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Cayo Elina 51
"So you're the guys that are going to try and keep any more reinforcements from getting to us?" Elina asked the haggard youth crouched in the doorway with her.
The young woman didn't nod; she just shrugged her shoulders noncommittally.
"Well, do what you can, okay?" The battle to join up with the others had cost the islanders several casualties and they didn't have the chance to take out the armored car which had been resupplied and was once again keeping them held down along the beach.
'Inland though, they can't hold us back.'When it came to house to house fighting and clearing the old buildings the islanders held all the cards. In hand to hand fighting no one could beat them. Elina's new plan of action was to burrow through the buildings one by one until they were level with the armored car, then draw it out and, hopefully, take it out with Ambros's grenade. If that didn't work Elina was going to try firing weapons through the firing ports.
"That car is killing us." She muttered for the third time in as many minutes, listening to the screams along the beach. The Cubans were smart enough to realize they needed to protect it with infantry to keep the main body of the islanders off of it.
Ambros appeared at her side, he had on a new shirt and fresh bandages. "Here." He said pulling a bundle off of his back and thrusting it into her hands. "And I brought you this gift too." With his other hand he rummaged inside of a hefty looking back and pulled out a fresh bayonet. "I asked for digging tools, to help with the walls in the buildings. They should be here in thirty minutes with the boats. He is splitting it in two, just in case. Last two boats coming ashore."
Elina immediately realized what that meant; no more reinforcement of their own, they had to get a solid beach head established or they could very well be pushed back into the sea themselves. "Did they say if Perry is counterattacking?" She asked.
Ambros shook his head and then used one finger to clear sand out of his ear. "No. No word. We go get that truck now?"
Elina outlined her plan to him and he nodded agreement. "Good. Good!" He said, pulling more of the tubes from his back he passed them out to the people who were closest, including one to the rather surprised young woman who Elina had fought to minutes before. "These are disposable rockets. Old, not so good, the captain had them in the hold. But I think the Cubans, their car, it is not so good either, eh?" He laughed and demonstrated how to use the device. "Now we have six shots to take it out. Let us get through the walls!"
The islanders had not been idle; they already tore through the first building and into the ally beyond. When Elina looked down both directions she saw Cubans huddling near the beach side.
"Soldiers, that way." She gestured. "Rafael, you deal with them. The man could leap like a human grasshopper and was second only to Gus in hand to hand fighting."
"At once, captain!" He gave her a mock salute, before turning and leaping down the alleyway. Elina didn't even watch, but ran across the short distance and smashed in a door on the other side. It gave easily, in today's Miami the doors either gave easily, indicating the building had already been looted, or they didn't give at all as the people inside had barricaded them shut. Inside the building she crossed the room and waited for several more people to come in, gesturing at them to take up positions to watch both ends of the building.
It was at this point she decided to fundamentally change her plans. Grabbing the nearest volunteer she told her, "You, Jeanie, isn't it?"
The girl nodded.
"Jean, you go back and tell them to make a big commotion in this alley, treat it like it was gold, defend it, make the Cubans think they have stopped us here, the rest of us are going to go through alone and try to take out the car, then we will circle back around to the front and crush the soldiers on the street. Got it?"
Again Jeanie nodded, but before darting off she threw Elina a salute and said, "Yes, Captain." As she left and darted to the hole in the brick wall across from them Rafael came in.
"All taken care of, Elina. They'll be back though, the car is moving slowly this way, loads of infantry ahead of it." He handed out the rifles he had taken to the others. There were nine of them in the room and Elina took a moment to look each of them in the eyes. Then she explained her plan and asked how long the block they were in was.
Rafael shrugged, "A little longer than some, why?"
"Let's go through the second story maybe we can get above and around them, then they won't know we've gotten past their lines."
The group nodded and searched for a stairway. Near the back they found one and bustled up a double set of stairs to the third story. Elina didn't waste time checking the building; she just punched a hole in the wall on the north side to gain access to the next compartmentalized row, which turned out to be a hotel. The room was empty of living, but a zombie lunged towards them and Elina swatted it down with her bayonet, dicing its head with one blow and opened its chest to the sternum.
"What the hell is a zombie doing here? And a slow one too?"
No one answered, and no one slowed down. The ganger girl was first out of the door and busted through the one across the narrow hallway from them. They all followed one by one, not drawing attention from the three men at the end of the hallway on the east side who were looking for targets.
Shutting the door the crew got to work passing through to the next building. They ran into some fairly new construction, poured concrete reinforced with metal fittings. Two of the men had sledge hammers and they all had bayonets or bars to help dig. None of them were strong enough to break the metal reinforcing bars, but eventually they pulled enough concrete out so they could bend them out of the way and pass through to the other side.
By the time they made it to the next street they had a system going, where the strongest would get through the walls and the weakest would shore up the holes behind them. The only soldiers they fought were in the last building, they killed six men and Elina didn't think any got away to carry warning to their friends. Eyeing the drop to the ground and the distance to the next building Elina said, "We'll have to go down. And they have a guy on the roof over there. Maybe a few more."
"Through the floor or do we look for stairs?" someone asked.
"Let's check the stairs. Ambros, you have that grenade?"
"Yes, right here." He pulled the ugly looking thing out of his pocket. He had taken it off of one of the Soldier's bodies.
"Don't use it, but keep it handy, we might need a distraction." She told him.
"Distraction, yes."
The stairwell to the second floor was empty.
Rafael stopped at the landing, "We can drop from the windows outside if we need too." The stairwell was close to one corner of the building, opening up their chances of being seen from multiple directions. To make matters worse, it looked like a fire exit, increasing the chances that the ground floor was subdivide into multiple shops as was the norm in what used to be the heavy tourist area near Miami Beach.
The second story was up fairly high though and Elina had at least three non-islanders to worry about, Ambros, the girl and another guy that Elina thought she recognized from the 14 Coronas. Finally she nodded, "We'll drop from here, find a rope or something for those who need to climb partway down."
The fire doors had already been broken into on this level, not recently either and there were no soldiers in sight. Choosing yet another hotel room door, they barged in on two men having what looked like consensual relations with a scrawny young woman. They all yelled and one of the men disengaged from the woman's head and reached for a weapon. Elina killed him with a stab through his chest. Her companions stood there for a moment and then butchered the other two before they could yell again and raise the alarm.
Elina stood transfixed, staring at the man on the end of her bayonet, watching him die. 'It feels…good.' She shuddered as the man toppled away from her and fell through the open window to the street below. "Shit." She said, belated reaching for him.
