CDFI Fund date changes and... a polar bear?

Dull stuff first: The CDFI Fund changed some application deadlines and "information session" dates through a press release dated Tuesday. Confusingly, the announcement on the CDFI Fund site superseded deadline announcements appearing in that same day's Federal Register. The "CDFI Program," which combines Financial Assistance and Technical Assistance grants, moves its application deadline from Jan. 23, 2006 to Feb. 13, 2006. The Native American CDFI Assistance program moves its deadline from Feb. 14, 2006 to March 1, 2006. Some information session dates have also been changed, and together with these announcements the CDFI Fund has included a 12-page set of instructions for Grants.gov online applications.

I'll get to the polar bear now: if you open up the press release announcing the deadline changes, there are two links at the foot of the page that you're led to think will take you to extremely dull draft copies of the Federal Register notices that will formally change the deadlines. But if you assumed that you would be wrong. Click on either of the links and you get this document in what appears to be Danish, with options for translation into English or Greenlandish, and an attractive picture of a polar bear. The site asks: "Hvad er Artek?" And that's just about what I'd like to know.