May 22, 2012 by C.S. Clarke, Ph.D.
If YouTube's own AudioSwap, or the free and royalty-free music available doesn't meet your needs, you can always make your own. No, wait! You really can! Even if you don't play an instrument and you can't read music, you can make your own video soundtracks with the resources below.
There are apps that actually generate the music for you. There are "easy composing" apps that let you mix samples and loops into complete, coherent songs.
And the makers all have plenty of instructions and tutorials on how to do it.
1. Abaltat Muse and Tunepresto.com. Although you can't get Muse (the desktop software) directly from Tunepresto any longer, you can download the trial from MacUpdate (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26059/abaltat-muse) and presumably buy it through the app itself.
Both Muse and its online version Tunepresto.com do the same thing. They take a video, analyze it, and algorithmically generate a soundtrack matched to it. It looks like the owners have decided to try to offer it only as an online service. Tunepresto is asking 10 Euros per download of the finished music, but actually making the music is free.
I have Muse for my desktop and find it helpful. However, I almost always have to edit the track. The last price I saw for the software was $99. Wikipedia has a good article explaining it in more depth at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaltat_Muse.
2. Musicshake.com — http://eng.musicshake.com/#!/faq. Start with the FAQ to understand a bit of what you're getting into. This online app easily and quickly generates a wide variety of tunes from numerous genres and digital instruments. You can make some very good music with it. The drawback is that it is expensive to use commercially. Right now it costs about $20 per tune to download for commercial use.
But the big advantage of it is that it is your own unique creation and you can do anything you want with it. Not to mention that the price is still a lot better deal than most of the royalty-free stuff you can get, when you consider license restrictions in using other people's work. Also, Musicshake will even sell copies of it for you if you want to post it in their store.
3. Chill — http://bitnotic.com/chill.html. Chill serves a dual purpose of acting like a radio station playing stress-reducing ambient music and making editable ambient music tracks for mixing into mp3's or video backgrounds. Very easy to use and understand. Very easy to modify the music to your taste. Infinite new unique music for whatever your desired use.
I purchased a copy of Chill after trying the free download to review it for this article. After working with it a bit longer, I had some questions and concerns and found out they have excellent customer communication and service. Just remember, they call it "Chill" because it's designed to be relaxing, soothing, calming, gentle ambient music. Don't expect to make loops to add to hard rock guitar.
4. SonicMood — for Mac only. Unusual software that plays ambient music with natural sounds and a number of synth instruments. You can edit the sounds in many, many ways. Like Chill, it serves two purposes. You can just listen to it create unique, unstructured background music that soothes and blocks out distracting conversations or noise around. You can also record it with its built in recorder and make your own sound tracks. There's a free trial and it's very inexpensive. At the time I'm writing this, it only costs $12.95. I've used it for a couple of years and value it greatly. I'd pay more. A lot more.
5. Mixtikl and Noatikl — from Intermorphic.com, http://www.intermorphic.com/ — for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, VST & AU — these folks practically define generative music — their prices are outstandingly reasonable and there are free versions. See their history of generative music at http://www.intermorphic.com/tools/noatikl/generative_music.html. There is so much you need to know about them that I'm not going to try to cover it. You owe it to yourself to see what their products can do for you, and you need to try the free versions to get a feel for them.
1. Garageband — for anyone with a Mac, I hope I don't need to tell you that Garageband is one of the easiest ways of putting together music. You can start a melody track you've created, purchased or snagged for free. Throw in some compatible loops and you've got music. You could also just create the whole thing from loops, if you want, especially if you're doing ambient or new-age-organic type stuff. Of course, you must be willing to learn the software and have a reasonably good ear.
2. FlexiMusic Composer — http://fleximusic.com/product/fleximusic-composer. Regardless of your music knowledge, you can use this $20 software to create music from loops. You don't even have to learn to play an instrument. Windows only.
3. Magix Music Maker — http://www.magix.com/ca/music-maker/detail/ — Ditto on the description of FlexiMusic mentioned above. Lets you easily combine loops to create an unlimited variety of songs. More expensive than FlexiMusic, but appears to have more features and options. Both of the apps are rather like Garageband but for Windows.
4. Soundation Studio — http://soundation.com/. Web-based app that lets you create from loops and mix your own voice or instrumental tracks online. Runs as a membership site and seems reasonably priced. The highest premium access account costs less than one buy-out album of royalty-free music. And the music you make here is your very own. You can do whatever you want with it. You can try it out for free. It runs on both Mac and PC.
All of the above are good tools. I don't particularly recommend any above the others. Like the visual arts, making music is very personal. You have to try to find what "fits" for you. Take free trials. Do more research. Find other tools that I haven't written about. Just know that the tools are available to make music no matter what your ability or starting point. Above all, enjoy yourself. Making music and making videos should be fun. It makes the end product so much better.
May 15, 2012 by C.S. Clarke, Ph.D.
If you don't find everything you need in free music for your videos, it's time to turn to commercial royalty-free music.
PartnersInRhyme — http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/ — Has one of the best sets of terms for using their music available. They offer music of every kind, sound effects, nature sounds, and video loops. They have a number of free selections of music, sounds and video. Their prices are excellent for the amount of content they provide and its quality. The only problem you might have with them is that you have to buy an entire "cd." You can't just find one track and download it. (You can download the "cd" or "collection" or "library.") But most of the time, you'll be using the same genres of music over and over in your videos, so a collection of the same kinds of music is a good idea. And considering the number of companies that charge $30 for just one track, buying a "cd" with about 19 tracks for $90, for example, makes the music very inexpensive.
Rumblefish –http://www.rumblefish.com/index.php –licenses music to go with videos and is a YouTube partner. Works with all video sites. Licenses for personal and commercial. Very inexpensive for non-commercial uses. Moderately priced for commercials uses. Has a function that allows you to upload your video and sync your music selections to it to try it out before you buy it. Very useful.
NEO Sounds — http://www.neosounds.com/#!/?mod=default — Moderately priced. Easy to browse and search. You can browse by music genre, production genre, moods/emotions and instrumentation. You can buy a whole collection or a 30-second loop. Good previews.
Stock Music Boutique — http://stockmusicboutique.com/ — much more limited selection than others on the list, but very high quality. The license is generous and the cost is moderate compared to most. Some free selections and they are as high quality as paid-for. Easy to use and understand site and terms.
StockMusic.com — http://www.stockmusic.com/ — Well-known site. Easy to browse and search. Has music, sound effects, and production elements. Average pricing. Previews available.
Audiomicro.com — http://www.audiomicro.com/ — Easy to navigate and understand. Good music. Large selection. Average terms and pricing.
Premium Beat — http://www.premiumbeat.com/ — excellent music, reasonable license terms, moderate pricing.
All Stock Music — http://www.allstockmusic.com/ — works on the membership with credits type plan. Not very expensive and has a pretty good stock of music.
Music Bakery — http://musicbakery.com — average pricing — maybe a little more expensive than others on this list that I've called "average" but only by a few dollars. Good selection and easy to use and understand site.
RoyaltyFreeMusic.com — http://royaltyfreemusic.com — one of the better-known sites. More $$ than I want to pay, but has top-notch music. Terms are about average.
So, go forth and shop for music. If you have any suggestions for other links, contact me through my contact box on this page or sign in and comment.


