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The body count is mounting.
And a deputy is the killer's next target.
Capturing the Ice Cold Killer is the greatest challenge Eagle Mountain has ever seen.
Thankfully, Deputy Jamie Douglas is determined to see justice done.
Nate Hall is visiting for a wedding, and the vacationing lawman is more than willing to help. As a blizzard ravages the town, keeping everyone trapped with a killer, evidence begins to accumulate about a mysterious conspiracy.
Can Jamie and Nate get to the truth before more innocent people wind up dead?
Not only the case of the serial killer(s) getting edgier with each new victim, now they are targeting the people in the force and their families, and that puts the tale into another level of intensity.
Deputy Jamie Douglas has a lot on her plate. She's the guardian of her younger sister who has developmental issues, she is the female deputy of the police force, an avalanche has cut the roads off to the town, and her ex is visiting the town, stuck cause the snow...
Jamie is a tough, capable, caring female lead, she is easy to like and admire. She is doing her best with the situation she is in, and even though her attention is required by many different matters, she is trying to keep a cool head.
With the Ice Cold killer on loose, everyone with skills to investigate are welcomed to help. Nate Hall jumps into the case, and into protecting Jamie and her sister, who seems to be the next target.
I liked how Nate and Jamie work the past hurt and present awkwardness, the feelings they have for each other, and the problems in their personal relations. Nothing comes easy to these two, yet Nate is determined to show Jamie that the seven years apart has changed his focus. He wants to protect her from the killer, yet to respect her as a deputy, he wants to be part of her life again, yet is willing to take the time it takes to win her heart and trust again.
This book - and series - is turning out to be binge-worthy material, easy to immerse yourself into while the hunt for the killers continues. The romance stories capture your heart while the tense suspense, and a case that seems a bit overwhelming at times puts everyone in the small town of Denver on danger.
Heartwarming romance mixed with intense suspense, a winning combo of entertainment for me!
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Cindi Myers worked as a newspaper reporter, travel agent and medical clinic manager before turning to writing full time. She's written both historical and contemporary romance, as well as dozens of short stories and nonfiction articles. Cindi thinks writers have the best job in the world.
Former president of San Antonio Romance Authors, Cindi is a member of Romance Writers of America, Novelists Inc., and Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers.
She and her husband and their two dogs live in the mountains Southwest of Denver. When she's not caught up in creating new characters and stories, Cindi enjoys reading, quilting, gardening, skiing and hiking. She's also in demand as a speaker, teaching workshops and making presentations to both local and national writing groups.
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Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War (Used Book) - Karl Marlantes
Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Deadand James Jones's The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain and mud, leeches and tigers, disease and malnutrition. Almost as daunting, it turns out, are the obstacles they discover between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions, and duplicitous superior officers. But when the company finds itself surrounded and outnumbered by a massive enemy regiment, the Marines are thrust into the raw and all-consuming terror of combat. The experience will change them forever.
Written over the course of thirty years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, Matterhorn is a visceral and spellbinding novel about what it is like to be a young man at war. It is an unforgettable novel that transforms the tragedy of Vietnam into a powerful and universal story of courage, camaraderie, and sacrifice: a parable not only of the war in Vietnam but of all war, and a testament to the redemptive power of literature.
A graduate of Yale University and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, Karl Marlantes served as a Marine in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten air medals. This is his first novel. He lives in rural Washington State.

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At Carterton Community College we welcome everyone into our community. We endeavour to make available inclusive provision to ensure that all students, including those students identified with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) can enjoy and benefit from a broad and balanced curriculum with access to the National Curriculum at an appropriate level, so that they may achieve their full potential. Our focus is on delivering quality first teaching, enabling all learners to achieve in the classroom through differentiation and we are committed to narrowing the attainment gap between SEND and non-SEND students. We are proud of all our students and their achievements.
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- March 19, 2019
- - By Moodfit Team
January is Paris' time to shine; and what better way to open 2019's design calendar than visiting Maison & Objet, one of the world's biggest interior design fairs held twice a year in the French capital.
Since 1995, Maison & Objet Paris has been the ultimate platform for professionals to discover new brands and new collections from some of the world's most renowned designers. It's often where you can catch a first glimpse of the newest and trendiest looks that are about to be spread everywhere the coming year.
Moodfit team was at the illustrious exhibit for five days, and its highlight was our quick chat with "Designer of the Year", Sebastian Herkner. We talked about what design means to him, his source of inspiration and being part of M&O's wall of fame. Here's what he had to say:
What got you into design?
I've always had a strong interest in creativity and production methods, from both the crafts and the technological aspects. Design is my personal way to express myself.
Where do you get your inspiration from?
I am a curious person in general. I love to travel and observe different cultures and people. This provides me with a huge source of inspiration.
What's next for you?
We are currently working on exciting projects in different disciplines. I like variety and new challenges.
How did you get the title "Designer of the year" at M&O?
I was nominated because of my work over the last 10 years. I am very happy that M&O appreciates my design language and philosophy to design in a sustainable and responsible way. Design is a intercultural conversation, and it is important for me to focus on human beings, not just as clients also to work with them in workshops together. Craftsmen are my heroes: they can transform my scribbles and ideas to something special and unique.
Sebastian Herkner's portrait is by Gany Gerster.
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This might be one of the best inexpensive DIY builds we've shown you on Tiny House Talk: Meet Josh and Alisha's Serenity Tiny House on Wheels that cost them only $15,000 to build!
This couple has been traveling and eating on a dime for years and recently set out on their tiny house journey. Using recycled and reclaimed materials (and building the rest with their own two hands), the couple spent four months creating this masterful modern home.
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Couple Build Beautiful Tiny Home for only $15,000
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Such a bright and open aesthetic!
Rolling doors are the best kind for tiny houses.
Another long view of the home.
Taking a peek at the kitchen. Love those countertops.
Perfect fold-down desk/table for work and eating.
Lots of windows in the kitchen, great for ventilation.
Open shelving and plenty of under-counter storage.
Bowl sinks are my weakness. I love these!
Spacious shower with beautiful tiles.
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Oh! A fun lime-green door.
