• Oral historian Studs Terkel may have been the world’s greatest interviewer, but he was inept when it comes to mechanical things such as making sure that a tape recorder is turned on. One day, he was interviewing an African-American woman with three kids, all of whom were living in public housing. She asked him, “'Have you noticed that machine is not working?” He had pushed the wrong button. She pushed the right button, and the tape recorder began to work. Mr. Terkel said, “From that point on, she became not only my equal but my better. And that is important, because when you are interviewing a person, that person must count.” The African-American woman spoke eloquently about her life. After the interview, her children wanted to hear her voice on the tape, so he played the tape. Mr. Terkel said, “She’d given the most eloquent account you could imagine of her life: a black person’s outing in a white world. It was so moving. When it finished, there was a pause. She said: ‘My God — I never knew I felt that way.’” Mr. Terkel added about himself, “It can help to be inept.”
• David Grazian wrote a book about Philadelphia’s nightlife titled On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife, partly because as a sociologist, he knew that the cities that have been most studied — New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas — are not like other American cities. Mr. Grazian was able to do research by interviewing people partly because he looks like an everyman and not competition or a wolf. He asks, “Can you think up a worse pickup line than ‘Hey, I’m a sociologist ... mind if I study you?’” Mr. Grazian says that only one woman ever fell for that line “and I married her.” One thing that Mr. Grazian discovered in his research was that nightlife provokes anxiety: “Shrinking violets and 40-year-old virgins, sure, they were scared. But also the popular kids and the beautiful people — especially the popular kids and the beautiful people. I sometimes think we’d all just be better off dressing down, and stop trying so hard to be hip. Having fun should be way more fun than this.”
• The Brothers Grimm — Jacob and Wilhelm — researched fairy tales. In addition to perusing old books, they also perused old people. Often, they would barter for fairy tales. For example, Katharina Dorothea Viehmann was rewarded for her fairy tales with rolls and butter, while the elderly soldier Johann Friedrich Krause was rewarded for his fairy tales with some of the Grimm brothers’ old pants. By the way, mistakes did creep into some of the stories. For example, the story of Cinderella originally was a French story titled “The Little Fur Slipper.” However, the French word vair (fur) is similar to the French word verre (glass) and so the little fur slipper somehow became a little glass slipper.
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• Addison Mizner once entered polite society in New York, but he was worried when his younger brother Wilson showed up, fearing that he would mess up his chance to hobnob with the snobs. Therefore, he warned Wilson that he would pretend not to know him if they should ever meet. Wilson, of course, resented this bit of news, and he planned to get revenge. He learned that Addison and some of his society friends would be in a box at the National Horse Show, so he showed up, too. Addison pretended not to notice him, but Wilson loudly called to him. When Wilson came over to the society people’s box, Addison stiffly asked him when he was staying. Wilson replied, “I’m in a cathouse at Broadway and Forty-second Street. I just sit there all day reading my beloved books and smoking opium.”
Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained from olives (the fruit of Olea europaea; family Oleaceae), a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin, produced by pressing whole olives and extracting the oil. Olive oil is the most common vegetable oil. It is commonly used in cooking, for frying foods or as a salad dressing. It is also used in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and soaps, and as a fuel for traditional oil lamps, and has additional uses in some religions.The olive is one of three core food plants in Mediterranean cuisine; the other two are wheat and grapes. Olive trees have been grown around the Mediterranean since the 8th millennium BC.
The top five producers of olive oil by volume are Spain, Morocco, Turkey, Greece, and Italy. However, per capita national consumption is highest in Greece, followed by Spain and Italy.
In 2016/17, world production of virgin olive oil was 2,586,500 tonnes, an 18.6% decrease under 2015/16 global production. Spain produced 1,290,600 tonnes or 50% of world production. The next six largest producers – Greece, Italy, Turkey, Morocco, Syria and Tunisia – collectively produced 70% of Spain's annual total.
Greece has by far the largest per capita consumption of olive oil worldwide, over 24 liters (5.3 imp gal; 6.3 U.S. gal) per person per year; Spain and Italy, around 14 L; Tunisia, Portugal, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, around 8 L. Northern Europe and North America consume far less, around 0.7 L, but the consumption of olive oil outside its home territory has been rising steadily.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Per capita Greece consumes the most olive oil.
