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Homeless Veterans
Homeless Veterans Resources
On this page
- National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans
- Physical Disability Board of Review
- Project CHALENG
- Non-VA Resources for Assistance
- Opening Doors – Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness
- Veteran Justice Outreach
- Health Care for Re-Entry Veterans Program
- Outreach Materials
- SOAR Works to End Veteran Homelessness: VA Caseworker's Guide
National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans
The National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans is a forum to exchange new ideas; provide education and consultation to improve the delivery of services; and disseminate the knowledge gained through the efforts of the Center's Research and Model Development Cores to VA, other federal agencies, and community provider programs that assist homeless populations.
Physical Disability Board of Review
The Department of Defense (DoD) Physical Disability Board of Review (PDBR) provides Veterans who are medically separated from military service between September 11, 2001 and December 31, 2009, with the opportunity to have their disability ratings reviewed to ensure fairness, consistency and accuracy. The PDBR was created by the United States Congress in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2008.
In March 2014, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) issued guidance to Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) and VA medical center staff across the country to notify eligible homeless and at-risk Veterans of the right to have their disability rating reviewed by the PDBR. VA staff also provided interested Veterans with the appropriate letters and forms. In approximately 25 percent of the cases reviewed by the PDBR (as of December 2011), the applicants were found to be eligible for a disability retirement. Through the PDBR process, eligible Veterans—including homeless Veterans—are provided with additional financial benefits that can assist them with securing stable housing and supporting their families, thus ultimately helping VA achieve the goal of ending homelessness among Veterans.
The attached slides provide additional details about PDBR. For more information about the Physical Disability Board of Review, click here.
View PDBR Slide Overview Slides
Project CHALENG
Project CHALENG (Community Homelessness Assessment, Local Education and Networking Groups) for Veterans, an innovative program designed to enhance the continuum of care for homeless Veterans provided by the local VA and its surrounding community service agencies. The guiding principle behind Project CHALENG is that no single agency can provide the full spectrum of services required to help homeless Veterans become productive members of society. Project CHALENG enhances coordinated services by bringing the VA together with community agencies and other federal, state, and local governments who provide services to the homeless to raise awareness of homeless Veterans' needs and to plan to meet those needs.
Non-VA Resources for Assistance
Webpage with links to various websites to other Federal and community resources that could be helpful to those who are homeless or are at risk of homelessness.
Opening Doors – Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness
This Plan outlines an interagency collaboration that aligns mainstream housing, health, education, and human services to prevent Americans from experiencing homelessness. As the most far-reaching and ambitious plan to end homelessness in our history, this Plan will both strengthen existing partnerships—such as the combined effort of HUD and the Veterans Affairs to help homeless Veterans—and forge new partnerships between agencies like HUD, HHS, and the Department of Labor.
2018 Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent (PDF)
Veteran Justice Outreach
Veteran Justice Outreach provides eligible justice involved Veterans with timely access to VA's mental health and substance use services when clinically indicated, and other VA services and benefits as appropriate.
Health Care for Re-Entry Veterans Program
The Health Care for Re-Entry Veterans Program helps incarcerated Veterans successfully rejoin the community through various supports, including those addressing mental health and substance use problems.
Outreach Materials
Informing the public about the availability of assistance for Veterans is essential to the success of this initiative.
View the Get Involved page to find downloadable materials and share them with your friends, family members, and colleagues.
SOAR Works to End Veteran Homelessness: VA Caseworker's Guide
This guide aims to help VA workers put SOAR training into practice on behalf of Veterans who are homelessness or at risk of homelessness. The fact is that Veterans and others with disabilities who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness often struggle to access available resources. The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that can provide assistance: Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). These programs have some similarities, but are different in key ways. Each application requires certain documentation; both are complex. SOAR is a training and technical assistance initiative created by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and made available to case managers and social workers across the Federal Government and individual states. SOAR offers free tools and training to VA staff and other caseworkers nationwide to boost access to these benefits for people with disabilities who are experiencing or are at risk of homelessness, including Veterans. Use this guide to learn how SOAR works to end Veteran homelessness and then put SOAR training into practice on behalf of Veterans.
SQUARES gives users the ability to identify if someone is a Veteran, an essential first step that can lead to housing, benefits, health and mental health services. While SQUARES, by itself, cannot be used to establish eligibility for VA services, it should help facilitate access and coordination of services. To use SQUARES, you must register through the HMIS Homeless Repository database. Instructions on how to register and use SQUARES can be found in the training below.
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In this new blog post today, Lars Strojny talks about a new magic constant that will be joining its brothers in the upcoming PHP 5.3 release - __DIR__.
In PHP 5.3 there will be another magic constant __DIR__. [...] To allow this, the internal function php_dirname() has been moved in the Zend Engine and is now called zend_dirname(). Nevertheless an alias still exists.
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Apostle Simon the Zealot
The Synaxis of the Glorious and All-Praiseworthy Twelve Apostles of Christ appears to be an ancient Feast. The Church honors each of the Twelve Apostles on separate dates during the year, and has established a general commemoration for all of them on the day after the commemoration of the Glorious and First-Ranked among the Apostles Peter and Paul.
The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle Simon the Zealot is also commemorated on May 10.
For lists of the Apostles' names, see: Mt.10:2, Mark 3:14, Luke 6:12, Acts 1:13, 26.


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Professor Jonathan Lipson has written an op-ed for The Huffington Post posing a provocative question: What role did legal academics play in the recent financial crisis? In particular, the column suggests that the Law and Economics movement, and Judge Richard Posner as its most prominent spokesman, helped set the stage for the crisis.
Read the piece here.
Lipson starts this Fall as the Foley & Lardner Professor of Law at the UW Law School, where he earned his J.D. in 1990. (Lipson also earned his B.A. from the UW-Madison.) He comes from Temple University-Beasley School of Law, and previously taught at the University of Baltimore Law School.
Submitted by UW Law School News on August 13, 2010
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The Okaloosa County Sheriff�s Office is asking the public�s help in locating a missing woman.
NICEVILLE � As of Tuesday morning, the 60-year-old woman reported missing has not be found and the Okaloosa County Sheriff�s Office is asking for help in locating her.
Shigeko M. Freeman was last seen at her home at 10:30 p.m. Jan. 5, the Sheriff�s Office reported.
Her 2002 red Honda sedan was found early Jan. 6 in the northbound lane of Mid-Bay Bridge with its emergency lights activated, according to a news release.
The car was not broken down. Inside was a note to call 911, her identification and her husband�s phone number, according to the Sheriff�s Office.
