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Almost 60 percent of Americans believe science and religion conflict, a Pew Research Center survey found. Two-thirds of Americans said there is no conflict between their own beliefs and science.

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HOW TO WRAP A BUILDING

ON THE COVER High-speed selfdriving pods are just some of what we may have to look forward to in 2035. (Photo illustration)

The Fontainebleau sits unfinished, a blight on the Strip in the opinion of county commissioners, who voted that its owners had to cover it, much like other hotels in the resort corridor have done as a means to advertise. In five minutes, we’ll make you an expert on the process, the cost and the lifespan of a building wrapping.

A DIFFERENT BREED OF PIGEON

Tony Sosa spares no expense when caring for his little racers. He treats them like they are his children. And why not? When he releases them, they fly hundreds of miles to return to him.

THE FUTURE OF LAS VEGAS

The Sunday spoke with futurists, who discussed the effects of demographic shifts, population growth, technology, gaming trends, the allocation of natural resources and international relationships to paint a picture of what Las Vegas may look like 20 years from now. We also examine the benefit of making such predictions.

TREATED LIKE ONE OF THE GUYS

Amy Taylor, a former construction worker who makes her living as a cab driver these days, shares stories from her time working in male-dominated professions. MORE LIFE ■ Pets available for adoption, P31 ■ Calendar of events, P40 ■ Puzzles, P66

HOW TO RETAIN YOUR EMPLOYEES

Searching for, hiring and training new talent can be costly for employers. To save time and money, it’s important to create an atmosphere that fosters loyalty. Industry insiders share advice, beyond salary increases, on how to make workers feel engaged and satisfied, as well as when it’s time to let an unhappy employee walk away.

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Drones could prove useful to first responders Police officers and firefighters are looking into ways that unmanned aerial systems can make their jobs safer and easier.

Tourism official: State has merits beyond the Strip Efforts to attract a new generation of visitors focus on the outdoors.

in the Valley: Christy Beckwith 22 Angel A serial volunteer in Southern Nevada, this mother of three says “it’s impossible to be depressed when you’re volunteering.”

OPINION Energy must update its model 38 NV Clean energy shouldn’t be ignored for the sake of bigger profits.

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week in review WEEK ahead news and notes from the

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Mike Fulmer, of D30 Impact Protection, demonstrates the protective power of his product by attempting to smash his fingers with a hammer during the CES convention. This pliable gel quickly becomes a shock-absorbing consistency upon impact. (Christopher DeVargas/staff)

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A group of Clark County teachers called for educators to be given more involvement in state committees tasked with reforming Nevada schools.

The College of Southern Nevada announced it would start men’s and women’s soccer programs in fall, increasing the number of sports in the athletic department to five.

Sunrun, blaming regulators’ decision to cut the rate NV Energy pays solar customers for generating excess power, announced it was slashing its Nevada workforce.

No. 2 Alabama is a 6.5-point betting favorite at the South Point in the national championship game against top-ranked and undefeated Clemson. Kickoff is at 5:30 p.m. on ESPN (Channel 30 on Cox).

The UNLV basketball team, which suffered two close losses to open conference play, returns to the Thomas & Mack Center to play New Mexico, which won its first two.

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Same-sex marriage licenses issued in Clark County as of Dec. 31. The county began issuing marriage licenses to gay couples Oct. 9, 2014. The office issued about 81,000 marriage licenses in 2015.

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the hopefuls and hopeless on the presidential scene The purplest of purple states, Nevada is a key battleground for Oval Office aspirants. Each week, we rank how the presidential candidates fared in the state and on issues important to its residents. Here’s who had a good week and a bad week.

Hillary Clinton

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Donald Trump

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Bernie Sanders

At a gathering of more than 2,000 Democrats, Clinton displayed sharp command of state politics, speaking about the net metering controversy and Attorney General Adam Laxalt’s support of a lawsuit opposing President Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration.

Although he is trailing in the polls, O’Malley gave a barnburner of a speech at the Battle Born/Battleground Democratic dinner, highlighting his record as Maryland governor and attacking Republicans Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. He may have upped his chances for the veep slot?

A recent poll showed the reality television star with a commanding lead among likely GOP caucus attendees — 33 percent, compared with Cruz (20 percent), Rubio (11 percent) and the rest of the pack who trailed. But can his organization turn out those supporters?

The common wisdom that the Florida senator needs to win Nevada — and may come up short — continued to resonate, as Mother Jones ran a story saying “his best shot at early momentum is an uphill climb” compared with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz or Trump.

If the Sanders campaign thought it would make friends by arming supporters with air horns and vuvuzelas at a recent rally, it miscalculated. The deafening buzz led Sanders himself to pause his speech to shush the crowd.

