![]() ![]() The fact that we can even get outraged over one girl’s prom dress is a product of our privileged position within the world’s cultural and technological hierarchies - one that we risk surrendering, if we don’t get serious about who’s really doing the appropriating in this relationship.A white high school student who wore a traditional Chinese dress to her prom last Saturday in Utah has received more than 8,000 tweets taking issue with her fashion choice. To rapidly globalizing powers like China, it is practically a national sport to copy our products, with corporate horse-races to see who can imitate our latest innovations first. When we talk about cultural appropriation, we often fail to realize how little other people across the world care about it. goods and services on a grand, even possibly a nation-threatening scale. No, this isn’t just about Levi’s Jeans and prom dresses anymore. And China is hardly putting on the brakes.Ī comprehensive new cybersecurity law passed by the ruling Communist Party allows the government to conduct unannounced security reviews of any technology companies operating in China that “could affect national security.” China’s reported completion of the J-20, one of the world’s most technologically advanced stealth fighter jets, was bolstered heavily in part by industrial espionage on U.S. These visits can be had for a duration of up to 2 years, and they include tours of high-security premises and sensitive defense technologies. laboratories per year, according to the Institute of World Politics. Like prey who would prefer to be duped into capture, we let the Chinese make 5,000 visits to U.S. What is truly worrying, however, is how China has let loose its copycat animals upon the most sacred of our technology - defense. It appears likely that these domestic brands got a major leg up from their former tenants – probably without their permission. To return to the phone example, China now boasts a domestic smartphone market that captures over 70 percent of Chinese consumers, up from zero ten years ago. These “homegrown” smartphone makers now produce phones in the same factories that Apple and Samsung used to make their wares. revenue per year, and that doesn’t even include the indirect revenue lost by training up future domestic competitors to crowd out U.S. technology companies to give up sensitive operations research for the Chinese government to “review.”Īltogether, theft of trade secrets directly accounts for between $150-500 billion in lost U.S. This includes extorting American electric car companies to give up control of their technology in exchange for permits to sell to Chinese residents. trade secrets, happily taking whatever we are too clumsy to watch carefully. A scathing 2018 New York Times report notes that China will “Beg, Borrow, or Steal” their way into U.S. ![]() The reality is that China is voracious, shameless, and extremely skilled at turning our cultural exports into their profit - and then acting like they don’t know any better.īut Chinese appropriation of American property goes far beyond mild economic mischief into putting our companies at a serious competitive disadvantage. We love to look upon China as a pristine land of straw umbrella-hats and cute rice paddies. Talk about exploiting other people’s cultural products for “consumerism,” as one Twitter personality described the use of the Qipao prom dress. A 2012 report pegged illegal music downloads as comprising 99 percent of total music downloads in China. By comparison, China generates close to $1.5 billion in box-office receipts every year. In 2011, illegally pirating Hollywood movies raked in $6 billion for the Chinese economy. How dare a Westerner attempt to wear a cultural garment that the Chinese stylized from the West! And, as it turns out, dresses aren’t the only thing the Chinese have “stylized” from the West.įor one, Chinese hackers, rippers, and burners have been taking our digital cultural products almost 20 years running. The Qipao is actually a Western-Chinese hybrid dress, which, of course, only adds to the absurdity of the fact that even though the Chinese first appropriated Western fashion to design this dress, it is now being attacked as Western cultural appropriation of Chinese fashion. ![]() I write this because of a debate stirred over many corners and fathoms of the Internet about a Utah girl who wore a “traditional” Chinese dress called a Qipao. ![]()
