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Andrew Quodling, Queensland University of Technology
As families in Christchurch bury their loved ones following Friday's terrorist attack, global attention now turns to preventing such a thing ever happening again.
In particular, the role social media played in broadcasting live footage and amplifying its reach is under the microscope. Facebook and YouTube face intense scrutiny.
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New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has reportedly been in contact with Facebook executives to press the case that the footage should not available for viewing. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for a moratorium on amateur livestreaming services.
But beyond these immediate responses, this terrible incident presents an opportunity for longer term reform. It's time for social media platforms to be more open about how livestreaming works, how it is moderated, and what should happen if or when the rules break down.
With the alleged perpetrator apparently flying under the radar prior to this incident in Christchurch, our collective focus is now turned to the online radicalisation of young men.
As part of that, online platforms face increased scrutiny and Facebook and Youtube have drawn criticism.
After dissemination of the original livestream occurred on Facebook, YouTube became a venue for the re-upload and propagation of the recorded footage.
Both platforms have made public statements about their efforts at moderation.
YouTube noted the challenges of dealing with an "unprecedented volume" of uploads.
Although it's been reported less than 4000 people saw the initial stream on Facebook, Facebook said:
In the first 24 hours we removed 1.5 million videos of the attack globally, of which over 1.2 million were blocked at upload […]
Focusing chiefly on live-streaming is somewhat reductive. Although the shooter initially streamed his own footage, the greater challenge of controlling the video largely relates to two issues:
These issues illustrate the weaknesses of existing content moderation policies and practices.
Content moderation is a complex and unenviable responsibility. Platforms like Facebook and YouTube are expected to balance the virtues of free expression and newsworthiness with socio-cultural norms and personal desires, as well as the local regulatory regimes of the countries they operate in.
When platforms perform this responsibility poorly (or, utterly abdicate it) they pass on the task to others — like the New Zealand Internet Service Providers that blocked access to websites that were re-distributing the shooter's footage.
People might reasonably expect platforms like Facebook and YouTube to have thorough controls over what is uploaded on their sites. However, the companies' huge user bases mean they often must balance the application of automated, algorithmic systems for content moderation (like Microsoft's PhotoDNA, and YouTube's ContentID) with teams of human moderators.
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We know from investigative reporting that the moderation teams at platforms like Facebook and YouTube are tasked with particularly challenging work. They seem to have a relatively high turnover of staff who are quickly burnt-out by severe workloads while moderating the worst content on the internet. They are supported with only meagre wages, and what could be viewed as inadequate mental healthcare.
And while some algorithmic systems can be effective at scale, they can also be subverted by competent users who understand aspects of their methodology. If you've ever found a video on YouTube where the colours are distorted, the audio playback is slightly out of sync, or the image is heavily zoomed and cropped, you've likely seen someone's attempt to get around ContentID algorithms.
For online platforms, the response to terror attacks is further complicated by the difficult balance they must strike between their desire to protect users from gratuitous or appalling footage with their commitment to inform people seeking news through their platform.
We must also acknowledge the other ways livestreaming features in modern life. Livestreaming is a lucrative niche entertainment industry, with thousands of innocent users broadcasting hobbies with friends from board games to mukbang (social eating), to video games. Livestreaming is important for activists in authoritarian countries, allowing them to share eyewitness footage of crimes, and shift power relationships. A ban on livestreaming would prevent a lot of this activity.
Facebook and YouTube's challenges in addressing the issue of livestreamed hate crimes tells us something important. We need a more open, transparent approach to moderation. Platforms must talk openly about how this work is done, and be prepared to incorporate feedback from our governments and society more broadly.
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A good place to start is the Santa Clara principles, generated initially from a content moderation conference held in February 2018 and updated in May 2018. These offer a solid foundation for reform, stating:
A more socially responsible approach to platforms' roles as moderators of public discourse necessitates a move away from the black-box secrecy platforms are accustomed to — and a move towards more thorough public discussions about content moderation.
In the end, greater transparency may facilitate a less reactive policy landscape, where both public policy and opinion have a greater understanding around the complexities of managing new and innovative communications technologies.
Andrew Quodling, PhD candidate researching governance of social media platforms, Queensland University of Technology
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Joe Burton, University of Waikato
In the aftermath of the tragic loss of life in Christchurch on Friday, the focus needs to be on supporting those who have lost their loved ones and on fostering a sense of national unity in the face of an heinous act of terrorism.
At this early stage we know the perpetrator of the most devastating terrorist attack in New Zealand's history was a white supremacist. We know he accessed and stockpiled firearms over a long period of time, and that his racist beliefs motivated his actions.
But there are other lessons and important points to make about the attack. These should shape the longer-term response by the New Zealand government.
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The first is a more sustained governmental and societal focus on right-wing extremism. It may turn out that the extremist who committed this attack acted alone, but the ideology that motivated him has spread around the globe and is infecting our politics and discourse.
We know right-wing radicals have committed atrocities before. The most notable perhaps was an extremist who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011. But this is part of a long history of extremist violence on the right.
According to research by the Anti-Defamation League, over the last decade, 73.3% of all extremist-related fatalities in the US could be linked to domestic right-wing extremists, while 23.4% were attributable to Islamist extremists. We should pay attention to these statistics in New Zealand. The fear that jihadist terrorism will occur sometime in New Zealand is real, but we haven't adequately recognised the threat from neofascist ideology.
It is a tragic footnote to this story that globally Muslims have been by far the most victimised group by terrorism in the post-9/11 era. In a 2011 report, the US government's National Counter-Terrorism Center (NCTC), said:
In cases where the religious affiliation of terrorism casualties could be determined, Muslims suffered between 82% and 97% of terrorism-related fatalities over the past five years.
Clearly, we need to do more to protect Muslim communities from acts of violence and to focus more tightly on the ideology of fascism, which underpins both right-wing groups and those who commit violence in the name of Islam.
A second lesson relates to the process of radicalisation. We need to better understand why people who commit mass murder fall into a set of hateful beliefs. This is clearly a serious social problem caused by many variables, including demographic change, inequality, poverty and lack of education.
The latest research on radicalisation suggests many of those responsible for "lone wolf" acts are socially illiterate and have fallen out of the mainstream of society. They often indicate these beliefs via social media, suggesting we could do more to report these viewpoints to authorities.
Radicals also tend to share a set of psychological or cognitive traits that underpin their actions. According to recent reports by the European Institute for Peace these include grievances that are galvanised by a unifying ideology, a process of cognitive "de-pluralisation", in which they tend to focus on a very limited set of ideas to interpret the world, and confirmation bias, where events are re-packaged into existing beliefs and assumptions.
Other research shows radicals climb a "staircase" to violent acts involving a series of incremental steps over a period of years. This suggests earlier intervention will be the key to having people back away from violence.
The social and cognitive alienation of young people in contemporary society is a growing problem. Radicalisation expert Scott Atran says:
Violent extremism represents not the resurgence of traditional cultures, but their collapse, as young people unmoored from millennial traditions flail about in search of a social identity that gives personal significance and glory. This is the dark side of globalisation.
A third lesson is that global communications technology is providing a breeding ground for extremism and hatred. In this sense "lone wolves" aren't acting alone. They are connected to a structured and well-financed global neo-Nazi ideology that uses the internet to propagate its beliefs.
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According to a recent report by the Data & Society Research Institute, far-right actors are regularly spreading white supremacist thought, Islamophobia and misogyny on the internet through sites such as 4chan and 8chan.
