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It ought to have been obvious that the Young case had taught political activists on all sides of the power of going through someone’s social media posts for offhand remarks made a while ago. It is very easy do to. The damage is so devastating because the incriminating evidence can be dripped through day by day, giving ... |
Labour has tried its best with Bergdorf and also with Tom Watson’s donor Max Mosley, exposed last week as the publisher of a nasty electioneering leaflet from the early 1960s: to assert that they are victims of unfair inquiry, that they have been ‘smeared’, that their past views are of no relevance to the present. But ... |
From now on everyone is going to have to accept that anyone appointed to any kind of public or political post is going to have their Twitter feeds, their Facebook posts and everything else given a full run-through by activists. The prospect of a digital inquisition might just reduce the pool of talent available for car... |
Two weeks after Kyle Plush's death, questions are piling up. Answers are few. |
It’s been two weeks since Kyle Plush was crushed to death in his van, and questions are piling up about what went wrong in the emergency response and who is to blame. |
What information did officers get from the 911 center? Did they know his precise location? Did they know someone was trapped? |
Police officials have said officers were at the school for 11 minutes, but body camera footage shows only three. So how long did officers search? And did they ever get out of their car? |
Cincinnati Police Department spokesman Lt. Steve Saunders declined on Monday to answer specific questions, citing an ongoing internal investigation. |
City Council has a committee meeting at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday to discuss the Emergency Communications Center, and The Enquirer has requested additional public records from the police and sheriff’s departments. |
Until then, below is the most complete public timeline to date: What happened when, what we know and what we don’t. |
Above: The police report contains a latitude/longitude that seems to mark the lot where Kyle was found. It's not clear if officers had that information in real time. |
Sixteen-year-old Kyle Plush called 911. “I’m trapped in my van outside the Seven Hills parking lot,” he said, telling operator Stephanie MaGee that he couldn’t hear her and that he was in desperate need of help. “I’m going to die here,” Kyle said. |
MaGee made several notes in the incident report, including that the caller was stuck in a van and might have been in the thrift-store parking lot across from the school. Police wouldn't say if incident notes are typically sent to officers' in-car computers and specifically if the officers at Seven Hills saw those notes... |
Officers Edsel Osborne and Brian Brazile arrived at the school. Officials have said the officers searched for 11 minutes, and dispatch records indicate they were on-scene for 11 minutes. But body camera footage only documents a three-minute search. It is unclear why there is an eight-minute difference. |
More: Mayor Cranley and City Council say they're surprised by 911 problems. They shouldn't be. |
More: Kyle Plush: That kid was amazing. |
Osborne and Brazile were dispatched to 5471 Red Bank Road for “unknown trouble.” On the incident report, there is a latitude/longitude combination that leads almost directly to where Kyle's van was parked. It is unclear if Osborne and Brazile saw those coordinates. |
Body camera footage shows no sign either officer got out of the cruiser at the school. It shows them searching only one of five potential lots. The one they searched was not the one where Kyle was found. |
Kyle called 911 a second time, pleading more urgently for help. He said he was trapped in a gold Honda Odyssey van at Seven Hills, Hillsdale. He said he was almost dead and asked the operator to tell his mother he loved her. |
Amber Smith was taking that call, but she later told officials she could not hear Kyle on the line and that her computer screen froze. |
A review of the call – where Smith received an “unacceptable” 60 percent rating from her bosses – notes that the phone company investigated and did not find any problems with the system. So if Smith couldn’t hear, it is unclear why. |
Smith was put on leave immediately following the incident but has since returned to work. |
Jenny King, a computer systems analyst at the 911 center, said Tuesday that the phone quality at the center has been different since the city switched to a new provider. King said audio recordings – like the ones released to media – are better than what the operators hear in real time. |
Officers Osborne and Brazile marked the incident closed. Again, the duration and extent of their search is unclear. |
It is also unclear if the officers or anyone from law enforcement contacted the school to ask for help or report the call. |
Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Doug Allen called the 911 center to ask about the incident. Allen was directing traffic at the school and said he told MaGee, the 911 operator, that he wanted to take a second look. |
During that call, Allen speculated the whole thing might be a prank. |
Chief Deputy Mark Schoonover said an internal investigation showed Allen never saw Kyle's vehicle and did nothing wrong. |
The Enquirer has requested a copy of that investigation. |
A Seven Hills student called police to report a commotion in the thrift-store lot. There, Kyle's father had found his son’s body. Police and fire units responded to the scene. |
Commentary: Are we ready for the next major financial crisis? |
We live in abnormal times judging by the risks in the growing financial system, says Harvard University’s Kenneth Rogoff. |
Some estimates suggest the pain of an economic slowdown in China will be confined. This is wishful thinking, says Kenneth Rogoff. |
At the closed voting in the NA today candidate for the post of judge of Constitutional Court Gor Hovhannisyan has not been elected in the post. |
Twenty-four deputies voted for his candidacy, 75 against. |
Overall 101 MPs participated in the voting. |
Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 10 a.m. |
The President (spoke in French ): The Assembly will now hear an address by the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
Mr. Sulejman Tihić, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was escorted into the General Assembly Hall . |
The President (spoke in French ): On behalf of the General Assembly, I have the honour to welcome to the United Nations His Excellency Mr. Sulejman Tihić, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to invite him to address the Assembly. |
I think that the Iraqi crisis needs to be resolved simultaneously with the Palestinian issue. We therefore support the initiative of the Quartet and the road map as a basis for setting up a sincere dialogue between the two States, with United States mediation. We also strongly condemn all terrorist acts, as well as exe... |
The President (spoke in French ): The Assembly will now hear an address by the President of the Republic of Namibia. |
Mr. Sam Nujoma, President of the Republic of Namibia, was escorted into the General Assembly Hall. |
The President (spoke in French ): On behalf of the General Assembly, I have the honour to welcome to the United Nations His Excellency Mr. Sam Nujoma, President of the Republic of Namibia, and to invite him to address the Assembly. |
The United Nations Settlement Plan for Western Sahara must be implemented immediately. Likewise, the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people must be realized. We, the international community, owe it to them. |
The President (spoke in French ): The Assembly will now hear an address by the President of the Republic of South Africa. |
Mr. Thabo Mbeki, President of the Republic of South Africa, was escorted into the General Assembly Hall. |
The President (spoke in French ): On behalf of the General Assembly, I have the honour to welcome to the United Nations His Excellency Mr. Thabo Mbeki, President of the Republic of South Africa, and to invite him to address the General Assembly. |
Many of those who have already addressed the Assembly have correctly drawn our attention to many instances of terrorism and war, to which we are all opposed. They have spoken of the bombings of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and of the African and American lives those claimed; of the heinous 11 Septe... |
They have correctly drawn our attention to the violent conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, the Sudan, Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and elsewhere, and to other unsolved problems, such as self-determination for the people of Western Sahara, that cry out for a... |
The Acting President : The Assembly will now hear an address by the President of the Republic of Djibouti. |
Mr. Ismail Omar Guelleh, President of the Republic of Djibouti, was escorted into the General Assembly Hall. |
The Acting President : On behalf of the General Assembly, I have the honour to welcome to the United Nations His Excellency Mr. Ismail Omar Guelleh, President of the Republic of Djibouti, and to invite him to address the Assembly. |
Until now, innumerable resolutions, commitments, initiatives and peace processes to resolve the long-festering Middle East conflict remain at best rhetorical. A clear-cut vision of the two-State solution — a secure Israel side by side with a viable Palestinian State — rings hollow in the wake of a large expansion of il... |
Making an already untenable and explosive situation even worse, Israel, in defiance of international law and public opinion, has embarked on building a separation wall, which is penetrating and dividing Palestinian territory in two, well beyond Israel’s 1967 borders, thus creating facts on the ground. And, as we all kn... |
