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The purpose of the study is to gather electrophysiological data using a multi-electrode mapping catheter during a clinically indicated cardiac ablation procedure for the treatment of persistent atrial fibrillation.
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Roserade still can't run Spikes+Sleep Powder by my reckoning...they're still incompatible egg moves.
Too bad roserade didnt get acid spray to abuse technician
The move that does 40 bp poison type damage + lowers foes sp def by 2 stages
And conkeldurr is way better with guts..
Besides iron first doesnt even boost 50% only like 20-30 (correct me if im erong XD)
Iron Fist is only a 20% boost, but it's the most feasible Ability to run for a SubPunch set. Sheer Force would only boost coverage moves and Guts requires you to sacrifice survivability, which obviously isn't an option with a Sub set. And Mach Punch is a guaranteed boost for virtually any move that Conkeldurr would move except Payback.
I would like to ask to you what move is currently the most useful on Jirachi as of now: Body Slam or Thunder Wave.
I generally prefer Thunder Wave because it is guaranteed to paralyze the opponent, as long as it isn't a Ground-type or is named Jolteon or Thundurus-T. The problem is that these threats are actually very relevant, moreso than Ghost-types, and paralyzing Dugtrio is an internal desire that I have to flinch those moles that think that can trap and defeat my Jirachi to death.
However, Body Slam is many times unreliable for me, especially if the opponent is NOT a Ground-type or has Lightingrod/Volt Abosrb. Not being able to paralyze Ghost-types is a shame, but as of now this was only a real problem when fighting against Gengar. If I am giving up the warranty to paralyze the opponent for the ability to paralyze Ground-types or things with Lightingrod/Volt Absorb, I expect Body Slam to not disappoint me most of time, but sadly, it does. Also, while Jirachi can paralyze Ground-types with Body Slam, most of them can still threaten to kill Jirachi with Earthquake, so if Iron Head doesn't flinch (while it's unlikely to occur, but CAN happen), it's destroyed by Earthquake. This doesn't occur with Ghost-types, because most of them are unlikely to defeat Jirachi in one move, except Chandelure and Golurk, and those aren't common. Also, three common Ground-types, Gliscor, Landorus-T and Hippowdon, don't care much about paraflinching, thanks to their high defenses.
To you, what move is currently the better? Body Slam or Thunder Wave?
I prefer Body Slam as it can paralyse a much larger range of Pokémon. Being setup fodder for things like Thundurus-T/Landorus-I just isn't ideal in the current metagame, so make sure you pack solid counters to those if you plan on using Thunder Wave Jirachi. You may not be able to safely paraflinch them, but at least you've crippled them for the rest of the match. Gengar can't really do much to it anyway, outside of getting SDef drops on it with Shadow Ball/disabling Iron Head. As for the other ghosts - they generally pack Will-o-wisp so trying to paraflinch them to death isn't exactly the smartest option.
I run Tinkerbell Celebi alongside Jirachi with Body Slam as a paralysis duo, but when I don't, I use TWave on Jirachi. Both of them have their uses, so I'd just use them depending on your teammates. Like, if you have ways to beat ghosts, Body Slam will be worth it, while if Grounds aren't a problem, Thunder Wave is better option.
I generally run body slam if I'm using the max attack paraflinch variant, plus slowing down RPSF Landorus is nice. However I sometimes run sub cm with thunder and waterpulse in the rain. I only run t-wave if I really have no other answers on my team to venusaur or Rp terrakion.
I use T-Wave. Body Slam is as reliable as Hynomiss, and I like my guarantee paralysis.
Body Slam has always been better in my experience. Its much easier to spam as you don't need to worry about Ground-Types coming in and absorbing your attack. Ghost-Types are also much rarer, and common Ghost-Types like Gengar do not like taking an Iron Head. While Body Slam isn't guaranteed it still has a really high percentage for a secondary effect. Like other users have said, its all based on your team, but Body Slam is usually my goto move for Paralysis.
I personally prefer bodyslam. The chance to mess over poison heal gliscor with paralysis, or to slow down both forms of Lando is really useful. There is no need to worry about ground types coming in and ruining your fun, giving the momentum back to your opponent. Iron head hits Gengar hard, and because I tend to run firepunch on rachi as well the sub disable set isn't really that much of a bother. 60 per cent is a decent percentage to get paralysis, but is by no means perfect. But it all demands on the team so it can be situational. But for me body slam has been more consistent than thunder wave.
Ah Body Slam vs Thunder Wave. I've pondered this problem so many times. Generally, the things that Thunder Wave can't paralyze can threaten Jirachi out (Landorus[-T], Gliscor, Garchomp), so you wouldn't want to stay in and Body Slam them anyway. However, that's on paper. In an actual battle, Body Slam can be a lifesaver. These things can also switch into Jirachi as well, so that's a good opportunity to paralyze said ground types. Similarly, if you're forced to Body Slam in a certain scenario, like stopping a Rock Polish Landorus as it sets up, it can be millions of times better than Thunder Wave. Oh and Thunder Wave is just asking ground types to come in once they see your set. Garchomp, Landorus, Gliscor, Dugtrio, Mamoswine, and bulky grounds like Hippowdown, Gastrodon, and Donphan (that's every ground type in OU, by the way), can all come in on the Thunder Wave set extremely easily and without risk. However, of course, Body Slam is inconsistent and only paralyzes 60% of the time. Fun Fact: There's a 4.6% chance that you paralyze all 6 of your opponent's Pokemon with only 6 Body Slams. If your team depends on paralyzation, I'd probably go with Thunder Wave.
