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TULSA, Okla. – WPX Energy's (NYSE:WPX) successful Niobrara shale discovery in western Colorado has the potential to significantly increase the company's natural gas reserves and daily production in ensuing years.
The discovery well produced an initial high of 16 million cubic feet per day at a flowing pressure of 7,300 pounds per square inch.
The well has since been choked back substantially to optimize reservoir performance and ensure maximum resource recovery. Over the past 30 days, it produced at an average rate of 12 million cubic feet per day.
WPX has the lease rights to approximately 180,000 net acres of the Niobrara/Mancos shale play that underlies the company's expansive leasehold position in the Piceance Basin.
Substantial gathering and processing infrastructure is in place to accommodate additional gas volumes from the area, as is take-away capacity from the basin. Gas produced from the Niobrara and Mancos shales can be processed without modification to existing gas treatment facilities.
WPX has drilled more than 4,000 wells in the Piceance Basin, mostly in the tight sandstones of the Williams Fork formation.
"We have a large-scale position in the Piceance, where we are the lowest-cost, most efficient producer in the basin. We know the Piceance is a world-class asset. Now the results of our Niobrara well are showing that our acreage has even greater reserves potential," said Ralph A. Hill, president and chief executive officer.
"This exploratory work in the Niobrara and Mancos shales of the Piceance was a logical follow-on to our previous Mancos shale discoveries in the San Juan Basin.
"In the latter half of 2010, we drilled two horizontal discovery wells there that produced at high rates from the same reservoir that we're delineating in the Piceance. The San Juan results already added 1.3 trillion cubic feet of proved, probable and possible reserves to WPX," Hill added.
"Based on the early indications from this Piceance discovery, we're talking about the potential to ultimately more than double our current 18 trillion cubic feet equivalent of 3P reserves," Hill said.
The Niobrara and Mancos shales are generally located at depths of 10,000 to 13,000 feet. The Williams Fork is a shallower formation, generally located at depths of 6,000 to 9,000 feet. In the Piceance Basin, WPX holds an average working interest of 66 percent in the Niobrara and Mancos shales.
WPX plans to drill at least two more horizontal Niobrara wells in the Piceance Basin this year, pending permits, starting within a six-mile radius of the first well. This additional work will help WPX evaluate how productive the formation is across the basin. Other operators also are delineating the extent of the resource on the eastern and western margins of the basin.
WPX's first Niobrara horizontal well is located on the company's existing Piceance Valley acreage in Garfield County. It was drilled to a total vertical depth of 10,200 feet with a 4,600-foot horizontal lateral.
Drilling operations commenced in August 2012 during which the company successfully recovered 535 feet of continuous core. Completion operations, including 17 frac stages, were completed in December.
WPX previously drilled a vertical Niobrara test well in late 2011 that yielded the impetus for drilling the first horizontal well to gain additional data about the productivity of the formation.
Steven G. Natali, senior vice president of exploration for WPX, commented, "As we study what our geoscience and operations teams have achieved in the Niobrara and Mancos shales, we're seeing hydrocarbon saturation across tremendous thickness in a highly over-pressurized environment. These shales are located directly underneath our current Williams Fork production in the Piceance.
"Advances in horizontal drilling and the way that our completions engineers apply multi-stage fracture technology means that much of this gas can eventually be brought to the surface at an economic rate," Natali added.
About WPX Energy, Inc.
WPX Energy is an exploration and production company focused on developing its significant oil and gas reserves, particularly in the liquids-rich Piceance Basin, the Bakken and Three Forks oil shales and the Marcellus Shale. WPX also has domestic operations in the San Juan and Powder River basins, as well as a 69 percent interest in Apco Oil and Gas International. Go to www.wpxenergy.com/investors.aspx to join our e-mail list.
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this press release that address activities, events or developments that the company expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the company. Statements regarding future drilling and production are subject to all of the risks and uncertainties normally incident to the exploration for and development and production of oil and gas. These risks include, but are not limited to, the volatility of oil, natural gas and NGL prices; uncertainties inherent in estimating oil, natural gas and NGL reserves; drilling risks; environmental risks; and political or regulatory changes. Investors are cautioned that any such statements are not guarantees of future performance and that actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, even if subsequently made available by WPX Energy on its website or otherwise. WPX Energy does not undertake and expressly disclaims any obligation to update the forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Investors are urged to consider carefully the disclosure in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, available from us at WPX Energy, Attn: Investor Relations, P.O. Box 21810, Tulsa, Okla., 74102, or from the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Additionally, the SEC requires oil and gas companies, in filings made with the SEC, to disclose proved reserves, which are those quantities of oil and gas, which, by analysis of geoscience and engineering data, can be estimated with reasonable certainty to be economically producible – from a given date forward, from known reservoirs, under existing economic conditions, operating methods, and governmental regulations. The SEC permits the optional disclosure of probable and possible reserves. From time to time, we elect to use "probable" reserves and "possible" reserves, excluding their valuation.The SEC defines "probable" reserves as "those additional reserves that are less certain to be recovered than proved reserves but which, together with proved reserves, are as likely as not to be recovered." The SEC defines"possible" reserves as "those additional reserves that are less certain to be recovered than probable reserves." The Company has applied these definitions in estimating probable and possible reserves. Statements of reserves are only estimates and may not correspond to the ultimate quantities of oil and gas recovered. Any reserve estimates provided in this presentation that are not specifically designated as being estimates of proved reserves may include estimated reserves not necessarily calculated in accordance with, or contemplated by, the SEC's reserves reporting guidelines. Investors are urged to consider closely the disclosure in our SEC filings that may be accessed through the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
The SEC's rules prohibit us from filing resource estimates. Our resource estimations include estimates of hydrocarbon quantities for (i) new areas for which we do not have sufficient information to date to classify as proved, probable or even possible reserves, (ii) other areas to take into account the low level of certainty of recovery of the resources and (iii) uneconomic proved, probable or possible reserves. Resource estimates do not take into account the certainty of resource recovery and are therefore not indicative of the expected future recovery and should not be relied upon. Resource estimates might never be recovered and are contingent on exploration success, technical improvements in drilling access, commerciality and other factors.
