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Regulations for the Public Procurement Complaints Commission
Translated from the Icelandic. In the event of any discrepancies between the translation and the text in Icelandic, the original text shall take precedence.
Regulations for the Public Procurement Complaints Commission
Name and domicile
The Public Procurement Complaints Commission operates on the basis of Chapter XI. of the Act on Public Procurement no. 120/2016, as subsequently amended, whereas the processing of cases before the Board shall in other respects be in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act no. 37/1993, as subsequently amended.
The full name of the Board is “the Public Procurement Complaints Commission”. The domicile and postal address of the Board is with the Ministry of Finance, Arnarhváll, 150 Reykjavík. E-mail: [email protected].
The submission of a complaint
A complaint shall be submitted or sent by mail to the Public Procurement Complaints Commission. Nonetheless, it shall be permitted to send a signed copy to the Commission by e-mail, and such a communication shall be viewed as having been received if the original document is received by the Commission within 72 hours.
Along with the delivery of postal communication, the complainant shall pay a complaint fee according to paragraph 5, Article 106, Act no. 120/2016, cf. Article 11, Act no. 58/2013. A complaint will not be taken under substantive consideration unless the fee has been paid.
A determination as to whether a complaint has been received within the complaint time limit shall be based on the date of receipt of a complaint.
The form of complaint and supporting documents
A complaint shall be signed by the complainant, the representative of the complainant or its attorney.
The complaint shall be accompanied with a copy of all documents referred to in the complaint plus other documents that the complainant considers as supporting its complaint.
The complaint along with supporting documents shall be submitted in six duplicates. The complainant can request that supporting documents be submitted in electronic form when the volume of documents is large. The complainant can also request that only one copy of certain documents be submitted.
The content of a complaint
A complaint shall contain the following:
a. The full name of the complainant and its representatives, the id. number, domicile and e-mail, if applicable.
b. The name and domicile of the respondent.
c. The decision, action or lack of action being complained about.
d. The claims of the complainant that shall concern the action of the Commission according to Act no. 120/2016.
e. Request for an opinion on the restitution obligation of the respondent, if applicable.
f. A short description of circumstances of the case, its grounds and the substantiation therefor. Whether it shall be permitted that notices, decisions and awards shall only be sent to the complainant by e-mail.
g. If a complainant requests that confidentiality be respected concerning certain issues, it shall specify such issues and at the same time specify to which extent confidentiality is requested and the reasons therefor.
Notice of receipt of a complaint
Upon receipt of a complaint, the Commission immediately informs the respondent of having received the complaint. In case of a complaint regarding a decision to choose a particular tender, the notice to the respondent shall call attention to the fact that the award of a contract may not be permitted until the Commission has finally resolved the complaint.
The processing of a case
When a complaint is taken under consideration, the Commission gives the respondent the opportunity to respond to the content of the complaint, as well as a company that has a financial interest in the complaint. The period allowed shall normally not be longer than 10 days from the date of the letter of the Commission.
The complainant shall normally be allowed a brief period to respond to the statement of the respondent as well as others which have been given the opportunity to comment in writing. The period allowed shall normally not be longer than 10 days from the date of the letter of the Commission.
Upon having received the final comments of the complainant, the Commission takes the case under judgment unless it is decided to hear oral arguments or further procurement of documents is called for at the initiative of the Commission.
Procedure of a claim to temporarily stay a contract award
A respondent, including a company that may have a financial interest in the complaint, shall normally be given a brief period to comment upon the possible temporary stay of an invitation to tender or award of a contract. The period shall normally not be longer than 72 hours.
In case of a clear and obvious violation of public procurement rules, a temporary stay shall be permitted without allowing the respondent the opportunity to comment.
When comments according to paragraph 1 have been received, the Commission shall decide upon the claim as soon as possible. If it is clear that conditions for the temporary stay of a contract award are not satisfied, it shall nonetheless be allowed to postpone the consideration of a claim for a final decision with a written record in the minutes of the Commission.
Procedure for rescinding the stay of a contract award
The Commission can decide to rescind a stay of a contract award that emanated from the receipt of a complaint within a lawful waiting period according to Article 86, Act no. 120/2016, whether due to a claim by a respondent or at its own initiative.
Should a respondent call for the rescission of a contract award, the Commission can decide to rescind the stay without procuring further documents or comments from the complainant.
Before the Commission decides to rescind the stay of a contract award at its own initiative, it shall normally accord the parties with the opportunity to comment.
Form and content of the statement of the respondent
and supporting documents
The form and content of the statement of the respondent shall be in accordance with Articles 3 and 4, as applicable.
Should a respondent request that confidentiality should apply to certain issues, it must specify such issues and state as well to what extent confidentiality is requested and the reasons therefor.
The appointment of the Commission
At a Commission meeting where a final decision in a case is arrived at, the full Commission shall be present. In other instances, it shall be sufficient that two Commission members be present.
The chairman shall request the presence of alternate members if necessary. In selecting an alternate, an effort shall be made to equalise the number of cases that alternates participate in. In place of a member with general experience and business know-how, an alternate shall be called in who has been appointed due to a comparable experience.
In the absence of the chairman, another member, trained in law, shall act as chairman. In the absence of two appointed members, both trained in law, a drawing of lots shall decide which alternate, trained in law, shall act as chairman.
Commission members shall sign decisions, awards and minority opinions they support.
The decisions of the chairman
The chairman shall call meetings of the Commission and manage its work.
The chairman shall decide upon the delivery of documents to parties of the case and other parties.
Minutes and case records
The secretary of the Commission shall record minutes of meetings as needed. A record of cases coming before the Commission shall be kept as well as their conclusion.
It shall be allowed to send notices, decisions and awards by e-mail or other electronic means to a party, should it have approved such an arrangement. A confirmed duplicate of decisions and awards shall also be sent by letter or with a fully verifiable electronic signature.
The publication of resolutions of the Public Procurement Complaints Commission
The awards and decisions of the Commission shall be made accessible to the public by further decision of the chairman. If a party to a case wishes that certain parts of an award will not be published, it shall inform the Commission thereof as soon as possible and the reasons therefor.
Information to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs
The Commission shall provide the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs with a duplicate of decisions and awards in cases before it.
Entry into effect
These regulations are issued in accordance with the authority provided in Article 113, Act no. 120/2016 on Public Procurement and shall enter into effect immediately.

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If you enjoy moving, you are a better person than I. The last week consisted of me, a truck full of boxes, four very helpful friends and way too much fast food leftovers. While I was breaking down my 47th box Tuesday morning, I remembered all the out-of-state folks who ask me about places to live in Charleston. Each question typically gets the same answer, but I decided it wouldn’t hurt to run some numbers and give you a good breakdown of neighborhoods and cities in the Lowcountry.
Disclaimer: everything that is written below is in no way a scientific study. It is merely data that Gwen and I were able to pull up over lunch this afternoon.
First, there are several cities/towns that surround Charleston that have a reasonable commute. These are what I’ll focus on. They are: downtown Charleston, West Ashley, James Island, Mount Pleasant, Johns Island, North Charleston and Summerville.
Per Capita reported in the 2000 Census: $22,414
Two bedroom rental: $1096
MSA Residential Home Sales: Zip Code 29401: $1,173,870; Zip Code 29403: $375,071
Things to do
Downtown Charleston is rich with history, shopping, and food. You’ll find a unique blend of tourists, business professionals and college students traversing the streets. Marion Square is home to the downtown Farmer’s Market every Saturday during the summer, and King Street offers a wide array of restaurants, art galleries and boutiques. Downtown is most certainly one of the most walkable areas in all of the Lowcountry and probably one of my favorites.
Per capita: (West Ashley is part of Charleston County) $22,414
Two bedroom rental: $1082
MSA residential home sales: $254, 639
Things to do
West Ashley is a popular area for our graduate students. While it doesn’t have nearly the same amount of shops and restaurants that downtown offers, it does have a sweet charm about it. Especially around the Avondale/Savannah Highway area where you’ll find a few boutiques, coffee shops and a bar that offers more than a few darts and pool cues – anyone up for a vicious game of Connect Four? The area between West Ashley and Summerville is where you will find several plantations and gardens including Middleton Place, Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, and Charles Towne Landing. Sidewalks are far and few in between, so I wouldn’t advise taking a walking tour of West Ashley.