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in a wreck? need a police officer? Metro Police announced they once again would respond to all traffic wrecks, reversing a nearly two-year policy of sending officers only to crashes with injuries. The decision comes after the Clark County Commission in September approved increasing sales tax from 8.1 to 8.15 percent to pay for more police officers. Drivers are advised to call 311 for wrecks that don’t involve an emergency.

On Thursday, the Clark County school board is expected to ratify a new contract with its 18,000 teachers that includes across-the-board pay raises. It will be the conclusion of a months-long dispute.

million Sales price of International Game Technology’s 38-acre campus. Panattoni Development Co. bought it from the slot-machine maker.

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clock ticking on puppy mills Las Vegas pet stores no longer will be allowed to sell puppies, kittens and piglets from “puppy mills,” where breeders raise animals in poor conditions. The Las Vegas City Council banned the practice, giving existing pet stores two years to comply. Animals sold at pet stores must come from shelters, rescue operations or humane societies.

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Faraday Future’s concept vehicle FFZERO1 is unveiled at an event before the start of CES in a parking lot across the street from the Luxor. For more on the unveiling, see Page 50. (Mikayla Whitmore/STAFF)

New homes sold in Summerlin in 2015, up 38 percent from 2014, according to consulting firm RCLCO.

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5-minute expert The cost Wrapping an entire building the size of the Fontainebleau could cost up to $1 million. Customers, however, typically choose to wrap a single face or smaller portion of a building (such as the portion near the top of Treasure Island, pictured here when workers were applying a wrap in 2014), which can cost $50,000 to $100,000.

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think wrapping a present is hard? By Megan Messerly | staff writer

Try wrapping a building. That’s exactly what owners of the unfinished Fontainebleau have to do, after the Clark County Zoning Commission voted in November to require that an unfinished part of the building, marred by rusty building panels, be covered by a paint-and-fabric building wrap. Resort officials were given 90 days to submit designs, then will have six months to wrap the building 100 feet from ground level up on the west side, facing Las Vegas Boulevard. Though the resort recently was listed for sale, County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani said owners would have to comply with the wrap regardless. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn bought the bankrupt project five years ago for about $150 million and has been sitting on it since. Building wraps are common on the Strip; they hover over most corners. Most of the wraps are hung for advertising purposes. Elite Media, a local advertising company, has wrapped many of the valley’s buildings. In 2007, the company draped a Dwyane Wade T-mobile advertisement on the north face of Mandalay Bay. Wade’s ear alone was five stories tall. It’s too early to know what the Fontainebleau’s covering will look like, but Elite Media President Chad McCowell — who has been wrapping buildings for 15 years — shared some insight about what it’s like wrapping a building on the Strip.

STEP 1: Getting approval

Building wraps on the Strip are vetted by the Clark County Zoning Commission. There are no specific guidelines for what commission members approve or deny; approval is discretionary and depends on what the wrap will look like and where it will be placed. The commission can and does put restrictions on wraps, including whether they can contain advertising. In Las Vegas, commercial property owners can wrap their buildings as long as they undergo a sign review with the City Council every year and use the wrap to highlight a product or service offered in the building.

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STEP 2: APPLYING THE WRAP Advertising agencies, design firms and building owners typically design wraps. The artwork is designed digitally on a computer, just as art for a smaller sign would be, then is divided on a grid, usually into 4-foot-by-25-foot strips, to be printed. A print shop prints each of the strips on a large format printer. The strips are printed either on mesh if they need to be seen through ( 1 ) or on vinyl if they don’t. Vinyl gives a cleaner image. Each strip essentially is a giant sticker with adhesive on the back, covered by paper. Depending on the season and how long the wrap will remain up, the artwork can be printed on a more or less heavy-duty material. In the summer, the surface of buildings can heat to about 250 degrees. To attach the strips, workers typically use window washing scaffolding ( 2 ) to traverse the face of the building. They usually start at the upper left, working top to bottom, then left to right. ( 3 ) Each sticker is numbered and corresponds to a numbered grid to ensure it’s placed in the correct spot. Workers remove a small portion of the adhesive backing at a time and roll the strips down the face of the building, smoothing out bubbles with a scraper or their hands. ( 4 ) Wrapping the entire side of a resortsized building takes about a week to 10 days.

STEP 3: MAINTenaNCE The typical lifespan of a wrap is one year to 18 months. Wraps generally can stay up about a year without needing maintenance. After that, the wrap might experience some flagging, when the corners of the pieces start to peel up. Workers easily can pin the pieces back down with adhesive. Wraps also tend to fade after about six months.

