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Bettie Page
|Bettie Page
Bettie Page
Bettie Mae Page
April 22, 1923
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
December 11, 2008 85) (aged
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
|Cause of death
|Heart attack
|Resting place
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
|Alma mater
Peabody College (part of Vanderbilt University)
Multnomah University
|Playboy centerfold appearance
|January 1955
|Preceded by
|Terry Ryan
|Succeeded by
|Jayne Mansfield
|Personal details
Bust: 36 in (91 cm)
Waist: 23 in (58 cm)
Hips: 35 in (89 cm)
|5 ft 5.5 in (1.664 m)[1]
Bettie Mae Page (April 22, 1923 – December 11, 2008) was an American model who gained a significant profile in the 1950s for her pin-up photos.[2][3] Often referred to as the "Queen of Pinups", her jet black hair, blue eyes, and trademark bangs have influenced artists for generations.[4]
A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Page lived in California in her early adult years before moving to New York City to pursue work as an actress. There, she began to find work as a pin-up model, and posed for dozens of photographers throughout the 1950s. Page was "Miss January 1955", one of the earliest Playmates of the Month for Playboy magazine. "I think that she was a remarkable lady, an iconic figure in pop culture who influenced sexuality, taste in fashion, someone who had a tremendous impact on our society," said Playboy founder Hugh Hefner to the Associated Press in 2008.[5]
In 1959, Page converted to evangelical Christianity and worked for Billy Graham,[6] studying at Bible colleges in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, with the intent of becoming a missionary. The latter part of Page's life was marked by depression, violent mood swings, and several years in a state psychiatric hospital suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.[7][8][9] After years of obscurity, she experienced a resurgence of popularity in the 1980s.
Early life
Page was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the second of six children to Walter Roy Page (1896–1964)[10] and Edna Mae Pirtle (1901–1986).[11][12][13] At a young age, Page had to face the responsibilities of caring for her younger siblings. Her parents divorced when she was 10 years old. In the 1930 Census, a few weeks before Bettie's 7th birthday, her mother Edna Pirtle Page was already listed as being divorced. After her father, whom Page would accuse of molesting her starting at age 13, was imprisoned,[14] Page and her two sisters lived in a Protestant orphanage for a year.[7] During this time, Page's mother worked two jobs, one as a hairdresser during the day and washing laundry at night.
As a teenager, Page and her sisters tried different makeup styles and hairdos imitating their favorite movie stars. She also learned to sew. These skills proved useful years later for her pin-up photography when Page did her own makeup and hair and made her own bikinis and costumes. During her early years, the Page family traveled around the country in search of economic stability.[13]
A good student and debate team member at Hume-Fogg High School, she was voted "Most Likely to Succeed".[13] On June 6, 1940, Page graduated as the salutatorian of her high school class[13] with a scholarship. She enrolled at George Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt University), with the intention of becoming a teacher. However, the next fall she began studying acting, hoping to become a movie star. At the same time, she got her first job, typing for author Alfred Leland Crabb. Page graduated from Peabody with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1944.
In 1943, she married high school classmate Billy Neal in a simple courthouse ceremony shortly before he was drafted into the Army for World War II.[15][16] For the next few years, she moved from San Francisco to Nashville to Miami and to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where she felt a special affinity with the country, its people and its culture.[13] In November 1947, back in the United States, she filed for divorce.
Modeling career
Discovery and early work
In 1949,[17] Page moved to New York City, where she hoped to find work as an actress. In the meantime, she supported herself by working as a secretary overlooking Rockefeller Center.[7] In 1950, while walking alone along the Coney Island shore, Bettie met NYPD Officer Jerry Tibbs, who was an avid photographer, and he gave Bettie his card. He suggested she'd make a good pin-up model, and in exchange for allowing him to photograph her, he'd help make up her first pin-up portfolio, free of charge.[13] It was Officer Tibbs who suggested to Bettie that she style her hair with bangs in front, to keep light from reflecting off her high forehead when being photographed.[7] Bangs soon became an integral part of her distinctive look.
In late-1940s America, "camera clubs" were formed to circumvent laws restricting the production of nude photos. These camera clubs existed ostensibly to promote artistic photography, but in reality, many were merely fronts for the making of pornography. Page entered the field of "glamour photography" as a popular camera club model, working initially with photographer Cass Carr.[13] Her lack of inhibition in posing made her a hit, and her name and image became quickly known in the erotic photography industry. In 1951, Bettie's image appeared in men's magazines such as Wink, Titter, Eyefull and Beauty Parade.[13]
1952–57: Irving Klaw; film work
From 1952 through 1957, she posed for photographer Irving Klaw for mail-order photographs with pin-up and BDSM themes, making her the first famous bondage model. Klaw also used Page in dozens of short, black-and-white 8mm and 16mm "specialty" films, which catered to specific requests from his clientele. These silent 'one-reel' featurettes showed women clad in lingerie and high heels, acting out fetishistic scenarios of abduction, domination, and slave-training; bondage, spanking, and elaborate leather costumes and restraints were included periodically. Page alternated between playing a stern dominatrix, and a helpless victim bound hand and foot.
Klaw also produced a line of still photos taken during these sessions. Some have become iconic images, such as his highest-selling photo of Page—shown gagged and bound in a web of ropes, from the film Leopard Bikini Bound. Although these "underground" features had the same crude style and clandestine distribution as the pornographic "stag" films of the time, Klaw's all-female films (and still photos) never featured any nudity or explicit sexual content. Commenting on the bondage photos and the reputation they afforded her, Page said retrospectively:
They keep referring to me in the magazines and newspapers and everywhere else as the "Queen of Bondage." The only bondage posing I ever did was for Irving Klaw and his sister Paula. Usually every other Saturday he had a session for four or five hours with four or five models and a couple of extra photographers, and in order to get paid you had to do an hour of bondage. And that was the only reason I did it. I never had any inkling along that line. I don't really disapprove of it; I think you can do your own thing as long as you're not hurting anybody else — that's been my philosophy ever since I was a little girl. I never looked down my nose at it. In fact, we used to laugh at some of the requests that came through the mail, even from judges and lawyers and doctors and people in high positions. Even back in the '50s they went in for the whips and the ties and everything else.[18]
In 1953, Page took acting classes at the Herbert Berghof Studio, which led to several roles on stage and television. She appeared on The United States Steel Hour and The Jackie Gleason Show.[13] Her Off-Broadway productions included Time is a Thief and Sunday Costs Five Pesos. Page acted and danced in the feature-length burlesque revue film Striporama by Jerald Intrator in which she was given a brief speaking role. She then appeared in two more burlesque films by Irving Klaw (Teaserama and Varietease). These featured exotic dance routines and vignettes by Page and well-known striptease artists Lili St. Cyr and Tempest Storm. All three films were mildly risque, but none showed any nudity or overtly sexual content.
In 1954, during one of her annual vacations to Miami, Florida, Page met photographers Jan Caldwell, H. W. Hannau and Bunny Yeager.[13] At that time, Page was the top pin-up model in New York. Yeager, a former model and aspiring photographer, signed Page for a photo session at the now-closed wildlife park Africa USA in Boca Raton, Florida. The Jungle Bettie photographs from this shoot are among her most celebrated. They include nude shots with a pair of cheetahs named Mojah and Mbili. The leopard skin patterned Jungle Girl outfit she wore was made, along with much of her lingerie, by Page herself. A large collection of the Yeager photos, and Klaw's, were published in the book Bettie Page Confidential (St. Martin's Press, 1994).
