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Hi All,
I have a database full of string colours: 0xFFFF00FF etc
If I copy and paste this value for my Enhanced Styles it works fine for value, but if I choose the column I get Not A Number Error. There is no TOHEX function... Sorry for the cross-post but this is a AIMS 2012 issue too
Solved! Go to Solution.
Solved it. You have to store you colours from ARGB for example RED FF FF 00 00 (hex) in Long Int in the database or mapguide can't see it.
So just convert your data in the database to Long Int (FFFF0000) which is 4294901760 and Black is 0
Crazy way to do it, but there you are.
Hi gluckett,
I had that problem, too. Fortunately I found this post. I followed your steps converting the strings to integer, but with no satisfied results. All the lines now appear in black with a slight transparency (just in MapGuide), although the alpha value in the hex-string was always "ff" (opaque). I even took your eample value which was red. In Map3D (2010) it appears in a kind of violet, in MapGuide (2010 and MG OS 2.4).
Have you made any other experiences with that issue?
- kind regards
yes, unfortunately...and sometimes the transparency doesn't come across either...painful little bug. I haven't tried in AIMS 2013 and Map 3D 2013 so I may be fixed...
I could find a solution:
The attribute with the color-code (in integer) in the database should be from type string. It's a bit confusing, but that's how it works.
Hope it works for you as well.
I have kind of the same problem with the exception that I want to use the colors in the database for polygones.
Unfortunately I don't find a solution to convert the data.
I'm using an Oracle database and in my table I have a column for the colors of the type VARCHAR2 (10 byte).
Could you explain me please what I need to do, in order to be able to select the color from the database.
I found somewhere another solution for the problem but it does not work 100%. The colors are shown correctly on the drawing, but the colors in the legend are all balck.
Thanks in advance!


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"Waiting" co-star Loretta Devine told Good Day LA that the project might continue without Houston. "They're trying to put together a second movie and now the focus would be a tribute to her, which would be wonderful. We don't know if they're going to try to introduce a new character or pull her character out all together," she said. "So it's a lot of rewrites that they'll have to go through, so I don't know if it's going to happen as soon as we thought it would happen."
Last year, another original cast member, Angela Bassett, told The Talk "It's preliminary, but 'Waiting to Exhale 2' is gonna happen," which, she said, would include all the original cast members. "I'm talking Loretta [Devine], Lela [Rochon], Whitney."
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It's been my experience that a lot of people have trouble dealing with the idea that those most anxious to wage war are usually tied directly to the weapons manufacturers. Maybe it's because it just seems just too venal to contemplate. Then, there is the tendency of the major media to keep its head in the sand about the matter — which may or may not be tied to the ample advertising revenue the aerospace and munitions makers throw around. Still, there is a direct, easily documented link between the 'neoconservatives' who have pushed our country into quagmires in Afghanistan and Iraq and the armaments industry.
Today the 'military-industrial complex,' about which departing President Dwight Eisenhower warned, has a bigger hand in shaping and directing U.S. foreign policy than at any time in history. The operatives who have taken charge at the Pentagon, usurping the role once played by the State Department, and the think tanks and institutes to which they are linked are generously supported by the gun, missile and bomb makers.
Take Richard Perle. There had been some speculation that 'The Prince of Darkness' was laying low. That was after he was charged with double-dipping by serving on a government body that deals with military procurement while on the payroll of defense contractors and openly advising businesses on how to profit from the war in Iraq. In June Newsweek said he and some other key neoconservatives had "withdrawn from public view."
No such luck. "Gas Stations in the Sky" was the headline for a Wall Street Journal opinion piece he co- authored with arms industry executive Thomas Donnelly. It argued forcefully for the Air Force proposal to lease 100 Boeing 767 tanker aircraft to refuel war planes in flight and for building more long range bombers.
Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), chair of the Senate Commerce and Transportation Committee, has accused Boeing of refusing to reveal its pricing policy or to disclose its communications with the Defense Department. He calls the lease arrangement a waste of money, a sweetheart deal for Boeing and "one of the most unsavory, inside, military-industrial complex deals."