SOURCE: WPX Energy
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LIBERTY, Missouri (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned Republicans in Congress on Friday to quickly resolve two festering budget issues or risk a government shutdown and a debt default that would send the U.S. economy into a tailspin.
"Just do your job," Obama said in a speech in which he offered his sharpest criticism to date of Republican attempts to gut funding for his signature health care law as part of any agreement on the budget or debt limit extension.
Washington faces two looming deadlines, with Obama and his Democrats and Republicans far apart on a solution. The government runs out of money on September 30 unless Congress approves a new spending law and will be unable to pay its bills by mid-October if the debt limit is not increased.
At a Ford automotive plant in the Kansas City suburb of Liberty, Obama said the U.S. recovery from recession would be at risk should the debt limit not be extended. And if no budget bill is passed by September 30, the government will shut down, idling hundreds of thousands of public employees.
If the United States is unable to pay its bills, said Obama, "We're deadbeats."
He offered withering criticism to a faction of conservatives in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives who are adamant about trying to cut funding for the healthcare law.
Referring to a comment from North Carolina Republican Senator Richard Burr that trying to defund the healthcare law was "the dumbest idea I'd ever heard of," Obama said he agreed with the statement.
"This is not a deadbeat nation. We don't run out on our tab," said Obama, vowing he would not negotiate over the "full faith and credit of the United States."
While Obama and Republicans ridicule each other, so far there has been little in the way of substantive negotiations aimed at resolving the budget snafu.
"Be the guy who's doing your job. No obstruction. No games. No holding the economy hostage if you don't get 100 percent of what you want," he said.
Obama toured a factory at Liberty, Missouri, where Ford is boosting its workforce by more than 80 percent. The company has added 900 people to help build the popular F-150 pickup truck, and will add more than 1,000 jobs over the next year building a new line of vans.
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Comment: Why the art world is blind to sex crime
If you are an artist and you abuse a child, never fear: the art world has your back, writes Melinda Tankard Reist.
Artists who commit sexual violations are too often considered above the law and deserving of special treatment.
Their brilliance is given deferential treatment: they exist in another moral universe where the rules governing everyone else don't apply. Oddly, this deference does not apply to parking tickets.
Whether the art objects are photographs, films, pieces of pottery or woven tapestries, their makers are often bestowed with godlike qualities. Queensland art gallery owner Andrew Baker describes Torres Strait Islander printmaker and sculptor Dennis Nona, for example, as having 'invented the visual language of his people'. Simon Wright, author of Dennis Nona: Time After Time, marvels about Nona's 'reckoning of the universal lay fertile".
When Nona, 42, was jailed for multiple child rapes in 2014 – he challenged the conviction, but lost his appeal in July – members of the art world rushed to prop up their idol. Art history professor Sasha Grishin, for example, wrote that he was "not in any way disputing the seriousness of the crimes" for which Nona was convicted, but insisted that he was "the most important artist to emerge from the Torres Strait in the past 50 years".
Cairns Regional Gallery director Andrea May Churcher stated that art, over time, has a life beyond its creators, and that Nona's objects should still be seen as "an important part of our cultural heritage and works".
With so many accolades, the sexual torture of children is rendered almost subordinate.
Art historian and valuer Frances Cummings said he was "very supportive" of Nona: "He is a genius of an artist and the things he committed were when he was a very young man."
Nona's former arts manager, Michael Kershaw, told the ACT Supreme Court that Nona was a 'role model'. With so many accolades, the sexual torture of children is rendered almost subordinate. Perhaps we need to be reminded of what Nona did.
In 1995, Nona moved in with a mother and two teenage daughters while attending a Canberra art school. He raped one of the girls over the course of a year until she became pregnant at the age of 13 and was reported to child protection services. (The pregnancy was terminated at 23 weeks. In the words of the judge, the girl "underwent a late stage termination, which was not a straightforward procedure").
Court records indicate that harm to the girl has been long lasting in the terrible damage it has done to her. She has suffered suicidal thoughts.
In 2004 and again in 2006, Nona was arrested on a domestic violence offence as well as an assault against a woman who refused to have sex with him. A domestic violence order was served on him in 2006.
Nona has not just been propped up by bigwigs of the Australian art world. A 2012 court judgment records that "senior officers of the AFP… for reasons of convenience or, most likely, expense" did not charge Nona with child rape offences in 1998, despite their having "evidence that the applicant had the opportunity to commit the offences", and "extremely strong DNA evidence" of his responsibility for the pregnancy.
In the judgment, the presiding judge acknowledged that many people would find this decision by the AFP "inappropriate, if not shocking". Shocking or not, the Australian art world was the beneficiary of the AFP decision, because Nona's exhibitions continued in Australia and overseas.