Abandoned by the international community, the Palestinians are struck with indefinite deprivation, a sense of hopelessness and statelessness. That being the case, this Assembly has perhaps the sad duty to pronounce itself incapable of constraining Israel, a Member State of this Organization, rather than continuing to g... |
The President (spoke in French ): The Assembly will now hear an address by the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. |
General Pervez Musharraf, President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, was escorted into the General Assembly Hall. |
The President (spoke in French ): On behalf of the General Assembly, I have the honour to welcome to the United Nations His Excellency General Pervez Musharraf, President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and to invite him to address the Assembly. |
The tragedy of Palestine is an open wound inflicted on the psyche of every Muslim. It generates anger and resentment across the Islamic world. Continued Israeli violence and the Israelis’ erection of the illegal separation wall, usurping more Palestinian land, as well as suicide attacks by misguided Palestinians, are f... |
A major responsibility rests with the Quartet, and in particular with the world’s greatest Power, the United States, to secure a fair and peaceful solution to the problem, realizing the vision of two States, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace, harmony and security. The United States can and must play th... |
The Acting President (spoke in Arabic ): The Assembly will now hear an address by the President of the Republic of Latvia. |
Mrs. Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of the Republic of Latvia, was escorted into the General Assembly Hall. |
The Acting President (spoke in Arabic ): On behalf of the General Assembly, I have the honour to welcome to the United Nations Her Excellency Mrs. Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of the Republic of Latvia, and to invite her to address the Assembly. |
Frequently, countries facing terrorist attacks have been using vastly superior military capabilities to strike hard at real or perceived terrorist targets. Too often, however, those strikes have had an undesirable side effect of their own: the further wounding and killing of civilians and the additional destruction of ... |
Such never-ending cycles of killing and mounting mutual hostility will cease once and for all only when the parties involved forsake the use of violence. In the Middle East, Latvia views the road map for peace as the only feasible means of obtaining a cessation of hostilities between Israelis and Palestinians. My count... |
The Acting President (spoke in Arabic ): The Assembly will now hear an address by the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe . |
Mr. Robert Mugabe, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe , was escorted into the General Assembly Hall. |
The Acting President (spoke in Arabic ): On behalf of the General Assembly, I have the honour to welcome to the United Nations His Excellency Mr. Robert Mugabe, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe , and to invite him to address the General Assembly. |
Zimbabwe remains deeply concerned about the situation in the Middle East. We continue to be revolted by a situation where the collective decisions and authority of the United Nations are disregarded with impunity on account of big-brother support. We demand an immediate lifting of all restrictions illegally imposed on ... |
The Acting President (spoke in Arabic ): I now call on His Excellency Mr. Issam Fares, Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon. |
In past years, we in Lebanon used to come to this forum seeking United Nations help. The United Nations has always come to our support, adopting resolutions affirming Lebanon’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. We must express our gratitude to the United Nations for dispatching the United Nations Int... |
Today, we come to this forum with a different objective. Our country is in good shape. It has regained its position in the region. We have moved from destruction to construction, from rule by the militias to the rule of law, from anarchy to stability and security, and from division to unity. In the 1970s and 1980s, “Le... |
Early this month, the Security Council adopted its resolution 1559 (2004), concerning Lebanon. The resolution has two dimensions, one regional, the other internal. As for the regional dimension, the resolution calls for the withdrawal of all foreign forces still in Lebanon. There are Israeli forces occupying part of Le... |
There are also Syrian forces in Lebanon. Those forces are on our territory at the request of the Lebanese Government and in accordance with agreements signed by the two parties. Lebanon will accept the presence of those troops as long as the security situation in the region merits it. It is Lebanon’s policy that not a ... |
As for the Council’s resolution’s internal dimension — As for the Council’s resolution’s internal dimension — relating to the amendment of our Constitution — we consider it an unacceptable intervention in our internal affairs. Our Constitution, which was promulgated in 1926, may be the oldest democratic constitution in... |
