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Carson City Sheriff's Log: Woman arrested on suspicion of domestic battery
Carson City
The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent unless proved guilty in court:
• 7:11 p.m.: An 18-year-old Carson City woman was arrested in the 1800 block of Armstrong Lane on suspicion of first-degree domestic battery. Bail was set at $3,000.
• 5:42 p.m.: A 24-year-old Carson City man was arrested at East Hampton Drive and Hampton Court on suspicion of violating a protection order.
• 2 p.m.: A 33-year-old Carson City woman was arrested at the Carson City Jail on a contempt-of-court warrant. Bail was set at $949.
The Nevada Appeal only names people arrested on suspicion of felonies, violent crimes and DUIs. Carson City Secret Witness will pay up to $2,500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of people committing crimes. Anyone with information is asked to call 775-322-4900. The School Secret Witness number is 775-283-1799. Callers remain anonymous.


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Not sure if this is the right forum, but I didn't one dedicated the sale of equipment. Let me know if I need to move/repost to a better forum. Thanks.
So, I this opportunity to visit a very nice cave, but there a small vert section. I'm vert trained, but never bought my own equipment, always borrowed.
I caved in TAG for 15 years, and miss it. Now I'm in CA, where my caving opportunities are limited.
Looking for used because my budget is kinda tight, and I don't how much use I'll get.
I know a lot of people frown on someone else's used vert equip, but it's really my only choice.
I have a harness and D-ring, but nothing else. I'm used to a frog system, but wouldn't mind a walker.
Send me a message if you think you can help. I'll reply with my phone number.

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The Google Fit APIs for Android are part of Google Play services and are supported in Android 2.3 (API level 9) and higher. Google Fit on Android consists of these APIs:
The Sensors API provides access to raw sensor data streams from sensors available on the Android device and from sensors available in companion devices, such as wearables.
The Recording API provides automated storage of health and wellness data using subscriptions. Google Fit stores health and wellness data of the specified types in the background and persists app subscriptions.
The History API provides access to the historical health and wellness data and lets apps perform bulk operations, like inserting, deleting, and reading this data. Apps can also import batch data into Google Fit.
The Sessions API provides functionality to store health and wellness data with session metadata. Sessions represent a time interval during which users perform a fitness activity.
The Goals API provides a way to track the goals the user has set for their health and fitness progress.
The Bluetooth Low Energy API provides access to Bluetooth Low Energy sensors in Google Fit. This API enables your app to look for available BLE devices and to store data from them in the fitness store.
The Config API provides custom data types and additional settings for Google Fit. For more information, see Custom Data Types and Disconnect from Google Fit.
Google Fit includes support for sensors on the mobile device and Bluetooth Low Energy sensors paired with the device. Google Fit lets developers implement support for other sensors and expose them as software sensors in Android apps. Sensors supported by Google Fit are available to Android apps as data source objects.


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This is a story I heard on the radio and absolutlely loved.
Dating is hard,Lord knows we all have our own dating disaster stories but this one is a doozy:
Girl in question was on her first date with Boy of the hour. He picks her up and takes her to a restaurant for dinner. Girl is happy,restaurant is buzzing and the conversation and wine are a flowing. Girl looks to the bar and finds a Woman looking at her. Unsure as to whether she knows her she turns to look at her again:Woman still looking at her,so Girl smiles at Woman and turns back to her companion to enjoy her evening. Every once in while Girl would turn to look and find that the Woman has slowly crept forward...as diners would leave the Woman would take their empty seats and inch closer. Girl finds it strange but doesn't let it ruin her evening.
Plates cleared, meal enjoyed the Boy gets up to go the toilet, Girl distracted turns and finds Woman sitting right behind her. Startled, she can only stare...and this is when the Woman says to her:
"Just making sure my son is going out with the right tart."
Girl gets up ,walks out.... without once looking back on mummy's "bestest boy"and his rabbit boiling mater.
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Get ready for bigger government, no matter who you vote for this fall.
While voters may feel good this November about casting their ballots for Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, the reality is that the U.S. government will exercise ever greater control over the economy and markets regardless of which party occupies the White House, say economists at Roubini Global Economics in a report commissioned by Pershing LLC.
