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Situated in Port El Kantaoui, this spa hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Port El Kantaoui Harbour and Port El Kantaoui Beach. Sousse Beach and Ribat of Sousse are also within 9 mi (15 km).
Hotel Features
This hotel features a restaurant, an indoor pool, and an outdoor pool. Free buffet breakfast and free WiFi in public areas are also provided. Other amenities include a nightclub, a health club, and a bar/lounge.
Room Amenities
All 347 rooms offer 24-hour room service, minibars, and satellite TV. Other amenities available to guests include in-room massages, hair dryers, and safes.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
El Kantaoui Center and SpaBoulevard 7 novembre Port El Kantaoui 04089
Hotel Amenities
All-Inclusive Details
All-inclusive room rates at El Kantaoui Center and Spa are available. These rates are higher because they include onsite food and beverages in the room rate (some restrictions may apply).
Hotel Amenities
Some rates at El Kantaoui Center and Spa are all-inclusive. These rates include onsite meals and beverages, and may include taxes and gratuities. Additional charges may apply for meals at some restaurants, special dinners and dishes, certain beverages, and other amenities.
In addition to an indoor pool and an outdoor pool, El Kantaoui Center and Spa provides a health club and a sauna. Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
This Port El Kantaoui hotel also offers a nightclub, spa services, and a terrace.
- Spa services on site
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Restaurant
- Total number of rooms - 347
- Hair salon
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Babysitting or childcare
- Bar/lounge
- Concierge services
- Shopping on site
- Outdoor pool
- Tennis on site
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Elevator/lift
- Indoor pool
- Health club
- Laundry facilities
- Arcade/game room
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Sauna
- One meeting room
- Nightclub
- Terrace
- Luggage storage
- Free breakfast
- Free WiFi
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Arcade/game room
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Satellite TV service
- In-room safe
- In-room massage available
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Room service (24 hours)
Where to Eat
A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10:30 AM.
La Fiesta - This restaurant serves breakfast and brunch.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool and an outdoor pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a health club and a sauna.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
Spa Services
- Massages
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Facial treatments
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at noon
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- No onsite parking is available.
No rollaway/extra beds available
No cribs (infant beds) available
A deposit is charged to the guest's credit card by E-rev UK LTD on the hotel's behalf for any bookings where payment for the stay will be made on site instead of at the time of booking. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
Optional extras
- Onsite credit card charges are subject to a surcharge
Hotel Name
- El Kantaoui Center
- Hotel El Kantaoui Center
- El Kantaoui Center Hotel Port El Kantaoui
- Vincci Port El Kantaoui
- Vincci Resort Kantaoui Hotel Port El Kantaoui
- El Kantaoui Center Hotel
- El Kantaoui Center Port El Kantaoui
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Local laws may restrict unmarried guests from sharing rooms. Guests are responsible for providing proof of marriage, if requested by the property.


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Royal Alberta Museum (12845 102 St.)
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Emerging from the background as a keyboardist and guitarist for famed singer Feist, Afie Jurvanen is quickly becoming Canada's latest musical success story. Now taking centre stage as the lead singer of Bahamas, Jurvanen's smooth, soulful and wonderfully minimalist folk sound has resulted in an almost sold out North American tour, earning him recognition as a promising solo artist. Alongside his talented bandmates, Jurvanen seeks to bring a new musical experience to Edmontonians through his intimate lyrics and a historic venue.
Currently on tour to promote his sophomore album Barchords, Jurvanen has achieved an international fan base thanks to the casual simplicity of his warm tone and insightful lyrics. While it's likely he could have eventually gained recognition thanks to his industry connections, he acknowledges his Canadian roots and past collaborations in paving the way to solo success. He even incorporates the smooth and subtle vocal backup of former bandmate Feist on tracks like "Snow Plow," a soft loping ballad of reminiscent love. Jurvanen's voice is infectious and mellow, perfectly suited for the amorous and often heartbroken themes within Barchords.
"(My lyrics are) are definitely my instincts and feelings," Jurvanen says. "I just try to find someway to be as honest as possible and as comfortable as I can. That can be difficult sometimes. But I'm really happy with that message in the end."
Jurvanen's intimate nature is evident in his lyrics as well as his choice of performance venue. Having performed on huge stages with Feist and playing local festivals and bars as Bahamas, Jurvanen's Edmonton stop finds him at the Royal Alberta Museum, providing an alternative that finds middle ground. The incorporation of live music among historic exhibits will certainly be a different listening experience for many fans, and it's one that Jurvanen is particular is fond of.
"We spend a fair amount of time playing in bars, and I think for this tour we tried to book venues that are a little outside of the ordinary," he explains. "I think it's definitely more interesting for us to play in churches and halls and stuff like that. It's a nice break from playing in places that have big screen TVs and big lights. And I think it's definitely a different listening experience for people who come to the show, too."
Despite having performed on a world stage alongside Feist, Jurvanen came from humble roots in Barrie, Ontario, and found his musical connections in Toronto. He credits the "small and tight" musical community of Toronto for setting the stage for his newfound solo success, and refers to his collaborators as his "extended musical family," some of whom ultimately ended up joining him on the road when he finally ventured off on his own.
"It's not like I placed a wanted ad or anything. I just called my friends and said, 'Hey I'm gonna go on tour, you wanna play with me?' And now for some of them, it's been several years."
Jurvanen's appreciation extends to the fans and venues that have embraced and supported his development as a solo artist. Despite having won a Juno award and a Polaris prize nomination since the release of Bahamas' debut album Pink Strat, Jurvanen remains humble and grateful for every opportunity to share his music on any stage, big or small.
"There are so many shows, so many bands on tour, especially in the fall, so I have nothing but gratitude for the people that have decided to make our show a priority," Jurvanen says. "It's inspiring and it's humbling."
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3) Use the new vert shader and new geo shader to create triangles from the lines.
I'm setting everything up right now to use the CPU calls to set a buffer, but it seems like that's too much data being sent through the BUS to the GPU. I assumed it would be more similar to tessellation if I didn't intend on reading the data on the CPU side.
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[Preview] George Perez's Sirens #5 (of 6)
The penultimate issue of George Perez's Sirens is scheduled to arrive in stores this week, and BOOM! Studios sent Major Spoilers an early look at the issue.
