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Inspiring Women: Meet the Country Music Exec Who's Changing the Game
Beth Laird is the co-founder and CEO of Nashville-based Creative Nation.
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She's a passionate music executive. He's a songwriter who's written mega country hits for stars like Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, and Little Big Town. Together Beth and Luke Laird are the husband and wife team behind Creative Nation, a music publishing and management company based in Nashville. They are very clearly a fabulous duo personally (they're parents of two boys) and professionally (Creative Nation has sent over 40 songs to radio over the last six years).
The Lairds have continued to expand Creative Nation since its start in 2011 and now they have a roster that includes singer-songwriters like Barry Dean, Kassi Ashton, Lori McKenna, and more. The company prides itself on being a boutique shop where everyone brings something unique to the team. It's a refreshing philosophy, especially in the music business.
To get a bit more insight into the scene, we chatted with Beth about the music business, how she got this far, and the best part of her day.
Tell us about Creative Nation and a little about what you do.
Creative Nation is a music company in Nashville, TN founded by my husband, Luke, and I in 2011. We focus on being strategic and over-serving our 11 songwriter clients in all facets of their careers to help them fulfill their creative dreams. That looks different for each client, but some of the services we provide are music publishing, management, artist development, and records.
What makes Creative Nation different than most music publishing companies? Why are those things important to you and Luke?
There are a lot of great, talented songwriters and employees in the music business, but we really pride ourselves on working with people that specifically fit our culture and make the whole company better. Each writer and staff member brings something unique to our team and we love to bring out that uniqueness to help people grow and succeed. Having the right people on the team is important to us because we all challenge each other to be the best we can be and have a lot of fun doing it.
What are three things that got you to where you are today?
People believed in me along the way and offered me opportunities that I took full advantage of. Without those opportunities and those people, I wouldn't be here. First, Regina Stuve gave me an internship in the music business and her husband Ron hired me as the receptionist at BMG Music Publishing. Also, Jody Williams hired me at BMI and was an incredible mentor to me when I needed to learn and grow the most. He was even supportive when I told him Luke and I had the opportunity to start Creative Nation and I had to leave BMI. And finally, my husband Luke believed in me so much that we sold his publishing catalog, put the money in a bank account, and started Creative Nation together.
Luke and Beth Laird (left) at the ACM Awards.
What is the hardest part of your job? How do you keep balanced?
The hardest part of my job is the responsibility that comes along with owning your own company. I don't take it lightly that all these writers and employees have chosen our team. I want to do the best job I can to help them fulfill their creative dreams and support their families. That responsibility is a lot more than I anticipated because ultimately I have to make the final decisions. I balance it by taking one day at a time and one task at a time. I ask a lot of questions and get as much information as I can before I make a decision then I let it go and move on to the next.
What did it mean to you to be named in Billboard's '30 Under 30 Power Players to Watch' list a few years ago?
It was a big deal for me and validated that I had chosen the right career path. It also felt really great to know that my peers thought I was doing a good job. It's great to be recognized by your industry and peers but there really is nothing better than the joy of helping a creative person accomplish their goals, big or small.
What is your biggest career accomplishment so far?
When we started Creative Nation, we put enough money in the bank to run CN for 5 years. We took a big risk so when we celebrated our 5 year anniversary on 11/1/2016 it was a huge milestone and we had a big show and party to celebrate. Knowing that we were successful and could keep building the company the way we wanted to was a huge accomplishment for Luke and me.
Lori McKenna, a singer on the Creative Nation roster
What is your favorite part of your day?
When I get to dream with my songwriter clients about their goals and brainstorm ways to help accomplish them.
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We Are All Directly Impacted: Mapping Societal Wellness, Institutions, and Self
By Mount Tamalpais College | February 28, 2020
3/10/2020 UPDATE: Due to the threat of COVID-19, the academic conference has been postponed. Please check back for more information soon.
The Prison University Project will host its second academic conference at San Quentin State Prison on April 17, 2020, from 8AM-3PM. The conference, conceived and planned by a committee of Prison University Project students and staff, will involve panels of incarcerated and nonincarcerated scholars. Our conference in 2018 demonstrated the influential perspective shifts that can occur when different communities contribute to dialog around central debates, and we are excited to continue the conversations.
This year, our theme is "We Are All Directly Impacted: Mapping Societal Wellness, Institutions, and Self." Starting with the observation that both self and institution are socially constructed, our conference aims to explore the ways in which pathways to reaching our individual full potential intersect and conflict with the various social contracts and norms that we are born into. Some institutions, like marriage, effectively create more rights for many participants, while others, like prison, purport to create a safer society by denying rights to those people within its confines. In a similar vein, some institutions like higher education are exclusive to varying degrees, while others, like gender, are largely assigned at birth and difficult to opt out of. At various times throughout the history of this nation, the freedom to drink alcohol, love or marry whom one wants, have various medical procedures, and travel freely, have been deemed detrimental to a healthy society, at the expense of personal wellness. Conversely, institutions that perform policing, military operations, border control, and health or education are considered by many to be essential to our personal wellness.
We will discuss these topics and more at our conference:
What is wellness? Is it possible in the context of institutions?
How do the individual and the institution intersect?
What roles can institutions play in helping individuals reach their full potential?
What institutions are missing from our society?
What are some empirical indicators of societal wellness? How could these indicators be improved?
What are pathways for people with different political ideologies or identities to dialog more effectively?
How do wellness and freedom play out across societal structures, identities, and communities?
How do different social ways of being affect personal wellness?
What roles can or should individuals play to help systems or institutions reach their full potential?
How should society respond to people who don't conform to our institutions or norms?
How can institutions of education be reimagined to help more people reach their full potential?
The Prison University Project has been running a college for people incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison since 1996. We run twenty classes each semester and have over 700 active students. The mission of the Prison University Project is to provide an intellectually rigorous, inclusive Associate of Arts degree program and college preparatory program, free of charge, to people at San Quentin State Prison; to expand access to quality higher education for incarcerated people; and to foster the values of equity, civic engagement, independence of thought, and freedom of expression.
Unfortunately, it won't be possible to have non-presenters attend the conference because of severe space limitations. Please send any questions to conference@prinsonuniversityproject.org.
For more info on last year's conference, see our news post, "San Quentin's First Academic Conference: "Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reform—21st Century Solutions for 20th Century Problems."
Announcing the Mount Tamalpais College Alumni Scholarship
Save the Date for Reaching Higher

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As a parent, I know that each of my children has a different learning style and speed. And this is true for parents across Kentucky. Some students need more personalized attention while others need a fast-paced environment that keeps their mind moving at a rapid pace, and that's okay! With that reality in mind, Kentucky must ensure all students are given the opportunity to learn in an environment that helps them succeed. Scholarship tax credits can help make this opportunity a reality for students across Kentucky.
Let's begin with the basics- Scholarship tax credit programs are a form of school choice that allow donors – businesses and individuals – to receive a state tax credit in return for their contribution to a qualified Scholarship Granting Organization (SGOs). SGOs use donated funds to award scholarships to low– and middle– income students who need an alternative to traditional public education. Scholarships can be used for tuition, and basic educational needs, at a non-public school of the family's choice. Scholarship Tax Credits also benefit developmentally disabled students who can use the funds for school choice and other educational needs.
Under the current proposal, SGOs will be established as 501(c)(3)'s and distribute at least 90% of tax credit eligible contributions to student scholarships. Scholarships are awarded on a needs-basis. Students will be eligible to receive a scholarship if their family's income does not exceed 200 percent of the guidelines needed to qualify for the reduced-price lunch program. Developmentally-disabled students will be eligible if their family's income does not exceed 250 percent of the guidelines needed to qualify for the reduced-price lunch program.
The program will be capped at $25 million in the first year and will increase by 25% the following year if 90% of the tax credit is used in the first year. 25 of 28 studies show that scholarship tax credit programs save states money. The 3 remaining studies show a neutral impact on state budgets.
Most important to this issue is how it benefits students. A scholarship tax credit program is all about the kids! This proposal is about investing in the lives of students who are at a disadvantage because of their socioeconomic status. Scholarship tax credits are not about public vs. private schools. Public schools have and will continue to serve students across the state, but for those students who might get lost in the shuffle we need an alternative that will help them grow!
I am proud to support this measure that puts the needs of individual students first! I hope you will continue to learn about the benefits of a scholarship tax credit program. EdChoice KY will continue to release explainers answering questions on the subject. Stay Tuned!


