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Jade Griffin
Scholarship Connects Hollywood Actor with Budding UC San Diego Talent
With dreams of seeing his name in lights on Broadway, UC San Diego theatre and dance major Brian Bose was astonished to learn that he had received the James Avery Scholarship to help support his educational studies at UC San Diego. The fund was established by UC San Diego alumnus and acclaimed actor and poet, James Avery '76.
"James Avery is an actor who I've respected since I was a kid," said Bose. "I was thrilled to get this scholarship."
A scholarship recipient himself, Avery earned his bachelor's degree in drama and literature from UC San Diego after serving in the U.S. Navy in Vietnam. Avery went on to forge a thriving career in Hollywood, with roles in dozens of films and television shows, including his beloved portrayal as Uncle Phil on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
"The gift of success obligates one to give back," said Avery. "I have been blessed with success and that is why there is a James Avery Scholarship at UCSD. Education should be accessible to all and scholarships help make this happen."
Not only does Bose admire the work of the Hollywood actor and fellow Triton, he is grateful for Avery's generosity in giving back to help the next generation. "There are many students who have no idea how they will pay for college," said Bose. "For students like me, receiving a scholarship to help pay for a university education is amazing."
As part of Hearts and Scholars, an annual dinner hosted by the UC San Diego Undergraduate Scholarship Council on Feb. 16, Bose and another student from the theatre department showcased their talents as part of a "Readers' Theatre." They gave a special presentation and shared excerpts from fellow scholarship recipients' writings of their hopes, trials, victories and gratitude to an audience of donors, students and friends. "We hoped to inspire those in attendance to continue to support students like us. We do need scholarships," Bose continued, "now more than ever."
With less than 8 percent of the campus's operating budget coming from the State of California, private support is increasingly critical to ensuring that a world-class UC San Diego education remains accessible to students from all backgrounds.
With scholarship support, Bose has made the most of his college experience, keeping busy academically and in campus productions. In his first quarter on campus, Bose had the rare opportunity to perform in a graduate production of "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," which earned glowing reviews for chronicling the pains of racism and discrimination. Currently, he is in the undergraduate production "Wintertime," as well as the undergraduate dance production, "Winterworks." Very soon, he will travel to New York to read for a musical at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem.
"I've learned that life brings you to places you never expect," said Bose, who dreams of winning a Tony Award as an actor on Broadway. "It's pretty incredible to be asked to read for a musical at the world-famous Apollo."
With big plans for his future, Bose will not forget about the generous individuals—like Avery—who have helped him along the way. "I want to do what I love and be able give back," he said. "We have the opportunity of building our society by giving to people who are learning. Students are the leaders and innovators of the future."
To learn more about supporting students at UC San Diego—like Brian Bose—please visit www.InventtheFuture.ucsd.edu.


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Women, travelling and later life
Sarah Falcus, Katsura Sako
Department of History, English, Linguistics and Music
Stylistics Research Centre
Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism: Harleys and Hormones
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
10.1057/9781137376534Licence: Other
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S.J.Falcus@hud.ac.uk
Department of History, English, Linguistics and Music - Reader
Stylistics Research Centre - Member
Centre for International Contemporary Poetry - Member
Falcus, S., & Sako, K. (2014). Women, travelling and later life. In Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism: Harleys and Hormones (pp. 203-218). Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137376534
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"My goal [is] to elevate American men in a global world of fashion,"Joseph Abboud said one recent steamy summer afternoon. And by all accounts the fashion icon and designer has done just that. His brand, Joseph Abboud, marked its 30th year in the fashion industry in January.
But, if you think Mr. Abboud's lifetime in fashion has always been an easy road, it hasn't. In 2000, he sold his trade marks to a private equity firm, which meant he lost control over the label that bore his name. He was reunited with his namesake brand in August 2013 when Tailored Brands Inc. (then Men's Wearhouse) acquired JA Holding Inc. Two years later he opened his flagship store, an elegant 4,300 square foot menswear emporium on ultra exclusive Madison Avenue in New York City.
I sat down with a gracious, warm Mr. Abboud in his flagship store before his photo shoot for this magazine. We talked about his life in fashion, the importance of dressing well in today's hyper casual world, and what it takes to succeed in the fashion business. Over the course of our conversation, I couldn't shake the feeling that he was taking a victory lap in life as only a man who has overcome so many obstacles could do. That, and it felt like his advice was as much a treaty on how to live a good life as it was about fashion.
Leif: First of all, 30 years of the Joseph Abboud brand. Congratulations! How does that feel?
JA: Thank you so much. Sometimes it seems like a minute, and sometimes it feels like a lifetime. It's been an adventure! I've enjoyed the process [and] always said no one goes through life undefeated. There are moments when you find challenges are really tough and have to find the inner strength to move beyond them.
Leif: Tell us how your brand has evolved over the last 30 years.
JA: When I created the brand, we coined the new phrase "modern American." At that time, there were the traditional preppy brands and there were the Euro brands. So most American men, looked like they were still in university. Now, we've got new generations of young guys discovering our brand.
Leif: That must be interesting to watch because Millenials approach things so differently.
JA: And so FAST. And the great thing about the Millennials is that they've now discovered that dressing up is fun. The young guy is going out, buying suits because he wants to, not because he has to. I haven't seen the men's wear industry this exciting since the early 70s.
Leif: Are you saying that the suit is back?
JA: The suit never left. Really what's happened is, in the 60s and 70s, it was the uniform. Now the suit is really a lifestyle piece. So a guy might go out on a Saturday night and take his gray flannel suit and wear it with a black turtleneck. All of sudden he's James Bond.
JA: Right. When a guy walks in with a well-tailored suit, and the right shirt and tie, you get the whole image. That's what men's wear is about. The guy has to look like he belongs to his clothes.
Leif: What are the essentials every man should have in his closet?
JA: I think about the five easy pieces: The navy suit, the gray suit, the navy blazer, the white shirt, and the perfect leather jacket. Those pieces will cover you in just about any occasion. Then you build your wardrobe around that by adding versatile pieces [that work in more than one] season.
Leif: Where do you find inspiration for your designs?
JA: The inspirations the fun part, because it can be anywhere. It can be a beach in Nantucket, a trip to Tokyo, or in the Highlands of Scotland. I've never worried about having a good idea. I've always worried, can I execute it?
Leif: What are some of the broad trends that you are paying attention to in 2017?
JA: The uniform is gone, so that trend is individual style, that's why the custom business is so important. Our custom business is extremely healthy. That factory in Massachusetts, where we have 750 people, we make about a thousand custom suits a week. It's more democratic, it used to be that it was for the uber-elite to make custom suits, but now it's available to a lot of guys at more price points.
Leif: What do you look for in the young designers that you hire?
JA: A lot of designers would look at a young designer's portfolio, and if it didn't mirror what the designer wanted for his or her company, they wouldn't hire those people. I've always looked at their thought process. Because basically designing is problem-solving.
Leif: Outside of fashion, who or what currently inspires you?
JA: I'm in love with Turner Classic Movies. Because the black and white films, especially some of the Alfred Hitchcock films, there's such an elegance to it. Getting dressed in a tuxedo to go to dinner, I love that. There's a romance to it.
Leif: What advice would you have for say, a young high school kid who maybe is interested in fashion but doesn't quite know how to get into the field?
JA: I've always said to the students, you have to get a job at retail first. Learn where the battles won or lost. Go to Bloomingdale's or Nordstrom's or one of our Men's Warehouse stores, and work for a while and understand what it's like when the customer meets the retailer. If you're going to be successful, you have to design for the consumer.
Leif: What about a young designer who has done that and is now coming out of a school and approaching, say, a Joseph Abboud?
JA: Whenever I can I interview young designers out of schools. It comes back to being practical about your designs. When I worked for Ralph Lauren, I designed for Ralph Lauren. As long as I am working at Ralph Lauren it's not about Joseph Abboud. I'm working for Ralph and my goal every day is to design what I think he would want and present it to him.
Leif: Thank you for your time and congratulations again on all your success!
JA: My pleasure. And, you guys [who wear our brand] are my heroes because you make us successful.