Mac Mac said:
Greece
mj wrote:
I don't know how much is for domestic use vs export
But we saw lots of olive trees in Spain, and a very old one in Peru,
brought by Conquistadors.
Alan J answered:
Greece.
Jacqueline responded:
Greece. Each person consumes 6.3 gallons a year
Cal in Vermont replied:
Greece. Maybe they should change their name to Oyl.
Deborah, the Master Gardener said:
I can’t decide if it’s Italy, Spain or Greece…maybe I should toss some beans to show me the answer. (c; My WAG is Spain, then, just because.
Dave responded:
Grease, I meant to say Greece. That’s a joke Son.
zorch replied:
Greece, followed by Spain.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Spain
Ed K said:
Popeyestan
Billy in Cypress answered:
Greece, another WAG.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
The answer is Greece.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) responded:
It's Greece, I knew it's Greece. My Daughter-In-Law is Greek and uses olive oil on everything. When she comes to visit she brings me a half gallon of it. Well it's something metric but close to a half gallon. She only brings me the good stuff.
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“On THE RIGHT STUFF, UV Rays highlight their newfound penchant for pared-down arrangements and bold melodies. But just because they’ve taken this opportunity to eschew their previous maximalist approach doesn’t mean they won’t revisit it soon enough. There is more music on the way from UV Rays; as THE RIGHT STUFF makes clear, we shouldn’t expect them to stay in any one place for long.” — Max Savage Levenson
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'The Neighborhood', followed by a FRESH'Bob Hearts Abishola', then a FRESH'All Rise', followed by a FRESH'Bull'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Meryl Streep and Chris Stapleton.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Matthew McConaughey and Shawn Mendes.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Nurses'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Mariah Carey, Andrew Rannells, and José Feliciano.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Nick Kroll, Jeremy O. Harris, Sam Hunt, and Kaz Rodriguez.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 11/26/19) are Jillian Bell and Utkarsh Ambudkar.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'Monday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap, and maybe an old '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Miley Cyrus and Tony Romo.
The CW offers a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by another RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a RERUN'Penn & Teller: FU'.
Faux has a FRESH'I Can See Your Voice', followed by a FRESH'Cosmos: Possible Worlds'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - VISIONARY
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - DISTANT VOICES
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - IMPROBABLE CAUSE
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE DIE IS CAST
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - EXPLORERS
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE INNER LIGHT
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - TIME'S ARROW
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - TIME'S ARROW, PART II
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - REALM OF FEAR
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - MAN OF THE PEOPLE
[5:00PM - 11:00PM] LAW & ORDER
[12:00AM] THE OUTSIDERS
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - TIME'S ARROW
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - TIME'S ARROW, PART II
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - REALM OF FEAR
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - MAN OF THE PEOPLE (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck', then another FRESH'Below Deck', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'The KkKlansman', followed by the movie 'Transformer: The Last Knight'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 9:30am] Parks And Recreation
[10:00am - 1:30pm] Community
[2:00pm - 5:30pm] Three's Company
[6:00pm - 12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am - 3:30am] Community
[4:00am - 5:30am] Parks And Recreation (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 1:00pm] hogan's heroes
[1:30pm] ghostbusters ii
[4:00pm] ghostbusters
[6:30pm] ghostbusters ii
[9:00pm] tommy boy
[11:15pm] planes, trains and automobiles
[1:15am] yours, mine & ours
[3:15am - 5:45am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c. (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Down: Part 2', followed by the movie 'Vampire Academy'.
This is the time of year when Hollywood’s awards-season-industrial complex usually shifts into high gear. It’s a frothy, festive run of the year’s final premieres and screenings — all part of a carefully orchestrated dance to court tastemakers and, ultimately, academy voters.
The movies may be finished -- picture locked -- but their Oscar fortunes are in flux right up until ballots are cast. And a glittering, glad-handing ecosystem of cocktails and Q&As works very hard to steer the conversation.
