recycled cooking oil (screenshot)
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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!
April 28, 2010
Secret China - Recycled cooking oil not for cars in China?
Secret China - Who stirred the “mud” and got the “women” so filthy?
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The concubine and mistress phenomenon has been a long-lasting social problem in China. In the 1980s, it was well-off Hong Kong businessmen who came to China to find mistresses. They bought them a house and gave them an allowance, mostly in secret. Today, this has been replaced by Mainland Chinese businessmen, government officials, professors and males who have power, influence and money in China. Having a mistress shows that one has the ability to control others’ lives and is sign of social status. The female role echoes this change as well. Mistresses in the 1980s were mostly young, uneducated girls from villages and small towns. Since the mid-1990s, the majority of the mistresses have been well-educated university students, post graduates, film stars, models and females from different walks of life. Over 95 per cent of the Chinese officials have mistresses and the number of mistress becomes a show of strength and power among them. It is a situation unheard of elsewhere and an indicator of how low the moral standards have slipped in China.
Is there a clean spot in China?
The choice of being a mistress used to be taken by helpless women who could not support themselves financially. That does not tell the whole story in China. Numerous cases have proven that women with high qualities also opt to be mistresses so as to climb the social ladder, such as the famous TV anchor Li Wei and the well-recognised policewoman Wang Fei. Without the backing of influential men, they might otherwise be nobodies. They use their beautiful looks to make a bargain. However, if a woman really has abilities, she still can’t escape the fate of becoming a mistress. Take the story of Chen Guang-ming. This case shows how corrupt government officials take advantage of power to abuse women. Ms Chen is the chief director of the Criminal Investigation Unit in the Chongqing National Security Bureau. She is a good-looking woman who has served in the police force for 28 years, with three No.1s – the first female chief officer in the Chongqing National Security Bureau, the only female chief officer in the criminal investigation team and the only outstanding woman “hero” in the national fight against drugs. She is also 1 of 10 outstanding women representatives in the National Women’s Conference and was a member of the 17th Party conference. Nevertheless, even a woman like this has to serve as a mistress to her boss Wenqiang, who is the second head in the Chongqing National Security Bureau.Ms Chen’s case showcases the problems in the civil servant’s system in China. All the honours and titles that Ms Chen gets are not necessarily the result of her talent, but she holds that position because of the system. For each big promotion to a higher position, there must be someone who gives special attention to her; otherwise, for ordinary woman like her, it is hard to rise above the male police. There is news about Ms Chen on the Internet that she has slept with her boss to gain her present status. As some have commented: “Being a National Party Congress member or provincial representative, if her working unit hadn’t recommended her, how could she have been selected? She must get the senior head or decision-maker to approve her to be a representative.” I can say for sure that despite her own work efforts, if she refused to get involved with her boss, she would probably remain an ordinary policewoman. The National Security Bureau is different from other police units. A provincial branch recruits more than a thousand policemen, but at the chief level, less than 1/10 that number. What is the chance of a policewoman being a chief officer under normal circumstances?
The example of Chen Guang-ming is only one small story demonstrating the ugliness of the system. Chinese officials, no matter how high or low, see subordinates as sex toys and Ms Chen is probably the most successful in that league. There are more cases where female officials succumb to sex demands from superiors simply for their jobs’ sake. The diary of the director of the Guangxi Tobacco Bureau was recently exposed on the Internet. It recorded that five of his female subordinates had sex with him or lived as his mistresses. He wrote this without shame, even keeping it in his diary. It is clear that it was his power that forced those women to have sex with him. His cost for such sex services was low – the highest amount paid was RMB2000 ($A300) to one mistress and the most expensive gift was a mobile phone or an MP4 player. I don’t believe these women were willing to sleep with him out of love or fondness, rather, keeping their jobs was probably the major reason.
The civil servant sector is not the only contaminated area in China. The rottenness spreads over to religion too. While the news of the head of the Shaolin Monastery keeping mistresses is still boiling over, the well-respected Taoist master Gong Sun Qing-gao was also caught doing the same.