After Yeager sent shots of Page to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, he selected one to use as the Playmate of the Month centerfold in the January 1955 issue of the two-year-old magazine. The famous photo shows Page, wearing only a Santa hat, kneeling before a Christmas tree holding an ornament and playfully winking at the camera. In 1955, Page won the title "Miss Pinup Girl of the World".[13] She also became known as "The Queen of Curves" and "The Dark Angel". While pin-up and glamour models frequently have careers measured in months, Page was in demand for several years, continuing to model until 1957.[4]
Although she frequently posed nude, she never appeared in scenes with explicit sexual content. In 1957, Page gave "expert guidance" to the FBI regarding the production of "flagellation and bondage pictures" in Harlem.[19]
1958–92: Retirement; departure from spotlight
The reasons reported for Page's departure from modeling vary. Some reports mention the Kefauver Hearings of the United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce (after a young man apparently died during a session of bondage which was rumored to be inspired by bondage images featuring Page). However, the most likely reason for Page ending her modeling career and severing all contact with her prior life was her conversion to born-again Christianity while living in Key West, Florida, in 1959.[20]
Photographer Sam Menning was the last person to photograph a pin-up of Page before her retirement.[21]
On New Year's Eve 1958, during one of her regular visits to Key West, Florida, Page attended a service at what is now the Key West Temple Baptist Church. She found herself drawn to the multiracial environment and started to attend on a regular basis. She would in time attend three bible colleges, including the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Multnomah University in Portland, Oregon and, briefly, a Christian retreat known as "Bibletown", part of the Boca Raton Community Church, Boca Raton, Florida.
She dated industrial designer Richard Arbib in the 1950s, and then married Armond Walterson in 1958;[22] they divorced in 1963.[7]
During the 1960s, she attempted to become a Christian missionary in Africa, but was rejected for having had a divorce. Over the next few years she worked for various Christian organizations before settling in Nashville in 1963, and re-enrolled at Peabody College to pursue a Master's degree in education, but eventually dropped out of the program.[7] She worked full-time for Rev. Billy Graham.[4][6]
She briefly remarried Billy Neal, her first husband, who helped her to gain entrance into missionary work; however, the two divorced again shortly thereafter. She returned to Florida in 1967, and married again, to Harry Lear,[23] but this marriage also ended in divorce in 1972.
She moved to Southern California in 1979.[6] There she had a nervous breakdown and had an altercation with her landlady. The doctors who examined her diagnosed her with acute schizophrenia, and she spent 20 months in Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino, California. After a fight with another landlord she was arrested for assault, but was found not guilty by reason of insanity and placed under state supervision for eight years.[6] She was released in 1992.[9]
Revival of public interest
In the 1970s, artists Eric Stanton, Robert Blue and Olivia De Berardinis were among the first to start painting Bettie images. In 1979, artist Robert Blue had a show titled Steps Into Space, at a gallery on Melrose Place in Los Angeles, where he showed his collection of Bettie Page paintings. At that time in New York, artist Olivia De Berardinis had begun painting Bettie for Italian jean manufacturer Fiorucci. Olivia has continued to paint Bettie, and compiled a collection of this artwork in a book titled Bettie Page by Olivia (2006), with a foreword by Hugh Hefner.[13][24] To mark the millennium on an international scale, renowned Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama created original art of Bettie Page, placing her on the pedestal of highly accomplished, beautiful women.
In 1976, Eros Publishing Co. published A Nostalgic Look at Bettie Page, a mixture of photos from the 1950s. Between 1978 and 1980, Belier Press published four volumes of Betty Page: Private Peeks, reprinting pictures from the private-camera-club sessions, which reintroduced Page to a new but small cult following.[25] In 1983, London Enterprises released In Praise of Bettie Page — A Nostalgic Collector's Item, reprinting camera club photos and an old cat fight photo shoot.
A larger cult following was built around Page during the 1980s, of which she was unaware. This renewed attention was focused on her pinup and lingerie modeling rather than those depicting sexual fetishes or bondage, and she gained a certain public redemption and popular status as an icon of erotica from a bygone era. This attention also raised the question among her new fans of what happened to her after the 1950s. The 1990s edition of the popular Book of Lists[26] included Page in a list of once-famous celebrities who had seemingly vanished from the public eye.
In the early 1980s, comic book artist Dave Stevens based the female love interest of his hero Cliff Secord (alias "The Rocketeer") on Page.[27]
By the mid 1980s Olivia De Berardinis noted that women began to frequent her gallery openings sporting Bettie bangs, fetish clothing, and tattoos of Page. Olivia said, "Black bangs, seamed stockings and snub nosed 6″ stilettos. These are Bettie Page signatures, anyone who dons them wears her crown. Although the fantasy world of fetish/bondage existed in some form since the beginning time, Bettie is the iconic figurehead of it all. No star of this genre existed before her. Monroe had predecessors, Bettie did not." [13]
In 1987, Greg Theakston started a fanzine called The Betty Pages[25] and recounted tales of her life, particularly the camera club days. For the next seven years, the magazine sparked a worldwide interest in Page. Women dyed their hair and cut it into bangs in an attempt to emulate the "Dark Angel". The media caught wind of the phenomenon and wrote numerous articles about her, more often than not with Theakston's help. Since almost all of her photos were in the public domain, opportunists launched related products and cashed in on the burgeoning craze.
In a 1993 telephone interview with Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Page told host Robin Leach that she had been unaware of the resurgence of her popularity, stating that she was "penniless and infamous". Entertainment Tonight produced a segment on her. Page, who was living in a group home in Los Angeles, was astounded when she saw the E.T. piece, having had no idea that she had suddenly become famous again. Greg Theakston contacted her and extensively interviewed her for The Betty Page Annuals V.2.
Shortly afterward, Page signed with Chicago-based agent James Swanson. Three years later, nearly penniless and failing to receive any royalties, Page fired Swanson and signed with Curtis Management Group, a company which also represented the James Dean and Marilyn Monroe estates. She then began collecting payments which ensured her financial security.
After Jim Silke made a large format comic featuring Page's likeness, Dark Horse Comics published a comic based on her fictional adventures in the 1990s. Eros Comics published several Bettie Page titles, the most popular being the tongue-in-cheek Tor Love Bettie which suggested a romance between Page and wrestler-turned-Ed Wood film actor, Tor Johnson.
The question of what Page did in the obscure years after modeling was answered in part with the publication of an official biography in 1996, Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-up Legend.[28] That year, Page granted an exclusive one-on-one TV interview to entertainment reporter Tim Estiloz for a short-lived NBC morning magazine program Real Life, to help publicize the book. The interview featured her reminiscing about her career and relating anecdotes about her personal life, as well as photos from her personal collection. At Page's request, her face was not shown. The interview was broadcast only once.
Another biography, The Real Bettie Page: The Truth about the Queen of Pinups (1997)[29] was written by Richard Foster. Foster's book immediately provoked attacks from Page's fans, including Hugh Hefner and Harlan Ellison, as well as a statement from Page that it was "full of lies", because they were not pleased that the book revealed a Los Angeles County Sheriff's police report that stated Page suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and, at age 56, had stabbed her elderly landlords on the afternoon of April 19, 1979 in an unprovoked attack, during a fit of insanity.[30] However, Steve Brewster, founder of The Bettie Scouts of America fan club, has stated that it is not as unsympathetic as some believe it to be. Brewster adds that he also read the chapter about her business dealings with Swanson, and stated that Page was pleased with that part of her story.
In 1997, E! True Hollywood Story aired a feature on Page titled, Bettie Page: From Pinup to Sex Queen.[31]
In a late-1990s interview, Page stated she would not allow any current pictures of her to be shown because of concerns about her weight. However, in 1997, Page changed her mind and agreed to a rare television interview for the aforementioned E! True Hollywood Story/Page special on the condition that the location of the interview and her face not be revealed (she was shown with her face and dress electronically blacked out). Page allowed a publicity picture to be taken of her for the August 2003 edition of Playboy. In 2006, the Los Angeles Times ran an article headlined A Golden Age for a Pinup, covering an autographing session at her current publicity company, CMG Worldwide. Once again, Page declined to be photographed, saying she would rather be remembered as she was.
