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Fiora Build Guide by HolyEyE
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Fiora Build
Usual Start
Early Mid-Game
Late Game
Final Build - Assassin
Final Build - Fighter
Ability Sequence
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Hello, I'm HolyEyE (holyeyeolo/Gold/EUNE) and this is my guide on Fiora - The Grand Duelist, who I main ever since I first saw her.
To me, Fiora is an early game Assassin and a late game Fighter who excels at dealing tons of damage, with the price of being squishy and having no CC at all. Thus, playing Fiora is... a Dangerous Game , as we shall see further into the guide.
Many consider Fiora to be a champion with no contribution whatsoever to the team, or in other words - useless. I get this feeling when I see the loading screen everytime, when the enemy team has got one more tank and looks much better composed, Fiora not really fitting anywhere in my own team. However, past the loading screen starts the actual game, where meta is only a word, and what decides the fate of the game, is the actual game-play.
Let's see what's the difference...
...but first we must tend to how our starting position would look like. First, let's see the runes:
Greater Mark of Lethality
Greater Seal of Armor
Greater Glyph of Magic Resist
Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage
Greater Quintessence of Lethality
This is NOT the rune page I'm using, but a combination of two rune pages.
The difference is that my first rune page includes Greater Glyph of Cooldown Reduction instead of this rune page's Greater Glyph of Magic Resist. This is a simple luxury for when I'm facing heavy AD oriented teams, where magic resist will be of less help.
My second rune page includes Greater Mark of Attack Damage instead of this rune page's Greater mark of armor penetration (made for ADCs).
Usually, Armor Penetration isn't made for the early early game, but more for what comes after level 6 / first B, then you have enough damage that the enemy champion's armor actually starts to hinder your attacks. However, Fiora has so much damage early game due to her Riposte passive, that taking Armor Penetration in your rune page actually gives you more damage to champions, even at level 1. This makes Greater mark of armor penetration more than a viable pick.
(Note that the quintessences are this way simply because that's how I bought them a long time ago, and didn't see a good reason to change them.)
The main problem that you're probably seeing in my mastery page, is the lack of points in
. Here's the reason for that: http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=4077612.
Anything else should be pretty obvious, there isn't much freedom here.
This is probably one of the most important things you need to know if you want to reach high - Itemization. Buying the right items at the right times could turn the tides of the game. One Zhonya's Hourglass lets the APCs use their ultimates in ways that win teamfights. One Last Whisper lets ADCs take down tanks that seemed invulnerable beforehand.
The hard part is the period it takes you to build all of these items. For mid-to-late game champions like Fiora, finishing items is extremely important, since it brings them closer to the point where they are stronger than anyone else, despite having the same amounts of gold. Accordingly, one must exploit the time he is given and zone/kill those champions while they are weaker than everyone else, early on.
We'll see more about that in the chapter about game-play. For now let's see the items you are going to need while playing Fiora:
Early Game:
Doran's Blade, a Health Potion, and a Warding Totem. I used to start with a Long Sword and a few potions, which is still equally viable, and it lets you finish your items faster, which we deemed important. But, I noticed it's much easier to survive early game with Doran's Blade, due to the extra health, and the convenient passive. It's believed that once you buy one of Doran's items, you must make something happen early game, or it would be counted as an inefficient use of your money, since later on it would take you more time to build your items. It's true, but it matter much more in higher ELOs where each CS counts.
At your first back, you are going to want to buy Vampiric Scepter against most tanks and bruisers, or you won't survive there. Most of the times I like to go straight for Bilgewater Cutlass, since it's active lets me add some CC of my own to a potential gank from either side. But, when facing tanks like Shen and they get a Chain Vest which shuts down all of my damage, I want a really fast Last Whisper and so I treasure the extra 600g. Against tanks who build health ( Giant's Belt) and bruisers who build damage ( Pickaxe), your only escape regarding items is Blade of the Ruined King.
The reason I don't build Tiamat first, is because this item is relatively weak when it comes to 1 v 1 duels. Buying an early Tiamat could easily result in you getting zoned by your opponent, especially if you didn't buy any life steal beforehand.
Notice something very important: Pickaxe and Long Sword are both used to build Last Whisper and Tiamat, making it convenient to switch between the two in case you are not sure what the opponent is building exactly. (Same thing with Long Sword for Bilgewater Cutlass).
Also, buying boots is always convenient to escape ganks more easily, and mabye gank mid-lane as well, but don't buy it on account of damage, since your base speed is enough for the beginning. If, however, you are facing a DPS champion like Jax or Aatrox, then buying Ninja Tabi could be extremely helpful against them. I almost never upgrade to Berserker's Greaves (mabye at late-late-game), unless I want some early movement speed.
Think carefully while upgrading your boots, look at Late-Game to see why.
This is the easy part, assuming you are not behind. At mid-game you begin to shine. When you have your Blade of the Ruined King, Tiamat, and Last Whisper finished, assassinating the enemy ADC/APC should be quit easy. At this point of the game you also start to look like the DPS fighter you are "supposed" to be, though you'd still die if you play like one.
Note that by the time you reach a team-fight, even a small one, you will have had to finish building Tiamat, or you won't have the AOE damage it grants while mixed with your Blade Waltz.
As to upgrading your boots, Mercury's Treads is a great choice at this point of the game, unless you plan on becoming a DPS Fighter, as seen below.
Late Game:
If I haven't built Mercury's Treads early-game, then at this point I build Zephyr (start by building Stinger, which is one of my favorite items, and it gives an amazing boost for almost no gold), with the intention of becoming a DPS fighter. I decide that while upgrading my boots, and not now at late-game. This is a VERY crucial decision and it depends on the enemy team, and the situation. If the enemy team has a lot of CC from champions like Zac or Leona (if it's both then give up) then obviously you must buy Mercury's Treads when the team-fights start. Otherwise, you should take your chances and put the money into more and more damage. As to the situation, if you are much behind your opponents, then becoming a DPS Fighter is the worst think you could think of. If on the contrary, you are ahead of them, then becoming a Fighter as opposed to an Assassin is the right thing to do. Whether it's Mercury's Treads or Zephyr, Tenacity is a MUST at this point of the game, or you will not survive.
Additionally, you should start building The Brutalizer towards The Black Cleaver or B. F. Sword towards Infinity Edge, depending on what your opponents have built.
The last item you are going to buy is Ravenous Hydra. Doing it earlier than this stage is a fatal mistake and a complete waste of your gold. Don't do it.
Late-Late Game:
There are many variations and weird stuff happening at this point of the game. I barely ever reach it (50 minutes mark), but I think the lack of an extra tank at this point is felt more than anything, maybe except for the presence of too many Guardian Angels which renders assassins useless. Thus, you must build some health with Frozen Mallet, and must become more of a DPS fighter and less of an assassin, meaning you need attack speed from items like Zephyr and Phantom Dancer (I never buy phantom dancer but it shouldn't be too bad). Of course, it's situational, if there's too much CC going around, you might want a Quicksilver Sash.
Your guess about this stage's build is as good as mine.
Counter Items:
There are three items you should take note of:
Zhonya's Hourglass - The APC is likely to own this item, and if you ever Blade Waltz him, then he will immediately use its active to make sure your assassination fails. Very annoying, but don't worry, It's impossible for him to make you waste your ult completely, since if the first attack, which does 50% of the damage in the ult, is stopped, then it's as if you never started your ult. Also, the other attacks will go to other close by enemy champions, which is better than nothing. If there are none, then the 2.5 seconds the item buys the APC won't save him.