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From the owners/builders:
Serenity is a 330-square foot tiny house designed and built by her owners. The trailer itself was custom built by a local manufacturer and is 28 feet long by 8.5 feet wide. Many of the materials, including windows, flooring, doors, even appliances, were repurposed or purchased used from Craigslist, thrift shops, or local ReStores. Nearly everything, from the kitchen cabinets and counters to the vanity and bathtub enclosure, were built from scratch.
A full size kitchen means the owners will never have to give up their love of cooking. A bathroom big enough for two people to get ready in the morning, plus an RV sized washer and a wardrobe, doesn't feel cramped or tight in the least.
There are two lofts in Serenity: one is used as the master bedroom and the other doubles as a TV lounge and a guest sleeping area, complete with fold-out mattress. Cabinets under the stairs provide serious storage for everything from coats to electronics and cover the unsightly wheel well. On the opposite side, a custom-built fold-out desk sits atop the wheel well and provides the perfect place for dining or working form home.
A 10-cubic foot refrigerator fits perfectly in the kitchen and a large convection toaster oven plus two single burners that can be stowed away while not in use make cooking and baking easy. A mini split AC unit keeps the house cool in Texas summers and a 7-gallon electric hot water heater is hidden beneath the kitchen sink.
Eight windows and two glass doors, one on each side of the house, invite in some serious light so Serenity always seems spacious and open. She was built in Ohio with the help of family and friends, then towed down to Austin, Texas, which was always her intended destination. The entire build took just under four months and cost $15,000.
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Pollination using honey bees
Learn about preparing and maintaining bees so that they are fit for the pollination task. This book describes bee stocking rate required for more than sixty plant species.
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Pests and diseases can attack specific stages in the lifecycle of the honey bee. The vigilant apiarist understands the range of diseases and disorder and take preventative and remedial measures to manage the hive. This book describes the structure of the colony and what to do when things go wrong.
This publication covers the management of pests, diseases and other disorders of the honey bee.
This short ebook is a free bonus chapter to the Healthy Bees AgGuide. It contains a practical step-by-step guide to testing for hygienic behaviour in your bees. Hygienic behaviour is a characteristic of honey bees that promotes resistance to many pests and diseases. It is only available as a multi-touch book for use on iPad, iPhone and iPod. Download from the Apple iBookstore.
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Pollination using honey bees
Learn about preparing and maintaining bees so that they are fit for the pollination task. This book describes bee stocking rate required for more than sixty plant species.
Bee Agskills
A basic guide to some of the skills and practices of bee production. Easy to follow for those new to bee keeping, this book contains step-by-step instructions, diagrams and full-colour pictures. Includes how to maintain hives, use a bee smoker, catch a swarm, remove and extract honey, health and pests in the hive, buying equipment, and working safely with bees.
Australian native bees
This AgGuide provides a wealth of advice on how you can support and enjoy our native bees, whether you use them for pollination or you have a small backyard garden and collect their delicious honey. Combining the expertise of Australia's leading native bee researchers.
Honey - harvesting and extracting AgGuide
The harvesting and extracting manual for the professional beekeeper, with lots of information that applies to all levels of beekeeping. It covers the steps from hive to extraction, the premises where you extract the honey, the extraction process itself, and the evidence you need to keep as a commercial beekeeper.
Queen bee breeding AgGuide
The definitive publication on queen bee breeding in Australia. Covers cell raising, grafting, nutrition, pests and diseases, reproductive biology, genetics, mating apiaries, queen banking, controlled mating, packaging and much more.
Products of the hive
This book is about more than honey production. The complex behaviour of bees results in other products such as wax, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and, for older bees, bee venom. There are a range of possibilities for beekeepers to consider when it comes to overall profitability of keeping honey bees.
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[MLS PLAYOFF WATCH] Of the six MLS teams that played Wednesday, New York came away as the biggest loser; it fell behind early against Real Salt Lake at Red Bull
Arena and lost, 3-1, to squander yet another chance to improve its place in the overall rankings. All three teams fighting for their playoff lives, playing at home Wednesday desperately needed to win,
and none managed to do so.
A Jeld-Wen Field crowd in an especially loud and rowdy mood was hoping to celebrate a fifth straight home victory by the Timbers, but they wasted a 1-0 lead and ended up tied, 1-1, with San Jose; New York suffered an embarrassing 3-1 defeat to Real Salt Lake at Red Bull Arena; and D.C. United squandered a two-goal lead as well as a penalty kick while tying Chivas USA, 2-2, at RFK Stadium.
Portland's point edged it just ahead of New York in the battle for the 10th and final playoff spot heading into a crucial meeting between the teams Saturday at Red Bull Arena. Both teams also have five games to play.
RSL's win moved it into a second-place tie with Seattle among Western Conference teams as well as the overall standings. Those two teams and overall points leader Los Angeles occupy the three automatic slots in that conference. The Eastern spots are held by Columbus, Sporting Kansas City, and Philadelphia.
After the Wednesday action, the four wild-card spots look like this, with games to play in parentheses:
Wild Card 7 – FC Dallas, 46 pts. (5); WC8 – Colorado, 41 pts. (4); WC9 – Houston, 39 pts. -- (4); WC10 – Portland, 37 pts. (5).
Chasing those four teams are: 11 – New York, 36 pts. (5); 12 – D.C. United, 35 pts. (7); 13 – Chivas USA, 32 pts. (4); T14 – Chicago, 30 pts. (6); T14 – Toronto FC, 30 pts. (4); T14 – San Jose, 30 pts. (5).
TIMBERS TOPPLED. Though they trailed from the ninth minute to a Kenny Cooper goal, the visiting Earthquakes attacked energetically and confidently for much of the match and courageously denied the Timbers a second goal. After a long period of sustained pressure, in the 70th minute they stunned the Portland crowd when Khari Stephenson's shot from outside the penalty area skipped past keeper Troy Perkins and snuck inside his right post.
Chances arose at both ends in a frenetic ending to a match that either team could have won. Portland needed an excellent short-hop save by Perkins on a Chris Wondolowski header in the final minutes to secure the point that keeps it in the wild-card tier, and his counterpart Jon Busch smothered a low shot from Khalif Alhassan that teammate Eric Brunner just failed to nick at the edge of the goal area.
The Quakes, which really needed a win to boost their slim hopes, are still mathematically in the race, as is Chivas USA.
