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At 0930 on Friday, 22nd July, 2005, a man emerged from a block of flats in Scotia Road, Tulse Hill, London. He was on his way to fix a broken fire alarm in Kilburn. Shortly over 30 minutes later, this entirely innocent Brazilian electrician was dead, killed by armed officers of the Metropolitan Police Service.
Jean Charles de Menezes is a name that will forever be linked with those of four mass murderers, and four more wannabe mass murderers. Yet he is entirely blameless, an innocent man on his way to work, killed by police officers who have never been named.
Mr Menezes was caught up in the bungled investigation into the aftermath of a failed suicide bombing attack inspired by Al Qaeda, which came just two weeks after the murderous London bombings, also carried out by suicide bombers, which killed 52 and injured hundreds more.
The story of Mr Menezes death began the previous day, when four men attempted to set off suicide bombs targeting the London transport system; a mirror image of the attacks two weeks previously. Naturally, police officers were under huge pressure to find the suspects; yet reports of Mr Menezes shooting read more like a deliberate execution, an assassination.
Police officers following Mr Menezes incorrectly identified him as Osman Hussein, one of the suspects in the previous day's bombings. Based on this information, senior officers authorised "code red tactics" and officers were ordered to detain him before he went into a tube station.
Surveillance officers followed Mr Menezes into Stockwell Train Station about 1000. He stopped to collect a free newspaper, paid his fare, walked through the barriers and descended the escalator. Meanwhile a Specialist Firearms Team was mobile towards the station, and seconds behind Mr Menezes. Before the train could leave the station, police officers held the doors open, while firearms officers stormed the train, dragged Mr Menezes to the floor, and shot him several times in the head with hollow point rounds – ammunition that is illegal for a battle field but widely used in law enforcement due to the stopping power.
In the ensuing hours and days, employees of the Metropolitan Police Service, including warranted officers of the Crown, would allege that Mr Menezes was acting suspiciously; that he had vaulted the barriers at Stockwell; that he was challenged by officers. All of these things were false.
At the inquest, the jury were instructed that they could not lawfully return a verdict of unlawful killing. Restricted to either an Open verdict, or one of lawful killing, the jury determined an Open verdict. The jury determined by 8 to 2 that no warning was issued before Mr Menezes was killed.
The killing of Mr Menezes may be one of the more high profile killings of an innocent civilian by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), but it is far from the only such killing over the years. And such killings are far from one sided – 14 MPS police officers have been killed in the line of duty since 1990. In the same period 336 individuals have lost their lives through contact with the MPS in that period – 253 deaths in custody, 42 while fleeing police pursuit, 19 from road traffic incidents, and 22 have been shot to death by police officers.
Yet in that time no officers have been successfully prosecuted – despite a number of unlawful killing findings at verdict. Remarkably in many cases no such verdict was determined – cases such as that of Harry Stanley, shot dead for carrying a chair leg, where the unlawful killing verdict was overturned by a judicial review, are more frequent than they should be.
On July 3rd this year, Anthony Long was acquitted at a murder trial for the killing in 2013 of Azelle Rodney. In many ways the fact that Mr Long was charged is evidence of progress at the MPS. And yet despite the fact that a judicial inquiry found the killing of Azelle Rodney was unlawful, this was kept from the jury and Mr Long was acquitted.
Three years ago, Simon Harwood, formerly a police constable for the MPS, was acquitted of the manslaughter of Ian Tomlinson, a newspaper vendor who died after being struck by a baton by a police officer on his way home. An inquest verdict concluded it was an unlawful killing.
In the vast majority of deaths there was no prosecution. Indeed, many were not considered unlawful killings – but then Harry Stanley's unlawful killing verdict was overturned, and Jean Charles de Menezes was not given an unlawful killing verdict.
How many more people have to be killed by the Metropolitan Police Service before proper controls are put in place to protect the public from those who are supposed to protect us? Jean Charles de Menezes died ten years ago today. Since then the MPS has unlawfully killed twice more and many more people have died without such verdicts. How long will the killing continue?


