G.I. Joe is a line of action figures produced by the toy company Hasbro. The initial product offering represented four of the branches of the U.S. armed forces with the Action Soldier (U.S. Army), Action Sailor (U.S. Navy), Action Pilot (USAF), Action Marine (USMC) and later on, the Action Nurse.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
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Alan J wrote:
Four, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines.
Charlie replied:
Four. Action Soldier (U.S. Army), Action Sailor (U.S. Navy), Action Pilot (USAF), Action Marine (USMC)
These toys promoting militarism first appeared in 1964 (I remembered it was '64 or '65), just before full-scale US involvement in Vietnam. A coincidence, no doubt.
One Tin Soldier (The Original Caste).
Sally said:
G.I. Joe: America's movable fighting man is a line of action figures. The initial product offering represented four of the branches of the U.S. armed forces.
They were all white men as I recall...
(Sad day in the American Justice System)
@Vic from Alaska, guess I won't be visiting this year - we have our own heat here... (Love ya Little Buddy.)
@B2BB, thank you for the vast fortune you have invested in my "Great Lake Education." That being said, won't you and JoeS agree, that those Lakes are just Ocean wannabes? (Joking, love you both of course...)
Adam answered:
4 branches- army, navy, air force, & marines.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
The initial product offering represented four of the branches of the U.S.
armed forces with the Action Soldier (U.S. Army), Action Sailor (U.S.
Navy), Action Pilot (USAF), Action Marine (USMC)
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali took the day off:
MAM wrote:
Four of the branches of the U.S. armed forces with the Action Soldier (U.S. Army), Action Sailor (U.S. Navy), Action Pilot (USAF), Action Marine (USMC) . The term G.I. stands, in popular usage, for Government Issued.
Original G.I. Joe lineup
And, Joe S replied:
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Those G.I. Joes were sold as toys,
Maybe for some, but not my boys.
We know nuthin 'bout that noise.
Sally, and anyone else interested, FYI: Lake Michigan is 307 miles long and 118 miles wide. The shoreline is about 1660 miles long. You can't see across to the other side. And there's no salt. And no sharks. Lots of beauty.
New Jersey is 150 miles long and 57 miles wide. New Jersey's boundary length is about 480 miles. You could squeeze about four New Jerseys into the lake. And by the way, the driving distance from Monroe, MI to Ironwood, MI is 630 miles and it takes a little over 11 hours to drive it. The driving distance from Detroit to Washington DC is only 525 miles. Just sayin'.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a FRESH'Under The Dome'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Bruce Willis, Bud Selig, and Valerie Simpson.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Julie Chen and Michael Palascak.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'American Ninja Warriors', followed by a FRESH'Get Out Alive With Bear Grylls', then a FRESH'Siberia'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Savannah Guthrie, Anthony Jeselnik, and Johnnyswim.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Kristen Wiig, Nick Cannon, and Adam Ant.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/14/13) are Davey Havok, "The Exquisite Corpse Project", and Kitten.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Bachelorette', followed by a FRESH'Mistresses'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 7/2/13) are Armie Hamer, Adam Carolla, and Ciara.
The CW fills the night with the FRESH'iHeart Radio Ultimate Pool Party'
Faux has a RERUN'Raising Hope', followed by another RERUN'Raising Hope', then a RERUN'New Girl', followed by a RERUN'The Mindy Project'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'Duck Dynasty', another 'Duck Dynasty', still another 'Duck Dynasty', followed by a FRESH'The Glades', then a FRESH'Longmire'.
AMC offers the movie 'Broken Arrow', followed by the movie 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?', then the movie 'Starsky & Hutch'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 21NEW
[8:40AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 22NEW
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 2 - Realm of Fear
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 3 - Man of the People
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 4 - Relics
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 5 - Hot Potato Cafe
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 9 - The Olde Stone Mill
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 11 - Spin-A-Yarn Steakhouse
[4:00PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 21
[4:40PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 22
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Special
[7:30PM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 1
[8:30PM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 2 NEW
[10:00PM] DANGERMAN: THE INCREDIBLE MR. GOODWIN - S1 - Episode 2 NEW
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 2
[12:30AM] DANGERMAN: THE INCREDIBLE MR. GOODWIN - Season 1 - Episode 2
[1:30AM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 1
[2:30AM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 2
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 1
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 2 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then a FRESH'Below Deck'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old ' Jon Stewart John Oliver', 'Key & Peele', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'South Park', 'Brickleberry', and 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart John Oliver is Aaron Sorkin.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Jeremy Scahill.