In a 1998 interview with Playboy, she commented on her career:
I never thought it was shameful. I felt normal. It's just that it was much better than pounding a typewriter eight hours a day, which gets monotonous.
Within the last few years, she had hired a law firm to help her recoup some of the profits being made with her likeness. According to MTV: "Katy Perry's rocker bangs and throwback skimpy jumpers. Madonna's Sex book and fascination with bondage gear. Rihanna's obsession with all things leather, lace and second-skin binding. Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction. The SuicideGirls Web site. The Pussycat Dolls. The entire career of Marilyn Manson's ex-wife Dita Von Teese." would not have been possible without Page.[32]
In 2011, Page's estate made the Forbes annual list of top-earning dead celebrities, earning $6 million and tied with the estates of George Harrison and Andy Warhol, at 13th on the list.[33] In 2014, Forbes estimated that Page's estate earned $10 million in 2013.[34]
According to long-time friend and business agent Mark Roesler, Page was hospitalized in critical condition on December 6, 2008.[35] Roesler was quoted by the Associated Press as saying Page had suffered a heart attack[6] and by Los Angeles television station KNBC as claiming Page was suffering from pneumonia.[36] Her family eventually agreed to discontinue life support, and she died at 18:41 PST on December 11, 2008.[4][8]
She is buried at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. Her headstone lists her name as "Bettie Mae Page" and includes the legend "Queen of Pin-Ups".[37]
In 2004, Cult Epics produced the biographical film Bettie Page: Dark Angel. This low-budget straight-to-disc biopic centers on the 1953–1957 Irving Klaw period, faithfully recreating six lost fetish films she did for Klaw. Model Paige Richards plays the title role.
The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) follows her life from the mid-1930s through the late-1950s. It stars actress Gretchen Mol as the adult Page. Bonus footage added to the DVD release includes rare color film from the 1950s of Page playfully undressing and striking various nude poses for the camera.
In 2012, Bettie Page Reveals All was filmed and premiered, then released nationwide the following year. It was an authorized biographical documentary by Academy Award-nominated director Mark Mori. The documentary included narration from Bettie Page herself, culled from over 6 hours of interviews prior to her 2008 death. The film also included commentary from individuals such as Dita Von Teese, Hugh M. Hefner, Rebecca Romijn, Tempest Storm, Bunny Yeager, Paula Klaw, Mamie Van Doren and Naomi Campbell.[38][39][40][41]
In 2006, Page and Halo Custom Guitars, in Cupertino, California, collaborated to produce a limited edition of custom guitars bearing her image on the front. The line was released at the 2007 Winter NAMM Show in southern California. The total run of 100 guitars was handmade and designed by luthier Waylon Ford, with art designed by Pamelina H. It is the only collector guitar series authorized by Bettie Page.[42]
In popular culture
Fashion and visual art
- For its Polynesian-inspired Spring-Summer 2011 ready-to-wear collection, French fashion house Christian Dior styled the hair of its models with Bettie Page as inspiration.[43]
- In Seattle, Washington, a homeowner became the subject of a short-lived controversy when he had an artist friend paint a large mural of Page on the side of his home. The mural is visible from Interstate 5, just south of the 65th Street exit.[44] In 2016, the mural was vandalized, leading to a restoration and the addition of drag star Divine.[45]
In fiction and literature
- The BD-3000 luxury droid in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) was inspired by Bettie Page.[46]
- In Quentin Tarantino's 2007 film Death Proof, Rosario Dawson pays homage to Page with her trademark haircut.[47]
- In Suda51's video game "Lollipop Chainsaw", a pre-order downloadable outfit took inspiration from Bettie Page as a pinup girl outfit, and included her signature haircut with bangs.[48]
- In one of his numerous fictional back-page biographical sketches, Harlan Ellison claimed to be "writing a biography of Bettie Page for young adults".[49]
- Beyoncé pays homage to Bettie Page in her music videos for "Video Phone" and "Why Don't You Love Me".[50]
- Alternative country band BR5-49 recorded an ode to Page named "Bettie, Bettie" on their 1996 debut EP Live From Robert's. In interviews, Page stated that this was her favorite of the songs written about her.[51]
- Swedish concept band DC-Pöbeln (a.k.a. Dagcenterpöbeln) from Örebro put Bettie Page on the cover of their only record Bettan/Dödgrävaren (1985).[52]
- The Jazz Butcher included the song "Just Like Betty Page" on the album, A Scandal in Bohemia (1984), using Page for a simile in the chorus "You have me/As far as I can see/roped and trussed just like dear Betty Page."[53]
- Post-punk group Public Image Ltd released a song called "Bettie Page" on their album What the World Needs Now... in 2015.
- The Hungarian rockabilly band Mystery Gang Rockabilly Trio has a song about Bettie Page called My Baby Wants to Look Like Bettie Page.[54][55]
- Violet Chachki's music video titled "Bettie" pays homage to her and her S&M background.
- Minor planet 184784 is named for her.
- Striporama (1953)
- Varietease (1954)
- Teaserama (1955)
- Irving Klaw Bondage Classics, Volume I (London Enterprises, 1984)
- Irving Klaw Bondage Classics, Volume II (London Enterprises, 1984)
- 100 Girls by Bunny Yeager (Cult Epics, 2005), a documentary with behind-the-scenes footage on Yeager's photo sessions with Page and other pin-up models
- Bettie Page: Bondage Queen (Cult Epics, 2005)
- Bettie Page: Pin Up Queen (Cult Epics, 2005), a compilation of her burlesque dancing performances from Striporama, Varietease, and Teaserama, plus The Exotic Dances of Bettie Page (13 black-and-white dancing and cat-fight shorts)[56]
- Bizarro Sex Loops, Volume 4 (Something Weird Video, 2007)
- Bizarro Sex Loops, Volume 20 (Something Weird Video, 2008), Page appears in a set of Irving Klaw bondage reels in a collection of vintage fetish shorts
- ↑ Official website facts page Archived December 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed December 17, 2011.
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- 1 2 3 4 Robert D., McFadden (December 11, 2008). "Bettie Page, Queen of Pinups, Dies at 85". New York Times. Retrieved December 12, 2008.
Bettie Page, a legendary pinup girl whose photographs in the nude, in bondage and in naughty-but-nice poses appeared in men's magazines and private stashes across America in the 1950s and set the stage for the sexual revolution of the rebellious '60s, died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 85.
- ↑ "Bettie Page dies at 85 / Pin-up queen was a pop culture phenomenon". Variety magazine. December 11, 2008. Retrieved February 27, 2009.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Pinup model Bettie Page dies in L.A. at 85". Associated Press at MSNBC. 2008. Retrieved December 12, 2008.
Bettie Page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controversial photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday. She was 85.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mori, Mark (director) (2013). Bettie Page Reveals All.
- 1 2 "Pinup queen Bettie Page dead at 85". Los Angeles Times. December 11, 2008. Retrieved December 11, 2008.
Bettie Page, the brunet pinup queen with a shoulder-length pageboy hairdo and kitschy bangs whose saucy photos helped usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, has died. She was 85.
- 1 2 Sahagun, Louis (December 13, 2008). "Pin-up Bettie Page, whose poses ushered in sexual revolution, dies". Melbourne: The Age.
- ↑ Genealogy of Walter Roy Page
- ↑ Genealogy of Edna Mae Pirtle
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- ↑ Tennessee, State Marriage Index, 1780–2002; page: 282. Retrieved from FamilySearch January 28, 2012.
