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Johannes Wertenbruch (* 1960 in Eitorf (Sieg)) ist Professor für Bürgerliches Recht, Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht an der Philipps-Universität Marburg sowie Direktor des dortigen Instituts für Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Arbeitsrechts.

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Johannes Wertenbruch wurde 1960 in Eitorf (Sieg) geboren. Nach Abitur und Wehrdienst studierte er von 1980 bis 1986 Rechtswissenschaften an den Universitäten Mainz und Bonn. Ab 1983 war er studentische Hilfskraft bei Walter Gerhardt am Institut für Zivilprozessrecht der Universität Bonn.

Nach dem Ersten juristischen Staatsexamen promovierte Johannes Wertenbruch – gefördert von der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung – 1990 mit der Arbeit Die Rechtsfolgen der Doppelkontrolle von Gemeinschaftsunternehmen nach dem GWB in Bonn (Betreuer und Erstgutachter: Ulrich Huber; Zweitgutachter: Wolfgang Kartte, damals Präsident des Bundeskartellamts). Nach dem Referendariat war Johannes Wertenbruch von 1993 bis 1999 Wissenschaftlicher Assistent bei Ulrich Huber am Institut für Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht der Universität Bonn, wo er sich 1999 mit der Arbeit Die Haftung von Gesellschaften und Gesellschaftsanteilen in der Zwangsvollstreckung habilitierte (Betreuer und Erstgutachter: Ulrich Huber; Zweitgutachter: Walter Gerhardt). Nach einer Lehrstuhlvertretung an der Universität zu Köln wurde er 2001 auf den Lehrstuhl für Bürgerliches Recht, Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht an der Philipps-Universität Marburg berufen. Heute ist er zugleich Direktor des Instituts für Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Arbeitsrecht.

Herausgeber
Seit 2008 ist Johannes Wertenbruch zusammen mit Harm Peter Westermann Mitherausgeber des Handbuchs der Personengesellschaften im Verlag Otto Schmidt. 2018 wurde Johannes Wertenbruch in die vom Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz eingesetzte Kommission zur Modernisierung des Personengesellschaftsrechts berufen. Diese legte im April 2020 den sog. Mauracher Entwurf vor, der die Grundlage für die umfassende Reformierung des deutschen Personengesellschaftsrechts durch das am 1. Januar 2024 in Kraft tretende Gesetz zur Modernisierung des Personengesellschaftsrechts (MoPeG) bildet. Seit 1. August 2018 ist Johannes Wertenbruch Mitherausgeber der GmbHRundschau (GmbHR) und seit 1. Januar 2023 Mitherausgeber der Zeitschrift für das Recht der Personengesellschaften und Einzelunternehmen (ZPG).

Forschung und Lehre
Bei seinen Forschungen konzentriert sich Johannes Wertenbruch vor allem auf das Kaufrecht, das Gesellschaftsrecht, das Kartellrecht und das Sportrecht.

Werke
 Die Rechtsfolgen der Doppelkontrolle von Gemeinschaftsunternehmen nach dem GWB, Köln; Berlin; Bonn; München: Heymann, 1990
 Die Haftung von Gesellschaften und Gesellschaftsanteilen in der Zwangsvollstreckung, Köln: O. Schmidt, 2000
 BGB, Allgemeiner Teil [mit vielen Fällen, Beispielen und Übersichten], München: Beck, 5. Auflage 2021
 Handbuch der Personengesellschaft, 3 Bände/Loseblatt, Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt (mit Harm Peter Westermann).

Weblinks
 Homepage an der Universität Marburg mit Schriftenverzeichnis

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Rechtswissenschaftler (20. Jahrhundert)
Rechtswissenschaftler (21. Jahrhundert)
Hochschullehrer (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Absolvent der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Deutscher
Geboren 1960
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What are the risks and opportunities connected with the protests in Hong Kong?
During the last weeks, tens of thousands took part in demonstrations in Hong Kong, demanding – in different ways and forms – more democracy. The protests were set in motion when China's National People's Congress announced that candidates for Hong Kong's 2017 chief executive elections would have to be approved by a Beijing-controlled committee; this, according to the protesters, contradicts the principle of universal suffrage that was established in the handover agreement in 1997. More recently some of the protest leaders became more daring and called for "self-determination" and "independence".
So far, no meaningful procedure of conflict resolution has been established. The Beijing leadership tries to remain invisible, but calls the shots behind the curtains. The local administration is general powerless and clueless. Increasingly, 'ordinary' Hong Kong citizens feel embarrassed and harassed by the ongoing blockades of main thoroughfares and businesses.
In the mainland, many mid-level officials explain their conviction that the current form of governances is not sustainable. Against this background, Hong Kong could also be treated as a laboratory. But currently, the dominant position seems to be to prevent by (virtually) all means a June 4, 2.0. From the outside it is not clear what, if any, spaces for compromise exists.
Violence is making a come-back into Western societies – how are we prepared for this? Is looking the other way a solution?
Never since about half a century back, the world was in such a disarray as now. There is a whole range of failed, or failing, states in the MENA area: Afghanistan, Pakistan (nuclearized), Iraq, Syria, Libya, Palestine.
Sectarian violence is on the rise, and a strange caliphate shows the world how easy it can be impressed by a few beheadings.
Lesson 1: violence pays off. In Europe, the Russian aggression against Ukraine – stealing Crimea and meddling in provinces – trashed the post-Cold War order in Central Europe.
Lesson 2: violence pays off. In East Asia, there is an intensifying anatgonism allegedly about hundreds of rocks in he East and South China Seas, wrapped in the language of sovereignty, and targeted at assumed energy potentials. The climate between China and Japan, on the one hand, and Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan and Brunei, on the other hand, is deteriorating rapidly.
Lesson 3: violence may pay off. The current protests in Hongkong may initiate new unrest in mainland China as well: Violence as identity currency.
Europe seems to be suspiciously unprepared for this new wave of violence. Can we afford to ignore it? What if 'talking' doesn't lead anywhere?


