AGR Consultancy Solutions is a division of AGR and a global provider of recruitment and consultancy solutions to the upstream oil and gas industry. They have offices in Aberdeen, Stavanger, Dubai and Perth (Australia) with associated offices in numerous locations worldwide.
AGR had an existing database system to manage their recruitment and consultancy service. Due to the growth of their department, AGR were looking for a replacement that would meet their global requirements whilst making a number of enhancements to meet their evolving needs.
Before choosing a solution, AGR reviewed a number of off-the-shelf packages. However, none of these solutions could meet their requirements without further customisation which would have increased costs.
Donna Taylor, Consultancy Manager, explains: "We decided against an off-the-shelf product as they are not designed by people in the oil and gas industry, so how can they really understand what we need and why? We approached Codify to re-write the system using modern technologies and also add the required enhancements."
We worked closely with the Consultancy Solutions team to listen to their requirements to develop a bespoke solution. The solution provided holds the data in a single database and any documents are indexed with Index Server; this gives AGR the benefit of full text search which is vital when searching through CVs for the ideal candidate. The software has one click deployment which ensures fast and simple roll out to users around the globe. AGRCS also includes ad-hoc reporting so users can pull the information they need as and when required.
It has brought further benefits to AGR's management - one central system allows them to review what is happening in other locations whilst the extensive reporting facilities allow management to create the reports they require to gain a complete picture over all areas in the division.
Donna added: "Codify listened to our requirements and how we needed the software to work, and then built the software to match. We now have a system that exactly meets our needs and has the ability to evolve as the industry does. Without it we can't do our job.
"The personal touch Codify provided was a real contribution to the success of the project. We had regular meetings where we would get a demonstration of the software so far and were encouraged to give feedback early on. It really allowed us to see the solution we were getting and visualise the way it would fit in to Consultancy Solutions."


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A found poem in a box, the making of which has given me much delight!
My laptop has been in for repair, so this post is a little late. However, I went to a talk about artist's books on Saturday at the Cooper Gallery in Barnsley and discovered this beautiful book by Jackie Chettur. It's a perfectly spare 'distillation' of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and it works in the same way as a redacted text. However, because so much of the book is given over to white space (see extracts below) it has a very different feel, somehow lighter and yet more expansive. Here's how Chettur describes her process.
I am interested in how a subject studied with great intensity can start to reveal something of it's essence, and how surprising and even emotional forms might emerge through the use of systems. My re-working of existing novels explores some of those powerful themes that stay with readers and I have applied unique systems across entire novels to isolate single themes. This process of distillation whilst deleting much of the original, draws attention to the devises and repetition used by authors and simultaneously allows new poetic forms to emerge.
I love Chettur's approach, producing a text where new meaning is created from what is left out of existing (found) texts.
I'm working on a 3D composite fiction at the moment, where the found text is just a tiny part of the whole, but nevertheless absolutely integral to the piece. I'm aiming to complete it this week so it can feature on my next post. Now I've set myself a deadline, I'd better stick to it, so I'm off to cut up some images to make part of the collage. In the meantime, have a look at Chettur's work by clicking on the link here.
In case, like me, you had no idea that there was such a thing as a 3D poem, here is what I produced at a poetry workshop yesterday run by Winston Plowes for the Hear My Voice project (held at Cawthorne Museum, Barnsley).
Simply write your words in a spiral (we started at the outside edge and worked inwards) then cut and attach thread to the centre (we used a needle to pull the thread through and then secured with a piece of tape).
Our subject was moths and the writing was generated by listing ideas and descriptions that were suggested by looking in very close detail at some live moths which Winston had collected the night before and stowed in the fridge! Looking at these butterflies of the night close up almost made me forget they were moths at all. In fact, l had everything from forks to typewriters in my notes. That, l believe, is the power of poetry and somewhere at the heart of why we do it. But it is also the sign of a realy good workshop so thank you, Winston Plowes, for making me see the world a little differently.
Viewing my poem collages as side projects has been helpful. It's stopped me feeling guilty about not doing 'real writing' (I still write, but less so than say a year ago). The fact that the 'found' and collage work may take over and become a new direction is also fine, because why should we push on with work we're not really enjoying? Maybe these collages are the work I really need to be doing? That's why I included Jessica Hische's quote at the start of this post, to get you to think about the direction your own work is taking.
I've been working with found texts recently, creating what I've termed 'composite fictions' (found poem collages). This involves plundering a range of sources until I come up with something that works. Advertising creative, John Hegarty, says it's not possible to be original: 'Ideas borrow, blend, subvert, develop, and bounce off other ideas'. Therefore, to claim your work is original is arrogant. He prefers the word 'fresh'.
Does this piece of creative work stop you?
Would you notice it straight away?
Does it awaken your interest in the subject …?
I think these questions are useful for interrogating both the sources I use and the found poems that come from them.
Of all Hegarty's questions (above) the one that really hits home for me is 'Does it move you to action?'. At the moment, 'action' involves a lot of cutting up, rearranging, and gluing down. In fact, today I treated myself to a new pair of scissors! The source texts move me to action; I physically cut them up and paste them down in the order that creates new meaning. However, I think it's valid to ask myself if my finished poem has the same effect. Does it move me to action? As long as the answer is yes, I'll keep exploring and creating.
Yesterday I went to a workshop run by print artist, The Fandangoe Kid (Annie Nicholson) as part of Barnsley's Hear My Voice project.
It wasn't a poetry workshop, so I was well outside my comfort zone. However, The Fandangoe Kid's work is centred around text, as you can see from the picture below, so I felt there was enough of a link with my own work to justify going along. As it turned out, everyone was very friendly and supportive, and it seemed like we all shared the same anxieties around our artistic practice too, so it was great to be able to be part of that conversation. I was really taken with the boldness of the work, and if you get chance to visit the exhibition (on until 30th March) you'll find there's a tender narrative of love, loss, rediscovery, and self-discovery, running through the work. Presented as a series of brightly coloured posters, each one informs the other, and there's a lightness of touch, particularly on the PAUSE poster, which really does force you to stop and take stock.
Annie was an inspirational tutor and hats off to Hear My Voice for making it a free event (they have a few more workshops coming up before the end of the month, so it's worth having a look at their Facebook page). This workshop really made me think hard about what I want to do in my work, and how I want to present it. In my cut-up (above) I tried to say something about not turning back, not trying to redeem past ideas/ styles/ relationships/ selves, but to concentrate on moving forward. That movement is necessarily slow going I think, but every small gesture counts towards something bigger, a positive shift, an ascention.
If all that sounds a bit too pretentious, just bask in the glow of the fluorescent pink background, courtesy of The Fandangoe Kid!


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Santa Coloma d'Andorra (), also known as Santa Coloma, is an Andorran town in the parish of Andorra la Vella, located near the Gran Valira river and 2 km away from the capital, Andorra la Vella.

Geography
To its west are the mountain villages of Aixàs, Bixessarri, and Canòlic in Andorra, and Os de Civís in Spain.

Notable buildings
It houses a historic church that was nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage site on 22 February 1999 in the Cultural category.