"State capitalism is coming to developed markets and will persist across emerging markets, where it has long held sway, especially in Asia," the economists write in Elections and Economies: The Limits of Power in the Age of Deleveraging, a white paper available through Pershing Prime Services. "Rapidly growing government balance sheets and far greater financial regulation reflect widening doubt about the efficacy of unfettered markets to achieve economically optimal outcomes. Leviathan—the Hobbesian concept of a dominant state actor—has risen from the ashes of the financial crash to impose order on the free market."
For investors, the rise of state capitalism will lead to more macro-driven markets and continued volatility, the Roubini economists predict.
The U.S. economy faces heavy fiscal drag in 2013, and either political gridlock or a withdrawal of stimulative policies could threaten growth, warn the Roubini economists. Nouriel Roubini, an economics professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, is also chairman of Roubini Global Economics.
While the outcome in November may result in new policy decisions, "elections will not change the nature of the current balance-sheet recession and the consequent need for deleveraging; orderly, gradual rebalancing; and new growth models," according to the economists.
Commissioned by Pershing, a BNY Mellon company, and written by senior economists at Roubini Global Economics, the independent study examines the impact that the U.S. and eurozone elections as well as China's leadership change may have on markets and fiscal policy.
"Political officials elected in 2012 will face a difficult set of trade-offs," Nouriel Roubini said in a statement. "Public policy engagement and central bank intervention have been necessary to avert a second Great Depression, but political gridlock has lowered the prospect of a faster recovery. While policymakers can influence the mix of spending cuts, stimulus and taxes, they should not assume that upward momentum will continue in the absence of accommodative monetary and fiscal policy."
Advisors should watch for these macro events to continue to drive the value of their investments, according to the Roubini economists:
Stock: Equities are increasingly driven by macro-betas rather than fundamentals.
Fixed Income: Growing central bank balance sheets, bailouts and financial repression will continue to distort markets. Emerging Markets: "State capitalism remains the name of the game, which could impair returns," and EMs aren't immune to deleveraging—witness China's property boom-and-bust cycle.
Currencies: Lower volumes and volatility are the new normal.
Commodities: Inefficient allocation of resources results from commodity intervention by the state, along with market distortions and higher prices.
Even before the downgrade of U.S. debt in the summer of 2011, political risk and gridlock were the main reasons for concern about policy mistakes, according to the Roubini economists, who predict that polarization in the U.S. government will persist even after the elections and make decision-making a difficult process that could result in a "front-loaded and growth-damaging fiscal adjustment," during a still-fragile and not self-sustained recovery.
"Several programs due to expire in 2013 will have to be extended; failing to do so will result in an outright contraction," the economists write. "Our baseline is therefore for the U.S. to begin fiscal consolidation in 2013, but avoid an outright recession as a consequence of it."
Read Bankrupting the State: Anti-Government Ideology Brings Economic Peril by Alexei Bayer in the September 2010 issue of Research magazine at AdvisorOne.


text: Honda Launches Special-Edition Civic Si Coupe at the 2014 Chicago Auto Show February 7, 2014 09:50 PM MEDIA INFORMATION Contact: Mark Bilek Director of Communications and Technology Chicago Automobile Trade Association Office: (630) 424-6082 Cell: (847) 652-0632 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Contact: Jennifer Morand Senior Public Relations and Social Media Manager Chicago Automobile Trade Association Office: (630) 424-6084 Cell: (630) 391-1986 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHICAGO (February 7, 2014) – Honda unveiled the winning entry of the Forza Motorsport Civic Si Design Contest at the 2014 Chicago Auto Show, as part of a partnership with Forza Motorsport, the racing franchise on Xbox One. Selected from nearly 170 entries, the winning 2014 Civic Si Coupe design was created by Forza gamer Tiffany Labedz of Phoenix, Ariz. This one-of-a-kind Civic is the first vehicle to feature a design from the Forza Motorsport community. "At Honda, we love meeting our customers where their passion lies, and the racing and custom car design in Forza Motorsport is definitely a passion for so many Honda and Civic enthusiasts," said Tom Peyton, assistant vice president of advertising at American Honda Motor Co., Inc. "Taking an immersive gaming experience like Forza and bringing it to life here at the Chicago Auto Show will make for an exciting exhibition and a real-life demonstration of how cars and gaming are increasingly intertwined." Peyton continued, "Our goal is to keep the brand fun, to keep the brand youthful. Gaming is becoming a bigger and bigger media, so it was a great platform for Honda to invest in." Chicago Auto Show attendees will have the opportunity to be among the first to race the 2014 Civic Si Coupe in Forza Motorsport 5 on Xbox One demo stations in the Honda