Thornmail - This item is relatively cheap, and it shuts you down completely because of its passive. The reason no one buys it, is because the tanks know you'd never have any interest in attacking them unless they are the only ones left, and the other rolls simply cant afford to get it or they won't be able to carry/supp (and it won't help them unless they ALL get it). Still, if you ever notice an enemy buying this item, make sure not to touch him. If it ever becomes a major problem for you (like, if 4 of your opponents got this item), then I think you need to abandon your roll as an Assassin at that point of the game and start playing a DPS Fighter with a lot of life steal, a lot of health, and a lot of attack speed.
Guardian Angel - The more GAs there are on the enemy team, the less your roll as an Assassin continues to be viable. You need to follow this all throughout late game, and turn into a DPS Fighter accordingly. Personally I don't like buying this item myself, but you can try that if you think it's good.
We finally got to the good part.
Early Game:
After buying your items and helping your jungler with his blue, or guarding it, you should return to your lane as fast as possible. It's inevitable that you would lose 1-2 CS before reaching it, so if you are against a tough opponent, ask your mid-laner to help the jungler instead.
Now the game starts. Obviously you must farm as much as possible. Punish your opponent when he reaches a creep close to you, and you are not busy getting a creep yourself. If he tries to punish you with a basic attack, use your Riposte, and add a basic attack of your own, unless there could potentially be too much creep agro on you if you did that.
There are two things that mustn't happen. The first is that you push your lane too much, to the point where ganking you would be too easy. The second is that the opponent reaches a higher level than you and initiates a duel. The way to prevent these things from happening is to last hit creeps to avoid pushing, and when you see your opponent pushing harder, push just a bit harder and freeze the lane right before your turret is in range to steal your farm.
The same things apply to your opponent, so bear that in mind and exploit your advantages whether it's by level, when you go for a trade, and whether he pushed too much, when you ask your jungler for a gank. Nicely.
This section highly depends on the opposing champion, for each one of them requires a different method of trading. Since it would take a large amount of time to do, I will slowly list these champions and the ways to deal with them one by one when I finish this guide.
But for now, just notice that a lot of times trading isn't a good option for you, for you might be receiving more damage than you deal to your opponent. Notice where the trade takes place, because creeps deal a LOT of damage early game, and can be very annoying. Furthermore, if it's too far from your turret, then you might've just taken the bait, and the enemy jungler is there to make sure you are losing this "duel" and dying.
If you are winning the trades, then the next stage is zoning your opponent from farming, or in other words, not letting him touch your creeps and so preventing him from raising his CS. Be extra careful when that happens, because that's when he usually requests a gank from his jungler, in order to kill you and take the advantage of the lane.
As Fiora, you have no escape mechanism except for Flash which has a very high cooldown, making it very easy for the opposing jungler to gank your lane. Before your first back, the only ward you have is your trinket, which buys you one minute of safety. So don't put it too early, and if you see bot lane getting ganked by the enemy jungler then wait a bit before you put it (actually, junglers know you do that so they intentionally gank bot and then go all across the map to gank top and catch you unprepared). If you put the ward and the jungler is standing on it, planning to gank, then remember to tell your team "jungler top" so they would know they have a safe period before he walks away, if they feel like doing dragon , or gank bot lane.
When you get ganked and die, just return to lane with a ward or two and play safe. When you get ganked and it fails, you can be sure that the jungler is still lurking around, and as Fiora you have no way of checking for how long exactly. If your lane opponent is good, he won't give you any clues. To put it bluntly, you are completely stuck. The only ways you could start farming again is if the creeps are pushed to your turret, at which point your opponent, depending on who it is, could either roam other lanes, kite you, or dive you together with the jungler (or alone but let's assume you are not losing THAT badly yet), or if you see the enemy jungler ganking another lane, or if your own jungler comes for a gank, if they feel like it, which doesn't always happen - it's not their fault that you are losing your lane. And you can't do any of that if the failed gank leaves you with less than half your HP.
However, even if you die and miss a wave of CS, don't let that ruin your spirit. One gank is not enough to shut you down. Let me prove this to you by looking at another champion which is much harder to shut down: Nasus. Nasus is often mistaken to lose his lane after a successful gank by the enemy team, at which he dies. This mistake leads the jungler to go gank other lanes and let Nasus farm freely, with his passive keeping him sustained in-lane. Later on Nasus becomes extremely strong and many times carries his team to victory. Why does this happen? It's because for Nasus farming doesn't only mean gold, but also getting stacks on his Siphoning Strike. Unless you ZONE him, and not just KILL him he will become stronger than you later on.
I brought Nasus as an example because it happens most often with him. However, this applies even to late game champion who don't own this type of skill, since when they finish their items, they are stronger than early game champions who finish their items. Thus: one creep is worth more to late game champions than it's worth to early game champions. As long as you don't die over and over, and farm safely, even under your turret, you will become stronger and more dominant in team-fights than the Darius you are facing.
After knowing all that, how can you not buy wards as part of your core build? 75g per ward, which gives you 3 minutes of safety, meaning at least 5 waves of creeps.
When I'm in the blue team, I usually ward near the tribush, covering the river as well. You must look at the minimap very, VERY often because this ward doesn't cover that much space and the enemy jungler might slip through your line of sight.
When I'm in the purple team, I ward the tribush itself, preventing all ganks except for side bush ganks - which are extremely dangerous when done correctly.
When your jungler ganks your lane, and your opponent hides in the side bush where you cant target him, sometimes your trinket might be off cooldown, so try to put it during the gank in one of the bushes you think is necessary, and surprise him a little.
Here are two tricks to avoid dying while getting ganked:
The first requires your ultimate Blade Waltz and your E Burst of Speed to be up. When the jungler reaches out to you from behind or from the side, wait for the point where you don't think you'll be able to escape the gank without wasting your ult. Then activate Burst of Speed and right afterwards Blade Waltz the closer target. This will grant you at least 21% bonus movements speed which without boots sums up to 73.5 bonus movements speed. That would allow you to slip right out of there and reach your turret. You should also try to use your ult to escape your opponents' CCs, as seen below.
Imagine a scene where you've been baited into a duel by Aatrox, and suddenly Elise comes from behind. The first thing she is going to do is throw her Cocoon at you, and if it hits, she is going to burst you and you will die 100%. But, if at the exact moment she throws it you activate your Burst of Speed and Blade Waltz (on Elise at this situation, since she is closer to your turret), not only the stun is going to miss, but when the ult finishes you could run like the devil is after you. Don't forget to keep juking though, because Aatrox has got his own forms of CC.
The second trick is for situations when you suspect the enemy jungler to be lurking around trying to gank you. All you need to do is wait for enemy creeps to be orginized to right way, meaning one creep is in the danger zone, where you would potentially die if a gank is indeed expecting you, and another creep is closer to you, where it's safe but limited. You need to Q Lunge to the far creep, and KILL it, so it would look like you are simply aiming to farm, and nothing more. At that point the jungler takes the bait and gets out of the side bush or river bush to kill you. That's when you Q Lunge back to the creep inside the safe zone. This is very dangerous, since you might die if caught in CC and bursted down ( Jarvan IV + Rengar for instance), so be careful when doing this.