The Congressional Budget Office says the price of leasing the planes is $5.7 billion over what it would cost of buy them outright.
Despite McCain"s opposition, the leasing deal appears headed toward Congressional approval. Incidentally, Linda Daschle, the wife of Senate Minority leader Tom Daschle is a paid lobbyist for Boeing and another aircraft manufacturer, Lockheed Martin Corporation.
The Journal editors chose to identify Perle and Donnelly only as resident fellows at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Actually, Perle is one of the chief architects of the Bush Administration"s foreign policy, a close associate of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his assistant Paul Wolfowitz. Donnelly was deputy executive director at the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) from 1999 until 2002 when he moved on to become director of strategic communications and initiatives at Lockheed Martin.
PNAC was born in 1997. It soon attracted as sponsors such conservative luminaries as Rumsfeld; soon-to-be Vice President Dick Cheney; former Vice-President Dan Quayle; now Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Peter W. Rodman; Elliott Abrams, the Near East and North African affairs director at the National Security Council; Zalmay Khalilzad, the current White House liaison to the Iraqi opposition; I. Lewis Libby, now Cheney's chief of staff; and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the president's brother.
"American foreign and defense policy is adrift," a PNAC statement read. "We aim to change this. We aim to make the case and rally support for American global leadership."
In September 2000, PNAC issued a strategic blueprint for the U.S. The plan called for building the 'Star Wars' missile defense system which, among other things, would "provide a secure basis for U.S. power projection around the world." It proposed increasing military spending by $15 billion to $20 billion, building a new generation of nuclear weapons, permanent stationing of troops abroad for "multiple constabulary missions " — all aimed at ensuring a "unipolar 21st century."
One would think that Perle, having already caused considerable embarrassment for the Administration with his antics at the Defense Policy Board would steer clear of coming on like a flack for the armaments industry. However, caution and tact are not his strong suits. In April, he proclaimed for the readers of The Guardian (UK), "Thank God for the death of the UN." Before the war, he publicly assured the White House and the nation that "The Iraqis will welcome the liberators with open arms." Donnelly is also out front. "The real question now is how the United States can leverage its victory in Iraq to uphold, expand, and institutionalize the Pax Americana," he wrote in a recent issue of the AEI"s journal National Security Outlook.
As it has for decades, the armaments industry is today playing a heavy hand in the run-up to the 2004 Presidential Election.
The Military Industrial Complex is not the Republican Party. In fact, it has a strong base of support inside the Democratic Party, expressed through its neocons. These neoconservatives, only some of whom are operating out of the Bush Administration, are now much older than they were in the 1960s when many of them emerged within the 'Scoop Jackson' wing of the party. That hawkish faction was named for late Washington Senator Henry Jackson known as "the senator from Boeing."
On September 3, the Financial Times reported that one of the documents released the previous day revealed that "a letter from Norman Dicks, a Democratic congressmen from Washington – the state where Boeing will build the aircraft – to President George W. Bush urged the White House to back the deal in order to increase Boeing's business in the wake of the September 11 2001 attacks."
The neocon linage can be traced over the years through the rosters of bipartisan groups like the Committee on the Present Danger, which sought to spur a military buildup during the Cold War, to the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which laid the groundwork for the present disastrous foreign policy course. The membership of this latter group includes former secretary of State George Schultz and Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Along the way came the founding of the Vulcans, an eight-member group that includes Perle and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. One of Rice"s deputies is Stephen Hadley who comes from a law firm that represented Lockheed Martin and is a big fan of deploying new, smaller nuclear weapons in conventional warfare.
The neoconservatives among the Democrats, which includes the party chair, Donna Brazille, also draw support from supporters of the expansionist Israeli right wing and groups like the 'centrist' Democratic Leadership Council. The think tanks and institutes on the Democratic neoconservative wing also benefit mightily from the largess of the armaments industry.
It"s not just foreign policy that has produced the neoconservative phenomenon. Where the neocoms have figured heavily in the Democratic Party, they have opposed affirmative action, supported so-called welfare reform and promoted 'free trade' policies. This also explains their opposition to the more liberal wing of the party and their intent to undermine anyone who would question things like the North Atlantic Free Trade Area or the transference of U.S. manufacturing to low wage area abroad. Rev. Jesse Jackson rightly called them: "Democrats for the Leisure Class."