Cautiously she looked out the window through the rags that were hanging there as curtains. If any of the Soldiers saw anything to be concerned about they were not raising the alarm. With some relief Elina noted two other bodies in the street below. "That was close." She said, keeping herself from facing her crew.
Ambros approached her, "Elina. It is okay. It is okay. We have to go. You sort through feelings later, when we are finished fighting. But I am telling you now it is okay."
'Probably not, for two reasons, first they were not the enemy and second…I liked it a little too much.' There had been a few incidents on the island of humans who became a little too enthralled with killing the living. Usually it was the best and brightest of the zombie killers who snapped. Two of them had thrown themselves into combat and died there without doing any harm, but the third man…they had been forced to kill him and he thanked them for it as he died.
'Is this how it starts?'she wondered.
"Elina, we must keep the plan going. We must go and destroy that vehicle." Ambros said, pulling her to face him.
"I know. I just…feel bad, they weren't the enemy, they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time." She told the group.
"At least they died happy." Rafael quipped, "Or close to it."
"Who does this when there is a war raging outside your window?" asked the ganger girl.
Elina shrugged, fixing the girl with her eyes, she said, "I don't even know your name."
"I'm pleased to meet you, Wanda, I'm…"
"I know who you are, the 'captain'." Wanda gave Elina a salute, "But I know who you really are already too. Hector told us. Said to look for the strong woman leading the attack. I figured I could do worse than staying by your side."
Elina snorted derisively, "Shows what you know." She gestured around her, "Not one of these guys, well except for the German, was with me on my boat when it landed. Everyone else is dead or wished they were. Those aren't good odds." Realizing that this wasn't a good morale speech to the troops she softened her tone and said, "They all did the best they could and we wouldn't have gotten this far without their efforts. I'll keep going until I fall, then I expect one of you to pick things up and keep the momentum going."
Ambros cleared his throat, "Yes, going. We will tie the sheets into ropes, tie one end on the bedframe and climb down the other. We should go."
Elina nodded and asked Rafael to come to the window to scope out the men across the street. After a few minutes of looking he shook his head, "I don't know if I can do that. I mean it's all the way across the street and up a story too. And I don't have any room to get a running start."
"Will you try? Or is it not worth the chance?" Elina pressed.
He looked at the distances again and nodded, "I'll try."
They cleared the furniture out of the way and Wanda took down the curtains at the last possible second before Rafael jumped. Without looking to see if he succeeded or not Elina tossed the makeshift rope out the window, which was followed by two of the other islanders just jumping down themselves, confident that they could make it without injury.
Elina would be the last out and she stood by the window to gauge how Rafael had done. He had hit the wall on the other side, just shy of the top and was holding on to the edge with both hands. As she watched he swung his feet over and slithered over the lip onto the flat roof. One of the guards let out a yell, which was cut short by a bayonet which seemed to sprout in the man's throat like a flower from a magician's wand. However other men saw the first go down and the alarm was being raised. From her position Elina could see one of the men and she took a shot at him with the Cuban rifle she had taken earlier, the three round heavy burst forced her back, but at least one of the bullets struck her target, who fell below the roofline.
'That has to do. I gotta get out of here.'Looking down she saw that Wanda, Ambros and the other gang member were already racing across the street. Ducking through the window Elina cut the bed sheet rope and gathered it up as she fell. She ran across the street into well looted novelty store where the rest of the team was sequestered. Ambros was checking one way while an islander watched the other.
"We're clear, let's get moving. Good job on taking the rope, Elina, we didn't even think of that." Said the islander, named Roberto.
Elina flushed and didn't tell him she hadn't thought of it until the last second either and really she only took it to prevent the soldiers from seeing where they had come from. With a nod she said, "I almost didn't. Let's see if we can go up to the roof and help out Rafael."
The back of the shop opened into a dark, debris filled common corridor where there were doors to all the other businesses and one to the alley behind them. "Look for a fire door and get through it." Elina said, checking the first door she came to. The others quickly located the fire door, it was the closest to the alleyway and they scrambled up until they came to a heavy metal door with the words 'Roof Access - Employees Only' emblazoned across it in yellow paint. The door was propped open by a rock set close to the hinge.
Elina looked through the slivers of light around the door, trying to discern any danger, but couldn't see anyone or anything. Slowly she pushed and the door swung open. Ahead of her Rafael was sitting heavily near the edge of the roof. A sweaty smile on was on his face and he swayed slightly from side to side, his rifle was held in one hand with its barrel resting on the gravel.
As Elina moved to step towards him he raised his hand slightly and gave her a toothy grin, stopping her in her tracks. His teeth were coated with blood; watching him she saw a pale red bubble form on his lips and slowly grow to impossible size before popping and creating crimson droplets that rained down on his saturated shirt.
"No!" Elina shouted spinning out from the doorway as the rooftop echoed in rifle fire. At least three bursts hit Rafael where he was sitting, knocking him one way, then the other, until finally he fell backward, his hand never left its grip on the rifle and Elina thought she heard him laugh. She was not standing idly by; she was moving and moving fast. Twitching sideways she threw herself onto a gunman firing at Rafael, crushing his skull with the barrel of gun, with a spin she tore the man's rifle from his hands and slammed the butt of it into another soldier nearby.
Now the bullets started to track her, the next soldier was too far away to strike with either of her guns, but she solved that problem by simply shooting them. Almost in slow motion she watched the barrel of her original rifle split, giving her arm a violent jerk forward. The other weapon, in her off hand, was neither accurate, nor lucky, but two of the soldiers it was pointing towards threw themselves on the ground out of sight behind a low parapet the next building over.
By then the people who had followed her up the stairs were in action. Ambros was on one knee, taking down two soldiers in short succession with accurate fire and Wanda's inaccurate waste of ammunition resulted in one casualty as well. The other islanders quickly made their way around the side of the low stairwell hut, firing as they went. Leaving the area behind her to her allies Elina ran towards the two Cuban's who had gone prone on the nearby building.
She dropped the useless rifle in midair high over the alley and came down behind the two suppressed men. Twirling sideways she kicking the feet out from one of them and punched the other as he rose to a crouch, both men toppled as if pole axed, before the man with the broken legs even started screaming Elina dashed away towards the next pair of men.