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This opening verse of the title track of the new album Carpe Noctem was inspired by a passage in Louis-Ferdinand Céline's incendiary 1932 novel Journey to the End of the Night, in which the viciously acerbic, nihilistic anti-hero Ferdinand Bardamu travels from France to America following his traumatic experiences fighting in World War I. He encounters the early cinema in New York City and makes a sardonic yet empathetic observation about the escapism of the theater-goers.
It is this that sparked the cribbed lines above. Bardamu's next port of call is Detroit, Michigan, which in the 1920s was home to a burgeoning and impressive industry centered on the manufacture of the automobile. The Detroit of today is a very different place indeed, ravaged as it is by the near post-apocalyptic urban decay that has been visited upon the city following the decline of that industry that once made it great. The violent crime rate is off the hook and many of its grand buildings are dilapidated if not in a state of total ruin. All over the place once known as Motor City, nature has reclaimed its hold, with wild vegetation sprouting up through the tarmac and voracious vines coiling around the factory gates and pushing through broken, haunted windows. Still, there is a spirit there that cannot be broken; it is this that fuels the burning creativity and gritty outsider resourcefulness evident in the maintenance of the transgressive, delirious waking dream made manifest that is Theatre Bizarre.
Carpe Noctem is an evocation of that dream and an invitation (if not a dare!) to travel further into the infernal realm populated, as it is, by dissolute carnies, drunken clowns, seedy vaudevillians and darkly glamorous burlesque performers. At the screaming center of this maelstrom of decadence is a malevolent, child-devouring demon caught in inter-dimensional limbo and stuck with the face of a ghoulish skeletal clown: Zombo! As with the giant reptilian monster Godzilla — once the abstract symbol of nuclear destruction, then re-imagined and perceived as a deified savior — so Zombo is regarded amongst his Theatre Bizarre-going acolytes.
"HAIL ZOMBO!" trumpets the chant, and this vengeful entity rides in on a blaze of flaming anarchy to raise merry Hell and wreak havoc among the revelers and those who have strayed into his path. He is, of course, the very personification of the Id and will lead his followers on in a wildly hedonic Bacchanal that will see the release of long-repressed sexual and sensual desires. "HAIL ZOMBO! HAIL ZOMBO!" Enter here and the price be damned!
Ladies and gentleman, I give you the Carnival of souls! The circus of the damned! The vaudeville of ghosts! Halloween incarnate! I give you Carpe Noctem! AH! SEIZE THE NIGHT!
"Carpe Noctem": The overture comes blustering in, the nefarious fairground barker entreating you to gain entrance into this theatre of opiated fever dreams.
"Procession of the Expatriots": A nocturnal, flaming torch-lit, New Orleans-style funeral march from the old haunted fairgrounds, site of the original anarchic Theatre Bizarre, to the new location of the dark Satanic Masonic Temple.
"A Shudder of Clowns": Three miserable and utterly disreputable clowns, Frowny, Drips and Felches, are huddled in the rain-drenched alley, passing around a flask of "something awful" as all around them, cynical carnies set about the construction of the terrible temple that is the Big Top.
"Inside the Cooch Tent": And then there are The Girls! Undulating behind a mist of chiffon, playing peek-a-boo behind billowing feather fans, grinding to the back beat, Heaven-sent and Hell-bent on taking your sangfroid away!
"We All Wear Cloaks": A whimsical pinch of inspired gobbledegook courtesy of Beck Hansen. The song's true meaning concealed behind M. C. Nightshade's mysterious phantom cloak.
"Vaudeville Ghost Light": A haunting melancholic conjuration. The poignancy of over-the hill-vaudeville performers still clinging to the vestige of a limelight long gone.
"The Carny": From the crow-black King Ink pen of one Nick Cave. An evocative, atmospheric interpretation of this classic Gothic tale.
"The Carnival is Leaving": Leaving as all carnivals must, but surely part of you will go with it when it goes away. Gradually the disheveled marching band disappears over the horizon at dusk as the music begins to play backwards, suggesting that this was no ordinary carnival but rather something supernatural, unsettling and entirely uncanny.