The first DLC president was Bill Clinton and his recent outrageous advice that the war in Iraq be avoided as a topic in the presidential election campaign was quite in line with the current 'centrist' line. It coincided with the DLC"s startling —but completely true-to- form—roundhouse attack on Democratic front runner Howard Dean and labor union-backed Richard Gebhardt.
Bush Administration policies are encountering increasing skepticism from traditional conservative Republicans, and back-room-dealing Vice President Dick Chaney and Perle, Wolfowitz and Co. are beginning to look more and more like political liabilities. The Establishment base of the Bush Administration was never very broad and increasingly narrowing down to the arms industry, portions of the energy industry and the diehard religious right.
At the same time, it is clear that any Democrat supporting the military adventures the neocoms have initiated under the Republicans is unlikely to receive the Party"s nomination. However, the last thing the warmakers want to see it a full fledged debate and popular referendum on those policies. Thus, the attacks on the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination and the charge that the "activist" wing of the Democratic Party is out of touch with the country.
It's not just the neoconservatives who are becoming unnerved at the way things are going; the military industrial complex is also nervous. There's a direct link between the two and the last thing they want is for the public to start connecting the dots.


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Piedmont Bike Tour
- A sophisticated culinary landscape famous for hazelnuts, cheeses, truffles and wine
- Spin through the prized regions of Langhe and Roero
- Welcoming enoteche invite you to pull over for a sip
- Pedal through idyllic vineyards of the Savoy region
- Explore 1,000-year-old La Morra,one of the most important Barolo-producing towns in Piedmont
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Piedmont is just so...well, rich. It's a wealth that comes in the form of a regal history. In magnificent scenery, with a remarkable view at every turn, every crest, every hill town. And when it comes to the cuisine, Piedmont hit the jackpot. Didn't your mom always say, a truffle in the pasta is worth two in the dirt? But some may say the real jewels are the grapes and the wines: Nebbiolo, Barolo, Barbera. It's something you can contemplate. As you're biking beneath the shadow of the Alps on your way to discover the next treasure.
Day 1 Bike through the river valley and verdant hills, past vineyards and farmland to Penango, where our tranquil retreat awaits Enjoy a delicious dinner of reinterpreted traditional Piedmont specialties at our hotel's acclaimed restaurant.
Days 2-3 Sleepy little villages, castles and hillside vineyards make for idyllic riding along our scenic route Once renowned for its silk work and now widely recognized for wine production, Nizza Monferrato is an interesting town to explore after taking a lunch break Settle into our elegant hotel in Acqui Terme, famous for its hot sulphur springs since Roman times Jumping into La Bollente fountain wouldn't be appropriate, but washing your face and hands in the mineral-rich water is acceptable and believed to cure whatever ails you.
Day 4 The prized regions of Langhe and Roero offer spectacular scenery and plenty of hills You can't shoot an arrow without hitting a medieval or Baroque castle on our route, lined with vineyards and pastoral land - you might also see a frolicking lamb or two Keep cranking those pedals! The payoff for all of today's climbing is Monforte d'Alba, a storybook wine village with panoramic views that stretch to the Alps on a clear day.
Days 5-6 Explore 1,000-year-old La Morra, one of the most important Barolo-producing towns in Piedmont Flanked by steep Nebbiolo vineyards, spin from one charming hamlet to the next along peaceful country roads - one of our most popular rides Our final feast is sure to be a memorable culinary experience.
