Paul Krugman: How Are These Times Different? (New York Times)
… Apple … has hardly any employees and does hardly any manufacturing. The company tries, through fairly desperate PR efforts, to claim that it is indirectly responsible for lots of US jobs, but never mind. The reality is that the company is basically built around technology, design, and a brand identity.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, was first, and correct, with:
Argonaut
Alan J said:
Argonaut
mj wrote:
I'm pretty sure he went out in a boat
Called The Sea Witch. My brother and I used to watch the show after dinner.
Charlie responded:
I'm pretty sure I watched every episode,but it was a long time ago, and I couldn't remember the name of the boat. I new it wasn't Minnow, or Calypso, or Nautilus, but I had to look it up.
It was a 33 foot Trojan Sea Breeze Model 346 Express Cruiser with Fly-bridge named "Argonaut."
Adam answered:
The Argonaut
Marian replied:
Argonaut
Sally said:
Mike Nelson's boat in the 1950's TV show, "Sea Hunt" was called the, "Argonaut."
Boy, I sure liked that show...
PS: Thanks for the B-Day shout-out, B2BB! I read your BD site, and found out that I share a BD with:
WALLIS SIMPSON (1896-1986) American woman for whom Edward VIII gave up the British crown.
WOW!
It's really an interesting link! (You can choose other dates too)
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali said:
Way too easy - "The Argonaut" was her name!! A truly inspirational show! My cousin and I became certified divers at 15 and I have been diving in many different places. From Cozumel to Hawaii! Sea Hunt was the motivation for me to dive. "The Dude Abides!"
The Dude & Dad lookin at some tush!
MAM wrote:
Argonaut
BttbBob answered:
And the boat was an excellent custom built Trojan Express 33 (33 ft long)...
This is it... Trojan Boats, of Lancaster, PA, was one of the premier boat builders in the industry. They were later bought by Carver Boats who also built great luxury yachts. Carver continued to build the Trojan Express line until 2002, If I were to want to buy a used, large motor boat, I would look for a Carver...
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I avidly watched "Sea Hunt" with my step-father who was a scuba diver for the Sheriff's Department. When I was 12, he taught me how to dive, but I had to quit because I had problems equalizing my inner ear pressure. I couldn't go much deeper than about 25 feet without extreme pain. It was no fun having to stay in shallow water, so I just gave it up...
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Trivia within Trivia Moment - How could you tell the difference between Mike Nelson and a 'Bad guy' when they fighting underwater? Nelson always had a double hose regulator and the 'Bad Guys' had single hose models...
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Sea Hunt Fact or Myth Lloyd Bridges Scuba Guy Diving Bill Jones Tors Ziv United Artists Television
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Happy Birthday this day to:
Prince William (Windsor), Duke of Cambridge (30) - I bet the Queen abdicates in favor of William to be King, instead of his father Prince Charles. Why? Liz loathes Charles' wife Camilla (so says the British tabloids) and will be damn'd before she sees her Princess Consort.
Mariettte Hartley (72)
Meredith Baxter (65)
Ray Davies (68) Guitarist
[ The Kinks - You really Got me (live) ! ! - YouTube ]
Joey Kramer (62) Drummer
[ Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion - YouTube ]
Nils Lofgren (61) Guitarist
[ Nils Lofgren - No Mercy - YouTube ]
(Played with Crazy Horse and the E Street Band)
Born this day:
Jane Russell (1921-2011)
Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Tony Scott (1944-2012)
Maureen Stapleton (1925-2006)
June 21 Birthdays - Celebrities Born June 21 | Famous Birthdays
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Good-bye, James... Thanks for advocating for disabled veterans. You were a hell actor, too...
BttbB
And, Joe S replied:
Mike Nelson is a free-lance scuba diver who has various adventures.
Traveling on his boat the *Argonaut*, Nelson outmaneuvers villains,
salvages everything from a bicycle to a nuclear missile, rescues children
trapped in a flooded cave, and even a dog.
