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Cullompton is a town and civil parish in the district of Mid Devon and the county of Devon, England, locally known as Cully. It is north-east of Exeter and lies on the River Culm. In 2011 the parish as a whole had a population of 8,499 while the built-up area of the town had a population of 7,439The earliest evidence of occupation is from the Roman period – there was a fort on the hill above the town and occupation in the current town centre. Columtune was mentioned in Alfred the Great's will which left it to his youngest son Aethelweard (c.880-922). In the past the town's economy had a large component of wool and cloth manufacture, then later leather working and paper manufacture.A large proportion of town's inhabitants are commuters but there is some local manufacturing, including flour and paper mills. It has a monthly farmers' market held on the second Saturday of every month which is the oldest event of its kind in the South West. It is home to two grade I listed buildings: the fifteenth-century St Andrew's parish church and the seventeenth-century house known as The Walronds. The centre of the town is the only conservation area in Mid Devon and there are seven grade II* listed buildings and ninety grade II listed buildings in the parish.Our United Kingdom trip itinerary maker allows you to plan your trip to Cullompton and a wealth of other destinations big and small.
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PETER CAVE: The United States has confirmed that it's considering imposing its own unilateral sanctions on India in addition to any sanctions which may be imposed by the world community. But President Clinton says he will go ahead with a planned visit to India later this year. More from Agnes Cusack in Washington.
AGNES CUSACK: The United States has a range of tough penalties it can impose on India for carrying out nuclear tests. Under the US non-proliferation laws passed in 1994, the Clinton Administration can cut off all assistance, except humanitarian aid and withdraw support for loans from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. White House spokesman, Mike McCurry.
MIKE McCURRY: The President is deeply distressed by the announcement of three nuclear tests. He has authorised a formal presentation of our displeasure to be made to the government in New Delhi. While it was foreseen, given the electoral program of the newly-elected party that they might take this step, it still flies in the face of an international consensus about the need to promulgate and nurture the new regime on a comprehensive test ban, and we will certainly be sharing those thoughts and others with the new government in India.
AGNES CUSACK: Pakistan is putting strong pressure on the US State Department to act against its rival. Pakistan has told the US the entire South-East Asian region is waiting to see whether America will uphold the law and slap sanctions on India. It's warned a failure to act would show the US as prepared to let India get away with what is clearly a very provocative act.
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Jungkook would be the one blasting the song aloud. He'd be trying to expand his taste in English music when all of a sudden he ended up stumbling in the rap genre? So now he's just chillin' with Eminem booming through his speaker. He would study the rapper's pronunciation and tone when suddenly he hears you by his side, rapping along to the lyrics perfectly. This boy would be so awe-struck and completely at a lost for words because not only are you the love of his life but you're also really freakin' talented?
"Wahh~ Jagiya? Since When? How did you even learn this?"
The music would be blasting and he'd hear the beat of the infamous Eminem song from miles away. Tae would run into your room and burst through the door screaming the lyrics to the chorus. You'd be startled but scream along with him. As soon as the rap starts he'd lower his voice and expect you to do the same; however, when he hears you still screaming the rap aloud by yourself, he just stares at you dancing and getting turnt cause his love is well a "rap god" as he would say. After the initial shock, he'd start screaming, yelling, and dancing around like the two childish lovers the both of you are.
"Wow! Ayy~! Ayy~! Ayy~! It's lit, jagiya!"
Jimin isn't one for rap but if he was forced to choose a favorite rapper… he sure as hell wouldn't choose Eminem. He was too derogatory and often times, Jimin had no idea what he was saying. One day, you'd be listening to music with your earphones in, blasting. Jimin wouldn't mind it as he's used to the loud, muffled music already but when he hears your low murmuring to the song is when he starts to pay interest. He'd stop whatever he's doing and lightly giggle at you. Simply taken back by how you could rap so well and how adorable you look in doing so, Jimin would smile the brightest and just admire your beauty.
"How can you be so cute? When saying— rapping such vulgar words?"
Jin would be so astonished and so stunned but at the same time, he's so prideful of your small but still important, accomplishment. As someone that isn't trained to rap and doesn't know the first thing to it, he'd praise your ability to rap the song perfectly without any mistakes or stuttering. Expect a lot of praising, clapping, encouraging (albeit unnecessarily loud) cheering, and even chanting your name whenever you play the song. He'd be such a sweet and supportive lover even with the little things… like this.
