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October 30, 2022. Asking Why: Ehegattensplitting: A Very Problematic Income Tax Splitting Law, By Hannah Piehl
October 12, 2022. Digging Deeper into the Social Contract, by Miranda Sheild Johansson
April 27, 2022. Fiscal Governance as Memes, by Andreas Streinzer
August 5, 2020. Featured publication: Shaping Taxpayers, by Lotta Björklund Larsen
Asking Why: Ehegattensplitting: A Very Problematic Income Tax Splitting Law
Hannah Piehl, October 30, 2022
I spent my last semester abroad and met people from all over the world. When it comes to getting to know, befriending, and traveling with international students, there seem to be multiple practices that come up quite often. Besides comparing passports, analyzing different school systems, and trying alcoholic national drinks, the discussing and contrasting of our native languages was definitely one of the more common ones I encountered.
The German languages offers three different question words all being translated in English to "why": Wieso, weshalb, warum. Being able to use three words instead of one can signify the depth this simple question entails. Which is why anthropologists love to ask this question, immersing themselves in a field entangled with cultural, social, and historical trajectories. Untangling is almost always impossible, but who doesn't like a challenge?
What does this have to do with taxes, more specifically a certain German marriage income tax splitting law? Let me explain.
What exactly is Ehegattensplitting and how does it work?
Ehegattensplitting solidifies the gender pay gap, the gender pension gap, and the gender care gap by incentivizing married couples to practice the traditional (male) single-earner model. In its arithmetic calculations, Ehegattensplitting favors people who do not necessarily need preferential treatment and disregards those in need of protection, for example low-wage earners with children or single parents, who are not able to save taxes at all. In case of divorce, the results of this taxation practice can potentially be existence-threatening to the person with less financial resources – having led the primary earner to save a high amount of taxes – as they do not receive governmental financial support in return or in hindsight.
Ehegattensplitting is a German income tax splitting law. This mandatory tax procedure sees married couples as a tax unit, measuring disposable income on a household-level and enables them to save taxes by "pretending" that both spouses had earned the same amount of money. The whole taxable income is halved first, then the income tax is halved - and the resulting tax liability is then doubled again.
As long as both spouses did not earn the same amount, the arithmetic operation comes with a "progression advantage" for married couples: the partner with the higher salary gets around particularly high tax rates as the married couple can decide which partner is getting into which tax bracket. A couple can save up to 15.000 Euro yearly, in return, Ehegattensplitting costs the state over 20 billion Euro in per year. In heterosexual couples, because of cultural and societal norms that I will get into later, men are usually the ones earing more money, incentivizing women to only work part-time or not at all – as Ehegattensplitting leads to more tax savings when the discrepancy in earnings is higher. Seems counterintuitive, right?
With all these implications – situated in state with a social liberal understanding of itself – the question of asking why finally arises: Why is Ehegattensplitting still legal today?
The history of Ehegattensplitting
To try to answer this question, we firstly need to take a look at the history of joint taxation in Germany and the introduction of Ehegattensplitting.
In 1934, the Nazi government introduced joint taxation for married couples for the first time in Germany. Their stated goal was to push women out of the labor market to get them to "realize their role as wives and mothers", due to high unemployment in the population. In 1941, during the second world war, the German government returned to individual taxation, because the labor force of women was needed. In 1955, the Federal Ministry of Finance issued the goal of "leading the wife back into the house" as the jobs women took over during the war were not supposed to be occupied by them anymore. Two years later, in 1957, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe annulled the previous model of individual taxation of married couples because married partners had to pay more taxes than unmarried ones, which went against traditional family structures and was therefore deemed as "unfair". Many politicians were hoping to go back to the "good old times", as wives were now "benefitting" the family by staying home and enabling tax savings. The Federal Minister of Finance Franz Etzel (CDU, Christian Democratic party) emphasized this argument in various speeches:
"[...] so we came up with the idea that even what the man formally earns alone, practically is earned by both spouses in the marital community becomes. And so, in splitting it, it is recognized that women earn half of that income. I believe that with the splitting proposal, a great respect could be made for the position of women in marriage, but also for the position of women in general." [1]
As a result, the process of Ehegattensplitting was put into law in 1958. The following outrage and protests of Women's associations, the German Trade union confederation and certain politicians did not lead to the abolishing or changing of this law.
What about same-sex-couples?
While Ehegattensplitting has been discussed looking at traditional and heterosexual marriages, other, queer and less traditional viewpoints often fall short in these analyses. I conducted an interview with Peter (name changed), who holds a civil partnership with his husband Theo (name also changed, obviously) and told me about his views on Ehegattensplitting and how its extension to same-sex couples changed their relationship.
For a long time, same-sex couples did not hold the same rights as heterosexual couples in Germany. In 2001, a separate form of legally secured partnership for same-sex couples was created: the registered civil partnership. The Federal Constitutional Court ruled in 2013 for Ehegattensplitting to be extended to registered civil partnerships, enabling same-sex couples to benefit from its use as well. In July of 2017, the German parliament decided to introduce the "Ehe für alle" [marriage for all], thus making it possible for same-sex couples to be married in a civil ceremony and putting an end to the formation of new registered civil partnerships in return.
And then at some point during this political discussion in the 00s or early 10s I probably came across it more consciously, the concept of Ehegattensplitting, when it was all about "Are the gays allowed to use our Ehegattensplitting now or is it only for the straights?" So. And I think it was only during this discussion that I became aware of what it can actually be or what it is and how it can influence realities of life. So, in my case how it might set me free eventually. [2]
In Peter's case, the extension of the tax law to same-sex couples lead to him and his longtime partner getting a registered civil partnership. As Theo works in a high-paying position, Peter was able to end his work which caused him and their relationship a lot of stress. While they were able to (finally) benefit from the tax law on an individual level, Ehegattensplitting causes more harm than good on a societal one.
I actually did a lot of volunteer work instead. Probably because of this "people define themselves by the work they do and what they are paid for, rather than how they see themselves in the world". And you need a justification in society why you don't go to work, and that's why I threw myself into volunteering (…). Theo doesn't have time for volunteering alongside his 40 to 60-hour job, and he doesn't have to. Because he has to care for me.
Feeling the societal pressure of having to "contribute something", Peter only stopped carrying out paid labor. He describes how this led to him working exactly the same amount of time in the cultural sector doing volunteer work – without getting paid. When it comes to Ehegattensplitting, it is important to remember that there's this little thing called care-work [3], in heterosexual relationships is mainly performed by women. A less equal distribution of paid labor – facilitated through Ehegattensplitting – can lead to an even more unequal distribution of care work, which often is invisible and unappreciated anyways. Which brings us back to our original question:
Why is Ehegattensplitting still legal today?
The German sociologist Maria Wersig (2013) identifies three main obstacles to a reform or abolition of Ehegattensplitting. Firstly, she deems the institutional restrictions by constitutional law as a resistor to reform, as Ehegattensplitting is very much constitutionally anchored by the Federal Constitutional Court and other court decisions on marriage taxation. Secondly, the decisions of actors based on party political preferences, including election tactic considerations also play a role in the continuation of the tax splitting practice. Even if some parties are positive about the abolition or revision of Ehegattensplitting, this will not be implemented programmatically since many voters of these parties also find themselves in traditional family and role structures and thus benefit from Ehegattensplitting. Lastly, going along with the second point, the values based on the male breadwinner model in politics and population here are at play as well. Especially in West Germany, a majority of the population practices the male breadwinner model, consisting of one person – usually a man –working full time, while the other person – usually a woman – is not doing paid, but care and household work or working part-time. This population group benefits from Ehegattensplitting and won't appreciate system changes if satisfied with their employment and family situation.
