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"Black Deeds Must Be Cur'd with Death":
Justice & Revenge in Renaissance Drama
Posted By Kathryn S. On August 27, 2020 @ 6:06 am In North American New Right | Comments Disabled
Promotional image from the UK's Almeida Theatre production of The Duchess of Malfi (performed from November 30, 2019 through January 25, 2020)
I. Classical Western Thought on Justice and Revenge
One of the most fascinating discussions to emerge from our collective Western inheritance concerns the definition of justice and the double-sided nature of justice or vengeance (personified memorably in pop culture through the literal "two-faced" character of Harvey Dent and his Janus-faced coin). Aristotle (384-322 BC) determined that "justice" had at least two different meanings: the first pertained to conduct or a "moral disposition" that followed an "established, authoritative rule of human behavior," or "lawful justice"; the second pertained to "justice as equality," or fairness in right proportions. Aristotle viewed "justice as equality" and "lawful justice" not as two discrete concepts, but ones in a synechodocal relationship. [1] [1] Only through collective adherence to moral standards could fairness for individuals and the common welfare of society be justly secured. Aristotle was no egalitarian in the modern sense, and his use of "equality" meant giving men their due, or just deserts, as defined by their positions. He believed that there existed natural inequalities between the sexes and between "natural slaves" and "freemen," and he regarded democracy as a political perversion. [2] [2]
The idea that all should be equal before the court of state justice (isonomy) has featured in European thought since at least the time of Thucydides (ca. 460-400 BC), when in his History of the Peloponnesian War, he imagined the Athenian ruler Pericles declaring: "Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves. Its administration favors the many instead of the few . . . If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences . . ." [3] [3] Despite these high-minded words, Thucydides's political philosophy itself tended toward what we would now call realpolitik, or the practical acknowledgment that justice was meted out by the powerful; in other words, universal ideas of virtue did not determine the policy of rulers, nor did they figure, in the final analysis, in the prosecution of wars.
The most notable depiction of one such war and illustrative of Classical views on vengeance was Homer's Iliad and the "wrath" of Achilles, its principal protagonist, whose anger "brought countless ills upon the Achaeans [Greeks]." [4] [4] Though Achilles' pursuit of glory and revenge caused mass death and destruction in Homer's epic tale, he was still a worthy hero to the Greeks, for whom the virtues of honor and excellence far outranked those of mercy and sacrifice. What would appear to most modern Westerners as pathological narcissism appeared to Homer's contemporaries as the stuff of heroic legend. Only when Achilles dishonored the body of Hector in unchecked retribution for his cousin's death did Achilles unambiguously cross over the line separating worthy from unworthy behavior in the eyes of Greeks. Homer's society sanctioned revenge as far as honor allowed, but ethics frowned on acts that were unnecessarily vindictive or those that resulted in the disrespect of an opponent; as a culture obsessed with masculine valor and physical courage, killing while in the grip of rage militaire was accepted — even celebrated — while Greek society viewed the refusal to properly care for the noble dead, thus barring their souls from crossing the River Acheron and toward the afterlife, as a deep injustice.
II. Christian Western Thought on Justice and Revenge
Apart from Classical philosophy, Christianity has had the most powerful influence on Western conceptions of justice and vengeance. For Christians, God was the supreme essence of perfect justice, perfect righteousness. Proverbs proclaimed that "a just balance and scales are the Lord's; all the weights in the bag are His work." [5] [5] In order to strive for His favor, God admonished, "do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. . . . You shall have just balances, just weights. . ." [6] [6] While certain Biblical passages stressed the importance of recognizing the humanity in each individual, every one of them made in the Divine image, Christian teachings also preached humility. As descendants of the first fallen couple from the Garden, those who erred after Adam and Eve paid alike the wages of their sins. This involved the proper feelings of shame and remorse, the confession of sin, and the actions taken by the sinner to correct his misdeed. Thus Christianity introduced European moral philosophy to the concept of justice as a transaction, as well as a Manichean dichotomy of good and evil.
God dispensed justice and vengeance almost interchangeably in the Old Testament. In one of the first stories of Genesis, Cain slew his brother Abel because of envy. God then vowed to avenge Abel's murder — a personal assault on the Almighty and on His favorite. In a voice filled with anger and sorrow, He condemned Cain and declared: "Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground. And now you are cursed." [7] [7] Both the image of the Father weighing the souls of His children with a firm hand and that of the God of wrath and righteous fury raining down pitiless punishment on sinful mortals from above informed the rich and complex thoughts on the nature of God and man in pre-modern eras. In affairs with other men, the Biblical message was clear: "Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven." [8] [8] When asked about paying the government of Rome its due and whether or not such obedience contradicted paying God His, Christ memorably responded that all should "render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's," for the laws of man and the laws of the Divine did not necessarily conflict. [9] [9] He thus discouraged using the excuse of God's name when rebelling against the state and its laws, even as He subtly argued for God's primacy. Like Greek philosophy, Christianity took for granted that there would always exist inequalities between people on earth, e.g. between masters and slaves. There was no injustice in hierarchy per se. Injustice arose when people did not uphold God's law (lawful justice) or when they treated one another indecently (justice as fairness). This misbehavior merited God's vengeance, for none on earth were considered above His judgment.
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III. Medieval and Later Western Thought on Justice and Revenge
This ideal premise that none should be above the law — not even kings — that emerged from the Classical and Christian periods persisted. The Magna Carta (1215) famously proclaimed that the English king could not arbitrarily imprison his (gentle) subjects indefinitely; neither could he take their property without lawful justification. In the Middle Ages, different codes of law operated coterminously and competed with one another at times for dominance. In medieval England, the ecclesiastical (or canon) law of the Catholic Church, the state / monarchical law of the king and his ministers, and the common law of the people had weights and measures that often conflicted (the most dramatic conflict erupting between Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas à Becket and Henry II in 1170).
Eventually, the power of the Church to adjudicate criminality waned as nation-states centralized and monarchs, then parliaments, began to horde power for themselves. However, the precedents set by common law remained and still remain important aspects of Anglo legal culture. In today's more secular societies, the majority of Westerners view justice as an arm of the state (lawful justice) as egalitarian activism (a kind of perversion of Aristotelian and biblical fairness that often veers into retributive vengeance), or as regional custom — not as an area of theology. Despite how concepts and systems of justice have changed over time and across the space of Western history, we may ask what has remained fundamental to its meaning. And what has differentiated justice from its darker twin, vengeance? Have we still the echoes in our ears of Achilles's war cry, or have the thirty centuries since his death rendered him all but mute?
In the modern West, when an individual has done something unjust, we recognize that he has created an imbalance in his community — whether we call his action a sin, a crime, or simply a wrongdoing. We use transactional, equational language to describe this phenomenon: he must be called to account; he must pay the wages of his sins; he must make up for what he has done. This suggests that we collectively feel a need to restore an equilibrium lost after the offense. The figure of Justice, with her weights and measures, exemplifies this need. Indeed, the blindfolded Justice is an ideal: impartial, detached, maintaining all persons as equal before the laws that apply to them, and dispensing third-party judgment, rather than prejudgment. True justice means that the punishment matches the crime, thus it restores the balance lost and satisfies an equation. Though perhaps based on concrete laws and actual courts, Justice is a high-minded goddess. She stands above all men, for no man is considered above the law. This description of Justice marries the two Aristotelian meanings, "lawful righteousness" and "fairness," while appealing also to the image of the Christian God with His perfect "balances and weights."
But what of vengeance? For someone who has directly suffered, the rulings of Justice, though they may restore harmony to society, do nothing to satisfy the aggrieved heart. Justice is hard to achieve in this world (perhaps impossible in cases of the most serious crimes). Rarely does it satisfy, for justice is impersonal. Satisfaction requires vengeance, because vengeance is by its nature deeply personal. Instead of pronouncing from on high a moral judgment, it demands suffering in primitive, passionate terms. Vengeance removes the "lawful righteousness" from justice and focuses solely on a version of "equality," or proportionate fairness — of getting even in a visceral way. Vengeance does not pretend idealism, and it certainly is not blind, but it too seeks payment in order to reestablish a balance of some kind — the settling of scores. The focus is not on the contract or law broken, nor on the public trust betrayed, but on the hurt done, the blood spilled, and the human suffering caused. It is the difference between the two declarations: "You need to pay your debt to society" and "You will pay for what you did to me!" By the high Middle Ages, both Church teachings and state law generally condemned and continue today to condemn vengeance, the former stigmatizing it as somehow connected to black magic and paganism, while the latter has outlawed its practice as illegitimate vigilantism. The practices of lynching and dueling — behaviors common in honor cultures and lawless areas — are met with official disapproval in Western countries today. Still, the "strong gods" of honor and righteous "wrath" pull at the European psyche. [10] [11]
IV. Justice and Revenge in Renaissance Drama
This need for a balanced social order on the one hand and individual satisfaction on the other has haunted the West for far longer than has the dream of Rome reborn, and it would take more than an article to examine the subject fully. My more modest aim here is to explore the dynamics of justice / vengeance during the English Renaissance — a transitional period that borrowed its moral imagination from Classical, Christian, and modern meditations on vengeance — through an analysis of three of its greatest revenge dramas: Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (1581); John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi (1614); and Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy (1607). I am purposely excluding any Shakespearean plays from discussion, because they are already widely-read (if the reader wants a few examples of revenge dramas of the Shakespearean variety, I recommend Hamlet, Coriolanus, and Titus Andronicus). Blood tragedies and revenge dramas echoed earlier Greek theater, such as Sophocles's Oedipus Rex (ca. 429 BC) and Antigone (ca. 441 BC) and became one of the most sensational genres in Renaissance Europe. The formula for almost all such works involved royal or elite malfeasance, murder, complex revenge plots, young love frustrated, and climactic scenes ending in a bloodbath.