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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › District Courts › West Virginia › Southern District of West Virginia › 1956 › United States v. Kinsella
United States v. Kinsella, 137 F. Supp. 806 (S.D.W. Va. 1956)
US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia - 137 F. Supp. 806 (S.D.W. Va. 1956)
137 F. Supp. 806 (1956)
UNITED STATES of America on the relation of Walter KRUEGER
Nina KINSELLA, Warden of the Federal Reformatory for Women, Alderson, West Virginia.
No. 1726.
United States District Court S. D. West Virginia.
John C. Morrison, Charleston, W. Va., Frederick Bernays Wiener, Washington, D. C., Adam Richmond, Bethesda, Md., for relator.
Duncan W. Daugherty, U. S. Atty., Huntington, W. Va., Percy H. Brown, Asst. U. S. Atty., Hinton, W. Va., Lt. Colonel James W. Booth, JAGC and Lt. Colonel Cecil L. Forinash, JAGC, Judge *807 Advocate General's Corps, U. S. Army, for respondent.
MOORE, Chief Judge.
On January 10, 1953, Mrs. Dorothy Krueger Smith was convicted by a United States Army general court-martial, sitting in Tokyo, Japan, of the premeditated murder of her husband, Colonel Aubrey D. Smith. The killing occurred on the night of October 3 or early morning of October 4, 1952, at the quarters occupied by the couple within the area of the Washington Heights Housing Project.
Mrs. Smith was sentenced to imprisonment for life. She appealed through all available military channels, but her conviction and sentence were finally affirmed by the Court of Military Appeals on December 30, 1954. She is now held as a prisoner in the Federal Reformatory for Women, a United States Government Penal Institution located at Alderson, in the Southern Judicial District of West Virginia. Her father, General Walter Krueger, U. S. Army, retired, filed a petition with this Court on December 9, 1955, praying for a writ of habeas corpus on her behalf, and for her release from imprisonment on the ground that the court-martial lacked jurisdiction to try her.
I awarded the preliminary writ, and on December 20, 1955, Mrs. Smith was brought into court at Charleston by the respondent, Nina Kinsella, Warden of the institution where she is confined. The only evidence, aside from the allegations and admissions in the petition and return, were the certified record of the entire proceedings in the military courts and boards, both trial and appellate, and a copy of the petition recently filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in the case of Clarice B. Covert v. Curtis Reid, Super-intendent of the District of Columbia jail. Counsel were given unlimited time to present their arguments, as well as time to file further briefs in addition to those submitted prior to the hearing.
It is pertinent to observe here that Brigadier General Onslow S. Rolfe, Commander of Headquarters and Service Command, Far East Command, detailed several officers from other commands to serve on the court-martial, among whom was Major General Joseph P. Sullivan. General Sullivan's service was with the concurrence of his commanding officer, General Mark Clark, Commander in Chief, Far East Command. All the other officers who were to sit on the court-martial were subordinate in rank to General Rolfe.
Mrs. Smith, who was represented at the trial and in all stages of her appeal by Brigadier General Adam Richmond, a retired officer of long legal and military experience, made no objection to the composition of the court-martial before any military court. The challenge is brought forth at this hearing for the first time.
In attacking the jurisdiction of the court-martial, petitioner advances two arguments:
1. That the court was illegally constituted, in that one of the officers who composed it was a Major General, where-as the convening officer was a Brigadier General;
2. That Mrs. Smith, being a civilian, was not subject to the Code of Military Justice, 50 U.S.C.A. § 551 et seq., under the circumstances which prevailed at the time of the alleged offense and at the time of her trial.
The requirements for eligibility to sit as a member of a general court-martial are set out in Article 25 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 50 U.S.C. A. § 589, as follows:
"Any officer on active duty with the armed forces shall be eligible to serve on all courts-martial for the trial of any person who may lawfully be brought before such courts for trial."
There is thus no doubt that Major General Sullivan was eligible in the ordinary sense of the word, to serve as a member of a general court-martial. It is argued by counsel for petitioner that "eligibility" necessarily includes inferiority in rank to the convening officer; *808 and that, since Brigadier General Rolfe, being subordinate in rank to Major General Sullivan, had no authority to order the latter to do anything, he could not therefore make him a member of a general court-martial.
At most, this argument turns on a mere technicality. It is not even pretended that Mrs. Smith suffered any disadvantage, or that her rights were in any way affected by the presence of Major General Sullivan as a member of the court-martial. Actually, General Sullivan was acting under the orders of his superior officer, General Mark Clark. The Manual for Courts-Martial provides for situations of this kind by the following language (see Manual for Courts-Martial, 1951, subparagraph 4f).
"Appointment of members and law officers from other commands of the same armed force. The convening authority may, with the concurrence of their proper commander, appoint as members of a court-martial * * * eligible persons of the same armed force who are not otherwise under his command. Concurrence of the proper commander may be oral and need not be evidenced by the record of trial".
General Rolfe's convening of the court was an administrative, as distinguished from an operational command. In civil affairs, it would be regarded merely as an appointment, and it is so referred to in the above excerpt from the Manual for Courts-Martial. I can find nothing in the Code of Military Justice to indicate that in performing such a function distinctions of rank are important. Possibly General Sullivan might have had grounds based on seniority of rank for declining to sit on the court; possibly Mrs. Smith might have objected at the time to his sitting; but he having willingly acceded to the convening order, and she not having objected at any time to his sitting as a member of the court-martial, I hold that the objection to General Sullivan as a member of the court-martial, if there was a substantial objection, has been waived, and cannot now be raised. The applicable rule of decision is found in the case of Swaim v. United States, 165 U.S. 553, 17 S. Ct. 448, 41 L. Ed. 823, rather than in McClaughry v. Deming, 186 U.S. 49, 22 S. Ct. 786, 46 L. Ed. 1049, relied on by petitioner.
Having concluded that the technical or procedural objection to the jurisdiction of the court-martial is without merit, I am forced to consider the constitutional question raised by the petitioner.
Counsel for petitioner very frankly says that the present effort to procure Mrs. Smith's release on this writ of habeas corpus stems from the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of United States of America ex rel. Toth v. Quarles, 1955, 350 U.S. 11, 76 S. Ct. 1, followed by the action of the District Court of the District of Columbia in freeing Mrs. Clarice Covert in circumstances very similar to those which surround Mrs. Smith. The Covert case has not yet been reported.
I think the Toth case is readily distinguishable. Toth was a civilian residing in the continental United States, who, at the time charges were made against him, had no connection with the armed forces. The decision in that case turned on the right of Toth to claim the protection of those Constitutional guaranties which secure to persons accused of crime in this country, except those who are in the land or naval forces, the traditional safeguards which accompany every criminal trial in the civil courts. Chief among these are the right to have the charge, if a felony, presented to a grand jury, the right to trial by jury, and to have these rights passed on by courts whose judges are a part of our Constitutional system of civil courts. Not all of these safeguards are or can be provided in a trial by court-martial.
In the Covert case the status of the petitioner was that of a person who, having been charged and convicted by a United States Army court-martial in a foreign land, was now within the borders of the United States, her conviction *809 reversed, and she, no longer a follower of the army, merely awaiting trial on the original charge. Judge Tamm thought that under these circumstances the principle announced in the Toth case obliged him to grant her freedom pursuant to the writ of habeas corpus. I do not think it necessary, because of the different circumstances in the case before me, either to adopt or reject his reasoning.
Mrs. Smith's situation differed from that of Toth in at least two significant respects:
(1) She was not living in the United States, nor present there when she was charged with the murder of her husband;
(2) She was connected with the army as a person "accompanying the armed forces without the continental limits of the United States"; both when she committed the act and when she was arrested and tried for it.