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All the latest summer transfer news from League One...
Doncaster Rovers have already lost a number of players, including goalkeeper Ross Turnbull, wingers Mark Duffy and David Cotterill, and striker Chris Brown. Now, left back James Husband has become the latest player to leave Paul Dickov's side, signing for Middlesbrough today in a part-exchange deal involving striker Curtis Main.
In his place comes former Arsenal trainee Cedric Evina. The former Gunners reserve team star left Charlton Athletic at the end of the season, and whilst a move to Crawley Town looked likely earlier this summer, he has chosen to reunite with his former Oldham boss Dickov at the Keepmoat Stadium.
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The Yamaha YZF-R1 is a force to be reckoned with in the liter bike category. It has been since the late 1990s. Now that bike may be redesigned to meet new European emissions standards. According to iMotorbike, the R1 doesn't meet the restrictions for the Euro 5 emissions standards that will take effect in 2021.
The publication also said the company won't just scrap the old bike. It also won't add in the necessary emissions compliant engine parts. It's going to completely redesign the motorcycle and infuse it with more MotoGP technology. That could mean things like a counter-rotating crankshaft—like is in the Ducati Panigale V4—variable valve timing, and a seamless gearbox.
There's supossed to be a patent application for the seamless gearbox floating around out there, but I was unable to find it. iMotorbike reported on it, though, and RideApart reported it as well. A seamless gearbox improves acceleration and makes the shift from one gear to the next extremely smooth.
The downside is it requires a ton of maintenance. If Yamaha will put one on its next R1 production bike, I'd assume it found a way to make the gearbox less labor intensive. That could make the new R1 a truly amazing machine indeed. If Yamaha has figured out how to do that, I'd assume it would use it for racing applications, too, which would be pretty cool.
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Sculpture for me is a means of giving form to my personal investigation of a core philosophical question: What is this enigma that we call life?
My life in art is due mainly to my father and his interest in the Russian language. It was while he was studying Russian in Dublin that he met and befriended a Russian sculptor living in Ireland, Lev Neznansky. In my twenties I had just dropped out of college and was unsure of where my future lay. I was always artistic growing up but when I finished school I never had the confidence to apply for art college. On meeting Lev, I asked if he would allow me to come and work with him for a while. It was through Lev and his work that I discovered my love for carving directly in wood.
My current studio is a derelict building in Dublin city with no electricity or heat. As I work by hand my pieces are very labour intensive and so I would spend much of my time in my studio.
My practice involves carving directly in wood by hand without preliminary drawings or plans. I also work without the use of machine tools or a work bench and use the ground as my work space. The reason for not using a work bench is that it only allows you to work on one aspect of a piece at a time, before turning it over and re-securing it in order to work on the other side. This method of working is more suited to a rational, pre-planned approach which is the antithesis of my working methods.
My practice, is more spontaneous, and by working on a piece on the ground I can re-position my body or the piece itself so as to work on various sides in a more fluid and free-flowing way. Therefore when I first start on a piece there is no top or bottom, left or right only a constantly changing orientation that is only finally resolved towards completion.
The raison d'etre of my work is the process of the transfer of this energy through my body via hammer and chisel into a piece of wood. The final piece is a silent testament to the physical processes involved in its own making.
I don't find myself playing any other roles or roles that are in any way different that I hadn't envisioned before I started making art. Making art, for me is only an extension or manifestation of my life as a whole, for me I could never envision it as a distinct separate activity.
There is no best time for me to make art. It is a constant and on-going conceptual process, a way of being, whether I am in the studio or not.
The only major change in my work in recent years is a gradual simplification of forms and a toning down of the exuberance and energy of some of my earlier pieces, a movement towards subtlety, simplicity and the essential, involving a quieter and more meditative process.
My work very much engages with the notion of process and the essential energy inherent in everything and is a part of my wider interest in and exploration of ideas, everything from the Buddhist notion of Samsara to the ideas of Henri Bergson to contemporary "process philosophy".
I have worked in the past for many years in Arts organisations and galleries but these positions also played a formative role in shaping my ideas and experiences of art. My other interests in philosophy and art history are wholly bound up with being an artist and I would never see them as being separate endeavours.
As a sculptor, I never undertook any formal training. I started sculpting in my early twenties, working with Russian sculptor, Lev Neznansky and it was then that I first discovered my love for carving directly in wood. In the early 1990's I worked with Irish sculptor, Cathy Carman and from her learned the techniques of casting in bronze.
I subsequently lived and worked in San Diego, California, where I exhibited extensively. After returning to Dublin and after a fifteen year career as an art gallery administrator I returned to sculpting full-time in 2011. Since then I have exhibited my work in various galleries and art fairs in both Ireland and England. I currently exhibit with the Solomon Gallery inDublin and with Nicholas Bowlby Fine Art and the Barbara Stanley Gallery in the U.K.
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Created through a continued partnership between the City of Vancouver and the University of British Columbia, this book is an indication of both partners' commitments to collaboratively plan and develop a UNESCO World Heritage Status application for Vancouver's Chinatown.