The early modern period was a fascinating time, an era neither medieval nor modern, but something of both. Like today's readers and Homer's ancient audiences, early moderns relished entertainment and watching human drama unfold in story form. It would be easy (and facile) to compare the bloody television programs of the twenty-first century with the blood tragedies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, however mottled the reflection our modern world appears in the worlds of Webster, Middleton, and Kyd. While the plays' language seems strange on our tongues, its meaning rings true. Its protagonists were particularly affronted by the corruption of elites in their societies — those who ignored all laws and senses of the public good in order to maintain their personal wealth and influence. Truth can be found in history and in the study of how our ancestors tried to find and express it. We are no wiser than they, no better than they. What follows is an attempt to grasp at the truth of justice / vengeance and how Renaissance people conceived of and reconciled balance and satisfaction; society and the individual. More importantly, a comparative analysis of these bloody tales may tell us how we in the Dissident Right should approach the pursuit of justice and the meting out of vengeance in our own societies, no less toxic and dissolute than those of Renaissance Europe, for all the mouthing about "social contracts" and democratic "self-determination." If our thought-leaders and politicians meant a sweet-sounding word of it, they would not denounce populism so.
V. The Spanish Tragedy
The oldest and most archetypal of the three revenge dramas here reviewed was Thomas Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, written during the reign of Elizabeth I. English dramatists loved to set their plays in Catholic southern Europe, its countries viewed as somewhat more exotic, colorful, and corrupt than those of northern Europe. Of course, this distance allowed writers to critique their own societies from a safe place of plausible deniability. The action began with Don Andrea, a recently killed knight whose ghost appeared in "Pluto's court." [11] [12] Andrea related to the audience his love affair with Spanish Princess, Bel-imperia, and his demise at the hands of the Portuguese Viceroy's son, Prince Balthazar, during a recent battle between the Iberian powers. His soliloquy borrowed from the tropes of the chivalric romances common to the period, themselves a melding of Classical and Christian celebrations of honor, bravery, and goodness. The rest of the play moved away from Andrea and the Underworld and focused on the living: Andrea's friend, Don Horatio; Horatio's father and knight-marshall of Spain, Don Hieronimo; and Andrea's lost love, Princess Bel-imperia.
Picking up the narrative thread, a Spanish general recounted the battle for his king, describing how Balthazar, "Portingale's" young prince, slew Andrea. Yet,
While the prince, insulting over him, / Breath'd out proud vaunts, sounding to our reproach, / Friendship and hardy valour join'd in one / Prick'd forth Horatio, our knight-marshall's son, / To challenge forth that prince in single fight. / Not long between these twain the fight endur'd, / But straight the prince was beaten from his horse / And forc'd to yield him prisoner to his foe. [12] [13]
At that point, the "beaten" prince walked onstage between conquering hero Horatio and the king's nephew, Lorenzo. Already, a rivalry had developed among the victorious Spaniards. Horatio, the warrior who bested Balthazar in combat, claimed the right of capture, while Lorenzo, Horatio's social superior, contended that the honor of the prince's surrender belonged to him. Taking his son's side, Don Hieronimo began to remonstrate with the king, asking him to hear his "tongue. . . plead for young Horatio's right. / He hunted well that was a lion's death, / Not he that in a garment wore his skin; / So hares may pull dead lions by the beard." [13] [14] Heironomo expressed his faith in "the establishment's" ability to make wise and just decisions, ones based not on wealth and power, but on impartial truth. His lines were also a critique against the political elite's tendency to take credit for the great deeds of warriors and those of less rarified descent, a complaint Achilles would have seconded. While valiant hunters faced and fought lions, it was often layabout royals who enjoyed the spoils of the hunt and wore its trophies. Still, by appealing to the king's judgment on the matter, Hieronimo showed his confidence in the monarch's justice.
This confidence did not last. Horatio soon sought out Bel-imperia to inform her of her beloved's death. Stunned, she nevertheless transferred her affections onto Horatio, seeing a way to salvage her love for Andrea by marrying his friend and defender. The leaders of Portugal and Spain had other ideas, and they moved to engage Bel-imperia to Prince Balthazar in order to broker a peace treaty. Appalled that she should be forced into marrying Andrea's killer, Bel-imperia flatly refused. When her brother Lorenzo discovered her secret engagement to his rival, he and Balthazar plotted to kill Horatio and hung him from a tree in old Hieronimo's garden. Afterward, they imprisoned Bel-imperia in order to "change her mind" about the union with Portugal. Upon the discovery of his murdered son, Hieronimo seemed to go insane with grief, asking of Horatio: who "left thy bloody corpse dishonour'd here, / For me amidst these dark and dreadful shades / To drown thee with an ocean of my tears?" [14] [15] More learned members of Kyd's audience would have recognized Horatio's "dishonour'd" corpse as an allusion to Prince Hector's broken body from the Iliad. Hieronimo quickly learned that his son's killers were none other than the royals whom he had dutifully served for decades. The rest of the drama focused on his crusade for political justice and personal vengeance with the aid of Bel-imperia. Though locked away, she managed to communicate missives to him by using her own blood in place of ink (a common plot device in Renaissance drama).
In the climactic scene, Hieronimo enacted his revenge by killing the "authors" of his son's death, refusing to betray his "confederates" to the king by biting out his own tongue. His vengeance complete, Hieronimo ended his life in what could be considered the ultimate protest by speaking silent truth to power. Watching the entire bloody episode approvingly from the Underworld, Andrea asked of Pluto's servant Vengeance that he punish the guilty with torture in the afterlife. First, "Place Don Lorenzo on Ixion's wheel, / . . . Hang Balthazar about Chimera's neck, / And let him there bewail his bloody love, / Repining at our joys that are above." [15] [16] Because Hieronimo proceeded from truth and righteous outrage of both a personal and political nature, the Underworld deemed his acts of vengeance just. His focus was not solely one of private satisfaction. It arose also from a desire to restore balance to a wicked system that advantaged a depraved elite who believed themselves above the laws they had sworn to uphold. In short, Hieronimo took the "red pill" when he awoke to his society's bankruptcy and vowed to undermine it from within.
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VI. The Duchess of Malfi
I now turn to John Webster's dark play The Duchess of Malfi. One of the most jarring features of this particular drama was the initial sense Webster gave the audience that the story would be a comedy (in theater, comedy did not necessarily mean that the play was "funny," but that "all's well that ends well," every major conflict, especially romantic conflicts, resolving themselves more or less happily by the end). Webster's most enduring and psychologically engaging plays were not comedies but tragedies. Indeed, T. S. Eliot once famously remarked that Webster saw "the skull beneath the skin." His Malfi took place in Italy, its title alluding to the Amalfi Coast in that country's southwestern Province of Salerno.
The play began with Webster introducing the Duchess (never named) as a recently-widowed heiress. She reassured her two brothers — twin Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria, and the Cardinal — that she would not remarry without their consent. Predictably, she broke her promise and married the steward of her estate, Antonio, a man she had long loved but had never approached out of respect for her first husband. Though she kept her union secret for some years, her brothers eventually found out. Outraged at her disobedience and her new husband's decidedly inferior birth, they plotted her murder. Webster implied that Ferdinand's fury was due, at least in part, to his incestuous feelings for his twin sister, while the Cardinal's motives seemed purely driven by his desire for his sister's wealth. The brothers hired a jaded mercenary, Daniel de Bosola, to carry out their scheme. Bosola, an unlikely hero, was himself a creature of Italy's political rot and corruption. Though he was a "court-gall" who criticized the government, Bosola's "railing / [was] not for simple love of piety: / Indeed, he rail[ed] at those things which he want[ed]; / Would [have been] as lecherous, covetous, or proud, / Bloody, or envious, as any man, / If he had means to be so." [16] [18] After traveling to his victim's estate and ingratiating himself into her household, Bosola grew to admire the Duchess and began having second thoughts about his mission. Nevertheless, he carried out his task and delivered the Duchess to Ferdinand.
Ferdinand cruelly tortured his sister, hoping she would go mad. He produced fraudulent evidence that both Antonio and her children were dead. The Duchess refused the bait and maintained her dignity throughout her ordeal, further winning the respect of Bosola. Welcoming despair and the prospect of her death, she resigned herself to suicide if her brother did not kill her first. "Remember you are a Christian. . . Leave this vain sorrow. Things being at their worst begin to mend," admonished Bosola, who was working up his resolve to save her. Dryly, she answered him back: "The church enjoins fasting: I'll starve myself to death. . . Let heaven a little while cease crowning martyrs, to punish them!" [17] [19]
After her executioners arrived at last and strangled her with cords, Bosola presented her body disgustedly to Ferdinand and in a reference to God's vengeful speech to Cain after the first fratricide, so Bosola addressed the murdered Duchess's sibling: "Fix your eye here. . . Do you not weep? / Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. / The element of water moistens the earth, / But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens." [18] [20] Unable to bear looking at the lovely woman who inspired his poisoned love, Ferdinand demanded that Bosola, in the most famous lines of the play, "Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young." [19] [21] Compounding his dishonor, Ferdinand went on to blame Bosola for killing her, and instead of paying him his bounty for a job completed, promised only a "pardon for this murder." Enraged at Ferdinand's breathtaking gall and the double injustice committed against the Duchess and against himself, Bosola decided to plot his own vengeance, ironically observing that "the office of justice is perverted quite / When one thief hangs another." [20] [22] It was perhaps Webster's intent to make it unclear whether Bosola referred to himself or to Ferdinand as the "one thief," both having sold their integrity for silver.