"Ambros! Take out the car!" Elina screamed, hoping that the vehicle that was such a thorn in their side was still close by this block and that Ambros could hit it. There was no time to wait and see if he heard her, more men were pouring onto the roof from the next building. Elina fired into the crowd and knocked many of them down, forcing the rest back down the stairs. She leaped to that building and rushed the stairs like a hobo running for a train and landed at the top of them. The men inside were heading out at the urging of their commander and two of them fired on full automatic as Elina stood in the doorway, she was thrown back down onto the roof top, skidding on the thin layer of gravel from the momentum until her head came to rest upon one of the wounded soldiers still lying there.
'So this is it. It doesn't even hurt. Gus was wrong I never made it to Max's at all.'She smiled at the thought and drew a sharp breath as the pain finally started.
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Ummm.. so is Walking Dead Omnibus #3 rare and only available signed?
I bought both Walking Dead Omnibus #1 and #2 for about $60-$65 each delivered, just for reading purposes. So I finished #2 and went on ebay to buy #3, and it looks like it's selling for $180-$300. Is Ombnibus #3 only available as a limited print with signatures from Kirkman and Adlard or something? If so, do I just go for Trade Paperbacks to finish out my readings in an affordable, well preserved fashion?
12-28-2012, 10:56 AM | #5 (permalink) |
I also own all the omnibuses as well as all the trade paperbacks.
Mainly because I like the quality and the extras over the TPBs. But its nice to have the TPBs as well as they are easier to carry around to read and not worry so much about wear and tear on them. |
12-28-2012, 03:23 PM | #6 (permalink) |
Thanks for the info. The ironic thing is that you can probably buy first prints of issues 49-72 for the same price that the Omnibus is going for. I guess I'll go with TPB's, I just thought it would look cool on my desk shelf to have all of the Ombibus's (Omnibi?). They sure are heavy to lug around, and can be used as a good weapon if there ever really is a zombie apocalypse, which would probably fulfuill the defenition of irony.
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Help Us
Sponsor CicLAvia
Sponsorship details here.
Make a donation
Donate on-line at the Support CicLAvia page.
Volunteer/Outreach – upcoming dates/times here!
We depend on huge numbers of volunteers! Especially on the day of our event (next CicLAvia is July 10th 2011) but also leading up to it. Latest shifts here. Let us know if you're interested in joining us.
Attend Board/Planning Meetings
Planning meetings are held once a month. They are held the second Wednesday of each month at the Eco-Village. Exact dates are determined at the previous monthly meeting and announced on twitter and facebook. Anyone interested in sharing ideas or finding ways to help is welcome to attend.
Volunteer at Other Events
Other events where cicLAvia will host a table. We need volunteers to tend the tables, handing out postcards and discussing cicLAvia.
Volunteer at cicLAvia
The day of cicLAvia, we will need lots of people to do lots of things – – distribute information, provide pedestrian assistance, distribute water, set-up/breakdown, Route Angels, and more.
If you would like to help with any of the above or to be added to our listserve, email us at: CicLAviaLA (at) gmail (dot) com
If you're specifically interested in volunteering, email: CicLAviaVolunteer (at) gmail (dot) com
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I would like to receive more information on your efforts. Thank you.
I would like to receive information on your efforts. Thank you!
Email us at the email address above CicLAviaLA (at) gmail (dot) com
Hello, my name is Andrea Rojas. I have just graduated from Loyola Marymount University as an Urban Planning major, and am interning at Playa Vista Capital just down the street, and am the founder of a club called Jovenes Unidos Por Colombia. I am Colombian American and have witnessed the power of the Ciclovia first hand. I am very passionate about the idea and am ecstatic to hear that you guys have done so much to make this happen. I am very interested in working with you guys in any position possible. As an LA native, I have faith that this will change LA for the better and will be a great success. Please let me know who I can talk to to get involved and what I can do to help. Thank you.
I just found out about your event through a neighbor. As much as I want to be
supportive of your project, you are inconveniencing many residents.We haven't been given proper notice about the street closure. What are we to do
with our cars and how to get to work and appointments? You really should
re-route this through a commercial district. In the meantime, you should
provide some courtesy to the residents you will be inconveniencing on that day.
Perhaps you can make arrangements with Ralphs or Vons (on the corner of 3rd &
Vermont) to provide safe parking for our vehicles. You need to do something for
us.I am in contact with Councilman Eric Garcetti's office regarding this matter.
They didn't know about it either. Apparently, you got the minimum number of
signatures on your petition and stopped. this is not a way to endear your cause
or to be welcomed back next year (or ever again).We live here. We care about this street. We care about the environment as much
as you do. We will not, however, allow you to cause aggravation and unnecessary
hassle for your poorly planned and poorly executed event.I will appreciate a reply. Don't be surprised if the street isn't all that
welcoming on the morning of October 10.-
Shelley –
Thanks for your comment.
We actually went door to door on all the streets on the CicLAvia route. The city requirement for the event permit was notification – and we completed that for all 7 miles. As much as possible, we knocked on doors and spoke with residents, but in some cases, where we couldn't access buildings, we just left required notices posted on the front door.
Though we understand that the event will incovenience some drivers, it's certainly not our intent to surprise or strand anyone with the street closure. We are looking at some possibilities for utilizing some unused off-street parking – especially toward the western end of the route (New Hampshire, Rosewood, and Heliotrope) where there are the greatest parking issues – but, at this point, if your only driveway is on the route, and if you absolutely need to drive between 10am and 3pm that day, you should plan to park somewhere else. I know this is difficult in Koreatown and East Hollywood. Our hope is that a lot of residents will enjoy participating in the event – and walk or bike on our streets that day.
(We actually had initially designed the route to follow a more commercial corridor – Vermont Avenue – and ended up a block west of that, due to street closure concerns from the city's Transportation Department. Our preference is for the larger, more commercial streets.)
Again, thanks for voicing your concerns – I hope that we can do our best to address them, and to create and event that's a big success.
Joe Linton
Outreach/Volunteer Coordinator-
Your reply is thoughtful and appropriate. I hope those going to work the next day can be provided parking a couple blocks away from the night before.
For next year, the metros could have expanded Sunday services and maybe busses going to the outlying metro stops.
Also, bike taxi services could be run for people needing to get in/out/across/along the route. Taxi residents to and from work for free.
Oh, yeah! I'm feelin' it!
good idea, good event, somethig similar is happening in Tijuana MEX. they call it "Paseo bicicletero urbano" they do it twice a week, i am participating this L.A event 10-10-10. lets have FUN!!
Today's event was amazing! It was a true watershed moment for LA. There is no reason LA can't have a Ciclavia every month or even every weekend. I would like to see everyone could tell the Mayor's office what an amazing event this was. Ciclavia folks: whom should we write/email?