See also

La Margineda

References

Populated places in Andorra
Geography of Andorra la Vella

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With just one month left in the calendar year, tactical investors are running out of time to put up market-beating returns for 2016. If you find yourself in such a position, it's imperative that you find stocks to sell in your portfolio, lest they weigh on what is traditionally a great month for equities.
Indeed, going all the way back to 1928, December has been the second-best month for the S&P 500, generating an average price gain of 1.4%, according to Yardeni Research. Only July, which averages a 1.5% gain, tops that average performance.
Whether it's the Santa Claus rally, fund managers window dressing results or the phases of the moon, the market likes to rise into year-end, so don't let any technically or seasonally weak names act as anchors on your portfolio.
And make no mistake, when it comes to tactical investing, there are always albatross stocks to sell.
That's especially true this year because of the wide gap between the have and have-not stocks. The so-called FANG stocks — Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX) and Alphabet's (GOOGL) Google — have driven a disproportionate amount of the market's gains this year.
On the other side of the ledger, the average U.S. stock has failed to beat the broader market this year and most domestic equities are actually in negative territory YTD, according to FT.com.
Such disparities leave no shortage of stocks to sell for December. After searching the market for names with technical and seasonal weakness, here's what we found.
Best Buy (BBY) has racked up some disastrous holiday selling seasons in years past, and the market appears to be anticipating yet another one.
The besieged consumer electronics chain has made significant strides in its turnaround, but the technicals and its own ugly trading history make BBY a sell before we close out the year.
BBY stock is off nearly 20% for the year-to-date after carving out the sell signal of a death cross a couple of weeks ago. Keep in mind that the last time BBY made a death cross, shares went on to lose almost 14% before bottoming out.
Lastly, the market tends to position itself for BBY disclosing sad holiday results when it reports earnings in the early part of the following year. Over the last decade, BBY delivered an average price loss of 2.5% in December, according to data from Thomson Reuters Stock Reports.
Like the rest of the sector, Molina Healthcare (MOH) enjoyed a good, long run on the anticipation and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. But after rising by more than half earlier this year, investors couldn't resist taking some profits on MOH.
That doesn't mean MOH is a bad stock. Heck, it's still having a very good year. True, shares were once up more than 50% YTD, but MOH is still holding on to a market-crushing 16% gain for 2015.
The problem is that MOH has entered a downtrend, and the technicals and its own trading history suggest a bottom has yet to be found.
Indeed, MOH is down 26% from its most recent peak, putting it well into a bear market. The selloff also led shares through a death cross last month. As for seasonality, MOH tends to be a market laggard in December, producing an average price gain of just 0.6%.
Pandora Media (P) hasn't been around that long, but shares in the streaming music service have a terrible seasonal track record.
Since, going public in 2011, Pandora has generated an average price loss of 3% in December even though much of that time was a period of solid sentiment on the name.
With Apple (AAPL), Amazon, Google, Spotify and others fighting for market share, Pandora couldn't find tougher competition if it tried.
Pandora is growing through acquisitions and international expansion, but that's not enough to overcome Apple Music, alone, much less an army of rivals. Witness the massive October plunge in P stock after it released disappointing results, courtesy of Apple Music taking share.
Pandora has struggled to recover from that vertical decline and is still down 20% YTD. Throw in a recent death cross, and Pandora stock has more downside ahead.
Biotechnology stocks are struggling these days and Seattle Genetics (SGEN) is no exception.
The stock has fallen sharply from its YTD peak, but is still up about 28% so far this year. Given the weak technicals and poor seasonality, investors can expect more selling pressure in December. In other words, it's time to take your chips off the table.
SGEN described a death cross at the end of November and has since crashed through its 50- and 200-day moving averages in a bearish manner. With those key level set to shift from support to resistance, SGEN could revisit the lows of two months ago.
Historically, the market has never much liked Seattle Genetics at this time of year, either. Over the past decade, shares have delivered an average price decline of 1.8%.
You can make an argument for Tesla Motors (TSLA) as a swing-for-the-fences play on a revolution in transportation, but for the coming month, at least, it looks poised for one of its typical periods of weakness.
This will come as no surprise to anyone who's held TSLA for a while. As a pricey momentum stock that trades in hope and hype as much as fundamentals, TSLA gets more than its fair share of knee-jerk trading every time news crosses the tape.
As for TSLA right now, shares recently made a death cross, and the stock twice found resistance at its 200-day moving average last month.
The market also tends to play Scrooge with Tesla stock around the holidays. Since going public five years ago, shares have produced an average price loss of 5.6% in the final month of the year.
As of this writing, Dan Burrows did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned industries.
Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2015/12/stocks-to-sell-for-december/.


Twenty years after the Spice Girls' sparked global girl power with Wannabe, the chart-topper has been remade to highlight gender inequality issues faced by women across the world.
The video features artists from India, Nigeria, South Africa, the UK, USA and Canada, a diverse roll-call that includes superstar Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez and London R&B trio M.O.
The famous video has been remade to push a series of UN global goals including education, gender equality, equal pay for equal work, child marriage and an end to violence against women.
The video is being launched by Project Everyone, the campaign which aims to eradicate poverty, injustice and fight climate change, which is backed by names including Richard Curtis, famous for films from Notting Hill to Bridget Jones's Diary, and actors Freida Pinto and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
As well as launching on YouTube a deal with SAWA, the global cinema advertising association, will see the video run in movie theatres internationally.
Last year, Project Everyone backed an ad featuring Liam Neeson playing God in an effort to promote a series of long-term global goals for sustainable development unveiled by the United Nations in September.


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Global Positioning System, pronounced as three letters. A system of 24 satellites orbiting the earth; also refers to the devices which receive signals from the satellites and determines a position from that data.
The satellites orbit the earth at approximately 12,000 miles above the surface and make two complete orbits every 24 hours. Each satellite transmits radio signals containing data on that satellite's location along with the exact time. The satellites have atomic clocks that are precise to within a billionth of a second.
As each signal travels at the speed of light, the longer it takes the receiver to get the signal, the farther away the satellite is. By knowing how far away a satellite is, the receiver knows that it is located somewhere on the surface of an imaginary sphere centered at the satellite. By using three satellites, GPS can calculate the longitude and latitude of the receiver based on where the three spheres intersect. Accuracy increases with the number of satellites the receiver can "see." The Datastorm has a GPS receiver in the UCB that tells the positioner where it is located. Along with compass and tilt sensor information, the positioner uses the data to determine where to point the dish.

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All-Pro Football 2K8
Platform(s): PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
'All-Pro Football 2K8' (PS3/X360) Goes Gold
by Rainier on July 10, 2007 @ 11:53 a.m. PDT
All-Pro Football 2K8 hits the gridiron with the new gameplay features, an innovative attribute system and today 2K Sports announced that football legends John Elway, Jerry Rice and Barry Sanders will grace the cover leading off a roster of over 200 famous football heroes featuring each star's trademark moves and abilities.
Featuring over 240 well-known football legends including Jerry Rice, John Elway and Barry Sanders, All-Pro Football 2K8 delivers a realistic football experience. Each player features the special abilities and unique characteristic traits that made each of them gridiron legends. Whether it's the scissor kick hesitation moves of Walter Payton, the quick release of Dan Marino, or ferocious hits of Jack Tatum, gamers will feel an instant attachment to their favorite football players in All-Pro Football 2K8.
All-Pro Football 2K8 also features incredibly robust customization features that allow players to tailor visual aspects for each football team. Whether it's changing team names, uniform number style, facemask appearance, the colors of the logo, or home stadium location, there are thousands of different team combinations that will give each user their own unique identity.
Online play and customizations are also key innovative features for All-Pro Football 2K8. Team and player customizations made offline can be taken online where gamers will see thousands of unique teams in both visual style and player selections. Players can take their created players online, a first in a 2K Sports football title, for online play and to participate in an online tournament or online leagues that support up to 32 players, to make All-Pro Football 2K8 one of the most unique online sports experiences.
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"Something Different" featuring Chali 2Na & Keno 1
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All-Pro Football 2K8 will be available July 17, 2007 for the Xbox 360(TM) video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. All-Pro Football 2K8 is rated E10+ for Everyone 10 and older.
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ASP.NET Core w/Docker Service project and Angular UI
This repository has the sample files for the "Person" app built at the San Francisco Global Azure Boot Camp held on April 22nd 2017

# AngularPeople
Angular UI built using Angular CLI that provides list and CRUD actions against a service layer

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.NET CORE Web API service layer hosted in a Docker container (must be deploye to an Azure Docker container)

# AzureWebServices
.NET CORE Web API service layer that can be deployed to a standard Azure Web App

# SQL Scripts
SQL scripts to create Person table structures, Foreign Key links, User, and initial seed records

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Investors in Key Energy Services, Inc. KEG need to pay close attention to the stock based on moves in the options market lately. That is because the Apr 18, 2019 $5.00 Put had some of the highest implied volatility of all equity options today.
Clearly, options traders are pricing in a big move for Key Energy Services shares, but what is the fundamental picture for the company? Currently, Key Energy Services is a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) in the Oil and Gas - Drilling industry that ranks in the Top 36% of our Zacks Industry Rank. Over the last 60 days, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the current quarter has narrowed from a loss of $1.08 per share to a loss of $1.06.
Given the way analysts feel about Key Energy Services right now, this huge implied volatility could mean there's a trade developing. Often times, options traders look for options with high levels of implied volatility to sell premium. This is a strategy many seasoned traders use because it captures decay. At expiration, the hope for these traders is that the underlying stock does not move as much as originally expected.