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Why predicting the future can help shape it

By HOWARD RIELl special to the sunday

Predicting the future is an inexact science. Futurists would be the first to tell you so. But there can be value in predictions, even when they’re wrong, the futurists say. Forecasts force people to consider what may lie ahead and whether it is desirable. And if it’s not, there’s still time to change it. If you worry about the valley running out of water, for example, start conserving more now. Negative predictions can be the impetus people need to change the future and prove scary predictions wrong.

hat does the future — say, 20 years down the line — hold for Las Vegas? ¶ We asked the people who should know best: futurists, who study the future and make predictions about it based on current trends. ¶ What their crystal balls show is a city that has been and will continue to be swept along by shifting tides, an apt metaphor given that the availability of water will play such a big a role in deciding the valley’s long-term fate.

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Solutions rely on awareness While some futurists envision a parched Las Vegas, water doesn’t have to be a limiting factor for Southern Nevada’s growth and development. ¶ There’s no silver bullet to solve the West’s water woes, but experts say a combination of aggressive conservation, particularly in agriculture, coupled with tapping new and recycled water sources, offers a realistic path forward. ¶ Las Vegas already has invested more than $1 billion in new intake and pumping facilities at Lake Mead and instituted conservation measures that cut water consumption by 23 percent, even as the valley’s population grew by half a million people. In April, Gov. Brian Sandoval created the Drought Forum, a panel of water experts, industry representatives and municipal officials, to recommend technologies and policy changes to mitigate the impacts of the ongoing drought. The panel’s initial suggestions included statewide water metering, tiered rate structures, crop covering and drip irrigation. ¶ Other conservation possibilities that water experts tout include collecting overflow from storms, desalinization, limiting the use of water to cool power plants and treating agricultural and industrial wastewater to make it potable.

“2.8 million thirsty people”

By 2035, Clark County will be home to about 2.8 million thirsty people. Current water sources should be enough to supply the city until then, given continuing conservation efforts and assuming the drought is not a sign of things to come. After that, the county looks increasingly unsustainable. Las Vegas has done a spectacular job of reducing its per-capita water consumption, now down about 30 percent from its peak. However, another study at UNLV estimates that conservation can keep the city going only until its population reaches about 2.6 million. Above that, there will be no margin for drought. At 3.2 million people, the first dry spell will bring emergency water restrictions that will result in drastic reductions in farming throughout the region. Golfers will find themselves playing on sand or Astroturf. — Owen Davies, executive editor of TechCastGlobal.com, a researchbased forecasting corporation

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GLOBAL PREDICTIONS There will be almost no poor countries in the world. Almost all countries will be lower-middle income or richer as residents learn from global neighbors and benefit from innovations such as new vaccines, better seeds and the digital revolution. — BILL GATES, CO-FOUNDER OF MICROSOFT

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“Unemployment will be a growing and persistent problem” Population growth in the Las Vegas region will be the highest in the nation for about 10 years, as retirees and migrants choose Nevada and Arizona. The economy, however, will not grow as it has in the past and will steadily decline because unemployment will be a growing and persistent problem. Besides water concerns limiting growth, declines in the growth of the gaming industry due to many factors, including technology and the growth of other gaming locations, will be a major factor negatively affecting the Las Vegas economy. Health care, however, will be a growth industry, helping unskilled workers move to the next rung on the prosperity ladder. Who pays — government, private or a partnership of the two — will depend on how much further in debt the nation can go without lenders such as China pulling the plug on further loans. — BARRY MINKIN, FUTURIST, SPEAKER AND PRINCIPAL AT MINKIN AFFILIATES, A MANAGEMENT CONSULTING FIRM

Traditional pharmaceuticals will be replaced by hyper-individualized medicines that are manufactured when they are ordered. — THOMAS FREY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE DAVINCI INSTITUTE, A NONPROFIT FUTURIST THINK TANK IN COLORADO, AND INNOVATION EDITOR OF THE FUTURIST MAGAZINE

The ability of Las Vegas to grow depends on its ability to sustain a constant supply of water. Without access to an ever-increasing source of water, the cost of living will skyrocket, creating in essence three Las Vegases — one populated by the monied elite, another

The world will have seen more than 2 billion jobs disappear, with most coming back in different industries. More than 50 percent will be structured as freelance projects rather than full-time jobs. More than 50 percent of today’s Fortune 500 companies will have disappeared, more than 50 percent of traditional colleges will have collapsed, and India will have overtaken China as the most populous country in the world. — THOMAS FREY

occupied by a declining flow of tourists and the third made up of workers whose stressed budgets will make living possible but not enjoyable.