Right-wing groups have regularly circulated propaganda within social media channels and have sown racial and ethnically charged divisions within society through memes and disinformation. This was a tactic of the far right in the US elections in 2016, and has been used regularly since, including in the Brexit debates.
These websites aren't easy to take down. As recent efforts by Google show, neo-Nazi sites that are blocked or banned "go dark" behind encrypted platforms that are out of reach of tech companies and security services.
Timothy Snyder, a renowned holocaust historian, notes this form of "mass manipulation" is based on appealing to emotions rather than reason. The spread of fake news and propaganda on the internet creates a perfect platform to increase fear, anger and anxiety. These are the psychological conditions from which acts of violence are committed.
The final lesson is a wider, political one for New Zealand. There has undoubtedly been a tendency in some quarters of New Zealand politics to assume we are living in a largely benign international environment. This is part of a troubling isolationist tendency in New Zealand politics that contributes to us not taking security seriously and investing in it accordingly. The Christchurch attacks have shattered these illusions.
The right-wing problem in New Zealand has historical roots. White pride marches have taken place in Christchurch on numerous occasions. A far-right candidate who was convicted of firebombing a marae (Māori meeting place) stood for mayor three times in recent years, most recently in 2013 when he received a small but significant number of votes.
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On the international stage we need to stand up against the beliefs that underpin right-wing extremism. Jacinda Ardern's call to Donald Trump to be compassionate to Muslims was a good start and reminds us racism at the top of society can create a permissive environment for extremism.
We also need to reorient our foreign and security policy towards de-radicalisation processes both domestically and internationally. The UK's Prevent programme, which has seen a big increase in efforts to prevent right-wing extremism, may be a good model to follow.
New Zealanders now know the fear and chaos that follows terrorism. But the goal of terrorism is to use that fear to undermine our democracy and way of life. So we need to channel our response in a way that protects our values.
We must be aware of the perils of over-reacting, but nevertheless need to redouble our efforts to create multi-level, evidence-led strategies to target radicalism, recognising global and local drivers of extremism.
Joe Burton, Senior Lecturer, New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science, University of Waikato
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Denis Muller, University of Melbourne
Two basic rules of media ethics apply to the coverage of terrorism: avoid giving unnecessary oxygen to the terrorist, and avoid unnecessarily violating standards of public decency.
The way to do this is to apply a test of necessity: what is necessary to publish to give the public a sufficiently comprehensive account of what has happened?
Significant elements in the Australian media – mainly commercial television, the online platform of News Corp and that company's broadsheet, The Australian – failed to adhere to these basic rules in their coverage of the Christchurch massacre.
The television channels were particularly culpable.
They broadcast segments of the footage supplied by the terrorist showing him getting his gun from the back of his car and then firing as he walked towards the front door of one of the mosques. The backs of three men were visible in the doorway. Scenes from inside the mosque after the killings were also shown.
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Sky News, also owned by News Corp, showed some of this footage repeatedly.
It came from a camera mounted on the terrorist's head and was obviously designed for propaganda purposes: to glorify this act of barbarism, to inspire weak-minded people to copy it, and to sow fear in the community.
The test of necessity would have been satisfied by showing the first minute, where the terrorist is getting his gun from the car and where white supremacist slogans can be seen written on his equipment.
A voice-over drawing attention to the fact that the terrorist was using a head-mounted camera and promoting white supremacy was all that was needed to give the public a sufficient idea of this aspect of the atrocity.
It made clear the cold-blooded planning involved and it explained the motives: racial hatred and the glorification of bloodshed as a means of expressing it.
Beyond that, the use of the footage was obscenely voyeuristic and gave the terrorist the propaganda dividend he wanted.
It also grossly violated standards of public decency. It is getting on for 200 years since civilised societies treated the killing of people as a public spectacle.
Not content with exploiting the violence, some media outlets, notably The Australian, published substantial extracts from the terrorist's manifesto. Once more, it handed the terrorist a propaganda victory.
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It is enough to know that the manifesto suggests the terrorist was radicalised during his travels in Europe and seemed determined to take revenge for atrocities committed there by Islamist terrorists.
Publishing his words of hate was not necessary to an understanding of that.
An influential factor in how this story unfolded was the interaction between the professional media and social media.
The atrocities were designed for social media. The camera footage was uploaded there and so was the manifesto.
The professional media took this material from social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter which, as usual, had published them in full without any regard for the ethics involved.
The significance of this for the way the story unfolded was that the propaganda supplied by the perpetrator was available to the professional media, even as the story was breaking.
This naturally placed the perpetrator at the centre of the story from the start.
Only when footage of victims started to become available some time later did attention switch to them.
Comparisons have been made between the way the professional media covered the Christchurch atrocity and the massacre by Islamist terrorists at the Bataclan theatre in Paris in 2015, where 89 people were killed.
The immediate focus at Bataclan was on the victims because it was they who provided the first footage – using mobile phone cameras – and because other footage was available from security cameras in the area.
Only some time later were the terrorists identified as belonging to Islamic State.
It is obvious, then, that whoever gets footage out first will have the advantage of exposure in the early stages of media coverage. The Christchurch terrorist seems to have grasped this at some level.
So Christchurch contains a new ethical lesson for the professional media.
While a story is breaking, the media can only go with the content they have to hand. But if the first footage takes the form of terrorist propaganda, then no matter how hellish or sensational it is, there is an added ethical duty to minimise what might be called "first footage advantage".
Whether social media have published it is immaterial. Social media are an ethics-free zone; professional media are not. The weakest ethical reason for publishing something is that someone else already has.
Moreover, once the professional media have given their authority to an occurrence, the general population is much more likely to believe it actually happened. It is no longer just another mass of unverified junk swirling around the internet.
Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Weeks ahead of the ANZAC commemoration at Gallipoli, serious tensions erupted between Australia and Turkey, after threatening comments by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the wake of the Christchurch massacre.
Scott Morrison on Wednesday called in the Turkish ambassador to give him a tongue lashing. He demanded a withdrawal of the remarks and the taking down of a nationalist video featuring footage of the Australian gunman's live stream.
The strength of the Prime Minister's response has an eye to the emotional place of Gallipoli in the Australian narrative. But he also has to be careful not to cause the Turkish government to respond by hampering next month's ANZAC commemoration.
President Erdoğan, electioneering at Çanakkale, just across from the Gallipoli peninsula, referred to the massacre, saying: "They test us with the messages they give in New Zealand […] We understood that your hatred is alive […] We understood that you begrudge our lives."
He said: "Your ancestors came. […] Later on, some of them returned back on their feet, some of them in coffins.
"If you will come here with the same intentions, we will be waiting for you. You should have no doubt that we will farewell you just like your grandfathers".
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters, visiting Indonesia, on Wednesday highlighted that the gunman was "a non-New Zealander, an outsider".
Peters also said he thought Erdoğan had not known the full facts but "since he's been apprised, or informed of the facts, he's made a very conciliatory statement today […] which would stand in stark contrast to what he said the other day."
In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post Erdoğan has written "all Western leaders must learn from the courage, leadership and sincerity of New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, to embrace Muslims living in their respective countries".
Peters, who is going to Turkey this week, said when there he would "set any record straight that needs to be set straight as to what went on".
Attacking Erdoğan's original comments, Morrison told a news conference they were "highly offensive to Australians and highly reckless in this very sensitive environment".
Morrison said he had asked for the remarks to be clarified and withdrawn. "I've asked for these comments, particularly their reporting of the misrepresented position of Australia on Turkish television, the state-sponsored broadcaster, to be taken down," he said.