[Cosplay] Crisis on Infinite Earths 30th Anniversary Cosplay video with George Perez
George Perez seems to show up at Dragon*Con quite a bit, and with the 30th anniversary of Crisis on Infinite Earths upon us, what better time to get a gathering of cosplayers to film a video?
Retro Review: Tales Of The Teen Titans #48 (November 1984)
Last week's Retro Review showed us the time that the Teen Titans sorta/kinda appeared in the pages of the DNAgents. This time, we learn… …the REST… of the story. Your Major Spoilers (Retro) Review of Tales Of The Teen Titans #48 awaits!
SNEAK PEEK: George Perez's Sirens #1
The highly anticipated first issue of George Perez's Sirens arrives in stores this week and BOOM! Studio sent us a sneak peek.
George Perez embarks on first nationwide signing tour for Sirens
Press Release Award-winning publisher BOOM! Studios is excited to announce that comics' legend George Pérez will be embarking on his first nationwide signing tour to promote his new original series, George Pérez's Sirens.
George Pérez brings original series to BOOM! Studios
Press Release George Pérez is a name that is recognized worldwide in comics from his work on Teen Titans, The Avengers, and Wonder Woman. He is one of comics' living legends whose work is synonymous with epic events, huge casts of characters, and dense storytelling. BOOM! Studios is thrilled to be the home for his first original title in over a decade with George Pérez's Sirens, a six-issue limited series launching in September. This sweeping cosmic adventure spans time and space and follows a team of female heroes that will appeal to fans of Battlestar Galactica's Starbuck, Star Wars' Princess
COMICS PORTAL: Florida Supercon 2014
Conventions are now taking place across the country, and this past holiday weekend, I had the chance to attend the ninth Florida Supercon, this year held at the Miami Beach Convention Center from Thursday, July 3, until Sunday, July 6.
COMICS PORTAL: Awesome Con DC 2014
The comics convention season is now in full swing, and I had the opportunity to attend a relatively new "con" on the other side of the country from Wondercon (now called the "real" Comic-Con by some folks I know).
CONVENTION: Baltimore Comic-Con announces more guests for 2013
Press Release The Baltimore Comic-Con is happy to announce the next group of confirmed guest for the 2013 show, taking place the weekend of September 7-8, 2013. Mark Buckingham, Dave Gibbons, Adam Hughes, Paul Levitz, George Perez, Walter Simonson, Louise Simonson, and Allison Sohn will all be attending our 14th Annual show !
WizWorldChicago'12: Carlos Pacheco, George Pérez, Greg Capullo, J. Scott Campbell Among Superstar Creators To Attend Convention
Press Release An All-Star lineup of comic and toy creators, including notables Carlos Pacheco, George Pérez, Greg Capullo, J. Scott Campbell and many others from around the world will populate Artist Alley at Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, August 9-12 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center. Among the special guests are five Eisner Award winners, including Hall of Famer Stan Lee, and eight nominees of the prestigious honor.
REVIEW: Worlds' Finest #2
Power Girl and Huntress are just making their presence known in the DCnU proper after living there for five years. What waves are they going to make? Can they get back home? What is Helena's last name here? Find some of the answers in the Major Spoilers review after the jump. . .


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BBC Review
If Miranda is blowing up, she's destined to do it in a quiet way.
Louis Pattison 2010
Holly Miranda has been sat on her debut solo album for a good year or so, over which time this Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter has built up quite a head of hype.
First, there was the news that she was working with David Sitek, mad scientist behind TV on the Radio and go-to studio guy for seemingly every forward-thinking band in New York City. Next, none other than Kanye West set tongues wagging when he leaked Slow Burn Treason, a woozy, slow-motion synth lament featuring a cameo from TV's Kyp Malone, to his personal blog.
If Holly Miranda is blowing up, though, she's destined to do it in a quiet way. For all the excitement surrounding The Magician's Private Library, it's a largely low-key record, one that melds Sitek's familiar studio trickery with a drifting, ethereal atmosphere as reminiscent of Mazzy Star or the Cocteau Twins as anything Sitek has put his name to before. Sound is deployed layer by layer, Miranda's tender, soulful voice floating across an intricate backdrop of icy synth, digi-percussion, heavily treated guitar and occasional sunny horns, courtesy of Stuart Bogie and Eric Biando of New York's Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra.
Such is Sitek's influence on the record that it takes you a little while to get to know the real Miranda. While initial listens find her songs somewhat opaque, they gradually open up to reveal their emotional depths. "This needless pain that stains your face / It doesn't need to be," she pleads, on the fraught Waves, while No One Just Is is deliciously wicked, lyrics spat darkly over winding, exotic strings.
And it's not all gloom and doom: an album highlight comes with the bright horns of Sweet Dreams, while Sleep on Fire closes the album on a sunny note, a lightly countrified canter flecked with proggy guitar flourishes and, you may notice, not a David Sitek production trick in sight.


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Posted on 10/18/2008 10:38:18 AM PDT by trueamerica
In 1976, a scandal arose in Sweden when marginal tax rate for self-employed was 102%. Yes, 102%!!! It is not a typo. This was to be known as the "Pomperipossa effect" from a story published on March 3, 1976.
The publication led to a stormy tax debate. In the parliamentary election later in the same year the Social Democrat government was voted out for the first time in 40 years, and the tax debate was one of several controversies that may have contributed to the election result.
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So for every dollar you make after a certain point, you are taxed $1.02? Ha. Let's not give Obama any ideas.
"...and the tax debate was one of several controversies that may have contributed to the election result."
Ya think?
And of course, the world is well aware of all the innovations, research and betterment that comes out of Sweden . . . right?
So after Joe's pie is confiscated, he'll be ordered to a government work camp to bake additional pies (to be confiscated and traded for votes in the gutters of Chicago, Philly, and DC).
Yes, but the self employed felt good about themselves, because of what they were doing for society. /s
They were mighty patriotic!
Astrid Lindgren...isn't that the author of "Pippi Longstocking"?
We are already there. They just do it to you case by case in divorce court.
Are all of our courts this incompetent?
