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Bedford is an incorporated place (Class Code P1) located in Trimble County at latitude 38.5926 and longitude -85.3177. (Bedford Panoramio Photos). The elevation is 902 feet. Bedford appears on the Bedford U.S. Geological Survey Map. Trimble County is in the Eastern time zone (GMT -5). Observes DST? Yes. Current Time. | Bedford, KY ZIP Code Maps | Bedford local area photos
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Campaign Finance$5,250 Given
Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:
- contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
- only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
- contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
- corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
- organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.
For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.
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Republicans vs. Democratsin dollars
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Lobbying$323,500 Income
Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.
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covers roughly through Q4, 2013
Lobbying Carried Out by O'Hara Federal Strategies
Names of Lobbyists
Client Amount DIRECTV Group $117,000 Publish What You Pay $90,000 Oxfam America $53,500 BlueSky Mast Inc $30,500 National Trust for Historic Preservation $17,500 OnTarget Enterprises $9,000 Thermoenergy Corp $6,000 Norfolk Southern $0
Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
- Banking,
- Consumer Product Safety,
- Railroads,
- Radio & TV Broadcasting,
- Transportation,
- Agriculture,
- Environment & Superfund
Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
Bill No. Title S.699 Department of Energy Carbon Capture and Sequestration Program Amendments Act of 2011

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BOSTON (AP) — An analysis by a nonpartisan nonprofit that focuses on making government transparent and accountable is giving the Legislature in Massachusetts an 'F' grade for how they make legislative information available.
The Sunlight Foundation gave both Massachusetts and Rhode Island the lowest grade possible. Others in that category are Alabama, Colorado, Kentucky, and Nebraska.
Vermont got a 'B' and Maine got a 'D.'
New Hampshire and Connecticut got an 'A' grade for how they make legislative information available.
The Sunlight Foundation also gave the top mark to Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, North Carolina, Texas and Washington.
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The line between the Republican establishment and the Tea Party has blurred. That spells trouble for the GOP in the long run. Possibly this year, more likely in 2016.
It might not look like it right now. The Republican establishment, which has been on the defensive since the Tea Party emerged in 2009, is on a roll. Establishment candidates have won contested primaries in North Carolina, Florida and now Kentucky and Georgia. Republican voters seem to be turning away from the kinds of fringe candidates they went for in 2010 and 2012, like Christine O'Donnell in Delaware ("I am not a witch") and Todd Akin in Missouri ("legitimate rape"). Candidates like that cost Republicans their chance to take back control of the U.S. Senate.
So this year, the party stands a good chance of taking over the Senate and expanding its majority in the House of Representatives. The Obama era is over!
Oh, wait. Barack Obama is still president. And the Republican Party's long-term problems are far from resolved. For one thing, the party's good fortune this year is mostly the result of temporary advantages: – Democratic Senate seats up for grabs in strongly Republican states; Democrats defending House seats they won narrowly in 2012.
For another thing, the Tea Party is not exactly vanquished. Establishment candidates may be winning primaries — but that's because most of them have moved right and pre-empted the Tea Party's message.


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Davis had fallen out of favor with the Dolphins, and was acquired by the Colts for the price of a second round pick and a conditional sixth rounder.
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Battle Killer Stuka DEMO / FREE - a bomber and fighter plane game. An airplane hunts game with 18 missions in 3 operations. Ju 87 legendary as ME 262. Stuka from the 2nd World War I flying from the aircraft carrier "Graf Zeppelin" sea to fulfill missions. Fight with destroyers, battleships - as the "Prince of Wales" - but also faces should be removed from air. It starts easily and is very difficult. It is also a story that is drawn through the missions, to the total destruction of a seaport, with the help of the "Bismarck".
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The national Republican Party, coming off huge election victories but facing a $22 million debt and an internal war over identity, ousted chairman Michael Steele Friday and chose Wisconsin party chief Reince Priebus to lead in the run-up to the 2012 presidential race.
The embattled Steele dropped his re-election bid halfway through an afternoon of balloting when it became clear he could not win another two-year term after a first marked by verbal missteps and financial woes.
"We have to get on track. And together we can defeat Barack Obama in 2012," Priebus, the chairman of the Wisconsin GOP, said in a brief victory speech, pleading for unity within the fractured 168-member Republican National Committee. "We all recognize that there's a steep hill here ahead of us, and the only way that we'll be able to move forward is if we're all together."
The new chairman's name is pronounced Ryns Pree'-bus.
A former top lieutenant to Steele, Priebus promised to hire top-notch staff, restructure the organization and put it on solid financial footing so the next GOP presidential nominee will be prepared to take on Obama. Later, he rejected suggestions the national party organization's power might have waned, given the proliferation of outside groups that have assumed campaign functions the party historically has performed.
"It's very relevant," he said.
For the next two years, Priebus will try to prove that.
Most urgently, the new chairman must retire an RNC debt of about $22 million owed to vendors and banks, as well as lure back demoralized donors who have been so frustrated with Steele's management that they sent their dollars elsewhere or didn't open their wallets at all last year. The party had only about $1 million cash on hand at year's end.
He'll also serve as the party top spokesman promoting its agenda, countering Democrats, raising money to help Republicans and improving a get-out-the-vote effort that critics say languished under Steele.