The Coast Guard, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and Sheriff�s Office have searched the Choctawhatchee Bay to no avail. They will continue searching as weather permits, said Sheriff�s Office spokeswoman Michele Nicholson.
Freeman is 4 feet, 10 inches tall, about 106 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with any information can contact Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers anonymously at 863-TIPS (8477), online at www.emeraldcoastcrimestoppers.com.comor text TIP214 plus your message to C-R-I-M-E-S (274637).
Daily News Staff Writer Lauren Delgado can be reached at 850-315-4445 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @LaurenDnwfdn.


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Lancaster Super Speedway will be hosting an exciting night of racing action headlined by the Deal 1 Auto Sales SECA Crate Sportsman Countdown to River Wars race Saturday night.
The Deal 1 Auto Sales SECA Crate Sportsman drivers have three events, a non-winners race paying $400 to win, all-star winners race paying $400 to win and a full feature main event paying $500 to win.
This race will be an action-packed race leading up to Rivers Wars on Sept. 3 for the Deal 1 Auto Sales SECA Crate Sportsman Division.
Saturday night was a beautiful evening at Lancaster Super Speedway, with blazing racing, lower temperatures and heated tempers flaring.
The SECA Crate Late Model main front row had Pat Lindsay and Benji Knight.
At the green flag, Lindsay, Knight, Brandy Baker and Timbo Mangum roared into turn one battling for the lead. Exiting turn two, Lindsay led, while Knight, Baker, Mangum, Travis Steele and Manley Chaney contested for second.
Lancaster Super Speedway roars back to action Saturday night.
The LSS card is headlined by the popular SECA Crate Late Model Division.
On July 30, "The Gambler," Brandy Baker, won the SECA Crate Late Model Division race at Lancaster Super Speedway.
Baker had to earn it though as Travis Steele pressured him the entire race for the lead.
LSS racing fans can expect to see those two drivers along with Hank Taylor, Timbo Mangum, Benji Knight, Mike Huey, Mac Huey, Manley Chaney and Charles Kluttz competing for the win.
Lancaster Super Speedway featured top racing and amazing car counts Saturday night.
In the Cauthen Motors Renegade Division, the front row had Ryan "Superstar" Whitaker and Robbie Helms. When the green flag waved to start the race, Whitaker, Helms, Brandy Baker and Andrew Baker battled for the lead entering turn one. Exiting turn two, Helms led with a dogfight for second between Whitaker, the Bakers and Steve Hinson.
Lancaster Super Speedway roars back to action Saturday night with a major streak on the line.
The Cauthen Motors Renegade Division features an interesting situation.
Andrew Baker has been dominating the competition lately, reeling off four straight wins.
Lancaster Super Speedway owner Doug McManus has put up a $150 bounty to any driver who can outrun Andrew Baker.
Lancaster Super Speedway had an amazing car count Saturday night, with another strong night of racing.
In Lancaster Super Speedway's newly acquired division, the Pure Stock V8 Division debuted, with the front row of Bill Stutler and Jerry Knight.
Lancaster Super Speedway will be providing plenty of racing action to the fans and drivers Saturday night.
Debuting this Saturday is the Pure Stock V8 Division, and fans and drivers have wanted this division at LSS for a while now.
The Pure Stock V8 Division provides some of the best racing at area tracks on Friday and Saturday nights.
Drivers such as Wally Cook, Jerry Knight, Eric Cochran and many more are expected to be here to give the LSS half-mile dirt track a test Saturday night.
Kyle Norwood captured his first career win in the Montgomery Towing Super Stock main event at Lancaster Super Speedway to highlight action on a hot Saturday night.
Norwood and Brandy Baker were on the front row and when the green flag dropped, Baker, Norwood, Joseph Eneglbrecht and Chris Player roared into turn one in a lead battle.
Lancaster Super Speedway returns to racing action Saturday with the SECA Crate Late Models headlining the night.
On June 18, the SECA Crate Late Models put on one of the best races of the year at the half-mile dirt track, with division drivers Timbo Mangum and Benji Knight vying for the checkers.
Mangum emerged with the hard-fought victory, his second of the year.
Knight has two crate late model wins, as well.
Other drivers with wins in the division are Steve Banal, Chris Hargett and Chris Steele, who each have one win.
In perhaps one of the most action-packed USCS Winged Outlaw Sprint Car Southern Thunder Series features ever at Lancaster Super Speedway, Eric Riggins Jr. worked his way past the field Saturday for the win.
When the green flag dropped, Morgan Turpen, who won at Carolina Speedway on Friday, roared into the lead with series point leader Terry Gray, Nick Snyder, Lance Moss and Riggins Jr. close behind.
Early on, Turpen, the "Queen of the Wings," stayed at the front of the pack until Snyder's car came to life.
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Reports out of Port Renfrew this weekend are that the fishing is really picking up!
Mike and Dan Burkmar sent in this photo of a 30 pound chinook salmon caught off Camper Creek this weekend … that's Dan with the Tyee…way to go!
Steve from SeaWind Fishing Charters had 4 days in a row last week. He said the halibut fishing was slow for a couple of days until they found them, then they couldn't keep them off. He caught and released a whole bunch until they got their limit of 30-50 pounders. He also reported very good salmon fishing action between Logan Creek and the Rockpile, lots of scrappy 20-25 pound spring salmon. His guests from Germany had never seen fishing so good, left with HUGE smiles on their faces. Unfortunately, they missed the humpback whale show the next day — Steve estimates 30 whales, absolutely incredible.
Des from Vicious Fish Charters had a few good days too, in much the same spots, some fun days for salmon and halibut.
Things are definitely heating up … hopefully a good sign for the summer ahead!


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[Verse 1: 2 Chainz]
Money's the motivation – money's the conversation
You on vacation, we gettin' paid, so…
We don't placate 'em, I did it for the fam'
It's whatever we had to do, it's just who I am
Yeah – it's the life I chose
Gunshots in the dark, one eye closed
And we got it cookin' like a one-eyed stove
You can catch me kissin' my girl with both eyes closed
Perfectin' my passion, thanks for askin'
Couldn't slow down so we had to crash it
You use plastic, we 'bout cash
I see some people ahead that we gon' pass, yeah!