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2022 Oklahoma Football Schedule: 3 Things To Know
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By Pete Fiutak April 5, 2022 10:49 pm
By Pete Fiutak | April 5, 2022 10:49 pm CT
Oklahoma football schedule 2022: What are the big games on the Oklahoma schedule and what are 3 things to know?
2022 Oklahoma Football Schedule
Sept 3 UTEP
Sept 10 Kent State
Sept 17 at Nebraska
Sept 24 Kansas State
Oct 1 at TCU
Oct 8 Texas (in Dallas)
Oct 15 Kansas
Oct 27 at Iowa State
Nov 5 Baylor
Nov 12 at West Virginia
Nov 19 Oklahoma State
Nov 26 at Texas Tech
Oklahoma Football Schedule: Who do the Sooners have to play on the road?
Hey, new guy. You might have a team good enough to win the Big 12 – at least that's what the fan base is expecting – but there's going to be a whole lot of pressure to get by Nebraska in Lincoln in Week 3.
The Brent Venables era – for all intents and purposes – starts with that old school Big 8/Big 12 showdown.
There won't be any real issues with UTEP or Kent State, but three of the next four games are away from Norman. On the positive side of the neutral site game against Texas in Dallas, it gets counted as a road date in the Big 12 conference mix.
The four Big 12 road games should be relatively manageable. TCU, West, Virginia, and closing out with Texas Tech all have to be must-wins for a team with College Football Playoff dreams, and there's a week off to gear up for the showdown at Iowa State.
However …
Oklahoma Football Schedule What To Know: Keep those bags packed
The road game at Nebraska is a plus to get the team prepared for what's coming away from home in Big 12 play, but it would've been really, really nice for Venables and his coaching staff to have started out the year with four straight home games considering there's no chance to settle in after September.
Boo hoo, Oklahoma has one road game among the four dates in the first month, but outside of having a week off between Texas and Iowa State, that's it for any sort of a homestand.
There aren't back-to-back home games after September, and it can't even rely on not leaving the state for a stretch – Oklahoma State has to travel 90 minutes down the road for one of its road games.
Oklahoma Football Schedule What To Know: What does it all really mean?
Baylor is a home game, Oklahoma State is a home game, and Texas is in Dallas, as always. Those are the three biggies, and none of them are road dates.
That's not to say Texas Tech won't be dangerous, and going to West Virginia in mid-November isn't exactly like heading to San Diego, but for the most part, the schedule for a team with big dreams isn't that bad.
Now, if the Sooners drop the date at Nebraska, then the five games away from home in the last nine might be panic inducing – at least when it comes to the CFP – but any team worthy of even thinking about playing for the national title should be able to get through this 11-1.
There will be a blip when things don't go quite right – like, maybe, at Iowa State – but it'll be an upset if Oklahoma isn't favored in every game.
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Terminal City, also known as the Grand Central Zone, is an early 20th century commercial and office development in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The space was developed atop the former Grand Central Station railyard, after the New York Central Railroad decided to rebuild the station into Grand Central Terminal, and reshape the railyard into a below-ground train shed, allowing roads and skyscrapers to be built atop it.

Constituent structures

Note: some links may direct to the current building at the same address

Rail terminal and supporting structures
 Grand Central Terminal (completed 1913)
 Grand Central Terminal Baggage Building (completed c. 1913, demolished)
 50th Street Substation (completed 1906, demolished)
 Park Avenue Viaduct (completed 1928)

Surrounding buildings
 Grand Central Post Office / 450 Lexington Avenue (completed 1909)
 Grand Central Palace (completed 1911, demolished)
 New York Biltmore Hotel (completed 1913, gutted)
 Yale Club of New York City (completed 1915)
 Vanderbilt Concourse Building / 52 Vanderbilt Avenue (completed 1916)
 Hotel Marguery (completed 1917, demolished)
 Commodore Hotel (completed 1919, gutted)
 Liggett Building (completed 1922, demolished)
 Bowery Savings Bank Building (completed 1923)
 Knapp Building (completed 1923, demolished)
 Pershing Square Building (completed 1923)
 Prudence Bond & Mortgage Building (completed 1923, demolished)
 The Roosevelt Hotel (completed 1924)
 Postum Building (completed 1924)
 277 Park Avenue (completed 1925, demolished)
 InterContinental New York Barclay Hotel (completed 1926)
 Graybar Building (completed 1927)
 Park Lane Hotel (completed 1927, demolished)
 400 Madison Avenue (completed 1929)
 Helmsley Building (completed 1929)
 Chanin Building (completed 1929)
 Lexington Hotel (completed 1929)
 Chrysler Building (completed 1930)
 One Grand Central Place (completed 1930)
 Waldorf Astoria New York (completed 1931)

Notable earlier and later developments
237 Park Avenue, or 466 Lexington Avenue, within the Grand Central Zone, was built in an earlier period of development, completed in 1905 though gutted in 1981.

These buildings within the Grand Central Zone were built in a later period of development:
 MetLife Building – Baggage Building successor
 Socony–Mobil Building
 One Vanderbilt
 245 Park Avenue – Grand Central Palace successor
 383 Madison Avenue – Knapp Building successor
 Grand Central Market building
 Union Carbide Building – Hotel Marguery successor
 270 Park Avenue (2021–present) – Hotel Marguery and Union Carbide Building successor
 277 Park Avenue – 277 Park Avenue successor
 299 Park Avenue – Park Lane Hotel successor

History

Terminal City originated as an idea during the reconstruction of Grand Central Terminal from the old Grand Central Station from 1903 to 1913. The railroad owner, the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, wished to increase capacity of the station's train shed and rail yards, and so it devised a plan to bury the tracks and platforms and create two levels to its new train shed, more than doubling the station's capacity. At the same time, chief engineer William J. Wilgus was the first to realize the potential of selling air rights, the right to build atop the now-underground train shed, for real-estate development. Grand Central's construction thus produced several blocks of prime real estate in Manhattan, stretching from 42nd to 51st Streets between Madison and Lexington Avenues. The Realty and Terminal Company typically profited from the air rights in one of two ways: constructing the structures and renting them out, or selling the air rights to private developers who would construct their own buildings.

William Wilgus saw these air rights as merely a means to fund the terminal's construction. Reed & Stem originally proposed a "Court of Honor" for this space, while other proposals included a new Metropolitan Opera House, a Madison Square Garden, or a National Academy of Design building. Ultimately, the railroads decided to develop the area into a commercial office district.

Planning for the development began long before the terminal was completed. In 1903, the New York Central Railroad created a derivative, the New York State Realty and Terminal Company, to oversee construction above Grand Central's rail yards. The New Haven Railroad joined the venture later on. One early proposed name for this area was "Pershing Square", a name that was ultimately applied to the southern side of Grand Central Terminal. The blocks on the north side of the terminal were later dubbed "Terminal City" or the "Grand Central Zone".

By 1906, news of the plans for Grand Central was already boosting the values of nearby properties. In conjunction with this project, the segment of Park Avenue above Grand Central's rail yards received a landscaped median and was widened to . By the time the terminal opened in 1913, the blocks surrounding it were each valued at $2 million to $3 million. Terminal City soon became Manhattan's most desirable commercial and office district. From 1904 to 1926, land values along Park Avenue doubled, and land values in the Terminal City area increased 244%. A 1920 New York Times article said that the "development of the Grand Central property has in many respects surpassed original expectations. With its hotels, office buildings, apartments and underground streets it not only is a wonderful railroad terminal, but also a great civic centre."

Constituent structures and further history

The first building in Terminal City was the new Grand Central Palace, which opened in 1911 and replaced another building of the same name.

The district came to include office buildings such as the Chrysler Building, Chanin Building, Bowery Savings Bank Building, and Pershing Square Building; luxury apartment houses along Park Avenue; an array of high-end hotels that included the Commodore, Biltmore, Roosevelt, Marguery, Chatham, Barclay, Park Lane, and Waldorf Astoria; the Grand Central Palace; and the Yale Club of New York City's clubhouse at 50 Vanderbilt Avenue. The structures immediately around Grand Central Terminal were developed shortly after the terminal's opening, while the structures along Park Avenue were constructed through the 1920s and 1930s.