It may be useful at this point to examine the sections of Article 2 of the Code of Military Justice, "Title 50, U.S. C.A., § 552," which specify the conditions under which persons accompanying the armed forces may be tried by court-martial.
The pertinent sections of Article 2 read as follows:
"The following persons are subject to this chapter:
"(10) In time of war, all persons serving with or accompanying an armed force in the field;
"(11) Subject to the provisions of any treaty or agreement to which the United States is or may be a party or to any accepted rule of international law, all persons serving with, employed by, or accompanying the armed forces without the continental limits of the United States * * *."
It is to be observed that Article 2(10) gives unlimited court-martial jurisdiction over followers of the army in time of war and in the field. While it is not argued by counsel for petitioner that Article 2(10) in any way exceeds the Constitutional power of Congress, it is proper, I think, to point out the distinctions drawn by Congress itself between Article 2(10) and Article 2(11).
The reason for such a broad grant of court-martial jurisdiction in time of war is obvious. It is essential that the operations of an army in the field be unobstructed by the acts of any person, whatever his status. Even if the Constitution were silent on the subject, military commanders in the field of war would nevertheless have the usual and necessary court-martial powers by virtue of the law of war itself. Congress having been granted in the Constitution, art. 1, § 8, the powers to "declare War" and to "raise and support Armies," as well as to "make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces", the last mentioned power, insofar as it is to operate in time of war, is referable to the others, and is co-extensive in scope with the law of war under which court-martial jurisdiction is permitted over certain classes of civilians. Madsen v. Kinsella, 1952, 343 U.S. 341, 72 S. Ct. 699, 96 L. Ed. 988.
Article 2(11) is not limited to a time of war or to the field of action. It purports to extend the coverage of the Code of Military Justice (and hence the jurisdiction of courts-martial) to all persons "accompanying the armed forces" abroad. This coverage, however, is conditional. If some accepted rule of international law or the terms of some treaty or agreement to which the United States is a party are applicable to a particular case, then by its own limitations Article 2(11) does not come into play.
Now, it is a well recognized maxim of the law of nations that a citizen of one country who commits a local crime in another country is amenable to the laws of the latter. In the absence of a treaty he is entitled to claim no extra-territorial rights. If he believes himself to have been unfairly dealt with, his only recourse is through diplomatic *810 channels. From this maxim flows the principle, recognized by the Supreme Court in the case of In re Ross, 1891, 140 U.S. 453, 11 S. Ct. 897, 35 L. Ed. 581 and never repudiated in any case that I have found, that the United States Constitution gives no protection to persons accused of committing local crimes in foreign countries.
Counsel for petitioner, in his brief and in argument, has cited several cases from which he argues that the doctrine that the Constitution does not "follow the flag" is outmoded, and is not now the law. United States v. Flores, 1933, 289 U.S. 137, 53 S. Ct. 580, 77 L. Ed. 1086; Blackmer v. United States, 1932, 284 U.S. 421, 52 S. Ct. 252, 76 L. Ed. 375; United States v. Bowman, 1922, 260 U.S. 94, 43 S. Ct. 39, 67 L. Ed. 149; Jones v. United States, 1890, 137 U.S. 202, 11 S. Ct. 80, 34 L. Ed. 691; Best v. United States, 1 Cir., 1950, 184 F.2d 131. On examination of these cases it is found that in every instance the crime involved was one denounced by some statute of the United States, and triable in some one of our District Courts. In no instance has it been even contended that a person accused of a purely local crime in a foreign country may claim any of the procedural rights guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States.
It is plain, therefore, that the rule of United States ex rel. Toth v. Quarles does not apply here. Still, as I have indicated, it is not enough to find that the provisions of our Bill of Rights and other prohibitory sections of our Constitution did not stand between Mrs. Smith and her trial by court-martial. If the jurisdiction is to be sustained, we must go farther, and discover in that instrument an affirmative grant of Congressional power, either expressly or by necessary implication.
It is in evidence that in the year 1952 the newly re-organized Government of Japan entered into a treaty with the United States, which was duly ratified by the Senate. By an administrative agreement implementing that treaty, the Japanese Government ceded to the United States, through its military courts and authorities, all jurisdiction to try offenses committed in Japan by dependents of members of the armed forces, excluding those of Japanese nationality. Had this treaty been in effect at the time Article 2(11) of the Code of Military Justice was enacted, it might be cited as the source of Congressional power to pass this act; but it would scarcely be contended, I think, that a piece of legislation, if it were void for lack of constitutional authority when passed, could be validated by a later treaty, even though Congress might subsequently act freely in that field. However, the treaty did remove the limitations which in its absence would have prevented Article 2(11) from taking effect, in that upon the ratification of the treaty there was no longer any "accepted rule of international law" or any treaty to the contrary which interfered with its operation.
I am driven to the conclusion that Constitutional authority for subjecting civilians accompanying the armed forces to court-martial discipline in time of peace, if such exists, must be found in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, by one of the clauses of which section the power is bestowed on Congress "To make rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces", as supplemented by the "necessary and proper" clause.
Courts are slow to reject as unconstitutional a law which has been duly passed by Congress. Congressmen as well as Judges take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States. It is not probable that in any session of that body there should be a dearth of members who are themselves expert in the field of Constitutional law. It is not to be lightly supposed, therefore, that Congress would enact such an important bit of legislation as that which we have under consideration without a careful inquiry into the scope of its own Constitutional power. True it is that if a law of Congress clearly transgresses *811 some positive prohibition expressed in the Constitution it is the duty of a court to strike it down; but where, as here, the problem is merely to find authority for an act which is not forbidden by that instrument, we must proceed more cautiously. In view of the "necessary and proper" clause, we must weigh in the scales in favor of the law's validity every circumstance which may be reasonably assumed to have influenced its enactment. As was said by Chief Justice Marshall in the celebrated case of McCulloch v. State of Maryland, 1819, 4 Wheat. 316, 4 L.Ed. 579:
"We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constitutional * * * where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects intrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity, would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground."
Since the end of World War II segments of the armed forces of the United States have been stationed in many nations throughout the world. In the interest of keeping the morale of the troops on a high level, the government has encouraged the wives of soldiers to accompany them and live with them at their various posts, and has expended vast sums of money in transportation and maintenance charges for that purpose. It was said in argument and not disputed that there are now no fewer than a quarter of a million civilians of all descriptions accompanying the armed forces without the continental limits of the United States and the territories mentioned in Article 2(11) of the Code of Military Justice. In the existing circumstances, if these civilians are to be exempt from discipline by the military forces in the only available way, namely, by court-martial procedure, a most serious situation is presented. They must then either be subject in all respects to the local laws of the countries where they are stationed, or else they are left free from all restraints whatsoever.
Though I reject the contention of counsel for respondent that a civilian in Mrs. Smith's situation is "part" of the armed forces, nevertheless I cannot say with certainty that the power of Congress to provide for court-martial discipline of these civilians accompanying the armed forces abroad is not necessarily and properly incident to the express power "To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces". Neither the Toth case nor any other expression by the Supreme Court compels such a conclusion. Therefore, I must uphold Article 2(11) of the Code of Military Justice in its entirety.
The writ of habeas corpus will be discharged.


