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Buried Treasure: Braunfels "The Birds"
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We are convinced that lovers of classical music include people who are always looking for (1) music that they have not heard before that might attract them, and (2) the best performance of music that they are familiar with and already enjoy.This web[...]
We are convinced that lovers of classical music include people who are always looking for (1) music that they have not heard before that might attract them, and (2) the best performance of music that they are familiar with and already enjoy. This website was created to help these music lovers achieve both goals. We are uniquely able to fulfill this mission because we bring together two exceptional resources that are not available on any other classical music website: (1) a classical music record collection that includes over 60,000 recordings of more than 35,000 different pieces of music from every corner of the globe, representing every historical period from biblical times to the present — one of the largest collections of classical music in the world; and (2) the expertise of some of the best professional music commentators, musicians, and composers involved in the classical music world. With these unique resources we present three specialized podcasts and the opportunity to respond to them through our blog: (1) "Buried Treasure" will introduce music from all periods and places, providing an opportunity to explore rarely heard works; (2) panel discussions on the interpretation of classical music in which well-established record critics will review recordings of more familiar works, play excerpts of the performances under review, and explain their individual standards for judging performance; and (3) a podcast in which one of the leading composers in New York interviews notable performers and composers, discussing with them the latest developments in classical music.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury have made an Order under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and of all other enabling powers, the effect of which will be to prohibit any vehicles from proceeding along:-
Carr Street, Ramsbottom - between Callender Street and Pinners Close
The reason for the proposed order is to enable manhole frame and cover replacement works to be carried out.
The alternative route will be via Bolton Street, Bolton Road West, Lumb Carr Road, The Rake and Tanners Street and vice versa.
The Order comes into operation on Sunday 07 January 2018 and shall remain in force for a period of up to 3 months, although the anticipated duration of the works is approximately one day (Sunday). Dated 4th January 2018 Council Solicitor
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The reason for the proposed order is to enable gas mains replacement in the carriageway. The diversion route will be along - Sheepfoot Lane, Bury Old Road, and Castle Hill Road and vice versa. The proposed Order will come into operation Monday 08 January 2018 and shall remain in force for a period of up to 3 months, (between approx 9.00am and 5.00pm) anticipated duration of works is 2 weeks. Dated 4th January 2018 Council Solicitor TOWN HALL, BURY, LANCASHIRE BL9 0SW Tel: 0161-253-5000
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The Koblumpi Music Festival to take place in Islamabad on 9th Feb
LAHORE: After the successful launch in Lahore in December 2019 to much acclaim, music icon Mekaal Hasan, one of Pakistan's leading entertainment solutions company Origami and audio/video guru Imran Mirza proudly reveal the date for the Islamabad chapter of The Koblumpi Music Festival scheduled to take place at Rawal Lawn in Bani Gala on the 9th of February 2020. Indeed, The Koblumpi Music Festival is an artist driven independent music festival which seeks to connect performers of original content with their potential audience base and is one of the first ticketed music events in Pakistan in recent years.
"Koblumpi came into being because of the synergy the three partners envisioned. As a team of professionals, who have spent the last two decades working on multiple aspects of the music and entertainment industry of Pakistan, we felt it necessary to put our experience and talent to do our part to support, encourage and actively stand with our fellow artists and colleagues. The addition of Selina R. Khan, founder of the go to PR firm Lotus PR, completed the team we needed to put Koblumpi on the Cultural calendar. The festival is a family and community event which allows people to enjoy a great, music-filled afternoon out with their friends and families." said Mekaal Hasan.
The Koblumpi Music Festival is an all-afternoon family and community festival, from 12 noon to 7 pm, featuring a wide range of independent and mainstream artists from across the country with a focus on original music, added activities for kids and families, as well as a huge array of food stalls and refreshments. Organized in partnership with Lotus PR, the Koblumpi team aim to provide an atmospheric experience bringing people together to enjoy a great, music-filled afternoon with their friends and families. The Koblumpi Music Festival consists of Festival Director Mehreen Rana, Show Director Mekaal Hasan, Imran Mirza as the Audio Partner, Danish Qureshi as Lead Designer, Ali Khan as Creative Director with FM91 as the radio partner, Careem as the technology partner Lotus Client Management & Public Relations as the official communications and PR partners.
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Q: "Snapshot" of Historical Data for Analysis Purposes I pull monthly aggregate data from a SQL database. I store the aggregated data in a separate table in the same database (so I can quickly grab numbers from six months ago, for instance).
My issue is that sometimes I am asked to pull details about the data from six months ago, but in our system the data is super dynamic and if I were to re-calculate my data from six months ago, I'd get different numbers than I did when I originally ran the data (because the underlying data has changed).
Contrived example: Number of users whose last name begins with "A". This data can change over time if a user changes their name.
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*Offload the details of the data each month into an excel spreadsheet, and save it in a file system (in the example above, we'd store a UserID and LastName) like UserNames-2022-04-01.xlsx

*Make a timestamped copy of the critical data (Timestamp, UserID and LastName) in a separate database table, and use that for my aggregating and historical analysis

*Similar to #2, but import the data into a data warehouse

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A Mammoth, a Spear, and a New Timeline for Humans in the Arctic
A new paper uses prehistoric animal injuries to argue that people populated the region thousands of years earlier than previously believed.
By Cari Romm
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The first person to reach the North Pole was the American explorer Robert Peary, in 1909. Or maybe it was Frederick Cook, in 1908. Historians still aren't sure which man really made it there first.
At any rate, it's a fitting story of discovery for the Arctic, a corner of the world where ambiguity reigns. There isn't even an official consensus on the exact parameters of the label: Technically, the Arctic refers to anything above the Arctic circle, which has a latitude of 66 degrees, 32 minutes North, but the U.S. definition includes all of the Bering Sea (which stretches as far south as 53 degrees), and some scientists use the Arctic tree line or average temperatures to draw their boundaries. And many of the region's research stations are built on sheets of sea ice, drifting masses that have no true fixed location.
Also adrift is our current understanding of when humans arrived in the Arctic. In a new paper published today in Science, a team of Russian researchers made the case that humans occupied the region as early as 45,000 years ago, several millennia earlier than archaeologists had previously believed.
But the discovery on which they base their argument isn't a frozen mummy, or any sort of man-made object. Instead, it's the body of a mammoth, discovered in 2012 on the shores of Siberia's Yensei Bay. The researchers were able to date the bone to around 45,000 years ago, an age supported by analysis of branches, peat, and other natural materials found around and on top of the body.
This mammoth was conspicuously healthy before it died. An examination of its teeth put it at around 15 years old at the time of its death, while the large amount of fat in its hump (much of its soft tissue remained intact) indicated that it was generally healthy, ruling out disease as the likely cause of its demise.
In fact, the researchers said, the carcass is marked in such a way that could only have been caused by human-made weapons. A small, symmetrical hole on the skull indicated that the mammoth had been pierced by a spear, as did dents on the leg and shoulder bones; further analysis revealed that the injuries had happened before the animal's death, meaning these changes to the bone weren't just the result of wear and tear over the millennia. Pieces of the trunk had also been stripped away, which the authors speculate may have been a way for the animal's hunters to make the tools they needed to butcher it.
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To back up their findings, the study authors also cited the recent discovery of a wolf carcass from a separate location in the Siberian Arctic. A bone analysis dated the wolf to around the same time period as the mammoth, while X-rays found a mark on one of the leg bones to be "a result of a penetrating injury inflicted by a sharp weapon." The bone also showed signs of healing, indicating that the wolf survived the injury and eliminating the possibility that it occurred after the animal's death.
"These two incidents suggest that even during the early phases of [Marine Isotope Age 3, the period of time between 3,000 and 57,000 years ago], humans inhabited the Arctic quite widely, although the population was probably small and remained sparse for a long time," the researchers wrote.
It's the second time in just over a decade that a Siberian discovery has given archaeologists reason to rethink their timeline for the region. In 2004, a team of researchers led by Vladmir Pitulko, an archaeologist at the Russian Academy of Sciences and one of the new Science paper's lead authors, discovered 31,000-year-old hunting tools along the Yana river in central Siberia, pushing back evidence for a human presence by around 15,000 years.
Unlike the 2004 find, though, this more recent paper is notable for its suggestion that a gap in human history could be filled in without any actual humans (or human-made objects) as physical evidence. And in an area where harsh conditions, inaccessibility, and permanently frozen ground make archaeological expeditions difficult, it may help researchers collect more information to add to their relatively sparse knowledge of the prehistoric Arctic.
"Huge spaces remain almost (or totally) unpopulated even in the 21st century," Pitulsko wrote in an email. "Because of that, they remain weakly studied, almost unexplored in terms of the history of human population."