"You're so talented! You can rap?! Wahh~ what can't you do, hhm?"
Much like Taehyung, this man would be w i l d. Dancing and screaming and flailing his arms in the air as he rapped along with you or sang along with your words. Loud and proud is his motto! You two would playfully glare at each other mentally agreeing to a rap battle. Hoseok would laugh knowing full well what all these glares meant and start the countdown once the song starts up in the background. The punishment? Attacked by kisses!
Which, to be honest, really wasn't a punishment at all. All fun and games as you rap together, each word sliding off your tongues perfectly.
"You really think you can beat me, jagiya? Alright, let's see you try!"
Joon is genuinely impressed. He'd stare at you for the longest time just admiring your cute little dances moves. His eyes bright with admiration towards his one true love and every once in a while, he'd pull his hand over his mouth to muffle his laughter at your odd gestures as you rap to the beat perfectly. It's no surprise when he joins in with your inelegant ways of moving robotically (on purpose or not… the world may never know) to the beat while simultaneously screeching the lyrics to the legendary Eminem song. Two big losers in love are what the both of you are.
"I'm honestly amazed, baby. You really are— something special, huh?"
Being that Yoongi actually really admires Eminem, he'll probably have his songs downloaded in his playlists. As the two of you share a pair of earphones, cuddled next to each other on the coach, the song would come on his shuffle and even though he knows you can rap everything perfectly he still smiles at his hardcore rapping lover as you get more and more into it. You even go as far as throwing up gestures and little dance moves. He'd tease you and laugh at your silly antics all with a gummy smile on his lips and all the love in his heart cause damn… he just can never get enough of you.
"You are such a loser… but at least you're my loser."
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You stared at the bruise forming on Mark's face. "What the hell is going on?" You repeated, this time looking over to the boy Mark was glaring at. His eyes were still on Mark and his fists were clenched at his sides. His right fist was red, too.
"Do you want to tell her or should I?" The boy's voice was cold toward your boyfriend.
"Y/N, don't listen to this lunatic. He came at me! And you know the guy?" Mark looked at you with pleading eyes. Was this….Smiley? He seemed the opposite of smiley at the moment.
"He probably had good reason," You huffed, crossing your arms. "So what did you do?"
"I'm just gonna go," You noticed Y/F/N slowly inching her way away from the pool table you were standing in front of.
"Y/F/N? What're you doing here? Did you see what happened?"
"Me? Oh–psh no," She shook her head furiously before waving and turning to leave.
"Not so fast," The light brown haired, also very attractive may you add, boy tutted, motioning with his finger to come back.
"Since you're not going to tell her I will," The boy turned to you and you stared back into his brown eyes with curiosity. "Gumdrop," He began, a sad frown appearing on his face. Your eyes widened slightly at the nickname. So it was Smiley.
"The reason why your boyfriend, Mark, has been ignoring you and not giving you straight answers lately is because he's cheating on you."
It was a blunt statement. Had you heard it from anyone else, you would've laughed and waved it off, calling the person accusing Mark of such a thing crazy.
But it wasn't just anyone. It was the boy who's always answered you, no matter the occasion. The boy who put your priorities over his own. The boy who chose you over anyone.
"I–what?" You shook your head and whirled it toward Mark, who rolled his eyes.
"It really isn't what it looks like–"
"With who?" You cut him off, seething.
When Mark didn't answer you, your eyes flicked toward–what's his name?–Smiley who slyly pointed to Y/F/N.
"Huh," You chuckled humorlessly. Y/F/N. You both gushed over Mark before you dated. You should've seen it coming. Y/F/N wouldn't just give up a crush like that, even if he was taken.
Y/F/N stared at the ground in embarrassment, "Y/N, I was stupid and definitely don't deserve anything from you but please believe me this once when I say: He called me first." Y/F/N rushed out of lounge to who knows where and you slowly turned to Mark.
