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The 2010 sets keep coming up around the world and I managed to pick up this one yesterday here in Sweden. When I came back from the store and logged in to Eurobricks I found out that DarkFader already had posted a review of this set. But I had then already started working on my review so I thought I could finish it. I hope I can add some more perspectives and thoughts about this set and not drawing attention away from DarkFader's great review. It's my first Star Wars set in 3 years and my knowledge about the Star Wars universe isn't as great as many others here so don't expect to much from me regarding nerdy SW facts. But I'll do my best to please all of you LEGO fans who wants to read about the:
Set number: 8083
Name: Rebel Trooper Battle Pack
Theme: Star Wars / Classic
Year: 2010
Pieces: 79
Minifigs: 4
Price: $14.99, €14.99, (149 SEK)
The box
Finally I have some box pictures of the set I'm reviewing:
The front of the box shows the set in action with a lot of visual effects.
The back:
Here we can see the two new battle packs together. The 8084 wasn't available at the store, so I guess I'll have to wait a little longer before I can pick up that one (I really want that officer helmet). The back also shows the 4 minifigs that come in this set, a Hoth Officer, two Hoth Rebel Troopers and a Rebel Pilot named Zev Senesca.
Side of the box:
On the side of the box there is some advertisement for starwars.com and LEGO Club + a picture of Yoda to inform about the 30 year anniversary of the Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back, the movie that this set is based from.
Lets see what's inside:
An instruction manual and two plastic bags filled with those vital for life little bricks.
Close up on the manual:
The same picture as on the box, but much harder to photograph because of the crease on the manual.
Random manual picture:
The colours are very easy to tell apart from each other and the building process is very short. Remember to not shoot the Flick-fire missiles on big yellow faces.
More from the manual:
At the end of the manual we can see the same pictures as on the back of the box.
Here is a picture of the part list of the set - click on it for a bigger version.
Here we have the real stuff:
White, dark and light grey is the main colours of this set. Some interesting parts are the new headlight bricks (Brick, Modified 1 x 1 with Stud on 1 Side) and the macaroni pieces (in white and light grey). One pair of goggles, a 1x1 trans-red round plate and a white cheese slope was the extra pieces.
Helmets and weapons for everybody! But only backpacks for the officer and troopers. The pilot helmet features a new type of printing that is different from the earlier versions.
The rebel headgear is a brand new piece and much more movie accurate than the aviator helmets used in earlier sets. The snow goggles can be put in two different positions but you need to take them off of the helmet when you change the position because of the bill.
The minifigures:
The reason why people buy Battle Packs.
The two rebel troopers are exactly the same with dark tan legs, new torso print, new head piece and new headgear. The new face is very similar to this one but with white reflection points in the eyes and a little red mark under the mouth. I don't know if it's supposed to be a scar or just a marking of the chin? I watched the movie last night actually and I think it's a little weird that TLG choose tan and dark tan as colours for the troopers. In the movie they are dressed in almost only white which gives a much better camouflage in the remote ice world of Hoth.
The Hoth Officer has the same torso as was used in 7749 Echo Base. His head is somewhat special, it was centre of a big discussion when the Indiana Jones set 7683 Fight on the Flying Wing came out earlier this year. This guy was supposed to have the brown moustache head but came in many sets with a grey moustache version instead. The mix-up must have been pretty big because when I got my 7622 Race for the Stolen Treasure it came with the brown moustache head instead of the grey as it should . Therefore I now have 2 brown moustache heads and no grey one (if anyone wants to trade a grey for a brown you can PM me ).
Finally we have the Rebel Pilot Zev Senesca. The first named minifig in a battle pack which has caused a little stir amongst fans. Personally I don't care that much but I am not a big SW fan after all. I didn't know who this Zev was until I looked it up on Wookieepedia, apparently he is the pilot that finds Luke and Han on the morning after their adventure on Hoth. But since he has a pretty generic face (also being used as a clone pilot in 8088 - ARC-170 Starfighter) I guess he could do well even in a battle pack. His torso is the second version of the Rebel Pilot torso that has ever been made. The older one was used from '99 to '07 with no changes. This one features a more detailed control panel on the chest with silver printings and back printing which we can see in the next picture.
Only the pilot got back printing on the torso but since the other minifigs got backpacks it's not a surprise.
Building process:
As I wrote earlier the build is very easy and quick, nothing challenging but I don't want to call it boring either.
The complete set
Here we have the whole set with all the minifigs:
Looks just like a normal battle pack with a small vehicle and 4 minifigs. It seems the vehicle is supposed to be a Laser ice-cutter. It's only seen very briefly in the movie so it's hard to tell if it's accurate but it seems to be of a fitting size.
Here are some pictures of the Laser ice-cutter from different angles:
Front view - not the best view if you happen to be a snowtrooper.
Side view - the blaster is held by one of the new headlight pieces.
Back view - without minifig for better vision.
This part of the Laser ice-cutter confuses me a bit. Is this supposed to a storage room of some kind, or is it something else? The grey crate fits nicely in the hole.
Here is my little idea of what the space could be used for. Problem is that the cannons on top aren't able to shoot forward when the passenger is in
Bonus picture
There is a lot of winter sets coming out this season and I like it. Here is a little bonus picture of one of the Rebel Troopers when he's taking a break from war fighting
Final thoughts
Build: 5/10 Simple and quick build. Nothing special so I give it an average score.