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2019 To Witness Early Deployments of Mission Critical Communications and Services Over LTE and 5G - Softil's Predictions Featured
Anatoli Levine
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We see 2019 as the year when mission critical communications (MCC) solutions and services finally get into the hands of First Responders be they the armed forces, police, ambulance or other emergency service groups, as well as professional radio users in the fields of transportation and mining among others. The year will see First Responders and professional radio users becoming better supported in their tasks through the applied use of technology.
#1: THE First MCPTT deployments by First Responders
The year 2019 will see First Responders begin to supplement the humble radio so trusted by multiple generations of firefighters, police officers and emergency workers over the years with smartphones. At first, these might also be dual-mode devices, combining LMR and LTE capabilities. Once smartphones become commonplace in MCC, all will be able to work faster and better.
#2: THE Immediate future belongs to dual-mode LMR/MCPTT devices
It is nice to envision how the new generation of technology replaces the old generation in just the blink of an eye - like how we see it in the movies. This is not how it happens in real life - the old and new must peacefully coexist for a while. Moreover, they do not just coexist, but rather interwork. The emergency worker's device is not an interworking appliance, but instead, it can simply allow users to be connected to both worlds - simultaneously. We should see LMR devices being extended with MCPTT capabilities first before full-blown MCX(Mission Critical Services) devices completely replace them. We predict that quite a few dual-mode radios will appear in the market during 2019.
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Director of Products and Standards,
Softil
#3: Mission Critical Communications for Trains will continue to advance
Mission Critical Communications for trains, commonly referred to as LTE-R, are already deployed, but on a limited scale. Today, South Korea is leading the railway world with new MCC LTE-R terminals deployed on its high speed rail networks. However, as the standards for MCC for Railroads are in the final stages with 3GPP Release 15 providing the base, and Release 16 defining the necessary changes in architecture, we expect many more LTE-R trials and deployments over the next 2-3 years - especially as GSM-R (old communication technology for trains) will sunset in 2025.
#4: Managing MCC through Dispatch Consoles
The Dispatch Console is a critical element of emergency communications - someone has to have a "10,000 foot view" of everything happening with First Responders in real time to coordinate all activities. This is where the dispatch console operator comes into play. As MCC over LTE trickles onto the front line in 2019, dispatch consoles will manage video streams, video communication, chats and more. The console will become the critical element in the interconnection of the LMR and MCX worlds and be in service before the end of 2019.
#5: First MCC Recording solutions
It is essential to keep track of what is happening on the front line - we need to create records of all the activities of emergency workers at all times. In the past, voice and some unassociated videos were recorded, but in the new MCX world, there is a mass of data that needs to be recorded and archived.
This spans audio, video, chats, locations and much more from a vast array of supplementary data from "Life-saving things", commonly known as IoT devices. The industry will see the first recording solutions appearing in 2019 as they are critical for the overall MCS umbrella.
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#6: Private LTE becomes key to advancements in MCC for Mining
In the mining industry, communication is a key element of the ecosystem and on par with all the sophisticated machinery and tools in use. "MCC over LTE"s new communication capabilities, such as video, chat and file exchange, offer great advantages to miners compared to the traditional radio. However, common LTE towers cannot provide reliable connectivity inside mines and such deployments will require private LTE. We expect pilot Private LTE with MCS (Mission Critical Services) setups to go into trials in 2019, with full-scale deployments in 2020/2021.
#7: The impact of 5G on MCC will become noticeable
5G developments are advancing quickly, driven by the insatiable appetite for speed, bandwidth and full QoS/QoE spectrum of humans and machines alike. Core 5G trials are already under way around the world, but that doesn't affect MCX at the moment. However, we expect to see some alignment of MCX technologies with 5G networks and architectures in the next 3GPP Release 16 (due December 2019) and further enhancements in Release 17. The year 2021 will most likely be the year when MCX will commercially start running on top of 5G, offering greater speeds and capabilities.
#8: First chipsets implementing Pro-Se will appear, first trials of D2D
ProSe is the 3GPP standard for direct, or so-called Device-to-Device communications. This is essential for MCC as it is always possible that in the course of emergency operations, the macro network will become unreachable. In this event, First Responders must still be able to communicate with each other, so there is a critical need to make daily use of MCX over LTE possible. The year 2019 might be the year when ProSe begins its journey. However, thanks to dual-mode devices, LMR will still be there for device-to-device communications.
#9: Voice Controls for First Responder devices will make their debut
Voice controls are not new - Siri and Alexa have been helping with everyday tasks for several years now, but as First Responder smartphones appear, we expect that voice controls will be elevated to the next level of importance in 2019 with commands such as "alert all my group members," "show me the map," "start recording my video," and "switch my primary camera" becoming commonplace - all while wearing gloves.
#10: Virtual Reality UI should appear
Climbing mountains or even stairs is done one step at a time. MCC over LTE devices will get into the hands of users, adding the ability to use special goggles with embedded screen and eye control. This is already available in many virtual reality (VR) games and will become a natural extension. We do not expect VR UI to become mainstream in 2019, but some early market trials should be taking place.
#11: First implementations of AR, enabling capabilities of the "Black Mirror" style
Emulating the Black Mirror anthology TV series that explores how humanity's greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide, we expect that adding Augmented Reality capabilities to VR UI goggles will emerge in 2020/2021. Looking at a person's face, a car's license plate or a store's name, these smart goggles will quickly produce and visualize all the information available on any person or object.
#12: "Internet of Life Saving Things" (IoLST) will challenge our imagination over the next 3-4 years
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a vast space of tiny sensors, devices, modules and systems - all communicating with each other and producing petabytes of data aided by AI capabilities to make sense of it all in real time.
When it comes to the world of public safety and emergency communications, IoLST holds tremendous promise, offering capabilities such as detection of "shots fired," "officer down," the ability for a firefighter in a building to take control over sprinkler systems and emergency valves from his/her MCX handset, and to connect and communicate with any car or infrastructure on the road (collectively known as V2X) and much more. Nothing is immediate with IoLST, but expect some interesting trials to begin in 2019, and practical solutions coming to market in 2022-2025.
#13: MCC might try to utilize blockchain technology over the next 4-6 years
Blockchain technology allows the establishment of strong, secure and unbreakable trust relationships amongst a large enclave of "things". Every industry has jumped on the blockchain bandwagon looking for practical use and applications for such a promising technology. Without any regards to blockchain, MCC is currently living its own revolution in moving from the traditional radio to broadband technology. Once broadband MCX becomes mainstream, the public safety and emergency communications industries will look into blockchain technology as a possible solution to streamline and simplify day-to-day operations. However, it is unlikely that blockchain powering First Responder communication solutions will happen before 2023, if at all!
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Anatoli Levine is Director of Products and Standards for Softil Ltd, responsible for developing the strategy and product roadmap for Softil's portfolio of enabling products for developers, including technologies such as Mission Critical Communications (MCC) over LTE and 5G, WebRTC, VoLTE/ViLTE/RCS, SIP, IMS and many others. Mr. Levine actively participates in the development of open international communication standards at industry bodies such as 3GPP, ETSI, IETF and other SDOs.
From 2006 until 2017, Mr. Levine served as the President of International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) - an industry organization facilitating interoperability of multimedia communication products and technologies. After its merger with MEF in 2017, Mr. Levine became an Associate Director on the Board of the MEF Forum. Currently, Mr. Levine also serves on the Executive Advisory Council at Public Safety Technology Alliance (PSTA).
Mr. Levine is a frequent speaker at various industry events and conferences, covering subjects of MCC, WebRTC, VoLTE/ViLTE, standards, and interoperability. He contributes to Softil and other industry blogs.
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Undisclosed disclaimer: permissible extension in German patent law?
Subsequent entry in the disclaimer, a so-called undisclosed disclaimer, may constitute a permissible extension to the patent claim already granted. But this extension is not permitted for the grant procedure of a patent, decided the Federal Supreme Court.
A few weeks ago, the Federal Supreme Court (BGH) ruled in the case of "phosphatidylcholine" (25.7.2017 – X ZB 5/16). The subsequent inclusion of a feature in a disclaimer, according to which the preparation may not contain a particular substance, was considered an admissible extension, but the application for a patent grant on the basis of the undisclosed disclaimer was rejected.
The legal position of "undisclosed disclaimer"
A feature not originally disclosed may remain in the patent claim if its insertion leads to a limitation of the subject matter of the application. However, this does not apply to the grant of a patent, but only to opposition and nullity proceedings. This has already been judged in previous decisions. The Federal Supreme Court now stressed that a patent application must be rejected if the claim made differs from the original version filed for the patent application and this deficiency is not remedied by the applicant, even if requested by the Examining Section. This law serves the purpose of legal certainty and excludes that a patent with an inadmissibly changed content is granted.
Background in the case of phosphatidylcholine
In the disclaimer for skin care products, the cosmetic use of the preparation is mentioned, which in each case contains up to 30% by weight of table salt and glycerine. Their effect on the barrier properties of the skin was described in detail. Furthermore, the description contained a list of numerous other substances which may or may not be present in the preparation, depending on the intended uses.
Only afterwards did the applicant add indications to the disclaimer that the preparations must not contain phosphatidylcholine.
Original version is decisive for "undisclosed disclaimer"
The description in the original version and the nature of the deviation from the later version is decisive in determining whether an extension is admissible or not. For example, if the original version contains indications that the exclusive existence of the patent object from the above-mentioned elements has particular advantages, an extension is not permitted. This was not the case in the present decision on phosphatidycholine. Phosphatidylcholine is subsequently disclosed as a possible component of the preparation, or, more precisely, excluded as a possible component. And the original version of the application documents does not indicate that this component is necessary or advantageous for the preparation.
As there is no additional technical effect due to the exclusion of phosphatidycholine or because any experts receive new technical information, the Federal Supreme Court finds in this case a permissible extension.
Finally in view of the special protection of the public and the caesura caused by the grant of a patent, an undisclosed disclaimer in a granted patent claim is to be judged differently from a claim in the examination procedure for the grant of the patent.
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San Silvestro è una frazione del comune di Longone Sabino, in provincia di Rieti.

