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|April 16, 2014 11:22 AM EDT
By Noel Wurst, Managing Editor at Skytap
This article was originally published on the Skytap Blog
Noel Wurst: Hello, this is Noel Wurst with Skytap and I am speaking today with Peter Coffee. Peter is the VP for Strategic Resource at salesforce.com and he's also going to be taking part in the SDLC Acceleration Summit on May 13th in San Francisco, California. Peter how are you doing today?
Peter Coffee: It's great to be with you Noel. I'm fine, thank you.
Noel Wurst: Great, awesome. Well, I was going to say that I had the privilege of reading your bio online. I recommend listeners go online and check it out for themselves. It's such a varied background, you've done a little bit of everything. I saw everything from aerospace, the defense sector, alternative fuel research, video game development, and I was curious as to what you're working on now with Salesforce or outside of there. What's piquing your interest these days?
Peter Coffee: My job was created seven years ago at salesforce.com, three years after I had a breakfast conversation with Marc Benioff about what it would take to let people build things on the web—we didn't call it the cloud seven years ago—as readily as some of the tools like Hypercard or Visual Basic for letting them build things on desktops, and get rid of the idea that you had to build the app with all of the same complexity and difficulties and then have additional compounded difficulties putting it up online. But instead, be able to get to something that allowed you to build it as readily as if you were just going to run it on your PC, and then make it securely and reliably available to people anywhere. That was the vision for what the next generation platform needed to be. And if you think about it, the web went from being a medium where you can publish stuff for other people to read, to posting stuff on which other people could comment, to now where it really is a medium for taking what you know and packaging it in a way that makes it available for other people to use.
There was a peer research report that just came out recently that said, you've got to stop thinking of the World Wide Web as the world's library and start to think of it as the world's supercomputer.
Peter Coffee: That's really what has fascinated me in all of the areas where I've been fortunate to have the opportunity to work, is that we have tremendous facilities available to us now. Not to look at one or two isolated point ideas about what might work and then pick the one that works the least badly. But really to start mapping and entire spaces of solutions that are available to problems and really being to hunt for something close to optimality on how we get stuff done. I think that's what's really exciting in every field today, is the opportunity to pursue optimality instead of settling for incremental improvement.
Noel Wurst: It's definitely an exciting time to be in that field with all the different capabilities that are popping up day by day and month by month. I noticed that the session you're giving at the SDLC Acceleration Summit—the session or panel that you're going to speaking on is titled, "Faster In What Direction?"
Peter Coffee: Yes.
Noel Wurst: The abstract warns specifically against "accelerating a legacy model or mistaking it for progress."
Peter Coffee: Yes.
Noel Wurst: And, like you were just saying, with everything changing so much and changing so quickly, I was wondering if maybe there is an enterprise or a company that is changing quickly—what are maybe some of the warning signs that should maybe alert themselves that maybe they're not moving in the right direction? Or maybe they are changing quickly, but maybe it's not for the best.
Peter Coffee: The interesting thing about the place that's loosely called "cloud computing" is that it's very much like a supermarket in which you can walk in, and if you know what you're there to buy—it's there. If you go to the rice and beans aisle you'll find sacks of ingredients at an attractive price. And you'll take them home and you'll have to do a lot of work before you can put the food on the table. But if it occurs to you to look in another direction, well over there's the deli counter where there's some very interesting things that you might not even attempt to create yourself, that are ready for you to consume pretty much as soon as you get them home and pop them in the microwave.
That's really where the cloud marketplace is today. You've got the infrastructure cloud of virtual servers that you can spin up by the minute or the hour and do traditional skills intensive, error prone, complex and innovation limited IT at an attractive cost.
Then you've got the platform as a service and software as a service markets where you can find tremendously innovative best practices solutions available for you to use immediately and modify and tailor to become uniquely yours. I think that's the biggest caveat that I have to offer people who are attracted by the obvious economies and accelerations that virtualizing legacy IT can provide, and who think that that constitutes victory when they aren't realizing that the next logical step is to move beyond wiring up their virtual machines the way they wired up their physical ones. Instead say, "well what if I were thinking about what I do? What if I was thinking about application construction as composition and orchestration of services and the linkage at the API level, instead of composition of hardware and linkage at the binary data transfer level?"
Noel Wurst: That's a really great analogy, the "rice and beans aisle" that you said before. That's exactly what the situation is. There's all these options out there for people to change for the better, and to be able to accelerate their entire business, or the SDLC. But at the same time, it's still really difficult for people to change. Even if they see the success that other companies have had by changing and by reinventing their processes.
But I was kind of curious as to ... I know why it's hard for people to change. But what are some of the things, the reasons that those who are still maybe embracing somewhat outdated technologies. What are some of the reasons that they shouldn't fear that change? Besides just, "it'll get better" or "it's going to be great in the end." The ones where that's not enough to convince someone to make that kind of investment or make that kind of change. What are some reasons to not fear that path or completely different direction for their business?
Peter Coffee: It's perfectly logical for people who've invested years or decades in mastering a set of skills to seek reasons to believe that those skills are going to continue to be the definition of their value and the source of their livelihood to the rest of what they hope will be a healthy and lucrative career. It's completely logical for them to look for that validation. We know from any number of different research fields, that people will find confirming evidence for what they want to believe, and will be remarkably successful, even if unconsciously ignoring disconfirming evidence. So I completely get his and I don't attribute bad motives to anybody.
Noel Wurst: Right.
Peter Coffee: What I do find is that there are some organizations that are starting to look at this as much more of an opportunity to have greater leverage and to catalyze dramatic improvements. For example, I was just at the headquarters at one of our customers, USAA, which is a massive insurance company that primarily sell their services to military and ex-military. You've seen their advertising.
Their annual technology forum, their in-house event, has 3,000 people attending it. It's the size of one of our larger metropolitan events. They asked me to come and do a seminar on how the IT department could best serve, what they call, "the citizen developer"—which I believe might be a phrase that Forrester might have been the first to popularize. If you think about the way that the spreadsheet allowed people to model and experiment with a process, instead of having to go hat in hand to the business analyst, and beg for some COBOL to do that work.