UNITED FALLS APART. Since it still has seven more games to play, the 2-2 tie with Chivas USA at RFK Stadium isn't the worst result. But it did occur in the worst possible way; United led, 2-0, on goals by Dwayne De Rosario and Ethan White, and after Chivas USA rallied with a pair of Juan Pablo Angel goals to tie the game, De Ro failed to put away a penalty kick.
Keeper Dan Kennedy dived left to turn away the penalty kick, which was awarded when a very slight push on De Ro by Angel prompted referee Chris Penso to blow his whistle. Angel had put away feeds from Nick LaBrocca and Ante Jazic to pull Chivas USA even with United, which took a 2-0 lead early in the second half on White's goal but wilted under intense Chivas USA pressure forged by high pressure and incessant United turnovers.
RED BULLS ROUTED. It took just a few minutes to discern if New York could use its gutty 1-0 defeat of FC Dallas last weekend to fire up its playoff push against Real Salt Lake at Red Bull Arena.
The answer: Not even close.
RSL tore New York apart by scoring three times in the first 21 minutes on a corner kick, defensive mixup, and some sweet combination play, and stubbornly held on for a 3-1 victory that whacked another deep dent into New York's playoff chances. A spectacular scissor-kick goal by Joel Lindpere in the second half, minutes after he'd rattled the crossbar with a similar attempt that keeper Nick Rimando just managed to get a glove on, merely emphasized what New York had failed to do for most of the match.
Alvaro Saborio outjumped Teemu Tainio – which is not a matchup that favors the hometown team -- to head home Andy Williams' corner kick in the seventh minute, and four minutes later, a hesitant touch by Tim Ream presented the ball to Fabian Espindola, who swooped to goal and steered a shot behind keeper Frank Rost.
Espindola scored again in the 21st minute by racing onto a through ball that split defenders Jan Gunnar Solli and Rafael Marquez, and rolling his shot past Rost from the edge of the penalty area. Lindpere volleyed home a Marquez free kick in the 69th minute to narrow the gap, but Rimando repelled a solid header from Juan Agudelo and a few courageous blocks by RSL players shut down New York the rest of the way.
New York can regain a playoff spot by beating Portland Saturday, or fall further down the chute by losing.
RB are cooked...Rafa wants to go home, he's been miserable most of the season.


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Nob Hill: The plug has finally been pulled on old-timer Fournou's Ovens, which has officially made the leap from past-its-prime hotel restaurant to special events venue. The move, you'll recall, is part of the Stanford Court Hotel's $35 million renovation and will soon be followed by the debut of the restaurant replacement, Aurea.
As for Fournou's Ovens, the dated 70s-era restaurant never really grew on locals (even going back to the last decade), and with the hotel remodel, the original plan was for Fournou's shuttering to coincide with Aurea's opening. However, we've been told there have been some minor hold-ups on the Aurea side, but per its tracking report, a debut within the next two weeks is still expected.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – December 6, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — Delinquency rates decreased for commercial and multifamily mortgage loans in the third quarter, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Commercial/Multifamily Delinquency Report.
"Commercial and multifamily mortgage delinquency rates for loans held by life companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac all remain extremely low," said Jamie Woodwell, MBA's Vice President of Commercial Real Estate Research. "The delinquency rate on bank-held loans is at its lowest level since the beginning of 2009 and the delinquency rate for loans held in commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) – while still elevated – continues to stabilize. If one removes the CMBS loans that are in foreclosure or REO, that delinquency rate is at its lowest since late 2009."
During the third quarter of 2012, the 60+ day delinquency rate for commercial and multifamily mortgages held in life company portfolios decreased 0.03 percentage points to 0.12 percent. The 60+ day delinquency rate for multifamily loans held or insured by Fannie Mae decreased 0.01 percentage points to 0.28 percent. The 90+ day delinquency rate for loans held by FDIC-insured banks and thrifts decreased 0.18 percentage points to 2.93 percent. The 30+ day delinquency rate for loans held in commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) decreased 0.11 percentage points to 8.86 percent. The 60+ day delinquency rate for multifamily loans held or insured by Freddie Mac remained the same at 0.27 percent.
The third quarter 2012 delinquency rate for commercial and multifamily mortgages held in life insurance company portfolios was 7.41 percentage points lower than the series high (7.53 percent, reached during the second quarter of 1992). The delinquency rate for multifamily loans held by Freddie Mac was 6.54 percentage points lower than the series high (6.81 percent, reached in the fourth quarter of 1992). The delinquency rate for multifamily loans held by Fannie Mae was 3.34 percentage points below the series high (3.62 percent, reached during the fourth quarter of 1991). The rate for commercial and multifamily mortgages held by banks and thrifts was 3.65 percentage points lower than the series high (6.58 percent, reached in the second quarter of 1991). The rate for loans held in CMBS was 0.16 percentage points below the series high (9.02 percent, reached in the second quarter of 2011).
Please note: In March 2012, MBA released a DataNote covering the performance of commercial and multifamily mortgages at commercial banks and thrifts over the entire year 2011. The DataNote found that commercial and multifamily mortgages had the lowest charge-off rates of any major loan type and had delinquency rates lower than the overall book of loans and leases held by banks and thrifts. The DataNote can be found at: www.mortgagebankers.org/research.
Construction and development loans are not included in the numbers presented here, but are included in many regulatory definitions of 'commercial real estate' despite the fact that they are often backed by single-family residential development projects rather than by office buildings, apartment buildings, shopping centers or other income-producing properties. The FDIC delinquency rates for bank and thrift held mortgages reported here do include loans backed by owner-occupied commercial properties.
The MBA analysis looks at commercial/multifamily delinquency rates for five of the largest investor-groups: commercial banks and thrifts, commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), life insurance companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Together these groups hold more than 80 percent of commercial/multifamily mortgage debt outstanding.
The analysis incorporates the same measures used by each individual investor group to track the performance of their loans. Because each investor group tracks delinquencies in its own way, delinquency rates are not comparable from one group to another.