Lebanon is a civilized democratic country. It abides by international law and reveres the moral principles and values on which it is based. My country was a founding Member of the United Nations in 1945. It played a leading role in the formulation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. And, from this ros... |
Today, we stand together with the United Nations in opposing international terrorism in all its forms. Lebanon has witnessed the horrors of terrorism on its soil; it has witnessed innocent people being kidnapped, tortured and killed. It knows what terrorism is all about, and, as a result of first-hand knowledge, it con... |
Lebanon has recovered its stability and freedom. We are not here to ask anything specific for ourselves. We do, however, ask that the United Nations devote more attention to our region. The region is in turmoil, and it looks to the United Nations to help establish peace. The Organization has been granted legitimacy by ... |
We ask the following of the United Nations. First, the Organization should increase its efforts to solve the Middle East problem. It should do so by implementing its resolutions concerning Israel’s withdrawal from the territories it occupied in 1967, by giving the Palestinians an independent sovereign State and by ensu... |
Secondly, the United Nations should assume greater responsibility in resolving the violent conflict in Iraq and in restoring peace, stability and unity to the Iraqis. The Iraqis have suffered greatly, and they deserve strong and continuing support from the United Nations so that they can build a free, just and democrat... |
Thirdly, the Organization should help the Middle East region to achieve a new stable order based on just and equitable solutions and on the right to self-determination, since that region is the birthplace of the three monotheistic religions. The United Nations should also put an end to the arms race and to the waste of... |
Fourthly, the United Nations should encourage the establishment of civil organizations as a necessary first step in the process of reform and democratization. It is difficult to build an accountable democratic system without diverse and pluralistic civil institutions. Democracy is based on political parties, trade unio... |
Lebanon has a clear vision about the future of the region and of its civilization. It wants to play a decisive role in that future, as it did in forging an Eastern civilization in the region, based on the most profound principles of Christianity and Islam. |
Lebanon is an international country, bigger than its size and population, due to its emigrants, who inhabit every nook and cranny of the world. Wherever they may be, the Lebanese are emissaries of innovation and production. Some countries may take pride in exporting weapons and in deploying armies, but Lebanon, since t... |
Lebanon supports the United Nations because of its universal views on humanity and its future. In the past, my country may have suffered precisely because of its universalism, its openness and its freedom. Because Lebanon has given much, Lebanon deserves much. |
Finally, I wish the General Assembly and its Main Committees every success in addressing the many important items on the agenda. Lebanon will participate actively in all these proceedings, in any way that will help to attain the objectives of the United Nations and advance the universal cause of freedom and peace. |
The meeting rose at 2.05 p.m. |
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Yarns, stitches, loops and purls, instead of spins, flips and slides... the Finnish team in Pyeongchang are using the soothing effects of knitting when Olympic pressure becomes too great. |
“It has become something of a hobby for me,” smiled snowboard coach Antti Koskinen, who has been spotted with his needles out in the snow. |
Grinning as he continued to knit a small, blue woollen square, Koskinen said that around half of the 102-strong team were knitting at these Games. |
The Finns started using the unique method of stress relief at the Sochi Games, where they knitted a scarf. Two years later at the Rio Olympics they added to it. |
Their efforts this time, though, are for a different project. |
“We are knitting a blanket for our president’s child,” Koskinen said. “Everyone is knitting a little square, and then we will join them together... I got a bit carried away, so... a rectangle,” he laughed, holding it up. |
Another to have got carried away was 20-year-old ski jumper Eetu Nousiainen, who worked away at a long strip of scarf. |
“Maybe mine can be for the president’s dog,” he chuckled. |
President Sauli Niinisto’s wife Jenni Haukio gave birth to the couple’s first child on Feb. 2. |
Niinisto, 69, and Haukio, 40, were married in 2009. The child is Haukio’s first and Niinisto’s third. Niinisto lost his first wife in a car accident in 1995. |
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