Inspired by the "Theory of Gradual Institutional Change" by Mahoney and Thelen (2010), the extension of Ehegattensplitting to same-sex couples could be seen as a first step to undermine the existing institution of the income splitting practice. These new actors, who adhere to the existing rules, but do not conform to traditional heteronormative family structures that go hand in hand with Ehegattensplitting, could perform as so-called "change agents" (Mahoney & Thelen 2010: 24). On the other hand, same-sex couples benefitting from the tax law could fall into the same "trap" as heterosexual couples, being presented with an increased divergence of power and a traditional distribution of wage labour and care work in their marriage, all while reproducing and therefore solidifying the institution of Ehegattensplitting at the same time. The extension of the tax practice to same-sex couples could also incentivize and leading couples to get married, even if they, living in a heteronormative society, were less conforming to the traditional relationship model before. The fiscal government could therefore prompt a change in social organization, that is, a society made up of more married couples.
(…) at some point in 2013 the Federal Constitutional Court made a decision that Ehegattensplitting should actually also apply to same-sex couples if there is already a registered civil partnership, before that we said, "We don't need a registered civil partnership, that doesn't do us any good at all, except that we're on a register and when the Nazis come to power, they only have to take this register and then they can tick us off." But with spouse splitting, we sat on the couch and said, "Okay, if this works, then we'll get married!" We were that romantic.
Income tax laws hold a lot of power in the sphere of politics and policy, as they have to potentiality to deepen and reproduce existing inequalities by benefitting already privileged parts of society while discriminating individuals in need of governmental support. Tax laws can consequently fight (gender) inequalities by reducing post-tax disparities through jurisprudential and legislative measures and by changing incentives of labour and family decisions. To bring change about the fiscal system, it is important to examine what role income taxation plays in the reproduction of gender hierarchies but also heteronormativity and traditional family models, putting those not conforming at great disadvantage. The model of individual taxation can be seen as the more gender equal one, as two-earner households are benefitting rather than single-earner ones. Separate taxation would also even out power imbalances within households, as the person earning less would be less dependent on their husbands regarding fiscal issues of income and pension.
It's very logical. For example, the moment I stopped working, I stopped accumulating pension points. So, I'm very much dependent, on paper first of all, that our relationship lasts and that I'm not thrown out of Ehegattensplitting after a divorce and then I haven't accumulated any pension points for ten years, for example, which could put me at a massive disadvantage. The Gender Pension Gap would be the point, for example. The power imbalance is still there, because in a certain sense I am of course dependent on Theo not picking up a young lover boy and saying, "I'd rather travel through South Africa with my young boytoy in my new convertible. Have a good one old thing." And just throwing me out. At least financially, he has the upper hand. And then of course it is important that you have faith in the relationship and trust each other.
What are we now doing with this newfound knowledge? How exactly can we "bring change about the fiscal system"? Isn't it these so-called "jurisprudential and legislative measures" that should do the job of trying to catch up with the times? Or do we as everyday people have to overrule the systems ourselves? Did the extension of Ehegattensplitting to same-sex couples reproduce existing harmful structures even further or could this process be seen as undermining the traditional and heteronormative nature of this concept and therefore the first step to its revision or abolition, and a more equal tax system? Should we abolish Ehegattensplitting for heterosexual couples and let same-sex couples keep it then? Non-heterosexuals have certainly suffered enough already, right?
These questions are almost as difficult to answer as asking why. Maybe the slow process of change is already happening, but difficult to notice while going on. Maybe it really needs a radical change, maybe the German coalition is currently working on it, like they promised they would. Or maybe Ehegattensplitting will last for another 60 years.
The only thing we know is that untangling is almost impossible.
1. Federal Council, 189th session, February 28, 1958, transcript, p. 34 (quoted from https://www.bundesrat.de), quoted after Wersig (2013: 183), originally in German and translated by author.
2. Interview [19/09/22, Peter], originally in German, translations of direct quotes by author.
3. Care work consists of unpaid caregiving and reproductive activities, for example housework, emotional work, or volunteer work.
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Digging Deeper into the Social Contract
Miranda Sheild Johansson, October 12, 2022
Taxes are often discussed in terms of social contracts – one element of a deal between the state and its citizens. Classical philosophers such as John Locke and Adam Smith all linked taxes to political representation, property, and rights and today 'taxpayer money' holds a particular charge, one that demands accountability from governments. While contemporary political philosophers have argued that the social contract as a way of describing societies, or imagining what societies should be, has perhaps outlived its usefulness (Lessnoff, 1990:4), the idea abounds in popular, academic, and political imaginaries, and is regularly employed to understand live issues and propose solutions.
In the Special issue 'Beyond the Social Contract: An Anthropology of Tax' (2020, 64:2 Social Analysis) the editors Nicolette Makovicky and Robin Smith, along with the authors of the articles, all show how a social contract framing of fiscal relations is limiting. In exploring fiscal relations across the globe, from Ghana to Finland, the Special Issue aims to interrogate assumptions about the nature of state-citizen relations that continue to underpin approaches to fiscal relations among anthropologists and scholars of tax more broadly, such as the social contract.
Continuing this conversation, a recent Special Issue edited by Gwen Burnyeat and Miranda Sheild Johansson in Critique of Anthropology, 'An Anthropology of the Social Contract: Interrogating Contractarian Thinking in State-Society Relations' (2022, 43:3), explores how the idea of social contracts shapes thinking and political possibilities in societies around the world. The authors in the Special Issue demonstrate that just as with fiscal relations, contractarian thinking imbues approaches and experiences of migration, local politics, everyday claim-making on the state, rationales around peace and truth, infrastructure, political discourses, and notions of freedom and nation-states and that this demands our attention. In their introduction, Burnyeat and Sheild Johansson write that interrogating the social contract ethnographically is not about exploring the ways in which society may or may not be contractual, but rather analysing how people conceive of, appropriate and reinvent these models of socio-political life that circulate so widely; essentially, how people live with ideas.
For anthropologists working on taxes, it is clear that fiscal relations are tied up in fundamental conversations about how societies are and should be organised. Many of these conversations are centuries old and bare the hallmarks of their histories, as is clear with the social contract and its enlightenment character. As such, one job of an anthropology of tax is to wade into these longstanding debates about state-society relations in order to critically analyse contemporary fiscal systems and instigate conversations about alternative ways of understanding and organising our fiscal lives.
Lessnoff M. 1990. Introduction: Social contract. In: Lessnoff M (ed.), Social Contract Theory. New York: New York University Press, pp. 1–26
Fiscal governance as memes
Andreas Streinzer, April 27, 2022
Last semester, my students and I tried to step up the fun, our understanding of taxation, and how to study it - with memes. Over the coming weeks on this blog, my students will share how they translated concepts from economic anthropology, the social studies of finance, and tax law into social media bits. All of them enrolled in the course "Fiscal Governance: Knowing, Calculating, and Regulating Flows of Value" in the MA Science and Technology Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, in the winter semester of 2021/22. The inspiration for the series came from a social media assignment by Robin James that she shared online (see HERE).
As teaser, Hannah Piehl has agreed to showcase some of her feminist meme-work that deals with "Ehegattensplitting", a German tax law that frames married couples as an economic unit and calculates income tax by adding up both incomes and halving them.
Those couples benefit whose incomes fall in different taxation brackets, effectively incentivizing couples with income differences. The empirical effect is de-incentivizing female earning. This is not a coincidence, as Hannah Piehl shows in this gem of a meme:
She reflects on the puzzlement about the law itself and that it is still on the books in 2022:
Criticism of the law has not yet led to the law being reformed, with the ruling CDU party brushing off feminist arguments that Hannah Piehl comments on with this meme:
Stay tuned for more blogposts over the next weeks and months in which students will present and explain their social media bits and memes and relate them to an STS-inspired economic anthropological study of fiscal governance and taxation!
If this has inspired you to give such an assignment in your course, check out these (linked) Syllabus and Social Media Assigment Explainer.
Featured publication: Shaping Taxpayers
Lotta Björklund Larsen, Aug. 5, 2020
Shaping Taxpayers. Values in Action at the Swedish Tax Agency
By Lotta Björklund Larsen
Published in 2017 by Berghahn Books
My monograph is an ANT inspired ethnography based on three years of fieldwork at one of Sweden's most esteemed bureaucracies, the Swedish Tax Agency (STA), from 2010 to 2013.