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Egypt takes measures in response to collapse of Renaissance Dam talks
As Egypt faces a decrease in its water share as a result of the Grand Renaissance Dam construction in Ethiopia, parliament is now focusing on reducing the domestic use of water through laws and awareness campaigns.
Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam undergoes construction work on the Nile River in Guba Woreda, Benishangul Gumuz Region, Ethiopia, Sept. 26, 2019. Photo by REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri.
Ahmed Youness
CAIRO — Ever since reports emerged about the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and the implications of such a project on Egypt's water share, there has been a parliamentary tendency supported by the state to enact laws aimed at rationalizing water consumption with the aim of confronting the water shortage plaguing the country.
The Egyptian House of Representatives is to pass legislation in the coming period in line with the state's vision to rationalize water consumption and counter the effects of GERD. Chief among these is the Irrigation and Water Resources draft law, Hisham el-Hosary, a member of parliament and head of the parliamentary Agriculture and Irrigation Committee, told Al-Monitor over the phone.
He said that parliament has been discussing this bill recently and is to pass it within two weeks. The government had submitted the bill in August 2018.
Hosary explained that the draft law will optimize the use of existing water resources, develop the irrigation system, tackle the encroachments on the Nile, impose harsher penalties on violators and use groundwater more effectively.
He added that these new laws come due to the state's great interest in plans to rationalize water consumption, in light of the population increase and the resulting decrease in the per capita water share. Egyptians, he said, tend to consume water for useless purposes such as spraying streets and washing cars.
According to Hosary, the new laws seek to impose heavy penalties on individuals who use water irresponsibly, in a bid to manage the current water share more effectively. He noted that the issuance of the Agriculture Law in 2018 was the first sign of the state's plans to overcome water shortages, as it provided for the reduction of the cultivation of water-intensive crops, most notably bananas, rice and alfalfa.
On May 21, 2018, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued Law No. 34 of 2018, which amended the Agriculture Law No. 53 of 1966, after it was approved by the House of Representatives. These amendments give the ministers of agriculture and irrigation new powers, the most important of which is the prohibition of cultivating water-intensive crops in specific areas.
This law also stipulates that the minister of agriculture and land reclamation, in coordination with the minister of water resources and irrigation, issues decisions defining areas for the cultivation of specific agricultural crops. It also imposes a prison sentence of no more than six months in case of violation and a fine ranging between 3,000 Egyptian pounds ($192) and 20,000 pounds ($1,280) per acre.
The law obliges violators to eliminate the infringement at their own expense.
"The state is in dire need of these laws, especially after the Renaissance Dam negotiations have stalled and reached a critical level. The government is launching campaigns aimed at educating citizens about the importance of rationalizing water consumption, and these laws are receiving widespread support from the state because of their importance," Hosary said.
On Feb. 26, Ethiopia announced that it would not attend the signing session of the Renaissance Dam Agreement, which was scheduled for Feb. 27-28 in Washington. Egypt signed the agreement alone and issued an official statement on March 1, in which it accused Addis Ababa of deliberately skipping the meeting to impede the course of negotiations.
Egypt is trying to avoid a major water crisis by issuing such legislation. Its share of the Nile has been reduced by 5 billion cubic meters in 2019 and is expected to further decrease with the completion of the construction of GERD, according to Hosary.
In July 2019, Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel Ati announced a nationwide state of emergency and said that several violations related to rice cultivation have been reported. This came in the framework of reducing this agriculture due to its heavy dependence on water.
On Feb. 6, the Fayoum Directorate of Agriculture organized a training course in the field of the rationalization of irrigation water use.
Rabih Mostafa, head of the directorate and undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, highlighted the need to rationalize the use of water in agricultural activities and noted that the ministry has developed a plan to address the challenges of water shortage and rationalize its consumption for agriculture purposes through the use of modern farming methods such as greenhouses and modern irrigation methods such as dripping and sprinkling.
Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel Aal said on April 22, 2018, in a session dedicated to discussing the agriculture law, "We must take into consideration water poverty in Egypt."
On Jan. 1, Abdel Aal discussed with Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly the ministry's plan of action to rationalize water by reducing the cultivation of rice crops and applying modern irrigation techniques in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture.
Ammar Ali Hassan, professor of political science at Cairo University, told Al-Monitor over the phone that he believes the government is fully entitled to raise awareness of the need to rationalize water consumption and impose laws that punish wasting water.
However, he also stressed the need for a decisive stance on Ethiopia's construction of the dam and the fact that it chose to overlook the rights of Egyptians and the severe implications of the dam on Egypt.
Hassan added that rationalizing water and enacting laws to prevent wasting water is a good thing, but this does not justify the government's inaction as far as GERD negotiations are concerned.
Citizens should not bear the cost of the state's mismanagement of the dam issue, let alone its inaction in defending the rights of Egyptians as far as water security is concerned, he concluded.
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Maine Wild Edible Plants
By: Ellen Douglas
List of Wild Edible Plants & Berries in Oregon
Mushrooms Found in Northern Michigan
How to Cook Dandelions
How to Freeze Ramps & Wild Leeks
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While few culinary adventures surpass wild blueberry collecting in Maine, New England state boasts other wild foods as well. From its rocky beaches to pine forests, Maine's unique ecosystem nurtures a variety of unusual edible plants. If possible, go on a guided tour to identify the plants before gathering them. At a minimum, take an illustrated book along with you on your foraging hikes.
Ostrich ferns yield an early spring delicacy known as the fiddlehead. Gourmets usually compare the spiral-shaped treat to asparagus, and eagerly hunt for it in moist woodland areas. While most ferns yield fiddleheads, only the tall ostrich fern's are edible, so be sure you can identify them before collecting them. Collect fiddleheads only in early spring, before they unfurl and become poisonous. Most people prefer to peel the brown, paper-like covering from the fiddleheads. Boil them for 10 or 15 minutes. Serve with butter and lemon, or incorporate them into a favorite recipe as an asparagus substitute.
Maine's plentiful bogs and marshes supply wild food gatherers with an abundance of cattails. Because so many parts of the plant are edible, and at different times of the year, wild food expert "Wildman" Steve Brill notes, "A stand of cattails is as close as you'll get to a wild supermarket." In early spring--before the familiar cigar-shaped flowers form--cattail shoots appear. Gather them to peel, chop and stir-fry or roast. Other edible cattail parts include the young male flower head, which sits below the uppermost, female flower and should be picked in early spring. Brill also recommends harvesting the pollen from the male flower head later in the season, around summer solstice. Bend the cattail stalks in order to shake the yellow powder-like pollen from the flower heads into a paper bag. Sift the pollen and use it like flour in baking. In the coldest months, wild harvesters collect cattail roots, known as rhizomes, as natural thickeners for soups. The process requires digging deep into the muck and much rinsing and peeling, but some people find it worth the effort.
Maine's rocky seacoast offers an ideal gathering place for wild seaweed. Edible seaweed varieties found along Maine beaches include rockweed (also known as bladderwrack), Irish moss, dulse and kelp. Collect seaweed at low tide, and search rocky beaches rather than sandy ones. Cooking methods vary, but Brill roasts rockweed at 275 degree F for 20 to 25 minutes, after first tossing it with seasonings and a small amount of olive oil. Dulse may be served raw or cooked. Asian and specialty cookbooks can point the way to other reliable cooking methods for the various forms of edible Maine seaweeds.
Dandelion Greens
Collect dandelion greens in early spring before the yellow flowers emerge. If you're unfamiliar with the long and lance-shaped, toothed leaves, examine dandelion plants when they flower so you'll know what to look for the following spring. Steamed dandelion greens are a favorite springtime treat. Cook them in a small amount of water, then strain and steam in fresh water. Or parboil the greens briefly, then sauté with bacon and garlic.
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The University of Maine also notes that lamb's quarters, purslane and orache make ideal edible greens for wild harvesting. Wild leeks (also known as ramps) and several edible mushrooms also flourish in Maine woods. Mushrooms, of course, should be gathered only in the presence of a knowledgeable guide.
"Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants"; Wildman Steve Brill; 1994
University of Maine Extension Service: Wild Greens
Ellen Douglas has written on food, gardening, education and the arts since 1992. Douglas has worked as a staff reporter for the Lakeville Journal newspaper group. Previously, she served as a communication specialist in the nonprofit field. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Connecticut.


