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Testimony to House Foreign Affairs 3-28-12
March 29, 2012 Blog PostsCCTV, China, China Daily, China Watch, Coda, Coda Automotive, Confucius Classroom, Confucius Institue, congress, foreign affairs, Greg Autry, house, Nike, perception management, propoganda, testimony, Washington PostGreg Autry
How the Chinese Communist Propaganda Machine Runs Wild and Free in America
The follow was submitted with my testimony on Chinese Perception Management in a hearing entitled:
"The Price of Public Diplomacy with China"
Testimony of Greg Autry
Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine
Senior Economist, American Jobs Alliance
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Good afternoon Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee. My name is Greg Autry. I am the co-author, with Peter Navarro, of the book Death by China. I have served as a lecturer in Business Strategy and Macroeconomics at the Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine where I am currently completing a PhD in the area of Public Policy and Economics. I also serve as Senior Economist for the American Jobs Alliance. I am testifying on my own behalf at my own expense and my views are not necessarily the views of those organizations.
My testimony will focus on the co-option of the U.S. media, academic, business and political elite by the Chinese under the influence of the Communist Party's Central Propaganda Department.
In the two decades since Henry Kissinger convinced America to overlook the massacre in Tiananmen Square, we've been mired in a relentless, one-sided trade war camouflaged under Chinese propaganda with the aid of an American fifth column of media pundits, CEOs and academics. Eager to cheer the rise of state capitalism and to blame Americans for all our economic ills these apologists tell us Chinese currency manipulation, illegal export subsidies, and labor repression are not real problems. The real problems are our unions, our military adventurism, our legal system, our environmental regulations, our polarized media, and our "do nothing" Congress. Yet, by any objective evaluation we are still Ronald Reagan's "Shining City Upon a Hill" in every one of these categories when compared to Beijing.
So, why do so many of our leaders listen when Thomas Friedman, Fareed Zakaria and the rest of the Flat World Society sing their siren song of global prosperity just over the horizon? Why do we continue to open our markets and media to a non-reciprocating China when our eyes tell us that the only thing being flattened is America's productive capacity? Why do many in America believe that China is progressing toward democracy or improving human rights, when the empirical evidence says just the opposite? Why does our President publicly repeat Chinese propaganda phrases like "peaceful rise"[1] while simultaneously allocating billions of taxpayer dollars to counter China's increasingly aggressive military posture?
The answer to this conundrum lies in the concept of the "Reality Distortion Field." This is a phrase that was coined by associates of the late Steve Jobs to describe his uncanny ability to induce compliance and agreement in those around him even when they knew Mr. Job's statements were untrue and even when they were fully aware that they were being manipulated and even exploited. In the last decade, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has expanded its domestic Big Lie propaganda system into a global reality distortion field.
Americans are aware of China's overt, internal information control system, which includes media and Internet censorship along with the brutal suppression of public dissent. What many don't see, even while in-country, is the pervasiveness of the Chinese propaganda system. Professor Anne-Marie Brady of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand has noted that "propaganda and thought work (Xuānchuán yǔ sīxiǎng gōngzuò, 宣传与思想工作) have become the very life blood (Shēngmìngxià, 生命线) of the Party-State."[2]
The new head of Central China Television (CCTV), Hu Zhanfan, made this clear last year, when he chastised CCTV news workers who fancied themselves "journalists" rather than accepting their proper role as "mouthpieces" and "the Party's propaganda workers." Mr. Hu went on to call "Strengthening education in the Marxist view of journalism . . ." a matter of "extreme urgency."[3]
This ideological thinking does not stop at China's border as their state controlled news outlets expand across the globe. China's overseas distortion field goes by many innocuous names including "foreign affairs" (Wàishì or外事), "foreign policy" (Dùwài zhèngcè , 渡外政策), and the pleasant sounding "foreign friendship" (Duìwài guānxì对外关系).
While all nations conduct official and unofficial efforts to manage their reputations abroad and project their values, an aggressive dictatorship in sheep's clothing presents a very special challenge.
America's ever-hopeful policy of engagement, careful not to offend China's hypersensitive rulers, has driven a very soft official U.S. stance on issues of Chinese domestic behavior, as well as on its increasingly aggressive geopolitical and military posture, even among those who should know better. Those who don't know better – are less informed about what is actually happening in Beijing, in Africa, and in the South China Sea – in the media, academia and business take their queues from a timid Administration and a diffident State Department. Our government's public behavior clearly implies that Communist China is a normal nation, to be treated the same as Canada or India. This tacit endorsement has established an environment that allows the Chinese state-propaganda-machine to run wild and free in America and use our most powerful institutions to project the Communist Party's world-view.
China's rulers are the world's experts at lying and at getting others to lie for them. In Communist China, truth is defined by the power of the authority doing the speaking rather than an objective evaluation of what is said. Domestically, the Party utilizes brute force to intimidate dissidents. Externally, they must co-opt foreign apologists. Sometimes this is a straightforward monetary transaction, but the most valuable targets are those whose honesty gives them credibility.
The first step is the subtle tactic of getting an honest target to knowingly accept and publicly repeat an innocuously small part of the Big Lie for the sake of politeness or convenience. The victim is now a partner in fraud, however minor, and will be compelled to defend that point or lose face. They find themselves annoyed with those who insist on all the little truths and more at ease within the comfortable newspeak inside the distortion field.
The prime example of the Small Lie is, "People's Republic of China" or simply the "PRC." While we all know that this authoritarian dictatorship does not belong to its people and that it is by no definition a republic, we acquiesce rather than argue in hopes of moving on to more constructive talk. However, once we've accepted "People's Republic", phrases like "Harmonious Society" and "Peaceful Rise" lose the Orwellian flavor that should put us all on high alert. We tell ourselves, "It's just the way the Chinese are," (i.e. chronic benders of the truth) and move on in the vain hope of reaching constructive agreements. Western CEOs and politicians regularly find themselves surprised at the audacious way Communist Chinese routinely ignore signed business contracts and international agreements. When we consider this in the context of the name of an entire country being an obscene falsehood, nothing should surprise us.