Actually, this makes me think about SDefRainRachi with Thunder. It has the negatives of both Thunder Wave (can't hit grounds) AND Body Slam (inconsistent) all to deal damage. Body Slam is less powerful, but it still hits grounds that can generally come in for free on SDefRainRachi. Why exactly should Thunder be used? It hits Tentacruel, Gyarados, Tornadus-T, Skarmory (thanks Baka Ki Eru Dogura for reminding me) and other bulky waters I suppose; but it still has both negatives. It also loses its 100% accuracy if Rain isn't up, which is even more inconsistent. Jirachi is also forced to use a -Spe nature so Thunder and Iron Head don't lose power. Is the damage output enough to justify using Thunder (on Defensive Jirachi)?
Thunder can hit Skarmory also..
but with Thunder Rachi should use a Sassy nature...
BSlam, Twave, Thunder... all of them have drawbacks, but have their advantages, it depends on the needs of the team i think
Don't forget that without Body Slam you can't paralyze Thundurus-T, which is a pretty big deal seeing as SpDef Jirachi is one of the closest things to a counter for it. You miss out on Ghost-types but you're not going to beat Jellicent anyway and you still beat Gengar so it's all good.
I use Thunder on Jirachi only when I'm using calm mind. It allows you to constantly boost your attacking prowess without giving up a slot for a seperate paralyzing move. I run 252hp/252def/4spdef Bold Jirachi with Sub, Cm, Thunder and water pulse. Aside from that Thunder is garbage, having both the negatives of the two options as said above.
Choice Scarf is the least of this metagame's worries.
Just wondering, what is a good physical attacker in ou? (other than scizor)
I suggest Loopy, that you learn how to effectively scout the sets and items of your opponents in order to avoid having an unexpected scarf set sprung on you. It's no big deal. The only thing about scarves is that the boost is so big it's almost suicide not to have one, they're an amazing way to cut a sweep short.
I understand that Choice Scarf makes for some frustrating situations, but the lack of Choice Scarf limits the answers to your common set up sweepers quite a lot. Choice item users are already limited by the fact they are locked in a single movement and can also let the opponent set up, they have to switch out often and get hazards damage for their trouble. The strategy has an important niche in the meta, and I hardly think just removing the item from the format would make it really better, it would just stick closer to the regular speed tiers.
The thing is that Choice Scarf limits setup sweepers TOO MUCH. It limits sweepers in general actually. We need to stick closer to the speed tier so that having a high base speed stat can actually matter again.
So I know that the general consensus is that Metagross is pretty shitty but I thought I'd bring him up because I've seen him on the ladder quite a bit today. He's actually Bern a bit of a hassle because of his typing and defensive stat spread. Often I'd be up against a fellow HO team and I think I can sweep with rock polish Terrakion, get a kill Metagross comes in at like 67% and lives, KOing me back with Meteor mash then sets up an agility. He isn't versatile or even good by any stretch of the imagination but it's a little vexing when he puts an end to your sweep with his great defences and huge attack. He's kind of a physically defensive Jirachi but with an offensive presence. I'm considering using him for a dual screen lead in place of Deoxys-D as a hazard setting lead.
Azelf exists
Seriously, Azelf, one of the most prominent leads from gen 4, has fallen out of favor recently for reasons I can't imagine. If your team needs Stealth rock up + prevented, there's no one better. With a fast taunt, Rocks, and the often forgotten Magic Coat, Azelf consistently does work as a lead. He has Dual Screens too. If that's what you need, try this set:
@ Light Clay
Trait: Levitate Evs: 252 Hp / 4 Atk / 252 Spe Nature: Jolly
Light Screen | Reflect | Magic Coat / Stealth Rock | Explosion
Simple set, but it does what it needs to. Max Speed to Screen things before they can take you out, and the Screens because that's the point of the set. Magic Coat if you want to stop Hazards, Stealth Rock if you want your own. Explosion hits hard even nerfed and is good to not waste any of your Screens to go into a sweeper who doesn't want to take a hit. Try it
Azelf dropped hugely in popularity mainly because of Deoxys-D being brought down to OU from Uber in the transition to B/W, which I'd argue Deoxys-D is a much better and more consistent suicide lead that Azelf. Given how offensive the metagame is, Azelf is getting one move off before it dies with that set, maybe two if you're lucky. Deoxys-D on the other hand can get Stealth Rock up in literally 95% of matches, and the matches it doesn't is when your opponent changes their lead to something to specifically beat Deoxys-D, meaning you've got a good switch when Deoxys-D dies or you switch out. Main point I'm trying to make here is that Deoxys-D has the bulk to provide more than just Stealth Rock. Access to Spikes too make Deoxys much better as a suicide lead, as it just makes it that much easier for you to sweep with your supporting sweepers.
This bulk becomes so much more important when you really need to predict with that Azelf set. If you Magic Coat predicting a hazard and your opponent attacks, you're at risk of losing Azelf. If you don't Magic Coat as your opponent uses Stealth Rock, then you're opponent gets up Stealth Rock, something that a suicide lead should try to prevent. Deoxys-D not only gets Stealth Rock up in most situations, but also does a great job of preventing it, not to mention Deoxys-D can run offensive sets to beat spinners while still retaining good bulk. Honestly, I don't know why you've slashed Magic Coat over Stealth Rock. You'd be better replacing Explosion, especially given you're running mininal attack investment and not using Normal Gem either.
I haven't seen much of Azelf in this meta, mainly because it's really outclassed. Mew and Deoxys-D are much more consistent suicide leads thanks to their extra bulk, and that extra bulk really eases prediction as you don't have to compromise your defenses while posing some sort of offensive presence.
See the frailness of azelf is why I wanted to try out Metagross in place of Deoxys-D. Without the shitty typing of mono-psychic I could get up rocks, 1 or both screens and either die or explode. The speed and power of the metagame means you can't run fast and frail leads as well, you need something with the bulk to survive all the constant attacks and get everything up.
I will agree that the best metagross sets to use would be supportive, since steel is a poor offensive type. But metagross is weak to ground and fire and neutral to fighting and water, so it really doesn't pack resistances to common attacking types (except dragon).