This edition builds on the commemorative version unveiled at the Vancouver City Council's special meeting in Chinatown on April 22, 2018, capturing the historical moment when the City formally apologized for its past involvement in the discrimination and racism against early Chinese Canadian immigrants and their families. Chinese migrants arrived in what is now known as Canada as early as 1788. Their contributions were often forgotten as part of a long history of racism and discrimination in Canada. Journeys of Hope: Challenging Discrimination and Building on Vancouver Chinatown's Legacies captures the story of how early Chinese migrants helped transform societies around the world, and how Vancouver's Chinatown and other Chinatowns throughout Canada and the Pacific region are the living legacies of that transformation.
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Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev is an Uzbek politician who has been President of Uzbekistan since 2016. Previously he was Prime Minister of Uzbekistan from 2003 to 2016, following the death of President Islam Karimov, he was appointed by the Supreme Assembly as interim President of Uzbekistan on 8 September 2016. He was subsequently elected as President in the December 2016 presidential election, winning 88. 6% of the vote, in 1981, Mirziyoyev graduated from the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration. He holds a Candidate degree in Technological Sciences and he served as governor of Jizzakh Region from 1996 to September 2001, as governor of Samarqand Region from September 2001 until his appointment as Prime Minister in 2003. He was nominated as Prime Minister by President Islam Karimov on December 12,2003 and he replaced Prime Minister O'tkir Sultonov. Mirziyoyev and Han Myeong-sook, the Prime Minister of South Korea and they signed several agreements, including one deal in which Uzbekistan will send 300 tons of Uzbek uranium ore to South Korea every year from 2010 to 2014.
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The Constitution of Uzbekistan was adopted on 8 December 1992 on the 11th session of the Supreme Council of Uzbekistan. It replaced the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan of 1978 and it is the supreme law of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The Constitution of Uzbekistan contains six parts and it is divided into 26 chapters. The Constitution of Uzbekistan nominally creates a separation of powers among a strong presidency, the legislature, and a judiciary. The President of Uzbekistan, who is elected to a five-year term that can be renewed once, is the head of state and is granted supreme executive power by the constitution. As commander in chief of the forces, the President may declare a state of emergency or of war. The President has the power to dissolve the parliament, in effect negating the Oliy Majliss veto power over presidential nominations in a power struggle situation www. lex. uz. The 150 deputies to the Legislative Chamber of the bicameral Oliy Majlis, the 100-member Senate includes 16 directly nominated by the President.
Besides legislation, international treaties, presidential decrees, and states of emergency must be ratified by the Oliy Majlis, the national judiciary includes the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, and the High Economic Court. Lower court systems exist at the regional and town levels, judges at all levels are appointed by the President and approved by the Oliy Majlis. Nominally independent of the branches of government, the courts remain under the effective control of the executive branch. -Chapter 1 - State Sovereignty - Article 1, Uzbekistan is a democratic republic. Both names of the state - the Republic of Uzbekistan and Uzbekistan - shall be equivalent, - Article 2, The state shall express the will of the people and serve their interests. State bodies and officials shall be accountable to the society and the citizens, the state frontier and the territory of Uzbekistan shall be inviolable and indivisible. - Article 4, The state language of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall be Uzbek, - Article 5, The Republic of Uzbekistan shall have its state symbols - the flag, the emblem, and the anthem-sanctioned by the law.
Uzbekistan joined the Commonwealth of Independent States in December 1991. However, it is opposed to reintegration and withdrew from the CIS collective security arrangement in 1999, Uzbekistan is an active supporter of U. S. efforts against worldwide terrorism and joined the coalitions which have dealt with both Afghanistan and Iraq. It is a member of the United Nations, the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, Partnership for Peace, and it is a founding member of and remains involved in the Central Asian Union, formed with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, joined in March 1998 by Tajikistan. In 1999, Uzbekistan joined the GUAM alliance, which was formed in 1997, Uzbekistan is a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and hosts the SCO's Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure in Tashkent. Uzbekistan joined the new Central Asian Cooperation Organization in 2002, the CACO consists of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is a member of and remains involved in the Central Asian Union, formed with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Antti Turunen, the head of the Finnish Foreign Ministrys Eastern European and Central Asian department, led a European Union fact-finding mission to Tashkent, radio Free Europe journalists spoke to Turunen on September 1. Turunen said the visit was inconclusive, but promising enough for the EU to analyze to see if the sanctions imposed on Uzbekistan could be lifted. Turunens visit to Uzbekistan was the first EU visit since October, the diplomatic sanctions consisted of a ban on political contacts, aid cuts, and visa bans on officials held responsible for the events in Andijan and their cover-up. That will be part of the assessment of the sanctions regime, Turunen said that the visit went smoothly and that Uzbek Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov offered a warm reception. The EU delegation met with officials from the Justice Ministry, the Attorney Generals office and he stressed that the real issue for the EU is the Uzbek governments response to the Andijan massacre and human rights abuses. Well, it seems that at the moment the issue with the inquiry is not on the agenda as such.
Mirziyoyev with members of the Uzbek diaspora in the United States.