It's the next logical step to go beyond the spreadsheet on a network share with an email thread wrapped around it to something like a Force.com app that runs in the cloud, has proper security, auditability, governability, back-up built in as a service, and the IT department can tremendously increase its value to the business by providing what we might call adult supervision to the citizen developer.
To provide guidance on compliance, process integrity, data dictionary discipline and so on. And the IT departments that are starting to say, "You know, tugging the old workload and keeping that to ourselves is a poor strategy for increasing our value to the organization compared to being vigorous and creative in providing support to the business units." In taking advantage of the lower barriers to entry and the considerably higher productivity they can have by building what will be a much more disciplined application.
Everyone talks about Shadow IT today. It's this dark matter of the IT universe that doesn't shine with its own light and it's very hard to find it. But we all know it's out there stretching from desktop databases and other things that are not visible, not governed, not recalled, not auditable, and not really contributing to a store of knowledge that turns the company into a learning organization. The IT departments that I think are doing very well, and there are existing groups of these, they're saying, "Our best contribution is to take things that a very difficult to learn and very easy to do wrong and still have an enduring value like basic disciplines of process integrity and find a way to sprinkle those on top of the old coffee of the legacy infrastructure and turn it into something that's much more exciting."
Noel Wurst: That's so great. It reminds me, I also had the chance to interview Theresa Lanowitz, who's also going to speaking at The SDLC Acceleration Summit, and we were talking specifically about the "extreme automation" that comes from utilizing some of these new technologies and it's like you were just saying as far as the way things were done in the past.
The definition she had of extreme automation, I asked her to define it, was "solving classic problems with new technology and tooling." Essentially saying people who are maybe of skeptical of automation, or are very quick to say, "Well automation doesn't solve everything," basically she was saying automation doesn't solve everything, but at the same time, it's not solving anything new that you haven't seen before. It's solving a problem that may have existed in your organization for years. It may have been problems that is kind of just always laid around because there wasn't extreme automation there to help solve those.
I was curious if you would maybe define extreme automation the same way or basically see the same value that it solves the problems that are well-known, well documented and widespread across multiple enterprises.
Peter Coffee: Well, I don't know if you remember, there was a minor sub-plot in the book of Jurassic Park that I think they decided was too complicated to bring forward into the movie, about how the eye of the frog doesn't even bother to tell the brain about things that aren't moving. Because the brain wants to focus on things that are moving and therefore might be targets for eating. The eye doesn't even bother to tell them about the stationary things. I think a lot of us are really good at ignoring stationary problems that have been with us for so long that we stop even to think of them even as problems and just think of them as part of the environment.
I like the phrase of "extreme automation" because it invites us to go and, pardon the expression, rip the scabs off some of those old wounds and say, "Can we afford intellectually and financially to reexamine some of our assumptions about things that we're just going to have to tolerate. Because maybe we don't have to tolerate them anymore." That can require some creativity and it can also require taking some risk. Because you're going to be bringing these ideas to senior managers who may have built their careers on the existence of these "problems" and of the construction of elaborate and complicated work arounds to these problems. And you're essentially coming in and saying, "Yeah but, what if we stopped calling that problem something that we have to tolerate at all? What if we just destroy it? What if we just cut the Gordian knot, to use another old metaphor. Instead of spending tons of effort, time, and money untangling something—we just cut it in half. That's a career risk and an intellectual challenge and a skills and technology challenge.
But there is always something going on at any given time that forces that kind of disruption. Back in the 1960s everybody was worried about the space race. So we had Project Apollo, which did some things at the time that were considered frankly impossible until people felt that they had to find a way to do them. Then they discovered ways to do it. I think our next project Apollo is the aging of the baby boomers who are going to need adaptive and assistive technology. To make it possible for them to age gracefully at home instead of going into nursing homes which we simply won't be able to afford to build at that kind of scale.
So things like a Nest thermostat are really just kind of the tip of that spear in terms of saying, "You know, we need to rethink automation from something that lets people program things to do stuff into devices and algorithms and systems that are aware of an environment, learn what's normal, call attention to that which is abnormal and therefore perhaps requires someone to do something—and that's really where we need to go with business IT as well. It's to get beyond the idea of the bigger and bigger dashboard with more and more performance indicators and get to much smarter systems that notice when things that have been behaving in a coordinated way suddenly don't seem to be coordinating. That suggests an anomaly that detects for data science disciplines what I might call "pre-failure signatures" and are able to say, "I don't know why this is happening. But I know that when it does happen, a week later something much much worse usually happens. So then you'd want to take a look at this now."
This is a very interesting time for developing new categories of algorithms that don't just capture the byproduct of business activity, but inspect those patterns and look for interesting high leverage points that allow people to take an inexpensive action at the right time instead of a much more costly disaster recovery or damage control action later on.
Noel Wurst: That's all so great. And then lastly, it's all kind of come to this. It's interesting, all of this technology we've been discussing of course involves the cloud. But I watched a video on YouTube recently of a presentation you did at PhillyForce last year that was titled "Connecting Above the Cloud."
It's funny, I'm writing an article this week about the same thing, and I'm going to use a piece of your presentation in the article. You talked about the cloud metaphor and how the industry didn't choose that term. You said that "connected" and "social" work a lot better than just saying "the cloud." To quote you from that presentation, you said, "The cloud is only interesting because of the connections that it enables."
That's really interesting, because I think we've only said the word cloud two times in this whole interview. Back in the day, "cloud" was in every other sentence. I feel like even though cloud adoption of course is going up, and all kinds of news came out this week about how it's ramping up quickly—yet, we're saying the word "cloud" less and less. I really like the way that successful enterprises have been able to enable these connections between their customers.
But I also like how much the cloud, to go ahead and say it again, has enabled developers, testers, IT, DevOps, and all this connectivity that goes on kind of behind the curtain, not just among the people who are kind of using these apps. I was kind of wondering if you might maybe expand on how this technology is helping enterprises themselves, but not just not just the consumers who use these apps.