Per capita: (James Island was part of Charleston County) $22,414
Two bedroom rental: $1111
MSA residential home sales: $277,873
Things to do
If you want to head out to the “Edge of America” (AKA Folly Beach), you have to go through James Island, and that’s not a bad thing. JI has its own little culture, including its own Facebook group for CARTA Express riders. Or so rumor has it; I have yet to find it. You won’t find strip malls, but you will find Fort Johnson (which is home to our Grice Marine Lab), the James Island County Park, and plenty of wildlife. I just moved out this way, and already feel like I’m on a permanent vacation.
The City of Folly Beach is incredibly popular, especially in the summer. Since there is only one road connecting Folly to James Island, you should definitely plan to head out to the beach early on the weekends. Otherwise, you’ll spend a good bit of time in traffic starting around 11:30. Once you’re out there, you can turn left and head towards the Washout to watch the surfers, go straight to walk on the second longest pier on the east coast, or go right for a little more room in the sand. Every now and then, you’ll catch a wedding in play. Much like the one we attended this past Saturday for our Director of Student Records, Regan.
Per Capita: $30,823
Two bedroom rental: $1109
MSA Residential Home Sales: $459,354
Things to do
According to Wikipedia, Mt. Pleasant is “the fifth largest municipality in South Carolina, and for several years it was one of the state’s fastest growing areas, literally doubling in population size between 1990 and 2000.” It is home to Patriot’s Point and the Yorktown, Boone Hall Plantation, awesome seafood dinners, and is probably the one of the most family-friendly areas around Charleston. Each year, thousands of avid walkers and runners line up at the starting line in Mount Pleasant for the annual Cooper River Bridge Run which finishes in downtown Charleston. Mount Pleasant definitely sees a lot of traffic, whether it’s to go shopping at the Town Center, enjoying happy hour at one of the many restaurants on Shem Creek, hitting the beaches of Sullivan’s Island or Isle of Palms, or strawberry picking at Boone Hall. It has a good blend of young professionals and residents who have raised their now-grown children.
Per Capita: not listed
Two bedroom rental: not listed
MSA Residential Home Sales: $451,524
Things to do
Johns Island is the fourth largest island on the east coast and is “predominantly rural in nature.” I admittedly know very little about the island, but everyone I know who lives out there loves it. What I can tell you though is that there are some amazing restaurants on the Island. If you’re ever out that way, be sure to make a reservation. You can also find Angel Oak on Johns Island. This Live Oak is the oldest thing (both natural and man-made) east of the Rockies, and is definitely something you want to see in person. The pictures never strike the same awe you get when you’re standing beneath its massive canopy.
Per Capita: $14,361
Two bedroom rental: $871
MSA Residential Home Sales: $199,354
Things to do
North Charleston is a growing city, and is gaining a lot of attention. According to Mayor Summey, “the June edition of Men’s Journal named the historic Park Circle neighborhood as one of the nation’s ‘Coolest Neighborhoods.’ This honor follows Cottage Living’s ‘Top Ten’ for the Noisette Community in 2008, along with Green Builder Magazine’s naming of Oak Terrace Preserve as one of the nation’s leading green neighborhoods last December.”
If you take the train or fly into Charleston, you will begin your visit in North Charleston. And you really won’t have to leave the area. Many of Charleston’s hotels are based in the north area, as are the Coliseum, the Charleston Convention Center, the North Charleston Performing Arts Center, and an outlet mall.
Per Capita: $20,103
Two bedroom rental: $984
MSA Residential Home Sales: $188,871
Things to do
If you’re looking for southern hospitality at its finest, Summerville might be the best area for you to unpack your bags – you certainly won’t be the first. In the last 10 years, Summerville has grown by nearly 16,000 new residents. This is due in part to its “Main Street Approach” redevelopment efforts. The only downfall is the commute to downtown Charleston might be a lengthy one due to the traffic, but hopefully construction on I-26 will help with the drive.
Each community has its own distinct personality and culture. If you’re curious about any of them, just let me know and I’ll be more than happy to help. Or, if you live in any of these areas and want to contribute, please type away.
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Travelebrity is where we look at the world of travel through the eyes of celebrities. We check out the places they go to get a little R&R, away from the dazzling lights of Tinseltown.
Ready, set, go! Comedians Amy Schumer and Jerry Seinfeld, along with their significant others, made a big splash on vacation at a tropical destination.
And actress and TV host Adrienne Bailon had fun taking this silly selfie while getting some R&R in Tulum, Mexico.
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Hi all, My name is Julie.
I am a miniature gamer, and would like to use the Ageod games for all my miniatures campaigns. And I think there are many other gamers out there who might like to do the same thing, using the AGE games for the strategic portion of a game, then using some other tactical level game to determine combat results.
To make this easy, Ageod would need to add an input combat results function, such as exists in games like Empire in Arms. or perhaps a game editor that could edit saved solo games.
I have been trying to do this thru text editors, but find the long text files confusing.
I realize that the easiest way to do this would be by being able to edit the number of unit/elements in each larger unit rather than edit each element man by man. You would fight the tactical battle, then go into the ageod game and input the actual number of elements lost to each side.
Can anyone tell me an existing easier way to do this? I myself am willing to put in some editing work on the text files.
I do believe that if Ageod added a function to the game to make this easy, they would see a large increase in sales to miniature gamers and other PC gamers.
Thanks for the great games!

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The Indians announced a wave of roster moves this afternoon. In addition to designating utility man Elliot Johnson for assignment and placing catcher Yan Gomes on the paternity leave list, they have called up reliever Nick Hagadone and catcher George Kottaras from Triple-A Indianapolis.
Johnson made the Indians out of spring training, but he’s getting the boot after hitting just .105 (2-for-19) with two doubles and seven strikeouts in seven games. As for Gomes, he’s permitted to be away from the team for 24 to 72 hours.
Hagadone, 28, owns a 5.59 ERA over 72 relief appearances in the majors. Kottaras latched on with the Indians after being released by the Cubs at the end of spring training and could stick around even after Gomes returns.
Good news in Boston: An MRI on Red Sox outfielder Andrew Benintendi‘s left knee revealed no structural damage.
Benintendi slipped while trying to avoid a tag at second base, injuring his leg, but it appears he’s avoided a serious injury. A timetable for his return isn’t known at this point, but the Red Sox expect to get him back before the end of the season.
Benintendi is hitting .324/.365/.485 with a homer and ten RBI in 21 games.
And then there was one. One player from the 2008 World Series champs, that is. Ryan Howard likely isn’t going anywhere so he’ll be the last one to turn the lights off, but today Carlo Ruiz bid adieu to the Phillies following his trade to Los Angeles.
Lost in all of the emotions the Dodgers are reported to be feeling about A.J. Ellis leaving is the fact that Ruiz was one of the most beloved Phillies players ever, by both his teammates and their fans. Yesterday Roy Halladay penned a heartfelt goodbye to Ruiz, suggesting that he was every bit as essential to his and the Phillies’ success as Ellis has been to Clayton Kershaw (and in pure baseball production, obviously, quite more).
Today Chooch left a message for his now former teammates:

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Back in Media Composer v8.2, I was testing some metadata workflows and discovered quite by accident that values in the “Comments” column appeared in EDLs when “Comments” was checked as an option. Since the original Avid/1 Media Composer, EDL comments were restricted to the comments added to any one segment in the timeline. I don’t know if this was an intentional change, or something that just came about as a result of something else as there was no mention of it in release documentation. I thought I would keep an eye on this to see of this feature evolved with follow-on releases.
Comments Column in the Bin
I should start by saying that the “Comments” column itself is quite elusive. It is a column that seems to be standard within Media Composer, but not exposed as a standard column when choosing columns. If one goes to bin’s script view and adds commentary to the large text area on a clip, then the column becomes selectable as a custom field via the “Choose Columns” despite it already being part of the bin. Importing or merging an ALE with a “Comments’ column will find its way into that text area. Once there is active metadata, it can be saved to other bin views.
Adding Comments to EDL
Once text has been added to a “Comments” column, and selecting “Clip Comments” from the List Option/Include in List for both Picture and Sound section, those comments will be added to the EDL after each event proceeded by a *
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This can be quite useful when needing to add specific metadata to an EDL for a downstream process. A user can duplicate any column’s value into the “Comments” column then generate a list. A workaround using ASC CDL columns for Stock Footage tracking was blogged about here.
But there are limitations to be aware of when using “Comments”. I am not guaranteeing this is a complete list, but are the ones I discovered when considering different use cases in typical workflows:
- Comments will appear in an EDL when added to a master clip
- Despite a subclip displaying the Comment from the master clip in the bin, the EDL will not have the comment when edited from a subclip
- If the user overwrites the existing Comment on a subclip in the bin with a comment, then that comment will appear in an EDL.