Teddy is a timid little guy, long and slim. He has black/dark brown fur with white paws, chin and chest. His fur is grey underneath so he can appear to have stripes or a smokey black colour. He is terribly missed and a much loved member of our family.


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Kościół Chrystusa Króla w Bolewicach – rzymskokatolicki kościół parafialny należący do parafii pod tym samym wezwaniem (dekanat lwówecki archidiecezji poznańskiej).

Jest to świątynia wzniesiona w okresie międzywojennym, w latach 1933 - 1936 według projektu Mariana Andrzejewskiego, późniejszego profesora Politechniki Poznańskiej. pełniła funkcję kościoła filialnego parafii w Lwówku. Podczas okupacji  hitlerowskiej kościół został zamieniony na magazyn zboża. Podczas II wojny światowej początkowo odprawiano jeszcze Msze święte w świątyni, a następnie życie w kościele zamarło. Po wyzwoleniu Bolewic, w dniu 17 stycznia 1945 roku, od razu zaczęto wydawać zboże zgromadzone w świątyni. Zboże zakończono wydawać w kwietniu 1945 r. i od razu przystąpiono do urządzania kościoła. Została przywrócono ambona, która po niewielkiej konserwacji została zainstalowana na miejscu gdzie znajduje się do dnia dzisiejszego. Powróciły sztandary, wszystkie szaty i naczynia liturgiczne. Ołtarz pozostał na swym miejscu, nie został zniszczony. Dzięki staraniom mieszkańców świątynia otrzymała ławki ze zboru ewangelickiego w Miedzichowie, w zamian za zniszczone w czasie wojny przez hitlerowców. W kwietniu 1945 roku ks. Stefan Janiak tymczasowy proboszcz parafii w Lwówku, przywrócił odprawianie Mszy świętej w co drugą niedzielę. Dekretem księdza arcybiskupa Walentego Dymka Metropolity Poznańskiego z dniem 1 listopada 1946 roku przy kościele filialnym w Bolewicach została erygowana parafia pod wezwaniem Chrystusa Króla, a jej pierwszym proboszczem został ustanowiony ks. Antoni Kaczmarek.

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All the king's men re-evaluated their economic predictions during the past week because of the most positive job figures in the U.S. to date. However, even Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke, cautioned that the job statistics that are collected leave a lot unsaid. I feel the market was overly optimistic.
Meanwhile, tensions, as predicted at the beginning of the year, continue to mount with Iran.
One bit of news not to overlook last week was the single story that many more foreclosures may soon hit the market, which would cause another drop in housing prices. The U.S. just gave a gravy deal to all the big banks that were involved in a class-action law suit over their fraudulent foreclosure policies and actions. This clears a lot of confusion out of the way for banks, greatly settles their unease about the cost of wrongful foreclosures, virtually assuring that the rate of foreclosures will rapidly pick up now that the foreclosure case is behind them.
Bernanke: 8.3% Unemployment Understates Job Market Weakness "It is very important to look not just at the unemployment rate…. We still have a long way to go before the labor market can be said to be operating normally." Bernanke indicated many have just fallen off the count because of long-term unemployment.
Job Openings Jump To Near 3-Year High Companies and governments posted 3.38 million jobs in December, the Labor Department said Tuesday. That's up from the 3.12 million advertised in the previous month and nearly matches the three-year high reached in September.
Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Fall The number of Americans filing first- time claims for unemployment insurance unexpectedly declined last week by 15,000 to a total of 358,000. The 4-week avg hit the lowest since April 2008 … three month's before that summer's financial crash.
Jobs rebound dampens QE3 prospects-Fed officials The pick-up in U.S. jobs has caught the eye of two top Federal Reserve officials who said on Wednesday that continued improvement in the beleaguered labor market dampens prospects for more economic stimulus measures from the central bank.
U.S. Stocks Fall Amid Greek Debt Talks U.S. stocks snapped a three-day rally as Greek leaders wrestled over possible default. European leaders stepped up pressure on Greece, saying time was running out, but a Euro crisis decision was once again postponed, causing market impatience.
Unemployment report: January job gains have economists rethinking outlooks An unexpectedly rosy jobs report set off a chain reaction Friday, upending economists' gloomy predictions for the coming year, leading to a surge on Wall Street and potentially boggling the political calculus of the 2012 presidential campaigns.
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Greece crisis bailout talks delayed again Negotiations between parties over Greek austerity broke down and have been delayed until Tuesday. A European Commission spokesman said Greece was already "beyond the deadline" to end the talks. Anti-austerity protests are expected to take place Monday.
Greeks stall on elusive bailout deal as EU tempers fray Greek government leaders showed little sense of urgency, despite demands from euro zone leaders to make up their minds fast because Greece faces bankruptcy next month unless it gets the rescue funding. Greek parties will try yet again on Wednesday.
Greeks strike bailout deal in time for EU meeting Greek leaders clinched a long-stalled deal on reforms and austerity measures needed to secure a bailout and avoid a messy default, government sources said, hours before the country's financial backers were to meet in Brussels on Thursday.
Luxury brands in Europe untouched by euro zone crisis. Sales boom despite EU slump The European luxury industry boomed in 2011, seemingly untouched by the global economic slowdown, with demand from China helping to swell profits at companies from LVMH to Coach and Burberry.
Harsher IAEA report on Iran nuclear program expected next month could cause more greater sanctions The upcoming report from the IAEA will apparently include new details about efforts by Tehran to develop a nuclear warhead for a ground-to-ground missile. Western diplomats say the latest IAEA visit to Iranian was a total failure.
Israel, U.S. Divided Over Timing of Potential Military Strike Against Iran The U.S. and Israel are publicly disagreeing over timing for a potential attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, as Iran's leader said Iran won't back down. Israelis think Iran will reach the "immunity zone" in half the time the Americans think it will.
Krauthammer: Leak indicates Israeli attack on Iran "certain" I think it's fairly certain the Israelis are going to attack or you would not have had this leak, deliberately coming this week from secretary of Defense through David Ignatius of The Post saying that he thinks there is a high likelihood.
Occupy protesters march through Oakland streets Dozens of Occupy Oakland demonstrators burned an American flag and marched through the streets Saturday night, a week after police fired tear gas to quell violent demonstrations and hundreds were arrested following a mass break-in at City Hall.
Student Loans Could Be America's Next 'Debt Bomb,'More than 80% of bankruptcy attorneys say the number of their potential clients with student loan debt has increased significantly. "Take it from those of us on the frontline of economic distress … this could … be the next debt bomb for the U.S. economy.