Playability: 6/10 This set almost demands the 8084 Snowtrooper Battle Pack if you want a good play factor. If you have both the play features like flick-fire missiles and spinning cannons can be fun and useful.
Minifigures: 9/10 The minifigs are the main attractions in this set. All of them look very good to me, the troopers might not be very movie accurate but they are still nice I think. I like the goggles and the new headgear (but it sits quite high up on the minifigs heads) and the best thing about this set is the new heads in my opinion. I really like that Star Wars is starting with pupil-eyed faces too, now they fit with the rest of the licensed themes.
Pieces: 5/10 There isn't many pieces in this set and it's hard to build any good alternative models. But the pieces aren't totally useless because the colours are still good and there aren't any stickers.
Price: 5/10 Quite expensive for just 79 pieces but that's licensed themes I guess
Design: 6/10 Not too bad, the torso designs of the minifigs are very detailed and nice and the Laser ice-cutter is acceptable. A little strange back section on it though
Total: 6/10 An average set with focus on minifigs. A lot of Hoth sets are coming out this year and next so I guess this is a must buy if you are aiming for a recreation of a battle scene. I'm a little tempted myself actually to get all the Hoth sets but I'm not sure if I want to step deeper into the Star Wars world, there are many other themes that demands my attention
Thanks for reading my review!
EDIT: I forgot to add the set number in the title Would a member of the staff be kind to fix that, please? (number 8083) Thanks!
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Materials 2010, 3(2), 1049-1088; doi:10.3390/ma3021049
Organometallic Routes into the Nanorealms of Binary Fe-Si Phases
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AbstractThe Fe-Si binary system provides several iron silicides that have varied and exceptional material properties with applications in the electronic industry. The well known Fe-Si binary silicides are Fe3Si, Fe5Si3, FeSi, a-FeSi2 and b-FeSi2. While the iron-rich silicides Fe3Si and Fe5Si3 are known to be room temperature ferromagnets, the stoichiometric FeSi is the only known transition metal Kondo insulator. Furthermore, Fe5Si3 has also been demonstrated to exhibit giant magnetoresistance (GMR). The silicon-rich b-FeSi2 is a direct band gap material usable in light emitting diode (LED) applications. Typically, these silicides are synthesized by traditional solid-state reactions or by ion beam-induced mixing (IBM) of alternating metal and silicon layers. Alternatively, the utilization of organometallic compounds with reactive transition metal (Fe)-carbon bonds has opened various routes for the preparation of these silicides and the silicon-stabilized bcc- and fcc-Fe phases contained in the Fe-Si binary phase diagram. The unique interfacial interactions of carbon with the Fe and Si components have resulted in the preferential formation of nanoscale versions of these materials. This review will discuss such reactions.
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A Yahoo! User Mar 10, 2008 00:32 Flag
blowing bubbles lol
4-0 blimey it must be like groundhog day for them at the moment COYSSort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
DARTFORD DANNY DARTFORD DANNY Mar 14, 2008 02:08 Flag
yids blow hot air about being a big club
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A Yahoo! User Mar 14, 2008 04:07 Flag
Steady on Aboreawhore, you nearly made 10 words on one answer, that nearly constitutes a sentance, someone must have got a house point at retard school today
Really then why do you go on and on about it so much. How many Hammers have come here today to start threads about how you lost last night eh?
Why would we be relegated? We have 40 points.
it gave me as much pleasure as beating any other team, because it's wet spam makes no difference to me.
now beating the scum 5-1 and then chavski 2-1 in the final, then that gave me enormous pleasure.
you're kidding yourself thinking otherwise son, imo you're not competition for us, far from it ;-)
Same as us losing to you gave you so much pleasure.
Sticks and stones rings a bell.
Evil Bread Man Evil Bread Man Mar 13, 2008 03:17 Flag
Its good therapy for my no smoking campaign. I had to get him deleted as he'd been a naughty boy. So now he makes stuff up as revenge. So i thought i'd be childish and take the mickey
Character defamation is one of the complaints you can make. So i used it. And he's bitter he was wrong for all these months. So ive got no idea why he carrys on when HE WAS WRONG
I'd be happy to leave it of course but it takes two to tango.
not_blonde_really not_blonde_really Mar 13, 2008 02:17 Flag
Does any of this matter?
And does it have anything to do with Spurs?
I regularly come onto this board to try to discuss football and see other peoples opinions on the team I support, and I have to sift through loads and loads of rubbish before I can get to anything vaguely football related, which is quickly dragged back to this pathetic bickering.
I'm so sick of it. You chase genuine fans of the game away from the board because we can't get any real or relevant conversation going without these interruptions. If you want to waste your time with these petty arguments then please fnd yourself a chat room to do it in.
Now, what line up are we expecting hoping for tonight? I know the 11 players I'd like but I'm not sure they'd fully cover the pitch as a team - I'd really like to see both Malbranque and O'Hara on, but I can't decide where I'd put O'Hara... I can't think, can he play on the right at all? I don't think Lennon's gonna add much to the game.
TiltonRoad TiltonRoad Mar 13, 2008 01:10 Flag
Ditto Johnny...
I'm outta here too.
So long alfy.
TiltonRoad TiltonRoad Mar 13, 2008 01:07 Flag
Not obsession of mine ...but it was of yours as kovansdad until you got caught out.. Tough at the top isnt it?
TiltonRoad TiltonRoad Mar 13, 2008 01:03 Flag
Character defamation efforts?..don't even go there sonny boy...that was EXACTLY what you were trying to do when you played a silly game and lost.