- The same goes for .sync clips. Comments can be added to the V and A master clips, and the resulting .sync clip will display the V comment, but the EDL will have no comment. User can enter a new comment on the .sync clip and it will appear in the EDL
- A group clip has a different behavior – the resulting group clip does not display any of the originating clip “Comments” in the bin and the EDL does not display any of the “Comments” from any of the angles used. A user can add a “Comment” to the .grp clip in the bin but unlike sub and sync clips, EDLs will still not show that “Comment”
- Unfortunately, EDL Comment lines are still being limited to the old linear tape bay specifications of 80 character line lengths despite every other aspect of the EDL being changed to support newer digital workflows such as having up to 129 character as Source/REEL. Comments will wrap at 80 characters into multiple *Comments lines. This makes parsing a bit more problematic downstream.
- Comment lines are changed to all UPPERCASE instead of keeping the text as entered in the bin. This prevents some interesting parsing algorithms to be used.
- If a user did enter a “Comment” on a specific event in the timeline via the “Add Comment” function, the EDL will display this “Comment” and not the value from the bin. The EDL comment does not differentiate between the two, making it inconsistent and can be misleading or problematic depending on use.
This behavior is still consistent with the most recent release of 8.5.1 so I suspect this will be how it works for a while. It’s an interesting feature to consider if you are aware of its limitations in order to get expected results when used.


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Detection of natural gas diversion in residential pipelines is important for public safety. To maintain utilities companies’ reputation and customer satisfaction, such diversion must be detected in a nonintrusive manner, without digging or using endoscope cameras. Thus, it is important to develop techniques for residential gas pipeline diagnosis using an external small device that can detect a diversion if it exists, and determine its location. The goal of this project is to develop non-intrusive diversion detection and localization techniques using ultrasound signals and signal processing.


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Driver who knocked down and killed knife attacker will face no police actcion
A driver who was arrested on suspicion of murder after using his car to knock down a man armed with a knife who was stabbing a woman has been told he will face no further action.
Known only as Abraham, the man drove his car into Leon McCaskre who was stabbing Yasmin Chkaifi to death in the street in Maida Vale on the morning of January 24.
Ms Chkaifi, 43, died after former partner McCaskre attacked her in front of horrified witnesses in Chippenham Road, Maida Hill. McCaskre then died after being struck by Abraham’s blue Renault Clio.
The driver was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).
In a statement released on social media through his lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, the driver said: “I am a person of good character. I have never been arrested before in my life. I was making my way to work and was waiting in traffic on Chippenham Road in West London at approximately 9am.
“I witnessed a man repeatedly stabbing a defenceless woman on the pavement a short distance in front of my car. Members of the public were attempting to intervene. The attacker was wielding a knife and threatening those brave citizens too.
“My instant thought was to protect the woman who had been stabbed and the public who were also being threatened. The vehicles ahead of me moved off which gave me the opportunity to intervene. I drove my vehicle towards the attacker in order to get him away from the woman he was attacking. I did not intend to harm the attacker, I only intended to protect those being attacked.
“My vehicle struck the attacker and he was taken under my car causing it to stall, I could not reverse my car to free him.
“I and other passers-by attempted to lift the car away from her attacker so we could provide the man with first aid.”
The statement said he was “deeply sorry” and it was not his intention to harm the attacker, but to stop him from harming others. “I understand that the police are doing their job and that my being arrested is not unusual,” it added.
“However, I do not see why I as the person who tried to assist in the defence of other human beings remain arrested and on bail under suspicion of murder.
“I have asked my solicitor to contact the Metropolitan Police to request that they consider de-arresting me and begin treating me as a witness to a tragic event rather than as a criminal as they currently are.”
Since his arrest, more than 75,000 people signed a petition calling for the driver not to face criminal charges. Members of Ms Chkaifi’s family have also reportedly praised him for driving his car at McCaskre in an attempt to save her.
Detective Chief Inspector Neil Rawlinson from the MPS’s Specialist Crime Command leads the investigation and said: “Having reviewed the CCTV evidence and taken statements of numerous members of the public and attending officers, as well as reviewing the legal position regarding self-defence and defence of another, a decision has been taken that the driver of the car, a 26-year-old man will face no further police action.
“He is considered a vital witness to our investigation and will be offered support from professionals to help him come to terms with the terrifying situation he was confronted with.
“It is vitally important that when a person dies there is a thorough investigation into all of the circumstances and this has taken place. Such decisions must be thoroughly examined and while this process takes time this has been a priority for my team. The man’s legal advisors have been informed of this decision.
“Inquests have opened in relation to both deaths and my team will continue to work to provide evidence for the Coroner. We continue to appeal for witnesses to this incident who have yet to speak to police to come forward and do so.”


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Good morning, new to boating... can I ask what this project is?
Ok... I figured it out. Assists in removing the motor.
Raising/lowering the motor, actually. I did mine similar, but used other means of support.


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News and notes from around town:
• Lawrence, be afraid, be doubly afraid. The city once again will be home to two Halloween stores this season.
As we previously reported the former Sears building at 27th and Iowa streets will house Spirit Halloween, a seasonal retailer of all things spooky. Spirit was located in the former Maurices building in Downtown Lawrence last year. (Yes Freebirds Burrito is still slated to go into that spot, but I do need to get an update on the progress of that project, which proposes to subdivide the building.)
Now we can report that Halloween Express is going into the former Blockbuster building on 23rd Street. Store manager Kattie Johnston told me the store likely will be open by this weekend. Halloween Express was in the former Borders building in downtown, which is no longer available because it will be used as temporary home for the Lawrence Public Library.
“We’re excited to be even closer to campus,” Johnston said of the new location.
As for what new Halloween trend you ought to be excited about, Johnston is betting “blow-up costumes” will be a hot item this year. You put on a special suit, and with the help of a few batteries, you can flip a switch and your costume inflates. One such costume makes you look like you are bullrider on top of a bull. Another makes you look like a ballerina. No word yet on whether they have one that can make the University of Missouri look like an SEC football team.
(Yes, I know it is risky making jokes about Mizzou right after KU loses to a Conference USA opponent. But fortunately, very few Mizzou fans read. Also, I wanted to have an aside on KU football. I think it will be very interesting to watch attendance figures this season. Football attendance is big business for Lawrence retailers, and at the moment, it looks to me like there is still some work to do. I went to the stadium on Saturday at noon with no tickets in my hand. Shortly thereafter, I had four tickets in my pocket and I hadn’t paid for any of them. Two of them were good reserved seats at the 40-yard line. I turned down four other free tickets.)
Anyway, Halloween Express likely will have hours 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturdays and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays. The store is a temporary store, meaning it probably will close around Nov. 1.
• Speaking of things related to horror (you can decide whether that is a reference to Halloween or Mizzou football), I believe there once was a horror movie titled "I Know What You Did Last Summer."
Well, I think I know what you guys did last summer, too. You went shopping. Retail sales numbers continue to come in very positively for Lawrence, and the latest report was off the charts.
The city in August received nearly $325,000 more in sales taxes than it did during the same month a year ago. Due to a lag time in reporting, the August report measures sales made from mid-June to mid-July.
It appears those dog days of summer were kind to retailers. According to the city’s number, retail sales figures were up 25 percent compared to the same time period a year ago. In fact, the August report showed $124.08 million in taxable sales, which has made it the largest month of the year thus far. So much for the summer doldrums in Lawrence.
It is always risky to read too much into a single month’s report, though. Statistical anomalies easily pop up in these reports, and I suspect there is some of that going on here.
But we’ve also received eight reports now for 2012, and they all have been higher than during the same period a year earlier. In fact, we have now seen 12 straight months where the monthly reports have been higher than those a year ago. From January to August 2012 compared to January to August 2011, retail sales tax collections are up 7.6 percent. So a retail rebound is happening.
Here’s a look at retail sales totals for the first nine months of this year compared to the same period in past years. The numbers in parentheses are the sales totals adjusted for inflation.
2012: $908.74 million ($908.74 M)
2011: $844.32 million ($859.95 M)
2010: $814.59 million ($855.86 M)
2009: $831.06 million ($887.49 M)
2008: $861.40 million ($916.62 M)
The 2012 inflation-adjusted numbers are getting very close to passing the 2008 pre-financial crisis numbers. If that happens, I think it will be a very significant sign for the health of the Lawrence economy.
Regardless, today’s numbers are pretty darn significant for the city’s budget. The city is officially projecting a budget surplus of $1.1 million in the sales tax category for 2012. If retail sales, though, keep growing at their current rate of 7.6 percent, the surplus likely will be higher than that.