FX has the movie 'Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa', followed by the movie 'Kung Fu Panda', then the movie 'Kung Fu Panda', again.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', then a FRESH'God, Guns & Automobiles', followed by another FRESH'God, Guns & Automobiles'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Brown Sugar
[8:15AM] National Lampoon's Senior Trip
[10:15AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Amy Poehler Wears a Black Jacket & Grey Pants
[10:45AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Seth Rogen Wears a Plaid Shirt & Brown Pants
[11:15AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Andy Samberg Wears a Plaid Shirt and Glasses
[11:45AM] About a Boy
[2:00PM] Brown Sugar
[4:15PM] National Lampoon's Senior Trip
[6:15PM] National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
[8:00PM] Risky Business
[10:15PM] Undercover Brother
[12:00AM] Risky Business
[2:15AM] Undercover Brother
[4:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Jon Hamm Wears a Light Blue Shirt & Silver Watch
[4:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Andy Samberg Wears a Plaid Shirt and Glasses
[5:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-``Weird Al'' Yankovic Wears a Hawaiian Shirt
[5:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Seth Rogen Wears a Plaid Shirt & Brown Pants
http://www.sundancechannel.com/schedule/#day/2013/07/15
(ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Rectify-Modern Times
[7:00AM] Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
[8:30AM] Uncertainty
[10:30AM] Identity
[12:00PM] Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
[1:30PM] The Spine
[1:45PM] Uncertainty
[3:45PM] The Dirty Dozen
[6:30PM] Dreaming of Joseph Lees
[8:00PM] Black Swan
[10:00PM] Push Girls-Escape to Mexico
[10:30PM] Push Girls-How Dare You!
[11:00PM] Breaking Bad-Cornered
[12:00AM] Breaking Bad-Problem Dog
[1:00AM] Push Girls
[1:30AM] Push Girls
[2:00AM] Black Swan
[4:00AM] Shadows in the Palace (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Batman & Robin', 'Fear Factor', another 'Fear Factor', and still another 'Fear Factor'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Charlie Day, Brittney Griner, and Jake Owen.
Actor Kevin Spacey (L) stands with Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter in the team's dugout after throwing out the first pitch before Baltimore's game with the Toronto Blue Jays in MLB American League baseball action in Baltimore, Maryland July 14, 2013.
Photo by Doug Kapustin
An ex-military man tries his hand at writing, publishes a debut detective novel, and wins critical acclaim. But here's the twist in the tale: The true identity of the author is none other than "Harry Potter" creator J.K. Rowling.
It's impressive literary wizardry by Rowling, who said she relished the freedom of writing "The Cuckoo's Calling" under her pseudonym, Robert Galbraith.
"I hoped to keep this secret a little longer because being Robert Galbraith has been such a liberating experience," she said in a statement released by her publicist on Sunday. "It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation, and pure pleasure to get feedback from publishers and readers under a different name."
"The Cuckoo's Calling," a story about a war veteran turned private investigator who is called in to probe the mysterious death of a model, was published to rave reviews in April by Sphere, part of publisher Little, Brown & Co.
The Sunday Times claimed it was investigating "how a first-time author with a background in the army and the civilian security industry could write such an assured debut novel" when it connected the dots. The paper said clues included the fact that Rowling and Galbraith shared the same agent and editor, and that Little, Brown published Rowling's novel for adults, "The Casual Vacancy." It also said the book's style and subject matter resembled Rowling's work.
Singer Thom Yorke of the band "Atoms for Peace" performs during the third day of the 13th EXIT music festival at Petrovaradin Fortress, in Novi Sad July 13, 2013.
Photo by Marko Djurica
Jimmy Kimmel's days of bedtime canoodling with Ben Affleck may be over - the late night host is married!
Jimmy, 45, wed Molly McNearney, 35, on Saturday in Ojai, Calif., his rep told People.
A host of the couple's famous friends attended the weekend festivities (which included a rehearsal dinner on Friday), including Emily Blunt and husband John Krasinski, Matt Damon and wife Luciana, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, Jennifer Aniston and fiancé Justin Theroux, and Howard Stern.
Molly, a co-head writer on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," wore a strapless white gown with her blond hair down in loose waves for the big day. Jimmy wore a traditional black tuxedo and bowtie.
Halle Berry married her fiancé, French actor Olivier Martinez, in a weekend ceremony in a village church where princes are buried in France's Burgundy region.
The owner of the Chateau de Vallery, where the couple stayed with their 60 guests, said on Sunday that the betrothal a day earlier ended with a dinner and an unusual fireworks display - of water, fire and snow - in the chateau gardens. A wedding cake followed.
Patrice Vansteenberghe said the actress - 46 and pregnant - and her 47-year-old husband "were very beautiful and very happy."
Berry's publicist, Meredith O'Sullivan Wasson, confirmed the marriage.