Though Bosola had his revenge against Ferdinand and the Cardinal by the play's end, it was a black victory for the ex-assassin, for he recognized that there could be neither salvation for his broken society, nor redemption for himself, so implicated was he in its sordidness. He planned his own demise along with others guilty of the Duchess's murder, convinced that one ill turn deserved another, and "[There's] the consequence of murder. / We value not desert nor Christian breath, / When we know black deeds must be cur'd with death." [21] [23] While Hieronimo's suicide was an act of defiance protesting a corrupt court, Bosola's planned suicide was an act of acceptance, owning as he did his culpability within a wider court of treachery. Bosola's pill was black. Even though Antonio and his son by the Duchess survived the play's horrors, Webster left audiences in doubt about whether Antonio's prayer that their "[flight from] the courts of princes" would protect them, or whether corruption would continue to plague the Duchess's line through her young son, the heir of a vast estate in Italy's unchanged land of wolves. [22] [24] Of the three dramatic selections chosen, Webster's Malfi was both the most Christian and the most un-Christian story. Martyrdom and sacrifice; the punishment of villainy; all made the play appear to be a morality tale in the tradition of other Christian fables. But the dark desires of its characters, Webster's focus on madness, and the rejection of redemption for its "hero" made Malfi something of an uncomfortable anomaly in the genre of revenge tragedies.
VII. The Revenger's Tragedy
And the final play subjected to analysis: Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, also set somewhere in a nameless Italian court. Kyd's Spanish Tragedy had been performed for thirty years by the time of Middleton's writing, and the genre of revenge had become something of a joke: its formulaic plots, its overwrought characters, and its laughably gory denouements were ripe fodder for a wit. Revenger was a parody of all these tropes, and its hero's name, Vindice, Latin for "champion" or "revenger," was itself a clue that Middleton intended his protagonist to be a caricature rather than a serious challenger to societal order and its injustices. The only order Middleton challenged was the literary order and perhaps its celebration of revenge. The play began with Vindice excoriating the "royal lecher," the Duke, who Vindice claimed murdered his fiancée, Gloriana, when she spurned the "gray-haired. . . devil" for love of himself. [23] [25] Speaking to the "sallow" remains of his beloved, whose corpse he appeared to have kept rather than buried (!), he wailed for her,
My poisoned love, / My study's ornament, thou shell of Death, / Once the bright face of my betrothed Lady, / When life and beauty naturally filled out / These ragged imperfections . . . twas a face / So far beyond the artificial shine / Of any woman's bought complexion / That the uprightest man, (if such there be / That sin but seven times a day) broke custom / And made up eight with looking after her, / Oh she was able to ha' made a Usurer's son / Melt all his patrimony in a kiss. [24] [26]
Putting Andrea's opening soliloquy to shame, Vindice's wild flatteries of a skeleton verged on the obscene. Even the most avaricious of Jews would supposedly have flung away their treasures for the dead woman's once-live embrace. Nothing, he declared, would stop him from having his revenge on the old, "adulterous" Duke and his henchmen. [25] [27]
Vindice conceived a plot that would end in the Duke kissing the poisoned lips of Gloriana's skull, "dressed up in tires" so as to appear alive — the perfect poetic justice in Vindice's jaundiced eyes. [26] [28] Instead of seeming mad with grief or self-reproach, Vindice was consumed with revenge for its own sake. Middleton's audience may have seen the principal actor maniacally whirling Vindice's "tired-dressed" skeleton of a fiancée about the stage in a grotesque dance of narcissism in which she was both literally and figuratively a prop to satisfy his elaborate plot. Responding to his brother's appalled shock when confronted with Vindice's designs, Vindice shrugged him off, proceeding to deny his madness by implicating everyone he knew in a great, mad world, for "surely we're all mad people, and they / Whom we think are, are not." Unable to stop drowning in the whirlpool of his twisted logic, Vindice took aim at his own fiancée, pointing at her dead, made-up face:
Does every proud and self affecting Dame / Camphire her face for this? and grieve her Maker / In sinful baths of milk, — when many an infant starves, / For her superfluous outside, all for this? . . . Here might a scornful and ambitious woman, / Look through and through herself, — see Ladies, with false forms, / You deceive men, but cannot deceive worms. [27] [29]
What an about-face from his previous exaltations dedicated to his lover's feminine beauty! Self-righteousness had rarely met such ironic lack of self-awareness as it did in Middleton's Vindice.
When the Duke arrived, Vindice introduced the "bony lady" as "a Country" girl in want of a kiss to cure her "bashfulness." After the Duke fell for the ruse, Vindice and his brother revealed her as "Gloriana," his poisoned love who, through death's kiss, had poisoned her murderer in turn. [28] [30] The dying Duke tried to cry out for help, but Vindice "invented a silence" and had his brother "nail down [the Duke's] tongue" with a dagger. [29] [31] The entire scene was an inversion of Hieronimo's show of virtuous spite when the knight-marshall bit off of his own tongue and stopped his speech in front of the Spanish royal audience. The difference between Hieronimo's and Vindice's "invented silences" spoke volumes. Middleton saved one last joke before the final curtain ended the action, Vindice looking all around him at the death and misery his vengeance had wrought, as if he were a confused and twisted version of Achilles, surrounded by bloodied warriors lying at his feet. He finally asked, "are we not revenged? / Is there one enemy left alive amongst those? / 'Tis time to die, when we are ourselves our foes. . . adieu." [30] [32] Tragedy had become farce. Vindice took the "Joker pill," when he devoted himself to no cause but that of manic destruction. For sheer entertainment value, Middleton earned his trophy.
VIII. Conclusion
Are there any overarching lessons we in the Dissident Right can learn from the theme of revenge running through Elizabethan and Jacobean drama? Was Hieronimo just in his revenge? Was Bosola's revenge, laced with more bitterness than it was earnestness, meaningful at all? Did Vindice's revenge make such a mockery of justice that he discredited revenge altogether? I suspect many of us, myself included, have had fantasies about exacting comeuppance against enemies who are so clearly motivated by a warped vengeance of their own. We too live in a sick society in which elites flout both law and the public good in order to diminish us and enrich themselves. Like Bosola and Ferdinand, they have traded their honesty for bags of silver. They are therefore irredeemable traitors to our people and nations.
Our grievances are of a personal and political nature — the most important dual thematic common to nearly all early modern blood tragedies. A carefully designed "rite of spring" may thus be both just and necessary if we want to build anew; but a bloodbath resembling those in Renaissance theater's outlandish final scenes or resembling more modern raptures in a Revelation-like "day of the rope" should repel us. [31] [33] According to people like Guillaume Faye and Enoch Powell, the realities of our late-stage civilizational decay may make our decision for us. Most of us do not wish for a winner-take-all ethnic apocalypse, but if Western civil war breaks out despite our wishes, we will have to be as deadly earnest as a Hieronimo; as resourceful as a Bosola; as energetic as a Vindice; as hungry, too, as an Achilles. We should find no pleasure in cruelty, nor bring dishonor to our cause. In the words of one of Eliot's favorite playwrights, "Nature doth nothing so great for great men / As when she's pleas'd to make them lords of truth: / Integrity of life is fame's best friend, / Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end." [32] [34]
May we be standing at the end.
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[1] [37] Anton-Hermann Chroust and David L. Osborn, "Aristotle's Conception of Justice," Notre Dame Law Review 17, no. 2 (1942), pp. 129-43.
[2] [38] For a fuller sense of Aristotle's views on ethics and politics see his Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, both written ca. 350 BC.
[3] [39] Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War, trans. Richard Crawley (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1950), p. 125. Historians are generally agreed that Thucydides, Athenian historian and general, began writing his History in 431 BC and continued chronicling the ongoing conflict until his death, but they are unsure whether he died before the War ended in 404 BC or sometime soon afterward. Disease was rampant in Greece (especially Athens) during the period, and it's assumed that he died suddenly from illness, though others have speculated that he might have been killed. The quote comes from the alleged lines of Pericles's famous Funeral Oration spoken to commemorate the dead in Athens at the end of the War's first year.
[4] [40] Homer, Iliad & Odyssey, trans. Samuel Butler (San Diego: Baker & Taylor, 2011), p. 15. There is even less agreement about when Homer lived (if he did at all), but it was sometime between the twelfth and eighth centuries BC. The historic Siege of Troy, the subject of his Iliad, ended when the city fell during the Bronze Age, ca. 1180 BC.
[5] [41] Proverbs 16:11, KJV.
[6] [42] Leviticus 19:35-37, KJV.
[7] [43] Genesis 4:10, KJV.
[8] [44] Colossians 4:1, KJV.
[9] [45] Matthew 22:21, KJV.
[10] [46] I borrow the idea of "strong gods" from R. R. Reno's The Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West (New York: Regnery Gateway, 2019). While he does argue that justice is a "strong god," he does not focus on revenge as being the alternate face of this "strong god," but I've always thought Nemesis was powerful, indeed. Few things bind a group together quite so well as a shared avenging spirit.
[11] [47] Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy, printed by W. White (London: I. White and T. Langley, 1615) 1.1, 55. The play was also known by an alternate title in the Jacobean era: Hieronimo Is Mad Againe.
[12] [48] Kyd, 1.2, 73-80.
[13] [49] Kyd, 1.2, 169-72.
[14] [50] Kyd, 2.5, 19, 21-23.
[16] [52] John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, transcribed by Malcolm Moncrief-Spittle, Renascence Editions Online, 1.1, 23-28.
[17] [53] Webster, 4.1, 50, 53-55, 51.
[18] [54] Webster, 4.2, 60, 62-63.
[19] [55] Webster, 4.2, 64.
[20] [56] Webster, 4.2, 80-81, 55-56.
[21] [57] Webster, 5.4, 31-33.
[23] [59] Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy, Meaghan Brown, Michael Poston, and Elizabeth Williamson, eds., Folger Shakespeare Library Online, 1.1, 6, 9. This online edition does not begin the line numbers over after the ending of each scene, hence the higher line counts.
[24] [60] Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy, 1.1, 19-32.
[25] [61] Middleton, 3.1, 1476.
[26] [62] Middleton, 3.1, 1513-14. 1518-20.
[27] [63] Middleton, 3.1, 1530-31.
[29] [65] Middleton, 3.2, 1627, 1629-30.
[30] [66] Middleton, 5.2, 2640-41, 2656.
[31] [67] Latvian historian and writer Modris Eksteins (non-Jewish) makes a compelling argument that twentieth-century wars and political movements, such as fascism, mirrored the Modernist cultural theme of renewal from death à la Igor Stravinsky's controversial ballet Rite of Spring. See Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (New York: Mariner Books, 2000).
[32] [68] Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, 5.5, 89.
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Does that mean it's not coming today? On the van… or what? I have no idea!
Finally at 19:21 the Yodel website updates with information… It tells me 'Returned to local service centre Middleton service centre 14th Dec 2013 17:17' So was it on the van today, and the driver couldn't find me? Clearly he's not tried to deliver it… perhaps he was too stressed and overwhelmed with all the Christmas deliveries… and so decided not to bother and go to the pub!