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- ↑ Cook, Kevin: My Story: The Missing Years: Bettie Page Interview Archived August 30, 2008, at the Wayback Machine., Playboy.com, p. 4, January 1998.
- ↑ Catlin, Roger (April 6, 2010). "Sam Menning: Photographer, Character Actor". Hartford Courant. Archived from the original on April 17, 2010. Retrieved April 17, 2010.
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- ↑ De Berardinis, Olivia (2006). Bettie Page by Olivia. foreward by Hugh Hefner. Ozone Productions, Ltd.
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- ↑ Wallechinsky, David; Amy Wallace (1993). The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists — the '90s Edition. Little Brown & Co. ISBN 978-0-316-92079-7.
- ↑ Corliss, Richard (December 11, 2008). "Bondage Babe Bettie Page Dies at 85". Time magazine. Retrieved December 12, 2008.
The beatification process began in 1980, when artist Dave Stevens created a Bettie character in his graphic novel The Rocketeer.
- ↑ Essex, Karen; James L. Swanson (1996). Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-Up Legend. Los Angeles: General Publishing Group. ISBN 1-881649-62-8.
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- ↑ "Bettie Page (1923–2008) – Find A Grave Memorial". findagrave.com. 2011. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
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- ↑ "Bettie Page Reveals All – Film Trailers, Movie Trailers". Bettiepagemovie.com. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
- ↑ Leach, Robin (April 6, 2012). "In 'Reveals All,' Bettie Page emerges from seclusion to unveil secret past – Las Vegas Sun News". Lasvegassun.com. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
- ↑ "Bettie Page Reveals All: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. November 20, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
- ↑ Halo Custom Guitars, Inc. — Bettie Page Authorized Guitar Archived May 3, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Dior Spring/Summer 2011 at Paris Fashion Week". The Daily Telegraph. 2010. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
- ↑ Mirk, Sarah (November 14, 2006). "Siding with Bettie: Despite City Scrutiny, Local Homeowner Stands by Mural". theStranger.com. Index Newspapers, LLC. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/motorists-cheer-restored-seattle-house-mural-of-bettie-page-and-now-divine/
- ↑ "BD-3000 luxury droid". starwars.com. Archived from the original on May 22, 2007.
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- ↑ PS3. "Warner Bros. Details Lollipop Chainsaw Pre-Order Bonuses". Playstationlifestyle.net. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
- ↑ Harlan Ellison: Surreal Biographies
- ↑ James Montgomery. MTV.com, Beyonce And Lady Gaga's 'Video Phone' Clip: A Brightly Colored Fantasy Set To Life; Hype Williams-helmed clip premiered on MTV.com at midnight, November 17, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2009.
- ↑ Transcript from an Interview with Bettie Page Archived December 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "DC-PÖBELN – Bettan/Dödgrävaren". Retrieved September 1, 2010.
- ↑ The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy: Just Like Betty Page
- ↑ "Bettie Page életrajza" [Bettie Page's Biography]. Starity.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved August 7, 2016.
- ↑ My Baby Wants to Look Like Bettie Page - Mystery Gang. YouTube. 2010. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
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LEED BD+C: Homes v3 - LEED 2008
The Vandemusser Residence
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Ultimately, I am reminded of the success of the project every time a client comes in and says, "Wow. I could definitely live here!" It drives home the point that being net-zero doesn't have to be expensive or look out of place.
This passive solar net-zero home in Asheville, NC functions as both the owners' personal residence (approximately 1900 square feet on two floors) as well as their professional offices (approximately 1200 square feet on one floor).
The owners, an architect and mechanical engineer, wanted to build a home capable of highlighting the various energy efficiency strategies and technologies available to prospective clients. Passive and active technologies are implemented throughout the house - passive solar glazing, thermal mass, rainwater harvesting, photovoltaics, solar thermal water heating, geothermal, radiant floor heating, 90% LED lighting, FSC-certified wood floors and cabinets, zero-VOC paints, low-flow plumbing fixtures, and circuit-by-circuit energy monitoring to name a few. Because of the owners' primary focus on energy efficiency consulting and certification, the home and office functions not only as a personal residence, but as a living laboratory, idea generator, and showroom.
As residential green certifiers, it was very important to the owners to have the home certified for numerous green certifications. In addition to the LEED for Homes Platinum designation, the home is also certified for Energy Star, EPA Indoor AirPlus, and NC HealthyBuilt Homes Platinum level rating. The current utility bills show that the house is projected to be net zero and based on the construction cost of $155 per square foot, the return on investment for the energy efficiency items should be less than 10 years.
Site context
The house was constructed on a 1/2 acre infill lot in Asheville, NC. The site was selected due to the excellent solar access as well as the gently sloping nature of the lot, which allowed for a walk-out lower level for their professional offices.
Surrounded by older homes, the owners took great care to design the home's massing to blend in contextually, but still affording it the opportunity to stand out with some of the technologies being used throughout.
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- Single Family Residential
- Setting
- Suburban
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Thursday, September 1, 2005
Using Thunderbird to Get Things Done
In the past few months, I've been trying to apply some of the principles of David Allen's Getting Things Done to my own work habits. This article describes how I've been using a combination of Thunderbird's labels and saved searches to facilitate handling my email inbox in a GTD fashion.
Aside: Although I'm doing this on a Mac, there's no reason it shouldn't work with Thunderbird on any OS, once you account for minor menu differences across platforms. Also, in principle it should work with any mail client that supports labels and saved searches.
GTD is heavily dependent on keeping track of "next actions", essentially a comprehensive to-do list. The idea is to know what you're not working on so you can make reasonable choices about what's important to work on right now. The concept of the "In" box is core - for every item you take out of "In", there are only a few options: toss it in the trash, decide on a required next action, or file it for reference. (Technically, there's also "waiting for somebody else" and "defer until later", but these are next actions too.)
Let's start with the labels. (Thunderbird -> Preferences -> Display) I've assigned my labels as follows: Delete, Archive, Action Required, Wait, Defer. Since Thunderbird assigns these as keyboard shortcuts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), I can go through my inbox and quickly triage items with an appropriate label. The color coding makes it easy to pick out stuff that needs attention.
Why not just delete items rather than flagging them? Mainly it's an efficiency thing. If I'm punching numbers to triage stuff anyway it's easier to use a number to flag a message for deletion. I'll come back later and wipe them out en masse.
Okay, so this is simple enough so far. But pretty soon you've got this inbox with lots of pretty colors, and there will inevitably be items needing attention that are pretty far back in the list, interspersed with all the stuff you just want to keep around.
That's where saved searches come to the rescue. It's fairly straightforward to see that you can set up a saved search for each label, and in fact I do have ones set up for "Inbox-Action Required", "Inbox-Archive", "Inbox-Defer", "Inbox-Delete", "Inbox-Wait", as well as an "Inbox-Untagged" with a "Label is None" criteria.
That helps, but it still keeps me looking in a couple different places for things that might need my attention. So I also have a saved search I call "Next Actions" to keep up with the stuff I need to pay attention to. The criteria for this one is: "Match any of the following: Label is Action Required; Label is None; Label is Wait". See what that does? Anything I need to do something with, anything I'm waiting for somebody else to do, and anything that I haven't made the first decision on, all shows up in one place. As soon as I mark something as Archive, Delete, or Defer, it disappears from this view on my next refresh. So my to-do list is always up-to-date, always right there. As soon as a task is complete, I can mark the message as Archive and forget about it.
Creating a to-do item is just a matter of sending myself an email. So I can do it from my cell phone, a web mail account, whatever, and I know that it will wind up in the right place. It helps that I'm using this for an IMAP account, so the label state is saved on the server. The net result is that as long as my desktop and laptop systems have the same names & colors for the labels, it doesn't matter which machine I'm using.