The Australian painter Donald Friend was a self-confessed paedophile.
Even when police finally charged Nona, he pleaded not guilty, made an application for a permanent stay of proceedings under the Human Rights Act, and failed to show remorse.
Other artists have played the art card throughout a life of the sexual abuse of others, without any such call to justice. For example, the Australian painter Donald Friend was a self-confessed paedophile. A documentary produced by Kerry Negara reported Friend's boast, in his own diaries, of frequent sex with boys as young as nine and 10 while living in Bali.
A prominent curator, Barry Pearce, responded that paedophilia was not black and white – that Friend's paedophilia was "on the light side of penumbra" and Friend was merely interested in notions of youth and the ideal of the beauty of the body.
In contrast, the Balinese boys – now grown – said that they felt exploited and harmed by the experience of being "appreciated" for their beauty by Friend. But Pearce said to call Friend a paedophile would be "shocking".
At the same time, the Australian art world is backed by public institutions that promulgate their sexual values.
The "roll-over" feature of the National Gallery of Victoria website allows viewers to zoom in on the naked body of an underage girl, without any cautions or caveats about the digitalised collection, the identities of the children pictured, or any indication of the controversy around the photographs displayed.
The roll-over pictures are part of the 1985 "TCM" series that Bill Henson gave to the gallery in 2007, before it auctioned off some works in the series in 2008 (another earlier auctioned image was of an underage girl lying on her back naked, with legs spread).
The Australian art world staunchly defends Henson's activities in producing and disseminating these pictures. Tolarno Galleries refused to reveal the age of the youngest naked girl in its exhibition.
Filmmaker Roman Polanski raped and sodomised a 13-year-old – whom he had lured to a photoshoot – after giving her alcohol and a quaalude, while she begged to be released. He faced charges and fled to Europe because a judge suggested he might put Polanski in prison.
Polanski's defenders described him as a persecuted victim: he was such a wonderful person and how tawdry was it that he should be subjected to the law, and what a nightmare for the poor genius. He continues to be a celebrated director.
Gore Vidal was quoted in The Atlantic as saying: "I really don't give a fuck. Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she's been taken advantage of?"
No amount of whitewashing by the art establishment should be allowed to disguise the reality of the suffering of real victims.
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EXHIBIT: "A Snapshot of Pakistan, 1965: The Madge Minton Collection"
On her 1965 trip to Pakistan, WASP pilot and herpetologist Madge Minton arrived with funding from the IU Museum (today the Mathers Museum of World Cultures) and a mission to collect objects used in everyday life. "A Snapshot of Pakistan, 1965: The Madge Minton Collection" uses the items she collected and the information she recorded about them, to explore the common needs all people share. The exhibit will close 12/16/2018.
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What are we doing to mothers? Antonella Gambotto-Burke asks in her new book 'Mama'
The exceptional Australian author, journalist, literary critic and essayist Antonella Gambotto-Burke, is on the verge of releasing her latest book Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love.
When I first began reading Antonella's books and essays (in Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Rolling Stone and elsewhere), I was taken aback by the quality and eloquence of writing, the mastery of language, the way she captured and described people so acutely, her often acerbic observations and sharp wit. A magazine profile she wrote on former footballer Warwick Capper and his wife Joanne (included in The Best Australian Profiles, Black Inc., 2004) had me in hysterics. Another profile, not so amusing, on the porn star Sasha Grey, was beyond comparison. Her writing on the global trade in female bodies should be mandatory reading for anyone concerned about human rights violations. The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide, (one of her five books) is an intimate and searing portrayal of the death of her much loved brother at his own hand. Its pages drip with grief. But she would consider her greatest achievement her daughter Bethesda who arrived as a later-in-life gift which caused an earthquake in her soul and caused her to re-arrange her life and priorities.
For those interested in the theme of motherhood and attachment parenting, comes Antonella's latest work, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love. In addition to her essays on love, death, marriage and motherhood, Mama includes long interviews with (in her words – I say that because I'm included!) "some of the most extraordinary people alive today: Steve Biddulph, Stephanie Coontz, artist Michael Hague, Tom Hodgkinson, Sheila Kitzinger, Laura Markham, Gabor Mate, Michel Odent, Attachment Parenting International's Lysa Parker, MamaBake's Michelle Shearer, Melinda Tankard Reist and many others. Connecting with each of them was a tremendous privilege".
"A gifted writer, Antonella needs only a few lines to turn our attention toward the essential" writes obstetrician and visionary Michel Odent in his introduction to Mama.
Antonella argues that there's no place for a debate between stay-at-home mothers and working mothers. "The debate we should be having is with the architects of a culture that makes calm and attentive parenthood close to impossible".
"A number of women I know stifled their sensitivity and maternal instincts to compete in male-dominated spheres, eroding – and, often, destroying – the most important relationships of their lives.
"The bar is masculine, and women must adopt traditionally masculine characteristics – cultivated insensitivity, goal-orientated thinking, the prioritizing of the material – to compete," she writes.
In her book, she asks why we are still conditioned to understand sensitivity as weakness, and why we continue to accept this conditioning. Other questions she raises include:
– Since when did ratification from a dispassionate boss trump the nurturance of human life?
– When did motherhood come to be understood as a series of "thankless tasks"?
– Why are breastfeeding numbers around the world dropping?
– How have we come to understand babies as "blobs"?
– How can we heal rifts with our children?
