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This is the second part of Section 3 in "How We Test Software at Microsoft ". This is one of the chapters I have been most interested in reading (intrigued is possibly a more apt description). This chapter focuses on Test Automation, and specifically how Microsoft automates testing. Note, as in previous chapter reviews, Red Text means that the section in question is verbatim (or almost verbatim) as to what is printed in the actual book.
Chapter 10. Test Automation
Alan starts out this chapter with an explanation (and a re-assurance, in a way) that automation doesn't have to be such a scary thing. We've all done automation in one way, shape, form or another. If you have created or tweaked a batch file to run multiple commands, you have performed automation. When you do backups, or archive folders in Outlook, or create macros in Excel, you are creating automation. So at the core, most of us have already done the steps to automate things. Making a series of repeatable steps, however, is not really test automation. It's automation, to be sure, but test automation has a few more steps and some paradigms that are important to understand. More to the point, even with test automation, one size does not fit all, and different groups will use different processes to meet different needs.
The Value of Automation
Alan takes this debate straight-away, and acknowledges that this is a contentious issue. Alan ultimately comes down on the side of the fact that testers are not shell scripts (let's face it, if a company could realistically replaced testers with shell scripts, we would be). Testing and testers require the human brain to actually understand and evaluate the test results. Also, there are many areas where full automation is great and helpful, and some places where automation gets in the way of actually doing good work (or for that matter, is just not practical to automate).
To Automate or Not to Automate, That Is the Question
Generally speaking, one of the best rules-of-thumb to use to determine which tests might be candidates for automation is "how often will this test be run"? If a test is only going to be run one time, it's probably low on the value of being automated. Perhaps even ten or twenty times may not make it a candidate for automation. However, if it's a test you will perform hundreds or even thousands of times, then automation becomes much more valuable as a testing tool.
Beyond times executed, Alan suggests the following as attributes that will help determine if a test is a candidate for automation:
Effort: Determining the effort or cost is the first step in determining the return on investment (ROI) of creating automated tests. Some types of products or features are simple to automate, whereas other areas are inherently problematic. For example, application programming interface (API) testing, as well as any other functionality exposed to the user in the form of a programming object, is more often than not straightforward to automate. User interface (UI) testing, on the other hand, can be problematic and frequently requires more effort.
Test lifetime: How many times will an automated test run before it becomes useless? Part of the process of determining whether to automate a specific scenario or test case includes estimating the long-term value of the test. Consider the life span of the product under test and the length of the product cycle. Different automation choices must be made for a product with no planned future versions on a short ship cycle than for a product on a two-year ship cycle with multiple follow-up releases planned.
Value: Consider the value of an automated test over its lifetime. Some testers say that the value of a test case is in finding bugs, but many bugs found by automated tests are only found the first time the test is run. Once the bug is fixed, these tests become regression tests—tests that show that recent changes do not cause previously working functionality to stop working. Many automation techniques can vary data used by the test or change the paths tested on each run of the test to continue to find bugs throughout the lifetime of the test. For products with a long lifetime, a growing suite of regression tests is an advantage—with so much complexity in the underlying software, a large number of tests that focus primarily on making sure functionality that worked before keeps on working is exceptionally advantageous.
Point of involvement: Most successful automation projects I have witnessed have occurred on teams where the test team was involved from the beginning of the project. Attempts at adding automated tests to a project in situations where the test team begins involvement close to or after code complete usually fail.
Accuracy: Good automation reports accurate results every time it runs. One of the biggest complaints from management regarding automated tests is the number of false positives automation often generates. (See the following sidebar titled "Positively false?") False positives are tests that report a failure, but the failure is caused by a bug somewhere in the test rather than a product bug. Some areas of a project (such as user interface components that are in flux) can be difficult to analyze by automated testing and can be more prone to reporting false positives.
Positively False?
The dangers with test automation are augmented when we do not take into account false positives or false negatives (using Alan's non-software example, convicting someone of a crime they didn't commit is a false positive. Letting someone go from a crime they did commit is a false negative).
We Don't Have Time to Automate This
Alan describes the process of using Microsoft Test to write UI automation. His first job at Microsoft focused on networking functionality for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean versions of Windows 95. When he was ready to start automating the tests and asked when they needed to be finished, he recalls vividly hearing the words "Oh, no, we don't have time to automate these tests, you just need to run them on every build."
Thinking the tests must have been really difficult to automate, he went back and started running the manual test cases. After a few days, the inevitable boredom set in and with it, the just as inevitable missing of steps "Surely, a little batch file would help me run these tests more consistently." Within fifteen minutes, some additional batch files answered that question handily. He applied the same approach to the UI tests, and found he was able to automate them after all, saving weeks of time that freed him up to look at other areas that would otherwise never get consideration due to the time to finish the manual tests. At least a hundred bugs were found simply because Alan automated a series of tests he had been told couldn't or wouldn't be automated.
User Interface Automation
The API or forward facing functions are good candidates for being automated, but most of the time, the tools and promotional materials we as testers are most familiar with are those tests that automate at the user interface level. As someone who used to participate in the music industry, one of the coolest things you would ever see would be a mixing board with "flying faders" that seemed to move up and down of their own accord based on the timing of the music (most often seen at what was referred to as "mix down").
This is the same equivalent that user interface automation provides. It has the "wow" factor, that "pop" that gets people's attention, and in many ways, it really excites testers because it provides automation at a level where testers and users are most likely to apply their energies interacting with a product.
Over the past decade and a half tools that could record and play back sequences of tests at the user interface level have been very popular, but somewhere In the process of recording and playing back tests, problems ensue. The biggest complaint of this paradigm is the fact that the tests are "brittle", meaning any change to the way the software is called, or any trivial changes to the interface or spawning area of a test could cause the tests to fail.
Microsoft uses methods to bypass the presentation layer of the UI, and instead interact with the objects directly, as opposed to directly interacts with the UI by simulating mouse clicks and keystrokes. Recording or simulating mouse clicks are the closest to the way the user interacts with the program, but they are also the most prone to errors. Instead of simulating mouse clicks or keystrokes, another approach is to automate the underlying actions represented by the click and keystroke This interaction occurs by using what is referred to as an "object model". This way, test can manipulate any portion of the UI without directly touching the specific UI controls.
Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) is another approach to writing automation. MSAA utilizes the "IAccessible" interface, which allows testers to get information about specific UI elements. Buttons, text boxes, list boxes, and scroll bars all utilize the IAccessible interface. By pointing to the IAccessible interface using various function calls, automated tests can use methods to get information about various controls or make changes to them.With the release of .NET 3.0, Microsoft UI Automation is the new accessibility framework for all operating systems that support Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). UI Automation exposes all UI items as an Automation Element. Microsoft testers write automated UI tests using variations on these themes.
Brute Force UI Automation
While using the various models to simulate the UI can save time and effort, and even make for robust automated test cases, they are not in and of themselves foolproof. It's possible to miss critical bugs if these are the only methods employed.
While testing a Windows CE device, Alan decided to try some automated tests to run overnight to find issues that might take days or weeks to appear for a user. In this case there wasn't an object model for the application, so he applied "brute force UI automation" to find each of the windows on the screen that made up the application. By writing code that centered the mouse over the given window and sending a "click", he was able to make a simple application that could connect to a server, verify the connection was created, and then terminate the terminal server session.
After some time, he noticed the application had crashed after running successfully. After debugging the application, it was determined that there was a memory leak in the application. IT required a few hundred connections before it would manifest.
In this case, the difference was the fact that he focused on automating to the UI directly instead of the underlying objects. Had he focused on the underlying objects and not the specific Windows interface elements, this issue might never have been caught. Key takeaway; realize that sometimes directly accessing the UI at the user level is the best way to run a test, so keep all options open when considering how to automate tests.
What's in a Test?