As taxation is often deemed utterly boring, my aim was to make this ethnography a vivid and intimate account of knowledge-making. I depict a STA that mediates the application of tax law while it vigorously strives to earn legitimacy in society in its collecting of taxes while minimizing tax faults. Although this book is about a government agency and its citizenry, the leading character is a report which is created as the result of a risk assessment project performed at this Agency.
Based on unparalleled and up-close fieldwork, I follow the creation of this report from its inception, through the research phase, over the deliberations on how the finished report should be communicated to the Swedish public, and ultimately during the process of implementing the changes in routines that followed from the report.
The Agency's project involved hundreds of people, but eventually came up with results that were deemed too controversial for external publication.
Results from the report emerged as a potential threat to the maintenance of the Agency's credibility, and the legitimacy it had built up over decades was put at risk.
The book follows a risk assessment project from its inception, through the research phase, in presentations throughout the STA to its final abandonment as the results and conclusions reached did not align with the STA's strategies. Following this project reveals how diverse knowledge claims—legal, economic, and cultural—compete to shape taxpayer behaviour.
Voices about the book:
"How tax compliance is shaped merits much more attention than it has received in anthropology and the social sciences. The book offers a wonderful rendering of the true strangeness and contingency of familiar routines – something the best social theory does."
-Liz McFall, Open University
"Shaping Taxpayers will be a significant, indeed, ground-breaking study that will propel this vein of interdisciplinary scholarship, concerned with social studies of finance, cultural economy, fiscal sociology and bureaucratic practice, into the mainstream."
-Bill Maurer, Univ. of California, Irvine
Podcast in New Books Network https://newbooksnetwork.com/lotta-bjorklund-larsenshaping-taxpayers-values-in-action-at-the-swedish-tax-agency-berghahn-books-2017/
Reviewed in the Journal of Cultural Economy, 2017 by Rebecca Bramall https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2017.1413412
Reviewed in TaxNotes 2019 by Roberta Mann. Taxnotes.com
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A taxi driver and his passenger fight over the drop-off location in Tsing Yi, the New Territories Photo: YouTube
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Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986 runs through August 18 at the Museum of Arts and Design.
"I look at these posters, and it's a thrill to go back to that time," former Sex Pistol and Public Image Ltd frontman John Lydon said after walking through the Museum of Arts and Design [MAD] exhibition Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986. "When I met [fellow Pistols] Steve, Paul and Glenn, they were kind of aimless," Lydon recalls. "But we formed the Pistols and from that day on we spurred all this."
The Museum of Arts and Design brought Lydon to Manhattan for the opening of the exhibition, which charts the trajectory of punk from its earliest days to the mid-'80s post-punk and New Wave era, to discuss a few of his favorite topics: the enduring legacy of punk, the genre's arresting graphics, and, most especially, the arguably superior UK punk scene in comparison to its New York City counterpart.
"None of this would be a movement at all, but for the Pistols," Lydon continued. "Many [punk bands] had records out before us, but they'd watched us first. So what I'm doing is representing my culture. There's a class culture, and a class culture in British culture—a very serious one, and if you're born poor, you're trashed. But our words helped change attitudes and opened doors. You've got to realize, it was dangerous times. To be openly seen as assaulting the concept of the monarchy—that was pure treason. But it was all done with a sense of humor, as you can see here. It was not openly violent, aggressive and hateful. That's never going to wash because that's going to cause division. You need to unite people, and humor is the way to do it. Let the savagery of content be there, but you must be able to laugh with it, not against it."
The MAD exhibition, which is open now through August 18, explores the punk and post-punk movements via its unique and striking graphic design. It features more than four hundred of punk's most memorable graphics, including flyers, posters, album covers, promotions, zines, and other ephemera, including many from New York City's punk scene, like flyers from CBGB's, album artwork and concert posters for shows by Blondie, the Ramones and many others, as well as early issues of Punk magazine.
"When looking around the exhibition and seeing the difference between what we were doing in England and the artwork that was being used here, it's important to remember that the people doing the graphics were working directly with the band," said Malcolm Garrett, whose memorable, groundbreaking graphics for the Buzzcocks are featured in the exhibition. "I can't play an instrument, but I'm a graphic designer and I was totally influenced by hearing "Anarchy In The UK," and seeing Jamie Reed's graphics for the band. I was living the life and I felt I was part of the team. It was very important to the Buzzcocks to have a completely different and individual graphic identity from the Pistols and The Clash and all the other bands."
"In the Pistols, we kept our artwork really, really, really in-house," Lydon confirmed. "It was us. It was no separate talent outside of the band. And rest assured, as much as I provided all the words, I definitely contributed to the artwork you see here. But that's not taking anything away from anyone. It was a shared event."
Remarkably, the exhibition is just a small sampling from the private collection of Andrew Krivine, a New Yorker who visited the UK in the late '70s, only to be swept up in the youth culture of the times. "I would go to London every summer as a kid to visit my cousin, John Krivine, who invented Acme Attractions, which later became Boy [London]," Krivine recalled of the King's Road clothing store and hangout, where he met many of punk's most famous names. "So the first wave of my collection came out of my simple obsession with the music. I just started collecting the posters and fanzines and anything I could get my hands on because I was just so taken with everything that I was seeing and hearing around me."
Krivine began collecting concert posters, clothing and other items born from the punk movement, eventually amassing a collection of several thousand items. Originally drawn to the music, Krivine soon found himself captivated by the visual expression of punk, as well. The dress, hairstyles and onstage theatrics of punk's most notable artists went hand in hand, according to Krivine, with a subcultural phenomenon that also encompassed the visual arts, fashion, and graphic design.
"For the most part, it was the British aesthetic that spoke to me—at least at first," Krivine admitted. "It's not being an Anglophile, but I think if you look at the body of work, it shows that the American scene didn't have the post-World War II tradition of the art schools, which along with health care and housing, were something the Liberal government in England had really invested in, which exposed lower- and middle-class kids to the arts in a way that we've never had here."
As MAD's director, Chris Scoates surmises, "Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die charts punk's explosive impact on design and examines its complex relationship with art, history, and culture." A proponent of the significant impact of New York City's punk scene—and its artwork—on the genre, Scoates ensured the local influence would be illustrated via the museum's slate of events running alongside the exhibition. "Punk questioned everything," he said. "And it's that spirit of inquiry that is driving MAD forward today, presenting and debating innovative works and ideas with lots of energy, color, and noise."
During the course of the exhibition, MAD will also present a punk cinema series, featuring films from Mexico, Japan, Cameroon, and Hungary that underscore how punk came to become a rallying cry for youth movements around the world, and that illustrate the enduring nature of the music and art associated with the genre.
WORDS Jeff Slate
PHOTOGRAPHY Courtesy of the Museum of Arts and Design
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Zenith Youth Theatre Company Wanna Live Forever With Their Production Of Fame
Zenith Youth Theatre Company
FAME – The Musical
Kingswood Theatre, Bath
Zenith Youth Theatre Company are putting on their legwarmers and warming up for their next spectacular production. Fame- The Musical will be performed at Kingswood Theatre, Bath from the 11th to the 14th of July, including a matinee on the 14th.
Fame The Musical proves that it has the youth hope and verve to "Live Forever". First a motion picture, then a TV series and finally a spectacular long running stage musical which has played over 10,000 performances in over 25 countries. Now the multi award winning, Bath based Zenith Youth Theatre Company set their sights on reaching for the stars and finding Fame.
Set in the 1980's during the last years of New York's celebrated High School for the Performing Arts, Fame is bittersweet but ultimately an inspiring story of a diverse group of students as they commit to four years of a gruelling academic and artistic education. With candour, humour and insight, the show explores the issues that confront many young people today: issues of prejudice, identity and self-worth. One thing they all know is that "Fame costs- and this is where they start paying".
Packed full of show stopping songs, including the hit theme tune, and vibrant energetic dance routines Fame promises to bring a touch of the nostalgia to those who remembers the 80's with everything from leg warmers to Lionel Richie and for those that don't it will be an introduction to the era that brought us: The Rubik's Cube, Cabbage Patch Dolls, Aerobics and Nintendo.