The arduous path to education and a career for women
Women in China are, on the whole, hard-working and tough. Many study hard to get into universities for master and doctorate degrees; however, they have to face shameless sexual advancements from instructors and are forced to succumb for their studies’ sake. A website in China did a random survey of 100 female college students. More than 40 per cent experienced college sexual harassment and assaults. In August 2009, a famous 70-year-old doctoral mentor of the Central Conservatory of Music divulged that he received sex services and a bribe of $100,000 from a candidate for admission to the conservatory. A Masters student at Beijing University revealed that her tutor had gone to all lengths to sexually harass her for years. In 2008, assistant professor Cheng Chun-ming, from the China University of Political Science and Law, was killed by a male student for having a relationship with his girlfriend.Encountering sexual harassment becomes unavoidable when women join the work force. There were female graduates who were sexually harassed even during the interview by the interviewer and were told directly to their faces that providing sex services to the managerial level was part of their job duties as a secretary.
The Chinese media claim that female graduates have to overcome four huge mountains in order to get a job – health, marriage, giving birth and sexual harassment. This order is not correct. Sexual harassment is in fact the very first mountain that they have to face. The surplus of educated people looking for work in recent years has kept more than 70 per cent of college graduates jobless. Women are naturally at a disadvantage. This results in many worn-out young women graduates choosing marriage instead.
Marriage is not a woman’s secured shelter
Does a woman actually find security in marriage? The answer is a definite no.Wealth and position are chips that a man brings to the marriage market, while youth and looks are what a woman offers for a good catch. Some say having a career is not as rewarding as marrying rich. Others comment that the “social status” of a woman pretty much depends on her looks, which to a large extent reflects the unfortunate truth.
The dilemma for a woman is that youth and looks don’t last forever. If her middle-aged man happens to succeed and attains money or power, it is an enticement attractive enough for other young women to ignore his marital status and become his concubines. Old and wrinkled wives are the inevitable losers in the game. The money-oriented girls have learned to live up to the doctrine: “Catch a man with power and money, enjoy a luxurious life; who cares if he has a family?” Young, good-looking women are confident in competing with aged or middle-aged wives. More than 10 years ago, a few of the young women talking to me used stock market terms to express their views in choosing husbands. They thought it was pretty much like picking a stock. The wealthy and successful males were like stocks with records and were bulls in the marriage market worth chasing after. So they put their efforts and time into chasing that valuable stock.
Now, the priority for middle-aged women is to safeguard their marriages. If women were water and men were mud, and if the mud had become so rotten and polluted, how could the water have remained pure?
Excerpted article by He qinglian
April 27, 2010
Sexy 70s Belts | Cartoon Soundtrack
Et François Truffaut écrira: « Les jambes des femmes sont des compas qui arpentent le globe terrestre en tout sens, lui donnant son équilibre et son harmonie. »
And François Truffaut wrote, "Women's legs are compasses which walk the earth in all directions, giving it its balance and harmony."
Models of belts Paco RABANNE naked on a mannequin, with a music soundtrack in cartoon.
As for you gentlemen, you must wait until the 70s for the TV you undress and gives us some secrets hitherto well kept ...
Two years later, in 1968, the High couture comes to life and became popular thanks to "Dim Dam Dom" magazine Daisy Galard decidedly feminine tone released. The knee lies over the body reveals more without insults. In bold accomplishments depict the clothing revolution of the sixties avant-garde, demonstrated that sequence tasty:
Deux ans plus tard, en 1968, la Haute-couture s’anime et se popularise grâce à « Dim Dam Dom », magazine de Daisy de Galard au ton féminin résolument libéré. Le genou ne se cache plus, le corps se dévoile davantage, sans outrages. D’audacieuses réalisations mettent en scène la révolution vestimentaire avant-gardiste des sixties, en témoigne cette séquence savoureuse:
Quant à vous Messieurs, il vous faudra attendre la fin des années 70 pour que la télévision vous déshabille et nous livre quelques secrets jusque-là bien gardés…Valerie MANUAL presents a story board "sociological" (and humorous) on briefs for men:
- Interview with Jean Paul Aron, historian, writer and director of studies at the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences who commented in all seriousness various styles of briefs submitted by a model (model in underwear, so):
- Knickers with a woman's hand print / hipster panties with printed kisses / mesh slip transparent / red gingham pants / shorts printed flags English / tight pants / shorts classic white / gray pants / panties tiny green / transparent slip with just grape leaf / tight pants with stripes / striped pants / underwear printed with a TicTacToe game
1st Miniskirt (1er Minijupe)
And François Truffaut wrote, "Women's legs are compasses which walk the earth in all directions, giving it its balance and harmony."