Dual screens or stealth rock seems nice, but where does metsgross get a free turn to set that up? What does it force out?
Just thought of this though,
Maybe you could try trick-band set? Enough offensive power to really pose a threat, with trick as a team support move when you need it. Metagross gets trick right?
Metagross does get trick and can run it on a band set to both devastate and cripple opponents. The main draw would be Meteor mash possibly getting you an attack boost which is bigger than normal because choice items and boosts are multiplicative.
I recently tried out Leadgross with 252hp/252atk sr dual screens and normal gem explosion. It failed to set up against opponents with taunt however always secured q kill against said taunters. It's great at setting up rocks then screens then dying and bringing in a sweeper but it can't effectively stop other leads making it wasteful. So it's great if you're up against a team without a dedicated lead but pretty inconsistent against fellow leads because 4move slot syndrome + low speed. If it had sturdy as a dw ability maybe it would be slightly better with a custap berry but alas no such luck for the super computer.


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Perhaps anyone currently raising a family here should consider moving somewhere else.
Our school systems in Nevada — from kindergarten to graduate school — are shamefully underfunded and have been for years.
Now comes a report that Nevada ranks dead last among 51 states (behind DC, Puerto Rico or perhaps Guam) in the amount of state support for higher education.
Why let UNR and UNLV degenerate into Reno State and Las Vegas State colleges? Why don't we consider shutting both schools down altogether? Let's make Nevada live up to the reputation it already has all across the country — that of a boomtown mining camp.
Perhaps it's time to realize that we really don't have a state government and that we've never had one. Nevada's state government is still basically a territorial administration.
Insurance regulation in Nevada is non-existent. Health care costs are totally out of control. (The mentally disabled) are still left to die through improper care.
DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN. All of the above was lifted from a 5 October 1982 speech I gave at the appropriately named Depression Deli, now a Reno topless joint.
In the 7 Feb. 2009 Tribune, I added: "More than a quarter century has now passed. That economic crunch was followed by another a decade later in which the budget was again balanced on the backs of the physically and mentally disabled. Now, here we are again in the same damned place, only worse."
Was I overstating the case when I said we might as well close the universities?
"We might just as well close the campuses down," said Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Gomorrah South, reacting to Gov. Jim the Dim's 2009 Rape of the State Address. Great minds think alike.
Former Sen. Joe Neal, D-North Las Vegas, has proven entirely correct when he said a decade ago that growth had stopped paying for itself and it was time for gambling to pay its fair share. Never happened. Ditto with mining.
The legislature will again fail to discharge its constitutionally mandated duty to adequately fund education.
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The girl, identified as Monica Renee Laminack, according to the Associated Press, would have been 2 years old in June.
The attack happened around 6 p.m. Wednesday at her family's home on Elm Drive in Ellabell. Police say that Monica's grandmother had fallen asleep in the home when the girl wandered outside. The grandmother awoke and looked out the window to see Monica being attacked, according to the AP.
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Cherokee Sheriff's Office Looking for Cigarette Thieves — Woodstock Patch
The Cherokee Sheriff's Office is asking for the public to help them locate find men who are suspected of robbing a Canton convenience store.
At approximately 11:08 p.m. Wednesday, three men who appeared to be African-American entered the Racetrac at 4125 Marietta Highway and told the clerk not to move.
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A water park is coming to the city of Norcross later this spring. The new attraction will be located at Malibu Grand Prix off Brook Hollow Parkway.
The water park will consist of three phases, which will be completed during the off seasons through 2015. The first phase is known as Buccaneer Cove, which will be the biggest attraction of the three and aims to be unveiled Memorial Day weekend starting May 25.
One Person Killed in I-75 Accident — Marietta Patch
One person died after a morning crash on Interstate 75 North at the Canton Road Connector, the spokesman for the Georgia State Patrol said this afternoon.
The three-vehicle crash occurred around 9:35 a.m. Thursday when a vehicle changed lanes and hit a passenger car, GSP spokesman Gordy Wright said.
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The victim parked and went to ask the female suspect what she was doing.
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Healesville Sanctuary is indulging once again in our fabulous Wine and Wildlife Weekend - Queens Birthday long weekend 8, 9 and 10 June 2013.
Enjoy the amazing combination of wildlife experiences with the tastes of the Yarra Valley. Healesville Sanctuary has partnered with Sanctuary Harvest Cafe, De Bortoli Yarra Valley Estate, Napoleone & Co Cider and Kennedy and Wilson Chocolate to come together to create a gourmet experience with a difference.
It's the opportunity to enjoy some great local food brought to you by the Sanctuary's own Harvest Cafe (Healesville Hotel) with indigenous flavours as well as wine, cider, chocolate and cheese tastings against the backdrop of the Sanctuary's rustic pavilions with roaring open fires. Plus, you can feast your eyes on some amazing Australian wildlife.
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Warming winter homemade pumpkin and lemon myrtle soup complimented by tastings of a fabulous range of De Bortoli wines and Meredith Goat's Cheese. Slow roasted local lamb with garlic, rosemary and sea salt crust, mint jelly and rocket in a turkish roll complemented by tastings of Napoleone & Co Cider. Sample delicious locally produced chocolate and hot chocolate from Kennedy and Wilson.
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Why they can only play a complete game when it means absolutely "jack squat"
If making the playoff were riding on the game today they would lose by 30 and fumble the ball 5 times...you know it...
Why they can only play a complete game when it means absolutely "jack squat"
If making the playoff were riding on the game today they would lose by 30 and fumble the ball 5 times...you know it...
just got up here in Cali turned on the tube and boom "Flipper" the movie's on Starz! good omen?
Take it to the bank...You will wonder how in the world this team ever missed the playoffs.
Tanny will look like Montana & Hartline the second coming of J Rice...