These structures were designed in the neoclassical style, complementing the terminal's architecture. Although Warren and Wetmore designed most of these buildings, it also monitored other architects' plans (such as those of James Gamble Rogers, who designed the Yale Club) to ensure that the style of the new buildings was compatible with that of Terminal City. In general, the site plan of Terminal City was derived from the City Beautiful movement, which encouraged aesthetic harmony between adjacent buildings. The consistency of the architectural styles, as well as the vast funding provided by investment bankers, contributed to Terminal City's success.

The Graybar Building, completed in 1927, was one of the last projects of Terminal City. The building incorporates many of Grand Central's train platforms, as well as the Graybar Passage, a hallway with vendors and train gates stretching from the terminal to Lexington Avenue. In 1929, New York Central built its headquarters in a 34-story building, later renamed the Helmsley Building, which straddled Park Avenue north of the terminal. Development slowed drastically during the Great Depression, and part of Terminal City was gradually demolished or reconstructed with steel-and-glass designs after World War II. In particular, many of the low-rise residential structures on Park Avenue were replaced with International Style skyscrapers during the 1950s and 1960s, many of which were zoned for commercial use. Some residential buildings from the era still exist along Lexington Avenue. Remnants of the neoclassical design can also be seen in the Yale Club and Roosevelt Hotel on Vanderbilt Avenue.

Business improvement district
The area shares similar boundaries as the Grand Central Business Improvement District, a neighborhood with businesses collectively funding improvements and maintenance in the area. The district is well-funded; in 1990 it had the largest budget of any business improvement district in the United States. The district's organization and operation is run by the Grand Central Partnership, which has given free tours of the station building. The partnership has also funded some restoration projects around the terminal, including installation of lamps to illuminate its facade and purchase of a streetlamp that used to stand on the Park Avenue Viaduct.

See also
 Grand Central Partnership

References

Sources

Grand Central Terminal
Midtown Manhattan
Multi-building developments in New York City


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Dershowitz says Chauvin conviction should be reversed
Christine Favocci
The trial of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing suspect George Floyd during an arrest, ended in a guilty verdict on all three murder counts. However, the threats from outside the courtroom may have handed the defense grounds for appeal.
Alan Dershowitz said Tuesday that Chauvin's conviction wouldn't stand a chance of being upheld on appeal, Breitbart reported. The well-known attorney and Harvard Law School professor emeritus cited "outside influences" that may have tainted the jury.
One of those influences was Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) who showed up in nearby Brooklyn Center, Minnesota to cheer on protesters gathered to protest another police shooting. She told the crowd to "get more confrontational" if they didn't get a guilty verdict.
"What was done to George Floyd by Officer Chauvin was inexcusable, morally. But the verdict is very questionable, because of the outside influences of people like Al Sharpton, and people like Maxine Waters," Dershowitz told Newsmax.
"Their threats and intimidation, and hanging the sword of Damocles over the jury, and basically saying if you don't convict on the murder charge, on all the charges, the cities will burn, the country will be destroyed, seeped into the jury room because the judge made a terrible mistake by not sequestering the jury," he continued. Dershowitz pointed out that even the "judge himself" knew Waters' comments were a problem.
He went on to say that the American Civil Liberties Union would "be all over the case" if it weren't for the racial component. "Every juror in that room knew about those threats," Dershowitz said. "And when they sit and deliberate, they have to be saying to themselves, consciously or unconsciously, if I were to render a verdict other than a murder verdict, what the consequences will be, for me, and my family, my friends, my business."
Dershowitz said that should feeling should never be permitted to permeate a jury's thought process. "So I have no real confidence that this verdict — which may be correct in some ways — but I have no confidence that this verdict was produced by due process and the rule of law, rather than the influence of the crowd."
Whether or not the jury came to the right conclusion in this case, there's no doubt a guilty verdict was a foregone conclusion for many. The jury walked in there having experienced months of rioting in their backyards knowing what would come from a not guilty verdict would be exponentially worse. Add to that Waters' comments and it could be a surefire way to overturn a verdict.
Clarence E Williams (@guest_1220593)
I am not defending or condoning what Chauvin did to Floyd but if Floyd would not have been resisting arrest and causing a disturbance while being arrested he would still be alive today. Was excessive force used in this case? Probably but people need to understand that resisting arrest is probably going to get you physically hurt. And besides this these people being killed by the cops while resisting arrest aren't innocent little angels. They have committed crimes or are in the process of committing crimes. Quit resisting arrest if don't want to get hurt.
bruce (@guest_1220678)
Reply to Clarence E Williams
The news media did a fantastic job of covering up Floyds' criminal past trying to present him as a poor innocent pillar of society (b.s.) he physically hurt lots of innocent victims but our legal system kept releasing him to continue his bad deeds. You hit it right on the nail head Clarence.
Tom Kephart (@guest_1220688)
Well put and I agree resisting arrest you are asking to be hurt or perhaps killed no mater what color you might be.
Robert W (@guest_1220703)
AMEN TO THAT, YOU ARE RIGHT ON THE MONEY!!!!
Darrel. S Davidson (@guest_1220842)
AMEN…AWOMEN…..
Jennifer (@guest_1221080)
I agree with you, Clarence. DEREK CHAUVIN WAS AN INNOCENT MAN. GIVEN THE HOSTILITY OF THE MOB, THE 'JUDGE' SHOULD HAVE KNOWN TO SEQUESTER THE JURY IN ORDER THAT THEY COULD RULE FAIRLY.
This verdict is one more travesty of justice upon our Nation. With it, America has been slapped with yet another reason to spit upon law and order, rendering we 'victims' of a lawless Nation in jeopardy for our lives as was Officer Derek Chauvin. OUTRAGEOUS! (Did the victim of George Floyd's theft ever get justice? How about the pregnant woman who was robbed at his gunpoint in her own apartment?) I am becoming more racist by the day!
OBEY THE LAW. OBEY THE COMMANDS FROM A COP! A policeman villified, and charged, a thug cannionized, as a hero, if the Floyd family had a choice of keeping the 50 or maybe more millions , they have recievied or getting this thug family member back, what do you think, their choice would be.
Reply to Charles
I really do not know how any money can take away the pain of losing a loved one!.May b e this family will give all that money back to a worthy cause such as helping to keep drug addicts get cleaned
Kay (@guest_1221237)
I am concerned that this will bring on more violence knowing that if a police officer stops you, all you have to do is resist. What about all the damage & destruction that has been going on for some time. Are the officers to ignore that or attempt to arrest them and stop destruction? Anyone that watched the downplay of his attempted arrest would probably take a new view on the outcome.
tirparti (@guest_1221361)
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Van L Nguyen (@guest_1221499)
A person violated many criminal records and used drugs, and was unlucky to die in a conflict with law enforcement. Not worth the attention of society as warriors sacrificing for the country.
Officer Chauvin if guilty only with the crime of manslaughter is true for this case.
People who have brought a history of using drugs with many felony crimes, death or life are still a crime in the country.
Beverly (@guest_1222304)
BOY, DO YOU MAKE SINCE !! THEIRS STILL A FEW PEOPLE WITH A BRAIN !!!! SURPRISE, SURPRISE !! BUT WHY WOULD THE QUIT LISTENING TO THE LAW ?? SO FAR THEY'VE PRETTY MUCH DONE WHATEVER THERE LITTLE HEARTS DESIRE !! HELL, EVEN THE JUDGES GIVE THEM FULL RIEN !! THIS BLACK LIVES MATTER IS ONLY A WAY TO DO WHAT EVER THEIR LITTLE HEARTS DESIRE AND GET AWAY WITH IT . HELL KILLING THEIR ON COLOR DOESN'T MATTER EITHER. MAYBE THEY ARE COLOR BLIND THAT WAY THEY CAN SAY GEE I DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE BLACK WHEN I SHOT HIM !!!
Barb Anderson (@guest_1228414)
Well trained crisis actor of Soros…paid for and trained…not Chauvin…
Mem (@guest_1220599)
White people didn't loot, riot hurt police officers, an burn cities when O.J killed 2 white people with a tremendous amount of evidence against him. Now we can't even trust juries because they are scared to death of black racists.
Me (@guest_1221108)
Reply to Mem
White people have better morals respect for others. Not saying some blacks doesn't. Because there are some blacks that are against what's happening. Most whites up holds the law that's what it was made for. To abide by the law of the land. But you have Maxine and Al to show up and entice violence. Well go figure. Everyone knew where it would go then.
Rhonda Brittingham (@guest_1221134)
Yes, This trial was a sideshow. BLM is a Terrorist Org. This was not a fair trial. This Verdict will satisfy the Lunatic Mob for a short time, maybe 2 days, but they always find Systemic Racism somewhere else. I absolutely HATE THEM AND ANTIFA. Now our Legal system is further perverted by a bunch of uneducated, out of control Jungle Zombies. Chauvin, in my opinion, should not have been found guilty because of all the screw- ups in this trial, plus, I think Floyd died of an OD. I think it was a staged trial. I don't think he was found guilty, but they had to throw that meat to the Mob. I think after sentencing he will disappear. This explains a lot of things.
Terry Bell (@guest_1221215)
TRUE !
Margaret (@guest_1229596)
People have no protection anymore, they are defunding police, the jury felt if they did not convict they would be fair game from BLM and antifa.Probably did not have a choice. Maybe should have been changed venue and keep the jury secquestered, glad I wasn't one.
Kaye (@guest_1220606)
Look closely at the definition of murder:
Unlawful PREMEDITATED killing of one human being by another.
Key word PREMEDITATED
The jury either wasn't properly instructed by the judge or they'd already made up their minds before deliberations
Mimi (@guest_1220994)
Reply to Kaye
That's the definition of Murder 1…Murder 2 indicates loss of life without being premeditated. George Floyd still tragically died…Chauvin just didn't plan it. But I believe he was resisting arrest, and he was a big man, and his physical and drug issues landed just as much if not more to his death.
Reply to Mimi
The ONLY tragic thing I see is the Rail Roading of a white police officer !
Angelika (@guest_1220636)
yes, it should be reversed as chauvin did NOT get a fair trial = jury/judge were all INTIMIDATED, BLACKMAILED = this is NOT "justice"…..
Reply to Angelika
I agree !
James T Fayard (@guest_1220649)
Ì personally think the jurors had their minds made up when they waked into the jury ŕoom. They were scared into a Guilty verdict by outside influence. Ì m sure that he is Guilty but he didn't get a fair trial by the ĺocals. His trial should've been moved to a more secure place and sequestered the Jury.
Mike (@guest_1220662)
Why can't your headline JUST BE TRUTHFUL?
Until sane unbiased people take up positions of legal control in this country, we will never see anything just or honorable again. The BLM leaders are millionaires and becoming neighbors with the very people who they claim are the black Americans' enemy. Reparations to the small number of slave descendants have been paid 1,000 fold with ongoing welfare benefits since the '70s. Unfortunately, black America will not be content until they all live in free welfare mansions with white slaves, then they'll kill each other for more. Their lives are self-inflicted as I know many even in my family who are living well and happy with successful careers. So quit buckling under to the minority of hate activists.
Rev4God (@guest_1220718)
not surprised at verdict, everybody scared of a loud mouth n….r
Terry (@guest_1220733)
The calling of Violence by Macii Waters tainted this trial. Just think if George Floyd had of NOT RESISTED arrest and listened to what the officer's told him to do, he'd still be alive. WHY are people resisting the Police, because the MEDIA and Democrat's portray them as the BAD GUY'S.
Just read where a babysitter killed a one year old, the babysitter is black and the one year old is white, WILL there be RIOTS for this little precious baby, who was never allowed to have a life!!! We shall see.
John Galt (@guest_1221760)
I never read about this. Mainstream media must have ignored it. Doesn't fit the agenda.
Now we need justice on the little boy that was shot for riding his bike throw a black mans yard. You haven't heard anything on that have you. It was a white child. There hasn't be one thing protesting on that one. I don't up life violence. I think if you do a crime you serve your time. But I like to know did this man get what he deserves. Or does it matter because it be a white kid. I really think mad Maxine enticing in the verdict.
Reply to Me
Haven't read about this either. Doesn't fit the agenda.
Jon (@guest_1221193)
He would not be still alive. The drugs in his body would still have killed him.
Kenneth (@guest_1221265)
But wait, george was such a fine upstanding citizen. Then why did the police have to be called at all. There's a N*GGER in the wood pile here.
Billy (@guest_1221440)
Take it all the way to the top. Waters needs to be charged for at least Incitement to riot.
Professor Dershowitz – Thank you for coming out with these comments. You are absolutely correct. The verdict should be set aside, either by the trial judge, and, if not, on appeal. He should be released pending further proceedings. It does not even appear that Chauvin's actions even meet the elements of second degree murder. Given the state of our country at this time, Chauvin will have to spend his entire life in hiding or in something like a witness protection program.