Test automation is more than just running a sequence of steps. The environment has to be in state where the test can be run. After running the test, criteria must be examined to confirm a PASS/FAIL and test results must be saved to review/analyze. Tests also need to be broken down so that the system is in the proper state to rerun the test or run the next test. Additionally, the test needs to be understandable so that it can be maintained or modified if necessary.
There are many tests where an actively thinking and analyzing human being can determine what's happening in a system much more effectively than the machine itself can. Even with that, automated tests can save lots of time and, by extension, money.
Keith Stobie and Mark Bergman describe components of test automation in their 1992 paper "How to Automate Testing: The Big Picture" (http://keithstobie.net/Documents/TestAuto_The_BigPict.PDF) in terms of the acronym SEARCH:
• Execution
• Analysis
• Reporting
• Cleanup
• Help
Setup: Setup is the effort it takes to bring the software to a point where the actual test operation is ready for execution.
Execution: This is the core of the test—the specific steps necessary to verify functionality, sufficient error handling, or some other relevant task.
Analysis: Analysis is the process of determining whether the test passes or fails. This is the most important step—and often the most complicated step of a test.
Reporting: Reporting includes display and dissemination of the analysis, for example, log files, database, or other generated files.
Cleanup: The cleanup phase returns the software to a known state so that the next test can proceed.
Help: A help system enables maintenance and robustness of the test case throughout its life.
Oftentimes, the entire approach is automated so all steps are performed by the automation procedures. At other times, the automation steps may only go so far and then stop, allowing the tester to continue the rest of the way manually. An example of this is using the tool Texter. Texter allows the user to set up a number of fillable forms or provide text for fields in a scripted manner, and then the user can take control and walk through the test themselves, calling on other Texter scripts when needed to fill in large amounts of data that would be tedious to enter in manually, yet still provide complete control of the application's execution manually.
Many automation efforts fail because the test execution is all that is considered. There are many more steps that need to be taken into consideration. Setting up the test, preparing the environment to run the test, running the test, gathering necessary information to determine a PASS/FAIL, storing the results in a report or log for analysis, breaking down the test to put the machine back into a state where other tests can be run or back to the initial state and then a reporting mechanism to show exactly which case was run, whether it passed or failed, and how that relates to the other tests all need to be considered.
Alan included an extensive layout of a series of tests that include the entire SEARCH acronym. Due to the amount of space it would take to walk through the entire example, I have omitted it from this review, instead choosing to focus on some areas that interested me (see below). For those who wish to check out the entire example please reference the book. It's very thorough :) ).
I Didn't Know You Could Automate That
Sometimes Automation of certain tasks can be very difficult to downright impossible. However, before giving up, it may be worth it to investigate further and see what you might be able to do.
An example is using PCMCIA devices and simulating plugging in and removing the devices, a task that manually would be challenging and automating the task without a "robot" would be impossible… that is, if the actual test required plugging in actual devices over and over. Microsoft utilizes a device called a "PCMCIA Jukebox" which contains six PCMCIA slots and a serial connection. By using this device they could, through software, turn on or off a device and simulate the insertion and removal of a particular device. Using these jukeboxes and other "switching" tools allowed the testers to simulate and automate tests where physical insertions or removal would be practically impossible.
The Challenge of Oracles
When determining if a test passes or fails, the program needs to be able to compare the results with a reference. This reference is called an "Oracle". When tests are run manually, it's often very easy to determine if a test passes or fails, because we are subconsciously comparing the state of the test and the results with what we know the appropriate response should be. A computer program that is automating a test doesn't have the ability to do that unless it is explicitly told to, so it needs to reference an Oracle directly. Whether it be a truth table, a function call or some other method of comparison, to determine if a test passes or fails, there has to be a structure in place to help make that determination.
Determining Pass/Fail
Examples of test reporting also go beyond simple Pass/Fail. Below are some common test results that need to be considered in any test automation scenarios:
Pass: The test passed.
Fail: The test failed.
Skip: Skipped tests typically occur when tests are available for optional functionality. For example, a test suite for video cards might include tests that run only if certain features are enabled in hardware.
Abort: The most common example of an aborted result occurs when expected support files are not available. For example, if test collateral (additional files needed to run the test) are located on a network share and that share is unavailable, the test is aborted.
Block: The test was blocked from running by a known application or system issue. Marking tests as blocked (rather than failed) when they cannot run as a result of a known bug keeps failure rates from being artificially high, but high numbers of blocked test cases indicate areas where quality and functionality are untested and unknown.
Warn: The test passed but indicated warnings that might need to be examined in greater detail.
In many cases, log files that are created *are* the report, and for certain projects that is sufficient. For larger projects however, the ability to aggregate those log files or condense them to make a more coherent or abbreviated report is essential to understanding or analyzing the results of the tests.
One method is to go through and pull out key pieces of data from log files and append them to another file in a formatted way to help simplify and consolidate the results in an easier to view report. From this output a determination can be made as to which tests passed, which failed, which were skipped, which were aborted, etc.
An automation system contains lots of moving parts. Part from the test ha4rness itself, there is automated steps to retrieve tests from the test management system. Those tests are then mapped to existing test scripts or executables that are run to execute the automation. Computers and devices must be in place to run the tests. The results are parsed, reports are made, posted where appropriate, and stored back to the test case manager.
Alan points out that as of this writing, there are more than 100,000 computers at Microsoft dedicated to automated testing.
Large-Scale Test Automation
Many of the automation initiatives at Microsoft are start to finish processes:
A command executed from the command line, a Web page, or an application.
The TCM constructs a list of tests to run.
Test cases are cross-referenced with binaries or scripts that execute the test.
A shared directory on one of the database servers or on another computer in the system may contain additional files needed for the tests to run.
The automation database and test case manager contact test controllers, configure the test computers to run the specified tests.
Once preparation of the test computer is complete, the test controller runs the test.
The test controller waits for the test to complete (or crash), and then obtains the log file from the test computer.
The controller parses the log file for results or sends the log file back to the TCM or another computer to be parsed.
After the log files are examined, a test result is determined and recorded.
The file is saved and results are recorded.
Some systems will directly test failures directly to the bug tracking system.
Results are presented in a variety of reports, and the test team examines the failures.
Common Automation Mistakes
Test automation is as much of a coding discipline as software development, and as such, shares many of the benefits and disadvantages of the software development life cycle. In short, testers writing automation code make mistakes and create bugs in automation code, too.
Production code is tested, but this begs the question: who tests the test code? Some could say that repeated test runs and the ability to complete them verify that the test code is working properly… but is it? The goal of nearly every Microsoft team is for test code to have the same quality as the production code it is testing. How do the SDET's do that?
Alan includes the following common errors seen when writing test code:
Hard-coded paths: Tests often need external files during test execution. The quickest and simplest method to point the test to a network share or other location is to embed the path in the source file. Unfortunately, paths can change and servers can be reconfigured or retired. It is a much better practice to store information about support files in the TCM or automation database.
Complexity: The complexity issues discussed in Chapter 7, are just as prevalent in test code as they are in production code. The goal for test code must be to write the simplest code possible to test the feature sufficiently.
Difficult Debugging: When a failure occurs, debugging should be a quick and painless procedure—not a multi-hour time investment for the tester. Insufficient logging is a key contributor to making debugging difficult. When a test fails, it is a good practice to log why the test failed. "Streaming test failed: buffer size expected 2048, actual size 1024" is a much better result than "Streaming test failed: bad buffer size" or simply "Streaming test failed." With good logging information, failures can be reported and fixed without ever needing to touch a debugger.
False positives: A tester investigates a failure and discovers that the product code is fine, but a bug in her test caused the test to report a failure result. The opposite of this, a false negative, is much worse—a test incorrectly reports a passing result. When analyzing test results, testers examine failures, not passing tests. Unless a test with a false negative repeats in another test or is caught by an internal user during normal usage, the consequences of false negatives are bugs in the hands of the consumer.