Level 6+:
This part sometimes turns out to be quite funny. The opponents, in my ELO, don't seem to understand Fiora's killing potential once she has her Blade Waltz up. They keep playing regularly. Usually I need another trade with Lunge, and then starts the countdown to their death, which is equal to the cooldown on Lunge. Now let's see how it's done:
First you check that there aren't too many minions next to your opponent, and especially no siege minion. If there is one, then kill it first. Then Lunge to your opponent once and add an AA. ALWAYS remember to add an AA, because that's all of your damage. Usually that's when they trigger a skill, damaging you, and add an AA of their own. That AA should be blocked by Riposte, which even has decent damage early on. Note that some of the champions are going to have CC (like Renekton or Riven), so you need to activate Riposte before you get stunned. Now, your opponent chooses to either run, or fight.
If he chooses to run, then you simply Lunge to him again and AA, then Ignite and Blade Waltz if you are sure you can finish him up. Sometimes when you initiated too early, you must flash and AA once more to finish your opponent, be careful when you do this, since you might be entering turret agro.
If, on the other hand he chooses to fight, then first you must look at your position, and recall your opponents behavior in the last 30 seconds - for you might've just gotten baited. If that's it, then you are pretty much ****ed, but you could either try the first trick I showed you earlier, or try to kill one of them to lower the efficiency of the gank, or kill them both, starting with the squishy one. Usually they have to miss a skill or two for you to be able to do that, and you have to use everything you've got. This includes Bilgewater Cutlass's active if you have it, you use it on the same target who took most of your damage and is now trying to get away. But, remember that your main goal is getting away from the fight, since dying 1 on 1 still gives your opponents the advantage (assist), especially if it's the jungler and not the laner that dies. So try to walk towards your turret in between AAs.
If you haven't gotten baited, there's not much to do, except activate all of your skills. Just remember not to interfere with your AA when you use your second Lunge. Another important thing to do is use the slight refresh your Burst of Speed does on your AA. It takes time to learn how to do it; you need to activate the skill in the middle of the AA after which it starts activating. Also, you need to try to evade one of your opponent's skills when you start your ult. This is hard to do since you are fighting at point blank, but if you have a sense of his cooldowns then it's possible.
If your opponent is a tank and you don't think you'll be able to kill him with your burst (which never happens until levels 8-9 maybe), then there's an a lot simpler option: gank mid-lane. The APC is always squishy at this point of the game, and if done correctly, you might be able to kill some of the APC champions (like Katarina or Ahri) even when they have almost full HP. Here's how it's done:
First you push your lane as much as possible, so your opponent won't push the lane and destroy your turret. Then you immediately (every second counts) go over to mid-lane (you can go even if it's pushed to the enemy turret but make sure creeps from both sides are there). You go from behind the river bush, next to the enemy wraiths, and at this point you look at the APCs behavior. The APC on your team obviously needs to act like nothing special is happening, or the opposing APC will notice that something is wrong. The opposing APC will either go back to his turret, at which point you know you stepped over a ward somewhere along the way, and you can either go straight back, so you wont miss any minions (you can steal some jungle if you feel safe). Or, depending on the enemy champion, you might be able to dive him. You can only do that if you can actually catch him, but using Flash + Lunge for that could be dangerous and I don't recommend it until you are very sure of what you are doing. Most of the times, I Lunge to a minion, then Lunge again to the APC. I say "depending on the enemy champion" because champions like Lux or Morgana could actually snare you on their turret and kill you, and Fizz can use his Playful / Trickster to dodge your ult's damage, then kill you. And these are just the obvious situations, a lot of APCs can kill you, so be very careful. In fact, if you are using your Flash for anything, it would be to dodge the APC's CC. With experience, you will learn that there is a way to dive almost any APC at this level, especially if he didn't notice you coming. (Note that since Lunge does more damage than Burst of Speed during this gank, you might want to put another skill point into Lunge beforehand, if you plan on ganking mid-lane).
There are two more things you need to notice during this gank: The first is your own APC, who usually has his own form of CC and a lot of damage too, making it much easier. The second is the enemy jungler, which could be very deadly to you if he is close by.
Not long ago I dived a Morgana at level 6 and had to Flash to finish her (b**** built Rod of Ages), then suddenly comes Vi out of nowhere with her Assault and Battery. Luckily, the APC on my team was Kayle, and he used his Intervention to make sure I walk out of there without harm, and return to my lane.
I might list the APC hard to gank and how to gank them if requested.
At mid-game you should've already finished some of your core items, and especially Tiamat, making you a viable Assassin, not a DPS fighter, so act accordingly. The hard part at this point is knowing when to be with your team, and when to keep farming your lane, since every second there could start a team-fight. If you push your lane then your opponent must also be there to guard his turret. If not then your team should let you push the outer turret (assuming it's still there. If not then just push a bit and go to your team.) Watch for global skills like Shen's Stand United, champions who own these start to split push and force a haste-full move from the enemy team.
Fiora fits in both Snowball and AoE teams for obvious reasons. This is how you must act at each given situation:
Here you fulfill your roll as an Assassin: you assassinate one of the carries. The hard part is reaching them, which is easier done by coming from the side or from behind. If there is no way but to go right through the enemy team, then you better have you Mercury's Treads (it's possible without them most of the time in my ELO). Lunge to someone, then Lunge to the Carry. If there isn't too much CC in the enemy team (which is almost like an instant win for you...) and the Carry has no chance of escaping either, you could add an AA before starting your Blade Waltz. The fun part is when they Flash over walls to escape you or use ults like Ahri's Spirit Rush, when actually your ult follows them through the wall, and also saves you from their own team, since when the ult finishes, the opposing APC and maybe the jungler would usually burst you down.
If the flash part doesn't quite happen as you'd like it to (it happens 50% of the time, if you are in paper 7), then you usually find yourself in the middle of the enemy team, squishy as ****, and you haven't Assassinated anyone yet. So just use whatever you can to finish off the Carry if he's still alive. Namely: AAs (you always do one when you land from your ult), Blade of the Ruined King's and Tiamat's actives (a LOT of damage, I advise you to put BotRK on smart cast), the second Lunge of you still have it, and even Ignite and Flash, though summoner's spells are to be used only when you are really desperate. If the ADC is both tanky like Urgot or Graves, and he used his Barrier at the time of your Blade Waltz, then you might have to use everything you've got to finish him off. Remember to do everything after the ult as fast as possible or the ADC will hit you and gain health by life steal (use Riposte).
After the Carry is dead, you either move on to the other carry, or the closest squishy target, or you run away from the team-fight, whether you plan on coming in again or go back to base. Either way, you need to anticipate when the carry is going to die, and activate your Burst of Speed before that happens, so you could get some movement speed and attack speed for free, since the cooldown on Burst of Speed refreshes immediately.
Let me prepare you to what happens many times at this point: you die. As noted in the introduction, playing Fiora is a Dangerous Game . Unlike Kha'Zix and Talon, Fiora has no escape mechanism after finishing up the assassination, since technically she is supposed to be more of a DPS fighter, and less of an Assassin. However, since your Blade Waltz together with Tiamat deals massive amounts of damage to the enemy team regardless of the assassination of the opposing carry, it is sufficient to cover your part in the team-fight after the carry is dead. If you don't die then either something is wrong with the enemy team, or your team is just very much ahead (or the Thresh in your team is a bro).
Now let's look at a situation I encounter a lot. It's easiest to explain with Taric's skill: Dazzle. Say you are entering the team-fight with a Lunge to the opposing jungler Lee Sin, and now you are only one Lunge away from the opposing ADC Ezreal. Suddenly the enemy support Taric, who's job is to defend the ADC, throws his Dazzle at you, which would probably lead to your death. As you know, this skill targets you, meaning you cannot escape it. So, your only choice is to use your Blade Waltz before Dazzle reaches you (of course, the last thing you want happening is you dying without having used your ult), which functions regularly despite having any stun/silence/whatever (even a snare if timed correctly, you can see Lux's Light Binding following your movement through your ult, for real) on you. But if you use your ult on Lee Sin or the tank right next to him on the front line, you are not going to make much difference in the team-fight, even if you have Last Whisper already, and even if you kill Lee Sin(which is usually hard). Then you must assassinate one of the carries, but without your Blade Waltz, it could prove to be extremely hard if they are not squishy and stupid.