I never fear death or dying
I only fear never trying
I am whatever I am
Only God can judge me now
One shot, everything rides on
Tonight, even if I've got
Three strikes, I'mma go for it
This moment, we own it
And I'm not to be played with
Because it could get dangerous
See these people I ride with
This moment, we own it
[Verse 2: Wiz]
And the same ones I ride with be the same ones that I die with
Put it all out on the line with
If you lookin' for me you can find Wiz
In the new car or the Crown with my new broad
That's a fine chick, and the Weather Squad, I'm down with
Ain't no way around it
What you say? Tell me what you say?
Workin' hard, reppin' for my dawgs, so this every day
Takin' off, lookin' out for all, makin' sure we ball like the mob
All you do is call, catch you if you fall, Young Khalifa
[Verse 3: 2 Chainz]
This the biggest day of my life
We got big guns, been graduated from knives
Day in the life, and I'm ready to ride
Got the spirit, I'm feelin' like a killer inside
Or – financial outbreak, I'm free but I ain't out yet
Ridin' with the plug so I'm close to the outlet
At the red light, rims, sittin' on the set
I look better on your girl than her outfit
[Verse 4: Wiz]
Stuck to the plan, always said that we would stand up
Never ran, we the fam, and loyalty never change up
Been down since day one, look at where we came from
Jumpin' out on anybody who try to say somethin'
One thing about it, got a problem? I've got the same one
Money rolls we fold, plenty clubs we close, follow the same code
Never turn our backs, our cars don't even lose control
One shot, everything rides on
Tonight, even if I've got
Three strikes, I'mma go for it
This moment, we own it
And I'm not to be played with
Because it could get dangerous
See these people I ride with
This moment, we own it


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While libvirt is currently capable of using SAN storage, it lacks the
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Enable VM hosts to discover new SAN storage, issue NPIV operations and do basic configuration of multipath devices.
- Name: Dave Allan
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 11
- Last updated: 2009-02-25
- Percentage of completion: 5%
Detailed Description
Guest virtual machines can currently use SAN storage and multipath devices, but administrators must do the storage configuration manually using separate tools from libvirt. This feature will permit administrators to discover storage and present it to virtual machines using libvirt.
Datacenter operations are usually split along functional lines: the facilities management team, the server administration team, the SAN administration team, and others (network, etc.) not relevant to this discussion. Within the server admin group, there are often sub-groups for each OS.
When a new application is deployed the SAN admins provision the storage and notify whichever OS team is responsible for the server to proceed with the OS install.
There may be more or less information transmitted from the SAN admins to the server admins when the storage becomes available. The minimal message is something along the lines of, "I've provisioned the LUNs, and you should be able to see them now. I gave you LUNs 27, 28, 29 and 53." The server admin may not know what targets or hosts the new storage is accessible through, but a rescan of all host adapters will show up new logical units with numbers 27, 28, 29 and 53 on some target on some host, and the server admin assumes that's the new storage.
The functionality described here does not attempt to address the many possible failures that can result from the communication between the storage admins and the server admins described above. What we are doing is providing a framework to make the described process work within its limitations. Perhaps more importantly, we create a foundation for work that will make it possible for admins, using only libvirt's APIs, to identify storage precisely and validate that the storage intended is actually used.
While libvirt is currently capable of using SAN storage, it lacks the ability to trigger scans for new storage, create virtual host adapters using NPIV and manage multipath devices. The OS admin team that manages the VM host must get involved to get the VM host to recognize the new storage. Giving libvirt the ability to manage storage allows the OS admin team responsible for the guest OS to complete the VM build out itself.
The libvirt APIs already permit storage discovery and pool creation. These functions will be extended to discover storage on a per-SCSI-host basis and multipath devices. The pool create and destroy functions will be extended to understand multipath and NPIV.
Benefit to Fedora
Administrators will be able to provision storage for VMs from the single set of tools that they are already using to manage the VMs.
As described above, changes are required in libvirt. Eventually the tools using libvirt will need to be updated to take advantage of the new features, but that is not within the scope of this work.
- Implement storage discovery
- Implement NPIV operations
- Implement multipath configuration
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How To Test
- Use virsh to discover and configure SAN storage.
- Use virsh to issue NPIV operations.
- Use virsh to configure multipath devices.
- Assign SAN and multipath storage to VMs.
User Experience
See the previous section.
None, outside of the implementation efforts detailed above.
Contingency Plan
This functionality is independent of all other features. If it is not ready, administrators can continue to configure storage manually.
Release Notes
Fedora 11 adds the ability in libvirt to discover storage on a per-SCSI-host basis, issue NPIV operations and configure multipath devices. This enables administrators to discover, configure and provision storage for virtual machines without having to use multiple tools.
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The incredible imaginative power of the human mind connects us. If I mention standing ankle deep in the ocean, many of you can picture this image (and maybe feel the dizziness as you watch the water rush past your feet …Read More
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Amric Fields scored a game-high 16 points, and Garlon Green brought down seven rebounds, as TCU overcame a slow start to beat Cal Poly 53-46 on Friday night and give Trent Johnson his first career win with the Horned Frogs.
Green made a pair of free throws with 17:54 left to put TCU up 24-23. He had 10 points in the game.
TCU trailed the Mustangs 21-10 at halftime. Cal Poly held TCU to just one field goal over the first 12 minutes of the season opener.
Then, Fields responded with a dunk for his second basket, which was followed by a three-pointer from Nate Butler Lind and a pair of jumpers by Green.
Kyan Anderson made three 3-pointers in the second half to finish with 11 points for the Frogs.
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NASA's Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever Seen in Universe
How far is far? And, when do you know when you get there? This is not a Dr. Seuss riddle, but the ultimate "final frontier" confronting astronomers. We are on the cusp of seeing nearly as far as we ever can into the universe of stars and galaxies. The question can be better phrased: How young is young? And how do you know when you've seen the earliest objects that ever existed? That's because the farther we look into space the further back into time we see. We're accustomed to instantaneous communications on Earth, but starlight carries a roaming fee. It takes billions of years for information to reach us from the remote universe.
Now astronomers have pushed the Hubble Space Telescope to its limits by finding what they believe is the most distant object ever seen in the universe. Its light traveled 13.2 billion years to reach Hubble. The dim object is a compact galaxy of blue stars that existed 480 million years after the Big Bang, only four percent of the universe's current age. It is tiny. Astronomers were surprised to discover that these observations offer evidence that the rate at which the universe was forming stars grew precipitously in about a 200-million-year time span. This huge change in the rate of star birth means that if astronomers can probe a little further back in time they are going to see even more dramatic changes. This will require the power of the James Webb Space Telescope, the planned successor to Hubble, which will be launched later this decade.
