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In a statement, Palomar says that it regrets the incident, adding that is has "made extensive changes" since 2011.
Those changes, according to Palomar's plan of correction, included more training for nurses on how to detect and manage fall-prone patients.
Tri-City received a $75,000 penalty after a cancer patient died two hours after falling out of a special "geri bed" wheeled chair while being transported through hospital corridors in early 2011. The fall fractured multiple ribs and caused an internal hemorrhage.
Though the patient was documented to be at risk of falling, the chair was strapless, the state report said.
David Bennett, chief marketing officer at Tri-City, said the hospital has since removed all strapless chairs from service, ordering new models with proper restraints. He said staff has also received additional training in how and when to use straps to keep patients from falling out in transit.
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George F. Will: Doubts over Common Core standards
Viewed from Washington, which often is the last to learn about important developments, opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative still seems as small as the biblical cloud that ariseth out of the sea, no larger than a man's hand. Soon, however, this education policy will fill a significant portion of the political sky.
The Common Core represents the ideas of several national organizations (of governors and school officials) about what and how children should learn. It is the thin end of an enormous wedge. It is designed to advance in primary and secondary education the general progressive agenda of centralization and uniformity.
Understandably, proponents of the Common Core want its nature and purpose to remain as cloudy as possible for as long as possible. Hence they say it is a "state-led," "voluntary" initiative to merely guide education with "standards" that are neither written nor approved nor mandated by Washington, which would never, ever "prescribe" a national curriculum. Proponents talk warily when describing it because a candid characterization would reveal yet another Obama administration indifference to legality.
The 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the original federal intrusion into this state and local responsibility, said "nothing in this act" shall authorize any federal official to "mandate, direct, or control" schools' curriculums. The 1970 General Education Provisions Act stipulates that "no provision of any applicable program shall be construed to authorize any" federal agency or official "to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction" or selection of "instructional materials by any" school system. The 1979 law creating the Department of Education forbids it from exercising "any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum" or "program of instruction" of any school system. The ESEA as amended says no Education Department funds "may be used ... to endorse, approve, or sanction any curriculum designed to be used in" grades K-12.
Nevertheless, what begins with mere national standards must breed ineluctable pressure to standardize educational content. Targets, metrics, guidelines and curriculum models all induce conformity in instructional materials. Washington already is encouraging the alignment of the GED, SAT and ACT tests with the Common Core. By a feedback loop, these tests will beget more curriculum conformity. All of this will take a toll on parental empowerment, and none of this will escape the politicization of learning like that already rampant in higher education.
Leave aside the abundant, fierce, often learned and frequently convincing criticisms of the writing, literature and mathematics standards. Even satisfactory national standards must extinguish federalism's creativity: At any time, it is more likely there will be half a dozen innovative governors than one creative federal education bureaucracy. And the mistakes made by top-down federal reforms are continental mistakes.
The Obama administration has purchased states' obedience by partially conditioning waivers from onerous federal regulations (from No Child Left Behind) and receipt of federal largesse ($4.35 billion in Race to the Top money from the 2009 stimulus) on the states' embrace of the Common Core. Although 45 states and the District of Columbia have struck this bargain, most with little debate, some are reconsidering and more will do so as opposition mounts.


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The Left Democratic Front candidate from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency, Bennet P. Abraham, has declared assets to the tune of Rs.3.49 crore.
Dr. Abraham, who is the director of Dr. Somervell Memorial Medical College at Karakonam, has declared that he has got movable assets worth Rs.49.84 lakh in his name and Rs.21.99 lakh in his spouse's name, besides Rs.57,000 in the names of two dependents. He has got property worth Rs.1. 60 crore and his wife has got land worth Rs.1.08 crore.
The former Union Minister and BJP candidate O. Rajagopal declared assets to the tune of Rs.12.11 lakh. He has only Rs.250 in cash with him.
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The end of the collective bargaining agreement between a professional sports league and the players association that represents the athletes triggers a series of dominos: The players go on strike, the league implements a lock-out of the players, the parties meet over the course of several weeks to try to negotiate a new deal, both sides posture (with the league cautioning that pre-season and regular season games will be cancelled and the players association threatening to decertify as a union if a new agreement cannot be reached), the league files an unfair labor practice complaint with the National Labor Relations Board coupled with a declaratory judgment action in U.S. district court seeking a ruling that the lock-out is a legitimate negotiation tactic under the labor laws, the union decertifies and files its own lawsuit claiming that the league's lockout constitutes price-fixing and an illegal group boycott in violation of the antitrust laws, and fans brace for lost games.