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Penango (2 nights) A beautifully restored 16th-century monastery nestled amid Monferrato and Piedmont vineyards. (pool, spa, tennis)
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Acqui Terme (1 night) Set on a hillside and surrounded by parkland, this 19th-century villa is the perfect spot to enjoy some peace and quiet. (pool, spa)
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Monforte d'Alba (2 nights) Passed down through three generations of the Rocca family, this enchanting hotel in the heart of the Langhe is rich with history and charm. (pool)
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Really nice trip, with just the right amount of riding challenge. Backroads trips are a great way to comfortably enjoy new and interesting locations, with others and with benefitting from Backroads research of local attractions. Can't imagine any other way of getting to see and cycle Italy's Piedmont, making gnocchi and hunting truffles.- Wilmington, DE
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Be sure to make it to the skatepark art show February 20th @ Kanab High School. There will be a flat-ground competition @ 6:00 pm and the art show will start @ 7:00 pm, featuring art work from local skaters, BMXers and skatepark supporters. Come see past the stereotypes and see who these skaters and BMXers really are. Allow them to say thanks for all the community has done for them to get them this far!
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Why is getting a new skatepark important to me? Well I myself don't skate but all of my good friends do and I can see how important it is to them. They all put a lot of time and energy into skating and it is something they really love doing. The skaters need a place to skate but there's no where to go! The skatepark we have now is falling apart! I have seen people crash and trip over breaking spots on ramps. I almost don't like watching! It looks scary! But they really have no where to go so they deal with it. They need a place where they can do what they love and not have to worry about a ramp breaking beneath them!
A lot of people that have businesses get mad at the skaters for skating in their parking lots. But do you blame them? I wouldn't want to skate at our skatepark. Maybe if they got support from the community and we did get a new skatepark they wouldn't have to skate in parking lots! All they want is a place where they can have fun and skate. Please donate your spare change to one of our jars or go to our website: kanabskatepark.org to learn more. Thanks!
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It's time! Your mother always told you that change is a good thing, well the skate crew says now is the time for our change! For a new skatepark. We have been working hard on making that dream of change to become reality! With all the signatures and fund raising its been a real challenge. But nothing comes easy and this project is everything BUT easy! But in the end we will know that we earned every ounce of cement that is poured. Why are we all working so hard for this new skatepark? Because our old skatepark is just that, old! Its old and dangerous, I love to skateboard and bike but its really sketchy on the old ramps and rails. The old skatepark is made on the basketball court of the original high school, it's all makeshift do with what you have and make the best out of it. Well that worked for a long time but it's worn out and unrepairable so our plan is to start over and this time make it better, with the added hopes of bringing in more skaters from the surrounding communities as well as tourists! We all have big hopes for this new skatepark, all we need now is support! We'll work our hardest to make these dreams come true!
Please donate spare change to the jars around town and visit our website for more information: kanabskatepark.org.
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The people of Kanab need a new skatepark. Skating at a skatepark is a way to keep the kids off of the street. The old skatepark is no longer rideable for skateboards. Whenever somebody wants to go skate, nobody wants to go to the old skatepark. Everyone is then forced to the streets where a lot of people don't want them. If the skaters had a fun skatepark to go to, not as much street skateboarding would occur. The location of the soon to be skatepark is right next to the park which is good because people of all ages will have access to the skatepark.
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Wheel of the Week: Barbara Warner
written by Casey Gray
What would we do without Mrs. Warner? She is always smiling! She makes everyone laugh! Most importantly, Mrs. Warner reaches out to students! Thank you, Mrs. Warner for being so awesome! We can't ride without you! To learn more about the Wheel of the Week or make a donation, go to kanabskatepark.org
This man and his foundation are giving us $5000 to build our new skatepark.
"WASHINGTON—Professional skateboarder Tony Hawk is donating his first skateboard to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.Skateboarding pioneers including Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Cindy Whitehead and others are gathering Friday and Saturday at the museum for a festival celebrating the culture of skateboarding. On Saturday morning, Hawk will donate his first skateboard."
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Anderson's Riverwalk overlook near the intersection of High Street, Grand Avenue and Alexandria Pike is a pleasant place to eat lunch or just to take a breather from the hustle of your daily life.
But as you listen to the chirping of unseen songbirds and watch the chocolate waters of the White River flow past below, you can't help feeling that someone is watching you, as well.
If you look over your shoulder, back to the north, you'll find the culprits.
Stone likenesses of Charlie Ingersoll Hilligoss and Gertrude Pauline Hilligoss stare back at you across Grand from West Maplewood Cemetery, where they have stood at attention since the late 19th century. Gertrude died in 1881. She was just 5 or 6 years old. Charlie, 15 or 16, died six years later.