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Chevron Hit by Record Fine for Richmond Refinery Fire
By Wolf Richter - Feb 02, 2013, 6:00 PM CST
The California Division of Occupational Safety & Health just slammed Chevron (NZSE: CVX) with massive, record-breaking penalties related to the refinery in Richmond, California—the one that ended up in a fireball last August.
It started when a severely corroded pipe began leaking. Rather than shutting down the unit to fix it properly—and forgoing some revenues—managers decided to rig it. So they told workers to remove the insulation. It might have sounded like a good idea at the time. But it didn't help. Not at all. The pipe ruptured, and mayhem broke out. The people in Richmond were told to stay indoors and keep their doors and windows closed. A reported 15,000 people sought treatment after inhaling the toxic airborne gunk. And gas prices jumped....
Cal/OSHA investigated, and now it broadsided Chevron with 23 citations for "serious" violations—serious "due to the realistic possibility of worker injuries and deaths in the fire." Of these violations, 11 were also classified "willful" because "Chevron did not take reasonable actions to eliminate refinery conditions that it knew posed hazards to employees, and because it intentionally and knowingly failed to comply with state safety standards."
One of the "willful serious" violations: "Investigators identified leaks in pipes that Chevron had clamped as a temporary fix. In some cases the clamps remained in place for years," and the pipes were never replaced. More generally, Cal/OSHA determined that Chevron:
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Did not follow the recommendations of its own inspectors and metallurgical scientists to replace the corroded pipe that ultimately ruptured and caused the fire. Those recommendations dated back to 2002.
Did not follow its own emergency shutdown procedures when the leak was identified, and did not protect its employees and employees of Brand Scaffolding who were working at the leak site.
To punish Chevron and teach the mega-company an excruciatingly painful lesson, Cal/OSHA whacked it forcefully with the largest penalty it had ever imposed, and "the highest allowed under state law": 963,200 dollars and no cents.
Chevron isn't ready just yet to throw in the towel. That would be against its corporate warrior spirit. It would appeal. "Although we acknowledge that we failed to live up to our own expectations in this incident," Chevron said soothingly in a statement, "we do not agree with several of the Cal/OSHA findings and its characterization of some of the alleged violations as 'willful.'"
Chevron will get over it. The fine, if it is ever paid, won't even be a rounding error on the income statement. It certainly won't impact executive compensation. The refinery, which used to process 245,000 barrels of crude oil a day, will be all fixed up and ready to go again by the end of March. Eventually, Chevron will be able to brush off its remaining legal issues related to the fire. And the other two Cal/OSHA investigations—one into Chevron's El Segundo refinery near LA and the other into its Lost Hills oilfield near Bakersfield? The company will handle them—and whatever deterrent value they should have—with its usual aplomb.
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But in other places, Chevron wasn't so lucky. The same day, an appeals court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, upheld a freeze on up to $19 billion in Chevron assets. Targeted are two of its subsidiaries there, Chevron Argentina and Ing. Norberto Priu—which are worth only about $2 billion. The aftermath of a 20-year legal battle in Ecuador where Texaco, which Chevron later acquired, was accused of contaminating the rainforest in the Amazon watershed for nearly 30 years, sickening tribal people and farmers. Chevron has been fighting back with all its might, refusing to make payments, and counter-accusing the Ecuadorian court of "judicial fraud." Allegations and admissions of bribes are swirling wildly. It's a mess.
Chevron pulled up its stakes in Ecuador long ago, so plaintiffs are chasing down whatever they can find within reach elsewhere. The company, after years of fighting it, isn't going to kneel down suddenly. Instead, it would "pursue all available legal remedies to reverse the interim measure." But if that judgment does eventually trickle down to the income statement—as an analyst-ignored non-cash adjustment, of course—it might be more than just a rounding error.
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Greg Nixon on February 04 2013 said:
I can confirm that CAL/OSHA findings are correct. I worked at the Richmond refinery outside of San Francisco for 3 years. Chevron did clamp pipe. Chevron did ignore the findings and recommendations of its X-ray crews. Chevron often did not take advantage of shutdowns to replace clamped pipe.
Chevron did not clean their refinery properly. Platforms had debris on them and the whole refinery was strewn with trash so much so that it would serve as fuel in a serious fire or drain blockages in heavy rains. When insulation or covers were removed they often were not replaced. I seldom witnessed any of Chevron inspectors outside their offices to ensure these conditions were rectified.
Cudos to Chevron for detecting corrosion - five crews using x-ray and ultrasound were employed finding corrosion. However the follow up was not altogether satisfactory.
Richmond is a very old refinery and fixes are expensive but CAL/OSHA has it right. Sorry Chevron.


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We had clearly outgrown our name and in 2011 we changed it to Ocean Marine Services to create a platform for the spectrum of projects we are now undertaking.
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Real estate developer Hagag Development Europe, part of Hagag Group Israel, starts construction works for its first office project in Bucharest: H Victoriei 109. Over eight million Euro will be invested in consolidating and remodeling the building.
Located in the centre of Bucharest, on 109 Calea Victoriei, the edifice will preserve its previous destination, being dedicated to the office segment. The building benefits from GBA 7,300 square meters, GLA 6,000 square metres, and the height regime will be maintained at G+7.
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Born in New York, NY, on December 21, 1948 printmaker Anita Toney earned a BFA at Syracuse University in 1970, and a MA in 1977 at San Francisco State University. The artist lives and works in Fairfax, CA and has taught printmaking at City College of San Francisco since 1979. She currently teaches classes at the Fort Mason Campus as part of their art program.
Most recently her etchings have been included in 3 Bay Areaprintmaking shows: Anita Toney/ Diane Johnson at the Emeritus Center, College of Marin, California Etchers Currents at Diablo Valley College and Paper & Pressure, A Printmaker's Pop-Up in San Francisco. In 2015, her work was featured at the Gallatin River Gallery, The Earth & Sky XV in Big Sky, Montana. Anita has participated in SF Open Studio with the Bay Area Printmakers. Locally she has shown her etchings in Marinscapes in Larkspur, CA and West Marin Wild in Pt. Reyes CA.
In 2003, she was a featured artist with her father, noted painter, Anthony Toney, in a Father/Daughter Retrospective at the College of Marin, CA and was included in Landscape Real and Ideal at the Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum of California.
Galleries that carry her etchings include the Nancy Dodds Gallery in Carmel, CA, the Images Gallery in Briarcliff, NY, the Gallatin River Gallery in Big Sky, MT, and the Andrea Schwartz Gallery in San Francisco.
Her work has also been included in exhibitions at the City Arts Gallery of City College of San Francisco, Editions Limited Gallery in Indianapolis, IN, as well as at Le Celle Gallery, San Anselmo, CA, Juniper Gallery, Napa, CA, the Rasmussen Art Gallery, Angwin, CA, and Nardin Fine Arts, Cross River, NY. Anita has been a recipient of the Leo Meissner Prize from the National Academy and the American Arts Award from the Audubon Artists. She has been a member of the National Academy in NYC since 1995.
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In this paper, the necessity of emotional considerations in the context of Universal Design is treated. To work out an alternative approach how to integrate emotional aspects in product design processes, we look at quality of life models to locate emotional design in Universal Design research. Based on identified challenges such as complexity, interdisciplinarity, vagueness or subjectivity we present a way to consider emotional impressions by integrating resources from other disciplines. Hence we introduce ACADE - an Application for Computer Aided Design of Emotional impressions.
Kett, S., & Wartzack, S. (2016). Considering Emotional impressions in Product Design: Quality of Life Theory and its impact on Design Strategy. In Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad, Skec Stanko (Eds.), Proceedings of the DESIGN 2016 14th International Design Conference (pp. 1719-1728). Dubrovnik, HR.
Kett, Susan, and Sandro Wartzack. "Considering Emotional impressions in Product Design: Quality of Life Theory and its impact on Design Strategy." Proceedings of the 14th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik Ed. Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad, Skec Stanko, 2016. 1719-1728.