Astronomers have pushed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to its limits by finding what they believe is the most distant object ever seen in the universe. Its light traveled 13.2 billion years to reach Hubble, roughly 150 million years longer than the previous record holder. The age of the universe is 13.7 billion years.
The dim object, called UDFj-39546284, is a compact galaxy of blue stars that existed 480 million years after the Big Bang, only four percent of the universe's current age. It is tiny. Over one hundred such mini-galaxies would be needed to make up our Milky Way.
Astronomers were surprised to find evidence that the rate at which the universe was forming stars grew precipitously in about a 200-million-year time span.
"We're seeing huge changes in the rate of star birth that tell us that if we go a little further back in time we're going to see even more dramatic changes," says Garth Illingworth of the University of California at Santa Cruz. The rate of star birth increased by about a factor of ten going from 480 million years to 650 million years after the Big Bang.
"These observations provide us with our best insights yet into the earlier primeval objects that have yet to be found," adds Rychard Bouwens of the Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Astronomers don't know exactly when the first stars appeared in the universe, but every step farther from Earth takes them deeper into the early universe's "formative years" when stars and galaxies were just beginning to emerge in the aftermath of the Big Bang. "We're moving into a regime where there are big changes afoot. Another couple of hundred million years toward the Big Bang, that will be the time where the first galaxies really are starting to get built up," says Illingworth.
Bouwens and Illingworth are reporting the discovery in the January 27 issue of the British science journal Nature.
The even more distant proto-galaxies that Illingworth expects are out there will require the infrared vision of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which is the successor to Hubble. Planned for launch later this decade, Webb will provide confirming spectroscopic measurements of the object's tremendous distance being reported today.
After over a year of detailed analysis, the object was positively identified in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field – Infrared (HUDF-IR) data taken in the late summer of both 2009 and 2010. This observation was made with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) starting just a few months after it was installed into the Hubble Space Telescope in May of 2009, during the last NASA space shuttle servicing mission to Hubble.
The object appears as a faint dot of starlight in the Hubble exposures. It is too young and too small to have the familiar spiral shape that is characteristic of galaxies in the local universe. Though its individual stars can't be resolved by Hubble, the evidence suggests that this is a compact galaxy of hot stars that first started to form over 100-200 million years earlier, from gas trapped in a pocket of dark matter.
The proto-galaxy is only visible at the farthest infrared wavelengths observable by Hubble. This means that the expansion of the universe has stretched and thereby reddened its light more than that of any other galaxy previously identified in the HUDF-IR, to the very limit of what Hubble can detect. Webb will go deeper into infrared wavelengths and will be at least an order of magnitude more sensitive than Hubble, allowing it to more efficiently hunt for primeval galaxies at even greater distances, at earlier times, closer to the Big Bang.
Astronomers plumb the depths of the universe, and probe its history, by measuring how much the light from an object has been stretched by the expansion of space. This is called the redshift value or "z." In general, the greater the observed "z" value for a galaxy, the more distant it is in time and space as observed from our own Milky Way. Before Hubble was launched, astronomers could only see galaxies out to a z of approximately 1, corresponding to halfway across the universe.
The original Hubble Deep Field taken in 1995 leapfrogged to z=4, or roughly 90 percent of the way back to the beginning of time. The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) produced the Hubble Ultra Deep Field of 2004, pushing back the limit to z~6. ACS was installed on Hubble during Servicing Mission 3B in 2002. Hubble's first infrared camera, the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer, reached out to z=7. The WFC3 first took us back to z~8, and has now plausibly penetrated for the first time to z=10. The Webb Space Telescope is expected to leapfrog to z of approximately 15, 275 million years after the Big Bang, and possibly beyond. The very first stars may have formed between z of 30 and 15.
The hypothesized hierarchical growth of galaxies – from stellar clumps to majestic spirals and ellipticals – didn't become evident until the Hubble Space Telescope deep-field exposures. The first 500 million years of the universe's existence, from z of 1000 to 10, is now the missing chapter in the hierarchical growth of galaxies. It's not clear how the universe assembled structure out of a darkening, cooling fireball of the Big Bang. As with a developing embryo, astronomers know there must have been an early period of rapid changes that would set the initial conditions to make the universe of galaxies what it is today.
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.
Garth Illingworth
University of California, Santa Cruz
Rychard Bouwens
University of California, Santa Cruz, and Leiden University, Netherlands


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VDI: Creating a Successful Virtual Desktop Architecture
During a recent Desktop Virtualization Webcast titled VDI with Unified Communications: What Architects Need to Know, one of the key takeaways was that Unified Communications (UC) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) teams need to work together and look at the larger user environment in which they are delivering the IT services. When the audience was asked how many of them were collaborating with their UC teams, 53% said they were currently engaging with their organization's UC teams in their desktop virtualization projects.
Of course, this may be a biased sample, since the survey is of the webcast attendees, which mainly include IT professionals who are interested in the intersection of VDI and UC. However, I believe this is a sign of a growing trend in enterprise IT.
John Burke, Principal Research Analyst at Nemertes and one of the presenters of the webcast, also discussed the expanding intersection of the two trends—desktop virtualization and collaboration. Next week, Cisco will be at Enterprise Connect talking about these topics. In fact, one of the top five requested Cisco sessions is the Virtual Workspace session: discussing the convergence of voice, video, and virtual desktop.
If you are going to be at Enterprise Connect, please come and meet the other presenters from the webcast: Brian Dal Bello, General Manager of Virtualized Collaboration Business Unit at Cisco and Arnie Lopez, Director at Cisco. And stop by the show floor where we will be demonstrating the new desktop virtualization experience with UC. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Hamlet Soliloquy Glossary: O, that this too too solid flesh would melt (1.2.131-61)
Hercules (1.2.155)
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ITS Lunch & Learn - Excel Tips & Tricks: February 22, 2013
February 12, 2013
Are you getting the most out of Microsoft Excel? Do you use Excel for basic lists and record keeping, but would like to be able to do more with it? Have lunch and learn tips and tricks in Excel. Lunch will be served and water will be provided. Please bring your own cup or alternate drink.
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NEW YORK (AP) Small ball has made its mark on the NBA All-Star ballot.
The league announced Wednesday that it was dropping the center spot from the ballot in a nod to the way the sport has changed in recent years.
Fans will vote for three frontcourt players and two guards, instead of two guards, two forwards and a center.
NBA executive vice president of operations Stu Jackson says having a center on the ballot was ``outdated and not representative of today's game or players.'' He adds that players have become more versatile and ``this ballot will more accurately reflect that versatility.''