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Six Indonesian provinces declare state of emergency for forest and bush fires
Martha Soezean 2016-08-26 Environment
JAKARTA – Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, head of Data, Information, and Public Relations BNPB (National Board for Disaster Management) said six of Indonesian provinces have declared state of emergency for their forest and bush fires.
These provinces are, South Sumatera, Jambi, Riau, West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan and South Kalimantan.
"The declaration of emergency status would give BNPB and its regional units easier access to the potential sources in our efforts to mobilise firefighting forces," Mr Nugroho said.
Mr Nugroho also said the worst of the dry season is yet to come; it is feared September forest fires are more devastating; therefore BNPB has added water bombing helicopters.
"Sumatra and Kalimantan always had the largest number of hot spots from August until October with the worst in September."
"The West Kalimantan Governor has extended the emergency period until November for that province," he added.
Currently, BNPB has eight units of water bombing helicopters, two units of water bombing fixed wing aircraft and another two planes for artificially made rain.
The helicopter of PT Sinar Mas quenches the forest fire on the border of Desa (village) Tasik Serai and Desa Bukit Krikil in Bengkalis District / photo: twitter.com/sutopo_bnpb
"Three of the water bombing helicopters, two water bombing fixed planes and a CASA plane for artificial rains would be placed in Riau."
"This year, preparations in dealing with the forest fire emergency situation is better than in previous years."
"In 2015, preparation and action in dealing with forest and bush fires came late resulting in greater difficulties in putting out the fires," Mr Nugroho explained.
In response to an inquiry from TOC, the Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) wrote, "We are and will continue to work closely with all national agencies to put out fires which are within and which pose a risk to our suppliers' concession areas, and we will continue discussing collaborative measures in forest management."
JOSE Raymond, the Vice President of Corporate Affairs in Singapore explained further, "This year AAP has taken fire suppression action in collaboration with a range of organisations, including the Indonesian Armed Forces, Indonesian National Police Force, Riau's Local Agency for Disaster Management, the Indonesian Forest Fire Brigade or Manggala Agni, provincial government, and local communities."
"This united task force has proven effective in suppressing fire at critical hotspots, particularly in Riau province, including as the Bukit Kerikil Wildlife and Biosphere Reserve, Bandara Pinang Kampai Dumai in Meranti Regency, and forest area surrounding Kubu Rokan Hilir."
"Three water-bombing helicopters, including a Super Puma, along with hundreds of trained personnel and heavy firefighting equipment such as Tohatsu pumps, mini striker pumps, and hoses have been utilised in these suppression efforts," Mr Raymond added.


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No Law in the Land
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King Arthur's Bones: A Historical Mystery
The King of Thieves: A Knights Templar Mystery
The Tainted Relic
Templar's Acre
The Bishop Must Die
The Templar, the Queen and Her Lover
Belladonna at Belstone
The Oath: A Knight's Templar Mystery
The Malice of Unnatural Death
THE STICKLEPATH STRANGLER
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The Templar's Penance
A Friar's Bloodfeud
King's Gold
Squire Throwleighs Heir
Rebellion's Message (First World Publication)
The Boy-Bishop's Glovemaker
A Murder Too Soon: A Tudor Mystery (First World Publication)
City of Fiends
The Mad Monk of Gidleigh
The Prophecy of Death
Set in the autumn of 1325, Jecks's 27th Knights Templar mystery (after July 2009's The King of Thieves ) boasts an exciting, twisting plot. England's Edward II rules a kingdom thick with dishonest men, including his own second-in-command and confidant, Sir Hugh le Despenser. Justice is unknown, and the classes are clearly and cruelly divided between the powerful and the powerless. When a well-organized band of what appear to be outlaws slaughters a large group of travelers in Devon, Sir Baldwin de Furnshill, keeper of the King's Peace, and his friend, Simon Puttock, investigate. That a large chest of silver bound for the king was stolen is no surprise, but why are two of the murdered party's members, one a monk, nowhere to be found? The period language can be difficult in places, but a glossary and cast of characters will help keep readers on track. (Dec.)


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Oklahoma Critical Piece In Preventing Extinction Of Monarch Butterfly
Thursday, February 12th 2015, 11:26 pm
You could make a good case that the Monarch butterfly is America's favorite insect. Unfortunately, it's in a death spiral, of our making, as we may have lost 90 percent of the Monarch.
This week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service unveiled a massive effort to save the Monarch migration, which will soon carry the butterflies over Oklahoma, on their way from Mexico to the upper Midwest.
We used to be able to blame the Monarch's decline on Mexican farmers, who cut down the trees in the butterfly's over-wintering grounds.
But in this country, in just four years, we've lost an area of conservation, and wild lands larger than the state of Texas, to corn conversion because of the ethanol boom.
And that's not even the worst of it.
It's always spring time in Chip Taylor's office; always filled with the orange-and-black promise of life renewed.
Taylor has devoted his professional life to the Monarch butterfly at Monarch Watch, a research center he began at the University of Kansas 23 years ago, which is now surrounded by the university's research park sprawl, which has slowly enveloped his little butterfly garden out back.
In the middle of another winter, Taylor is a man facing the grim reality of a world he never would have imagined, a world without Monarchs.
"If we don't regard it as a national priority, it's not gonna happen and we're gonna lose the Monarch. It's as simple as that," he said.
Even now, the Monarchs are about to begin their journey back to Oklahoma.
Within days, they'll leave their dwindling fir forest wintering grounds in the mountains west of Mexico City, and will soon arrive in their miraculous, mysterious, migration; the females, ragged, exhausted and near death, seeking out milkweed plants on which to lay their eggs.
Milkweed is the only plant that supports the voracious Monarch caterpillar once those eggs hatch; and it's milkweed that humans are wiping out.
"And we have fragmented the habitat that they evolved in to the point that there are huge gaps where there's no milkweed, huge areas where there's no milkweed," Taylor said.
After the first generation is hatched in the Texas and Oklahoma spring, those butterflies flock to what's called the "summering ground," the great Midwestern Corn Belt.
Learn More About How You Can Help Save The Monarch
It's there that two or three more generations hatch before a fourth turns around and heads back through Oklahoma in the fall, on its way to the Mexican forest to wait out another winter.
In 1998, I went to that forest in the Mexican state of Michoacán, with board members of Bartlesville's Sutton Avian Research Center.
We were treated to an astounding sight, fir trees dripping with overwintering Monarchs. I remember the people on that mountain that day likening it to a spiritual awakening.
Standing there, none of us knew that same year agri-giant, Monsanto, would begin selling genetically-modified seed corn that was resistant to glyphosate, the active ingredient in the company's Round-Up herbicide.
Two years later, it was soybeans.
Farmers could increase their yields, make their jobs easier - spraying their fields fencepost to fencepost - killing everything, except their corn or beans, including the milkweed.
"I can show you pictures of corn and soybean fields with milkweed growing in them. Now it wasn't very abundant, but 30 or 40 stems per acre will support a lot of monarchs. And now it's gone," said Taylor.
His computer is stuffed with the proof of a tragic turn; 165 million acres of Monarch habitat wiped clean of milkweed.
A last photo of another time shows one last milkweed making a stand in an Iowa corn patch.
"You can't take these pictures anymore. There just aren't any plants now," Taylor said.
If his desktop drips with despair, then his backroom blossoms with great fluffy bags and tidy little boxes of possibility, milkweed seed.
The seed, gathered by volunteers across the country who are taking a stand alongside Taylor, will be taken to a greenhouse in Baldwin City where, by spring, he'll pop milkweed plugs to plant in Oklahoma, and Kansas and Iowa.
Will it be enough to save a tiny creature we've pushed to the very edge?
"Honestly? I don't know, I really don't know," he said. "I'm not gonna go down without a fight. I think we don't have a choice. We have to make an effort."
Because if we don't make the effort, the only place we'll see that magical flash of orange-and-black is in a sterile research lab; an artificial place of our own making.
In the blink of an eye, we will have destroyed an astounding spectacle that has quietly survived eons. A specter that, at some point in a rapidly-approaching future, will come calling for us.
"I've got children, I've got grandchildren. I want the world ahead to have some of the things that I've loved and cherished. So, I'm working on it," said Taylor.
This is an all-hands-on-deck effort - homeowners, schools, highway departments, parks departments, colleges and tribal governments can all help Taylor plant milkweed.
You can buy flats of seedlings from Monarch Watch, grown from Oklahoma-gathered seed.
Oklahoma is one of the most critical states, since we're the place the first generation is born as the great migration travels from Mexico this spring.