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Filippo Abbiati (1640–1715) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period, active in Lombardy and Turin, together with Andrea Lanzani and Stefano Maria Legnani, he was a prominent mannerist painters from the School of Lombardy. Born in Milan, he was a pupil of the painter Antonio Busca. Alessandro Magnasco was one of his pupils along with Pietro Maggi and Giuseppe Rivola. Ticozzi claims he trained, along with Federigo Bianchi, with Carlo Francesco Nuvolone. Along with Bianchi, he painted the cupola of Sant'Alessandro Martire in Milan. Abbiati also painted a St. John preaching in the Wilderness for a church in Saronno.

Filippo Abbiati was an apprentice of Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, of whom he resumed the fluid touch and taste for the spacious and luminous foundations, and then of Antonio Busca. He was mainly influenced by the early seventeenth-century painting of Lombardy, by the works of Cerano, Morazzone and Procaccini. Later, he get acquainted with  the Roman Baroque up to the first manifestations of the Rococo. Being in contact with the Venetian painting of Federico Bencovich and Sebastiano Ricci he influenced his apprentices Pietro Maggi and Giuseppe Rivola in this direction. Alessandro Magnasco also belonged to his school.

Abbiati developed his copious production especially in Milan and around it but the information on his life is scarce. In 1671 he produced a canvas, that was lost, for the Milanese church of Santa Maria del Carmine and another, also no longer existing, for the Scuola di San Giovanni in Murano, which suggests his presence in Venice, while one of his trip to Rome before 1674 was hypothesized to explain the influence of Roman painting in his painting of Blessed Tolomeo, preserved in the Milanese church of San Vittore al Corpo.

For the Sanctuary of the Beata Vergine dei Miracoli in Saronno he painted the altarpiece of the Preaching of St. John the Baptist (1677), perhaps together with Luca Borromeo, and a David; in 1688 La caduta della manna (The Gathering of the Manna) was also painted there.

In 1680, three canvases were commissioned for the church of San Sebastiano, in Milan. His masterpieces are considered the frescoes on the counter-façade, in the choir and in the dome of the Milanese church of Sant'Alessandro. He executed them from 1683 to 1696 in collaboration with Federico Bianchi.  Though it is not easy to distinguish the work of one artist from the other, some claim that only The Triumph of the Holy Trinity, in the dome, and The Scenes of the life of Saint Alexander, in the choir, are of his own hand. Around the same period, he painted The Council of Ephesus for the church of Santa Maria del Carmine and 31 paintings with scenes from the life of Saint Lawrence for the Cathedral of Novara.

In 1700 he received payments for his contribution to funeral ceremonies in honor of Emperor Charles II. Around that year he painted for the church of Sant'Antonio the scenes of The life of Sant'Andrea Avellino, The Sant'Antonio Converts a Heretic, The Saint Peter Martyr Unmasks a False Madonna and The Miracle of the Mule, the latter two currently preserved in the Diocesan Museum of Milan.

His activity in later years was not documented. Abbiati died in Milan.

Works
The Solemn Entrance of Charles Borromeo in Milan (1670–80), from the Quadroni of St. Charles, Milan Cathedral
 Portrait of Filippo Pirogalli (around 1677), Milan, Ospedale Maggiore
 Birth of Mary (around 1680),  Santa Maria dei Miracoli Basilica, Morbio Inferiore, Switzerland
 Apparition of the Virgin (1683–85), musée Calvet, Avignon, oil on canvas, 55 × 66 cm
 Self-Portrait, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
 History of St Andrea of Avellino, Sant'Antonio Abate, Milan
 Apparition of Virgin to Pope Honorius III, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Pavia
 San Siro before the Pope, Pavia Cathedral
 David, Moses at Sant'Agostino, Pavia
 St John Preaching in the Wilderness, a church in Saronno

His other works are at the Pinacoteca Carrara in Bergamo and the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan.

References

 Content was translated from the corresponding article on the Italian Wikipedia

Further reading

 Getty ULAN entry.