Zenith Youth Theatre Company has a reputation for staging full scale musicals that defy the boundaries set by youth theatre. This latest production is brought to you by award winning creative team of Scott Rogers (Director), Roy Page (Musical Director) and Julie Dallimore and Delia Lee as Choreographers, This team have staged well over 35 productions for Zenith, winning many Rose Bowls and NODA awards.
Fame- The Musical
Conceived and Developed by David De Silva
Book by Jose Fernandez, Lyrics by Jaques Levy, Music by Steve Margoshes.
11th– 14th July 2018
Kingswood Theatre, Kingswood School, Lansdown, Bath BA1 5RG
Wed – Fri 7:30pm / Sat 2:30pm & 7:30pm
Tickets: Friday and Saturday evening all tickets £15
Wednesday and Thursday £13/10 concessions
Sat Mat all tickets £10
Family Ticket £38 (excl. Fri & Sat)
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Final Declaration of the II International Conference: Weaving the Global Insurgency.
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Final Declaration of the II International Conference:
Weaving the Global Insurgency.
Today, July 24, 2021, the II International Conference has taken place in Compostela [Galiza], with the participation of delegates from Agora Galiza-Unidade Popular, Herritar Batasuna and Nación Andaluza, as well as with the presence of activists of the causes of the working people.
During the course of the II International Conference, the Colombian insurgent guerrilla commander Jesús Santrich has been honored by agreeing to incorporate him posthumously as a permanent member of the Executive Committee of the International Conference.
The main agreements and orientations emanating from the debate and reflections carried out at the II International Conference are the following:
1.- To ratify the need to deepen the tactical and strategic coordination of our respective organizations, in order to contribute to the development of the resistance and the struggle against imperialist domination.
2.- In the two years that have passed between our foundation and the present, we have seen how the structural crisis of agonizing capitalism has aggravated the impoverishment and misery of the immense majority of the proletarian masses.
3.- The controlled 'chaos' extends throughout the periphery of the capitalist center, causing desolation and misery, wars of plunder and repression, but also strikes with increasing virulence among the working people of the capitalist and imperialist metropolises.
4.- This imperialist phase of capitalism is leading the planet to an ecological crisis of incalculable consequences that endangers our species.
5.- Faced with the seriousness of the structural crisis of the most lethal mode of production in the history of humanity, the bourgeoisie chooses to promote the terrorist alternative of domination. This is a dissuasive and preventive measure in the face of the still timid struggles both with a resistance as well as with an offensive character of the peoples and their workers´ and peasants´ vanguards. Fascism is already a reality in a good part of the world.
6.- The various electoral alternatives promoted by the different 'institutional lefts' continue to be a fiasco. Their reforms are incapable of solving the challenges in course, incapable of stopping the aggressions suffered by the working class and the working people as a whole, contributing to generate false illusions among the oppressed, which is highly functional to perpetuate the bourgeois dictatorship.
7.- Faced with the tactics imposed by the think tanks of imperialism, trying to replace the class contradiction by the gender contradiction, diverting our attention from just causes that hide the origin and their responsibilities in the multiple dominations that we suffer, we ratify that it is the Capital-Labor contradiction the central axis that will allow the genuine emancipation of working women and the subjugated peoples.
Only the workers', popular and national liberation struggles of proletarian orientation will succeed in raising the level of consciousness of the masses, mobilize and fight in an organized and united way against exploitation and the multiple dominations and oppressions that we suffer from the capitalist mode of production.
The need to reorganize each and every one of the struggle and combat tools that the working class and the whole of the working and impoverished people have historically used, with which gains and rights have been achieved, with which victorious revolutions of anti-imperialist and socialist character throughout the 20th century have been achieved, and which capitalism has been progressively dismantling in recent decades.
The rebellions that during this biennium have led the working and impoverished peoples of Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, the struggles of the Afro-American people against racism in the heart of the Yankee beast, and the resistance of the Palestinian and Saharawi people just show which the road to follow is.
The triumph of the popular rebellions, facilitating that they can move towards insurrectional processes, are intrinsically linked to the existence of vigorous revolutionary organizations of socialist/communist orientation endowed with a subversive strategy, surpassing the sterilized and inoffensive theoretical-practical action that characterizes the immense majority of the parties and organizations that declare themselves inspired by the immense theoretical work of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Che.
On the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, -the first experience of workers' government in history-, the II International Conference manifests:
1.- Our solidarity with the heroic Cuban people, our unconditional support for their sovereignty and national independence, in the face of the tightening of the blockade and the brutal onslaught that they are suffering from imperialism.
2.-Our determination to continue contributing through our theoretical magazine: Insurgencia Global - Proletari to restore the theoretical and practical foundations of Marxism.
3.- Our determination to continue laying the foundations to promote a new Proletarian International, which brings together the largest number of organizations, forces and parties, whose objective is to organize the Socialist/Communist Revolution in their specific social formations, as an indivisible part of the Socialist/Communist Revolution worldwide.
Compostela, Galiza, July 24, 2021


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I found myself quitting BetterTouchTool a LOT by pressing ⌘Q, when I really meant to close the preferences window (⌘W).
Add "BetterTouchTool" to the application list.
As I said, not exactly rocket science, but it solved the issue for me.
OK, stupid question time, how would I use the JSON to add that to BTT? (I mean, this is a silly example to do that as adding the actions is very simple, but for future reference. I did search the RTFM for JSON and looked in the various menus, but no joy.


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Joshua /
Summary of the Book of Joshua
This summary of the book of Joshua provides information about the title, author(s), date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the Book of Joshua.
The Conquest and the Ethical Question of War
Many readers of Joshua (and other OT books) are deeply troubled by the role that warfare plays in this account of God's dealings with his people. Not a few relieve their ethical scruples by ascribing the author's perspective to a pre-Christian (and sub-Christian) stage of moral development that the Christian, in the light of Christ's teaching, must repudiate and transcend. Hence the main thread of the narrative line of Joshua is an offense to them.
It must be remembered, however, that the book of Joshua does not address itself to the abstract ethical question of war as a means for gaining human ends. It can only be understood in the context of the history of redemption unfolding in the Pentateuch, with its interplay of divine grace and judgment. Of that story it is the direct continuation.
Joshua is not an epic account of Israel's heroic generation or the story of Israel's conquest of Canaan with the aid of her national deity. It is rather the story of how God, to whom the whole world belongs, at one stage in the history of redemption reconquered a portion of the earth from the powers of this world that had claimed it for themselves, defending their claims by force of arms and reliance on their false gods. It tells how God commissioned his people to serve as his army under the leadership of his servant Joshua, to take Canaan in his name out of the hands of the idolatrous and dissolute Canaanites (whose measure of sin was now full; see Ge 15:16 and note). It further tells how he aided them in the enterprise and gave them conditional tenancy in his land in fulfillment of the ancient pledge he had made to Israel's ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Joshua is the story of the kingdom of God breaking into the world of nations at a time when national and political entities were viewed as the creation of the gods and living proofs of their power. Thus the Lord's triumph over the Canaanites testified to the world that the God of Israel is the one true and living God, whose claim on the world is absolute. It was also a warning to the nations that the irresistible advance of the kingdom of God would ultimately disinherit all those who opposed it, giving place in the earth only to those who acknowledge and serve the Lord. At once an act of redemption and judgment, it gave notice of the outcome of history and anticipated the final destiny of humankind and the creation.
The battles for Canaan were therefore the Lord's war, undertaken at a particular time in the program of redemption. God gave his people under Joshua no commission or license to conquer the world with the sword but a particular, limited mission. The conquered land itself would not become Israel's national possession by right of conquest, but it belonged to the Lord. So the land had to be cleansed of all remnants of paganism. Its people and their wealth were not for Israel to seize as the booty of war from which to enrich themselves (as Achan tried to do, ch. 7) but were placed under God's ban (were to be devoted to God to dispense with as he pleased). On that land Israel was to establish a commonwealth faithful to the righteous rule of God and thus be a witness (and a blessing) to the nations. If Israel became unfaithful and conformed to Canaanite culture and practice, it would in turn lose its place in the Lord's land -- as Israel almost did in the days of the judges, and as it eventually did in the exile.