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Учествовало је 8 најбоље пласираних репрезентација са Олимпијских игара 1992.. које су биле подељене у две групе по четири. По две првопласиране екипе су се пласирале у полуфинале, а остале су играле утакмице за пласман од 5. до 8. места.

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New guidebook to the Derwent Valley Heritage Way
The Derwent Valley Heritage Way was opened by the previous Duke of Devonshire in April 2003. It was conceived by the Derwent Valley Trust and supported by the local authorities and various businesses and other bodies in the area. The Way is a 55 mile footpath from Ladybower Reservoir along the River Derwent to its confluence with the River Trent at Shardlow. It is traverses open countryside, small villages and towns and the City of Derby. It passes through the Chatsworth Estate and the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site as well as passing many other museums, sites of interest and places to distract the walker.
A guidebook was published to coincide with the opening but has been out of print for several years now. This new edition has been updated and has new maps from Ordnance Survey at 1:2500 scale with photographs to support the text. The route is described in detail along with the things to look out for on the way and includes details of accommodation and public transport links. It has been supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in association with DerwentWise.
The route is described in 10 sections, each of between about 5 and 8 miles. These can be walked independently making use of public transport or linked together as desired. The guide is a handy size of approximately 23cm x 13cm with 96 pages in full colour. It costs £12.50 including postage and can be ordered through the Trust's web site at http://www.nationalheritagecorridor.org.uk.
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In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
Beginning September 29, 2018 and running through June 8, 2019, The Tibbits Classic Film Series returns with one double feature each month.
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Admission to the classic film series is FREE, donations are accepted. Concessions will be available for purchase.
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Meeting of June 3: Discussion at the meeting addressed potential recipients for donations from our Youth Fund. The main criteria are for the uses to be youth oriented, and to be relevant to the Northridge area. The objective is to evaluate potential recipients and spend the money rather than letting it accumulate. It was suggested that some preference be given to smaller, less well funded organizations that might receive more impact from the amounts that we would be able to donate. It was decided that before making selections the Finance Committee should meet and formulate an overall budget. They will then make a recommendation on how much can be transferred from the golf outing income account to the Youth Fund, which would then be available for these donations. The Finance Committee will meet on Tuesday June 17, after the regular club meeting.


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\section{Introduction}

\IEEEPARstart{M}{ulti}-Target Multi-Camera (MTMC) vehicle tracking is
essential for applications of video-based Intelligent Transportation Systems.
MTMC tracking aims to localize and identify multiple targets throughout videos recorded by several cameras. The lack of appropriate publicly available datasets hindered the research in the task, however, the interest in it has grown since the release of the MTMC CityFlow benchmark \cite{tang2019cityflow}.

The lack of diverse benchmarks also entails that top approaches are strongly adapted to the scarce validation scenarios. The proposals in \cite{chen2019multi,hsu2019multi,ye2021robust,yang2021tracklet,ren2021multi,liu2021city} manually define both entry/exit areas and motion patterns of the vehicles. This set of
a-priori assumptions may not be correct nor generalizable to unseen scenarios. Other proposals \cite{hsu2019multi,Hou2019,he2019multi,qian2020electricity,chang2019ai,ye2021robust,li2021multi,yang2021tracklet,ren2021multi,shim2021multi,chen2019multi,wu2019multiview,tan2019multi} compute ad-hoc distance thresholds (such as spatial, temporal and/or between appearance features), whose values are heuristically set using validation data. Albeit useful to filter undesired vehicles and false trajectories, these strategies exhibit major limitations for unseen data. Instead of handling all the cameras at once, the common tren in MTMC tracking \cite{ye2021robust,ren2021multi,tan2019multi} is to address the multi-camera problem by solving a sequence of de-coupled pairwise matching sub-tasks, i.e., analyzing pairs of cameras independently. This sequential processing may yield local optimum solutions rather than a global one \cite{phillips2019all}.

\begin{figure*}
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{overview_simple.pdf}}
\caption{\textcolor{black}{The densely connected graph modeling all the possible associations is pruned by the GCN by edge classification. Connected Components (CCs) created on the resulting graphs are further refined to extract MC trajectories.  \vspace{-4 em} \label{fig:overview}}}
\end{figure*}

\begin{figure}
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.35\textwidth]{graph_ini.pdf}}
\caption{\textcolor{black}{Example of two nodes and edge initialization. \label{fig:graph_ini}}}
\end{figure}

The vast majority of the State of the Art (SOTA) proposals are offline  approaches \cite{ye2021robust,yang2021tracklet,ren2021multi,liu2021city,chen2019multi,li2021multi,shim2021multi,wu2019multiview,tan2019multi}, as global tracking optimization is prone to result in better performance than a frame-by-frame analysis. The offline proposals often follow a similar two-stage strategy: (1) computing Single Camera (SC) vehicle trajectories, and (2) performing cross-camera association to obtain the global Multi-Camera (MC) vehicle trajectories. Associating SC trajectories is a challenging task due to light changes, occlusions, and variations in vehicles' poses and appearances from different viewpoints.
For this reason, Re-Identification (ReID) features are widely used to get appearance embeddings  for estimating visual similarities. Some approaches \cite{li2021multi,ren2021multi,chen2019multi,hsu2019multi,Hou2019} associate trajectories based on thresholding such distances. Others find the optimal assignment by employing either the Hungarian algorithm \cite{shim2021multi,tan2019multi,ye2021robust}, or hierarchical clustering \cite{liu2021city,he2019multi}. Moreover, all these approaches apply ad-hoc constraints, such as spatial, temporal, direction, and velocity fixed thresholds to filter out trajectories associations.

In another vein, some traditional graph-based approaches, where each SC trajectory is assigned to a node, have been proposed \cite{wu2019multiview,quach2021dyglip}.
An iterative Graph Matching Solver (GMS) was proposed at different levels  \cite{wu2019multiview}, where the graph is iteratively processed as a clique finding problem. Moreover, a dynamic graph can be created and expanded frame-by-frame \cite{quach2021dyglip}. To this aim, a multi-head Graph ATtention network (GAT), a type of Graph Neural Network (GNN), was trained to capture structural and temporal variations across time.

The main motivation behind GNNs is to extend Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which have proven their effectiveness in regular Euclidean data, e.g., images, to a non-Euclidean domain, such as graphs.
Furthermore, a core assumption of existing machine learning algorithms is that instances are independent of each other, which no longer holds for graph data \cite{wu2020comprehensive}. Thus, GNNs are able to model and exploit the relationships among the inputs, i.e., nodes.