"Nuh–uh" You cut him off, "You don't get to 'Babe' me! I fucking forgave you! And you were still a dick. And I have no idea why I didn't just break up with you when you continued to be a dick. It's my fault, really. If I broke up with you first, I wouldn't've had to find out like this. And what's even worse? You couldn't even man up to tell me! I had to find out from–what's your name?" You asked the last question in a lighter tone toward Smiley.
Hoseok, who was looking down, kicking his feet at the carpet below him, shot his head up. "Hoseok."
"–Hoseok–nice to meet you, by the way. I wish it wasn't this dramatic of a meeting," You smiled sweetly at the boy. Then turning back toward Makr, you continued, "–that you were going around behind my back?"
"You don't even know the guy!" Mark fired back.
"Exactly! And I trust him a hell lot more than you! Isn't that saying something?" You scoffed, crossing your arms.
Rolling his eyes, Mark put his hands up in defense, "Whatever. I don't have to deal with this. I was going to break up with you anyway so you didn't hurt my ego if that's what you think." Mark jogged out of the room, assumably to chase Y/F/N and you stood dumbfounded.
He was going to break up with you? Then why the hell cheat on you first if he could've been free a while ago?
"I'm sorry Y/N. This wasn't my plan. i just wanted to talk to him. And you know, ask why he's been a bad boyfriend. I was just trying to protect you but I think I ended up hurting you. I'm really sorry Y/N. I got so angry when I realized I was witnessing him cheating on you without even knowing, so I punched him. Also, I've never punched anyone before so my fist really hurts so if you're going to yell at me for meddling into your life please make it quick because–" You cut off the rambling boy with a tight embrace.
"Uh," You felt the rumble against Hoseok's chest as he hummed. Without bothering to let go, you sighed. "I'd still be with that jackass if it weren't for you."
"You know how to handle yourself, I can tell. I'm sure you could've handled that without my meddling," Hoseok muttered, frowning at himself.
"It was better with you here. At least I has someone on my side through it all," You looked up at him with a soft smile. He smiled back and you knew Smiley was the perfect code name for him. He was right about being a Sunshine™. His smile could light up your whole day.
"Gumdrop, you know I'm always on your side. We are besties, right?" Hoseok strained the word besties but smiled nevertheless.
"Right," you grinned. "Where would I be without you?"
"Jamming to Hannah Montana alone," Hoseok smirked as you both exited the lounge.
"You promised to never speak of it again!" You shouted, lightly pushing him off path.
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Everybody knows you as an Ice Queen. And a bunch of fuckboys made it their daily entertainment to come to the café and watch how you ditch yet another guy, trying to hit on you. But one day, they make a bet.
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Jimin: *crossing his arms* where am i supposed to sit?
Yoongi: my face is available
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How to become the customer experience custodian
The number one objective enterprises give for embarking on a digital transformation is to improve customer experiences with new engagement models, according to IDC's 2017 global study.
Health insurance company will tap into wearable data insights in order to understand a customer's level of wellness
MLC, the wealth management division of National Australia Bank, is giving health insurance customers the opportunity to lower the cost of their premiums in return for data on their exercise, sleep and lifestyle patterns.
The company has implemented the Covalence health analytics platform, built by US-based, disruptive big data tech provider, Big Cloud Analytics, into its new MLC On Track Program, which it claims is Australia's first wearable device wellness initiative.
Using MLC On Track, MLC will be able to capture, organise and score information on participating customers' health and wellness through Internet of Things (IoT) data generated by Intel Basis Peak fitness and sleep trackers, along with other data sources. Specific data sets being analysed include step count, hours of activity, sleep duration and average resting heart rate.
Data will then be presented to end consumers via personalised dashboards and include actionable trends and wellness scores, triggered messaging, content and programs.
Arguably, what is most significant about the initiative is how data will then be used to determine the product price points MLC will offer participating customers.
In return for sharing their personal data, and for meeting pre-determined wellness targets during a 90 to 160-day period, customers will receive a 5 percent discount on premiums. Additionally, customers are given two opportunities to capture the discount, for a total of 10 per cent off premiums for the life of their policy.
"It's a potential game changer for the industry," claimed MLC executive general manager Insurance, David Hackett. "For too long, companies have relied on old ways to do business. We want to create more value for an insurance customer beyond just the policy itself."