(Maybe Carla will come home Monday)
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Undercover Boss', followed by a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0', then a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNDave (from 4/23/13) are Steve Martin, Jenna Fischer, Steve Martin & Edie Brickell with the Steep Canyon Rangers.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Maggie Gyllenhaal and Matt Goldich.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by 'Rock Center'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Terry Bradshaw, Steve Byrne, and Joseph Arthur.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Jason Statham, Adrian Peterson, the guys from RecordSetter, and Zedd.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/2/13) are Michael Shannon, Josh Rushing, and Foals.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by 'What Would You Do', then '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 6/11/13 and 6/13/13) are Adam Sandler, David Spade, Chris Rock, Kevin James, Jack Black, two-year-old "Trick Shot Titus" vs. Shaquille O'Neal and Metta World Peace.
The CW offers a RERUN'Nikita', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has a RERUN'Bones', followed by a RERUN'The Following'.
MY has an old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.
AMC offers the movie 'Blood Diamond', followed by the movie 'The Marine', then the movie 'Con-Air'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 19 NEW
[9:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 20 NEW
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 4 - Silicon Avatar
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 5 - Disaster
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 6 - The Game
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Finn McCool's
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 5 - Sandgate
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 7 - Oscars
[4:00PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 19
[5:00PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 20
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 6 - The Game
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 7 - Unification - Part 1
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 8 - Unification - Part 2
[9:00PM] X2: X-MEN UNITED
[11:30PM] X2: X-MEN UNITED
[2:00AM] APOCALYPTO
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 6 - The Game (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Newlyweds: The First Year', another 'Newlyweds: The First Year', followed by the movie 'American Wedding'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's ' Jon Stewart John Oliver', 'Tosh.0', followed by the movie 'Idiocracy', and 'The Comedy Central Roast Of Donald The Fat-Fingered Vulgarian Trump'.
FX has the movie '28 Weeks Later', followed by the movie 'Zombieland'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-The Much Funnier Second Episode
[7:15AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[7:30AM] The Core
[10:15AM] Stop-Loss
[12:45PM] Event Horizon
[2:45PM] The Core
[5:30PM] City Slickers
[8:00PM] Arrested Development-The Cabin Show
[8:30PM] Arrested Development-For British Eyes Only
[9:00PM] Arrested Development-Forget Me Now
[9:30PM] Arrested Development-Notap...
[10:00PM] Maron-Jen Moves to LA
[10:30PM] Arrested Development-The Cabin Show
[11:00PM] Arrested Development-For British Eyes Only
[11:30PM] Arrested Development-Forget Me Now
[12:00AM] Arrested Development-Notap...
[12:30AM] Arrested Development-Mr. F
[1:00AM] Maron-Jen Moves to LA
[1:30AM] City Slickers
[4:00AM] Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Man Shops Globe-Thailand
[6:45AM] Visioneers
[8:30AM] Adaptation
[10:30AM] Bottle Rocket
[12:00PM] Visioneers
[1:45PM] Adaptation
[3:45PM] Bottle Rocket
[5:15PM] The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
[7:00PM] Push Girls-Tipany's Missing Sister
[7:30PM] Push Girls-Surprising News
[8:00PM] All the President's Men
[10:30PM] Network
[12:30AM] Dangerous Liaisons
[2:30AM] Little Children
[4:45AM] Lipsett Diaries
[5:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-The Diary (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Resident Evil: Afterlife', followed by a FRESH'WWE Steroid SmackDown!', then a FRESH'Continuum'.
Singer and actress Barbra Streisand performs during her concert at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv June 20, 2013. Streisand performed on Thursday for the first time ever in Israel and another concert is planned for Saturday.
Photo by Amir Cohen
Remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, his wife and the actor who played Scotty will get a final resting place in the "Final Frontier" under plans announced Thursday to launch a space archive.
The project is being developed by the Houston company Celestis, which for years has offered a service that takes partial remains into space and then brings them back.
Celestis announced the new project a day before a launch from Spaceport America takes its 1,000th capsule into space. Ashes from the Roddenberrys have been on previous flights.
But this time they will stay in space. Plans call for the archive to be launched with a large experimental solar sail planned by NASA next year. The public can pay to have digital files, photos and DNA samples included. Also on the mission will be hair from science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke.