This, my friend, is what you call a "fail". If your team now loses the team-fight, or if the tank in your team dies by the hands of the opposing ADC, then it's going to be your fault, since you've failed your roll as an Assassin. You have been completely useless in this team-fight, almost as much as the Soraka on your team. To prevent that from happening, you must get the right timing to enter the team-fight. In my ELO, Tarics don't usually wait with their Dazzles and Twisted Fates don't usually wait with their dangerous Pick A Card, so just wait for them to waste it, and stay out of Amumu's range of Curse of the Sad Mummy, and THEN enter the team-fight.
This one is much easier to play out. Just wait for Orianna to activate her Command: Shockwave or Jarvan IV to activate his Cataclysm, and if they catch 3 or more enemy champions, activate your Blade Waltz, preferably on the squishy. If it catches less then 3 champions, but a carry is among them, then by all means, go ahead and assassinate him.
If the main combo of AoE skills went correctly, then your team is probably winning by far, and all that's left for you to do is clean up, which shouldn't be too hard, since you are a DPS fighter as well. Squishy or not.
If it goes badly, then your team should fall back at some of the instances, if possible. If not possible, then your best bet is to return to your roll as an Assassin, and go for the opposing carries. Failing an AoE combo is vital and leads to a lost team-fight many times, but on the contrary, when it succeeds it deals enormous amounts of damage to the champions caught in it. So don't give up if you lose this team-fight, if next time the combo succeeds then it should be okay, even if you are far behind.
*It is needless to say that you MUST have your Tiamat.
Late Game:
As mentioned in the Items section, here you may buy Zephyr and become a full DPS Fighter, instead of an Assassin. This let you fight even after using your Blade Waltz with a very high attack speed. I'd only go for a DPS Fighter if either you're ahead, or the enemy team is too tanky for assassins to be useful, or there are too many of Fiora's counter items. Of course, you are still squishy, and you can't just jump at the enemy like Jax, but now you'll be much more useful after the assassination. There isn't anything special you should know here, just use all of your skills, Lunge if your targets try to get away, and try to evade CC.
By the way, I haven't thought of it until writing this guide, but after buying Zephyr you seem to have more than enough movement speed, enough to even sell your boots and buy another useful item. I'll try that out.
As you've probably noticed, my guide assumes you know much of the basics, regarding both Fiora and the game itself. That's because the guide is meant to improve the way you play with Fiora, and not explain everything from scratch. I also skipped putting pictures and editing the whole layout because doing it would be a pain.
If you have any difficulty facing a certain champion in lane, tell me, and I'll write about him in the Tough Opponents chapter (which doesn't exist yet).
If you have any difficulty, or you are just curious, ganking a mid-lane champion, tell me, and I'll write about him in the Ganking Mid-Lane chapter (which doesn't exist yet either).
I hope you found this guide helpful. Comments and feedback are appreciated.
- HolyEyE


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For decades, while America obsessed over Soviet spies, China quietly penetrated the highest levels of government. Now, for the first time, based on numerous interviews with key insiders at the FBI and CIA as well as with Chinese agents and people close to them, David Wise tells the full story of Chinaand#8217;s many victories and defeats in its American spy wars.Two key cases interweave throughout: Katrina Leung, code-named Parlor Maid, worked for the FBI for years, even after she became a secret double agent for China, aided by love affairs with both of her FBI handlers. Here, too, is the inside story of the case, code-named Tiger Trap, of a key Chinese-American scientist suspected of stealing nuclear weapons secrets. These two cases led to many others, involving famous names from Wen Ho Lee to Richard Nixon, stunning national security leaks, and sophisticated cyberspying. The story takes us up to the present, with a West Coast spy ring whose members were sentenced in 2010and#8212;but it surely will continue for years to come, as China faces off against America. David Wiseand#8217;s history of Chinaand#8217;s spy wars in America is packed with eye-popping revelations.
Culled from an array of sources, including newly declassified documents, A Mosque in Munich interweaves the stories of several key players: a Nazi scholar turned postwar spymaster; key Muslim leaders across the globe, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood; and naïve CIA men eager to fight communism with a new weapon, Islam. A rare ground-level look at Cold War spying and a revelatory account of the Wests first, disastrous encounter with radical Islam, A Mosque in Munich is as captivating as it is crucial to our understanding the mistakes we are still making in our relationship with Islamists today
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A narrative nonfiction account of the devious workings of Chinese Intelligence agents in the FBI over the past 30 years.
ERIC LICHTBLAU is a Pulitzer Prizeandndash;winning investigative reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Times and has written about legal, political, and national security issues in the capital since 1999. He was the co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for his stories in the New York Times disclosing the existence of a secret wiretapping program approved by President George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks. He was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times for fifteen years before joining the New York Times in 2002. A graduate of Cornell University, he is the author of Bushandrsquo;s Law: The Remaking of American Justice, which one reviewer called andldquo;All the Presidentandrsquo;s Men for an Age of Terror.andrdquo; In the course of research for The Nazis Next Door, he was a visiting fellow at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. He lives outside Washington with his wife and children.
1. A Thousand Grains of Sand 5
2. Parlor Maid 20
3. The Recruitment 29
4. Double Game 34
5. Destroy After Reading 42
6. and#8220;Holy Shit, Mr. Grove!and#8221; 50
7. Riding the Tiger: China and the Neutron Bomb 65
8. The Walk-in 71
9. Kindred Spirit: Wen Ho Lee 81
10. Sego Palm 99
11. Trouble in Paradise 109
12. Ethereal Throne: The Spy Who Never Was 121
13. Storm Clouds 134
14. The Counterspy 139
15. Royal Tourist 154
16. Richard Nixon and the Hong Kong Hostess 167
17. Anubis 176
18. Endgame 187
19. Eagle Claw 202
20. Red Flower 214
21. The Cyberspies 227
22. An Afterword 236
Authorand#8217;s Note 243
Notes 247
Index 279
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$5 for 63 questions is a ripoff, considering the amount of actual and real intelligence they are getting on their program.Continued Success,
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It's not the full 63 questions. Many are skipped depending on your answers to previous questions. Took me about 3 minutes to do the whole thing.
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Your comments about $5 for 63 questions as being a ripoff is accurate, but it will more than provide for a statistically reliable database. Why should they pay more if they don't have to.
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Yes, their list of "who do you promote" was quite short, with AllPosters, eBay and Adsense being high on the list. I told them in one comments section why I wouldn't promote posters from THEM when the other poster programs pay 25-30%.
I was happy to fill out the form and add my two cents. They rated lower in all categories than my top performing merchants, and if other affiliates give them accurate information maybe they will see why their associates are dropping like flies.
I especially liked the questions about how much time I spend on their program and how much I make compared to other programs.
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They were also interested in what we think about affiliates that cheat.