MLC's chief underwriter, Fiona Guscott, said identifying new ways to assess and price insurance risk will help cut costs for everyone involved.
"More importantly, as we reward healthy decisions, we can all work to achieve the greater goal of prioritising wellness," she said.
Big Cloud Analytics CEO, J. Patrick Bewley, described the program as a unique alignment of the two companies' interests.
"Customers can monitor their health habits in real-time to see how their activity and sleep levels can affect their health scores while reducing their premium costs," he said. "Additionally, insurance providers become more engaged with their customers. Accessing massive amounts of longitudinal data and scores can significantly change how actuarial information has been derived for the past century. We are extremely pleased to play a key role in bringing this capability to life with MLC."
BCA positions its proprietary health analytics platform as providing a deeper understanding of the health and wellness of the population as well as an early warning signal to consumers around their wellness and biometric changes.
Advanced analytics is becoming big business for insurance companies as they strive to better understand their client and customers and better manage risk. According to a recent study conducted by IBM across insurance companies, 74 per cent are using information including big data and analytics to create a competitive advantage.
In an interview with CMO last year, the global CEO analytics for global insurance giant, AON, Steven Mildenhall, revealed the company has spent $350 million in recent years building analytics capabilities which could not only improve existing insurance policies and risk management, but trigger profound shifts in how insurance companies innovate.
"In the past, from an insurance point of view, we had to rely on not observing the thing you actually wanted to observe – is someone careful, prudent, do they have good foresight and so on. You just observed if they did or didn't by whether they claimed," Mildenhall told CMO at the time.
"With all the data now available, you can directly observe many more of these behavioural characteristics that will be good drivers to understand risk."
The motor insurance industry has already garnered plenty of headlines for its use of telemetry-based, in-car technology to record driving information of an individual customer's behaviour in order to build a more personalised, accurate profile that better identified their level of risk.
But there are potential risks in terms of consumer privacy backlash. CapGemini head of data and insight, Frank Wondoloski, said over the past number of years, the industry has seen consumers choose convenience or price reductions over privacy time and time again.
"We have worked with other insurance companies who are at various stages of development of similar products and believe big data will accelerate these trends," he told CMO.
"Wearables are a whole new breed of
technology which will, even beyond the insurance industry, drive data growth
and provide new opportunities - but also force us all to think about privacy
in new ways."
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The number one objective enterprises give for embarking on a digital transformation is to improve customer experiences with new engagement models, according to IDC's 2017 global study.
Every time I pass through the automated border controls at the Sydney airport I walk away with a feeling of exasperation on the one hand and relief on the other. Exasperation, because the face recognition technology inevitably always fails to recognise me. Relief, because we seem to be safely years away from the Orwellian reality of states controlling every aspect of our lives; something the media is keenly warning us against each day.
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Graduate assistant cobra faqs
You will receive a COBRA enrollment form that will be sent out to you after your insurance coverage has ended. You will need to complete and sign the enrollment form and return it to Human Resources. Once Human Resources has received your enrollment information, we will send it to the insurance company who will process the enrollment.
You must complete enrollment within 60 days after the date of the notice.
If you lose coverage on 02/14, your coverage will begin on 02/15. If you lose coverage on 08/14, your coverage will begin on 08/15.
Initial Enrollment: Your first payment will be prorated.
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Continuation Coverage:
The monthly cost for COBRA is:
Student- $232.22
Child- $232.22
2 or more children- $464.44
No, you will not receive a new BCN ID number and insurance card. Your BCN ID will remain the same.
Payments are due within 45 days after your election is made. You must make your first payment no later than 45 days after the date of your election. (This is the date the Election Notice is postmarked). You will then be billed on a monthly basis. You may pay by check.


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There are 4 bedrooms in this home to sleep a total of 8 people in the beds. Got a couple of tag alongs on your trip? We have roll-away beds and air mattresses available to provide extra accommodations. The master bedroom has a king bed and 55" flat screen TV. The second bedroom has a queen bed and a 45" flat screen TV. The third and fourth bedrooms are both queen sized beds.