The love story of Jason and Miravella and their life-long friendship within a politcally fractured space colony, cut off from contact with the rest of humanity.
Jonathan Michael Erickson is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. He studied English Literature at UC Berkeley and received his PhD in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where his research focused on neuroscience and imagination. When he's not writing science fiction, Jonathan is a life coach, a holistic bodyworker, a yoga teacher, an animal lover, an advocate for the environment, and has been known to moonlight as a comedy improviser.


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\section{Dataset Analysis}
Table \ref{tbl:overall_data} summarizes the overall statistics of the dataset across all modalities. So far we have 101:26 hours of audio data (out of an expected total final c.630 hours).

\begin{table}[ht]
  \centering
  \resizebox{\columnwidth}{!}{%
  \begin{tabular}{  ccccc  }
    \toprule
    \textbf{Modality} & \textbf{Speakers}  & \textbf{No Sessions} & \textbf{No Topics} & \textbf{Duration (H)}  \\ \hline
    Speech & 22 (14,8) &  490 (250,240) & 63 (48,60) &  101:15(50:49,50:36)\\
    Transcripts & 8 (6,2) & 51 (79,5) & 26 (26,5) & 19:04 (18:26,00:38) \\
    Typed/Key & 17 (11,6)  & 271(140,131) &  65 (54,58)&-\\
    Hand-written/Pen & 12 (7,5)  & 104 (59,45) & 46 (36,34) &-\\ \hline
    Overall & 22 (14/8) & 816(408,408) & 66 (63,65) & - \\
  \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}
  }
  \caption{Overall statistics of the dataset across all modalities. Numbers in parenthesis correspond to dementia and control populations, respectively.}\label{tbl:overall_data}
\end{table}

There are (so far) 22 subjects and 816 sessions. For the speech modality there are 22 speakers and 490 sessions. For the  Typed/Key modality, there are 17 users and 271 sessions, and for the Hand-written/Pen modality, 12 users and 104 sessions. In each session, speakers addressed 2.5 topics on average (STD=2.6). In total, they have covered 66/67 topics. In the dementia group, speakers covered 63/67 topics, whilst in the control group, 65/67 topics. The mean duration of speech sessions is 12:11 mins (STD=4:31) in the dementia group and 12:39 mins (STD=4:07) in the control group. Figure \ref{fig:duration} shows the distribution of topics in dementia and control groups for the speech modality. The majority of sessions fall in the bin $[15,16)$. In total, the overall duration of speech sessions is 50:49 hours for the dementia and 50:36 hours for the control groups. For subjects in the dementia group, the mean number of sessions is 29.1 (STD=11.4), whilst in the control group, 51.1 (STD = 13.1).  In general, subjects in the control group cover more topics than the dementia ones. However, in terms of speech modality, the overall speech duration of topics across the two groups is balanced (See Figure \ref{fig:overall_duration}). Figure \ref{fig:overall_byspeker} summarizes the population in topics and the corresponding duration by speaker for both groups in speech modality. The speech dataset is unbalanced in terms of topics and session duration.

\begin{figure}[hbt!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.35\textwidth]{chart1.png}
\caption{Distribution of topics by duration in dementia and control groups for the speech modality.}
\label{fig:duration}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[hbt!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.35\textwidth]{chart3.png}
\caption{Summary of topics duration in two groups.}
\label{fig:overall_duration}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[hbt!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.35\textwidth]{chart2.png}
\caption{Summary of topics duration by speaker.}
\label{fig:overall_byspeker}
\end{figure}

From now onwards we focus particularly on the analysis of the speech and transcribed data.
Part of the speech dataset has been transcribed manually. We hope to use this for a preliminary linguistic analysis and to prepare for automatic transcription of the rest of the speech files. In the transcribed dataset, there are 8 speakers (6 with dementia and 2 controls, from phase 1 of the study). Most of the transcribed speech sessions are by dementia participants. In particular 79/84 manually transcribed sessions come from the dementia group and 5/84 from the control group5.