Peter Coffee: Sure. Well, you know it's almost an accident of history that Intel had a commercial imperative to develop the integrated circuit and the microprocessor before it became practical to have a global standards-based wired and wireless network. Because we had a period of several years, a little over a decade really, when we went from the 4004 microprocessor, which was barely enough to run a four-function calculator, to things like 32bit computers on a chip.
During that time connectivity was expensive, slow, and intermittent. I compared it the other day to being colonist on Mars with our little bubbles of air and having to put on a spacesuit to go from one to another. Inside that bubble which was in the IT world, inside your data center or inside your local area network, you could be reasonably comfortable. But as soon as you wanted to do something that involved going from one bubble to another, well this was a perilous exercise. You had to use your dial-up modem or it was like putting on your spacesuit for a brief moment of interconnection with another bubble somewhere else.
During this time, we've essentially been terraforming planet computing. We've got an atmosphere now that you can breathe without putting on a spacesuit and if there's still people walking around with air tanks on their banks, that they call their "private cloud." Okay, and it doesn't make any more sense in the world of IT then it would make sense in a world of a terraformed Mars. To ignore the fact that the environment now is different. The environment is now of ubiquitous connectivity with what was comparable with what we used to find more than sufficient in an office building. You can see this in the behavior of people. They are saying, "Now wait a minute, why would I buy a laptop computer, which is essentially a spacesuit? It's its own hard drive, display, battery, keyboard all this stuff and all. All I really need is a little magic piece of black glass which might be the size of a phone or it might be the size of a tablet. All I need is that thing which is a window into this world of available information, computational capability, connection with other experts, connection with algorithms and supercomputing facilities."
There's an awful lot of stuff that used to sort of make sense to build more and more powerful desktop machines to do. But people are now saying, "But wait a minute. I don't actually want to do that on my desktop at all. I don't want to video editing on my desktop, I want to upload the clip from my smartphone to YouTube and let YouTube worry about things like compression algorithms and making it run on different devices and things like that." This is a hard challenge. It's to get beyond thinking of the cloud as a product and start thinking of the cloud as just an enabler for things that are much more interesting products.
Because if I can drag one more metaphor in, I once said, a gourmet chef does not talk about the miracle of clean water being available from a faucet whenever he needs it. He assumes that's going to be there because you can't really talk about doing cooking without it. But once you've got it, you don't really think about it very much. You don't think about the miracle of electricity when you're building your home theater. That's invisible. That's assumed and you're thinking instead about what's the amazing experience I can that create given the assumption of that pervasive reliable cost-effective resource.
It's really important to get beyond cloud and start thinking about, "Wait a minute, what do I have to do to step up my game? To be a value creator by using this medium of connection, by using processing power and algorithms of discovery and analysis, to create a kind of customer experience, or the kind of government first-response in a disaster, or the kind of life-long delivery of education that were never really feasible to discuss until we had this remarkable atmosphere in which we breathe data and breathe computational power whenever we need it."
Noel Wurst: Well, that is all I have for you today. I am really looking forward to attending your presentation at The Summit as well as the other ones that are going on there. Again, everyone, this is Peter Coffee, the VP for Strategic Research at salesforce.com. Peter speaks all over the world, and he's going to be at the SDLC Acceleration Summit in San Francisco, California on May 13th. Thank you so much for speaking with me today.
Peter Coffee: Thank you very much. I always tell people I never know what I think until I have to answer questions. So, these conversations always tell me things that I didn't realize I was thinking about until I have them. Thank you for the time.
Noel Wurst: Awesome, thank you.
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Transformers and TriNoMa.
–Where Dragons Rule by Dragonforce
–The Great Eternity by Majestic Vanguard
Watched Transformers last night with my brother. I was actually supposed to watch it with Kate and the other MMIX dudes but unfortunately they arrived too late to catch the same screening we watched.
Before I talk about it, though, I just want to share some pictures of TriNoMa, the new mall Ayala Corp. built nearby.
The atrium, as seen from the top floor.
The roof deck. Park+Pond+Fountains+Mist+Starbucks = Awesome
Now, onto the movie review.
One of the key points where the movie differs from the original cartoon series is that Cybertron is gone and dead, and that the Transformers are all scattered across the galaxy. The Allspark, an immense cube with the power to create life, was lost in the Cybertronian war and sent into space. The Allspark fell to Earth with Megatron in pursuit. However, Megatron crash-landed in the Arctic Ocean and froze.
Read the Wikipedia summary.[link]
I have to say that the movie was outstanding. Let's begin with the redesigns of the Transformers.
Back when I was a kid, Transformers was one of the shows I used to watch all the time. Of course, when you're a kid in the 80s, any mech design looks cool–even 70s stuff like Voltes V and Daimos, and since you don't have anything to compare the animation with, the clunky animation looks cool. Instead of having a single fixed form, it seems the Transformers have the ability to copy any piece of technology, though they generally stick to one form.
That said, I think they did justice to the original cartoon, especially with Optimus Prime's design–Prime's vehicle form is a Peterbilt truck without the trailer—very different from the Japanese-style "flat nosed" trailer truck he was in the cartoon. Still, the custom decal flames down his sides in vehicle mode and on his arms and legs in robot made looked awesome, not to mention the energized sword he has on his arm.
Bumblebee's original vehicle mode–a rotting Chevy Camaro–was amusingly accurate, down to the dirty exhaust. It was awesome, though, how he changed into a newer form when Mikaela commented on him transforming into "a piece of crap" despite being a "super-advanced robot."
Alternate forms:
-Optimus Prime –> Peterbilt truck
-Bumblebee –> Chevy Camaro
-Jazz –> Pontiac Solstice
-Ratchet –>Search & Rescue Hummer H2
-Ironhide –> GMC Topkick pickup truck
-Megatron –> Cybertronian jet
-Starscream –> F22 Raptor (much cooler than his original F-15 Eagle form)
-Blackout –> MH-53 Pave Low heavy lift chopper
-Devastator/Brawl –> modified M1 Abrams
-Barricade –> Police Ford Mustang
-Bonecrusher –> Buffalo H Mine-Protected Vehicle
Among the most amusing things I saw in the movie was the altered police motto on Barricade's side, which read "To Punish and Enslave" instead of "To Serve and Protect."
