happy with the rentals but there is the occasional home that I am disappointed in. This was not one of those. Once we arrived to the Villa, I was very happy with how close it was to the ocean. The Villa itself was clean and stocked with everything we needed. We felt safe here and the neighbors were great. I think the description Tim gave of the villa and how far it is from the beach/ocean was accurate. The view from the 3rd floor was amazing! It was nice having the boogie boards, towels and chairs for the beach. The only issue we had was the water pressure. We noticed that if more than 1 person took a shower the water pressure dropped way down. Once we figured that out we just made sure we rotated showers which was not a big deal. The pool as Tim mentions is really not anything you want to spend time at, but as Tim also mentions, why spend time at the pool when you have that magnificent beach/ocean right out in front of you. We thought we had an issue, which turned out to be a non issue, but Tim was very quick to respond when I contacted him on this. It was nice having the restaurants right down the beach. We walked down the beach 3 different nights for dinner. The Tamboo Bar was ok, the Burger Bar was pretty good and the sushi at the Pool Bar was awesome. We even stopped at the chicken stand down the street, which was very good. Overall I was very pleased with the Villa and Tim. We would definitely come back here.
We spent 6 nights at this villa and it was a dream vacation! More than enough beds for our group and the house had everything you could need for the beach! It really is right on the water. The pictures don't do the place justice! I will never rent another hotel for vacation because a home rental is a million times more convenient and saves so much money having a kitchen and beach towels, chairs, coolers etc. You truly will not be disappointed in your stay here!
We had a wonderful stay here. The house was perfect for our requirements and was located in the perfect spot for beach, surfing, yoga and a choice of many great eating places. We will definitely be back! Thank you!
My family and I loved our time at this house in Rincon. We comfortably fit four adults and four kids with plenty of room to spare. The house has everything you could want from a beach rental and is just a few hundred feet from the water. Look forward to coming back soon!
There are plenty of activities in and around the Rincon area. There is also a small marina in Rincon for half and full day boating, diving and snorkeling trips. There are whale watching trips during the winter months and whales can often be seen from our beach just outside the front door of from the third floor patio during whale watching season (January-March). You can walk to restaurants like Janeiro's (across from the complex entrance) Casa Islena (a 8 minute walk down the beach-towards the sunset) and Tamboo-Beside the Pointe a popular restaurant/bar-a 12-15 minute walk down the beach featuring live music on the weekends.
Kenny our property manager is there to help you find terrific places to visit, eat and drink and can also arrange for an in-house massage as well as the scheduling of surfing lessons.
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Fatherhood Friday's
Thursday, January 28, 2010
{Joel & Jackson}
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
I love to listen to daddy's music
Monday, January 25, 2010
"Leavin' on a jet plane....
Friday, January 22, 2010
Fatherhood Friday's
So next week we are going to be away for the boys for a whole week! We have been away from them a night here and a night there but nothing like this. It might not seem like I should miss them that much but they are my little buddies who I chase around the house every night and here giggle so loud I'm laughing so hard, I'm going to miss that. It's going to be a long week away from them but Jen & I will be in good company in Mexico and I know the boys we will taken care of by Nana & Papa. They always are when they are away from us no matter who is watching them. I will have more the following week when we get back about our trip and how the boys are. Everyone have a great weekend and next week!
Love, Jon (DADA)
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Another fun play day at the mall
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Semi-Wordless Wednesday....
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
New stools
Monday, January 18, 2010
Wanna go for a ride?
Friday, January 15, 2010
Fatherhood Friday's
I know that Jennifer wrote on this earlier in the week but I thought I would give you an idea of that is going on in the Waters household from my eyes.
First, the boys are growing so fast. It seems like every day they are changing and learning more words and doing different tricks. It also seems like they are getting to be more and more independent. The other night we were all sitting in the living room watching TV when the cat ran upstairs, then 2 little boys who were so interested in where she was going followed. We heard them up there playing around: giggling, turning the humidifier on and off, turning their space heater on and off, opening and closing the washer and dryer oh yea and of course screaming at the cat. As this was all going on I looked over and Jennifer and said "our poor little boys are growing up so fast, they don't even want to be around us". It's kind of sad but also nice that they can go out and do things on their own. I know in the next weeks, months and years this is going to be changing more and more but it just seems like here lately it is going so fast.
After seeing our kids like this it makes me so happy to be a father. When they walk in and say "DADA" or when you leave and they run over give you a kiss and hug and wave bye to you it just makes me so proud. I couldn't ask for anymore in our 2 little men.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Update on our lives....part 2
- My 3 month membership ended at Farrell's this past weekend so after much talk and deliberation/convincing, Jon and I agreed that it made more sense to sign up for a year ($693 equals out to $57.75/month) versus the 3 month membership ($237 equals out to $91/month). So that means I'm seriously committed for another year!! I'm sooo excited to keep doing Farrell's. I just LOVE LOVE LOVE the kickboxing so much and since my body/knees don't allow me to run this is a perfect way for me to continue my workouts and stay fit. So I'll continue to go every morning during the week at 4:20AM and then on Saturday's when I can fit it in the mornings.
