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Spain is the world's largest producer of olives (36%)
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mj was first, and correct, with:
I'm going with the Iberians her
Spain uses so many in tapas.
r mcd responded:
Spain Just a guess
Alan J answered:
Spain
Marian the teacher replied:
Spain
Sally said:
I believe the answer you are looking of today is Spain. Italy, and Greece follow in second and third places, respectively.
PS: Shout out for B2BB, hope you are back on track soon!
PPS: If I lived closer to JoeS, I'd get a dog sled and be over for dinner! The pot roast sounds divine! I have on some pea soup, and can't wait for it to be done!!
MAM wrote:
Spain is the world's largest producer of olives.
And, Joe S replied:
Spain is the world's largest producer of olives (36%) followed by Italy (25%) and Greece (18%).
According to my daughter-in-law, the famous artist Sia Kyriakakos, all other olives are inferior to Greek olives. She may be right.
This is Sia's installation celebrating the olive tree commissioned for the Olympic Games held in Greece
CBS begins the night with the FRESH'Yes, Virginia', followed by a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', then a RERUN'Medium', followed by a RERUN'Numb3rs'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Kyra Sedgwick, Brian Scott McFadden, and Joe Perry.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Jim Parsons and They Might Be Giants.
NBC starts the night with a Scheduled on a FRESH'Law & Order', followed by 'Dateline', then a FRESH'Leno' (Gordon Ramsay).
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Zach Braff, Bear Grylls, and Tony Bennett.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Mary Steenburgen and Snoop Dogg.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are David Duchovny, Tor Hamer, and Anya Marina.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Supernanny', followed by a FRESH'Ugly Betty', then '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Ray Romano, Kim Kardashian, and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
The CW offers a RERUN'Smallville', followed by another RERUN'Smallville'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'Dollhouse'.
MY fills the night with a FRESH'WWE Friday Night Steroid SmackDown!'.
PLEASE check local PBS listings for a FRESH'Bill Moyers Journal', the BEST program on over-the-air TV.
AMC offers the movie 'Jumanji', followed by the movie 'Prancer', then the movie 'Santa Claus: The Movie'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 3
[1:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 6
[2:00 PM] Antiques Roadshow - Episode 13
[3:00 PM] Antiques Roadshow - Episode 1
[4:00 PM] Antiques Roadshow - Episode 14
[5:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 The Dovecote
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 2 Walnut Tree
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[9:00 PM] Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - Ep 13 Gordon Ramsay, Reese Witherspoon, Sophia Loren, Russell Howard
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[12:00 AM] Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - Ep 13 Gordon Ramsay, Reese Witherspoon, Sophia Loren, Russell Howard
[1:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[2:00 AM] Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - Ep 13 Gordon Ramsay, Reese Witherspoon, Sophia Loren, Russell Howard
[3:00 AM] Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - Ep 1 Tom Cruise, Stephen Fry, Lee Evans, Franz Ferdinand
[4:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 9
[4:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 12
[5:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 10
[5:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 6 Buchanan (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Philadelphia', followed by the movie 'Brokeback Mountain'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Brian Regan), another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Mike Birbiglia), still another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Eugene Mirman), yet another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Bo Burnham), still another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Finesse Mitchell), and yes, one more 'Comedy Central Presents' (Jo Koy).
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man 3', followed by the movie 'Deck The Halls'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Beltway Unbuckled', and 'Animal House: The Inside Story'.
IFC -
[6:45 AM] Pizza
[8:15 AM] Little Fish
[10:15 AM] I Like Killing Flies
[11:35 AM] Pizza
[1:00 PM] Little Fish
[2:55 PM] Food Party
[3:05 PM] I Like Killing Flies
[4:30 PM] Pizza
[5:55 PM] Roger Dodger
[7:45 PM] Garden State
[9:30 PM] I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
[11:00 PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[11:30 PM] Arrested Development
[12:00 AM] Kill Bill: Vol. 1
[2:00 AM] Garden State
[3:45 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[4:45 AM] I Like Killing Flies (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[05:10 AM] Angel
[07:15 AM] Caramel
[09:00 AM] Nights Of Cabiria
[11:00 AM] The Saddest Music In The World
[12:45 PM] Caramel
[02:30 PM] Nights Of Cabiria
[04:30 PM] The Saddest Music In The World
[06:15 PM] Tanghi Argentini
[06:30 PM] Looking for Leonard
[08:00 PM] Shameless Season 5: Episode 3
[09:00 PM] Garage
[10:30 PM] Aloha, New York
[11:00 PM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Panic at the Disco, David Gray & Suzanne Vega
[12:00 AM] loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies
[01:30 AM] The Witnesses
[03:30 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Panic at the Disco, David Gray & Suzanne Vega
[04:30 AM] loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Sanctuary', another 'Sanctuary', still another 'Sanctuary', followed by a FRESH'Sanctuary'.