Leave well alone.
Evil Bread Man Evil Bread Man Mar 13, 2008 01:02 Flag
"The violation I obviously broke was to sus him out and produce the evidence, which incidently could not be faked in any way shape or form....could it Alfy Stitch? "
So if this isnt an obsession of yours, then can u show me the crime?
Waiting in anticipation
Thanks for your efforts. Keep trying and keep smiling ;)
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Forbes.comTrending in Toronto - Men's Fall Fashion
Wheels.caEat, drink, be manly... and check out the cars!
TwoWavy.comThe Gentlemen's Expo Wrap-up
Notable.caThe 9 Best Things You Missed at This Year's Gentlemen's Expo
Crave OnlineWhat I Learned About Being A Gentleman
View The VibeFun Times at the Gentlemen's Expo
Check out photos from the show floor of our 2015 Toronto show to get a better idea of what The Gentlemen's Expo is all about. See more ›
Each year we strive to bring the most interesting, informative and exciting guests at our event to engage with you man-to-man
Alcohol, Food, Sports, Tech, Grooming, Fashion and a whole lot more. Here are just some of the brands that participated in 2015:
Interested in being a part of 2016?
Are you a brand, local business, start-up or an agency that thinks The Gentlemen's Expo is right fit for you or one of your clients?
When you're ready send us an email.
Not sure what to expect at The Gentlemen's Expo? We can help with that. Take a tour through the floor from our 2015 Toronto show and hear what some of our guests had to say.
We're always searching for exciting new experiences & opportunities for our audience. If you have something interesting in mind, lets find a way to work together.


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Mount Royal promotes a trustful, inclusive environment of respect and dignity, and free from harassment for all students, and employees of the campus community. Diversity and Human Rights Services operates in accordance with the Alberta Human Rights Act.
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The new Zanesville High School will be opening its doors to the community this weekend for a dedication ceremony.
The Board of Education and Zanesville Alumni Association are teaming up to sponsor the ceremony. Board of Education member Janet Stewart says the entire staff and student body will be involved in this special day.
"It's been a long time coming and we are so excited to be able to show off to the community and to give to the community...our beautiful new high school," said Stewart.
Stewart says students will give tours of the building to the public after the ceremony and classrooms will be setup with smart boards activated. Zanesville Alumni Association member, Wayne Carpenter, says the new high school is already influencing the community.
"I think it is great for the community to have a modern high school, up-to-date, first rate with all of the technology. It's like anything else, when you are around things that are new it inspires you to do greater things. I think the students feel that and definitely the faculty and staff feel that," said Carpenter.
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Former Ninilchik basketball coach Dan Leman and his daughter and star player, Whitney, were among 11 named to the Alaska High School Hall of Fame, the Alaska School Activities Association announced last week.The Lemans will be inducted into the Hall of Fame during a ceremony on Aug. 3, in Anchorage....Wed, 05/07/2014 - 1:30pm
With almost 100 students from the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District competing, Willem Strydom of Homer Middle School was the overall top scorer in last Friday's ninth annual Kenai Peninsula Middle School Math Meet. The meet was held at Homer Middle School, with participating students from Au...Wed, 04/16/2014 - 3:32pm
A 4.5 earthquake got the attention of late-nighters on the southern Kenai Peninsula on Wednesday. As reported by the West Coast Alaska Tsunami Warning Center, the 12:43 a.m. shaker was centered 60 miles southwest of Homer and was 52.2 miles beneath the earth's surface. No tsunami danger was associ...Wed, 03/12/2014 - 7:22am
The Mariner girls and boys JV basketball teams took first place in the Lumen Christi basketball tournament in Anchorage last week. "It was absolutely wonderful," said Mark Casseri, head coach of the boys team. Willow Cabe, assistant coach for the girls team, filled in for Head Coach Connie...Thu, 12/26/2013 - 2:28pm
The Mariner girls and boys JV basketball teams took first place in the Lumen Christi basketball tournament in Anchorage last week. "It was absolutely wonderful," said Mark Casseri, head coach of the boys team. Willow Cabe, assistant coach for the girls team, filled in for Head Coach Connie...Tue, 12/24/2013 - 4:37pm
Giving his reindeer a break before their busy Christmas night flight around the world, Santa has partnered with Pathfinder Aviation to fly to Todd and Mary Kate Green's home at 1.5 Mile Ohlson Mountain Road on Dec. 21, and the public is invited. "Santa will fly in at 1 p.m. and there will be a c...Wed, 12/18/2013 - 5:36pm
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Generations in Waukesha shifting focus to pasta
Generations at Five Points, 294 W. Main St. in Waukesha, is making the transition from a strictly small-plates format to mainly pastas and a few other entrees.
Some small plates still will be available, said chef Jeff Oberholtzer, but the feedback has been so strong on pasta specials that he's decided to make the switch. »Read Full Blog Post
In Tandem Theatre moves back to funny, perceptive 'Apartment 3A'
Can one argue that really great sex proves the existence of God? Can a play in which a woman verbally counts out her simulated, onstage orgasms still be described as wholesome and old-fashioned? Is actor Jeff Daniels' "Apartment 3A," the comedy triggering these questions, really funny?
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Ross Cleland, aka Volcanic Ash, spins up the 2015 West End Festival in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Photo by C21 Troy / Internet & Digital.