- I'm on a mission to decorate my house. After we did our remodel on our lower level it was around the holidays so I had Halloween stuff up, then Thanksgiving and then Christmas and now after it all came down I'm left with little decor for everyday! So...I've been online hunting for berry wreath candle holders, wreaths and just cute decor to have in the house. We only have a couple sofa tables in the living room so I don't need too much stuff. In the next month I'm going to have an Uppercase Living Party because my walls are bare in some places and I desperately need some of that cute stuff!!
- For those of you that really know me you know I'm very Type A Personality, very OCD, very organized/anal whatever you want to call it! But every night the house must be picked up before we go to bed. Jon knows this about me and it doesn't phase him anymore and he helps out every night.
- No dishes in the sink
- The counters cleaned
- Toys all put away
- Pillows and blankets nicely placed and folded on the couch
- Floors swept up
- Laundry into wash/dry
I know I'm crazy/obsessed but knowing that my house is cleaned every night makes me sleep better and when I get up in the morning it is a great start to the day. Oh, and yes I make the bed every morning and my closet is color coordinated and then sorted by short and long sleeves but I'm sure you already assumed that!!
- I don't do any of the cooking at our house. Yep, my sweet hubby does it all! I like to make the menus, make up food on Sunday's for our snacks/lunches, but when it comes to supper, that is all Jon! Right when we get home with the boys we both go up to change our clothes and I play with the boys/keep them entertained while Jon makes supper. As you read above I like cleaning, so I do most of the picking up after supper but Jon does all the cooking.
- My favorite time of day is at night, after we are done with supper and right before bed. I love this time because I usually sit on the floor or couch with a baby on each of my legs and they snuggle with me. I just love this mommy and baby time. The boys are really tried by 6:30 and we struggle to keep them going until bedtime at 7:30. So me being with them on the floor or Jon chasing them around the kitchen keeps them going until bedtime.
- In just a week and a half we are going to Mexico with 2 other couples for 5 days. We are super excited to have a nice break from the winter in the warm weather. We'll miss the boys so much but mommy and daddy will be recharged when we get back! We're leaving the boys with my parents and they will take them to daycare everyday so they can keep their routine and in the evenings they'll pick them up from daycare and they'll go with Nana and Papa to the gym and then out to stay on the farm overnight.
- In the past couple of months Jon has really gotten back into working out. Before the snow hit, he'd run a few miles at his work over his lunch but since his path is covered in snow he's been going to Accel Fitness every night after work. He likes running on the treadmill and lifting weights. He hasn't worked at Accel since last July. Wait...he did work one day last week when it was a bad snow storm the night manager couldn't make it in so he worked from 7-10 that night. The National Championship game was on so he was happy to be there with ALL the TVs and be able to watch it uninterrupted!
- Jon could live on cookies. He honestly could. This guy loves sweets sooo much it is crazy. I don't ever bake because I don't want to have that stuff around but when his mommy makes him Tollhouse Bars he could sit and eat the whole batch in one sitting. We know where Jackie gets his sweet tooth!! He also loves to sleep. If Jon could sleep in everyday until 10 he'd be soo happy. We alternate on the weekends and we each get to sleep in one day (until 8:30) while the other is up with the boys and makes them breakfast and plays downstairs. If I'd let my hubby sleep all the time and eat cookies whenever he wanted he'd be the happiest man ever!
- Our entryway system is completed and now needs to be stained. We are staining it to match our trim and cupboards. Jon will be busy staining that in the next few weeks so we can start using it. I'm having a hard time finding baskets that are the rights sizes to fit the cubbyholes for toys on the bottom and gloves/other misc. stuff on the top, so I'll probably have to have them custom made.
- I am OCD about the inside of the house and Jon is OCD about the outside of the house. He hates to have people drive over the driveway before he can snowblow/shovel because then the snow is packed down on the driveway. During mowing season, he is very particular about how the yard is mowed and keeping the weeds out of it. The boys will be old enough this year he can teach them the difference between a weed and grass and they can help him pull the weeds!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Gram's 73rd Birthday
Monday, January 11, 2010
Update on our lives...the boys are 1st
- Jackson & Joel have about 6 words, their favorites: dog, cat, off. At first, I was worried because the pediatrician said at 18 months (which they will be on the 25th of January) they should have 18-20 words. But in her next sentence she said that twins usually talk to each other more than to others. It isn't that they don't talk to us, we just can't understand what they say! But they CLEARLY understand each other and that is very cute!
- They are terrified of soap. Strange, yes! During baths we'd always make it a bubble bath and all the sudden they started realizing they had soap on their hands and would cry and freak out. So now baths are soap free!
- From the minute we come downstairs in the mornings or walk in the door in the evenings, little Joel is pointing at the TV and saying..."eh, eh, eh, eh" until we put on Sesame Street. Yes, the kid is OBSESSED! We watch it all night (they miss it at daycare when its on during the day because they are napping) so all night it is on at our house. Oh and I forgot to mention that it's ALWAYS 1 of 2 episodes that we DVR'd because Joel like all the music and singing in them so both of the boys dance a lot. At least we got away from just playing the "entrance song" or beginning song, ya know the one that starts with "Sunny days, sweepin' the clouds away..." yes, I could recite the entire thing and then some!