Interesting survey, long enough to be useful, in my opinion and short enough not to be annoying. Hope I get one of those $5 gift certificates!!!! LOLDeborah Carney
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Jerusalem's Orthodox Jews Prepare for Sukkot Holiday: Wooden Huts 'Sukkas' in Mea Shearim
I'm here in a courtyard in Mea Shearim, one of the Orthodox neighborhoods of Jerusalem where you can see they've already built about 15 wooden huts or sukkas. They're getting ready for the holiday of Sukkot which commemorates the children of Israel's wandering in temporary shelters after they were freed from Egypt. Let's go talk people what it means for the next week to people who will eat, drink and even sleep in the Sukkah. Another custom on sukkot is to buy what's called the "arba minim" -- or the Four species -- and they're here in front of me. We have the lulav or palm branch, the arava or willow, the hadas or myrtle and the etrog which is a very specific citron fruit. Now the Jews are commanded in synagogue to hold all these togther and shake them in 6 directions. The rabbis say that's to remind us that Hashem or Gd is everywhere. Now people spend a lot of time choosing exactly the 4 species they want because there's so much symbolism behind them. Sukkot ushers in the very last holiday of the this new year season, that's Simchat Torah which is celebrated on the last day of Sukkot. It's a joyous festival where people spend hours of dancing around the Torah to commemorate finishing the reading of the entire Torah in a year. That means on the first day of holiday we will once again read the first portion of the Torah -- Brshiet -- which signals a new spiritual start. Jordana Miller, JN1, Jerusalem.
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They've always been the ones Jack Capuano didn't need to worry about. Matt Martin, Casey Cizikas and Cal Clutterbuck make up one of the most formidable fourth lines in the NHL, and with one exception, they're the Islanders most potent scoring threat — gritty cousins to John Tavares' ever-dependable skill line.
They're rarely separated, sparingly criticized, but on Wednesday night, Capuano and company couldn't deny the fact that's been staring the Islanders in the face since these playoffs started: The trio is in trouble.
"They're fighting it right now," Capuano said. "It's no question. They're fighting it."
The result is something not often seen during a game, unless there's an injury: Martin skating with Ryan Strome, or Clutterbuck with the kids, Shane Prince and Adam Quine. That's what happened in the second period after a lackluster showing in the first — one that saw the Islanders firmly on their heels despite the scoreless frame — as the third and fourth lines were jostled in a desperate attempt to get something going.
With the series against the Panthers now tied 2-2, the fourth line has mostly been a non-factor. None of the three have registered a point and they've managed a combined 24 penalty minutes. In the Islanders Game 3 overtime winner, both Clutterbuck and Martin registered at minus-3, while Cizikas was minus-2. Cizikas was called for tripping in the first period Wednesday, while Martin got hooked for the same penalty in the second — the latter leading to the Panthers' opening goal in the eventual 2-1 victory.
"It was going to be a fight and I think we knew it," Martin said. "I thought we [as a team] played a lot better in the second and third but it takes a full 60 minutes to play this time of year and we need to play a lot better."
Capuano seemed confident that his veterans would get it together, but with the Islanders desperate to win a series for the first time since 1993, time isn't exactly on their side. They return to Florida for Game 5 Friday, and though he reunited the original fourth line in the third period, there's no guarantee that it's going to stay that way. Especially not with the Islanders struggling to find offense early in the game — they've been behind every game this series, no matter how many times the team has stressed the importance of quick starts.
"We've got one line — 91, 51, 21 — creating all our offense right now and we have to find a way, like we did in Florida [in Game 1] where we had secondary scoring," Capuano said. "If not, it's going to be tough."
The truth is, he said, he liked what he saw when he moved his fourth line around in the second period, and matchups would dictate whether he'd do it again.
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The Aramaic Teachings of Jeshua: recovering what He REALLY taught will lovingly shock you and uplift you; the 'steps of practice' too long hidden in the Lords Prayer and the precious Beatitudes are truly the heart and soul of the incarnating of Christ in you, as you, through you, and for all beings!
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It looks like Demi Lovato and her tour openers Fifth Harmony and Collins Key have been having way too much fun during the Neon Lights concert run!
There have been silly string attacks (Demi to Fifth Harmony) and cream pies to the face (Fifth Harmony to Demi) but over the weekend, Lovato took things to a whole new level!
As 17-year-old Collins Key was talking to the audience on stage in Indianapolis on Saturday (March 29), Demi Justin Timberlake (or Andy Samberg?) appeared donning the 'D*** in a Box' attire from the infamous SNL skit, which included the wig, sunglasses, fake mustache, and of course, the box!
When Key first sees Lovato, he erupts into laughter and asks the singer "What's in the box?!" before the two then perform the signature 'D*** in a Box' dance. Luckily, the whole thing was captured on video from a fan – watch below!
Key later tweeted a photo of the dynamic duo on stage with the hashtag #BestTourEver!
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Daisy-like Flowers - Fuzzy Flowers
Asteraceae (Compositae) - Sunflower family
White Sagebrush (Native Wormwood) Artemisia ludoviciana
Yellow flowers never "open". Upright plant about 16" tall. Entire plant is covered in dense white hair. Leaves about 1"-2" long and thick. Flower about 1/2" long in a loose spike.
Photos taken in Taylor County, Texas, September 2005
(Native of Texas - Taylor, Callahan, Coleman, Brown, Coke)
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Same Species but Slightly Different Look
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Field Sagewort (Wormwood) Artemisia campestris
Plant has one main stem with branched flower stems at top. Segmented green leaves, all very narrow like skinny dear antler. Flowers hang like bells a its vertical branch. Not so fuzzy.
(Native of Texas – Taylor, Callahan)
Sand Sagebrush Artemisia filifolia
Gray shrub bush with a single main stem. At the top, the single flower spike branches for the flowers. Very narrow, long leaves, most have 3 segments except on the flower spike.
(Native of Texas – Runnels, Coke)
Polygonaceae - Knotweed family
Irion County Buckwheat Eriogonum nealleyi
Note: this is not a daisy.
Greenish-yellow flower about 1/4" wide in clusters of fuzzy white buds with only one flower open at a time. Fuzzy white hairs cover the plant. Long leaves (thus the species name) at base only. Plant grows 2-3 feet tall with flowers at ends of branching stalk. Grows in sand.
Photos taken in Taylor County, Texas, September 2004, June 2005
(Native of Texas, rare - Runnels, Coke)
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Longleaf Wild Buckwheat (Scrub Buckwheat) Eriogonum longifolium
Like Eriogonum nealleyi except without fuzzy leaves.
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For example, you can record a macro, creating a process on another sheet, and just assign it to that button. You can also create a function of sorts, and just use the sheet1! reference, to name the sheet with the cell. Etc.
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In your control tool box choose 'Command Button' and then draw the button to the desired dimensions and place it in the desired position in your page.
Next right click on it and choose 'Commandbutton Object' and then 'Edit'. Give your button a name or whatever text you want on it.
Next (make sure you still have the button selected)choose 'Insert' from the worksheet menu bar and then choose 'Hyperlink'. A box will open and from the list on the left beneath "Link To" choose 'Place in this Document'. A list of the other sheets in your work book will appear in the middle of the box, choose the sheet you want to link to and then choose 'OK'.
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The Rotelli name and garbage have gone hand in hand for about a century, but not anymore.
Larry Rotelli, a longtime refuse collector and former local politician, retired as a garbage truck driver last week.
Rotelli, 76, has been carrying on the family business, started by his grandfather in the early 1900s, for more than 40 years. His garbage man political image also brought him some national press.
"It's the first time the Rotelli name hasn't been associated with garbage," he said with a laugh on Tuesday while sitting in his backyard in Sonora.