Teams like Miami (Chris Bosh), Boston (Kevin Garnett) and San Antonio (Tim Duncan) all used forwards as center with great success last season.
The ballot comes out Nov. 13.


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Verizon Wireless Expands America's Largest 4G LTE Network Throughout Central Virginia
LAUREL, MD — Verizon Wireless recently activated new 4G LTE coverage in several central Virginia counties, including Louisa, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Prince George and Charles City Counties, further expanding coverage on the high-speed wireless data network the company first launched in Virginia in 2011. Now, Verizon Wireless customers in Louisa, Dinwiddie, Hopewell and Prince George, as well as additional surrounding towns and communities can use their 4G LTE-enabled devices to surf the Web, post status updates and photos, share music, and download files at speeds up to 10 times faster than customers on 3G networks.
In real-world, fully-loaded network environments, Verizon Wireless customers will be able to use their 4G LTE smartphones, tablets, notebooks, laptop modems and mobile hotspots to experience average data rates of 5 to 12 megabits per second (Mbps) on the downlink and 2 to 5 Mbps on the uplink.
"We've always believed the best wireless devices deserve the best wireless network," said Mike Maiorana, Regional President for Verizon Wireless in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC. "People everywhere are increasingly relying on their tablets, smartphones and apps to stay organized, connected and entertained. Our continued 4G LTE network deployment enables customers to maximize the performance of their wireless devices."
Verizon Wireless customers can also take advantage of HomeFusion™ Broadband, a solution that leverages the power and speed of the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network to deliver high-speed, in-home Internet access for residential broadband, particularly in areas where Internet options are limited or are not currently available. With HomeFusion, Verizon Wireless' powerful 4G LTE network is delivered to an antenna attached to the exterior of a customer's residence. This antenna then transmits a signal to an in-home broadband router which provides connectivity for four wired and at least 20 wireless devices in the household using Wi-Fi. Customers can purchase the HomeFusion Broadband in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and at select local agents.
Currently, the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network is available in more than 440 markets across the United States. When customers travel outside of a 4G LTE coverage area, 4G LTE devices automatically connect to Verizon Wireless' 3G network, where available, enabling customers to stay connected from coast to coast. Verizon Wireless' 3G network is the most reliable high-speed data network in the country and allows customers in 3G coverage areas who purchase 4G LTE devices today to take advantage of 4G LTE speeds when the faster network becomes available in their area, or when they travel to areas already covered by 4G LTE.
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Why Haven't the Android Hordes Routed the iPad?
Mar 14, 2013 5:00 AM PT
The fact that IDC revised its 2013 tablet market forecast to give Android-based tablets the edge in shipping over the market-leading Apple iPad wasn't surprising.
What was surprising? That it has taken Android so long to get anywhere near this point, a projected 48.8 percent of the market to Apple's 46 percent by year's end.
When I take a closer look at the IDC report, I'm even more surprised -- looking way out into 2017, IDC still believes iOS will hold a 43.5 percent market share.
With several fantastic Android-based tablet manufacturers in the world -- and quite a few low-quality manufacturers out there -- I would have expected Android to have made a much better showing. When you add in markets like China and India and project out to 2017, Android's predicted 46 percent share seems like an utter failure.
If you add in the ubiquity of Google apps and services, as well as that company's size and reach, again I'm left scratching my head. When I consider that IDC sees an influx of smaller, lower-priced Android devices hitting the market, it's just insult to injury: If you could buy two Android tablets for the price of one iPad, what's the problem? Why isn't Android expected to hit at least 60 percent marketshare by 2017?
Just Shipments?
IDC, it turns out, isn't predicting revenue or even profit share -- just the number of physical units that will somehow make it out into the world. If it did focus on money, Apple would hold more revenue and the lion's share of the profit.
That makes sense now, though, where Apple has a lead in terms of manufacturing and supply chain. It locks up great pricing and runs a finely tuned manufacturing network. What I read when I see the number for 2017 from IDC is that the Android manufacturers aren't really catching up. They're not projected to make significant changes (gains) at all.
I might be an Apple technology enthusiast, but if I were an Android fan, I'd look at the IDC report and wonder why Android isn't projected to dominate the world -- at least in terms of shipments.
Where's the Android Halo Effect?
If every Apple investor is worried about the company's ability to sell into emerging growth markets with a cheap iPhone -- where Android is pretty much always predicted to dominate in the smartphone OS wars -- then how is it all these new Android-based smartphone users aren't enough to significantly tip the scales when it comes to tablets? Are they just flirting?
In Appleland, there's a strong correlation between a customer buying a single Apple product and then returning to buy other Apple products. Is this not the case with Android? I seriously would have considered this. If it isn't the case, why aren't Android tablet shipments projected to grow at a faster clip?
Is it that Android is so fragmented among the manufacturers trying to personalize the experience that consumers don't really experience a halo effect?
Scratching the Microsoft Surface
Speaking of fragmentation, IDC tracks Windows and Windows RT. It actually recommends that Microsoft and its partners focus on improving Windows 8.
Including the Microsoft Surface, which has received decent reviews in addition to serious raves from enthusiasts, Microsoft's showing in IDC's report seems like another big failure. I had hoped that Windows-based tablets would do better, if only to temper the cult-like battles between Apple and Android fanboys.
By combining projections for both Windows and Windows RT, IDC projects Microsoft will nab just 4.7 percent of tablet shipments in 2013. In 2017, IDC expects Microsoft tablet shipments to grow to just 10.1 percent.
If that doesn't pan out, and Microsoft's dancing Surface commercials do drive sales, then the so-called King of the Tablet Hill might not be Android at all. Why?
I believe that a potential Microsoft-based tablet buyer is far likelier to take away an Android tablet sale than an iPad sale. I believe the tablet buying process is more about the choice of going with Apple or something else. Do you want the Apple ecosystem? After you decide not to go with Apple, then you refine your buying choices.
How Do You Measure Usage?
There remains one pesky issue that no one is really able to address very well. I believe it's because of intangibles that are hard to describe: Look, feel, ease of use.
The iPad seems to get used at far higher rates than other devices. According to Chitika, iPad users generated 80.5 percent of North American Web traffic, and while that represents a 7.6 percent decrease from December, it's still 80 freaking percent!
This is just North America, though, which is Apple's stomping grounds.
Where does this leave us? Who cares if Android is or isn't the shipment leader? While I expect it to have far more shipments, I wish our analyst firms would turn to productivity and use. How often are users tapping and swiping? For work? For play? For social diversions? These are hard things to measure.