1640 births
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The relationship between Tesla and Marconi is a fascinating study!
While Tesla has become a popular figure to Revisionist Scientists in the last ten years, Marconi is still largely unknown and seen as an usurper of Tesla's inventions. Yet Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), was a brilliant scientist, and, in fact, Tesla's close friend.
In the esoteric writing of the Latin countries, Marconi has achieved a near legendary status, much as Tesla has recently in the United States. But most Tesla students are unaware that Marconi was supposed to have founded a secret high-tech city in the remote southern jungles of Venezuela.
The great Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi was a former student of Tesla's. Marconi studied radio transmission theory with Tesla and made his first radio transmission in 1895. Marconi was fascinated by the transmission of power, and in 1896 received a British patent and sent a signal nine miles across the Bristol Channel. In 1899 he successfully setup a wireless station to communicate with a French station 31 miles across the English Channel.
It was thought that the curve of the earth's surface would limit radio transmission to 200 miles at the most When, on December 11, 1901, Marconi transmitted a signal from Poldhu, Cornwall, to St. John's Newfoundland, 2000 miles away, he created a major sensation.
For this Marconi replaced the wire receiver with a coherer, a glass tube filled with iron filings, which could conduct radio waves.
At the time there was no scientific explanation for this phenomena of long-distance transmission, and it was postulated that there was a layer in the upper atmosphere—the ionosphere—which reflected back electromagnetic waves.
Marconi the Mysterious
Marconi was the son of a wealthy Italian landowner and an Irish mother When interest in his first transmission in 1895 had not interested Italian authorities, he had gone to Britain. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company was formed in London in 1896 and Marconi made millions off his inventions.
Marconi and Tesla are both given credit for the invention of the radio Marconi's historical radio transmission utilized a Heinrich Hertz spark arrester a Popov antenna and an Edouard Bramely coherer for his simple device that was to go on to become the modern radio.
Marconi was given the Noble Prize for Physics in 1909 jointly with Karl Ferdinand Braun, who made important modification which considerably increased the range of the first Marconi transmitters.
Like Tesla, Marconi was a mysterious man in his later years, and was known to perform experiments, including anti-gravity experiments, aboard his yacht Electra. Marconi's yacht was a floating super-laboratory, from which he sent signals into space and lit lights in Australia in 1930. He did this with the aid of an Italian physicist named Landini by sending wave train signals through the earth, much as Tesla had done in Colorado Springs.
In June of 1936 Marconi demonstrated to Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini a wave gun device that could be used as a defensive weapon. In the 1930's such devices were popularized as "death rays" as in a Boris Karloff film of the same name. Marconi demonstrated the ray on a busy highway north of Milan one afternoon.
Mussolini had asked his wife Rachele to also be on the highway at precisely 3:30 in the afternoon. Marconi's device caused the electrical systems in all the cars, including Rachele's, to malfunction for half an hour, while her chauffeur and other motorists checked their fuel pumps and spark plugs. At 3:35 all the cars were able to start again. Rachele Mussolini later published this account in her autobiography.
Mussolini was quite pleased with Marconi's invention, however it is said that Pope Pius XI learned about the invention of the paralyzing rays and took steps to have Mussolini stop Marconi's research.
According to Marconi's followers, Marconi then took his yacht to South America in 1937, after faking his own death.
The Secret City in South America
A number of European scientists were said to have gone with Marconi, including Landini. In the 1937, the enigmatic Italian physicist and alchemist Fulcanelli warned European physicists of the grave dangers of atomic weapons and then mysteriously vanished a few years later.
He is believed to have joined Marconi's secret group in South America.
Ninety-eight scientists were said to have gone to South America where they built a city in an extinct volcanic cater in the southern jungles of Venezuela. In their secret city, financed by the great wealth they had created during their lives, they continued Marconi's work on solar energy, cosmic energy and antigravity. They worked secretly and apart from the world's nations, building free-energy motors and ultimately discoid aircraft with a form of gyroscopic anti-gravity. The community is said to be dedicated to universal peace and the common good of all mankind.
Believing the rest of the world to be under the control of energy companies, multi-national bankers and the military-industrial complex, they have remained isolated from the rest of the world, working subversively to foster peace and a clean, ecological technology on the world.
We have information on this astonishing high-tech city from a number of sources. In the South America the story is a common subject among certain metaphysical groups.
Says the French writer Robert Charroux in his book The Mysteries of the Andes, (1974, 1977),
"... the Ciudad Subterranean de los Andes, is discussed in private from Caracas to Santiago."
Charroux goes on to tell the story of Marconi and his secret city, plus the story of a Mexican journalist named Mario Rojas Avendaro who investigated the Ciudad Subterranean de los Andes (Underground City of the Andes) and concluded that it was a true story.
Avendaro was contacted by man named Naciso Genovese, who had been a student of Marconi's and was a physics teacher at a High School in Baja, Mexico.
Genovese was an Italian by origin and claimed to have lived for many years in the Ciudad Subterranea de los Andes. Sometime in the late 1950s he wrote an obscure book entitled "My Trip To Mars - Yo He Estado en Marte."
Though the book was never published in English, it did appear in various Spanish, Portuguese and Italian editions.
Tesla Technology
Genovese claimed that the city had been built with large financial resources, was underground and had better research facilities than any other research facility in the world (at mat time, at least).
By 1946 the city already using a powerful collector of cosmic energy, the essential component of all matter, according to Marconi's theories, many of which he had derived from Tesla.
"In 1952," according to Genovese, "we traveled above all the seas and continents in a craft whose energy supply was continuous and practical inexhaustible. It reached a speed of half a million miles an hour and withstood enormous pressures, near the limit of resistance of the alloys that composed it. The problem was to slow it down at just the right time."
According to Genovese, the city is located at the bottom of a crater, is mostly underground and is entirely self-sufficient. The extinct volcano is covered in thick vegetation, is hundreds of miles from any roads, and is at thirteen thousand feet in the jungle mountains of the Amazon.
The French author Charroux expressed surprise and disbelief to the statement that the city was on a jungle covered mountain that was 13,000 feet high. Yet, the eastern side of Andean cordillera has many such mountains, from Venezuela to Bolivia, spanning thousands of miles. Several such cities, and mountains, could exist in this vast, unexplored, and perpetually cloud-covered region.
Yet, a secret city in a jungle crater was the least of the claims.
Genovese claimed that flights to the Moon and Mars were made in their "flying saucers." He claimed that once the technology had been conquered, it was relatively simple to make the trip to the Moon (a few hours) or Mars (several days). Genovese does not mention pyramids or what they did on Mars.
Perhaps they created a Martian base in one of the ancient, sand-blown pyramids of the Cydonia Region.
There have been many reports of UFOs in South America, especially along the edge of the mountainous jungles of the eastern Andes, from Bolivia to Venezuela. Is it possible that some of these UFOs are antigravity craft from the Ciudad Subterranean de los Andes?
In light of highly reliable sources who claim that a "Last Battalion" of German solders escaped via submarine in the last days of WWII to Antarctica and South America, it is possible that the Germans may have high tech super cities in the remote jungles of South America as well.
A number of military historians, such as Col. Howard Buechner, author of Secrets of the Holy Lance and Hitler's Ashes, maintain that the Germans had already created bases in Queen Maud Land, opposite South Africa during the war.
Afterwards, German U-Boats, in some reports as many as 100, took important scientists, aviators and politicians to the final fortress of Nazi Germany. Two of these U-boats surrendered in Argentina three months after the war. In 1947, the U.S. Navy invaded Antarctica, mainly Queen Maud Land with Admiral Byrd in command.
The Americans were defeated and several jets from the four aircraft carriers were said to have been shot down by discoid craft. The navy retreated and did not return until 1957.
According to the book, Chronicle of Akakor, a book first published in German by the journalist Karl Brugger, a German battalion had taken refuge in an underground city on the borders of Brazil and Peru. Brugger, a German journalist who lived in Manaus, was assassinated in the Rio de Janeiro suburb of Ipanema in 1981. His guide, Tatunca Nara, went on to become Jacques.
Cousteau's guide on the upper Amazon. In fact, photographs of Tatunca Nara appear in Cousteau's large coffee-table book of color photographs called Cousteau's Amazon Journey. (For more information on Tatunca Nara, Karl Brugger, Underground Cities and Germans see Lost Cities & Ancient Mysteries of South America.)
While the secret cities of South America manufacturing flying saucers and battling the current powers of the world from their hidden jungle fortresses may sound too much like the plot of a James Bond movie, it appears to be based on fact!
Based upon the above scenario, it may not be totally fantastic to suggest, as some authors have, that Tesla was picked up during the late 1930s by a flying saucer. Yet, it would not have been a flying saucer from another planet, but one of Marconi's craft from the secret city in South America.
In the most incredible scenario so-far, and one that may well be true, Tesla was induced to fake his own death, just as Marconi and many of the other scientists had done, and was taken, by special discoid craft, to Marconi's high-tech super-city. Away from the outside world, the military governments, the oil companies, the arms and aircraft manufacturers, Marconi and Tesla, both supposedly dead, continued their experiments, in an atmosphere conducive to scientific achievement.
Who knows what they may have achieved?
They were ten years ahead of the Germans and twenty years ahead of the Americans in their anti-gravity technology. Could they have developed discoid spacecraft in the early 1940s, and gone on to time travel machines and hyperspace drives? Perhaps Marconi and Tesla went into the future, and have already returned to the past!