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Q: Parse array with a array inside to PHP I have array in my JS and I have to parse it to PHP:
var transfer_data = {
            cl_name : $("#free_1_1_title").val(),
            contact_name : $("#free_1_1_name").val(),
            contact_lastname : $("#free_1_1_lastname").val(),
            contact_email : $("#free_1_1_email_1").val(),
            cl_alley : $("#free_1_1_select_1").val(),
            cl_services : $("#free_1_1_select_2").val(),
            cl_tags : {
                1 : $("classified_tag_1").val(),
                2 : $("classified_tag_2").val(),
                3 : $("classified_tag_3").val(),
                4 : $("classified_tag_4").val(),
                5 : $("classified_tag_5").val()
            }
        };

and transfering:
$.ajax({
            url: "classifieds/add_new/addNewCl_1_1",
            type: 'POST',
            dataType: 'json',
            data: transfer_data,
            success: function(data) {
                  console.log(data.response);
            },
            error: function (e) {
                console.log(e.message);
            }
        });

and I want to receive it like that:
Array
(
    [cl_name] => value
    [contact_name] => value
    [contact_lastname] => value
    [contact_email] => value
    [cl_alley] => value
    [cl_services] => value
    [cl_tags] => array(1 => value, 2 => value...)
)

so how I should be supposed to do it? I tried to print receiving data with print_r($_POST);
and I got only
Array
(
    [cl_name] => value
    [contact_name] => value
    [contact_lastname] => value
    [contact_email] => value
    [cl_alley] => value
    [cl_services] => value
)

I'm missing my cl_tags with values

A: It is not a good idea to to push array like that.
JSON.stringify:It converts js object to json object.
Do this.
step1.Create array/object.

step 2.JSON.stringify(array) to encode your array in JavaScript,

step 3.$array=json_decode($_POST['jsondata']);//in your php

And one more thing:
you cannot provide numeric key to a javascript object.
for example:
var object = {
 1:"wrong_way",
'1':true,
'alphabetic_key':"ideal";//boolean or number or string are valid as value.
}

Update:
As mentioned in the comment:
Its not the best of convention to use numbers as object keys.But if you do that the javascript engine will behind the scenes convert them in to strings.
But you have to be careful while accessing those object.
Object.'1';//valid
object.1;//invalid
object[1];//valid

A: You need to change variable name in js
So working code are follow:
var data = {
    q:1,
    'w[]': [1,3,4,5,7],
    'e[t1]': 1,
    'e[t2]': 2,
    'e[t3]': [1,2,3,4,5]
}
$.ajax({url:'/', type: 'POST', data: data});

In chrome debug we see follows:
q:1
w[]:1
w[]:3
w[]:4
w[]:5
w[]:7
e[t1]:1
e[t2]:2
e[t3][]:1
e[t3][]:2
e[t3][]:3
e[t3][]:4
e[t3][]:5

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For non-.NET (non-core) applications, we should seek more platform-agnostic, non-vendor-locked-in options for delivery. This will help us to be more GDS compliant. Options to consider are using Docker with a Linux or Windows Server Nano,  or considering PaaS approaches such as Azure App Services, AWS Lambda or Azure Functions


NRA-ILA | "Task Force" Using Crime And Corruption In Mexico As Premise For Gun Control In U.S.
"Task Force" Using Crime And Corruption In Mexico As Premise For Gun Control In U.S.
On October 13, the Associated Press reported that the so-called Bi-National Task Force on Rethinking the United States-Mexico Border has produced a report, which, among other things, calls for re-imposition of the federal "assault weapon" ban of 1994-2004, saying it would improve security in both countries.
The "border-rethinking" group has been put together by the Pacific Council on International Policy and the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations. The group consists mostly of former U.S. and Mexican officials and journalists, none of them currently elected by the people of the U.S. or Mexico to make policy on these issues.
Congress finished its hearings on the Mexico situation several months ago, and many members of Congress have declared their line-in-the-sand opposition to re-imposition of the ban. So given that Brady Campaign seems to be the only outfit that has a copy of the embargoed report, it's safe to conclude that the "task force" is trying to keep the public primed for the next attack on the ownership of firearms like the AR-15 and Remington 11-87, and ammunition magazines designed for defensive purposes.
Whatever the opinions of those who sip tea and nibble biscuits while musing about how to restrict the rest of us, re-imposing the ban would have no effect on Mexico's historic problem of crime and corruption, for at least three reasons.
First, as has been amply demonstrated, the cartels are not limited to semi-automatic AR-15s and AK-47s. They have hand-held and tripod-mounted, belt-fed machine guns; grenade launchers and grenades; and a variety of other high-end firearms, explosives, and special-purpose optics and communication gear acquired from countries other than the United States. Thanks to some Americans' insatiable appetite for mind-altering drugs, they have enough money to buy the "task force" 10 times over, along with any weapon that can be found among any infantry platoon on Earth, no matter what kind of gun law gets imposed.
Third, the ban did not stop the production and sale of any guns, it merely put a one-attachment limit on new guns. For example, before the ban, AR-15s had a pistol-type grip, flash suppressor and bayonet mount. The 750,000 AR-15s made during the ban had only the grip. If the "task force" thinks the fate of Mexico hinges on whether a relatively small number of semi-automatic rifles have flash suppressors and bayonet mounts, its members ought to switch to decaffeinated tea and sugar-free cookies during their get-togethers.
Make no mistake, however. Even if the "task force" doesn't understand the finer details of the old "assault weapon" ban, leading gun ban advocates like Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, the Brady Campaign, the Violence Policy Center, the Joyce Foundation, and the Legal Community Against Violence do. If they have their way, they will eventually drag us into a much larger battle over the right to keep and bear semi-automatic shotguns, M1 Garands, M1 Carbines, and Ruger Mini-14s, in addition to the AR-15s, semi-automatic AK-47s, and other commonly owned firearms that were at issue during the 1994-2004 ban.