Singer and actress Jennifer Lopez (3rd L) poses with (from L-R) Keenen Ivory Wayans, Gregory Nava, her children Max and Emme, Benny Medina, Jane Fonda and Pitbull, after her star was unveiled on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California June 20, 2013.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
A Christian group that once promoted therapy to encourage gays and lesbians to overcome their sexual preferences has closed its doors and apologized to homosexuals, acknowledging its mission had been hurtful and ignorant.
Exodus International billed itself as the oldest and largest Christian ministry dealing with faith and homosexuality, operating since 1976. It announced it would cease operations in a statement on its website on Wednesday.
The Irvine, California-based group's board unanimously voted to close Exodus International and begin a separate ministry, the statement said.
"I am sorry for the pain and hurt that many of you have experienced," President Alan Chambers said in a statement. "I am sorry some of you spent years working through the shame and guilt when your attractions didn't change. I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents."
Chambers said he was part of a "system of ignorance."
Less than a year after Philip Roth announced he had stopped writing books, another literary great may be retiring: Alice Munro.
The 81-year-old Canadian author, widely regarded as one of the world's greatest short story writers, told Canada's National Post during a recent interview that she was "probably not going to write anymore." Munro made the comments after receiving the Trillium Book Award for the story collection "Dear Life."
"Not that I didn't love writing," she said, "but I think you do get to a stage where you sort of think about your life in a different way. And perhaps, when you're my age, you don't wish to be alone as much as a writer has to be. It's like, at the wrong end of life, sort of becoming very sociable."
Roth, 80, made similar comments last year in explaining his decision to quit. The list of voluntary literary retirees is tiny, with the vast majority of authors continuing for as long as health permits.
U.S. actor Brad Pitt walks with his daughters Zahara (L) and Shiloh (R) near the Kremlin in Moscow, June 20, 2013. Pitt is in Russia to attend the opening of the Moscow International Film Festival.
Photo by Ivan Burnyashev
The artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet, burned in an acid attack allegedly masterminded by a dancer, is nearly blind despite 18 operations to save his sight, a theatre spokeswoman said on Thursday.
The attack on Sergei Filin, which exposed poisonous rivalries over roles, power and pay at the theatre, has cast a long shadow over Russia's premier cultural symbol, from which it is still struggling to escape.
At a news conference dedicated to the theatre's 2013-2014 season program, Filin's absence was palpable as he prepared to undergo what Bolshoi spokeswoman Katerina Novikova said would be his 19th operation at a clinic in Germany to save his eyesight.
"I spoke with Sergei three days ago, and Sergei said the situation is such that he cannot see out of one eye at all, and he can see 10 percent out of the other eye," Novikova said. She would not comment on the chances his eyesight will be restored.
A Justice Department lawyer says the government has proven that Apple Inc. conspired with publishers in 2010 to raise electronic book prices.
The final arguments Thursday by attorney Mark Ryan were aimed at winning a court ruling against Apple in a New York civil antitrust case.
Apple attorney Orin Snyder had told Judge Denise Cote earlier that she would set a "dangerous precedent" if she concluded that Apple manipulated e-book prices as it entered the market.
The three-week trial stemmed from an antitrust lawsuit that the government brought last year against Apple and major publishers. The government has reached settlements with five publishers.
Actress Angelina Jolie, the U.N. refugee agency's special envoy, and U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres (L) leave after a news conference at the Al Zaatri refugee camp for Syrians displaced by conflict, on World Refugee Day in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, June 20, 2013.
Photo by Muhammad Hamed
An Illinois Republican official resigned from his leadership post Thursday amid outrage over an email in which he berated a biracial former Miss America as a "street walker" who could fill a law firm's "minority quota" if she loses her bid for Congress.
The controversy, involving a county GOP leader in central Illinois who campaigned for U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, created a new rift for Republicans already struggling to expand and attract women and minority voters.
Davis demanded the resignation of the county official, Jim Allen, after learning of what he called a "wrong, appalling and incredibly demeaning" email targeting Erika Harold, Davis' opponent in the March 2014 Republican primary.