Many writers, observers and enthusiasts following the most recent professional sports labor disputes in both the National Football League (NFL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) have focused solely on the players, the owners and the fans. But there is another group of stakeholders that is inevitably affected by a lack of labor peace: sponsorship partners. Sponsors such as banks, beverage companies, electronics manufacturers and athletic apparel companies that spend millions of dollars a season to sponsor the teams and promote their products to fans may be left losing much of the value they bargained for, even if no pre-season or regular season games are actually lost.
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Composer Adam Silverman has created works that feature a broad variety of instrumental and vocal settings, and his most frequently performed works have been for percussion ensemble, cello (including many compositions for accompanied and unaccompanied solo cello, and both original works and arrangements for cello choirs), and opera.
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His work "In Another Man's Skin," composed for Eighth Blackbird, was performed by that ensemble dozens of times in major venues across America. In addition to his work as a composer, Silverman is an enthusiast of bluegrass mandolin and teaches music composition, theory, orchestration and songwriting at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.


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For those of you on the edge of your seat in anticipation, yes, Julian Stephen's Tootsie Roll does in fact include a mention of the 69 Boyz' mildly iconic dance record Tootsee Roll. With that fun fact now out of the way we can now move on to the topic at hand; visuals for Stephen's latest record. In the music video, which was shot by both Jiggy Flix and Kino Gailbrath, Stephen and a friend play the role of heavily fixated neighbors with an inquisitive eye for the seductive woman next door. Like the song it visualizes, Tootsie Roll takes on a lighthearted tone as the Queens rapper drops his clever rhymes with help from Trox' flute-laced production. Found yourself with a bit of sweet tooth? Tootsie Roll will be featured on Stephen's upcoming #AwkwardMoments project, which is set for free download on September 12.
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William Hague today defended the taxpayer contribution to the funeral of Baroness Thatcher and the costs of today's parliamentary debate.
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SAN DIEGO, —On the eve of two landmark Supreme Court decisions concerning the future of marriage and the family in America, the "Marriage Bow" campaign is being launched around the country as a way for citizens to demonstrate their support for the age-old definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman by writing postcards and wearing a white bow.
Not content to take a "wait and see" approach to the imminent rulings by the Supreme Court on the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8, the designers of the Marriage Bow Campaign are hoping to influence the justices by flooding their offices with postcards and wearing white bows as a symbol support.
The campaign, called God's Marriage Bow, is the brain-child of Dran Reese, President of the Salt & Light Council, Inc. "I've seen the success of prior postcard campaigns that citizens can do from the comfort of their own home or church," said Reese, "and I knew it had the same potential here. But this campaign is much more than sending postcards or wearing a white bow. It's an opportunity to display our public support for "God's perfect design for the family."
Marriage and family are among the "non-negotiable" moral values that inspired Reese to launch the Salt & Light Council, Inc., in 2008. That was also the year that California voters passed Proposition 8. Since then, the Salt & Light Council has established Salt & Light Citizenship Ministries in churches in nine states to mobilize Christians to pray and act on prominent moral issues.
There are two simple actions of The Marriage Bow campaign: wear a white bow and display it prominently…on your lapel, shirt or jacket, even on your car or tree in your yard; also send a pre-printed postcard to all nine Supreme Court justices asking their support of traditional marriage.
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Imagine a story of an epic dispute, which has become a part of our American Mythology. "Kingdom Of The Hollow, The Story Of The Hatfields and McCoys" is the incredible tale of the most famous feud in our nation's history. It is a story of jealousy, murder, vengeance and unrequited love rich with vivid historical characters in a post Civil War setting. Many people believe the Hatfield-McCoy Feud is some hillbilly fable of fiction. With all the colorful images these names may evoke, the average person knows little about the actual events. It was a very real struggle born out of economic jealousy during the tumultuous American postbellum. In 1878, Randolph McCoy accused his neighbor Floyd Hatfield of stealing one of his hogs. The incidents that followed involved the killings of more than a dozen souls, including six of Randolph's own children. The famous conflict also entangled a myriad of players including lawmen, bounty hunters, lawyers and the Governors of Kentucky and West Virginia. A struggle which began between two families escalated into a war between two states. This culminated with a legal fight over the habeas corpus laws that went before the U.S. Supreme Court. From the tributaries of Blackberry Creek, Kentucky to the assassination of President McKinley at the Pan American Exposition, "Kingdom Of The Hollow, The Story Of The Hatfields and McCoys" takes the reader through the real events of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. This is the first novel of its kind, describing the proceedings of this protracted disagreement with an entertaining narrative full of detailed characterizations.