Actors Juergen Tarrach as Mammon (L) and Cornelius Obonya as Jedermann perform on stage during a dress rehearsal of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's drama "Jedermann" (everyman) at Salzburg's Domplatz square July 13, 2013. The play is directed by Julian Crouch and Brian Mertes and will premiere as part of the annual Salzburg Festival on July 20.
Photo by Dominic Ebenbichler
The cute and comical seabirds called puffins have returned to several Maine islands and are finding plenty of food for their young chicks unlike last summer when many starved.
Young puffins died at an alarming rate last season because of a shortage of herring, leaving adults to try to feed them another type of fish that was too big to swallow. Some chicks died surrounded by piles of uneaten fish.
This summer, the chicks are getting plenty of hake and herring, said Steve Kress, director of the National Audubon Society's seabird restoration program and professor at Cornell University.
Occupancy of puffin burrows on Matinicus Rock and at Seal Island, the two largest U.S. puffin colonies, are down by at least a third this season, Kress said. That likely means many birds died over the winter and others were too weak to produce offspring this season, he said.
Because puffins are less adaptable than other seabirds, they're more vulnerable to environmental changes and serve as a good indicator of the health of oceans and the availability of certain types of fish, Kress said.
The force is no longer with Eric Hodgson, a California man who gave up a collection of Star Wars memorabilia worth more than $10,000 in a plea deal to charges that he defrauded a state agency out of nearly $1.9 million.
Hodgson was charged in April with 22 counts of grand theft after the California Department of Transportation hired him to publish advertisements for construction contracts in local newspapers. "He instead used the money to pay off a mortgage, make purchases of toys and comics, and pay for exotic trips for him and his company staff," State Attorney General Kamala Harris' office said in a statement.
Hodgson, 43, pleaded guilty on Thursday to defrauding the agency and has agreed to forfeit his Star Wars collection. He must also forfeit two residences, two cars and retirement accounts as part of the plea deal and faces a nine-year prison sentence.
Nick Pacilio, a spokesman for Harris, said on Friday that among the forfeited items now slated for auction is a rubber statue of Yoda, approximately three feet tall, complete with robe and wispy hair.
A "Kiliki" embraces a dancer dressed in traditional attire during a farewell ceremony on the last day of San Fermin festival's Comparsa de gigantes y cabezudos (Parade of the giants and the big heads) in Pamplona July 14, 2013. Enormous puppets accompanied by brass bands parade daily through the city during the nine-day-long festival made popular by U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway.
Photo by Susana Vera
Does Dave Hester owe A&E a bundle in legal fees? Yuuuup.
The former "Storage Wars" star -- who's suing A&E Networks and "Storage Wars" production company Original Productions in a complaint that claims the show is staged --- was ordered to pay $122,692 in legal fees to A&E and Original, after they prevailed in an anti-SLAPP motion.
On the bright side for Hester, it could have been worse. A&E originally asked for $138,194, while Original wanted $43,283.
The reduction came after Hester objected to the claims regarding the staffing and hours that A&E and Original claimed to have expended on the motion. A&E said it had employed eight attorneys and four paralegals for the motion, while Original said it had used three attorneys.
Hester sued A&E and Original in December, claiming that he had been fired for complaining that the show had been rigged. Specifically, Hester alleges, the show's producers plant valuable items in storage lockers, which competitors then bid on, supposedly without knowing what's inside them.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has fired five workers and a student research assistant for peeping on patients' private medical records in the days after reality television star Kim Kardashian gave birth to her daughter there.
The hospital declined to identify the patients involved to the Los Angeles Times, but a spokeswoman said all were notified of the breach.
The records were inappropriately accessed between June 18 and June 24. Kardashian gave birth June 15.
Four of those fired were employees of community physicians who have staff privileges at the hospital, one was a hospital medical assistant and one was an unpaid student research assistant.
Five of the fired workers looked at one record, and one worker looked at 14 records.
Daron Erznoznik blows into a sculptor's rendition of a saxophone at the Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary off Big Pine Key, Florida, July 13, 2013. About 200 snorkelers and divers gathered to listen to a local radio station's broadcast that was piped beneath the sea.
Photo by Bob Care
A private vendor in line to begin feeding roughly 100,000 prison inmates in Ohio and Michigan has a track record of billing for food it doesn't serve, using substandard ingredients and riling prisoners with its meal offerings, past audits in several states show.
But some states say Philadelphia-based Aramark Correctional Services has performed well.
The audits in Ohio, Florida and Kentucky found Aramark charged states for meals not served, changed recipes to substitute cheaper ingredients and sometimes skimped on portions.
A 2001 audit by then-Ohio Auditor Jim Petro found a verbal amendment to Aramark's two-year contract led the state prisons department to pay Aramark for serving almost 4.5 million meals rather than the 2.8 million meals it actually served. That added $2.1 million to the contract cost.