The living room which is attached to the kitchen has soaring vaulted ceilings and is very spacious for large groups. There is a 65" flat screen TV to watch all of your favorite shows or sports games. The kitchen table has bench like seating and place settings for 8 guests. Everything is provided to make a home cooked meal. There is also an outdoor kitchen with a pizza oven!
The backyard was recently updated and has a pool, spa, and outdoor kitchen. Chaise lounges and pool towels are provided to relax poolside. This backyard has a resort feeling with all of the stylish furnishings and touches.
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This "Strick House" Coffee Table by Amir Farr is no longer available.
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In the early 1960s, Los Angeles architect Amir Farr collaborated with the great Oscar Niemeyer on the Brazilian architect's only North American commission, the much loved Strick House in Santa Monica. Farr designed the custom-made furniture for the house, including this coffee table. At just ten inches in height, this table sits very low, which creates a relaxed, informal atmosphere in any vignette arranged around it. The table also helps draw attention to objects placed on it. For those who occasionally like to sit on the floor when entertaining a more intimate gathering of friends, this table is the perfect thing.
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Date of Manufacture1963
ConditionGood. The table is in original condition; its flaws are not objectionable, and simply count as patina..
WearWear consistent with age and use
10 in. H x 46 in. W x 21.5 in. D
25 cm H x 117 cm W x 55 cm D
Seller LocationLos Angeles, CA
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Gul Raj Bhatia has quit HP, where he was Country Marketing Manager, Imaging and Printing Group, to join Wyeth Consumer Healthcare as Country Manager. In his new role, Bhatia will be primarily looking at growing the business across the existing brands and also explore possible growth opportunities.
Commenting on his new assignment, Bhatia said, "There are challenges similar to the FMCG sector in consumer healthcare sector as there are various OTC products. Also, this category offers a lot of growth potential that needs to be tapped. My past experiences with Cadbury India, where I had spent close to 13 years in various roles in sales and marketing, will come in handy in my current role."
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There's always room for Rossini!
More Maria, natch!
There are two Lucia di Lammermoors included in the studio remastering set, with the first having been recorded in 1953. This Lucia was recorded in 1959 and Callas' voice was beginning to show some wear and tear, but she still is just jaw-droppingly good. On the other hand, this recording was done late enough to have been recorded in stereo. The stereo sound, remastered, is very rich.
I also love the cover art!
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I think my enjoyment of this came partly from my previous acquaintance with the play. The music is rather astonishing and I noticed (and it was confirmed in the liner notes) that it often has nothing much to do with what is being expressed, but goes its own idiosyncratic little way. I bought this because a) it was on sale and b) Barbara Hannigan is in it, and she does not disappoint. Will listen again now I'm used to it.
This showed why Alagna was the great white hope of tenordom when he first appeared on the scene. He sounds wonderful here, and my other favourites were José van Dam and Catherine Dubosc.
Some light Rameau to iron to.
Aaron Sheehan (tenor), Teresa Wakim (soprano), Amanda Forsythe (soprano), Douglas Williams (bass-baritone), Jesse Blumberg (baritone), Dorothee Mields (soprano), Mireille Lebel (mezzo-soprano), Jason McStoots (tenor), Zachary Wilder (tenor)
Boston Early Music Festival Orchesra, Boston Early Music Festival Chorus, Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs
Recorded Sendensaal Bremen July 1-6, 2013
Charpentier, M-A: La Couronne de Fleurs
A pastorale that was a collaboration with playwright Molière written as a tribute to Louis XIV but never performed during his lifetime and known only to us by the survival of his manuscripts. Written around 1685. Although Molière died 1673, his input was for an earlier work that was banned by Louis and reused for this.
La Descente d'Orphée aux enfers
This is an unfinished opera. There was no prologue and it does not fit the standard of the time of 1, 3 or 5 acts (it is written in two acts). Dated to probably 1686 or 1687.
I suppose I listen to this often enough at this point that probably should post as a 'guilty pleasure', but it sure is hard to resist:
I agree about the Abbado recording - it is excellent, but this gets the nod because Suliotis has more of an edge and is constantly thrilling. I went looking for the Gardelli/Sass CD set, but it seems to be out of print.
from Germany. Don't know what the postage would be for you though. Available from France as well.
"The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland."
