(video 2) Bobbie Gentry with The Hollies - Louisiana Man and with Tiny Tim and Bing Crosby

The Hollies & Bobbie Gentry - Louisiana Man
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BING CROSBY: BOBBIE GENTRY: TINY TIM: TRUE LOVE - IN THE COOL OF THE EVENING (The Hollywood Palace, Jan. 1969)
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Bobbie, Bing and Tiny Tim sing a snippet of "In The Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" AND "True Love" From The Hollywood Palace, Jan. 1969.

From The Hollywood Palace, Jan. 1969. The Hollywood Palace was an hour-long television variety show produced by Nick Vanoff. It was broadcast weekly (generally on Saturday night) on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. It began as a mid-season replacement for the short-lived Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only 3 months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. Unlike similar programs such as The Ed Sullivan Show, guest hosts were used instead of a permanent one. Among the performers and hosts on the show were Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Frank Sinatra, Milton Berle, Sammy Davis Jr., Sid Caesar, The Rolling Stones, Groucho Marx, Tony Bennett, Judy Garland, Jimmy Durante, The Supremes, Ginger Rogers, The Temptations, Phyllis Diller, and many other famous faces. The off-screen announcer for each program was Dick Tufeld. A number of popular music performers got their start on the show. For example, The Rolling Stones made their first US television appearance June 13 1964, and The Jackson 5 made their first national television appearance on the October 14, 1969 episode of the show. The folk-rock group We Five performed their hit You Were on My Mind within a few weeks of its being released in 1965. In a famous June 1964 telecast, controversy ensued when The Rolling Stones, upset with guest host Dean Martin's sarcastic comments directed at them throughout the program, refused to perform a second scheduled musical number. In 2004, Hollywood Palace returned to television, produced by Margate Entertainment Company, the trademark owner of Hollywood Palace. The first episode starred TV icon Peter Marshall and featured guests Marty Allen, a regular on the earlier version, and legendary 1950's singer Don Cherry.

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(Video) Charlie Chaplin Tricks

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The Lion's Cage (3:26)

For the scenes with the lions Chaplin made some 200 takes, in many of which he was actually inside the lion's cage. His looks of fear are not all merely acting.

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The mirror maze (4:33)

Sequence from the circus (1928)

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Google Googles Out of China: Rather Leave for Freedom than Live for the "River Crab"

March 23, in front of Google Beijing Headquarters

Google , Rather Leave for Freedom than Live for the "River Crab" (River Crab an internet slang created by netizens in Mainland China. The word river crab sounds similar to the word harmonious in Chinese Mandarin)

 

 

Google Chose to Leave 

After two months’ negotiation with Chinese government, Google made a statement at three am in the morning on March 23^rd 2010.  Google declared the search engine company has formally withdrew from mainland China. In its statement, Google said, “We very much hope that the Chinese government respects our decision, though we are well aware that it could at any time block access to our services.”

Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to its Hong Kong site, Google.com.hk, with a line on the homepage saying, “Welcome to Google’s new home in China.”

 

China's coverage 

Overseas media have given thorough coverage over Google’s decision to leave the Chinese lucrative market. Large media houses such as Reuters, Voice of America, FRI, Radio Free Asia, Lianhe Zaobao and Wall Street Journal all put it as the headline news on their websites. New York Times, BBC, Central News Agency(CNA)、Deutsche Welle, Times, and Washington Post also put this news on prominent place in their front page. In China, the Xinhua News Agency only has a 39-word message about Google.cn being redirected to its Hong Kong site. The Internet Administration Office ordered its people to remove any posts that is pro-Google, doing everything they can to remove supporters for Goole.

In the real world, many Netizens paied they tribute to Google by sending flowers to its Beijing Headquarter, other writers have donated their royalties to Google.

 

Secret China received letters from readers, saying that lots of netizens went over to Google Beijing Headquarters to deliver the flowers personally. Eight hours after the announcement there were groups of people gathering outside the building and the number was increasing. The letter said that in the afternoon or evening, there would be something more spectacular than delivering flowers.

 

Writer Ling Cangzhou also post a statement, “Whereas it is a historic moment concerning human rights for Google to stop censoring its search services, I decided to donate the royalties of my work that’s been scanned and collected by Google’s library (Critics of Scholars and other of my books) to Google. I will reserve my rights to sue Baidu, for randomly reprinting my work.”

 

Google turned to Hong Kong with no intention to confront China. 

A netizen named “Clear Song White Snow” said, “The short term effect for Google to leave China is, to the outsiders, to smash the image of openness that Chinese government has put in so many efforts to build. As to the insiders, it has smashed the fallacy that Chinese market can make the westerners bow. It’s blow to censorship is indirect, but deep and long term, of course. ”

He also said, for Google to migrate to Hong Kong, technically it is leaving China. Yet in public relations, it is a smart move. It shows people that Google does not want to go. It also shows that Google has no intention to challenge China. Who can say that the laws and regulations in Hong Kong are illegal? 

Google.cn will be a humiliating yet honorary label to be put in Google’s museum, and on the track record of human development. Currently, a lot of netizens expressed their feelings towards Google in their posts, such as：Google.cn will never come back. What will come back sooner or later is Google.com, the Chinese version. Google.cn will be a humiliating yet honorary label to be put in Google’s museum.  

Some netizen wrote the following classic sentence: Google, I’d rather see you leave for the sake of freedom, rather than see you become lower for the "River Crab". (River Crab, an internet slang created by frustrated netizens after the implantation of "the Great Firewall" and harsh censorship in China. The word river crab sounds similar to the word harmonious in Chinese Mandarin)

 

 

 

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Secret China - Recycled cooking oil not for cars in China?

recycled cooking oil (screenshot)

Due to graphic images, viewer discretion is advised.

I was surfing the Internet in a cybercafe one day and read a news story about recycling cooking oil. After finishing the article, I told the manager of the cybercafe, "We have that kind of machinery in our village." The manager said to me, "If you can take some pictures and put them the web, it could easily become one of the hottest posts on the Internet." I was encouraged by what he said, so I took a hidden camera along with a friend of mine and shot some pictures to share with you all.

 

1. One way to collect the oil to be recycled is just to shovel the oil out from the drains. It is very difficult, but it is the only way to do it if you do not have a partnership with the restaurants.

 2. Most of the time you need to have a connection with the restaurant if you are in the business of recycling oil. Of course you will need to make them a good offer.

3. The lady in the picture is my friend's aunt. She washes dishes in a restaurant. She also takes the recycled oil when the containers are full. We took a detailed picture and hope it does not ruin your appetite.

4. She can get two to three barrels of oil when the restaurant is busy.

5. Her mother-in-law will help process the oil after she takes the oil home.

6. Her father in law is clenching a plastic bag that is dripping oil into the big kettle. Apparently he does not want to waste one drop of it.

7. Pig’s offal is another source of oil that can be recycled. To get this you will need to have a good relationship with the pork vendors too. 

8. Do you know how to make friends with a pork vendor? Feed the pigs with the old oil from the restaurant then use whatever is left for your recycling!

9. This is almost the final product. I know it does not look perfect, but trust me they have ways to make it look much better. That is a secret they will never tell.

10. This man is buying the recycled oil.

11. This recycled oil will soon be back on the table. My friend told me they sell the oil for three Yuan per pound.

12. I hope you are lucky enough not to be served food cooked in this oil next time you eat out!

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