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Inner-City Charm On 563sqm Corner AllotmentSet on a very user-friendly 563sqm parcel of land, on the corner allotment, this tranquil property offers the charm of an original home with the potential to modernise the home and make it your own. Only minutes to the CBD, and all the conveniences of this inner-city locale including the new Townsville Super Stadium.
- Beautifully composed separate lounge & dining area with high ceilings and a wonderful sense of space
- Original kitchen leading out to the dining room
- Main bathroom features good space
- Separate area off the living adding a separate study
- Fully air conditioned
- Bedrooms complete with polished timber floors to one bedroom and carpet to the remaining
- Gorgeous front veranda with character features and offer security to the front of the home
- Rear carport with room for one car
- Close to Pimlico High School (in catchment zone)
- Close to Townsville Golf Course
- Close to Hermit Park parks including Townsville's largest off- leash dog park
- Close to Hermit Park Shopping and Rising Sun Shopping Precinct and Fairfield Water restaurants and fast food outlets.
- Close to Townsville'e leading schools including Hermit Park Primary School Cathederal School
- Moments to the CBD and Inner-city amenities
- On the door step of the V8 Track
- Public Transport at the end of the street

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This is another thought that Chris and I discussed on Monday. I brought it into full practice yesterday. I had 32 conversations yesterday. 32 lead generating conversations. From that I received one good lead. Not the greatest ratio for lead generation. I could absolutely wish for that to be easier. Why can't I just call a person and they give me a solid lead every time? Why can't leads just come to me? Why do I have to work so hard for every single lead that I get? I could ask myself all of these questions. Or I could pick up the phone and make another call. Getting those 32 conversations took 76 dials. I just kept picking up the phone.
I am pushing myself to ask the questions that I need to ask. I am having better conversations because of it. I am working on making myself better.
I am so grateful that I got to go on a run with Nora yesterday. I had told her that I run in the mornings and she said that she wanted to run. So we had an open night and I took her over to the Roosevelt track and she did three short runs with me. She asked if she could stop and I pushed her to make it to the end that we had already agreed upon. She did. I am so proud of her. Afterwards she first said that she never wanted to do that again. As we were walking home though, she asked if we could do it again this weekend. Not tomorrow or the next day or the next day. Let's do it Sunday. : ) I love her so much and I am so grateful to have her in my life.
I am grateful for great business partners. Tom and I worked so hard at wholesaling. It did not work for me. So now Tom is coming to me to sell his rehabs. I am so grateful for Tom.
I am so grateful for consistently getting to know new people. I spoke in length with Bob at my DMBE networking meeting. He and I had a lot more things in common than at first glance and I made a solid connection with him. I am so grateful for Bob.
Thank you for this life!
~Ryan Lynch


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Add Sensitivity: header handling for opt external email security
It would be a good idea to add an option to set / detect the email Sensitivity: header field. This is a RFC-standard field that is also settable in MS Outlook's Options dialog for example. This'd be the natural hook to trigger an external security solution, as in, set Sensitivity to higher than normal in the response generation to get encryption for outgoing mails. (In case you're discussing potentially sensitive or ...more »