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Hatfield And McCoy Feud: Kingdom Of The Hollow, The Story Of The Hatfields And McCoys by Phillip Hardy (Staff Writer for the "Sound of the Sirens" online magazine) is the famous story of a blood feud between two struggling families and their kinfolk and friends in the years following the economic hardships which descended upon their mountain region after the end of the debilitating American Civil War. With a skillfully presented narrative account of the background and initial causes of the feud between the Hatfield and McCoy clans, Hardy informatively reveals how in 1878 Randolph McCoy accused Floyd Hatfield of stealing one of his hogs, which in short time thereafter escalated in a "tit-for-tat" fashion what eventually would result in the deaths of a dozen people and an eventual Supreme Court hearing. A highly detailed and informed account of the legendary tale of two stubborn southern families, the Hatfield And McCoy Feud: Kingdom Of The Hollow is a welcome contribution to personal, academic, and community library American History collections.
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Thefts of cell phones rise rapidly nationwide
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By TERRY COLLINS
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - In this tech-savvy city teeming with commuters and tourists, the cell phone has become a top target of robbers who use stealth, force and sometimes guns.
Nearly half of all robberies in San Francisco this year are cell phone-related, police say, and most occur on bustling transit lines.
One thief recently snatched a smartphone while sitting right behind his unsuspecting victim and darted out the rear of a bus in mere seconds.
Another robber grabbed an iPhone from an oblivious bus rider _ while she was still talking.
And, in nearby Oakland, City Council candidate Dan Kalb was robbed at gunpoint of his iPhone Wednesday after he attended a neighborhood anti-crime meeting.
"I thought he was going to shoot me," recalled Kalb, who had dropped his phone during the stickup. "He kept saying, `Find the phone! Find the phone!'"
These brazen incidents are part of a ubiquitous crime wave striking coast to coast. New York City Police report that more than 40 percent of all robberies now involve cell phones. And cell phone thefts in Los Angeles, which account for more than a quarter of all the city's robberies, are up 27 percent from this time a year ago, police said.
"This is your modern-day purse snatching," said longtime San Francisco Police Capt. Joe Garrity, who began noticing the trend here about two years ago. "A lot of younger folks seem to put their entire lives on these things that don't come cheap."
Thefts of cell phones_ particularly the expensive do-it-all smartphones containing everything from photos and music to private e-mails and bank account statements_ are costing consumers millions of dollars and sending law enforcement agencies and wireless carriers nationwide scrambling for solutions.
In San Francisco, police have gone undercover and launched a transit ad campaign, warning folks to "be smart with your smartphone." Similar warnings went out in Oakland, where there have been nearly 1,300 cell phone robberies this year.
When Apple's ballyhooed iPhone 5 went on sale last month, New York City police encouraged buyers to register their phone's serial numbers with the department. That came just months after a 26-year-old chef at the Museum of Modern Art was killed for his iPhone while heading home to the Bronx.
In St. Louis, city leaders proposed an ambitious ordinance requiring anyone who resells cell phones to obtain a secondhand dealers license. Resellers also would need to record the phone's identity number and collect detailed information including the seller's names, addresses, a copy of their driver's licenses _ even their thumbprints.
"It will take a national solution to make this problem go away," St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay said of the phone thefts.
Though some experts put annual cell phone losses in the billions of dollars, there is no precise figure on how many devices are stolen each year.
However, the problem has become so visible that it has caught the attention of lawmakers and regulators seeking to take the profit out of cell phone theft.
In April, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, and New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced that the major U.S. cell phone carriers and the Federal Communications Commission have agreed to set up a national database to track reported stolen phones. It is scheduled to launch in late 2013.
Schumer also introduced a bill called the Mobile Device Theft Deterrence Act, which proposes a five-year prison sentence for tampering with the ID numbers of a stolen cell phone. The bill is supported by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA), a Washington, D.C. advocacy group.