For the manually transcribed sessions, we analyse characterisations of speech patterns of people with dementia. To this end, we conduct a frequency-level analysis across pauses and occurrences of \textit{um} in the transcribed sessions. To alleviate the sessions' length imbalance, we normalise the frequency of disfluencies by the sessions' corresponding dictionary length. We encode pauses in the input sequence by grouping them into three bins: short (under 0.5 seconds); medium (0.5-2 seconds); and long (over 2 seconds).
\begin{figure}[hbt!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.35\textwidth]{pauses.png}
\caption{Mean frequency of pauses of people with dementia.}
\label{fig:pauses}
\end{figure}
Figure \ref{fig:pauses} shows the mean frequency of pauses of people with dementia. Even though the duration of sessions for the 2nd, 3rd and 5th speakers is similar, i.e., 5:53, 5:40, and 5:52 minutes, respectively, the 3rd and 5th speakers make significantly more pauses than the 2nd one.
\begin{figure}[hbt!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.35\textwidth]{um.png}
\caption{Mean frequency of Um of people with dementia.}
\label{fig:um}
\end{figure}
Figure \ref{fig:um} shows the mean frequency of \textit{um} for the same people with dementia. Similarly, for some subjects, the use of \textit{um} is much more frequent than other subjects.

\section{Reviews}
\textbf{Review #1}\\
Detailed Comments for Authors
In this work, the authors present a new dataset for dementia monitoring/diagnosis and the collection process, with the focus on longitudinal data (which is lacking in the already available data sets). Besides a good summary of available data bases and their pros/cons, the authors describe the data collection process, the various modalities, and provide some initial analysis of the collected speech data. Within this analysis, the authors show that the longitudinal aspect of the data might be helpful in diagnosing dementia early, since e.g. the speech seems to vary across time within speakers in the dementia group more than in the control group. It is noteworthy that the data collection is still ongoing (due to unforeseen circumstances; COVID), and thus the presented statistics/finding are preliminary.
Overall, the paper is very well written and easily understandable, also for the non-expert. Diagnosing dementia early is an important research area and thus I think that there is enough interest in the Interspeech audience for such a paper.

While I think that the data collection process is well designed and executed, the authors do not state if the data will be ever (publicly) available, which would make the publication significantly more interesting. Additionally, an ETA for collection completeness would be helpful. Nevertheless, to already have some best practices available for such a difficult data collection process and and initial analysis of the collected data so far is already something.

Typos:

Sec.2.1, 2nd paragraph: "using reminiscence material-images from the past-created by dementia communication specialists" = "using reminiscence material-images from the past, created by dementia communication specialists"

Sec. 2.3., 1st paragraph: "over a year Forbes et al" $=$ "over a year, Forbes et al"

Sec. 3, last paragraph: "and 5/84 from the control group5." = "and 5/84 from the control group."

\textbf{Review #2}\\
Detailed Comments for Authors
-- Detailed Review --
The paper presents a new multimodal dataset on dementia patience, where the data was collected through recurrent sessions and subjects were asked to record their speech, type, or hand-write on one of the topics (prespecified). The data collection consists of 22 speakers and 491 sessions - it was not clear to me how many of those speakers had dementia and how many were in control group. The focus of that paper was on analyzing speech part of the data to determine whether it is possible to recognize early inset of dementia.

-- Key Strength of the paper -- The dataset is well described, and the setting is very interesting and seems to have a high potential for further research

-- Main Weakness of the paper -- The analysis on the speech data is extremely limited. The paper present just one result that was extracted using a single method, and it is hard to draw conclusions based on the numbers provided in the paper. It is also not intuitive why extracting speaker representation is the best method to evaluate if the subject has a dementia - why for example not to analyze different speech features or ASR outputs. Basically, while the dataset seems to be really good, there is not enough analysis to draw any conclusions.

-- Novelty/Originality, taking into account the relevance of the work for the Interspeech audience -- The paper would be very relevant to Insterspeech audience - real speech and language data on patients with dementia.

-- Technical Correctness, taking into account datasets, baselines, experimental design, are enough details provided to be able to reproduce the experiments? -- There is not enough details provided to draw conclusions - and the results are not reproducible since the data is not publicly available.

-- Quality of References, is it a good mix of older and newer papers? Do the authors show a good grasp of the current state of the literature? Do they also cite other papers apart from their own work? -- The literature review focuses on datasets description only - not much work done on reviewing different analysis that can be performed on such data

-- Clarity of Presentation, the English does not need to be flawless, but the text should be understandable -- The dataset description is clear and well written

\textbf{Review #3}\\
Detailed Comments for Authors
-- Detailed Review -- This paper introduces a longitudinal dataset including both conversational speech and writing in a non-clinical setting with patients with dementia and control subjects. The paper describes the dataset and includes analysis of the dataset and a validating experiment looking at variation in tracking between sessions between dementia patients and controls. It is clearly written and includes a thorough contextualization within related work.
-- Key Strength of the paper -- Most available datasets contain a single modality or are not longitudinal.

-- Main Weakness of the paper -- The dataset contains 8 subjects only; not clear how well downstream tasks/analysis would generalize.

-- Technical Correctness, taking into account datasets, baselines, experimental design, are enough details provided to be able to reproduce the experiments? -- Experimental details are clear. Slightly more information about the collection prompts/topics could be useful: e.g., there is analysis showing the number of topics, but not the topics themselves. If lacking space within paper, perhaps stating that this information / clarifying which information is available within the dataset would be beneficial.

-- Quality of References -- Thorough references, related work well-explained.

-- Clarity of Presentation -- Paper is clearly written and easy to understand. (minor) visual presentation (of sections) could be improved:

in the introduction, there is a paragraph per key related corpora. Considering bold/underline the names to make the organization clearer? The motivation/related work/contributions paragraphs could be indented?

in contributions and 1st dataset creation consider enum / itemize?

-- Minor Comments --

"based on individual's feedback" = was this augmentation for phase 2/3 done per-individual then, or globally?

perhaps include a very brief description of the Cookie Theft picture description task in the introduction.

"frequency of pauses of people with dementia" -- perhaps overgeneralization, as this includes 6 subjects? Could Fig 5/6 include control subjects for comparison?
\section{Conclusion}
We have presented a novel multi-modal fine-grained longitudinal dataset from people with dementia and age-matched controls obtained in a natural setting using a tablet application with reminiscence material. We have explored the usefulness of the fine-grained longitudinal aspect of the dataset with a novel task comparing the change in individuals' speech from session to session showing significant difference in the change in speech between the control and dementia groups. This is promising and opens up new directions and possibilities for exploring this task further and with more elaborate models.
\section{Dataset creation}

\noindent Our goal in creating this dataset was to collect longitudinal data including both spontaneous speech and writing, and to focus on conversations occurring in a non-clinical setting. There are three important novel aspects in the dataset design: I) Conversations and written thoughts as well as associated paralinguistic information are obtained on the basis of  \emph{reminiscence} material, specifically images from past decades on topics of general interest. Reminiscence is a meaningful and useful activity for people with and without dementia that can improve cognition, mood, and quality of life~\cite{pinquart2012effects,gonzalez_reminiscence_2015}. II) The dataset is designed to contain daily data over three extended periods (phases) each spanning around 4 weeks or 28 sessions. III) The data is collected in the participants' own environment using a custom-built tablet application.