The total award of interim spousal support to Laurie $5,741 is approximately 64 percent of Ned's monthly gross income which the trial court found to be $9,000. (9)
Thus, after satisfying his monthly obligations for interim spousal support in the amount of $5,741 and child support in the total amount of $2,372.17 per month as ordered by
the court, Ned would be left with $886.83 (10) of his gross monthly income to use toward his own expenses. Considering the facts of this case and the trial court's finding that
Ned's monthly gross income was $9,000 we conclude the trial court abused its discretion in setting Laurie's award of interim spousal support. Given Laurie's needs, Ned's ability to pay and Laurie's entitlement to an amount in keeping with the standard of living enjoyed by the spouses during the marriage, we conclude that the most the trial court could have reasonably awarded in direct payment to Laurie in interim spousal support is $2,300 per month through the date of the rendition of the divorce. The judgment will be amended accordingly.
(8) Notably, LSA-C.C. art. 112(B) (1997) provided that the sum awarded under LSA-C.C. art. 112(A) for final spousal support shall not exceed one third of the obligor s net income. No similar provision is provided with respect to an award of interim spousal support.
(9) As owner of the vehicle that Laurie had been driving the clinic had been paying the monthly note in the amount of $630 for this vehicle as well as the monthly insurance premium of $143 associated with that vehicle. With the reduction of these amounts the remaining portion of interim spousal support would be approximately 55 percent of Ned's gross income.
(10) After reduction for amounts paid by the clinic Ned would have $1,659.83 of his gross monthly income remaining.
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The Pocket Loox, priced at €699 (£434) and available throughout Europe starting next month, sports an Intel PXA250 processor running at 400MHz, making it much faster than PDAs available in stores today. However, other vendors are expected to announce devices with the speedy XScale processor soon.
Fujitsu, one of Fujitsu Siemens' parents, announced earlier the Pocket Loox will be sold worldwide, but specifications might vary. For example an optional module with support battery that will turn the PDA into a mobile phone for use on GPRS mobile-phone networks will be available in Europe in August this year. The Japanese price, about ¥60,000 (£329), is much lower than the European.
The Pocket Loox, running Microsoft's Pocket PC 2002 software, offers support for Bluetooth, and comes with 32Mbytes of ROM, 64Mbytes of RAM and a touch screen. Expansion capability is offered through Secure Digital and Compact Flash card slots.
To expand its pen-based computing business, which includes PDAs, notebooks and the Tablet PC promoted by Microsoft, Fujitsu Siemens of the Netherlands, said it acquired Fujitsu Personal Systems, the European subsidiary of US-based Fujitsu PC.
The intercompany acquisition will allow Fujitsu Siemens to setup a new business unit that will offer its European customers a broader mobile-computing range. Details of the transaction were not disclosed.
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Chicago Police Department Manpower Shortage Latest
"Chicago readers take note: The 'thin blue line' that exists in the Windy City will likely remain that way for the foreseeable future. Carry on accordingly."
–Survival And Prosperity, October 3, 2011
With the help of the popular Chicago police blog Second City Cop, I became aware several years ago of the manpower shortage going on in the Chicago Police Department.
Subsequently, I started blogging about the situation from time to time.
As shootings in the city march past 2,300 for the year, attention is being drawn to Chicago's "cop shortage" again. Fran Spielman reported on the Chicago Sun-Times website on July 20:
After three shootings this week in a gang-ridden South Side ward that includes Englewood and Back of the Yards, Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) is demanding that Emanuel finally make good on his 2011 campaign promise to hire 1,000 additional police officers.
In the meantime, Lopez wants Chicago Police officers now working in pairs for their own safety to get reinforcements from the Illinois National Guard, the Illinois State Police, the Cook County Sheriff's office or all of the above…
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No DHS or other federal agencies?
On the subject of paying for more police, Alderman Lopez brought up taxes. Spielman added:
When Lopez was asked where he would find the money to hire 1,000 more police officers, he offered to raise property taxes- again.
That's on top of the $588 million property tax increase approved last fall for police and fire pensions and school construction and the $250 million increase the Board of Education is about to approve for teacher pensions…
Remember what I've been saying for years now about new/higher fees, fines, and taxes for Chicagoans?
With news yesterday that the Fraternal Order of Police is urging its members to turn down all requests for "non-mandatory overtime" over the fast-approaching Labor Day weekend, Second City Cop blogged:
It is most certainly is a message to the administration- "Hire more cops!" seems to be what we're reading. And that's a perfectly appropriate message to be sending to the city- the Department is badly understaffed…
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
By Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Spielman, Fran. "Shooting of 6-year-old girl revives demand for 1,000 more cops." Chicago Sun-Times. 20 July 2016. (http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/shooting-of-six-year-old-resurrects-demands-for-1000-more-cops/). 26 July 2016.
SCC. "OT Boycott Gets Media Coverage." Second City Cop. 26 July 2016. (http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2016/07/ot-boycott-gets-media-coverage.html). 26 July 2016.
City Of Chicago's Total Unfunded Liabilities Grew To Nearly $24 Billion In 2015
It's been a while since I last blogged about the Illinois Policy Institute, a Chicago-based non-partisan research organization "generating public policy solutions aimed at promoting personal freedom and prosperity in Illinois." Yet earlier this week, Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner published a sobering piece on the Institute's website about Chicago's mounting financial woes that just needs to be disseminated. From their article:
Chicago property owners concerned about their future property-tax bills have had plenty to worry about over the past year- but a new report on the city's crumbling finances has all but ensured that property-tax hikes will continue to be a painful reality for local homeowners.
The city already passed a $700 million hike in October 2015 to help plug the hole in police and firefighter pensions, and the city is expected to raise property taxes by another $250 million to fund ailing Chicago Public Schools, or CPS, pensions. And with billions more in other health care and pension shortfalls still unfunded, more hikes are on the way.
But the newest debt numbers in the city's 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, or CAFR, show that without massive pension reforms, the city's tax hikes are just beginning. The report found that the total city debt Chicagoans are on the hook for has more than tripled since 2014.
Chicago's total unfunded liabilities have jumped by over $17 billion, growing to nearly $24 billion in 2015 from $6.5 billion in 2014. The increase is mostly due to new accounting standards and the fact that in March the Illinois Supreme Court struck down the city's recent attempt to reform its broken municipal-workers and laborers pension funds.
Add to that their share of sister-government and Cook County pension and health care costs and long-term debt, and Chicagoans are on the hook for over $65 billion…
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
Disturbing stuff. But that's reality for you.