Also, I should note that GTD was written from a handling of physical stuff perspective -- like needing to decide what to do with specific pieces of paper. There's one fundamental difference in dealing with email -- you don't actually have to file it. Good search on a pile beats browsing by folder any day, if you're looking for something specific (which is the only reason I've ever had to look back at old emails). I've been using the system described above for about 6 months now, and for all intents and purposes I've stopped using folders in favor of search.
So why do I think this works so well? It's fast - triage is a single keystroke. It's automatic - the saved searches are there to be used whenever they're needed. It's efficient - there's no moving items to folders, no filters, etc. It's distributed - using an IMAP server lets me use multiple machines to track status. And most importantly, it keeps the stuff that requires attention up front & in-your-face, letting me focus on the stuff I need to do.
34 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Fantastic. I started implementing GTD in my email, and doing regular purges of the inbox, but this give me another level clarity so that no matter where I file an email I still have the tracking to ensure I don't lose it in the shuffle.
- Thursday, September 01, 2005 3:01:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thunderbird on Linux (1.06) does not support searching on labels on IMAP folders, just local folders. Not sure if this is a limitation of thunderbird or my mail server.
- Thursday, September 01, 2005 3:03:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
I am also using thunderbird 1.0.6 on linux against a cyrus imap server and label searches work. It sounds like you may be dealing with a mail server limitation.
- Thursday, September 01, 2005 5:20:00 PM
- scott reston said...
the "Buttons!" extension for thunderbird is a handy way to add a "label" button to TB's button bar. not as fast as the # keys, but handy.
thanks for the great tips.
- Thursday, September 01, 2005 9:12:00 PM
- Clint said...
Great ideas. One thing I wish is that Thunderbird allowed for background colors as well as text colors for highlighting/labels. It'd be a lot easier to quickly see what needed action, for example, if it was white bold text on a dark green background.
- Thursday, September 01, 2005 11:15:00 PM
- Sean said...
space-age wasteland did a very thorough treatment on his implementation of GTD with Gmail: http://saw.themurdaughs.com/gtd-with-gmail-whitepaper/
- Friday, September 02, 2005 1:07:00 PM
- SETH said...
Why not just use the "View" menu for each individual label instead of setting up a saved search for each one?
Saved search makes sense for grouping the labels.
- Friday, September 02, 2005 1:21:00 PM
- Zaza said...
Hmmm, I'm also having trouble getting labels to persist across an IMAP accont between a Win2k and WinXP machine. Any ideas about what the server and/or thunderbird settings need to be to preserve labels?
- Friday, September 02, 2005 1:36:00 PM
- Rich said...
There is a really brutal bug in Thunderbird that if you have Search entire message up in the search box, the View modes won't work to differentiate between different labels. I don't have the bugzilla number up, but it's there, so go vote for it.
- Friday, September 02, 2005 4:20:00 PM
- LetterJ said...
If you do a View->Sort By->Label and then a View->Sort By->Grouped by Sort you can get the groupings without the saved search folders.
- Saturday, September 03, 2005 8:14:00 AM
- Anonymous said...
Excellent technique. I used keyconfig to remap shift-1 through shift-5 to apply the label and move to next unread. I was able to plow through my inbox in no time.
- Sunday, September 04, 2005 9:34:00 PM
- lueo said...
If you do a View->Sort By->Label and then a View->Sort By->Grouped by Sort you can get the groupings without the saved search folders.
If you use saved folder, it will show you how many new messages in each category. I found it helpful!
- Monday, September 05, 2005 3:23:00 AM
- Tim Kaufmann said...
I've been using Thunderbird/IMAP for GTD for over a year now, but my approach is different. I didn't dare to rely on labels, they weren't working properly in Thunderbird when I started with GTD (back in August 2004) and I still don't trust in them.
I try to empty my inbox as often as possible.
Mails which are worth to be archived are saved to a folder on my disk, together with all other project- or customer-related information, so I got all the stuff in one place (I'm no friend of spreading information all over the place depending on the way it came in).
I set up mail-folders named "Activities", "Somewhen" and "Projects". Below "Activities" there are folders named "Calls", "Office", "On the road", "Read", "Wait" etc.
For a small donation I had this extension coded:
It let's you predefine custom mail-headers so you can chose from them by mouse or keyboard while editing mail. So to set up a new task, I just send myself an email and set "X-Office: true". A mail-filter moves those mails from Inbox to "Activities \ Office".
Whenever I send email that requires an answer, I set "X-Wait: true" and a copy of them ends up in "Activities \ Wait". Thus, reviewing gets a lot easier. BTW, I should add that I setup Thunderbird to bcc mails to myself instead of copying them to the sent-folder, just to make sure the mail-filters see them.
Just to add my 2 cents
- Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:00:00 PM
- Justin alcorn said...
I'm using Thunderbird 1.06 on Windoze against a Linux IMAP server using Maildirs. I can only search on Message Headers or Body text, not on Junk status or Label (except on Local Folders)
Junk Status and Label are stored in the Maildir structure in the courierimapkeywords/:list file as tags associated with the email message filename. Is it possible Thunderbird is presenting the search options based on the IMAP abilities? Is there a limitation on Maildir format?
- Tuesday, September 06, 2005 3:23:00 PM
- Peter B said...
How well does this work for integrating non-email based tasks, or tasks that need you to refer to some sheets of paper/other notes?
More of my thoughts in this entry (I couldn't find a way to trackback to you).
- Sunday, September 11, 2005 9:45:00 AM
- Anonymous said...
I have an automatic rule to make a copy of every in and out message to an archive file. Then I brutally delete everything stale or not actionable in the inbox. I figure 8 or 10 items in the inbox is enough (these are all things requiring future actions). And should I ever need to find an old message, it's there in the archive.
- Monday, September 12, 2005 7:24:00 AM
- Anonymous said...
OK - Dumb question from a GTD newbie - if you mark something as archive then your search will put up a lot of archives, but if you're not adding keywords or something how do you find what you're looking for? Without dropping things into folders or adding some sort of metadata then wouldn't you just end up with a big "archive" search that's just as unorganized as your inbox?
- Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:28:00 AM
- a said...
The content of the messages is its own metadata. In my opinion, a big pile with good search has a lower "total cost of ownership" than a rigidly structured sorting system. Sorting is good for browsing, but when you know what you're looking for search is better. The only time I ever look at old email is if I'm looking for something specific, so the fact that it's not browsable doesn't matter to me.
- Thursday, September 22, 2005 6:23:00 PM
- a said...
Regarding brutally deleting -- disk is cheap. The only things I delete are things I know won't ever be relevant. It's way easier to be a digital pack rat than a physical one.
- Thursday, September 22, 2005 6:24:00 PM
- Greogry Grubbs said...
A tip for users of Thunderbird and dovecot IMAP (probably other IMAP servers that don't support keywords well):
Thunderbird does not let me search for 'Label' on an IMAP folder (dovecot 1.0alpha5-1 on Linux) even though that version supposedly supports keywords. However, when I go offline in Thunderbird, the search does support 'Label' since we are now dealing with local folders! There may be a zen to being offline while processing your email, so we shall call this a feature.
- Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:12:00 PM
- amanda bee said...
This is great. I created three labels, "upcoming" and "fleeting" and "contact info" -- I can mark things as upcoming (3) and leave them in my inbox. I don't need to file those. Same for travel plans. And now they are easy to delete when I clean out my inbox.
I set a filter to label some messages that I do want to see but don't want to keep "fleeting" -- a few newsletters, alerts from Move On. I manually delete them en masse from time to time.
Contact info, I don't know if I'm using that as well. Some messages I save b/c they have contact info, no other reason. So now they are orange. We'll see if I get more or less done on that front.
I found this thread in my hunt for a tagging extension for Thunderbird. No luck there yet, alas.