Time Travel experiments, teleportation, pyramids on Mars, Armageddon and an eventual Golden Age on earth, may all have something to do with Tesla, Marconi and their suppressed inventions.
While "UFO experts" and "former intelligence agents" tell us that flying saucers are extraterrestrial and are being currently retro-engineered by military scientists, Tesla, Marconi and their friends may be waiting for us at their space base at the pyramids and Face on Mars.
Our government, Hollywood and the media have trained us to certain beliefs and prejudices that amazing technology must be from extraterrestrials visiting our planet. To the scientist-philosopher who seeks knowledge... sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
A U.S. Patent for Guglielmo Marconi and his Wireless Telegraphy given on June 11, 1901. Marconi was as much of a genius as Tesla. When Marconi saw Tesla beaten by the powerful World Financiers, he hesitantly approached the Fascists of Italy with some of his inventions.
After the Pope condemned his death-ray, Marconi faked his own death in 1936 and left with more than 100 scientists to South America aboard his yacht Electro.
Above: Guglielmo Marconi, the Anglo-Italian inventor whose mentor was Nikola Tesla. In this photo, Marconi is seen at Signal Hill, Newfoundland, in 1901, with the instruments that he used to receive the first wireless signal across the Atlantic, sent to him from Polhu, Cornwall, England.
Below: Mark Carlotto's computer illustration showing a perspective view of the face on Mars and surrounding pyramids, looking from the west, and well above the Martian surface.
Many experts on Marconi, Tesla and UFOs believe that Marconi and other scientists moved to a secret base in the Amazon jungle in 1937 and began making anti-gravity craft with which they reached Mars in the early 1950s or late 1940s.
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NASA frame 35A72 of Mars, showing the famous "Face" (a) with its protective metal helmet, while the "city" (b) with its pyramids and the "D&M pyramid" (c) is farther to the lower right.
Did Marconi and his scientists actually travel to Mars in the early 1950s as was claimed by a number of Marconi's followers in South America?
These four photos are from the U.S. Airforce Blue Book files and show a "French Flying Saucer Device" that is alleged to be one of the craft used by Marconi and built at the secret city in South America.
The Photos clearly show a man-made discoid craft hovering, tilting and landing. Although the margin notes state "Date Unk.—" the photos are known to have been taken in 1953.
At first they were classified SECRET, but were later "downgraded" and finally marked "unclassified." The initials ATIC (upside down at bottom left) stand for Air Technical Intelligence Center, the parent military agency in the Air Force hierarchy sponsoring Project Blue Book.
On April 24, 1959, Hello Augiar was driving along the Plata beach In Salvador, a beach in northern Brazil, when his engine suddenly stopped. He then witnessed a flying saucer flying along the beach and took four photos of it.
It is interesting to note the symbols on the underside of the craft in this drawing. The craft had four hemispherical protrusions in the center of the craft on the bottom and three ribs or tubes on the top of the craft.
This discoid vehicle is similar to the type of craft allegedly made at Marconi's secret city, and is also similar to the Schriever-Habermohl flying disc made by Germany at the BMW factory near Prague in 1944, and first flown on February 4, 1945 (German Jet Genesis by David Masters, 1982, Jane's Books, London. Page 135).
After taking these photos on Plata Beach, Salvador, Brazil, (April 24, 1959) Hello Aguiar lost consciousness.
When he came to, he was clutching this message, written in his own hand:
"ATOMIC EXPERIMENTS FOR WARLIKE PURPOSES SHALL BE DEFINITELY STOPPED... THE EQUILIBRIUM OF THE UNIVERSE IS THREATENED. WE WILL REMAIN VIGILANT AND READY TO INTERFERE."
A Polaroid photo taken In Peru on October 19, 1973 by architect Hugo Vega. Vega, who happened to have a camera with him, was looking for a house of client about 34 miles east of Lima, the coastal capital of Peru.
He was looking out over the Rimac River valley when a discoid craft with portholes between the domed top and main section, came into view. The craft flew along the valley and hovered for a few seconds against the jungle background, which is when Vega got his Polaroid shot.
The old-fashioned design of the craft is noteworthy, with this 1973 saucer looking more like a 1950-type craft.
Some UFO experts believe that this craft is one of Marconi's manufacture at the underground city.
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Chapter 21 RED TABS EXPLAINS
The Man with the Clubfoot By Valentine Williams Characters: 15769
From the Argyllshire hills winter has stolen down upon us in the night. Behind him he has left his white mantle, and it now lies outspread from the topmost mountain peaks to the softly lapping tide at the black edges of the loch. Yet as I sit adding the last words to this plain account of a curious episode in my life, the wintry scene dissolves before my eyes, and I see again that dawn in the forest ... Francis and Monica, sleeping side by side, like the babes in the wood, half covered with leaves, the eager, panting retriever, and myself, poor, ragged scarecrow, staring openmouthed at the Dutchman whose kindly enquiry has just revealed to me the wondrous truth ... that we are safe across the frontier.
What a disproportionate view one takes of events in which one is the principal actor! The great issues vanish away, the little things loom out large. When I look back on that morning I encounter in my memory no recollection of extravagant demonstrations of joy at our delivery, no hysteria, no heroics. But I find a fragrant remembrance of a glorious hot bath and an epic breakfast in the house of that kindly Dutchman, followed by a whirlwind burst of hospitality on our arrival at the house of van Urutius, which was not more than ten miles from the fringe of the forest.
Madame van Urutius took charge of Monica, who was promptly sent to bed, whilst Francis and I went straight on to Rotterdam, where we had an interview at the British Consulate, with the result that we were able to catch the steamer for England the next day.
As the result of various telegrams which Francis dispatched from Rotterdam, a car was waiting for us on our arrival at Fenchurch Street the next evening. In it we drove off for an interview with my brother's Chief. Francis insisted that I should hand over personally the portion of the document in our possession.
"You got hold of it, Des," he said, "and it's only fair that you should get all the credit. I have Clubfoot's dispatch-box to show as the result of my trip. It's only a pity we could not have got the other half out of the cloak-room at Rotterdam."
We were shown straight in to the Chief. I was rather taken aback by the easy calm of his manner in receiving us.
"How are you, Okewood?" he said, nodding to Francis. "This your brother? How d'ye do?"
He gave me his hand and was silent. There was a distinct pause. Feeling distinctly embarrassed, I lugged out my portfolio, extracted the three slips of paper and laid them on the desk before the Chief.
"I've brought you something," I said lamely.
He picked up the slips of paper and looked at them for a moment. Then he lifted a cardboard folder from the desk in front of him, opened it and displayed the other half of the Kaiser's letter, the fragment I had believed to be reposing in a bag at Rotterdam railway station. He placed the two fragments side by side. They fitted exactly. Then he closed the folder, carried it across the room to a safe and locked it up. Coming back, he held out his two hands to us, giving the right to me, the left to Francis.
"You have done very well," he said. "Good boys! Good boys!"
"But that other half ..." I began.
"Your friend Ashcroft is by no means such a fool as he looks," the Chief chuckled. "He did a wise thing. He brought your two letters to me. I saw to the rest. So, when your brother's telegram arrived from Rotterdam, I got the other half of the letter out of the safe; I thought I'd be ready for you, you see!"
"But how did you know we had the remaining portion of the letter?" I asked.
The Chief chuckled again.
"My young men don't wire for cars to meet 'em at the station when they have failed," he replied. "Now, tell me all about it!"
So I told him my whole story from the beginning.
When I had finished, he said:
"You appear to have a very fine natural disposition for our game, Okewood. It seems a pity to waste it in regimental work ..."
I broke in hastily.
"I've got a few weeks' sick leave left," I said, "and after that I was looking forward to going back to the front for a rest. This sort of thing is too exciting for me!"
"Well, well," answered the Chief, "we'll see about that afterwards. In the meantime, we shall not forget what you have done ... and I shall see that it is not forgotten elsewhere."
On that we left him. It was only outside that I remembered that he had told me nothing of what I was burning to know about the origin and disappearance of the Kaiser's letter.
It was my old friend, Red Tabs, whom I met on one of our many visits to mysterious but obviously important officials, that finally cleared up for me the many obscure points in this adventure of mine. When he saw me he burst out laughing.
"'Pon my soul," he grinned, "you seem to be able to act on a hint, don't you?"
Then he told me the story of the Kaiser's letter.
"There is no need to speak of the contents of this amazing letter," he began, "for you are probably more familiar with them than I am. The date alone will suffice ... July 31st, 1914 ... it explains a great deal. The last day of July was the moment when the peace of Europe was literally trembling in the balance. You know the Emperor's wayward, capricious nature, his eagerness for fame and military glory, his morbid terror of the unknown. In that fateful last week of July he was torn between opposing forces. On the one side was ranged the whole of the Prussian military party, led by the Crown Prince and the Emperor's own immediate entourage; on the other, the record of prosperity which years of peace had conferred on his realms. He had to choose between his own megalomania craving for military laurels, on the one hand, and, on the other, that place in history as the Prince of Peace for which, in his gentler moments, he has so often hankered.
"The Kaiser is a man of moods. He sat down and penned this letter in a fit of despondency and indecision, when the vision of Peace seemed fairer to him than the spectre of War. God knows what violent emotion impelled him to write this extraordinary appeal to his English friend, an appeal which, if published, would convict him of the deepest treachery to his ally, but he wrote the letter and forthwith dispatched it to London. He did not make use of the regular courier: he sent the letter by a man of his own choosing, who had special instructions to hand the letter in person to Prince Lichnowski, the German ambassador. Lichnowski was to deliver the missive personally to its destined recipient.
"Almost as soon as the letter was away, the Kaiser seems to have realised what he had done, to have repented of his action. Attempts to stop the messenger before he reached the coast appear to have failed. At any rate, we know that all through July 31st and August 1st Lichnowski, in London, was bombarded with dispatches ordering him to send the messenger with the letter back to Berlin as soon as he reached the embassy.