Rotelli said he hadn't planned initially to go into the family business. The Korean War veteran started working at Sonora Refuse around 1967, to help out after his father became sick. His mother was running the small business at the time, though a few years later Rotelli took over as the owner to relieve her of the responsibility.
Sonora Refuse was started by his grandfather Frederico Rotelli, who hauled away garbage on carts pulled by horses and cows. Rotelli has a photo at his home showing his grandfather with his first motorized garbage truck, wearing what today would be a formal shirt, vest and hat.
Around 1980, Rotelli decided to get out of life as a business owner. He said he was wearing down from all the bookkeeping, management and other day-to-day tasks required to run a company. His wife, Dixie, was also putting in time helping run the show.
He sold Sonora Refuse to Art Lawrence, though part of the deal was he wanted to keep driving the trucks for the company. Rotelli continued working as a driver on commercial routes until last week, even as the company went through multiple ownership changes until coming under national company Waste Management.
Rotelli said he was "relieved" to no longer be the business owner. But he couldn't think of doing something else at the time.
"I didn't know what else the hell to do," he said. "All I had to do was go to work and do a certain amount of routes, and I was done for the day. … It kept me healthy. It kept me outdoors."
Over decades he served on the Sonora City Council and Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors, maintaining the "garbage man" tag.
His campaigns had slogans like "He might be smelly, but vote Rotelli," and his unique job for politicians got him a few features in news outlets like the National Enquirer and the ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings.
"It was sort of nice to have that kind of recognition, especially being a garbage man, to get that kind of exposure," he said.
Rotelli said he figured now is a good time to finally get out of the business. He and Dixie, who have been married 51 years, say they plan to travel and spend more time with family, including three children who live both locally and in Texas. And he'll be able to go on walks with their dog, Bella, now that he won't be driving the regular routes.
"It will be different not having to get up at four o'clock," Rotelli said.


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We are having a baby due June 28
I wont say our age because he is well over 15 years older then me( its ok i love him!) but he has a 7 year old daughter from his last relationship and we have a baby on the way :)
I don't think there is anything wrong with age diffences! my stepmom was 19 when she married my dad and he was in his mid thirtys. My brother is only 7 years younger then her. I was 4 when they met and got married. We joke because one night they got to talking and figured out that my dad drove past the day care she was at when he first got in the military and first was assigned to the base that they (much later in life.) met at.
I am 27 Dh is 26
I have a son 9
I have a dau 6
He has a son 6
We have a dau 2
We are expecting on 9/1/06
I am 37, DH 40
He has:
Son 16
Daughter 14
I have:
Daugher 13
Daughter 11
We have an angel son together and are expecting ? August 23rd
All the kids live with us. :)
I am 25
Hubby is 29
he has a 9 yr old daughter
we are expecting a daughter in April!
Well we aren't legally "blended" yet but I consider us blended. DF and I are engaged, he has been seperated and going through a divorce for 3 years now (I met him a year and a half ago, so I am NOT a homewrecker, they are just fighting over custody of the kids and its holding up the divorce).
DF has 2 kids from this previous marriage
son 7
dau 4
And we have a son that is 3 mos, he was born in November.
Oh yeah, and I'm 21 and DF is 27.
I am 30; DH is 45.
He has a DS, 15.
I have two DD's, 8 and 6.
We have a 6-day-old baby girl. :wub:
We are not officially blended yet either but...
I am 28 DF is 31
He has a son Alex 6 from previous marriage
I have a son TJ 6 from previous marriage
(they are 5 days apart)
and we are expecting a new baby 8/11/06.
We have custody of both boys. Thank goodness :cheer:
I am 26, DH is 32.
I had a daughter and son when we met. I was also married before.
DH had no kids and never been married when we met.
We have a son together.
We are TTC #4.
I am 21, DH is 30
I have a son who is almost 4 from a previous marraige
We have a 5 month old daughter together.
We are also currently gaurdians of his 17 yr old brother (18 in May).
df is 30, i'm 29
he has a son who is 9 1/2 years old
we're expecting on 10/23
I am 35
DH is 34
I have three kids from a previous marriage.
DS Jacob-12
DD Isabella-8
DD Sophia-5
We share a DD, his one and only child,
Jenavieve who is 3 months.
I'm 40 & DH is 39.
He has 2 daughters from his previous marriage 7 & 11.
I have 1 daughter from my previous marriage almost 4.
I am 31 weeks pregnant with our son.
i'm 20 he is 35
He has a 9 yr old son and an 11 yr old daughter
I have a 17 month old daughter
WE are expecting a baby in August
His two kids for the time being until we go to court are living with their drug addicted mother. we met on the east coast where he was working(been seperated from ex for 4 years), and then i moved to the west coast with him to get his kids. we plan on moving back to the east coast ASAP!!!
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In the first of this series I discussed antidepressants and addiction. Some people contend antidepressants are addictive; however, not only is the term "addiction" not defined medically, the use of antidepressants does not generally match the symptoms of any defined substance use disorder either. (More information on substance abuse and substance dependence.)
This time antipsychotics are up to bat. Are antipsychotics addictive? Are people dependent on antipsychotics? Do antipsychotics cause withdrawal?
What Happens When You Talk About ECT?
The Bipolar Burble thanks for everyone who took the time to read my electroconvulsive therapy primer and The Badger's personal experience of ECT. Most people were really respectful in their opinions and asked great questions. As per the usual, however, electroconvulsive therapy is a controversial, contentious and polarizing topic that brings out people's abusive side pretty quickly.
[Note: I am running a survey on real patients' experiences with, and perspectives on, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). If you've had ECT and want your voice heard, please take the survey here. More detailed information on the ECT survey can be found here.]
Electroconvulsive Therapy Works (ECT, shock therapy)Natasha Tracy and the Bipolar Burble welcomes Steven Schwartz, the BiPolar Badger as a guest blogger later this week. Steven will be speaking from the point of view of someone who has chosen to get electroconvulsive therapy treatments and is in the middle of his current series of electroconvulsive therapy treatments. [Note: I am running a survey on real patients' experiences with, and perspectives on, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). If you've had ECT and want your voice heard, please take the survey here. More detailed information on the ECT survey can be found here.]
Electroconvulsive Therapy Primer
In preparation for Steven's piece, I've written this primer.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the second most controversial medical procedure. (Abortion is the first.) Certainly when I write about ECT it seems to prove the controversy of this topic. And it doesn't matter what I say about ECT, even if it's not pro or con, people insist on expressing very strong viewpoints on the use of ECT. And yes, I have had ECT.
And generally the strong viewpoints are anti-ECT. They are from the ECT-is-torture crowd. A prevalent crowd online, to be sure, but someone needs to actually talk about the facts of ECT.
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Quantitative and Statistical Consulting for Businesses
Precision Consulting has helped hundreds of corporate clients find solutions to complex business problems through the use of advanced statistical modeling techniques. More often than not, firms contact us to provide them with the solution to a particular obstacle or problem, as is the case at standard management consulting firms. Many firms have enormous amounts of extremely valuable data at their disposal, yet they lack the in house resources to optimally analyze their data.
What sets us apart is a core specialty in solving business problems that require statistical methodologies and data analysis techniques which are often beyond the scope of the client's internal staff. While this is sometimes due to the problem requiring the manipulation of huge and hard to manage data sets, most of our clients come to us simply because the methods needed to solve the problem are complex and unknown to them. Engaging Precision Consulting for statistics consulting implies that you want a boutique firm that will provide you with demonstrable results.
Our solutions are data-driven and analysis-based, and we've yet to turn down an engagement due to complexity. Our clients include many Fortune 500 firms, small and midsized businesses, Government entities, and universities.