The action was fantastic, one of the best being the Starscream vs F22 squadron dogfight. Seeing Starscream transform into robot mode in midair to kick an F22 was priceless. Sadly, the final duel between Prime and Megatron was not really as awesome as this–they just seemed to be flailing at one another. Prime didn't even use his sword! D: (In the end, it was Sam who killed Megatron by using the Allspark to fry Megatron's heart)
Now unto the script. The silly "weird-but-happy family" banter between Sam and his parents was priceless, as were Sam's line's in class. The Transformers themselves had extremely amusing lines as well, having learned English through the Internet. Bumblebee was unable to speak, but used an intricately juxtaposed series of lines taken from radio and TV broadcasts to communicate.
-"Now sir, ask yourself–what would Jesus do?" -Sam
-"ARE YOU USER: LADIESMAN217?" –Barricade, to Sam
-"So if its some super advanced robot, why does it turn back into a piece of crap Camaro?" – Mikaela
Other quotes [here].
A lot of really hilarious dialogue there.
Many critics complained about how the movie was told from the POV of the humans and not the robots, but I honestly didn't mind–I found that the robots were quite human to begin with: the Autobots speaking in contemporary English, and even the Decepticon Frenzy had very humanlike actions (Best of all was bashing his head against a computer monitor when he failed to completely download the Project Iceman file).
I'm really happy with the movie overall, and I think the audience and my brother agree with me. 5/5.
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Usually, I myself love to hate movies but this one was an exception. I agree, the movie totally rocked. I've heard people complain about the plot but compared to other recent movies' plots, Transformers had a sound enough story for me. Nuff said about the animation and lines. I laughed out loud at the end with the whole Optimus-Prime-monologue-with-setting-sun scene (which wasn't supposed to be funny though. A guy in the audience pumped his fist into the air and shouted "YEAH, OPTIMUS PRIME!" when the red and blue robot first appeared, and there was even applause at the end (a bit too much in my opinion, but it shows how much the audience liked it).
i can say the movie is great & i myself loved wathing the series when i was a kid i never missed any part of it except when i go out and get some snacks
hey i forgot about it when will we … never mind

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A/N: I am working on Revenge Attack but I really wanted to write this since it is an oneshot and going to be extremely funny. I hope. Thanks for reading! Please review!
Jasper POV
I don't know how it happened, but somehow Emmett and I were stuck at home watching Bella while everyone else went hunting. I'm positive Edward would have stayed, but he has stayed for the last three times and his eyes were getting dangerously black. Bella practically had to push him out the door, anyway.
No matter how it happened, we were stuck. What were we going to do? Emmett was probably going to come up with some crazy idea that would probably get Bella killed, and I would have to stop him. I sighed.
"What's wrong, Jasper?" Bella asked, looking up from her book. We had been sitting in the living room, but when Emmett turned on the T.V. to the sports channel Bella immediately pulled out a copy of Wuthering Heights and tuned us out.
"Nothing," I said, smiling at her. To be honest, I didn't really want to stay and watch her, but I couldn't tell that to her face. It wasn't nice, and it also wasn't her fault. I glanced over as Emmett turned off the T.V.
"I'm bored." He announced, turning to face us. "We should play a game."
"Like what?" Bella asked, marking her place and setting the book on the table.
"I don't know," Emmett blew some air out of the side of his mouth in thought. "A board game?" he turned to me. "Have any ideas, Jasper?"
I shrugged. "We could play with cards." I suggested. Emmett nodded thoughtfully.
"So, Bella, board game or cards?" he asked for her input.
She shrugged, frowning in thought. "It depends on what card or board game. Like, if it was between BS and Monopoly, I'd say BS. But if it was between Egyptian Ratscrew and Life, I'd say Life."
Both Emmett and I nodded – her reasoning made sense.
"How about 20 questions?" Emmett asked randomly.
Bella raised her eyebrows. "So you gave up on board games?"
"Yes," he nodded seriously. "Beside, this should be more fun." He grinned mischievously. I groaned quietly. Who knew what Emmett would think of.
"I'll go first," I volunteered. Maybe this would make the time pass quicker. I searched my mind for a moment before deciding on something. "Okay, I'm ready."
"Does it breathe?" Bella asked.
"No," I replied.
"Can you play it?" That was Emmett.
"Is it edible?"
"Is it round?"
How would he know that? "Yes."
"Is it red?"
"Is it orange?"
"Is it an orange?"
"Yes. Bella, you win." I smiled at her. She smiled in anticipation.
"Let's see…okay, I'm ready."
"Does it breathe?" I asked.
"Sometimes." She answered, grinning. Sometimes? Okay, that was a new one.
"Does it have four legs?" Emmett wondered.
"Does it have a head?"
"Of course!"
"Is it blue?"
"Is it hard?"
"Yes." Whoa. I wasn't expecting that answer. Slowly, I began to get an idea.
"Is it warm?"
"Does it sparkle in the sunlight?"
"Yes," Bella blushed.
"Is it a vampire?"
"Yes," Bella's blush deepened. I glanced at Emmett, and he was grinning.
"Okay, can I go now?" he asked. I had guessed correctly, but since I had already gone, I decided it was only fair.
"Okay, Emmett, you can go now."
"Sweet." He thought for a moment. "I got it – Wait, let me think some more." I settled my hand under my chin and got prepared to wait.
A couple minutes later Emmett looked up. "I got it!"
"Does it have legs?"
"Is it round?"
"Does it breathe?"
"Is it small?"
"Define small."
"Is it smaller than a cat?"
"Is it unusually shaped?"
"Is it purple?"
"Is it square?"
"Is it a book?"
"Can you eat it?"
"Is it sharp?"
"Can you play games on it?"
"Is it cold?"
"Not particularly."
"Is it made out of paper?"
"Is it flat?"
Bella's eyes sparked. "Is it a card?"
"Yes!" Emmett slapped her a high five. "So you want to go again, or is it Jasper's turn?"
Bella shrugged. "I dunno. I want to go to bed after one round, though."