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Volcanic Ash: Hula Hoop Jungle Book
Ross Cleland, now known as Volcanic Ash, put on quite a fun performance with a "Jungle Book" theme at the Spangled Cabaret in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Stakatto Blue
Stakatto Blue at glasgowhulahoop.co.uk hoops it up against a beautiful and cloudy Glasgow sky. She lives in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Photo by Neil Thomas Douglas Photography. A Hooping.org Photo of the Day.
Arts Tree Hula Hoopers
The Arts Tree Hula Hoopers had a great time hula hooping at Bigfoot's Tea Party in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. A Hooping.org Photo of the Day.
Stakatto Blue
VIDEO OF THE DAY: A beautiful video with Stakatto Blue that takes us to numerous places, even fire hooping in the snow. You can find her website here. She's based in Glasgow, Scotland. Soundtrack: "Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head!"…


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Splitting her time between New York's East Village and Yucatan, Mexico, Luli Sanchez creates design that's influenced at every turn by travel and global culture. "My objective with my designing," she has said, "has been to capture an organic and moody yet optimistic spirit and have designs out in the world that in their own small way may invoke a feeling that underneath it all, it is a benevolent universe." We see this optimistic, radiant quality in her work — with their bold color, strong geometric prints, and deft use of positive and negative space, these aren't just rugs — they're fine art.


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My 200th picture in JP was taken during my 1st spotting trip to Frankfurt Airport and this place is one of the best spotting location where I have been. It's a great place to catch all the arrival... (more)
standing on the future runway 07L (as of October 2011) during Fraport "Happy Landings" party on the new 4th runway; in the distance the new ATC tower and The Squaire (airrail center) are visible.
[1600 px] All the daystoppers from allover the world are parked on the southern ramp of Frankfurt airport.
Frankfurt-Main Airport taken while approaching to FRA from LOT's EMB-175. Route GDN-FRA
This spotting location is usually very crowded at the weekend since it provides perfect opportunities for approach shots for runways 07L/R and departure ones on runways 25L/R the whole day as well... (more)
Terminal 2 viewing deck at Frankfurt. Great view towards the ramp, apron and rwy 25 R. The entry fee is 5 Euro.
FRA at a busy time.
View from the new ATC tower
It's not Canada :-)
Lufthansa everywhere - from a CR7 to a 744 or M11 with the only exception of a LX AR1 and a JP CJ9. If you try to count them or find an order you will probably get mad.


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Opal Morgan, Maggie Thompson and an unknown woman and child
Opal Morgan born 1923, Maggie born 1898.
The rest of the people in the photograph are unknown.
Photo taken in Kansas.
If you recognize anyone, please let me know.
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this is opal morgan (Ritchey) holding baby her mom Mary thompson (morgan)and then marys mom I have an eva no surname
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This is undoubtedly a "Four-Generation" picture, so the woman to the right of Opal is probably her daughter and the baby the grandchild - probably a granddaughter. I am no relation, but census records around that time and in that area may help. Or, have you posted some messages/questions? Good luck - I'm from Kansas and wish I could help.
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Come hear from Lori Eanes and meet some special guest animals!
Backyard Roots is a unique project by California-based photographer Lori Eanes that evocatively and intimately explores the lives of 35 urban farmers in Northern California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
The burgeoning range of people now turning their urban backyards into homesteads is wide and varied, from families with young children, to immigrants recapturing their original culture, to idealistic twenty-somethings seeking community. Many of these farmers have a special lesson or inspiration to share with those who aspire to, or simply appreciate, the urban farm lifestyle.
Book sales and signing follow.
This is a Green Stacks event.
Upcoming Events
- The Newbies Guide to Cannabis & The Industry
- Tuesday, September 6, 2016, 5:30 pmMain Library, Latino/Hispanic Rms A & B
- Sun Prints
- Saturday, September 10, 2016, 2:00 pmBernal Heights, Bernal Heights Meeting Room
- Cervantes Lives!
- Saturday, September 10, 2016, 3:00 pmMain Library, Koret Auditorium


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Annual Meeting to Give Important Update
Don't miss Catalyst Corporate FCU's second annual meeting on April 9, with an exciting two-day conference to follow!
Member credit unions are invited to attend the annual meeting and luncheon at the Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego at noon on April 9. At that time, Catalyst Corporate's activities and financial performance for 2012 will be reviewed, members will learn about plans for 2013 and board elections will be conducted. Registration brochures were sent to Catalyst Corporate's 1,200-plus members in early February.
Click here to register.
The conference to follow the annual meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. on April 9 and is entitled, Accelerating Success. A slate of five well-regarded speakers will offer credit union financial industry and economic insights. Topics include an Economic Outlook for Credit Unions, How Mobile Banking Can Increase ROI, Managing Liquidity and Other Critical Issues, Crafting the Member Experience and Using Innovation to Move Your Credit Union Forward.
The Accelerating Success conference will include an evening reception and networking opportunity on April 9 and will resume at 8 a.m. on April 10, ending at 11:15 a.m. with an optional golfing opportunity at 1 p.m.
Among the speakers at the conference will be:
Catalyst Corporate will also award up to six CPE credits to those in attendance.
The Catalyst Corporate annual meeting and luncheon is complimentary, but reservations are required. The Accelerating Success Conference is open to all credit unions. Registration fee is $450.
All breaks, available presentation materials and the Tuesday evening reception are included in the registration fee. And a block of rooms has been reserved at a special rate of $189 per room, per night at the Rancho Bernardo Inn, but rooms are limited. The golf outing on April 10 requires a $100 green fee.