Oh ..& Happy New Year on the west Coast...Watch out for the huge cliff ahead
it finally happened; someone complained about the Dolphins overachieving when it didn't matter BEFORE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
"If foot fetish videos of your wife surface online, and the voice of the cameraman sounds like you, just admit that it was you ... because the alternative is that someone else was filming foot fetish videos of your wife, and I'm pretty sure that's worse." - Bill Simmons's enduring lesson to Rex Ryan.
You got it Brother...You see...Overachieving when it does not matter is not really overachieving is it?
I know...Just blew your mind.
I'm still having trouble determining if you're mad, and if so...what you're mad about.
Would you be happier if the Dolphins stunk up the joint today?
Its 10 AM...Whats there to be mad about? Just making an observation about the Fins play this season.
Hope it didnt upset you...if so please ignore and go to next thread.
I just want the Phins to give a good effort and physically beat the Pats up. I don't care who wins, but I do want to see a tight, competitive game. If the Pats win, make it a costly win for them so that they go limping into the playoffs.
The Phins have a young team and a good showing (win or lose) will give them confidence going into next season.
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Alumni Council Welcome
Welcome to the Class of 2013
Daniel Matsukawa ('92), bassoon faculty and Alumni Council representative
When I was asked to say a few words today, I thought to myself, oh wow, I would much rather play the Rite of Spring, and it is much more nerve racking to stand here and speak to all of you. But then I thought it is really a great honor and a privilege to welcome the graduating class of 2013 into the world, as you will no longer be students here in a few moments. Don't worry, my words here will only take a couple of minutes.
I graduated 21 years ago and now as a fellow alum, I could stand here and say it is about giving back, and giving back in a way whether it is monetary or spreading what you have gained here at Curtis. And that it is about being involved. But to me that is a given.
Curtis has always been about inspiration. To be here is to inspire. To be here is to be inspired. Teaching perhaps is not just teaching…..one could teach anyone how to finger an F# on any instrument….but it is more about inspiring. Perhaps anyone can open up a checkbook which is very kind indeed….but Mr. Lenfest inspires us with his grace, generosity and involvement. Mr. Diaz inspires us with his leadership, vision, and heart. Any conductor can learn how to beat time, but Sir Rattle inspires us with his musical soul. Dr. McGinn inspires us by simply putting together mere words. Dr. Ludwig inspires us with the creation of mere notes put together. And without offending all the other faculty and staff members, please know that I could go on and on and everyone at Curtis has inspired me and continue to inspire me and I think all of us.
Class of 2013, you are extraordinary people and you will do extraordinary things. And I know it is innate in all of you otherwise you would not be sitting here today. I used to say this as my own sort of philosophy: If you practice all the time and master your instrument then call yourself a great instrumentalist…a great pianist, a great violinist, a great bassoonist, a great cellist. And if you learn how to phrase musically, and understand the musical structure and grammar of music and so forth, you call yourself a musician. But until that person out there listening gets some kind of goose bumps one way or the other, through joy or sorrow or what have you, then don't call yourself an artist.
But, my friends, I'm going to one up that….you are all artists, and it is a must that you do and continue to do wonderful things with your gifts, talents and abilities and you have the power to move and touch people. Please never just be idle. Please never go on automatic pilot. It is your job to go out there and convey this beautiful tradition. You have been trained to walk out on stage and perform but really it is so much bigger than that. You also have a responsibility when you walk out these doors to think of our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and their grandchildren. In this day and age where our art is struggling against so many modern changes in the world like high speed internet and multitasking and perhaps even becoming an endangered species, it is important that we carry on the traditions and take on what we have learn, express it to the world, and make sure we continue it. And believe in what we do and take it to the next generation.
Lastly, some of you may have heard me say this before…and it is similar to and along the lines of being free and staying curious….and that is, "Students for life". This is only the beginning, the beginning of your journey.
I continue to learn things every day. I learn from my own children. I learn from my students. I learn from my colleagues. Every week I go to work to grow as an artist, and for example every time Sir Simon [Rattle] comes to Philadelphia, the orchestra learns things we did not know or think of before.
I learn something new from people I meet every day. We are all students for life. We will never get to learn or even listen to all the music that was ever written. We will never get to read all the books we want to read in our lifetime. And we may not get to see all the wonders of the world, man-made or not man-made, or even just the things we hope to see. And whether we are eight, eighteen, or 88, we must be students for life. The learning never ends, and it never stops. It is important to pay it forward, the things I have learned, as a teacher, as a colleague, as an alum.
Yes, graduating class, you can now call me Danny and you can use bad words you didn't use before….um you are allowed to. No more of this professor or Mr. Matsukawa stuff….we are now colleagues!
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The highways were excellent—four lanes, groomed medians. Some sections were so new that they still appeared on the map as broken lines. The Chinese expressway network has doubled in length in the past four years, and in January the ministry of communications held a press conference to announce plans to add another thirty thousand miles. When asked about the purpose of the new roads, Zhang Chunxian, the minister of communications, mentioned Condoleezza Rice's visit to the People's Republic in July, 2004. According to Zhang, Rice told a Chinese official that she had fond memories from her childhood of vacations spent travelling in the family car. "She said those trips helped her love the United States," Zhang explained. "By building expressways, we can boost the auto industry, but that's only a small part of it."
I drove past miles of shiny new billboards; they were as blank as unplugged televisions, waiting for advertisers to figure out what kind of consumers might someday pass this way. In recent years, increasing numbers of urban Chinese have purchased automobiles, but it's still rare for them to take long trips, because tolls are high and drivers are inexperienced. The highway traffic consisted mostly of trucks, heavily loaded and braking hard on the downhills. South of Tianjin, traffic slowed and swerved; hundreds of pamphlets flapped above the road like dying birds. I pulled over and caught one. Apparently, a truck full of imported recycling materials had come unlatched. The pamphlet was a fourteen-page mortgage application for Woolwich, a financial-services company in Dartford, Kent, and it was as blank as the billboards.