You know, last week I read an "interesting" anonymous comment on the popular Chicago police blog Second City Cop. From the July 7 post entitled "And There it is….":
Millennials as they are called are falling over themselves to move here. Look at Ukrainian village, Buck town south loop West loop, Lincoln Park. The city is becoming gentrified. Major companies are moving their headquarters here. City is on the upswing like it or not.
"City is on the upswing like it or not."
Never mind its financial cancer that's bound to metastasize in due time…
By Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Dabrowski, Ted and Klingner, John. "Chicago's Total Debt More Than Triples To Over $24B In 2015." Illinois Policy Institute. 11 July 2016. (https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicagos-total-debt-more-than-triples-to-over-24b-in-2015/). 14 July 2016.
SCC. "And There it is…" Second City Cop. 7 July 2016. (https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicagos-total-debt-more-than-triples-to-over-24b-in-2015/). 14 July 2016.
Active Shooter Drill At Chicago's Wrigley Field Thursday
While looking for the latest on Chicago's debt crisis from Fran Spielman (Chicago Sun-Times), I spotted this on the newspaper's website Wednesday afternoon:
One week after a lone gunman opened fire on police officers securing a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas, emergency responders in Chicago will simulate an "active shooter" situation at Wrigley Field.
The emergency preparedness drill involving "simulated ammunition and flashbangs" will be held between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. Thursday, prompting street closings around the stadium…
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
Spielman reported Waveland Avenue, from Clinton to Kenmore, will be closed to both vehicle/pedestrian traffic while the exercise takes place. The drill will involve the Chicago Fire Department, Chicago Police Department, and the city's Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC).
You can read the Sun-Times piece here for more information.
More on Chicago's mounting financial woes tomorrow…
By Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Chicago Pastor Calls On State Of Illinois To Declare 'State Of Emergency' Over Financial Woes
One Roman Catholic priest in Chicago is sounding the alarm over the financial health of both the City of Chicago and State of Illinois. Tom Schuba blogged on the NBC Chicago website Monday:
Father Michael Pfleger, the outspoken pastor at St. Sabina's church in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, called on the state of Illinois to declare a state of emergency amid dire economic situations in Chicago and Illinois…
"The city's broke, the state's broke and dysfunctional and in downstate Illinois when a hurricane happens, a tornado happens, what do we do," Pfleger asked. "We call a state of emergency and resources are brought in."
Pfleger encouraged using federal resources to embolden communities and bolster the police force…
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
While I don't see eye-to-eye with Fr. Pfleger on gun "control" (a subject for which he routinely makes the local news headlines), I do agree with him that some sort of action is required to tackle both Chicago's and the State of Illinois' fiscal problems, and that "bolstering" of the Chicago Police Department is necessary.
You can read the entire piece on the NBC Chicago website here.
By Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Illinois 'Gun Dealer Licensing Act' Shot Down
"House Bill 1016, or the Gun Dealer Licensing Act, could make the process of buying guns in Illinois even harder. Under the new regulations, gun shop owners would have to apply for an additional state license on top of the ones they're already required to get from Illinois and the Federal Government. It's got local gun shop owners and their customers concerned…"
-WSIL-TV 3 (Southern Illinois ABC affiliate), May 25, 2016
The Illinois "Gun Dealer Licensing Act" is dead.
For now at least.
From a press release on the Illinois State Rifle Association website today:
CONTACT: Richard Pearson, Illinois State Rifle Association, (815) 635-3198
WEB SITE: http://www.isra.org
SPRINGFIELD, IL– The following was released today by Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) Executive Director, Richard Pearson:
"Hard work and a good dose of civic pride prevailed this week as a divisive and punitive piece of gun control legislation was hammered to death in the Illinois House. By way of thousands of phone calls, emails, and witness slip filings, the Illinois General Assembly got the message that Illinoisans do not want some hate-filled outsider telling them what guns they can buy and where they can buy them."
"Earlier this spring, former astronaut Mark Kelly rolled into town trumpeting his 'Gun Dealer Licensing Act' as the sure-fire cure for Chicago's violent crime epidemic. In reality, Kelly's proposal was nothing more than a transparent attempt to put lawful firearm retailers out of business."
"If enacted, Kelly's bill would result in jumps in retail prices of firearms by $100 or more along with doubling the price of a box of ammunition. Kelly's bill would foist an unbearable regulatory burden on lawful firearm retailers which would cause many, if not most to close their doors. The good people of Illinois saw right through Kelly's scheme and responded swiftly – making it abundantly clear that they'd have nothing of it. So, at the stroke of midnight, the 'Gun Dealer Licensing Act' became nothing but a fireball streaking across the stratosphere over Springfield."
"Kelly's campaign against the Second Amendment is driven by his hatred of citizens who dare to own firearms. Thus, the Gun Dealer Licensing Act proposal was nothing more than a thinly-veiled effort to punish lawful gun owners. Kelly and his ilk have promised to bring the bill back next session. We really wish that Kelly and his pals would not come back – we're sick of looking at him. On behalf of the citizens of Illinois, I'm asking Kelly to abort reentry, return to low-earth orbit, and stay there."
"If the gun control movement is really serious about reducing violent crime, they will turn their attention away from closing lawful gun shops and towards the root of violent crime – the career criminal. The Chicago Police Department's own figures indicate that nearly 90% of murderers have previous criminal records while, at the same time, three-quarters of murder victims have previous convictions as well. If the corrections authorities cannot rehabilitate violent criminals, then they need to keep them behind bars. It's that simple. So my message to Kelly and his buddies in the gun control movement is to get with the program, or get out of town."
For more information about the ISRA, head on over to their website here.
Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
SP Intel Report- December 1, 2015
I hope Survival And Prosperity readers had a nice Thanksgiving holiday. I'm going to keep the SP Intel Report short and local tonight as I get back into the swing of things.
Chicago Thanksgiving Holiday Shootings Leave 8 Dead, At Least 20 Others Wounded
The long holiday weekend was a bloody one for Chicago. It was reported on the Fox 32 (Chicago) website Monday morning that 8 people were killed and at least 20 others wounded in shootings across the city. According to the HeyJackass! website this afternoon, the "Windy City" has tallied 2,750 shootings and 464 homicides year-to-date. Yikes.
'Magnificent Mile' Retailers Say Protest On Black Friday Resulted In Sales '25 Percent To 50 Percent Below Projections'
Kim Janssen reported on the Chicago Tribune website Monday afternoon:
Activists who blocked the entrances to stores on North Michigan Avenue on Black Friday to protest the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago cop may have split opinions with their tactics.