– What is behind the tsunami of behavioural disorders?
– Why is our culture so sexualised, and how is it affecting our children?
– What roles do fathers have in making a serene experience of motherhood?
– Why are so many children committing suicide?
– What are we doing to mothers, and how will this impact on our own future?
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Sydney: April 23, Mosman Library, 7pm, Antonella will share a conversation with Steve Biddulph, one of the world's bestselling parenting authors, about Mama, motherhood and attachment parenting. Wine and food. Bookings essential, and can be made through Pages & Pages Bookshop in Mosman.
Melbourne: May 30 Readings in Hawthorn Melbourne,12pm. Bookings are essential here. Cost of tickets is redeemable against the cost of the book.
Northern NSW: May 6 Lennox Head Library, 10am, with Michelle Shearer of MamaBake.
Other events to be announced.
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So although I do believe this looks to be a promising opportunity and a great product, the traditional marketing and the amount of people you have to get are extremely high when compared to the income. This ratio may or may not be what you are looking for. I believe if you can master attraction marketing online, you can be successful with any business opportunity.


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By JOHN McCOY | The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — "Fingerling" is a term biologists use to describe young fish that have grown to about the size of a finger.
Biologists in West Virginia must have really, really big hands.
Division of Natural Resources hatchery workers recently stocked more than 500 fingerling muskellunge that averaged a whopping 12 inches in length. Jeff Hansbarger, a DNR district fisheries biologist, called the fish "advanced fingerlings."
"There are certain waters where we can't stock normal-sized muskie fingerlings because they'd end up getting eaten by predators," Hansbarger explained. "For those waters, we grow the fingerlings to a size that makes them more difficult for predators to eat."
This year's stocking required an all-hands-on-deck approach, mainly because most of the young fish were being tagged for future research projects. Biologists, hatchery workers and volunteers from the Muskies, Inc. fishing organization gathered at the DNR's Palestine Hatchery to help with the effort.
"We harvested the fish from one of the hatchery's ponds, anesthetized them, measured their lengths, injected them with (passive electronic) tags, loaded them into stocking trucks and released them at several lakes," Hansbarger said.
The pond yielded 537 young muskies. Hansbarger said 100 of them did not receive tags.
"We sent the untagged fish to (Jackson County's) Woodrum Lake and (Ohio County's) Bear Rocks Lake. The 437 tagged fish were sent to (Lewis County's) Stonewall Jackson Lake, (Lincoln County's) Upper Mud River Lake and (Monongalia County's) Mason Lake."
The tags, called PIT tags, are information-coded electronic microchips enclosed in plastic cylinders not much bigger than grains of rice. Biologists use large hypodermic needles to inject the tags under the fishes' skin near their dorsal fins.
"PIT stands for 'passive integrated transponder,'" Hansbarger said. "When a tagged fish is recaptured, we can pass an electronic reader over the tag and identify the fish by its tag number."
This year's batch of tagged advanced fingerlings will be used in two DNR research projects. In the first, Hansbarger will attempt to validate a non-lethal method he's been using to determine muskies' ages.
"Up to now, the only way to accurately determine a fish's age has been to kill the fish and examine the growth rings in its `otolith,' or ear bone," he explained. "To remove the otolith, you first have to kill the fish, and with large predatory fish like muskies you just don't want to do that.
"I think we can get equally valid results by looking at the growth rings in the rays of a muskie's pelvic fins. Clipping off a piece of fin doesn't harm the fish, and if we can determine that the pelvic fin ray technique is accurate, we'll have a powerful new non-lethal research tool at our disposal."
Hansbarger plans to validate the technique by tagging young-of-the-year muskies, recapturing and fin-clipping them when they're older, and using information on the tags to determine if the rings on the pelvic fin rays match the fishes' age.
West Virginia is located near the southern edge of muskies' native range, a factor Hansbarger said should work in the new technique's favor. Muskies from more southerly climes grow faster than they do in Canada or the upper Midwest, and therefore have more widely spaced growth rings in their fin rays.
"The fish for my study went to Upper Mud River Lake and Mason Lake," he said. "I wanted to have northern and southern water bodies where I could recapture fish and compare the (growth-ring) formation in their pelvic fins."
The rest of the tagged fish went to Stonewall Jackson Lake, where DNR officials plan to equip marina operators with tag readers to determine the ages of recaptured muskies. Beginning in January, a 52-inch minimum size limit will go into effect at Stonewall, so almost all muskies caught will have to be released.
"Being able to use the tags to determine fishes' ages will give biologists a better idea of how fish are surviving, and how the lake's age structure is stacking up," Hansbarger said.
He called the advanced fingerling-tagging effort "a good project where a lot of people came together and worked for the good of the muskie-fishing resource."
"This is something to feel good about," he said.
Information from: The Charleston Gazette, www.wvgazette.com


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Out In The Green Fields
The Yetties careers as entertainers started around the Scout camp fire in the village of Yetminster in Dorset more years ago than they like to remember. They then became involved with folk dancing and, with the young maids of the village, formed 'The Yetminster & Ryme Intrinseca Junior Folk Dance Display Team' which someone mercifully shortened to 'The Yetties'. The musicianship and singing came later and bookings for the four remaining stalwarts began to flow in. Eventually, in 1967, they became so busy that it was decided to dispense with 'Proper Jobs' and travel the country for a while as roving musicians and singers. It was decided to take a weekly wage of £8.00 each and that's the way it stayed for 3 years until recording contracts, TV appearances, Radio Shows and concerts boosted the pocket money and 'kipping' on floors became a thing of the past.