American schools and universities are increasing full of CCP apologists who expertly convey China's thought work. NYU Adjunct, Ann Lee, wonderfully praises China's leaders, downplays the CCP's propaganda campaign, and scorns a major human rights figure in a single astounding sentence form her book What the U.S. Can Learn from China:
The fact that the Nobel Committee awarded the 2010 Peace Prize to a locked-up dissident, Liu Xiaobo, instead of Hu Jintao for leading a billion people to prosperity in a peaceful way is a testament to the huge failure of public relations on the part of the Chinese to communicate their position and present their image to the world.[4]
Sadly, this is becoming the dominant paradigm in America's Universities and Lee, whose biography notes that she has advised Chinese officials[5], continues without irony:
China is still being perceived as undemocratic and antiliberal by the West, but the problem can be easily corrected with more astute public relations training.[6]
Professor Lee also presents China's vision of reeducating America's youth with their Confucius Institutes (CI):
This strategy of bringing students from other parts of the world to China is similar to the strategy Julius Caesar used when he conquered Gaul. Since Caesar didn't have enough Romans to run the region, Caesar took the sons of the conquered elites and raised them as his own instead of throwing them into jail. By caring for them in such a way, he turned Gauls into Romans who could be trusted to run Gaul for the Roman empire.[7] [Emphasis added]
Clearly, the Central Propaganda Department did their homework when they chose Confucius as a mascot. Sneaking a "Mao Institute" into your child's elementary school would not go over so well with the PTA. However, the CI curriculum was not developed in some temple on a misty mountain, but in a Communist Party office in Beijing. Interestingly, curriculum from real Confucian scholars wouldn't be allowed in China anyway. Mao suppressed Confucianism and the Party views it as a competing authoritarian philosophy incompatible with Marxism. Just last year, the master's statue was unceremoniously booted from a display adjacent to Tiananmen Square.[8]
While the Chinese claim that the CI are a function of their Education Ministry, it was politburo member Li Changchun who toured Europe and dispersed funding to cooperative European educational institutions.[9] As Brett Decker and William C. Triplett II report in their book, Bowing to Beijing, "Li is a nasty piece of work"[10], heading up the CCP's propaganda and censorship units and personally initiating China's 2009 attacks on U.S. based Google.[11] Europe is not alone, according to Decker and Triplett, the University of Nebraska took $270,000 for setting up a CI and Stanford University is rumored to have accepted $4million.[12]
While ignoring God, Confucianism does include spiritualism and the ceremonial worship of ancestors, with temples dedicated to venerating its sages. The obvious separation of Church and State issue that should be raised here remains hidden by the reality distortion field. Further, the Confucian support of the Divine Right of Kings (Mandate of Heaven) and of accepting one's place in society (filial piety to rulers and elders) is hardly in keeping with the American principal of "All men are created equal."
The Confucius Institutes also reveal how the reality distortion field drives American duplicity in dealing with China. Consider that America's relationship with Saudi Arabia is very similar. We run a chronic trade deficit with that authoritarian kingdom and we routinely overlook its human rights abuses and its support of those who wish to undermine liberty, democracy, and tolerance. To their credit, at least the Saudi's aren't selling organs or building a massive anti-U.S. military machine. What would the reaction be to the Saudi's establishing hundreds of Mohammed Institutes in our schools, designed to teach Arabic and introduce Arab culture to young Americans? If that doesn't seem acceptable, then why are we allowing a communist state that has a growing nuclear arsenal aimed at America to infest our schools with their ideology?
In my own experience as a student and a former faculty member at the University of California, the growing concentration of Chinese students, studies, and special relationships is damaging the formerly international diverse flavor of our the academic experience. There was a time when we'd have a very broad mix of international students from Asia, Latin America, and Europe in an MBA classroom. Now, there is often the Mainland Chinese cohort and "everyone else." Let me be clear, individually most of these students are fine scholars, do good work and contribute to the school. The issue I have is with their overwhelming predominance and the presumption that there is some special bond between America and Communist China. Further, there is a sense of fatality within academia, which seems to accept the notion that China must inevitably eclipse the U.S. in business, research and education; so, we'd all better get on board with the Chinese now to protect our future careers.
There are more than 125,000 Chinese students in U.S. Universities, far more than any other nationality.[13] They are particularly dominant at the graduate level and in the economically critical hard sciences, engineering and business departments. A big part of the reason for this is the money they bring in with out-of-state tuition fees and in the funding of special chairs, institutes and grants. The China Daily blatantly advises:
Applicants from China should look at state universities in the US and lesser-known small colleges which need their dollars. One good bet is California. . . . California cut funding for the University of California this year by $650 million . . . A University of California commission recently recommended that the university system increase enrollment of nonresident students to as much as 10 percent of all undergraduates.[14]
My University has a growing number of relationships with Chinese universities and a newly endowed, "U.S. China Institute for Business and Law." The purpose of which is described by the Dean of the Law school:
"We are at a unique moment in the history of our two countries in which it is especially important to build bridges between them in business and law. And in each country, the legal system provides a unique framework within which business can flourish."[15] [emphasis added]
This last sentence represents an astounding level of naivety when one honestly considers what the Chinese legal framework is. The Chinese constitution guarantees freedom of the press, speech, assembly and religion, but the Chinese state detains thousands without trial for religious and political purposes. Many prisoners have been beaten, tortured and used as involuntary organ donors.[16] Many business people have told me that extortion; property seizure, kidnapping, and assault are routine occurrences, conducted by Chinese gangs with the tacit approval or open cooperation of Chinese police and courts.
When Xi Jinping, the anointed next dictator of China, came to California last month, the Dean of Pepperdine's Graziadio Business school wrote, "We are honored to host Vice President Xi Jinping's delegation at the Graziadio School in the hope that our discussion and interaction will increase business opportunities and cooperation between our two countries."[17] [emphasis added]
The ubiquitous China Daily newspaper is the strongest outward manifestation of Communist Chinese influence in the U.S. I find it all over campus and on nearly every corner here in DC. It is clear that the vast majority of Americans have no idea that this is a publication entirely owned and operated by a foreign government, which routinely engages in combative behavior with America and our allies.
A China Daily editorial on August 8, 2011 entitled "China must punish U.S. for Taiwan arm sales with 'financial weapon'" suggests "China should consider how to build a direct link between the U.S. Treasury bond purchase and US domestic politics . . ."[18] The intention to directly interfere in American affairs is totally clear.
Outrageously, The China Daily inserts a monthly print and daily online supplement into The Washington Post entitled "China Watch."[19] The site features the large, bold, black masthead of the Washington Post in the upper left corner. Hidden, below the title "China Watch" on the right is the tiny disclaimer "A paid supplement to The Washington Post." When I showed about a dozen associates the China Watch site and asked, "What organization is doing the reporting here?" the unanimous response was, "The Washington Post."
Zhao Qizheng, who as director-general of China's State Council Information Office,[20] and the Communist Party's Office of Foreign Propaganda[21] promised to expand the projection of the values of China's communist government and to "exert influence on the foreign public. . . "[22] In an interview Zhao describes his efforts to sanitize China's human rights record abroad as "fairly systematic and penetrating."[23] Repeating the big lie – in this case that China is a society ruled by law – is critical to maintaining the reality distortion field. Even the public repetition of familiar charges against China, in a sterile atmosphere filled with calm and smiling Chinese diplomats in business suits desensitizes the Western mind.
In the U.S. the Party controlled state television China Central Television (CCTV) has essentially unrestricted access to American cable viewers, while in China American networks have very limited access to "select" viewers under the watchful eye of the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) which censors the political content of broadcasts.
The Mandarin language CCTV channel 4 is directed at the Overseas Chinese community and Americans of Chinese decent in particular. Nurturing a stronger sense of Chinese nationalism in America is a critical function of CCTV 4. Chinese dissidents in the U.S. tell me that the deep pockets of CCP backed Chinese language TV and newspapers in the U.S. have driven formerly anti-communist media to the margins in the rapidly growing Chinese-American community. Anne-Marie Brady writes that a Chinese training manual on foreign propaganda explicitly suggests acquiring influence in Overseas Chinese groups in order to, "turn them into propaganda bases for China."[24]
CCTV channel 9 is designed to put a friendly face on China's brutal regime for English speakers in America, Canada, and Great Britain. Brady has written that CCTV 9 executive refer to their channel as "soft propaganda" and that its "senior editorial staff and journalists were all forced to write self-criticisms" for reporting honestly on Chinese coal mine disasters.[25]
Chinese state news organizations such Xinhua, People's Daily, and China Daily generate a vast amount of English language web content directed at insinuating Party approved messages into the mainstream U.S. Internet media and blogosphere. The sheer volume of this material and the laziness of some U.S. reporters insures that excerpts from and links to these Communist press releases routinely turn up in American branded reporting.