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IDETEC has completed its range of a digital sensor Wifi-sized cassette.
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The thigh lift (internal or external) is a common plastic cosmetic surgery procedure that improves the appearance of a woman's thighs. It also develops her self-confidence and has a positive impact on her life.
The thigh lift removes the excess skin and fat from the internal or external thighs, and in order to correct their droopiness. This technique creates younger looking thighs.
The loosening of the skin of the thighs increases with age. It may also appear after a significant weight loss.
Most women are very concerned about the appearance of their thighs, especially when they wear short dresses or bathing suits. Many of them opt for having this plastic surgery.
The 'Minimal-Dissection' technique is a surgical approach practiced by Dr. Fanous, which uses a limited dissection.
This is the technique performed in Montreal on our patients during the thigh lift surgery.
This technique cosmetic procedure, performed under local anesthesia with sedation, allows you to go home the same day.
During the procedure of thigh lift, Dr. Fanous injects a local anesthetic solution into the operated areas, which makes them insensitive.
There are two types of possible incisions (scars) for the thigh lifts: internal and outer.
The main incision is horizontal and is hidden in the groin.
Another vertical incision, more visible, is often sometimes added to the entire length of the inner thigh. This vertical incision is usually indicated after weight losses resulting in significant excess skin in the thighs areas.
The primary incision is horizontal and is located above the external thigh.
This incision is used to remove the excess skin and fat from the thigh.
The duration of the this plastic surgery procedure is about two and a half hours.
A local anesthesia with sedation is used during your thigh lift. Therefore, you will not have general anesthesia.
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Term 2 will see us move into the new Industrial Technology and Design Studios. The new facility consists of 2 Industrial workshops, a weld room, spray room, 2 Design studios and separate room for 3D printing and manufacturing. The spaces have been purposefully designed to meet the new Queensland Certificate of Education requirements.
The next step in reaching our 2020 Vision building goal is the refurbishment of the old Industrial workshops into the Arts Cube and the construction of the new Senior Study space. These projects will commence next week and occupancy ready for day 1 Semester 2.
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Stony Brook University Rec Center Named for Campus Builder and Avid Race Walker
85,000-Square-Foot Walter J. Hawrys Campus Recreation Center Encourages Sound Body and Mind
Marilyn Hawrys Simons, Linda Hawrys Berenberg and Walter Hawrys, Jr. joined Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, and campus community members to honor their father's memory and celebrate the dedication of the newly named Walter J. Hawrys Campus Recreation Center.
Hawrys was a decorated World War II veteran whose determined spirit gained him success in business and in competitive race walking and helped him survive with pancreatic cancer for over 13 years. A native of Brightwaters, New York, Hawrys' company, South Shore Brick Masons, completed numerous buildings on the Stony Brook University campus.
"Walter Hawrys' courageous devotion to duty in defense of our country, his many accomplishments in the community, in life and in love, and that he walked two miles a day while he successfully fought pancreatic cancer for 13 and a half years," Dr. Stanley said, "I recognize that his life epitomized the Latin aphorism, mens sana in corpore sano, 'sound body, sound mind.'"
Dr. Stanley pointed out that Mr. Hawrys had a longtime connection to Stony Brook.
"Walter Hawrys is an integral part of Stony Brook's history," he told the crowd of more than 150 people at the dedication event held outside the recreation center. "We are grateful and extremely proud that his name will be attached to Stony Brook in perpetuity."
Stony Brook alumna Marilyn Hawrys Simons '74, '84, echoed Dr. Stanley, saying that Stony Brook University was a very important part of her father's life, as well as her own.
"This building honors his memory and certainly helps my father's spirit to live on, and hopefully inspires many generations to come," she said. "I hope that all of the students that get to walk through those doors will cherish Stony Brook the same way I certainly have."
Walter Hawrys, Jr. said the recreation center dedication was a moment to give thanks to his father "for being an example, setting a goal of a healthy mind and healthy body."
"So it seems fitting today that the dedication is a recreation center in a place of higher learning," Mr. Hawrys said.
Since its opening in 2012, the state of the art recreation center has become a hub of activity on campus, averaging 2,000 visits a day from students, faculty and staff, Dr. Stanley said.
"Given the importance of this beautiful new 85,000-square-foot recreation center to fostering the physical and mental health of our students, it is only fitting that it be named in Walter Hawrys' honor," Dr. Stanley said.
About Walter J. Hawrys (1925-2014):
Walter J. Hawrys – with his generous heart and fearless mind – excelled in life. A survivor of cancer and of fierce war combat, Hawrys long credited his competitive mindset for getting him through his most difficult challenges.
Hawrys grew up in Brightwaters, New York where he wrestled in high school, was a captain on the school's football team and developed a passion for golf. While still in school, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. Less than a year into his service, he was in the middle of the Normandy invasion, volunteering as an oarsman on a dinghy that landed on an enemy beach. For his heroism, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal within a year.