Additionally, Priebus will have to figure out how to navigate a GOP civil war in which conservatives and tea party disciples are trying to pull the Republican Party further to the right, to the chagrin of moderates and some longtime establishment leaders.
The favorite heading into Friday's balloting, Priebus led the field through seven rounds of voting. Steele quit after the fourth round. Ann Wagner, a former Missouri state GOP chair, abandoned her bid a few rounds later. Maria Cino, a New York native and a veteran party operative who served in President George W. Bush's administration, and Saul Anuzis, a former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, stayed on the ballot until the end.
"Despite the noise, despite the difficulties, we won" in November, Steele said, noting huge gains that included the GOP taking control of the House. "We must go forward, and we must win. We fired (Nancy) Pelosi. Let's take the Senate. Let's take the White House."
It was a message Priebus echoed.
Virtually unknown nationally, the Wisconsin GOP chairman has a high profile in his home state.
He's an attorney with the law firm Michael Best & Friedrich, where he is a partner specializing in corporate litigation, according to the firm's website. State and federal campaign finance records show the Wisconsin Republican Party has paid the firm at least $89,572 in legal fees during Priebus' tenure as state GOP chairman.
Priebus' political statements have sometimes contrasted with the law firm's actions.
He has criticized Obama's multibillion-dollar economic stimulus package as a costly failure; Michael Best & Friedrich has helped clients try to win stimulus funds. Firm spokesman David Krutz said Friday that Priebus has had no role on the stimulus team.
A telegenic though gaffe-prone party leader, Steele had argued that he should be re-elected because of the GOP's record of coast-to-coast victories. However, Republican operatives had formed a network of outside groups that adopted traditional national party functions out of a concern about the RNC's ability under Steele to raise money and deploy resources to key races.
The first black chairman of the Republican Party, Steele was elected to a two-year term in January 2008 just as Obama — the country's first black president — was taking office.
Since then, Steele, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, has spent much of his tenure fending off criticism. He faced frequent complaints about questionable spending, anemic fundraising, staff shake-ups and cringe-inducing comments.
Longtime establishment Republicans and GOP elders in Washington argued that he damaged the party's image and its long-term fiscal health.
Steele angered them by predicting the GOP wouldn't win House control last fall; Republicans did win. He also drew their ire when he criticized fellow Republicans in a book that GOP leaders didn't know he was writing until it was published.
He lashed out at critics, telling them to "get a life." Steele also drew fire for collecting payments for his speeches.
Demands for him to resign came last year after the disclosure that RNC money was spent on a $2,000 tab at a sex-themed California night club, and when he said that the 9-year-old conflict in Afghanistan was a mistaken "war of Obama's choosing." It began under Bush.
Associated Press Writer Sharon Theimer contributed to this report.
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I thought we need to put a face and bio on this guy. At first, his unusual name made me think he's hailing from Belgium or Euro headquarters… : ))
He looks like he's lost some weight from the photo supplied with this article. He's another that believes he has 'god' on his side. Uh-oh!
Reince has a lot of work ahead; ie., to drum up suckers to pay fhe 22 million in debts they owe.
I'm beginnning to think it's far cheaper for the shadowy oligarchs that own America lock, stock and barrel to provide a third party that they too would control, but far more cheaply in order to just break up the terminal monotony and boredom of having to deal with these braindead, ineffectual, boring 'Republicrats' 24/7/365. / : |
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I guess we can expect more debt finance. It's how they run their party, it's how they'll run the nation.
If they truly believe that God fixes everything why not pray? The only thing these folks believe in is destroying President Obama. Not a single Republican has as clue how to bring down the debt. They don't care, they simply want another white patsy in the White House. It is so damn depressing to see one party simply fold up and then come out fighting against a man in the white house.
Will there ever be a time when the GOP can shut up and think about what they want? What happened to this once great party? It can only be the intelligence of the voters who again let the best man lose.
Carl, I think you have the right idea in allowing the richest of the rich simply build a new party and attract smarter voter blocks. Anything is better than our current system.
So you're saying that if Obama was Caucasian (which he is 50%) the Republicans wouldn't want to defeat him? They would just not run against him at all in 2012? That the only reason they'll field any oppostition in the next election is to run the black man out of the Oval Office?
Or maybe from now on, no one but a black man can run for president, just to ensure that there is no racial undertone for the liberals to get all freaked out about.
I remember during the last election, any one that dared question His greatness, much less his character or ability, was automatically deemed a racist, like any one that dared oppose Hillary was a mysoginist.
For some one that constantly rails against the stupidity of the American voter…ah, forget it.
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When you say yes to something there is less of you for something else.
Make sure your yes is worth the less.
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I am really into Meyers-Briggs personality types, and I am an ENFJ. A common title ENFJ's are given is 'The Giver.' Translate this personality type into a girlfriend in a relationship, and you get a girl who spent much of her free time in high school dreaming up, creating, and reminiscing…
'Memphis x Sam'
On Friday my friend Sam and I spent the day creating.
1. Sam's 1 bedroom backhouse in the Idlewild neighborhood of Midtown
2. Whole Foods in East Memphis
3. Joe's Wine & Liquor in Midtown
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After some time you learn the difference,
The subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul.
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning,
And company doesn't always mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts,
And presents aren't promises.
And you begin to accept your defeats,
With your head up and your eyes ahead,
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child.