Through a scripted sequence, presentation of the mini-skirt which appeared in France excited astonishment, indignation or stopping envie.Voiture - girl down - a mini-skirt (she turns around and is no longer very young) - model posing photographer - mini-skirts in the street - disapproving faces of passers-by - several photographers shots - mannequins in the street - (cries of disapproval: acoustic, mocking, naughty etc. ...) - ITW girls: why They wear mini-skirts - a customer in a shop: the prank (Bd St Germain) a customer tries it (it is grotesque) shop window: "The pranks" - intrigued bystanders - women leaving the prank with mini skirts (ridiculous).
Spring 1966: the miniskirt landed in France. Symbol among many of the women's liberation and the generation yéyé, the skirt came from England, whether at 60, 70 or 80 cm above the ground, raises astonishment, indignation, envy or ribald comment. Thus revealed, the scandal will Redshank "hide the knee that I can not see .." but will be promptly restored by the High-fashion.
Two years later, in 1968, the High couture comes to life and became popular thanks to "Dim Dam Dom" magazine Daisy Galard decidedly feminine tone released. The knee lies over the body reveals more without insults. In bold accomplishments depict the clothing revolution of the sixties avant-garde, demonstrated that sequence tasty:
Models of belts Paco RABANNE naked on a mannequin, with a music soundtrack in cartoon.
As for you gentlemen, you must wait until the 70s for the TV you undress and gives us some secrets hitherto well kept ...
Printemps 1966 : la minijupe débarque en France. Symbole parmi d’autres de la libération de la femme et de la génération yéyé, la jupette venue d’Angleterre, qu’elle soit à 60, 70 ou 80 cm du sol, suscite étonnement, indignation, envie ou commentaires grivois. Ainsi dévoilée, la gambette fera scandale « cachez ce genou que je ne saurais voir ..» mais sera promptement réhabilitée par la Haute-couture.
Et François Truffaut écrira: « Les jambes des femmes sont des compas qui arpentent le globe terrestre en tout sens, lui donnant son équilibre et son harmonie. »
Deux ans plus tard, en 1968, la Haute-couture s’anime et se popularise grâce à « Dim Dam Dom », magazine de Daisy de Galard au ton féminin résolument libéré. Le genou ne se cache plus, le corps se dévoile davantage, sans outrages. D’audacieuses réalisations mettent en scène la révolution vestimentaire avant-gardiste des sixties, en témoigne cette séquence savoureuse:
Quant à vous Messieurs, il vous faudra attendre la fin des années 70 pour que la télévision vous déshabille et nous livre quelques secrets jusque-là bien gardés…Valerie MANUAL presents a story board "sociological" (and humorous) on briefs for men:
- Knickers with a woman's hand print / hipster panties with printed kisses / mesh slip transparent / red gingham pants / shorts printed flags English / tight pants / shorts classic white / gray pants / panties tiny green / transparent slip with just grape leaf / tight pants with stripes / striped pants / underwear printed with a TicTacToe game
Brigitte Bardot, icône cannoise
Brigitte Bardot et Cannes, c’est une histoire passionnée. La ravissante actrice se prête complaisamment à l’objectif des photographes dans les années 50.
Puis, après une bouderie de 10 ans, elle revient au Festival qui l’accueille par une cohue indescriptible. Souvenirs…
Si la plupart des vedettes arrivent à Cannes en train, c’est d’une Simca sport que descend Brigitte Bardot, dans une robe estivale qui dévoile ses épaules. Elle entre d’un pas dansant dans un restaurant.
Les festivaliers en balade. Tout le monde prend le bateau pour l’île Sainte-Marguerite. L’ambiance est très détendue. Sur les rochers, on voit brièvement Brigitte Bardot, toujours glamour, posant pour les photographes.
Le Festival commence à la gare de Cannes ! Bardot, radieuse, est la première à sortir du wagon. D’autres stars de l’époque débarquent du train.
Après la montée des marches, le défilé de célébrités (le Garde des sceaux François Mitterrand…), le reportage se poursuit par un déjeuner en plein air. Brigitte Bardot, cheveux au vent, prend la pose pour les photographes.
Plus star que jamais, Brigitte Bardot est sur la Côte d’Azur, mais pas à Cannes : elle boude le Festival. Dans un jardin niçois, B.B. fait son cinéma : émergeant d’un gros carton d’emballage, elle se déploie avec grâce devant une caméra visiblement sous le charme.
Dix ans plus tard, Brigitte revient à Cannes. Accompagnée de son époux Gunther Sachs, elle fait une arrivée très remarquée au milieu d’une foule de photographes et de curieux, protégée par des gendarmes qui essaient de lui faire traverser la cohue.