Imbalance Data Problems (IDPs) are defined by long-tailed data distributions that may decrease the learning performance of low-populated classes \cite{oksuz2020imbalance,escudero2022ccl}.
To tackle IDPs, some approaches weight the samples during training to reinforce the learning of minority classes. These weights used in the mini-batch loss, are commonly defined by the inverse classes' frequency \cite{huang2016learning, wang2017learning} within the complete training set.
Although being subjected to similar effects, IDPs for GNNs have been seldom explored. The few strategies include alternative sampling for node classification \cite{liu2021pick}, loss re-weighting \cite{wang2021tackling}, and conditional adversarial training for graph clustering \cite{shi2020multi}.

To address all these challenges, this letter proposes an offline two-stages MTMC vehicle tracking approach based on GNNs. Firstly, the SC vehicle trajectories are computed, and, secondly, the cross-camera association is performed. We train a spatial Graph Convolutional Network (GCN), a type of GNN, to perform edge classification over a graph where each node represents a SC trajectory.

The proposed approach is more versatile\textemdash not customized to the target scenario, than the SOTA as we: (1) provide a global solution for the entire sequence without imposing camera synchronization constraints, (2) do not set any threshold nor analysis area, and (3) handle IDPs by a novel dynamical batch-wise weighted loss function.

\section{Proposed Approach \label{sec:method}}

Given a scenario simultaneously recorded by $M$ cameras, let $\mathcal{O}=\left\{ o_i, \; i\in [1,O]\right\}$ be the set of vehicles in the scenario, where $o_i$ may be recorded by a single or multiple cameras, and $O$ the total number of distinct identities. Our proposal is intended for real scenarios, therefore, the synchronization of the cameras is not a requirement. \textcolor{black}{Overall, it aims to get a global trajectory for each existing vehicle by pruning a graph via edge classification with a GCN (Figure \ref{fig:overview})}.

\paragraph*{SC trajectories} SC trackers output sets of time-ordered bounding box images (BBs). For each SC trajectory, we feed the set of BBs to a ReID CNN, and then, average all the obtained feature embeddings to get a feature descriptor of the SC trajectory \textcolor{black}{(see Figure \ref{fig:graph_ini})}.
Each SC trajectory is defined as $\mathcal{T}_{n,m}= \left\{\textbf{f}_n, c_{m}\right\}, n \in [1,N], m \in [1, M]$, being $c_m$ the camera, $\textbf{f}_n$ the feature descriptor, and $N$ the total number of SC trajectories.

\paragraph*{Cross-camera  association}
We train a GCN \cite{wu2020comprehensive} to determine the nodes' representations/states. For each node, a  graph convolutional layer encapsulates its hidden state by aggregating its own and neighbors' representations. If several layers are stacked, i.e., the aggregation is sequentially performed, each node gathers information from farther nodes. The final node state is used for classification. Since we perform edge classification, we extend this approach also to edge-level, so the final state of each edge is also computed by aggregating neighboring information.

\paragraph*{Graph definition and initialization}
Let us define a graph $G=(V,E)$, where each node $v_i \in V$ denotes each SC trajectory $\mathcal{T}_{n,m}$, and let $E$ be the set of edges connecting pairs of nodes as follows:
 \begin{equation} \label{Eq-1}
 E=\left\{\left(v_{i}, v_{j}\right), c_i \neq c_j, \; i,j \in [1,M] \right\}.
 \end{equation}
Note that nodes under the same camera are not connected among them.

All nodes and edges are initialized with their initial state embeddings. The initial node embedding is defined as $h_{v_{i}}^{0} = \mathcal{E}_{v}( \textbf{f}_i)$, where $\textbf{f}_i$ is the feature descriptor of the SC trajectory associated to node $v_i$ and $\mathcal{E}_{v}$ is a Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) learnable encoder.

The initial edges embeddings encode the distance between the appearance descriptors of the nodes the edge is connecting. It is defined as:
\begin{equation}
h_{(v_{i},v_{j})}^{0} = \mathcal{E}_{e}([\; ||\; \textbf{f}_i ,  \textbf{f}_j\;||_2,\;  cos(\textbf{f}_i , \textbf{f}_j )]),
\end{equation}
where $[\cdot,\cdot]$  means concatenation, $ cos $ stands for cosine distance and $\mathcal{E}_{e}$ is a MLP learnable encoder. Both encoders, $\mathcal{E}_v$ and $\mathcal{E}_e$, aim to learn optimal embeddings for the target association task. \textcolor{black}{See Figure \ref{fig:graph_ini}}.

\paragraph*{Graph convolutions} Once the initial embeddings are extracted, the information has to be propagated. Similarly to \cite{braso2020learning,luna2022graph}, each hidden edge state is computed as a combination of the initial states of the edge, and of the nodes that the edge is connecting, $h_{(v_{i},v_{j})} = \mathcal{U}_e ([ h_{v_i}^{0}, h_{v_j}^{0}, h_{(v_i,v_j)}^{0}])$, where $\mathcal{U}_e$ is a MLP learnable encoder.

The choice of the node aggregation function may vary depending on the proposal \cite{zhou2020graph}. As defined in \cite{kipf2017}, we consider the summation as follows:
\begin{equation}
    h_{v_i} = \sum_{j\in \mathcal{N}(v_i)} m_{(v_i,v_j)},
\end{equation}
where $\mathcal{N}(\cdot)$ stands for the one-hop neighbourhood and $m_{(v_i,v_j)} = \mathcal{U}_v([ h_{v_i}^{0}, h_{(v_i,v_j)}])$, being $\mathcal{U}_v$ another MLP learnable encoder.

Since $G$ is densely connected (see Equation 1), we stack a single convolutional layer, i.e., we perform the aggregation once. This helps to avoid overfitting, since with just one layer, all nodes share information among them.

\paragraph*{Classifier}
Our final aim is to predict which edges in the graph are connecting nodes of the same vehicle identity (class 1), and which ones do not (class 0). For every edge $(v_i, v_j) \in E$, we compute the edge prediction $\hat{y}_{(v_i,v_j)}$ that provides the likelihood of the edge being connected, as $\hat{y}_{(v_i,v_j)} = \mathcal{C}(h_{(v_i,v_j)})$, where $\mathcal{C}$ is a MLP learnable classifier.

\paragraph*{Loss function}
We train our model to predict the following classes for each edge:
\begin{equation}
y_{(v_i, v_j)}=\left\{\begin{array}{ll}
1 & \exists \; o_{i} \in \mathcal{O} \; \textrm{ s.t. } \; v_i \in o_{i},  v_j \in o_{i} \\
0 & \textrm{ otherwise,}
\end{array}\right.
\end{equation}

Due to the intrinsic nature of $G$, and its high connectivity, this is a severe unbalanced problem, where $y_{(v_i, v_j)} = 1$ is a very minority class. Furthermore, due to the way we sample the data (see Section \ref{sec:abl-studies}), the inter-batch class imbalance distribution is quite variable. In order to strengthen the model to learn the minority class we perform a dynamic batch-wise sample weighting in the batch loss computation:

 \begin{equation}
 \mathcal{L}_{B}=\sum_{\left(v_{i}, v_{j}\right) \in E'}\frac{w_{y_{(v_i,v_j)}} \cdot\mathcal{L}_{CE}(\hat{y}_{(v_i,v_j)}, y_{(v_i,v_j)})}{\sum_{\left(v_{i}, v_{j}\right) \in E'}\; w_{y_{(v_i,v_j)}}},
 \end{equation}
 where $E' \in E$ is the set of edges in a training mini-batch and $w_{y_{(v_i,v_j)}}$ is the class weight,  computed online at batch-level, according to the class frequency, as follows:

\begin{equation}
w_{y_{(v_i, v_j)}}=
\begin{cases}
\frac{1}{freq(0)}=\frac{n_0+n_1}{n_0}, & y_{(v_i, v_j)} = 0\\
\frac{1}{freq(1)}=\frac{n_0+n_1}{n_1}, & y_{(v_i, v_j)} = 1,
\end{cases}
\end{equation}
 being $n_0$ and $n_1$ the number of samples, i.e., edges, from each class 0 and 1 in the batch. A dynamic batch-wise weight, although calculated differently, was also successfully applied in \cite{changbatch} to tackle the foreground-to-background space imbalance problem \cite{oksuz2020imbalance}.