Automated testing is considered a core competency at Microsoft. The products under test are large and complex. Testing them all without significant automation would be very difficult to practically impossible, even with their vast number of testers. Significant automation efforts are required, and are thus in place. Scaling automation and making repeated use of automated test cases is very important to Microsoft's long term strategy. With potentially thousands of configuration options and dozens of supported languages, the more robust and extensible the automation platforms, the more testing can be performed automatically, freeing up the testers for more specific and targeted testing where automation is impractical if not impossible.
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Great post, thanks!
Which tools do you use to automate?
Inhouse, QTP,SilkTest,...?
Me personally? I use a mixture of Selenium and Java/Junit, though I'm shifting over to using Ruby/RSpec, Selenium and Cucumber, since that's what we use for TDD where I'm at right now. Got a lot to learn and work with before I can say I've mastered the test automation side of things, but thankfully, I'm back in a UNIX environment where automating rolls a bit easier (I find it does anyway :) ).
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Dec. 15 marked the final child tax credit payment for 2021, and possibly for good as Congress debates what to do in 2022.
There are other ways to get financial assistance, some before Christmas and other in 2022.
Either way, there are ways to get the extra cash you and your family may be eligible for at some point.
Related: 500,000 people will see $584 checks before New Year's Eve, are you one of them?
Here are 6 ways to benefit from financial assistance following the final child tax credit payment
The first way is federal stimulus checks that still need to go out.
Millions of Americans are going to qualify for another check when they file their taxes in 2022.
These reasons may be because you had a child in 2021, or you were living abroad.
The check this applies to is the latest federal stimulus check worth $1,400.
Americans living overseas didn't all get the stimulus check they were entitled to.
Over 9 million Americans live outside the country, meaning only around 1% or less were sent the check.
Related: Some families can apply for a $4,500 stimulus program in 2022, are you eligible?
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Another way many are getting cash is through their state or city government.
To name a couple, California and Maine are both working to help out their residents during this trying time.
California is sending out checks to qualifying residents under the Golden State Stimulus II program.
The checks are worth up to $1,100 and residents will see them by mid-January.
Maine residents are seeing checks worth $285 between now and the end of the year.
Related: Take action now to see if you're eligible for surprise end of year $1,000 stimulus check
Santa Ana, California has also been giving some of their poorest neighborhood's households debit cards with $300 preloaded.
Universal Basic Income is now becoming more common as cities throughout the country experiment with pilot programs.
Cities that have their own programs include Pittsburgh, Columbia, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Chicago.
The programs are geared to low income families.
It's always good to keep in mind all the cash back options floating around.
Some websites offer cash back just for grocery shopping.
Related: Some families can expect a $1,400 stimulus check in 2022, here's who qualifies
Ibotta states that the average user can get back around $150 each year they use their service.
TopCashBack claims its users see $345 per year on average.
Sign up bonuses can give you some extra cash.
Sometimes certain banks will give you thousands for signing up with them and opening a bank account.
Taking on a new job may also come with a sign on bonus.
Finally, one way for families to see extra cash is when they file their taxes in 2022 and claim the second half of their child tax credit.
The American Rescue Act increased the amount from $2,000 per child to $3,600 for kids under 6 and $3,000 for kids ages 6-17.
The payments disbursed through 2021 were just the first half of the credit, meaning parents can see a lump sum of the same amount next year.
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Sacramento general manager Vlade Divac fired Dave Joerger on Thursday after the coach helped develop the young Kings into playoff contenders before ultimately falling short in the franchise's 13th consecutive losing season.
Also Thursday, the Kings extended Divac's contract through the 2022-23 season – and Walton's deal is expected to run those same four years. The two were teammates on the 2004-05 Lakers team, and their relationship has reportedly been warm.
Walton's departure Friday came three days after the Lakers finished with a loss Tuesday to the Trail Blazers and the abrupt resignation of team president Magic Johnson. During his resignation, Johnson suggested he had gotten approval from team owner Jeanie Buss — long a Walton supporter — to fire Walton if he deemed it necessary. Walton participated in team exit interviews, but did not address the media following the season.
Hired by the previous front office regime of Mitch Kupchak and Jim Buss, Walton was originally seen as a culture-builder for the Lakers' up-and-coming young talent. While the franchise ultimately let go of lottery picks D'Angelo Russell and Julius Randle, he created strong relationships with young Lakers Brandon Ingram, Lonzo Ball and Kyle Kuzma.


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OSU Government Relations Update
Legislature finalizes budget adjustments, seeks to adjourn this week
Posted on February 29, 2016 by olsenka	| Leave a reply
In its fourth week, legislative budget writers issued a final packet of allocations and redistributions that spread a portion of the state's projected ending fund balance among a handful of special projects and activities.
Sine die – which in Latin means adjournment without specifying a date for further meeting – could be as early as Tuesday, though more likely on Wednesday, and possibly as late as Thursday, depending on how long it takes for legislators to churn through the bills that remain "in play." Republicans in both chambers have slowed the process by not voting for routine motions to "suspend the rules." Without a suspension of the rules, the entirety of all bills considered on the floor must be read aloud before legislators can conduct a floor debate and vote. For most measures considered last week, the majority of the time spent was in reading the bills, rather than in the debate and voting.
For an overall update on the session, see recent articles in the Oregonian and Statesmen Journal.
Higher Education Initiatives
University Venture Development Fund Tax Credit: HB 4072 would extend the UVDF tax credit for six years, enabling donors to receive tax benefits for contributions to a fund that supports the transition of university inventions from the laboratory to the marketplace. UPDATE: On Friday, by a 5-0 vote, the Senate Finance and Revenue Committee approved the bill and sent it the Senate floor with a "do pass" recommendation. The bill may be considered as soon as Monday.
University Investments in Equities: HJR 203 is a constitutional amendment referred by the legislature for consideration on the November 2016 ballot. It would enable universities to invest funds in common stocks. UPDATE: The bill passed the House by a vote of 55-1 and last week was approved by the Senate Rules Committee and is now headed for a vote on the Senate floor.
Lodging Tax: HB 4146 as introduced would double the statewide "transient lodging tax" from one to two percent. In the initial years the increase would support activities associated with 2021 international track and field championships to be held in Eugene. Because of OSU's close proximity, our track & field facilities are likely to be involved as a potential venue, and may ultimately qualify for investments that will likely be under consideration during the 2017 legislative session. UPDATE: The House approved a revised proposal that reduced the rate. The bill is now under review by the Senate Finance and Revenue Committee which is considering a number of additional amendments. If the Senate adopts changes and passes the bill, it will need to return to the House for concurrence with the Senate amendments. Given the impending adjournment, bill supporters have little time to complete work on this bill.
Appropriations Actions
Increased Funding for Universities: Universities entered the session seeking at least a portion of the additional $55 million needed to bring them to the $755 million target sought during the 2015 legislative session. UPDATE: Adjustments to the biennial budget did not include any additional operating funds for Oregon's public universities.
Marine Energy: Members of the bi-partisan Coastal Caucus sought $1.5 million for the research and development of marine energy on the Oregon coast. $1.25 million of this funding would enable OSU to compete for a $5 million federal grant. UPDATE: The Joint Ways & Means Committee approved $800,000 for this purpose included in SB 5701, the biennial budget rebalancing bill. How OSU will approach the US DoE will depend on the solicitation for proposals that is expected sometime this spring.
ALS Endowment: Included in the final budget bill is a one-time $100,000 allocation that will enable the OSU Foundation to create and manage an endowment to provide scholarships for students involved in research addressing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The funding is in honor of State Rep. Vic Gilliam (R-Silverton) who was recently diagnosed with ALS.
Endophyte Research: SB 5701 also appropriates $100,000 for endophyte research, to be matched by private dollars. "These funds are to be used only for endophyte research in support of Oregon's fiber and straw export industry. A report to the Legislative Fiscal Office on how the funds were used in support of endophyte research and what was made possible by this additional influx of funds should be made by December 31, 2016."