Ironically, in a city whose identity has been shaped at will, the intractable issue of nature’s water cycle may be the critical wild card in the future. Assuming for a moment — and I’m not comfortable with the assumption — that water is not an issue, Las Vegas will continue to gain population, especially in the Hispanic demographic. Looking forward 20 years, this Latinization of Las Vegas will come at a time when Hispanic

The average person in the United States will have 4-plus packages a week delivered by flying drone.

social, political and economic power is at a historical high point. — RYAN MATHEWS, FUTURIST AND CEO OF BLACK MONK CONSULTING

— THOMAS FREY

The $225 trillion worldwide debt bubble will burst, and a global recession/ depression will prevail. — GERALD CELENTE, TREND FORECASTER AND PUBLISHER OF TRENDS JOURNAL

Global carbon dioxide emissions will increase 43 percent. Most of the new energy consumption will come from China, India and other developing countries as they churn out steel, build more power plants and drive more cars. — U.S. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION

Religion will make a resurgence, with communities of faith growing by almost 50 percent. — THOMAS FREY

“The concepts of ‘upscale’ and ‘vacation’ will be obsolete.” Las Vegas as we know it was the product of the cheap oil techno-industrial economy, which now is winding down. That economy represented the idea that there would always be more of everything: more wealth, more credit, more comfort, more profits, more progress. We now are facing an economic contraction that will continue as far ahead as we can forecast. The future will be defined by resource and capital scarcity, and no amount of wishing for technological rescue remedies will change that. When it comes to the upscale leisure/vacation industry, fuggeddabowdit. We’ll be lucky if the global economy — i.e., a set of transient trade and banking relations — unwinds without a major war. In any case, the world is going to become a larger place again, and the major nations will retreat into their own regions. There already is a demographic shift underway in the Middle East and North Africa, with refugees flooding into Europe. Expect more desperate behavior in many other economically and politically unfavorable parts of the world, including China. Before long, the human population will contract. The American public will struggle for subsistence, with many industries and occupations no longer in existence. The country could well break up into smaller autonomous regions. Economies will be centered on local agricultural production and activities that support it. The concepts of “upscale” and “vacation” will be obsolete. — JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER, AUTHOR AND LECTURER

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EVOLUTION OF LAS VEGAS “The city that takes the lead will become home to a new multibilliondollar industry”

By 2035, we project the population of the Las Vegas

metropolitan statistical area will reach 3.2 million people, with a job base of 1.3 million workers. That’s a growth of 900,000 people and 500,000 jobs. We expect that by 2035, the Southern Nevada economy will be much more diversified than it is today with a few caveats: that the community be relentlessly pragmatic in what our competitive advantages are and what they aren’t; that adequate investments are made in needed physical

infrastructure, especially water and transportation; that we have tax and regulatory structures that are conducive to economic development and investment; and that a healthy jobs-housing balance is maintained to protect commercially

Driving will be a hobby for Americans, and stop signs will be passé. Self-driving cars will optimize intersections so vehicles can pass safely without coming to a stop. — OREN ETZIONI, CEI OF THE ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

and industrially zoned land. We believe that Southern Nevada will see a doubling of its manufacturing workforce from our 22,000 to about 45,000 and that health care will grow from around 86,000 jobs to 120,000 jobs. Many of the manufacturing jobs will support the hospitality industry, but we do believe we’ll see

Computer helpers — less like Apple’s Siri and “more like Sherlock Holmes’ Watson: a super intelligent, knowledgeable and loyal assistant” — will be go-to tools for scientists and will revolutionize the field. — OREN ETZIONI

a notable amount of jobs in the alternative-energy sector and in robotics, including drones. On the medical front, the establishment of the UNLV Medical School and our ongoing efforts in the medical tourism arena will make us more competitive as a midsize health care hub.

Of course, the resort industry will be an important industry, but it won’t dominate like it does today. And we will continue to grow as a midsized distribution hub if we take the necessary steps of protecting our industrial land base. — JOHN RESTREPO, PRINCIPAL OF RCG ECONOMICS IN LAS VEGAS

Humans will be software hybrids powered by computers. Our brains will be able to connect directly to the cloud, and mind uploading will have been perfected. Thinking will involve a biological and nonbiological, and our brains will be able to be fully backed up. — RAY KURZWEIL, INVENTOR, FUTURIST AND DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING AT GOOGLE

Computers will be smarter than humans. The number of transistors on a computer circuit will exceed the number of brain cells in a human, by a factor of almost 100. — MASAYOSHI SON, CEO OF SOFTBANK, A JAPANESE TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY

