Tuesday, January 17, 2012

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Beyonce gets fly with golden booty named after her

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - A newly discovered horse fly in Australia was so "bootylicious" with its golden-haired bum, there was only one name worthy of its beauty: Beyonce.

Previously published results from Bryan Lessard, a 24-year-old researcher at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, were recently announced on the species that had been sitting in a fly collection since it was captured in 1981 - the same year pop diva Beyonce was born.

He says he wanted to pay respect to the insect's beauty by naming it Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae.

Lessard said Beyonce would be "in the nature history books forever" and that the fly now bearing her name is "pretty bootylicious" with its golden backside.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Government Open Source Code Repositories - GovLoop - Social Network for Government

http://www.govloop.com/group/OSSinGov/forum/topics/government-open-source-code-repositories

Friday, January 6, 2012

Cool: Diver finds class ring, tracks down owner's family

Diver finds class ring, tracks down owner's family

Published: Jan 6, 2012 8:19 AM

LONGWOOD, Fla. (AP) - Louise Hearst Entzminger lost her class ring in a central Florida swimming hole in the 1930s.

Scuba diver Reed Banjanin found the Mississippi Women's College ring last summer and was determined to find its owner.

The Orlando Sentinel (http://thesent.nl/y8t8Rn ) reports 38-year-old Banjanin used the Internet to track information about Entzminger. He learned she died in 1975, but was able to find her grandson John Entzminger in Oakton, Va.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

US-CERT: Government Collaboration Groups and Efforts

http://www.us-cert.gov/federal/gfirst.html

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

FYI - Amazon Federal Web Services

Public Sector Training

Technical Cloud Workshop

In this one-day seminar we provide a technical overview of AWS and significant hands-on experience.

Audience: Architects and Technical Managers

Audience members must bring a laptop and class size is limited to 30 people.

Agenda:

9:00-11:00am	Overview and product presentations
11:00-12:00pm	Hands-on Tutorial: Architecting a High Availability Web Application
12:00-1:00pm	Lunch
1:00-2:30pm	Hand-on Tutorial continued
2:30-3:30pm	Migrating Applications to the Cloud
3:30-4:30pm	Governance and Oversight in the Cloud
4:30-5:30pm	Reception

January 11th from 9am - 5:30pm EST.
Netcom Learning Centers
1100 N. Glebe Road, Suite GR3
Arlington, VA, 22201

Introductory Cloud Workshop

In this two hour seminar we introduce AWS products and security, popular use cases, and government customer success stories. We will also lead a hands-on, no-code, tutorial on how-to use Amazon Web Services.

Audience: IT Professionals, Architects, Business Managers, and Developers.

Audience members must bring a laptop.

Agenda:

2:30-3:30pm	Overview presentation
3:30-4:30pm	Hands-on tutorial
4:30-5:30pm	Reception

January 11th at 2:30pm - 5:30pm EST.
Netcom Learning Centers
1100 N. Glebe Road, Suite GR3
Arlington, VA, 22201
Register Now

Source:http://aws.amazon.com/federal/events/