Many U.S. websites like cnn.com are routinely censored or blocked at various times and places. The less censored, "privileged" Internet is offered in "Western Hotels" both as an accommodation for American guests as well as to hide from Westerners the level of thought control that the average Chinese citizen endures.
While American multinational corporations are increasingly dependent on China's, subsidies and currency manipulation, American consumers are not fond of the "Made in China" label. More than half of them report that they actively avoid Chinese made products[26] and a quarter of them identify China as an "Enemy of the United States."[27] This compels firms to defend China and ironically to cover up their association with China even when their Chinese hosts have repeatedly cheated them.
No case of cooption has been more blatant than that of General Electric CEO, Jeff Immelt. In July of 2010, Immelt told a group of Italian executives in Rome that he was "really worried about China." He warned of the ongoing Chinese "colonization" of resource rich countries, and complained of increasing Chinese market protectionism saying, "I am not sure that in the end they want any of us to win, or any of us to be successful."[28]
Just three months later Immelt announced plans to transfer nearly $2billion of American capital into joint ventures with Chinese state owned firms.[29] In January of 2011 he met with Chinese dictator Hu Jintao and President Obama[30] and with a straight face said, "There is a multitude of ways to succeed in China." Two days after that, the President appointed Immelt Chair of the White House's new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, aka "Jobs Czar." Since then GE has towed the Chinese line, accelerated investment in China[31] and moved an entire business division to Beijing.[32] Immelt has also agreed to offer GE's sensitive advanced avionics technology to Communist[33] state owned firms that compete with U.S. aircraft firms.
To hide the Chinese nature of their products many nominally American firms skirt the FTC's country of origin regulations. "Made in China" labels are carefully concealed or designed to fade or fall off in transit. The attached photos of a Nike Baseball bat[34] are representative of this practice. Permanently emblazoned on the highly visible barrel end of the bat is the wording "Crafted by Nike – Beaverton Oregon," while a small, insecure "Made in China" sticker is hidden under the handle.[35]
The case of Los Angeles based CODA Automotive is both an egregious attempt to disguise a Chinese product and a disturbing demonstration of how American political appointees benefit from support of China's reality distortion field. At the most recent LA Auto show, CODA's staff and executive spokesperson openly described their firm and car as "All American." However, when confronted, they reluctantly admitted that 65% of the vehicle is imported from "overseas", doing everything possible to avoid saying "China." [36] In fact, the car is the Saibao III chassis from Hafei motors with batteries from another Chinese state owned firm.[37] Yet, there was no reference to the vehicle's Chinese origin in the sales literature nor on the major pages of the website.[38] It is certainly reasonable to believe that consumers could purchase this car without knowing it comes from China. CODA has good reasons to hide their China connection as their partner, Hafei motors is wholly owned by a Chinese state weapons conglomerate, China South Industries Group. [39]
Shockingly, Hank Paulson, who as U.S. Treasury Secretary supported China's economic reality distortion field for years by denying China's obvious currency manipulation, is an investor and advisor to CODA. Clinton Chief of Staff Mack McLarty is also an advisor and our current Commerce Secretary, John Bryson, served on the CODA board.[40]
Overall my findings are:
The Chinese Communist Party views Americans and their leaders as naïve, short sighted and easily coopted.
China is very actively involved in manipulating the American media to promote the Communist Party agenda, while actively constraining reciprocal American access to their media.
China has carefully targeted our schools, universities and multinational corporations as agents for Chinese propaganda.
Former and current US government officials have been uncomfortably financially intertwined with Chinese state owned business leading to a real question of their ability to speak or act objectively in regards to China.
American political leaders, business leaders, and pundits are increasingly out of touch with the reality of Chinese propaganda and with mainstream American views on Communist China.
I would like to thank Brian McAdam, formerly of the Canadian foreign service, for his knowledgeable input
Appendix A – Photos
[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9083140/President-Obama-we-welcome-Chinas-peaceful-rise.html
[2] Anne-Marie Brady, Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China, Rowman and Littlefield, 2008. p. 1.
[3] http://cmp.hku.hk/2011/12/05/17324/
[4] Ann Lee, What the US Can Learn from China: An Open Minded Guide to An Open-Minded Guide to Treating Our Greatest Competitor as Our Greatest Teacher, Kindle Edition, 2011 p. 5
[5] http://professorannlee.com/?page_id=7
[6] ibid
[7] Lee, p. 194
[8] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/world/asia/23confucius.html
[9] http://www.ucd.ie/news/2010/09SEP10/280910-Irish-and-Chinese-governments-to-co-finance-new-building-for-UCD-Confucius-Institute-for-Ireland.html
[10] Brett Decker and William C. Triplett II, Bowing to Beijing, 2011. Pg. 164
[11] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/05/the-us-embassy-cables-china
[13] http://the-diplomat.com/2012/03/03/the-risks-of-china's-students/
[14] http://www.prolinkin.net/?p=620
[15] http://merage.uci.edu/longinstitute/Default.aspx
[16] For a detailed investigation of the organ harvesting crimes against humanity please see Bloody Harvest: Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China by David Matas and David Kilgour.
[17] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/pepperdine-universitys-graziadio-school-of-business-and-management-to-host-chinas-vice-president-xi-jinping-business-delegation-2012-02-06
[18] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2011-08/08/content_13069554.htm, reposted from People's Daily
[19] http://chinawatch.washingtonpost.com/
[20] http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/organs/statecouncil.shtml
[21] http://investigating.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/an-investigation-report-on-the-ccp's-foreign-propaganda-system-making-ideology-infiltration-and-spreading-hatred-and-lies-among-the-international-communities/
[22] http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article1487217.ece
[23] http://www.humanrights.cn/zt/magazine/200402004729162226.htm
[24] Wang Zhongshen, Duiwai xuanchuan chulun (Introduction to Foreign Propaganda), 2000 via Anne-Marie Brady, Marketing Dictatorship, 2010 edition, p. 163.
[25] Anne-Marie Brady, Marketing Dictatorship, 2010 edition, p. 167.
[26] http://www.gallup.com/poll/28552/american-consumers-showing-aversion-made-china-label.aspx
[27]http://www.rasmussenreports.com/index.php/public_content/politics/current_events/china/74_see_china_as_bigger_threat_economically_than_militarily
[28] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ed654fac-8518-11df-adfa-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1q5oHXOYh
[29] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-09/general-electric-to-spend-2-billion-on-china-technology-finance-ventures.html
[30] http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/immelt_sorry_summit_jIcMvTdTgHgIK1gz0szMjL
[31] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2011-12/21/content_14296397.htm
[32] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904772304576467873321597208.html
[34] taken by the witness at Dick's Sporting Goods in Yorba Linda, CA in March of 2012.
[35] The author observed about half the bats missing this label.
[36] See video at: http://www.gregautry.us/coda
[37] http://www.gregautry.us/archives/560
[38] You have to dig into the FAQs where formerly it was in a hidden section of text. Since our LA Times article CODA has expanded the FAQ coverage on China.