He would wait for the Turkish government's response – beyond that "all options are on the table". Asked what these options were, the Prime Minister would not elaborate.
Morrison said he did not accept as an excuse that "things are said in an electoral context".
The travel advisory for Turkey is under review. People planning to go to Gallipoli should exercise common sense and await further advice, Morrison said. The present advice is for people to exercise a "high degree of caution".
Morrison said Erdoğan's remarks were "offensive, because they insult the memory of our ANZACs and they violate the pledge that is etched in the stone at Gallipoli, of the promise of Atatürk to the mothers of our ANZACs. So I understand the deep offence Australians would be feeling about this.
"The comments completely misrepresented the Australian and New Zealand governments' very strong response to the extremist attack, he said. All Australians had condemned it.
"We have reached out to embrace our Muslim brothers and sisters in New Zealand and in Australia, quite to the contrary of the vile assertion that has been made about our response," Morrison said.
He said he had spoken with Turkish Australian leaders on Wednesday morning. "They have expressed to me their deep disappointment about these comments. They don't represent the views of Turkish Australians.
"I am not going to single out the comments of one person and ascribe it to a people, whether in Turkey or across Australia. I don't think it does reflect the views of the Turkish people, or certainly of Turkish Australians," Morrison said.
He said Foreign Minister Marise Payne would be speaking to her Turkish counterpart.
The Australian ambassador to Turkey was due to speak with Erdoğan's advisers.
Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Anne Twomey, University of Sydney
In the wake of comments about the Christchurch massacre, members of the public have raised the question of whether a senator can be expelled from the Senate for making offensive statements.
It is now well known that members of parliament can have their seat vacated in the parliament due to their disqualification under section 44 of the Constitution for reasons including dual citizenship, bankruptcy, holding certain government offices or being convicted of offences punishable by imprisonment for one year or longer.
But there is no ground of disqualification for behaviour that brings a House of Parliament into disrepute. This was something left to the house to deal with by way of expulsion.
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Section 49 of the Commonwealth Constitution provides that until the Commonwealth parliament declares the powers, privileges and immunities of its houses, they shall be those the British House of Commons had at the time of federation (1901).
The House of Commons then had, and continues to have, the power to expel its members. The power was rarely exercised, but was most commonly used when a member was found to have committed a criminal offence or contempt of parliament. Because of the application of section 49 of the Constitution, such a power was also initially conferred upon both houses of the Australian parliament.
The House of Representatives exercised that power in 1920 when it expelled a member of the Labor opposition, Hugh Mahon. He had given a speech at a public meeting that criticised the actions of the British in Ireland and expressed support for an Australian republic.
Prime Minister Billy Hughes (whom Mahon had previously voted to expel from the Labor Party over conscription in 1916), moved to expel Mahon from the House of Representatives on November 11 – a dangerous date for dismissals. He accused Mahon of having made "seditious and disloyal utterances" that were "inconsistent with his oath of allegiance". The opposition objected, arguing that no action should be taken unless Mahon was tried and convicted by the courts. Mahon was expelled by a vote taken on party lines.
In 2016, a private member's motion was moved to recognise that his expulsion was unjust and a misuse of the power then invested in the house.
The power of the houses to expel members, as granted by section 49, was subject to the Commonwealth parliament declaring what the powers, privileges and immunities of the houses shall be. This occurred with the enactment of the Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987.
It was enacted as a result of an inquiry by a parliamentary committee, which pointed out the potential for this power to be abused and that as a matter of democratic principle, it was up to voters to decide the composition of the parliament. This is reinforced by sections seven and 24 of the Constitution, which say that the houses of parliament are to be "directly chosen by the people".
As a consequence, the power to expel was removed from the houses. Section 8 of the Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987 says:
A House does not have power to expel a member from membership of a House.
This means that currently neither house of the Commonwealth parliament has the power to expel one of its members.
Just as the parliament had the legislative power to limit the powers and privileges of its houses, it could legislate to amend or repeal section eight so that a house could, in future, expel one of its members, either on any ground or for limited reasons.
Whether or not this is wise remains doubtful. The reasons given by the parliamentary committee for the removal of this power remain strong. The power to expel is vulnerable to misuse when one political party holds a majority in the house. Equally, there is a good democratic argument that such matters should be left to the voters at election time.
However, expulsion is still an option in other Australian parliaments, such as the NSW parliament. It's used in circumstances where the member is judged guilty of conduct unworthy of a member of parliament and where the continuing service of the member is likely to bring the house into disrepute.
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It is commonly the case, though, that a finding of illegality, dishonesty or corruption is first made by a court, a royal commission or the Independent Commission Against Corruption before action to expel is taken. The prospect of expulsion is almost always enough to cause the member to resign without expulsion formally occurring. So, actual cases of expulsion remain extremely rare.
The houses retain powers to suspend members for offences against the house, such as disorderly conduct. But it is doubtful that a house retains powers of suspension in relation to conduct that does not amount to a breach of standing orders or an "offence against the house". Suspension may therefore not be available in relation to statements made outside the house that do not affect its proceedings.
Instead, the house may choose to censure such comments by way of a formal motion. Such motions are more commonly moved against ministers in relation to government failings. A censure motion is regarded as a serious form of rebuke, but it does not give rise to any further kind of punishment such as a fine or suspension.
The primary remedy for dealing with unacceptable behaviour remains at the ballot box. This is a pertinent reminder to all voters of the importance of being vigilant in the casting of their vote to ensure the people they elect to high office are worthy of fulfilling it.
Anne Twomey, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
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John Battersby, Massey University
My research focuses on terrorism in or affecting New Zealand. Until yesterday, my phone didn't ring that often because few were interested in anything I had to say. Since yesterday, it has not stopped.
There is no understating the horrific nature of the Christchurch tragedy. Forty nine people have been killed, and more than 40 are being treated for injuries at Christchurch hospital.
Three people have been arrested in relation to the mosque shootings. One Australian citizen has appeared in court today charged with murder.
New Zealanders will need to come to terms with this tragedy, vent emotions and frustrations, and they will want to know why this could not be stopped. These are valid questions.
New Zealand is a small country, geographically distant from the rest of the world. It has been happy in the assumption that the violent extremism that has showed itself on multiple occasions on five continents over the last 20 years had never happened here. Many New Zealanders believed that because it hadn't, it couldn't.
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There was a definite realisation by those in the security sector that this assumption was not safe. The spread of extremism through social media simply obliterates geographical distance and there is really nothing to prevent overseas events being replicated here.
The emphasis was on monitoring and detecting extremism – in whatever form it took. The few arrests for possession and distribution of ISIS related propaganda exhibit that fact. It was not confined – as some commentators have suggested – to just those engaging with violent jihadism.
Another key problem is hindsight. Now that the culmination of a sequence of activities has become so painfully clear, it will be inevitable that several points will be picked out that security sector operators perhaps did see, or could have seen. A retrospective case will be made that therefore they should have seen this coming.
But any sign there was, would have occurred in the context of the day before yesterday. Trying to convince the average New Zealander that anything like this could ever happen here would have been no easy endeavour.
There will be questions over the resourcing and powers of law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and rightfully so. But we must be mature and evidence-based in the conclusions we take from all this.
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a review of gun laws. New Zealand doesn't have a gun register, but there are an estimated 1.3 million legally owned firearms, with illegal firearms a significant problem.