Hawrys married Violet Long in 1949. The couple raised three children, Marilyn, Walter, Jr. and Linda, in Brightwaters. Together with his wife's brother, Hawrys owned South Shore Brick Masons, completing buildings at the 1964 World's Fair, Stony Brook University, Southampton College and other structures across Long Island. Meanwhile, he honed his golf game, earning many club championships.
During his retirement years, race walking became a passion for Hawrys. He started walking at 65 while recovering from knee surgery and didn't look back, competing in several Senior Olympics and many race walking events throughout Nassau and Suffolk counties.
After months in the hospital recuperating from surgery to remove pancreatic cancer, Hawrys, at 75, got back on his feet, walking two miles a day. Incredibly, he lived a productive 13 and a half years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Hawrys' "never give up" attitude always served him well, as well as all those whose lives he touched during his journey through life.
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Post-Brexit business as usual at JET
"Nothing has changed" regarding the future for the UK's Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) and the Joint European Torus (JET), centre head Ian Chapman said today.
CCFE head Ian Chapman in the control room at JET (Image: CCFE)
The CCFE is the UK's national laboratory for fusion research based at Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire, where it hosts JET on behalf of its European partners. JET is the largest tokamak in the world and the only operational fusion experiment currently capable of producing fusion energy. The JET facilities are operated by the CCFE under a contract between the European Commission and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), and collectively used by all European fusion laboratories under the EUROfusion consortium.
Chapman, who is also CEO of the UKAEA, was responding to reports published earlier this week by the Financial Times and the BBC, questioning the future of the CCFE and the JET project following the UK's anticipated withdrawal from the European Union - popularly known as Brexit. The Financial Times report described the eventual decommissioning of the JET tokamak - along with associated radioactive waste - as a "potential flashpoint" in Brexit negotiations. The BBC said many of the centre's staff had become "extremely nervous" amid uncertainty about future financing and freedom of movement, since many of them are from outside the UK.
"In light of recent media reports (notably on the BBC and Financial Times) on the impact of Brexit for the future of JET, I would like to be clear nothing has changed regarding the future for CCFE and JET," Chapman said. "Discussions are continuing with UK Government; they remain very positive about the fusion program and options for continued JET operation are actively being discussed. Although no firm decisions or commitments have been made, I know that the Government values the international collaboration in fusion and I remain confident for our long-term prospects.
"It is also worth noting that these discussions are helped enormously by excellent recent results on JET. Routine high heating powers and excellent machine reliability have led to plasmas with very high confinement and stored energy - by far the best results with the new Iter-like wall. This augurs very well for key experiments planned for 2019/20 using the fusion fuels deuterium and tritium, and is invaluable for the early operation of Iter."
The Iter fusion reactor, currently under construction in France, will be JET's successor on the route to developing commercial fusion power. Since producing its first plasma in 1983, achieving the world's first release of deuterium-tritium fusion power in 1991, and setting the world record for fusion power - 16 megawatts - in 1997, JET has carried out much important work to assist the design and construction of Iter and remains closely involved in testing plasma physics, systems and materials for the project.
JET's 2015-2016 experimental campaign, which ended on 15 November, included: the rehearsal of procedures for future tritium-tritium and deuterium-tritium experiments; a hydrogen campaign during which physicists learned about the dependence of plasma parameters on the mass of the hydrogen fuel used; and a high-power deuterium campaign. Upcoming campaigns will include tritium-tritium and deuterium-tritium experiments that will be crucial foundations for the operation of Iter.
Iter is currently scheduled to produce its first plasma in 2025 and start deuterium-tritium operations in 2035. Like JET, Iter will not demonstrate the use of nuclear fusion to produce electricity. That will be the objective of Iter's successor, the Demonstration Fusion Power Reactor, or DEMO, which will aim to demonstrate the continuous output of energy, supplying electricity to the grid. According to EUROfusion, DEMO is expected to follow Iter by 2050.
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Q: How does one show that a given polynomial is bijective? Let $P:\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be a given polynomial function. We wish to determine the bijectivity of $P$. The first thing that comes to mind is showing that the derivative does not change sign. However, in my view, this is not trivial for high-degree polynomials.
This problem can be solved easily for specific types of polynomials. Let $P(x)=mx+b$ with $m≠0$, a polynomial of degree one. It is injective since $m(x+c) + b = mx + b \Longrightarrow c=0$. It is clearly surjective since the inverse $P^{-1}(x)=m^{-1}(x-b)$ is defined for all real $x$. Other observations we can make are that if we have a polynomial of the form $x^n + c$ for $n$ odd, this is bijective, that a polynomial of even degree is never bijective, and a degree three polynomial $ax^3 + bx^2 + cx + d$ with $a≠0$ is bijective iff $3ac \geq b^2$. The proofs of these assertions are not difficult.
It gets difficult, however, when we have nontrivial odd degree polynomials of $n \geq 5$. This is where I am unsure how to proceed.