Lucy Maud Montgomery
I am listening to Giordano: Fedora - Angela Gheorghiu, Placido Domingo
A wonderful recording:
Tito Gobbi, Boris Christoff, Victoria De Los Angeles. I've not heard of the tenor, Giuseppe Campora, but he also is excellent. All seemingly at their peaks.
Considering this 'Simon' was recorded in 1958, and had 1990 remastering to CD format, it's a terrific candidate for 24Bit/96KHZ remastering, as the sound is only pretty good.
Vivaldi: L'Incoronazione di Dario
World Premiere Complete Recording
Anders Dahlin (Dario), Sara Mingardo (Statira), Delphine Galou (Argene), Riccardo Novaro (Niceno), Roberta Mameli (Alinda), Lucia Cirillo (Oronte), Sofia Soloviy (Arpago), Giuseppina Bridelli (Flora)
Accademia Bizantina
Ottavio Dantone
Recorded September 2013, Die Glocke, Bremen, Germany
Gosh, I just remembered this was a 2014 release as well. So many operas released (revivals/rediscovered works) this year!
I have moved on to Turandot - Maria Callas, Eugenio Fernandi, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Giuseppe Nessi - Serafin La Scala


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Libya's former rebel leaders basked in praise Tuesday at the United Nations while fugitive strongman Moamer Kadhafi issued an audio message calling the new government a "charade."
With the new Libyan flag flying at the UN headquarters, interim government leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil thanked all nations who aided with the "success of the Libyan revolution," which he revealed had left at least 25,000 dead.
US President Barack Obama hailed a "new chapter" for Libya as the victorious rebels' red, black and green flag was hoisted at the United Nations ahead of the annual General Assembly.
But Obama warned Kadhafi loyalists still putting up resistance in their remaining bastions to lay down their arms, promising that NATO-led air strikes would continue as long as the fighters remained a threat.
"Today, the Libyan people are writing a new chapter in the life of their nation," the US president told world leaders at a UN meeting on Libya being held on the sidelines of the General Assembly.
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Credit for the "liberation of Libya, belongs to the people of Libya," he insisted, but stressed the international community was not pulling out yet.
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Obama met Jalil, Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) chief, for the first time Tuesday and the US leader said the focus should also now turn to a democratic transition after 42 years of dictatorship, including "free and fair elections."
The United Nations and world leaders all promised to help the new government with its campaign to take remaining territory held by Kadhafi fighters and to rebuild the country and organize elections.
"For the past seven months, you have fought courageously for your fundamental rights and freedoms," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told Jalil as he launched the summit.
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> What are splines and why should the be reticulated?
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What are splines and why should the be reticulated?
My Sims games spend a lot of time reticulating splines.I looked up both words. I still don't understand. Can someone explain?
Thats just Will Wright's (the creator of the Sims series) sense of humor. He wanted something that sounded fancy, but didnt mean anything. I think he was sucessful.
It might be a graphics thing--I'm pretty sure that both terms are used in the field of computer graphics. I'll ask one of my friends who does that kind of stuff.
Here we go. From http://eeggs.com/items/333.html:Reticulating Splines: Constructing network based functions that are defined by divisible intervals while approximating said network and composing it of pieces of simple functions defined on subintervals and joined at their endpoints with a suitable degree of smoothness.
-- Will Wright (from http://simz.gamenation.com/)Hope this helps.
I took a graduate level computer graphics programming class in College, I think I can boil it down a little bit...
A spline is a smooth curve. Generally it means a smoothly curvy line. This is important in computer graphics right now because computer have a hard time dealing with smooth curves and most graphics programs would rather represent everything as if it were tiled with little flat tiles (polygons). But the human eye finds smooth surfaces much more realistic looking. Thus it's better to use splines whenever possible. But you have to have a fast computer and reasonably smart software, or it'll take forever to draw the picture on the screen. (Ever used a raytracing program?)
As for "reticulating", it seems to have something to do with the process of constructing or connecting several things together so as to form another. Or maybe the process of decomposing a complex thing into smaller simpler ones that, when added together, equal the original complex thing.
So my best guess (provided this isn't just a joke on Will Wright's part) is that somewhere in the deep guts of the Sims program, it wants to draw splines. But it has to cut big splines up into little pieces in order to process them efficiently enough. And all the little splines have to match up so that if you string them together they look just like the original big one did.
