A new version 03 of the URN:LEX standard for legal identifiers has been posted. The new version is dated 1 April 2011, and expires 3 October 2011. The new version has been published by Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the Italian National Research Council (ITTIG/CNR); Italy, National Centre for ICT in PublicRead… Read more »
Gregg Zoroya in an article which ran in the USA Today Newspaper on April 6, 2011 wrote about the VA backlog of claims increasing tremendously from 200,000 to a whopping 450,000 from 2009. He said in the article, that VA had expected an increase in claims and hired an additional 3000 employees, which brought theRead… Read more »
Change to the Law As of Friday (April 1, 2011), the following is now part of the Open Meetings Law [Public Officers Law, Article 7, Section 103, subdivision (d)]: “1. Any meeting of a public body that is open to the public shall be open to being photographed, broadcast, webcast, or otherwise recorded and/or transmittedRead… Read more »
The following PMP® exam sample question is taken from http://www.free-pm-exam-questions.com – The answer is at the very bottom: —————————— PMBOK Section: Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis Process Group: Planning Process Group Question Type: Calculation Knowledge Area: Risk Management Difficulty Level: Easy Question: A risk has a potential impact of $50,000 if it happens. The probability ofRead… Read more »
The following PMP® exam sample question is taken from http://www.free-pm-exam-questions.com – The answer is at the very bottom: —————————— PMBOK Section: Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis Process Group: Planning Process Group Question Type: Calculation Knowledge Area: Risk Management Difficulty Level: Easy Question: A risk has a potential impact of $50,000 if it happens. The probability ofRead… Read more »
I remember still the smell of Bunsen burners, the noise, the rickety stands holding glass vials above the flames, and the worn, scarred initialled benches we all worked on in our Science lab. It was in science that I learnt something I didn’t know I didn’t know. I learnt to quantify and focus on theRead… Read more »
Greetings from the Austrlaian National Unviersity, Centre for Educational Development & Academic Methods where Professor John Dearn is discussing “Scholar or professional? The changing role of the teacher in higher education”. This is timely as Professions Australia and Universities Australia are holding a Workshop on “Higher Education and the Professions in 2011 and Beyond”, inRead… Read more »
Twitter is quite broken. It begs an interesting question, really. What on earth did we all do before it came along? People are messaging me and I can’t see the messages. I worry it makes me seem rude. I am missing all the retweets of all the interesting stuff that I would normally retweet onRead… Read more »
Neal Ungerleider wrote a a funny piece on Fast Company about the State Department’s new Tumblr blog this morning, including a few suggestions on how the State Department could be more Tumblry by jumping on some of Tumblr’s most popular trends. It’s a great piece of writing, and it also says exactly what I wasRead… Read more »
I put together a site called ‘Fine-YouDoIt.com‘. Govlooper’s can go and post the things that they will need citizens to be doing for the country over the next few weeks. So post some stuff and show people what the “government” does for them everyday. Enjoy!