Since then The Yetties have appeared at practically every prestigious venue in the country and have made hundreds of television and radio shows. They have travelled the world from Sarawak to Sri Lanka, Nepal to Newfoundland, Khartoum to Karachi, Khatmandu to Croydon. The 'Rising Nepal' newspaper said of them, 'Me thinks, me lads, The Yetties are terribly delightful'. We hope that you find them terribly delightful as well.
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The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray).
This is the legacy Bug Tracking System for the POV-Ray project. Bugs listed here are being migrated to our github issue tracker. Please refer to that for new reports or updates to existing ones on this system.
FS#65 - Add support for vectors with functions
Opened by Christoph Lipka (clipka) - Sunday, 08 November 2009, 01:38 GMT
Last edited by William F Pokorny (wfpokorny) - Thursday, 19 January 2017, 14:31 GMT
Being able to have functions operate on vectors would be pretty nice to have.
- Field changed: Task Type (Possible Bug → Feature Request)
- Field changed: Category (Documentation → Parser/SDL)
The request is difficult to implement with the current code as it was never meant to be as universally useful as it turned out to be. The solution will have to be part of the 4.0 parser rewrite, and one good option will be to base the new function parser on llvm.
If there is a parser rewrite in the future, functions returning vectors/colors could also be implemented (vectors as input are easily separated into components already, but functions returning vectors are now almost inexistent). A standing workaround is
function { pigment { function {} color_map{} }}
which is ugly.
Such functions would simplify all existing syntax. Splines actually already behave as vector-valued functions of one parameter. Now, one could also specify parametric curves (vector-valued functions with 1 parameter), parametric surfaces (2 parameters) or patterns (3 parameters), or more parameters, if you need more variables. One could then have
parametric {
v_function { my_function(u,v) } translate my_other_function(parameter1,parameter2) texture { pigment { v_function { my_color_function(x,y,z) } } normal { v_function { my_normal_function(x+y+z,0) } } }
This would also enable using pigments and functions interchangeably: users could define their own color patterns, or use existing patterns as functions (now this is patched through builtin functions in "functions.inc"). The vector-valued functions could provide a one-shot solution for displacement warps, normal maps (they would be normalized first by the code), or other
Is there any particular reason that patterns and functions are now treated differently by povray?
- Field changed: Status (New → Tracked on GitHub)
Now tracked on github as issue #190.


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Blessed Marcolino of Forli
- Marcolino Amanni
Joined the Dominicans at age ten and lived under their Rule for 70 years. Noted for his devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, his life of prayer, and his ability to counsel and re-invigorate the faith of his brothers. Supported the reform work of Blessed Raymond of Capua. There are reports of people who heard him in conversation with Mary – and they report hearing both sides of the conversation. Legend says that when Marcolino died an angel in the form of a beautiful child walked through the streets announcing the death, disappearing afterwards.
- 24 January 1397 of natural causes
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Katherine Rabenstein
- Den katolske kirke
- Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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- Wikipedia
- "Blessed Marcolino of Forli". CatholicSaints.Info. 12 February 2018. Web. 8 December 2019. <>


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The idea of a Northwest Passage linking the Hudson Bay to the Pacific is central to this map. In this, Zatta embraces the speculative geography advocated by Nicholas De L'Isle and Phillipe Bauche. De L'Isle and Bauche were supporters of the Northwest Passage theory associated with the apocryphal voyage of the 17th century Admiral de Fonte. The De Fonte legend first appeared in a 1706 English publication entitled 'Memoirs of the Curious.' This short-lived magazine published a previously unknown account by a supposed Spanish Admiral named Bartholomew de Fonte. De Fonte is said to have sailed up the Pacific coast of North America in 1640. On this voyage he apparently discovered a series of gigantic lakes, seas, and rivers heading eastward from the Pacific towards Hudson Bay. The De Fonte story relates how, on one of these great inland lakes, he met with a westward bound ship from Boston that must to have come through the Northwest Passage. Today, based upon inaccuracies and falsities, we know the entire De Fonte article to have been a fabrication, however, it set 18th century afire with speculation that a Northwest Passage must indeed exist. Even such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin wrote long defenses of De Fonte. Our map details De Fonte's route from the Straight of Anian eastward past Lake Velasco, Lake Bello and the 'Lac de Fonte' into another great lake, the Michinipi and hence the Hudson Bay.
On the way, De Fonte passes both the Straights of Anian, presumably a misinterpretation of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and further on, the Kingdom of Anian. Anian or Anian Regnum appeared on maps from the 16th through the early 19th centuries. The idea of Anian was derived from Rasmusio's 1559 edition of Marco Polo's travels which describes 'Ania' or 'Anan' as a Chinese province accessed via a watery straight. Some speculate that this may have referred to the New World, though Polo himself places it somewhere near India. Anian's, first cartographic appearance was only a few years later in a 1562 map by Giacomo Gastaldi. Gastaldi seems to be the man responsible for Anian's presence in the New World. The idea was embraced by other cartographers and intellectuals of the period. John Donne sums the idea up in a poem, 'Anyan if I go west by the North-West passage.' Both the Kingdom of Anian and the Straight of Anian appear on our Zatta map.