Storia
Sorto nei territori sotto il controllo dell'Abbazia di San Salvatore Maggiore fondata sul monte Letenano nel 735, quando in Italia regnavano i Longobardi di Liutprando, l'abitato di San Silvestro figura, da allora, tra i possedimenti dell'abbazia come Castrum Sancti Silvestri

Il paese è rimasto nei secoli seguenti, fino all'unità d'Italia, sotto lo Stato Pontificio, a pochi chilometri dal confine con il Regno di Napoli segnato, poco distante, dal fiume Salto.

Geografia
San Silvestro è un paese collinare che sorge nel territorio montuoso tra il fiume Turano e il fiume Salto.

Il suo territorio è limitato dal Fosso del Canalone, torrente che lo separa ad ovest dal paese di Magnalardo, frazione del comune di Roccasinibalda e a sud dal paese di Vaccareccia, frazione del comune di Concerviano.

Il Fosso di Rio Secco lo separa, invece, a nord da Fassinoro e ad ovest da Roccaranieri, entrambe frazioni del comune di Longone Sabino.

Da Longone Sabino dista 10 km, da Concerviano 14 km, 18 km da Rieti.

Monumenti e luoghi d'interesse
Fra i maggiori punti d'interesse vi sono il borgo medievale e la chiesa della Santissima Annunziata.

Natura
Tra le attrazioni naturali, oltre agli abbondanti boschi, si ricordano il "Fosso del Canalone"  e il "Fosso di Rio Secco" , entrambi valide mete per la pratica del canyoning.

Manifestazioni

Manifestazioni religiose
 Festa della Santissima Annunziata, seconda domenica di novembre.
 Processione con la Santissima Annunziata, terzo venerdì di novembre.

Note

Bibliografia

Frazioni della provincia di Rieti
Longone Sabino

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\section{Introduction \& Related Work}

Named-Entity-Recognition(NER) approaches can be categorised broadly in three types. Detecting NER with predefined dictionaries and rules\cite{Florian11}, with some statistical approaches\cite{Ratinov11} and with deep learning approaches\cite{Dong11}.

Stanford CoreNLP NER is a widely used baseline for many applications \cite{Stanford11}. Authors have used approaches of Gibbs sampling and conditional random field (CRF) for non-local information gathering and then Viterbi algorithm to infer the most likely state in the CRF sequence output\cite{Finkel11}.

Deep learning approaches in NLP use document, word or token representations instead of one-hot encoded vectors. With the rise of transfer learning, pretrained Word2Vec\cite{2013arXiv1301.3781M}, GloVe\cite{glove11}, fasttext\cite{fasttext11} which provides word embeddings were being used with recurrent neural networks (RNN) to detect NERs. Using LSTM layers followed by CRF layes with pretrained word-embeddings as input has been explored here\cite{2015arXiv150801991H}. Also, CNNs with character embeddings as inputs followed by bi-directional LSTM and CRF layers, were explored here\cite{2016arXiv160301354M}.

With the introduction of attentions and transformers\cite{2017arXiv170603762V} many deep architectures emerged in last few years. Approach of using these pretrained models like Elmo\cite{2018arXiv180205365P}, Flair\cite{akbik-etal-2019-flair} and BERT\cite{devlin2018bert} for word representations followed by variety of LSMT and CRF combinations were tested by authors in \cite{2019arXiv190806926S} and these approaches show  state-of-the-art performance.

There are very few approaches where caseless NER task is explored. In this recent paper\cite{2019arXiv190311222M} authors have explored effects of "Cased" entities and how variety of networks perform and they show that the most effective strategy is a concatenation of cased and lowercased training data, producing a single model with high performance on both cased and uncased text.

In another paper\cite{2019arXiv191207095M}, authors have proposed True-Case pre-training before using BiLSTM+CRF approach to detect NERs effectively. Though it shows good results over previous approaches, it is not useful in Indian Languages context as there is no concept of cases.