In addition, CTIA officials said carriers are expected to launch individual databases later this month to permanently disable a cell phone reported stolen. The initiative is similar to a successful decade-old strategy in Australia.
Previously, U.S. carriers have only been able to disable so-called SIM cards, which can be swapped in and out of phones. That's led to a profitable black market for stolen phones.
Chris Guttman-McCabe, CTIA's vice president of regulatory affairs, said the goal of creating theft databases is to render stolen cell phones worthless.
"We want to dry up the aftermarket," Guttman-McCabe said. "Hopefully, there will be no sense in stealing a phone and a once valuable piece of hardware will essentially turn into useless metal."
Right now, the incentive is to steal and that's creating huge losses, said Kevin Mahaffey, a co-founder of Lookout, a San Francisco-based mobile security firm which has advised carriers about the national database.


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European Leaders Push for Early Deployment of UAVs in Civil Airspace – New Security Market Research Report From ASD Media
– Recent European Commission-Sponsored Study Lists Border Security as the
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European planners are increasingly looking towards the potential
deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for civilian purposes. Various
studies have long pointed to border patrol, forestry, fishing, search and
rescue, etc. as appropriate and profitable uses for unmanned aircraft. Yet,
opening the European Union's airspace to civil UAVs is so difficult that even
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A recent European Commission-sponsored study lists border security as the
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If you are one of those book addicts who cannot rest until you lay your hands on the latest chart topper in the market, your nearest bookstore may not be your only destination. eReaders, touted as the preferred medium of today's youngsters to read books, my offer an attractive alternative.
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Other features provided in this eReader platform include a unique hibernation or zero power mode that enables users to enjoy more than 8,000 pages of content with a single battery charge. Other features include automatic partial updates, per-pixel processing, and parallel updates for smooth, enjoyable visual experiences.
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A sample of 701 adult men underwent assessment following illegal or clinically significant sexual behaviors or interests. Patients were categorized on the basis of phallometric (penile) responses in the laboratory to erotic stimuli depicting adults, pubescent children, and prepubescent children; histories of sexual offenses; and self-reported sexual interests. Comprising the categories were men sexually interested in prepubescent children (pedophiles; n = 114), men sexually interested in pubescent children (hebephiles; n = 377), men sexually interested in adults and who had committed a sexual offense against an adult (teleiophilic offenders; n = 139), and men sexually interested in adults and who had no known history of any sexual offenses (teleiophilic nonoffenders; n = 71). Patients' assessments included IQ testing and self-reported academic history, which included any grade failures and assignment to special education classes. Relative to the teleiophilic offenders, both the pedophilic and the hebephilic groups showed approximately double the odds of failing a grade or being enrolled in special education, both before and after covarying IQ. No significant differences were detected between the teleiophilic offenders and the teleiophilic nonoffenders. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that an erotic age preference for children sometimes results from a perturbation of neurodevelopment occurring early in life.
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- Title
- Grade Failure and Special Education Placement in Sexual Offenders' Educational Histories
- Journal
Archives of Sexual Behavior
Volume 35, Issue 6 , pp 743-751
- Cover Date
- 2006-12-01
- 10.1007/s10508-006-9018-6
- Print ISSN
- 0004-0002
- Online ISSN
- 1573-2800
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- academic achievement
- neuropsychology
- pedophilia
- phallometry
- grade failure
- sexual abuse
- special education
- sex offenders.
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- James M. Cantor Ph.D. (1) (3)
- Michael E. Kuban M.A., M.Sc. (1)
- Thomas Blak B.A. (1)
- Philip E. Klassen M.D. (1) (2)
- Robert Dickey M.D. (1) (2)
- Ray Blanchard Ph.D. (1) (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Law and Mental Health Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- 3. Law and Mental Health Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5T 1R8
- 2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


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App Indexing API
The App Indexing API provides a way for developers to notify Google about deep links in their native apps and allows the Google app, version 3.6 and above, to drive re-engagement through Google Search query autocompletions, providing fast and easy access to inner pages in apps. The deep links reported using the App Indexing API are also used by Google to index app content and are surfaced in Google Search results.
Overview of the App Indexing API
In this video, product manager Lawrence Chang presents an overview of the new App Indexing API for Android that lets you specify links -- through your app itself -- for App Indexing. It also gives you a way to re-engage users through the Google app autocompletions. We'll provide step-by-step guidelines for how to get started. Take a few minutes and find out how to increase user engagement using the App Indexing API.