Continuing Service Level (CSL): The final budget also included a budget note that directs the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) and Legislative Fiscal Office (LFO) to develop, in consultation with the Higher Education Coordinating Commission and the seven public universities, an estimated cost of applying the Community College Support Fund model to the Public University Support Fund, the Agricultural Experiment Station, the Extension Service, the Forest Research Laboratory, and Public University State Programs. The estimate will include data elements that the public universities will be required to submit to HECC in order to implement the model. DAS and LFO will provide the estimated cost to implement the Community College Support Fund CSL model for Public University state support to the Emergency Board, through the Legislative Fiscal Office, by July 1, 2016.
If acted upon by the Governor and the legislature during the 2017 legislative session, Oregon's public universities and the OSU Statewide Public Service Programs may face budgetary increases that more accurately reflect the true cost of increases associated with the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) and other costs that were not included in the calculations that were used in the creation and adoption of the 2015-17 budget.
Industrial Hemp: Although budget writers did not approve funding for industrial hemp research to be conducted at OSU, the legislature approved HB 4060, which revises and clarifies state statutes involving the cultivation of industrial hemp.
Additional funding for Oregon Promise: The Ways & Means Committee approved an additional $1.7 million for Oregon's "free community college" program to fund additional support services at Oregon's 17 community colleges. The additional funding was taken from a prior, unused, appropriation for accelerated learning and will be distributed by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission. "Each community college will get one share of the funds, except Portland Community College will receive three additional shares given its size and operation of four major campuses."
Capital bonding for Universities: The Ways & Means committee approved bonding for five capital projects sought by Portland State University, Southern Oregon University and Oregon Institute of Technology. The projects had been reviewed and approved by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission and include:
$5 million in XI-Q bonds for OIT to repair infrastructure failures in the North Utility Corridor Electrical Supply Feed and the College Union Building Storm Drainage System.
$5.1 million for Article XI-F bonds for PSU to purchase the Corbett Building in Portland, which PSU currently leases from its Foundation for use by its Business Accelerator program. (The legislature also reduced bonding for a housing project at PSU that is expected to be lower than projected when originally approved.)
$1.5 million in Article XI-F bonds for SOU to construct a new building for Jefferson Public Radio (JPR), adjacent to the university's Center for the Arts facility in Ashland; and
$2 million in Article XI-Q bonds for SOU to expand the scope of the McNeal Pavilion project initially approved by the legislature in 2014 for deferred maintenance and seismic upgrades. The additional funding will allow the construction of a new competitive gym for intercollegiate basketball and volleyball programs.
$1.7 million in Article XI-F bonds for SOU to finance energy improvements to be included in the Science Building deferred maintenance project approved in 2011.
Establishment of a Legislative Policy and Research Committee: Budget writers approved SB 1569 which establishes a Legislative and Policy Research Committee which will oversee and direct an increased capacity in the legislature for conducting research and policy analyses. Under amendments adopted by the Senate Rules Committee, the Committee will consist of an equal number of House and Senate members and Democrats and Republicans. Given the interest in collaborating with the legislature on policy matters four universities (including OSU) wrote in support of the bill.
Other Higher Education Bills of Note
SB 1540 Calls on the HECC and universities to determine the best method of increasing number of mathematics majors at Oregon universities. UPDATE: After approval by the Senate (27-1), the House by a vote of 53-0 approved the bill and sent it to the Governor for her signature.
SB 1558 Limits disclosure of records of college or university student health center, mental health center or counseling center, or records of health professional retained by college or university. UPDATE: After the Senate passed the bill (28-0) the bill passed the House on a 53-0 vote. The bill now awaits the Governor's signature.
SB 1586 Requires universities to undertake a number of activities to encourage students to register to vote. The seven public universities submitted a statement in favor of the bill, with amendments. UPDATE: The Joint Ways & Means Committee amended the bill and removed provisions that would have required the state to carry the cost of postage paid envelopes for future ballots. The bill is awaiting a vote on the Senate floor. It will then go to the House.
HB 4019 Requires universities to provide in-state tuition to dependents of Oregon residents who leave the state to serve in public service organizations. UPDATE: This bill passed the House (59-0) and was approved in the Senate on a 28-0 vote. It awaits the Governor's signature.
HB 4021 Directs the State Treasurer to study possible refinancing mechanisms for student loans. The seven public universities submitted a statement in favor of this bill. UPDATE: This bill was passed by the House (54-6) and last week was approved by a vote of 29-0 in the Senate.
If you have questions about this report or any state legislative issues contact jock.mills@oregonstate.edu.
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Anthony DeFranco Honors Ten Inspirational Women
by Maggie Mulhern | March 3, 2020 | Bookmark +
Anthony DeFranco of Anthony DeFranco Salon & Spa recently marked 30 years of business in the salon and spa sector in a unique way: giving back to the community that has supported him by honoring 10 inspirational women for the personal challenges they have overcome. The honorees have survived illnesses such as cancer and MS, the loss of a child, raised children with special needs and demonstrated selfless acts in spearheading initiatives to help others and their community. This group of remarkable women were treated to head-to-toe makeovers where DeFranco and his team of beauty professionals took time to enhance their natural beauty through color, hair styling, makeup and nails.
Following their day of beauty and pampering, these women received their deserving moment to publicly shine during a special recognitional ceremony held at DeFranco's 30th Business Anniversary Celebration at his Anthony DeFranco Salon & Spa in Huntington Station, NY. They made their makeover debuts wearing designer gowns and cocktail dresses donated by MIEKA Boutiques of Greenvale, NY and Woodbury, NY as they walked a red-carpet runway before an audience of more than 200 people, including family, friends and dignitaries, who heard their inspiring stores. The women honorees were Suzanne Chimera of Coram, NY; Blanca Nolasco of Huntington, NY; Debbie Rimler of Northport, NY; Linda Nuszen of Patchogue, NY; Aracelis Vanek of East Northport, Angela Ruggeri of Westbury, NY; Ronit Birns and Korrine Weil of Plainview, NY; Mara Navaretta of Woodbury, NY; and Andrea Jones of Bellmore, NY.
"I was blessed with wonderful mentors and others who inspired me and supported my entrepreneurial dreams. Recognizing these women was our way of giving back to the community that supports us every day," DeFranco says. "My team and I applied our years of experience and skills to make these extraordinary women feel special; they deserve recognition for all they do to improve the lives of others. Our mission statement is 'beautiful hair is not everything, it's the only thing' and our vision is to create and provide every client with an exceptional look that makes them feel beautiful, confident and individually unique. Each of these women looked great and it was our privilege to do something special for them."
"Providing dresses and gowns to the women allowed them to express themselves and feel special. This event gave us the opportunity to recognize those who selflessly help others. Their stories of loss, struggles and triumphs have touched my wife Karen and I deeply," said Ken Richter, co-owner of MIEKA Boutique, a family owned business offering women's designer fashions and sportswear.
DeFranco entered the hair industry with a Vidal Sassoon apprenticeship in 1979 and has since mentored many hair and beauty school students throughout his career. He opened his Huntington Station, NY Salon & Spa 30 years ago, where he became recognized as a national leader and innovator in hair styling and beauty. Today, he has a staff of 50 plus and recently opened his second location in Plainview, NY Anthony DeFranco Salon and Sight of Beauty Medi Spa.
Anthony DeFranco Salon's Inspiring Women Honorees:
Aracelis Vanek - East Northport, NY
Aracelis Vanek is a wife and dedicated mother of an autistic child. She is patient, loving and always available and supportive of members of the family and her friends. She works in the title insurance sector and her friends and family describe her as "a gift." She is known for her compassion and taking extraordinary actions to help and support her family and friends. Her actions and personal example are an inspiration for others.