\subsection{Data collection process}
According to our protocol data is collected in three 4-week phases spreading over 54 weeks in total, each phase therefore being separated by approximately 14 weeks. In practice due to unforeseen circumstances the period between phases has been longer than 14 weeks.
Participants are paired with a carer and asked to record daily sessions during each phase, alternating between (a) 15 mins of conversation with their carers, and (b) typed or hand-written thoughts.

Both spoken and written language are elicited using reminiscence material-images from the past-created by dementia communication specialists. Images are presented using a bespoke Android tablet application, which records spoken and written data and sends it to a secure remote server for storage. The application is designed to record three modalities: \emph{speech}, \emph{typed text}, \emph{hand written text}. For the latter two paralinguistic information such as key strokes and pen strokes, pen pressure and deletions are recorded respectively.  The application was developed, implemented and tested together with a commercial clinical partner, Clinvivo, in consultation with a focus group from the Alzheimer's Society.

At the start of each 4-week phase, participants are given a tablet running the reminiscence tablet application. Participants are asked to complete a cognitive assessment test at the start and end of each phase.

A Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) \cite{MMSE} and an Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examin\-ation-III (ACE-III) \cite{ACE3} are administered as cognitive impairment benchmarks by a suitably qualified person. The ACE-III is conducted at the time of consent and at the beginning of each of the 4-week phases. The MMSE is conducted at the end of each 4-week phase.
While these tests provide only minimal cognitive data, they allow us to assess cognitive change at the comparison points needed to analyse the rich linguistic information collected. Indeed challenges such as ADReSS~\cite{luz2020alzheimer} and $\textup{ADReSS}_{o}$ \cite{luz2021detecting} include a regression task to predict cognitive scores.

\subsection{Reminiscence Material \& Tablet application}
The tablet application shows a participant four images every day, each representing a topic of general interest from the 50's, 60's and 70's. Each of the images/topics is accompanied by a set of three questions to help initiate a conversation or thought process and provide memory "joggers". The participant chooses one topic out of the four each day as well as whether they would like to record a conversation, type or write their thoughts. The four images are pseudo-randomly selected from a pool of images available in each 4-week phase.
A screenshot of the tablet application after a participant has chosen an image can be seen in Figure~\ref{fig:screenshot}.
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\includegraphics[width=.35\textwidth]{tablet_screenshot.png}
\caption{Screenshot of Tablet application once topic is chosen}
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The image material and corresponding questions were developed by an organisation specialising in dementia communication\footnote{\url{https://realcommunicationworks.com/}} and have been used with people in care homes. The 50's and 60's material was adapted for use in the tablet application. The 70's material was created for the purpose of the study. The current dataset contains data from phases 1 and 2 of the study, which covers a set of 67 images/topics. Phase 1 includes 26 topics from the 50's and Phase 2 includes 41 images from the 60's and 70's. By design topics were meant to be repeated every so often but based on individual's feedback phases 2 and 3 were augmented with more images from the 70's, which also seem to better fit the memory bump of our participant cohort.

\subsection{Participant Recruitment}
Our target is to recruit a cohort of people living with  dementia or MCI (n=20) and age-matched controls (n=10). These numbers are appropriate for a pilot study.
Previous longitudinal research examining language indicators in people with Alzheimer's disease over a year Forbes et al~\cite{Forbesetal13,Forbesetal14} have recruited similar numbers of participants, with assessments every six months. Recruitment is still ongoing due to unforeseen circumstances (COVID-19 pandemic). At the current state of development the dataset includes data from 22 people, 14 people with dementia or MCI and 8 age matched controls who have participated in either phase 1 or 1 and 2.

\noindent\textbf{Eligibility:} Participants are aged 65-80 years at the time of consent. They either have a mild to moderate dementia diagnosis, MCI, or are aged matched healthy controls. They are resident in their own home or with their family and are in daily contact with a carer or family member. They need to have lived in the UK during the 50's, 60's or 70's so they can relate to the reminiscence material. They need to be able to conduct daily conversations and write their thoughts using the provided tablet application.

\noindent\textbf{Recruitment:} Primary means of recruiting participants has been through the Join Dementia Research platform (JDR), mailing lists, dementia networks, dementia cafes and memory clinics. Interested candidate participants are subsequently screened by qualified staff (NIHR research nurses) in terms of providing consent and meeting the study eligibility criteria.

\subsection{Transcription}
A subset of the spoken data (51 sessions from 8 participants) were transcribed manually by experienced dialogue transcribers, using PRAAT\footnote{\url{https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/}}. As well as the words spoken, transcripts include significant non-verbal events such utterance timings, pauses, laughter, crying, sighing, yawning, whispering, coughing as well as disfluencies including mis-speaking and reformulation. The transcription convention used was developed on the basis of the CHAT protocol \cite{macwhinney2000childes} and techniques for transcribers provided in \cite{10.1093/llc/fqr018}

\section{Discussion}
\section{Experiments with the Speech modality}
\subsection{Feature Extraction}
To obtain the representation of an individual's session $S_{i}$ from their speech we exploit a transfer learning approach, which allows us to utilise speech representation learned in a self-supervised manner on large-scale general-domain speech data. We begin by segmenting each recording session $S_{i}$ into $n$ speech segments $S(i, n)$, using an end-to-end voice activity detection (VAD) model \cite{lavechin2019end} trained on the DIHARD Speech Diarisation data \cite{ryant2019second}. For each segment, we then extract embeddings from TRILL (TRIpLet Loss network) \cite{shor2020towards}, which is a speech encoder pretrained on AudioSet \cite{gemmeke2017audio} and demonstrated good performance in a range of speech tasks including AD classification on DementiaBank. We aggregate the TRILL embeddings $S(i, n)^{T \times D}$ for each segment, where $T,D \in \mathbb{R}$, over time $T$ using average pooling, following \cite{shor2020towards}. Finally, we average the embeddings across all segments of each session $S(i, n)^{D}$ to obtain session-based representation $S_i^D$.

\subsection{Approach}
Given a series of consecutive sessions $[S_0^D, S_1^D, ..., S_{T-1}^D]$, where $D$ is the dimensionality of the averaged session embeddings and $T$ is the overall number of sessions for a particular subject, our goal is to measure how the speech varies across time within speakers. We hypothesize that this change, measured by a distance metric $d$, will be indicative of the subject being a case of `dementia' or `healthy control'. Therefore, we consider two approaches, where we calculate $\forall t \in [1, ..., T]$: \textit{(a)} $d_t^{f} = d(S_0^D, S_t^D)$ and \textit{(b)} $d_t^{c} = d(S_{t-1}^D, S_t^D)$. These measure the distance of a given session from \textit{(a)} the first session ( non-consecutive task) and \textit{(b)} across consecutive sessions (consecutive task). Without loss of generality, we employ the cosine distance as our metric $d$. Finally, we construct time series based on $d_t^{f}$ and $d_t^{c}$ and consider different statistics (i.e., mean, median, stdev) as our variables. We investigate the relationship between these variables -- which essentially capture the traces of a subject's speech variation across time (sessions) -- and our two classes.

\subsection{Results}
We first calculated the mean, median, and stdev distance of consecutive and non-consecutive sessions for each speaker in both groups. We then averaged the scores of speakers for the two groups. The results are shown in Table \ref{tbl:results}. For the dementia group, we observed that the distance scores are higher for non-consecutive sessions as compared to consecutive sessions. In particular, the median is almost double for the non-consecutive task (Wilcoxon rank-sum test $< .005$), whilst stdev score is the same for both tasks. This may imply that dementia speakers exhibit changes in linguistic ability between the first session and subsequent ones. By contrast, for controls the distance scores do not change substantially in the two tasks, despite variation in topics being addressed. A comparison between dementia and control groups show that median scores are considerably higher in the dementia group. Overall results show that distance scores are higher in the dementia group compared to controls. In the future, a detailed investigation is needed to clarify if the differences are due to an increase in speech disfluencies or other factors.