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![]() His personal trials notwithstanding, his business is booming. But it would be nice not having to walk in there with a hat and shades the whole time.” We go to Chuck E Cheese and places like that. It would be nice if I could go to a restaurant - because he's 7 years old he doesn't want to go to a nice restaurant. “Sometimes I would like not to be recognized, but that probably goes with the territory,” he said. While other people would kill (and indeed have) to be famous, Harrison finds it can actually be rather annoying. Although he had been married for many years as the show started in July 2009, his publicist described him as “currently single,” although details were not forthcoming.Īnother downer? Celebrity. I have to more or less run everything by remote control because I have 2,000 fans a day walking into my store.” Another change is his marital status. “I really can't run the shop from the floor anymore like I used to. We spoke with Rick Harrison recently about how fame has affected his life and what the road show will be like. We are told they are bringing about a half million dollars to Worcester, which they will fork over for things that catch their fancy. Send a picture of your collectible items to and if you hear back from the show, you may be selected to bring your item to the Hanover and negotiate directly with the Pawn Stars. You too might get to haggle with the Harrisons at the Hanover. Rick Harrison's plain-speaking (crotchety?) father, also named Richard but known as “The Old Man,” will be staying home in Vegas to mind the store he founded while the younger set takes to the road. The show features three generations of Harrisons haggling with customers who bring in everything from fabulous diamonds to Dumpster fodder. 24, a record high for the History Channel. They are unlikely stars whose Las Vegas pawn shop series has become riveting reality TV, at least for the more than 7 million people who tuned in to an original episode on Jan. ![]() 1 show, “Pawn Stars,” Rick Harrison, his son Corey Harrison and Corey's hapless sidekick with the shriveled cerebral cortex, Austin “Chumlee” Russell, will present “The Pawn Stars Gold & Silver Road Show” at the Hanover Theatre for the Arts Feb. The gang from Sin City's Gold & Silver Pawn Shop is coming to Worcester. If you still have any doubts, however, you won't have to travel to Las Vegas to find out. ![]() It seems that just about everyone over the age of 5 thinks they are. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you believe your password and/or PIN code has been lost or stolen, or that someone has gained access to your password and/or PIN code without your permission, call us immediately at 1-80. You agree not to give your password and/or PIN code to anyone. 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Levinson is thirty-seven, and the son of the film director Barry Levinson. ![]() The show, which is based on an Israeli series of the same name, was created in 2019 by Sam Levinson, for HBO. A grab bag of music-video-style moments, satirical pastiches, druggy fantasy sequences, quasi-pornographic sexual encounters, and high-octane action scenes, “Euphoria” is a stomach-turning, hectic, maximalist experience: an audacious mess that, if not always pleasurable, is impossible to dismiss or look away from. ![]() This is about as close as television gets to endurance art. The first episode of Season 2 contains one erect penis and two flaccid ones, a drug-dealing grandmother in hot pants, a girl shooting up in a car, a twelve-year-old with face tattoos, some bathroom coitus, a near-overdose on opioids-thwarted by a snort of Adderall-and a baby eating cigarette butts. 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Learn more about God listening to the Bible on your phone! ![]() Download one of the most read versions of the Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version (RSV).Įnjoy this free Bible app including audio. ![]() ![]() Either way, you can create Dual messenger apps on the S10 to run two accounts on the same app if you have different log ins. ![]() Create a Dual messenger appĭepending on your region and operator, the S10 will be either single SIM or dual SIM, the latter letting you run two separate numbers on the same phone. This scrolls the rest of the page you were on and creates a full scrollable screenshot. Then when the menu at the bottom of the page appears, tap the left icon which is two downward arrows. To take a normal screenshot press the power and volume down buttons at the same time. Before you’d have to take several single shots – on the S10 you can create one long ol’ scroll. This is really useful if you want to screenshot something like a webpage or email that’s longer than the screen of your S10. There’s a screenshot, and then there’s a long, scrolling screenshot. We much prefer the design, autocorrect and spacing of the keys on Google’s Gboard. The S10 phones might be some of the best around but the pre-installed Samsung keyboard is not the best. Use Gboard instead of the Samsung keyboard It easily moves all apps over as well as your other data, something that can be a huge pain on Android. Get the app running on both phones and set up what you want to be transferred over. It comes pre-installed on the S10 and you can download it for iOS or Android depending on your old phone. It is possible to use Google’s cloud services in the set up of the S10 to do this, but we prefer using Samsung’s Smart Switch app on the S10. 