For example, imagine you have a really jagged line that jumps up and down a lot. You want to copy this line. But you don't want to copy it pixel by pixel, because that would be slow as heck. What you can do, maybe, if you're smart enough, is to cut it up into pieces. If you choose the cutting points intelligently enough, you can probably represent this jaggy line by several shorter straight ones, joined end to end. Then you compute and store the mathematical formulas for these smaller lines. When
you want the computer to draw the jaggy line again, you
just tell it, "draw this series of small, straight lines, joined end to end."
Now think of the same thing, except with a wildly curvy line instead of a jagged one. That's "reticulating a spline". Do it for more than one spline, and you're "reticulating splines."
So, I guess the best restatement is: "pre-processing curved surfaces so as to be able to draw them onto the screen in a fast and efficient manner."
Splines are curvy lines. Reticulating splines now makes some sort of fuzzy sense to me. I actually thought it could be a nonsense phrase but not too funny considering how long it takes my computer to do it.
Yeah ultrafilter, that helped!
...make me feel real stupid.
And while we've got the spline experts here, could someone fill me in as to the meaning of non-uniform rational b-splines? IIRC, that's what NURBS (3D Studio Max uses NURBS curves as an improvement on bezier curves) is an acronym for.
But you have to have a fast computer and reasonably smart software, or it'll take forever to draw the picture on the screen. (Ever used a raytracing program?)
I've played around a bit with 3D Studio Max on my Pentium 200MHz running Windows NT. Rendering stuff (especially raytraced stuff) involved finding something else to do for a while. But I did make some nice preliminary designs for the skyscraper I want to build.
Originally posted by Biggirl
Yeah ultrafilter, that helped!
...make me feel real stupid.
Sorry...I was more showing that it's not just a nonsense phrase. If it makes you feel better, I also have no idea what that means.
If I'm remember right, "b-spline" is short for "Bezier Spline". These are a slightly more mathematically complex (and therefor slightly slower to draw) kind of spline whose shape is determined by 4 control points. (A regular spline is determined by 3.) The practical upshot of this is that you can control not only the endpoints of the spline, but you can also control the slope of the tangent line at the endpoints. This is really handy when stringing multiple splines together - you can make sure the slope of two adjacent spline segments match up at the point where they meet. So, the point where the two splines meet will always be smooth and continuous, it'll never have a sharp corner or point. This makes it a lot easier to string splines together to make complex curves that form a smooth whole. So that's the "b-spline" part of "Non-uniform, rational, b-splines".
As for non-uniform and rational, I would suspect they also talk about obscure mathematical properties of NURBS that are helpful in making realistic looking curved surfaces. Also, seems to me that NURBS are usually 3-D, as opposed to 2-d curves. So I guess I would say that they're "Bezier spline patches" - that is, little squares that can have smooth 3-D curves in them.
I don't know a lot about CG, so I'm not entirely sure what NURBS are used for, but my suspicion is that anytime you want to create a curved 3-D surface out of smaller curved 3-D patches, and that is reasonably fast to render, and still looks realistic, you're going to end up using NURBS of some sort.
In short, it's all part of the same game: tricks to get the computer to draw realistic-looking curved surfaces onto a computer screen fast enough to fool the human eye and brain into perceiving it as if it were real.
In an ideal world we'd have essentially limitless computer power, and we'd just ray-trace everything. But computers these days aren't nearly fast enough to do that, so we have to resort to "good enough" solutions like splines and NURBS and etc...
Originally posted by ultrafilter
Sorry...I was more showing that it's not just a nonsense phrase. If it makes you feel better, I also have no idea what that means.
Yes, that actually does make me feel better. I got to ". . .and composing it of pieces of simple functions defined on subintervals. . ." and blew a reading comperhension gasket in my brain.
There's a highly mathematical page that explains a bit
about NURBS here:
Some of this might make a little bit of sense if you're really, really lucky. You might recognize X, Y and Z as the 3-D coordinates of a point. But what the hell is this "W" thing? And they keep talking about "transformations." Etc, etc.