By 2017 -- a long way off, I know -- I expect iPads on average will remain in serious use longer than other tablets. That is, the iPad will get more use for a longer period of time, which means the iOS lifespan and footprint will be much larger than a unit shipment prediction would suggest.


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Packers need to get physical vs 49ers
By Jason Wilde, ESPN Wisconsin
~January 9th, 2013
~GREEN BAY – T.J. Lang thought he was getting some bulletin-board material. He was not.
Instead, the Green Bay Packers left guard was simply hearing the perception that's been circulating for a while about his team: That unlike their upcoming opponent in Saturday night's NFC Divisional Playoff game, the Packers aren't the most physical bunch in the business.
"Who said that?" Lang said Tuesday evening. "Do you have a quote?"
Actually, no. But there are plenty of quotes about how physical the San Francisco 49ers are, both on offense and on defense.
Both coach Mike McCarthy and quarterback Aaron Rodgers were asked questions about how physical the 49ers are on Tuesday. Fair or not, that's not the first image that springs to mind when it comes to the Packers. Talented? Athletic? Explosive? All of the above. But the perception – and, to some extent, the reality – is that they're not the most physical bunch in the NFL.
"What the perception is outside of here, I don't have my finger on the pulse of that, I would say," Packers inside linebacker A.J. Hawk said with a chuckle. "But whenever your offense is as explosive as ours is, there's so many studs on our offense – I'm not even talking about our defense – but offensively, when you can put up those kind of numbers, people might perceive that as not being physical.
"But we can be when we need to. We're definitely physical. Whatever. The good thing about perception – it doesn't matter. On Saturday, it's whoever plays best."
Yes, in Saturday night's playoff game against the 49ers at Candlestick Park, the Packers' reputation won't matter. Perhaps they'll win and prove that they, too, can be physical, or, at least physical enough. Or maybe they won't. Whatever their formula has been to win 41 games – including five playoff games with a Super Bowl XLV championship – over the past three seasons, as long as that results in a victory, that's all they care about.
"Just to have an opportunity to watch them here the last couple of days, our staff has put together a good plan," McCarthy said. "We're going to run our offense. We understand the match-ups and schemes we're anticipating and the reactions (the 49ers) will have to those schemes and adjustments. But we're not going to change the way we play."
That's not to say that the 49ers' reputation isn't well-earned. On defense, their defensive linemen are big and bruising, their hard-hitting linebackers might be the best in the league, and their defensive backs close quick and strike with force.
"They try to hit you in the mouth, just like every defense," Packers wide receiver James Jones said. "People say they're super tough because of the type of style of football they play, whether they're running it down your throat or they've got a couple big hitters on defense. Every defense in the National Football League is trying to take your head off; they're going to do the same. Great players on that defense, physical defense. You've got to keep your head on a swivel."
On offense, their offensive line boasts three former first-round picks, averages 315 pounds and started all 16 games together. The unit plays with attitude and toughness and blocks hard for running back Frank Gore, who can be punishing when faced with contact.
"They're good. They're very physical," Hawk said. "I know their guard Alex Boone; I hosted him on his official (recruiting) visit to Ohio State. I love how he plays. He's as physical, plays to the whistle, and I think their whole offensive line is like that. To me, as a pure football player, I love that. I respect that. Frank Gore is one of the hardest-running backs in the league. Their offense, if they're considered a physical offense from the outside, they deserve it. They've proven that they are. That makes our test a little bit tougher.
"It doesn't ever change for us, but at least going into this game, there are some teams you might go in expecting a lot of four- and five-receiver sets. But this team, it's no secret. They're going to want to pound the ball on you. We look at that as a great opportunity, a great challenge. It's the playoffs, too. I think the playoffs are always like that. It always comes back to that."
Added McCarthy: "They play the game of football the right way. They do a lot of good things. They play to their strengths. They have good players. This is a game that we as a football team are looking forward to. These are the types of games that you start working (for) as a football team back in, what is it, April or May now or whenever we're allowed to get back together in the off-season. So we're excited about this opportunity."
But rest assured, the Packers won't get caught up in trying to prove how physical they can be. They know what they are, and while they're not afraid to mix it up, they also know what's gotten them to this point.
"Obviously we're not a power-run scheme here. With how much spread we do, how much zone we do, how much passing we do, we play to our strengths, which is being fundamentally sound and using our athleticism to get in front of guys and make blocks," Lang explained.
"In our eyes, we don't see anybody really ever outphysicaling us. We really play to our strengths. When you talk about physicality, you talk about both sides of the ball. Offensively, we work so much on our techniques, our hand placements and our footwork, that when you start getting too aggressive, that's when the defender can use it against you. When you get overextended trying to blast somebody, that's when they can sidestep you and make you look like an ass.
"Our job, like I said, is to use proper fundamentals. You definitely want to be physical when the time is right, but I think we've got a great group of guys. There are times where we do play physical when the play allows us to, and there's times when you just have to be smart and use your technique a little bit more."
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We are having a party tonight at my friend's house later this evening. Every year we'll have a Christmas party cum gathering with my old school mates, and this has been carry on since we were teenage...haha!
Well, alittle different from "Last Christmas", I've made a log cake instead. Ah....and yes! I managed to mould a Santa, a Snowman, Gingerbread man and also a house made of sponge fingers!! The rest of it...oh I bought from the nearby store...;p
A "Black Forest Cake" for the log....hope my friend's will like it...:)
At the same time I'm submitting this post to Swee San, of the Sweet Spot.....
"This is my entry for the Christmas Giveaway hosted by Swee San of the Sweet Spot"
A house built with finger sponge and some icing for the snow. Building this house was fun...like stagging sme legos..haha!
Oh the gingerbread man....this is a girl..;p LOL!! I didn't bake any, cutting out from some fondants may do the trick..;D
Below was the left over from the log..heehee! Have a peep of the cherries and the sponge...yummy! Recipe was adapted from Kevin Chai.
5 eggs
100g sugar
100g plain flour
20g cocoa powder
60g butter (melted)
Some whipped cream
Shredded chocolate
Pitted cherries
** I've brushed some coffee syrup + rum on the sponge before spreading the whipped cream and fillings.
Method for the sponge:
~ Beat eggs and sugar till light and fluffy. Gently fold in flour and cocoa powder, add in melted butter and mix well.
~ Bake at 180'C for 8-10 minutes on a swiss roll pan (10x14")


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oliverp necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 191 design presentati da 70 designer.