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However, both upper and lower surfaces of the inner half of the trailing edge of the large wing feathers are a yellow color. The feathers of the white cockatoo are mostly white. When mature some female white cockatoos can have reddish/brown irises, while the irises of the adult male are dark brown or black. They have brown or black eyes and a dark grey beak. The male white cockatoo usually has a broader head and a bigger beak than the female. The white cockatoo is around 46 cm (18 in) long, and weighs about 400 g (14 oz) for small females and up to 800 g (28 oz) for big males. (according to molecular analysis) (Wright 2008) during the period when Australia, South America and Antarctica were breaking away from the super-continent Gondwanaland where the ancestral parrots were believed to have evolved.Īlthough white cockatoos and related species have historically been referred to as “white parrots”, taxonomically they are not considered to be “true parrots”. (according to the fossil record) or 66 m.y.a. While psittaciform parrots (true parrots) and cockatoos have many common anatomical attributes such as zygodactyl feet and hooked bills, the cockatoos and true parrots diverged from the ancestral parrots as separate lineages as early as 45 m.y.a. The term "white cockatoo" has also been applied as a group term to members of the subgenus Cacatua, the genus Cacatua as well as larger groups including Major Mitchell's cockatoo and the galah cockatoo. It lies in the subgenus Cacatua within the genus Cacatua. Its species name alba is a feminine form of the Latin adjective albus for "white". ![]() The white cockatoo was first described in 1776 by German zoologist Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller. The white cockatoo is known as ayab (plural form: ayot) in the Burmeso language of Papua, Indonesia. It is similar to other species of white cockatoo such as yellow-crested cockatoo, sulphur-crested cockatoo, and salmon-crested cockatoo, all of which have yellow, orange or pink crest feathers instead of white. The wings and tail have a pale yellow or lemon color which is exposed when they fly. When surprised, it extends a large and striking head crest, which has a semicircular shape (similar to an umbrella, hence the alternative name). Their main body feathers tend to be white grey or black, but their features, such as crests and tails, are often coloured.The white cockatoo ( Cacatua alba), also known as the umbrella cockatoo, is a medium-sized all-white cockatoo endemic to tropical rainforest on islands of Indonesia.They scoop the water up in their beaks and then tilt their heads back to let it run down their throats. The birds have a unique way of drinking water.Their calls can be heard up to 5 miles away. They use these calls to communicate with each other and to warn of potential predators. Cockatoos are noisy birds known for their loud squawking and screeching calls.They are also capable of solving complex problems and puzzles. Cockatoos are very intelligent and have been known to learn how to use tools in order to obtain food.They are known to be very affectionate and enjoy being petted and cuddled. Cockatoos are very social birds and often form strong bonds with their owners.(Also, don’t forget the tiny population in Hong Kong) There are 21 species of cockatoos, mainly distributed around Australasia, with some in Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia. ![]() Cockatoos are a type of parrot belonging to the family Cacatuidae. ![]() ![]() ![]() Small Macaroni Salad This Small Macaroni Salad is the perfect simple side for small get-togethers and dinners with friends 4. After cooking and draining the Ditalini, I added hard-boiled eggs, celery, red pepper, and onion. Or you can try something truly "out there" with the Reuben Macaroni Salad. Ingredients 250 g / 1/2 lb macaroni elbow pasta 1 1/2 tbsp salt (to cook pasta) 1 cup celery, finely sliced (1 stalk) 3/4 cup red capsicum. However you choose to eat it, it’s gonna be a good time. For a salad with a little bit of everything, try our Kitchen Sink Macaroni Salad. But you can take these simple macaroni salad ingredients and transform them. Basic recipes consist of just elbow macaroni, chopped eggs, mayonnaise, sour cream, seasonings, and some veggies like celery or red onion. Remove from heat, drain and rinse with cool water until the pasta reaches room temperature. ![]() Macaroni salad is a party hero dish because it's delicious, but it's also a hit because there are so many ways to customize it. Cook the pasta: In at least 2 quarts of salted water (1 1/2 teaspoons of salt per quart of water), cook the pasta according to package directions until al dentestill slightly firm. Ready to be the talk of your next picnic, potluck, or party? Then whip up one of these simple recipes and get ready to be the party hero. Macaroni Salad Recipes Moms Best Macaroni Salad 4. 5 0 Updated Jump to Recipe This post may contain affiliate links. This creamy dish always knocks all those other deli salad recipes out of the park because it's such a tried-and-true favorite. What are you bringing to your next get together? If you said "macaroni salad," we're here to help! With these easy pasta salad recipes, we'll show you how to make'em like a champ. How to Make Macaroni Salad: 17 Simple Macaroni Salad Recipes This quick and easy macaroni salad with hard boiled egg, roasted red bell pepper, onion, mayonnaise, and paprika gives new life to your standard issue. ![]() |
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