For complete information and to register for the Catalyst Corporate annual meeting and/or Accelerating Success Conference, please visit the Catalyst registration webpage, or call 214-703-7841.


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Carson CityHome Menu
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
Carson City is an Entitlement Community under the federal CDBG program. As such, Carson City receives an annual allocation of funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to distribute to non-profit organizations and government agencies for qualifying public service and capital improvement projects. The Annual Action Plan and 5-year Consolidated Plan describes how Carson City will spend those funds.
East Long Street ADA Sidewalk Improvements Project
Before After
2016-2017 CDBG Application Process
The application deadline for the 2016 grant cycle was January 15, 2016. A public meeting was held on February11, 2016 to interview the applicants and make funding recommendations. These recommendations were presented to the Board of Supervisors at the March 3, 2016 meeting, where the Board determined the CDBG funding allocations and opened a 30-day comment period from March 3-April 1, 2016 to review Carson City's Draft 2016-17 Annual Action Plan. On April 7, 2016 the Board of Supervisors made their final decision on the funding allocations. The 2016-17 Annual Action Plan was submitted to HUD on May 10, 2016.
Carson City's 5-Year Consolidated Plan (2014-2018)
On May 1, 2014 the Board of Supervisors approved the 5-year Consolidated Plan to implement HUD programs associated with the CDBG program and to forward the plans to HUD. The plan was open for comments from April 1 - April 30, 2014.
2014-2018 Consolidated Plan
2014-2018 Consolidated Plan Amendment
Annual Action Plan
The Action Plan is a summary of the annual objectives that Carson City expects to achieve during the forthcoming program year. The plan describes the activities to be undertaken by the City, the CDBG funding recommendations, affordable housing goals, homeless needs activities, barriers to affordable housing, and community development objectives. The Annual Action Plan is approved by the Board of Supervisors and forwarded to HUD for their final approval.
2009 Annual Action Plan
2010 Annual Action Plan
2011 Annual Action Plan
2012 Annual Action Plan
2013 Annual Action Plan
2014 Annual Action Plan
2015 Annual Action Plan
2016 Annual Action Plan
Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report (CAPER)
The CAPER explains how a jurisdiction is carrying out its housing and community development strategies, projects, and activities.
CDBG Funding Allocations
CDBG-R Recovery Act Plan Amendment
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 allocated an additional $118,516 to Carson City for the CDBG program, known as the CDBG-R allocation. Following is a link to download the amendment to the 2008-09 Action Plan describing the proposed activities for these funds.
CDBG-R Action Plan Amendment (PDF)
CDBG-R Activity Data Spreadsheet (MS Excel document)
2016-17 CDBG Application (Word)
2016-17 CDBG Application (pdf)
2016-17 CDBG Application (pdf fill-in)
2016-17 CDBG Application Instructions (pdf)
Request for Reimbursement form (pdf) (Word) (excel)
Quarterly Report and Project Benefits form 2014 (pdf) (Word)
Quarterly Report and Project Benefits form 2015 (pdf) (Word)
Quarterly Report and Project Benefits form 2016 (pdf) (Word)
For More Information:
For more information on the CDBG program and eligibility requirements, visit the HUD website at http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/communitydevelopment/programs/index.cfm.
Or contact:
Janice Keillor, Grants Administrator
Department of Finance
201 N. Carson St., Suite #3
Carson City, NV 89701
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We are in the last full week of Aries. The doors to this spring are finally opening. Kick it hard, and then meditate on what to do and how to channel your blazing fire of possibilities during this coming year. How's the garden (of your mind)? Charge LARGE and (let other people) pick up the pieces later… Initiate before it's too late. Make it happen. All systems go!
a ARIES (3.21-4.20) Time to kick it into gear! You get a clue about what to do for these next 6/7 years on the afternoon of the 18th. Your meditation relates to reworking and/or finalizing what you tried to initiate around the Full Moon in Leo on…
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After four successful years at the Omaha Civic Auditorium, the Omaha Health Expo is moving ten blocks east to the friendly confines of the CenturyLink Center. For this fifth consecutive gathering, the location seems befitting of the growth the Expo has seen in its nascent years.
The Omaha Health Expo is the brainchild of Bob Mancuso of Mid-America Expositions. The company, founded by Bob's father, Robert, Sr., has been planning and staging productions in the Midwest since 1964. You might say the Omaha Health Expo is not their first rodeo.
In November of 2007, Bob and I met for lunch in Dundee. He told me his plans for a major exposition to bring information to the public…
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Happy spring and Easter, everybody! Happy Full Moon in Libra on Friday, the 6th, at 2:19 in the afternoon. It's spring! Time to fall in love. Let Venus come between us. Please read Cancer for the answer…and remember; if I (can) love you all, then who am I? And if you can love me, then who are you?