TCM:
[6:00 AM] The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
[8:15 AM] The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
[10:15 AM] This Land Is Mine (1943)
[12:15 PM] The Canterville Ghost (1944)
[2:00 PM] The Bribe (1949)
[3:45 PM] The Bigamist (1953)
[5:15 PM] D.O.A. (1950)
[6:45 PM] The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
[8:00 PM] Cry, the Beloved Country (1952)
[10:00 PM] A World Apart (1988)
[12:00 AM] The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
[2:00 AM] Performance (1970)
[3:45 AM] Persona (1966)
[5:15 AM] Mental Hospital (1953) (ALL TIMES EST)
Saturday - 12/12/09
TCM:
[6:00 AM] The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm (1962)
[8:30 AM] Destination Moon (1950)
[10:30 AM] Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
[12:00 PM] A Christmas Carol (1938)
[1:15 PM] 3 Godfathers (1948)
[3:15 PM] The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
[5:30 PM] The Lion In Winter (1968)
[8:00 PM] The Mouse That Roared (1959)
[9:30 PM] The Mouse On The Moon (1963)
[11:00 PM] Father Of The Bride (1950)
[12:45 AM] Father's Little Dividend (1951)
[2:15 AM] The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
[4:00 AM] The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
[5:30 AM] Short Film: Now Playing December (2009) (2009) (ALL TIMES EST)
Bryce Dallas Howard and Ron Howard attend the premiere of 'The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond' in New York, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009.
Photo by Charles Sykes
The Nielsen Co. is selling some of its most prominent trade journals - including The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard - and shutting down Editor & Publisher, which has chronicled the newspaper business for 108 years.
In all, Nielsen is selling eight titles to e5 Global Media LLC, a new company formed by private equity firm Pluribus Capital Management, and Guggenheim Partners, a financial services company. Nielsen said James Finkelstein, who founded Pluribus this year with George Green and Matthew Doull, will serve as e5's chairman.
Along with Editor & Publisher, the company is also shuttering the book review title Kirkus Reviews. The two publications have 18 employees combined. Nielsen would not reveal details about the financial performance of E&P or Kirkus.
Nielsen is keeping a handful of other media properties, including Contract Magazine and Progressive Grocer.
Trudie Styler and singer Deborah Harry attend the Trudie Styler Mind Body Fitness DVD series launch party at Urban Zen on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
ABC says Chris Cuomo is leaving "Good Morning America" to co-host the newsmagazine "20/20."
Cuomo has been the newsreader on "Good Morning America." His last day will be Friday, the same day as co-host Diane Sawyer, who is replacing the retiring Charles Gibson on "World News."
Cuomo had been considered the main competition to Stephanopoulos for Sawyer's old job. His move to the evening will pair him with co-host Elizabeth Vargas.
ABC's selection of George Stephanopoulos to replace Diane Sawyer on "Good Morning America" signals a desire by the network to toughen up the morning show during tough times.
The appointment of Stephanopoulos, the network's chief Washington and political correspondent, was announced Thursday. He'll begin on the second-place morning show on Monday, paired with current co-anchor Robin Roberts. Sawyer is becoming the "World News" anchor as Charles Gibson retires.
Stephanopoulos will continue as the network's chief political correspondent and report on politics for other broadcasts. He will also be Sawyer's chief substitute on "World News."
His departure creates a hole for ABC in Washington, where "This Week" was drawing critical praise and threatening NBC's "Meet the Press" in the ratings.
Singer Roslyn Kind poses at a special screening of the film "Nine", in Los Angeles, California December 9, 2009. Kind is the sister of singer Barbra Streisand.
Photo by Fred Prouser
France's biggest rock star, Johnny Hallyday, has undergone surgery in Los Angeles to repair lingering trouble from a previous operation on his back.
The 66-year-old rocker's press service said Thursday the situation is "under control."
Hallyday, an entertainment icon for decades, underwent surgery in Paris on Nov. 26 for a herniated disc, then traveled to Los Angeles.
His press service said lesions from the initial operation "required reparative surgery." He had also suffered an infection following the first operation.
An Illinois insurance executive agreed to plead guilty to interstate stalking after secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, according to court documents filed Thursday and first obtained by The Associated Press.
Michael Barrett, 48, of Westmont, Ill., will plead guilty in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Tuesday, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman with the U.S. attorney's office.
Barrett is suspected of renting hotel rooms adjacent to Andrews in three cities last year, altering the peepholes and shooting videos of Andrews in two of the locations - in Columbus, Ohio, in February 2008 and in Nashville, Tenn., seven months later. He adjusted a hotel peephole in Milwaukee, Wis., in July 2008 and called 14 hotels to find out where Andrews was staying, prosecutors said.