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Дом Бы́кова — доходный дом купца Василия Егоровича Быкова, построенный по проекту архитектора Льва Кекушева в 1909 году. После Октябрьской революции здание занимали административные конторы и коммунальные квартиры. С 1990-х годов комплекс находится в ведении Института автоматизации проектирования РАН (ИАП). В 2009-м здание пострадало от сильного пожара, но бо́льшая часть внутреннего убранства сохранилась. В 2012 году строение признали объектом культурного наследия регионального значения. После реконструкции, начавшейся в 2014-м, здание займёт гостиница.

История

Предыстория участка
В XVIII—XIX веках территория относилась к владениям Тверской —  Ямской слободы и использовалась под огороды ямщиков. В результате раздела общинной земли в 1868 году северо-восточная часть квартала перешла в собственность семьи Кокориных. К 1872-му её владельцем числился , который возвёл на пересечении Ново-Васильевского переулка и 2-й Брестской дом на каменном подклете. После смерти хозяина в 1890-х годах здание перешло по наследству к его сыновьям Александру, Сергею и Петру. По их заказу строение реконструировал архитектор .

В начале XX века старший из братьев Александр Кокорин скончался и его родственники поделили участок: южная часть перешла к его вдове и детям, северная — в единоличное пользование Сергея Кокорина. В 1903 году вдоль красной линии Ново-Васильевского переулка возвели трёхэтажный доходный дом по проекту архитектора К. И. Дуванова. Уличный фасад разделили на секции, а их подъезды акцентировали неглубокими ризалитами и аттиками. Предположительно, именно в этот период также под руководством Дуванова в юго-западной части территории возвели отдельный четырёхэтажный корпус.

Строительство и использование
В 1905 году участок с двумя домами приобрёл купец Василий Быков. Через три года под руководством архитектора Н. А. Ильинского на заднем дворе комплекса возвели дополнительный трёхэтажный дом. В 1909-м демонтировали обветшалое двухъярусное строение, возведённое при Е. Е. Кокорине. На его месте архитектору Льву Кекушеву заказали построить четырёхэтажный доходный дом с полуподвалом. Он разработал проект с выразительными фасадами в стиле модерн. Их основными элементами стали аттик и козырьки над эркерами, формирующие волнообразную верхнюю часть строения. Оконные ниши украсили маскаронами, на месте замковых камней первого этажа расположили лепные картуши, в основании эркеров — кронштейны. Массивные фигурные деревянные рамы оборудовали специальными выпуклыми стёклами, собирающими свет. Края аттиков выделили скульптурными «луковичками», въездную арку — массивным львиным маскароном. Кекушев также надстроил трёхэтажный доходный дом, возведённый Дувановым. Отделка здания приобрела сходство с угловым главным корпусом.

При возведении главного здания использовали железобетонные конструкции, в здании оборудовали паровое отопление. Кроме того, дом был оснащён горячей водой и канализацией. Лестницы подъездов оформили коваными чугунными перилами сложного орнамента, что считается одной из характерных черт стиля Кекушева. На первом этаже нового дома расположилась контора Быкова, которая занималась подрядами на строительные работы, а также два магазина. Цокольный этаж занимали склады, котельная и жильё истопника. Быков был членом совета Преображенского богадельного дома и являлся старообрядцем, поэтому некоторое время в одном из корпусов действовала моленная, освящённая в честь Введения Пресвятой Богородицы. В 1914 году верхние этажи одного из корпусов занимали два Городских начальных грузинских училища.

После Октябрьской революции комплекс переделали под коммунальные квартиры. Сохранились свидетельства, что в доме недолго проживал чехословацкий журналист Юлиус Фучик, в честь которого позднее переименовали Ново-Васильевский переулок. В 1929-м постановлением Моссовета домовую старообрядческую церковь ликвидировали, её помещения заняли ясли. Из святилища в разные музейные фонды переместили 39 икон XVI—XVII веков.  комплекс перестроили для размещения административных контор. С 1990-х годов угловой кекушевский корпус пустовал и медленно ветшал. В этот период строение относилось к ведению Института автоматизации проектирования РАН, которое занимало соседний корпус.

Современность
В 2005 году ИАП заключил инвестиционный договор с фирмой «Финансист». Планировалось демонтировать комплекс для строительства на участке нового восьмиэтажного дома, при этом от уличных корпусов сохранились бы только внешние фасады. Проект вызвал широкий общественный резонанс, и после обращений активистов доходный дом Быкова признали выявленным объектом культурного наследия. Вскоре правительство Москвы отменило постановление о разработке предпроектной документации. По сообщениям «Вести-Москва», в этот период в доме проживали гастарбайтеры.

16 сентября 2009 года в здании случился пожар, от которого пострадали кровля, перекрытия верхнего этажа и часть внутреннего убранства. Через несколько месяцев Межведомственная комиссия под руководством депутата Владимира Ресина безуспешно предложила исключить дом из списка выявленных объектов. В дальнейшем под предлогом проведения капитального ремонта ликвидировали отдельные элементы фасада, фигурные оконные рамы и маскарон над арочным проездом. Работы были приостановлены постановлением Мосгорнаследия, но некоторые СМИ сообщали о возможности демонтажа дома.