It is not just the law that needs a review. Gun control, monitoring and enforcement will need to be tightened, but changes need to be considered calmly and focus on the individuals that are not likely to abide by any new law. The vast majority of licensed gun owners are not a problem, but they will need to accept that military-style automatic weapons will likely be banned and a national register will become a reality.
New Zealand's Terrorism Suppression Act was found wanting in 2007, following the "Urewera raids". Police relied on the act to spy on and arrest activists who allegedly trained to use semi-automatic weapons in military-style camps in the Urewera forest. Then Solicitor-General David Collins QC described the act as "incoherent and unworkable". Nothing meaningful has been done with it since.
New Zealand is a democratic country in which freedom of expression, conscience, religious freedom and free speech are valued. Any legislative change will need to impinge on these as little as possible, but people need to be safe here.
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Regardless of how big and well-resourced security agencies are, overseas experience has shown that individual actors, or small tightly integrated groups can slip through any security filter. It is simply impossible to monitor people's thoughts, intentions, sayings and social media accounts so closely that every signal that someone might be planning to carry out an attack is seen.
Australian media suggestions of an "intelligence failure" are useful to a point. But the fact that at least one of the Christchurch offenders left Australia a short time ago and was not on any watch-list of concern in Australia, where police and intelligence powers are much more comprehensive, demonstrates this is a very difficult failure to guard against.
This attack was enabled by, and certainly comprised a strong element of, social media. Social media has been wilfully and readily adopted across modern societies. This has happened without much thought being given to its usefulness to organised criminals or extremists to spread their toxic views, or its ready use as a means of sourcing an audience for terror attacks.
As a society perhaps we should take pause to consider the broader implications before rushing to adopt every new piece of communications technology. It's all very well to ask the security sector what could they have done to stop this attack, when we could ask ourselves the same – what could we have done?
John Battersby, Police Teaching Fellow, Massey University
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There has been a possible terror attack in Melbourne, with two people confirmed dead (including the attacker who was shot by police). The links below are to articles reporting on the incident.
For more visit:
– https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/09/melbourne-bourke-street-attack-dead-injured-man-arrested-stabbings
– https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/09/melbourne-what-we-know-so-far-bourke-street-attack
– https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2018/nov/09/melbourne-bourke-street-police-incident-declared-after-car-in-flames
James L. Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles
The recent attack on a bike path in lower Manhattan once again compels us to ask: Why do people pledge allegiance to the Islamic State?
Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in the attack, isn't a devout Muslim. He cursed and came late to prayers, according to acquaintances who talked to The New York Times. So why would he want to be a martyr?
As a professor of modern Middle Eastern history, I have spent the majority of my professional life studying the region, its culture, society and politics. In recent years, I have researched and written about IS and its terrorist activities. While other experts and I have long looked at how radicalization occurs, some new ideas are emerging.
Like this recent attack in New York, many IS attacks around the globe are carried out by individuals the media have dubbed "lone wolves" – that is, freelancers who act without the direct knowledge of the IS leadership. To avoid glamorizing them, the RAND Corporation prefers the term "flaming bananas."
There are two theories as to why these individuals pledge allegiance to the group. The first is that they get "radicalized."
Radicalization refers to a step-by-step process whereby individuals become increasingly susceptible to jihadi ideas. First, they cut themselves off from social networks such as family, which provide them with support and a conventional value system. They then immerse themselves in a radical religious counterculture. They might do this on their own, or a jihadi recruiter might bring them into the fold. Either way, the result is the same.
Some observers claim IS propaganda plays a key role in recruitment. Rather than presenting a religious rationale for the group's actions, IS propaganda tends to focus on the violence the group perpetrates. IS has even released a video game based on Grand Theft Auto 5 in which, rather than stealing cars and battling the police, the player destroys advancing personnel carriers and shoots enemy soldiers.
Perhaps, then, the radicalization model is wrong or not universally applicable. Perhaps there's something other than religious zealotry at play.
Consider the widely reported story of two would-be jihadists who, before they left Birmingham, U.K., for Syria, ordered "Islam for Dummies" and "The Koran for Dummies" to fill the gaps in their knowledge.
Newspaper stories time and again puzzle over the problem of how it happens that individuals who go on to join IS were found in bars, even gay bars, or had Western girlfriends and smoked and drank almost up to the time they committed some act of violence for the group. The most common explanation is that their dissolute lifestyle was a cover.
After the driver of a truck ran down and killed 84 people in Nice, France, for example, the French interior minister was at a loss to explain how someone who drank during Ramadan – which had ended a week and a half before – could have radicalized so quickly.
A number of experts have argued that the radicalization model should be replaced by, or supplemented with, a different model.
Rather than joining a radically different religious counterculture, individuals are attracted to IS, these experts argue, because its actions reaffirm the cultural values of those who are marginalized, or those who exhibit what psychiatrists call "anti-social personality disorders."
Could it be that IS volunteers are drawn to a value system that asserts an aggressive machismo, disparages steady work and sustains the impulse for immediate gratification? Could it be that they are attracted to a culture that promotes redemption through violence, loyalty, patriarchal values, thrill-seeking to the point of martyrdom and the diminution of women to objects of pleasure?
In this reading, IS more closely resembles the sort of street gang with which many of its Western and Westernized enlistees are familiar than its more austere competitor, al-Qaida.
James L. Gelvin, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College
After a man barreled down a New York City bike path on Oct. 31, killing eight, President Donald Trump reacted by calling for an end to the "green card lottery" program that allowed the attacker to enter the country.
The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, as it is officially known, has been in the sights of the president for a while. In August, Trump publicly backed a GOP bill that would end the program and replace it with a merit-based system.
Trump and his fellow Republicans have long decried illegal immigration, but they have traditionally favored the legal kind, partly because their business donors demand it.
As someone who researches the impact of immigration on workers, I believe their plans to change who can enter the country legally is a big mistake. We would be giving up a program that benefits American workers with very little chance of a gain in safety.
While Trump's tweets about the lottery program are based on security concerns, the usual argument supporting curbs on immigration is that new arrivals hurt native-born American workers and the economy at large.
I'll leave analyzing the security concerns to other experts; suffice it to say that the risk, according to experts, is very small. Green card holders have killed just 16 people – including yesterday – in terror attacks on U.S. soil since 1975.
As for the economic impact on U.S.-born workers, the key thing to bear in mind is that the more homogeneous and similar immigrants are to natives, the greater the odds they'll in fact have a negative effect.
In contrast, immigrants who come from diverse backgrounds with a range of skills – such as the lottery winners and the so-called "Dreamers" – tend to produce greater economic benefits. That may be one reason at least some Republicans and most Americans are in favor of keeping the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program that protects the Dreamers from deportation, which Trump recently ended.
Currently, the U.S. receives a lot of immigrants without a college degree or with imperfect English. About half of immigrants fit either description.
Legislation proposed earlier this summer – the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act – would exclude most such workers and reduce the total number of green cards awarding permanent legal U.S. residence to just over 500,000 from more than one million today.
It would also end the green card lottery, which awards 50,000 green cards a year to people from countries with low rates of immigration to the U.S.
Importantly, it would also change who gets a leg up when applying for a green card. Currently, family of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents, including siblings and adult children, are able to apply. The new system would limit that to minor children and spouses.
Instead, the bill would create a point-based system like those used in countries such as the U.K. and Australia that use factors such as English ability, education and job offers to rank applicants. However, it would be stricter than point systems used in those countries, which admit immigrants through other programs as well.
In essence, the plan would make the pool of immigrants more homogeneous and dramatically smaller in number, mirroring the misguided origin-based restrictions from the 1920s.