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Apple rallies as the story fades
James Lin Press
The Apple price has popped almost 39% in the past year, including 10% in the days around the result a couple of weeks ago. This has less to do with the underlying numbers, which actually weren't that great (more on that later) and more to do with the building excitement around the iPhone 8, which will be released around the tenth anniversary of the first iPhone in September of this year.
There is a lot of speculation about the world's biggest listed company, and because Apple's supply chain is so long (meaning that its component providers need plenty of warning to tool up) it can be pretty well informed.
For example, there was plenty of chatter before the current iPhone was released about the removal of the headphone jack, and it turned out to be more than chatter. For the new iPhone, there is discussion about the phones augmented reality capability, the incorporation of the home button into the screen itself (rather than below it, which is where it is now) and wireless charging.
At least some of this will be correct (most likely the change to the home button, as well as some form of Pokemon Go-like augmented reality).
And then there is the stuff about the wireless charging. Inductive charging (putting a device on a charge pad, rather than charging it through a wire into the device) has been around for a while – it works in toothbrushes, for example, where water is problem, and on the Apple watch.
The next generation in wireless charging is a step beyond that – there are companies which have technology which will charge a device while it's in your pocket, using a radio signal beams power into the device.
One pundit opined that wireless charging is deeply disruptive, and indeed could be the next wi-fi, with all the disruption this entailed. Without in any way being critical, I would respectfully disagree. Wireless charging technology and wi-fi both operate on the idea of connecting without wires – but one is highly disruptive, while the other is, well, just a neat bit of technology.
Wi-fi is disruptive because it reveals the position, buying habits and identity of the user, which radically changes the business model of every company that cares to take advantage of it. Wireless charging, by contrast, is just a more convenient way to charge, kind of like a more powerful flashlight, or a cd compared, say, compared with a record.
Why is this important? Because new technologies, in their own right, aren't really all that investable – they can go up quickly, but also drop just as fast, a result of missed numbers or a falling multiple. So the wireless charging company (Energous, by the way, its listed on NASDAQ if you care to bet) could be interesting, but it doesn't make the cut as a disruptive company with all that entails for fast value creation.
So not all technology companies are disruptive.
And not all disruptive companies are about technology, which we outlined here in a piece on the Dollar Shave Club. DSC is disrupting the razor blade industry in a major way, not by being a better razor (it isn't) but by marketing the product outside of main media, in the process cutting by 60% the price a consumer pays for a premium product ($10/month not $30). It just got bought for US1b.
It isn't that we think that disruption is the only way to make money – it isn't. It's just that right now, there are a slew of variables pointing to wealth creation through further disruption whether in cars, energy or life sciences. And all of these will bring forward to new business models in retail, media, transport, medicine to name just a few.
As for the Apple numbers, they really do look like a problem. There was an extra week in the quarter, relative to the prior corresponding period, adjusting for which leaves the revenue numbers down, not up. iPad sales also went backward (again). Services were good, but from a low-ish base.
Apple is losing the battle on a number of critical disruptive fronts. Its cloud offering is way behind Google and even Microsoft, ditto its machine learning. Amazon (which is showing triple digit revenue growth in cloud) is creaming both companies in the home with its related Alexa (a voice search assistant which is gaining traction, and against which Siri's un-contextualised suggestions just sound absurd). Apple Music isn't doing especially well, Apple TV is looking more like a dumb pipe (Netflix has the bundle, and is making real inroads as a studio). The company has scaled back development of the car, which is looking like the next battleground. And Apple is sacrificing performance for form in its latest laptops, which are underpowered relative to those running Windows.
Sometimes, companies go up even as the strategy falls apart – it can be related to cutting back development costs to boost the bottom line, which in Apple's case is a huge expense. In that sense, Apple could be the ultimate private equity play – just imagine how much a PE syndicate could extract in earnings if the company just stuck to core iPhone sales, maybe with a few laptops thrown in.