An internal audit by Florida's prisons department in 2007 concluded Aramark's practice of charging the state per inmate rather than per meal created "a windfall for the vendor" after a large number of inmates stopped showing up for meals, reducing company costs by $4.9 million a year. The review found the company was paid for some 6,000 meals a day that it didn't serve. Aramark stopped serving Florida's prison meals in 2009.
It survived countless storms and Confederate raids during the Civil War while taking crews across unchartered oceans in search of whales whose oil lit the world.
The Charles W. Morgan, the world's last surviving wooden whaling ship and America's oldest merchant ship, is hitting the water again after a nearly $7 million, 5-year restoration project at Mystic Seaport.
The 380-ton, 106-foot-long ship will be lowered into the Mystic River on July 21, the 172nd anniversary of the vessel's original launch in New Bedford, Mass. Work will continue on the ship, which is expected to visit historic ports in New England next year, including those in Boston; New Bedford, Mass.; New London, Conn.; Newport, R.I.; Provincetown, Mass.; and Vineyard Haven, Mass.
The ship, a National Historic Landmark, made 37 voyages over 80 years starting in 1841 across every ocean in the world from the heyday to the waning days of whaling. It developed a reputation early on as a lucky ship, escaping the fate of other ships destroyed by storms and Confederate raids.
Mystic acquired the ship in 1941 and since then, 20 million museum visitors have stepped foot on it. It has been restored before but nothing as extensive as the latest project, which involved 34 full-time workers and others.
Dancers of British dance company Wayne McGregor | Random Dance perform in their production "FAR", during the Malta Arts Festival in Valletta, July 13, 2013.
Photo by Darrin Zammit Lupi
A new website supported by a Roswell museum gives people a chance to prove that we are not alone in the universe.
The Roswell Daily Record reports that the recently launched roswellsightings.com allows anyone on Earth to upload photos or videos of sightings or encounters with what they believe are UFOs.
The website is based in New York and is from a partnership with the Roswell-based International UFO Museum And Research Center.
The user-friendly website allows people to share recordings on social network sites or watch the latest scientific news or other videos.
Universal's minions ran away with the box office for the second week in a row.
With $44.8 million in domestic ticket sales Friday through Sunday, the animated sequel "Despicable Me 2" outdid the debuts of the Adam Sandler comedy "Grown Ups 2" and director Guillermo del Toro's monsters-versus-robots action flick "Pacific Rim."
Sony was pleased with Sandler's second-best movie opening of his career with $42.5 million in sales in the U.S. and Canada (His best domestic opening was "The Longest Yard" from 2005 with $58.6 million over four days). Overseas, the comedy brought in $1.7 million.
Disney's "The Lone Ranger," starring Johnny Depp as Tonto, took in $11.1 million domestically in its second week, falling into fifth place behind "The Heat" starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, which brought in another $14 million in its third week.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday.
1. "Despicable Me 2," $44.8 million. ($55.5 million international).
2. "Grown Ups 2," $42.5 million. ($1.7 million international).
3. "Pacific Rim," $38.3 million. ($53 million international).
4. "The Heat," $14 million. ($8.1 million international).
5. "The Lone Ranger," $11.1 million. ($12.7 million international).
6. "Monsters University,"$10.6 million. ($30.2 million international).
7. "World War Z," $9.4 million. ($22.4 million international).
8. "White House Down," $6.2 million. (41.8 million international).
9. "Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain," $5 million.
10. "Man of Steel," $4.8 million. ($13.3 million international).
Cory Monteith, the handsome young actor who shot to fame in the hit TV series "Glee" but was beset by addiction struggles so fierce that he once said he was lucky to be alive, was found dead in a hotel room, police said. He was 31.
The Canadian-born Monteith, who played star quarterback-turned-singer Finn Hudson on the Fox TV series about a high school glee club, was found dead in his room on the 21st floor of the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel on Vancouver's waterfront at about noon Saturday, according to police.
Acting Vancouver Police Chief Doug LePard said there was no indication of foul play.
Monteith, who turned 31 on May 11, starred in "Glee" as a high school football player who puts his status and popularity at risk to join the glee club and its outcast members.
Monteith was among the "Glee" actors who remained series regulars as their characters graduated high school and moved on to other adventures.
According to his biography on Fox's website, Monteith was born in Calgary, Alberta, and moved to Vancouver Island as a child. Before turning to acting, he held a variety of jobs including Wal-Mart greeter, school bus driver, roofer and cab driver.
An employee gathers the flowers of calendula at a private farm near the village of Putchino, some 30 km (18 miles) southwest of Minsk, July 12, 2013. The farm cultivates and produces about 40 types of herbs and shrubs for the medical and food industries, according to its director.
Photo by Vasily Fedosenko
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