Those who wish to restrict immigration often cite what they naïvely call "supply-and-demand economics" to essentially argue that the economy is a fixed pie that gets divided among a country's residents. Fewer immigrants means "more pie" for the U.S.-born, as the story goes.
I am an economist, and this is not what my colleagues and I say. The commonplace argument that more immigrants, by themselves, lower wages and take jobs from Americans – an argument which Attorney General Jeff Sessions used to defend ending the "Dreamers" program – has neither empirical nor theoretical support in economics. It is just a myth.
Instead, both theory and empirical research show that immigration, including people with few skills and little English, grows the pie and strengthens the American workforce.
While all the recently proposed changes to our immigration system will make U.S. workers worse off, the English requirement is likely to be particularly harmful to U.S. workers, especially low-skilled ones.
Indeed, I have found the relative fluency of U.S.-born workers is what keeps them from being harmed from labor market competition from immigrants.
The reason for this is the following. Essentially, immigrants with imperfect English skills tend to specialize in jobs that are less "communication-intensive," such as manual labor. Americans fluent in the language, on the other hand, tend to take on higher-paying, communication-intensive jobs that are out of reach of those without a strong grasp of English. In other words, these groups aren't likely to compete for the same jobs, making them more complementary than adversarial.
In contrast, when new immigrants are more fluent in English, something the Trump-backed proposal would encourage, the types of occupations they are qualified for are almost identical to those of American workers. Thus, insisting on strong English skills as a condition of coming to America is likely to increase labor market competition and suppress wages.
Immigration that emphasizes diversity, rather than merely merit, tends to attract more people who specialize in occupations uncommon among U.S.-born workers. And, in fact, this is the key source of the well-known economic benefits of immigration.
Studies by economists Giovanni Peri and Chad Sparber, for example, show this tendency toward job specialization is a key reason the large volume of low-skill immigration does not drive down incomes of Americans. Other research by Peri and Gianmarco Ottaviano shows that simply encouraging immigration from diverse origins lifts wages.
Put differently, there is direct evidence that the sort of diversity that the green card lottery encourages makes all Americans better off. It would be a shame to give all of that up because of a tiny risk of terrorism.
This is an updated version of an article originally published on Sept. 15, 2017.
Ethan Lewis, Associate Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
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Hello everyone! Hope you're all doing well.
My post today is about Hyper-V Checkpoints gone bad. What do I mean with bad? Well, let me sketch the situation first, but I'll keep it short.
Problem situation
A customer was running Hyper-V 2012 R2, upgraded to Hyper-V 2016, in combination with Hyper-V Replica to Azure ASR. Unfortunately, the available bandwidth of the internet connection was not as it should be for the replication to go through smoothly. (The internet connection is in the process of being upgraded, so that will change shortly.)
However, combine limited bandwidth and too much Hyper-V replica's for the available bandwidth and you will end up with replica's being retried all the time and even re-synchronization running now and then. And the re-synchronization is where the checkpoints come in the picture. This particular situation got so bad that even the re-syncs wouldn't go through and eventually some of the VMs ended up living on multiple checkpoints, without any trace of the checkpoints in Hyper-V Manager or Failover Cluster Manager. The only evidence was on the file system, where you could see multiple .avhdx files with names pointing to the original .vhdx files and in the configuration of the VMs, where the attached disks were the .avdhx files.
Guide to the solution
After performing multiple searches on the all knowing internet, I found some useful posts and articles to manually merge the .avhdx files into the original .vhdx files and get back to a normal situation. In this post I would like to summarize some of the most important things you have to keep in mind when you are dealing with manually merging checkpoints.
First of all: it should be clear that manual merge is not the first step you perform when dealing with this kind of problem!
Try this first!
The first step you should try, when you have a situation similar to mine (no track of checkpoints in Hyper-V Manager, only on file level and in the VM config), is to create an additional checkpoint on the VM and remove it. Hyper-V will try to clean up the entire checkpoint chain when you remove that last checkpoint.
Identify the chain
If this does not help, you'll need to identify the checkpoint chain of your disks. On the right of your Hyper-V Manager you'll have the action "Inspect Disk…". Use this and browse to the .avhdx file you think is the last in the chain (start with the one specified in your VM config). Using the "Inspect Parent…" button, see if you can inspect your way up to the original .vhdx file.
If you are able to get to the .vhdx file without any hassle, you should be fine for the rest of the run. If not, you're in a bit more trouble… (jump to the "Link to parent" part of this post).
Merge with parent disk
If you have the chain figured out, you can start merging the .avhdx files all the way up to the original .vhdx file. To do this, you'll need the "Edit disk…" action from the Hyper-V Manager console.
Merge your way up the chain and check your VM config to point it to the .vhdx file.
Link to parent disk
When your chain is not complete or broken, due to original files being moved or renamed or merging in the wrong order, you will be presented with an error when you try to Inspect the disk.
Using the "Edit disk…" action, you can find out where the chain is broken. If you select an .avhdx file that has no link to it's parent, you will only have the option to reconnect it.
Once you recreate the chain, you can start merging the disks again.
The conclusion is simple: monitor your environment, keep track of things like checkpoints, replications, backups… And make sure this does not happen.
If it does happen however, I hope this post will help you solve your problem.
Have a nice day! 'Till next time.

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Bury-based Beckett Investment Management signs up to industry-wide gender diversity charter
A regional finance firm has signed up to a government scheme which aims to support gender diversity at all levels in the industry.
Beckett Investment Management, based in Bury St Edmunds, has pledged its support for the treasury's Women in Finance charter.
Launched in 2016, the charter asks finance firms to undertake four actions to improve their pipeline for female talent to reach leadership positions.
Samantha Owen, associate director at Beckett Investment Management, said: "The charter helps improve opportunities and progression for women in financial services and ensures that talented people can progress irrespective of their gender.
"We already enjoy exceptional levels of gender diversity at our firm – 54% of our employees are women and 57% of our board members are women. Signing up to the charter means we commit to maintaining this balance."
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Rising Kashmir editor Shujaat Bukhari was on Friday laid to rest , at his ancestral graveyard in North Kashmir's Baramulla district. The veteran journalist, who had championed peace in times of conflict and may have been killed for it, the reports of thousands of people from cross section of society attended funeral prayers of Bukhari, held at Idd Gah Ground at Kreeri area of Baramulla.
Bukhari was killed yesterday by unidentified gunmen outside his office near Press Enclave in Srinagar. State government ministers, legislators, officials, leaders of political parties, media fraternity besides people from local and adjacent areas attended the funeral prayers and the last rites. National Conference leader Omar Abdullah, Congress leader Prof Saif ud Din Soz, top separatist leader Yasin Malik were among the prominent people who attended the funeral.
The killing of Bukhari and his personal security officers has been widely condemned. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, I & B Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore, Governor NN Vohra, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, Separatist Leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq & Yasin Malik, strongly condemned the killing and expressed shock and grief over the brutal assassination. So far, no terrorist outfit has taken responsibility for the attack.


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Finally today came – the day I have been looking forward to all week. The day we meet with 70 of the main volunteers who work, and have worked, with Pastor Lawrence through Together in Action.
Once everyone had assembled at the Diakonia Center (previous teams will remember this), we proceeded to share, to reminisce, to laugh – and to eat! What a wonderful meal with friends.
We presented each volunteer with a bag of gifts, including food, an umbrella, a soccer ball, some material (for the women), a watch (for the men), and a few other small items. They, in turn, presented each of us with a carved bowl and cup.