Since young people would much rather play fast-action, rapidly advancing video games, and gambling laws for slot machines and roulette tables haven’t changed much since the 1950s, look for casinos to build large video game tournament centers and allow people to bet on the action, similar to betting on college basketball. Major hotels throughout the city could be retrofitted into video game tournament centers, where every major title from “Call of Duty” to “Middle Earth,” “Bayonetta,” “Wolfenstein” and “Destiny” would have annual competitions. Las Vegas once again could reclaim its position, only this time with a new kind of gambling that appeals in a huge way to today’s young people. Las Vegas will become the first city to operate an ET3-hyperloop super-highspeed tube transportation system. Both ET3 and Hyperloop are working on the next generation of transportation, where specially designed capsules are placed into sealed tubes and shot, much like rockets, to their destination. While highspeed trains are breaking the 300 mph speed barrier, tube transportation has the potential to make speeds of 4,000 mph a common everyday occurrence. A successful pilot project will lead to the first city-to-city project, and once successful, a rush to be next will ensue. A global consortium will be assembled to map out plans for international trunk lines, and individual countries will begin thinking through feeder line strategies to connect to the cross-continent central system. The city that takes the lead will quickly become home to a massive new multibillion-dollar industry. — THOMAS FREY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE DAVINCI INSTITUTE AND INNOVATION EDITOR OF THE FUTURIST MAGAZINE

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A drone flies over a ravine as the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office demonstrates a searchand-rescue operation in Dublin, Calif. Civil liberties advocates question whether unmanned aircraft are appropriate for law enforcement use. (associated press file)

Should drones be first on the scene? By Daniel Rothberg staff writer

First responders’ work can be dirty, dangerous and difficult — searching for missing people, responding to toxic spills, diagramming crime scenes, investigating fires. Advocates of the commercial drone industry say unmanned aircraft can make firefighters and law enforcement officers’ lives easier and safer. Both the Clark County Fire Department and Metro Police have set up groups to explore drone use in the future. And the future could come soon. Metro hopes to begin using small drones within a year, the fire department within two years. “We want to do it right,” said Capt. Michael Dalley, who heads a Metro advisory committee charged with integrating drones into the department’s work. “We don’t want to roll out a bad project.” About four months ago, Metro started researching drones, evaluating the technology and creating a timeline for integration. Dalley says the department sees advantages to using drones to diagram crime scenes — a task a drone can complete in 30 minutes — and to supplement

search-and-rescue operations. “It cuts out the dangers, cuts down the cost, and we can send out multiple (unmanned aircraft), compared with one helicopter or (finding) enough people to do it by foot, which is very problematic at times,” Dalley said. Assemblyman Elliot Anderson, who ferried a bill through the Legislature that banned the weaponization of drones and required law enforcement to obtain warrants for flying drones near homes, said Metro officers were at the forefront of shaping the bill and appeared interested in using drones for crowd control and to provide aerial overviews of tactical operations as well. Anderson requested comments about the legislation from all Nevada agencies with peace officers. The Clark County Fire Department offered input and worked with UNLV, Praxis Aerospace Concepts, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. Geological Survey to propose and design a study on how drones could be used in fire response and emergency management. The study would allow researchers to test drones in a simulated environment and determine what technology would be needed in more extreme environments.

But the project has stalled due to lack of funding Despite the money problems, the fire department has continued to explore drone use. Small drones could access live fires before first responders arrive to determine scope and how many firefighters would be needed, Senior Deputy Fire Chief Erik Newman said. Drones also could provide an aerial view of blazes, allowing firefighters to make predictions about the fire. Officials with both agencies recognize there are hurdles to surmount before they can integrate drones into their jobs. Buying and operating unmanned aircraft cost money, for instance, and the departments likely would have to tap into their operating budgets and request funding from the county to pay for the technology. The county commissioners “see a benefit to it,” Newman said. “It’s just a matter of how it’s managed.” First responders also would need to create guidelines and training materials for drones’ use. Dalley said Metro already is developing a policy after reviewing the language used by the International Asso-

ciation of Chiefs of Police. “Based on what we’ve looked at, our policy is more restrictive than what (the association is) putting out currently,” Dalley said. Perhaps the biggest challenge, however, is winning public opinion. When people think of drones, many envision military grade Reapers and Predators that conduct surveillance and are used for strikes overseas. For that reason, local police and firefighters avoid the term “drone” and refer to the devices as unmanned aircraft systems. They stress that drones in Las Vegas would not be used for surveillance. “What we’ve talked about is doing a public campaign, talking to all the press outlets (and) talking to our community groups,” Dalley said. “We’re not looking to eavesdrop on anyone.” Sheron Hayes, a principal management analyst at the Clark County Fire Department who is studying drone integration, said the fire department’s intent is not to be intrusive “but to use the UAS … to better address our needs with respect to fires, suppression of fires, hazardous material incidents and safety challenges during incidents.”