 A False Positive (FP) predicted edge, may cause the merging of vehicles with different IDs. In order to explicitly penalize these mispredictions, we include a new term in the batch loss function:
  \begin{equation}
 \mathcal{L}_T= \mathcal{L}_B + FPR,\; \mathrm{being  }\; FPR=\frac{\mathrm{FP}}{\mathrm{FP}+\mathrm{TN}}. \label{Eq:loss}
 \end{equation}
TN stands for True Negative, i.e., edges correctly predicted as not connected. The FPR scores in [0,1]: the lower the less mispredictions.

\paragraph*{Inference and global trajectories generation}
To obtain the global MC vehicle trajectories in the target scenario, we firstly extract the SC trajectories to create $G$ and, secondly, compute $\hat{y}_{(v_i,v_j)}$, as described previously, inferencing the previously trained GCN model. As we train a multi-class classification task, we avoid thresholding $\hat{y}_{(v_i,v_j)}$ and only conserve the edges whose probability for class 1 is higher, suppressing all the rest. Finally, by computing the Connected Components (CCs) over $G$, we group the nodes into clusters of SC trajectories. All the SC trajectories in the same component/cluster, compose a global MC vehicle trajectory. Since the number of cameras $M$ is known, it is reasonable to assume some constraints in the clusters computation, such as the maximum size of the cluster, which should be, at most, $M$ SC trajectories. To this aim, we follow the clusters refinement strategies defined in \cite{luna2022graph}.

 \section{Experiments}
\subsection{Evaluation Framework: Datasets and Metrics}
We use the CityFlow benchmark \cite{tang2019cityflow}, considering the training (S01, S03 and S04) and validation (S02) scenarios. S01, S03 and S04 comprise 184 IDs, 36 cameras and 32000 frames in total. S02 is composed of 4 cameras with partially overlapped fields-of-view (FoVs), consisting of 145 IDs along 8440 frames (2110 per camera). Note there is no data overlapping between the training and validation sets.

The CityFlow Ground-Truth (GT) contains the bounding boxes of all the vehicles seen at least by two cameras, labeled with global IDs. The CityFlow evaluation benchmark adopts the metrics: Identification Precision ($IDP$), Identification Recall ($IDR$), and F1 Score ($IDF_1$) \cite{ristani2016performance}. Since SC trajectories are not considered, the metrics are computed only over the MC trajectories.

\begin{table}
\small
\begin{center}

\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.1}
\caption{\textcolor{black}{Specification of each learnable encoder, graph convolutional layer, and the classifier of the network.\vspace{-1 em} \label{tab:sizes-fc}}}

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\multirow{4}{*}{\rotatebox{90}{$\mathcal{E}_v$}} & 0  & FC + ReLU &  2048 & 1024\tabularnewline
& 1 & FC + ReLU &  1024 & 512\tabularnewline
& 2 & FC + ReLU &  512 & 128\tabularnewline
& 3
& FC + ReLU &  128 & 32\tabularnewline
\hdashline\multirow{2}{*}{\rotatebox{90}{$\mathcal{E}_e$}} & 0  & FC + ReLU &  2 & 4\tabularnewline
& 1 & FC + ReLU &  4 & 4\tabularnewline
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\rotatebox{90}{$\mathcal{U}_v$} & 0  & FC + ReLU &  36 & 32 \tabularnewline
\hdashline\rotatebox{90}{$\mathcal{U}_e$} & 0  & FC + ReLU &  68 & 4 \tabularnewline
\hdashline\rotatebox{90}{$\mathcal{C}$} & 0  & FC + Softmax &  4 & 2\tabularnewline

\hline

\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\subsection{Implementation Details}
Since we tackle MC tracking by associating SC trajectories, we rely on SOTA approaches for object detection, SC tracking and ReID feature extraction. Regarding object detection and SC tracking, to perform a fair comparison, we use the same combination as the top approach in CityFlow (SSD object detector \cite{liu2016ssd} + TNT tracker \cite{wang2019exploit}). We do not have any ReID requirement so we infer ReID 2048-d appearance vectors $\textbf{f}_n$ with the model provided by \cite{liu2021city} using ResNet-101 as backbone and trained using the training set of the CityFlow benchmark. \textcolor{black}{The GCN architecture (specified in Table \ref{tab:sizes-fc}) has 2.7M parameters being signficantly lower than that of the ReID model (44.76M) }. To reduce overfitting during training, we adopt color jitter, random erasing and, at SC trajectory level, random horizontal flip data augmentation. The initial learning rate is set to 0.01 and the Batch Size (BS) is set to 100. To minimize Equation \ref{Eq:loss} and optimize the network parameters, we adopt the SGD solver. To avoid training-from-scratch early instabilities, a linear warmup strategy \cite{goyal2017accurate} (5 epochs) is used. We train for 100 epochs decaying the loss at epoch 50. It has been implemented using Pytorch Geometric framework, running on a TITAN RTX 24GB GPU. \textcolor{black}{The inference of S02 takes $201.67\pm0.46$ secs. (59.89\% ReID CNN + 0.39\% GCN + 39.72\% refinement)}.

\subsection{Ablation studies \label{sec:abl-studies}}

\begin{table}

\begin{center}
\caption{\label{tab:BS}Ablation study on the Batch Size (BS), using GT SC trajectories as input.\vspace{-1 em} }
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BS & $IDP\uparrow$  & $IDR\uparrow$ & $IDF_1\uparrow$  \\
 \hline
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16 & 79.51 & 11.37 & 19.90 \\
32 &  97.73 & 84.75 & 90.78 \\
64 &  99.07 & 98.67 & 98.87 \\
100 & 99.07 & 98.84 & 98.95 \\

\hline
\end{tabular}}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\textbf{Batch size.} In order to be independent on the selected detector-tracker pair, we employ GT SC trajectories as input. As the training data is sampled at ID level, BS=16 means that 16 vehicle IDs are considered to build $G$. For every ID, a node is created for each camera view, thus, although the BS is fixed, the graph contains between BS and $M \times $ BS nodes.
In the light of Table \ref{tab:BS}, we discard BS=16 as it ends up in a local far-from-optimum minimum. BS of 64 and 100 yield both accurate and similar performances, discouraging the use of larger BS, that are, in any case, unattainable by our hardware setup.