And you learn to build all your roads on today,
Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans,
And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn,
That even the sun burns if you get too much,
And learn that it doesn't matter how much you do care about,
Some people simply don't care at all.
And you accept that it doesn't matter how good a person is,
She will hurt you once in a while,
And you need to forgive her for that.
You learn that talking can relieve emotional pain.
You discover that it takes several years to build a relationship based on confidence,
And just a few seconds to destroy it.
And that you can do something just in an instant,
And which you will regret for the rest of your life.
You learn that the true friendships,
Continue to grow even from miles away.
And that what matters isn't what you have in your life,
But who you have in your life.
And that good friends are the family,
Which allows us to choose.
You learn that we don't have to switch our friends,
If we understand that friends can also change.
You realize that you are your best friend,
And that you can do anything, or nothing,
And have good moments together.
You discover that the people who you most care about in your life,
Are taken from you so quickly,
So we must always leave the people who we care about with lovely words,
It may be the last time we see them.
You learn that the circumstances and the enviroment have influence upon us,
But we are responsible for ourselves.
You start to learn that you should not compare yourself with others,
But with the best you can be.
You discover that it takes a long time to become the person you wish to be,
And that the time is short.
You learn that it doesn't matter where you have reached,
But where you are going to.
But if you don't know where you are going to,
Anywhere will do.
You learn that either you control your acts,
Or they shall control you.
And that to be flexible doesn't mean to be weak or not to have personality,
Because it doesn't matter how delicate and fragile the situation is,
There are always two sides.
You learn that heroes are those who did what was necessary to be done,
Facing the consequences.
You learn that patience demands a lot of practice.
You discover that sometimes,
The person who you most expect to be kicked by when you fall,
Is one of the few who will help you to stand up.
You learn that maturity has more to do with the kinds of experiences you had
And what you have learned from them,
Than how many birthdays you have celebrated.
You learn that there are more from your parents inside you than you thought.
You learn that we shall never tell a child that dreams are silly,
Very few things are so humiliating,
And it would be a tragedy if she believed in it.
You learn that when you are angry,
You have the right to be angry,
But this doesn't give you the right to be cruel.
You discover that only because someone doesn't love you the way you would like
her to,
It doesn't mean that this person doesn't love you the most she can,
Beacuse there are people who love us,
But just don't know how to show or live that.
You learn that sometimes it isn't enough being forgiven by someone,
Sometimes you have to learn how to forgive yourself.
You learn that with the same harshness you judge,
Some day you will be condemned.
You learn that it doesn't matter in how many pieces your heart has been broken,
The world doesn't stop for you to fix it.
You learn that time isn't something you can turn back,
Therefore you must plant your own garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure.
You really are strong.
And you can go so farther than you thought you could go.
And that life really has a value.
And you have value within the life.
And that our gifts are betrayers,
And make us lose
The good we could conquer,
If it wasn't for the fear of trying.
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Stand up now and face the sun
When Elaine and Miraya first reached out to me about Uprooted&Relentless, it was still just an idea and (according to my Gmail inbox search) 3 days after Miraya and I graduated from Haas. I wanted to be a part of it, but at that time the only thing on my mind was how in 9 days I'd be stuffing…
My first post. Excited to join these Uprooted gals!
you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.
The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.
If this sounds too mystical, refer again to the body. Every significant vital sign- body temperature, heart rate, oxygen consumption, hormone level, brain activity, and so on- alters the moment you decide to do anything… decisions are signals telling your body, mind, and environment to move in a certain direction."
― Deepak Chopra
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Just over three years after 21-year-old Jose Medina, a valet at the now-defunct Rockstar Lounge at 940 Lincoln Street, died after getting struck by a hit-and-run driver, Governor John Hickenlooper signed House Bill HB14-1191 into law and created the Hit and Run Medina Alert Program, the first of its ... More >>
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This morning's news cycle was dominated by an event that many Coloradans watched live -- a police chase after a car-jacking suspect who'd raced away from a Longmont gas station in a stolen vehicle with a four-year-old boy inside. Fortunately, the conclusion of the story is relatively happy for most ... More >>
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Editor's note: With Peyton Manning's regular-season debut for the Broncos set for Sunday, we offer this (hilarious) (and helpful!) Peyton primer by Melanie Asmar that first appeared last March. Hello, Denver sports noobs. Perhaps you've heard of a new man-about-town named Peyton Manning. No, no -- ... More >>
Hello, Denver sports noobs. Perhaps you've heard of a new man-about-town named Peyton Manning. No, no -- he's not the guy who won Project Runway All Stars. He's a football player. A quarterback. In other words, Peyton Manning is the new Tim Tebow. Except less overtly Christian and better at doing t ... More >>
Our Colorado Crimes archive has been was very busy during January, filling with stories that range from the bizarre to the tragic. Look below to see mug shots of those at the center of the reports, and click on their names or accompanying links to check out our original coverage.
Yesterday, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call about a missing child: An eight-year-old had been abducted from the Safeway on 560 Castle Pines Parkway. Patrol deputies and detectives promptly retrieved a video of the abduction from a Safeway surveillance camera, and both the vict ... More >>
The more information that surfaces about Pueblo's Jose Garcia, the creepier the allegations against him become. In addition to accusations that he prompted an Amber Alert by grabbing nine-year-old Calysta Cordova, who escaped, he's been charged in a second sex assault on a child.