"Okay," Emmett agreed. "Jasper, do you want to do this one?"
"Sure." I said. "Should I make it hard?"
Emmett eyed Bella as she yawned. "Not too hard." He said.
I nodded. "Okay, I've got it."
"Is it alive?"
"Does it have four legs?"
"Does it have fur?"
"Does it live underground?"
"Does it live in a nest?"
"Does it live in a tree?"
"Is it an animal?"
"Does it like cold places?"
"I don't think so."
"That helps." I rolled my eyes at Emmett's sarcasm. ""Does it have any legs?"
"Does it lay eggs?"
"Does it have scales?"
"Is it a snake?" Well, that was a fair guess.
"Is it a fish?"
"Yes!" I smiled that someone finally got it. "Are you ready to go to bed now, Bella?"
"Wait, I want another turn, okay?" she insisted. I sighed quietly.
"Okay, Bella. Are you ready?"
"Is it alive?"
"Does it have a point?"
"Is it round?"
"Does it give off light?"
"Can you store music on it?"
"Is it a CD?"
"Yes. That was fast. I'm ready for bed now." She got up and stretched and then headed to Edward's room. She turned to look at us before going up the stairs. "I have to have a human moment before I go to sleep, but in case Edward told you to watch me or something, I'll be ready in like ten minutes." She informed us before retreating to his room.
I glanced at Emmett. "So what do you want to do now?" I asked.
"Well, we could watch some T.V. Edward did tell us to stay in the house and make sure we heard her." I nodded and flipped on the T.V., turning down the volume slightly.
We watched for about half an hour, and then I heard Bella's voice drift down the hall. I met Emmett's gaze and knew he had heard it too.
"Let's go listen," he said, sudden excitement flaring in his eyes. I nodded hesitantly – hopefully Edward wouldn't be mad at us for listening to Bella's sleep talk.
We reached his room quickly, just in time to hear Bella say, "Edward." I raised an eyebrow. She said his name in her sleep? We crept closer.
"Edward," she sighed. I hoped she would something else. Hearing Edward's name would get really boring really fast. I saw from the look on Emmett's face that he agreed completely.
"No!" Bella cried. I flinched back in surprise.
"'No' what, Bella?" Emmett asked, imitating Edward's voice perfectly.
"Of course the answer isn't house!" she replied. "It's a key, silly!" Ah, so she was playing twenty questions in her dream.
Emmett still looked confused, so I whispered, "Twenty questions," and then turned back to Bella.
She was silent for a couple minutes, so I decided to get her started. "What are you doing, Bella?" I asked in Edward's voice.
"Watching Jasper." She replied. Emmett's mouth dropped open in silent laughter.
"Watching Jasper do what?" he asked.
She frowned. "I don't know. Emmett's there, too."
I froze. Did she know we were here? Maybe we should leave… "What are they doing?"
"Taking off jackets." Okay, so she didn't know we were there. But why would we be wearing jackets in the first place?"
"Why were they wearing jackets?"
"Because it was snowing!" she seemed to be getting frustrated.
"How long has it been snowing?" Emmett asked. I waited for her answer, but nothing came. "Bella? Did you hear me?"
"Go away," she mumbled. "I'm trying to sleep." It was softer than her sleep talking. My eyes widened as I realized Emmett had woke her up. Quickly and silently I dashed down to the living room, sighing as I sat on the couch. I hoped Bella would just go back to sleep and not remember this in the morning. Emmett joined me in the living room, and we watched T.V. at the lowest volume so as not to wake Bella again.
When morning came I heard her get up and enter the bathroom. Emmett grinned at me, and I knew he had something planned.
"What, Emmett?" I asked him. Better to find out now than later.
"I had an idea," he said mysteriously. I smiled slightly.
"Yeah, I figured that much out myself. What's your idea?"
"We could hide from Bella and then when she comes down she'll freak out!" he seemed excited by his idea, but I wasn't sure.
"That sounds fun," I admitted. "But Edward would probably have our heads."
He waved his hand, dismissing the matter. "No he won't. Even if he finds out, Bella will stop him before he hurts us."
"Are you sure about that?"I challenged him. "If we freak Bella out enough she'll be glad to let Edward loose."
Emmett's frowned and went into thought for a moment before grinning at me. "No, it'll be fine."
I raised an eyebrow. "Are you Alice now? Did you see the future?" The sound of my love's name, even coming from my own mouth, made me want to be able to hold her in my arms. Pushing the feeling aside – I didn't need a lustful Bella and Emmett to deal with – I focused on Emmett's plan. He seemed determined to go through with it, and if Edward did threaten us we could probably get away. It would be two on one.
I sighed heavily. "Okay, Emmett, we can try. It sounds like Bella's coming down, so be quiet!" Before I even finished my sentence he was gone. I rolled my eyes and went in search of a hiding place. I found it quickly, and I settled down to listen.
"Emmett?" I heard Bella's voice call. "Jasper?" She stumbled around the living room for a moment, and then headed to the kitchen. I guessed she was getting breakfast. I heard a low chuckle come from Emmett, too low for Bella's ears.
She ate her breakfast quickly. Her breathing seemed normal, so she didn't seem to be freaking out yet. I knew Emmett would start to get impatient soon.
"Hey, Jasper? Emmett?" she called our names again. When we didn't answer, she said. "I'm going to read now, okay?"
Once again she was met with silence, but I heard her sit down and flip open the book. Slowly, her pulse began to quicken, and I wondered if it was because of the book or because she was finally starting to freak out.
"Are you guys there?" she finally said, dropping her book on the table. "If you're playing a joke, this isn't funny."
Suddenly, Emmett decided to try and scare her. He made really convincing wolf howls, causing my muscles to tense in reaction. Bella stood up.
"Stop it, Emmett." She said severely. He continued for a moment, and then was silent. I heard his low laugh again.
"Jasper?" I heard her voice plead. "If you're there, please come out." Suddenly I was overcome by feelings of grief. Trying to get myself under control before I decided to show myself, I set out some calming waves. I heard her pulse slow. Emmett cussed under his breath. Rolling my eyes, I stopped my meddling. Her pulse sped up.