- Statistical Methodology and Data Analysis at the Forefront
- Our Capabilities
- A Small Sample of Our Clients
- Academic and Business Credentials of Our Team
- Our Culture
- Why Do Firms Retain Us?
- Examples of Problems That We've Solved For Our Clients
Statistical Methodology and Data Analysis at the Forefront
Precision Consulting's core specialty is developing sound statistical methodologies to analyze business problems, and then carrying out the requisite data analyses to solve those problems. Ordinarily, firms come to us requiring the answer to a specific issue. Our first step is always to fully understand the problem and the data available to us in solving that problem. Given the type and amount of data available, we then determine the optimal statistical methodology to solve the problem. Alternatively, in the case of the firm having no relevant data, our first step would be to create the optimal methodology to collect the needed data.
In many business problems, the data available can be incomplete, disorganized, or unwieldy. In these cases, we often need to find a clever way to extract useful info out of the available data, and/or to supplement that data with additional data. At other times, we are presented with a vaguely-posed business problem, and our job is to specify the problem statistically, and to find a robust and practical solution that doesn't succumb to data-snooping pitfalls.
In all cases, our consultancy differs from typical management consultancies in that our methods and solutions are always empirical and objective.
Our Capabilities
Many statistics consulting projects that we take on are brought to us after a traditional management consulting firm was unable to specify how to optimally solve the problem(s), or just generally unable to handle the quantitative rigor of the solution(s). We have a broad range of experience providing solutions through the application of a vast array of statistical and numerical methods, including survival and event history analysis, ARCH and GARCH models, neural nets, bootstrapping, Thurstone/Shapley analyses, structural equation modeling and multi-dimensional scaling, and Monte Carlo simulations.
Our comfort with virtually all higher-level quantitative methodologies and our expertise in applying these tools in a corporate setting enables us to assist with virtually any business problem. Here is a sample of some of the analytical tools with which we are familiar:
- Various forms of Regression Analysis, including Non-Linear Regression and Ridge Regression
- Survival Analysis including Kaplan-Meier Analysis
- Time Series Analysis, including Vector Autoregression (VAR), Vector Error-correction Models (VECM), and GARCH and its variants (NGARCH, EGARCH, etc.)
- Panel Analysis
- Survey Development and Reliability/Validity testing of existing surveys
- Statistical Power Analysis for Sample Size determination
- Multivariate Analysis (with multiple outcome variables), such as MANOVA and MANCOVA.
- Qualitative analytical methods including Phenomenological Analysis and Grounded Theory
- Optimization methods such as Linear and Nonlinear Programming, Genetic Search, and Simulated Annealing
- Markov Chain Monte Carlo and similar methods
- Nonparametric Methods
- Zero-Inflated Count Models
- TURF, Thurstone Scaling, and Shapley Values (used often in marketing-related projects)
- Conjoint Analysis, Choice Modeling, and Maximum Difference Scaling (MaxDiff)
- Meta-Analysis
- Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), Confirmatory and Exploratory Factor Analysis (CFA and EFA), Multidimensional Scaling, and Path Analysis
- Neural Nets
- Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Parallel Computing to handle very large datasets and for problems that would otherwise take excessive computing time
- Various Bootstrapping and Jackknife techniques
- Spatial Analysis
- All statistical software packages including R, Matlab, SAS, Stata, MPLUS, LISREL, EQS, PASS, Maple, Mathematica, and SPLUS
- Data Mining with Weka and RapidMiner
A Small Sample of Our Clients
Precision Consulting's philosophy is to build long-term statistical consulting relationships by delivering quality work on time for a reasonable price and in language that you can understand. Our clients include many Fortune 500 firms, small and midsized businesses, Government entities, and universities. While much of our work is with large firms, we also take on projects for smaller or midsized businesses, as our schedule permits. Among the larger firms we've worked with over the past years are:
- Nielsen
- Smucker's
- Verizon
- Johnson and Johnson
- Whirlpool
- Clayton, Dubilier, and Rice
- JC Penney
- Waste Management
- Coors
- Ecko Unlimited
Academic and Business Credentials of Our Team
Precision Consulting is committed to maintaining the most talented and diverse team in the statistical consulting industry. By principle, our team is comprised solely of members with outstanding contributions and demonstrable excellence in both academia and the private sector. On some days, our team may look like a boutique of academics that collaborate with each other as if in a think tank, while on others we deal primarily with real world analysis.
All of our principals have Phd or Masters degrees in quantitative fields at leading Universities including Cal Tech, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Columbia, and Brown. Although most of us specialize in theoretical or applied statistics, our staff also includes experts in pure mathematics, econometrics, mathematical finance, psychometrics, qualitative analysis, and applied mathematics. We share a primary interest in the application of quantitative analysis to solve business problems, and our team has extensive experience testifying and providing related statistical analyses in jury trials, arbitration hearings, and bench trials.
Our principals have excelled in the business world as well as in academia, and this is one of our biggest strengths. Most of us have extensive Wall Street or Government experience prior to joining Precision, and our cloud-based business structure enables us to recruit experts from all over the world to join our team. As such, it would not be unusual at all for a new client of our boutique Firm to work with a team comprised of a former associate professor of portfolio theory from MIT's Sloan school, a bond trader who spent years on the fixed income arbitrage desk at Goldman Sachs, a former economist from the U.S. Department of Labor, or an astrophysicist who gazed at the cosmos before bringing his physicists toolbox to Precision Consulting. We're not just academic statisticians, but rather we can speak to you in your language, and we can communicate our results in that language.
We also pride ourselves on our ability to clearly communicate our findings, and regularly present the results of our analyses to partners and executives. We can specify and understand the issues facing your business, because we've faced many of them ourselves.
We don't strive to have the largest Firm in the consulting industry. We do strive to have the smartest Firm in the consulting industry. Our perspective is that demanding this background is imperative for us to be successful in the types of projects that our clients bring to us.
The rigor of the quantitative methods needed for most of our engagements often requires that the problem be worked on by someone at the absolute cutting edge in their academic field. In addition, the ability to seamlessly communicate with management at our client companies is a vital skill. This is particularly true when the underlying quantitative methodologies used to solve the problem optimally are not something that management is familiar or comfortable with.
As with most academic fields, the body of knowledge in statistics is continually growing. To offer competent statistical advice requires staying abreast of all new developments in statistical thinking. Communicating and collaborating with academic statisticians conducting research on new ideas is the most important part of that process.
To that end, we leverage our relationships at Cal Tech and Brown University by retaining several prominent academic statisticians and applied mathematicians as outside advisors during their sabbaticals, enabling us to create 'dream teams' to tackle some of the more complex problems that are brought to us.
Our Culture
Precision maintains a collegial, cloud-based atmosphere that encourages extensive cooperation among our team. We love to solve problems, and the more complex the problem is, the more fun it is to find an elegant solution. Many of our clients consider us to be their quantitative hired guns, on call whenever needed, and from any corner of the globe.
We've been referred to in the press as "Quant Hired Guns", and "Management Consultants on Steroids." Most of us had a passion for problem solving at a young age, excelling in chess and other mathematics-based games, and have kept that love alive to this day. Our principals started Precision Consulting for precisely this reason. Our team atmosphere is beneficial to us in many ways, and helps us to find out of the box and creative solutions.
Why Do Firms Retain Us?
- Nothing Is Too Complex for us. We can perform any statistical analysis, regardless of the complexity, and have never turned down a project due to it being too complex.