[39] see details at: http://www.gregautry.us/archives/560
[40] http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/11/opinion/la-oe-autry-coda-20111211
The official posting of this testimony on the house site is at:
http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/112/HHRG-112-FA17-WState-AutryG-20120328.pdf
CODA – LA Times Piece Shows that the Chinese Cars are Coming and revels how America's Fifth Column is Helping the Communists Build a Beachhead for their Final Assault on America's Jobs
December 10, 2011 Blog Postsak47, China, Chinese electric car, Coda, Coda Automotive, Death by China, Greg Autry, libya, Norinco, Peter Navarro, sudan, zimbabweGreg Autry
A Los Angeles Times op-ed by Navarro I published this Sunday, December 11 revealed how Coda Automotive of Los Angeles is importing a Chinese Car as "gliders" (see below) and batteries to assemble a vehicle they ironically refer to as "All American" in a video interview. Read our piece there if you haven't yet and if you're a stickler for details, here is a lot more background on Coda's Chinese invasion and here is a good start. (Note the many hyperlinks to sources on the details of this ruse.)
What's a "Glider" and what about that motor they say is American?
You'll notice its nearly impossible to find the word "China" on the Coda website (dig deep into the press releases or FAQs) but that is where most of the vehicle comes from. Their marketing literature (we picked up at the LA Autoshow) never mentions it. While clearly a lot less than proud of their Chinese connection, Coda casually remarks in the FAQ on manufacturing that their "Glider is produced overseas." "Glider" sure doesn't sound like much of a part, right?
An automotive "glider" is actually the bulk of a car's structural components. While the total parts list can vary a bit the glider usually includes the chassis, the axels, the body panels, and probably the glass, wheels, rims, and tires too. So it's basically everything except the "drivetrain" which is the car's motor and transmission.
Now, it is very important to understand that in an electric car the motor and transmission are much simpler and hence significantly less valuable components than they are in an internal combustion car. A large gasoline engine could contribute $5,000 and the transmission $2,000 to the price of a car. Whereas an electric motor is a much smaller item which could cost less than a thousand dollars. The transmission for an electric car is also a much simpler device as electric motors generally provides both high torque and high RPMs without as many gear changes. Consequently a lot more jobs are created in building a V6 motor at a Ford factory in Michigan than building a simpler electric motor and transmission.
Hafei Saibao
Many in the automotive press have been asserting for sometime that this vehicle is the Saibao III EV (or miles-xs500) or a slightly modified design and was developed by this Chinese firm. It is not some "All American Idea" with a few parts outsourced to China, but a Chinese car imported by an American firm with a fat marketing budget. While Coda may have a few production engineers and accountants on the job in China, their attempt to assert (in the video) that American workers are making this thing in China and their implication that they are doing significant manufacturing in California smells bad to us.
We believe there are thousands of Chinese jobs created for the couple of hundred California jobs they brag about. And every Coda sold will mean thousands of less jobs at plants like Tesla's model S factory in San Jose factory or GM's volt facility.
http://www.green.autoblog.com/2008/08/29/hafei-saibao-ev-passes-crash-test-good-news-for-miles-xs500/
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2010/09/coda-ev-44900-for-an-electrified-hafei-saibao/
http://www.chinacarfans.com/2009/06/08/hafei-saibao-electric-vehicle-heads-to-us/
What about that battery plant in Ohio?
The real value in an electric car comes from the batteries, which cost thousands of dollars. If American converts to an electric car economy it is critical we capture both the jobs and profits from battery production by having it done by American firms on American soil. Once again, Coda is again importing the batteries from China.
Worse yet, in the guise of "creating" jobs Coda is sneaking their Chinese battery partner, Lishen of Tianjin, into the U.S. in the form of a joint partnership, where it appears the Chinese will own 60% and Coda 40%. To ad insult to injury our LA Times piece notes this JV is applying for a $500Billion Department of Energy loan as well as a pile of money from the unwitting taxpayers of the State of Ohio and City of Columbus. For over half a billion dollars this venture is supposed to "create up to 1,000" jobs. That's $500,000 per job (or a lot more if this deal goes the way of Solyndra). Why not just throw money out of a helicopter? This is also a very ironic set of circumstances since much of those federal dollars are surely borrowed from the Chinese in the first place.
America has lost MILLIONS OF JOBS and over 50,000 factories in the last ten years! Most of these have gone to a predatory China. Getting 250 jobs selling a stealthy Chinese car or 1,000 making batteries for the Chinese-Coda joint venture is insulting to the desperate American worker. It's like tossing a biscuit to a dog after you've beat it in to submission. That is not a cause for celebration, but rather a national embarrassment.
Details on the source of Coda's Chinese glider and the NORINCO ARMS connection:
Our piece also reveals that Coda's "new" car is actually the six year old Saibao III being imported from China's Hafei Motor Co, a firm owned by a Communist Party controlled Sate Owned weapons manufacturing conglomerate that is tied to an arms exporter with some very bad history.
China's web of party-state-corporations is particularly confusing in the military supply chain. The state owned firm that owns Coda's car supplier (Hafei) is China South Industries Group (CSG) which was formed out of a state weapons firm, China North Industries Group Corporation (CNCG) also know as NORINCO(G). The Arms dealer called NORINCO is 50% owned by CSG and CNCG and has been one of the worst players on the global stage for years. See http://www.uscc.gov/researchpapers/2009/DGIReportonPRCDefenseIndustry–FinalVersion_withUSCCseal_02Nov2009_2_.pdf Page 29.
Missile tech to Iran: US state dept leveled sanctions on Norinco for this in 2003. Source: US Dept. of State
A determination has been made that five Chinese and one North
Korean entities have engaged in activities that require the imposition
of measures pursuant to Section 3 of the Iran Nonproliferation Act of
2000, which provides for penalties on entities for the transfer to Iran
of equipment and technology controlled under multilateral export
control lists (Missile Technology Control Regime . . . .
China North Industries Corporation (NORINCO) (China) and any
successor, sub-unit, or subsidiary thereof;
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2003_register&docid=[DOCID:fr03jy03-152]
AK's to US gangs: customs caught the shipment and Norinco was blocked from US market in 2001 (lifted in 2008). Source: USCC
NORINCO's integration into global markets is not always benign. From 2001 to 2007 the United States imposed sanctions on NORINCO imports after a U.S. Customs sting operation revealed a deal to smuggle 2,000 Chinese-government-made AK-47s into the U.S. It was the largest arms seizure in U.S. history.
http://www.uscc.gov/researchpapers/2009/DGIReportonPRCDefenseIndustry–FinalVersion_withUSCCseal_02Nov2009_2_.pdf
Grenades to Zimbabwe: Source NTI
In March 2000, NORINCO sold US $65.9 million in arms to the Zimbabwe government. The types of arms that were transferred included rocket anti-personnel shells, grenades for assault rifles, and hand grenades. Tanks and tank ammunition may also have been included in the sale. NORINCO is a major exporter of small arms.
http://www.nti.org/facilities/49/
Grenades to Darfur: Source Amnesty International
Arms made by the Chinese company, Norinco, have been seen in the hands of fighters for the United Front for Democratic Change (Front uni pour le changement démocratique au Tchad, FUC). Members of the group were photographed carrying QLZ87 35mm automatic grenade launchers outside the town of El Geneina in Western Darfur, Sudan
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA17/030/2006/en/c01fbab0-d42b-11dd-8743-d305bea2b2c7/asa170302006en.html
Who would do this to America?