"Come on guys, please come out." When we didn't answer she decided to try another tactic. "I'm bored. Emmett, do you want to play a game?" I heard Emmett lean forward slightly, but then he shook his head and sat back down. She was a sneaky one, that Bella.
I heard her take deep breaths, trying to calm herself. She probably had her eyes closed. Grinning evilly, I sent some anxiety her way. When her breathing sped up to hyperventilation, though, I decided to ease up.
"Jasper, are you there?" now she sounded suspicious. Dang it, maybe I shouldn't have played with her emotions so much. She waited for a long moment, probably hoping we would show ourselves, but when we didn't show she sighed.
"What am I going to do?" I heard her murmur to herself. I imagined her head in her hands. "Should I call Edward? What if I bother him with nothing? I'm sure he wouldn't mind, but then he would come home and might have to go away again. I would mind that." She sighed. Then, abruptly, she became angry. "Oh, I am so going to get them for this." Fearing for my life – not from her, of course, from Edward – I got ready to leave my hiding spot. Then a noise stopped me in my tracks.
The front door opened, and I heard Bella stand up quickly.
"Edward!" she cried, relief strong in her voice.
"Hello," he said, his smile evident through his tone. I heard her walk quickly toward him and I supposed she hugged him. I missed Alice a whole lot more.
"Where are Emmett and Jasper?" he asked.
I imagined her shrugging. "I don't know. I woke up, and then they weren't here." I heard Edward's low growl, probably too low for her to hear. Oh, we were in big trouble.
"Emmett!" I hissed through my teeth. Edward's growling stopped. Emmett didn't answer. He was going to regret it if he had abandoned me.
"Jasper." Edward said, coolly, evenly. "Come out, please." I could hear something brewing under the surface of his tone. I considered hiding. "Now," his tone was suddenly more threatening. I winced, and then slowly got out from my hiding place.
"Hey, Bella." I said weakly. She glared at me from Edward's side.
"What's this I hear about you scaring Bella?" Edward asked me.
"It was Emmett's idea." I said automatically.
Edward smiled – I took it as a good sign. "Now that I believe. But why did you go along with it?"
I shrugged. It sounded like fun, and I knew Bella would be in no real danger. I didn't bother speaking aloud. Edward raised an eyebrow.
"I think Bella should hear you say it." He told me.
Sighing, I said, "Bella, Emmett and I hid from you because it seemed fun, and I knew you wouldn't be in any real danger." Then I turned to Edward. "Happy?"
"Yes," he replied. "Now, we need Emmett. Come here, Emmett."
Emmett didn't come.
"If you don't come before I count to five, you will be very sorry." Edward threatened. "One, two, three, four…"
"Wow, Edward, I didn't know you could count that high," Emmett said, emerging from his hiding place. Then he turned to Bella. "Sorry, Bella. Especially for the howling. That was probably going too far."
"Yes, it was," she agreed.
"Howling?" Edward asked, raising an eyebrow.
Emmett realized he had made a mistake. "I was just trying to scare her, you know, so that she would be more relieved when she found out it was a joke. I was just howling like a wolf. No need to freak out." I could see he was clearly hoping Edward would let it go.
No such luck.
"You have just made matters much worse for yourself, Emmett," Edward said, smiling pleasantly. It was an odd combination, threats and smiles. Bella giggled.
Emmett flinched in horror. "Please don't kill me. Then you would have to deal with Rosalie. You wouldn't want that. See? Now I'm looking out for what's best for you. And what's best for you is leaving poor Emmett alone. How about that, huh?" In a turn of event that I was sure too subtle for Bella to realize, Emmett had just shown Edward that hurting him wasn't his best option anymore.
Edward frowned at him.
Then Bella stepped in. "How about this. Edward, you forget about it for now, and Emmett, you promise to never do anything like it again. How about that?" Edward continued to frown, but I saw Emmett nod his head eagerly. Obviously he was just trying to get out of punishment. There was no doubt in my mind that he would be back to playing pranks in a couple hours.
Edward sighed, "Okay, I'll go along with it. Now, Bella, what would you like to do?"
"Can we go to your room?" she asked, gazing up at him. "There's something I need to talk to you about."
"Of course." He smiled and proceeded to lead her up the stairs.
I looked to Emmett. "You know she isn't going to forget this, right? She may not make you pay for it now, but if she remembers after she turns, you will always be watching your back. There are too many things she will want to get back at you for,"
All color drained from Emmett's already pale face, and he looked at me hopelessly. "Will you help me, Jazz?" I could tell he was using my nickname to soften me up. Just then the rest of our family entered the room.
"Maybe," I smirked at him. "But at the moment I have other things to attend to." And then I went to Alice's side. Emmett grinned at me before turning his attention to Rosalie. I smiled as Alice wrapped her small arms around me and gave me a much appreciated hug.
"How was baby-sitting?" she asked.
"Interesting!" I replied, laughing.
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Volume 32 - Article 21 | Pages 621-656
Europe-wide fertility trends since the 1990s: Turning the corner from declining first birth rates
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|28 Feb 2014
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|03 Mar 2015
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|age-specific fertility, childlessness, cohort fertility trends, fertility postponement, fertility recuperation, first birth fertility, mean age at first birth, period fertility trends
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Background: In the period 1995-2002 there was a change in trajectory from decline to rise in first birth fertility rates across Europe.
Objective: A number of previous studies have looked at the demographic causes of the transition. This study evaluates their conclusions by analysing a comprehensive set of indicators for fifteen countries with data in the Human Fertility Database.
Methods: Comparisons are made between the four years before and after the fertility trough, to discover what changed between these two periods.
Results: In the period before the trough, peak age-specific fertility rates were falling; these tended to stabilise after the year of minimum fertility. The width of the fertility curve, however, was already widening in the 1990s, and this trend continued. The transition from fall to rise in TFR1 occurred when the increase in the width of the curve more than compensated for any further falls in peak rates; this explanation is valid for countries in both Eastern and Western Europe. The increasing width of the fertility curve was caused by two factors: the decline in young (pre-modal) fertility slowed, whilst the rise in older (post-modal) fertility accelerated. For some countries, a rise in underlying cohort rates also contributed to the rise in period rates. The likelihood of childless women entering motherhood also rose in some but not all countries.