Pastor Kingston Piri acted as MC and had everyone in the room laughing as he walked around the room getting each person, in his or her own dialect, describe the piece of cake he proudly held aloft. To sit and see the entire room of volunteers, many of whom coming from situations that we, in Canada, might call "desperate", was something I don't think I will ever forget.
And now, we are back in our rooms, packing, and preparing for the long journey home. We leave Lusaka tomorrow, make a short stop in Livingstone for debriefing and a bit of rest, and then continue home through Johannesburg, Frankfurt and London. Please continue to pray that we complete this mission well and return home safely.


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With more than 30 elementary schools located in Everett, WA, parents with grade-school-age kids have plenty of homework to do in terms of finding the right house in the right school district. Better Properties Eastside jumpstarts your research with an overview of the top schools.
Located at 5601 156th St SE, Forest View Elementary is a public school with an enrollment of 680 students. It's the highest-rated elementary school in Everett, with a 9/10 rating from GreatSchools. Moreover, it boasts a five-star aggregate score based on reviews from parents. Forest View is known for its engaging programs and innovative instruction, as well as its test scores, which rank far higher than the Washington state average in math, English, and science.
Located several blocks from Forest View, Silver Firs Elementary School has a smaller enrollment (485), but unlike Forest View, Silver Firs offers a preschool program. The school's mission is to educate with high behavioral and academic standards, nurturing and guiding students to become lifelong learners and positive contributors to the world around them. Silver Firs has an 8/10 overall GreatSchools score, and the school performs well above average in test scores and student progress. Silver Firs also excels at supporting disadvantaged students and those with disabilities.
Situated at 4117 132nd St SE, Penny Creek Elementary School is the third Everett grade school to post an overall GreatSchools score of 8 or better. And with a student body numbering 727, it's also the largest of the three top-performing schools. Penny Creek's philosophy is to work together and achieve emotional, social, and academic success. Test scores are strong, as is student progress, with the vast majority of kids showing marked improvement from one grade to the next. Penny Creek is ethnically diverse, and all ethnicities display excellent performance.
Jefferson Elementary School instills in its students an understanding of today's changing society, and teaches them to well-rounded, lifelong learners. Located at 2500 Cadet Way, Jefferson's enrollment of 556 students is a little bit higher than the school district's median. 17 reviews from parents aggregate to a 4/5-star score, and GreatSchools rates Jefferson Elementary a 7/10. Notably, student progress at Jefferson is a 10/10, indicating that kids are getting the support they need to perform well on tests and in class year after year.
Though its 675-student enrollment is bigger than Jefferson Elementary, the two schools share similarities. Both have a 7/10 GreatSchools rating and both have an aggregate four-star score based on parent reviews. Silver Lake, situated at 12815 Bothell Everett Hwy, trails Jefferson in terms of test scores and student progress, but the school's ratings in these categories are still quite favorable compared to the state average.
Whittier Elementary's enrollment of 470 students makes it the smallest school on this list. Found at 916 Oakes Ave, the staff at Whittier is passionate about creating deeper learning opportunities for their students. The school holds a 7/10 GreatSchools score, and excels on multiple fronts including test scores, student progress, and supporting students with disabilities.
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Dina Temkin contributes a literal version of Mikhail Lozinskij's version (c.1920?) which is at http://lib.ru/SHAKESPEARE/othello2.txt
"Since honor* is a light** of virtue***,Дорогой синьор,
Then your son-in-law is light [as in light-skinned], and by no means black."
* or bravery, heroism, valor, prowess
** or light-source such as a torch
*** or benevolence, wholesomeness
ad hoc version and back-translation by Victor Shapoval (2012)
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The Making of a Silk Scarf by Claudia F
How does an exquisite silk scarf come to be? If you ask our Milan-based artisan-in-residence, the soulful Claudia F, it begins with opening up your heart.
Claudia lives for her art, is overjoyed to be a creator of fine things, and is always looking for the opportunity to work as an artisan on natural fibres. Silk leads the way because, for Claudia, silk is a living thing. Her connection with it is almost surreal and spiritual in nature.
Its formidable qualities — both soft and feathery and yet imbued with Herculean strength — inspire Claudia to allow her own complexities to come to her art. She brushes into existence her innermost thoughts and heartfelt expressions. All done with a great deal of care and passion.
From beginning to end Claudia nurtures her scarf to be. The raw material, the blank canvas that she will transform into a silken beauty, comes from the mills in Como. The epi-centre of silk production in the world, Como has an interesting history. Here is a tidbit.
In 1400 Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan who had a residence on Lake Como had the brilliant idea of planting mulberry trees to the sheer delight of local greedy silkworms. The silk industry was born with factories popping up everywhere with production becoming increasingly refined in the cities of Como and Cernobbio.
Centuries later, around 1869, the famous silk school Paolo Carcano came to be for the purpose of training the most talented silk masters in all of Italy. Over time, silk from Lake Como gained so much popularity that, in 1972, its production exceeded that of China and Japan.
These traditions upheld in Como add to what makes Claudia's scarves so special. Her technique is patient, contemplative and has been mastered over time. This is a creative process that starts with spreading pongee silk onto a frame. A choreography of sorts then emerges, a dance with a brush, a sponge, a roller, each one held confidently by skilled, eager hands.
She uses the humblest of tools to brush onto the silk canvas colours that depict moods and tell a narrative in "Seurat" hues — some strong, some soft, but never banal. Slowly naturally hypoallergenic water colours turn the blank canvas into a kaleidoscope of rich shades enhanced by the marbling effects of salt, and finally immortalised by steam. The nascent painted silk scarf is then washed and ironed, and once more spread on a frame to rest.
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'Drury becomes the first player in Sabres history to be named captain twice in one season and follows Miroslav Satan (October 2003), himself (November 2003), James Patrick (December 2003), J.P. Dumont (January 2004) and Daniel Briere (February 2004) this season. Drury's reign will be contingent on the team and his own performance during the month of March.'
Archives for March 3, 2004
'Center Daniel Briere once again will be flanked by right wing J.P. Dumont and left wing Jochen Hecht tonight when the Sabres host the Ottawa Senators in HSBC Arena.'
Sabres vs. Senators
'Sens have not allowed more than three goals to Buffalo since start of 2000-01 season.'
Lindy Ruff Decides To Go Back For A Captain
'Captain November is now Captain March. Chris Drury gets his second stint with the "C."'
Patrick Says He'll Play
'Lindy Ruff figures it's better to have a sub par Patrick than Doug Janik from Rochester.'
Trade Supply Exceeding Market Demand
'Believe what you will about the Sabres never offering Satan — though it's more likely than not that an over-eager employee created the artwork "just in case" — but Quinn is right; high salaried players like Satan won't draw a whole lot of interest from teams that are looking to sell off assets by the March 9 deadline. Why would they?' (Submitted by: Triptych94)


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Incredibly Modern & Unique Swimming Pools
Thinking of adding a swimming pool to your already ultra-stylish home? Take a look at some incredibly modern swimming pools for inspiration.
The world's first, 90 foot long, glass bottomed swimming pool in South London links together to apartment towers creating a miraculous optical illusion. Designed by Hal architects, from below the design looks like the swimming pool water and the swimmers are hovering from above, from inside of the pool, swimmers dive into a pool of water with a wavy view of city below.
Swimming pool turned aquarium and interactive art gallery, architecture firm Serrano + Baquero merged an immensely deep swimming pool where different glass windows throughout the interior showcase the swimmers below. The pool is elevated from above but the young couple who own the summer home access it from underneath.