Jasmine Fike."Someone just broke into my house and he's trying to take me!" fifteen-year-old Jasmine Fike told the 911 operator, her voice teetering on the edge of hysteria. "Please come! Hurry!" The cops did, but they needn't have rushed -- since they now believe Fike faked the whole thing.


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QUITO, Ecuador--Ecuador's Finance Ministry said Friday that the government has signed a loan for $80 million with the Export-Import Bank of China.
The loan has a 20-year maturity and an interest rate of 2%.
The loan will be used by the Municipality of Quito to enlarge the Simon Bolivar highway.
China has been the main lender for Ecuador since 2008, when Ecuador defaulted on about $3.2 billion of Global bonds.
In December, the Andean country signed a $2 billion loan agreement with the China Development Bank Corp., with an interest rate of about 7% and an eight-year maturity.
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Naam is a psychedelic rock band from Brooklyn, New York. History: Naam was formed in early 2009 by guitarist Ryan Lee Lugar and bassist John Bundy. Following the addition Eli Pizutto on drums, they self-released Kingdom, their first EP. Buzz generated from the EP led to them being signed to Tee Pee Records later that year. October 2009 saw the release of Naam, their debut album. "Kingdom", which runs for 16 minutes, was used as the album's opening track. The LP was followed by a United States tour as a supporting act for bands such as Orange Goblin and Nebula. In November 2010, they supported Priestess in the US. In 2011, they toured Europe with and released a 7" record consisting of Nirvana covers. In 2012, Naam released another EP, entitled The Ballad of the Starchild Vol. 1. The EP contained five new songs and is the first installment in an ongoing project. The song "Star Child" was accompanied by a music video. To support this release, Naam had their first headlining tour in Europe. At this time, keyboardist Johnny "Fingers" Weingarten was added as a permanent, regular member of Naam. Naam spent much of late 2012 recording their second album, Vow. On April 3, 2013, Vow's title track was made available for streaming on SPIN.com. In the accompanying review for the single, SPIN declared that "Vow" "plunges deeper into the void, fusing chugging guitar riffs, elliptical electronic, and disembodied vocal harmonies" 3 This was followed by more touring in Europe. The completed album was released in all formats on June 4, 2013. It received positive reviews, garnering an 8 out of 10 from Decibel and a 7 out of 10 from PopMatters, which made note of the increased presence of Weingarten, shorter song lengths, and "a stronger injection of soul". A United States tour for the album began in early July and concluded in late August. On August 22, 2013, Naam made a post on their Facebook page strongly hinting that they would soon be touring Europe again. Sound: From Naam's Myspace page: "Disgusted by the lack of heavy, psychedelic rock and roll, We deliver our deafening sermon to bring a new dawn for all civilization. The vast seas cannot drown Us, the darkest caverns cannot conceal Us, We will conquer insurmountable foes. We are war, We are peace, We are time and space, We are infinite, We are Naam." 1 Naam's sound in the studio can be described as heavy Space rock. Key influences include Hawkwind, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and 70's Krautrock. Many Naam songs have a droning quality reminiscent of contemporaries The Black Angels and Om.
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ELO chess ranking system applied incorrectly in video games
Are there any chess players, statisticians, or smart people who are familiar with the ELO ranking system? This concerns a game with at least over 100,000 players, so its not an obscure concern.
Basically, I play an online video game that tries to apply an ELO ranking system to rank individual player skill, however its a multiplayer team-oriented game. I think the application of ELO in this case is severely flawed, and it feels so obvious to me logically; however, a way to prove it is not immediately obvious to me and I would like to get input before I venture into calculations, simulations, and models.
I'll try to describe the method and why I think its invalid, and then the supporters' reasons for why its valid.
The games consist of 2 teams, each with 5 players. The gameplay is heavily dependent on team performance, where 1 player can influence the outcome at times, but in general, it takes a team effort to outperform another team. Imagine it being basketball if you want. So, if you are on a team with bad players, you are severely disadvantaged. At the end of the game, all players of the winning team receive a boost to their ELO rating, while players of the losing team receive a deduction from their rating, independent of each player's individual performance.
Now, one of the key flaws I see is that the system applies the team performance to an individual's ranking. If the teams were always constant, as in the players being rated were always on the same team together, this would actually work, because then the ELO rating is applied to the team, rather than the individual, and the team has a record of statistical datapoints that are valid. Say some lucky bad player plays with 4 professional players on his team every game, then the rating he has should not represnt his personal skill, but rather his team's skill.
In the game I'm playing, each game, or trial if you can call it that, the teams are completely randomized with players that could be very experienced or players that have never played the game before. The system finds 5 players on a team, and it picks 2 teams of random players that have the same average rating (in an attempt to make the matchup fair). So each game a player plays, his team has changed completely, but the end of game results (win or lose) are applied to the individual player and so that random team's performance is applied as a datapoint for someone's individual, non-random, statistical performance. Does this start to sound flawed? The dataset being compiled is basically random events, since the players are picked out of a random pool with an average ranking value.