Coda's CEO Phil Murtaugh is the former head of GM's China division and has raised more than $300 million from banks such as Morgan Stanley and well-connected private investors that include former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty and former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson. John Bryson, recently appointed by President Obama as Commerce Secretary of the United States – because the previous Com Sec, Gary Locke, has been sent to CHINA as ambassador – was previously on Coda's board of directors. Now before McLarty and Paulson suggest they had "no idea" about the source of their product or the way it is marketed, note that they are also listed on the Coda website as being official advisors to Coda rather than merely inactive investors.
To add insult to injury, California politicians from governor Brown to LA Mayor Villaraigosa have been easily duped by this ploy and have lined up for photo ops and to brag about the petty 200 or so jobs "created."
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Central to the gameplay in The Last Story is a combat system that calls on players to take the lead in employing tactical teamwork. By using the special "Gathering" ability, the character under your control will become the focal point for enemy aggression, freeing team-mates up to perform specific tasks or attacks and recover their health. The option of using either an automatic or manual attack system means players of all skill levels can alter the level of challenge to suit their abilities. And once you feel confident that you've mastered the finer points of fighting, there's a whole other arena in which to test your skills, with The Last Story offering cooperative and competitive online battles for 2-6 players.


YAZMIN Oukhellou looks stunning in a black bikini as she is pictured in Morocco with on-off boyfriend, James Lock.
It was recently revealed the couple have decided to leave Towie.
The pair showed off their toned and bronzed bods poolside as they colour-coordinated their swimwear.
Yazmin, 25, wore a skimpy black Calvin Klein two-piece, with her sleek long black hair covering her shoulders whilst boyfriend James, 31, opted for a simple pair of black trunks.
The couple are currently splitting their time between Essex and Morocco as they set-up an exciting new business adventure.
A source close to the couple revealed: "They are currently in and out of Marrakesh building a health, fitness and well-being business."
At the beginning of this month, ten stars from the reality show were given the boot, with James and Yazmin agreeing to "take a back seat" after a difficult year following Yaz's battle with depression and anxiety.
Since taking a break at the end of the last series, Lockie and Yaz have been working hard to fix their strained relationship.
They hope that by leaving the show for the foreseeable future they can finally get back on track.
Their exit came after we revealed eight famous faces have been shown the door in the ITVBe show's biggest ever cull.
James Lock joined Towie with bestie Dan Osborne back in 2013.
On the 2016 Christmas special of the reality TV show James said he was dating someone new, who was revealed to be Yazmin.


Whether or not you've ever done direct sales, you probably are already familiar with two fundamental sales strategies: upselling and cross-selling. You may not know that you are familiar with these concepts – but as a consumer today, you have definitely been exposed to them.
You might also be somewhat aware of the two terms, but maybe you don't exactly know what they mean – or maybe you're confused about the differences between the two.
Upselling is a technique used to persuade the customer to buy a better version of the products or services about to be purchased.
Cross-selling is a strategy used to add more products or services to the original purchase.
Both techniques are equally important to any online store or dropshipping business.
When done right, upselling/cross-selling is beneficial to not just the seller, but the customer, too. If you present options that you know will benefit your customer, everybody wins. How do you do that? Well, you need to take an intuitive approach. Listen to what your customers have to say about their wants and needs. Put yourself in their place; if you were shopping for an economy car, would you want to hear about the luxury SUVs on the lot? Probably not. But you might want to know about the latest hybrid that could spare you from sending a ton of money on fuel…right?
If you listen to what your customers are telling you and then apply the strategy of upselling/cross-selling accordingly, you could provide them with solutions that make them happy. Often, people don't even realize they need certain products or services – until you point it out to them. It's a win-win situation for you and your customers.
Another advantage of upselling/cross-selling is that it's easier to do than to sell to an entirely new customer. When you are marketing to a new lead, the probability of closing that deal is five to 20%. When you're selling to an existing client, that percentage shoots up to 60 to 70%. So upselling/cross-selling is really a more efficient way to sell.
Here are our top tips for upselling and cross-selling like a pro.
You'll want to maintain the trust of your customers, and you can't do that if you make them feel overwhelmed by the upsells/cross-sells. Too many choices will confuse your customers, and that could backfire on you. You could cause your customers to become suspicious and resentful if you throw too many options at them – and they might just give up on the idea of buying anything at all from you. Keep the options simple and straightforward.
According to an article at Fortune, the conversion rate for those recommendations on the site may go as high as 60%. This is an example of cross-selling in the real world that every marketer could learn from.
This is a strategy that takes the "frequently bought together" concept to the next level. You make the shopping experience convenient for your customers by packaging necessary/relevant items together.
This is another instance when you need to be careful about your approach, though. You don't want to offer irrelevant items or services that your customers aren't likely to find enticing (so don't try to dump your unwanted inventory on them). If you do that, it's insulting and very counter-productive. Instead, offer valuable add-ons that your customers will find useful. A good example would be to sell WordPress templates + plugins + logos together. These are all things that customers in the market for a plug-in or template would appreciate in a bundle.
Think of your favorite restaurant. The owner or head waiter at that restaurant probably takes the time to get to know your likes and dislikes. Based on that knowledge, the owner/waiter makes suggestions based on your personal preferences.
You should do the same thing on your website. If your goal is to get people to sign up for your newsletters – but no one is responding to your pop-up box – try offering a free e-book on your landing pages when people register for the email list.
Also, think about how Amazon, eBay, and other major e-commerce sites track your book orders and other types of purchases. They recommend relevant products based on your previous choices, right? You should be doing the same thing. Use Google Analytics to track user patterns on your website. One technique is to make use of the order confirmation pages via analytics. If a lot of people signed up for an online course you're selling, you could send an email to just those people and upsell them with a related but more extensive course. See how that works?
Upselling/cross-selling only works well when you are solving your customers' needs (and it works even better when you make them feel privileged about receiving an offer). If you offer a discounted free shaving kit to all of the customers who buy your designer men's cologne, many of them will appreciate that they are getting a deal that other customers aren't.
On the other hand, overdoing it will irritate your customers and drive them away from you and your website. If your customers feel like they are only a marketing experiment to you – or that you care only about making the sale and not about what they want – upselling/cross-selling will have the opposite effect than the one you want.
Here's another detail to keep in mind: There's a "rule of 25" in business; you should avoid cross-selling items that are more than 25% of the original order. When you try to upsell/cross-sell above that percentage, you will generally be perceived as out of touch with the needs of your customers (at best) and pushy or greedy (at worst) – and you will be more likely to repel even customers who were close to making a purchase. Also, add-ons beyond 25% may simply feel overwhelming and like a second primary purchase – instead of add-ons.
Timing is always a crucial aspect of sales. You should only upsell/cross-sell when you have all the necessary information to secure the first order. This means that the shopper has already committed to buying and is less likely to abandon the order altogether. If you try to sell additional items too early in the shopping process, you could easily turn a customer off and thus lose the entire sale. So remember to wait until the customer has already committed to the sale by giving contact and financial information – then, describe the benefits of the additional products/services you are trying to sell.
There are several ways to give upselling/cross-selling a try. For example, you can create an online store with Shopify (find out more on Shopify review) and try to improve your revenue with this strategy.
This is a marketing strategy that has worked for countless businesses and entrepreneurs, and it could serve your blog or business well. Just remember to utilize the tips I've illustrated here, so you can get the most from your upselling/cross-selling efforts.


Join Ray Villalobos for an in-depth discussion in this video Styling headings and body copy, part of Bootstrap 3 Essential Training.