What a great We-Love-LA event. We walked it. Next time, we'll bike! Can we have these more than once a year? Please, please.
I walked it, volunteered for two hours in the middle, rode the metro back where I started, and had a blast all day.
Is there a way to do air quality testing at such an event, and to compare results with a typical Sunday? My guess is that one factor might justify the whole thing. Then, consider the fun and community building. If the details are adjusted and funds moved a little here and there, the overall cost should keep decreasing, until it pays for itself materially. The smiles will still be priceless.
50k sounds like a great turnout. That is sure to multiply. Here's to miles of smiles. Do it again in … three or four weeks?
Too bad they didn't have a giant LED/LCD monitor streaming slides from the 7300+ 350.org actions going on around the world.
fantastic thing! I visited LA some years ago! unbelievable, that You made this happen! Please, go on, make efforts to establish a regular Ciclavia and give the city, the public space, back to the people! Give cities a human dimension! Thanks! Supp, Austria, Europe.
please, make donating via paypal possible. thanks.
[…] as often as possible. If you enjoyed your Sunday at cicLAvia, please send your comments and even donate so that more of these days take […]
[…] When last I spoke with him, Paley said the group still needed to raise a significant amount of funds to pull off an April event. CicLAvia is one of the most important events for expanding public space in LA–so, if you feel like contributing or getting involved, there's more info here. […]
I'm part of a non profit named Sustainable Streets which does cycling safety skills classes and promotes walking and biking. We'd like to provide a demonstration bike ed class on a short course somewhere along the route. Can you let me know if that is possible? We could provide a "pit stop" with shade, water and info on our programs and bicycle safety. Please contact me to discuss further. Thanks!
Is there anyway to make the traffic lights blinking instead of functioning normally? A pedestrian crossing the street caused an accident that sent my son to hospital on the first one. We are going but hope for more protection from pedestrians carelessly crossing the road.
Thanks! We love the event!!!!
I am glad you love the event… and sorry to hear about the ped-bike collision. At the closed intersections, the traffic lights are blinking red… and, for the most part, I saw peds, bikes, skates, etc. sharing the street well… Could you tell me more about what happened? Can you tell me the location – the specific cross-streets? Either post here, or email to info [at] ciclavia.org
Somebody PLEASE do a financial impact study on local businesses. Considering that a few places actually RAN OUT OF FOOD by 3 PM, this could encourage other businesses to WANT CicLAvia to go through their street!
[…] possible without financial support and volunteers. So if you can, please donate to CicLAvia and/or volunteer. We'll see you out on July […]
[…] 50. Help plan and promote the next car-free CicLAvia. […]
I took a snap shot on top of the 4th or 7th street bridge. Is there a website that has these photos??
Go to facebook, then "Snap Yourself"
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Poll needs more Battle Mage.
Mage spec that uses staves and 1-handed swords in melee combat would look awesome. Derp!
Umh that is correct: the affliction specialization of the warlocks makes more sense in the necromancers. Maybe with a global restructuring of all classes everything fits better.
BUT let's think for a moment... the restoration tree of the druids is practically the same as the restoration tree of the shamans (indeed they have the same name). Now, there is currently a problem with that? None, in fact the two trees are different, each having certain peculiarities and different spells, without forgetting that both specializations are used both for healing with nature magic (technically they are exactly the same).
In summary, the necromancers are fully compatible in WoW and the possible overlaps with other classes could fully coexist, each specialization having their own particular characteristics within each class.
PD. In fact, according to my idea of the necromancer class for WoW, the basics of the affliction tree of warlocks would be divided between the three specializations of necromancers, like this:
Black Magic -> The affliction part of playing with the souls of enemies to harm them or help allies.
Putrefaction Magic -> The affliction part of performing periodic damage over time to the enemies.
Blood Magic -> The affliction part of playing with the lives and health of the necromancer and his allies.
The same "problem" of always.... I will quote myself to answer you:
The idea of battle mages has already been developed by DonQShot here: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...tle-Mage-ideas
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Most of these are too similar to current specs and classes, the bard is probably the only thing that could bring anything really fresh to the table.
Support classes won't work, see Paladins in TBC (shamans and druids were initially also support right?).
Id like to see Shaman Tank
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Spellbreaker talent specialisation for paladins, basicly ranged dps / support spec with benefits for being in melee (think like dps mistweaver monks)
Tank shamans, using their arsenal of elemental earth spells to guard them and their allies from harm.
anything else is too simmelar to things that we have ingame or is just a mix between two classes that we already have.
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hehe I don't know just thought it would b a good enough name for a possible monk spec based on support and with the red crane as its animal protector? it's been asked for some as a possible ranged dps spec but for me I would go as a support spec cause I'm different XD
I wish they made MM hunter a Ranger spec - a completely petless one.
runemaster - death knight
necromancer - death knight
sea witch - naga exclusive
keeper of the grove - transformed night elves
spellbreaker - possibility, but sounds boring if anything to do with ones in wc3
warden - too similar to rogue
cliffdancer - I don't see the point of this.
Wizard - heard of mage?
ranger - heard of hunter?
mountain king - you mentioned it yourself, it's a warrior
druid of the fang - wtf you want 5th spec for one class while everyone else has 3?
Witch doctor - heard of shaman?
Bard - OH MY SONG SO MIGHTY GUNNA KNOCK YOU DOWN WITH MY LULLABIES
conservation - don't need more tank specs, need tank role made more appealing
spirit walker - support roles are useless, you need to be either tank, dps or healer. If you aren't cool with that, maybe MMORPGs aren't for you.
TL;DR: try harder next time.
PS: your poll sucks.
In most games, there's one "agility user" class which could specialize in either melee (rogue) or ranged (hunter) or both. I really like the "both" option, where neither are great, but there was a good mix of both, and I really enjoy that type of hybrid gameplay.
Of course in a game like wow, such a "both" option wouldn't be viable since they'd be out performed by a rogue and hunter in either case.
I would LOVE to have a Calculator-type class. If you've played FF-Tactics you would know how awesome they can be. Kill them bastards with MATH.
From the list provided, I'd pick a bard/type. Using different types of instruments to do support/damage would be awesome.
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I dont see it up there, but I've been waiting for a summoner class. Not a bullshit pet class, a true summoner. Someone who summons avatars of the elemental primes to do massive attacks. They wouldn't need to be pets, it could be done almost in an aura fashion where "Evoking" one elemental avatar would cause it's image to appear near you, causing additional damage along with your regular nukes, filling a resource. Once you've gained enough of the resource, you'd unleash a huge attack from that avatar and it'd fade, along with a cooldown on its summon.