- Saturday, June 10, 2006 3:16:00 PM
- Chris Kenyon said...
Would be great to see the number of supported labels increased to 10 to allow more flexibilty in setting context.
- Monday, July 10, 2006 5:25:00 PM
- Brett Leber said...
Thunderbird 2.0, which will be released in the next few weeks, supports an arbitrary number of message tags (labels), and 'views' that filter by tag. Should make this approach even easier to achieve in Thunderbird.
- Sunday, April 08, 2007 11:36:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
The new Thunderbird 2.0 does not allow a saved search for "tag is none," so this makes it difficult to do the "next actions" folder. I can individually go through and do "contains any" and check off "action required" or "waiting", but it doesn't allow me to see untagged messages. Any suggestions with the new version?
- Wednesday, April 25, 2007 3:13:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
Apparently, this is a known issue. The gory details can be seen here:
It's a bit annoying that you can't easily filter on no tag anymore. Maybe something will be implemented in future?
- Monday, April 30, 2007 10:04:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
yeah cool
- Monday, May 28, 2007 10:20:00 AM
- a said...
See how I worked around the labels to tags change in Thunderbird 2 here
- Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:48:00 AM
- Anonymous said...
Nostalgy lets you set up one button shortcuts to move an email to a folder.
- Tuesday, July 31, 2007 7:32:00 PM
- HiPath Open office said...
Tried using Thunderbird but i had nothing but problems
- Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:24:00 AM
- Anonymous said...
This site is labeled "entropic principal"
It should be instead "entropic principle"
- Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:00:00 PM
- a said...
No, it shouldn't be "principle". Principal is what I meant. There's a pun in there, if you read the tagline: "We don't really own information. We're just borrowing it from the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics."
- Friday, July 25, 2008 8:33:00 AM
- Entropy said...
This was very helpful in organization of my inbox and such. Thanks for posting it. I'm going to try to implement GTD in everything, as I need to stop procrastinating.
- Sunday, September 28, 2008 5:12:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you for a VERY helpful method to implement GTD as well as supplying a detailed instruction set. I caught your recent post on ehow, and it hints at something I've been looking to do....you mentioned "some IMAP servers will store tags"......which would eliminate me having to re-tag everything at work, home, etc...I tried to use Google's IMAP server, but to no avail. Do you know of any? Thanks again!
- Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:36:00 PM
- Artsygal said...
Wow. 5 years later and this post is still incredibly relevant. Thank you for the sort of approach that will actually WORK for me and my 20,000 messages sitting in my inbox. I am constantly losing track of emails reminding me of actions I still need to take because they've gotten buried under emails that I've already dealt with but can not delete yet.
- Thursday, July 01, 2010 6:34:00 AM


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Prize Beagle Recording's Collection of Snoopy Paintings on Black Velvet
Proof there is life, however strange and equally obsessive, outside of recording.
As I started looking at velvet paintings online and through Ebay, I discovered that among the generic patinings of animals, cars and naked people, that the only three recognizable characters that consistently came up were Jesus, Elvis and Snoopy? Shocking, No? And since I'm not religious and like my rock and roll a little more modern, a collection was born.
These paintings are hanging in my home and the Prize Beagle Recording studio, and they aren't for sale. They are here because they're weird enough to deserve a little attention, and to prove that you can collect almost anything.
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I find her underappreciated but at the same time I'm kinda glad. It keeps her from getting accusations of being overrated. and she's like a hidden treasure 👏❤ postato più di un anno fa
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I just got into Lana Del Rey (by accident) on the giorno Honeymoon dropped. I did a YouTube cerca for the Weeknd ' s Prisoner (ft. Lana Del Rey) and I was busy doing something else, and the successivo video that came on was the full Born to Die album. About 20 minuti into it, I realized that I loved it -- albeit 3 years late. Then, I went onto Google Play to hear samples of all her music. I was instantly in Amore with every song on Born to Die, Ultrviolence, and Honeymoon. I purchased and downloaded all three albums onto every smart phone and tablet I own. Her voice is amazing, full of peculiar range...
[i][Lana del Rey]
I like te a lot
Putting on my Musica while I'm watching the boys
So I do what te want
Canto soft grunge just to soak up the noise
We're ribbons on ice
Playing their guitars, only one of my toys
Cause I like te a lot
No holds barred, I've been sent to destroy, yeah
rosa flamingos, always fascinated me
I know what only the girls know
colori with lies begin to mean
Oh, oh, I see you're going
So-o-o-o I play my music, watch te leave
te say that te wanna go
To a land that's far away
How are we supposed to get there
With the way that we're living today?
te talk lots about God
Freedom comes from the call
But that's not what this cagna wants
Not what I want at all
I want money, power and glory
I want money and all your power, all your glory
He used to call me DN
That stood for deadly nightshade
Cause I was filled with poison
But blessed with beauty and rage
Jim told me that
He hit me and it felt like a kiss
Jim brought me back
Reminded me of when we were kids
This is ultraviolence
I can hear sirens, sirens
He hit me and it felt like a kiss
I can hear violins, violins
[i][Verse 1]
They say I'm too young to Amore you
I don't know what I need
They think I don't understand
The freedom land of the seventies
I think I'm too cool to know ya
te say I'm like the ice I freeze
I'm churning out novels like
Beat poesia on Amphetamines
I say
I say
Well, my boyfriend's in the band
He plays chitarra while I sing Lou Reed
I've got feathers in my hair
I get down to Beat poetry
[i]"Shades Of Cool"
My baby lives in shades of blue
Blue eyes and jazz and attitude
He lives in California too
He drives a chevy Malibu
And when he calls
He calls for me and not for you
He lives for love, he loves his drugs
He loves his baby too
But I can't fix him, can't make him better
And I can't do nothing about this strange weather
But te are unfixable
I can't break through your world
'Cause te live in shades of cool
Down on the West Coast, they got a sayin'
"If you're not drinkin', then you're not playin'"
But you've got the music
You've got the Musica in you, don't you?
Down on the West Coast, I get this feeling like
It all could happen that's why I'm leaving
te for the moment
te for the moment, Boy Blue, yeah you
You're feelin' hot at the show, I'm feelin' hot to the touch
[i]"Big Spender"
(feat. Smiler)
The minuto te walked in the joint
I could see te were a man of distinction, a real big spender
Good lookin', so refined
Say, wouldn't te like to know what's goin' on
(Big spender)
[Verse 1]
SM your boy Smiler iced out
Paid da cost to floss what's the price now?
Fresh out the gutter, the city begged me to rep it
Cuzzie I came with collateral, getters get me so f' it I'ma (spender)
[i]I told te not to go into the woods,
I told te that he wasn't any good.
I told te not to go into the woods,
I told te that he wasn't any good.
I'll take the wrong path,
I think I'll go a little off track.
And now there's no way back,
te took all the apples that I had.
But I cuore te and I wanna be your girl.
I cuore te and I know you'll rock my world.
'Cause te rock, rock, rock, rock, rock
te know that I want what te got.
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UPDATED APR 29: One Marvel Studios film has replaced another as the international opening weekend record holder after Disney confirmed on Monday [29] that Iron Man 3 had usurped the previous $185.1m mark set by The Avengers and took $3m more than Sunday estimates.
Iron Man 3 arrived in 42 markets representing 79% of the marketplace on an estimated $198.4m through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International. It opened at number one in every market and set a string of records, scoring the biggest debut of the year-to-date in every market in Europe,
With debuts still to come from China on May 1, North America on May 3 as well as Germany and Russia this week, the first bona fide blockbuster of summer season 2013 has arrived.
The UK led the way with the second biggest Marvel Studios launch in history behind 2012 release The Avengers on $21.1m, followed by South Korea on $19.5m, Australia on $18m for Disney and Marvel Studios' biggest debut and Mexico on $17.1m for the third biggest opening weekend of all time.