• While we’re in the mode of reliving horror movies, does anybody want to remember the summer of 2011 when Congress, the president and others in Washington, D.C., fought like Freddy Krueger and Jason, the hockey wearing mask freak?
Do you remember what they were fighting over? Yes, it was a debt limit.
Well, I don’t expect to see any chainsaws or hockey masks at tonight’s Lawrence City Commission meeting, but there will be a discussion about city debt levels.
The city is getting ready to issue another $5.9 million in new long-term bonds, and another $24.4 million in one year notes. (Think of them like a one-year construction loan.)
The one-year note total is so high because it includes $18.02 million for the library expansion project.
The big-dollar additions to the city’s debt total has city staff members looking at the city’s debt guidelines. I took a look at those back in September of last year, and we questioned whether the city’s planned library project would push the city over its own guideline, which reads “the amount of general obligation bonds outstanding per population will not exceed $1,100.”
We noted at the time, that the city’s per capita bond debt was at $1,015, and that was prior to the city issuing any debt for the library project.
Well, city officials now are proposing to change the debt guidelines. In particular, the city is proposing to raise the per capita debt number from $1,100 to $1,500. But it also is changing the definition of how it counts debt. Under the current guidelines, the per capita calculation only takes into account long-term general obligation bonds. The new calculation takes into account both the long-term bonds and the short-term notes. Of course, a big part of that equation is what population total the city uses. I’ve seen the city use its own population estimate, rather than the Census Bureau’s population estimates. The city estimates its population to be quite a bit higher than the Census Bureau does.
Overall, the city contends the new guidelines are in line with what Moody’s — the debt rating service — recommends for Aaa rated communities.
Plus, the city argues that it has never adjusted its debt guidelines since they were adopted in 2002. Given that they involve monetary numbers, it seems like it would be wise to update them for inflation. For example, $1,100 in 2002 is now worth $1,400 in today’s dollars when adjusted for inflation. So, the city is adjusting its debt’s guidelines a little more than inflation, but it also is broadening its definition of what has to be counted as debt.
And finally, I did look at how much debt the city has compared to other Kansas communities. I looked at this over the summer when the League of Kansas Municipalities put out is annual tax data book. (What, that’s not what you did this summer?) Here’s a look at what I found when it comes to total bonded indebtedness per capita. (This counts all types of debt, and I used Census population numbers. In other words, I figured it a bit differently than the city would, but I figured all the cities the same, so it should give you a good idea of where Lawrence ranks.)
- Leavenworth - $770
- Overland Park - $1,137
- Hutchinson - $1,324
- Salina - $1,337
- Shawnee - $1,385
- Lawrence - $1,576
- Leawood - $1,926
- Topeka - $2,473
- Olathe - $2,478
- Wichita - $2,516
- Manhattan - $4,042
- Kansas City, Kan. - $7,142
City commissioners meet at 6:35 p.m. today at City Hall.
• Finally, one quick note about 9-11. I’ve written a lot of articles as a reporter, but this one about how a small Kansas community remembers 9-11 each year, has perhaps stuck with me more than any other article written. I’m sure Anthony, Kan., is doing its part today to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice.


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Journal of Ethnography 4/2007 outlines the issue of the function and process of communication which have been hitherto infrequent within various ranges of ethnological researches. Alena Křížová deals with the functions of decoration and jewel (Jewel as a Hallmark). Petr Janeček pays his attention to folklore narration and its function in the modern society (Communicating role of folk literature in modern society: urban phantoms of the World War II), Marta Šrámková specifies the contemporary trends of folklore researches from that standpoint (New research field of folkloristics – media communication). In her essay, Martina Vyziblová deals with the communication in relation to ethnic minorities (Work with Romany children or more than just remedial classes) and Eva Večerková gets down to that issue based on traditional material (Christmas Eve “Driving the Sheep to Bethlehem” in South-Western Moravia).
The essay Pilgrimage to St. Antonius (Impressions of a contemporary pilgrim) by Blanka Petráková specifies the changes of tradition. Social Chronicle remembers the anniversaries of the ethnographer Věra Kovářů (born 1932), the literary folklorist Bohuslav Beneš (born 1927) and the enthnographic worker Marie Pachtová (born 1932); it publishes also the obituary notices for Zdeněk Lukáš (1928 – 2007), composer, and Jana Rychtová (1946 – 2007), a personality of folklore movement. In other regular columns, the reports of exhibitions, festivals, concerts, professional branch activity and the reviews of new book editions are published.
The title of the contribution Jewel as a Hallmark glosses the thesis by Peter Bogatyrev called Folk Costume as a Hallmark because it utilizes the identical method of functional structuralism, which is applied on various forms of human body’s decoration and on various appearances of a jewel. This is what expresses the fact that – in common with the clothing – the decoration and jewel present a mean of non-verbal communication. Similarly, the individual functions of decoration and jewels are determined: 1. practical, 2. magic, 3. family and 4. social one, 5. function of distinguishing the ethnical groups, professional and amateur associations and 6. erotic and aesthetic functions that run through the previous categories simultaneously.
The author analyzes the dissemination and social function of rumours about so-called urban phantoms – fictive demoniac beings that were typical for folk literature during the World War II. The rumours about spirits, such as Czech Pérák (Spring Man) and Žiletkář, Slovak Fosforák, American Mad Gasser of Mattoon and Black Flash and Italian Pippo spread at the end of the war and were closely connected with the social tensions of that time. Those war phantoms have their basic features, like expressive realistic anthropomorphic and technological nature and weak continuation of traditional folklore expression. After the non-standard war situation had terminated, the most rumours ceased to exist very quickly; some of them have survived in popular culture and media until now.
The communication in folkloristics is understood as handing over of experience that forms a part of social standards, cultural consciousness and folk tradition. Media communication cannot substitute the way of handing over the folklore matters and it does not work with the categories narrative act, life of folklore, narrator and listener, narrative opportunity. Communicating by means of media is not a narrative act; it does not create any tradition and handed-down repertoire. Media communication and folkloristics are two separate systems; their common feature is “handing over of communicating”. Media communication is a feature of technologized society. It determines the rise of non-traditional forms, genres and matters, which are spread by media, within young generation. In the conclusion, the contribution brings some examples of Christmas greetings, freely referring to folk forms. The task of folkloristics is to study the relation to the media communication theories.
The text is focused on the education as one of the ways, how to improve the living conditions of the Romany minority significantly. The objective of the text is to point out the necessity of the active participation of the Czech majority in the improvement of Roma’s education and to draw the attention to some specific matters that have to be taken into account with this work. The author proceeds from her practical experience with remedial classes for the Romany children, which are held in the Museum of Romany Culture in Brno for the third year. She makes the readers familiar with the advantages of individual approach applied at the remedial classes; she draws attention to the necessity to enter into open communication among three parties: the family, the school and the tutor giving remedial classes, which is crucial for the remedial classes to be successful. She is taken aback by the problems of language disadvantaging the Romany children, by the entering into relations with a Romany family and the necessity of timely help, which should function as a precaution of the Romany children’s failure at school.
The author deals with the Christmas habit called “sheep of Bethlehem, driving the sheep to Bethlehem”. She completes the literature reports with the archive and terrain researches. She records the life of the habit, which has survived until now in some places, on the map. She meets with the highest frequency in the region whose centre is the town of Jemnice. The ceremony procession with the local shepherd and children playing sheep happened at Christmas Eve. The shepherd cracked a whip and played the ox horn, the children imitated the sheep with voices and ringing the cowbells. Later on, some new elements were adjoined to the procession of the “shepherd” and his “sheep”, mainly the Christmas tree and the musicians playing famous Christmas carols.
Journal of Ethnography 3/2007 pays its attention to Professor Richard Jeřábek (1931 – 2006), an important personality of Czech and European ethnology and the long-year member of Journal of Ethnography ́s editorial board, who died just one year ago suddenly. A lot of his colleagues and students declare their support to his scientific legacy. Some of them have contributed to this issue with their essays and articles that originate from the research themes by Prof. Jeřábek: from historiography and branch theory through ethnographic zoning, ethnicity problems, graphic folk culture up to ethnographic photo and movie.