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Prof. Nurul Islam, et al. v. Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, et al.
52 DLR (2000) 413
Download Judgment: English
Judgment Details
Decision and Reasoning
Court: Supreme Court - High Court Division
Health Topics: Child and adolescent health, Chronic and noncommunicable diseases, Environmental health, Health systems and financing, Tobacco
Human Rights: Right to a clean environment, Right to health, Right to life
Tags: Air pollution, Asthma, Cancer, Children, Health regulation, Lung disease, Minor, Noncommunicable diseases, Passive smoking, Pediatric health, Pollution, Pulmonary diseases, Respiratory diseases, Second-hand smoke, Smoking, Smoking cessation, Tobacco control, Tobacco regulation
The above judgment combined two writ petitions that both dealt with the effect of tobacco advertisements on public health.
The Petitioner in Writ Petition No. 1825 of 1999 was Prof. Nurul Islam, President of ADHUNIK (Aamra Dhumpan Nibaron Kori). Section 3 of the Tamakjato Shamogri Biponon Niontroner Jonno Pronito Ain, 1988 provided that all tobacco products and advertisements should have a statutory warning on the injurious effects of tobacco, in easily readable Bengali. The Petitioner contended that tobacco companies were flouting this law by printing the warning in a barely readable font on an inconspicuous part of the product. Further, in television and cinema hall advertisements, tobacco warnings were not broadcast long enough for the message to be appreciated. The Petitioner sought stricter implementation of the existing law through more prominent advertising both in broadcast and print media, so that even the illiterate would be aware of the dangers of tobacco usage.
In Writ Petition No. 4521 of 1999, the Petitioner was the Bangladesh Anti Drug Federation. They protested against a promotional campaign of the British American Tobacco Company called "Voyage of Discovery." This campaign involved a highly publicized 5 day yacht cruise starting from Chittagong that promoted "Gold Leaf" cigarettes by selling tickets to the public for a place on the "Gold Leaf Yacht," offered free gifts, and was accompanied by a print and broadcast advertising campaign. The Petitioner contended that the mandatory health warning was not displayed on any of the promotional materials onboard the ship.
In both writ petitions, the Petitioners contended that the State was violating the fundamental right to life by not protecting the health of its people.
British American Tobacco, the Respondents in the second petition, contended that the "Voyage of Discovery" did not intend to attract new consumers to tobacco products. They also contended that there was no law restraining them from carrying on such an advertisement. The Government, a Respondent in both petitions, stated that Ordinance No 16 of 1990, which sought to prohibit tobacco related advertisements, had lapsed after not being placed before Parliament. Thus, the Government was not authorized by law to prevent manufacturers and advertisers from carrying on their business.
The Court held that the Government should have banned advertisements of tobacco products. It held that tobacco consumption was detrimental to the life of an individual, and that the State has a duty to provide all its citizens with the right to life which includes the right to sound mind and health. Moreover, the fundamental right to human dignity and worth was to be guaranteed and respected by the State. The Court thus expressed dismay over the Government's inaction allowing Ordinance No. 16 of 1990 to lapse.
In reaching its conclusions, the Court relied on a report of the World Health Organization presented at the World Health Assembly. This report documented a rise in tobacco consumption due to aggressive marketing and promotional tactics by tobacco companies, which had led to a worldwide increase in deaths and ailments related to tobacco usage.
The Court also considered that the absence of a law banning advertisements by tobacco companies did not leave the Court helpless. It held that the State had a duty to protect a human being from ill health, and that, in view of the ill effects of tobacco usage, advertisements of cigarette and cigarette related products were violative of the right to life. The Court held that it therefore had the jurisdiction to issue directions banning tobacco advertisements.
The Court thus issued the following directions to the Government,
(a) Phase by phase cessation of tobacco leaves production and rehabilitation of workers engaged in such activities
(b) Restrict issuance of licenses to tobacco and bidi industries
(c) Prohibit import of tobacco related products and meanwhile print the statutory warning in bold language in Bengali
(d) On expiry of existing contracts for advertisements, no further advertisements in the print, electronic or other media were to take place
(e) Promotional activities like 'Voyage of Discovery were to be strictly prohibited by the Government
(f) Banning smoking in public places and penalizing offenders as per the Penal Code
"Moreover, a healthy human is the centre of all healthy activities and it is the obligation of the Republic to ensure creation of congenial environment to good health provided in Articles 10 and 11. Maintenance/improvement of public health and to maintain the dignity of life is the anxious obligation of the State machinery." [52 DLR (2000) Para 22].
"But whatever may be the existing purport of Act 45 of 1988, Article 102(1) of the Constitution provides remedy thereunder if any of the fundamental rights is contravened. Thus, the provisions as to fundamental rights in our Constitution are self executory and any violation of the provisions of Article 31 is subject to judicial review in writ jurisdiction and this Court could remedy the wrong by issuing appropriate declarations and directions for enforcement of any of the fundamental rights conferred by Part III of the Constitution" [52 DLR (2000) Para 31].
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Def Jam's Rocko says "Umma Do Me!"
This is Def Jam/Island Urban's new artist Rocko. Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, Rocko is the first to venture out on Jermaine Dupri's Island Urban Music, his new street single "Umma Do Me" is receiving nice airplay and reviews and I'm pretty sure I heard it going up there before.


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Simon Häggström, född 5 februari 1982 i Indien, är en svensk författare och polis, bosatt i Stockholm.

Biografi
Simon Häggström är uppvuxen i Stockaryd i Sävsjö kommun. Han är utbildad vid Polishögskolan i Stockholm. Han arbetade inledningsvis i "Plattangruppen" vars arbetsuppgifter syftade till att störa ut narkotikahandeln på Plattan i Stockholm.

Häggström har sedan 2008 arbetat med brott som rör prostitution och människohandel vid Stockholmspolisen samt Nationella operativa avdelningen (tidigare Rikskriminalpolisen). Han har under flera år varit ett välkänt namn i prostitutionsdebatten och 2014 vittnade han i den franska senaten som expert gällande den svenska sexköpslagen, en lagstiftning som Frankrike senare antog.

Författarkarriär

År 2016 debuterade han även som författare och släppte sin debutbok Skuggans lag där han beskrev sin och sina kollegors vardag i Stockholms undre värld. Boken rönte stor massmedial uppmärksamhet och våren 2017 släpptes uppföljaren Nattstad med en människohandlare som protagonist.

I augusti 2018 meddelade Harper Collins nordiska kontor att de skulle att ge ut Häggströms tredje bok, en roman som gavs titeln Flickorna som sprang och kom ut i maj 2019. Enligt förlaget planerades en serie om fem böcker och i maj 2020 gav Harper Collins ut den första uppföljaren, I skuggan av sektor 5. Den tredje boken i serien, Systrarna och ensamheten kom ut i maj 2022. Del fyra är planerad för utgivning i september 2023.

Bibliografi

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Udnyttet. HarperCollins Nordic. 2022.  - Översättning till danska.

Jentene i skyggen. HarperCollins Nordic. 2022.  - Översättning till norska.
Bukarestin varjoissa. HarperCollins Nordic. 2022.  - Översättning till finska.

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Priser och utmärkelser
2021 – Tilldelades S:t Eriksmedaljen av Stockholms kommunstyrelse för sitt arbete som polis och samhällsdebattör i frågor som rör prostitution och människohandel.