Just south of the Strait of Anian, Zatta includes 'Fou-Sang' which he describes as a Chinese Colony. Fusang of Fousang is a region first documented by the Chinese Buddhist missionary Hui Shen in the 5th century. Hui Shen describes a land some 20,000 Chinese Li (c. 8000 km) east of the China coast. Fousang is described in considerable detail in the 7th century Book of Liang by Yao Silian. There are also accounts that the land was settled c. 220 BC by a Chinese Emperor of the Han Dynasty. In later days Fusang was commonly used in Chinese poetry to designate Japan, however earlier references keep it distinct. In any case, Hui Shen's description of Fusang with regard to distance and geography, corresponds more with the coastlands of North America than with Japan. The French historian Joseph de Guignes in his 1761article 'Le Fou-Sang des Chinois est-il l'Amerique? ' promoted this idea. Cartographers of the era, including Zatta, embraced the idea and it was included in many subsequent maps of the region.
Traveling eastward from the colony of Fu-sang, Zatta has us following the apocryphal River of the West. This river, based upon a misinterpretation of the Mississippi as described by the indigenous American Indians of the Great Lakes region, started appearing on maps as early as the Bellin map of 1743 and remained well into the early 19th century.
Zatta maps the River of the West as flowing almost directly westward from L. Salso, near the city of Moozemlek in the lank of the Tahuglauks. While this is clearly a reference to the Great Salt Lake, we find it fascinating that Zatta is able to map it in the same year that it supposedly entered western literature as Lake Timpanagos. Silvestre Velez de Escalante was a Franciscan Mission who identified the Great Salt Lake in 1776 from indigenous accounts. Since there is no way Zatta could have been familiar with Escalante's account, we can only assume that the reference came from an earlier text. In this case, it must have been that of the French explorer Baron de Lahontan. Lahontan's explorations are highly criticized as near or total fabrications, however, his work did have a significant impact on the cartography of the region. Lahontan's wonderful narrative, 'Nouveaux Voyages de M. le Baron de Lahontan,' describes his voyage westward from the Great Lakes along the Wabush to the Mississippi. From the Mississippi he continues almost directly westward along a river he calls the 'Longue' or 'Morte' which possibly represents one of the greater Mississippi tributaries. Lahontan offers a detailed map to accompany his account showing this river - which our map shows running just to the east of the L. Salso as the 'F. Longo.' In Lahontan's own map he divides the 'Long River' between areas that he has personally explored and regions that he has mapped from Native American descriptions. It is from these same American Indian groups that Lahontan heard tales of the Salt Lake that he describes in his narrative and that appears in our Zatta map.
Travelling south of the Chinese colony of Fu-sang we come across the legendary Kingdom of Quivira. Quivira, along with Cibola, was one of the Seven Cities of Gold from Spanish folklore. The story beings in 1150 when Merida, Spain, was conquered by Moors . The city's seven bishops fled the city taking with them much of the cities riches. Legend told that they each founded a great city in a faraway unknown land. With the discovery of the New World and the fabulous riches plundered by Cortez and Pizarro, the Seven Cities became associated with New World legends. Coronado, hearing tales of the rich Aztec homeland of Azatlan somewhere to the north believed he was hunting for Quivira in what is today the American southwest. The Venetian cartographer Zaltieri, reading Coronado's accounts, moved Quivira further north, near Anian, where Zatta places it and where it remained for several hundred years.
Just south of the Salt Lake we find the region of Teguayo or Tolm. Teguayo was also associated with the Seven Cities of gold and the 16th century explorations of Coronado. It most older maps Teguayo is associated with a large lake, sometimes saline, that was briefly mentioned in the journals of the Coronado expedition. While in older maps the name appears sparingly and in various formats, sometimes a lake, sometimes a river, sometimes a city, sometimes a land, it was generally forgotten until the outlaw governor of New Spain, Diego de Penalosa, discovered references to in the famous 'Benevides Memorial.' Father Benavides was a Franciscan missionary active in New Mexico in the early 17th century. Benavides was eager to attract royal support for his evangelization projects and consequently wrote a stunning report of the wealth of the regions of Quivira and Teguayo. It was probably Benavides that first connected the two lands, but following his public embarrassment and loss of status as New Mexico Governor, Penalosa fled to England and France. There he used the Benavides Memorial to promote a scheme of revenge against the Spanish crown. Penalosa attempted to convince the monarch of France and England to invade part of New Spain in order to conquer a vast new Kingdom called Teguayo. Though the plan never bore fruit, Teguayo was consistently present on maps well into the 19th century.
In the lower left quadrant there is a beautifully illustrated title cartouche. All in all this is an extraordinary example of a hard to find, fascinating, and visually magnificent map.
Antonio Zatta (1775-1797) was the most prominent Italian map publisher of the late 18th and early 19th century. His firm, based in Venice, produced maps that mark an important transition from 18th to 19th century cartographic styles. He updates and redefines the traditional title cartouche by replacing the mythic elements common to the 17th and 18th century with more representative images. He maps also strive to keep many 18th century details, such as figural depictions on the map itself, while striving for the accuracy that a 19th century clientele demanded. His most important work is the four volume Atlante novissim published from 1775 to 1789.


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D.C. may be known for a lot of things, but producing moody, directional menswear isn't one of them. At least, it hasn't been — until now. Earlier this month, local designer Skyler Javier debuted his first 14-piece collection for NativeDanger, a homegrown line of men's separates and accessories. If you missed the private launch party at Redeem, you can scope the full lookbook, shot by Ryder Haske (in a cemetery, no less), right here. The shots are simultaneously dark and dreamy, and we can definitely see some of these pieces making their way to artsy Washington fellas.