The argument in support of this method is that A.) the player pool to make teams is random and B.) the dependent variable in all trials is that the individual player was an influence in every game (in other words, the common element to all the random games is the player being rated was a participant in all of them). And with these premises, the individual's influence should begin to average out above the randomness of his team makeup in each event. So with a sufficient enough amount of games played, the accumulation of performance of the random team matches that he participated in should start to reflect his own performance.
Now, my argument is this: You cannot base an individual's ranking based on how randomized teams he plays on perform. The +/- received from a win or loss should only be applied to the team performance, rather than an individual's performance. I would also argue that the distribution of player skill in the randomized teams and the fact that the player is only 1/10th of the participants in a match, that the "averaging" effect that they think should surface is completely drowned out by "noise". I think of it as a signal to noise ratio analogy, and the 9 other players are the noise floor, and the individual player is below this noise threshold and his influence cannot be measured.
Sorry if this doesn't belong here or doesn't make much sense, but if you have any experience or thoughts on this I'd appreciate comments.
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The result will be a progressively smaller number of people whose scores are increasingly skewed.
For instance, suppose the following variation on the traditional ELO system where you are scored by your own games only. However, after each game a coin is flipped and the loser of the coin toss gives one ELO point to the winner.
At the end of the first round, half of the players are 1 point ahead, half are 1 point behind. At the end of the second round, half will have correct ELO scores, a quarter will be 2 points ahead, a quarter 2 points behind. Etc.
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I think one thing to remember is that the elo in a team game would not reflect how good of a player you are but more so how well you work with a team. It would be possible to add some factors that would allow it to value how good of a player you are. It's possible that would lead to people just trying to work the system to get scores that reflects that they are good.
With just about any elo system the score will become more accurate the more games you play have you taken this into account?
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If I understand the OP, you don't play as a team, you play as a group of 5 individuals. It is only the rating points that are distributed on the basis of the team's result. When you win a game in the traditional ELO system, you get some of your opponent's points. In this system you only get your opponent's points if your team wins. Say you defeat your opponent and the other 4 members of your team lose their games. In the traditional system you would win points. In this system you lose points.
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It seems to me that Jimmy's conclusions are reasonable. For the majority, with sufficiently large player pool, will average out their scores to reasonable levels. A small minority may have gotten exceptionally lucky or unlucky and was always paired with players above or below their skill level consistently and will have a skewed rating.
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You do play as a team. Its a strategic game where 5 players play together to beat the other team. My problem is that you are then rated as an individual based on your team's performance, and your team changes every match and is randomly chosen.
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I also believe elo ranking system is flawed in such games (like football-soccer too).
I played for a few months a video game in which teams remained fixed even after a game would end. We would create "clans" and were teamed up only with people of our clan vs other clans. The number of players wasn't fixed, a game could start 2 vs 5 if there was 5 people from 1 clan and 2 people from the other clan.
I was stronger than the average guy in my team; when the season of clans ended my elo rating went up by almost 200 points and I entered the top 50 or so. However my skills remained the same or almost, so that my elo didn't mean absolutely anything reliable.
In one of my first games (elo 1500), I played a 3 vs 3 against the strongest guy of the video game (elo around 2200). I managed to beat him almost exclusively in 1 vs 1 but my team mates failed to win the game. Result of the game: I lost elo points, the strongest guy of the video game gained elo... though I personally did better than him in that particular game. Such a ranking system cannot be right. In my opinion elo isn't suited for team games.
P.S.:In that game if you die entirely but your team manages to win the game, you "win" for the ranking system.
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One thing to remember: rating systems are meant to be a predictor, not a sure thing. (and from the sounds of it - OP is talking about League of Legends?). Even with team games, over a long enough period of time, a k-weighted ELO system should be relatively accurate as long as ratings are used in their appropriate pool. Multiplayer ratings used for randomly assigned teams etc. Also, something to note for League of Legends - they use a personal rating (hidden to you) to help granulate some match making even further.
Magic: The Gathering (and several other 1v1 tabletop games) have all recently dropped the ELO rating system for their competitions. Over a long enough period of time, the ratings became a bit unwieldy (because they weren't using them for match making, just large scale comparisions). People would sit on their ratings for large events forgoing small events (ie: a sufficiently high rated player would need to go undefeated to not lose significant points at a smaller event). There is also the thought that ELO ratings don't accurately represent games with a chance element.
Finally, especially in a team game something that is being discounted is your skill as a team player. Sure, 1v1 you may beat someone - but 2v2 that other individual may be far better at utilizing his partner. I think that you're discounting "plays well with others" as a measured skill in this case. To your soccer analogy: your striker may have the best kick in the game, but if he's a ball-hog things may not bode well. But again - over a long period of time, in a randomly-selected team environment, the 'better' individual will have a higher rating.
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Ah, League of Legends. My little brother just got me into that game.
I guess the main counterargument to the OP is that the high ELO players are legitimately the best players, and the low ELO players are generally crap. I disagree that your performance in the game will get drowned out by the others in the long run. We've all had games where one guy on either team basically solos the entire game, and we've all had games where some horrible player on one of the team just feeds the opposing carries.
But, my main point is that players with high ELOs exist, and that is the biggest counterexample to your argument.
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Aha!!. I though we were talking about chess.
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Is this where I can jump in and flame LoL over HON/Dota?
I kid.
This is interesting, I'd like to see what people think about the system that exists in all the above games.