But their goal of forcing retailers to suffer economic pain on what's historically the busiest shopping day of the year was a success, according to unhappy store staff and managers who said Monday that Black Friday sales on the Magnificent Mile were 25 percent to 50 percent below projections…
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
As if the city of Chicago needed more financial misery heaped on it these days.
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy Fired
"I've never quit on anything in my life. I'm 56 years old. Don't expect that to change… The mayor has made it very clear that he has my back…"
-Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on November 27, 2015, in response to calls for his resignation post-Laquan McDonald shooting video release
"FNN: Garry McCarthy out as Chicago Police Superintendent"
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"The mayor has made it very clear that he has my back"
Famous last words .
While I wasn't a fan of Superintendent McCarthy, I do thank him for his several years of public service on behalf of the residents of Chicago.
Illinois State Rifle Association Issues 'Urgent Alert' On Prepping For Terrorism
While I haven't been following the activities of the Illinois State Rifle Association for long, I don't think I've ever seen them this worked up about such an issue. From a November 14 Facebook post:
People around the world were treated today to a brutal spectacle having its roots in political naivety, ignorance of history, and wholly misguided immigration policy. Does that sound familiar? It should, because it aptly describes not only to the French government, but the sitting U.S. administration as well.
If you are of the mind of, "…it can't happen here" then you are sorely deluded. The apparatus to launch a Paris-style bloodbath is already in place here in the United States. All these determined terrorists are waiting for is the go-head from their higher headquarters.
We may be only hours or even moments away from the news that dozens if not hundreds of Americans – just like you and your family – are laying dead or dying in a heap on the floor of some sporting, shopping or entertainment venue. We may be only hours or even moments away from hearing about how the police are looking for "…a few extremists" responsible from the carnage.
It's not a question as to whether this is going to happen here, because it will. The real question is whether you are prepared to stand and protect what is yours. Are you prepared and able to defend yourself and your family? When the inevitable moment of truth arrives, are you willing to stand and fight or will you be content to play dead – hoping desperately that it is not your day to die?
The survival of you and your family is not mere fodder for some analysis of the war on terror – it's a cultural imperative. As an American, you are very fortunate that you have a formula for survival and it's called the Second Amendment. However, the power of any right is directly proportional to how vigorously it is exercised. Left unattended, the rights you enjoy under our Second Amendment will wither away.
To better the chances of survival for you and your family, the Illinois State Rifle Association urges you to do the following:
1. Make sure every person in your family holds a FOID card and that all eligible family members hold Illinois concealed carry permits.
2. Assemble a family defense arsenal consisting of one or more semiautomatic rifles such as the AR-15; one or more 12-gauge pump action shotguns, and one or more semiautomatic handguns. If you do not have a family defense arsenal, this is a good weekend to begin putting it together.
3. Be sure that you and every member of your family have had sufficient training in the use and field servicing of the weapons in your family defense arsenal.
4. Be sure that you have sufficient quantities of the proper ammunition on hand to defend your family.
5. Resolve this weekend to get yourself and your family into a physical training regimen. Your physical conditioning may be the difference between life and death during a Paris-style attack.
6. Encourage your extended family and friends to develop plans for protecting self and family from the threat of terror our government takes so lightly.
You have to understand that this is not a battle you can hire someone else to fight for you. When the time comes, you may very well find yourself standing nose to nose with a guy intent upon obliterating you, your culture, and everything you hold sacred.
Are you prepared?
Disturbing. Yet nothing to scoff at, as I too believe it's only a matter of time before a major terror attack is launched by jihadists against the U.S.
Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
"8 killed, 20 wounded in Thanksgiving weekend shootings across Chicago." Sun-Times Media Wire. 30 Nov. 2015. (http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/crime/54615863-story). 1 Dec. 2015.
Janssen, Kim. "Michigan Avenue Black Friday protests cost stores 25-50 percent of sales." Chicago Tribune. 30 Nov. 2015. (http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-black-friday-mag-mile-fallout-1201-biz-20151130-story.html). 1 Dec. 2015.
SP Intel Report- October 26, 2015
Welcome to the inaugural post of the "SP Intel Report." On October 15 I blogged big changes were coming to Survival And Prosperity starting October 19. I wrote:
Each day will begin with an "SP Intel Report" (if it's warranted), where I'll be focusing on current events locally (Chicagoland area), nationwide, and overseas which I think readers should be aware of…
As luck would have it, my computer crashed October 19, delaying the implementation of these changes.
One week later, I've managed to repair my laptop, and I'm back in the saddle again.
So off we go then…
"If City Hall 'loses' downtown to the bad guys… you lose the tourists, their money, revenue… you get the point."
–Survival And Prosperity, May 4, 2011
The Chicago news media is reporting that two tourists from Minneapolis were robbed at knifepoint by three men near Oak Street Beach late Saturday evening. The male victim was stabbed during the holdup while trying to protect his girlfriend. Two of Chicago's more upstanding residents have been charged with the crime (police are still looking for a third individual).
The last time I blogged about a tourist getting knifed downtown was back during the 2012 holiday season. Even though it's been a while, I fear we'll be hearing of similar incidents with increased regularity as the city's financial health deteriorates and the Chicago Police Department keeps receiving lip service but not bodies (meaning manpower).
There will probably be plenty of the other based on recent trends.
Note to self. Study up on defense against knives.
Speaking of deteriorating financial health, the State of Illinois was hammered by two of the major credit rating agencies in the past week. On October 19, Fitch Ratings announced in a press release:
Fitch Ratings has downgraded the rating on $26.8 billion in outstanding Illinois general obligation (GO) bonds to 'BBB+' from 'A-'.
In addition, the ratings on bonds related to the state based on its appropriation have been downgraded to 'BBB' from 'BBB+'…
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
Three days later, Moody's Investors Service stated in a release:
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the State of Illinois' $26.8 billion of general obligation bonds to Baa1 from A3, while also lowering ratings on the state's sales-tax (Build Illinois) bonds to Baa1 from A3, and on the state's subject to appropriation bonds (issued by the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority and for the state's Civic Center program) to Baa2 from Baa1. The outlook for all of these obligations remains negative…
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
Keep in mind the following observations by Karen Pierog over on the Reuters website on October 22:
Both general obligation bond ratings are now just three steps above the "junk" level… The downgrade by Moody's marked the 17th by major credit rating agencies for Illinois since 2003… Even before this week's downgrades, Illinois had the lowest credit ratings among the 50 U.S. states. Ratings histories from the three major credit rating agencies indicate few states have ever had their GO ratings fall below the A level…
Faced with a $105 billion unfunded public pension liability and a bill backlog of around $7 billion, I suspect Illinoisans will be on the hook for some sort of tax hike(s) in the near future.