Elsewhere the film generated $15.8m in France for the second biggest Marvel Studios opening behind Spider-Man 3, $12.9m in Brazil for the second biggest opening weekend, $11.5m in Italy for the biggest April launch and a pair of all-time opening weekend records in Taiwan and the Philippines on $8.3m and $7.4m, respectively.
A $5.4m Japanese debut was kickstarted by Marvel Studios' third biggest opening day, while $5.1m in India resulted in the second biggest debut, some 44% above The Avengers last year.
Spain generated $4.9m while in a trio of all-time opening weekends the superhero smash delivered $5m in Hong Kong, $4.7m in Malaysia and $5.3m in Indonesia.
Iron Man 3 also set opening records in Argentina and Singapore, opening day records in Taiwan, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia plus Asia-Pacific and Latin America.
There were new all-time Marvel Studios opening weekends in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, Hungary, Romania, New Zealand, Argentina, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Philippines and Malaysia as well as the aforementioned Australia.
Shane Black directed Iron Man 3 and Robert Downey Jr stars alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Jon Favreau (who directed the first two episodes), Rebecca Hall, Guy Pearce and Ben Kingsley as The Mandarin.
By Sunday 113 IMAX screens had generated a record $7.2m for a $64,000 per-screen average, eclipsing even the launch last year of The Avengers.
There were record debuts in Brazil, Taiwan, the Philippines and the Netherlands. IMAX top brass reported that many individual theatres set new opening records on Friday and Saturday including locations in the UK, Mexico, France, India and Hong Kong.
There were other films in release over the weekend.
- UPDATE: DreamWorks Animation's The Croods added $13.2m through Fox International from 7,865 screens in 67 markets to reach $290.2m.
- UPDATE: Universal Pictures International's Oblivion brought in a further $13.6m from 7,700 sites in 60 territories to raise the running total to $134.6m.
- Paramount Pictures International executives reported that G.I. Joe: Retaliation added $10.2m from 10,866 sites in 62 territories for $232.7m and grossed $8.1m in China in the second weekend to stand at $50m.
- Scary Movie 5 grossed $6.7m through The Weinstein Company's international licensees as the early running total climbed to $13m.
- Olympus Has Fallen grossed approximately $4.2m through Nu Image licensees to reach $30m.
- Les Profs added $3.8m through UGC to reach $14m.
- Sony Pictures Releasing International heads reported that Evil Dead grossed $1.1m from 865 screens in 28 markets to reach $15.3m.
- UPDATE: Jack The Giant Slayer has amassed $131.4m through Warner Bros Pictures International.
- The Place Beyond The Pines generated approximately $1.3m through Sierra/Affinity licensees to stand at $15.5m internationally and $31.7m worldwide.
- StudioCanal opened The Look Of Love in the UK on $326,000 from 140 sites including $18,000 in previews. Evil Dead has reached $4m and The Place Beyond The Pines stands at $3.7m.


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- Set a time limit before they even turn on the TV or computer. It helps if they have a visual such as a timer and reminders about how much time they have left. When the timer goes off, so does the screen. This should go on without question. No negotiations! The easy thing is you can always unplug the electronics if they resist.
- Homework and chores must be done before TV or computer time. Check their homework and ensure they finish chores. Viewing time will be much more rewarding for both of you.
- Present your child with alternatives when time is up. This may make the transition easier and they are less likely to argue. Games, reading, arts and crafts, sports – plan something out that is readily available to them.
- Know what your child is doing. Check out their online activity and have them explain the game to you and whether or not it is online or a disc, etc. Do they play or chat with other people? Use your safety judgement. Violence is out and age-appropriate is in, especially with things they show on TV.
- Have a solution for their protests. Yes, they may be in the middle of a game or show but they should have known their time was coming to an end. Ask them to save the game they are playing or suggest you record the rest of the program. DVR is a great option, too.
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- Screen-Free Week: Turn off that TV and celebrate – not suffer (csmonitor.com)
- Screen-Free Week – 2012 – April 30 to May 6 (tvsmarter.wordpress.com)
- Ten things to do during Screen Free Week (ourdailygreenlife.blogspot.de)
- Screen-Free Week 2012 – Upcoming Events (tvsmarter.wordpress.com)
- Turn off to tune in (rakdyk.com)
- 100 fun kids activities for Screen-Free Week (nurturestore.co.uk)
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July 27, 2012
In an interview with AIDS.gov Director Miguel Gomez, Dr. Carl Dieffenbach discussed how to talk about "a cure" for HIV, and how talk of a cure is different from talk of an "AIDS-free generation." Dr. Dieffenbach is Director of the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
According to Dr. Dieffenbach, it's vitally important for community members to understand that, although new scientific developments are exciting, scientists are still at the earliest stages of research for a cure. To explain the current state of research, he drew an analogy, saying "It's not that we have a glass that's half empty or half full, but for the first time we have a sense of what the glass is."
While recognizing important forward momentum, Dr. Dieffenbach cautioned against overpromising, arguing that a cure for HIV will not be available for some time. "I can't put a time frame on it, but at the end of the day, research is an amazing engine."
Immediately prior to AIDS 2012, a group of renowned scientists from around the world released the first-ever global research strategy for an HIV cure. The Towards an HIV Cure initiative is convened by the International AIDS Society, with participation by National Institutes of Health leadership and other international stakeholders. A Kaiser Foundation webcast of the July 19, 2012 press conference to announce the release of the global research strategy is available here.
The full interview with Dr. Dieffenbach appears below.
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Note: In IIS 6.0, there are two request processing pipelines – one for native-code ISAPI filters and the other for managed applications like ASP.NET. However in IIS 7.0, there is one unified request processing pipeline for all requests. The ASP.NET runtime is integrated with the Web server. Also note that if IIS 7 is configured to work in Classic mode instead of Integrated mode, then it behaves like IIS 6.
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BeginRequest - The BeginRequest event signals the creation of any given new request. This event is always raised and is always the first event to occur during the processing of a request.
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MapRequestHandler - The MapRequestHandler event is used by the ASP.NET infrastructure to determine the request handler for the current request based on the file-name extension of the requested resource.
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PostUpdateRequestCache - When thePostUpdateRequestCache is raised, ASP.NET has completed processing code and the content of the cache is finalized.
LogRequest - Occurs just before ASP.NET performs any logging for the current request. The LogRequest event is raised even if an error occurs. You can provide an event handler for the LogRequest event to provide custom logging for the request.
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A super-size photo portrait of your pet can add a playful, graphic element to a living room, kitchen or bathroom.
Pets with spunk and a little get-up-and-go make great blowups. An enormous pet photograph may always look appropriate in a child's room or playroom, but try it in an unexpected place -- a more formal living room or a kitchen or bathroom.
Why this? Shooting the dachshund on a white backdrop plays up her unusual shape; a white frame doesn't pen her in.
1. Choose an Image
If you're enlarging a digital image, you're all set. If you're starting with a conventional film print, you'll first need to have it scanned, or digitized. FedEx Kinko's Office and Print Center (fedex.com for locations) will do this for around $17, and they'll put the new digital file on a CD for you to have printed wherever you want. When quality really matters, or when you have a negative or slide to digitize, go to a shop or photo lab that will do both the scanning and printing; this allows the printer to compare the scan to the original to make sure the colors are accurate.
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The size of the original image determines how much you can enlarge it. "With a 4-by-6-inch original, you can go to at least 16 by 20, and possibly 20 by 24," says Bryan Chandler of San Francisco's Blow Up Lab. "It depends on the clarity of the image." A reliable standard: Don't enlarge more than four times the original size. "The issue is pixels," says Jay Buckley, the owner of MegaPrint, in Plymouth, New Hampshire. While you can go online and order 20-by-30-inch enlargements of something you shot on a 2-megapixel camera, the pros have higher standards. "A picture from a 4- or 5-megapixel camera should look pretty good at 16 by 20," Chandler says. An untrained eye may be less exacting -- and each enlarger will offer its own guidelines.