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Again, the biggest counterargument is that the strongest players have the highest ELOs, even in solo queue. This fact cannot be explained if ELO isn't related to individual performance.
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In League of Legends, there are team queues and solo queues. The teams generally have lower ELOs than individuals, so I don't know how meaningful it is to compare the ELO of a team vs the ELO of an individual, as you seem to be doing. However, the point stands that you're talking about a completely different game.
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A quality hotel right next to key transport linksPosted Sep 19, 2014
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Cons: Free Wi-Fi in the rooms would have been useful considering the room rate.
Location: Right in the heart of Paddington Station
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Club night every Friday/Saturday - Avoid room 209Posted Aug 26, 2014
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Everyone always boast about being prepared for either a zombie or infected apocalypse scenario. The confidence is inspiring, but no one can truly know their reaction when it finally happens. Take Joel for example who is just a normal single parent trying to enjoy his evening with his daughter, until disaster strikes and the world goes into a panic. At this point you do what normal people would do, try to contact friends/family, get the essentials and try to drive to safety. That is a well thought out plan, until the random situations start to occur, because you can't predict what other people might do. This is the latest game from Naughty Dog, who brought us the Uncharted series and now is tackling the survivor horror genre with The Last Of Us, exclusive to the PlayStation 3.
It is now 20 years later and the outbreak has spread throughout the world and now you must live your life day by day either trading or smuggling goods to survive. The world is militia run where people get checked on a daily to see if they are infected. Any indication of said infection will be terminated immediately, by any means necessary. To think that Joel's problems were only dealing with infected people and those that stole their merchandise, but now he is dealing with transporting a 14 year old girl named Ellie to a militia group known as the Fireflies. The reason behind that will remain a mystery since this is my spoiler free review.
This is your typical third person game, but with some extra features to help you survive. There are two different ways you can tackle each area filled with enemies. There is the highly recommended stealth approach, which will take a lot of patients and planning to know which path your enemy takes. To help with that you will have the ability to hear through walls and floors, by holding the R2 button Joel will utilize sonar ability. It will grant you a silhouette of nearby adversaries and the paths they are taking in said area. Once you have the drop on your enemy a push of the triangle button and either hit it a second time for a loud kill or hit square to choke them out. Depending on if you have a shiv available will determine the kill, otherwise Joel will use some super human strength to cave in their heads. Ammo is very scarce in the game, so use bullets only if necessary, because spraying and praying will get you know where in this title. If you are swarmed by enemy infected especially clickers who go by sound, always have a brick or bottle around to handle them problem. If you end up taking them head on, the only way is with a melee weapon, because it is a one hit kill if they get their hands on you. To perform a stealth kill, just have a shiv handy at all times.
I don't care where you are in the game, but you better be searching for tools and other items, because crafting is part of your survival. Almost everything and anything can be improved or enhanced to help you deal with the infected world and even Joel will gain enhancements when you fine pills and other things. I am actually having more fun using an upgraded two by four with nails or the led pipe with shivs taped on it. Later on you can craft Molotov cocktails, bombs with shrapnel and of course gun holsters. Eventually you will gain a bow, which seems to be standard issue in video games now, but frankly I will never turn down something that gives you a silent kill.
The characters themselves make the whole game look as if an interacting movie is playing or a television drama. I could see this as something to come on TNT or AMC in the near future. The visuals of the environments and the interactive objects to get to other ventures is smooth. The vegetation and even the underwater scenario's I had to deal with her not that bad all. However as a horror game, it does have it jump at you points, but it is not at all as scary as people expected it to be. That is not a bad thing; it is just well balanced as an infected video game title.
Since Naughty Dog had a big success with the mutli-player in Uncharted, it was added to the Last Of Us, but with a twist. The MP will feature the same mechanics as the regular campaign, but there is no infected to deal with, however I had hope they would have implemented some sort of infected A.I to deal with while having player versus player. That was just my wishful thinking at work. The first thing you do is pick a faction and once that is done you have a certain amount of survivors which act as your level. Depending on how well you tackle on the objectives and your own personal missions, will determine who will survive, as well as grant you new survivors. The multi-player will also feature a weekly system which will grant you other abilities for your weapons. The more you play and the more you salvage the more you have a chance of keeping people alive. The cool thing that was added to this feature is linking your Facebook account which gives each of those survivors in your camp your friend names and faces. Yes Naughty Dog did that to you to catch feelings for people that you actually know, so all of your friends are under your care and honestly they eat too damn much. So far no one has gotten sick in my camp, but all I know is I already lost a comrade and Crissy…I am sorry girl, you died picking berries. This feature reminds me of a mix between Oregon Trail and 3rd person shooter had a baby and made this multi-player.
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Here is where I feel things are overly hyped or bad. As I talked to one of my admins on the kumakreations.com/facebook fanpage on certain things that should of been added or does not make any sense. The fact that Joel has taken down many military groups' baffles me as in why not take their weaponry or armored gear? it would make sense to strip them of their automatic rifles and spare ammo or hell grenades so I would not have to craft them. What the hell is up with Tess confronting a runner which did not see her flashing her light in its face, but when I turn mine off and tried to sneak pass, it freaking saw me. Honestly the A.I is not all that smart either and I was told by my buddy John that Naughty Dog recommended players to use hard or above difficulty to get the true feel of the game. I killed two military officers and one walked pass their body not alerting anyone else to the area nor made indication of caution. I proceeded to choke him out to, but I have to agree with my other admin Lightbridge, maybe I am just too good at these games now.