Karel Altman in his essay reminded of the importance of writers Alois and Vilém Mrštík for ethnographic study of the Moravian country at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries (Source of knowledge on the life and works of Brothers Mrštík), while Blanka Petráková mentioned the importance and fate of Professor Antonín Václavík (1891 – 1959), founder of the University study of ethnology in Brno (Antonín Václavík and Pozlovice). Helena Beránková dealt with the position of a village photographer (The Local Community and a Photographer – a Photographer and the Local Community / Photographic studio of Antonín Koukal in Uherský Ostroh 1921 – 1956/) and Miroslav Válka wrote about ethnographical zoning (Moravské Horácko, Hřebečsko and Malá Haná – ethnographic regions at the ethical and cultural boundary line). Alena Dunajová (Folk architecture, or folk structural engineering? A contribution the terminological discussion) and Marta Pastierková (Community environment of the village of Blatnica) submitted their expressions on folk architecture. Daniel Drápala (Under the names of Valach and portas – terminological discussion) dealt with the phenomenon of military service in South-Eastern Moravia in the 17th and 18th centuries and Martin Šimša contributed to the theme of Carnival rounds with masks (Carnival Round of „hřebenáři“– new aspects of the relevant interpretation). Alena Kalinová gave an explanation on the history of earthenware research at The Moravian Museum (Comments on Research of the Anabaptist Earthenware at The Moravian Museum before 1945), Eva Večerková introduced the portray of Růžena Šilarová (1913 – 2003), decorated Easter eggs painter from Brandýs nad Labem (Decorated Easter Eggs by Růžena Šilarová) and Hana Dvořáková dealt with the insist author František Diviš (1923 – 2004) from Únanov near Znojmo („Divišov“– the weekday spirit).
In the regular columns, the jubilees of ethnologists Stanislav Brouček (*1947) and Josef Vařeka (*1927) and that of Jan Pavlík (*1937), a personality of folklore movement in the Moravian Slovakia, are mentioned; furthermore, the reports of exhibitions and festivals and the reviews of new book editions are published.
Brothers Alois and Vilém Mrštík are two noticeable literature personalities who made their indelible mark in the development of ethnography and folkloristic, inter alia. Their exceptionality consists just in connection of two activity levels, which turned out well on the highest artistic and professional level. With the exclusivity of their literary adaptation of the environment, they could know during their lives, they dominate all other writes who presented the life in the Moravian country. Both of them were excellent experts in folk culture and life of Moravian folk at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially because of their work at Diváky near Hustopeče where their most important works, including the chronicle Rok na vsi (A Year in the Village) came into being. To evaluate the literary production and the fames of the Mrštíks requires widely conceived endeavour, beginning from the study not only of the corresponding historical resources, but also of the most significant secondary literature. Our contribution calls attention to both.
Antonín Václavík, the important Moravian ethnographer and founder of the ethnographical department at Brno University, came from the village of Pozlovice, where he was born on 17 July 1891. Childhood and youth spent at Pozlovice near Luhačovice influenced his life way significantly. Along with brother František, they opened the Luhačovice Museum in July 1918. They exhibited their ethnographical collections there, initiating the foundation of the Museum Society in Luhačovice. The research of Václavík ́s native region and the activity of the Museum Society came to a head in issuing the monograph Luhačovické Zálesí in 1930. Václavík made many personal sacrifices to issue the monograph yet he was meeting misunderstanding for plenty of following years. He did not come to hate his native region and he returned often here.
Antonín Koukal (1895 – 1972), trained portrait photographer, was operating his studio from the 1920s to the 1950s in Uherský Ostroh. The activity of his photographic studio has some more-generally valid features. In addition to the photographs of the crucial life moments of the inhabitants in the nearest environs (birth, school attendance, recruitment, wedding, death) he dealt with taking the portraits. The contribution is paying its attention to the relations people have to their photos.
The essay deals with the ethnographic division of Western Moravia and adjacent Eastern-Bohemian area. In the Middle Ages, this hilly region was inhabited by local Czech population and German settlers who formed two language islands here: one around the city of Jihlava and the other one between the cities of Moravská Třebová, Svitavy and Lanškroun north of here. In the 18th century’s literature, the region is uniformly called Horácko according to the countryside character, but in the 19th century, the name differentiates based on the language (ethnic) principle. The region settled by German inhabitants in the environs of the cities Moravská Třebová and Svitavy broke away as a specific ethnographic area with the name Schönhengst (Hřebečsko). Ethnographer and museum worker Josef František Svoboda (1874 – 1946) rendered outstanding service to more detailed demarcation of Moravian Horácko based on dialect and phenomena of traditional folk culture. Ethnologist Richard Jeřábek (1931 – 2006) worked up the ethnographic zoning in details.
The contribution deals with the terms used by ethnology, other branches and amateur public for different meanings. Richard Jeřábek drew attention to that issue as early as in 1974, as he differed the meaning of the terms folk structural engineering and folk architecture whereby the aesthetical criterion became the principal differentiating feature. The author of this contribution holds both terms for synonyms. Within folk architecture or folk structural engineering she considers the determination whether it concerns the professional or non-professional expressions for the determining dichotomy. The survived planning documentation after the mid-19th century substantiates the residential and farm buildings – analogous to the towns- to be designed and later on even built by trained practitioners mostly. In the conclusion of the contribution, other problematic used terms are remembered: village architecture (or structural engineering), rural architecture or vernacular architecture.
The contribution is an extract from the PhD thesis that the author wrote under the leadership of Prof. Richard Jeřábek. It is focused on an objective thus critical picture of the community environment at a representatively chosen community in the Slovakian country. Summarizing, the author states that in the course of 20th century not always the real needs of the village society were respected when the community buildings and small solitaires were designed. Sometimes, the final placing of community buildings into the existing community environment of the village was considered in a fully slovenly fashion. It was necessary to think about the complete design of the historical core earlier than in the mid-1980s when many things could not be softened even by planting the full-grown green on the places with the most disturbing visual contacts.
For nearly two centuries, an armed detachment of “portas” was a part of Moravian history. It was established in 1638 and originally, it was only one of the forms of using the population of Eastern Moravia for military service. At the beginning of its existence, the detachment was called “faithful Wallachians”. This name reflects the period simplified understanding of the word “Valach – Wallachian” as a male inhabitant of mountain regions in Eastern Moravia, who distinguishes himself by certain presumptions for military service. In this understanding, the term “Valach” differs from the former practise according to which this term was used for a farmer breeding sheep and goats on mountain pastures; at that time, it does not refer to the specific ethnographic region in the northeast of Moravia – Moravian Wallachia – yet. Since the end of the 17th century, the term “faithful Wallachians” was substituted by a new term “portas”. The origin of this word can be found in Hungary (frontier guards originally, seigniorial armed men figuratively) from which is has been spread to Silesia and Moravia.
The Carnival round of „hřebenáři“ and the relating ceremonies have been reflected by professional literature for many times. J. Tomeš dealt with both the older literature sources and the contemporary terrain researches; he subjected both of them to systematic analysis, classification and involvement into the corresponding custom context. R. Jeřábek paid his attention mainly to the European occurrence of the Carnival bear’s masque one of whose versions – as he supposes – just “hřebenář” is. The submitted essay divides the entire apparently unified complex into two different components. The first one is a round of the Carnival bear, regionally called “hřebenář”, connected with prosperity dance. The other one is an almost unknown habit “na hřebeň” whose principle is the married women’s ritual cleaning-up in the form of verbal reproving by masked men taking part in the ritual, whose cleaning-up in watercourse follows. The faith’s importance of both habits comes to the fore especially in the context of religious research that classify both of them as rituals preparing the time renewal on the eve of the new agricultural cycle’s commencement.
The Moravian Museum, owner of an important collection of the Anabaptist faiences, joined the research of the Anabaptists in Moravia as early as before the World War II. At that time, František Pospíšil, head of the ethnographical department, co-operated with Heřman Landsfeld, ceramist, collector, expert on the earthenware production history and pioneer in archaeological research. In the book of records (from the years between 1933 and 1851), we can reveal that the research of the Anabaptists and their earthenware production was an important activity of the ethnographical department, especially between 1942 and 1945 when the Museum participated directly in excavations. A lot of museum documents point to the intention to present the research results at an exhibition. Nevertheless, the most mentioned finds have not been maintained in the collections and it is even not possible to map the research works exactly.
The author deals with the decorated Easter eggs by Růžena Šilarová (1913 – 2003) from the town of Brandýs nad Labem. She submits the biographical information and analyzes the decoration technique (carving) and ornamental art. Růžena Šilharová ́s works are based on the family tradition as well as on the decoration of embroideries and laces on Central-Bohemian folk costumes. Růžena Šilarová found a free inspiration in them, forming her typical style of decoration. She belonged to the authors who were dealing with the egg decorations for a great part of their lives and found pleasure and use of creative invention and abilities here. Moreover, they were looking for their own approaches.