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Tourism official touts state’s merits Efforts to attract a new generation of visitors focus on different experiences By the sunday staff

The Strip is like a one-night stand for many young travelers. It’s good for a quick visit, but it’s not the only memory they want of a Western adventure. Millennials with cash to travel want interesting and unique stories as vacation memorabilia, said Bethany Drysdale, public relations director for TravelNevada, formerly known as the state Division of Tourism. TravelNevada is in charge of promoting the Strip but also Nevada’s numerous ghost towns, mountain ranges and natural attractions. The agency is working to adapt to changing media markets and different tourist demographics. Drysdale recently spoke with The Sunday about her favorite spots in Nevada and how she woos tourists. Nevada has the loneliest road in America, Great Basin National Park, Cathedral Gorge and countless other attractions. But the Las Vegas Strip overshadows them all. How do you spread the word about destinations beyond Las Vegas Boulevard? Promoting for the millennial market helps us in a nice way. They’ve been to Las Vegas, and all their friends have been to Las Vegas. Millennials don’t want an experience all their friends have had. None of their friends will be able to have an Instagram post from Little Finland in Lake Mead, for example. Experiential travels are like merit badges. It’s stuff that none of their friends have seen on Facebook. It’s an experience their friends aren’t going to have and will talk about. Las Vegas is a jumping point for Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce Canyon and Death Valley national parks. How do you keep people here? You can’t tell someone from Ireland that they have to stay in Nevada. It would be a shame to tell someone not to see the Golden Gate bridge if they’re in Reno. So we promote the entire region. We have an open mind about the attractions around us but we keep Las Vegas a hub. Go see L.A., make trips to the Grand Canyon but come back to Nevada.

Screen captures from travel websites showcase Nevada’s tourism offerings, which include skiing, rock climbing and other outdoor activities as well as gambling.

desert. They think flat terrain. They don’t know we are the most mountainous state in the lower 48. They think the Strip, not Red Rock. It’s just a lack of knowledge.

How have promotions shifted over the years? The needs of travelers have changed; the audience has changed. We were targeting baby boomers — people with more money and free time — with traditional ads. That has changed with the rise of the millennial mindset. If it’s Instagram worthy, it is a trip millennials will take. We are doing more social media and more direct-to-consumer outreach. We do Instagram takeovers, selecting someone with a really good audience, letting them post on our account when they are on a trip. In 2014, we had 700 Instagram followers. We hit 10,000 this past November. Do you still use traditional media? We have outdoor ads and do print in National Geographic and Outdoor magazine. It comes with social media

What’s your favorite ghost town? Grantsville. I took a dirt road and came across it. I don’t even think Grantsville is on maps. I feel like I discovered it.

and other opportunities. We also do TV ads in the five major fly-in markets: What is Nevada’s weirdest site? Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salt Lake, Natural wonder: Diana’s Phoenix and Boise. Punchbowl. It is stunning Also, it sounds retro, and naturally occurring. but we’re doing movie Tourism is the It blows me away. I theater advertising. one of the state’s thought I was in the We also do lookbiggest drivers of revenue desert, then I see a alike modeling, — it hauled in $3 billion giant, boiling natuwhere we find to government coffers and ral pot of water. people who want generated $62.2 billion in total Manmade: the to come to Nespending in 2014. For every Little A’Le’Inn vada to mountain dollar TravelNevada spends on advertising, there is a 33-toRestaurant and bike and rock 1 return on investment, Bar in Rachel. The climb and find their Drysdale said. landscape is like being friends online. on the moon, and you’re on the “Alien Highway” What misconceptions near Area 51. People want to go do people have about home with stories about sitting next to Nevada? a trucker with an alien-sighting story. People simply don’t know what That’s what you get there. we have. They think desert, not high