Debbie Loss Rimler- Northport, NY
Debbie Loss Rimler is the Executive Director of Tri Community and Youth Agency, a non-profit agency serving youth ages 5 to 21 in Huntington, South Huntington and Cold Spring Harbor. For 31 years, she has championed the organization's mission to provide educational, recreational, cultural, counseling and advocacy services to youth and their families. She assisted with large programs such as a Backpack and School Supply Give Away and Project T.O.Y., which serves over 1,000 families in economic need during the holidays. She works selflessly to provide a safe space and guidance, food and the feeling of family to those who need it most. Debbie's commitment to her community makes it a better place to live. She is an inspiration to all.
Suzanne Chimera - Coram, NY
Suzanne Chimera co-founded Hair We Share, an organization that provides free custom-made donated human hair wigs to those suffering from medical hair loss. Suzanne was passionate about helping others and she contacted an 18-year-old girl diagnosed with leukemia to offer assistance. Before the young woman's prom and graduation, Suzanne gave her a wig that looked like her own hair before she lost it to chemotherapy treatments. This led to the girl's mother becoming a Hair We Share board member and volunteer. Suzanne takes no pay for her tireless efforts. She runs events, solicits pony tail donations and monetary donations and works directly with recipients. Her heartfelt and inspiring work is making a difference in the lives of many.
Linda Nuszen - Patchogue
Linda Nuszen is the founder of Beading Hearts, a group of mothers who have lost a child to a drug overdose in either Nassau and Suffolk counties. Linda has created a safe environment for mothers to support each other during weekly meetings. The Beading Hearts members also visit mothers in sober homes, rehabs and even jails. She shares stories of hope, reflection and promise while making inspirational beads with them. The mothers in Beading Hearts are "broken open" and learning how to embrace a new life by letting some light in. Linda is that light during dark personal times.
Blanca Nolasco - Huntington, NY
Blanca Nolasco, has been a loyal staff member at Anthony DeFranco Salon for 20 years. She is an incredible woman who has battled cancer several times during the years she has worked with Anthony. During these challenging periods, she always had a smile on her face and a positive attitude. Blanca is a loving wife, mother and grandmother, who is dedicated to her family and her job. She always gives her clients the attention that they need to ensure they have a wonderful experience, even when she is personally facing challenges. She is a true team player who never says no and is the first to offer assistance when it is needed. Her strength and positivity show everyone that life is worth living and celebrating.
Angela Ruggeri - Westbury, NY
Angela Ruggeri has been battling Cystic Fibrosis for 33 years and does so with grace. During medical treatments and hospital stays, she drew upon her inner strength and never gave up her fight. For years she has used her life as an example and her story to help and inspire others. She founded Breathe Believe to give hope and much needed support to those with Cystic Fibrosis who were less fortunate than her. Angela is committed to giving back to her community through Breathe Believe, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Make-A-Wish Foundation. She is a shining light of home and inspiration to all who have the pleasure of knowing her.
Korrine Weil - Plainview, NY
A few years ago, Korrine Weil's family faced major health issues; her husband was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and her daughter was hospitalized with a serious Illness. Sadly, their daughter passed away. Her husband's MS progressed and now he is housebound. Korrine is her husband's primary caregiver; helping him in and out of his wheelchair and bed is physically exhausting. Physical therapy was needed to treat her injured shoulder and back. Despite these monumental personal challenges, Korrine is happy to do small errands for her neighbors, such as picking up some groceries. This inspiring woman takes little time for herself, devoting it instead to those she loves.
Mara Navaretta - Woodbury, NY
Mara Navaretta is an inspiring entrepreneur and founder of Homes By Mara Realty. The company, founded in 2010, is headquartered in Syosset and now has over 60 agents and closes over $100 million in sales annually. Mara's community participation includes work with Blanca's House, the Ashley Wade Foundation pajama drive and a hurricane collection drive. She also supports North Shore Animal League and Children's Brain Tumor Foundation. Her commitment to her community, leadership in business and professionalism are an inspiration for her family, her team and young women across Long Island.
Ronit Birns - Plainview, NY
In 2001, Ronit Birns was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Ever since then, she has devoted herself to raising money and awareness in the fight against the disease and to help others. As captain of the MS Walk Team RoRoRo, she raised over $500,000. She knows how stressful and challenging it is to live with MS. She remains upbeat and positive and is always willing to offer advice, comfort and support to those who are newly diagnosed with MS. She is a loving wife, mother, friend, and advocate who always puts others before herself. This inspiring woman is truly a "warrior" for a cause and respected member of her community.
Andrea Jones - Bellmore, NY
Andrea Jones has focused her life on helping others. She has demonstrated this as a mother raising now-grown sons, volunteering her time in the past at her local Mother's Center, being a mentor with the Moxxie Mentoring Foundation or supporting friends.
She enjoys inspiring and assisting others to develop their talents and skills including advising the junior members of her marketing team where she works. She looks forward to continuing to be a mentor for those she works with and trusted friend to those who face challenges.
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Important Early Chart of Portland Harbor
Chart of Portland Harbour and Islands, and Harbours Adjacent, Extending from the River Kennebec to Wood Island and Winter Harbour, Drawn from the Survey of Des Barres with Additions and Corrections by L. Moody.
[Casco Bay, Maine] Moody, Lemuel.
[Portland, Maine]: [Lemuel Moody.] Engd by D. G. Johnson. Entered According to Act of Congress July 13th, 1825. [1828.]. About 26 x 48.". Lemuel Moody (1767-1846) was an enterprising sea captain and nautical entrepreneur in Portland, Maine. Realizing "the great necessity of a correct Chart of Portland Harbour and the..... More
Uncommon 1900 Maine Cycling Directions/Atlas
A Road Book for Cycling and Carriage Driving in Maine.
[Cycling Atlas of Maine.] Maine Division, L. A. W. [League of American Wheelmen.].
Probably Portland, ME: No publisher, 1900. An early and very uncommon guide book for cyclists in Maine. Includes detailed riding directions, food and lodging information and small folding maps. The small volume has numerous ads for lodging, bicycles (and parts) and clothing for "wheelmen." It contains eight maps of..... More
Moll's Important "Post Map"
New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pensilvania. By H. Moll Geographer.
[Northeast United States.] Moll, Herman.
[London.]: From Moll's Atlas Minor, 1729 or later. 7 7/8 x 10 3/4." A wonderful early portrayal of the present-day northeastern United States from Grand Manan Island to the Delaware Bay. It is an updated and slightly larger version of Moll's 1708 map of the same title. Cape Cod is..... More


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Album Review: Marshall Chapman – "Big Lonesome" (TallGirl Records)
Hank Williams, Jr. — "Old School, New Rules"
Q&A with The Secret Sisters – (Way More Than 12 Questions)
Video: Marshall Chapman & Tim Krekel: "I Love Everybody"
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A Look at The Wild Feathers
Spotlight on Anderson East
Spotlight Artist: Amy Black – "Whiskey and Wine"
Old Crow Medicine Show Gets Carried Away
Sneak Peek: Gwyneth Paltrow in Upcomng Film 'Country Strong'
News, Video — By ATF on October 14, 2010 3:10 am
The latest passenger on the Americana/country/roots bandwagon is Gwyneth Paltrow. Honestly, she's the last actor we thought we'd see in a country-music-themed film, but then again John Wayne once played Genghis Khan in The Conqueror, so stranger things have happened.
In the upcoming Country Strong with Tim McGraw, she plays country singer Kelly Canter who's battling the bottle while trying to resurrect her career. The best thing we're heard about this film so far is that the legendary Marshall Chapman plays her road manager. Yes! Now that's a performance we're eager so see!
Ms. Paltrow actually doesn't sound half bad on this video, and we prefer her Southern accent over her British one. Check it out. The film opens January 7, 2011.
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Demetrius Pitts, also known as Abdur Raheem Rahfeeq, was arrested by the joint terrorism task force in a plot to use a van filled with explosives on the Fourth of July.