In our approach, we are focusing more on data preparation for our definition of topics using some of the state-of-art architectures based on BERT, LSTM/GRU and CRF layers as they have been explored in previous approaches mentioned above. Detecting caseless topics with higher recall and reasonable precision has been given a priority over f1 score. And comparisons have been made with available and ready-to-use open-source libraries from the productionization perspective.

\section{Data Preparation}
We need good amount of data to try deep learning state-of-the-art algorithms.
There are lot of open datasets\footnote{\url{https://github.com/juand-r/entity-recognition-datasets}} available for names, locations, organisations, but not for topics as defined in Abstract above. Also defining and inferring topics is an individual preference and there are no fix set of rules for its definition. But according to our definition, we can use wikipedia titles as our target topics. English wikipedia dataset\footnote{\url{https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/}} has more than 18 million titles if we consider all versions of them till now. We had to clean up the titles to remove junk titles as wikipedia title almost contains all the words we use daily. To remove such titles, we deployed simple rules as follows -

\begin{itemize}
    \item Remove titles with common words : "are", "the", "which"
    \item Remove titles with numeric values : 29, 101
    \item Remove titles with technical components, driver names, transistor names : X00, lga-775
    \item Remove 1-gram titles except locations (almost 80\% of these also appear in remaining n-gram titles)
\end{itemize}

After doing some more cleaning we were left with ~10 million titles. We have a dump of ~15 million English news articles published in past 4 years. Further, we reduced number of articles by removing duplicate and near similar articles. We used our pre-trained doc2vec models and cosine similarity to detect almost similar news articles. Then selected minimum articles required to cover all possible 2-grams to 5-grams. This step is done to save some training time without loosing accuracy. Do note that, in future we are planning to use whole dataset and hope to see gains in F1 and Recall further. But as per manual inspection, our dataset contains enough variations of sentences with rich vocabulary which contains names of celebrities, politicians, local authorities, national/local organisations and almost all locations, India and International, mentioned in the news text, in last 4 years.

We then created a parallel corpus format as shown  in Table 1. Using pre-trained Bert-Tokenizer\footnote{\url{https://pypi.org/project/pytorch-pretrained-bert/}} from hugging-face, converted words in sentences to tokenes. Caseless-BERT pre-trained tokenizer is used. Notice that some of the topic words are broken into tokens and {\it NER} tag has been repeated accordingly. For example, in Table 1 second row, word \textit{"harassment"} is broken into \textit{"har \#\#ass \#\#ment"}. Similarly, one "NER" tag is repeated three times to keep the length of sequence-pair same. Finally, for around 3 million news articles, parallel corpus is created, which is of around 150 million sentences, with around 3 billion words (all lower cased) and with around 5 billion tokens approximately.

\begin{table}
\centering
  \caption{Parallel Corpus Preparation with BERT Tokenizer}
  \label{tab:freq}
  \begin{tabular}{p{1.75cm}p{6.0cm}}
    \toprule
    \textbf{Text} & the me too movement with a large variety of local and international related names , is a movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault \\
    \textbf{NER Tags} & 0 NER NER NER 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NER NER 0 NER NER \\
    \midrule
    \textbf{Tokenized Text} & the me too movement with a large variety of local and international related names, is a movement against sexual har \#\#ass \#\#ment and sexual assault \\
    \textbf{Tokenized NER Tags} & 0 NER NER NER 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NER NER NER NER 0 NER NER \\
  \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\section{Experiments}
\subsection{Model Architecture}
We tried multiple variations of LSTM and GRU layes, with/without CRF layer. There is a marginal gain in using GRU layers over LSTM. Also, we saw gain in using just one layers of GRU instead of more. Finally, we settled on the architecture, shown in Figure 1 for the final training, based on validation set scores with sample training set.

Text had to be tokenized using pytorch-pretrained-bert as explained above before passing to the network. Architecture is built using tensorflow/keras. Coding inspiration taken from BERT-keras\footnote{\url{https://github.com/Separius/BERT-keras}} and for CRF layer  keras-contrib\footnote{\url{https://github.com/keras-team/keras-contrib/}}. If one is more comfortable in pytorch there are many examples available on github, but pytorch-bert-crf-ner\footnote{\url{https://github.com/eagle705/pytorch-bert-crf-ner}} is better for an easy start.

We used BERT-Multilingual model so that we can train and fine-tune the same model for other Indian languages. You can take BERT-base or BERT-large for better performance with only English dataset. Or you can use DistilBERT for English and DistilmBERT for 104 languages  \footnote{\url{https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples/distillation}} for faster pre-training and inferences. Also, we did not choose AutoML approach for hyper-parameter tuning which could have resulted in much more accurate results but at the same time could have taken very long time as well. So instead, chose and tweaked the parameters based on initial results.

We trained two models, one with sequence length 512 to capture document level important n-grams and second with sequence length 64 to capture sentence/paragraph level important n-grams. Through experiments it was evident that, sequence length plays a vital role in deciding context and locally/globally important n-grams. Final output is a concatenation of both the model outputs.

\begin{figure}[ht]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=200pt, height=250pt]{bert_crf_arch.png} %
  \caption{BERT + Bi-GRU + CRF, Final Architecture Chosen For Topic Detection Task.}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Training}
Trained the topic model on single 32gb NVidia-V100 and it took around 50 hours to train the model with sequence length 512. We had to take 256gb ram machine to accommodate all data in memory for faster read/write. Also, trained model with 64 sequence length in around 17 hours.

It is very important to note that sequence length decides how many bert-tokens you can pass for inference and also decides training time and accuracy. Ideally more is better because inference would be faster as well. For 64 sequence length, we are moving 64-token window over whole token-text and recognising topics in each window. So, one should choose sequence length according to their use case. Also, we have explained before our motivation of choosing 2 separate sequence lengths models.

We stopped the training for both the models when it crossed 70\% precision, 90\% recall on training and testing sets, as we were just looking to get maximum recall and not bothered about precision in our case. Both the models reach this point at around 16 epochs.

\subsection{Results}
Comparison with existing open-source NER libraries is not exactly fair as they are NOT trained for detecting topics and important n-grams, also NOT trained for case-less text. But they are useful in testing and benchmarking if our model is detecting traditional NERs or not, which it should capture, as Wikipedia titles contains almost all Names, Places and Organisation names. You can check the sample output here\footnote{\url{https://github.com/swapniljadhav1921/bert\_crf\_topic\_detection/}}

Comparisons have been made among Flair-NER, Stanford-caseless-NER (used english.conll.4class.caseless as it performed better than 3class and 7class), Spacy-NER and our models. Of which only Stanford-NER provides case-less models. In Table 2, scores are calculated by taking traditional NER list as reference. In Table 4, same is done with Wikipedia Titles reference set.

As you can see in Table 2 \& 3, recall is great for our model but precision is not good as Model is also trying to detect new potential topics which are not there even in reference Wikipedia-Titles and NER sets. In capturing Wikipedia topics our model clearly surpasses other models in all scores.

Spacy results are good despite not being trained for case-less data. In terms of F1 and overall stability Spacy did better than Stanford NER, on our News Validation set. Similarly, Stanford did well in Precision but could not catch up with Spacy and our model in terms of Recall.
Flair overall performed poorly, but as said before these open-source models are not trained for our particular use-case.