I stopped again at the Confucius family cemetery. The city of Qufu had turned it into a tourist attraction, with signs posted at the highway exits, but my car was the only one in the lot. The cemetery, which sprawled through a big forest, was quiet. For more than twenty centuries, local men with the Confucius family name—Kong—had been buried here, along with their wives. A hundred thousand people were laid to rest among the cypress trees.
One tombstone dated to the late Ming dynasty and the sixty-second Kong generation. I took a few steps to the next memorial and skipped four hundred years: 2001, seventy-fourth generation. I was on my way to another tablet when I heard the sound of wailing. I followed it, picking my way around the tombs.
A group of women cried and kowtowed before a mound of fresh earth. They had arrived on a Taishan 200 tractor, which had three wheels and a two-stroke engine. The tomb offerings were simple: oranges, apples, a boiled chicken.
The men stood nearby, watching, and one of them offered me a cigarette. He told me that they were burying a woman who had been married to a member of the seventy-second generation of Kongs. The wailing continued for ten more minutes, and then stopped abruptly. Two women came over to talk; they asked me what American funerals were like, and if it was true that people in my country could have as many children as they wanted. I told them that I was of the fifth generation of Hesslers in America. A man crank-started the tractor, and they putted off into the mist. They had left the chicken but packed up the oranges.
Nearby, the stone memorial above Confucius' tomb was still cracked from the vandalism of the Cultural Revolution. A tour guide told me that Red Guards had excavated the grave and found it empty.
By Chinese standards, Wuhu is a small city (population, seven hundred thousand), but a local company called Chery had become, as of 2004, the ninth-biggest auto manufacturer in the country. In December of that year, Chery signed a distribution agreement with Visionary Vehicles, a limited-liability company that Bricklin had registered in Delaware. Visionary Vehicles promised to arrange a dealer network in the United States, and also planned to contribute two hundred million dollars toward the design and development of five new Chery models destined for the American market. They hope to begin by importing a quarter of a million vehicles in 2007. The partnership is based on each side doing what it does best: the Chinese will manufacture, and the Americans will sell.
I had arrived in Wuhu for Visionary Vehicles' first trip back since the signing of the deal. There were twenty Americans: executives, market specialists, technical consultants. Every morning, the team ate breakfast in the executive lounge of the Guoxin Hotel; sometimes, if Malcolm Bricklin was holding forth, the meal was videotaped by his son Jonathan. Malcolm Bricklin is a tall, restless man with striking gray-blue eyes, and his voice is deep and smooth. Often, he ate breakfast with Tony Ciminera, Visionary Vehicles' executive vice-president, and Ronald E. Warnicke, its lawyer. Warnicke is an old friend of Bricklin; one of his specialties is bankruptcy law. In his garage, back in Arizona, he still has a Bricklin SV-1, with gull-wing doors.
"People talk about the Yugo like it was some kind of big failure," Bricklin said one morning. "Tony's job back then was to find the least expensive car in the world. That was when Yugoslavia was a Communist country—but a Communist country that was friendly to the West. We found a fifteen-year-old car that had never had to meet any regulations. It was basically a Fiat 128."
Tony Ciminera said, "We had to bring our own cases of toilet paper, our own fax toner. We had to bring unleaded gas for the cars."
Bricklin said, "Henry Kissinger was our consultant. Tony made five hundred and twenty-eight changes in the car in fourteen months, and in fourteen months the car was in dealers' hands."
The Guoxin Hotel, like everything else in this part of Wuhu, was brand-new. The bookcase of the executive lounge had been filled with books the way you would stock a freshly dug pond with fish. There were twelve copies of "Harvard Marketing Management," in Chinese, and ten copies of the "M.B.A. Harvard Business School Management Encyclopedia."
Bricklin emphasized that Chery didn't plan to export cut-rate cars to America. The company aimed at the mid-level market, believing that cheaper manufacturing and lower distribution costs would allow it to beat competitors' prices by thirty per cent. "I see the similarities with Japan," Bricklin said, referring to his experience with Subaru. "In 1968, it was the turning point—where people's perceptions of Japanese products shifted from cheap to good quality." He continued, "What the Japanese took twenty years to do, the Chinese can do in five."
The city sits on the east bank of the Yangtze, in the landlocked province of Anhui. In the late eighteen-seventies, the British built a pillared consulate on a hill above the town, and beside the river they set up a customs house, where opium was processed. French Jesuits constructed a church; the Spaniards ran a Catholic school. American Protestant missionaries built a hospital. And then the twentieth century brought a new series of events—the fall of the Qing dynasty, the Japanese invasion, the Communist revolution—and the foreigners disappeared from Wuhu. During the decades of the Communist planned economy, the government invested little in the region.
After 1978, when China entered the period known as Reform and Opening, one of Deng Xiaoping's key strategies involved export-processing zones—designated areas that encouraged foreign investment through special tax rates. Among these were cities that happened to be former treaty ports, and, as in the old days, they appeared in waves. In 1992 and 1993, after the earliest zones had thrived for more than a decade, the central government approved thirty-two more. One of them was Wuhu.
The city was a latecomer to the new economy, and it was relatively remote. But local officials believed that this could actually be an advantage in a heavily regulated industry like car manufacturing. Since the eighties, foreign automakers had been allowed to form joint ventures with state-owned Chinese partners, with foreign ownership limited to fifty per cent. The government's goal was to build an industry quickly, learning from the foreigners while maintaining control. (In China, nobody forgot the humiliation of the treaty ports.) Companies like Volkswagen and General Motors joined with Chinese partners, manufacturing foreign-brand cars while farming out parts production to cheap China-based suppliers. For a time, the strategy was extremely profitable for everybody, in part because the strict controls limited competition.