You'd then summon another avatar and basically cycle through them over the course of the fight. Along with their giant attack, they'd also have utility and group support abilities and buffs that they'd offer the group while they were active.
Endless possibilities here. We need a class that represents true power, not just some ragtag group of upcoming adventurers that saves the world one day and is collecting eggs the next, totally unacknowledged by the rest of the population.
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Yeh I think that's a good request, one that I wish to see fulfilled by the Spirit Walker spec for shamans. But imo, I would like to see it as more of a support type of class, which in practice would work the same way as u described (which btw seems damn cool bro) but instead of pulling out huge damage from all the "avatars" it would instead summon them according to their expertise, like each one would have a specific role hence bring a specific row of utilities and benefits. And as a shaman spec, these avatars could easily be put into totems but instead of being elementals they would be fallen heroes with random names like the dk pet. How about it?
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Boogieman style
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That little regard to new ideas ... and that narrow-mindedness ... I will not repeat what it has already been said because I would be a overpost... I just hope that Blizzard copies some creativity that there are by these forums ...
I find the lack of a warlock tank option disturbing.
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I would suggest that if you have never killed an elk, apply for the first rifle hunt in the areas north of Hayden, Colorado for cow elk. Forget the antlers until you have a couple under your belt. You will spend less money, have just as much fun and have a much better chance of filling your freezer if you start out hunting cows. Antlers are way over-rated and you can hunt years before you find and kill a good bull. You can get a preference point on your first choice and usually get drawn for the cow hunt on a second choice and protect your preference point for the chance at a good area for bulls later on.
Be ready to work very hard anywhere you go. The area I mentioned is essentially roadless and you will not usually drive to an elk. All of the elk that my kids, friends, and I have killed there (nine in all) have come out on our backs. We filled every tag that we have had in the area and most pack-outs were over two miles.
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Lesson 5 of 8
Objective: SWBAT use compensation to solve multiplication problems.
Big Idea: Students should be able to solve and illustrate multiplication problems using multiple strategies.
Today's Number Talk
For a detailed description of the Number Talk procedure, please refer to the Number Talk Explanation. For this Number Talk, I am encouraging students to represent their thinking using an array model or partial products.
Task 1: 56 x 8
For the first task, some students used partial products: 56 x 8 = 8(50 +6) and 56 x 8 = 8(20+20+10+3+3). Others used multiple strategies: 56 x 8 = 8 (30+20+6).
Task 2: 112 x 4
During the next task, most students used partial products: 112 x 4. I loved how this student caught on to the doubling and halving: 112 x 4 (doubling & halving).
Task 3: 224 x 2
Then, students solved 224 x 2. This student showed three different strategies on her board: 224 x 2 (multiple strategies).
Task 4: 448 x 1
I wasn't planning on this task, but students will often notice patterns and then they'll raise their hands and say, "I know what the next task is going to be!" One student said, "448 x 1!" I just had to write it up there for a quick discussion.
Throughout every number talk, I continually model student thinking on the board to inspire other students. This also requires students to use math words to explain their thinking instead of relying on a model to represent the math. As students solved each task, I wrote the answers on the board to encourage students to use prior tasks to solve the more complex tasks: Listed Tasks.
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Teacher Demonstration
Goal & Introduction
To begin, I invited students to sit on the front carpet with their white boards. I introduced the goal: I can use compensation to solve multiplication problems. I explained: Yesterday, we solved multiplication problems using partial products. Today, we are going to use compensation. Does anyone remember using the compensation strategy to solve addition problems? Students responded, "Oh yeah!"
Review: Compensation with Addition
In order to review compensation, I wrote the following on the board: Compensation with Addition (Step 1). I explained: Let's say that we have 36 + 15. To make 36 easier to add, we could add 4, which will turn the 36 into 40. Then we can add the 15. This would equal 55... but is 36 + 15 equal to 55? Students responded, "No....!" So what do we have to do to adjust our answer? Since we "added too much," we have to take away the 4.... and 55 - 4 = 51. As I modeled each step on the board, students also completed the same steps on their white boards: Adding 4 to 36.
Next, we reviewed compensation with Addition by solving the same problem as above (36 + 15), only this time, I asked: How else can we use compensation with this problem? A student said, "We can subtract 6!" Here, Compensation with Addition (Step 2), we subtracted six and then adjusted our answer later on by adding six back in: Taking away 6 from 36.
Compensation with Multiplication
We moved on to using compensation when solving multiplication problems. I modeled each problem on the board and students completed each problem on their own white boards as well: 13 x 3 on Student Board. The first task was 13 x 3. I modeled Compensating 13 x 3 (strategy 1) first and then I modeled Compensating 13 x 3 (strategy 2) next.
We then solved 297 x 3 by Adding to Compensate and Subtracting to Compensate. Again, students solved this on their boards as well: 297 x 3 on Student Board..
To gradually build a staircase of complexity, we then solved 813 x 2.
I asked students: Can anyone make a conjecture? Did anyone notice a pattern when using compensation to solve multiplication problems? One student said, "If you add, you always adjust later by subtracting. If you subtract, you adjust by adding." I asked: Does everyone agree with this? Should we test this conjecture today?
Time for Student Practice!
At this point, students were ready to continue practicing with their parters!
Importance of Teaching Compensation
One of the most important reasons why I teach students how to use compensation in order to solve multiplication problems is to engage students in Math Practice 2 (Reason abstractly and quantitatively). In order to truly understand the connection between place value and multiplication, students must be given opportunities to deconstruct and construct numbers.
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Choosing Partners
Picking math partners is always easy as I already have students placed in desk groups based upon behavior, abilities, and communication skills. Before students began working, I asked them to discuss how they would like to support each other today. I gave them many examples: Do you want to take turns talking out loud? Do you want to solve quietly and then check with each other? Or do you want to turn and talk anytime you get stuck? Students loved being able to develop a "game plan" with their partners!
Getting Started
I passed out Multiplication Practice Page 2 to each student. I wanted students to have a variety of multiplication problems ranging from 1-digit x 2-digit problems to 1-digit x 4-digit problems so I cut and paste from several different worksheets found at Math-Aids.com.
Just as we did yesterday, I asked students to staple together three lined sheets of paper. Students divided each page into 4 rectangles. The end result will eventually look like this: Compensation Practice Page 1. Some students chose to position their page vertically or horizontally.
Next, I Modeled the First Problems to make sure students understood the assignment expectations. I explained: First, I'd like for you to solve the multiplication problem using compensation. After you have solved the multiplication problem using compensation, I would like for you to check your work using the algorithm.