Using the API
In order to integrate the App Indexing API into your app, you will first need to set up your project to include Google Play Services. Please be sure to update your project configuration as shown in the examples below:
<application ... <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version" android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" /> ... </application>
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dependencies { ... compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-appindexing:7.0.0' ... }
Once your project is configured to use Google Play Services API, follow these steps for any activity that supports deep links:
- Create an instance of GoogleApiClient in the
onCreate()method of your activity.
- Notify Google each time a new activity is viewed using the
AppIndexApi.start()method. This can be called in the
onStart()method of each activity. The
start()method should report the content that the user is currently looking at in your app. When that content changes, and the user is looking at something else, the app should call
end()on the exiting content and then
start()for the new content that is shown. The usual way this works is with
onStop(), but it need not in the case of fragments or other scrolling-type UIs, for example.
- Disconnect your client in your
import com.google.android.gms.appindexing.Action; import com.google.android.gms.appindexing.AppIndex; import com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient; ... public class MainActivity extends Activity { static final Uri APP_URI = Uri.parse("android-app://com.google.developers/appindexingdemo/restaurant1/"); static final Uri WEB_URL = Uri.parse("http://appindexingdemo.google.com/restaurant1/"); private GoogleApiClient mClient; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { ... mClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this).addApi(AppIndex.API).build(); ... } @Override public void onStart() { super.onStart(); ... // Connect your client mClient.connect(); // Define a title for your current page, shown in autocompletion UI String title = "App Indexing API Title"; // Construct the Action performed by the user Action viewAction = Action.newAction(Action.TYPE_VIEW, title, WEB_URL, APP_URI); // Call the App Indexing API start method after the view has completely rendered AppIndex.AppIndexApi.start(mClient, viewAction); ... } @Override public void onStop() { ... // Call end() and disconnect the client String title = "App Indexing API Title"; Action viewAction = Action.newAction(Action.TYPE_VIEW, title, WEB_URL, APP_URI); AppIndex.AppIndexApi.end(mClient, viewAction); mClient.disconnect(); ... super.onStop(); } }
AppIndexApi.start() method accepts the Action performed by the user
within the app. The Action contains the title of the content as well as the deep link
that can take users directly to the current view of the app.
The title provided here will be used in the Google app
query autocompletions.
If there is corresponding web content, the web URL parameter should be passed in as well;
otherwise, you can pass in
Also see the AppIndexApi reference documentation for details.
Quality Guidelines
Google may take corrective action (e.g., demoting or removing your app deep links from Google Search results and query autocompletions) in cases where we see abuse, deception, or other actions that hurt the search experience for our users. In particular, you should avoid:
- Calling the API on content the user is not acting on.
- Calling the API more than once per user action.
- Calling the API with a title that is misleading or incorrect.
Note that Google may react to other misleading practices not listed here. The examples above are not exhaustive. Google may take action on other practices or techniques that hurt the search experience.
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Apparently this place is pretty popular, but I'd never heard of it before.
I went last week, and it's now one of my favorite places at the Jersey Shore.
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I love living at the Jersey Shore. I often find myself defending this area from the numerous stereotypes we all know and hate.
This weekend I was reminded of why these stereotypes exist.
I am so glad that the tourist season is here, and thrilled the Jersey shore is getting so many summer visitors. I thought it would be helpful to offer a sort of 'welcome to the neighborhood' guide to driving in New Jersey
It's impossible to imagine that a child with a yard and a shovel hasn't attempted to dig to China. There are obvious limitations, both physically and technologically, but let's say we could do it. Where would we end up?
When it comes to places to live, work, eat, and play, we have some of the best right here at the Jersey Shore.
One town has even been named by one magazine as the #3 best small town in the country! So where is it?
Not that it's ever really easy to get a new license, but with the new "Tru-ID" system taking hold next month here in New Jersey, be prepared to show extra proof of your identity.
You wake up early. you have about a thousand things to do. You wind up running late. It's a little thing called morning, and we all know it just takes one thing to go wrong and the whole schedule is upside down. One thing never goes wrong though, it's usually three or four. At least there's one thing we can always rely on to be there for us every Jersey shore morning...traffic.
My commute is about to get a lot longer. (In case you hadn't heard, the Point studios are moving, first temporarily to Bayville then finally to Toms River this summer.) While I've been relatively spoiled the last few years regarding my daily drive to work, I think my new routine will put me on the other end of the spectrum.