We are changing our company and trading name from V3 to Z3 (zee-3) to avoid potential name and identity conflicts as we grow internationally. We want to create a logo to clearly identify us to both our existing and our new customers as we develop our international business.
Z-Three or Z3
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You can check out our current domain and logo "V3" at http://www.v-three.co.uk - the new domain is Z-Three.com (pronounced zee three). We are open regarding some continuity in style but would prefer something completely different.
Z-Three are distributors of BlackBerry equipment and we would like to take design cues from the new black and white BlackBerry style (see http://www.blackberrycurve.com & http://www.blackberrypearl.com).
The design brief is for something clean and simple that will stand out when printed and displayed in monochrome. The logo may be in colour but the desing must be clearly recognisable in monochrome.
The contest will run for 9 days but we may close early if we find a design we like. Alternatively we may choose a design but keep the contest running and choose two winners.
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Wed. 3/10/10 7:34am
Big up for the skills in the name pronunciation! WFMU keep the good music going!
Wed. 3/10/10 7:50am
At 7:30 UK time my computer and amp turn themselves on and start playing wonderful WFMU. I love every single one of you already and I will cough up as soon as I got the cash and time . It's not that easy . Really . I'm not after any free gifts just keep on keepin' on.
Wed. 3/10/10 7:50am
just pledged,man.
Wed. 3/10/10 7:56am
Please Play:
More music. I like the music. I can't afford to pledge. not 20 and certainly not 180. I can never afford an over-priced anything. I make sandwiches at home. It's not really hard. I make coffee at home and I put it in a thermos. I'd love to give you money and I appreciate the fact that you need some for your station but one song and then 10mins of rambling begging sucks.
Wed. 3/10/10 7:59am
Hank Williams Jr.:
Do you have anything by Ghost Exits? Would you play it if you had it?
Wed. 3/10/10 8:14am
less rambling yourself, "Please Play" - we put in huge amounts of energy and money to provide this. If you can't be positive about what we do, shut up.
Wed. 3/10/10 8:21am
Dear Please play-you have no idea how important this pledge drive is, I too make sandwiches and avoid coffee shops in lieu of homemade-but I find that listening to the pledge drive is actually a small inconvenience compared to having no FMU ever again! Hang in there and stay positive, Maybe pledge 20 bucks then save up for it?
Wed. 3/10/10 8:22am
I personally prefer more talking during the marathon! I always feel a little sad when regular programming returns afterwards and the DJ chat is relegated to handovers and pseu vs. bryce. Half-hour sets of music are always great but this two week out of the year exception is necessary or there'd be no music or station at all! And it's still good listening.
Wed. 3/10/10 8:24am
My mom said "Why are you LISTENING to a pledge drive?"
Parents just don't understand... FMU pledge drives are just as fun and interesting as their rest-of-the-year programming.
Wed. 3/10/10 8:28am
also thanks to the marathons and the fun banter I find myself leaving the station on all day and listening to shows I never heard before
Wed. 3/10/10 8:35am
Frank in VT:
Thanks for the CD!
Wed. 3/10/10 8:55am
oh my god, I forgot about Scott Walker's donkey
Wed. 3/10/10 8:55am
another great show. dunno how i missed gang gang dance before, but its on my radar now. thanks
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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. - Police in Yonkers have announced the arrest of a teenager who was charged in the fatal stabbing of a Yonkers movie theater employee over the weekend.
On Wednesday afternoon, Yonkers Police Commissioner Charles Garnder announced that 16-year-old Michael Pettiford was facing a murder charge in the death of Daij Asante Thomas, 19.
At approximately 12:45 a.m. Saturday, members of the Yonkers Police Department responded to the theater on Fitzgerald Street on a report of a fight with a person stabbed as a movie was ending.
Upon arrival, officers located Thomas in the lobby of the theater with a stab wound to his chest, Yonkers Police said. Officers immediately provided aid and assisted transporting Thomas to a local area hospital, where he was pronounced deceased a short time later.
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It was to be a day of celebration, not a morning of angry tears and bitter rage directed at the ignorance of mankind.
I have always sympathized with Dian Fossey and her misinterpreted passion, I understood how her love for the mountain gorillas ran so deep and fast that strangling poachers bare-handed seemed like the only viable solution to her. I'd like to stop the beating heart and breathing lungs of the guy who decided to rob Ikia of her life in the wild just to make a quick buck.
Three weeks ago, Julius, a geologist in Kalemie, was approached at his home a chimp trafficker, and the proposal wasn't out of the ordinary. As a wealthy Congolese mining survey freelancer who frequently entertains expats and foreign nationals, Julius has been targeted as an individual who can afford exotic pets—and would have connections to others who would be interested in similar transactions. Exotic pet traffickers routinely come to his compound with African grey parrots, crocodiles, monkeys, marabou storks, and as of late, three baby chimpanzees.
When Julius saw the grave condition that Ikia was in, he felt there was no other choice but to save the chimp from the greedy hands of the trafficker who had her tucked away in a burlap sack bound with twigs. She was bought for $120US after Julius refused the asking price of $200.
Ikia's decline was immediate. Julius provided her with shelter in his courtyard, and the young chimp was immediately hostile and aggressive. Attempts at feeding her were in vain—she refused milk and would only eat small amounts of papaya. Julius contacted the Jane Goodall Institute (no response) and Chimfunshi in Zambia (also no response) for advice. The husband of a colleague of Chantal's who was familiar with her work as co-director of J.A.C.K. in Lubumbashi, cemented a connection between Julius and Chantal. Urgent phone calls and desperate emails ping-ponged between the two as Ikia's health became critical.
Chantal immediately coordinated a meeting with the Minister of the Environment and an inspector from the Institute for Hunting and Conservation and Nature (notice how it's the Institute of Hunting before other concerns like Conservation and Nature?) to obtain permission for the seizure and relocation of Ikia to the J.A.C.K. refuge where she could receive appropriate care and veterinary attention (from the one and only vet in Lubumbashi).
The Minister of the Environment was unavailable, but represented by a boozy stand-in, and the IHCN inspector proved to be shadier than a tree, working for financial motives more than animal welfare. The whiff of corruption was immediately evident as both men were asking for money to expedite the process and maintain their interest.