exhibit. To watch complete coverage of the 2014 Chicago Auto Show Media Preview press conferences, please visit http://www.ustream.tv/channel/chicago-auto-show-2011. The manufacturer press conferences are also available at www.youtube.com/chicagoautoshow. For more information about the Chicago Auto Show, please visit www.chicagoautoshow.com. ### About the Chicago Auto Show The Chicago Auto Show is the largest on the continent, spanning more than 1 million square feet of production, concept, and exotic vehicle exhibit space. In addition to hosting multiple world and North American vehicle debuts, the Chicago Auto Show's First Look for Charity raises more than $2 million annually for 18 worthy Chicago organizations in a single night. The 2014 public show will be February 8-17. For more information, visit ChicagoAutoShow.com or Facebook.com/ChicagoAutoShow. Media can register for the Chicago Auto Show Media Preview at chicagoautoshow.com/media/. About The Chicago Automobile Trade Association Founded in 1904, the Chicago Automobile Trade Association is the nation's oldest and largest metropolitan dealer organization. It is comprised of more than 400 franchised new-car dealers and an additional 150 allied members. The group's dealer members employ nearly 20,000 people in the metropolitan area. The association has produced the Chicago Auto Show since 1935. For more information, visit CATA.info. Back to News


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Botanical illustrations were created not just for scientific knowledge
but also as objects of aesthetic beauty. These prints are considered to be highly valuable and collectible pieces of art, any one of which would make a beautiful addition to your collection.
Briony Morrow-Cribbs is a contemporary copper etchings artist. Her botanical illustrations are featured in Amy Stewart's Wicked Plants.
Cat Skinner Press, Freeland, Washington, 2006. Etching. Circular image 6" diameter on a 10 x 10" sheet. "Artist Proof"; signed.
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Van Dongen's work has been widely shown in the US and abroad, and is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Signed by Author.Limited edition of 25 copies, in a deluxe clamshell box, with an original 14 x 11 inch matt-surface gelatin silver print (print edition of 25 numbered and signed by van Dongen). The first edition of Alba Nero sold out upon publication in 1999.
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Original hand-colored lithograph by S. Holden. Fine Condition. Octavo (6.25 x 9 inches). Presented in Lowry-James' elegant signature matting treatment of a single Ivory Rag Mat with gilt French line decoration, sized to 12 x 16 inches and suitable for framing. The hand-colored engravings and lithographs from Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants claim their honored place as highlights of Victorian botanical illustration. As the nineteenth century ushered in a profound era of plant hunting and gathering worldwide, newly discovered botanical specimens were brought to Europe for cultivation. Sir Joseph Paxton (1801- 1865) endeavored to include these fine discoveries as part of his floricultural monthly; The Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants, which also featured the favored British cultivars. Joseph Paxton was, at one time, superintendent of the gardens at Chatsworth House, owned by the Sixth Duke of Devonshire. In addition to horticulture, Sir Paxton's talents extended to Victorian garden design and architecture, which was evidenced by the creation of the Crystal Palace for the Exposition of 1851. An immense iron and glass structure, the Crystal Palace was the unparalleled showcase of Victorian innovation and design, the inspiration for which was Paxton's own Lily House at Chatsworth, where he displayed his prized Water Lilies. Paxton's design and creation of the Crystal Palace was a monumental achievement, for which he was knighted.
Paris: Vilquin, 1805. Stipple engraving, printed in colours and finished by hand by Ruotte. 20 3/4 x 14 inches. An exquisite plate from arguably the most beautiful botanical work ever produced: "a work of outstanding importance and interest". Contemporary with the work of Redouté, 'Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits' is one of the earliest examples of stipple engraved and colour-printed botanical illustration. Published in 12 cahiers (or parts) of 4 plates each, the work was compiled to assist designers of porcelain and fabric, with the plates often showing flowers grouped together, usually matched according to their flowering season. The greatest collection of flower books to be sold at auction in the 20th century was the de Belder collection, sold by Sotheby's in 1987. The catalogue was intended as a true reflection of the uniqueness of the collection, and the cover illustration selected to represent the best of the best was an image from Prevost's 'Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits'. Dunthorne describes it as, "a work of outstanding importance and interest.issued for the specific purpose of maintaining the great French tradition for excellence of design and draughtsmanship. Perhaps no other prints are more worthy of carrying on the tradition of Jean Baptiste and van Spaendonck than these fine examples of Prévost. Whether bouquets or sprays of flowers or fruit, they possess a splendour and freshness amounting almost to fragrance, which is largely due to the quality of the colour printing" (Dunthorne, p. 33).