Conclusions: During the 1990s, women were postponing first births across Europe. A rebound took place for several reasons, with the overarching driver being the strong rise in late fertility.
Comments: In some countries the steep rise in late fertility had an unexpected and paradoxical effect on postponement rates (defined as the year-on-year increase in mean age at first birth). Recuperation at post-modal ages of postponed first births caused an acceleration in 'postponement' rates, as defined by this metric.
Author's Affiliation
Marion Burkimsher - Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
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One of our speakers this week, Smita Satiani, shared a story about her grandfather raising his three sons in Pakistan. He told the boys, "One of you will be a doctor, one of you will be an engineer, and one of you will take over the farm."
At the time we laughed. Yet even growing up in America, we can all remember facing these same expectations at one time or another. However, we are not bound by the stereotypes of our ethnicity. In this spirit, the WLP Class of 2015 launched the #SouthAsianAnd campaign at the beginning of the summer. We are inviting members of our community to tweet @SouthAsianAnd and reflect on the multiple dimensions of their identities.
We kicked off this week meeting #SouthAsianAnd federal circuit judge Sri Srinivasan. He described the hallmark of a good judge: someone who is not blinded by personal convictions or one-sided empathy but puts himself in the shoes of every competing party. True to his word, Judge Sri saw the virtues in lawyering for both a private firm and the government: in the public sector, you receive more responsibility earlier on and in the private sector, you learn how to prioritize your responsibilities given an intensive workload. Perhaps the most surprising fact we learned, however, was the array of careers Judge Sri would enjoy pursuing besides law from playing NBA basketball to running a daycare center -- the possibilities are limitless.
On Wednesday, we braved the stormy skies and White House security lines to chat with Smita Satiani and Maya Uppaluru, two leaders in government innovation. Both shared many opinions -- the value of work experience before grad school, computer science and coding skills, and relationships that enrich both personal and professional life (they are BFFs!). Smita, the engagement director for the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows program, advised us to not discount the culture of our workplace in our job searches. Maya, a lawyer and policy advisor on health IT for the White House, noted that increasing numbers of talented private sector employees are joining the government because of the opportunity to make a large-scale impact. Both agreed that it is most rewarding to work with colleagues who contribute a diversity of thoughts but share the same vision.
The next day we met Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and his chief of staff Parag Mehta. Dr. Murthy immediately resonated with us as he recounted his parents' emigration from Mandya to Miami and how they forged opportunities through persistence and goodwill. Dr. Murthy imparted simple yet significant insights. "Do the thing that keeps you up at night," he implored us as he traced the various decisions he'd made from founding nonprofits to attending both medical and business school before entering public service. "One good reason to do something is enough," he said, "since our gut instincts manifest moments of self-definition."
As he spoke, we thought about our parents who had kept the same jobs for years or sometimes decades at a time -- a job stability that is no longer a guarantee for us. Dr. Murthy's words inspired us to not settle for expected career paths, but to abide by our own high standards.
With many lessons to mull over, we said goodbye to Dr. Murthy but not to Parag, who led us through the Beyond Bollywood exhibit at the Museum of Natural History on Saturday. Alongside his partner Vaibhav Jain, Parag expounded on the history of Indians in America and the intricacies of the stories and artifacts on display. We admired how much our community has achieved but also saw many windows of opportunity that are left for our generation to open.
It's hard to believe that we're halfway through our WLP experience. The past month has been eye-opening in several ways. Our knowledge of the American government and the Capitol has expanded; our confidence in building relationships with future leaders and mentors has solidified; and our explorations of DC have motivated us to work towards a better future. Today, we are all South Asian and WLP scholars, but we're excited to see the many ways our class will fill in that blank in the future.
Shuchi Goyal
White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
University of Georgia
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Dorcette House is a detached character property which originally dates back from 1709. Set back from the road behind mature trees and electric gates the property benefits from a high degree of privacy. The property has been significantly extended over the years to offer a deceptively spacious family home. The present owners have completely renovated the property retaining many of the original features whilst also adding modern features such as a bespoke Oak kitchen with and modern bathrooms. The property also benefits from an indoor heated swimming pool, mature landscaped gardens and terraces as well as detached four car garage block with office and self-contained one bedroom annexe.
Dorcette House is set in a rural position 1 mile outside the village of Whaplode, The property is conveniently situated for the local market towns of Holbeach and Spalding. The Georgian market town of Spalding offers many local amenities including excellent schools (Spalding High School and Two single sex Grammar Schools), a superb range of shops and the South Holland Civic Centre which includes a cinema and theatre. Spalding is set around the picturesque River Welland, with its own water taxi to the Springfield's shopping outlet. Rail links to London Kings Cross via Peterborough take 90 minutes and further link to Lincoln. Situated within the South Lincolnshire Fens, it is renowned for its acres of sky and glorious sunsets. Throughout the year Spalding is host to various festivals and events, including Traditional and Farmers markets. During May, the famous annual Flower Festival attracts 100,000 visitors and during the autumn, the Pumpkin Festival attracts around 10,000 people.The city of Peterborough is 20 miles away with train links to London Kings Cross (a 50 minute journey).The Georgian town of Stamford is 23 miles away and offers a further range of amenities, including the well-known George Hotel. Both private and state education is well catered for in the area, including Oundle, Oakham, Stamford and Uppingham. Sporting and leisure facilities (sailing, biking, walking and fishing) are to be found at nearby Rutland Water with golf at Surfleet, Boston, Peterborough, Burghley Park and Greetham.
Entrance Hall
Quarry tiled floor, panelling to half height, door into:
Inner Hall
Under stairs storage cupboard, stairs to first floor
Sitting Room
27' 0'' x 20' 11'' (8.22m x 6.37m)
A stunning room at the heart of the home, Feature Inglenook fireplace with tiled hearth with inset wood burning stove with exposed brick surround and chimney breast, wooden flooring, dual aspect windows. Double doors lead to:
Double doors open on to the large decking area at the rear of the property, further double doors open into the swimming pool complex.