The author pays her attention to the colourful installation of storybook world that František Diviš (1923 – 2004) created at the village of Únanov near Znojmo. It is an expression we meet only seldom in our country whereby that is the opinion that such expression is a closed chapter in interpretation by our folk, what prevails. Diviš was a self-taught person, he did not take part in any fine art training and he started with his own works only after he had retired. He made his sculptures of wood, textile, plastic. He finished them with colour, emphasizing the details. His world, called Divišov, must be evaluated as a dynamic unit that cannot be presented in parts. After the author’s death, the installation was reduced.
Journal of Ethnography 2/2007 pays its attention to handicrafts. In his essay, Josef Jančář summarizes the interest in folk handicrafts in the European context from the 19th century up to the present (Development of Handicraft Care). Oľga Danglová elucidates the development of the Centre for Folk Art Production in Bratislava (Between traditions and modern design. Activities of the Slovak Centre for Folk Art Production). Jarmila Pechová devotes herself to the particular kinds of handicrafts in Central Moravia in the second half of the 20th century (On the past and present of handicrafts and homemade manufactures in Central Moravia). Pipe manufacture, its history and local traditions are the theme of Luboš Kafka ́s essay (Tradition and Present of Pipe Manufacture in Proseč near Skuteč). Václav Michalička elucidates the manual technique for whetstone manufacture (The Sucháček Family – four generations of handmade-whetstones manufacturers in the region of Walachia).
„Fotografická zastavení“ (Stopping with Photos) section and Transferring Tradition column bring the contributions by Daniel Drápala (Basket-Making Classes and Workshop in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm) and by Věra Kovářů (Wind Mill in Starý Poddvorov). Social Chronicle remembers the anniversaries of the ethnologist Zdena Vachová (born 1922) and musician Vladimír Baier (born 1932); it publishes also the obituary notice for the architect and photographer Jaroslav Vajdiš (1920 – 2006). In other regular columns, the reports of conferences, festivals, concerts and reviews of new book editions have been published.
Since the 19th century, the development of scientific researches and their practical application formed a qualitatively higher stage of civilization in which the traditional artisanship ceased to exist. The states tried to avoid that process by their legislative measures, as it was in Austro-Hungary, where the trade law was issued in 1859 or the cooperative system law in 1873. Various training courses were organized and producers ́ and sale cooperatives came into being to build the handicrafts up into going process. After the World War II, an international organization with the name European Federation of Folk Art was established in Europe. In Czechoslovakia, the Centre for Folk Art Production was founded, which was dissolved after one year of its existence. Nowadays, the Czech Republic has joined the UNESCO appeal to support the declining handicrafts by awarding the best artisans the title Folk Craft Tradition Practitioner.
The essay submits an overview of the present activities of the Centre for Folk Art Production in Bratislava. The main scope of work of this institution is to register the co-operation with the manufacturers, to look for new talents and to support their manufacture under professional supervision, to renew and extend the assortment of products by means of artists ́ designs and to organize the purchase of products within the sales network of this institution. The bigger stress is put on educational activity. Besides training courses and lectures for the manufacturers, the scope of education is open even for the wider public by means of the Court of Crafts (a 1999 founded centre for information and education). The range of promotion activities by editorial works and exhibition activities is more intensive as well. The institution issues its own journal Remeslo/Umenie/Dizajn (Craft/Art/Design) and four times a year, it organizes exhibitions at its own gallery opened in 2004. Major attention is paid to collection funds care, archives completion, photo-documentation and video-documentation and – as the newest activity – virtual gallery creation.
While in the lowland part of Central Moravia mainly the handicrafts important for agriculture were carried on up to the 20th century, the range of handicrafts and homemade manufactures was much more varied in the higher situated regions. The expiring of traditional manufactures since the 1940s or their recapture by the Centre for Folk Art Production can be followed based on safeguarded sources processed for official and statistical needs. The present manufacture continues the family and regional traditions (basket-making in the region of Morkovicko, products made of straw in the region of Konicko); partially, it is developing in other directions connected with personal concerns, possibilities and abilities of their bearers.
The village of Proseč near Skuteč at Czech-Moravian Highlands was one of the most famous Bohemian centres of pipe manufacture for wide range of purchasers since the first half of the 19th century. The pipes cut and turned of domestic, simply available timber sorts (alder) as well as those made of imported briar since the beginning of the 20th century were made here. The peak of the local pipe manufacture falls within the period of the first Czechoslovak republic when hundreds of local people carried on pipe manufacture, belt making and additional home production. After the World War II, the workshops, private plants and factories were dissolved. The manufacture was concentrated into one big cooperative with machinery mass production. With exceptions (pipe-manufacturer J. Klinský), the traditional handmade manufacture of minor cutters and pipe manufacturers terminated. Nowadays, the works by F. Loučka and V. Jehlička present its modified repercussions.
The manufacture of whetstones belongs to simple archaic techniques. The manufacture was typical especially for the villages around the town of Vsetín in the past. Since the 1920s, the men of the Sucháček family have managed the techniques of manual whetstone manufacture. Because of the transformation of society and its needs within the second half of the 20th century, the Sucháčeks have become the only practitioners of that technique in the region that dominated the whetstone manufacture before. The technique applied by them did not undergo any significant changes; however, the social and economical conditions changed. The originally homemade manufacture has changed into educational-entertaining gainful employment with cultural legacy of the past.
Journal of Ethnography 1/2007 pays its attention especially to the drama in folk tradition. Jaroslav Blecha introduces puppetry as a part of folk theatre culture („Theatrum cum pimperlis“ and inheritance of the famous marionetteer ́s Kopecký family at the collection of The Moravian Museum in Brno); Juraj Hamar analyses the typology of characters of puppet theatre (On personal characters identity and vocal expression at folk puppet theatre). Petra Richterová devotes herself to the phenomenon of amateur theatricals in the first half of the 20th century (Village amateur theatricals near Kardašova Řečice and its position in traditional folk culture). Marta Ulrychová has aimed her essay at renewed Passion Plays in Hořice in Šumava (Passion Plays in Hořice – an example of renewed tradition). Martin Šimša in his contribution writes about Whitsun King’s Ride whose unpublished description was at the inheritance of collector and researcher František Bartoš („Age-old Habit on Kings“ – Whitsun ride-about in Mysločovice and its context). The text by Katarína Popelková and Juraj Zajonc concerning the elaboration of so-called Wollman’s Archives touches the wider Slovakian tradition. Wollman’s Archives is a voluminous collection of text which originated between 1928 – 1947 based on terrain collections done by the students of the Faculty of Arts in Bratislava under leadership of Prof. Frank Wollman.
The section Fotografické zastavení (Stopping with Photos) introduces the pictures of harvest thanksgiving in Petrov, District of Hodonín (Harvest Thanksgiving 1928 – Among folk habits, theatre stage and political manifestation), Transferring Tradition column brings the contribution by Eva Večerková Feast in Černovice, near Kunštát – celebration, habit, theatre, play. The Society Chronicle remembers the anniversaries of two Czech ethnomusicologists – Jiří Traxler (born 1946) and Lubomír Tyllner (born 1946). It brings also the memories of Jan Miroslav Krist (1932 – 2007), the personality of folk dance and folklore movement. In other regular sections, the reports of conferences and professional events, festivals, concerts and reviews of new book and CD editions have been published.
The touring marionette theatre of so-called folk puppeteers represents a unique chapter in the history of Czech theatre. It was the first and almost only Czech theatre form that the Czech countryside could learn about. At the collection of the Department of the history of theatre, there are deposited documents on the work of one of the most popular Czech marionetteer ́s dynasties, the Kopecký family. The collection includes more-generation inventory of the theatres of Karel and Václav who lived in Brno. Václav, who was younger than Karel, maintained – illegally - the tradition of touring marionetteering even in the 1970s. By inheritance, the marionettes of various origins, made by a lot of wood-carvers have been handed down. Along with photos, papers and other original documents, they represent a unique inheritance for the historiography of the Czech marionette theatre.
The personal identity of traditional characters at folk puppet theatre is a complex of three mutually connected layers: the semantic, the optical and the auditory ones. The author pays his attention mostly to the auditory layer, which – in addition to the acoustic objectification of text – also represents emotional, social, psychological and language features of a character. They actualize themselves on the paralinguistic level. Thus, they take a significant part in the total poetics and aesthetics of folk puppet theatre. The text is a part of the research on folk puppeteers vocal expression, which the author has been implementing since 2004, namely in co-operation with Milan Rusek from the Institute of Informatics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. The basic material consists mainly of the recordings of traditional plays by puppeteer Bohuslav Anderle (1913 – 1976). Those recordings were taped by his son Anton (1944), the last traditional puppeteer in Slovakia, in 1971. As an illustration in conclusion, the author mentions a brief characteristics of personal identity for traditional characters taking part in the performance Don Juan in the repertoire of B. Anderle.