Monitoring Student Understanding
Once students began working, I conferenced with every group. My goal was to support students by asking guiding questions (listed below). I also wanted to encourage students to construct viable arguments by using evidence to support their thinking (Math Practice 3).
- What did you do first?
- Can you explain why you _____?
- What did you just learn?
- Is this the easiest way to decompose this number?
- Is it just as easy for you to _____ as it is to ______?
- Do you see something you could change?
- Is that the same answer as you got over here?
- Why would you use two strategies to solve a problem?
Student Conferences
This student did a great job solving a multiplication problem using compensation and the algorithm: Student Solving 1509 x 7.
Here, I try to encourage students to engage in mathematical conversations with his partner: Working Together with Partner
Completed Work
Most students were able to complete most multiplication problems using both partial products and the algorithm.
Here's a Completed Algorithm Page and completed compensation practice pages:
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Making a Class Array (Meanings of Multiplication)
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- UNIT 1: Measuring Mass and Weight
- UNIT 2: Measuring Capacity
- UNIT 3: Rounding Numbers
- UNIT 4: Place Value
- UNIT 5: Adding & Subtracting Large Numbers
- UNIT 6: Factors & Multiples
- UNIT 7: Multi-Digit Division
- UNIT 8: Geometry
- UNIT 9: Decimals
- UNIT 10: Fractions
- UNIT 11: Multiplication: Single-Digit x Multi-Digit
- UNIT 12: Multiplication: Double-Digit x Double-Digit
- UNIT 13: Multiplication Kick Off
- UNIT 14: Area & Perimeter


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A Great Stay For Less Than $30
Posted: June 6, 2014 Filed under: H&S Bottom | Tags: $HLT, Hilton Leave a commentHilton Worldwide (HLT) completed a 6 months Complex Head & Shoulders Bottom after breaking out and finally closing above 23.10.
Initial target is $25.7. Stop loss @ 22.70
Morgan Breaks
Posted: May 6, 2014 Filed under: Broadening Top | Tags: $JPM, JP Morgan Leave a commentJP Morgan (JPM) completed a 4 months broadening top. Implied target is $49
Betting On GFA To Turnaround Your Portfolio
Posted: May 4, 2014 Filed under: Ascending Triangle, Reversal | Tags: Gafisa, GFA Leave a commentGFA stands for Ghana Football Association. It is the governing body of association football in Ghana, based in Accra. But what we are after today is Gafisa (GFA). GFA is one of the largest cconstruction and real residential segment in Brazil. The stock has almost completed an 11 months ascending triangle. A break out the neck line at 3.55 may be marking a reversal for GFA and an initial target of $4.8
Newmont Basing For Reversal
Posted: April 23, 2014 Filed under: 200 Moving Average, Basing pattern, H&S Bottom | Tags: $NEM, Newmont Mining Leave a commentNewmont mining (NEM) has been in the news lately on M&A rumors. Looking at the stock reveals a 5 months Head & Shoulders bottom. Interesting the neckline intersects with NEM 200MA. A breakout should be significant with an implied target of $31.80. Note that NEM reports earnings tomorrow Apr 24th.
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Nasdaq Is Saved
Posted: April 15, 2014 Filed under: Broadening Top | Tags: $COMPQ, NASDAQ, QQQ 2 CommentsThe Nasdaq (COMPQX) has been saved today as it has almost completed a 4 months broadening top. Both the Nasdaq and Russell 2000 have a similar top. But recently the nasdaq has been the weaker index. A close below 3968, implies a target of 3,580.
Jet Blues
Posted: April 15, 2014 Filed under: H&S | Tags: $JBLU, JetBlue, Regional Airlines Leave a commentA 5 months complex Head & Shoulders top is forming in JetBlue (JBLU) with neckline at 8.20, which was broken intra-day yesterday. A decisive break would imply a target of $7.


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Terry R. Horn very nearly called a private detective before investing with John H. Whittier in November 2004. But then he thought, "Why bother?" The promising young hedge fund manager had all the right credentials–UC, Berkeley graduate and onetime analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. His father was a former executive at Intel who could give Whittier the scoop on promising high-tech stocks. Besides, Horn was giving Whittier only $3 million, just a slice of the $130 million in the cash account at PNM Resources, a utility in Albuquerque, N.M., where he is acting chief financial officer.
Still it stung when he learned he'd been had. On Oct. 7, 2005 Wood River Capital Management, Whittier's hedge fund firm, disclosed that it owned 40%–4.3 million shares–of Endwave Corp., which makes wireless transceivers and whose price had plunged 74% between July and September. Horn freaked and tried to pull out his money. No dice. Days later the Securities & Exchange Commission sued Whittier, accusing him of betting more than 65% of his hedge fund on a single risky tech stock, which the agency claimed violated promises that the fund would be broadly diversified and not concentrated in "an extraordinary position in one small-cap stock." (Through his lawyer, Whittier insists he didn't defraud anyone.) Among the red-faced investors who got scorched was an unnamed client of BNP Paribas who tried unsuccessfully to yank $49 million from Wood River before it collapsed into receivership. "We went into it knowing these things are risky," says Horn, who claims a 17% annual return on his hedge fund investments, including the Wood River wipeout. "Sometimes some of them go wrong."
Sometimes unnecessarily. There were plenty of signs that Whittier was skating close to the edge; a little due diligence would have unmasked his unpaid taxes and the lawsuits accusing him of failing to pay for securities his fund had purchased. Yet, like Horn, investors focused on Whittier's credentials and family connections. How could he have failed them? "He was part of the information network, and people thought that would translate into returns," says Richard Klitzberg, a hedge fund consultant who was familiar with Whittier's pitch but didn't represent the fund.
What makes smart investors so dumb?
Greed, of course. They wouldn't be in this game if they didn't hope to rake it in. But we're talking about sophisticated investors who rarely take people–or balance sheets–at face value. Avarice alone can't explain why so many of them fall for flimflammery, from hedge funds and secretive offshore commodities pools to ordinary Ponzi schemes. How, for example, could a buyout artist like Thomas H. Lee be taken in by Phillip Bennett, the Refco chairman eventually caught hiding (so say prosecutors; Bennett denies the charge) $430 million in bad debt?