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Bible Studies > Daily Bible Thoughts > A Glorious Substitution
A Glorious Substitution
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. Gal. 3:13.
It is the province of the law to condemn, but there is in it no power to pardon or to redeem.
Without Christ the law of itself was only condemnation and death to the transgressor. It has no saving quality—no power to shield the transgressor from its penalty....
The transgression of God's law made the death of Christ essential to save man and yet maintain the dignity and honor of the law. Christ took upon Himself the condemnation of sin. He opened His bosom to the woes of man. He who knew no sin became sin for us.
As man's substitute and surety, the iniquity of men was laid upon Christ; He was counted a transgressor that He might redeem them from the curse of the law....He, the Sin-Bearer, endures judicial punishment for iniquity and becomes sin itself for man.
Sin, so hateful to His sight, was heaped upon Him till He groaned beneath its weight. The despairing agony of the Son of God was so much greater than His physical pain, that the latter was hardly felt by Him.
God permits His Son to be delivered up for our offenses. He Himself assumes toward the Sin-Bearer the character of a judge, divesting Himself of the endearing qualities of a father.
Herein His love commends itself in the most marvelous manner to the rebellious race.
The sin of the whole world was laid upon Jesus, and divinity gave its highest value to the suffering of humanity in Jesus, that the whole world might be pardoned through faith in the Substitute. The most guilty need have no fear that God will not pardon, for because of the efficacy of the divine sacrifice the penalty of the law will be remitted. Through Christ the sinner may return to allegiance to God.
We offer free Bible lessons on the Internet from the Voice of Prophecy Bible School. The University Park church is a Seventh-day Adventist Christian church located in North Portland, Oregon.


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4th grade students ended their year by creating a fantasy seascape project. After drawing a basic fish shape, students had to decide on a theme for their fish and its surroundings. Then using construction paper, students assembled plants and objects onto their sponge painted backgrounds to complete their fictional design.
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Missing Network Device Vulnerabilities
I have network devices that show No Data in vulnerabilities. The Device Configuration is current, TRL is current and latest scans have been imported.
Under the Maps & Views when I select a specific Network Device the Vulnerabilities tab is blank / no data.
Hi, Craig Allen
I realize that looks odd. However, we made a decision a long time back to separate vulns on hosts from vulns on network gear. That's why you'll see the GUI focus exclusively on endpoint vulns, not device vulns.
Why? A couple of reasons. First, the work to patch/upgrade is generally done by different teams, using different methods. Second, our main focus has been to prioritize *host* vulns that have not been patched, using a quantified, repeatable scoring method that shows the relative badness of different issues the scanner found. The problem with network device vulns in this context is that they mess up the scores for hosts. Serious network device vulns are relatively uncommon, but when they hit, they are generally of the "all hands on deck" variety. That is, if someone can compromise a router and run arbitrary commands, any calculation we attempt for the downstream damage that can be done will be wrong, on the low side. Our standard scoring has a major factor from "leapfrogs" - bad guy hits host A, so we ask what the network allows or does not allow the bad guy to do from host A. But if instead they own router R, the concept of "leapfrog" barely even applies any more - the bad guy now pwns the network, so asking what the network allows or does not allow is moot. Given control on a router, you can scramble the very network defenses we're trying to analyze! (You can MITM, you can rearrange topo, you can inject fake control plane info to attract traffic to where you can read it, etc.)
So, long story short, the consequences of an arbitrary command execution vuln on a router or firewall are so bad that we decided to remove them from our calculation. If your scanner tells you your network fabric itself can be compromised, don't ask RedSeal to spend a couple of hours calculating the exact degree of badness - it's bad, we all know it's bad, so go fix it first.
This is different from host vulns, of course. They are much more common, so much so that every organization has some medium to bad vulns still unpatched all the time. For these, our quantified scoring approach works really well.
To push an analogy, imagine we have a rating scheme for knives, pistols, and rifles - it can produce good relative rankings of importance, depending on context. Then someone shows up with a nuclear weapon - how does that fit in the rankings? It basically doesn't - it's a whole other scale of damage.Reply


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hey, i totally forgot that yesterday was there here website's fifth birthday. hard to believe i've been doing this blogging thing for five years so far. every once in a while i read through the archives and i think that i used to be a lot more clever, then i realize that i didn't chat at work so all my quick and witty thoughts got posted here. now they get related to whomever is in the top-most msn window. i'm sorry about that, but at least you guys get pretty pictures now!
so yeah, happy birthday, blog. here's to another five years (i've already paid for the domain), i hope.