Any Survival And Prosperity readers skeptical about the future existence of the Internet? Personally, I won't be surprised if it goes kaput one day. Don't get me wrong, I'm somewhat of a techie (driven by needs, not wants) and love the Internet. But I'm not sold on its staying power due to frailties with its infrastructure. A couple of years ago I remember reading about an elderly Georgian woman accidently cutting off neighboring Armenia's access to the World Wide Web for up to five hours- using only a spade. And now there's this from The New York Times website this past Sunday. David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt reported:
Russian submarines and spy ships are aggressively operating near the vital undersea cables that carry almost all global Internet communications, raising concerns among some American military and intelligence officials that the Russians might be planning to attack those lines in times of tension or conflict.
The issue goes beyond old worries during the Cold War that the Russians would tap into the cables — a task American intelligence agencies also mastered decades ago. The alarm today is deeper: The ultimate Russian hack on the United States could involve severing the fiber-optic cables at some of their hardest-to-access locations to halt the instant communications on which the West's governments, economies and citizens have grown dependent…
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
So the Russians could switch off the Internet. Or a rogue Uncle Sam could do it and blame the Russkies.
I told my girlfriend her brilliant nephew should get into the BBS game. Wave of the future?
"Apple II on a BBS in 2014!"
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Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Sobol, Rosemary Regina. "$500K, $950K bails set for 2 accused of robbery, stabbing near Oak Street Beach." Chicago Tribune. 26 Oct. 2015. (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-police-2-held-following-armed-robbery-stabbing-near-oak-street-beach-20151026-story.html). 26 Oct. 2015.
Pierog, Karen. "UPDATE 2-Illinois bond rating cut again over budget impasse." Reuters. 22 Oct. 2015. (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/22/illinois-downgrade-moodys-idUSL1N12M2L120151022). 26 Oct. 2015.
Sanger, David E. and Schmitt, Eric. "Russian Ships Near Data Cables Are Too Close for U.S. Comfort." The New York Times. 25 Oct. 2015. (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/world/europe/russian-presence-near-undersea-cables-concerns-us.html?_r=1). 26 Oct. 2015.
Chicago's North Side Hit By Tire Thieves
Squatters. Fake construction zone robberies. Virtual kidnappings.
Criminal antics which one might think are more representative of a "Third World" country that have taken place in Chicagoland recently.
Now add a rash of vehicle tire thefts in a "nicer" area of Chicago (DePaul/Lincoln Park) to the mix. From Chicago's CBS 2 News Monday:
"Wheels Flying Off Pricey SUVs"
CBS 2 Video
The Chicago Police Department is recommending the use of locking lug nuts to counter the thefts.
Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Chicago Police Reassigning 319 Officers From Desks To Streets
Even before suffering it's second-worst weekend of 2015 for gun-related violence, Chicago announced the rollout of a new measure to try and combat the carnage. Frank Main and Fran Spielman reported on the Chicago Sun-Times website last Saturday:
The Chicago Police Department will soon move hundreds more officers out of desk jobs and onto the streets to battle the city's surging violence — the latest in a series of transfers of cops from administrative jobs to patrol in recent years under Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
The department is reassigning 319 sworn officers from administrative positions to boost manpower on the streets without breaking the bank, said Adam Collins, a spokesman for the mayor. Those sworn officers include nurses, detention aides, property custodians and others whose jobs will be filled by lower-paid civilians, Collins said…
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
This latest initiative by the City has been tried before. Main and Spielman added later in the piece:
Since the mayor took office in 2011, the police department has previously shifted at least 770 sworn police officers from desk jobs to patrol work…
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
A couple of questions come to mind here:
1. Why weren't those 319 administrative positions shifted to the street earlier?
2. At the same time, how will this move affect administrative efficiency at the Chicago Police Department? Should Chicagoans expect a reduced quality of service from the CPD going forward?
3. If this latest reassignment action doesn't succeed, will CPD middle management be looked at next time around?
Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Main, Frank and Spielman, Fran. "319 more cops to be moved from desk duty to streets." Chicago Sun-Times. 19 Sep. 2015. (http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/972007/desk-jockeys-hitting-street-emanuels-latest-move-boost-police-manpower). 22 Sep. 2015.
My Thoughts On Chicago's Financial Crisis
I know I've been blogging a lot about Chicago/Cook County/Illinois lately. Which should come as no surprise to regular Survival And Prosperity readers considering I've talked about how I was born on the West Side, was raised around that area, and lived on the Northwest Side until I moved to the northwest suburbs two years ago.
Both the Chicagoland area and Illinois have been on my mind a lot recently. I fear we're on the verge of some major upheaval stemming from decades of fiscal mismanagement by policymakers from both sides of the political aisle (some might think this blog only targets Democrats- over the years I've demonstrated everyone's "fair game"). And by verge, I mean in the coming weeks. Focusing on Chicago today, what might kick it off (regular observers have witnessed the crisis growing for some time now)? I suspect the following. From the Chicago Tribune website back on July 31:
At a news conference this week, the mayor would not rule out a politically unpopular property tax hike, saying he'll wait to show his hand until September, when he rolls out "a full budget with all parts in there."
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
A good portion of the coming pain is going to be felt by the Chicago taxpayer. What kind of "pain" am I talking about? That which I've been blogging about for a couple of years now- new/higher fees, fines, and taxes, coupled with reduced government services. Last night's post about potential revenue generators Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the City Council are mulling over (hat tip Fran Spielman of the Chicago Sun-Times) should give Chicagoans a better picture of what's headed their way (a property tax hike and garbage collection fee look likely). Concerning cutbacks in government services, I think that's already begun. For example, the manpower shortage in the Chicago Police Department (hat tip Second City Cop) that's existed for some years now. Down the road, I predict the average Chicago taxpayer will find it increasingly difficult to afford living in the city, let alone doing it safely as local government struggles to provide effective, efficient services to constituents.
