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We are posting videos and pictures from the Symposium
Here is just one of many videos of Ms Zainab Al-Suwaij, Executive Director of the American Islamic Congress talks about Islamic impressions of everything from the Ft Hood shootings to the impressions of the new administration. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXd2gdRhKw
Medical Records Resources at the National Library of Medicine® (NLM®)
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) responds to more than 100,000 questions each year. Regularly asked questions become Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). NLM Reference and Consumer Health FAQs are at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/faqref.html . We review and update our FAQs frequently. FAQs often include national and international government agencies and non-profit organizations. One of our FAQs isRead… Read more »
Burrowing by political appointees targeted by OPM
The Office of Personnel Management wants to make political appointee “burrowing” into agencies more difficult all the time – not just during election years. OPM director John Berry recently sent a memo to agency leaders outlining a new policy that mandates OPM’s approval on all current and recent political appointees who want to move intoRead… Read more »
Why feds need to do their homework this Open Season
As the annual Federal Benefits Open Season begins, one thing is clear: while this may happen every year, this year is different. Fourteen health plans are pulling out of the FEHBP, another 18 are lowering their coverage, and the Office of Personnel Management says that, across the board, the premiums for those plans that areRead… Read more »
ClearedJobs.Net Sponsors Wounded Explosive Ordnance Disposal (Bomb Squad) Warrior Foundation’s (WEODWF) 2-Day Bike Ride
Chief Operating Officer of leading online job board for security-cleared professionals to ride 200-miles along with other bike ride participants to raise funds and awareness for Wounded EOD Warriors and their families (November 9, 2009) ClearedJobs.Net, a veteran-owned job board company exclusively serving the security cleared community, is sponsoring the Wounded Explosive Ordnance Disposal WarriorRead… Read more »
TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up
Hi everyone – It’s your govloop weekly dose of TSP Talk from www.tsptalk.com. Similar to September and October, the first week of November got off to a very strong start with all of the the major U.S. stock market indices picking up some impressive gains. Over the last few months, being in the TSP stockRead… Read more »
Federal Eye Eye Opener: Making political ‘burrowing’ harder
Happy Monday! It may soon get much harder for political appointees to “burrow” into their agencies at any time — not just during presidential election years. Currently agencies must only seek permission from the Office of Personnel Management to move a political appointee into a career job during a presidential election year. But starting Jan.Read… Read more »
Thoughts on Twitter Lists (and Thoughts and More Thoughts)
Collected topical posts from Wired To Share Semantics: Why Twitter Lists Rock Lots has been said about Twitter Lists – Robert Scoble is doing some great analysis, as are govies like Sarah Bourne of Mass.Gov. I have two big first impressions: Lists are a fabulous discovery tool, a data rich and hand-picked crowd tagged withRead… Read more »
National Homeland Defense Foundation Symposium Attend Virtually
Can’t attend the premier symposium on Homeland Security and Homeland Defense? You can still benefit by using social networking. The Twiter site goes live at 7am (NHDFoundation) where you are encouraged to ask questions of both vendors and speakers (will will hand deliver them and get you answers). We will be running a live FlickrRead… Read more »