This year, with many under quarantine, theaters shuttered in Los Angeles and New York and, well, some more pressing concerns than who’s campaigning for best supporting actor, awards season is operating in a strange COVID-19 vacuum with only a whiff of the stuff it thrives on: buzz.
Nevertheless, Oscar season is pushing ahead, despite the pandemic, despite a year where most of the biggest releases were postponed. The timetable has shifted two months: The Academy Awards are to be held April 25. And awards season, such as it is, has gone virtual. The Oscar race will Zoomed.
Awards campaigns normally focused on doing everything they can to lure guild members and others to see their film on the big screen have had to accept that this year they’ll be watching in their living room, maybe on a laptop, potentially with a lot of pausing and probably with many glances at their phone.
The family of famed children’s book author Roald Dahl, has issued an apology for his history vocal anti-Semitism.
Dahl, who wrote books including Matilda, James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, died 30 years ago, but shared anti-Semitic beliefs while he was alive.
The statement from Dahl’s family, published in a slightly buried area on the author’s website, reads: “The Dahl family and the Roald Dahl Story Company deeply apologize for the lasting and understandable hurt caused by some of Roald Dahl’s statements. Those prejudiced remarks are incomprehensible to us and stand in marked contrast to the man we knew and to the values at the heart of Roald Dahl's stories, which have positively impacted young people for generations. We hope that, just as he did at his best, at his absolute worst, Roald Dahl can help remind us of the lasting impact of words.”
Dahl’s anti-Semitic views were expressed publicly numerous times throughout his life. In a 1983 interview with British publication The New Statesman, Dahl said, “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”
According to NBC, in 1990, the year he died, Dahl told The Independent, “I’m certainly anti-Israeli and I’ve become anti-Semitic in as much as that you get a Jewish person in another country like England strongly supporting Zionism.”
Netflix will not be adding a disclaimer to “The Crown” that states the show is fictionalized, Variety has confirmed.
Last week, U.K. Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden asked that such a label be added to the show in an interview with Daily Mail, citing that he fears “a generation of viewers who did not live through these events may mistake fiction for fact.”
However, Netflix disagrees, and believes that their viewers are aware of its fictionalized nature.
“We have always presented ‘The Crown’ as a drama – and we have every confidence our members understand it’s a work of fiction that’s broadly based on historical events,” a Netflix spokesperson tells Variety. “As a result we have no plans — and see no need — to add a disclaimer.”
If there’s one weekend at the box office that studios and exhibitors typically have had no thanks for, it’s the post Thanksgiving period, typically the first weekend in December, when business drops by as much as 50%.
Last year the Black Friday weekend went from $180.9M led by Frozen 2 to $90.3M during the first frame of December, and let me tell ya somethin’, studios and exhibition are hungering for those types of tickets sales right now.
Universal remains the only major studio pumping out wide releases to those remaining movie theaters which aren’t being smashed down by lockdowns (like in California — God knows when we’ll be able to go to the movies again).
This weekend, Universal’s DreamWorks Animated title The Croods: A New Age in weekend 2 continued to see the best numbers in the current COVID-19 America, with $4.4M, -55%, crossing $20.3M in its 12th day in release. Uni also released the romantic drama All My Life in 970 locations for a $350K result in 4th place, while Focus Features’ had the Luke Greenfield-directed Mexican comedy Half Brothers at 1,369 locations, earning $720K in 2nd place.
Since movie theaters shut down, Netflix’s share price is up 39% as of Friday, going from $357.32 back on March 18 to $498.31 as of Friday. Disney’s is up 57%, moving from $98.12 to $154.14 over the same time frame; the amazing story with them is that the pandemic’s financial ruin on theatrical and theme parks didn’t rain on the Mouse House’s parade, which is electric, thanks to streamer Disney+.
Over the past week, President Donald Trump (R-Corrupt) posted or reposted about 145 messages on Twitter lashing out at the results of an election he lost. He mentioned the coronavirus pandemic now reaching its darkest hours four times — and even then just to assert that he was right about the outbreak and the experts were wrong.