\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Comparison with Traditional NERs as reference}
\begin{tabular}{lccr}
\toprule
Models & Precision & Recall & F1 \\
\midrule
BERT+BiGRU+CRF & 60.09 & \textbf{80.08} & \textbf{68.66} \\
Stanford & \textbf{90.54} & 37.17 & 52.70 \\
Spacy & 88.71 & 55.05 & \textbf{67.94} \\
Flair & 85.62 & 10.28 & 18.36 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:booktab1}
\end{table}

\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Comparison with Wikipedia titles as reference}
\begin{tabular}{lccr}
\toprule
Models & Precision & Recall & F1 \\
\midrule
BERT+BiGRU+CRF & 51.97 & \textbf{69.76} & \textbf{59.56} \\
Stanford & 52.83 & 19.88 & 28.89 \\
Spacy & 36.31 & 26.40 & 30.57 \\
Flair & 65.36 & 7.33 & 13.17 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}

\label{tab:booktab11}
\end{table}

\subsection{Discussions}
Lets check some examples for detailed analysis of the models and their results. Following is the economy related news.

\textbf{Example 1 : }\textit{\footnotesize around \$1–1.5 trillion or around two percent of global gdp, are lost to corruption every year, president of the natural resource governance institute nrgi has said. speaking at a panel on integrity in public governance during the world bank group and international monetary fund annual meeting on sunday, daniel kaufmann, president of nrgi, presented the statistic, result of a study by the nrgi, an independent, non-profit organisation based in new york. however, according to kaufmann, the figure is only the direct costs of corruption as it does not factor in the opportunities lost on innovation and productivity, xinhua news agency reported. a country that addresses corruption and significantly improves rule of law can expect a huge increase in per capita income in the long run, the study showed. it will also see similar gains in reducing infant mortality and improving education, said kaufmann.}

Detected NERs can be seen per model in Table 4. Our model do not capture numbers as we have removed all numbers from my wiki-titles as topics. Reason behind the same is that we can easily write regex to detect currency, prices, time, date and deep learning is not required for the same. Following are few important n-grams only our models was able to capture -

\tab\textit{\footnotesize capita income}\\
\tab\textit{\footnotesize infant mortality}\\
\tab\textit{\footnotesize international monetary fund annual meeting}\\
\tab\textit{\footnotesize natural resource governance institute}\\
\tab\textit{\footnotesize public governance}

At the same time, we can see that Spacy did much better than Stanford-caseless NER and Flair could not capture any of the NERs. Another example of a news in political domain and detected NERs can be seen per model in Table 5.

\textbf{Example 2 : } \textit{\footnotesize wearing the aam aadmi party's trademark cap and with copies of the party's five-year report card in hand, sunita kejriwal appears completely at ease. it's a cold winter afternoon in delhi, as the former indian revenue service (irs) officer hits the campaign trail to support her husband and batchmate, chief minister arvind kejriwal. emerging from the background for the first time, she is lending her shoulder to the aap bandwagon in the new delhi assembly constituency from where the cm, then a political novice, had emerged as the giant killer by defeating congress incumbent sheila dikshit in 2013.}

Correct n-grams captured only by our model are -

\tab \textit{\footnotesize aam aadmi party} \\
\tab \textit{\footnotesize aap bandwagon} \\
\tab \textit{\footnotesize delhi assembly constituency} \\
\tab \textit{\footnotesize giant killer} \\
\tab \textit{\footnotesize indian revenue service} \\
\tab \textit{\footnotesize political novice}

In this example, Stanford model did better and captured names properly, for example {\it "sheila dikshit"} which Spacy could not detect but Spacy captureed almost all numeric values along with numbers expressed in words.

It is important to note that, our model captures NERs with some additional words around them. For example, "president of nrgi" is detected by the model but not "ngri". But model output does convey more information than the later. To capture the same for all models (and to make comparison fair), partial match has been enabled and if correct NER is part of predictied NER then later one is marked as matched. This could be the reason for good score for Spacy. Note that, partial match is disabled for Wikipedia Titles match task as shown in Table 3. Here, our model outperformed all the models.

\section{Conclusion and Future Work}
Through this exercise, we were able to test out the best suitable model architecture and data preparation steps so that similar models could be trained for Indian languages. Building cased or caseless NERs for English was not the final goal and this has already been benchmarked and explored before in previous approaches explained in "Related Work" section. We  didn't use traditional datasets for model performance comparisons \& benchmarks. As mentioned before, all the comparisons are being done with open-source models and libraries from the productionization point of view. We used a english-news validation dataset which is important and relevant to our specific task and all validation datasets and raw output results can be found at our github link \footnote{\url{https://github.com/swapniljadhav1921/bert\_crf\_topic\_detection}}.

Wikipedia titles for Indian languages are very very less and resulting tagged data is even less to run deep architectures. We are trying out translations/transliterations of the English-Wiki-Titles to improve Indic-languages entity/topics data.

This approach is also useful in building news-summarizing models as it detects almost all important n-grams present in the news. Output of this model can be introduced in a summarization network to add more bias towards important words and bias for their inclusion.