"This case illustrated that law enforcement can not sit back and wait for Mr. Pitts to commit a violent act," Anthony said.
Authorities said Pitts made Facebook posts with "disturbing" messages, saying "We as Muslims need to start training like this every day. We need to know how to shoot guns, throw grenades, hand to hand combat," Anthony said during a news conference.
After moving to Cleveland, authorities said Pitts continued to express his "radical ideology." During a meeting last week with an undercover FBI agent, Anthony said Pitts noted "their holiday is coming up."
"What would hit them at their core? Blow up in the, have a bomb blow up in the 4th of July parade," he said.
In the last week, Pitts then went downtown to conduct reconnaissance at Voinovich Bicentennial Park and the Coast Guard station, among other locations, according to officials. He also continued to voice hatred for the military, saying he wanted to "chop off heads and hands."
"He wanted to target people watching fireworks and watching the Fourth of July parade downtown," he told reporters.
Besides the alleged plan to attack on July 4, officials said Pitts wanted to also harm military members and families of service members. Herdman said Pitts discussed giving remote control cars packed with shrapnel to children of military members. When he was asked by the undercover FBI agent if he was worried about injuring children, Pitts said, "I don't care and I have no regrets," according to Herdman.
In recent weeks, Pitts also talked about wanting to travel to Philadelphia, and told the undercover agent Sunday he wanted to conduct reconnaissance for a future attack using a truck packed with explosives, similar to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, authorities said in the criminal complaint.
"We need to make sure we keep our eyes and ears open," he said.


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When asked for the most important, life- and money-saving purchase we've made since having kids, I don't respond with "food" or "a house." No. Those things are obvious. What has really saved our lives since having kids has been our waterproof mattress pads. Not convinced? Read on. The photo shown here could have been our fate without them.
When we moved into our new place, we bought a new mattress to go with it. It was fairly expensive, but we figured we spend 1/3 of our time on it, so we might as well make that time as comfortable as possible.
All was well in Never Never Land until "that night" that kicked our butts, woke us up, opened our eyes, and called us to action.
Smarty Pants woke up in the middle of the night that night, and we brought him to our bed to sleep it off. It just so happened that he wet the bed that night too. Our bed.
He doesn't wet the bed often. Rarely in fact. But when it rains, it pours. And it poured through our waterphilic mattress pad, seeped on past the pillowtop, and settled comfortably in the foamy core of our new, posh, mattress.
Luckily, the mattress cleaners came over faster than we could utter the words "microbial growth." We forked over the hundred bucks and they did their thing, leaving us with a soaking mattress filled with a chemical soup of cleaning agents. We slept on the pull-out that night, waiting for the mattress to dry. The spring driving into my back left me awake long enough to ponder the wonders of waterproof mattress pads.
We bought two – one for our bed and one for Smarty Pants' bed. They have been invaluable. We would have had at least three or four more mattress cleanings and one total mattress replacement (for Smarty Pants' mattress, after a night of diarrhea) without them. That's at least a thousand dollars saved right there, and I am sure there will be more liquidy nights to come.
So if you are thinking of getting a waterproof mattress pad for you and/or your kids, or if you have kids and don't have waterproof mattress pads yet, I say go for it. They are not so expensive and they save you lots of money and nights on the pull-out in the long run.
We bought ours from Sleep Clean and are very satisfied. Sleep Clean is based in Canada – that link will take you to the Canadian part of their page, but they also sell and ship for free to U.S. customers, and their U.S. homepage is here. Nobody is paying me to write this, I am just passing on the word about them because their waterproof mattress pads have served us well.
You know if you have kids you will experience one or all of the above, and if you're like me, you'll experience them all at least once on a bed. A waterproof mattress pad sounds almost too obvious, but it wasn't for us until that fateful night.
So if you haven't thought about getting a waterproof mattress pad yet, you might want to start thinking about one now… I can honestly say that it works, and I am sure it will increase the life your mattress by a year or two.


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I'm a Freetown native, a product of public schools and a graduate of UMass Amherst. I also graduated from the U.S. Army's Military Police school, and was honorably discharged from the Massachusetts National Guard. I was later the founder of a weekly newspaper, and worked as a journalist for several other publications. I served as Freetown selectman, and as a delegate to the Republican state convention. I worked in the world of business and sales for a number of years. I started in radio with Boston Herald Radio, and now I'm here on WBSM, combining my experience in the military, politics and the business world to bring you discussion and debate every weekday morning from 10 a.m. to noon.
Now that the recall election is over in Fall River, it sure seems time to have another one. There is a legitimate case to throw out the last election.


Seismology: strong ground motions, ray theory, kinematic modeling of finite earthquake sources, slip inversions, attenuation relations, seismic hazard, aftershock statistics, earthquake triggering, dynamic source modeling and inversions.
Hallo, M., Opršal, I., Asano, K., Gallovič, F. (2019). Seismotectonics of the 2018 Northern Osaka M6.1 earthquake and its aftershocks: joint movements on strike-slip and reverse faults in inland Japan, Earth Planets and Space 71, 34.
D'Amico, M., Felicetta, Ch., Schiappapietra, E., Pacor, F., Gallovič, F., Paolucci, R., Puglia, R., Lanzano, G., Sgobba, S., Luzi, L. (2019). Fling Effects from Near-Source Strong-Motion Records: Insights from the 2016 Mw 6.5 Norcia, Central Italy, Earthquake, Seism. Res. Lett. 90, 659-671.
Pizzi, A., Di Domenica, A., Gallovič, F., Luzi, L., Puglia, R. (2017). Fault segmentation as constraint to the occurrence of the main shocks of the 2016 Central Italy seismic sequence, Tectonics 36, 2370-2387. Electronic supplement.
Halló, M., Asano, K., Gallovič, F. (2017). Bayesian inference and interpretation of centroid moment tensors of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence, Kyushu, Japan, Earth Planets and Space, 69, 134.
Valentová, Ľ., Gallovič, F., Maierová, P. (2017). Three-dimensional S-wave velocity model of the Bohemian Massif from Bayesian ambient noise tomography, Tectonophysics, 717, 484-498.
Vackář, J., Burjánek, J., Gallovič, F., Zahradník, J., Clinton, J. (2017). Bayesian ISOLA: new tool for automated centroid moment tensor inversion, Geophys. J. Int., 210, 693-705.
Gallovič, F. (2017). Azimuthal dependence of the ground motion variability from scenario modeling of the 2014 Mw6.0 South Napa, California, earthquake using an advanced kinematic source model, Pure Appl. Geophys. 174, Topical Volume of International Workshop on Best Practices in Physics-based Fault Rupture Models for Seismic Hazard Assessment of Nuclear Installations (BestPSHANI), 3467-3478.
Imperatori, W., Gallovič, F. (2017). Validation of 3D velocity models using earthquakes with shallow slip: case study of the Mw6.0 2014 South Napa, California, event, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 107, 1019-1026. Movie.
Halló, M., Gallovič, F. (2016). Fast and cheap approximation of Green functions uncertainty for waveform-based earthquake source inversions, Geophys. J. Int. 207, 1012-1029. Electronic supplement, software download.
Pacor, F., Gallovič, F., Puglia, R., Luzi, L., D'Amico, M. (2016). Diminishing high-frequency directivity due to a source effect: empirical evidence from small earthquakes in the Abruzzo region, Italy, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 5000-5008. Electronic supplement.
Sokos, E., Zahradník, J., Gallovič, F., Serpetsidaki, A., Plicka, V., Kiratzi, A. (2016). Asperity break after 12 years: The Mw6.4 2015 Lefkada (Greece) earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 6137-6145. Electronic supplement.
Gallovič, F. (2016). Modeling velocity recordings of the Mw6.0 South Napa, California, earthquake: unilateral event with weak high-frequency directivity, Seism. Res. Lett. 87, 2-14. Electronic supplement.