Moody and by accounts of his advisers sometimes depressed, the president barely shows up to work, ignoring the health and economic crises afflicting the nation and largely clearing his public schedule of meetings unrelated to his desperate bid to rewrite the election results. He has fixated on rewarding friends, purging the disloyal and punishing a growing list of perceived enemies that now includes Republican governors, his own attorney general and even Fox News.
The final days of the Trump presidency have taken on the stormy elements of a drama more common to history or literature than a modern White House. His rage and detached-from-reality refusal to concede defeat evoke images of a besieged overlord in some distant land defiantly clinging to power rather than going into exile, or an erratic English monarch imposing his version of reality on his cowed court.
On Saturday night, Trump took his unreality show to Georgia for his first major public appearance since the Nov. 3 election. A rally to support two Republican senators in a runoff next month offered a high-profile opportunity to vent his grievances and promote his false claims that he was somehow cheated of a second term by a vast conspiracy.
The prehistoric monument of Stonehenge in southern England was closed to visitors Saturday after dozens of protesters staged a trespass against the British government's road-building plans, including a new tunnel near the World Heritage Site.
The protesters, who described themselves as an alliance of local residents, ecologists, activists, archaeologists and pagans, gathered at Stonehenge around midday.
English Heritage, a national charity that manages hundreds of historic sites, soon after made the decision to close Stonehenge to visitors “due to unforeseen circumstances" and said it was against the law for anyone to enter the monument area without its consent.
Wiltshire Police, the local police force, said the “small” protest “passed peacefully” and that no arrests were made.
The protest comes less than a month after the government backed the 1.7 billion-pound ($2.3 billion) tunnel plan. The tunnel near Stonehenge that is intended to ease traffic along a stretch of the A3030 highway that is widely prone to gridlock.
A Chinese court has ordered a Dutch art collector to hand over a Buddha statue in the latest twist in a 3-year-old legal battle with villagers who say it was stolen from a temple.
Residents of Yangchun, a village in the southeastern province of Fujian, say the statue is a 1,000-year-old relic that holds the mummified remains of a monk and disappeared in 1995. The collector says he bought the object in Hong Kong in 1996 but denied it was the stolen statue.
The ruling Communist Party is stepping up efforts to retrieve Chinese art and artifacts that are believed to be stolen and in foreign hands.
The Sanming Intermediate People’s Court on Friday ordered the collector, Oscar van Overeem, to return the statue within 30 days, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Friday's ruling found the temple and its relics were collectively owned by the villages of Yangchun and Dongpu, giving residents the right as a group to demand the statue’s return, according to Xinhua.
The Voyager probes left our Solar System years ago, yet even as they travel through interstellar space, they are still detecting bursts of cosmic rays from our Sun, more than 23 billion kilometers (14 billion miles) away.
A detailed analysis of recent data from both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 has now revealed the first bursts of cosmic ray electrons in interstellar space.
Carried to the fringes of our Solar System by the shock waves of solar eruptions known as coronal mass ejections, these energized particles appear to accelerate even beyond the borders of our Sun's powerful winds.
"The idea that shock waves accelerate particles is not new," notes astrophysicist Don Gurnett from the University of Iowa.
He says similar processes have been observed within the borders of our Solar System where solar wind is most powerful. "[But] no one has seen it with an interstellar shock wave, in a whole new pristine medium," he adds.
Human beings tend to be fascinated with their beginnings. Origin stories are found across cultures, religions, ethnicities and nationalities — and they are all deeply important. These stories tell people where they come from, how they fit in and how everyone fits together.
One of these stories, of course, is the story of human genes, and it's a story anyone with human DNA shares.
As scientists find more ancient human DNA, sample more modern DNA and develop more ways to analyze this genetic material, it's revealing a lot about how early humans moved — and moved and moved — around the world, coming to inhabit nearly every swath of land.
So after thousands and thousands of years of nearly constant migration, are there any people out there who have never left the spot where it's thought Homo sapiens evolved? Put another way, is there anybody on Earth who isn't an immigrant?
"From a scientific point of view, maybe the only people that you could consider not to be immigrants would be some Khoe-San-speaking groups in southern Africa," said Austin Reynolds, an assistant professor of anthropology at Baylor University in Texas who specializes in human population genetics.
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