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Donald Trump. Photo by Michael Vadon, Wikimedia Commons.
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United Kingdom Vs Trump – OpEd
January 21, 2016 Binoy Kampmark 0 Comments
By Binoy Kampmark
"While I think this man is crazy, while I think this man has no valid points to make, I will not be able to silence his voice." — Tom Tugendhat, The Independent, 19 January 2016
Earlier this week, the UK parliament found its agenda occupied by something many members would have rather avoided altogether. The question on whether Donald Trump should be allowed to enter the country was slated for discussion. It was those 570,000 signatures behind a petition calling on the UK government to prevent him coming into the country which pressed that aged body into discussion. Three hours in Westminster Hall were set aside for the debate.
The wording of the "Ban Trump" petition targets what it calls "hate speech". Her Majesty's government has previously "banned entry to many individuals" for that reason, and further, such restrictions had to be "applied to the rich as well as the poor."
The fuss? Trump's comments about London and its radicalised mix. His comments about race. His comment about how terrifyingly unsafe parts of the metropolis are on account of Islam and its various purportedly ghoulish influences. His suggestion that the US shut down immigration in so far as it involves Muslims.
"This is a man," insisted Labour legislator Tulip Siddiq, "who is extremely high-profile,… a man who is interviewing for the most important job in the world. His words are not comical, his words are not funny. His words are poisonous."[1]
Labour's Paul Flynn, MP for Newport West, decided to take the contrastingly courteous, if somewhat demeaning route of letting Trump in for reasons of education. "I will urge that we treat him with courtesy inviting him here to show us where the UK 'no-go' areas are for police, introducing him to centres of racial harmony in Wales and England, discussing our 24 deaths from gunshots per year compared with 160 this year in the US."[2]
Flynn further insisted on showing Trump those "unprecedented areas of flooding in England" as a form of didactic instruction. Trump, "the global warming denier" would do well to heed the lessons of his climate change denialism.
Ditto the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who took note about Trump's animosity towards Mexicans and Muslims. "As you know, my wife is Mexican and my constituency is very, very multicultural so what I was going to do was go down to the mosque with him and let him talk to people there."
Yet another, Naz Shah, envisages taking Trump on a curry tour in her constituency city of Bradford. As a "proud Muslim woman", she would introduce the candidate to multiethnic gastronomy and the values of the Quran.
Such suggestions seem like grand acts of futility and tend to play right into Trump's hands. But they certainly are not as detrimental as a total ban. His aim is not to go back to the school of hard won awareness. Rather, it is to convince others that he has no need to. At the very least, positions as those of Flynn take the view that debate, rather than exclusion, should be embraced.
The Trump brand was not shunned by all in the House of Commons. Conservative MP Philip Davies could only find admiration for a politician who stood up to "say things that are unpopular." Be honest, upfront, direct.
The anger expressed about Trump's comments are understandable enough, but venting about them is tantamount to an undue embroidering, a vesting of gravitas. He speaks about what he does not know; he utilises the soapbox for reasons of populism that his opponents dignify by response. To give him such privileged status – that of being refused entry – ranks as one of the more absurd points. Why could he be so dangerous, so revolutionary? Uttering the unspeakable or the unmentionable, his defenders will say.
The very idea of placing a possible ban on the debate list also gives him a certain "street cred", a form of patriotic zest that may well make him even more appealing back home. Flynn even went so far as to suggest that a ban would give the impression that the UK was awash with anti-American sentiment.
Similar views were expressed by Tory MP Andrew Murrison. Despite Trump's obvious ridiculousness, to ban such a figure, certainly one with a chance of becoming president, would be seen as an "almighty snub" to the United States, an anti-American instinct played out behind the façade of targeting hate speech.
Besides, suggested fellow Tory colleague Sir Edward Leigh, to do so would be to invite a sense of disproportion into the debate. The UK had a glaring record of inviting despots of blood thirsty character in the past, characters who had soiled records "far worse than anything Donald Trump can dream of".[3]
What did he genuinely do to deserve that? Best let him in and debate the matters at hand, showing them up as equally absurd and irrelevant in the way free speech ought to. Placing a bar on him will have quite the opposite effect. It was that sentiment that eventually won through.
[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/donald-trump-debate-tory-mps-say-uk-should-apologise-to-us-for-having-debate-about-banning-the-a6820156.html
[2] http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/mps-set-to-debate-whether-to-ban-donald-trump-from-britain-a3158841.html
[3] http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-35345279
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Betting NFL Night Games vs. Day Games
While it may be tough to imagine these days, there was a time when NFL viewing options were a bit more limited. Back in the day, the schedule played out on Sunday afternoons. A Monday Night Football game was added to the docket in 1970, and that format remained in place for some time.
Fast forward to today, and there are now three primetime games per week to complement the full Sunday slate. As we head towards the latter part of the season, there are even some random Saturday games thrown into the mix.
All of these developments have been a huge benefit for fans in general, not to mention sports bettors. You can now bet on the NFL up to four days per week during the season, which affords handicappers even more time to focus on each part of the slate.
So how does the NFL schedule mix impact things from a betting perspective? Are there things you need to watch out for based on when the game is set to kick-off? Can team performance or the NFL betting odds for the game be affected depending on when the contest is happening?
You can consider this your complete guide to schedule-based NFL betting. We're going to cover the answers to those questions and many more right here. We'll begin by taking a closer look at one of the most popular betting events of the week during NFL season.
NFL Monday Night Football betting
On Sept. 21, 1970, the Cleveland Browns played host to the New York Jets on the debut edition of Monday Night Football. While there were some random primetime NFL games here and there before that, this time marked the beginning of an institution.
The Browns would go on to win an exciting contest by a score of 31-21. Interest was through the roof. MNF has been a fixture of the NFL schedule ever since. The game attracts tons of viewers every week, and the same holds for NFL Monday Night Football betting action.
As the weekly NFL slate starts winding down, we begin to see lines for the next set of games. Handicappers have a full week to dissect and digest the lines for the next MNF game.
This is just one of the unique aspects of the primetime spectacle. While each NFL game is an event in and of itself, the pomp and circumstance get ramped up for night games. Add in the fact that we have a full day to anticipate the lone football game on tap, and MNF has itself a winning formula.
Of course, the spotlight doesn't necessarily agree with every squad. Over the past decade, we've seen teams that consistently crush it on MNF. Here are the top four records for the game over the last 10 seasons, listed by winning percentage.
Pittsburgh Steelers, 10-2, .833
Seattle Seahawks, 10-2, .833
San Francisco 49ers, 11-3, .785
New England Patriots, 9-3, .750
Other squads haven't been as fortunate. Here are the four at the bottom of the barrel.
Cincinnati Bengals, 2-7, .222
Miami Dolphins, 2-8, .200
Washington Redskins, 2-13, .133
Buffalo Bills, 0-3, .000
When handicapping MNF games, there are a couple of factors to watch out for, such as the travel impact for road teams and the strength of the squad playing at home. Teams that excel on their home field are ones to circle, while those that don't travel well should have you feeling skittish.
If the home side is known for having raucous fans, then the stands could be jumping even more than normal with the eyes of the NFL world upon them. In theory, that means the offense will have a little more pep in its step while the defense could become even more stout than normal.
Since both teams have a little extra time to prepare, it should result in more crispness on both sides, but that's not always the case. Be sure to review the overall quality of the two teams extra carefully, and also watch out for recent trends.
Being that MNF is the only football game on the docket, you could feel inclined to step it up on the betting front. You should resist that urge and focus on the game just like you would any other. Only bet with amounts that you are comfortable with, and stick to the bet types that work best for your strategy.
If you have a special focus on one or more of the big three, moneylines, spreads, and totals, then start there. For those who like to branch out into props or live betting, you can rest assured that there will be plenty offered for the contest.
Also be on the lookout for specials revolving around the game, such as odds boosts or special props. While MNF is a big draw as it is, sportsbooks aim to please and attract as much action as possible while doing so.
For a simple rule of thumb, if there's a bet or bet type that you're generally not comfortable with, don't go against your instincts just because it's MNF and the only NFL game on for a few days. Stick to what works best for you and enjoy the game.
Monday Night Football has made its home on ESPN since the 2006 season. Before that, games were carried each week on ABC. Kickoff happens at 8:15 p.m. ET except Week 1. There's a MNF doubleheader for the opening week with the first game starting at 7:15 p.m. ET, followed by the nightcap at 10:10 p.m. ET.