Amateur theatricals as a phenomenon of Czech countryside has been mentioned since the 19th century where it was created parallel to traditional theatre whose elements have been safeguarded especially in annual and family habits for the longest time. The essay is aimed at amateur theatricals in some selected villages (Doňov, Újezd and Záhoří) nearby Kardašova Řečice in South Bohemia, especially in the period between two world wars. Based on archive documents and manuscripts, the essay features activity of the clubs being engaged in theatre, it reconstructs the period theatre repertoire, the methods of studying the theatre plays and their presentation, the drama performances, the personalities of actors, directors and other participants, the influences of professional theatre. In conclusion, the essay compares the tokens of amateur theatricals with folk theatricals.
The entry freely linking to the essay printed at NR in 2005, deals with the Passion Plays renewed tradition in Šumava within the after-war period, i.e. from 1945 until now. The author pays a special attention to the after-1989 restoration of almost forgotten inheritance. The restoration of Passion Plays, being played not in German but in Czech language now, is resulting from the co-operation of a group established around the first after-revolutionary Mayor of Hořice, Miroslav Čunát. Among the members of that group were Jindřich Pecka, historian from České Budějovice, Jaroslav Krček, composer, and Antonín Bašta, movie director from České Budějovice. First night of the new Czech version accompanied with recorded music by Musica Bohemica, took place on 29 June 1993. The entry remembers the attendance of cultural life’s important personalities, the theme elaboration in form of documentaries and the permanent exhibition in the local school building.
The essay is focused on a voluminous manuscript by the popular scripturist F. Zelinka from the village Louky u Zlína. The material represents new possibilities in researching the countryside culture of the second half of the 19th century because it not only descri- bes some annual habits but also depicts every-day life at the local pasturage and records some local legends. The chapter Age- -old Habit on Kings makes known with some circumstances and the course of Whitsun King’s ride in Mysločovice at the periphery of the Haná region. The description is concentrated on the outside form, it passes over the details, and the endeavor to give a true picture of functions within a social milieu of the community is fully strange to it. The importance of realized details rises mainly within the context of other reports on Whitsun King’s rides within the Moravian milieu, which the author gives in the text.
The entry matter is the fund of text documents that has been kept under the name Wollman’s Archives at the Instute of Ethnology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. The corpus of texts originated between 1928 and 1947 as a result of terrain collection in the territory of Slovakia. The collections were done by students of the Slavic Seminar of the Faculty of Arts of the former Slovak University (later Komenský University) in Bratislava and by some students of the Faculty of Arts in Brno. The first part of the entry summarizes the knowledge concerning the origin and hitherto processing, but also understanding and presentation of the fund. The second part contains first experience and results resulting from the archives elaboration as well as from the electronic form of Wollman’s Archives between 2005 and 2006. With the above procedures, the general methodical process of analysis and processing the written documents into the form of electronic database has been verified. The Wollman’s Archives itself has been processed with the aim to extend its availability and utilization – not only within the study of folklore, but also within the material, spiritual and social culture, the history of traditional culture study or the language and history.


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A neighborhood once besieged by drugs and violence has a new scourge — the falafel guy.
East Villagers are up in arms over a Halal food cart stationed on Avenue A, where residents are complaining of foul-smelling falafel, generator noise and filth — in just three days since its unwelcome arrival.
“You’re going to attract more people on the corner while everyone is upstairs trying to sleep,” said Dan Forkin, who lives above the cart’s new home at East 2nd Street.
“It’s already noisy to begin with. There’s already the sh–tiest bars on earth on this corner, so you’re already getting everyone who is obliterated here, and now you add this.”
The cart, which is open 11 a.m. to 2 a.m., may be causing more than just a bout of dyspepsia, residents said.
“My sister lives on the second floor and she has a kid, and she smells it — and it’s not something you’re used to smelling,” said Amber Velez. “It bothers her and she gets headaches all the time.”
The cart started off around the corner on Houston Street, but moved after complaints that it was blocking deliveries for Union Market — bad news for angry Avenue A residents like the one who printed flyers desperately rallying neighbors to “Help In Removing The Halal Food Vendor In Front!!!!,” according to area blog EV Grieve.
“Aside from devaluing our home and neighborhood,” the flyer rants, “he’s taking up half the sidewalk, introducing crowds which in turn block our walkway, his generator’s noise resonates through the upstairs apartments, his exhaust faces the sidewalk and he was extremely rude and aggressive to our neighbor when faced with these facts.”
But cart owner Farouq Ortega, through his wife, Maribel, is defiant.
“They need to understand that we’re in a free country — and we can’t please everyone,” Maribel said. “Legally, we have a right to be there — we’re not bothering anyone, and I don’t think it’s fair that we move.”
The cart is licensed through the Department of Health and is permitted to be at its current location, agency data show. The city can force vendors to move for a variety of reasons, including being too close to a subway station or presenting a fire hazard.
But, Maribel said, the cart has a clean record at its latest spot. “[They] just don’t like how the cart looks — and I think it’s very unfair and selfish,” she said.
Eddy Idris, one of three workers who man the cart, said residents’ outcry was a form of “racism.”


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The Burj Al Arab of tweets.
Whatever you want to call it, one thing is certain.
These tweets are fucking huge.
Printed on high-quality artist stock, then stretched and wrapped around wood fiberboard. Canvases frames are 1.25” thick and come with hooks for instant hanging. The inks are designed to hold up over time without fading and each canvas print is artist-grade and OBA-free.
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San Francisco –The Integral Group (“Integral”) is pleased to announce a groundbreaking ceremony on May 20 at 11:00 A.M. for EVIVA Mission Bay, an apartment community of 129 units with 103 market-rate units and 26 below-market-rate units affordable to moderate-income residents earning 90% of the Area Median Income (AMI). EVIVA Mission Bay is the last parcel to be developed in the Mission Bay North Redevelopment Area. The unit mix consists of 72 one-bedroom units, 53 two-bedroom units and 4 three-bedroom units, along with 82 garage parking spaces. Argosy Real Estate is Integral’s joint-venture equity partner and construction financing is provided by East West Bank.
Mr. Egbert Perry, Chairman of Integral, stated, “EVIVA Mission Bay represents the very best of Integral: a mixed-income, new apartment community that provides quality housing for the work force and the broader market in one of the most housing-constrained communities in the United States. Integral has a twenty-year track record of providing both affordable and market-rate housing in urban communities throughout the United States. In addition to the transformational EVIVA Mission Bay project, Integral is co-developer of a recently completed affordable housing development in Sacramento known as Cannery Place, and a luxury market rate development, named EVIVA Midtown, under construction in the midtown neighborhood of Sacramento.”
“EVIVA Mission Bay represents a great collaboration with the City of San Francisco Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure, our public-sector partner in this project,” said Mr. Christopher Martorella, President of Integral’s Commercial Real Estate Division. “It is the first large-scale project to provide moderate-income, inclusionary housing units in a market-rate project in the City of San Francisco. Because of EVIVA Mission Bay, teachers, firefighters, health care workers, recent college graduates, young families and other members of San Francisco’s critical workforce will have a place to call home.”
The property is located in Mission Bay and is well positioned in the market with convenient access to the new Mission Bay Hospital system, downtown San Francisco, walkable retail and proximity to the many amenities of Mission Bay. Additionally, this property is just a few blocks from the Giants AT&T Park, a short muni ride to the Financial District, steps from the CalTrain terminus station, and has direct access to Highway 101 and Interstate 280. EVIVA Mission Bay is created with the best of urban living in mind.
EVIVA Mission Bay incorporates amenities including a Wi-Fi café/bar, BBQ areas, a fitness center, ample bike parking and a yoga room. All units will have 9-foot ceilings, private patios or balconies, a roof garden, landscaped courtyard and environmentally friendly fixtures. Packaged concierge services, including security, also come standard for the EVIVA Mission Bay Apartment community.
Construction started in March 2015, with completion expected in October 2016.
Integral is an Atlanta–based vertically integrated real estate development and investment firm, with a particular focus on providing innovative development strategies in key urban markets across the U.S. (http://www.integral-online.com) Recently, Integral launched its national multi-family brand “EVIVA”, a unique project portfolio deeply rooted in high design, sustainability and community vibrancy. Branded projects are underway in Atlanta, Denver, San Francisco, and Sacramento.