В 2012 году здание признали объектом культурного наследия регионального значения. Через год Пресненский районный суд удовлетворил иск активистов «Архнадзора» и обязал Территориальное управление Росимущества по городу Москве и ИАП РАН разработать проект реконструкции дома. В 2014—2016 годах провели инженерное обследование строения и подготовили сметы для проведения противоаварийных мероприятий, возвели временную кровлю, чтобы предотвратить быстрое разрушение дома. В этот период стало известно, что комплекс перестроят под гостиницу общей площадью . При этом планировалось сохранить архитектурный ансамбль уличных корпусов и демонтировать  неохраняемое государством здание во дворе. План реконструкции подготовили под руководством реставратора Владимира Кузнецова. Строители укрепили фундамент, подвалы и откосы здания, ликвидировали продольные трещины и коррозию каркаса, восстановили львиный маскарон, сложные карнизные плиты и оригинальные оконные рамы. Общая стоимость реконструкции составила 300 миллионов рублей, работы во внутренних помещениях планировалось завершить в 2019 году. Однако, к началу лета 2020 года полностью завершена лишь масштабная реставрация фасадов доходного дома, а окончание отделочных работ в помещениях — осень 2020 года

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки
 Фотоотчёт о реконструкции доходного дома Быкова
 Доходный дом Быкова в проекте «Русский модерн»
 Доходный дом Быкова в проекте «Узнай Москву»

Региональные объекты культурного наследия в Москве
Быкова
Заброшенные объекты Москвы
Памятники архитектуры Москвы под угрозой уничтожения
Постройки Льва Кекушева
Здания и сооружения Москвы, находящиеся под угрозой уничтожения

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Do we have the courage to protect the innocents?
Written by Dave Evans
Photo courtesy Newtown Bee, Shannon Hicks
It's hard to write this morning.
I was planning to wax eloquent about the Farm Bill legislation that is currently stuck in Congress and the "fiscal cliff" that we face as a nation on December 31. But those topics pale in comparison to the national tragedy in Connecticut.
We all know this story very well by now. Shooter armed to the teeth with semi-automatic weapons enters school/theater/church/classroom and destroys the lives of first graders/movie-goers/students/parishioners and then kills himself, while the nation first reels from the shock waves and then prays for the victims and their families, asks why it happened, experiences collective grief, and repeats – in unison – the phrase, "never again!" And yet here we are in this same place "yet again."
And because we are here yet again, my question for all of us today is: What will it take for our nation to finally address this evil of mass murders perpetrated using what can only be described as weapons of mass destruction?
Do we have the courage to stand up for the other six-year old children in our country who are still living? Are we willing to do whatever it takes to protect them from the next "yet again?"
It will mean hard choices about the rights that we cherish as a nation and the responsibility that we have to protect the innocents. Something must give. Returning to business as usual would only serve to reinforce the strongly-held sense that we have lost our moral compass as a people and that we are unable to make the right choices that lead to life instead of senseless death and destruction. In our work in Food for the Hungry (FH), we see a lot of injustice in this world. Villages overrun and trampled by rebel armies that burn and pillage. Women raped and abused. Children living off scraps at the bottom of the food chain. What will it take to bring hope to the least of these?
It takes whatever it takes.
It takes the compassion of Jesus Christ made real every day. It takes moral fortitude and sacrifice. It takes people with an inner compass that is so fixed on the North Star that they do everything in their power to move heaven and earth for those who are vulnerable, dispossessed, and without a champion. Can we be those people today in the face of the Sandy Hook tragedy? Can we rise up and be counted for that which is good and righteous? It will cost us something, I guarantee it.

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After sending five competitors to the Division I district tournament last season, the outlook doesn't appear as bright for the Delaware Hayes High School wrestling team.
Only one of those five returns. In fact, the Pacers have just two wrestlers on the team who posted winning records a year ago.
Still, coach Josh Heffernan is excited about the direction of the program.
"We lost nine graduates off last year's team and the eighth-grade class had just two wrestlers," Heffernan said. "So, I expected our numbers would be down this year. I know we've got 55 coming next year from the junior high ranks, and we've got 120 kids in our youth program right now. I'm really excited about our future numbers.
"But, although we expected a drop-off this year, the administration built us a great wrestling facility now and there is a buzz around the program. So, we've got eight first-year wrestlers in the program who are not freshmen. So our numbers are nearly the same as last year. The difference, of course, is experience. But if we can keep these kids here and excited in the program, it would be great. I really am excited about where the program is headed."
The returning district qualifier is sophomore Seth McCurdy, who was 1-2 at district to finish 25-22 at 103 pounds.
"Seth lives and breathes wrestling and is dedicated to the weight room," Heffernan said. "But I think it's important to have multi-sport athletes and I wanted him to run cross country in the fall. He did, and although he's not a natural runner, he improved greatly and worked himself into the lineup at times. He had to work hard to excel and he did. He's got that competitive drive, and I think he could wind up being a state qualifier."
Senior Joey Sumner is back after going 28-18 at 160. He'll likely start at 171. Other seniors are Mike Kalista (145/152) and Matt Giannakos (125/130). Kalista was 11-29 last season and Giannakos was 13-20. Kalista and Sumner are the captains.
"I'm expecting big things from Joey, and Mike has improved tremendously," Heffernan said. "I didn't even know if (Kalista) would stick with it after his freshman year and now he's one of our leaders. He's a tough kid."
Other returnees are juniors Tyler Daugherty (215) and Ben Williams (189) and sophomore Joel Calfe (152/160), all of whom were part-time competitors in the lineup. Daugherty was 2-12, Williams was 4-9 at 171 and Calfe was 6-17 at 145.
Hoping to fill out Delaware's lineup are juniors Dillon Harris (145/152) and Kyle Devillers (heavyweight), sophomores John Botti (189), Colton Christner (heavyweight), Zack Kantona (215), Chaz Munday (119-125) and Andrew Nesselroad (125-130), as well as freshmen Wyatt Davis (112), Skylar Helmeci (112/119) and Michael Rucucci (125/130).
McCurdy was joined at district last season by graduates Greg Flaglor (34-10 at 119), Michael Austin (28-16 at 125), Mark Rieman (42-9 at 140) and Christion Brooks (33-15 at 189). None of the Pacers advanced to state.
Brent Spivey (25-20 at 135) also graduated.
The Pacers finished fourth last season in the OCC-Capital dual tournament at New Albany. Mount Vernon won the title by beating Big Walnut 45-23 in the championship. Delaware lost to New Albany 32-31 in the third-place match. It was the first and last year for the format.
The OCC has switched back to dual meets this year.
The Hayes Invitational, which is Feb. 6, has been renamed the Rieman Invitational.
"That was in honor of Tony Rieman, who was inducted into the Hayes Hall of Fame this fall," Heffernan said. "He helped create the event, maintained it and helped it grow into what it is today. He's done so many things and meant so much to this program through the years.
"That's what this program is becoming is a family. We've got lots of dads helping in the youth program and we've got things moving. It's become a big family and that's what we want."
�The girls basketball team opens OCC-Capital play Friday as host to Olentangy Orange.
The Pacers opened the regular season last Friday against Olentangy Liberty in the Delaware County Classic at Ohio Wesleyan.
�The boys and girls swimming and diving teams open Friday as the host to Olentangy and Wellington at Ohio Wesleyan's Pfeiffer Natatorium.
The Pacers also compete Saturday in the Columbus Academy Relays.
�The boys and girls bowling teams open Monday against visiting Buckeye Valley and play host Friday to Ridgedale.
The Pacers' Tyler Daugherty upends teammate Joey Sumner during wrestling practice last Tuesday. Daugherty, a junior, is expected to compete at 215. He was 2-12 a year ago.