"The courier never got as far as Carlton House Terrace. Someone in the War party at the Court of Berlin got wind of the fateful letter and sent word to someone in the German embassy in London-the Prussian jingoes were well represented there by Kühlmann and others of his ilk-to intercept the letter.
"The letter was intercepted. How it was done and by whom we have never found out, but Lichnowski never saw that letter. Nor did the courier leave London. With the Imperial letter still in possession, apparently, he went to a house at Dalston, where he was arrested on the day after we declared war on Germany.
"This courier went by the name of Schulte. We did not know him at the time to be travelling on the Emperor's business, but we knew him very well as one of the most daring and successful spies that Germany had ever employed in this country. One of our people picked him up quite by chanc
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e on his arrival in London, and shadowed him to Dalston, where we promptly laid him by the heels when war broke out.
"Schulte was interned. You have heard how one of his letters, stopped by the Camp Censor, put us on the track of the intercepted letter, and you know the steps we took to obtain possession of the document. But we were misled ... not by Schulte, but through the treachery of a man in whom he confided, the interpreter at the internment camp.
"To this man Schulte entrusted the famous letter, telling him to send it by an underground route to a certain address at Cleves, and promising him in return a commission of twenty-five per cent on the price to be paid for the letter. The interpreter took the letter, but did not do as he was bid. On the contrary, he wrote to the go-between, with whom Schulte had been in correspondence (probably Clubfoot), and announced that he knew where the letter was and was prepared to sell it, only the purchaser would have to come to England and fetch it.
"Well, to make a long story short, the interpreter made a deal with the Huns, and this Dr. Semlin was sent to England from Washington, where he had been working for Bernstorff, to fetch the letter at the address in London indicated by the interpreter. In the meantime, we had got after the interpreter, who, like Schulte, had been in the espionage business all his life, and he was arrested.
"We know what Semlin found when he reached London. The wily interpreter had sliced the letter in two, so as to make sure of his money, meaning, no doubt, to hand over the other portion as soon as the price had been paid. But by the time Semlin got to London the interpreter was jugged and Semlin had to report that he had only got half the letter. The rest you know ... how Grundt was sent for, how he came to this country and retrieved the other portion. Don't ask me how he set about it: I don't know, and we never found out even where the interpreter deposited the second half or how Grundt discovered its hiding-place. But he executed his mission and got clear away with the goods. The rest of the tale you know better than I do!"
"But Clubfoot," I asked, "who is he?"
"There are many who have asked that question," Red Tabs replied gravely, "and some have not waited long for their answer. The man was known by name and reputation to very few, by sight to even fewer, yet I doubt if any man of his time wielded greater power in secret than he. Officially, he was nothing, he didn't exist; but in the dark places, where his ways were laid, he watched and plotted and spied for his master, the tool of the Imperial spite as he was the instrument of the Imperial vengeance.
"A man like the Kaiser," my friend continued, "monarch though he is, has many enemies naturally, and makes many more. Head of the Army, head of the Navy, head of the Church, head of the State-undisputed, autocratic head-he is confronted at every turn by personal issues woven and intertwined with political questions. It was in this sphere, where the personal is grafted on the political, that Clubfoot reigned supreme ... here and in another sphere, where German William is not only monarch, but also a very ordinary man.
"There are phases in every man's life, Okewood, which hardly bear the light of day. In an autocracy, however, such phases are generally inextricably entangled with political questions. It was in these dark places that Clubfoot flourished ... he and his men ... 'the G gang' we called them, from the letter 'G' (signifying Garde or Guard) on their secret-service badges.
"Clubfoot was answerable to no one save to the Emperor alone. His work was of so delicate, so confidential a nature, that he rendered an account of his services only to his Imperial master. There was none to stay his hand, to check him in his courses, save only this neurotic, capricious cripple who is always open to flattery...."
Red Tabs thought for a minute and then went on.
"No one may catalogue," he said, "the crimes that Clubfoot committed, the infamies he had to his account. Not even the Kaiser himself, I dare say, knows the manner in which his orders to this black-guard were executed-orders rapped out often enough, I swear, in a fit of petulance, a gust of passion, and forgotten the next moment in the excitement of some fresh sensation.
"I know a little of Clubfoot's record, of innocent lives wrecked, of careers ruined, of sudden disappearances, of violent deaths. When you and your brother put it across der Stelze, Okewood, you settled a long outstanding account we had against him, but you also rendered his fellow-Huns a signal service."
I thought of the comments I had heard on Clubfoot among the customers at Haase's, and I felt that Red Tabs had hit the right nail on the head again.
"By the way?" said Red Tabs, as I rose to go, "would you care to see Clubfoot's epitaph? I kept it for you." He handed me a German newspaper-the Berliner Tageblatt, I think it was-with a paragraph marked in red pencil. I read:
"We regret to report the sudden death from apoplexy of Dr. Adolf Grundt, an inspector of secondary schools. The deceased was closely connected for many years with a number of charitable institutions enjoying the patronage of the Emperor. His Majesty frequently consulted Dr. Grundt regarding the distribution of the sums allocated annually from the Privy purse for benevolent objects."
"Pretty fair specimen of Prussian cynicism?" laughed Red Tabs. But I held my head ... the game was too deep for me.
Every week a hamper of good things is dispatched to 3143 Sapper Ebenezer Maggs, British Prisoner of War, Gefangenen-Lager, Friedrichsfeld bei Wesel. I have been in communication with his people, and since his flight from the camp they have not had a line from him. They will let me know at once if they hear, but I am restless and anxious about him.
I dare not write lest I compromise him: I dare not make official enquiry as to his safety for the same reason. If he survived those shots in the dark, he is certainly undergoing punishment, and in that case he would be deprived of the privilege of writing or receiving letters....
But the weeks slip by and no message comes to me from Chewton Mendip. Almost daily I wonder if the gallant lad survived that night to return to the misery of the starvation camp, or whether, out of the darkness of the forest, his brave soul soared free, achieving its final release from the sufferings of this world.... Poor Sapper Maggs!
Francis and Monica are honeymooning on the Riviera. Gerry, I am sure, would have refused to attend the wedding, only he wasn't asked. Francis is getting a billet on the Intelligence out in France when his leave is up.
I have got my step, antedated back to the day I went into Germany. Francis has been told that something is coming to him and me in the New Year's Honours.
I don't worry much. I am going back to the front on Christmas Eve.
THE RETURN OF CLUBFOOT
By Valentine Williams.
Whilst spending a holiday in a small Central American Republic, Desmond Okewood, of the Secret Service, learns from a dying beach-comber of a hidden treasure.
With the assistance of a millionaire, he sets out for Cock Island, in the Pacific. To his astonishment he discovers that the Man with the Clubfoot, whom he had regarded as dead, has anticipated him. It is obvious to Okewood that his old enemy is also in search of the hidden gold, and there ensues a thrilling sequence of adventures, in which the millionaire's pretty niece takes a prominent part.
Okewood has the cipher, and the Man with the Clubfoot determines to secure it, for without that cipher it is impossible to discover the hiding-place of the treasure; but there is something that the Man with the Clubfoot does not know, whereas Okewood does.
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The Names of Love
Nerd meets firebrand in French rom-com.
by Kelly Vance
Directed by Michel Leclerc. With Sara Forestier and Jacques Gamblin. Opens Friday.
The news is out that Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris is his all-time biggest box-office hit. And now at least one French filmmaker, Michel Leclerc of The Names of Love (Le nom des gens), is claiming Allen's influence. It's easy to spot the Woodyisms in Leclerc's extra-quirky romantic comedy, but let's also give some credit to the engine that drives this light and zany French riff on a well-worn theme — actress Sara Forestier.
Mlle. Forestier plays half-Arab, half-French provocateuse Baya Benmahmoud as a walking bolt of lightning. When Baya bumps into mild-mannered government ornithologist Arthur Martin (Jacques Gamblin) it's not a question of When Harry Met Sally — more like the storming of the Bastille, with the voluptuous Forestier as Delacroix's bare-breasted La Liberté leading the charge.
Leclerc and Forestier take that iconic image one step further. In the movie's most frantic scene, absent-minded political agitator Baya leaves befuddled boyfriend Arthur standing in a supermarket checkout line while she detours back to her apartment for a quick shower, then somehow in her haste forgets her clothes and promenades down the street stark naked. It's impossible to picture any American movie actress doing full-frontal public nudity in a rom-com, but Forestier plays the quicksilver Baya so innocently that her brazen exhibition somehow seems uncalculated and harmless.
The Names of Love isn't only about skin, however. Baya's multi-culti background — Algerian immigrant father, former radical leftist mother — makes an unlikely fit with Arthur's, as the son of a Jewish Holocaust survivor and an eccentric, conservative scientist, but she's enchanted by his squareness. Their political frisson takes screwball comedy into unexplored territory. While smitten Steve Carell lookalike Arthur gamely tends to his threatened swans, Baya pursues her strategy of converting right-wingers by having sex with them until they see her way. Uh, of course.
Underneath all the fast-paced sex 'n' politics jokes is Leclerc and co-writer Baya Kasmi's topical commentary on the changing notion of French identity. Baya — the character, based on Kasmi's real-life story — is tired of people asking if her first name is Brazilian. She's Algerian and proud. "You stir things up too much," protests one character, but that's really what Arthur loves about his "half-breed" girlfriend. We agree.
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Splat er en dansk kortfilm fra 1995 instrueret af Peter Bay og efter manuskript af Peter Bay og Jørgen Kastrup.