Now, it's bad enough Chicago/Cook County/Illinois are in real financial trouble. But then there's the legitimate concern of a slowing economy/recession being right around the corner, never mind that coming financial crash I started blogging about back on Memorial Day Weekend 2007.
So what's a Chicago taxpayer to do? This former Chicago resident picked up and left the city limits in 2013. Concerned about future tax and public safety liabilities, my girlfriend and I reluctantly departed our "suburb in the city" and moved into a house in a not-too-far away authentic suburb. Granted, we'll still be on the hook for county and state problems, but it's what makes sense for us in the short-term.
As much as I blast Chicago on Survival And Prosperity ("tough love"), I'm not convinced the city's going to go "belly-up." I think there's a good chance it could be run by something similar to the Emergency Financial Control Board in New York City from 1975 until 1986 (talked about here back in April), but even a setback like that won't be the end of the "City By The Lake," just like it wasn't for the "Big Apple." I do predict city life is going to get real hairy once the "balloon goes up," but I think that will be the case in a lot of urban areas nationwide.
That's my two cents on Chicago's financial crisis- for now. Chicago readers of this blog- what are you planning to do about the crisis? Or, what are you already doing? Maybe you don't think a crisis exists? Please share your thoughts or experiences in the "Comments" section of this post, as I'd really like to talk more about this going forward.
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Dardick, Hal. "Emanuel needs $754M more to make ends meet." Chicago Tribune. 31 July 2015. (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-rahm-emanuel-chicago-budget-shortfall-met-0801-20150731-story.html). 21 Aug. 2015.
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I like to take a drive on a sunny day and enjoy the sights and sounds of the road. From the scenery to the gentle purr of the engine or the sounds of the radio, I find a nice drive relaxing.
Last week, while taking a trip, I heard a different and rather unpleasant sound - the hiss of all the air bleeding out of one of my tires. Between that and the rhythmic clank of something solid colliding with the brick street, I pulled my aging automobile off the road and went to investigate.
I soon realized a gift had been left in the street by one of my neighborhood friends for an unsuspecting traveler. There, stuck deep within my rapidly deflating tire, was the blade of a pocket knife. What a wonderful treat.
I'm not sure who would leave a knife with its blade pointed toward the sky in the middle of the street.
Maybe it was some strange accident - someone dropped it and forgot to pick it up.
Or maybe cutting down a tire is someone's idea of fun.
Who knows. What's certain is it wasn't my lucky day.
My misfortune, at least, brought some joy to the AAA guy. He had never seen that happen before and kept the severely damaged knife as a souvenir. At least someone had a good day.
This was my third recent flat tire; some NASCAR drivers have probably had fewer. Apparently I have taken after my grandpa Fred - known by some of his friends as "Flat Tire Freddy." He earned this name after having many, many tires go flat in a short period of time.
I don't really want a nickname. It would just be nice if all of my tires would stay fully inflated for a while. Everyone can help by leaving their sharp objects anywhere but in the path of my car. Thanks in advance.


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Santa Claus Names From Around The World:
Père Noël in France
St. Nicholas (Sinter Klaas) in Holland
Jultomten - Sweden
Father Christmas in England
Christkind in Germany
Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) - Russia
Santa Kurohsu - Japan
Joulupukki (Old Man Christmas) - Finland
Sion Corn - Wales
Papai Noel Peru, Brazil
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December 19th In Pop Culture History
December 19 in Pop Culture History
1732 - Benjamin Franklin published the first edition of Poor
Richard's Almanack, in Philadelphia.
1843 - Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was published.
1871 - Samuel Clemens received a patent (# 121,992) for "An
Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Garment Straps",
a type of cumberbun/belt.
1903 - The Williamsburg Bridge, was opened in New York City.
1907 - A coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania,
killed 239 workers; there was one survivor, Joseph Mapleton,
in the Darr Mine Disaster.
1924 - The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost. the first 'Best
Car in the World', was sold in London, England.
1930 - The first autogyro pilot to carry a passenger was
Amelia Earhart, at Pitcairn Field, Willow Grove, PA.
1932 - BBC World Service began broadcasting as the BBC Empire
1950 - Rose Marie Reid of Los Angeles, California, received
a patent (#2,535,018) for a one-piece bathing suit "embodying
a novel construction for causing it to snugly fit the body
of a wearer in a flattering manner," using elastic fabric.
1974 -The Altair 8800 microcomputer was put on sale in the
U.S. as a do-it-yourself computer kit, for $397.
1985 - Mary Lund of Minnesota became the first woman to receive
a Jarvik VII artificial heart in Minneapolis.
1986 - Platoon and Little Shop of Horrors debuted in theaters.
1997 - Tomorrow Never Dies was released in theaters.
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June 14, 2013 - Beckhoff Automation released TwinCAT 3.1 with features for eXtended Automation. One of the core concepts of eXtended Automation involves the convergence of automation with the domain of IT and computer science. A key update with TwinCAT version 3.1 is support of 64-bit operating systems and the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system. Support of IEC 61131-3 programming languages, object-oriented programming (OOP), C/C++ and Matlab/Simulink is continued and provides numerous optional tools to the TwinCAT programmer.
Another highlight in TwinCAT 3.1 is the possibility to reserve individual CPU cores of a multi-core processor exclusively for TwinCAT. This feature, known as "CPU Isolation," gives the full performance of the reserved cores solely to TwinCAT.
Integration of tools into the Visual Studio IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
A step toward simplifying and advancing TwinCAT is the integration into Visual Studio, making use of the most widely used IDE in the world. TwinCAT 3.1 can be used with the current release of Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio 2010. TwinCAT integrates itself automatically into any existing Visual Studio 2010 or 2012 installations. If no Visual Studio installation is present, a royalty-free Visual Studio shell is installed and the TwinCAT 3 components are integrated into this shell.
Real-time use of C and C++
TwinCAT 3.1 also provides a method to use C and C++ inside the TwinCAT real time kernel and provides deterministic cyclic access to field inputs and outputs as well as cyclic access to variables in the traditional IEC 61131-3 languages. An exciting tool included in TwinCAT 3.1 allows the programmer to make a Live Watch window to monitor and write to C/C++ variables without stopping the process. This was not possible in any C or C++ IDE until TwinCAT 3.1. Code written in C/C++ can be easily packaged and used as function blocks in the traditional IEC languages.