In Wuhu, though, the officials quietly skirted the regulations. They recruited Yin Tongyao, an Anhui native and a trained engineer, who had been a rising star in one of the joint ventures with Volkswagen. Yin had helped move some of the tooling and equipment of a failed VW plant from Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, to Chang-chun, Jilin. In Westmoreland, the factory had produced Golfs and Jettas. In Changchun, they used the same platform—a car's basic frame and major components—to build a Chinese version of the Jetta, which eventually became the best-selling car in the country. (The current American Jetta uses a more advanced platform.)
Yin left Volkswagen to become the vice-president of Wuhu's new company. With funding from the local government, he bought manufacturing equipment from an outdated Ford engine factory in England and moved it to Wuhu. He also acquired manufacturing blueprints for a model called the Toledo from a struggling Volkswagen subsidiary, SEAT, in Spain. The Spanish car used the same platform as the Jetta.
In secret, Yin built an automobile assembly line in Wuhu. National regulations forbade new auto manufacturers from entering the market, so the officials in Wuhu named the enterprise an "automotive components" company. The factory made its first engine in May of 1999. Seven months later, it turned out a car. It used Jetta parts, from suppliers who were supposedly exclusive to Volkswagen. VW was furious, and so was the central government.
But, during the Reform era, as authority has become decentralized, this is a common strategy: push the boundaries first, then ask forgiveness. For more than a year, Wuhu's officials negotiated with the central government, finally receiving permission to sell their cars nationwide in 2001. (Reportedly, Volkswagen accepted a financial settlement and decided not to sue.) They named their company Qirui, which has connotations of good fortune. It's pronounced a little like "cheery," but the official English name was spelled without the second "e," to indicate that Chery would always be one step removed from the complacency that comes from happiness. By 2004, Chery was selling almost ninety thousand vehicles a year.
When I met with Chu Changjun, the Party deputy secretary of the Wuhu Economic and Technological Development Area, I asked why Chery hadn't followed the proper channels for establishing a car company.
"It's like having a child," he explained. "First you have a child, then you register him. We did it the same way: first we made the cars, and then we registered to make cars."
Chu was joined by He Xuedong, the deputy director, who added, "If you apply in the traditional manner, you'll end up waiting for years. During that time, the opportunity may very well pass you by."
We were in the development area's new Investment Services Center, whose marbled lobby was big enough for two badminton nets to be stretched side by side. Some cadres had a pretty good game going when I visited during a lunch break. Chu and He gave me a stack of promotional materials in English, which included the mottoes "An Oasis for Investors" and "Investors Are Our God." One sentence read, "In Wuhu, we have high quality human resource with low cost." The next sentence discussed electricity, water supply, and sewers.
The development area was north of town, on the banks of the Yangtze. With Chery as a sort of anchor tenant, Wuhu had already attracted more than a hundred manufacturers, and new plants were going up all the time. Many of the factories had been moved from the southern coast, where costs and wages have increased during two decades of strong economic growth.
One afternoon, I visited Baoshun Road, in Wuhu's second factory district, which was lined with plants in various stages of construction. Empire Hill planned to start production the following month (airconditioner electrical parts); Shuncheng Electronics was about to add another hundred workers (air-conditioner wiring). Century made four thousand plastic air-conditioner covers a day. At the Wuhu Shijie Hardware Company, when I asked about their products, the gatekeeper opened a desk drawer, grabbed a handful of shiny new nails, and tossed them down like dice. A pretty young woman appeared, with a business card that read "Merry Yeh—International Trade Dept. Manager." She served me tea in an upstairs office, where a plaque commemorated the company's coöperation with National Nail Corporation ("More Than Just Nails"), in the United States. Wuhu Shijie produced sixty tons of nails a day. Three hundred and forty workers. Eighteen thousand square metres. Any other questions?
"Where did you get your English name?"
"I named it after Merry Christmas!"
Downtown, the old British Consulate had been converted into the local Communist Party headquarters, and the Spanish missionary school had been turned into a technical college. For years, the former customs house had served as a kindergarten, but now it was abandoned. You could still read the faded Cultural Revolution slogans that had been painted vertically onto the hated symbol of British opium diplomacy. Small-time traders had erected wooden structures around the base, cutting off the slogans:
In the Midst of Struggle One Learns—
"I'd give it a six."
"Pay attention to the clutch engagement."
"Do you remember the Versailles?"
"Of course."
"What an embarrassing car."
"The only nine I've ever given was the idle on a Lincoln Marquis."
"Are you gonna do a J-turn? 'Cause if you do, warn me."
One of the Americans was named John Dinkel, and his specialty was road testing. He found the Chery test track too small. "You find out how good a car is when you do bad things," he told me. On a foggy afternoon, he drove a Chery T-11 prototype out into the half-constructed sprawl of the development zone. Three young Chinese test engineers sat in the back. None of them wore seat belts.
The T-11 is a sport-utility vehicle, which has since been released on the Chinese market as the Tiggo. It looks remarkably similar to the Toyota RAV4. Dinkel also planned to test the new crossover wagon known as the B-14, scheduled to hit the Chinese market later this year. Chery was upgrading its domestic product line, in part to prepare for entering the American market. The cars destined for the United States were still in the design-and-development stage, and one of the most formidable hurdles would be meeting American safety and emissions standards. Even though the T-11 and the B-14 won't be exported, Dinkel planned to evaluate the quality while showing the Chery engineers how Americans road-tested vehicles.
On a street in the development zone, he ran through a series of checks: accelerating, braking, turning. We passed a tractor cart full of bricks, a new air-conditioner factory, and a boy pissing in the grass. Dinkel sped up and swerved; a bus honked. In the back, the three engineers clutched at the ceiling. Finally, one of them asked me to translate a request: "Do you think we could go to a place without any other cars?"
That was easy: in China, there is always another, newer development zone just down the road. We drove north, past bulldozers, earthmovers, and the skeletons of future housing complexes, to Baoshun Road. Dinkel asked me to translate: "Tell them the gearbox is very notchy from second to third, and from fourth to fifth."