- We take pride in our ability to communicate our results in an easy to understand manner. We don't consider our job done until our clients completely understand our findings, what they mean, and the approach we took to get there. Therefore, we offer a substantial amount of client contact throughout the analytic process. We believe that our client relationships extend beyond the delivery of a finished product, and don't consider an analysis complete if it isn't intimately understood by our clients.
- Our principals all come from outstanding careers in the corporate world and/or in academia. The quality of the team working on your project is guaranteed to be at the absolute pinnacle of the management consulting industry.
- Our fees usually pale in comparison to the savings and/or additional profits that our work produces for our clients. Ordinarily, an investment in our services yields a return on investment that dwarfs that of other alternatives.
- We use a system of cloud-based servers and technologies, allowing us 24/7/365 access to our clients. Our cloud-based operations allow us to integrate our work into our lives, rather than separating it from our lives. We pass this advantage on to our clients.
- We passionately embrace new technologies, and are surely at the forefront of quantitative consulting firms in terms of our technological capabilities and infrastructure.
- Our boutique firm is growing by leaps and bounds, having used the economic contraction as an opportunity to expand and enter new markets. We were in the 2010 edition of The Inc 500, placing us as one of the 500 fastest growing companies in the United States.
- While much of our work is with large firms, we also often take on projects for smaller or midsized businesses, as our schedule permits.
- We are comfortable and experienced in working with hard to manage, unwieldy, and extremely large datasets.
- Over 80% of our clients request our assistance more than once, as our clients are almost universally happy with our different brand of consulting. As such, we have the opportunity to pick our future engagements carefully. We don't accept all projects that are brought to us, and often explain to prospective clients that what they want to do is not statistically sound or plausible. We also tend to choose the engagements that we do accept based on whether the analytical areas interest us and fit within our core areas of knowledge.
Examples of Problems That We've Solved for Our Clients
- A large American Cable network approached us due to having displeasure with the methodology used by a major ratings agency in measuring their number of viewers, as these findings were negatively impacting their advertising sales. The ratings, based on relatively small sample sizes, showed extreme variance day to day (the primary cause of their low rating). Through a combination of resampling, simulation, and bootstrapping techniques, Precision showed that the ratings methodology used was grossly inaccurate. Based on our findings and report, the ratings agency changed the methodology used for networks of this type, and our client was able to increase their advertising prices back to previous levels.
- One of the largest Private Equity firms in the country contacted us to predict Fund inflows and outflows based on a suite of predictor variables. Our findings were highly significant, and our client completely revamped their client relations practices during certain economic times, in an attempt to decrease outflows.
- A prestigious Medical School contacted us for assistance on a large-scale study on the risks faced by organ transplant centers. Our analysis included a binary logistic regression to estimate the risk of transplant failure based on patient characteristics (such as age, gender, life support, etc.), followed by a Monte Carlo simulation to estimate the probability of closure of a transplant center due to failed transplants and insufficient transplant volume.
- A Fortune 500 firm providing analytics for the healthcare industry contacted us to determine how to optimally impute missing values in their data sets due to a major retailer stopping the reporting of detailed sales data. The main challenges of this project involved working with a multi-gigabyte dataset and designing an application for automatic model generation, to capture the unique features of tens of thousands of products. A custom script was created in R to create the models. Given the number of estimations required, cluster computing techniques were used to drastically reduce the amount of time needed to complete the task.
- An international architecture firm hired us to evaluate a questionnaire that they use for their clients. We conducted a reliability and validity analysis using MPLUS, optimized their sampling methodology, revised the process used to aggregate the survey data, and then conducted a qualitative analysis of approximately 20,000 responses to the survey using NVIVO.
- A large firm specializing in the placement of teachers contacted us to create an assignment algorithm to optimally place teachers in schools. Precision developed the outcome variable of teacher placement satisfaction, analyzed the drivers of that outcome variable, developed an algorithm to optimally place teachers given various constraints, and assessed the performance of the algorithm over repeated trials.
- An email marketing firm contacted us to develop a model that would allow them to predict the 'permanence' of subscribers to their service. Using demographic data and other data about each of their subscribers, Precision developed a model to predict the amount of time a subscriber would stay, and our client changed many factors of their client relations process for those subscribers deemed unlikely to be a permanent subscriber. We have done similar analyses for real estate companies looking for info on likely rent renewals, and also for firms looking to improve employee retention.
- Precision created a March Madness Bracket Optimizer for a major online and televised sport news network, for use on their website. We analyzed the selection criteria that users follow when picking their brackets, employing a machine learning algorithm to game theoretically account for possible biases among competitors. Our method is still the cutting-edge selection tool for this annual tournament.
- One of the world's largest purchasers of domain names contacted us to build an algorithm to estimate the value of a given domain name prior to purchase. Using their huge data set from 10 years of purchase decisions (several billion of data points), we produced an automated valuation tool which they now use exclusively. The client is currently working with us on another project related to the application of concepts from Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) to their holdings of domain names.
- The leading aircraft sales company in the United States contacted us to produce a time series model of aircraft prices and residual values for tax purposes. We created a comprehensive model that predicted the selling price and residual value of aircraft purchased over any given period of time from 1 to 50 years.
- A major water bottle manufacturing company hired us to analyze bottle weight data from a variety of product lines and compare to those of its competitors.We conducted the analysis and found a statistically significant difference in bottle weights, which our client used in a new advertising campaign.
- A large European hedge fund approached us to conduct a default probability analysis for a multibillion dollar project. Using a Monte Carlo based analytic approach in addition to a bootstrapping procedure, we found the probability of default to be within the Client's acceptable range.
- A large producer of peanut butter contacted us to analyze the variance in the consistency of their product. After several visits to their factory, we designed an experiment to collect the needed data. We then used Principal Component Analysis to determine the likely sources of variation and their significance. Within 6 months, our findings framed a new initiative to increase the consistency of their product.
- A Fortune 500 credit card company hired us to determine the optimal bundle of benefits to offer (and at what times) to their customers. We conducted a Shapley Value analysis and provided them to the client, who then improved their benefits offerings in several ways.
- A leading research institute specializing in cancer cell biology contacted us after their internal statistics team had excessive difficulty working with a huge dataset, as well as working with the types of models that would be needed. We conducted a large-scale data analysis requiring Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, Cox Regression, and Linear Growth Curve Modeling.
- One of the world's largest cellular service providers, about to combine various different online platforms into one unique platform, inquired as to the probability that users of various different online platforms within their system could be using the same user/password combination, hence being able to log into each other's account. We used techniques from information theory to assess the likelihood of specific sets of user/password combos being used by two different customers.
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- A global leader in the creation and placement of slot machines throughout the world retained us to conduct a comprehensive payout structure analysis of their entire portfolio of slot machines. We worked with the client to develop a proxy for player enjoyment based on volatility and expected loss, and maximized that latent variable with respect to various proposed payout structures.
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London: Michael Joseph,, 1960. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in gilt, top edge pink. With the dust jacket by Charles E. Skaggs. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. A little fading to spine ends, light foxing to edges of text block and endleaves. A very good copy in the slightly rubbed and price-clipped jacket with some nicks and short closed tears to extremities, and tape repair to verso. First UK edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Dr Murray and his family, love Roald Dahl." From the library of Irish book collector Dr Philip Murray, author of The Adventures of a Book Collector (2011). He writes of meeting Dahl at a signing: "It was quite apparent that he got great enjoyment out of meeting the hundreds of children who queued up that day to have their books signed" (p. 101). Kiss Kiss was originally published in the US earlier the same year.
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