\begin{table}

\begin{center}
\caption{\label{tab:Strategies-temp} Ablation study on the temporal threshold, in frames. Using as input SSD \cite{liu2016ssd} detector + TNT \cite{wang2019exploit} SC tracker. $|\cdot|$ stands for the cardinality of a set.\vspace{-1 em}}
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Temporal th. & $|E|$ & $IDP\uparrow$  & $IDR\uparrow$ & $IDF_1\uparrow$  \\
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 300 & 90,576  &  65.43 & 70.98  &  68.09  \\
 500 & 123,474  & 64.21 & 72.38  &  68.05  \\
 700 & 155,400 & 67.35 & 81.29  &  73.66  \\
 900 & 184,292   & 69.69 & 92.26 &  79.40 \\
 1100 & 236,068 & 70.92 & 92.02 & 80.10 \\
 \textbf{1300}  & \textbf{264,541}  & \textbf{73.04} & \textbf{92.05} & \textbf{81.45} \\
 1700 & 280,828 & 72.44 & 92.98 & 81.43  \\
2110 (full)   & 294,398  & 71.95 & 92.81 & 81.06 \\
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\textbf{Temporal thresholding.} As stated in Section \ref{sec:method}, for inference, $G$ considers all vehicles detected from all cameras along the whole sequence. It may seem reasonable that considering associations among vehicles' trajectories that are distant in time is unnecessary and computationally inefficient, and, thus, restricting the association temporarily would be appropriate. For this reason, we study the creation of a smaller temporally constrained graph that limits the possible associations among nodes. Table \ref{tab:Strategies-temp} shows the tracking performance with respect to different temporal thresholds. We can observe how the size of $G$ is reduced as the threshold is smaller, thus making its processing faster and lighter. However, the performance is drastically reduced when we temporally restrict by 300, 500, and even 700 frames (30, 50, and 70 secs.). The IDR reduction suggests that some associations are missed due to the temporal restriction. Since the cameras' FoVs partially overlap, one can extrapolate that cameras in CityFlow dataset might not be temporally synchronized (which, in fact, is true). Due to this large unsynchronization, and to avoid ad-hoc parametrizations, we discard the temporal thresholding. However, it may be useful for reducing complexity in quasi-synchronized scenarios, and, also, for processing long sequences.

\textbf{Training loss.} Table \ref{tab:Strategies-loss} ablates the loss terms proposals. Due to the huge class imbalance, differently weighting the contribution to the loss of the samples of each class is an essential requirement. In absence of the weighting strategy, the trained model failed to learn the minority class, thus, an edge-less graph is created; since the Cityflow evaluation only takes into account MC trajectories, no results can be provided (see Table \ref{tab:Strategies-loss}). The FPR penalization improves the performance for all BS. We can observe that the enhancement is greater for smaller BS.

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\caption{\label{tab:Strategies-loss} Ablation study on adding dynamic batch-wise weighting ($w$) and FPR to the final loss (\cite{liu2016ssd} detector + TNT \cite{wang2019exploit} SC tracker)}
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16 &  & &-& - & - & -   \\
16 &  & \checkmark & 53.88 & 28.48 & 37.26 & -   \\
\textbf{16} & \checkmark & \checkmark& \textbf{54.76} & \textbf{34.06} &  \textbf{41.99} & + 12.69 \% \\
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32 &  &  &-& - & - & -   \\
32 &  & \checkmark & 59.10 & 47.39 & 52.60 & -  \\
\textbf{32} & \checkmark & \checkmark & \textbf{67.42} & \textbf{59.80} & \textbf{63.38}  & + 20.49 \% \\
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64 &  &  &-& - & - & -   \\
64 &  & \checkmark & 69.91 & 92.36 &  79.39 & -  \\
64 &  \checkmark & \checkmark &  \textbf{71.63} &  \textbf{91.10} &  \textbf{80.80} & + 1.05 \%   \\
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100 &  & &-& - & - & -   \\
100 &  &  \checkmark & 71.35 & 92.08 & 80.40 & -  \\
\textbf{100} & \checkmark & \checkmark & \textbf{71.95} & \textbf{92.81}  & \textbf{81.06} &  + 0.82 \%\\

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\subsection{Comparison with SOTA}
 Table \ref{tab:results-SoA} compares our proposal with related SOTA (ordered by $IDF_1$) in S02. Results show that our proposal outperforms the top SOTA approaches while not requiring any ad-hoc parametrization. This differentiates from SOTA approaches requiring specific thresholds for spatial distance, time, features and/or velocity \cite{hsu2019multi,Hou2019,he2019multi,qian2020electricity,chang2019ai,luna2022online}, manual definition of areas \cite{hsu2019multi} or assumptions about the vehicles' paths \cite{qian2020electricity}.

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\caption{\label{tab:results-SoA}Comparison with the related SOTA. \vspace{-2 em} }
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& Object Detector & SCT & $IDP\uparrow$  & $IDR\uparrow$ & $IDF_1\uparrow$  \\
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Ours & SSD \cite{liu2016ssd} & TNT \cite{wang2019exploit} & 71.95 & \textbf{92.81} & \textbf{81.06} \\
UWIPL \cite{hsu2019multi}& SSD \cite{liu2016ssd} & TNT \cite{wang2019exploit} & 70.21 & 92.61 &79.87  \\
ANU  \cite{Hou2019}  & SSD \cite{liu2016ssd}  & custom \cite{Hou2019} & 67.53  & 81.99 & 74.06 \\
BUPT \cite{he2019multi} & FPN  \cite{lin2017feature} & custom \cite{he2019multi}  & \textbf{78.23} & 63.69 & 70.22\\
DyGLIP \cite{quach2021dyglip} & Mask-RCNN \cite{he2017mask} & DeepSORT \cite{wojke2017simple}  & -& - & 64.90 \\
Online-MTMC \cite{luna2022online} & EfficientDet \cite{tan2020efficientdet} & custom \cite{luna2022online}  & 55.15 & 76.98 & 64.26 \\
Online-MTMC \cite{luna2022online} & Mask-RCNN \cite{he2017mask} & custom \cite{luna2022online}  & 57.23 & 71.99 & 63.76 \\
ELECTRICITY \cite{qian2020electricity} & Mask-RCNN \cite{he2017mask} & DeepSORT \cite{wojke2017simple}  & - & - & 53.80 \\
NCCU \cite{chang2019ai}& FPN \cite{lin2017feature} & DaSiamRPN \cite{zhu2018distractor} & 48.91 & 43.35 & 45.97 \\
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\section{Conclusion}
The MTMC vehicle tracking SOTA is heavily guided by the CityFlow benchmark. Usually, the proposals in this scope are fully adapted, even tailored, to their scenarios. Due to all the types of ad-hoc parameterizations, these approaches cannot be extrapolated to other scenarios.  We firmly believe in making algorithms that are versatile for real setups, thus, we propose a not-parameterized approach, also robust to highly unsynchronized video streams. We process all the camera views at the same time, being robust to possible errors induced by pairwise processing, and we outperform the related SOTA.