a ARIES (3.21-4.20) Almost time! But they still won't/don't, can't/shan't listen to you for 2 more weeks (isn't it hard being a "genius"?), and even you can't accomplish without communication. But you can plan… Prepare to whip it out and give it form when the Moon and Mercury conjunct in the early degrees of Aries on April…
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So a cattle rancher said to me this past weekend, "Can you believe they're trying to whitewash this pink slime thing?" My friend is one cattleman who doesn't agree with putting pink slime in ground meat. That it passes under the moniker of "lean, finely textured beef," makes informed people laugh. Anyone who reads the New York Times article that broke the news about this stuff back in 2009 will come up with a very clear picture of what is slimy about the whole process. This is a case of the USDA, Big Meat advocacy groups and politicians playing fast and loose with accepted definitions of animal parts. When "beef" is defined as just about anything that comes from…
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It's the Year of the Dragon! Dragons know what they want — and then they get it! Wait 'til the morning of April 4th (when Mercury moves direct), test your wings, and ROAR! Then, get what you want during this coming year. Our European-based culture fights and slays our dragons, which represent the uncontrollably powerful forces of nature. The Oriental, African and Mayan cultures try to placate and/or trick dragons; usually through baiting them with their fabled love of riddles. Which reminds me: Why did the dragon cross the road? To get to the other side before the end of the Mayan Calendar…? We'll see, won't we…
a ARIES (3.21-4.20) Wait like you've never waited…
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It's everywhere; more ubiquitous than quick shops, strip malls, Walgreens or Starbucks. It penetrates buildings, rock and metal to get you. It soaks through the walls of your home like sweat through a cheap suit. It swarms through your body like ravenous piranha, impacting every function, attacking every cell. In its wake are suspected diseases of every nature, maladies of every sort: cancer, immune-system disruption, chronic fatigue and heart disease.
No, it's not a science fiction construct, though science constructed it. It is the omnipresent, man-made and poorly understood electromagnetic field that blankets our planet, penetrates oceans and washes our bodies in waves of DNA-splitting, cell-rupturing, biochemically disrupting energy.
Electromagnetic radiation, (EMR), is the electronic and magnetic…
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Hang loose. This is a questioning phase, not a time of — or for — manifesting. We are all going to be offered an opportunity to play the April Fool during this coming week. Stay cool and stay "asleep" for this one more week, 'til once again we speak. Hang loose…
a ARIES (3.21-4.20) You'll be offered the perfect opportunity to play the April Fool. Wait 'til after Wednesday, April 4th, to participate and/or initiate. Spring is officially here, but its message remains unclear until Mercury (communications) moves direct. Expect an unexpected preview, initiating these next 6 years, as the Sun conjuncts the planet of the unusual, the unexpected and the bizarre (Uranus), and casts…
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When Terence "Bud" Crawford defends his WBO lightweight title June 28 at the CenturyLink Center, he'll fight for himself, his tight-knit family and a...more »
Bo Pelini behaved as if he had coached his last game at Nebraska, based on his sideline and post-game decorum, or lack thereof. That was the...more »
If not for Sam Burtch, the most dramatic play of this Nebraska football season might never have happened.
If not for Burtch, Ron Kellogg III...more »
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Quagliarella showed superb technique to finally break the resistance of the visitors just past the hour and added a second goal five minutes later when he rolled the ball past Chievo keeper Stefano Sorrentino after another superb piece of skill.
The rejuvenated striker, who scored the equaliser in the 2-2 draw at Chelsea in the Champions League in midweek, put on an impressive display that gave Antonio Conte's side the cutting edge up front that they have missed so far this season.
The win puts Juventus on 12 points from four games ahead of Napoli and Lazio, who will bid to match the leaders when they visit Catania and host Genoa respectively on Sunday.
Despite starting without Andrea Pirlo, Stefan Lichtsteiner and Sebastian Giovinco, Juve dominated from the start and thought they had scored when Mirko Vucinic tapped in Mauricio Isla's shot after 26 minutes but it was rightly ruled offside.
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I have two comments to the forums web site:
1. I was several times trying to get back from the forums site to the main LinuxMint page, but there seems to be no such link here. I always click (again and again, can't get it to sink into my head) the LinuxMint logo or text in the top of the page, and expect intuitively, that it will bring the main page of the distribution and not the forums index. I feel there should be rather word Forums next to the logo pointing to the forums main page forums.linuxmint.com, and the logo should point to http://www.linuxmint.com. Or is that just me?
2. Trying to start a new topic about the above I found there is no suitable forum chapter for it. Maybe a title "Web Pages" under "Personalize and Customize Linux Mint" or under "Development" would do.
Link back to linuxmint.com
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While he was working and delivering the initial versions, his worked was exceptional. I did not want to pay him all at once so he proposed I pay as bonuses. As soon as I made the first bonus I was informed by vWorker the payment was not covered as it was a one-time payment. Because the programming work was so good, I decided to trust this programmer that he would complete the project.
He gave me an updated version which had features I had not mentioned. This led me to conclude he was giving me something he had written for some one else's specifications. Still, I said nothing. At least he started work, but then he started giving me stories about his child's health and asked for payment ahead of time. As soon as I paid him the final amount which totalled $610.00 US he did not answer any of my communications. I was supposed to deliver the product to an end user and did not have a working program or any ongoing support, so I had to refund the customer their money. I also finished up in the emergency from blood pressure and stress, partly caused by the uncertainly of never knowing when I would hear from this fellow again. I chose this programmer carefully because he was highly rated. But I guess he saw the chance to get the money and run without accountability, being he is in the Philippines. Now he has registered a business, I want to make sure anyone considering him, knows what he did to me. This programmer is a thief, so please do some searches before you employ him.
He recently registered www.silentprojectsoftwares.com, probably using my money. Once he got the Paypal payments as bonus payments through vWorker and I agreed he had delivered 100% they said there is nothing they can do. I just don't want anyone else to get caught by this person by warning people, I feel this is the best I can do. I can back up everything, plus I will make the chat logs public to anyone seriously considering this person.