- In this chapter, I'm going to go over some of the basic styles that come with the Bootstrap framework and I'm also going to take the time to work with some unique and super useful utility classes that you might not be aware of. I have a very simple sample page here with all the headlines as you can see. Now Bootstrap uses Helvetica Neue if it's available and then tries to look for Helvetica, Arial, and if nothing else is available, it uses the default CSS sans-serif font.
Whatever might be there for your machine. Now, of course, you have the standard styles for headlines level one through level six, as you can see, but what you might not be aware of is that you can also use the classes h1 through h6 and that will actually emulate a headline of that level. You can very easily say something like div, with a class of "h1" and I'll do a Headline 1 and if I save that, you'll see that it looks pretty much like the Headline Level 1.
Actually, it uses the same style. You can use that to emulate that same style somewhere else or if you want to, for example, have a certain word look like the same font as your headline, you can do that by adding "span" class here, and let's go ahead and put this word in there, and I'll do a class of "h1". Now that word looks to be the same size and the same font as our headline.
So you can use it not just for emulating a headline somewhere else, but also to create an inline headline element, which you wouldn't be able to do with an "h1" tag. You can also create secondary text inside a headline or inside body copy using the small tag. You've probably done this. You can use, say, a small tag here and then put in secondary text here.
But Bootstrap actually creates a style for that text. You can see that it not only is smaller, but also has slightly lighter text. That's definitely something that you can target with CSS later on. Now, in the same way that you have the "h1" through "h6" classes, you can also have a small class to use within your inline elements. In here you can say, "span small" and then put a word in there, and it behaves in a similar fashion making that piece of text small.
You can see that word is right here. It looks a little bit smaller than some of the other text. Now within body copy, the global defont size is 14 pixels, with a line height of about 1.428 and paragraphs also get a bottom margin of half their computed height, which is 10 pixels by default. You can also check this out by doing inspect element and if you've got Google Chrome, you'll be able to see what those different parameters are.
So you can see margin of 10 pixels is right here, and you can dig through some of those other defaults. Here's the 14 pixel size plus the line height of 1.4 etcetera, and you can see, as I mentioned before, the actual margin that gets added at the bottom of every paragraph right here. There's also a special style that you can apply called "lead". So if we grab this second paragraph, let's go ahead and undo some of these other styles here.
I'm just going to get rid of this and get rid of our spans here. I'm going to save this and if I want to I can grab this second piece of text and apply a lead style to it. So I can say, "p class = lead" and that will try to make this piece of text stand out a little bit from the rest of the text. That can be useful when you're writing some content, to sort of have a paragraph that stands out.
Remember this is something that you can also style with CSS to make it look completely different. Just having that built-in class helps you a little bit. So I'm sure you already knew about default headline and paragraph styles, but Bootstrap offers all types of little utility classes. Like substitutes for things like headlines, the lead class and a lot of other ones that we'll cover throughout this chapter. Those types of things are going to help you create sites a little bit quicker.


Westbury Jeep Chrysler Dodge is an official Rocky Ridge Truck dealer in Long Island and that means that we're delivering a range of Ram Trucks that have been lifted to provide everything you need to stomp around in the mud, scale your share of rocks, and power through the most rugged terrain.
Stop into our showroom and right off the bat, you'll notice the big-time 6" lift. Look a little closer and you'll see 37" tires, 20" wheels, and signature Rocky Ridge Badging. For even more attitude, select models come along with dual exhaust, specialized interior trims, and even leather seating if you really want to leave the pavement behind in style.
The struts and shocks have, of course, been adjusted to accommodate the lift kit. Furthermore, you get LED lights so that you don't have to head home when the sun starts to set.
To learn more about Rocky Ridge trucks or to see a few in action, drop into our Jericho, NY dealership and we can make it happen today.


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China has established a one-year ban on imports of carved African elephant ivory. Conservationists say the move, effective immediately, sends an important signal, but alone won't be enough to slow elephant poaching. "This announcement is an encouraging signal that the Chinese government is ratcheting down the import of African elephant ivory into the country," said Iris Ho, director of wildlife for Humane Society International, in a statement. "We are hopeful that more meaningful actions are being considered by the leadership and relevant government agencies of China that will further strengthen the country's efforts on combating the elephant poaching and ivory trafficking crisis."


Our Commercial department are fully retained by a building company to seek and acquire circa 3,000 Sq Ft to 4,000 Sq Ft located along the M4 corridor between Bridgend and Llantrisant. The suitable properties could be an existing, purpose built office building or industrial unit/property suitable for conversion and the property must have scope for a minimum of 25 car parking spaces.
Our client would ideally like to purchase freehold or long leasehold but rental opportunities will also be considered.


White, unscented votive candles made from 100% Coconut oil, a sustainable oil form. Weighing 2 oz each, the votives shed their delicate light for up to 16 hrs. Always burn votive candles in an appropriate and safe container. Cotton wick for clean and steady burn. Post-Consumer Cardboard box.
Webster's definition of votive is the following: "dedicated or performed in fulfillment of a vow." Votive candles are often lit for prayer intentions. To "light a candle for someone" indicates one's intention to say a prayer for another person, and the candle symbolizes that prayer. Votive or prayer candles are also lit for inspiration or a specific intention or to cast a spell.


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Who loves a good roller coaster? There is not a better analogy for the 2021-22 Tottneham Hotspur season than that of a roller coaster, and I am here to guide you through the roller coaster that was this season. My name is Dustin Gentile, and over the next four weeks, I will be here to give you my take on the 2021-22 Tottenham Hotspur season. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I will be bringing you my take on the best goals, most exhilarating games, the biggest moments, and brightest stars from the season that was 2021-22. Without much further ado, let's look at this week's list…
Top Goals of the Season (#5-1)
If you missed part one of my countdown of the top goals of the season, be sure to check it out here. Just a reminder in creating this list, I judged all of the goals on the following criteria: the impact the goal had on the game, the impact the goal had on the season, and the quality of the goal itself. Let's get back to our countdown…
#5 – Dejan Kulusevski (2nd Goal) @ Norwich (5/22/22)
Much can be said about Dejan Kulusevski's short period of time in North London. I will have much more to say about a certain ginger from Sweden in the coming weeks. In short, the loanee from Juventus completely changed the Tottenham attack from his first start for the club at Manchester City. It is still crazy to me how many Spurs fans called for his return to Turin after his 98 minutes with the club failed to produce anything, and you know who you are! Onto his strike against Norwich…
Deki opened the scoring in the 16th minute from a selfless play by fellow-Juventus transfer Rodrigo Bentancur, but it was his second strike that finds him on this list. With Spurs ahead 2-0 in the second half, it was time for the traveling fans in the away end to witness a little bit of razzle dazzle. As I mentioned in part 1, Harry Kane is an incredibly underrated number ten. He put this on display to set up the number five goal on our list with an incredible through ball in space that met Kulusevski charging down the right flank, and it was up for the Sweden international to do the rest. Deki then dribbles past his man and unleashes a beautiful curler past a sprawling Tim Krul to give Spurs a commanding 3-0 lead.