War is a terrible curse that the human race brings on itself as it seeks to possess the earth by its own unrighteous ways. But it pales before the curse that awaits all those who do not heed God's testimony to himself or his warnings -- those who oppose the rule of God and reject his offer of grace. The God of the second Joshua (Jesus) is the God of the first Joshua also. Although now for a time he reaches out to the whole world with the gospel (and commissions his people urgently to carry his offer of peace to all nations), the sword of his judgment waits in the wings -- and his second Joshua will wield it (Rev 19:11-16; see notes there).
Title and Theological Theme
Joshua is a story of conquest and fulfillment for the people of God. After many years of slavery in Egypt and 40 years in the desert, the Israelites were finally allowed to enter the land promised to their fathers. Abraham, always a migrant, never possessed the country to which he was sent, but he left to his children the legacy of God's covenant that made them the eventual heirs of all of Canaan (see Ge 15:13,16,18; 17:8). Joshua was destined to turn that promise into reality.
Where Deuteronomy ends, the book of Joshua begins: The tribes of Israel are still camped on the east side of the Jordan River. The narrative opens with God's command to move forward and pass through the river on dry land. Then it relates the series of victories in central, southern and northern Canaan that gave the Israelites control of all the hill country and the Negev. It continues with a description of the tribal allotments and ends with Joshua's final addresses to the people. The theme of the book, therefore, is the establishment of God's people Israel in the Lord's land, the land he had promised to give them as their place of "rest" in the earth (1:13,15; 21:44; 22:4; 23:1; see also Dt 3:20 and note; 12:9-10; 25:19; 1Ki 5:4 and note; 8:56). So the Great King's promise to the partriarchs and Moses to give the land of Canaan to the chosen people of his kingdom is now historically fulfilled (1:1-6; 21:43-45).
In the story the book tells, three primary actors play a part: "the Lord" (as Israel's God), his servant Joshua, and his people Israel (the last a collective "character" in the story). We meet all three immediately in ch. 1, where all three are clearly presented in the distinctive roles they will play in the story that follows. Ch. 1 also introduces the reader to the main concern of the book as a whole.
The role of the central human actor in the events narrated here is reinforced by the name he bears. Earlier in his life Joshua was called simply Hoshea (Nu 13:8,16), meaning "salvation." But later Moses changed his name to Joshua, meaning "The Lord saves" (or "The Lord gives victory"). When this same name (the Greek form of which is Jesus; see NIV text note on Mt 1:21) was given to Mary's firstborn son, it identified him as the servant of God who would complete what God did for Israel in a preliminary way through the first Joshua, namely, overcome all powers of evil in the world and bring God's people into their eternal "rest" (see Heb 4:1-11 and notes).
In the Hebrew Bible the book of Joshua initiates a division called the Former Prophets, including also Judges, Samuel and Kings. These are all historical in content but are written from a prophetic standpoint. They do more than merely record the nation's history from Moses to the fall of Judah in 586 b.c. They prophetically interpret God's covenant ways with Israel in history -- how he fulfills and remains true to his promises (especially through his servants such as Joshua, the judges, Samuel and David) and how he deals with the waywardness of the Israelites. In Joshua it was the Lord who won the victories and "gave Israel all the land he had sworn to give their forefathers" (21:43).
Author and Date
In the judgment of many scholars Joshua was not written until the end of the period of the kings, some 800 years after the actual events. But there are significant reasons to question this conclusion and to place the time of composition much earlier. The earliest Jewish traditions (Talmud) claim that Joshua wrote his own book except for the final section about his funeral, which is attributed to Eleazar son of Aaron (the last verse must have been added by a later editor).
On at least two occasions the text reports writing at Joshua's command or by Joshua himself. We are told that when the tribes received their territories, Joshua instructed his men "to make a survey of the land and write a description of it" (18:8). Then in the last scene of the book, when Joshua led Israel in a renewal of the covenant with the Lord, it is said that "he drew up decrees and laws" (24:25). On another occasion the narrator speaks as if he had been a participant in the event; he uses the pronouns "we" and "us" (5:1,6).
Moreover, the author seems to be familiar with ancient names of cities, such as "the Jebusite city" (15:8; 18:16,28) for Jerusalem, Kiriath Arba (14:15; 15:54; 20:7; 21:11) for Hebron, and Greater Sidon (11:8; 19:28) for what later became simply Sidon. And Tyre is never mentioned, probably because in Joshua's day it had not yet developed into a port of major importance.
But if some features suggest an author of Joshua's own lifetime, others point to a writer of a somewhat later period. The account of the long day when the sun stood still at Aijalon is substantiated by a quotation from another source, the Book of Jashar (10:13). This would hardly be natural for an eyewitness of the miracle who was writing shortly after it happened. Also, there are 12 instances where the phrase "until this day" occurs.
It seems safe to conclude that the book draws on early sources. It may date from the beginning of the monarchy. Some think that Samuel may have had a hand in shaping or compiling the materials of the book, but in fact we are unsure who the final author or editor was.
The Life of Joshua
Joshua's remarkable life was filled with excitement, variety, success and honor. He was known for his deep trust in God and as "a man in whom is the spirit" (Nu 27:18). As a youth he lived through the bitter realities of slavery in Egypt, but he also witnessed the supernatural plagues and the miracle of Israel's escape from the army of the Egyptians when the waters of the sea opened before them. In the Sinai peninsula it was Joshua who led the troops of Israel to victory over the Amalekites (Ex 17:8-13). He alone was allowed to accompany Moses up the holy mountain where the tablets of the law were received (Ex 24:13-14). And it was he who stood watch at the temporary tent of meeting Moses set up before the tabernacle was erected (Ex 33:11).
Joshua was elected to represent his own tribe of Ephraim when the 12 spies were sent into Canaan to look over the land. Only Joshua and Caleb, representing the tribe of Judah, were ready to follow God's will and take immediate possession of the land (see Nu 14:26-34). The rest of the Israelites of that generation were condemned to die in the desert. Even Moses died short of the goal and was told to turn everything over to Joshua. God promised to guide and strengthen Joshua, just as he had Moses (Dt 31:23; cf. Jos 1:5 and note).
Joshua was God's chosen servant (see 24:29 and note on Dt 34:5) to bring Moses' work to completion and establish Israel in the promised land. To that special divine appointment he was faithful -- as the leader of God's army, as the administrator of God's division of the land and as God's spokesman for promoting Israel's covenant faithfulness. In all this he was a striking OT type (foreshadowing) of Christ (see notes on Heb 4:1,6-8).
Historical Setting
At the time of the Israelite migration into Canaan the superpowers of the ancient Near East were relatively weak. The Hittites had faded from the scene. Neither Babylon nor Egypt could maintain a standing military presence in Canaan, and the Assyrians would not send in their armies until centuries later.
As the tribes circled east of the Dead Sea, the Edomites refused them passage, so Israel bypassed them to the east. However, when Sihon and Og, two regional Amorite kings of Transjordan, tried to stop the Israelites, they were easily defeated and their lands occupied. Moab was forced to let Israel pass through her territory and camp in her plains. Also the Midianites were dealt a severe blow.
Biblical archaeologists call this period the Late Bronze Age (1550-1200 b.c.). Today thousands of artifacts give testimony to the richness of the Canaanite material culture, which was in many ways superior to that of the Israelites. When the ruins of the ancient kingdom of Ugarit were discovered at modern Ras Shamra on the northern coast of Syria (see chart, p. xxiii), a wealth of new information came to light concerning the domestic, commercial and religious life of the Canaanites. From a language close to Hebrew came stories of ancient kings and gods that revealed their immoral behavior and cruelty. In addition, pagan temples, altars, tombs and ritual vessels have been uncovered, throwing more light on the culture and customs of the peoples surrounding Israel.
