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LOS ANGELES -- Bettie Page, a 1950s pinup known for her raven-haired bangs and saucy come-hither looks, was hospitalized in intensive care after suffering a heart attack, her agent said Friday. "She's critically ill," Mark Roesler of CMG Worldwide told The Associated Press.
He said the 85-year-old had been hospitalized for the last three weeks with pneumonia and was about to be released when she had the heart attack Tuesday. Page was transferred to another hospital in Los Angeles and remained in intensive care Friday. A family friend, Todd Mueller, said Page was in a coma. When asked to confirm, Roesler said, "I would not deny that," but he would not comment further on her condition.
Page, a secretary turned model, is credited with helping set the stage for the sexual revolution of the rebellious 1960s. She attracted national attention with magazine photographs of her sensuous figure that were tacked up on walls across the country. Her photos included a centerfold in the January 1955 issue of then-fledgling Playboy magazine, as well as controversial sadomasochistic poses.
Page later spent decades away from the public eye, and during that time battled mental illness and became a born-again Christian. After resurfacing in the 1990s, she occasionally granted interviews but refused to allow her picture to be taken.
Mueller credits his business dealings with Page for bringing her out of seclusion. He said he first met her in 1989 when he offered her "a bunch of money" to show up at autograph signings."I probably sold 3,000 of her autographs, usually for $200 to $300," he said. "Eleanor Roosevelt, we got $40-$50. ... Bettie Page outsells them all."
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Sorry to hear this. Miss Page was hotter than a $2 pistol on Saturday night when she was in her prime, and her prime lasted a lot longer than most women. As the picture shows, she looked like a walking snack bar.
The property bubble in Dubai, the business hub of the United Arab Emirates, is bursting as investors start to dump assets, a report says. Didn't the Doobabs just have a party celebrating how rich they are?
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Must have smelled that sewage pit we were discussing the other day.
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Gulf goes down, so does Pak and lots of India since there's a ton of remittance money going back to the subcontinent from there. The key will be when you start hearing about "excess workers being returned to country of origin."
When you see that message, just figure there are lots of Pakis and Indians, and a fair number of Filipinos, wondering how long the savings can last and where their next meal will come from once it's gone.
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Seriously though, is Dubai not synonymous with conspicuous excess? Who couldn't have seen this coming? Financial 'experts' never fail to astound me, they NEVER see the train till its two feet from them, never.
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What's holding it back? Dubai is one of the most bubbley places around. So,why aren't the hand baskets all lined up in front of the gates of Hell? Now, it's not really bad until there are places where the terrorists are gathered, crying out for 'alms for the poor Warriors of Jihad. Then! I'll be impressed about how bad things are.
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Maybe we'll be next
Big Jim,
We're already two years ahead of everyone else in the real estate market. The re-fi market is already starting to revive. So we're back to pulling the entire world out recession with our big, strong shoulders. Of course, the world will be as grateful as they usually are.
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Coming from a water and sewer guy (a Pisces, too), I say, first look at their infrastructure. It is the non glamorous part that holds up the rest. Do they have good water treatment and distribution? Do they have good wastewater collection and treatment? If they have great buildings and little sanitation infrastructure, then they have something. If not, they are basically full of sh*t, literally and figuratively.
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PIMF
If they have great buildings and good sanitation infrastructure, then they have something. If not, they are basically full of sh*t, literally and figuratively.
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One of the saddest parts in Baracks Dreams from my Father is where he says he will never see Mark again because Marks views on race and rootedness to Africa are so anathema and upsetting to Barack. Mark loves Western civilization whereas Barack was taught by his mother to despise it.
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A funny story about a man who worked in a Kosher meat packing plant in New York. His job was after the suspended animals throat was cut, to chop its head off with a very large cleaver. After doing this for years, his right arm became very strong, and he could do it with a single blow.
The plant went out of business, so he moved to Chicago. Newly arrived, he wanted to take the El late at night, and was standing on the platform, when somebody shoved something into his back and said "give me your money, etc."
He turned around and hit the perp with a downward stroke of his right arm, on the perp's collarbone. Then he again turned around and got on the train.
The next day he saw the headline "Police baffled", about their discovery of a dead mugger found on that platform, who had been hit so hard by a heavy falling object that his collar bone and six of his ribs were broken. But there was no sign of the I-beam that hit him.
(SomaliNet) New Zealand's central bank has cut its interest rate by 1.5 percent to five percent. The bank says the reduction is needed because of the continuing unrest in the financial markets and the sombre economic outlook. The latest cut brings the total reduction since July to 3.25 percent.
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Goodbye Forex carry trades!
Its been nice knowin ya!
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KITTERY, Maine The NR-1 research submarine arrived at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Thursday morning to begin the inactivation process after a glorious naval career of exploring the depths around the globe.
The one-of-a-kind, nuclear-powered undersea research and ocean engineering submarine, along with her crew of four officers and 30 enlisted navy personnel, was towed up river by the USNS Grasp, a rescue and salvage ship.
Fresh off her final mission to search for the wreckage of the Bonhomme Richard, the flagship of naval hero John Paul Jones, the NR-1 submarine is expected to spend a year at the shipyard. The process of inactivating the 40-year-old submarine involves it being defueled using the same techniques that have been used to refuel and defuel more than 400 naval nuclear reactors. The hydraulic systems are drained; expendable materials, tools, spare parts and furnishings are removed; and tanks containing oil and other fluids are drained and cleaned.
Following the successful completion of the inactivation, the boat will then be prepared for transport to Bremerton, Wash., for reactor compartment disposal at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility.
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Hey! Here's a way to make Cal some cash! SELL those gay marriage certificates for $250,000 per pop. Want your homo shackup legal? Reach for your wallet and show you're a public spirited citizen. Not enough scratch? Back in the closet with you.
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Been gone from the state for over 15 years, Its not the same place I grew up in. There is a lot of 'fat' that could be trimmed, a lot of 'recipients' who could be cut loose and a hell of a lot of people with 'bad backs' that could be forced to work if they wanted to eat.
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Don't worry, Big Jim, the governator and the legislature together will threaten to cut the usual stuff -- the schools, the prisons, and the hospitals -- so as to get the rubes to fork over more tax dollars. Cutting the PR people, the earmarks and the pet projects, of course, can't be done ...
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So what happens when the rubes have no more dollars to fork over?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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The property bubble in Dubai, the business hub of the United Arab Emirates, is bursting as investors start to dump assets, a report says.