There have been rumblings that ESPN is shaking up the broadcast booth for this season, so we'll have to patiently wait for an official announcement. Joe Tessitore and Booger McFarland have been the primary team for the last two years. You can also catch the game online with ESPN or via mobile app, but you'll need to sign in with cable provider information.
NFL Thursday Night Football betting
For decades, the only time that NFL games were played on Thursday was on Thanksgiving. That changed in 2006 with the debut of Thursday Night Football. During the initial run, TNF was reserved for the latter part of the NFL regular season schedule.
These days, there's a Thursday night game nearly every week of the season. It's the opener for the weekly slate of NFL games, and it draws plenty of attention from fans and bettors as a result. Thursday Night Football betting lines come out as the prior week's schedule is winding down, so keep an eye out and be ready to react to appealing numbers.
As you would expect, the short week of preparation and quick turnaround for TNF games can have an impact. Teams that are dealing with a rash of injuries may not be fully up to speed, while the teams that have to travel have another hurdle to overcome.
Some teams have just fared better than others underneath the Thursday night lights. Here are the teams with the best records in these contests since the inception of TNF.
Seattle Seahawks, 6-2, .857
Pittsburgh Steelers, 9-3, .750
Baltimore Ravens, 9-4, .750
It has been a vastly different story for a handful of other teams. Here's a look at the worst TNF records.
Carolina Panthers, 3-8, .333
Los Angeles Rams, 3-7, .333
Minnesota Vikings, 2-4, .333
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 2-7, .250
Strong home teams should be given precedence on TNF, but also be mindful of away teams that enter the contests on a hot streak. Also, some Thursday night games are divisional affairs, so dive into the history books and examine the typical margin of victory and points combined for when the two sides hook up.
Some bettors pass on betting on TNF all together. The consensus opinion for those in this camp is that the short week of prep leads to a sloppy product, and by extension an unpredictable game.
As an alternative approach, we'd suggest approaching the game like any other instead of taking a blanket stance. If you handicap the game and come away with the impression that you should pass, then by all means do so. However, if you wind up feeling confident about things, then it doesn't make sense to pass just because it's a certain day of the week.
Just like for MNF, there will be odds boosts and special bets offered for TNF. The same line of thinking applies: stick to what works for you but also don't be shy about going outside of your comfort zone if you come across an opportunity that looks solid.
One other important note to keep in mind: one of the TNF games will be on Thanksgiving night. You may see even more betting specials as a result, but also don't forget to factor in any potential holiday impact while breaking down the game.
You have some different viewing options for Thursday Night Football. The season-opening game is typically on NBC, while the remainder of the schedule is handled by FOX and NFL Network.
Amazon Prime Video also provides live coverage of the broadcast. Joe Buck and Troy Aikman generally handle broadcast duties for Fox/NFLN. Kickoff for TNF games is 8:20 p.m. ET.
NFL Saturday Football betting
Unlike MNF and TNF, there hasn't been a set structure for NFL Saturday games through the years. There have been seasons in which games were scheduled on several Saturdays at the tail end of the season, and others in which there haven't been any.
As a general rule, there are no Saturday games scheduled until the college football regular season is in the books. In 2017 and 2018, two Saturdays were featuring NFL games, while it was just one in 2019.
NFL betting lines are generally released along with the rest of the weekly games, so you'll have plenty of time to prepare. For the 2020 season, Saturday games haven't been scheduled as of yet. However, several contests in Week 15 and 16 have a 'TBD' for time on the Sunday slate.
It wouldn't be surprising to see a full Saturday slate for one of those weeks as a result. Last season, it was a tripleheader in the latter part of the season. That opened the doors for an all-day parlay bet, which can be a great way to kick up the profits if you have a strong feel for the games.
If it does come to pass, you can expect to see special offerings from Colorado sportsbooks, so keep your eyes peeled and be ready to take advantage. As for the best football bets to focus on, treat the games just like you would on a Sunday. When you have a good read on a game or prop wager, go for it. If live betting works for you, then don't be shy either.
Since the Saturday schedule has varied from year to year, there's not as much history to glean as there is for MNF and TNF. We can still look back over the last three campaigns and find some potential nuggets of intel.
Lions 20-10
Chiefs 30-13
Ravens 23-16
Vikings 16-0
Texans 29-22
Browns 17-16
Titans 25-16
Patriots 24-17
49ers 34-31
Here are the key takeaways from the last 11 Saturday affairs that we can keep in mind.
Home teams were 6-5.
The average margin of victory was 7.45 points.
The average combined points were 39.45.
We'll keep our eyes peeled for any schedule changes in the coming season. Broadcast coverage will vary if anything gets flipped around, so we'll have to patiently wait and see.
Betting on NFL Sunday – Early vs late games vs. Sunday night
While there may be other days of the week to catch NFL games, the Sunday slate remains the main course. Traditionally, it's broken down into an early- and late-afternoon window of games. Recent years have even seen some international games in the morning hours thrown in for good measure.
Sunday Night Football caps off the day. Before 1987, there were some occasional Sunday evening games here and there, but SNF has been cemented on the schedule since then. Like TNF, the games were initially run over the latter part of the season, but it has since been expanded to run over the full year.
CBS and FOX handle the afternoon portion of the schedule. All games can also be accessed on DirecTV's Sunday Ticket package, while NFL RedZone provides all-day wraparound coverage. NBC is the destination for SNF.
The action gets underway at 1 p.m. ET for the early afternoon part of the late. Late games start between 4:05 and 4:25 p.m. ET, while the nightcap kicks off at 8:20 p.m. ET. In short, Sunday is an all-day feast for the NFL and the best day for football betting as a result.
You'll find intriguing storylines to follow for all three-day parts, as well as scores of NFL bet types to consider for each contest. All of the options can seem overwhelming at times, but remember this: no rule says you need to bet on every game.
While you certainly can if you'd like, there's also nothing wrong with focusing on the games you feel best about. The same holds for wager types. As a simple example, you might like a trio of games in the early part of the day, two in the late afternoon, and reserve some funds for the primetime affair.
There's no specific advantage to betting on one day part over the other, but there are some interesting factors to consider. For example, a West Coast team traveling east for an early start might have trouble achieving liftoff, while the same could hold for an East Coast team that's used to starting earlier in the day when they play out west.
The sheer number of games playing out over the day can open the door to some intriguing parlay possibilities. If you have several games — or even just a couple — that you feel good about, it can make sense to take a crack at greater returns on a parlay ticket.
You'll also find props aplenty for each game, so it should take the time to review the offerings. If you come across a number of football betting lines that look off based on your research, that could mean it's a great time to pounce.
For SNF specifically, the same rules we follow for TNF and MNF apply. Some teams excel on primetime and others fall flat, while strong home teams facing off against poor road teams could have an advantage. Here are the teams who have fared well on SNF.
New England Patriots, 21-13, .618
Pittsburgh Steelers, 17-13, .567
Seattle Seahawks, 13-7-1, .619
New Orleans Saints, 15-4, .789
On the opposite end of the spectrum, the following teams have struggled on Sunday nights.
Detroit Lions, 1-6, .143
Cleveland Browns, 0-2, .000
NFL Sundays are some of the biggest betting days of the year. Many bettors make it a huge focus of their overall handicapping strategy as a result. Lines start coming out as each week wraps up, so you'll have plenty of time to study and handicap Sunday Night Football betting odds .
Differences for NFL night games vs. day games
So what's the real scoop on betting on NFL night games versus day games? Unfortunately, there's just no one-size-fits-all answer. It's going to vary by team and even season. Digging even deeper, the same applies to the individual players.
We can still use history as a guide. As part of your weekly handicapping, you'll naturally want to break down the individual matchups and search for edges. Beyond that, spend some time researching overall records and recent trends for the following:
Home and away performance
Records against the spread
Performance on totals
Historical results between the two teams: straight-up, spread, and totals
While doing so, you can also go even deeper and review the historical trends for teams and players for the day part they'll be playing in. That may all sound like lots of work, but the good news is that there are some fantastic resources to lean on.
A good place to start is with a simple game preview which can be found at major outlets such as ESPN. You can also explore betting-specific websites to find even more detailed information. There are some good ones to choose from, so shop around and find the ones you like the best.
Also, keep in mind that some teams play in primetime more often than others. It's no coincidence that those with lots of primetime data to review are generally the better teams in the league.
While every squad should have at least one night game per season, the NFL does aim to put its best foot forward for standalone games. Better teams and those that attract plenty of eyeballs receive preference for primetime affairs as a result.
On paper, the better teams and players should step up the most when the spotlight shines the brightest. However, athletes are human, so that's not always the case. As an example, be mindful of how starting QBs perform in the day versus the night, at home, or away, etc.
For the three main bet types, here are some specific areas you can look for clues.