Based on the unpaid principal balance (UPB) of loans, delinquency rates for each group at the end of the third quarter were as follows:
• Life company portfolios: 0.12 percent (60 or more delinquent);
• Freddie Mac: 0.27 percent (60 or more days delinquent);
• Fannie Mae: 0.28 percent (60 or more days delinquent);
• Banks and thrifts: 2.93 percent (90 or more days delinquent or in non-accrual);
• CMBS: 8.86 percent (30 or more days delinquent or in REO).
Differences between the delinquency measures are detailed in Appendix A.
To view the report, please visit the following Web link: www.mortgagebankers.org/files/Research/CommercialNDR/3Q12CommercialNDR.pdf.
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is the national association representing the real estate finance industry, an industry that employs more than 280,000 people in virtually every community in the country. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the association works to ensure the continued strength of the nation's residential and commercial real estate markets; to expand homeownership and extend access to affordable housing to all Americans. MBA promotes fair and ethical lending practices and fosters professional excellence among real estate finance employees through a wide range of educational programs and a variety of publications. Its membership of over 2,200 companies includes all elements of real estate finance: mortgage companies, mortgage brokers, commercial banks, thrifts, Wall Street conduits, life insurance companies and others in the mortgage lending field. For additional information, visit MBA's Web site: www.mortgagebankers.org.


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Ever since I made Vegan Fusion's creamy dill dressing, I have been experimenting with using pine nuts as the creamy base for dips other dressings. Today, I present my new creamy chive and garlic dip. Perfect on these gorgeous tomatoes straight from the organic farm.
3/4 cup pine nuts
1/3 cup water, or more if too thick
Big handful of chives
1 big garlic clove *
The juice of 1/2 lemon, or more to taste
Salt, to taste
Place everything in the Vitamix or blender and process until creamy. Taste and adjust seasoning. Let sit for a little while so the flavors can come together. Store in the refrigerator. Enjoy!


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This is the fourth in a seven-part series introducing the new class of The Brandery, an Over-the-Rhine seed-stage startup accelerator. Each day this week, we'll focus on one startup or business selected to participate in this year's program. Today: Gainful
CINCINNATI -- Ever walk through a store and feel intimidated by the products you're there to buy?
That's how the founders of Gainful felt when they walked through a popular health-supplements chain store.
"Everything is marketed in a super-obnoxious way," Eric Wu said, with every product featuring pictures of some "big, sweaty, bodybuilder guy." They seemed made to make the customer feel inadequate, he said.
That experience prompted the founding of Gainful, one of seven new startups at The Brandery business accelerator in Over-the-Rhine.
How does it work?
Gainful makes personalized protein powder and retails it at gogainful.com.
On the website, customers answer questions about their age, body type, height, weight, exercise habits and why they want to take protein powder. Then the company's algorithm matches that information to what the company hopes is the perfect blend for them.
Then the three members of Gainful -- Wu, Jahaan Ansari and Jeffrey Yan -- mix the powder at Over-the-Rhine's Findlay Kitchen and ship it out. They use ingredients such as whey protein, cocoa powder and stevia sweetener that they source from wholesale distributors all over the country.
The company also has hired a registered dietician, whom anyone can make an appointment to talk with, Wu said.
Who are these guys?
Wu has worked as a quantitative marketer at some venture-backed startups, and as chief operating officer for The Hilltop Microfinance Initiative in Washington, D.C.
Yan most recently worked on automated tests for the NISAR satellite at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Ansari is still an undergrad at the University of California, Berkley, where he's been studying computer science and chemical engineering.
They're all 22. They went to high school together in Southern California, where they met because they all played soccer.
How long have they been at this?
Not very. Wu began working on Gainful around the first of the year, with Ansari and Yan joining him a month later.
They've been selling their product since May, and things have snowballed since. Over the past 30 or so days, orders have grown about 80 percent each week, Wu said. The company grosses about $1,300 in sales weekly and does about 30 orders a week.
None of that would have happened, Wu said, without The Brandery and the $50,000 seed investment it makes in the startups it accepts. The Brandery also provides mentors, such as Brett Stover, a Walnut Hills strategy and marketing consultant.
What does he think?
He likes the company because the guys are riding two big trends in business today, he said, those being health/wellness and customization of products.
He thinks the company's No. 1 priority ought to be identifying its target customers, the 20 percent of all the customers who provide about 80 percent of the profit. That's a ratio you find in almost every business, he said, and marketing to that 20 percent is vital to startups.
Spicefire, a local ad agency, has provided Gainful with some beautiful packaging options for its products, Stover said. Those will help the company hone its brand expression, he said.
"We hope to be a very photogenic company by the end of The Brandery," Wu said.
What have they learned about owning a business?
It has its ups and downs. Some days they arrive at The Brandery at 9 a.m. and leave at 10 p.m., then make protein powder until 2 a.m.
"In the beginning, we struggled to get traction with sales … that was very scary for a few days," Wu said. "There are all sorts of things to worry about … But other days, it's like being on cloud nine."
"We're having a blast," Ansari said. "Every day we're making strides. … The fact that we're in a place where we can literally accelerate our growth is really exciting."


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Dam Breaks On 9/11 Truth: Hollywood stars using their fame to attract attention to 9/11 truth
Dam Breaks On 9/11 Truth
Lynch and Brolin re-focus attention, will more Hollywood personalities follow in their footsteps?
Paul Joseph Watson
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Thursday, December 7, 2006
Two more major influential Hollywood stars using their fame to attract attention to 9/11 truth proves the dam is breaking and November's election result has failed to stop the momentum of a growing chorus across the political spectrum demanding answers on inexplicable facets of the 9/11 fraud.
Actor James Brolin used a spot on ABC's popular chat show The View to plug a 9/11 website that goes into detail on how the towers and Building 7 were imploded by incendiary devices.
Iconic producer David Lynch appeared on Dutch TV news to react to a clip from the Loose Change documentary and sounded off on several different aspects of how the official story is impossible.
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Circuit City Loves Giuliani (But Giuliani is no hero for NYFD)
The article even includes a link to an old Kristen Breitweiser HuffPo blog.
Remember when the NeoCons were trying to pin the anthrax
attacks on Steven J. Hatfill? He's trying to sue the NY Times for libel: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/02/america/NA_GEN_US_Anthrax.php
We should all have ID's.