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1152 Deer Park Road
What do you get when you pair a well-loved bungalow in an established neighbourhood with a designer and renovator that have vision?
An exquisitely updated home perfect for anyone seeking the benefits of urban living while getting amenities usually found in the suburbs. This thoroughly renovated 1960s home has been elevated to modern standards and tastes and checks all the boxes for a family's needs, featuring five bedrooms, three full bathrooms, an oversized lot and 2,100 square feet of finished space.
The Property:
Set on a corner pie-shaped lot measuring almost 119 by 100 feet (irregular), this home boasts a generous yard on a quiet street that many urban homes can only dream of. The property includes several mature trees that received professional maintenance in 2021. Private, serene and landscaped, this yard offers a welcome outdoor space.
It's like country in the city. This home sits in a well-established residential neighbourhood peppered with parks, all within easy walking distance. It's close to the Experimental Farm, Hog's Back and Mooney's Bay, the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital, schools and the shopping, services and amenities of Baseline and Merivale roads. It's like a new home in a mature neighbourhood. What could be better than that?
The Renovations
This whole-home remodel, undertaken over the last few months by Your French Touch, includes:
New Kitchen: Contemporary design and laid out to maximize flow and function. It features a mix of white and wood-toned cabinetry, all-new appliances, extras such as a pot filler, custom hood vent and counter-to-ceiling backsplash.
New & updated bathrooms : Two full bathrooms added for a total of three full bathrooms, featuring glass-walled walk-in showers in two of them and all with heated floors.
Bedrooms: Two new ones added offering a ton of flexibility for family, guests and working from home.
Other details: All new flooring including wide-plank hardwood on the main floor and luxury vinyl in the basement; new electrical and plumbing, updated light fixtures and pot lights and more.
The Features:
The home's layout features a generous living room with floor-to-ceiling picture window, contemporary electric fireplace with Bluetooth speakers and built-in cabinetry, separate dining room and a deep garage.
MLS Number 1279048
Year Built Approx. 1960
Amenities Nearby Civic Hospital, Experimental Farm, Hogs Back, Mooney's Bay, Merivale Shopping Plazas.
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1 Garage + 2 Surfaced Parking
Cooling Type Central Air
Fireplaces 1 (electric)
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New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas speaks at a news conference in Albuquerque, N.M., Oct. 30, 2017.
New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas said Wednesday he is seeking to void a 2003 land transfer from a historic Hispanic land grant on grounds it was illegal.
Balderas's office filed a complaint against the Greeley, Colorado-based nonprofit group Al Frente de Lucha over a title transfer of property belonging to La Merced de Los Pueblos de Tierra Amarilla in northern New Mexico.
The complaint contends a nonprofit created to manage the La Merced land grant transferred about 216 acres to Al Frente de Lucha, but says the people representing the La Merced group were not elected board members.
In addition, the board representing La Merced also did not approve the transfer, the complaint said.
Balderas said whoever signed the agreement did so without the authorities of the board, making the agreement void, Balderas said.
Al Frente de Lucha, which loosely means the Fighting Front, did not immediately return an email from The Associated Press.
According to its website, Al Frente de Lucha "is an anti-colonial organization dedicated to the struggle for the self-determination and liberation of all oppressed people." The group works with youth to educate youth about Mexican-American history and the land grant struggles in New Mexico and Colorado.
La Merced de Los Pueblos de Tierra Amarilla land grant was established in 1831 by Mexico to encourage ranchers to settle in the New Mexico territory. The Spanish government also made similar grants before 1821.
A 2016 state audit found the La Merced board approved the sale of assets without board approval.
Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, is the site of the 1967, armed raid of a courthouse by land grant activists. The attack was connected to age-old Spanish land grant disputes and began after activists from the group La Alianza Federal de Mercedes sought to make a citizen's arrest of then-District Attorney Alfonso Sanchez.
During the June 5, 1967, raid, the group, led by Texas-born activist Reies Lopez Tijerina, shot and wounded a state police officer and jailer, beat a deputy, and took the sheriff and a reporter hostage. Tijerina was ultimately arrested but ultimately acquitted of charges directly related to the raid. He eventually spent about two years in prison for federal destruction of property.


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People have always fascinated sociologist Perry Warren, yet his most personal relationships--with his wife and young son--are in shambles. Hoping distance will offer answers, Perry has come to South Carolina to start over. Though a researcher by vocation, he has never met the likes of the people here, nor could he have dreamed up the world he is about to enter.
Margaret Tuttle's story is one of love unsought. Long ago she took refuge in a predictable, regimented life, but something dark lurks behind her stern efficiency. When Birdie Freeman appears in the school lunchroom early one Monday morning, Margaret cannot imagine the changes that will soon commence in her well-ordered world.
Four women's lives intertwine as they find light in four different ways. Dottie makes her living as a hairdresser, but some days she doesn't want to live. Catherine feels that her life has been one long disappointment. Barb, disorganized and forgetful, wonders how she can ever accomplish anything worthwhile. And then there's Della Boyd--a lost soul in more ways than one.
Elizabeth's story is like an untended garden, with weeds as bounteous as flowers and stone walkways buried beneath tangled vines. When betrayal strikes, Elizabeth retraces the path of her life and marriage, discovering forgotten memories along the way. Pruning the garden of her life requires a new and painful honesty but offers the promise of mercy.
Against her will, Celia Coleman has returned to the small town she had hoped never to see again. The memories of that long-ago home and church--and of her own behavior there--are not happy ones. Once done with the dreaded duty that brings her here, however, she intends to turn her back on this place for good. What she doesn't know is that the floodgates are about to open.
Plain and dutiful, Sophia Hess has lived a life no one would envy. Her professor husband has been dead for years, having left a cache of secret horror behind, and now Sophia's nephew Patrick and his wife, Rachel, have taken her into their home. From a careful distance Sophia assesses their faith as she watches and listens.
Ben Buckley wants his private world to be as structured, well guarded, and compartmentalized as the business he owns and operates. An unsolved murder from twenty years earlier has cast a long shadow over his life, and the risks of trying to rebuild crumbled dreams are daunting. He must decide what to do about the mysteries within his own family--face them or flee.
Julia Rich, PhD in literature, has taught college courses for many years, guiding students into the wide world of words and ideas even as she herself retreats further from life. It takes a high school drop-out to show her the meaning of concepts like joy, faith, and hope. Together, the two of them take a road trip that leads far from home but back again, with minds enlightened and hearts expanded.


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DiagnosisONE takes $5M from Edison Venture
July 20, 2010 By Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology
Health-care software provider DiagnosisONE Inc. of Nashua, N.H., has raised $5 million from Edison Venture Fund to expand its sales and marketing efforts, as well as further product development, officials said.
DiagnosisONE makes a health-care information technology product called D.1 Pathway, that is a data analytics tool intended to help health-care providers, hospitals and health plans make point-of-care decisions about patient care. The company launched D.1 Pathway in March of 2006.
Edison is the only institutional investor in the round, which it described as an "expansion stage" funding. Michael Balmuth, a general partner at Edison, joined the DecisionONE board, along with Edison Director Network member Zach Henderson. Based in New Jersey, Edison has an office in Needham.
In addition to Clinical Decision Support, DiagnosisONE makes a monitoring system for flagging and tracking disease outbreaks called D.1 Surveillance. In 2008, DiagnosisONE landed a contract from Center for Disease control and Prevention to develop and install a public health-care IT infrastructure for the government of Pakistan.