Mai, P. M., Schorlemmer, D., Page, M., Ampuero, J.-P., Asano, K., Causse, M., Custódio, S., Fan, W., Festa, G., Galis, M., Gallovič, F., Imperatori, W., Käser, M., Malytskyy, D., Okuwaki, R., Pollitz, F., Passone, L., Razafindrakoto, H., Sekiguchi, H., Song, S.-G., Somala, S., Thingbaijam, K., Twardzik, C., van Driel, M., Vyas, J., Wang, R., Yagi, Y., Zielke, O. (2016). The Earthquake-Source Inversion Validation (SIV) Project, Seism. Res. Lett. 87, 690-708. Electronic supplement.
Růžek, B., Valentová, Ľ., Gallovič, F. (2016). Significance of geological units of the Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic, as seen by ambient noise interferometry, Pure Appl. Geophys. 173, 1663-1682.
Kostka, F., Gallovič, F. (2016). Static Coulomb stress load on a three-dimensional rate-and-state fault: possible explanation of the anomalous delay of the 2004 Parkfield earthquake, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth 121, 3517-3533.
Gallovič, F., Ampuero, J.-P. (2015). A new strategy to compare inverted rupture models exploiting the eigen-structure of the inverse problem, Seism. Res. Lett., 86, 1679-1689. Electronic supplement, software download.
Sokos, E., Kiratzi, A., Gallovič, F., Zahradník, J., Serpetsidaki, A., Plicka, V., Janský, J., Kostelecký, J., Tselentis, G.-A. (2015). Rupture process of the 2014 Cephalonia, Greece, earthquake doublet (Mw6) as inferred from regional and local seismic data, Tectonophysics, 656, 131-141. Electronic supplement.
Valentová, Ľ., Gallovič, F., Růžek, B., de la Puente, J., Moczo, P. (2015). Choice of regularization in adjoint tomography based on 2D synthetic tests, Geophys. J. Int. 202, 787-799.
Gallovič, F., Imperatori, W., Mai, P. M. (2015). Effects of three-dimensional crustal structure and smoothing constraint on earthquake slip inversions: case study of the Mw6.3 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, J. Geophys. Res. 120, 428-449, doi:10.1002/2014JB011650, software download.
Gallovič, F., Ameri, G., Zahradník, J., Janský, J., Plicka, V., Sokos, E., Askan, A., Pakzad, M. (2013). Fault process and broadband ground-motion simulations of the 23 October 2011 Van (Eastern Turkey) earthquake, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 103, 3164-3178.
Gallovič, F., Zahradník, J. (2012). Complexity of the Mw6.3 2009 L'Aquila (Central Italy) earthquake: 1. Multiple finite-extent source inversion, J. Geophys. Res., 117, B04307, doi: 10.1029/2011JB008709. Supplemental material (Appendix).
Ameri, G., Gallovič, F., Pacor, F. (2012). Complexity of the Mw6.3 2009 L'Aquila (Central Italy) earthquake: 2. Broadband strong-motion modeling, J. Geophys. Res., 117, B04308, doi: 10.1029/2011JB008729.
Sokos, E., Zahradník, J., Kiratzi, A., Janský, J., Gallovič, F., Novotný, O., Kostelecký, J., Serpetsidaki, A., Tselentis, G.-A. (2012). The January 2010 Efpalio earthquake sequence in the western Corinth Gulf (Greece), Tectonophysics, 530-531, 299-309, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.01.005.
Chiauzzi, L., Masi, A., Mucciarelli, M., Vona, M., Pacor, F., Cultrera, G., Gallovič, F., Emolo, A. (2012). Building damage scenarios based on exploitation of Housner intensity derived from finite faults ground motion simulations, Bull. Earthquake Eng., 10, 517-545, doi:10.1007/s10518-011-9309-8.
Gallovič, F., Zahradník, J. (2011). Toward understanding slip-inversion uncertainty and artifacts: 2. Singular value analysis, J. Geophys. Res., 116, B02309, doi: 10.1029/2010JB007814. Supplemental material (Appendix).
Ameri, G., Emolo, A., Pacor, F., Gallovič, F. (2011). Ground‐Motion Simulations for the M 6.9 Irpinia 1980 Earthquake (Southern Italy) and Scenario Events, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 101, 1136-1151, doi: 10.1785/0120100231.
Zahradník, J., Gallovič, F. (2010). Toward understanding slip-inversion uncertainty and artifacts, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B09310, doi:10.1029/2010JB007414.
Gallovič, F., Käser, M., Burjánek, J., Papaioannou, Ch. (2010). Three-dimensional modeling of near-fault ground motions with nonplanar rupture models and topography: Case of the 2004 Parkfield earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B03308, doi:10.1029/2008JB006171.
Gallovič, F., Zahradník, J., Křížová, D., Plicka, V., Sokos, E., Serpetsidaki, A., Tselentis, G.-A. (2009). From Earthquake Centroid to Spatial-Temporal Rupture Evolution: Mw 6.3 Movri Mountain Earthquake, June 8, 2008, Greece, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L21310, doi:10.1029/2009GL040283. Supplemental material.
Wang, H., Igel, H., Gallovič, F., Cochard (2009). Source and basin effects on rotational ground motions: comparison with translations, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 99 (Special Issue on Rotational Seismology and Engineering Applications), 1162-1173, doi: 10.1785/0120080115.
Ameri, G., Gallovič, F., Pacor, F., Emolo, A. (2009). Uncertainties in strong ground-motion prediction with finite-fault synthetic seismograms: an application to the 1984 M 5.7 Gubbio, central Italy, earthquake, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 99, 647-663, doi: 10.1785/0120080240.
Zollo, A., Iannaccone, G., Lancieri, M., Cantore, L., Convertito, V., Emolo, A., Festa, G., Gallovič, F., Vassallo, M., Martino, C., Satriano, C., Gasparini, P. (2009). The Earthquake Early Warning System in Southern Italy: Methodologies and Performance Evaluation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, special issue on New Methods and Applications of Earthquake Early Warning, L00B07, doi:10.1029/2008GL036689. Supplemental material.
Gallovič, F. (2008). Heterogeneous Coulomb stress perturbation during earthquake cycles in a 3D rate-and-state fault model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L21306, doi:10.1029/2008GL035614. Supplemental material (3D stress kernel).
Zahradník, J., Gallovič, F., Sokos, E., Serpetsidaki, A., Tselentis, G.-A. (2008). Quick Fault-Plane Identification by a Geometrical Method: Application to the Mw 6.2 Leonidio Earthquake, 6 January 2008, Greece, Seism. Res. Lett., 79, 653-662, doi: 10.1785/gssrl.79.5.653.
Wang, H., Igel, H., Gallovič, F., Cochard, A., Ewald, M. (2008). Source-Related Variations of Ground Motions in 3-D media: Application to the Newport-Inglewood Fault, Los Angeles Basin, Geophys. J. Int., 175, 202-214, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03878.x.
Käser, M., Gallovič, F. (2008). Effects of Complicated 3D Rupture Geometries on Earthquake Ground Motion and Their Implications: A Numerical Study, Geophys. J. Int., 172, 276-292, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03627.x.
Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2008). Probabilistic Aftershock Hazard Assessment I: Numerical Testing of Methodological Features, J. Seismology, 12, N. 1, 53-64, doi: 10.1007/s10950-007-9072-0.
Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2008). Probabilistic Aftershock Hazard Assessment II: Application of Strong Ground Motion Modeling, J. Seismology, 12, N. 1, 65-78, doi: 10.1007/s10950-007-9070-2.
Gallovič, F., Burjánek, J. (2007). High-frequency Directivity in Strong Ground Motion Modeling Methods, Annals of Geophysics, Vol. 50, N. 2, 203-211.
Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2007). Hybrid k-squared Source Model for Strong Ground Motion Simulations: Introduction, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 160, 34-50, doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.09.002.
Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2004). On strong ground motion synthesis with k^-2 slip distributions, J. Seismology, 8, 211-224, doi:10.1023/B:JOSE.0000021438.79877.58, software download.
Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2004). The k^-2 rupture model parametric study: example of the 1999 Athens earthquake, Studia geoph. et geod., 48, 589-613, doi:10.1023/B:SGEG.0000037473.70906.08.
Gallovič, F. (2015). Scenario modeling of the 2014 Mw6.0 South Napa, California, earthquake using an advanced broadband kinematic source model, Proceedings of Best Practices in Physics-based Fault Rupture Models for Seismic Hazard Assessment of Nuclear Installations, Vienna, Austria, November 18-20.
D'Amico, M., Pacor, F., Puglia, R., Luzi, L., Ameri, G., Gallovič, F., Spinelli, A., Stabelli, M. R. (2013). SYNTHESIS 0.1: Beta release of a synthetic waveforms repository, Extended abstract, 32° convegno GNGTS si terra a Trieste, November 19-21.
Ameri, G., Pacor, F., Gallovič, F. (2012). Broadband ground-motion modeling and shaking scenarios for the 2009 L'Aquila (central Italy) earthquake, Proceedings of the Fifteenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, September 24-28.
Gallovič, F., Barsch, R., de la Puente, J., Igel, H (2007). Digital Library for Computational Seismology, Eos, Vol. 88, No. 50, 559.
Franceschina, G., Pacor, F., Cultrera, G., Emolo, A., Gallovič, F. (2006). Modelling Directivity Effects of the October 31, 2002 (Mw=5.8), Molise, Southern Italy, Earthquake, Proceedings of First European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 3-8.
Gallovič, F. (2012). Pár sekund k dobru: Systémy včasného varování před zemětřeseními (in Czech), Vesmír 91, 510-512.
Zahradník, J., Burjánek, J., Gallovič, F. (2005). Fyzikální výzkum zemětřesení (in Czech), Čs. časopis pro fyziku 55 (2/2005), 120-126.
Burjánek, J., Gallovič, F., Zahradník, J. (2005). Seismologické předpovědi: skutečnost a sen (in Czech), Čs. časopis pro fyziku 55 (2/2005), 127-134.
Gallovič, F. (2016). Forward and inverse modeling of earthquake sources. Habilitation Thesis, Dept. of Geophysics, Charles University, Prague. Download.
Gallovič, F. (2006). Kinematic modeling of strong ground motions. PhD Thesis, Dept. of Geophysics, Charles University, Prague. Download.
Gallovič, F. (2002). High frequency strong motion synthesis for k^-2 rupture models. Master Thesis, Dept. of Geophysics, Charles University, Prague. Download.
SlipGen: k-2 hybrid slip generator.
LinSlipInv: Suite of codes for linear slip inversions and resolution analysis.
RIKsrf: Codes for strong ground motion simulations using an advanced kinematic source model based on the model of Ruiz et al. (2011) providing slip rates on a finely discretized source that result in synthetics with the desired omega-squared spectral decay in full (broadband) frequency range. The package includes codes that calculate 1D full wavefield synthetics.
BAIES - Bayesian Inference of Earthquake Source parameters: kinematic and dynamic finite fault models, bilateral project of Czech Science Foundation and German Science Foundation, 18-06716J, 2018-2020, co-coordinated by Dr. Alice-Agnes Gabriel, LMU Munich.
Multiscale spatial-temporal complexity of tectonic earthquake sources, Czech Science Foundation 14-04372S, 2014-2016.
Probabilistic modeling of seismic hazard due to aftershocks of large earthquakes, Czech Science Foundation 205/08/P013, 2008-2010.
Hybrid kinematic modeling of earthquake strong ground motions, Grant Agency of Charles University 292/2005/B-GEO/MFF, 2005-2006.
Quick Extended Source Solution, co-ordinated by J. Zahradník, Czech Science Foundation 205/07/0502, 2007-2009.
Scenari di scuotimento e di danno atteso in aree di interesse prioritario e/o strategico (S3), co-ordinated by M. Mucciarelli and F. Pacor, Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Italian Civil Defence Department, 2005-2007.
SPICE (Seismic Wave Propagation and Imaging in Complex Media: a European Network, co-ordinated by Heiner Igel, Ludwig-Maximilians-University), MRTN-CT-2003-504267, 2004-2007.
Modeling of Strong Ground Motions, co-ordinated by J. Zahradník, Czech Science Foundation 205/03/1047, 2003-2005.
3D modelling of strong ground motion including realistic excitation, principal investigator I. Opršal, research project of Grant Agency of Charles University GAUK 235/2003/B-GEO/MFF, 2003.
PRESAP (Towards Practical, Real-Time Estimation of Spatial Aftershock Probabilities: a Feasibility Study in Earthquake Hazard, co-ordinated by J. McCloskey, University of Ulster), EU Project EVG1-CT-1999-00001, 2000-2003.


A general meeting of the OEM's stakeholders failed to result in voices in favour of Fujifilm's acquisition, leaving the controversial merger hanging in the balance.
Fujilfilm's hopes at resurrecting the deal now rest on appealing the injunction issued by a US court earlier this year, barring it from taking place, according to Nikkei Asian Review. Hearings will begin in September.
The injunction was issued as the result of a bitter campaign by major stakeholders Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason to prevent the deal, claiming that it devalued the American OEM. Their efforts resulted in the Supreme Court's freezing of proceedings, and the replacement of the company's CEO.
Shares in Xerox have fallen by around 20 percent since April.
If the injunction is lifted, "Fujifilm could seek legal measures to have Xerox stick to the contract," although CEO Shigetaka Komori recently admitted the deal was "not indispensable" to the Japanese OEM's future growth.


CRUISING into Liverpool on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal has always been a bit of a challenge, but it is now going to be worse.
From next Monday, Canal & River Trust, cutting out even more of its workers, is making what it calls 'Getting to Liverpool your way' meaning it has introduced all-boater operation to its road barriers and swing bridges, installing landing stages for the purpose, Keith Gudgin tells us.
One road bridge that will be of concern is Handcock's Swing Bridge (9). It carries a very important road with restrictions in force at busy periods and boaters will be responsible for thus holding up a great deal of traffic. The swing bridges and locks into Stanley Dock will also have to be boater operated.
There is a new landing stage at both Handcock's and Netherton swing bridges, with no assistance any longer available.
For a short while it is expected that a 'roving lock keeper' will be available at the docks who will be available for guidance.
Not needing any staff means however that there will be unlimited boat movements during allocated windows (8:00am to 9:30am travelling out of Liverpool and 1pm to 4pm travelling into Liverpool daily except Tuesdays.


Virtually part of Greater Bangkok, this province is at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River. One of its principle attractions is the Ancient City, a beautifully designed Thailand in miniature. Covering over 100 acres created in the shape of Thailand, the Ancient City is an open museum that contains 109 scaled-down versions of the country's most famous monuments, all carefully located in their correct place on the map.
The Crocodile Farm is the world's largest, with up to 30,000 inhabitants. Besides breeding all manner of crocodiles, eventually to be turned into handbags, shoes, etc, the farm also puts on fascinating crocodile wrestling shows. A number of other animals are also raised here, including tigers, elephants and chimpanzees.
Museum in Samut Prakan Province. It is well known for its giant three-headed elephant art display. The three storeys inside the elephant contain antiquities and priceless collections of ancient religious.


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Remix peut faire référence à :

 Un remix est, en musique, une version revisitée d'un morceau musical ;
 ReMix, organisation japonaise d'arts martiaux mixtes.
C'est aussi le titre de plusieurs œuvres :
 Remix, album de Candan Erçetin ;
 Remix, telenovela indienne crée en 2004.