[Since this article was written, Saban has become one of the major owners of one of the largest Spanish language TV channels.]
Media Mogul and Zionist hawk, ladies and gentlemen: Haim Saban:
''On the issues of security and terrorism I am a total hawk," he said.
"I'm a Democrat for the reinforcement of the Patriot Act. It's not
strong enough. The A.C.L.U. can eat their heart out, but they are living in the
1970's. We should all have ID's. You betcha. What do you have to hide? Some
friends of mine on the left side think I'm crazy."
Why is he so supportive of Israel? "I hate quoting Tom DeLay, I really do,"
Mr. Saban said. "If you're going to quote me quoting Tom DeLay, say I hate
quoting him." He continued, apparently quoting Mr. DeLay, the House Republican
leader: "He said: 'It is the right thing for us to do to be supportive
of Israel. The reasons go back to the beginning of time.' "
Haim Saban Billionaire helps Israel
Haim Saban is an Egyptian Jew who fled to Israel in 1956. Today he is one of the
wealthiest men in the USA; owns a media empire in Germany and helps Israel, unlike
Mr. Soros another billionaire who does nothing to help Israel.
Ah yes, the "You have nothing to hide" argument
The reason we all need IDs and transponders and RFID tags and GPS and all that crap is so that we can be tracked and traced in the event one of us becomes a witness to a high crime or comes across knowledge that threatens the elite establishment. That way we can be done away with quickly and easily. That is the ONLY reason they want all this surveillance technology, and they will create whatever threat necessary to get people to accept it. It's not conservative, it's not liberal, and it's not paranoia! It's simple human nature.
Just because people "have nothing to hide" does not mean that they should be able to hide nothing!
If the feudal lords ever had control of such technology as we have today, there would have been no end to the middle ages...
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Hey Charlie...
"I think that we have to look at these alternative groups and these alternative people who are continuing to make films and bring their research to the public."
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and does Griffin promote TVFakery?
death beams?
Operation Pearl?
so - i would be careful using Griffin's name. His work has a HELL of a lot more in common with Jon Gold's excellent and credible research and dedication than YOUR little circle of disruptors.
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The funny thing is...
The following shows just how much of a liar, and a piece of shit Gerard Holmgren is...
In regards to Ray McGovern fully supporting the "official story" of 9/11... would he have MC'd the "Intellectuals Speak Out" conference if he fully supported it? No. Would he have participated in a great number of 9/11 Truth events if he fully supported the "official story?" No.
In regards to Sibel Edmonds, she has been quoted as saying the American people don't know the real culprits behind the 9/11 attacks. Does that sound like someone who fully supports the "official story?" No way in hell.
In regards to Dr. Griffin... when Nico decided to attack he and others (such as myself) the other day, I sent Dr. Griffin the following email:
Nico Haupt attacked you today...
I thought you should know.
His response...
I appreciated the good company Nico put me in.
It doesn't sound to me as if Dr. Griffin thinks I "attack or ignore most of what Griffin presents." Instead, it seems rather that he respects the work I do.
Gerard Holmgren. Kiss my ass.
"I think that we have to look at these alternative groups and these alternative people who are continuing to make films and bring their research to the public."
Sally Regenhard - 9/11 Family Member
Its called "dissembling"
its a common disruption technique
its a shame we have to deal with it, but, like "The Guns of August" these clowns are fighting the last war - and have failed to take into consideration the advent of new technology in the new war.
Namely - The Information Superhighway really renders their efforts useless. in fact - they are downright losing this war just like they are losing their Iraq war - staying the course with a failed approach - while it becomes more and more and MORE obvious everyday to the general public that they are losing.
REALLY!! do they REALLY think theories about moonbats and little green men are going to derail this movement at this point? they are attempting to hold back the ocean with a broom.
its really kinda pathetic - as far as cointelpro goes.
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The thing I hate...
Is that I could respond to the slanderous remarks like I just did, and show that I am in the right, and they are in the wrong... and then they will post the identical comments later... even though they have been disproven. Then, I have to decide whether or not I want to spend the time dealing with it again, or move on... If I don't deal with it, then someone may read it, and believe it... If I do deal with it, it takes time away from more important things...
It's a pain in the arse.
"I think that we have to look at these alternative groups and these alternative people who are continuing to make films and bring their research to the public."
Sally Regenhard - 9/11 Family Member
you should feel honored. you
you should feel honored. you just got attacked by a professional. if you know what i mean.
Oh believe me...
I'm well aware that one of the reasons I'm attacked so often is because I must be doing something right...
However, as I said, it's a pain in the arse.
"I think that we have to look at these alternative groups and these alternative people who are continuing to make films and bring their research to the public."
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Jon, Maybe you could save
Jon, Maybe you could save some time by using an automatic reply:
This poster is a sponsored shill, taking orders from the boss:
"See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the "truth" to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." George W. Bush
Ah but...
As much as it makes sense that people like Gerard Holmgren, Nico Haupt, Judy Wood, Morgan Reynolds, Jim Fetzer, etc... are on the payroll, I can't prove it...
"I think that we have to look at these alternative groups and these alternative people who are continuing to make films and bring their research to the public."
Sally Regenhard - 9/11 Family Member
That's where they have the edge
we have ethics
they don't
the best we can do is continually point out what blatant liars they are - which is fairly easy.
it like taking candy away from a retarded child
Jon and John, I see this
Jon and John, I see this behavior/tactic performed by these people and other whom all fall into my "disinfo suspect" category.
They cannot keep anyone from speaking the truth once it is determined, so they must drown out the truth by putting saturating the dialog with disinformation. They are not trying to converse with us at all, they are simply trying to create a sense of doubt. By doing so they can keep people from accepting the truth as they can always create a sense of doubt on any topic. [See FUD - Fear Uncertainty and Doubt]
This COINTELPRO stuff has many aspects, one is to infiltrate, another is to strengthen or create an opposition, the last is to raise lower the truth/uncertainty ratio to the point where only a dedicated researcher can determine the truth. The task to determine the veracity of each claim is not equal, a well documented truth takes as much time as a well documented lie. An undocumented lie can take longer, especially if it is not evidence based but appeals to intuition and "common" sense alone.