Moneylines: The odds board tells us what we need to know. The wider the perceived gap between the two teams, then the larger the range between the two numbers will be. As you research the overall strength of the two squads and the matchup, keep this in mind, but don't be shy about jumping on upsets if your research justifies it.
Point spreads: It's tough to beat the spread long-term, but that doesn't mean you can't show a profit. Lean on power rankings and ratings, and also keep it simple by focusing on average margins of victory posted by both sides. Oddsmakers set the numbers where they do for a reason, so keep that in mind. Also, watch out for movement during the week so that you can follow the money.
Totals: Recent form can be a solid indicator. When offenses are humming, there's a good chance they'll keep doing so. It's a similar story for the performance on the defensive side of the ball. Also, take the time to research how many points the two teams have combined for in their most recent matchups through the years to gain a sense of what kind of game might be on tap.
Last but not least, each NFL game is an individual event and should be treated as such. History and trends provide us with a guide and help us build a handicapping case, but also remember to trust your instincts and to look beyond the numbers.
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Schedule-based NFL betting tips
We've already covered several different angles to explore for each part of the NFL schedule, but there are plenty more to consider. Here's another handful you can keep in your back pocket as you get set to break down the games.
Take strong home favorites seriously, but watch the lines
The stronger teams in the league are postseason contenders, and they need to be taken seriously as a result, especially when playing at home. However, remember that the public loves to bet on favorites. This can lead to spreads rising to untenable levels, so be on the lookout for situations in which the road dog may be able to steal a cover due to the extra points.
Use playing styles as a guide on totals in primetime
When two high-scoring teams square off under the lights, the scoreboard operator will likely have some work to do. If two strong defensive squads are squaring up, then a low-scoring affair is probably in the offing. While you should consider the playing styles of the two teams for all dayparts, they can especially live up to their respective reputations when all eyes are upon them.
Monitor travel, schedule, and the overall state of affairs
As part of your research, be sure to take the time to review what has been going on with a team as of late. Has a team been on the road for a lengthy time? Is a team struggling as they head towards a bye? Have the teams been playing lots of tough opponents in a row? If you can answer these and other questions as part of your routine, then your overall decision-making will improve.
Situational performance of teams and players
As mentioned, teams and players may perform differently based on daypart, but there's, unfortunately, no hard and fast rule. It all comes down to those involved, so spend a little extra time researching situational performances. Also, go beyond overall records and stats and see how the squads have performed against the spread and on the Over/Under for the situation at hand.
The NFL is the biggest game in town for sports betting, so you'll have plenty of options to consider all season long. When everything is said and done, the goal is to have more winners than losers while turning a profit, so exercise patience and zero in on a system that works best for your style and overall approach.
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Environment, outdoors issues up for debate
ST. PAUL -- Nuclear power. Mining. Regulations. Duck season. Those and more issues will be debated in Minnesota legislative environmental committees run by Republicans during the session that begins Tuesday. The House and Senate committees probab...
ST. PAUL -- Nuclear power. Mining. Regulations. Duck season.
Those and more issues will be debated in Minnesota legislative environmental committees run by Republicans during the session that begins Tuesday.
The House and Senate committees probably will feature less tree hugging and more business hugging than those run by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in the past.
"We are going to discuss some things that they didn't discuss," said Rep. Denny McNamara, R-Hastings.
As chairman of the House Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Committee, McNamara promises a quick start.
Committees probably will pass a bill lifting a moratorium on building nuclear power plants.
However, no company has said it wants to build one, leaving those in Red Wing and Monticello the only two for some time.
Senators passed a weak moratorium-lifting bill last session, but the House blocked it.
One aspect needed in a bill, McNamara said, is finding a way to pay for storage, especially important now that it appears Yucca Mountain in Nevada will not be the storage area for nuclear waste.
Storing used nuclear materials concerns environmentalists, who say it is dangerous.
Because the debate already has been heard many times, a nuclear moratorium bill "could happen earlier rather than later," McNamara said.
Environmental groups will watch to make sure that 2008's vote to dedicate a sales tax increase to outdoors programs is followed.
"Voters passed this constitutional amendment to ensure that we would have the funds to do more than we had been doing to protect and clean up our lakes, rivers, streams and great outdoors," said Steve Morse, executive director of the Minnesota Environmental Partnership. "This money should be used as voters intended: to expand and enhance these efforts. We will be vigilant in our efforts to protect these dedicated funds from raids."
Morse, whose group represents 80 conservation and environmental organizations, said that despite the state's budget problems, polling indicates "that voters strongly support environmental protections."
The Legislature's environmental committees will look into what, if anything, should be done to prevent sulfates and other toxins from leeching into native wild rice beds. With a half-dozen companies looking into opening copper and nickel mines in Northeastern Minnesota, where there already are taconite mines, the issue has become a hot-button topic.
A sulfate standard has not been enforced since 1975, McNamara said, and the Legislature may want to get involved to protect the environment while allowing job-providing mining to expand.
McNamara called the new copper and nickel mines "a terrific economic opportunity (with) a future in Northeast Minnesota."
One requirement the House chairman sees as needed in any mining bill is that a mining company set aside enough money to repair any environmental damage its mines may do.
"Cleanup of toxic mining pollution can take many decades," Morse said. "We shouldn't burden taxpayers with those costs."
The new Republican legislative leadership and Democratic Gov.-elect Mark Dayton agree on the need to make regulations less intrusive to businesses.
McNamara said that should help his goal of limiting how much time it takes to get various environment-related permits.
"I anticipate that is going to come out of the chute strongly," he said.
An example McNamara gave of how permit delays hurt business is that Iowa gets most of the new ethanol plants in a large part because it presents businesses with less red tape.
While speeding up state permitting, McNamara said, the state must remain strong in protecting the environment. "We want Minnesota to lead in that stuff."
Being environmentally friendly will keep Minnesota a more expensive place to do business, McNamara said, but it is worth the price.
Game and fish issues also will be debated in 2011.
McNamara said he will bring up some issues he has opposed in the past because they need discussion. Such issues include allowing scopes on muzzle-loader rifles, regulating fishing with two lines and changing the duck-hunting season.
Don Davis works for Forum Communications, which owns the Duluth News Tribune.
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A Mullet Competition is Coming to the Great Jones County Fair
Courtlin Published: November 11, 2022
Start growing your hair out now!
This week, the Great Jones County Fair in Monticello made a big announcement on their Facebook page. For the first time ever, the fair will be hosting a Mullet Competition in 2023!
The competition, sponsored by Lux Salon & Spa in Monticello, will have three different categories. The first is "Young Bucks," which is for ages ten and under, the second is "Young, Wild, & Free," which is for ages ten to 17, and the final category is "In it to Win it" for ages 18 and up. Contestants will be competing for cash prizes. You'll be able to see all the mullet glory on Wednesday, July 19th of 2023.
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Personally, I think this competition is PERFECT for Iowa. I went to a couple of different county fairs last summer, and there were mullets galore! I was also very surprised to see so many kids with them. There are already people tagging their family members and friends on Facebook and encouraging them to participate. I can't wait to see what people come up with!
The Mullet Competition is just one of the contests that will be held at the Great Jones County Fair in 2023. Some of the ones that were held in 2022 include the Farm Bureau Cookout Contest, the Cowgirl Queen Contest, the Ron Nemmers Amateur Photography Contest, the Subway Cookie Contest, and the Wine Making Contest. A couple of concerts have also been announced for next summer's fair! Jon Pardi and Russel Dickerson will take the Grandstand stage on Saturday, July 22nd, and We the Kingdom and Anne Wilson will be there on Sunday, July 23rd. More concert announcements will be made as we get closer to the event, which runs July 19th through 23rd. We will see you at the fair!
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I believe in pure and unlimited creative power and try to avoid all stereotypes regarding what I do with my camera and with the photographs I create. Each and every photograph is unique, unrepeatable and endless; so should be their interpretations. I always look for images depicting strong meanings and emotions and do what I can to create visual stories with them, stories that show the power of empathy… stories that focus the attention into places and moments which usually escape unnoticed. I can not photograph the staged, the arranged, I just cant. I need reality flowing, that is my element and that is what I enjoy photographing.
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