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Remember about 18 months ago when JetBlue flight attendant Stephen Slater flipped out on a plane and quit his job by grabbing some beer and deploying the emergency exit slide? That seems mild compared to what happened on a JetBlue flight yesterday. You have to wonder...are we putting our lives in the hands of unstable people?


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Haiyan Qian, Director, Division for Public Administration and Development Management, United Nations Department of Economic & Social Affairs, says that the role of social media in policymaking is contentious. "Policymaking is dependent upon the context of the policy and institutional structure," she says. "But I certainly see merits in its role in complementing the effective implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policy."
Qian uses a real-life case to make her point. A local government had instituted plans to build new bridges, which were long overdue. "The construction process was stalled for no particular reason. A concerned citizen posted remarks about this on social media, and included a photo of the half-built bridges. Her concerns were shared and echoed by more people and public pressure led to the eventual completion of the bridges."
"It is increasingly useful to debate policy in social media," she concludes. "There is a real need to address issues such as identity management, privacy, transparency and accountability."
With this in mind, FutureGov asked senior civil servants in China, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore for their views. Should policy be debated in social media?
Datuk Arpah binti Abdul Razak, Director General, Local Government, Malaysia
First, it is important to understand that Malaysian society is plural in nature and diversity of religion, race, culture and political affiliation. No one is excluded from these values, which have shaped Malaysia's economic and socio-political landscape. And to a certain extent, policy is already being debated in social media. The public uses it to get heard on policies just as they do in letters to the editor in newspapers. But there are limits. According to the Communication and Multimedia Act, content that causes annoyance or harm, incites crime, leads to public disorder or is a threat to national security is prohibited. So while plurality of views is, of course, very important in Malaysia, in my view debate on policy matters is best left to Parliament, the Senate and the State Assembly, who were elected representatives under the democratic system to do just that.
Zaqy Mohamad, Member of Parliament & Chairman, Govt, Parliamentary Committee Ministry of
Info Com and the Arts, Singapore
Singapore's government leaders have led the way in engaging citizens through social media. The REACH (www.reach.gov.sg) portal, launched in October 2006, is a platform for the government to gather and gauge ground sentiment. Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan has a blog on which he expresses his opinions on policies, and the public is able to give feedback to him directly. Most of the Members of Parliament have a Facebook account with which they engage citizens. Policies can and should be discussed on social media. The question is to what extent do you communicate on policies that are not yet released? And what types of policies are more suitable to be debated on the social media platform? Policies which have a social impact are perfect for open discussion on social media. For example, cost of healthcare, transportation, social welfare or elderly care are close to people's hearts and they are more likely to participate. The challenge we face is knowing whether it is the majority, minority and the right target group who are participating in such discussions.
Jiang Yichun, Deputy Division Chief, Secretariat of Dalian Administrative Service Centre, China (pictured)
Social media in China tend to be a means for entertainment or making friends. Anyone is free to comment on these platforms. But when it comes to policy, social media are out of bounds - it is inappropriate for Chinese civil servants to be discussing policy on these platforms. China's Premier, Hu Jintao, launched a blog some time ago, but it soon closed. In such an open environment where anyone can comment, this includes enemies of the state. Such individuals are often looking to spread rumours about the Chinese government, which are usually inflammatory and counterproductive. Such statements could lead to a misunderstanding of government, and undermine peace and stability. Besides, there are many other ways for government to communicate with citizens, such as online public forums, but these are subject to stringent layers of approval. One of the reasons why Google left China is that it could not accept China's approval system.
Garry Poole, Chief Information Officer, Wellington City Council, New Zealand
In New Zealand, all levels of government are adopting social media. Wellington City Council now uses social media to gather feedback from the community on our annual budget-setting and taxation process. But it is also used to gather opinions on a wide range of other issues - everything from dog-control to a debate about the drinking of alcohol in public places. I also have staff who monitor local blog sites and, if necessary, respond to comments that question and criticise the Council's policies and decisions. New Zealand is no different to the rest of the world in terms of its adoption of social media and technology in general. The pace of life is quickening relentlessly – and most people just don't have time to participate in local democracy in the way it used to be done – through meetings in draughty public halls. That's why the Wellington City Council and other government organisations are moving quickly to social media as a key means of communicating, explaining and debating policy.


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