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Justin Turner and his Positive COVID-19 Test
Posted on October 28, 2020 October 29, 2020 by ad6ab
Front Page of the LA Times Sports Page
Let's get the obvious out of the way. Justin Turner was wrong. Foolishly wrong. Stupid and unbecoming a sports role model. Turner endangered his teammates, coaches and support staff. He set a horrible example.
He blew it, big time!
He should not have celebrated on the field with his teammates after it was announced he tested positive for COVID-19.
On-Field celebrations
He should not have held up the trophy and passed it to others, He should not have run around the field and in the dugout embracing teammates and Dodger personnel. He should not have posed in a team photo with Dodger Manager Dave Roberts without a mask.
His singular postgame statement was wholly inadequate and tone-deaf:
"Thanks to everyone reaching out!" Turner tweeted after the game. "I feel great, no symptoms at all. Just experienced every emotion you can possibly imagine. Can't believe I couldn't be out there to celebrate with my guys! So proud of this team & unbelievably happy for the City of LA #WorldSeriesChamps."
The Dodgers won their first World Series Championship since 1988, last night and Dodger fans and others were celebrating the accomplishment and rightfully so. In the Top of the Eighth Inning, in the clinching Game 6 against the Tampa Bay Rays, news leaked out that Turner was missing from the lineup for some unknown reason.
Let's stipulate the following which is as close to the truth as we can ascertain to date:
Sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan "that in the second inning, the lab doing COVID-19 tests informed Major League Baseball that Turner's test from Monday came back inconclusive. Turner's test showed "some characteristics associated with a positive test, but the efforts to amplify the results by doctors running the tests did not say for certain."
"Inconclusive tests are relatively commonplace in coronavirus testing. There are no known cases of the league pulling players from games for inconclusive tests. Samples taken from Tuesday then arrived and were run, sources said, and they showed up positive. The league then immediately called the Dodgers and said to pull Turner. He was replaced in the field by Edwin Rios. "We learned during the game Justin tested positive, and he was immediately isolated to prevent spread," Manfred said."
So far, so good. I really don't have a problem with any of this explanation until the 8th Inning. What I have a problem with was what happened after.
One general manager texted: "A superspreader event on live TV. Welcome to 2020." A prominent player messaged: "what the f— is going on." Turner was apparently warned by security personnel on the field to leave the field and apparently, he emphatically refused to comply.
The failures in this incident were multiple and took place on live TV in front of millions of fans. So, what should have been done?
Major League Commissioner Rob Manfred should have gone in front of the cameras and called out Turner's behavior. He could have even noted that MLB had, for the most part, contained the virus after the initial hiccups at the start of the season. In time, he could offer to make a significant donation to COVID-19 relef.
Justin Turner should not have been on the field. Period, full stop! I am sorry that he was disappointed. I am sorry he didn't merit celebrating his team's accomplishment in the moment. That's the breaks, especially considering 227,000 Americans are dead and more than 8 Million persons are infected with COVID-19. He boorish behavior was an affront to all their memories and especially the memories of families that were denied the right to say good bye to their loved ones properly. Many of the deceased died alone and isolated in agony. His actions were an embarrassment and he should be held accountable for them.
Manager Dave Roberts is known as a players' manager and apparently beloved nearly across the board. His skill and enthusiasm were on display until 8:38 PM PDT last night, when the final out was recorded. After that he tried to have it both ways. He wanted to show support for Turner and yet, he had to know that Turner should not have been on that field, mask-less, with what was for many a deadly disease. He gave a rousing speech on being handed the Commissioners Trophy.
What if Roberts said the following: "I accept this trophy on behalf of our friend and teammate Justin. We're sorry you could not be on the field to celebrate with us. You did amazing things for us all year and we salute you. I hope I will be able to make it up to you sometime in the future but for now, for your health and for the health of everyone else involved, we will have to delay that public acknowledgement. We hope and pray for your speedy recovery. Get well soon, Justin. We love you."
Can you imagine how the story would be different if something like that could have happened? Justin Turner is by all accounts before last night a stand-up guy. He's loved in the clubhouse and by fans for his accomplishments (I still recall seeing his walk off home run in the NLCS in 2017 against the Cubs, the first Dodgers playoff walk off in 29 years (to the day!) since 1988 in Kirk Gibson's iconic World Series Home Run ("in a year that has been so improbable, the IMPOSSIBLE has happened," Vin Scully).
So what can Justin Turner do now to repair his tarnished reputation?
First of all, he should apologize. Heartfully. He should admit a temporary lapse of judgement. He should shout out the frontline heroes that are saving us during the pandemic like Doctors, Nurses, Fire Fighters and Police Officers and Teachers. He should make a MAJOR contribution of his World Series share to the dozens of organizations straining to provide COVID-19 relief. He should admit that he could have done better and encourage others to do the same, especially young kids for whom he is rightfully a role model. He should offer his condolences to the families in Los Angeles and around the world that have suffered during this pandemic both with the loss of life and the economic disaster afflicting 20 million Americans, many of those, in normal times, would be forking over big bucks to see his Dodgers play in Chavez Ravine. He should be contrite. If he really had balls, he'd take all the reporters' questions at this event and answer them truthfully and not defensively.
He screwed up and the longer it takes for him to make good, the harder it is going to be for him.
So start the repentance process today, Justin. I'll be waiting to see what you do next. Doing nothing is NOT an option!
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Q: Extra bytes are discarded when a packet > 512 bytes is received I began using QT not so long ago and I'm making a small network application. I got some kind of bytes limitation issue for the packet size I can receive.
Here is the code I use to read the bytes:
void client::readyRead()
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    QByteArray data;
    while(socket->bytesAvailable()){
        data.append(socket->readAll());
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    dataReceived(data);
    //emit dataToProcess(data);
}

It works fine, until I get a packet bigger than 512 Bytes. Once I pass that, the rest is not put in data and my program crashes. I used Wireshark and confirmed that the packet contains exactly 1024 Bytes and is not fragmented. From what I read here, the while loop should allow the program to read the whole packet.