Excavations at the ancient sites of Megiddo, Beth Shan and Gezer show how powerfully fortified these cities were and why they were not captured and occupied by Israel in Joshua's day. Many other fortified towns were taken, however, so that Israel became firmly established in the land as the dominant power. Apart from Jericho and Ai, Joshua is reported to have burned only Hazor (11:13), so attempts to date these events by destruction levels in the mounds of Canaan's ancient cities are questionable undertakings. It must also be remembered that other groups were involved in campaigns in the region about this time, among whom were Egyptian rulers and the Sea Peoples (including the Philistines). There had also been much intercity warfare among the Canaanites, and afterward the period of the judges was marked by general turbulence.
Much of the data from archaeology appears to support a date for Joshua's invasion c. 1250 b.c. This fits well with an exodus that would then have taken place 40 years earlier under the famous Rameses II, who ruled from the Nile delta at a city with the same name (Ex 1:11). It also places Joseph in Egypt in a favorable situation. Four hundred years before Rameses II the pharaohs were the Semitic Hyksos, who also ruled from the delta near the land of Goshen.
On the other hand, a good case can be made for the traditional viewpoint that the invasion occurred c. 1406 b.c. The oppression would have taken place under Amunhotep II after the death of his father Thutmose III, who is known to have used slave labor in his building projects. The earlier date also fits better with the two numbers found in Jdg 11:26 and 1Ki 6:1, since it allows for an additional 150 years between Moses and the monarchy. See also Introductions to Genesis: Author and Date of Writing; Exodus: Chronology; Judges: Background; and note on 1Ki 6:1.
The Entrance into the Land (1:1;5:12)
The Exhortations to Conquer (ch. 1)
The Reconnaissance of Jericho (ch. 2)
The Crossing of the Jordan (chs. 3-4)
The Consecration at Gilgal (5:1-12)
The Conquest of the Land (5:13;12:24)
The Initial Battles (5:13;8:35)
The victory at Jericho (5:13;6:27)
The failure at Ai because of Achan's sin (ch. 7)
The victory at Ai (8:1-29)
The covenant renewed at Shechem (8:30-35)
The Campaign in the South (chs. 9-10)
The treaty with the Gibeonites (ch. 9)
The long day of Joshua (10:1-15)
The southern cities conquered (10:16-43)
The Campaign in the North (ch. 11)
The Defeated Kings of Canaan (ch. 12)
The Distribution of the Land (chs. 13-21)
The Areas Yet to Be Conquered (13:1-7)
The Land Assigned by Moses to the Tribes in Transjordan (13:8-33)
The Division of the Land of Canaan (chs. 14-19)
Introduction (14:1-5)
The town given to Caleb (14:6-15)
The lands given to Judah and "Joseph" at Gilgal (chs. 15-17)
The allotments for Benjamin, Simeon, Zebulun, Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and Dan at Shiloh (18:1;19:48)
The town given to Joshua (19:49-51)
The Cities Assigned to the Levites (chs. 20-21)
The 6 cities of refuge (ch. 20)
The 48 cities of the priests (ch. 21)
Epilogue: Tribal Unity and Loyalty to the Lord (chs. 22-24)
The Altar of Witness by the Jordan (ch. 22)
Joshua's Farewell Exhortation (ch. 23)
The Renewal of the Covenant at Shechem (24:1-28)
The Death and Burial of Joshua and Eleazar (24:29-33)
From the NIV Study Bible, Introductions to the Books of the Bible, Joshua
Copyright 2002 © Zondervan. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
The King James Version is in the public domain. (The King James Bible Version Online)
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{
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Several of us in the family recently braved the heat to be in attendance for the opening day of Three Spoons Diner in Greenfield. The restaurant is operated by Doug Gall who previously was serving up meals in Rainsboro. When Brad Calhoun decided to take a break from the food biz Doug came in to help make sure Greenfield retains a place to sit down and enjoy a well prepared meal.
Little has physically changed, same rustic dining room, same large tables, same counter, and Billy Hazlett is still keeping things moving in the background. You'll find lots of new faces, however, and a brand new menu. Doug brought all his employees from Rainsboro to work in the new digs and that's a good thing.
Hours of Operation beginning July 9, 2012.
Between the six of us we got to sample a number of menu items. I had half a fried oyster po' boy sandwich with fries, my wife had a chef salad, my daughter had a cheeseburger with fries, my son had the shrimp po' boy, and the granddaughters had items off the kid's menu.
My oyster po' boy was excellent except for the bun. I'm very particular about bread and having had po' boys in NOLA, where they were born, I know what a good crusty roll is. I realize that it is very difficult to find such breads in Southern Ohio but I think Doug needs to continue the search. I'm guessing the fries were frozen but the quality was excellent.
Half an oyster po' boy and fries.
The wife's salad was an excellent presentation of mixed greens, ham and turkey. Her only complaint was the blue cheese dressing. Too runny and no big chunks of blue cheese. EAT in Hillsboro has spoiled us for blue cheese dressing. She also said the dish could be kicked up a notch with homemade croutons and not commercial.
Mike enjoyed his shrimp po' boy but was a little surprised to see it was made with sautéed shrimp and not deep-fried. Not a complaint, just never had it that way.
I ask my daughter about the cheeseburger and while licking her lips she gave me a hardy thumbs up.
To top things off the grand kids ordered dessert. One a slice of cheesecake and the other a slice of a dark chocolate layer cake with a pure white cream filling. I tried a bite of each and they were just as decadent as a dessert should be.
Ran into lots of friends, had a great meal, the opening day jitters were at a minimum and I fully expect to be a regular. As long as any local business is making an effort to bring quality to our community I can be counted on for support. I want to thank Doug and his crew for placing their faith in Greenfield.
I/we have eaten there several times since they opened and haven't been disappointed yet. They're still working out the glitches and it will only get better. Doug and I are planning on a guess chef event for later this month or early August. We're going to put on a traditional Southern low-country boil or Frogmore Stew. A percentage of proceeds will got to the Greenfield Historical Society. Details are still being worked out.


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This section includes all types of ephemera other than Posters & Showcards and Programmes & Handbills.
The collection is particularly rich in ephemera relating to the Davenports, the Maskelynes and Will Goldston.
Advertising ItemsApparatusArtworkAutographsBooksCardsLettersMagic SetsMarked DEMONMentalismMiscellaneousNon-apparatusNon-mechanical PuzzlesNoveltiesOpticalPhotographsPipitisPop-up Or MoveablePostcardsPrintsStationeryTranspositionsWooden Box Items
De Biere, The Sculptor's Vision postcard
The note on the address side of the card says 'Hold this card to a very bright light, to bring the "Sculptor's Vision" in sight. Also nightly at Empress Theatre, Brixton. Monday. March 23, 1914, for one week.'
Advertisements in The Times of Wednesday 6 May 1874 for Dr Lynn and Maskelyne and Cooke
At this time these rival shows were both at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London.
Maskelyne compliment slip for The New Drawing Room
The date is circa 1873-1874.
Framed picture of Davenport's shop at 39/41 New Oxford Street
This appears to be the original artwork from which illustrations were made. The business moved into 39/41 New Oxford Street at the end of 1938.
Still photographs from the Davenport family cine films
The collection contains cine film taken by the family, much of it from the 1930s. The film has been transferred to tape, and more recently converted to an electronic form, in order to preserve the images. During this process some of the more interesting frames have been printed out as photographs. The magician on the top sheet of photographs shown here is Gus Davenport performing in Berlin in 1937. The face of Ottokar Fischer can be seen in one of the photographs lower down in the pile.
The Official Card, Alexandra Park horse races, 2 June 1875, with advertisement for Maskelyne and Cooke
Note the Maskelyne and Cooke advertisement on the back page.
1959 school photograph showing Anne Goulden, who married John Davenport
1959 St Martha's Convent, Rottingdean photograph. Anne Goulden (now Davenport) is second from the right in the back row. Anne is shown in close-up, enlarged from the school print.
Advertising for Maskelyne and Cooke at the Bijou Opera House, Liverpool. 1888
This is a four page item with printing only on pages 1 and 4. The item is in excellent condition and could be a printer's proof.