Dinkel is alert, soft-spoken, and small-framed. As a graduate student at the University of Michigan at Dearborn in the late sixties, he was the only guy in the emissions laboratory who could fit into the driver's seat of a Mazda Cosmo. When I asked why he had originally studied engineering, Dinkel said, "I didn't have a very bright guidance counsellor." In those days, people believed that anybody with good math scores should become an engineer. After briefly working at Chrysler, he switched to journalism. He was at Road & Track for twenty years, including two as editor-in-chief. During the past three decades, he had driven "practically every car that's ever been on the road."
At the west end of the factory strip, between the nail factory and the air-conditioner-cover plant, stood an empty roundabout. To John Dinkel, it looked a lot like a skid pad. He accelerated to forty miles an hour, past a tepee of stacked bamboo that would be used to scaffold the next construction project. He held the turn, tires faintly squealing, and the roundabout flashed by: Nails, bamboo, air-conditioner covers. Nails, bamboo, air-conditioner covers. The three Chinese engineers were thrown together against the right side of the car.
The one in the middle was named Qi Haibo. He could have fit into the driver's seat of a Mazda Cosmo, along with a sack of groceries. He was twenty-two years old, and he had grown up on a farm in Inner Mongolia. His grandfather had moved there from Shaanxi Province ("probably because of famine or war"). Qi Haibo's father had had a fifth-grade education and his mother had attended one year of elementary school. They grew wheat, corn, and sunflowers.
The boy had always been the top student in his primary and middle schools. After high school, despite having no special interest in engineering, he attended Wuhan Polytechnic University. "I wanted to go to a good university, and I heard that computers and electronics were the best subjects for careers nowadays. So I chose those specialties when I took the entrance examination."
Last year, after attending a job fair at the college, he signed a contract with Chery. He believed that he would have more responsibility at a new company; the average age of a Chery employee is twenty-four. "I also liked the fact that it's not a joint venture. It's China's own auto company." He made less than two hundred dollars a month and lived in a four-man dormitory room.
After the test drive, I asked Qi Haibo what he had learned from John Dinkel. Qi said that the T-11 had a slight problem with driveshaft length, which meant that the outside wheel slipped a little on tight turns. The rear end of the B-14 floated a bit at high speeds. In particular, Qi admired Dinkel's skills at the wheel. Qi had received his driver's license the previous month.
In June of 2003, half a year before the Spark went on the market, Chery unveiled the QQ. It looked almost exactly like G.M.'s car but retailed for a quarter less: about six thousand dollars. Chery also introduced a sedan that appeared suspiciously similar to the Daewoo Magnus. Chery named that car the Son of the Orient.
Chinese consumers never took to the Son of the Orient, but the QQ was an instant success. At less than twelve feet long, and with a 0.8-litre engine, it is even smaller than the Mini Cooper. The QQ was perfect for China's fledgling urban middle class, which hadn't been able to afford the joint-venture products. In 2003, nationwide passenger-car sales jumped by eighty per cent, allowing Chery and other small manufacturers to establish a strong position in the low-end market. Car prices in China have been dropping rapidly because of the new competition. Last year, Chery sold nearly five times as many QQs as G.M. sold Sparks.
In December of 2004, G.M. Daewoo filed a lawsuit in Shanghai, alleging that Chery had developed the QQ "through copying and unauthorized use of G.M. Daewoo's trade secrets." Simple copyright violations are rampant in China, but this case was more complicated: the implication was that top-secret designs had leaked out of South Korea.
When I visited the G.M. China offices in Shanghai, Timothy P. Stratford, the company's general counsel, handed me two photographs. In the first picture, two cars were parked side by side: the green one was the QQ, and the black one was the Matiz, the South Korean original. In the second picture, the doors had been switched: green on black, black on green.
"You would never find two competitors' cars where the doors could be swapped," Stratford explained. "It means that not only do they copy the door but everything else that is necessary to form the shape for the door. A door opening is kind of like a fingerprint for a car."
Chery executives haven't made many public statements about the case, apart from saying that they had received Chinese patents for the QQ (a point that would be moot if the designs had been obtained illegally). When I spoke with Lin Zhang, the general manager for Chery's International Division, he emphasized that the QQ was already on the market when he joined the company. But he denied that there had been any wrongdoing, and said that it was natural for a young company like Chery to legally develop something similar to a car that had been successful elsewhere.
"That's how you get started, at a primitive level, and then you move to another level," he said. "It's like when you start drawing. You don't begin by drawing a beautiful picture of your own—you imitate another picture. It's in the nature of any industry. It's how Sony and Hyundai and Toyota got started. They all started with something. And it's something they abandon quickly."
Zhang had joined Chery a year earlier. Born in Shanghai, he had a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He had worked for nine years for DaimlerChrysler in Detroit. He has two children, aged eight and ten, and they had been happy in American schools. But every year, when Zhang visited Shanghai, there was some new part of town that he didn't recognize, which made him think about how much he was missing. After a friend—another American-trained Chinese engineer—accepted a job at Chery, Zhang followed suit.
"If I stayed, I could see what I'd be doing in five or ten years," he told me. "The life will be relatively easy, but it's missing excitement. I thought that risk and reward usually come together."
Risk was part of Chery's culture, and even the QQ may have been a calculated gamble. Several independent analysts told me they doubted that the Chinese legal system was sophisticated enough to handle such a case. In addition, Chery was government-owned, and the Chinese had always dreamed of having a true national brand. G.M. Daewoo would have its day in court, but there was no guarantee that the foreign company would be treated fairly. And since Chery didn't intend to export the QQ to the United States, there wasn't much recourse in the American legal system.