About Argosy Real Estate
Argosy Real Estate, founded in 1990, specializes in opportunistic real estate investments. Through joint venture structures, Argosy Real Estate (www.argosyrealestate.com) partners with entrepreneurial operating partners possessing significant local market knowledge and a demonstrated track record of success. Argosy Real Estate currently has $325 million in equity value of assets under management, serving institutional investors, family offices and high net worth individuals.

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Bahadir Yahsi, 29, was arrested in March after a cooperating witness working for the FBI allegedly made two purchases of the potent painkiller last year.
During a Sept. 30 meeting, which was videotaped by the FBI, Yahsi allegedly directed Ersin Eroglu, 28, of Clifton to sell the informant 96 pills of oxycodone for $3,000, according to an arrest complaint.
Yahsi was indicted on charges of distribution and possession with intent to distribute in relation to the Sept. 30 sale. He was recently released to home detention on $100,000 bond pending enrollment in a long-term residential treatment program.
Eroglu has been in custody since his arrest in February and is in plea negotiations, court papers show.
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My Genealogy Home Page:Information about John Lefeber
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John Lefeber (b. Bet. 1708 - 1710, d. February 03, 1779)John Lefeber (son of Abraham Lefeber and Mary Pennock) was born Bet. 1708 - 1710 in Pennsylvania, and died February 03, 1779 in Hereford, Berks Co., Pennsylvania.He married Christina Wentz, daughter of Peter Wentz and Elizabeth.
Notes for John Lefeber:
My Paternal6th Great-Grandparents
John had inherited 500 acres in Worcester Township, Philadelphia County, from his father, Abraham, which later, after a survey in 1743, was really567 acres.The records show that he was one of twenty-five taxpayers in Worcester Township in 1734.Apparently, John sold this tract of land except for a small portion.Christina's father, Peter Wentz (my 7th-great-grandfather), owned adjacent property.
In 1743, he bought 368 acres just north of the present-day town of Tatamy, which was known as the "Forks of Delaware," the name by which Forks Township was then known.Sometime between 1743 and 1745 he moved and built a new log cabin not far from the stream known as Tatamy's Creek.
Tatamy's Creek was named after the Indian, Moses Tatamy, however, it soon became known as Lefevre's Creek after he settled on its banks. Today it is known as Bushkill Creek, although, the Little Bushkill is still known to the locals as Lefevre's Creek. .
The Delaware Indian, Moses Tunda Tatamy, had converted to Christianity and married a white women. Records show that he had been the chief of his tribe and was born in New Jersey, and he had received as a gift of appreciation from the Proprietaries, 315 acres (which was the tract of land adjacent to the Lefevre property).Tatamy and his wife were John and Christina's only neighbors for a number of years.
On June 19, 1753, John petitioned to the Justices of Northampton County to recommend him to the Governor for a license for the operation ofa "public house" or tavern at his residence on Lefevre Creek. The petition states that he had previously been licensed to keep a house of "public entertainment."
Records show that in 1755, John Lefevre was the only person licensed to sell liquor.In May of 1752, the Lefevre's house had been the headquarters for the planning of what is today the town of Easton.It was soon decided that there was a need for the trail to this area be made into a "High Road" to the City of Philadelphia.Within two years John Lefevre was included on the board of trustees for the building of a school in Easton (approximately five miles away).
"A Frontier Village,Pre-Revolutionary Easton"was written in 1940 by A.D. Chidsey, Jr., president of the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society in 1931-33 and 1935-37.Volume III, chapter 4,
is entitled, John Lefevre, Tavern Keeper.
At first, the Lefevre Tavern was located in untamed wilderness.There, they entertained such people as William Parsons, the well-educatedman of culture and foremostcitizen of the county seat of Northampton, as well as Nicholas Scull, the Surveyor General of the Province.They were also friends with Benjamin Franklin.The good German cooking of Christina, to be served by one of their six daughters,and the ample accommodations, apparently lured travelers out of their way.
In 1755, Indian uprisings reached Easton. These raids started along the Susquehanna and spread north eastwardly to Northampton County.On November 23, 1755, the Gnadenhuetten massacre occurred, making the peaceful Moravians (Protestants) and the Lefevres fearful.On Christmas, Benjamin Franklin and James Hamilton (commissioners) met in Easton with William Parsons to verify the dangers.Constant fears of Indian raids and massacres continued, making the years 1755, '56 and '58 very difficult for the Lefevres.
John and Christina were hosts to many pioneers making their way from the frontiers; some were penniless and terror-stricken.The hospitable Lefevres gave them food and drink and a place to rest.
Some stayed and made their homes around Easton after finding safety at the stockade at Friedensthal.
By August, 1756, there were seventy-five refugees there, including13 women and 49 children.
The first treaty with the Indians was held at Easton the summer of 1756 and the second one in October of the same year; however, no sooner were the treaties brought to a close and the announcement made of peace with the Indians, new outbreaks would occur. (Tatamy was the interpreter for these treaties).
John must have realized that Easton was no longer the "frontier" and it was at the very verge of civilization;with his youth now failing, in 1761, he returned to the property he still owned in Worcester Township in Philadelphia County, the home of his youth.In 1764, he and Christina sold their 368 acre
tract to his son-in-law, Captain John Van Etten.
In 1762, John and Christina along with Jacob and Elizabeth Wentz each gave one acre in Worcester Countyto the Wentz Reformed Church where a new church was built.
Prior to the Revolutionary War, records show that John and Christina owned 100 acres in Worcester County.Their son Isaac owned a similar amount there.John somehow had also acquired land in Loudon CountyofVirginia of which he willed 125 acres to his son, John, and 150 acres to his son, Henry.
John had inherited the religious zeal and perseverance of the Huguenots and the plodding honesty of the Dutch.As a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. he carefully kept and treasured the family Bible.
During the peaceful times he used it to bring up his children in his faith; during the days of fear and
tribulation, it gave him comfort and hope. before his death, he bequeathed to his favorite son, Isaac, his Dutch Bible.
John and Christina had eleven children (6girlds/5boys) of which my 5th great-grandfather, Isaac, was the eighth child.
1.Margaretha m. Captain John Van Etten (of the Minisinks was commissioned by Benjamin Franklin in1756 and was placed in command of Fort Hysdshaw nearthe present-day town of Bushkill)
2.Suzanna m. Gabriel Frey
3.Catherine m. Jacob Best (settled in Moore Township)
4.Anna Mary m. Peter Mellig
5.Elizabeth m. Leonard Gressemer
6.Christina m. John Mellig
7.John, Jr.(served in the Revolutionary War)
8.Isaacm. Maria Magdalina (served in the Revolutionary War with son, Samuel and brother, John))
9.Abraham m. Elizabeth (Abraham served on the Northampton County Grand Jury in 1759)
More About John Lefeber:
Children: 11 children (6 girls/5 boys).
Naturalization: Bet. 1729 - 1730
Occupation: Tavern Inn Keeper.
Religion: Dutch Reformed Philadelphia Church.
Children of John Lefeber and Christina Wentz are:
- +Isaac Lefeber, b. Abt. 1732, Pennsylvania, d. Abt. 1799, Pennsylvania.


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Global law enforcement agency said criminals could target supply chains or sell fake COVID-19[feminine[feminine jabs online when more vaccines are approved internationally.
It launched a global alert to law enforcement in its 194 member countries, warning them to be vigilant.
“As governments prepare to deploy vaccines, criminal organizations plan to infiltrate or disrupt supply chains.
“Criminal networks will also target unsuspecting members of the public through bogus websites and fake medicine, which could pose a significant risk to their health and even their lives,” said Interpol General Secretary Juergen Stock.
Interpol also said the gangs could try to profit from the fake coronavirus of test kits and advised consumers to do their research.
There is more of 170 vaccines against the coronavirus in development around the world, but there are a handful of pioneers who are in the final stages of testing and may soon become available.
The UK became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer / BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to use, with injections scheduled starting next week.
A spokesperson for Pfizer said the company has taken strict measures to protect vaccines during transport.
A UK / Swedish group from the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca has also submitted their vaccine for approval in the UK.
Meanwhile, scientists at US company Moderna are seeking approval from US and EU regulators to allow emergency use of their jab.
Russia has announced that it will begin large-scale vaccinations with its vaccine called Sputnik V next week, and the Chinese military has approved another made by CanSino Biologics.
Experts have agreed that several vaccine candidates must be successful for the world to eradicate the pandemic, with cases on the rise in the United States and Europe.