A: Let $Q$ be a polynomial.
Compute $D=\gcd(Q,Q')$. Then the roots of $D$ are precisely the multiple roots of $Q$ and are of multiplicity one less. Therefore $Q/D$ is a polynomial with the same roots as $Q$, but all roots are simple.
Finally $R=\gcd(Q/D,D)$ has precisely the multiple roots of $Q$ as roots and in fact as simple roots. Let's call $R$ the simplification of $Q$.
We need that $\deg P$ is odd and that every critical point (i.e., root of $P'$) is a root of $P'$ of even multiplicity.
Compute a sequence of polynomials $F_0,F_1,\ldots$ as follows: Let $F_0=P'$.
For each $n$, let $R_n$ be the simplification of $F_n$ and $F_{n+1}=F_n/R^2$.
We can stop as soon as $R_n$ is constant.
Then any root of $F_n$ is a root of odd multiplicity of $P'$. Hence what remains is to show that $F_n$ has no real roots. This can be done with Sturm sequences.


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How 4chan and The_Donald Influence the Fake News Ecosystem (By Jeremy Blackburn, University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Digital transition - February 16, 2018
On July 2nd, 2017, Donald Trump, the President of the United States of America, tweeted a short video clip of himself 'punching out' a CNN logo. The video was modified so it looked as if Mr Trump was at a Wrestlemania event. It originally appeared on Reddit's /r/The_Donald subreddit. Although The_Donald was already infamous in some circles, the uproar the image caused was for many the first introduction to a community of users that have had a striking amount of influence on the world stage. While memes like the one birthed from The_Donald are worrying, but mostly harmless, a shocking amount of disinformation ('fake news') is also created by and spread by smaller, more fringe, Web communities that exert a relatively vast influence on the greater Web.
In a nutshell, the explosion of the Web has commoditized the creation of false information and enabled it to spread like wildfire on an unprecedented scale. After a decade and a half of experience with social media platforms, bad actors have honed their techniques and been surprisingly adept at crafting messages that at best make it difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction, and at worst propagate dangerous falsehoods.
While recent discourse has tried to blur the lines between real and fake news, there are some fundamental differences. For example, the simple fact that fake news has to be created in the first place. Real news, even opinion pieces, are based around reporting and the interpretation of factual material. Not to dismiss the efforts of journalists, but, the fact remains: they are not responsible for generating stories from whole cloth. This is not the case with the type of misinformation pushed by certain corners of the Web.
Consider recent events like the death of Heather Heyer during the Charlottesville protests earlier this year. While facts had to be discovered, they were facts, supported by evidence gathered by trained professionals (both law enforcement and journalists) over a period of time. This is real news. However, the facts did not line up with the far-right political ideology espoused on 4chan's /pol/ board (or if we want to play Devil's Advocate, it made for good trolling material), and thus its users set about creating alternative narratives. Immediately they began working towards a shocking, to the uninitiated, nearly singular goal: deflect in any possible way from the fact that a like-minded individual committed a heinous act of violence.
4chan: Crowdsourced Opposition Intelligence
With over a year of observing, measuring, and trying to understand the rise of the alt-right's online activities, we saw a familiar pattern emerge: crowdsourced opposition intelligence.
/pol/ users mobilized in a perverse, yet fascinating, use of the Web. Dozens of, and often conflicting, discussion threads putting forth alternative theories of Ms Heyer's killing, supported by everything from pure conjecture to dubious analysis of mobile phone video and pictures, to impressive investigations discovering personal details and relationships of victims and bystanders. Over time, pieces of the fabrication were agreed upon and tweaked until it resembled in large part a plausible, albeit eyebrow-raising, false reality ready for consumption by the general public. Furthermore, as bits of the narrative are debunked, it continues to evolve, weeks after the actual facts have been established.
One month after Heather Heyer's killing, users on /pol/ were still pushing fabricated alternative narratives of events.
The Web Centipede
There are many anecdotal examples of smaller communities on the Web bubbling up and influencing the rest of the Web, but the plural of anecdote is not data. The research community has studied information diffusion on specific social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and indeed each of these platforms is under fire from government investigations in the US, UK, and EU, but the Web is much bigger than just Facebook and Twitter. There are other forces at play, where false information is incubated and crafted for maximum impact before it reaches a mainstream audience. Thus, we set out to measure just how this influence flows in a systematic and methodological manner, analyzing how URLs from 45 mainstream and 54 alternative news sources are shared across 8 months of Reddit, 4chan, and Twitter posts.
While we had many interesting findings, there are a few we will highlight here:
Reddit and 4chan post mainstream news URLs at over twice the rate than Twitter does, and 4chan in particular posts alternative news URLs at twice the rate of Twitter and Reddit.
We found that alternative news URLs spread much faster than mainstream URLs, perhaps an artifact of automated bots.
While 4chan was usually the slowest to a post a given URL, it was also the most successful at 'reviving' old stories: if a URL was re-posted after a long period of time, it probably showed up on 4chan originally.
Graph representation of news ecosystem for mainstream news domains (left) and alternative news domains (right). We create two directed graphs, one for each type of news, where the nodes represent alternative or mainstream domains, as well as the three platforms, and the edges are the sequences that consider only the first-hop of the platforms. For example, if a breitbart.com URL appears first on Twitter and later on the six selected subreddits, we add an edge from breitbart.com to Twitter, and from Twitter to the six selected subreddits. We also add weights on these edges based on the number of such unique URLs. Edges are colored the same as their source node.
Measuring Influence Through the Lens of Mainstream and Alternative News
While comparative analysis of news URL posting behaviour provides insights into how Web communities connect together like a centipede through which information flows, it is not sufficiently powerful to quantify the specific levels of influence they have.
To address this, we used a cool statistical model known as Hawkes processes. There's a more technical treatment in our paper, but imagine users on Reddit, 4chan, and Twitter as part of systems that are stimulated and respond by posting URLs. There are a variety of stimuli these systems respond to. From organic discovery of URLs via surfing, to seeing a friend share it on Facebook. Sometimes these systems influence each other, for example, Donald Trump posting a video from Reddit's The_Donald on Twitter. Hawkes processes let us quantify the stimulus-response relationship between different systems, and furthermore, accounts for the influence of other systems that we do not measure, and may not even know about!
An example of what a sequence of events on a Hawkes model with three processes might look like, using The_Donald, Twitter, and /pol/ communities for representative purposes. First, an event 1 (a URL being posted) occurs on Twitter; this is caused by the background rate of the process, meaning that the URL was posted not because it was seen on any of the communities in the model, but because it was seen elsewhere (including a user finding it organically). This initial event causes an impulse response on the rates of the other processes, The_Donald and /pol/, meaning that the URL is more likely to be posted on those platforms after having been seen on Twitter. Eventually, this causes another event on The_Donald (2), which in turn causes an event on /pol/. A process can cause an additional impulse response to itself, as seen with event 3, and multiple events can be caused in response to a single event, as seen with event 4 causing events 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3. Naturally, the data we collect does not explicitly state which events are caused by other events, or which are caused by the background rate.
Using Hawkes processes, we measured the influence of Reddit (more specifically, six subreddits with a substantial amount of news URLs: The_Donald, worldnews, politics, news, conspiracy, and AskReddit), 4chan, and Twitter on each other. We found that Twitter does have heavy influence on the spread of fake news, confirming concerns of other researchers and lending credence to government investigations. However, it does not exist in a vacuum, and is subject to the influence of other, lesser known 'fringe' communities. More specifically, The_Donald and /pol/ are responsible for around 6% of mainstream news URLs over 4.5% of alternative news URLs on Twitter. Keeping in mind the relative size of the communities (Twitter is several orders of magnitude bigger than 4chan or any particular subreddit), these findings are quite striking.
Hawke's processes allow us to quantify the percentage of news URLs appearing in one community that are caused by another. This table shows the estimated mean percentage of alternative URL events on a community in a given column caused by alternative news URL events from a community in a given row (A), the estimated mean percentage of mainstream news URL events caused by mainstream news URL events (M), and the difference between alternative and mainstream news (also indicated by the color).
Our work is a first step toward rigorously measuring the spread of fake news and the influence of social media, but much is left to be done. We now know that these dangerous fringe communities are not confined and we cannot study them in isolation, for example, just recently misinformation from 4chan related to the Las Vegas shooting spread across the Web. Considering the increasing awareness of the impact fake news has had in influencing referendums, elections, and public opinion in general, we expect an increase in funding for research trying to address it. To that end, we believe there are several specific areas that should be looked into. Machine learning models to automatically gauge the veracity of content should take into account its source and propagation path. This, of course, requires discovery and monitoring of multiple communities on the Web, which comes with a host of additional challenges. Finally, we think the research community should continue to build up our understanding of how this content is created; a deep enough understanding could allow us to adapt the strategies of bad actors as a tool against them. It's time to fight fire with fire.
Jeremy Blackburn is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His work has covered a variety of topics ranging from cheating in online video games to cryptographic communication protocols for the Web. Before joining UAB, Jeremy was an associate researcher at Telefonica Research in Barcelona, Spain.
This article originally appeared on Bentham's Gaze.