- I don't remember the last time we watched the news at night (ya know cause Sesame Street is on) and no one say that I could stay up until 10 or even until 9 to watch it on channel 17, because I get up at 3:45 every morning so we're in bed by 9 most nights if not before. Or really any show for that matter in the evenings. After we put the boys to bed we do catch up on our shows we've DVR'd for the week, which is WAAAY to many since we only have about an hour each night to watch something and we're usually a week or so behind in shows.
- Jackson is very particular about his hands being clean at all times. They'll be eating supper and using their silverware (spoons need some work but they are great with forks) but he'll pick up a raspberry with his fingers and have red on it and say "eh, eh, eh, eh" pointing his at at you until you wipe it off. Oh well, I hate to be dirty too I guess!
- They will find the littlest piece of paper, a fuzzy, hair, crumb, etc. and bring it to me and want me to throw it away. Making their "eck, eck, eck" sound the whole time. I say, "yes honey that is ecky let's throw it away." Too cute, we've NEVER had to worry about our boys eating paper, or toys or anything off the ground because they think it is all "ecky"!
- The twins are VERY good at understanding what you say to them. We ask them to get diapers for us, wipes, go to the fridge and we'll get your cup, pick up your toy, where are you sunglasses, where is your phone, etc. and they always respond correctly to our question/request. Jackson was grabbing at the front of his diaper the other night and Jon said, "Jackie, do you have to go potty?" This little smarty took off and ran to the bathroom and pointed at toilet as if he wanted to be put up there to go potty. Of course when Jon placed him on the stool he got scared. But they sure are learning!!
- They are REALLY fast at going down the stairs, one little push on their tummy and they've zoomed all the way down. I've started to let them go up and down as they want when we're home. A little more freedom than I should give an almost 18 month old? Probably, but it's sure nice to have them know that it's ok to go up and believe it or not they really don't get into anything when they are up there. They like to go up and get my cheap bracelets out of my jewelry box (it is the drawer they can reach) and then they bring them down to me. Like "look mommy what we found/got into!" Oh well a little exploring never hurt anyone!
- Joel is learning to count. We use 1, 2, 3 when they go down the slide (we have 2 of the Little Tikes outside toys with slides in the basement). We always say, "1, 2, 3 go" and Joel doesn't really get 1 but he says "2" then looks as he goes down on "fwe" (3).
- Their personalities are showing more and more every. single. day! The boys were playing in our closet while I was getting ready and we have a vase in there with change in it and the boys were putting their hands in the vase. I said, "Jackson, Joel out of the vase please" and Jackson listened walked out of the closet. Our little fire-ball, Joel, giggled visciously and dove deeper in the vase with his hands doing his viscous giggle the whole time. Little stinker but that is how he is with everything, he tries to get away with more while his brother knows better!
- Jackson is a big helper. He loves to help clean, using the swiffer, the duster, the vacuum (which as you know we've named the monster) but he carries the "tail" aka the cord, around for me while I vacuum.
- They are both really good at giving things to each other, we say, "take X (paci, sippy, blanky, etc.) to your brother" and they do it. It is so cute!! Now there isn't any kissing or lovely between them like you sometimes hear people talk about twin girls like that. Now when I say, "Jackson give your brother a kiss" they both kiss each other. Again super cute!
- They are taking 2 naps a day. We were down to one 3-3.5 hour nap during the middle of the day and they'd go to bed at 7 but wake up at 4:30 or 5 every morning. I didn't care, since I've already said I'm up at 3:45 but Jon was getting a little tired of it. Talked to the pediatrician and she said to go back to two 1.5 naps and push bed-time back until 7:20 or 7:30 and see if that helps. Sure enough, within 2 days the boys weren't waking until 6 (which is when we wake them during the week) and were sleeping until 6:30 or 7 on the weekends!! So even though they are almost 18 months we do two naps. Just like the pediatrician said, you guys are up so early to leave the house some kids are just different.
- They are both blanky boys...they carry them everywhere and must have them almost all the time. They do know that once they walk into daycare they have to turn over their pacis and blankies to Lori's and that is the first thing they do, they had them to her. Also, when we get ready to eat or the bath they know that the blanky and paci get put on the counters so they pull them out of their mouths and say "eh, eh, eh" meaning her mama is my blanky and paci like a big boy!
Friday, January 8, 2010
Fatherhood Friday's - Playground at the Mall
Love, Jon (Dada)
Oh and Jen is having her wisdom teeth out this morning (maybe she'll be a little more wise..haha just jokin' honey) everyone please pray for a quick recovery for her! Love you babe.
{Joel and Jackson...look how excited Jackson is to be there!}
Thursday, January 7, 2010
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Where's Sophie?
Monday, January 4, 2010
Christmas at Grandma Millie's
{Nana and the tired twins}


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