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our outings,” Beckwith said. “It just came so naturally. (Now) I’ll organize 40 or 50 people to go to Three Square Food Bank ... and In Angels in the Valley, an put nonperishable items into plastic grocery bags for the kids Sometimes in life, it’s not what you let out of the bag that occasional series, we in the Clark County Food Distribution Program, who get free makes a difference but what you put into it. profile people who have breakfasts and lunches at school but may not have enough food Ask Christy Beckwith, who spends countless hours in public made a difference in for the weekends. We collect enough food to fill 3,000 backpacks. service — picking up trash at Red Rock Canyon National Conserthe lives of others and We do this three or four times a year.” vation Area, collecting food for hungry children and organizing deserve to be recognized While she is an avid participant, Beckwith describes herself donations at Shade Tree. for their willingness to as more of an organizer. She has put together teams for Shade “Volunteering is one of my biggest passions,” said Beckwith, help. If you know Tree events, Race for the Cure for the Susan G. Komen breast a married mother of three teenagers. “I enjoy the activity, and an Angel, email cancer organization and the dragon boat race at Lake Las Vegas being an extrovert, I get something from being around fun, opnews@thesunday.com benefiting the St. Rose Dominican Health Foundation. Beckwith timistic people. I crave that kind of energy. It’s impossible to be with details. rounds up volunteers for Project 150, which distributes food, depressed when you’re volunteering. clothing and school supplies to homeless and impoverished high “A wonderful lady I met about three years ago told me about schoolers in Clark County, and works with teams she organizes as greeters, caa poem called ‘The Dash.’ It talks about the dash between your birth date and shiers and ticket-takers at Opportunity Village’s Magical Forest. your death date and how that dash has to be meaningful. I don’t know for sure Beckwith’s husband, Mike, volunteers with her most of the time, as do her if I’m making a difference or changing something or helping someone directly, children. Beckwith and her son Austin, 19, socialize dogs together at the Animal but I feel like I am.” Foundation, walking 10 to 12 pups so the animals can get out of their cages, exBeckwith has worked for 23 years as a business specialist in Las Vegas’ Buildercise and have contact with the world. ing and Safety Department. Her volunteerism began with a monthly hiking “I absolutely feel happier than I ever did before,” Beckwith said. “Volunteergroup she started three years ago. ing is the healthiest thing you can do.” “I got the idea for organizing volunteers from the hiking group during one of special to the sunday

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otes compiled as we kick off the new year on the great VegasVille landscape: n A 100,000-capacity stadium rumored for the Strip has generated a ripple around town. An anonymous Las Vegas resort company reportedly has embarked on feasibility studies for such a facility. When you look at the viability of such a project, the most likely company to investigate such an adventure is Las Vegas Sands, owner of the Venetian and Palazzo. The company has available territory behind the Palazzo on the east side of the Strip. And there has been previous speculation that Sands would build an arena to rival the T-Mobile Arena being built by MGM Resorts and AEG Live on the west side of the Strip. None of these plans are close to being made public. But that company and that location would be the most

Las Vegas Boulevard and likely scenario for a new assemble a collection of stadium on the Strip. international investors to The feasibility study fund the complex. Fortucertainly would examnato’s “master plan,” as he ine what sorts of events calls, is due any time, could be staged at a “We will be near the 100,000-capacity venue Strip, and we will do this — international soccer, with no public money,” music festivals and the John Fortunato said. like. A stadium of that Katsilometes When he was mayor of size would rival in capacLas Vegas, Oscar Goodman ity the Rose Bowl and once said of a handful of L.A. Coliseum. In other competing arena plans, words, massive. “Whoever has their shovels in the And this isn’t the only stadium ground first, wins.” That likely is the project floating out there. Still forging case with Strip stadiums, too. ahead are officials with the Fusion Project, who in June announced plans to n We didn’t start the fire, as Billy Joel build a $1 billion sports complex with a once intoned, but we can furnish some 70,000 to 90,000 capacity stadium. Las Vegas firefighter trivia: The oldest I’m reliably informed that F Group fire station in the city is No. 1, originally International, fronted by Italian located on Fremont Street and now at entrepreneurs Daniele Fortunato and 500 N. Casino Center Blvd. The station Gaetano Di Renzo, still are moving dates to the city’s infancy in 1906. It forward with plans to secure land on also is home to the last fire pole in use

in any Clark County fire station. n Among the fine entertainers in Las Vegas are unlikely figures Paul Lowden and Al Bernstein. Lowden, who owned the Sahara and had a stake in the Hacienda and Tropicana over the years, is an expert keyboard player who plays with his band at Bootlegger Bistro and the Italian American Club. Bernstein, one of the foremost boxing broadcast analysts for more than four decades, is a great singer of standards who also appears occasionally at Kelly Clinton’s Open Mic Night each Monday at Bootlegger. During the nearly hourlong delay of the start of the Floyd MayweatherManny Pacquiao bout in May at the MGM Grand (the pay-per-view system crashed because of a high volume of late purchases), I tweeted that we should fill the time with Bernstein singing from the Great American Songbook. Hardly anyone got that reference, but he did.