A certain predisposition to folly is hard-wired into the human species. Decision making means processing an immense amount of data, and so the brain takes shortcuts. "Authority, scarcity, consensus, social proof–these are relatively primitive decision-making strategies we deploy," says Robert B. Cialdini, a professor of psychology at Arizona State University and author of Influence: Science and Practice (Allyn & Bacon, 2000). In other words, we're all susceptible to suggestions by influential people; we gravitate to something if it seems to be unavailable to everyone else, and we trust strangers who appear to be like us.
How well do these "weapons of influence" work? One of Cialdini's students ran an experiment in which customers of a meat wholesaler were exposed to three different stories: The first group heard the standard sales pitch about high-quality meat; the second, that beef prices were rising because of a drought in Australia; the last, that the wholesaler heard from a confidential source within the Australian weather service that a drought was expected and that could drive up beef prices. Orders from the third group were six times those of the first. The perception that somebody has the inside track "creates this irrational desire to jump at what's scarce or rare," Cialdini says.One of the most effective–and potentially dangerous–shortcuts is relying on someone's family background and pedigree as proxies for reliability. Investors in Samuel Israel III's Bayou Management learned that painful lesson when the hedge fund turned out to be little more than a vehicle for Israel to squander money on bad trades and personal expenses.
A Tulane University dropout who had worked at several money-management firms, Israel hardly had the qualifications to run a $450 million hedge fund (prosecutors are still trying to determine how much money he took in). But he had something even more valuable than job experience in the clubby world of finance: his name. Israel's relatives were well-known traders in New Orleans and New York who had sold ACLI, a large commodities brokerage, to Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in 1981. "His family was legendary in the business," says John Mauldin, president of Millennium Wave Investments in Arlington, Tex. and once a cheerleader for Israel's fund because he liked Israel's investment style. Mauldin helped promote Bayou with a glowing profile in his client newsletter in 2002 that called Israel "a winner, one of those guys who are driven by the love of the game." A lot of folks fell for it, including advisory firms like the Hennessee Group.
And yet, there were red flags everywhere. Israel claimed he had been "chief trader" for money manager Leon Cooperman when he was, in fact, little more than an order-taker. Randy Shain of First Advantage CoreFacts, which investigates money managers for institutional investors, punctured that myth with a single phone call to Cooperman in 2001. "The fact that he got any money in the beginning is hard to believe," says Shain.
Some investors were gulled by the steady returns. Israel drew in more money by claiming he was getting 17% a year through rapid short-term trades. "That was singing the song I wanted to hear," says Denver lawyer John Siegesmund III, who put $250,000 into Bayou in early 2003. "If they'd said 50%, I would have run like a scalded cat."
Israel was making up the numbers. He and an associate pleaded guilty to fraud this fall after regulators seized Bayou's last $100 million as Israel was on the verge of gambling it on a fanciful international lending scheme.How about trusting a buddy with your money? That's how Thomas Frame lost $4 million in a $330 million pyramid scheme run by his pal and onetime business partner, James Hillman, a pillar of the Oakland, Calif. Jewish community who formed a real estate lending operation called PinnFund with Michael Fanghella. It invested in preapproved subprime mortgages that could be flipped quickly to a bank to produce a 17% annual dividend to investors. In fact, the fund was using lines of credit to buy mortgages and was losing money, paying out old investors with new investor contributions–and diverting funds to the two partners. Fanghella was sentenced to ten years, plus restitution of $234 million. Hillman pleaded guilty to wire fraud and awaits sentencing.
At first Frame had no reason for suspicion. He'd known Hillman for 25 years, and they had vacationed together with their wives in Vermont; each served as trustee for the other's children. "There was a lot of cocktail talk" about PinnFund, Frame says. Without hesitation, he kicked in $200,000 in 1996, and kept upping his kitty. PinnFund's consistent returns raised an eyebrow. "You'd think there would have been some months of a downturn," Frame says.
He grew concerned that PinnFund was growing too quickly: If those subprime loans blew up, wouldn't his investment be vulnerable to creditors? Frame, who was buying and selling securities and once ran a real estate syndication business with Hillman, hired an accounting firm to study the business. But when the firm tried to interview PinnFund employees, Fanghella always insisted on being present, saying he was protecting the firm's proprietary interests.
Frame's anxiety turned to panic when he checked out Hillman's stunning claim that PinnFund had processed $8 billion in subprime mortgages in 1999. Digging further, Frame found a report on the Internet that PinnFund had done only $700 million worth of loans that year. He phoned Hillman, who told him the fund had processed $700 million a month in business. Tormented by the discrepancy, Frame began sending letters to low-income borrowers who supposedly had mortgages in which PinnFund had invested–and found that some customers didn't exist. "I was sweating bullets," he says. "I still thought, There's got to be a [logical] answer,'" Frame says, but he asked for half his money back in December of 2000 anyway. The SEC shut the fund three months later, before he could recover a dime. "I take responsibility for my own stupidity," Frame says.
Could he have stopped himself? "At some point everyone becomes committed, when we go over the line, and we're part of this and we have to make it work," says James Byrne, professor of commercial law at George Mason University. "Once I have put my life savings into this thing, I'm saying, Dear God, it can't go wrong.' Then you're in denial."Stepping over that line is easy when you fall into the trap of conformity. Cialdini's research has shown that hotel guests are 27% more likely to comply with requests to reuse bath towels, for example, if there is a sign suggesting that previous occupants of that same room did the same, instead of one that simply makes a plea for the environment. "You follow the lead of people like you," Cialdini says.
Money managers are not that different. Michael Lauer's Lancer fundssucked in more than $1 billion from investors like the Edmond de Rothschild bank in France and Luxembourg ($11 million), Kuwait & Middle East Financial Investment ($25 million) and AXA Group ($14.8 million). In a 2003 suit the SEC accuses Lauer of investing in dicey pink-sheet stocks and manipulating their value by buying large blocks just before the close of each month.
Lauer's biggest haul came from the insular French-speaking business community in Quebec, where investors lost more than $300 million. None of those investors would comment on the record, but the chronology is clear from a lawsuit against PricewaterhouseCoopers and Banc of America Securities, which investors accuse of abetting Lauer's alleged scheme. (Lauer, who is representing himself in the litigation over his fund, says he didn't do anything wrong.)
The connecting thread is the Université de Montréal, where many of Canada's business executives were trained and still teach classes. A portfolio manager there named Germain Bourgeois first recommended Lancer in 1998, and the university and an affiliated school eventually sank $83 million into the fund. Bourgeois then left to work for cable-television magnate André Chagnon, who invested another $137 million between family accounts and his private foundation. Bombardier put in $68.5 million from various pension accounts, and the National Bank of Canada and a large association of credit unions invested $10 million apiece. Bourgeois–who later served on Bombardier's investment committee and now advises the Tremont Capital Opportunity Trust, a hedge fund of funds–says he was misled by Lauer's seemingly high returns.