The goal may have sealed the deal on three points and a spot in the 22-23 Champions League, but Spurs and Kulusevski were far from done on the day…
#4 – Son Heung-min (2nd Goal) @ Norwich (5/22/22)
So about the finish of that Norwich game. Spurs had wrapped up the three points and clinched a spot in next season's Champions league. It was now time to focus on one more task at hand. The only thing that could make this day sweeter would be to see everyone's favorite left winger win the Golden Boot…
Entering the final day, Son Heung-min trailed Liverpool's Mohamed Salah by a single goal after a late surge in the final month of the season. It seemed destined for Sonny to finish the day goalless as the Norwich keeper made save after save to deny the reigning Asian Footballer of the Year his prize. The first breakthrough came off the heels of a slick pass from Lucas Moura in the 70th minute. The Brazilian's creative footwork found the South Korean in the center of the box, and Sonny blasted a shot into the back of the net. He had drawn level with Salah, but there was still more to be done.
Just five minutes later, Spurs would look to add another to their commanding lead as Lucas Moura won a free kick to the right of the Norwich box. The Brazilian would nearly find Harry Kane inside the box with his outswinging pass, but it was just a little too tall for the England captain to corral; however, the ricochet would find Son with only one man to beat. Sonny would make quick work of forward-turned defender Teemu Pukki and set his sights on goal and fire home what Spurs TV commentator Rob Daly put it "one of his best [goals] all season." I tend to agree with Rob on this one, it was his best all season. The celebration that followed showed you how much this moment meant not just for Sonny, but for the team as a whole. They wanted this moment for the South Korean just as much as he did. That team comradery is something that made this Tottenham Hotspur team a very fun group to watch.
#3 – Harry Kane (2nd Goal) @ Manchester City (2/19/22)
It seems odd that we have made it through seven goals and have yet to mention a Harry Kane goal. Well, I guess it is time to change it. Much can be said about the lead into the season with Harry Kane with rumors swirling around his potential leave for Manchester City, his slow start under Nuno Espirito Santos, and his devise performance in Euro 2020. We will cover this at length later this summer. With all of that being said, the way the season ended one could argue we are getting the best version of Harry Kane.
That was the version of Harry Kane we saw at the Etihad. With Spurs needing a statement win to keep their Champions League dreams alive, the England Captain did what he does best … put the ball in the back of the net. He had done so earlier in the game to restore the lead for the club as Sonny found a cutting Kane in the box for a sensational right footed flick into the City net, but after a second goal for the striker was ruled out due to offside, another Harry Kane masterclass was needed if Spurs wanted to leave Manchester with all three points, which is where we will pick up the narrative.
With City equalizing from the penalty spot in the second minute of stoppage time, many thought this scintillating game had seen its final act. Harry Kane had other ideas. As Rodrigo Bentancur set fellow-January addition Dejan Kulusevski down the right side of the Manchester City half, Kulusevski would pick up the pass and switch possession on this favored left foot. Deki then launched a cross that was too tall for the leaping Lucas Moura, but was the perfect placement for Harry Kane to beat former Tottneham fullback Kyle Walker and smash it behind Ederson and give the North London-side all three points in the fifth minute of added time. It was an incredible moment for the club. One that I celebrated in the vacant changing room of the Gabe's department store in Florence, KY.
#2 – Harry Kane (2nd Goal) v Arsenal (5/12/22)
Who is ready for a double scoop of Harry Kane? As the 191st edition of the North London Derby approached, the two clubs from the north side of the English capital found themselves on a collision course. Both teams suffered from lack-luster starts, but it was the Gunner who came away with the first laugh in the previous edition of the NLD as they bullied Tottenham at the Emirates and came away with the 3-1 win. That young Arsenal team seemed to overachieve from that part as they rode a wave that found them in the top four with three games to play. Why were there still three games to play at this point in the season? Two things: 1) every gunner's a runner; 2) I will cover the reasoning in my countdown of the top ten games of the season next week. With Spurs needing a win to keep their Champions League dreams alive, the England Captain did what he does best against Arsenal… put the ball in the back of the net.
After Kane opened the scoring in the 22nd minute from the penalty spot, Spurs had Arsenal on their heels. Things started to fall apart for the Gunners in the 33rd minute when center back Rob Holding saw his second yellow card of the game with a blow to the head of Son Heung-min. The tension between the two clubs was palpable, and a swarming Tottenham Hotspur club was about to deliver a vicious knockout punch.
After winning a corner, Sonny's outswinging corner delivery was met at the eight-yard box by Rodrigo Bentancur and headed to the back post. A lurking Harry Kane was able to break free from his marker and hurl himself forward to the ball for a diving tap-in, header that sent Tottenham Hotspur Stadium into a frenzy! Former NFL wide receiver Santana Moss once said "big time players step up in big games." On that night in North London, Harry Kane was the big time player that stepped up in a big game. A 3-0 victory over their fiercest rival was the start of a magical run to a top four finish and a birth in the Champions League.
And now, for the moment you have all been waiting for…
#1 – Steven Bergwijn (2nd Goal) @ Leicester (5/22/22)
I went back and forth with my last three choices on this list. The tipping point for this goal had to be its improbability. Be prepared for this game to show up multiple times over the next few weeks as it is sure to make the list of the top games of the season and top moments of the season. If you have not already, be sure to check out Jeremy Morehouse's take on this moment at this link here. Jeremy offered a great take on this goal the day after this match.
I pulled into the Sam's Club of Bowling Green, KY (my hometown) with a sour taste in my mouth. Spurs had yet again underachieved. We were into stoppage time, and a makeshift Leicester City squad was about to send us back to North London with a 2-1 loss. I was not a happy camper. My phone buzzes with the jingle of an ESPN update. I figured it was game over. Man was I wrong.
Let's just relive the final moment together…
Side note: two hidden gems in this whole sequence comes via our Viking, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg. First, the interception to start the counter is superb. Second (and the most important part), the grab of Steven Bergwijn's shirt as he jumps the barricade is so important. Remember, Stevie B was on a yellow card, and would have seen a red card via a second yellow for running into the crowd. So credit PEH for starting the counter and preserving the squad.
There are games as a fan of sports that you will remember where you were when the moment happened. Spurs have afforded me many of those moments. I remember sprinting through the living room when Harry Winks knocked off Fulham in the final seconds; (as I mentioned earlier,) I remember freaking out in a Gabe's changing room for Harry Kane's winner at the Etihad back in February; I remember freaking out in my hallway when Lucas Moura's winner in Amsterdam hit the back of the net. I will forever remember sitting in my car in Sam's Club parking lot and getting the update that the Flying Dutchman, Steven Bergwijn, pulled off the most improbable win at the King Power Stadium and Lucas Moura celebrated in front of the away fans on the back of a security guard. That sour taste in my mouth had left as I went to visit my sister in the Sam's Club bakery. She was destined to have a very nice interaction with her older brother all thanks to one Stevie B.
For those reasons, Stevie B's game winner at Leicester City tops the list of the goals of the season.
There you have it, my list of the top ten goals of the season. Did I get it right? Am I missing one? Please feel free to comment on this page or let me know on social media of your thoughts. Be sure to join us next Tuesday and Thursday as I bring to you my top ten matches of the season. What away nights made the cut? Where does the home side of the North London Derby fall? I will answer all of those questions next week here on the Podspur blog.
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Frost devoured my sleeping back as I awake to see Mr. Andy Crider, our staff chaperone, shaking our tent to wake us up. My tent-mates and I woke up, slowly exiting our warm confinement in the tent and entering an even, cooler realm outside.
Multiple jackets, gloves, and pants engulfed our bodies, trying to create some sort of insulation. As we went out, we could see little rays of coagulated sunlight, warming us.