Kalemie is a two and a half hour flight from Lubumbashi. Due to Ikia's deplorable condition, immediate decisions were necessary to ensure her survival. The documents that were to be signed by the officials on a Friday afternoon were somehow pushed to Monday in favour of whiskey, despite the urgent request for permission to fly Ikia to Lubumbashi that Saturday. On Monday, Chantal was to hear from the Minister by day's end, but again, there was a delay in any formal action. When she was finally invited to the "office" of the Minister to receive the required documents, she was offered a seat (a plastic lawn chair) in a windowless office with only a table and one other lawn chair. The Minister's stand-in had no paper and asked Chantal to borrow a pen—which confirmed the lack of professionalism and governmental resources from the beginning.
Chantal phoned Julius to confirm that the permission had been granted, a pilot had been contacted and the expense of the flight was going to be waived. Except, on that Tuesday, only Julius got on the plane in Kalemie– there wasn't room in the cargo area of the plane for Ikia. Julius decided to fly to Lubumbashi to assist the refuge with negotiations and his colleague, Patrick, would fly with Ikia the following day.
The refuge staff anxiously prepared the quarantine cage and the vet was contacted. As we paced, waiting for the phone call indicating that Ikia was on the plane, Julius informed us of different news– the flight from Kalemie was cancelled, but Ikia would arrive the next day. On Wednesday the flight was delayed for hours. When we received the green light that Ikia was on the flight, we headed to the airport with the Minister's useless sidekick and the seedy, glassy-eyed inspector. Halfway out of the city the sidekick realized he didn't have the documents to present to the airport officials. We turned around. Then he decided he wanted to take his own vehicle—and asked Chantal for $10 to cover the petrol.
In separate vehicles we rushed to the airport, exasperated at the behaviour of the ministry. The officials continued to ask Julius for more money. The airport officials in Kalemie demanded $100 US to put Ikia on the plane. The Lubumbashi airport police stopped us at the gate and said we could only take one vehicle beyond the entrance. After removing the crate for transferring Ikia to the official's car, he couldn't unlock the back door of his Jeep, so we reloaded ours, and both cars were granted permission to proceed—with a bribe payment and a crooked smile.
The police officer wore a dusty uniform hat and a sweatshirt that my grandmother would have loved (it might have belonged to her at one point). The sweatshirt had LET IT SNOW written in big, sparkly letters and the snowflakes were carefully sewn-on sequins. The cardinals were also sparkly and of red glitter. I thought of the intense fear locals and the world have for the Congolese police. How could anyone be afraid of an officer wearing a nubby Grandma sweatshirt, even with a rifle slung over his shoulder?
The plane was landing as we made our way through the gate, the LET IT SNOW officer smiling like a fool with extra money in his pocket. Ikia had no idea of the life that was about to unfold for her, but already, the days had been too long. The daily setbacks in the process we tried to hurry would eventually determine her fate.
We don't know how many days she spent in a burlap bag on the back of a bumpy truck from the mountains. We'll never know how many chimps were killed in order for the trafficker to get his hands on Ikia. The chimp troop would have defended her and perished in a bloody battle to save their own from the trafficker.
Julius tells us the traffickers are infiltrating the Kalemie area from Tanzania–convincing local Bantus and a pygmy tribe that they can find a reliable income for their families by getting involved in the exotic pet trade.
Historically, the Bantus and Kalemie population have never eaten chimpanzee, but the ever-growing militia numbers in the area do, presenting another threat to the two chimp colonies nearby. No one knows the number of chimps living in this area—a survey has never been done. National Geographic biologists were in the region earlier this year, but their focus was on the snake and frog population.
For the chimps of Kalemie, habitat destruction is pushing them closer to local communities who are torching large stands of forest for charcoal (a major fuel source for locals for cooking) and farmland. Gold mining surveys are presently being carried out which could also upset the delicate ecosystem and range of the chimps in future years as mining exploits are carried out.
Many fingers of blame can be pointed in every direction. To the minister officials with questionable morals, to the inspectors with equally dark motives, to an uneducated population who have found exotic animal trafficking provides a lucrative income. There are no schools in a 120 km radius of Kalemie—the pygmy tribe still lives by nomadic principles, their quiet existence suddenly interrupted by outsiders who have found a valuable resource in their forests. The Tanzanian traders can be blamed too–for fulfilling a demand from Saudi Arabia, to supply wealthy oil barons and army officials asking for chimps to call their very own.
Although J.A.C.K. can celebrate 23 success stories, there is no progress being made when the alarming news of a lively chimp trafficking trade is illuminated. Lwiro Primates in South Kivu (near Goma) recently introduced two more chimps to its primate sanctuary, in addition to the 45 chimps and 50 monkeys that they already house. The existence of sanctuaries and refuges like Lwiro, J.A.C.K. and Ngamba Island (Entebbe, Uganda) are indications of human failure and the tremendously steep climb that is ahead.
Soccer balls, bonbons and old running shoes aren't going to save Africa. The need for effective educational programs and a support staff to ensure their continuity are essential puzzle pieces in seeking equilibrium in this situation. Without education, poverty and corruption create an ugly piggy-back monster for a population surviving with limited resources.
Ikia is a product of the conflict, soupy morals and disorientation of the Congo. She died 12 hours after she arrived at J.A.C.K. Severely malnourished and dehydrated, her immune system and vitality was compromised long before we could be of assistance. Her weak, initial cries upon arrival were the last we heard. By morning, she was unresponsive, her limp body was unable to resuscitate. She died in Augie's arms, unaware of the safety and security that finally surrounded her.
The Congolese traditionally bury their dead the very same day, and by 2:30 that afternoon, Ikia's body was placed in an elaborate coffin decorated with ivory bows and lined with cloth. She was customarily buried with tree branches pushed into the dirt of her grave, as the branches would take her back to nature when she went to the otherworld. The service was brief; the emotions of the J.A.C.K. staff were visible on drawn faces and in clenched fists. The tug-of-war between anger and inconceivable sadness for her death pulled at each of us.
Ikia reminded us of the consequence of poverty and the desperation of a beleaguered Africa. Her death provided insight into the existence of chimp colonies that were unheard of. Of course we envisioned a different life for her, but understand that her death was for a purpose that will prove to be greater than her life.
Please tell everyone you know about the chimp trafficking situation in the Congo. And if you want to donate money to a cause that will directly influence the future, wild population of chimpanzees in Africa, visit the J.A.C.K. website or Facebook link at:
Lwiro Primates: http://www.facebook.com/n/?pages/Lwiro-Primates/358414795000&mid=d0c931G3119d14cG5f50f4eG4c
J.A.C.K.: www.jack.wildlife.org
Or if you're bilingual like the Congo believes all Canadians to be due to Celine Dion singing French songs, visit the J.A.C.K. site on Facebook (en francais):


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