Christmas card from Chung Ling Soo
The card is signed by Chung Ling Soo to Alfred Mayhew, Christmas 1914. The folded outer card has inside it a piece of paper that is kept in place with a red, white and blue cord. The greeting is written on this piece of paper. We are grateful to Peter Lane for pointing out that Alfred Mayhew was the brother of Percy Mayhew. Percy was Chung Ling Soo's Number 2 assistant circa 1912-1916. Alfred joined the Chung Ling Soo show as an assistant around 1913-1914.


A number of great creatives were born on this date, superstars in all genres of entertainment.
I often think when I look at the birthday list of my Facebook page each day that there is a cosmic connection between people who celebrate birthdays on the same day as in my life I find that many of my friends and relatives who have this common connection have similar traits and personalities.
I'm sure there has never been a study done that would validate this, but I encourage you to think about the people on your birthday list each day and see if this is the case for you.
Today, September 1 was a date blessed by many creative stand outs, check it out…..
An interesting group of people who have influenced our lives. A cosmic connection? Just something to to think about.


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DC Domestic Violence Attorney
In DC, domestic violence cases have their own separate court in the family division of Superior Court. Specific judges are assigned to the domestic violence calendar and the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia ("USAO") has a separate division that prosecutes domestic violence offenses. Domestic violence prosecutors aggressively go after alleged domestic abusers. In addition, it does not take actual physical violence to qualify as a crime. Threatening or stalking someone with whom you have an intra-family relationship can lead to domestic violence charges and potential conviction.
What is an intra-family relationship?
DC criminal law makes an offense a "domestic violence" offense where an intra-family relationship exists between the person arrest and the complaining witness. The law defines intra-family relationship broadly to include, among others, parent/child, boyfriend/girlfriend, or husband/wife. In fact, DC Superior Court judges have interpreted intra-family relationship so broadly it includes roommates, siblings, cousins, former lovers, and even individuals who engaged in a one-night stand. That means you need not actually be in a romantic or familial relationship with someone to land in DV court. That means a fight with a roommate could escalate into a domestic violence offense. Individuals in an intra-family offense can also file for a Civil Protection Order (or "CPO"), which is like a restraining order.
Is a dv offense more serious than a regular misdemeanor?
A domestic violence conviction can carry greater consequences than regular criminal convictions. For example, someone charged with simple assault in DC faces a maximum penalty of 180 days and/or a $1,000.00 fine. However, if someone is charged with simple assault in domestic violence court, the prosecutors will prosecute the case more aggressively, the judge may look at the facts with greater scrutiny, and additional consequences can result. One such consequence is that federal law prohibits individuals who are convicted of a domestic violence offense from owning or possessing a firearm.
Unlike most misdemeanor cases in DC, prosecutors rarely offer diversion for DV offenders. The only type of diversion DV prosecutors offer are a Deferred Sentencing Agreement (or "DSA"). However, unlike most other types of charges DSA's for DV offenses go beyond just community service. Individuals who enter a DV DSA get assigned to a probation officer and has to comply with additional conditions like drug testing, alcohol or drug treatment, and completing the Domestic Violence Intervention Program ("DVIP"). The requirements are much more intrusive than a normal diversion agreement where the defendant agrees to just not get rearrested for a period of time and complete a set amount of community service.
What type of offenses are domestic violence charges?
In addition, its not the criminal conduct that make a charge get assigned to DV court. It's the nature of the relationship between the complaining witness and the defendant. Accordingly, you could steal your roommate's phone and end up in DV court charged with theft based on the relationship. A couple could get into a fight and one could break some of the other's property and find themselves in DV court charged with destruction of property. Felony DV offenses, like assault with significant bodily injury, are prosecuted even more aggressively than their already aggressively prosecuted misdemeanor counterparts.
What if the alleged victim does not want to press charges?
"Pressing charges" does not actually mean anything in the context of criminal law. In DC, the prosecutor decides whether to file charges or "paper" a particular case after an arrest is made. Prosecutors will often paper cases regardless of the victim's wishes. Accordingly, its not the witness who "pressed" the charges but the prosecutor who makes the decision based on what they think is in the public interest—not the individual victim's interest.
Because witnesses in DV cases often do not show up, DV prosecutors in DC sometimes try and prosecute cases even where the purported victim does not want to go forward. In addition, the prosecutors often attempt to get hearsay and other evidence in to secure convictions where they do not have a complaining witness voluntary testifying. DV prosecutors have also been known to request and obtain what are called "material witness warrants" where victims of domestic violence refuse to come to court despite getting subpoenaed.
Should I hire a lawyer for a domestic violence charge?
Absolutely. Domestic violence charges are serious for a number of reasons. They can lead to jail time, probation, loss of liberty, and collateral consequences like not being able to possess a firearm. An experienced domestic violence attorney can help you navigate an unforgiving court system. Because the penalties can be severe, its important to have an experienced professional in your corner who can tell you what to expect, advocate on your behalf, and protect your constitutional rights.
If you are charged with a domestic violence offense, its important to consult an experienced DC criminal defense lawyer who will fully investigate the charges against you and help you put on an effective defense. At Scrofano Law PC, we aggressively represent individuals charged with domestic violence offenses. Contact us today for a full case evaluation.


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Crumbling Broward Courthouse Finally Closing
Today is the last day to enter the old Broward County Courthouse through its main entrance as contractors prepare to tear it down.
The continued use of that crumbling building for decades past its use-by date is another testimony to how government works.
Or doesn't work.
Broward County Commissioners tut-tutted about the problem for decades until then-Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter made a new courthouse a priority roughly eight years ago. Ritter — She is now the county's tourism director — created a Courthouse Task Force and then rammed the long-delayed idea through.
Stacy Ritter
Instead of a replacement, commissioners before Ritter used a Band-Aid approach to the Courthouse problems.
The last major work on the courthouse was in the early 1990s, almost a generation ago. It was an era when there were less judges, less cases and less paperwork. Before the 1990s, the courthouse additions were built in 1970 and 1972.
In the 1990s, additions were sutured on the soon-to-close central courthouse building — a new criminal courts building on the north and a renovated eastern courthouse wing.
What was new then is old now.
The criminal courts building leaks and the eastern building is shabby. The older central courthouse building finally being demolished in is even worse shape.
Lawsuits allege it is a moldy building that sickens courthouse workers.
Broward County Courthouse: Slated for demolition
The lawsuit allegations are no surprise to me. The building was already a dump when I was a cub reporter.
Tearing down the old state courthouse and replacing it is just a start. The leaky Federal Courthouse at NE Third Avenue and East Broward Boulevard also is circling the drain.
I covered the dedication of that federal building in 1979. It was an exercise in poor construction coupled with faulty social engineering.
The courthouse was built with large expanses of open space to cut down on the energy costs, a social goal of the Jimmy Carter Administration. No one in Washington considered whether courthouse folks wearing business suits would congregate in an open-air plaza facing south in soggy South Florida.
If judges, lawyers and others went inside to get out of the sun, they soon found out that the Federal Courthouse leaked. A lot.
Because of construction mistakes, some courtrooms and office have stripped out rugs and are today filled with buckets.
The Federal Courthouse desperately needs replacement, but where is the money going to come from? Downtown Fort Lauderdale business leaders believe a public/private partnership can construct a new building. Typical for government, that idea has percolated for years.
Don't despair, bureaucrats and electeds say. Government doesn't work like business, they say. It takes years to cobble together a consensus, track down the money, find the low bidders and start construction.
Case in point is the last state courthouse addition.
Michael A. Shiff – He was the go-to government architect in the Broward's booming 1980s — first drafted a master plan that proposed the existing criminal courts building in 1983. The courthouse addition wasn't completed until 1994.
So lawyers and judges don't hold your breath. Instead, cross your fingers. Maybe you will get a new Federal Courthouse….someday.
Me, I'm still waiting for a Broward Convention Center hotel. I first heard about that one around 1980.
For Immediate Release April 27, 2017
OLD CENTRAL COURTHOUSE ENTRANCE TO CLOSE
Fort Lauderdale, FL – Effective Monday, May 1, 2017, the main entrance that courthouse visitors and staff alike have used for decades will close. The first floor entrance to the central wing of Broward's Judicial Complex will be closed indefinitely as the court system continues to vacate the soon-to-be demolished building. Visitors to the Judicial Complex, in downtown Fort Lauderdale, will only be able to access the courthouse through the new west wing tower or the third floor rotunda in the east wing.