Entitled the Hemeroscopium House, it resembles a modern brutalism architectural style. The swimming pool is long and suspended in mid-air on it's upper level on a horizontal cantilever. Perpendicular to another swimming pool that resides just below it. The entirety of this modular home including the swimming pool is designed by Ensamble Studio. However if you are looking for a modern pool to add to the garden of your home, there are plenty of fitters, like Willsha Pools, who can help you create a modern garden pool
A series of indoor pools framed by white wash brick pyramids for an Aquatics Center on Copenhagen's Harbour designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates'. The design aims to highlight the significance of water in the history, culture and urban life in the city.


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Everton striker Romelu Lukaku is right to reject the advances of Manchester United in favour of a switch to either Real Madrid for Paris Saint Germain, according to ex-Arsenal and England forward Ian Wright. The Belgium international has reportedly decided to leave Goodison Park this summer, but will rebuff offers from within the Premier League.
The Sun understand that the £50m-rated ($72m-rated) Lukaku, who is the joint top scorer in the English top flight with 15 goals, has made his mind up over his future but wants a move away from British shores. Despite interest from Old Trafford, both Real and PSG are high on the 22-year-old's list of potential new homes.
A preference over a move to one of Europe's elite clubs comes amid United's premature exit from the Champions League at the group stage and the club's plummeting reputation ,which has continued during the reign of Louis van Gaal. Wright – a scorer of 212 Premier League goals – agrees with Lukaku that a move to Old Trafford is "not attractive".
"I would stay at Everton for another 18 months at least because if he is continuing to score goals then he will be sought after by better teams than PSG. Manchester United would not be attractive to him at the moment because of the turmoil they are in," he told The Sun. "He would have to go there with a massive price tag on him and he'll have to do it and whether he can do that is a different story, with the pressure on Manchester United.
"If you go to Real Madrid then you have the experience of going there, even if it doesn't go well and you can come back to Manchester United. There is too much pressure there when they are like this, there is too much pressure when they aren't winning. With the pressure they are under for not winning, they are not attractive."


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NGS data analysis
This wiki page is dedicated to the series of trainings that will lead you through the various workflows for the analysis of next generation sequencing data.
Have fun solving the exercises!
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Because most of you have used or will use the Illumina platform to generate their data, we will use Illumina data sets in all exercises
- 1 Training 1: Introduction to the analysis of NGS data
- 2 Training 2: NGS variant analysis
- 3 Training 3: RNA-Seq analysis
- 3.1 Bulk RNA-Seq analysis for differential expression
- 3.2 Single cell RNA-Seq analysis
- 3.3 Summer school 2018
- 3.4 edgeR / DESeq2
- 3.5 Archive
- 4 Training 4: ChIP-Seq analysis
- 5 Training 5: metagenomics
Training 1: Introduction to the analysis of NGS data
Periodically repeated Sessions (Janick Mathys)
- Introduction on Illumina technology
- Principle of Illumina sequencing
- Introduction to NGS data analysis
- Data analysis workflow for the training
- NGS workflows in Galaxy
This training gives you the background knowledge you need to follow the more advanced trainings on variant analysis, RNA-Seq and ChIP-Seq.
Download the data sets for this training:
- The data set of the introduction training
- The blue data set of the RNA-Seq training
- ChIP data of the ChIP-Seq training
- control data of the ChIP-Seq training
- Arabidopsis gtf file
- Arabidopsis bed file
Now you can try the exercises.
- Quality control of NGS data
- Mapping of NGS data
- RNASeq in Galaxy
- RNASeq in GenePattern
- DNASeq in Galaxy
- DNASeq in GenePattern
- Downloading NGS data from the internet
- Improving the quality of NGS data
- Linux command line
- Introduction to RNA-Seq analysis
Q&A added during the intro to NGS data analysis
File formats
Training 2: NGS variant analysis
Session of November 2018 (Stéphane Plaisance)
Session of 2018 using GenePattern
Session of 2020 using GenePattern
Training archive
- Introduction to NGS-formats used in classical NGS applications and used today in the hands-on
- Remarks about NGS variant analysis: laptop configuration and files
- Session of 2017 using GenePattern
- Hands-on_introduction_to_NGS_variant_analysis-2016 - pages dedicated to the 2016 1-day session using Linux command line.
- Hands-on_introduction_to_NGS_variant_analysis - pages dedicated to the 2014 2-days session using Linux command line.
- Slides presented during the 2014 session: NGS_DNA-variants_2014-05-23_slides.pdf.
Q&A pages
- Q&A_added_during_the_NGS_variant_analysis_training
- Q&A added during the NGS variant analysis training2 (+ new Q&A's from May 2014)
- NGS Variant Analysis and coverage depth
- Call variants with samtools 1.0
- Create a mappability track
- Create a GC content track
Training 3: RNA-Seq analysis
Bulk RNA-Seq analysis for differential expression
Install the latest version of R and RStudio. List of R packages used in the training:
- ggplot2
- ggrepel
- gplots
- pheatmap
- plyr
- RColorBrewer
- reshape2
- Bioconductor
- Bioconductor: airway
- Bioconductor: DESeq2
- Bioconductor: GenomicAlignments
- Bioconductor: GenomicFeatures
- Bioconductor: org.Hs.eg.db
- Bioconductor: Rsamtools
- Bioconductor: tximeta
- Only for Mac users: Bioconductor: Rsubread
- Solutions FASTQC analysis of Arabidopsis data
- Solutions FASTQC analysis of human data
- Trimmomatic manual
- STAR manual
- samtools tutorial
- RSeQC manual
- htseq-count tutorial
- Solutions command line workflow
- Bash script for automating command line RNASeq workflow
- R script with solutions counting exercises
- R script counting
- R script with solutions DESeq2 analysis
- R script DESeq2
- DESeq2 tutorial
- R script with solutions EdgeR analysis
- Adapter file
- Arabidopsis annotation in bed format
- metadata
- HTSeq counts
- FeatureCounts / Salmon counts
- list of DE genes
- clean and annotated list of DE genes
- Ensembl IDs of upregulated genes
- Ensembl IDs of DE genes
Extra links
- QuantSeq data analysis
- Slides on how cutadapt works
- Cutadapt manual
- featureCounts or htseq-count?
- R Script for RNASeq variant analysis
- Instruction for hands-on RNASeq variant analysis
- presentation RNASeq variant analysis
Single cell RNA-Seq analysis
Install the latest version of R and RStudio. List of R packages used in the training:
- dplyr
- gridExtra
- rgl
- Seurat
- stringr
- Bioconductor: scater
- Slides of the analysis of aggregated brain data sets of 2000 and 1000 cells
- simple R script for Seurat analysis of aggregated brain data sets of 2000 and 1000 cells
- R script with extra functions for Seurat analysis of aggregated brain data sets of 2000 and 1000 cells
- full R notebook for Seurat analysis of aggregated brain data sets of 2000 and 1000 cells
- notebook on full Seurat analysis (open in web browser)
- aggregated data: output of CellRanger aggregate to be used as input of the script for Seurat analysis of aggregated brain data sets
Extra links
- Slides introduction to 10xGenomics made by Mike Stubbington from 10xGenomics
- bcl2fastq tutorial (the tool that was used as a basis for cellranger mkfastq)
- Slides on trajectory analysis
- Tutorial on trajectory analysis
- R script for trajectory analysis
- 2000 brain cells mouse data set
- 1000 brain cells mouse data set
Summer school 2018
Experimental design
Integration of omics data
What after the summer school ?