Swimming Pool Complex
44' 6'' x 27' 4'' (13.55m x 8.32m)
Swimming Pool Two pairs of external access doors to the large decked terrace area and gardens beyond. Superb air conditioned room with pine panelled ceiling, extensive lighting, non-slip flooring. The pool measures approximately 10m x 5m and is used 365 days per year heated to a constant 28/29 °C. There is a retractable cover and aluminium stepped access. Changing Room With shower cubicle, low level WC and wash hand basin, 2 heated towel rails. Pump Room Housing the pump system and the separate oil fired central heating boiler serving the swimming pool complex.
Family Room
18' 5'' x 12' 1'' (5.61m x 3.68m)
Delightful room with double aspect, brick Inglenook fireplace, tiled hearth, exposed beams, wooden flooring and door to garden.
Kitchen/Breakfast Room
18' 7'' x 15' 9'' (5.66m x 4.80m)
Hand crafted oak base and wall cupboards with further drawers units, Range cooker, canopy style cooker hood, integrated microwave oven, Belfast sink with mixer taps, tiled splash backs, granite worktop, integrated dishwasher, pelmet lighting, dual aspect.
Utility Room
12' 4'' x 7' 8'' (3.76m x 2.34m)
Fitted base and wall cupboards, single drainer stainless steel sink unit with mixer tap, plumbed fridge freezer, boiler cupboard housing the modern boiler serving the pressurised water system and central heating, plumbing and space for washing machine, further appliance space.
First Floor Landing
A light spacious area with exposed beams and Velux style roof lights and wooden floor.
Master Bedroom
15' 10'' x 12' 0'' (4.82m x 3.65m)
A range of built-in wardrobes and store cupboards, wooden flooring, window to rear aspect, door to:
Bedroom Two
14' 11'' x 12' 3'' (4.54m x 3.73m)
Wooden flooring, window to rear aspect.
Bedroom Three
16' 9'' x 11' 10'' (5.10m x 3.60m)
Wooden flooring, dual aspect windows which overlook the gardens.
Guest Bedroom
12' 5'' x 12' 0'' (3.78m x 3.65m)
Access to loft space, wooden flooring, two windows to front elevation, door to:
En Suite
Three piece suite comprising shower cabinet with power shower, wash hand basin and low level WC, spotlights, fully tiled walls.
Bedroom Five
13' 6'' x 7' 5'' (4.11m x 2.26m)
Wooden flooring, two windows to front elevation.
Family Bathroom
Fully tiled walls, spotlights, wooden flooring, panelled bath, WC and vanity wash hand basin.
Double Garage
24' 8'' x 19' 8'' (7.51m x 5.99m)
Larger than average with twin double entrance doors, 3 phase electricity, extensive lighting and power sockets, internal door leading through to:
Second Double Garage
19' 8'' x 12' 3'' (5.99m x 3.73m)
With twin up and over electronically operated doors, rubber non slip flooring, further internal access door to:
23' 9'' x 19' 7'' (7.23m x 5.96m)
Glazed double entrance doors from the block paved courtyard, window to front aspect, kitchenette with sink unit and base cupboard, facility for complex telephone system, ideal work from home office space. An internal door goes through to the Reception Hall area which also has an external door from the courtyard with a staircase leading up to:
Gym/Games Room/Living Area
42' 4'' x 19' 5'' (12.89m x 5.91m)
A versatile space and ideal as a leisure facility with space for a gym or a games room with ample room for a snooker or pool table, equally ideal as play room or to form a living area for part of a self-contained annexe:
Bedroom Six
17' 5'' x 13' 11'' (5.30m x 4.24m)
Wooden flooring, large fitted store/wardrobe with extensive hanging rails.
Shower Room
Fully tiled shower cubicle with power shower, low level WC, wash hand basin and bidet
The double electronically operated gates open on to an extensive block paved courtyard which provides a large parking area with the main house to the left and the annexe to the right. There is a further brick outbuilding housing the water pumps and water softener. To the rear of the house there is a large decked patio/entertaining area with direct access from the swimming pool complex and conservatory. Beyond this there is an extensive lawned garden surrounded by hedging and Poplar trees along with a soft woodchip children's play area. Directly opposite the main entrance gates there is a further area of land within the ownership of the property providing extra car parking if required.
Sundance Hot Tub
Situated just outside one of the pairs of doors from the Pool Complex adjacent to the decking area is a cedar wood cabin housing the luxury Sundance hot tub with seating for 7 people and views of the garden. Services Mains water and electricity Drainage to a private treatment plant Oil central heating with separate systems for the main house, annexe building and swimming pool complex. The cooker is currently connected to LPG gas.
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REF. 2584JO Beautiful Detached 4 Bedroom Villa For Sale In La Herrada.
375.000 €
- Energy rating: In process
- Orientation: South
- Distance to beach: 15 min.
- Distance to airport: 35 min.
- Distance to amenities: 2 min.
- Distance to Golf: 10 min.
- Garage
- Close to services
- Off road Parking
- Tiled terrace
- Underbuild
- Air Conditioning
- Central Heating
- Lounge/Diner
- Independent Kitchen
- Swimming Pool
- Garden
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This beautiful villa sits on a 400m2 plot of land which is surrounded by a wall and is very private. To the side of the villa is off road parking leading down to the large garage. At the rear of the villa is the fabulous private swimming pool and outside shower facilities.
Entering into the property is a bright, air conditioned lounge/diner. At one end of the room there are patio doors that lead onto a lovely Balcony with views of the surrounding areas and steps down to the private pool. At the other end of the lounge/diner there is an independent kitchen that has a selection of wall mounted and floor standing units. There is also a separate utility room which is accessed through the kitchen.
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- 3 Bathrooms
- Orientation: South
- Distance to beach: 15 min.
- Distance to airport: 35 min.
- Distance to amenities: 2 min.
- Distance to Golf: 10 min.
- Off road Parking
- Tiled terrace
- Underbuild
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- Swimming Pool
- Garden
- Garage
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