Though the entrance will be closed, courthouse users will still be able to exit at that location.
17 Responses to "Crumbling Broward Courthouse Finally Closing"
a fool and his money says:
April 28th, 2017 at 11:00 am
Can't shut down the old courthouse until you figure out how to bring prisoners in from the jail to courtrooms where they are needed in the new courthouse SAFELY.
The geniuses who designed it forgot. And the geniuses supervising and spending (wasting?) the taxpayers' money didn't notice. Didn't care…
One who knows says:
This is not a good idea (yet). The criminal county judges are still in the old building and will be for quite some time (from what I hear). Now to get to those courtrooms you either have to enter the new courthouse and walk up the ramp (yes – up the ramp because it starts on the 2nd floor of the new wing and ends on the 3rd floor of the north/felony wing). Or you can cross SE 3rd and cross back across the bridge. There will be a lot of very confused people – typical Broward!
Rightwinger says:
Will it crumble Madam Clerk also? Will
Soon be time for her to step down.
Old Timer says:
April 29th, 2017 at 12:10 pm
Convention Center hotel was negotiated in 1978 with Don Peebles … a New York developer who is considering running for mayor up there.
Speaking Out says:
The new 20 story building was designed without input from people who had the right answers about needs and design. As beautiful as it is, there are a lot of defects. Y
You don't have car salesman design a hospital.
PandaBear says:
You're right, Rightwinger! Soon she won't be Forman's wife anymore, which is the only reason she duped him into marrying her. He will also recover once he's out of her reach.
Chaz Stevens says:
No, I think we refer to them as architects.
Mr. Safety says:
Oh no! I just got a notice to show up for Jury Duty next Friday, May 5. I am worried.
#8-says it all. I mean I feel bad for the people that called for jury duty. Where do you park?.Where do you go to get in?What is w/ this ramp I keep hearing about (should they bring roller skates? I mean go here,go there. I mean really. Same deal w/ the federal courthouse these lawyers all want(you pay for it) a new court house. Fort.lau should not pay one dime ,just cause its in Ft.Lau (move it, anywhere). The vast majority of residents did not even want this county court house. I can't wait to see the art work they purchased(i'll bet hundreds of thou). Can you see it now. Guy is in there for stabbing someone,but yet admires the Chagull on the wall(unreal). I hope they have at least say a greeter to tell you where to go. Will see. Per usual what a mess. PS. got to give a shout out to Charlie King(open up the Paper and there he is full color pic(wait) holding a LBGT> sign. You made my day..Boy Mayor Seiler your hot w/ Charlie -county, city, I bet you see him more than your wife).. Charlie, Charlie ,Charlie-or in other words mess,mess,mess……(by the way Mayor I hope we did not pay one dime for that mayor banner at the Prayer(next host a sweat lodge(sweat your sins away -then die. Too funny…..
Jury duty says:
Mr. Safety,
No worries sir. You will be parking in the east garage, once parked, you will walk across the connector on third avenue which feeds into the jury room.
And yes, it makes no sense to close the front doors to the old courthouse when county criminal, dependency, and magistrates are still located in that building. It will be next to impossible for a disabled person to walk or roll the distance and incline. And the navigation alone is very confusing.
Sorry, but with the design of the beautiful new building and all the flaws that are coming / will come to light, the comment
"You don't have a car salesman design a hospital." is right on target.
The architects might as well have been car salesman.
tell the truth says:
@#5. Speaking Out @7 Chaz
The courthouse design began circa 2002 with BCC selection committee and Spillis Candela DMJM in Coral Gables. The same design architect then leading the parade who the county spent millions of dollars on design drawings still works there. AECOM bought the firm and tens of millions of dollars more were spent revising the drawings perhaps because of the site selection and smaller footprint once everyone had to get real with a tape measure. Sadly the firm hired a newly minted architect who will go unnamed who hustled his way into the VP position of running the design and construction and had never run a courthouse project. He addressed BCC over the years as lieberman and ritter rammed it thru after bond failed by citizen vote. If a firm has never designed a courthouse before there will be problems. County construction staff couldn't review drawings to save their life. There was no GSA to oversee and no peer review so the debacle on paper went to bid with an $8,000,000.00 change order as soon as the contract was executed and ink was drying. Ten pounds of dog food only fits in an architect's 5 lb. bag, not a savvy contractor, who then seized upon every deficiency and error in the uncoordinated CDs. Can't blame them. Taxpayers cough up the cash. No different from any other county project in the last 20 years++ including the main library facade, airport and the airport runway, and just like the school board, even when just one story. How about some clawback on the millions of dollars in design oversights, errors and omissions? Not in broward. The firm will get another fat contract.
One of the censored Old Hags says:
May 1st, 2017 at 10:35 am
Will these files be buried in the rubble?
04/28/2017 Motion to Dismiss
Party: Respondent Dixon Jenkins Forman, Brenda
04/24/2017 Response to Motion
Party: Petitioner Forman, Howard
04/21/2017 Notice of Filing Designation of Emailing Addresses
Party: Attorney Shields, Johanna
04/21/2017 Motion to Stay
04/17/2017 Notice of Hearing
04/10/2017 Motion for Temporary Relief HUSBAND'S URGENT SECOND MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RELIEF (Support Monies
04/06/2017 Filing Fee Payor: JAMES M STARK ; Userid: CTS-fg/t ; Receipt: 20171FA1A047259;
Amount: $409.00
04/06/2017 Notice of Appearance
04/06/2017 Notice of Unavailability
04/06/2017 Motion to Make Court Records Confidential
03/29/2017 Family Cover Sheet
03/29/2017 Petition (eFiled) HUSBAND'S PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE
03/29/2017 Notice of Related Cases
03/29/2017 Motion for Temporary Relief (Return of Husband's Vehicle, Medication, Personal Effects, and Restraining Order Relating to Marita
Berthabutt says:
May 2nd, 2017 at 12:29 pm
If the county lets the builder who screwed them at the airport, and screwed them on the court house, build the judicial parking garage, the he must have nude pictures of the county administrator.
Charlotte Greenbarg says:
May 2nd, 2017 at 2:42 pm
No photos…just lots of $$$$ Business as usual in Broward
@14 – Nude pictures are sooo last century!! Nowadays, everyone has a sex tape. And as Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, etc. have proven, sex tapes are the new key to fame and fortune!
Jeimias Powerb says:
While packing up my things to move over to the new courthouse, I found a report submitted by then chief Judge Tobin saying that apergillus was found in the building. Aspergilus is a mold that causes aspergillosis and it's the same disease that affected many of the 9/11 first responders. Are they planning to blow the old building up or tear it down slowly piece by piece? Either way, the surrounding area may be at risk of contracting the disease.


Weather - The skies have cleared, the rain a distant memory of the morning. In fact, the sun now shines almost blindingly bright!
Joust Run - The ground is steaming slightly as it dries out, but the mud is gone leaving simply soft earth.
Round Action: The sun must be a little too bright for the horses, because the start of the round has then both stalling at the start line. Crusade of Charlemagne in particular seems affected, shying away from the divider just before the lances would strike!
Round Action: brok lance 2; dehorse 2 The second round starts off neatly, both riders striking square with Ada's lance shattering and Will Grihm's snatching her right off of Those Ringing Belles! Somehow in the commotion, Will Grihm suffers a scrape to his arm from flying lance pieces.
Seems like the sunlight is causing just as many problems as the rain did!
Well you do have until the end of the round to get SOMEthing in, doesn't have to be finished even But thank you for the heads up!
Will stays ahorse, he just gets hit by lance pieces.
LMAO, now I think you might be getting Will roughed up just for the heck of it XD At this rate, if he wins, he'll be accepting his trophy in bandages and casts, lol!
Hahaha. Staff enters a hospital room with a trophy. Will is hooked up to an IV and in a full-body cast, yet somehow manages to get his shirt off when a nurse comes in.