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10 Ismaili Muslim Poets Everyone Should Know About — by Ismaili Gnostic on Ismaili Gnosis com
Posted by paderbornersj on December 6, 2015 December 6, 2015
Poetry is the voice of God speaking through the lips of man. If great painting puts you in touch with nature, great poetry puts you in direct touch with God. It is not a soft indulgence, you need to be wide awake, with all your wits about you, to share the poet's joys. And, indeed, happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living.
Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III,
(Interview with The Daily Sketch November 2, 1931)
As members of a rich and vibrant esoteric tradition of Islam, Ismaili Muslims has always emphasized intellectual exploration in matters of faith. The present and hereditary Imam of the Ismailis, Shah Karim al-Husayni Aga Khan IV, has often discussed the "interdependence of spiritual inspiration and learning" and said that "the widening of man's intellectual horizons [is] essentially (an) Islamic [concept]" (Mawlana Hazar Imam, Aga Khan University Speech, November 11, 1985). Throughout history, the Ismaili Imams and their murids have extended this intellectual search to the spiritual realm and the esoteric knowledge emanating from this search has been expressed in mystical, intellectual and doctrinal poetry.
Although poets like Rumi and Hafiz are better known in the West, many Ismaili poets are now being recognized for the literary titans that they are and their remarkable works are being revitalized. Even Ismaili murids today, such as Khayal Aly Dhanidina, Ikhwan Allani, Shaqiera Ladhu, and Aly Sunderji, have taken cues from the Ismaili poets of the past and continued this beautiful tradition. One of the most distinctive elements of Ismaili Muslim poetry is how it serves as an expression of intellectual depth, theological doctrine, and esoteric gnosis. Let us briefly look at 10 Ismaili poets that every Ismaili Muslim today should know about and be proud of:
1. Imam al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah (893-946)
Coin of Imam al-Qa'im bi amr Allah, 12th Imam of the Ismaili Muslims and 2nd Caliph of Fatimid Empire
Reverse: has a 5 line inscription in the centre field, which includes al-Imam al-Qa'im bi Amr Allah Amir al-Mu'minin. The inner marginal inscription provides the mint name and date, while the outer marginal inscription consists of verse 115 from Chapter 6 of the Holy Qur'an.
Obverse: has a 5 line inscription in the centre field, which includes the name Muhammad Abu'l-Qasim. The marginal inscription consists of verse 33 from Chapter 9 of the Holy Qur'an.
2. Imam 'Abd al-Salam (1476-1494)
The 33rd Ismaili Imam 'Abd al-Salam lived in Anjudan during a time of concealment or dawr al-satr. During this period, the Ismaili Imams outwardly posed as Sufi pirs and shaykhs to safeguard their lives and ensure the safety of the Ismailis. However, despite common misconception, this does not mean that he hid in a cave where no murid had any access to him. In fact, certain murids did indeed have physical access to the Imam and Imam 'Abd al-Salam was no exception. On the occasion of the ascension to Imamat of Imam 'Abd al-Salam, one of his murids with the pen name Salik commemorated the event in exultant poetry, declaring: "He's arrived! With healing breath like Christ, son of the saved Mary. Greetings unto him…Salutations, salutations, for this wonderful news, which arrives without doubt from the heavenly orb of the world of religion." (S. Virani, The Ismailis in the Middle Ages, 120).
3. Imam Shah Nizar II (1680-1772)
Imam Shah Khalil Allah was succeeded by his son Imam Shah Nizar (1680 – 1722), and this Imam moved the headquarters of the Imamat from Anjudan to the village of Kahak where one can still find his tombstone. A poem by Syrian Ismaili al-Hajj Khudr b. Yusuf, who journeyed to Kahak, illustrates his devotion to the Imam of his time, the fortieth Ismaili Imam Khudawand Nizar II: "O people of the House of God in his realm of angels, You have captured my longing, my desire; At your splendor all eyes gaze hearts overflow with your secret My path is your light…my eyes yearn only; For a vision of your beauty That all day long Naught else occupies my heart." (F. Daftary, The Ismailis – An Illustrated History, 171)
4. Ibn Hani al-Andalusi (d. 973)
Born in Andalusian Spain, Ibn Hani was renowned all over the Arab-speaking world for his poetry. Unfortunately, he was forced to leave his homeland for his intense devotion to the Ismaili Imams. Eventually becoming the Fatimid court poet, he wrote widely admired Arabic verses that captured doctrinal poetry with unique verve. Unfortunately he "died mysteriously, probably murdered by 'Abbasid or Umayyad agents." (See Faquir Hunzai, Shimmering Light, 23)
5. Prince Tamim al-Fatimi (948-984)
Eldest son of the 14th Ismaili Imam al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah and brother to the 15th Ismaili Imam al-'Aziz, Prince Tamim was a consummate poet and a devoted Ismaili. His verses are full of praise for his glorious spiritual and physical father – the Imam. However, as with the other Ismaili poets, his panegyric is not simply praise but is full of intellectual and doctrinal content. Here is an example of one such poem addressed to his father – the Imam al-Muizz – on the occasion of the festival of Nawruz:
6. Al-Mu'ayyad al-Shirazi (1000-1078)
A picture of one of Fatimid Cairo's famous gates, the Bab al-Nasr. These gates are also symbols for the Babs (gates) of the Imam, one of whom was al-Mu'ayyad al-Shirazi.
Among the most important intellectuals of the Fatimid Caliphate, al-Mu'ayyad al-Shirazi was called a "towering mountain of knowledge" by the Imam al-Mustansir who also announced Shirazi's exalted spiritual rank second only to the Imam himself: Bab al-Abwab (Gate of Gates), equal to the rank of Pir of the South Asian Ismaili tradition. The Imam himself praised the Fatimid Da'i Shirazi, saying: "Your like cannot be found among those that have gone —among all people—nor those that remain." (Tahera Qutbuddin, Al-Mu'ayyad al-Shirazi and Fatimid Da'wa Poetry – A Case of Commitment In Classical Arabic Literature, 78)
7. Nasir Khusraw (1004-1088)
In the tradition of the Ismaili Da'i polymaths before him, Nasir-i Khusraw was a master of many fields including philosophy, theology, poetry, and travel-writing. Most importantly, Nasir-i Khusraw became the Hujjat (proof) of the Imam in Khurasan – there are 24 Hujjats of the Imam spread throughout the world in every period of history. Raised in Khurasan, he describes his life as a wastrel living in dissipation until he experiences an epiphany in his forties. The epiphany leads him to give up a very lucrative court position to pursue existential truths all the way to the seat of the Fatimid Imams in Cairo where he learns at the feet of the great Fatimid intellectual al-Mu'ayyad al-Shirazi, of whom he would eventually become the most famous and exemplary student. While he reached the exalted spiritual rank of Hujjat ("proof" of the Imam) – two levels under the Imam among the ranks of religion (hudud al-din) – his house was burnt down and he was banished from preaching in his native Khurasan. Nasir lived out the rest of his life in exile in the village of Yumgan in modern day Afghanistan. (Faquir Hunzai, Shimmering Light), 51)
8. Nizari Quhistani (1247-1320)
Only ten years old when the Mongols massacred the vast swaths of Ismailis in his area, the Ismaili Da'i Nizari Quhistani grew up in a region where admitting to be Ismaili was like asking to be executed – his son was even arrested for "propagating the Ismaili faith"; thus, Nizari was reticent about admitting his faith publicly. However, his pen-name itself hinted at his religious affiliation and his poetry itself is full of allusions to his Nizari Ismaili identity and praise of the Ismaili Imam. Ivanow, the pioneer scholar in the study of Ismaili literature, noted that "only someone uninformed about Ismaili studies could even consider that the Dastur-nama was not written by a follower of Ismailism."
9. The Khurasani Klan: Khaki Khurasani (d. 1646) & Fida'i Khurasani (d. 1850-1923)
Khaki Khurasani lived during the Imamats of Imam Dhu'l Faqar 'Ali (1573-1634) and Imam Nur al-Din (1634-1671). Unlike other Ismaili poets, he openly proclaimed his Ismaili faith and, like many of them, was persecuted for it. He was even tortured. Not only did he continue to compose intellectual and doctrinal poetry ripe with Ismaili beliefs, but also his descendant Fida'i Khurasani continued this family tradition. Fida'i Khurasani lived at the time of Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah and traveled several times to meet the Imam, who then resided in India. Not just a poet, Fida'i Khurasani also authored books on Ismaili theology, law and history. Some of their poetry is quoted below:
10. Allamah Nasir al-Din Hunzai (b. 1917)
Dr. Allama Nasir Al-Din (Hubb-I 'Ali) Hunzai with President Rafiq Tarar of Pakistan after receiving. Sitarah-i-Imtiyaz.
Allamah Nasir (Hubb-i 'Ali) was born in 1917 in Hyderabad (Pakistan). A prolific poet and author of various works of Ismaili theology, he writes in Persian, Turkish, Urdu and even Burushaski. In 1948 Mawlana Sultan Mohammed Shah appointed a mu'min from Hunza, known as Fath Ali Khan Sahib, with the mision of establishing Jamat Khanas and schools in China. Fath Ali Khan Sahib was accompanied in this mission by Allamah Hunzai. Due to the religious and political tensions prevalent in the area, Allamah Hunzai was always in constant danger and later imprisoned and tortured for some time. After returned to Pakistan, he continued his services to the Jamat and composed poetry in the praise of the Imam of the Time and the Ahl al-Bayt. Allamah Hunzai wrote his first book in prose, "The Chain of the Light of Imamat" in 1957 and this began a long history of writing books. He moved to Karachi and joined the Ismailia Association in 1962. During the 1960's he established an institution known as Daru'l-Hikmat al-Ismailiyyah for the purpose of publishing his works. In reply to a submission to the Imam, he was sent a Taliqah blessing his new venture. This institution was later renamed as Danishghah-i Khanah-i Hikmat (DKH). Around the same time he also published some devotional poetry (written in his native language, Burushaski) submitted to Mawlana Hazar Imam who expressed his happiness for this service and referred to Hunzai's poetry as a "Ginan Book in the Hunza language." (Aga Khan, October 9, 1961)
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How can I add a wireframe look to assets when I look at them. I have a room right now. When I look around, let's say at a chair, I'm wanting to add a tron like wireframe to it. Then have it go away when I look elsewhere. I just have no idea where to start. Any help with a starting point? Thank you.
With some help this is what was made. Thanks for the help.
So, you would need to change the material, when you look at it.
Set material to "tron material"
Use tick with delta seconds. You could also try out dot product. Check out Math_Lab in Content Examples. That could probably be the easiest way for you, depends on exactly what you need. Check them both out and see which you like.
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