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Turnbull called out on negative gearing comments
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Daniel Burdon Daniel Burdon is APN Australian Regional Media's Canberra bureau reporter, covering federal parliament and politics. He was previously a rural and general news reporter at the Morning Bulletin in Rockhampton and worked in Alice Springs for the Centralian Advocate.
27th Apr 2016 7:03 PM | Updated: 7:03 PM
PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been challenged to a debate on housing tax policy by the author of a report he has claimed is "wrong".
The report from Grattan Institute economist John Daley showed the Federal Government could enjoy a $5.3 billion tax windfall by cutting negative gearing and halving capital gains tax discounts.
The PM took to his personal blog on Tuesday to claim the report was based on incorrect assumptions and estimates, labelling it "wrong".
But on ABC TV that night, he admitted the government had no modelling to back his claim that the changes would act as a "sledgehammer" to the property market.
He also said the fact that high-income earners received the biggest benefit from the tax breaks was "besides the point", as they tended to "have more property".
Mr Daley responded yesterday in an opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review, rebutting a series of Mr Turnbull's claims - including that the changes would result in higher rents.
"No study of the real world has ever found tax changes with this impact," he wrote. "Engaging in detailed argument ultimately leads to better policy. We look forward to the Prime Minister arguing back - and maybe even changing his mind."
The institute's report found the top 10% of Australian income earners received nearly half of the tax benefits of negative gearing. The same income bracket also received about a third of the benefits of the CGT discount.
The report called for negative gearing to be scrapped completely and the halving of the capital gains tax discount.
Those changes, if enacted, could lead to a 2% drop in average house prices, but would have little to no effect on the rental property market, the report said.
The Opposition has backed similar but smaller changes over the next two years.
Mr Turnbull outright rejected any change to either tax break on Sunday, a little over a week out from the election year Federal Budget.
Turnbull slams negative gearing report in blog post
WATERCOOLER: Is this the best way to save $5 billion a year?
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What will be top storyline in training camp?
What are you most interested in watching during training camp?
I'll be most interested in the progress that quarterback Mitchell Trubisky and his teammates are making with the new offense. To me, that will be the most important storyline in Bourbonnais. The unit made a lot of strides throughout the offseason and needs to pick up where it left off. There's always more of an emphasis on the running game when the pads come on and the timing and rhythm of the passing game are different in full-contact drills. I think it's a big plus that the offense will be challenged every day by an experienced defense that's been together for a few years now under coordinator Vic Fangio. That should certainly help with the preparation.
With all the recent talk about Zach Miller and his injury, I was wondering how is Johnny Knox doing?
I had a chance to speak with Johnny Knox last week when he attended a minicamp practice along with several other former Bears players, and he told me that he was feeling good. As we all know, his NFL career came to an abrupt halt when he suffered a freak back injury in a 2011 game against the Seahawks. But he can walk and move around just fine and is still able to play golf. He also told me that he's excited about starting his first coaching job—as an assistant at Carmel High School in Mundelein this year.
Do you think the Bears are in as serious trouble as I do when it comes to pass rush depth? With Aaron Lynch already missing time, even if Leonard Floyd takes big steps in getting healthy and improving as a pass rusher, he's only one man.


It is with great sadness that IAMCR informs its members of the passing of Professor Dipak De following a bout with cancer. Dipak was a longtime member and supporter of the association, having served as a member of the International Council and of the Finance Committee, where he arranged the association's annual audit over a span of several years. In 2015 Dipak was awarded the association's distinguished contribution award.
Dipak's son, Debraj De wrote this letter to the members of IAMCR and GCRA (Global Communication Research Association), two organisations "very close to his heart".
Also below are letters received from Hopeton Dunn, former General Secretary of IAMCR, and Aditya, one of Dipak's former students.
I am Debraj, Prof. Dipak De's son. I have been introduced to you all, through my dad's sharing of his experiences. Today I would like to share with you a bit about the impact IAMCR and GCRA has on my dad's life and in turn on myself.
You have been his extended family and he used to talk so often about the conferences, interactions with other delegates and the friends he made with a lot of enthusiasm.It made him very happy and he had very fond memories.
My dad hails from a small village which is still not registered in google maps. It is located near the rail lines which run towards an Indian Metropolis, Kolkata. As a child, he always used to think that he should study well so that he could purchase his own train ticket to Kolkata. At a very early age, he comprehended the importance of education, finance management and actively persuing one's passion.
In the mid 1990's he got his very first opportunity to travel outside India through one of the conferences. I was around 11 years old then and my sister was 6. My dad was thrilled and so were we. He came back with lot of memories, new friends and gifts for the entire family, friends and colleagues. He spoke to us about it for days. He would look forward to the upcoming conferences. He would involve me and my sister as well and speak to us about his papers that he was going to present. Around 2000, the conference was held in Canada (GCRA conference I believe) and the theme was News. He asked for my views on news. I wrote some lines and made it into a poem. He called on the day after presenting the paper to say that he started his presentation with the poem. I also had the opportunity to meet a few of you, when the GCRA conference took place in our hometown Varanasi in 2002/03. I could see how the events are conducted and the joy it brought to dad. He felt truly honored with the IAMCR facilitation in Montreal 2015 and said that it was a red-letter day in his life.
The events also helped him to explore many places and culture across the world, which he was extremely passionate about. I got vivid descriptions of the pyramids of Egypt, colors of Istanbul, the Nobel laureate hall in Stockholm, the cruise with the midnight sun, the jungle safari from Durban and the Irish Haggis. He was eagerly looking forward to go to Colombia last year.
But in April, he suddenly fell one day and could not walk after that. The tests showed for the first time that he was in the last stage of cancer which had spread throughout. Since then, his health went through various ups and downs but he always remained in very high spirits, joking, laughing, being his jolly self and sharing his IAMCR and GCRA memories. As this email reaches you, he is very close (few hours to few days) to becoming a free spirit once again.
Both GCRA and IAMCR were organizations very close to his heart. I would like to convey my heartfelt thanks for all the opportunities the organizations gave to dad, that enriched him in so many ways and which in turn helped me to grow as a person.
Hopeton Dunn, former General Secretary of IAMCR, wrote the following.
I am very saddened to hear of the passing of Dipak Di. He was a good friend of mine and we spent much time chatting and sharing information during every conference that we attended together over several years.
Dipak was an extraordinarily devoted member of IAMCR who offered unstinting support to the leadership of the Association, something I came to appreciate even more during the years that I served as Secretary General. As was noted, Dipak was the auditor of our accounts for over a decade and served in many other key roles. He was a research active scholar especially on issues of rural and agricultural communication, with many books and conference papers to his credit.
Professor Dipak Di was thrilled to be given an IAMCR Distinguished Contribution Award at Montreal in 2015. We sat together in the conference hall at the closing plenary when he went up proudly to receive the award from Janet our President. I grabbed a few hurried photos of the moment on stage and a few more shots of him afterwards as he quietly reflected on the honour. He was indeed thrilled.
My deepest sympathy goes out to his entire family, including his son Debraj, who shared such a poignant reflection on his dad on our website. I also send my condolences to his profesional colleagues in India, especially those from Kolkata and from the Banaras Hindu University in Uttar Predesh.
A tribute to my beloved, Dipak De Sir!
Dr. Dipak De, he was called. This person was more than God to me. Not only he was an excellent teacher of entrepreneurship and research methodology but also a true guide and friend at all times. I still remember how I attended all his classes but rarely took notes because it was so easy to imbibe his teachings. I remember how he helped me personally with my thesis and with career options at every point of conflict. A student always faces such conflicts during his Master's degree but few are fortunate enough to be guided by none other than De Sir. Above all, he was a great savior to me. I remember when he was the invited guest in the research council meeting to judge our research projects in Extension Education at Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour. While the then Vice Chancellor left no stone unturned in criticizing all the presentations, De Sir defended me with all his might. He said about my merits so many times from the stage that even the Vice Chancellor and other criticizers felt humiliated. I never know that if I will ever be able to take such strong stand with my student or not? I will have to say that this teacher of mine had so strong belief in me that even I do not have on me. He told me again and again when I was selected in State Bank as Probationary Officer that jobs will again come. "Once you are competent enough to crack State Bank exams, you can definitely get other bank exams later; complete your Master's first." A very good friend of mine, Tikaram Neupane from Nepal was his student. I never experienced such a change in a student after becoming his student. He was though a mediocre student but after guidance of De Sir, he was able to defend his thesis with flying colors along with a good rank in the class.
After my recruitment as Assistant Professor at Bihar Agricultural University (BAU), Sabour; I met De Sir in Udaipur in December 2015 while attending a winter school. He was our guest faculty to lecture on entrepreneurship. Though he knew other participants too from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) who were attending the seminar, he interacted with me alone in his room for hours regarding my future plans, marriage and life in Sabour. He shared with me that he started his career from Udaipur as Assistant Professor in Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology (MPUAT). I was surprised to see that even after years; the workers at the guest house were very familiar to him. He asked me to be with him during his presentation and help him with the projector. He talked in detail about his students who are going a step further in their academic pursuits with his constant motivation and support. After that I met him personally in Varanasi in 2016 after my marriage when I was invited for a vice-voce examination by Dr. O.P Mishra Sir. De Sir was so happy that he was awarded with International Association for Media and Communications Research (IAMCR) award in Montreal, Canada for his academic achievements. He even asked me before to accompany him on the occasion but I could not do that due to other engagements in my University. After receiving the prize, he shared the pictures with me only then from Canada. I knew that this award is nothing for a personality like him.
After this brief meeting, I got a call from him few months later when he asked me to write a review paper on innovations in the farming sector. Actually, he was invited to deliberate on innovations at Indian Science Congress 2017. After a month or so, I was trying to call him regarding the updates on the paper but the call could never be reached. One of my juniors from BHU informed me that, he is suffering from cancer and is admitted in Kolkata. It was really a great shock to me. I was just praying that what he said was wrong and he will get well very soon. I could never believe that a person so lively and enthusiastic can fall prey to cancer in no time. I always remember his words when in stress, "Believe in you at all times". I always wished to see him in the hospital. Just two weeks before; I asked Jirli Sir the location of the hospital in which he is admitted. To my utter bad luck, I failed to see him. Only today I got to know, that he has left for the heavenly abode yesterday (21 January 2018) at 8 P.M.
Today is Sarawati Puja where we worship the Goddess Sarawati, the goddess of knowledge and wisdom. I dedicate this festival to my beloved De Sir who will always remain my source of knowledge and inspiration. His demise is not only a great loss to the extension fraternity; it is a great loss to all the students who looked upon him for hope, for joy and for passionate learning. I wish that I am again his student in the next life. No one can replace you forever. Rest in Peace Sir. Miss you so much.