In the end The Last of Us Campaign and Multi-player go together like a cool tall glass of Sunkist on a nice summer day. In other words it is a BUY and for many great reasons. It has a reach and pure story-line, has nothing to do with zombies (do not start they are infected big difference!), the voice acting is great, the environments are captivating and the multi-player actually put in an, "I care" system of keeping your camp alive. There is a lot of re-play value to be had with a true + system to return to the game with everything you unlock and play it over like a boss. It is an escort title, but it is not as annoying too much where I don't have to worry too much, but the clunky situations of her hugging up on me phasing through the 3D modeling is a bit of a downer. The game is slightly overly hyped, but having a great time. This is a great exclusive to the PlayStation 3 console and I hope you check it out. This concludes our review and I thank you all again for stopping by; you can pick up The Last of Us in our Amazon Store Kuma'sAmazonStore/TheLastOfUs. Please check back for more as this summer of gaming kicks off. Stay frosty gamers.
Developer: Naughty Dog
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Rated: M – Mature
Genre: Action-adventure, survival horror
Players: 1 single, 2-8 network
HD required: 50mb
Price: $59.99
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National Security Program | Memo
Bringing the 9/11 Conspirators to Justice
On November 13th, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other suspected terrorists1 held in the Guantanamo detention facility would be prosecuted in federal court for their involvement in the 9/11 attacks. With a congressionally mandated 45-day waiting period in place before these suspects can be moved to a federal prison facility in the US, conservatives have begun to attack the American system of justice and denigrate the competency of law enforcement officials and the courts, all in an attempt to gain political advantage by weakening the Obama administration.
Below we offer a brief history of America's successful prosecution of terror suspects along with some answers to the inevitable political attacks on the Attorney General's decision. We believe the case for these trials can be summed up as follows: The Attorney General's decision to finally bring these 9/11 conspirators to justice is welcome and appropriate. The most effective, legally sound way of trying, convicting, and punishing these suspected terrorists has been and continues to be in federal court. This will demonstrate to the world the American system of justice endures and cannot be compromised by those who would do our nation harm.
Prosecuting and Imprisoning Terrorists
Since 1993, the United States has successfully captured and prosecuted hundreds of terrorist suspects, with 216 international terrorists currently held in the United States.2 Before the 9/11 attacks, the Clinton administration successfully prosecuted Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing, in federal court in New York City, resulting in a sentence of life in prison. Omar Abdel Rahman, the 'blind sheik,' was prosecuted and convicted in the same court the 9/11 conspirators will be tried and also was sentenced to life in prison. Zaccarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, was tried and convicted without incident in a court in Alexandria, Virginia, in 2006. He too is serving life in prison.
After conviction, these terrorists were sent to federal 'supermax' prisons where inmates are held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. Despite holding a 'who's who' list of terrorists, these prisons have never been the target of a terrorist attack, and no one has ever escaped.3
Attacks and Responses
Conservatives are making a number of spurious claims about the trials, each of which is easily rebutted.
1. Trying these cases is a national security risk.
Attack: Bringing the detainees to New York puts the city at an increased risk of terrorist attack. Representative Peter King (R-NY) warned that "these terrorists' new home and the courthouse in which they'll be tried will immediately move to the top of al Qaeda's target list."4
Response: New York has handled high-level terrorist trials in the past, including the trial for the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing. New York's Mayor and Police Commissioner both said the city is ready to handle the trials.5 The trial of Zacarias Moussaoui occurred less than 10 miles from the White House, but conservatives never accused President Bush of putting the White House in further danger of attack.
Attack: If they aren't convicted, terrorists will go free on US soil. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) recently wrote: "a judge may very well agree with the legal arguments of Guantanamo detainees and order them released into the United States."6
Response: In the highly unlikely scenario that any of these men are acquitted, the ultimate authority over these detainees remains with President Obama, who will not release them into the US under any circumstances.7
Attack: Holding the trials in federal court will risk compromising sensitive or classified information. Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey has argued that federal courts cannot be trusted to safeguard sensitive evidence, citing the delivery to Osama bin Laden of a co-conspirator list provided to the defense counsel in the Rahman trial in the mid-1990s.8
Response: Legal experts believe that the government will not have to bring significant amounts of classified information into court in order to achieve a conviction.9 Even so, the Classified Information Procedures Act allows portions of the trial specifically dealing with classified information to be closed from the public. A recent study of federal terrorism prosecutions found no security breaches in cases where the Classified Information Procedures Act was invoked. In the specific case cited by Mukasey, the government never requested the co-conspirator list be kept classified.10
2. US courts can't handle these cases.
Attack: These trials will take too long. Representative Buck McKeon (R-CA) said President Obama's decision "will once again delay bringing justice to the victims and their families."11
Response: During the Bush administration, these terrorists sat in Guantanamo for years without any justice for the victims and their families. Bringing these men to trial in New York's federal courts, which have extensive experience handling terrorism trials, ensures that after eight years justice will be served.