At that part of the trip, we had finally reached our destination, Ruinsara Tal — a lake situated at an elevation of 3658 meters. The trip spanned for six days; the first three were set to reach the top of the mountain (where the lake was) — while the other two were designed so that we could reach back to our starting position.
As we hiked along on top of the mountain, we encountered multiple landslides, waterfalls, and breathtaking views. We even had to cross dodgy bridges that felt shook every time someone walked on it.
The infamous saying, "Ruinsara Tal, it's five kilometers, that's all" emerged as we trekked, because of the constant inquiry of students about how much more walking was left before we reached the respective campsites.
Reaching our campsites, most of us were surprised to see that it was clean. Our staff chaperones, Mr. Crider and Mr. Ed Beavan, often reminded us of the importance of maintaining "zero-footprint[s]" (leaving no sign of human activity in an area) wherever we moved.
This week-long trek taught many of us the importance of solitude in our busy school lives.
To be finally isolated from technology and left alone to the wilderness was a liberating experience. The silence of nature and the isolation from society made us reflect on our lives. But most importantly, it taught us discipline — by experiencing the beauty of nature, we realized that we needed to preserve it.
On our ascent to the lake, this intersection of mountains (situated at the tree line) provide me with both the confidence and commitment to finish this incredibly difficult yet rewarding trek.
We finally reached the lake, made camp and were left to enjoy the solitude that is present at the high mountains. The lake was not deep, it was merely 10-15 centimeters in depth, but for most of us, a lake existing at such a high altitude was amazing as it was.
During the morning after the day we arrived at the camp near the lake, we went on a short hike to see the sunrise on some of the peaks around us. As the sun slowly showed on the mountain-tops, our hearts lightened seeing the illuminated reflection of light reflecting on the snow peaks.
Walking down from the snow peaks, we caught the reflection of the lake as well.
Walking through multiple ridges and valleys, we came across beautiful intersections of mountains — creating surreal views and breathtaking moments.
Trekking alongside multiple rivers, the crashing, and rushing of water helped to calm our hearts and recollect our thoughts during times of adversity during this hike.
In our industrialized society, machines have replaced nature in cleaning our belongings. Watching a local washing her clothes at a river, it made it evident to us that technology has increased the ever-growing disparity between man and nature.
At the end of each long, arduous day, the staff chaperones and students would gather around a campfire for s'mores. With chocolate filling our bellies, we mustered up the energy to trek for another day.
The sun sets and our faces light up as another day has ended. As we climb in altitude and walk those long hours, we remind ourselves of the pain and struggle we go through during walking and the satisfaction after.
Abiral Lamsal was the photographer for all of the photos in the article.
Ryan Bajaj contributed to this article.


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When trying different options, only the options in the left column (Keep largest island/Remove small islands/Split islands) are accessible i-e the Apply button is active.
When selecting the option of the right column (Keep/Remove/Add selected island), the Apply button becomes deactivated.
Options on the right refer to a selected island, which do not require clicking "Apply" button, but a click in a slice viewer (to select a specific island). If you hover your mouse over the apply button a message explains this.
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1 Estimated production of over 598 Tons of CO2 - Equivalent to Planting over 13,491 trees or driving reduced by 1,196,600 auto miles, or 61,026 gallons of gasoline.


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UM-Dearborn takes 6-0 win in opener with Calvin
UM-Dearborn
Calvin (3-13-0) 0 0 0 0
UM-Dearborn (17-2-1) 4 1 1 6
1st - 04:57 - PP - Andrew Spiegel (UM-Dearborn)
1st - 07:52 - Tyler Groat (UM-Dearborn)
1st - 18:54 - John Barlow (UM-Dearborn)
1st - 19:49 - Kevin Bechard (UM-Dearborn)
2nd - 13:04 - Chase Best (UM-Dearborn)
3rd - 15:44 - Billy Brock (UM-Dearborn)
G: N/A
A: N/A
Sh: 2 Players (#03, #15) - 2
Sv: Darin Fox - 34
G: 6 Players (#15, #22, #24, #64, #91, #92) - 1
A: 2 Players (#24, #92) - 2
Sh: Andrew Spiegel - 10
Sv: Thomas Proudlock - 14
PowerPlays
Shorthanded Goals
Penalties (min)
Face Offs Won
DEARBORN, Mich. – The No. 2 University of Michigan-Dearborn men's hockey team extended its winning streak to six games after shutting out Calvin College on Friday at the UM-Dearborn Ice Arena.
The Wolverines took advantage of an early power play to take the lead before adding three more before the first intermission on their way to a 6-0 win. A second straight shutout pushes UM-Dearborn to 17-2-1 on the season.
Andrew Spiegel got the scoring started, capitalizing off a feed from Kevin Bechard on the power play to put the Wolverines up 1-0. After Tyler Groat added his 26th of the season, John Barlow and Bechard scored 65 seconds apart in the final minutes of the first to make it 4-0.
Leading the way offensively was Billy Brock with one goal and two assists. Bechard, Groat, and Spiegel added a goal and an assist each, while Chase Best recorded two assists.
Thomas Proudlock made 14 saves to earn his second straight shutout and 16th win of the season.
The Wolverines return to action at 8:10 pm tomorrow against the Calvin at the Eagles Ice Center in Grand Rapids, Mich.
By Aarif Deen, Sports Information Assistant


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Near-threshold ultraviolet-laser ablation of Kapton film investigated by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
D. W. Zeng, Kam Chuen Yung, C. S. Xie
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Near-threshold ultraviolet-laser (355 nm) ablation of 125-μm thick Kapton films was investigated in detail using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Different from the irradiation at higher fluences, the contents of the oxygen, amide group, and C-O group on the ablated surface increased with an increase in the pulse number, whereas the carbon contents decreased, although the contents of the nitrogen and the carbonyl group (C = O) decreased slightly. This implied that there was no carbon-rich residue on the ablated surface. Near the ablation threshold, only photolysis of the C-N bond in the imide rings and the diaryl ether group (C-O) took place due to a low surface temperature rise, and the amide structure and many unstable free radical groups were created. Sequentially, the oxidation reaction occurred to stabilize the free radical groups. The decomposition and oxidation mechanism could explain the intriguing changes of the chemical composition and characteristics of the ablated surface. In addition, the content of the C-O group depended on the opposite factors: the thermally induced decomposition of the ether groups and the pyrolysis of the Caryl-C bond. Upon further irradiation, the cumulative heating may induce the breakage of the Caryl-C bond and enhance the oxidation reaction, resulting in an increase of the content of the C-O group.
Journal of Materials Research
https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2003.0008
10.1557/JMR.2003.0008
Scopus Link
Zeng, D. W., Yung, K. C., & Xie, C. S. (2003). Near-threshold ultraviolet-laser ablation of Kapton film investigated by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Journal of Materials Research, 18(1), 53-59. https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2003.0008
Zeng, D. W. ; Yung, Kam Chuen ; Xie, C. S. / Near-threshold ultraviolet-laser ablation of Kapton film investigated by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. In: Journal of Materials Research. 2003 ; Vol. 18, No. 1. pp. 53-59.
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The next generation of Titleist's Pro V1 golf balls promise improved performance from tee to green. Faster from core to cover, the new Pro V1 and Pro V1x have been designed to leave the clubface with more ball speed and lower long game spin for more distance, while providing the best short game control to help golfers shoot lower scores.
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