I would imagine that our enemies have enlisted the aid of amorale Public Relations firms (Washington/VA is full of them) inorder to carry out some aspect of this (mudding the waters).
Just my 2 cents, and looking forward to your documentry John...
one more thing, I don't think all of these clowns really know what happened. The reason I say this is one person in particular actually put forward a far fetched idea using some lesser known method for mixing nanoaluminum and oxides + additives, turns out later there evidence to support that claim. I still laugh when I think about that. In anycase, these guys (most) are just low level grunts, taking orders to make a salary to pay off their mortgage. They are house slaves, willing to do their masters bidding for better table scraps.
Something else to knock Gerard Holmgren out of the park...
If I "attack or ignore most of what Griffin presents as evidence", then what's this?
"I think that we have to look at these alternative groups and these alternative people who are continuing to make films and bring their research to the public."
Sally Regenhard - 9/11 Family Member
Where does he get his information?
According to today's "news"...
Because Roger Peters aka dz (inspired by a name of "Brazil") aka dazinith is continuing to censor at 911blogger.com by blocking IPs and Anonymizers.
Yeah... I'm really going to subscribe to the research of this individual...
On 11/16/2006, on my board, I responded to a question... that question was...
What's dz?
I responded with...
:) Hmmmm... what's a dz? dz stands for "dazinith", which, if I remember correctly was some combination of Zenith televisions with something else.
He owns/runs 911blogger.com
I just verified this with the horse's mouth.
am I right? about the description
The horse's mouth...
"I think that we have to look at these alternative groups and these alternative people who are continuing to make films and bring their research to the public."
Sally Regenhard - 9/11 Family Member
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Nico the clown-"It is true.
Nico the clown-"It is true. *We* are at "cyberwar" (without conventional 'hacker tools') with 911blogger.com without any negotiations right now."
HAHAHAHAHAHA, i couldnt even read after that point. this guy is too childish, he needs to step his shill game up. Nico probably isnt the best shill to be tasked with writing hit-pieces on the 9/11 movement. i think the Anonymous backslash guy works for Nico and the no-plane disinfo brigade,haha. im only half joking.
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whats wrong? does it bother
whats wrong? does it bother you when i "attack" your cult leader Nico? seriously, you disinfo guys should probably get someone other than Nico to write your hit-pieces. his stuff is always laughable. and not in the way he intends.
heh - mouth breather
heh - mouth breather
It isn't?
"I think that we have to look at these alternative groups and these alternative people who are continuing to make films and bring their research to the public."
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If you think it is, your research - not that good.
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Opportunity knocks
James Brolin is married to Barbara Streisand. Streisand is a major player in hollywood liberal democrat circles. You really have to wonder if she shares her husband's beliefs on this.
Streisand has taken a lot of heat from the right-wing smear machine, so she may be reluctant to take a position on an issue as controversial as this - but - with her husband already talking the door may be open.
but the fact that Streisand has been such a target should tell you something about her. the right-wing only attacks people they fear.
Is anyone at 911blogger going to
Is anyone at 911blogger going to load up this clip of The View? I want to see it.
It's time for you to step up
It's time for you to step up and do it yourself. Track it down and figure it out and post it
Maybe someone's local ABC affiliate has it....
....available to copy....and upload.....
You were the
You were the bossy kid, right?
Pearl Harbor Day
I just realized that today is Pearl Harbor Day....
was it here where I read the post about the similarities between 911 and Pearl Harbor???
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Could we can the "dam break"
Could we can the "dam break" rhetoric, please? It's getting old and tired having this button pressed again and again. Oh wait, it's Alex Jones' team doing the pushing -- deaf fears, er, uh, I mean, ears. And BTW, there are some honest democrats and republicans alike. Let's not be hasty with calls for destroying the entire system without a viable alternative in the can.
re: "dam break" rhetoric
It's called trying to stay positive.
As far as having "a viable alternative in the can", there is one, it's called - the "Constitutional Republic" of the United States of America, which the current system does not abide by.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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got a typo in there... it's
got a typo in there... it's really "of the thirteen united States of America"... "united" is not capitalized...
source: http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm
The if you repeat a lie long enough, eventually everyone believes it is the truth, even when the facts are right in the open...
hey stallion4
Turn on the contact function on your account, I'm trying to email you.
ok I did
try to make it quick, though, 'cause it won't be on long.
cool thanks
done and done
There must be some kind of delay
'cause I haven't received anything yet. If I don't get it in the next half hour or so, I'll pm you.
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dam breaks my arse
There is only one google news result for "James Brolin 9/11". lol one single post ... by allahpundit, that raving moron who thinks Prison Planet is a leftist site! What a freakin idiot.


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Leslie Berland, Twitter's global chief marketing officer, is reminiscing about following the NBA on Twitter last season. She wasn't glued to expert commentators during games but instead watching out for what Ayesha Curry might say next. The wife of US basketball star Stephen Curry is an enthusiastic user of social media – and occasionally tweets herself into trouble.
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It's a crucial time for Twitter. The platform is under intense pressure from investors after failing to replicate the growth of rival Facebook. Twitter reported its slowest quarterly revenue growth in three years for the April to June 2016 period, up 20% year on year compared with Facebook's 59% growth in the same quarter. Berland says Twitter is on a "very good trajectory" and a number of recent changes to make the product more intuitive are "having an impact" already.
"We have a brand that means so many things to people, and Leslie brings a real clear sense of focus on the most important elements of that brand," Twitter's co-founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey says. "Even though she's pretty new to the company, she's been engaged with Twitter as a marketer for most of our existence, so she knows the power as well as anyone here."
Executives who worked with Berland at American Express say she spent more time with tech companies than agencies in her previous role.
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Twitter has suffered from being compared with Facebook and it is telling that Berland's new positioning was unveiled a day before Twitter's disappointing results and two days before Facebook's knockout ones. The work Berland has started should help investors and users understand the platform better. But they will have to accept that it might never get to shoot hoops at the level of Facebook and Google.
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Workshop overview from Nancy: Love weaving rag rugs but ready to try something other than plain weave? We'll discuss other suitable threadings including monk's belt, Ms and Os, double-faced twill, summer and winter, undulating twill, rosepath and crackle, using both rug and table-linen weight fabric strips. Full-size rugs and samples will be available in each weave. Discussions include what makes a rug successful, calculating fabric for a project, cutting strips, and ways to join strips.