Attack: Detainees could get off because of past mishandling or torture. Representative King said: "Once they're in civilian court, depending on the judge, the lawyer could say he was arrested [with] no warrant, no Miranda rights, he was waterboarded and spent seven years without a trial."12
Response: These are the men who planned and helped execute the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The evidence against them was strong before they were ever captured and has been strengthened even more since. Attorney General Holder would not have brought the case to trial if the government's evidence was tainted by technicalities or torture. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who has seen the evidence against the detainees, said "I have no question that they have enough evidence untainted by the waterboarding that will be admissible in court, and he will be convicted."13
Attack: The trials will give terrorists a platform for jihadist rhetoric. Representative Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) "said he feared that Mr. Mohammed and his accused co-conspirators would try to make the trial 'a circus' and use it as a platform to push their ideology."'14
Response: Such concerns were aired in advance of the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, but he was not given a propaganda platform by the court and there is no evidence that he was able to influence anyone with the limited amount of time he was able to speak during the trial. At the time, his statements seemed like wild rants and years later, no one remembers what he said.
3. This decision is politically motivated.
Attack: This will not be a trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his terrorist associates; it will be a trial of the CIA and the Bush administration. Tom Ridge, Bush's first Secretary of Homeland Security, said: "You'd like to think that … it is simply their interpretation that these individuals are entitled to these kinds of criminal justice protections—rather than using it as a fishing expedition to revisit decisions made during the past six years. Time will tell."15
Response: While the mishandling of Guantanamo detainees by the Bush administration has made these trials more complicated, the Department of Justice is only interested in convictions and will avoid tangential issues. Federal prosecutors and courts are professional and duty bound and have demonstrated in previous cases their singular focus on trying the criminal acts of terrorists.
Attack: This is being done because liberal groups pressured the administration to do it. House Republican leader John Boehner said the move "puts the interests of liberal special interest groups before the safety and security of the American people."16
Response: Conservative attacks on the American system of justice are unfounded and politically driven. And they are inconsistent, President Bush said: "I'd like to close Guantanamo… we are a nation of laws. Eventually, these people will have trials and they will have counsel and they will be represented in a court of law."17
Attack: It is disrespectful to the victims of 9/11 to bring the perpetrators back to the scene of the crime for trials. Representative Hoekstra said, "We're going to go back into New York City, the scene of the tragedy on 9/11. We're now going to rip that wound wide open."18
Response: It is a basic tenet of the American justice system that criminals are tried in the same place where the crime was committed. While the memory of 9/11 will be painful, bringing these men to justice in a public court will ultimately help to bring closure to the families and victims. New Yorkers, like all Americans, will finally be able to render judgment on those responsible for the awful attacks against their city.
Attorney General Holder's decision to try these suspects in federal court is in the best interest of our national security. Convicted terrorists need to be punished, confined and isolated in secure prisons.
The record of federal prosecutors and the courts in carrying out this solemn duty should not be tarnished by unfounded political attacks or undermined by fear-mongering. Having the suspected 9/11 conspirators continue to languish in legal limbo at Guantanamo does not strengthen the security of America or how we are seen by others. Bringing them to justice in a court of law, however, will make us safer, provide much needed justice, and demonstrate to the world that America remains resolute and will not compromise its founding principles in prosecuting terrorists for their murderous acts.
End Notes
1 Walid Muhammad Salih bin Attash, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi.
2 Fred Kaplan, "There are Already 355 Terrorists in American Prisons," Slate, May 29, 2009.
3 ibid.
4 Representative Peter King, "O's Terrible Call," New York Post, Nov. 14, 2009.
5 Joseph Berger, "Giuliani Criticizes Terror Trials in New York," New York Times, November 15, 2009.
6 Mitch McConnell, "A lesson from the Uighers," The National Law Journal, November 9, 2009.
7 Reid J. Epstein, "Q&A on federal terrorism case set for Manhattan," Wall Street Journal,
November 15, 2009.
8 James J. Benjamin, Jr., "The Best Way to Try Terrorists / Federal Court is the Right Place," New York Times (Room for Debate Blog), November 13, 2009.
9 Reid J. Epstein, "Q&A on federal terrorism case set for Manhattan," Wall Street Journal, November 15, 2009; "Legal, political risks abound in NYC trial of 9/11 suspects; military to try 5 other detainees," AP News in Brief, The Associated Press, November 14, 2009; "Dems hail, Republicans bash decision to try 9/11 suspects in New York," CNN, November 15, 2009.
10 James J. Benjamin, Jr., "The Best Way to Try Terrorists / Federal Court is the Right Place," New York Times (Room for Debate Blog), November 13, 2009.
11 "Republicans blast Obama decision on Gitmo," Reuters, November 13, 2009.
12 Reid J. Epstein, "Q&A on federal terrorism case set for Manhattan," Wall Street Journal,
November 15, 2009.
13 Joseph Berger, "Giuliani Criticizes Terror Trials in New York," New York Times, November 15, 2009.
14 Ibid.
15 "Some Fear Bush Administration Could Become Target in 9/11 Trial," FOXNews.com,
November 14, 2009.
16 "Republicans blast Obama decision on Gitmo," Reuters, November 13, 2009.
17 "Bush: I'd Like to Close Guantanamo Bay," TimesOnline, June 14, 2006.
18 John Amick and T. Rees Shapiro, "Terrorism trials elicit strong opinions," Washington Post (44: The Obama Presidency Blog), November 15, 2009.


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