Sent to Republican blogger Doug Ibendahl, the email referred to Harold as a "street walker" and "love child" of Democrats and suggested the Harvard graduate could fill a "minority quota" at a law firm should she lose the race.
Ibendahl, also a former party official, posted the email Wednesday on his website.
Maine's Republican Governor, Paul LePage, touched off a round of criticism on Thursday when he made a vulgar remark about a Democratic state senator.
LePage said during a television interview that Senator Troy Jackson, with whom he has sparred recently over budget issues, "claims to be for the people, but he's the first one to give it to the people without providing Vaseline."
The remarks followed LePage's promise, at an Americans for Prosperity rally in Augusta, the state capital, to veto a $6.3 billion, two-year budget. Democrats criticized LePage's unwillingness to compromise on the bipartisan budget, which last week passed with two-thirds majorities in both the Maine House and Senate.
Jackson called the comments "inappropriate, but nothing new," and said they reflected the governor's attitude that if "you're not 100 percent with him, then he doesn't want to deal with you.
Actress Jane Fonda gestures at the ceremony where singer and actress Jennifer Lopez was honored with a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California June 20, 2013.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
In the first major global review of violence against women, a series of reports released Thursday found that about a third of women have been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner.
The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, called it "a global health problem of epidemic proportions," and other experts said screening for domestic violence should be added to all levels of health care.
Among the findings: 40 percent of women killed worldwide were slain by an intimate partner, and being assaulted by a partner was the most common kind of violence experienced by women.
Researchers used a broad definition of domestic violence, and in cases where country data was incomplete, estimates were used to fill in the gaps. WHO defined physical violence as being slapped, pushed, punched, choked or attacked with a weapon. Sexual violence was defined as being physically forced to have sex, having sex for fear of what the partner might do and being compelled to do something sexual that was humiliating or degrading.
The report also examined rates of sexual violence against women by someone other than a partner and found about 7 percent of women worldwide had previously been a victim.
The leg irons that restrained abolitionist John Brown after his failed 1859 raid on a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry are being sold Saturday in Texas, but two historical parks dedicated to his legacy can't afford to bid on them
Dallas-based Heritage Auctions estimates the shackles are worth at least $10,000, but some Brown memorabilia has fetched much more. In 2007, a rare daguerreotype sold for $97,750 at a Cincinnati auction.
History long regarded Brown as a domestic terrorist, and some Southerners still do. Many scholars consider Brown and his raid to be flash points, hastening the start of the Civil War.
But many now see him as a martyr, ahead of his time in trying to end slavery. The Connecticut native spent months plotting to seize 100,000 weapons from the arsenal and use them to launch a guerrilla war with the slaves he believed would join him.
People walk as a statue of goddess Ganga is carried upstream during a procession as part of the Ganga Dhaaraa festival in Marianne River, Blanchisseuse on Trinidad's north coast June 19, 2013. For the past 20 years, pilgrims all over the country and abroad have been gathering for the Hindu festival, also known as the oldest river festival. It commemorates the coming down of goddess Ganga to earth.
Photo by Andrea De Silva
"Obviously a 1-day-old puppy, even in the best of circumstances, [the chance of survival] is pretty iffy," Sharon Harvey, president and CEO of the CAPL, told Yahoo News by phone. "We want to give him every chance we could."
The staff decided Noland's best chances were to join a litter of nursing kittens. The question: Would the cat accept a puppy into her brood of four? Amazingly, mom-cat Lurlene welcomed the outsider.
In addition to spending eight to nine hours a day with the newborn kittens, the now-week-old pit bull, already growing bigger than the kittens, is being bottle-fed and taken home by staffers who watch over him at night.
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
Volunteers in animal costumes wait to perform in an event to promote a love for dogs, in Beijing's Sanlitun area, June 20, 2013. Dog lovers and animal rights activists have called for the cancellation of an annual dog meat festival scheduled to take place on Friday in Yulin, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, voicing concerns over animal cruelty and food safety, according to China Daily.
Photo by Jason Lee
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