Medvirkende

 Jonas Højbjerg Hansen
 August Flygare
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Eksterne henvisninger

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Building of the spacious, in those days modern hotel Liva was started in the beginning of 1960 in the centre of city Liepaja - in the place where the municipality building stood before the war. The hotel opened its doors for the first visitors in 15 January 1966. At that time the hotel was very popular among the high-ranking Communist Party officials, however, the inhabitants of Liepāja were barred from the stay there.
After regaining independence in 1991 the management of the hotel was replaced and during the next 9 years it functioned as the municipality enterprise. The hotel was privatized by Joint Stock Company Livas viesnīca in 1999. Its reconstruction started in 2000 without any interruption in the operation. It resulted in the current appearance of Līva. Boasting 111 rooms Līva still is the biggest hotel in Liepājā and one of the biggest in the whole region of Kurzeme. During its more than 40 years long existence Līva has become one of the identification symbols of the city. It has been able to maintain its excellent hospitality traditions and stable values through the decades. So, today in the centre of the historical village Liva there lies a hotel, the name of which is as a small monument dedicated to the ancient fishing village that was located here 8 centuries ago. Also the name of the restaurant Upe [The River] was chosen, thus creating certain interrelation with the old village Liva on the bank of the River Liva.


Managing Director calls on the Hon'ble President of The People's Republic of Bangladesh.
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The People's Republic of Bangladesh.
Managing Director of PKSF and President of Bangladesh Scouts Mr. Md. Abdul Karim led a team of Bangladesh Scouts to Bangabhaban on 2nd July, 2014 and met the Honorable President of Bangladesh His Excellency Mr. Md. Abdul Hamid. The team included the Vice President of Bangladesh Scouts Dr. Sadique (Secretary, Ministry of Education), Habibul Alam Bir Protik, Chief National Commissioner Abul Kalam Azad (Senior Secretary in Prime Minister's Office) and International Commissioner Dr. Mozammel Haque Khan (Senior Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs).
The delegation briefed The Hon'ble President about various activities of Bangladesh Scouts and invited him to open the next Scout Council on 14th July, 2014. He accepted the invitation and wished the scouts movement all success.


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Can ARA Asset Management Manage to Bump Up Its Dividends Soon?
ARA Asset Management's (SGX: D1R) in the business of managing publicly-listed real estate investment trusts and private real estate-related funds. Some of the locally-listed REITs under its banner include Fortune REIT (SGX: F25U), Suntec REIT (SGX: T82U) and Cache Logistics Trust (SGX: K2LU).
ARA has done very well over the past six years since the start of 2008 with its shares having a total return of 232%. Dividends accounted for almost a third of the company's total return and that's partly due to how the pay-outs have grown steadily by 74% from 2.62 Singapore cents in 2007 to 4.55 cents in 2012.
With a rather strong history of dividend growth, it's perhaps interesting to question if the company can keep up that trend when it reports its full year results for 2013 next week on 20 Feb 2014.
Over the past six months ended 30 June 2013, ARA had declared an interim dividend of 2.30 Singapore cents per share, which represents a 10% increase over the split-adjusted 2.10 cents dividend that was declared in the corresponding period in 2012. This happened despite a 9% year-on-year decline in half-yearly profit to S$32.1m for the first half of 2013.
If the company's forecasts for profits in 2013 turn out to be accurate and it manages to keep its pay-out ratio at the higher end of what it has historically given out, investors could be looking at a bigger annual pay-out when it releases its results.
For instance, Cache Logistics Trust and Fortune REIT had won the "Most committed to a strong dividend policy" and "Most Committed to a Strong Dividend Policy in Hong Kong" awards respectively in 2012 from the Asian financial publication, FinanceAsia. If anything, such industry accolades help lend some strength to the view that ARA's management would not treat the matter of paying dividends to shareholders lightly.
In any case, investors would know for sure how the company's finances and dividends would look like for 2013 when it reports its full-year results next week.


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Emerging Issues in Environmental Law: A Discussion with Judges Mary Kay Lynch and Kathie Stein, U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board
Judge Mary Kay Lynch
Judge Lynch has extensive litigation and management experience in both the private and public sector. She has served in a number of senior legal and management positions within the EPA, most recently as the Associate General Counsel for Solid Waste and Emergency Response leading the Agency's participation in Supreme Court, federal Appellate Court and federal rule making practice in these subject areas. Prior to that she served as Regional Counsel for EPA Region 4 in Atlanta, Georgia. There she led a large interdisciplinary staff including attorneys and engineers to provide legal counsel for civil and criminal enforcement cases, defensive litigation, counseling issues, and general law matters. Earlier in her EPA career she served in EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, first in the Federal Facilities Office as Director of the Site Remediation and Enforcement Staff and later as Director of OECA's Policy Office. Judge Lynch has served as the Vice Chair of the Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Trustee Council where she has advised on complex and unprecedented issues. Prior to joining EPA, she was engaged in private law practice.
Judge Lynch's work has been recognized with numerous awards including the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award, the EPA Excellence in Management Award and EPA Gold and Silver Medals. She earned a Juris Doctor degree, from the University of Georgia School of Law, where she served as the Executive Editor of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law. She earned a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Boston College and was part of the Scholars of the College program.
Judge Kathie A. Stein
Judge Stein has over 35 years of legal experience in both the private and public sectors. Prior to her appointment to the Board, Judge Stein held several leadership positions at EPA, including Director of EPA's Air Enforcement Division within EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA). She also headed OECA's Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Enforcement Division and served as the Acting Regional Counsel for EPA's Region III (Mid-Atlantic Region). In these capacities, she supervised teams of lawyers as well as technical and administrative personnel.
Before joining EPA in 1990, Judge Stein served as Senior Counsel with the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division; Senior Attorney and Director, Environmental Information Exchange, at the Environmental Defense Fund; Assistant Attorney General for the Maryland Attorney General's Office (handling environmental cases); and engaged in private law practice with two private law firms in San Francisco, California where she specialized in commercial and complex civil litigation, first at Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliffe, and subsequently at Feldman, Waldman & Kline. Judge Stein has been a frequent speaker at national conferences on environmental law, and leads the Board's work on international judicial capacity building. She also oversaw the development of the Board's Alternative Dispute Resolution Program. In addition, during 1995-1996, while on leave from EPA, she worked as a consultant to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Judge Stein earned her Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, in 1979 from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as an editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. She received her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in 1974 from Oberlin College, where she majored in government.
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Gary Fraser – Born in Rural Cape Breton I had the luxury of growing up with some of the finest trout and salmon fishing in the world on my doorstep. I am a father of two, an avid outdoorsman, guide and owner of nsflyfishing.com a website used with other guides and anglers to promote fly fishing and fly tying here in Atlantic Canada. I have had little time on the water the last number of years with a young family and working away but things are coming together for a great 2012 season.


With the weather taking a turn for the brighter and drier this week, I've been able to put in a few more hours on the Plot #59 asparagus bed to-be. After the basic preparation phase – an initial dig-over to remove as much rubbish weed root and rhizome as possible – the next phase involved adding a large amount of fertilizer in the form of well-rotted horse manure.
Coming along nicely: trench excavation, manure dumping, re-covering.
…and continue until the job was done, over the course of two afternoon sessions, mostly in glorious late-winter sunshine. Here's the finished job; not much different to the 'before' state, admittedly, but it's what's lurking beneath the surface that counts.
The final preparation stage will involve copious amounts of grit. That will need mixing in, along with as much of the surplus soil as is required, and then forming into the three long ridges that the asparagus crowns will be planted on top of. Hopefully at the weekend, weather allowing.


Vanessa and Mitchell have now officially tied the knot! Vanessa and Mitchell had a beautiful church ceremony at St. Brigid's in Pacific Beach, from there we went to Shelter Island for some photos before the reception got underway at the Island Palms. This was yet again another super fun wedding and Nicole and I had a blast. Vanessa and Mitchell – thanks for letting us be apart of your special day!


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Hollywood actor Omar Sharif who rose to fame for his roles in "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago" has died. He was 83.
He passed away in Cairo on Friday afternoon after suffering a heart attack, his agent told NBC News.
He was known to be suffering from Alzheimer's.
His grandson, Omar Sharif Junior, last week posted a picture of the two together on his Facebook page with the message: "I love you."