Hand-coloured engraving. Basil Besler published "Hortus Eystettensis", the earliest large folio botanical, at Eichstatt near Nuremburg, in 1613. He worked on the drawings for the 374 copper engravings over a period of sixteen years using the plants in the garden of Bishop Johann Conrad von Gemmingen, his patron. Depicted in this florilegium were flowers, herbs, vegetables and newly discovered plants such as tobacco and peppers. Besler was, in modern terms, a botanist and horticulturalist, and he was familiar with real and alleged medicinal properties of various plants. Besler had the good fortune to live at a time when exotic plants were being shipped to Europe from all over the world. The garden that he organized and illustrated for his patron was both ornamental and experimental, and the large book he had engraved after his drawings was unique. The prints, made by a team of master engravers, are strong and exquisitely done.
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Aquatint & stipple engraving, printed in color and finished by hand. Pl. LII. Black Prince Grape. Folio Edition. A rare and coveted work, Pomona Britannica is considered one of the most distinguished pomologies ever produced, and is described as "one of the finest colour-plate books in existence." (Prideaux). Named for Pomona, the Roman Goddess of Fruit and Fruit Trees, a pomology is simply a treatise on fruit culture. However, there was nothing simple about the intent and execution of this fine and rare work. George Brookshaw was a notable painter and illustrator from London, England.His early career was spent as a London cabinet-maker specializing in painted furniture, often with floral decorations. Brookshaw also published supplementary drawing manuals on fruit, flowers, and birds.


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Bernier and Pecore score big at Cornwall Motor Speedway
It was a busy weekend at the Cornwall Motor Speedway Aug. 3-4, as the clay oval welcomed both flat-track and a full program of its usual races.
The first-ever Flat Track Canada event was held at the speedway on Saturday, with 40 races featuring folks from four provinces. Races were held in the 65cc, intermediate DTX, novice DTX, ATV production, ATV open, 50cc, youth 250, 85cc, intermediate open, vintage open, novice open, and expert DTX classes.
Winners included:
- Kaleb Hunt, 65cc
- Dustin Lambert, intermediate DTX and intermediate open
- Maverick Cyr, novice DTX and novice open
- Jonathan Jans, ATV production and open
- Jamieson Andrews, 50cc
- Adrian St-Amand, youth 250
- Liam Caskie, 85cc
- Dan Doreen, vintage open
- Dustin Brown, expert DTX and expert open
On Sunday, the final of this season's three 100-lap Race for the Cure series was held, along with another 100-lap Fat Les Chip Stand Canadian National Modified series.
Chris Raabe jumped out to the early lead in the Canadian National Modified race, mixed in with David Hebert and Mike Maresca, with Maresca passing Hebert for second in lap 32. Steve Bernier started working his way through the lead group in the bottom-40 laps of the race, taking the lead in lap 51. Bernier would trade the lead with Maresca a few times in the remaining laps, with Bernier taking it for good with 35 laps to go to win the race.
Maresca placed second, with Steve Bernard in third.
The final Race for the Cure of 2019 saw Shane Pecore show his dominance at the oval, as he led when the green flag was waved and kept the lead through the entire race. The battle for second and third provided some excitement through the 100 laps, as Jarett Herbison, Gabriel Cyr, Brianna Ladouceur, and Kurtis Cayer all exchanged placings behind Pecore during the race. While Ladouceur started to apply pressure on Pecore around lap 80, it was a yellow on lap 87 that brought the field closer together but didn't present a real threat to Pecore's lead.
Pecore won the race and series, with Cayer in second and Ladouceur in third. It was his seventh win of the season and gave him the series title, over Johnathon Ferguson and Moise Page.
Marc Lalonde won the Alexandria Home Hardware Pro-stock 20-lap feature, after going on the inside lane past Dave Bissonette and pulling away from the rest of the field at the race's halfway mark. It was Lalonde's second feature win of the season.