Improved support for source control tools
The integration of TwinCAT into Visual Studio also offers the option to use familiar source control techniques used by the IT world. In addition to saving and backing up source code, source control is increasingly used for revision control. Comparison tools are available in TwinCAT 3.1 for displaying the differences between the versions and it is possible to view which nodes have been modified. If a difference is detected, more details can be made visible by a double click. The comparisons are available in all IEC 61131-3 languages.
In principle, a whole series of plug-ins for various source code control tools are available for Visual Studio. The most important are Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Subversion. Both are fully supported by TwinCAT.
Automatic code generation with the TwinCAT Automation Interface
In TwinCAT, automated configuration settings can be accomplished via the TwinCAT Automation Interface. This interface, which is already familiar from TwinCAT 2, has been greatly expanded in TwinCAT 3.1. It is now possible to generate and compile PLC and C++ code automatically and system configurations can be modified based on available hardware. Matlab/Simulink modules can be added automatically to a project and configured. All of this is possible without human intervention.
The Automation Interface can be used by different script languages such as IronPython and Microsoft PowerShell and linked to a C++ application or any .NET application.
Support for Matlab/Simulink has also been enhanced in TwinCAT 3.1. A Simulink block can be imported in the "TwinCAT interface for Matlab/Simulink" and an Automation Device Specification (ADS) connection to real-time variables is established. This allows direct access from Simulink to TwinCAT variables. Inputs and outputs from the field can be connected directly to Simulink and variables of a PLC can be directly exchanged with variables in a Simulink module.
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The 14th Annual AIA|LA Legislative Day at City Hall
AIA Los Angeles
Thursday, November 21, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (PST)
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PLEASE SAVE THE DATE and make plans to participate in our 14th annual AIA|LA Legislative Day at City Hall, which will be on Thursday, November 21st.
On Thursday, November 21, you're invited to join us for our 14th annual AIA|LA Legislative Day at City Hall. Meetings are scheduled throughout the day and are coordinated directly with active participants of the AIA|LA Political Outreach Committee. To participate in our meetings at City Hall you must also attend our training session, which will be on November 12th.
Thursday, November 21 (8:30am - 5:00pm)
Los Angeles City Hall
200 N. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Tuesday, November 12 (6:00pm - 8:00pm)
- Invest in a long-term Vision Plan for Los Angeles.
- Maximize the impact of RE:CODE LA.
- Streamline entitlement and permit procedures.
- Create an Office of Architecture and Urban Design (OAUD).
- Incentivize high-density high-rise development in Downtown Los Angeles.
- Build Complete Streets including bike lanes, enhanced sidewalks, parkways and bio-swales in the proposed street repair bond.
- Improve LADWP's Feed-In-Tariff Program.
- Eliminate the Gross Receipts Business Tax.
- Inventory all publically-owned real estate in the Los Angeles region.
- Appoint architects to city commissions.
This is your chance to meet decision makers and help influence our city's future.
Limited Capacity for AIA members only and advanced registration is required.
For more details, contact:
Will Wright, Hon. AIA|LA
Director, Government & Public Affairs
AIA Los Angeles
3780 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Tel: (213)639-0764
Email: will [@] aialosangeles.org
When & Where
Los Angeles City Hall
200 North Spring Street
Los Angeles,
Thursday, November 21, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (PST)
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Thanks for the hard work Erik. I look forward to the meet!
IC: NY Area Meet, White Plains, NY Nov 20, 2010 - Page 7
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Count me in. Thanks for organizing Erik
Please invite vendors ASAP so that their schedule are freed up.
For example Hifiman and Woo Audio are both from Queens.
Already contacted Woo but unfortunately they can't make it. Jack did offer to send gear so if there is something you want to hear let me know and I will ask him to send.
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WA22 if they will send it.
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Add my name to the roster. I'll bring the new Woo transformer box for Stax, assuming I have it by then (I am supposed to get it any day -- they said September!).
To use with it I'll bring 404's, a vintage Sony battery-operated CDP with digital out, Matrix DAC (which is really fantastic for the money), a digital amp (perfect match for transformer boxes) probably Bang & Olufsen, and lots of MoFi CDs. (The HP-out of the B&O ain't bad either, so I'll bring Grados or something so two people can listen at once -- heck, make that three people since the Matrix HP-out is also way more than an afterthought ... so maybe bring as well my D1001s which are way under-appreciated around here, or who knows what.)
Since the Matrix has USB in, might as well throw in the Sony palm top with FB2K and a bunch of 24/96's on it.
Lots of sound, small footprint (everything will fit on top of the B&O amp, which of course does not get hot).
If you want to hear the amazing MMC-2 phono cartridge from B&O you gotta come to Jersey meets. Dave, that means you. You know which Dave.
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I will be coming with two friends. Scottsmrnyc
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Count me in too.
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looks like my wife and I are going
I am slowly getting her addicted. my master plan is coming together. muahhaha
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Thanks--as always--for organizing, Erik. I am a maybe. Also considering bringing Papa Monkey.
I am very interested in attending this if it ever is finalized so please shoot me an email if you hear anything.
Thank you
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I'm about half an hour away, so too close to miss. Will there be tables etc to set things up? My listening setup isn't very portable. Might bring some vintage tube gear set up for headphone listening, and my new LCD-2's. I could contribute some stuff for prizes and I'd be willing to kick in some for the rental as well. PM me to discuss?
That area of White Plains is about a 10 minute walk from the train station, and it's right off route 684 (the exit drops you right into the Neiman Marcus, etc. parking garage, which is a block from the hotel). North Maple has a small municipal lot which is a bit cheaper. Lyric Hi-Fi (good folks) are a few minutes walk away. It should be a great location.
Thanks for setting it up!
This meet will almost certainly happpen. Life is unpredictable so I don't consider it official until I've signed on the dotted line. That should happen next week. I will start an official meet thread and post here at that time so you'll know it will happen.
There will of course be tables for you to set up your gear. Donations for the room as well as donations for our "Not So Silent Auction" are welcomed and encouraged. This is how we'll cover the cost of the room.
There is a shuttle bus run by the hotel that goes from the train station to the hotel. All you have to do is call.
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Thanks for the hard work Erik -- I am very in
Please let me know place and time when confirmed.
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Just check the thread.
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