Bulk RNA-Seq - from raw reads to counts:
- We have two GenePattern servers running that contain all the tools discussed in the training. Send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com to get an account
- We can provide a snapshot of the server you worked on during the training. You can then make your own server on Google cloud (it's easy starting from a snapshot). You will have to pay for that.
Bulk RNA-Seq - finding DE genes:
- You can do the R analysis on your own computer: see this section for the list of packages you need to install.
- We can provide a snapshot of the server you worked on during the training. You can then make your own server on Google cloud (it's easy starting from a snapshot). You will have to pay for that.
Single cell RNA-Seq:
- You can do the Seurat analysis on your own computer: see .this section for the list of packages you need to install.
- We can provide a snapshot of the server you worked on during the training. You can then make your own server on Google cloud (it's easy starting from a snapshot). You will have to pay for that.
- In the future you can get support from Niels and Liesbet. Contact email@example.com for more information.
- We will check if cell ranger is installed on KULeuven vsc (accessible by people from KULeuven and UHasselt).
A GIT page has been started to post your issues and share with us, you can reach it at https://github.com/BITS-VIB/Summer_school_2018
- NGS_data_analysis_tools A page listing tools found during the day and that you may want to install on your computer
Session of March 20th and 23rd, 2015 (Stéphane Plaisance)
repeated September 25, 2015
Hands-on_introduction_to_NGS_RNASeq_DE_analysis - the pages of the actual training
containing a hands-on workflow of RNA-Seq analysis for differential expression using command line tools.
creating ENV variables for the training
Create a new file with "sudo /etc/profile.d/bits.sh" and paste the following content
# system wide ENV variables to ease path in training exercises export SUMMER=/usr/summer export SOFT=$SUMMER/software export REFS=$SUMMER/refs export DATA=/mnt/userdata/$(whoami)
source (=execute) the file by typing ". /etc/profile.d/bits.sh"
You now have shortcuts (env variables) that can be typed to reach the very long exercise locations as fololws:
- $SUMMER leads to /usr/summer
- $SOFT leads to $SUMMER/software
- $REFS leads to $SUMMER/refs
- $DATA leads to /home/<yourhome>/data
edgeR / DESeq2
Session of January 20th and 27th, 2014 using Galaxy (Joachim Jacob)
Training 4: ChIP-Seq analysis
The aim of this session is to :
- Have an understanding of the nature of ChIP-Seq data
- Perform a complete analysis workflow including QC, read mapping, visualization in a genome browser and peak-calling
- Use the GenePattern platform for each step of the workflow and feel the complexity of the task
- Have an overview of possible downstream analyses
- Perform a motif analysis with online web programs
This training gives an introduction to ChIP-seq data analysis, covering the processing steps starting from the reads to the peaks. Among all possible downstream analyses, the practical aspect will focus on motif analyses. A particular emphasis will be put on deciding which downstream analyses to perform depending on the biological question. This training does not cover all methods available today. It does not aim at bringing users to a professional NGS analyst level but provides enough information to allow biologists understand what DNA sequencing practically is and to communicate with NGS experts for more in-depth needs.
For this training, we will use a dataset produced by Myers et al [1] involved in the regulation of gene expression under anaerobic conditions in bacteria. We will focus on one factor: FNR. The advantage of this dataset is its small size, allowing real time execution of all steps of the dataset.
Suggested Reading :
- Bailey et al. Practical Guidelines for the Comprehensive Analysis of ChIP-seq Data. PLoS Comput Biol 9, e1003326 (2013) [2].PDF
- Thomas-Chollier et al. A complete workflow for the analysis of full-size ChIP-seq (and similar) data sets using peak-motifs. Nature Protocols 7, 1551–1568 (2012)[3]. PDF
raw Data :
- all experiments: GEO: GSE41187
- used subset: FNR IP ChIP-seq Anaerobic A (=> ENA/SRA: SRX189773 - SRR576933)
- used control: anaerobic INPUT DNA (=> ENA/SRA: SRX189778 - SRR576938)
additional files:
- zip file containing the E.coli K12 genome, the .bam and the .bai file for the ChIP sample
- link to the E. coli gene annotations in gff3 format (download this gff3 file and use it in IGV)
- zip file containing the .bam and .bai file for the control sample (download this file and use it in IGV)
- normalized mapping results in BigWig format for the ChIP sample (download this file and use it in IGV)
- normalized mapping results in BigWig format for the control sample (download this file and use it in IGV)
- Downloading the data
- GenePattern tutorial
- Quality control of the data
- Mapping the reads with Bowtie
- Peak calling with MACS
- Visualization with deepTools
- Visualizing the peaks in a genome browser
- Motif analysis
Same training in command line instead of GenePattern
- From reads to insight: a hitchhiker's guide to ATAC-seq data analysis
- GEO database[4]
- Bowtie manual[6]
- MACS manual
- RSAT (European mirror)[7]
- HMCan [8] when working with cancer samples or cell lines (by V Boera from Inst. Curie)
- UCSC microbial genome browser
- UCSC microbial genome tables
Session of June 1st, 2015 by Morgane Thomas-Chollier
Session of February 24th, 2014 by Morgane Thomas-Chollier
- Clean adaptor containing reads from FastQ data at command line
- Install ChIP-Seq training command line software
Training 5: metagenomics
Data files
- mice faecal samples data
- Excel file linking samples to barcodes, runs and additional info about the mice
- MiSeq file 1
- MiSeq file 2
- MiSeq file 3
- MiSeq file 4
- MiSeq file 5
- MiSeq file 6
- Excel file linking samples to barcodes and runs
- Lotus pipeline
Download usearch version 8 and copy into /usr/bin/tools/ folder (you need to be superuser for this)
Make executable:
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/tools/usearch8.1.1861_i86linux32
Create a symbolic link into the folder where Lotus will search for it:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/tools/usearch8.1.1861_i86linux32 /usr/bin/tools/lotus_pipeline/bin/usearch_bin
- You also need R with the vegan package installed
- ↑
Kevin S Myers, Huihuang Yan, Irene M Ong, Dongjun Chung, Kun Liang, Frances Tran, Sündüz Keleş, Robert Landick, Patricia J Kiley
Genome-scale analysis of escherichia coli FNR reveals complex features of transcription factor binding.
PLoS Genet.: 2013, 9(6);e1003565
[PubMed:23818864] ##WORLDCAT## [DOI] (I p)
- ↑
Timothy Bailey, Pawel Krajewski, Istvan Ladunga, Celine Lefebvre, Qunhua Li, Tao Liu, Pedro Madrigal, Cenny Taslim, Jie Zhang
Practical guidelines for the comprehensive analysis of ChIP-seq data.
PLoS Comput. Biol.: 2013, 9(11);e1003326
[PubMed:24244136] ##WORLDCAT## [DOI] (I p)
- ↑
Morgane Thomas-Chollier, Elodie Darbo, Carl Herrmann, Matthieu Defrance, Denis Thieffry, Jacques van Helden
A complete workflow for the analysis of full-size ChIP-seq (and similar) data sets using peak-motifs.
Nat Protoc: 2012, 7(8);1551-68
[PubMed:22836136] ##WORLDCAT## [DOI] (I e)
- ↑ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/
- ↑ http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/
- ↑ http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/
- ↑ http://rsat.eu
- ↑ http://www.cbrc.kaust.edu.sa/hmcan/
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