Mike Gaucher also won his second feature of the season on Sunday, taking the Assist2Sell Mini-stock. While Marc Dagenais, Chris James and Justin Jodoin led the field of 15 at the start, Gaucher wrestled into the lead on lap six and held it, with Dagenais finishing second and James in third.
A complete race program is on the card for Sunday, Aug. 11, as the Northeast Late Model Alliance arrives at the speedway for the night.


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A year after European Union justice chief Viviane Reding warned European companies that the level of representation by women on their boards was unacceptable, she may press for legislation to compel action. She said that she was disappointed in their lack of progress.
Bloomberg reported Monday that Reding had set a deadline of March 2012 for companies to boost the number of women on their boards from a 2010 level of 12%–only 3% serving as board chairs–to 30% in 2015 and 40% by 2020. If companies failed to take action, she had warned that legislation could be drafted to compel them to do so.
She was quoted saying, "I have been very disappointed because there have been a lot of nice words and very few deeds … the companies last year told me 'we will do that by ourselves.'"
Only 24 companies even signed the pledge to increase female representation on their boards, despite the fact that Spain has a 2015 target of 40% and France passed a law to require 20% female presence on boards by 2014 and 40% by 2017 for companies employing at least 500 people and with annual sales of 50 million euros ($66 million).
In February, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron warned that British companies could face quotas as well. He said that businesses without sufficient women in senior positions are "failing" the economy.
Non-EU member Norway had set a quota in 2003 to have at least 40% of its corporate board seats populated by women; 37.9% of directors at its biggest companies are women, and, of the total of 4,875 board seats from 334 of the largest European companies, they constitute 11.7% of directors. According to an October 2010 study that was conducted by headhunting firm Russell Reynolds Associates and the European Professional Women's Network, that is an increase of 21% since 2008.
The U.S. is actually falling behind in female representation. In 2010, according to a Bloomberg Rankings analysis, women made up 16.6% of board seats on S&P 500 companies; in 2011 that percentage fell to 16%.


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Appeals court denies immediate Ill. conceal-carry
A federal appeals court has refused an urgent request by gun rights advocates to let Illinois residents immediately tote firearms in public under the state's fledgling concealed-carry law, though the panel has decided to give the matter a speedy review.
The Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the request last Thursday and said it expects both sides to submit written briefs by Aug. 14 regarding whether the months-long wait to implementing the law is unreasonable and illegal, as critics insist. No oral arguments on the matter had been scheduled as of Monday.
Mary Shepard and the Illinois State Rifle Association asked the Chicago appellate court to intervene after failing to sway a federal judge in East St. Louis last month to allow immediate concealed carry.
The Illinois Legislature passed the last-in-the-nation concealed-carry law July 9 against Gov. Pat Quinn's objections, giving Illinois State Police 180 days to set up the permit process and an additional 90 days to process applications.
Shepard and the rifle group consider that "foot-dragging" and a "daily, irreparable violation of their Second Amendment rights," according to their July 30 filing to the 7th Circuit Court.
"This sort of ongoing, unabated, fully adjudicated violation of an enumerated constitutional right epitomizes irreparable harm," William Howard, an attorney for Shepard and the gun group, wrote in then in the emergency motion for an injunction.
Howard's clients have pressed that Firearm Owners Identification cards possessed by Illinois gun owners serve as concealed-carry permits "for the time being."
The state, represented by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, has not filed counterarguments with the 7th Circuit. It has until Friday.
In passing the concealed carry measure, lawmakers narrowly beat a deadline set by the 7th Circuit, which last December ruled the state's ban on public possession of handguns unconstitutional.
Madigan's office had argued that Shepard's lawsuit, which first helped bring about the 7th Circuit's December decision, challenged the state's blanket prohibition on carrying a loaded firearm in public _ something the new law allows.
"The fact that this time period for establishing the permitting process is specified in the statute does not mean that it actually will take that amount of time for the state police to complete the process," U.S. District Judge William Stiehl wrote last month in rejecting Shepard's request.
Shepard, 73, was "savagely" beaten by an intruder in 2009 while working at her Baptist church in southern Illinois and was left for dead. She has said that had she not been barred from carrying a gun, she could have thwarted the attack.
Her latest filing with the 7th Circuit said she has an Illinois Firearm Owners Identification card, has no criminal record and has concealed-carry permits issued by Pennsylvania and Florida.