Check out a new deleted scene featuring Tom Cruise and Annabelle Wallis from The Mummy.
When an ancient evil rises up to seek revenge on our world, relive the epic saga in The Mummy, available now on Digital and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray™, DVD and On Demand on September 12, 2017 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Packed with over an hour of special bonus content, experience never-before-scene footage and hidden secrets The Mummy has within with stars Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, Russell Crowe, and Jake Johnson.


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The Man with the Dog
French, 1832-1883
Reading Arthur Upham Pope in Tehran (and Chicago)
There will always be a constant battle in my heart and mind.
Pastel on canvas, prepared with an off-white gouache ground
Bequest of Brooks McCormick
Théodore Duret, Histoire d'Édouard Manet et de son oeuvre (H. Floury, 1902), pp. 300–01, no. 77.
Théodore Duret, Manet and the French Impressionists, trans. J. E. Crawford Flitch (Grant Richards, 1910), p. 276, no. 77.
Lefevre Galleries, Important Pictures by Nineteenth Century French Masters (Lefevre Galleries, 1924), n. pag. (ill.).
H. Mireur, Dictionnaire des Ventes d'Art 5 (Maison d'éditions d'oeuvres artistiques, 1911), p. 63.
Julius Meier-Graefe, Edouard Manet (R. Piper, 1912), p. 327, no. 120.
Adolphe Tabarant, Manet: Histoire catalographique (Montaigne, 1931), pp. 507–08, no. 85.
Paul Jamot and Georges Wildenstein, Manet, with Marie-Louise Bataille (Les Beaux-Arts, 1932), vol. 1: p. 182, no. 529; vol. 2: p. 135, fig. 260.
Charles C. Cunningham, "A Pastel by Manet," Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts 35, 212 (Dec. 1937), p. 81, note 1.
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"Manet, Cat. 21, The Man with the Dog," in Manet Paintings and Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2017), https://publications.artic.edu/manet/reader/manetart/section/140020.
London, Lefevre Galleries, Important Pictures by Nineteenth Century French Masters, May–June 1924 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Édouard Manet 1832–1883, Jan. 13–Feb. 19, 1967, n. pag., cat. 197 (ill.).
By descent from the artist to his wife, Suzanne Manet (née Leenhoff; 1829–1906), Paris, Apr. 30, 1883 [artist's estate stamp (Lugt 880), recto, lower right, in red]; sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Feb. 4–5, 1884, lot 120, to de la Narde, for 95 francs [Julius Meier-Graefe, Edouard Manet (R. Piper, 1912), p. 327, no. 120.]. Carvalho, Paris, by 1902 [Adolphe Tabarant, Manet: Histoire catalographique (Montaigne, 1931), pp. 507–08, no. 85. It is possible that this is Octavie Josephine Macedo-Carvalho (1833–1909; née Marchand). She was the mistress of the important art dealer and collector George Aloysius Lucas (1824–1909), who moved to Paris in 1857. He maintained her apartment across the hall from his own, and the two shared a servant. Reportedly, cooking for both households was done in Lucas's apartment, as Carvalho's kitchen was stuffed with Lucas's art collection. Therefore, it is possible that someone knew the picture was in Carvalho's apartment but never made the connection to George A. Lucas. See Holly Selby and James Bock, "Lucas' Will, The Fight over George A. Lucas Collection Comes Down to One Question: Does the Lucas art belong in Baltimore forever? THE LUCAS COLLECTION: WHAT DID HE REALLY WANT?," The Baltimore Sun, Mar. 19, 1995, accessed online Jan. 25, 2016, https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-03-19-1995078030-story.html. In addition to assembling his own significant collection of Manet prints, Lucas helped Samuel P. Avery (1822–1904) and William T. Walters (1820–1894) form their collections. Avery amassed a collection of 17,775 etchings and lithographs representing 978 artists, many of them French, and gave his collection of prints to the New York Public Library in 1900. Following his death in 1894, Walters bequeathed bequeathed his extensive collection to his son, Henry Walters, who established the Walters Art Gallery, now called The Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland.]. Théodore Duret (1838–1927), Paris [Tabarant 1931]. Auguste Pellerin (1853–1929), Paris, by 1902 [Duret 1902]; probably sold to Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, spring 1910 [Auguste Pellerin was an active collector, buying and trading pictures for more than twenty-five years, frequently through Bernheim-Jeune. In spring 1910 Pellerin sold much of his Manet collection to a consortium of art dealers comprised of Bernheim-Jeune and Durand-Ruel, both in Paris, and Paul Cassirer, in Berlin. See Julius Meier-Graefe, Kunst ist nicht für Kunstgeschichte da: Briefe und Dokumente, ed. Catherine Krahmer (Wallstein, 2001), p. 374. In June of that year, Bernheim-Jeune exhibited thirty-five works by Manet from the Pellerin collection. See Bernheim-Jeune, Manet: Trente-cinq tableaux de la collection Pellerin (Paris, 1910). This pastel was not included, but another pastel portrait, L'Homme Blond (Duret no. 75) was shown. If Pellerin had still owned The Man with the Dog at that time, it seems likely that it, too, would have been included.]. Lefevre Galleries (Alex. Reid & Lefevre), London, by May 1924 ]London, 1924 exh. cat.]. Bignou Gallery, New York [Stock card, Bignou Gallery Album, Frick Collection Archives, copy provided by Shannon Morelli, Jan. 28, 2016, in the curatorial object file]. Chester H. Johnson (died 1934), Chicago, by 1931 [Tabarant 1931]. Brooks McCormick (1917–2006), Chicago, probably by 1967 [Chicago, 1967 exh. cat.]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 2007.
Cat. 21 The Man with the Dog, c. 1882
Sketches from "The Gypsies," "The Spanish Ballet," and "Lola de Valence" for "L'Autographe au Salon de 1865", 1865
Dragonfly, plate 1 from Le Fleuve, 1874
Is it Weakness thus to Dwell (valentine), c. 1840
George Kershaw
Ham and Pearling Design for Coffee Pot No. 6652, c. 1882
Tiffany and Company
Place de la Trinité, Paris, c. 1886
Jean-François Rafaëlli
Design for Bowl No. 7751, 1883
Design for Compotier No. 6873, 1882/83
Design for Salt Dish No. 1700, 1867/68
Hammering, Mounting and Engraving Design for Pitcher No. 5051, 1878
Study of a Male Nude, 1858
The Bath, 1892/95
Morning on the Marne at Meaux, 1885/86
Albert Dubois-Pillet


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