Their likenesses are nearly life-sized. Charlie rests an arm on a short pillar at his side. Gertrude, a book on her lap, sits on a large rock. Someone has tucked artificial red roses, dusted in gold, in the crooks of their arms. Their faces are expressionless. You can guess that the sculptures were based on photographs, in an era when long exposures meant serious visages, taken not long before their untimely deaths.
The inscription on their shared tombstone reads: "We know that life is all the sweeter that they lived ... And death is all the brighter that they died."
You can find photos of the Hilligoss children's statues on Facebook, along with speculation about how they died. This description comes from www.cemeteries-madison-co-in.com:
"Their father Dr. Hilligoss commissioned these stone portraits that face busy Grand Avenue. ... The column Charles is leaning on symbolizes a noble life; Gertrude's book stands for the divine word. 'The Children' have become something of a land mark in the north Anderson area. Their likenesses are always decorated ... with the appropriate symbols and garlands for the holiday or season."


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Dear Linguists,
Thanks to everyone who responded to my query about the effects that various
consonant types have on pitch in different languages. The kind individuals
who responded include:
John Davis
Laura Downing
Susan Guion
Michael Marlo
Katie Schack
Takahito Shinya
Ian Wilson
The references that they directed me to include:
Bradshaw, Mary M. 1999. A crosslinguistic study of consonant-tone
interaction. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.
Downing, Laura J. & Bryan Gick. 2001. Voiceless tone depressors in Nambya
and Botswana Kalang'a. In Proceedings of the 27th meeting of the Berkeley
Linguistics Society, Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley. 1-11.
Guion, Susan G. and Ratree P. Wayland. 2004. Aerodynamic coarticulation in
sound change or How onset trills can condition a falling tone. In
Proceedings of the 2003 Texas Linguistics Society Conference, ed. Augustine
Agwuele, Willis Warren, and Sang-Hoon Park, 107-115.Somerville, MA:
Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Maddieson, Ian. 1997. Phonetic universals. In The Handbook of Phonetic
Sciences, ed W. Hardcastle and J. Laver. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 619-639.
Schack, Katrina. 2003. Tonal phonology in Kam. M.A. thesis, University of
Texas at Arlington.
Kingston, John & Randy L. Diehl. 1994. Phonetic knowledge. Language 70:419-454.
Wayland, R.P. & Guion, S.G. To appear. Sound changes following the loss of
/r/ in Khmer: A new tonogenetic mechanism? Mon-Khmer Studies.
And of course, the references cited within these sources.
Thanks again for everyone's help!
Jason Brown
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Newport Gipsy camp rethink welcomed
7:50pm Sunday 1st July 2012 in Gwent news By David Deans, Reporter
OPPONENTS to sites named in a shortlist of locations for Gipsy and traveller sites in Newport have welcomed a plan to re-examine the whole issue.
The new Newport council Labour administration has decided to scrap a shortlist of five locations and have the issue reviewed by a scrutiny committee.
Two councillors who have expressed their opposition to previously proposed sites have welcomed the chance for the public to contribute.
The committee is to look at a new list of locations - which may still include some of the old shortlisted sites in Bettws, Lliswerry and Marshfield wards.
Members of the public will be able to comment and make suggestions for alternatives.
Tony Ducroq, a councillor on Nash Community Council, said: "I think they have got the message.
"I'm pleased it will subject to a public consultation because I don't think the two sites in Broad Street Common [in Nash village] are suitable.
"We've got a traveller site in Broad Street Common already - we live in harmony with them, but we don't want three of them. It will be a Gipsy ghetto."
Noel Trigg, a Bettws city councillor who told a meeting last year he would sooner lie in the road than see a gipsy site created in a field near the estate, said he was more than pleased.
"Its excellent that they are looking at it again. Everyone has got a good chance now to say what they think."
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Dai37 says...
So much for rational independent decisions.
Ther is a stink in local government when councillors can force revaluation of proposals. What is the betting that these sites that affect the councillors concerned will no longer be viable.
If they lose the votes for councillors they can always go into banking, it is made for them!
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