What do you think about Mark Cuban's comments on LeBron James?
He didn't say anything. Yes, everybody would like to do a sign and trade and Cleveland probably will. Think about it from a financial standpoint: they can give LeBron 30 million dollars more than anybody else. If they were smart, if he's not going to resign there and if he were smart, he might as well get that extra 30 million dollars and do a sign and trade. That was just smart business talk, that's just smart business. He can get the money and he can get his own team. But, as I've said all along, I hope he stays in Cleveland.
Why is LeBron James not coming to Dallas?
If they do a sign and trade, they have to get rid of their old team and keep Dirk. And him and Dirk alone wouldn't be enough to win the championship. Those two guys would be a good team, clearly, but I guarantee that LeBron James isn't going to Dallas. To me, it's either New York, Cleveland or Chicago, from a basketball standpoint.
good. because he'll stay in cleveland.
Sure, we could care less.
one team should had done the impposible and clear cap for 3 max contracts LOL.
Charles, just eat ur cookies.
Chuck's personal guarantee doesn't give me tons of faith.
at small forward, #6.....lebron james!!!!
IT'S REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY PEOPLE!!! Although i think Texas is the worse state in existence so not sure why he would even want to go there.
This coming from Charles Barkley, the same guy that Guaranteed repeatedly that the Celtics would lose to the Cavs.
This coming from Charles Barkley, the same guy that Guaranteed repeatedly that the Celtics would lose to the Cavs EASILY.
fixed, yep how he said it exactly.
Charles Barkley also said that the Cavs would clean house with Boston in 5 games or less.
Please. Stop flooding the main forum with the same old dribble.


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'After the Wedding' Review: Michelle Williams Shines in Middling Remake
Despite vivid performances by Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams, this remake of Susanne Bier's 2006 melodrama hits the same sappy notes.
Eric Kohn
@erickohn
Editor's note: This review was originally published at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Sony Pictures Classics releases the film on Friday, August 9.
There's a scene in Danish director Susanne Bier's 2006 "After the Wedding" where one of the main characters, facing a terrible revelation, melts into tears and heaves an ocean of sobs. The same waterworks land on schedule in the 2019 English-language remake, which swaps the genders of the main characters but doesn't mess with its melodramatic swings. By the time Julianne Moore cries her eyes out, "After the Wedding" has already established that its biggest update is a new set of faces embracing the opportunity to showboat.
They do their best with a faithful adaptation that maintains sufficient intrigue for its first half, thanks to a series of gradual revelations that distinguished the original. Bart Freundlich gives wife and frequent collaborator Moore plenty of room to dig in, and she's matched by a formidable Michelle Williams, who tackles a role originated by Mads Mikkelsen. As Isabel, a low-key woman who runs an orphanage in India, Williams spends much of the movie mystified, angry, and repelled by affluent entrepreneur Theresa (Moore), while Billy Crudup splits the difference between them with a measured turn as Moore's husband, Oscar. The actors work overtime to mine substance from an overwrought scenario.
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Still, "After the Wedding" amounts to easy viewing, strung together with a smooth visual style and the script's workmanlike pace. Having established Isabel's tranquil existence at the Indian orphanage, the movie establishes its first big twist when she receives a random call from Theresa, a New York-based media mogul who demands Isabel visit her to discuss a multimillion-dollar investment in the orphanage's future. The mystery of that abrupt offer leads Isabel to confront her past in most unexpected fashion (unless you're seen the original).
While reticent to leave the child she has nurtured from a young age, Isabel begrudgingly makes the trip, and finds herself in an unpredictable situation once she makes it out west: The fast-talking Theresa resists her prior commitment to make a donation until Isabel sticks around for the weekend to attend the marriage of the would-be patron's daughter, Grace (Abby Quinn). There, Isabel makes a shocking discovery that takes the drama in a far more personal direction, and anyone hoping to preserve that revelation should stop here — but know that it's not the only big twist that this schematic emotional rollercoaster has in store.
Isabel had a teen romance with Oscar, and while the pair gave their child up for adoption in her infancy, Oscar recovered her after the pair broke up. Grace has been raised to believe her real mother died, and Isabel had no idea that her daughter was raised by her father in the first place. Once all the convoluted pieces of this triangle have been laid out, Freundlich cedes control to Williams as Isabel wrestles with sudden motherhood and whether it comes equipped with immediate responsibilities. Plus: Why did Theresa bring her out here in the first place?
The answer to that question arrives late in the game, and does a disservice to the idea of burgeoning parenthood that makes some of the initial scenes click. At times, Isabel's disgust for the wealthy surroundings that dominate the family's world hint at the potential for a dark materialist satire, especially once she confronts Oscar about it. "There are people with money and principles," she shoots back at him. If only the movie dug more into this philosophical conflict; instead, it hovers in mounting tensions between Theresa and Isabel, who resists the older woman's desire to finance Isabel's entire existence until she's trapped by genuine concern for the future of all concerned parties. There are flashes of subtle resentment to Williams' performance that register as some of her best work in ages, so it's unfortunate that the movie's calculated assemblage of sentimental beats dominate the show.
Of course, there's an audience for this sort of unapologetic schmaltz, as Bier already proved; viewed on its own terms, the remake does competent lip-service to the original. Like Moore's recent work in another English-language remake, the endearing shot-for-shot remake of Chilean sensation "Gloria," Freundlich's project seemingly alters the material with a major update that should theoretically transform "After the Wedding" into a story of strong-willed women. Instead, it's a slavish imitation of a story about strong-willed men, with talented women at once outshining the material and highlighting its limitations all over again.
"After the Wedding" premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
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Flash Mob at Edgewater featured on CNN!
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The 1,700-person flash mob at Edgewater pool, performed by a youth ministry group from North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, GA, was featured on CNN! How cool is that? View the CNN video here, or view The Resort Collection's video here!


Managing expenses while travelling abroad is the most basic and, at the same time, a primary concern. The reason is simple. It is not just about being on the trip but, also managing your avenues to get to the destination, living there and then coming back. Yes, we can manage these however, the most challenging, yet not impossible, the task is of buying forex. Buying forex is something you need to figure out even before you board that plane. If it still sounds like a cakewalk to you, then note these points below to ensure that it indeed is a cakewalk for you every time you plan to travel abroad.
Before that, we would like you to know that Thomas Cook's current forex offer where you will get Rs. 6000 off on your next holiday on buying Forex Card. Check out the offer here.
It is important that you are prepared well in advance for your travel. Since your expenses are amongst the major parameters, it is very important for you to know about the currency of your destination and the applicable exchange rates. This will in turn help you decide when and where to buy the foreign exchange currency.
When you step out to purchase forex in advance of your travel date it gives you the flexibility to decide whether it is the right time to buy forex based on the exchange rate. In short, when the exchange rate is high you can basically give it some time to check if the rate reduces any lower.
Do not misunderstand me when I say that spend all your foreign money. Even I personally believe in saving. However, the context here is different. If you come to think of it, whenever you are selling off your leftover foreign currency, you are losing money! The logic is very simple – it's because you are exchanging your money twice! Unless your family abroad gifted you some good luck money ?.
There are many vendors out there that deal in forex transactions. Each one, however, offers a different exchange rate. Therefore, it is very important for you to do your thorough research and figure out a vendor offering the best exchange rates. After all, every penny counts.
This one will come in as a very cost-effective strategy, if you end up practising it thoroughly. Just figure out a tentative amount of total cost that you think you will incur throughout your trip. Then keep 30% of that amount with you in cash and pre-fill the remaining 70% in your forex card. Of course, you can't roam around in a foreign country with loads of cash stuffed in your pocket everywhere you go. Moreover, the pre-filled forex cards are very hassle-free to use and your money remains secure.
Hordes of vendors are flocking out there dealing in forex transactions. So, it is important for you to ensure that whoever you are dealing with is 100% genuine and is an authorised dealer by the governing of the country you are buying forex from. Otherwise, it hardly takes any time to get duped.
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These aren't the same. Get rid of the misconception. When you swipe your international debit card abroad you are spending in Indian currency. Plus, you are charged a conversion fee of the exchange rate, at the time of transaction, every time you swipe your debit card. Your forex card is pre-loaded and with a locked-in exchange rate at the time of purchase.
Don't do that. Instead try splitting it in different portions. Exchange some in local currency, some in US dollars and keep some in your bank account. This way, in case anything goes wrong and you lose all your cash, you still have something to rely on and instead of being left stranded. Plus, for US dollars some countries will offer you better deals during the time of making purchases.
Avoid buying forex from vendors at the airports. They all have different exchange rates, which are substantially high and ultimately you will lose a lot of money in the bargain.
This has now become old school and you've got other better options to buy forex. Not many dealers are available anyway to encash travellers cheques, and owning one will only cause hassle encashing more than anything else.
Managing expenses while travelling abroad is the most basic. Buying forex is something you need to figure out even before you board that plane.