I understand it a bit more, having coded up programs to implement equations similiar to these. Suffice it to say that computer graphics involves a LOT of math, and the methematical tricks that get used off to get everything running fast enough to be tolerable are truly awe-inspiring. If you ever wonder why computer geeks worship John Carmack, the guy who wrote the graphics engines for Doom and Quake, look at this page and realize that Carmack eats stuff like this for breakfast - and then comes back for seconds. And when he's done, THEN goes and makes a kick-ass video game out of it.
What's a spline? (http://tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/What's-a-spline.html)
(from The Jargon File (http://tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html))
Some of this might make a little bit of sense if you're really, really lucky. You might recognize X, Y and Z as the 3-D coordinates of a point. But what the hell is this "W" thing? And they keep talking about "transformations." Etc, etc.
Actually, I took a class in the mathematics of computer vision, and covered a bit of projective geometry, which is what that is. The w is there to allow you to represent infinity. The point (x, y, z) becomes (x, y, z, 1) unless you want to talk about infinity (the vanishing point). I can't really remember much anymore, and didn't do well in the class to begin with.
Great, now you've caused flashbacks to proofs involving bizarre matrix math and stuff.
The important thing here, however, is that the Sims (along with SimCity2000) is doing none of this, but rather just puts the words on the screen because Will Wright liked the phrase.
First, The Sims does not use 3D graphics, instead merely splatting sprites onto the screen. Any splines used would, at most, be for creating paths for objects to move along inside the world. I'm guessing Qwertyasdfg has the right answer.
Second, B-splines are not Bezier splines. Bezier splines pass through the endpoints of the spline, whereas B-splines do not. On the other hand, B-splines have some nice properties for matching up the surface properties for adjoining curves, while Bezier splines are trickier to get two adjoining curves to smoothly match up. Looking in preview, I see ModernRonin2 has linked to a page that more fully explains NURBS, albeit with more jargon.
A "transformation" is a mathematical way to take information from one frame of reference, and place it into a different frame of reference.
The "W" dimension, as waterj2 notes, is for projective geometry. A point in "eye space" (an object's coordinates that have been transformed into the viewer's frame of reference) with coordinates (X, Y, Z, W), gets transformed into the "screen space" coordinates (X/W, Y/W, Z/W), where (X/W, Y/W) is the location on the screen the point would appear, and Z/W is how far from the viewer the point is.
It's a reference to Sim City 2000. It said that when you created a new landscape.
Mmmm... reticulated splines. They're better fresh, but they're out of season now.
Incidentally, if my dad's to be trusted, the original meaning of "spline" was a "straightedge" that could be bent and curved, to be used for drawing a smooth (albeit not particularly mathematical) curve through points on a drawing. He does actually have such a device, so it may well be true.
Trust your dad.
However, tell him that before they were drawing instruments, they were thin pieces of wood, used to join curving pieces being glued together, or otherwise joined in such a manner that a guide or bracing piece was needed.
In the late 1800's draftsmen began using splines to rule curves between two points, and the fact that curves made with a uniformly springy little drafting spline also met the mathematical definition of spline, specifically a curve between any two points having a continuous first and second derivative. I personally think the math guys borrowed the term from the draftsmen, who had taken it from the cabinetmakers, a century before. Now the computer guys are using it again, for a related, but subtly different meaning.
"Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head." ~ Ambrose Bierce ~
From Merriam-Webster (http://m-w.com)
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1756
1 : a thin wood or metal strip used in building construction
2 : a key that is fixed to one of two connected mechanical parts and fits into a keyway in the other; also : a keyway for such a key
3 : a function that is defined on an interval, is used to approximate a given function, and is composed of pieces of simple functions defined on subintervals and joined at their endpoints with a suitable degree of smoothness
Sim City 2000 maps are based on a 256×256 grid of squares, each with its own elevation. Granted, the possible elevations are discrete, rather than continuous, but there is a certain smoothness to the map if you look at the medium-scale structure. I always assumed they drew a smaller network, say 16×16, of random elevations, and connected them with a smoothing function in both dimensions. While this process may not technically be reticulation of splines, it's kind of close. It does sound darn cool when that voice says "reticulating splines".
I agree that when The Sims says it, it's simply a reference to SC2K, even though The Sims landscapes are based on similar grids.
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