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Walter Sickert
Helena Swanwick
January 22, 1942, Bath, United Kingdom
Therese Lessore (m. 1926–1942)
The Camden Town Murder, The Servant of Abraham
Slade School of Fine Art, King's College School
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Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 – 22 January 1942) was an English painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group in London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the 20th century.
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Sickert was a cosmopolitan and eccentric who often favoured ordinary people and urban scenes as his subjects. His oeuvre also included portraits of well-known personalities and images derived from press photographs. He is considered a prominent figure in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism.
The works of walter sickert
Training and early career
Sickert was born in Munich, Germany on 31 May 1860, the eldest son of Oswald Sickert, a Danish-German artist, and his wife, Eleanor Louisa Henry, who was an illegitimate daughter of the British astronomer Richard Sheepshanks. In 1868, following the German annexation of Schleswig-Holstein, the family settled in Britain, where Oswald's work had been recommended by Freiherrin Rebecca von Kreusser to Ralph Nicholson Wornum, who was Keeper of the National Gallery at the time. The family obtained British nationality. The young Sickert was sent to University College School from 1870 to 1871, before transferring to King's College School, where he studied until the age of 18. Though he was the son and grandson of painters, he first sought a career as an actor; he appeared in small parts in Sir Henry Irving's company, before taking up the study of art in 1881. After less than a year's attendance at the Slade School, Sickert left to become a pupil and etching assistant to James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Sickert's earliest paintings were small tonal studies painted alla prima from nature after Whistler's example.
In 1883, he travelled to Paris and met Edgar Degas, whose use of pictorial space and emphasis on drawing would have a powerful effect on Sickert's work. He developed a personal version of Impressionism, favouring sombre colouration. Following Degas' advice, Sickert painted in the studio, working from drawings and memory as an escape from "the tyranny of nature". In 1888 Sickert joined the New English Art Club, a group of French-influenced realist artists. Sickert's first major works, dating from the late 1880s, were portrayals of scenes in London music halls. One of the two paintings he exhibited at the NEAC in April 1888, Katie Lawrence at Gatti's, which portrayed a well known music hall singer of the era, incited controversy "more heated than any other surrounding an English painting in the late 19th century". Sickert's rendering was denounced as ugly and vulgar, and his choice of subject matter was deplored as too tawdry for art, as female performers were popularly viewed as morally akin to prostitutes. The painting announced what would be Sickert's recurring interest in sexually provocative themes.
In the late 1880s, Sickert spent much of his time in France, especially in Dieppe, which he first visited in mid-1885, and where his mistress, and possibly his illegitimate son, lived. During this period Sickert began writing art criticism for various publications. Between 1894 and 1904 Sickert made a series of visits to Venice, initially focussing on the city's topography; it was during his last painting trip in 1903–04 that, forced indoors by inclement weather, he developed a distinctive approach to the multiple figure tableau that he further explored on his return to Britain. The models for many of the Venetian paintings are believed to have been prostitutes, with whom Sickert may have had sex.
Sickert's fascination with urban culture accounted for his acquisition of studios in working-class sections of London, first in Cumberland Market in the 1890s, then in Camden Town in 1905. The latter location provided an event that would secure Sickert's prominence in the realist movement in Britain. On 11 September 1907, Emily Dimmock, a prostitute cheating on her partner, was murdered in her home at Agar Grove (then St Paul's Road), Camden. After sexual intercourse the man had slit her throat open while she was asleep, then left in the morning. The Camden Town murder became an ongoing source of prurient sensationalism in the press. For several years Sickert had already been painting lugubrious female nudes on beds, and continued to do so, deliberately challenging the conventional approach to life painting—"The modern flood of representations of vacuous images dignified by the name of 'the nude' represents an artistic and intellectual bankruptcy"—giving four of them, which included a male figure, the title, The Camden Town Murder, and causing a controversy which ensured attention for his work. These paintings do not show violence, however, but a sad thoughtfulness, explained by the fact that three of them were originally exhibited with completely different titles, one more appropriately being What Shall We Do for the Rent?, and the first in the series, Summer Afternoon.
While the painterly handling of the works inspired comparison to Impressionism, and the emotional tone suggested a narrative more akin to genre painting, specifically Degas's Interior, the documentary realism of the Camden Town paintings was without precedent in British art. These and other works were painted in heavy impasto and narrow tonal range. Sickert's best known work, Ennui (c. 1913), reveals his interest in Victorian narrative genres. The composition, which exists in at least five painted versions and was also made into an etching, depicts a couple in a dingy interior gazing abstractedly into empty space, as though they can no longer communicate with each other.
Just before World War I he championed the avant-garde artists Lucien Pissarro, Jacob Epstein, Augustus John and Wyndham Lewis. At the same time he founded, with other artists, the Camden Town Group of British painters, named from the district of London in which he lived. This group had been meeting informally since 1905, but was officially established in 1911. It was influenced by Post-Impressionism and Expressionism, but concentrated on scenes of often drab suburban life; Sickert himself said he preferred the kitchen to the drawing room as a scene for paintings.
From 1908 to 1912 and again from 1915 to 1918, Sickert was an influential teacher at Westminster School of Art, where David Bomberg, Wendela Boreel and John Doman Turner were among his students. In 1910, he founded a private art school, Rowlandson House, in the Hampstead Road. It lasted until 1914, and for most of that period its co-principal and chief financial supporter was the painter Sylvia Gosse, a former student of Sickert's. He also briefly set up an art school in Manchester where his students included Harry Rutherford.
Late period
After the death of his second wife in 1920, Sickert relocated to Dieppe, where he painted scenes of casinos and café life until his return to London in 1922. In 1924 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA).
In 1926 he suffered an illness, thought to have been a minor stroke. In 1927 he abandoned his first name in favour of his middle name, and thereafter chose to be known as Richard Sickert. His style and subject matter also changed: Sickert stopped drawing, and instead painted from snapshots usually taken by his third wife, Thérèse Lessore, or from news photographs. The photographs were squared up for enlargement and transferred to canvas, with their pencil grids plainly visible in the finished paintings.