"Mr. Barrett accepts full responsibility for his conduct," said Barrett's attorney David Willingham. "He apologizes to Ms. Andrews, and expresses his deep regret for his conduct that caused her so much pain. It is his sincere hope that these events can now become an opportunity to make positive changes in his life."
Actress Bernadette Peters attends the Trudie Styler Mind Body Fitness DVD series launch party at Urban Zen on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
Prosecutors say they have charged a man suspected of stealing $25,000 in jewelry from Julie Newmar.
The actress who portrayed the first Catwoman on the "Batman" TV series in the 1960s spotted the pilfered jewelry for sale on eBay and alerted authorities.
That led Los Angeles prosecutors to charge 48-year-old Robert Ouriel with grand theft on Wednesday. He is due in court for arraignment Thursday.
He was arrested last month and remains free on $50,000 bail. Prosecutors say he was an acquaintance of Newmar's and allegedly sent the items to an Illinois pawn shop that listed them for sale online.
Lawyers for Roman Polanski and his victim in a 32-year-old case joined forces Thursday to ask an appeals court to dismiss a sexual misconduct charge against the director in the interest of justice.
It was a surprise move in a lively hearing where appellate justices peppered lawyers and a prosecutor with pointed questions, often interrupting their arguments to raise new issues.
Associate Justice Laurie Zelon asked the prosecutor why the district attorney's office had not investigated recent allegations of misconduct by a judge and prosecutor during Polanski's 1977 court proceedings.
Presiding Justice Dennis Perluss, acknowledging there was misconduct by the now deceased judge, also questioned Asayama about whether "the district attorney has an obligation to see that justice is served."
A library assistant holds open the pages of Scotland's oldest surviving book, a pocket-size book of psalms, at the University of Edinburgh library, Scotland, December 10, 2009. The pocket-sized book, dated to the 11th century was most likely produced at the monastery of Iona, and probably commissioned for a figure of some importance such as St.Margaret, Queen of Scotland, and is part of a display which opens in the university library's newly refurbished exhibition room.
Photo by David Moir
The pure white snow atop the Andes Mountains may not be so pure after all. Scientists have found traces of toxic pollutants called PCBs in snow samples taken from Aconcagua Mountain, the highest peak in the Americas.
While the overall PCB levels were quite low, the results show that these long-lasting contaminants, notorious for causing myriad health problems, can end up at altitudes as high as 20,340 feet (6,200 meters), making their way through the atmosphere to these remote areas.
PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, break down slowly, and as a result, can last for many years in the environment. They can be transported through the air long distances, and have been found in mountain ranges in Europe and Canada, as well as the Arctic.
The researchers say that mountain ranges may act as "traps" for PCBs. In addition, they figure climate change could lead to the spread of such pollutants.
If you haven't gone to a movie, jazz concert or an art exhibit in recent years, you are in steadily growing company.
A new study from the National Endowment for the Arts finds a notable decline in theater, museum and concert attendance and other "benchmark" cultural activities between 2002 and 2008 for adults 18 and older, and a sharper fall from 25 years ago. The drop was for virtually all art forms and for virtually all age groups and levels of education.
Released Thursday, the NEA's 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts is the sixth such report to come out since 1982, when 39 percent of adults attended a "benchmark arts activity" at least once in the previous year. The percentage peaked at 41 percent in 1992, just as the Internet was taking off, and dropped to 34.6 percent in 2008.
Between 2002 and 2008, percentages fell for moviegoing from 60 to 53.3, for jazz from 10.8 to 7.8, for museums/galleries from 26.5 to 22.7. Other categories with lower attendance include ballet, opera, musical and nonmusical theater, and art/crafts fairs and festivals.
Gene Barry, who played the well-dressed man of action in the television series "Bat Masterson," "Burke's Law" and "The Name of the Game," has died. He was 90.
Barry's son, Fredric James Barry, said the actor died of unknown causes Wednesday at a rest home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Woodland Hills.
Barry essentially played the same character in all three series: a fashionably dressed hero who bested the bad guys with either cunning or force. The series spanned from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Barry sang in such musicals as "Kismet" and "Destry Rides Again" and created the Broadway role of Georges, the gay night club owner in Jerry Herman's hit musical "La Cage aux Folles."
A woman looks at Kewpie dolls at the Rose O'Neill Kewpie exhibition in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009. The two-week exhibition displays over 400 pieces of paintings, dolls, Christmas cards and posters of Kewpie, originally drawn by American artist O'Neill for a women's magazine in the Christmas season in 1909, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the character's birth.
Photo by Koji Sasahara
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