With a Kickstarter fund in place (and 32 days left to raise $19,000), Javier has big dreams of large-scale production and national distribution for NativeDanger. "My personal style is often in line with my design aesthetic: functional and minimal, with tasteful inserts of tech [and] a subtle forward slant," he says. Click through to check out the collection; if you dig, you can get in on the ground floor to support a new talent.


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HICKORY, N.C. – The Georgia College softball team (37-17) returned to the field for their second game Saturday, May 11, this time taking on the host team of Lenoir-Rhyne University (37-15). It was the second time the two teams faced off in as many days. The Bobcats would take a lead early, but fall short in the end, 4-3.
After a rain delay of more than three hours the game started. Despite the delay the Bobcat faithful quickly filled the stands. The Bobcats got on the board first, scoring twice in the bottom of the third and against in the fourth, but the Bears would push runs across in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings to take the lead and advance to the NCAA Southeast Subregional Championship game.
The Bobcats finish the season with the fourth most wins in school history, finishing five wins behind the 2002-03 season, when the team went 42-9 and reached the Championship game in the College World Series.
"I'm really proud of our girls," said head coach Jamie Grodecki. "They had a great season which I think set the tone and will carry over into the coming years as we continue to grow."
The Bobcats were powered by two different winning streaks of eight games during the 2012-13 season and finished the year on a 27-8 streak, dating back to April 24 and going through the game against the Bears.
Lead by Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Coach of the Year Grodecki, the Bobcats put three on the All-PBC Teams. Senior Dani Gallucci (Orlando, Fla.), junior Whitney Okvist (Kennesaw, Ga.) earned First-Team honors and freshman Abi LeRoy (Dublin, Ga.) being placed on the Second-Team. Okvist also earned National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-Region honors, earning a spot on the Second-Team.
"It's a really good group of girls and a great program," said Gallucci. "It feels really good to be a part of the senior class to have come in and help put the program back on the track of success that it had in the early 2000's."
The Bobcats will lose seniors Natalie Bellantoni (Oviedo, Fla.), Michl'le Hull (Stone Mountain, Ga.), Kelsea Martin (Dacula, Ga.) and Gallucci but return the remaining 15 players on the roster, in addition to adding an incoming freshman class of seven.
"I think our team is in good shape moving forward," said Okvist. "It'll be difficult to fill the shoes of our seniors, but we have a lot of talented underclassmen continuing to improve and grow. We set the bar now and we just need to carry that into next season."
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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The great engineersJul 17, 2007CONTROL presents an Automation Minute. Walt Boyes talks about the itinerant masons who built the cathedrals in the Middle Ages, and how we might be like them.
Hesh Kagan talks on wirelessJul 16, 2007Hesh Kagan sat down to talk wireless with editor in chief Walt Boyes.
How to diffuse a demographic bombJun 27, 2007CONTROL Managing Editor Nancy Bartles tackles one of the biggest challenges the engineering field will face over the next few decades. The demographic bomb the process control industry is living with, with very few candidates in the pipeline to take the place of those contemplating retirement. Manufacturers need to take action to diffuse the bomb starting now -- earlier would be even better!
Process safety on the plant floorJun 12, 2007Executive Editor Jim Montague tackles the topic of process safety and found that, although everybody may want to operate safely, few if any people want to talk openly and specifically about it.
ALON USA boosts process safety, efficiencyJun 12, 2007This six-minute videocast shows how ALON USAs Big Springs refinery is taking advantage of the latest Honeywell technologiesincluding wireless, integrated safety, efficiency and asset reliability.
Boyes talks turkey with User Group leadershipJun 11, 2007In this 11-minute video update, recorded during the 2007 Honeywell User Group Americas Symposium in Phoenix, CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes discusses the evolving importance of user groups in our industry with Enterprise Products Randy Underwood and ExxonMobils Dave Otto, chair and co-chair, respectively, of the Honeywell User Group.
Videocast: OneWireless solutionsJun 11, 2007This brief video shows how companies such as Nucor Steel already are using OneWireless architecture to satisfy application needs in the most demanding of process environments.
What's it gonna take to make what we do visible?Jun 5, 2007KPIs, KPIs! If what we do as automation engineers is not visible to the financial management systems, it never happened! In this Automation Minute, CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes suggests picking projects that can show a step-change in performance and profitability, and not ones that can be overwhelmed or hidden by G&A allocations.
What causes so many plant-to-enterprise integration projects to fail?May 29, 2007CONTROL Managing Editor Nancy Bartels tackles relationship issues inherent in plant-to-enterprise integration projects and says it's not the complex, knotty, technical problems, but rather the squishy skills that can make or break your project.
OPC is on the rise in process controlMay 22, 2007In this Automation Minute videocast, CONTROL Executive Editor Jim Montague comments on a recent survey about the impact of object linking and embedding for process control. Listen and learn about OPC's present and future direction in the process industries.
Why are automation professionals the Rodney Dangerfields of high tech?May 15, 2007
In this Automation Minute videocast, CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes wonders why we as an industry don't get the respect we deserve. Afterall, weve been doing networking since before there was Ethernet and computers since before companies had IT departments.