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Knockin – wieś w Anglii, w hrabstwie Shropshire. Leży 19 km na północny zachód od miasta Shrewsbury i 243 km na północny zachód od Londynu.

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AWI forecasts $25M dip into reserves following record low revenue2 months, 2 weeks ago
AWI forecasts $25M dip into reserves following record low revenue
Victoria Nugent@@victoriajnugent 16 Nov 2021, 11 a.m.
Australian Wool Innovation expects to dip significantly into its reserves in the next financial year, after recording its lowest ever annual revenue.
Australian Wool Innovation forecasts that the company will dip into its reserves by about $25 million next year, after annual revenue fell to its lowest level ever during the 2020 and 2021 financial year.
Australian Wool Innovation predicts it will need to take $25 million from its reserves next year, after annual revenue fell to its lowest level ever.
The figures are according to the company's most recent annual report, and include forecast revenue for the next financial year.
With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to affect the wool industry, AWI recorded a revenue of under $57 million for the most recent financial year, down from about $69 million the previous year.
The report also shows that AWI spent about $4 million from its reserves this year to leave about $111 million in the coffers.
The actual reserves spend was $11 million lower than the $15 million forecast by the previous annual report.
This year's annual report suggests that the reliance on reserves is tipped to grow even further.
Overall a revenue of about $51 million is forecast for the next financial year, along with an expenditure of about $76 million .
Forecast reserves are placed at about $86 million, showing that an anticipated $25 million is expected to be taken out of the current reserves.
If the forecast figures prove correct, that will take the reserves to their lowest level in eight years.
The forecast figures, which were calculated in July, include levy income forecast based on an EMI of 1,200/kg clean.
AWI chairman Jock Laurie said the drop in revenue for the last financial year had to do with a combination of the 1.5 per cent levy and the effects of COVID including the eastern market indicator price slide.
"We know where production is going to sit within reason but when you get those shocks to the market through external things... in a lot of cases you can't pick those coming and that's most certainly the case with COVID," he said.
"The previous 2pc levy allowed the company to build up some stocks, which actually allowed us to manage the COVID situation a bit better.
"Now of course moving forward if the revenue levels stay as low as they are, it has to impact on investment."
The year saw AWI decrease its annual expenditure to $61 million, 21 per cent lower than the previous year, which in turn was 22pc down on the year before.
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As part of its cost cutting measures, AWI cut its staff numbers by 33 to 141.
Despite the continuing pandemic, AWI is remaining optimistic that the relaxing of lockdowns in the Northern Hemisphere market will help bring the level of wool buying by processors back to more normal levels during the second half of the year, as brands develop their autumn and winter collections for 2022 and 2023.
"What I think people are starting to see is vaccination rates are getting higher, countries are opening up, you're starting to see a bit of bounce in some of the economic activity," Mr Laurie said.
"Whenever you've got strong economic activity then that's good and you've got to make sure you've got wool positioned in that right place to be able to take advantage of that.
"I think things look a lot more positive now than they did 12 to 18 months ago... but you don't know what problems variants of COVID are going to cause, nationally or internationally.
"It's just a time to be very cautious."
AWI is due to hold its annual general meeting and board director election this Friday.
The story AWI forecasts $25M dip into reserves following record low revenue first appeared on Farm Online.


Yesterday TJHN published a story concerning Henry Lazar and organizations he represents. Within that story some general information mentioning the Maccabi Games was disclosed. The only reason the Maccabi Games were mentioned, or people involved in those games were mentioned was because TJHN did not want to over edit the basis for the story.
TJHN supports the Maccabi Games core values as they relate to developing athletes and people who are well grounded and connected to their community as we would any other similar games. TJHN also supports all of the the people who volunteer that make those and any other games possible. One persons actions should not reflect on all of the other people involved.
In that regard we would like to inform our readers on just what the Maccabi Games are all about.
The Maccabiah Games were first held in 1932 and now take place in Israel every four years. The 19th Maccabiah Games are scheduled for next July and are expected to draw 7,000 Jewish athletes from 50+ countries, competing in 35 sports. It is the third largest international athletic competition, behind only the Olympics and the World University Games.
Several Olympic Gold Medalists have competed in the Maccabiah Games including swimmer Mark Spitz, Lenny Krayzelburg and Jason Lezak, and gymnasts Kerry Strug and Mitch Gaylord. NBA players Dolf Shayes and Ernie Grunfeld also competed and coached in the Maccabiah. Two members of Team USA at the last World Cup soccer competition were also former Maccabiah athletes — Jonathan Bornstein and Benny Feilhaber.
Maccabi USA is the US based organization responsible for sending our delegation to the Maccabiah Games every four years. The goal of the organization is to use international sports competition to strengthen Jewish identity and promote an enhanced connection to the State of Israel. The Maccabiah Games are much more than an athletic competition. In addition to competing and bonding with Jewish athletes from all over the US and the world, members of Team USA participate in a special week long program during which they explore Israel, tour historic and religious sites and develop a strong connection to the Jewish homeland.
Hockey was first included in the Maccabiah in 1997 when Israel, USA, Canada, and Ukraine competed. Canada won the gold, followed by the US and Israel. Two NHL players competed in the first Maccabiah — David Nemirovsky (Canada) and Mike Hartman (USA). The US and Canadian rosters were made up primarily of College, Major Junior, and minor pro players.
Hockey has not been played since due to a lack of an available fourth team (Israel, US, and Canada have always been interested but we've had no success getting a fourth). Hockey will be making a return to the Maccabiah in 2013 and will include France and potentially Russia in addition to ISR, US, and Can. Competition will be held in three categories — Junior ('95 and '96 birth years); Open; and Masters (40 and up).
The games will be played in the Canada Center, Israel's only regulation ice rink which is located in Mettula, a small city located on the northern border with Lebanon.
All of the Ice Hockey staff member are volunteers.
Tryouts for the team will be held August 17-19 in Warwick, PA, outside of Philadelphia. Visit the Maccabi USA website www.maccabiusa.com for more information.
This year's USA team will be coached by NHL Broadcaster (and 1997 Maccabi Team member) Billy Jaffe. He will join by current Dallas Stars forward Eric Nystrom on the bench. Team Canada will be led by Stanley Cup winning coach Mike Keenan.
TJHN would like to thank Devra Schorr Maccabi USA Ice Hockey Co-Chair for providing this information.


The National Safety Council (NSC) has just released a report revealing that traffic deaths rose yet again in 2016. Among the greatest contributors to traffic deaths was drunken driving. A union between a federal safety agency and a research group focusing on drunk driving testing could yield a solution to this issue.
2015 was the first year in 50 years where deaths on the road increased over the previous year's total. Now, it appears that traffic deaths have gone up for a second straight year, causing the highest number of roadway fatalities since 2007. The NSC released its preliminary estimates of total motor vehicle deaths in the US, showing that 40,200 people died in auto accidents in 2016. This is a 6% increase over 2015's total, and a 14% increase over 2014's total.
Deborah Horsman, the president of the NSC, noted that over 90% of all traffic deaths can be attributed to a human error, and that lawmakers and drivers alike need to take responsibility for the continual rise in traffic deaths. "Our complacency is killing us. Americans believe there is nothing we can do to stop crashes from happening, but that isn't true. We lag the rest of the developed world in addressing highway fatalities," she stated during a recent press conference. To wit, the top three factors present in over 85% of all fatal accidents are alcohol use, speeding, and distracted driving, with 30.8% of all driving deaths attributable to alcohol use.
In an attempt to address this problem, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has teamed up with the research group Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety (DADSS). DADSS is currently investigating systems which could come installed in vehicles and would automatically test the blood alcohol levels of drivers through either their breath or touch to determine if they are safe to drive. Rather than simply disabling the vehicle entirely, these systems would allow the engine to start so that drivers could turn on the heat and air conditioning and charge their phones, but not to drive. DADSS has teamed up with two auto accessory manufacturers to create prototypes of the systems, which would be sold as an optional safety feature in cars akin to automatic braking or lane-departure warning systems.
If you've been the victim of a crash in Idaho caused by a drunk driver or an otherwise careless driver, contact the seasoned, knowledgeable, and trial-ready Twin Falls personal injury lawyers at Pedersen & Whitehead for a consultation on your case, at 208-734-2552, and in Boise at 208-336-2552.