Seen by many of his contemporaries as evidence of the artist's decline, Sickert's late works are also his most forward-looking, and prefigure the practices of Chuck Close and Gerhard Richter. Other paintings from Sickert's late period were adapted from illustrations by Victorian artists such as Georgie Bowers and John Gilbert. Sickert, separating these illustrations from their original context and painting them in poster-like colours so that the narrative and spatial intelligibility partly dissolved, called the resulting works his "English Echoes".
Sickert painted an informal portrait of Winston Churchill in about 1927. Churchill's wife Clementine introduced him to Sickert, who had been a friend of her family. The two men got along so well that Churchill, whose hobby was painting, wrote to his wife that "He is really giving me a new lease of life as a painter."
Sickert tutored and mentored students of the East London Group, and exhibited alongside them at The Lefevre Gallery in November 1929.
Sickert made his last etching in 1929.
Sickert became a Royal Academician (RA) in March 1934 but resigned from the Academy on 9 May 1935 in protest against the president's refusal to support the preservation of Jacob Epstein's sculptural reliefs on the British Medical Association building in the Strand. In the last decade of his life, he depended increasingly on assistants, especially his wife, for the execution of his paintings.
One of Sickert's closest friends and supporters was newspaper baron Lord Beaverbrook, who accumulated the largest single collection of Sickert paintings in the world. This collection, with a private correspondence between Sickert and Beaverbook, is in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. In addition to having painted Beaverbrook, Sickert painted portraits of notables including Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Hugh Walpole, Valentine Browne, 6th Earl of Kenmare, and less formal depictions of Aubrey Beardsley, King George V, and Peggy Ashcroft.
Sickert died in Bath, Somerset in 1942, at the age of 81. He had spent much time in the city in his later years, and many of his paintings depict Bath's varied street scenes. He had been married three times: from 1885 until their divorce in 1899 to Ellen Cobden, a daughter of Richard Cobden; from 1911 until her death in 1920 to Christine Angus; and from 1926 until his death to the painter Thérèse Lessore.
Sickert's sister was Helena Swanwick, a feminist and pacifist active in the women's suffrage movement.
Style and subjects
For his earliest paintings, Sickert followed Whistler's practice of rapid, wet-in-wet execution using very fluid paint. He subsequently adopted a more deliberate procedure of painting pictures in multiple stages, and "attached a great deal of importance to what he called the 'cooking' side of painting". He preferred to paint not from nature but from drawings or, after the mid-1920s, from photographs or from popular prints by Victorian illustrators. After transferring the design to canvas by the use of a grid, Sickert made a rapid underpainting using two colours, which was allowed to dry thoroughly before the final colours were applied. He experimented tirelessly with the details of his method, always with the goal, according to his biographer Wendy Baron, of "paint[ing] quickly, in about two sittings, with the maximum economy and minimum of fuss".
Sickert tended to paint his subjects in series. He is identified particularly with domestic interior scenes, scenes of Venice, music hall and theatre scenes, and portraits. He painted very few still lifes. For his music hall subjects, Sickert often chose complex and ambiguous points of view, so that the spatial relationship between the audience, performer and orchestra becomes confused, as figures gesture into space and others are reflected in mirrors. The isolated rhetorical gestures of singers and actors seem to reach out to no-one in particular, and audience members are portrayed stretching and peering to see things that lie beyond the visible space. This theme of confused or failed communication between people appears frequently in his art. By emphasising the patterns of wallpaper and architectural decorations, Sickert created abstract decorative arabesques and flattened the three-dimensional space. His music hall pictures, like Degas' paintings of dancers and café-concert entertainers, connect the artificiality of art itself to the conventions of theatrical performance and painted backdrops.
Sickert often professed his distaste for what he termed the "beastly" character of thickly textured paint. In an article he wrote for The Fortnightly Review in 1911, he described his reaction to the paintings of Van Gogh: "I execrate his treatment of the instrument I love, these strips of metallic paint that catch the light like so many dyed straws ... my teeth are set on edge". In response to Alfred Wolmark's work he declared that "thick oil-paint is the most undecorative matter in the world".
Nonetheless, Sickert's paintings of the Camden Town Murder series of c. 1906–1909 were painted in heavy impasto and narrow tonal range, as were numerous other obese nudes in the pre-World War I period in which the fleshiness of the figures is connected to the thickness of the paint—a device that was later adapted by Lucian Freud. The influence of these paintings on successive generations of British artists has been noted in the works of Freud, David Bomberg, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin, and Leon Kossoff.
In the 1910s and '20s, the dark, gloomy tones of his early paintings gradually brightened, and Sickert juxtaposed unexpected tones with a new boldness in works such as Brighton Pierrots (1915) and Portrait of Victor Lecourt (1921–24). His several self-portraits usually displayed an element of role-playing consistent with his early career as an actor: Lazarus Breaks his Fast (c. 1927) and The Domestic Bully (c. 1935–38) are examples. Sickert's late works display his preference for thinly scrubbed veils of paint, described by Helen Lessore as "a cool colour rapidly brushed over a warm underpainting (or vice versa) on a coarse canvas and in a restricted range allow[ing] the undercoat to 'grin through'".
Sickert insisted on the importance of subject matter in art, saying that "all the greater draughtsmen tell a story", but treated his subjects in a detached manner. According to the painter Frank Auerbach, "Sickert's detachment became increasingly evident in his uninhibited procedures. He made obvious his frequent reliance on snapshots and press photographs, he copied, used and took over the work of other, dead, artists and made extensive use, also, of the services of his assistants who played a large and increasing part in the production of his work."
Jack the Ripper
Sickert took a keen interest in the crimes of Jack the Ripper and believed he had lodged in a room used by the notorious serial killer. He had been told this by his landlady, who suspected a previous lodger. Sickert did a painting of the room and titled it "Jack the Ripper's Bedroom" (Manchester Art Gallery). It shows a dark, melancholy room with most details obscured.
Although for over 70 years there was no mention of Sickert's being a suspect in the Ripper crimes, in modern times three books have been published whose authors maintain that Sickert was Jack the Ripper or his accomplice.
In 2004, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, in its article on Sickert, dismissed any claim that he was Jack the Ripper as "fantasy".
Personal papers
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