Foundation fieldbus Working today, preparing for tomorrowFeb 27, 2007This presentation, offered as an exclusive podcast for the Process Automation Radio Network, explains how fieldbus is being used today in process automation applications, how it will be used in the future, and how the unique requirements of different projects are being met.
Yon on wirelessFeb 9, 2007In this podcast for the Process Automation Radio Network, Dr. Gene Yon, president of Adaptive Instruments at Accutech, provides his perspective on industrial wireless to CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes.
SCADA: Big changes From telemtery to data to infomation managementJan 29, 2007SCADA is changing rapidly, and the end users agree. In this Automation Minute videocast, CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes notes that the technology is in fact highly volatile, with many challenges and changes coming in the next few years.
Why traditional automation marketing has to changeJan 22, 2007New to ControlGlobal.com is Automation Minute. In this videocast, Control Editor in Chief Walt Boyes notes that suppliers who aren't thinking about new ways to work with their end users risk being steam rolled over by those that do. The Internet has given us the ability for this to happen, and what can happen usually does.
Open is as open does: Upgrade and migration for DCS the Foxboro wayDec 12, 2006Betty Naylor-McDevitt has worked her way up through both the technical and engineering and sales and marketing tracks at Foxboro to become one of the recognized experts on DCS systems, and the Foxboro I/A Series system in particular. As Marketing Director for Foxboro, she shares her view of upgrading, migration, and open systems with Editor in Chief Walt Boyes.
Into the lion's den: Tata's interest in the U.S process automation marketOct 9, 2006Krishnakumar Nagarajan, head of plant automation solutions for the Engineering and Industrial Services practice of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), explains his companys interest in penetrating the process automation market in the United States.
Suppliers are from Mars, System Integrators are from VenusAug 23, 2006National Instruments' Jack Barber talks with Editor in Chief Walt Boyes about NI's Alliance Partner Program, what it means for suppliers to work with system integrators, and how both can benefit from the relationship.
2006 AutomationXchange PAT RoundtableAug 22, 2006Pfizer senior manager team leaders, Lou Pillai and Martin Warman, join the companys director of process and technology global sourcing, Jeff Miller, in a discussion on PAT with our editors.
Finesse introduces new bioreactor control OSAug 14, 2006Walt Boyes talks with Larry West, executive vice president of California-based Finesse, LLC. Boyes and West discuss the introduction of TruBio, the first truly open configurable bioreactor control OS.
Process optimization in oilfield productionJul 12, 2006Pavilions Matt Tormollen, and Halliburtons Richard Ella, join Editor in Chief Walt Boyes in a conversation about the development of a complete virtual reality simulation model for optimizing oil fields for production.
Talking MOLA with Thermo's David FaulknerJun 29, 2006Walt Boyes revisits his old career at Texas Nuclear as he talks MOLA (moisture online analyzer) with David Faulkner, product manager with Thermo Electron Corp., the successor to the old Texas Nuclear.
A discussion on wireless with David KaufmanJun 21, 2006Kaufman has been heavily involved in SP100, ISA's wireless standard committee; in the HART Wireless Working Group, and in charting Honeywell's course to creating a process automation wireless system.
Who's gonna fill those shoes?Jun 16, 2006Walt Boyes, editor in chief of CONTROL magazine, is passionate about what has to be done in order to make sure the next generation of process automation professionals is ready to provide institutional knowledge when we've retired. Boyes describes what companies currently are doing, and what companies and process automation professionals can do to help avert the upcoming demographic disaster. recorded June 14, 2006, at the Honeywell User Group Americas Symposium.
Talking alarm management with Eddie HabibiJun 8, 2006PAS founder and CEO Eddie Habibi discusses ways to improve your alarm management system. Habibis newly released book fills a void in an area within the process industries that has been kept under wraps until now.
Interview with Transpara Inc.'s Michael SaucierJun 6, 2006In this week's featured Podcast for the Process Automation Radio Network, CONTROL Editor in Chief, Walt Boyes, interviews founder and CEO of Transpara Inc., Michael Saucier, on the companys first new product: a Visual KPI software application that delivers rich scorecard data and trends to mobile devices.
Podcast: The ARC Benchmarking ConsortiumApr 28, 2006CONTROL Editor in Chief, Walt Boyes, interviews ARC's John Wason and Dick Hill on the state of the Benchmarking Consortium after the first two quarters of data has been received.
Interview with AquaSenors' President Bruce BathurstApr 27, 2006In another in ControlGlobal.com's series of podcast interviews, CONTROL Editor in Chief, Walt Boyes, interviews Bruce Bathurst about the companys unique and innovative series of all-digital, fieldbus-equipped wet chemistry parametric sensors.
ARC Benchmarking Consortium at Age 1Mar 3, 2006Hercules' Gary E. Lipson talks to CONTROL Editor in Chief, Walt Boyes, about his participation in ARC's Benchmarking Consortium in this "special to the web" podcast on ControlGlobal.com.
Podcast: An interview with Elpro Technologies' Graham MossFeb 14, 2006Editor in Chief Walt Boyes discusses the state of wireless in industrial environments with Elpros general manager, Graham Moss, who has some interesting opinions about SP100, Wireless HART, the usefulness of mesh networking in process plants, and why he thinks it won't work.
An interview with Matrikon's Mike BrownDec 20, 2005In this first ever ControlGlobal.com podcast, Editor in Chief Walt Boyes discusses the state of process optimization and real time process management with one of the people who invented the discipline, Process Optimization Guru Mike Brown.