Chery was still relatively small—eight thousand employees—but it had found a way to produce a hundred thousand vehicles a year without significant investment in design and engineering. Management appeared to be shifting strategies; an enormous R. & D. center had just been completed, and they had recently hired almost thirty foreign-trained engineers, like Zhang. The company was placing new emphasis on quality control, and every expert who visited their factories seemed impressed with the scale and sophistication. Ronald E. Harbour, an American consultant who specializes in auto-manufacturing, told me that Chery's aluminum-casting plant was so big that they were using only ten per cent of the space. "In China, they tend to build a lot of capacity ahead of demand," he said. "You just don't do that in the States."
As a state-owned company, Chery doesn't have to answer to stockholders, and it's unclear how much money has been invested. One day, I visited the gigantic final assembly plant that produces the QQ and the Son of the Orient. A sign at the entrance said, in Chinese, "We Need Not Only to Work Hard, We Must Also Be Diligent, and More Important We Must Have a Sense of a National Mission." Nearby, a digital sign noted that the plant was producing two hundred and fifty-three QQs a day. Workers in blue uniforms moved the new cars along the assembly line. A manager named Hu Bin told me that, since 2003, they had steadily picked up the production pace, to meet growing demand. In the beginning, assembly-line stations in Hu's section had spent an average of three minutes performing their tasks; now they required only two minutes and five seconds. Hu Bin said that soon Chery would start paying workers by the car instead of by the hour. He asked me if American manufacturers sometimes used that tactic to boost production; I said no, and mentioned the word "union." Hu hoped that his section would drop eighteen more seconds by the end of 2005. That was about the same time that people expected a court decision on the G.M. lawsuit.
"They have to dig deeper, pave big streets," he said. "You have to be able to put five thousand cars on a ship in five hours."
In the United States, Bricklin was searching for dealers willing to pay up to four million dollars each for the rights to sell Chinese cars. Visionary Vehicles also needed a new American brand name. "It's got to be something that fits but doesn't come from the name 'tiger' or 'dragon,'" Bricklin said. "I happen to like the name Chery." (G.M.'s lawyers, however, subsequently sent Bricklin a warning to the effect that Chery, besides being one letter away from Cheery, is also one letter away from Chevy and possible legal action.)
Over the past decade, as the Chinese economy has boomed, the spectre of direct competition has become increasingly disturbing to many people in the United States. China National Offshore Oil Corporation's recent bid for Unocal raised concerns about how national security might be compromised if the Chinese gain control of a major American oil company. (The intense scrutiny resulted in CNOOC withdrawing its bid; Unocal was acquired instead by the Chevron Corporation.) But it might be even more unsettling to look across the Pacific and recognize elements that once seemed quintessentially American: the wide highways and the instant cities, the boundless optimism and pragmatism, the cutthroat business instinct and the hunger for new resources.
One can spot the same weaknesses, too. When I spoke to Michael Dunne, the president of the consulting firm Automotive Resources Asia, in Shanghai, he wondered if the appeal of Chery's low cost would be significant enough to distinguish a new brand in America. There's a history of foreign automakers—Hyundai, for instance—stumbling upon their first exposure to American consumers, usually because of poor quality. (In June, two Visionary Vehicles executives resigned—one of them was Pierre Gagnon, a president and chief operating officer—voicing doubts about the company's ability to live up to Bricklin's promises.)
In the U.S., Toyota succeeded because of its meticulousness—something Detroit has long lacked. And Dunne believes that the Chinese share Detroit's flaw. "The Chinese are a little like Americans," he said. "They want the touchdown. They want the home run. Women hen congming." He was quoting an expression the Chinese sometimes use: "We are very clever." Dunne continued, "But I don't see the patience and perseverance. It's more like 'We can leapfrog.' "
One evening in Wuhu, Yin Tongyao, the president of Chery, who generally avoids the press, agreed to talk with a group of reporters. We met late at night in a conference room of the Guoxin Hotel; Yin wore a suit and tie, as if he'd just left the office. He is in his early forties and looks younger. But when I asked about his education he spoke as if describing ancient history.
"At the time I left for college," he said, "I had never even ridden in a passenger car before." He explained that in those days the top graduates were assigned to jobs in truck factories, because China didn't have a market for passenger cars. He had been a bad student, he said with a self-deprecating laugh, and thus he was sent off to the northeast. I asked about the company's strengths.
"All we have is our aggression," he said. "We have no brand name, no recognition, nothing. We are simply aggressive."
I walked outside and started the Jetta. I drove through the development zone, where the factories, open for the night shift, were illuminated from within, like paper lanterns. My headlights cut across empty streets.
It was dawn when I crossed the new Yangtze bridge and got on the expressway. A few miles outside Wuhu, I passed an exit sign for a place called Wuwei. It was an ancient Taoist phrase: Do Nothing. In this region, there was another city, called Wuxi: No Tin. Once, in Sichuan Province, I took a bus through Asbestos. That was a tough name for a small city, but it was better than having nothing at all. ♦


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- Photo slideshow: Good Friday in Enid Members of three churches in downtown Enid observe Good Friday during a noon service and processional March 29, 2013.
- Photo slideshow: Hayes HealthierUS Students at Hayes Elementary School were full of pride to be "one of a kind" Thursday when they celebrated being the only Oklahoma school to garner the Silver Award in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's HealthierUS School Challenge.
- Photo slideshow: Preserving memories Wess and Jolene Gray have begun a project at their photography business they think will preserve the memory of some of those people in businesses that won't be around much longer, or trades that are dying out or going through massive changes. Wess said the photos are a way of preserving some occupations that don't exist anymore. A photo is a memento that will trigger a memory, and Wess said people need something to take them away from the cares of the day. Here are a few of his photographs that hang on the wall of their photography studio.
- Photo slideshow: 'There's no words' for Connecticut tragedy A gunman opened fire inside a Connecticut elementary school, killing 26 people, including 20 children, by blasting his way through the building as young students cowered helplessly in classrooms while their teachers and classmates were shot. The attack, coming less than two weeks before Christmas, was the nation's second-deadliest school shooting, exceeded only by the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007.
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