That so many investors followed the university's lead is no surprise to Klitzberg, the hedge fund consultant who also lost money in Lauer's fund. "There's a lemming effect," he says. Once money managers hear a colleague has invested, "they tend to think most of the [due diligence] work has been done."Thanks to a successful graphic design business in New York City, Robert Pellegrini had built up a net worth of $12 million, including a winery on Long Island. In April 1999 his personal trainer at a SoHo gym introduced him to a stockbroker named Robert Pellegrini. Eberhard was a frequent guest on CNBC and on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, and claimed to be investing for Steve Jobs and Donna Karan, and a friend of Michael Bloomberg. The trainer boasted about the 20% returns Eberhard was generating with his trust fund; Pellegrini was intrigued. "I was getting 8% to 9% from my broker," he says. "I started to give him some of my money, and eventually I gave him all my money."
Meeting at monthly "cheeseburger lunches" with Eberhard, Pellegrini discussed everything from investment theories to his mother's farm, which sold venison to the same restaurants that bought Pellegrini's wine. Pellegrini got monthly statements from PaineWebber and later Pershing that indicated his account was declining; at the same time Eberhard, he says, was showing him phony statements that indicated his account was growing.
But he grew suspicious after spotting a $250,000 investment in a hedge fund called Stone House, instead of the millions of dollars he says Eberhard claimed he had invested in the fund. He called Eberhard and got a rambling explanation. Then in February 2002 Pellegrini got a more revealing call from the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York. The prosecutor said Eberhard was a polished swindler who had blown most of his investors' money on personal expenses.
Why did Pellegrini hand the cash to Eberhard rather than to a well-known bank or brokerage firm? Especially since it is so easy to set up a brokerage account that gives a stock picker the right to make trades but no ability to make withdrawals (see box, p. 170).
Pellegrini lost $8.5 million in the scam. Last June, after pleading guilty to 11 counts, Eberhard was sentenced to 13 years in prison.Another powerful draw: the fear of getting left behind. Experiments have repeatedly shown that people–even professional currency traders–bid up investment prices to insane levels if they believe somebody else will pay even more. "In the short run it is rational to go with the crowd" and get in early, says Urs Fischbacher, economist and game theorist at the University of Zurich's Institute for Empirical Research in Economics.
But in the long run it's a prescription for asset evaporation. Kenneth Londoner was a respected former fund manager with J.W. Seligman & Co. when he launched Red Coat Asset Management, which ran multiple hedge funds, starting in 1997. Soon he claimed to have more than $950 million and was boasting returns of 37% a year. "What drives it is word of mouth," says a New York hedge fund manager who bought into Red Coat but sold out before many of his friends did. "Once a person with a good reputation recommends it, it spreads like wildfire."
Soon word of Londoner's hot hand got out to retail investors. Despite a December 2000 article on TheStreet.com, in which Londoner admitted to having a "challenging" year–it turned out later that his investments were down 70%–CIBC Oppenheimer promoted a new Red Coat fund in its Los Angeles office in early 2001, in part because Londoner promised to double its sales commission take from Red Coat. (That agreement is detailed in memos cited in a lawsuit accusing CIBC of promoting Red Coat without proper investigation; CIBC denies this.)
Murray Gomer, a retired attorney and CPA, didn't want to be the last guy in. He invested $200,000 in early 2001 on the advice of his broker, adding $50,000 in October after Red Coat reported a 65% monthly return–startling for a fund that supposedly held a balanced mix of long and short positions. Gomer is an experienced investor, but he missed the improbability. The eye-popping returns came from a heavily leveraged bet on a single high-tech medical company, E-Medsoft.com, which went bankrupt in 2002.
"Other people who were smarter said, If they're up 65%, there's something wrong,'" Gomer says now. One of those smarter people, according to a letter cited in the CIBC lawsuit, was the manager of its Los Angeles office, Richard Wiseley. He pulled his $100,000 out of Red Coat, in violation of a one-year lock-in agreement, at the same time that Gomer was putting more money in.
Gomer was relatively lucky. He and nine other investors sued CIBC Oppenheimer and recovered $3.6 million, or 70% of their losses. As for Londoner, he is now a director of finance at a Charleston, S.C. port security company.


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COLUMBUS - When last night's game against division foe Columbus began with a gift error by Clippers pitcher Brian Rogers that deposited Andres Torres at second base - only to see the Mud Hens fail to move the leadoff hitter any further - team followers might have figured they were in for a long night.
It didn't help matters that in the bottom of the opening frame, Clippers leadoff man Kary Bridges quickly scored. The diminutive second baseman reached on a single, took second on Brian Powell's wild pitch and crossed home on a ground out that gave Columbus the early lead.
But the Mud Hens made up ground quickly despite being out-hit 11-6, utilizing three home runs in a 6-3 victory over Columbus at a chilly and windy Cooper Stadium.
Toledo rallied to score four unanswered runs, sparked by a two-run home run by Torres in the third.
Eric Munson added a homer to lead off the seventh, and Michael Rivera capped the home run binge with another homer in the Mud Hens' two-run ninth.
Former Mud Hen, Karim Garcia hit a homer to open the bottom of the seventh against Powell, pulling the Clippers within two runs.
"He was looking fastball, and he got it," Powell said. "With us up, I was trying to get ahead of Garcia. But he got me."
But rusty Clipper closer Brandon Knight, who spent the week with the parent club Yankees but did not pitch, struggled with his command trying to get work in during the ninth inning as Toledo added the insurance runs.
Knight's inning foreshadowed what was to come, as the Mud Hens' Oscar Henriquez labored to close out the game.
The 6-6, 270-pound right-hander allowed the Clippers to rally for a ninth-inning run and even had the bases loaded before Henriquez finally coaxed Alex Arias into a game ending pop up.
"It was close for a minute there, but we got through it," said Powell, who limited Columbus to two runs over seven innings to improve to 8-2 with the win - a night after Toledo blew it in the ninth inning against Durham.
"I know early on, I was trying to be careful with them too, in order to stay away from a big inning."
Hens outfielder Andres Torres has been invited to play in the fourth annual All-Star Futures Game that features some of baseball's top prospects. The game will be played July 7 at Milwaukee's Miller Park.
Torres, 24, a fourth-round pick in 1998, was hitting .223 with four triples, one home run, 15 RBIs and 15 stolen bases.