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (original 1998; edition 2000)
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Oh shoot, I've read others in the genre since and have forgotten most of what I thought of this. (I read it before I was on GR.) One thing I do remember is being unable to empathize with how the author hoards. Nor am I as impressed by having the same edition one had marked up in high school or whatever, though that bit makes a little sense for a few very personally influential books. Speaking for myself, I want to read a book, say a few words about it on a GR review, and either return it to the library or Release it to another reader.
ETA - took another star off. I still prickle a bit when reminded of her assumptions that her relationship to books is the right one. I just can't go with the idea of defacing them. And popular fiction is a worthwhile use of one's time. Ah, I'm gonna start sounding defensive if I go on. Suffice to say, you'll read this yourself and form your own opinion, I know you will. If you haven't already.
I love books about books.
I just can't get enough. I love reading books about what other people love about books. I love knowing that there are other readers out there who love books as much as I do, who collect books as obsessively as I do, and whose houses are as packed with books as mine is. I love all of that.
(I also couldn't help loving the title, as I have an "ex libris" tattoo.)
If you love that, too, then you will definitely enjoy Anne Fadiman's collection of essays about her reading life.
Anne's essays are funny, insightful looks into various aspects of book-loving. She discusses the difficulty she had in finally "marrying" her library with her husband's. She writes about growing up in a book-loving, vocabulary-expanding family; about the woes of being a compulsive proofreader; about the pleasures of long and sometimes archaic words; about the agony of penning the perfect inscription inside a book cover. Her essays are funny, clever, and peppered with interesting words. (I definitely expanded my vocabulary while reading.)
I feel a sort of kindred spirit in Anne. I kept seeing bits of myself in her—especially in the way she physically treats her books. To her, books are meant to be loved, and loved hard. They're meant to be handled, cried over, eaten over, and written in.
The Fadiman family believed in carnal love. To us, a book's words were holy, but the paper, cloth cardboard, glue, thread, and ink that contained them were a mere vessel, and it was no sacrilege to treat them as wantonly as desire and pragmatism dictated. Hard use was a sign not of disrespect but of intimacy.
To me, a sign of a good book is how close the cover is to falling off. I've never understood people who want to keep their books looking pristine, and I've always felt a little bit guilty about not being afraid to really manhandle my books. After reading Ex Libris, though, I feel affirmed.
This is a quick and very entertaining read for book lovers everywhere.
This is a delightful slim book, a collection of personal essays about her love of reading.
In "Marrying Libraries", she and her husband embark on merging their libraries. "After five years of marriage and a child, George and I finally resolved that we were ready for the more profound intimacy of library consolidation." They had to agree on which order to shelve their books, how to deal with the duplicates, whether to be a lumper or a splitter. "His books commingled democratically....mine were balkanized by nationality and subject matter. Like most people with a high tolerance for clutter, George maintains a basic trust in three-dimensional objects. If he wants something, he believes it will present itself, and therefore it usually does. I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters." It was only once they accomplished this mammoth task that they really felt married.
I always love reading about the passionately held attitudes of bibliophiles towards their books. One of my favourite essay was "Never Do That to a Book". When her brother left a book open and facedown on a hotel night table, he was chastised with a note from the chambermaid: "SIR, YOU MUST NEVER DO THAT TO A BOOK". This categorises the chambermaid as a "courtly" lover of books. The Fadiman family on the other hand, are "carnal" lovers of books. It is all about the words, not the physical structure that holds them, so it is "...no sacrilege to treat them as wantonly as desire and pragmatism dictated."
Dog-earing, bookmarking, spine-breaking are all just variations of useful ways to mark your progression through a book. "...closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause."
Fadiman treasures the books for the words they contain, and so values the worn and marked up book. It reflects its life, its caresses, its communion with the reader. In "Secondhand Prose", when receiving a very old 2-volume book set with uncut pages, she realises the books have never been read and "...was overcome with melancholy...I had the urge to lend them to as many friends as possible in order to make up for all of the caresses they had missed during their first century."
These are wonderful reflections on the joy and deep satisfaction of being a Reader. She writes gracefully, with humour, and with passion.
I wish there were more essays - this book finished too soon.
A fun, entertaining, and humorous reflection of the author's love and passion for all things books and language, and a description of a life lived for such pleasures. These essays made me evaluate just what kind of bookworm I am and just what kind of bibliophile I want to become
The subtitle of Ex Libris is "Confessions of a Common Reader" but I kept getting the impression that the author of these essays, Anne Fadiman, is far from a common or typical reader. While what she says doesn't go over my head, Fadiman is clearly erudite and from a highly literary family (her father was the late Clifton Fadiman) and I sometimes felt a bit envious that I wasn't as highly-born in a literary way. Neither the family I grew up in or currently am in ever sit around discussing books or quoting from books or read aloud to each other beyond a passage that might catch someone's fancy. So, I couldn't relate to her in that way. But that's okay, really.
But, as a life-long reader (though certainly not at the literary/intellectual level as Fadiman), I could relate to some of what she said. For example -- her discussion on what she terms "The Odd Shelf" -- a section of one's library that doesn't really relate to the rest -- hers is on polar exploration. Mine would be on architectural styles. I liked how she pointed out that used bookstores (which, as she loves because she knows, as I do also, that if something in one catches your interest, you better take it home that day. Barnes and Noble, say, have the same books over and over again) often have a section titled "Books on Books" while Barnes and Nobles probably would not, because it is a genre that is on the decline.