\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering
\resizebox{\columnwidth}{!}{%
\begin{tabular}{lcccccc}
 \toprule
 \multicolumn{1}{c}{} &
 \multicolumn{3}{c}{Non-consecutive} &
 \multicolumn{3}{c}{Consecutive} \\
 \cmidrule(r){2-4} \cmidrule(r){5-7}
Group & Mean& Median & Stdev & Mean& Median & Stdev  \\
 \hline
 Dementia & {0.16} & {0.15} & {0.03} & {0.02}  & {0.08} & {0.03} \\
 Control & {0.12} & {0.05} & {0.20} & {0.17} & {0.03} & {0.27} \\
 \bottomrule
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\caption{Averaged mean, median, and stdev distances across people in two groups for non-consecutive and consecutive tasks.}
\label{tbl:results}
\end{table}

\section{Working with the speech modality}
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\subsection{Data Augmentation}
\dimitris{Describe the process...}

\subsection{Acoustic and Linguistic Features}
\section{Introduction}

\noindent\textbf{Motivation} Around 50 million people in the world have dementia, a syndrome involving deterioration in memory and cognitive abilities, with an annual increase of 10 million \cite{world2019risk}. Earlier diagnosis can improve patients' quality of life by enabling better planning and medical interventions at the most effective and appropriate stage~\cite{AlzheimersSoc14,APPG2016,AlzheimersSoc11}--especially if diagnosis occurs before clinical cognitive symptoms set in~\cite{mortamais_detecting_2017,ritchie_clinical_2016}.

Standard diagnostic biomarkers such as MRI, PET scans and cerebrospinal fluids are intrusive and expensive, and therefore unsuitable for early diagnosis. Cognitive tests such as the ADAS-Cog \cite{ADAScog}, MMSE \cite{MMSE} and ACE-III \cite{ACE3}, widely used in clinical studies, suffer from sensitivity issues \cite{SchneiderSano09} and lag behind biomarkers in their ability to detect dementia onset \cite{JackEtAl13}

\noindent\textbf{Related Work}
Automatic analysis of patients' spontaneous speech and language is a promising non-invasive, inexpensive approach to screening and monitoring dementia progression \cite{fraser-meltzer-rudzicz:2016:JAD,koenig2018}.
To allow progress in this field a number of different datasets have been proposed in earlier work. \\
DementiaBank Pitt Corpus \cite{becker1994natural}\footnote{\url{http://talkbank.org/DementiaBank/}}: This is the most widely used speech dataset for dementia detection where 196 older adults with dementia and 98 matched controls performed the Cookie Theft picture description task with an interviewer on an annually basis up to seven times. The
full dataset contains 244 speech samples from 98 control healthy subjects and 255 speech samples from 168 subjects with Alzheimer's (AD).
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The Carolinas Conversations Collection \cite{pope2011finding}\footnote{\url{http://carolinaconversations.musc.edu/about/}}: This is a digital collection of transcribed audio and video recordings of conversations about health, supported by the National Libraries of Medicine. It contains a longitudinal set of 400 conversations by 125 people with dementia.  \\
ADReSS \cite{luz2020alzheimer}: The Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition through Spontaneous Speech (ADReSS) dataset contains speech recordings and transcripts of verbal descriptions elicited through the Cookie Theft picture from the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Exam \cite{goodglass2001bdae}. Unlike DementiaBank, it has 156 speech samples, each from a unique subject, where 50\% of subjects have AD and 50\% are healthy controls.\\
$\textup{ADReSS}_{o}$ \cite{luz2021detecting}: Following ADReSS \cite{luz2020alzheimer}, the very recent $\textup{ADReSS}_{o}$
challenge provides a set of recordings of picture descriptions without manual transcriptions. In addition to the Cookie Theft picture descriptions, this dataset also includes speech recordings of AD patients performing a category fluency task at their baseline visit, one recording per subject, used for predicting cognitive decline over a two year period.\\
Carers' interactions with patients suffering from severe dementia \cite{hansebo2002carers}: Video recordings (2 hrs each) and transcribed text for 14 people with severe dementia in conversations with carers.\\
Most existing datasets focus on a single modality (speech, transcribed speech or writing), or involve tasks that are well known to be subject to learning effects~\cite{goldberg_practice_2015}.
Moreover, most of these studies are limited to data snapshots at a fixed time, and within particular genres or domains via lab-based tasks, very often the Cookie Theft picture description task. Some datasets permit analysis of more general language: e.g. the Carolinas dataset contains less directed conversations between people with dementia and health practitioners, and has been used to build models for automatic detection of confusion~\cite{ChinaeiEtAl2017}. Learning models for longitudinal monitoring of individuals is not possible with the current datasets as either the datasets do not contain longitudinal information or any longitudinal data are either sparse or inconsistently available for participating individuals.\\
\noindent \textbf{Contributions} 1) We describe the creation of a dataset of rich longitudinal multi-modal data which contains spoken and written language as well as associated paralinguistic information. This was obtained from people with various forms of dementia, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and healthy controls on the basis of reminiscence material and in a non-clinical setting. 2) We provide an analysis on the dataset for the different modalities. 3) We focus on a task based on the speech modality illustrating the usefulness of the longitudinal setting in distinguishing differences between people with dementia and controls.
\section{Task based on the Speech Modality}

We subsequently show how the dataset can be used to identify differences between people with dementia and controls by exploiting the rich longitudinal information we have about them. We focus on the speech modality and first extract a representation of each individual per session from their speech.
The goal is to identify speech variation in  speakers $Sp_i$ across $T$ consecutive sessions $S_{p_i} = \{S_{{p_i},{1}},S_{{p_i},{2}}, ..., S_{{p_i},{T}}\}$.
We are particularly interested in examining the \textit{longitudinal} aspect of a subject's speech over consecutive sessions and how this differs across the two classes.

\section{Acknowledgements}

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I know in my house, tea and mugs are something that are constantly being used and enjoyed. I love creating that perfect cuppa, with a combination of an excellent blend and a gorgeous mug. I've searched out some Christmas treats from a few of my favourite shops, so you can find the perfect gift for the tea lovers in your life.
I hope you like my choices. These are all things I would love to give and receive myself. I always think its nice when tea comes in gorgeous caddies that I can reuse and I absolutely adore some of the gorgeous tins featured here. I also can't resist a novelty mug. Do you have a tea lover in your life? Which tea do you think would make the perfect gift for them? What other gift guides would you like to see on the blog?
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Revelstoke Capital Partners has held a final closing of Revelstoke Capital Partners Fund II LP (RCP Fund II) and Revelstoke Single Asset Fund I LP (RSAF I).
RCP Fund II, which had an original target of $500 million, was oversubscribed and closed at its hard cap with $714 million of commitments.
RSAF I is a special purpose vehicle formed to purchase Upstream Rehabilitation from Revelstoke's first fund which acquired the company in December 2015. Upstream is a Birmingham, Alabama-based provider of outpatient physical therapy services with a network of 746 clinics across 27 states. At the time of Revelstoke's original investment, Upstream had 300 clinics across 23 states. RSAF I was also oversubscribed and closed with $660 million of commitments.
Revelstoke's investment team is led by co-founder and managing partner Simon Bachleda, managing partner Russell Cassella, and partners Eric Shuey and Andrew Welch.
"We appreciate the tremendous support from our existing and new limited partners, and we are pleased that our global investor base has expanded to include a broad group of financial institutions, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and pension funds," said Mr. Cassella.
Revelstoke's earlier funds, Revelstoke Capital Partners Fund I LP and Revelstoke Capital Partners Co-Investment Fund I LP, the first institutional funds raised by the firm, closed in November 2015 with more than $300 million in capital.
Denver-based Revelstoke invests from $10 million to $250 million in companies that have at least $5 million of EBITDA. Sectors of interest include healthcare and related business services sectors. Since the firm's inception in mid-2013, it has invested in 17 platform companies and completed 48 add-on acquisitions.
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Drives this breathtaking did not come easy. Cruising down Montana's scenic highways, it's easy to forget that traveling from here to there once was a genuine adventure. The state's major routes evolved from ancient Native American trails into four-lane expressways in a little over a century. That story is one of difficult, groundbreaking and sometimes poor engineering decisions, as well as a desire to make a journey faster, safer and more comfortable. It all started in 1860, when John Mullan hacked a wagon road over the formidable Rocky Mountains to Fort Benton. It continued until the last section of interstate highway opened to traffic in 1988. Montana Department of Transportation historian Jon Axline charts a road trip through the colorful and inspiring history of trails, roads and superhighways in Big Sky Country.
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