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Online framers invariably use Plexiglas instead of glass, which would likely never survive shipping. Indeed, if your frame is larger than 30 by 40 inches, Plexiglas is recommended no matter what. Depending on how and where you plan to hang your art (in a busy hall, for instance), some framers start advocating Plexiglas at the 16-by-20-inch mark. If you're dead set on glass, a local brick-and-mortar framing shop is the place to get it.
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Giclee: A giclee ("sprayed") print is made with an ink-jet printer. Its quality may surpass that of a traditionally processed photo.
Gloss: Shiny finish with true, vivid colors. May produce a glare.
Satin or Luster: Less shiny than gloss. Good color.
Matte: Softer, less vibrant look.
Canvas: Excellent color reproduction. Ask for heavyweight artists' canvas, pigment-based dyes, and an ultraviolet-protective coating.
Duggal: A helpful if somewhat more expensive site, Duggal will do a 24-by-36-inch blowup for $160. The company shows you a test print before it makes the final.
Shutterfly: This company creates posters of up to 20 by 30 inches ($23) and prints on stretched canvas up to 24 by 36 inches ($150).
Daniel Smith: Its wood frames feature an ingenious interlocking dovetail that lets do-it-yourselfers make a no-hassle frame. A wide selection of sizes.
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The Philippines is now counted as one of the countries affected by the A(H1N1) virus. As of last count by the Department of Health, there are already57 people who contracted it. Thankfully, we have had no deaths yet.
What is worrisome to parents like me is its timing with the opening of classes.
When De La Salle University was first hit with the news of 2 foreign exchange students testing positive, my first thoughts were with our nephew who had just come to Manila from the province to begin school as a freshman there. We checked up on him and had him go home immediately.
Yesterday, I was at Ateneo with my 2 girls to enroll and get our car stickers as well as meet up with a cousin whose daughter (my niece) was also an incoming freshman in the school. We were in and out of the school and only heard the news in the evening that 3 high school boys of Ateneo had likewise tested positive.
There are also confirmed cases in a Paranaque school and DLSU's sister school (College of St. Benilde).
My boys (at another school) start school next week after a parent orientation. I know that many families in this school travel abroad during summer. I am now having second thoughts about attending the parent orientation. Maybe the school can use technology, do a podcast or video of what they intended to tell us, upload it into their website, and just have us view it from there. That way we avoid personal contact and still get the same information. I am very happy though that this school is such a proactive one and this week, is having thorough pest control done prior to the boys coming in for classes.
Other private schools should probably look at the use of technology likewise to keep parents, faculty, students and staff informed about their school's actions to keep them all virus-free.
I have been cutting out newspaper clippings on A(H1N1) but these seemed inadequate. The non-medical one simply listed the symptoms, a few treatments, contact numbers of designated hospitals and some precautionary measures. Another clipping listed down the alert levels for schools (but this was not applicable to me as a parent).
Thanks to a heads-up from Dine and Noemi (on Facebook), I became aware of this document over at Scribd.com. It is an easy read, pleasant to the eyes, uses simple language, and readily understandable to non-medical people like me.
Please feel free to pass this link to your family and friends. The more people who are aware of this document, the more people we can keep healthy and virus-free.
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text: Bourne 5 Posted August 4, 2010 (edited) Trying to make the connection with masturbation and acne. Anybody can join in, but there are a few rules and conditions. 1. No masturbating for one month (30 days). 2. No cheating/lying; if you can't make it to 30, then simply start over from day 1. 3. You must check in everyday in this thread with your day count at the top. Share how you are feeling, what your face looks and feels like, techniques you use for abstaining, anything else you feel is relevant and helpful to others. Now don't get me wrong, I believe sex is a very normal and natural act. However it is obvious that without sex, none of us would have acne haha. The main purpose of sex by nature is for reproduction, and technically you can only reproduce every 9 or so months. Sex and masturbation are two different things. One is necessary, the other is...well...something you do when you're bored or can't get any... I am not asking you to surrender all sexual activities forever, only until your skin clears up. Then you can start doing it again in moderation. If you haven't given this a serious effort, then you are cheating yourself. It will cost you nothing but some effort and self-discipline, if you see no changes to your acne and aren't happy with your increased mood and energy then I'm sorry for wasting your time; but if you start feeling better, and your skin starts clearing up, then geeze, isn't it worth a try? For those of you serious about this and want to find a solution to your acne, here are a few tips: >wear tight underwear (this reduces sperm count and hormone levels) >eat chocolate (it releases endorphis which make you feel happy and helps cancel out the urges) >eat a healthy diet (include more raw fruits and veggies into your diet, it will make you look and feel better) >stay away from porn, any sexual content if you can help it, movies, music videos, seductive songs (this will be tough at first, but will be easier with practice) >distract yourself (do something fun, play a game, go for a run, lift weights, hang out with friends; really anything that can get your mind off porn and masturbation) best of wishes. Edited January 10, 2012 by Bourne Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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It's Kidman's Year After All as 'Moulin Rouge' Rides Acclaim
Australian star Nicole Kidman's "annus horibilis" in which her 10-year marriage to Tom Cruise collapsed got a major fillip Thursday when she was nominated for two Golden Globe awards.
The actress got a double early Christmas present when she picked up two best actress nominations for her roles in the romantic Paris-set musical "Moulin Rouge" and in her new creepy horror film, "The Others."
"I woke Nicole up in the middle of the night in Australia and she was absolutely thrilled," said her publicist Catherine Olim. "It ends off her year in a great way.
"She was not expecting the nominations and is very excited for (director) Baz (Luhrmann) and (co-star) Ewan (McGregor) too," she added of Kidman's collaborators on the film, who each won a Golden Globe nomination.
"Moulin Rouge," in which Kidman plays courtesan Satine in the famous Paris nightclub in 1899, was one of two pictures leading the Golden Globe nominations with six nods that are seen as a possible pre-cursor to the Oscar nominations.
It is in the running for best musical or comedy picture of 2002, best actress in a comedy or musical, best actor in the same category for McGregor, best director for Luhrmann, best original score and best original song.
The other picture to pick up six nods was "A Beautiful Mind," starring fellow Aussie star and Oscar winner Russell Crowe in a film based on the life of schizophrenic mathematics genius John Forbes Nash Jr.
"Clearly, any pictures that stand out in the Golden Globes win extra visibility ahead of the Oscars," said Tim Gray of industry publication Daily Variety earlier.
Kidman also won a nomination as best actress for ghost story "The Others" in Spain's Goya film awards on Wednesday.
The boost given to Kidman's Oscar chances at the start of Hollywood's heady awards season is likely to help take the edge off her painful year.
Cruise stunned Kidman and the world when he announced he was leaving her in February amid rumors he was already dating his "Vanilla Sky" co-star Penelope Cruz.
Kidman then had a miscarriage and lost Cruise's baby that she was carrying amid bitter public recriminations over the split-up.
The pair were officially divorced in August and in November they agreed on a secret and amicable divorce settlement in which they share custody of their adopted children, Isabella, 8, and Connor, 6.
Under the deal dividing their joint fortune estimated at 350 million dollars, Cruise got to keep his mini-fleet of aircraft while Kidman got two of the couple's mansions in the Los Angeles area of Malibu and in Sydney.
Cruise is now dating Spanish-born Cruz, who was not nominated for a Golden Globe for "Vanilla Sky", although Cameron Diaz won a nod as best supporting actress in the film -- AFP
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