One final thought-provoking thing that Fadiman brings up -- she is relating what a friend who formerly worked in a used bookstore tells her -- when dispersing of someone's library (as in all the books from someone's estate), there's that realization that "books get their value from the way they coexist with the other books a person owns, and that when they lose their context, they lose their meaning (p. 153)". I really don't expect my kids to keep my books after I die (a very long time in the future, hopefully!), but this was somewhat of a sobering thought. Realizing that the books I own are part of my identity.
And, now that I've finished reading Ex Libris, it will join the "books on books" section of my library!
The book is a modest, charming, lighthearted gambol among the stacks. It serves up neither ideas nor theories but anecdotes about the joys of collecting and reading books.
A terribly entertaining collection of personal essays about books, reading, language, and the endearing pathologies of those who love books.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0374527229, Paperback)The subtitle of Anne Fadiman's slim collection of essays is Confessions of a Common Reader, but if there is one thing Fadiman is not, it's common. In her previous work of nonfiction, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, she brought both skill and empathy to her balanced exploration of clashing cultures and medical tragedy. The subject matter here is lighter, but imbued with the same fine prose and big heart. Ex Libris is an extended love letter to language and to the wonders it performs. Fadiman is a woman who loves words; in "The Joy of Sesquipedalians" (very long words), she describes an entire family besotted with them: "When I was growing up, not only did my family walk around spouting sesquipedalians, but we viewed all forms of intellectual competition as a sacrament, a kind of holy water as it were, to be slathered on at every opportunity." From very long words it's just a short jump to literature, and Fadiman speaks joyfully of books, book collecting, and book ownership ("In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar"). In "Marrying Libraries" Fadiman describes the emotionally fraught task of merging her collection with her husband's: "After five years of marriage and a child, George and I finally resolved that we were ready for the more profound intimacy of library consolidation. It was unclear, however, how we were to find a meeting point between his English-garden approach and my French-garden one." Perhaps some marriages could not have stood the strain of such an ordeal, but for this one, the merging of books becomes a metaphor for the solidity of their relationship.
Over the course of 18 charming essays Fadiman ranges from the "odd shelf" ("a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection reveals a good deal about its owner") to plagiarism ("the more I've read about plagiarism, the more I've come to think that literature is one big recycling bin") to the pleasures of reading aloud ("When you read silently, only the writer performs. When you read aloud, the performance is collaborative"). Fadiman delivers these essays with the expectation that her readers will love and appreciate good books and the power of language as much as she does. Indeed, reading Ex Libris is likely to bring up warm memories of old favorites and a powerful urge to revisit one's own "odd shelf" pronto. --Alix Wilber
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Ex Libris recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. As someone who played at blocks with her father's twenty-two-volume set of Trollope ("My Ancestral Castles") and who considered herself truly married only when she and her husband had merged collections ("Marrying Libraries"), she is exquisitely well equipped to expand upon the art of flyleaf inscriptions, the perverse pleasures of compulsive proofreading, the allure of long words, and the satisfactions of reading aloud.… (more)
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Arizona has started the season 5-0 for the third time in four years and is headed to New York City for a (hopeful) showdown with Duke in the NIT Season Tip-Off championship game next week.
The Wildcats have looked great in nearly every facet of the game—ahem, except free-throw shooting—and are making those preseason projections of being a Final Four contender look pretty spot on.
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This tiny "grain"—actually a seed—has a rich history dating back 8,000 years when it was first cultivated in Mesoamerica. The ancient Aztecs relied on amaranth as a food staple and used it in religious rituals, earning it the name "golden grain of the gods." Use amaranth in porridge, polenta and quick breads. It's a good source of protein, magnesium, iron and dietary fiber.
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"Brown County State Park, Indiana" Brown County State Park by Stephen-KarenConn
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Located just outside the art colony of Nashville, in south/central Indiana, Brown County State Park sprawls over 15,696 acres, making it the largest and most popular park in the Hoosier State. The park was established in 1929, and in 1934, the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed many of the buildings, roads, shelters, ovens and trails that visitors to the park still enjoy today.
In a state that is known for its flat farmland, this is an area of wooded hills with the second highest point in Indiana, Weed Patch Hill, located within the park. These hills are sometimes referred to as the "Little Smokies" because of frequent low lying fogs in the forested valleys.
Karen and I visited Brown County over the long Martin Luther King Junior weekend in January, 2006. Although it was the dead of winter, we had a very enjoyable three days of hiking, exploring, and experiencing this special place of quiet beauty.
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We've visited Brown County and Nashville several times - we especially enjoy looking for the "old log cabins" hidden in the remodeled homes. A great place to visit on VT or in Indiana! Nice page! Marcia
Four years in Bloomington and I never explored this area, nice coverage of the State Park :-)
very informative, as ever, loved the covered bridge and look-out post. quality timber in them.
I have passed this park a few times traveling but have never stopped. We have wandered around Nashville but never the park.I will certainly have to now!
I love covered bridges. The pic of Strahl Lake is beautiful Stephen.
Loved the Lookout tower, the Abe Martin Lodge, and the background information about Abe Martin. Always a learning experience with your tips, Stephen, and you know I love learning. Superior photographs. Karen looks darling in her "hoodie".
I'm a big fan of covered bridges (see my VA pages) so I guess that I will have to schedule more time in IN so that I can check out the covered bridges there. Thanks for the tip.
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by Byron on Mar. 22, 2015 at 1:30 PM
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The complaints you may hear about SXSW are mostly valid: Too corporate and too crowded, but if you seek out venues like the Sweden showcase, there you'll find music like this…