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4 Pacemaker A pacemaker is a small device that’s inserted into the chest or abdomen. It sends soft electrical pulses to the heart, which manipulate the heart muscles into contracting and regulate the heart rate.

evolving treatment keeps the heart pumping Congestive heart failure is one of the most prevalent chronic heart diseases in America. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 5.1 million people in the United States suffer from heart failure, and nearly half die within five years of being diagnosed. As with many heart diseases, there’s no cure, although medical advances have made congestive heart failure easier to predict, detect and manage. “Damage to the heart can be prevented and sometimes even reversed, but for most patients it cannot be undone. Prevention and management are key,” said Dr. Ali Rahimi, MD, FACP, AGSF, Medical Director of the MountainView Heart Failure Clinic. What is congestive heart failure? Congestive heart failure is a chronic condition that occurs when the heart is unable to pump enough blood to supply the body. This is a result of damage to the heart muscle, often from coronary artery disease, heart attack, high blood pressure, obesity or aging. “The circulatory system has a highly refined process,” Rahimi said. Every person has about 5 liters of blood in his or her body. The blood carries oxygen, nutrients, glucose, electrolytes and more, and distributes them throughout the body, which allows your organs to do their jobs. This process happens about 75 times a minute. “If something prevents this process from happening as it should, such as congestive heart failure, the vital organs are starved from the nutrients they need,” Rahimi said.

Treatment and technologies There are many treatment options available for patients with heart failure, including beta blockers and even heart transplants. Here are a few: Catheter

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The importance of prevention While modern medicine continues to evolve and improve, it cannot replace a lifetime of good habits, nor can it reverse a lifetime of bad ones. “Here’s the thing: Medicine means nothing without prevention,” 3 Rahimi said. “Patients must be Heart proactive and take preventabypass surgery tive measures to protect their This is an open-heart health or to manage their procedure that creates a new existing conditions.”

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Indulging in an unhealthy diet, not exercising regularly, smoking, drinking excessively and high stress all can contribute to heart failure. “Obesity is a very high risk factor, and smokers are in the same category,” Rahimi said. “Patients who are obese and smoke are ticking time bombs.” Stress also can play a role in heart health and usually is most problematic when combined with one or more other risk factors.

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she’s driven to succeed in a man’s world By Samantha Rea | SPECIAL TO the sunday

Amy Taylor has lived in Las Vegas for 30 years. She’s 41 and divorced with three children. ¶ She spent 18 years in the construction industry before turning to cab driving when construction work dried up. She spoke with The Sunday about what it was like to be a woman in a male-driven industry, and told us stories about interesting cab riders. How did you get into construction? My brother and I were raised by my dad; my mom didn’t live with us. My dad worked in construction. He would have preferred I did something easier — go to college and get a good job. My brother works in construction, too. I’ve worked with him and my dad. I have one daughter; if she wanted to get into construction, I’d tell her it’s hard work. Did you ever consider doing anything else? All the time. Growing up, I wanted to be a nurse, but I couldn’t go to school because I had kids young and I needed a good job to support them by myself. I’ve always worked, starting with weekends from the age of 15. When I left school at 18, I spent a year working as a maid in hotels. Moving into construction meant a big pay increase. I’ve tried other things. I bartended, and at one point, I went back to school for a year to train as a medical assistant. I did that for six months, but I didn’t earn enough money. Whatever I did, I always went back to construction because the money was good. What did you do in construction? General labor, so tearing down

walls, making sure tools were working, supplying wood and tools to carpenters, removing debris. I did a bit of everything. I worked in demolition, and I helped build power plants, solar plants, and this being Las Vegas, casinos. I worked on the Bellagio, the Venetian, Mandalay Bay, Aria. Did you work with other women? There were a few other girls doing actual labor — three or four, depending on the job. Some sites didn’t employ women. They couldn’t say that, but you know. In general, though, it wasn’t a problem getting jobs. How were you treated by the men you worked with? At first, the guys wished we weren’t there. They thought we were incapable. You had to prove them wrong, and you had to work twice as hard to prove yourself. Once you did, they treated you like one of the guys. They didn’t do wind-ups or pranks; that wouldn’t be tolerated. But they’d talk bad to you. They’d say, “The job site’s no place for a woman,” and “I’d never let my wife work on a construction site.” I’d say, “I make more money than your wife.” After a while, they got used to me

and accepted me. Some of the guys would try to help me and do things for me. That was nice. Guys came on to me all the time. I’d say, “I don’t date people I work with.” The guys were OK with that. Why did you start cab driving? Construction in Las Vegas slowed down. I didn’t want to sit at home, so I started working as a cab driver. I don’t do the typical girly-girl jobs; I do manly jobs. I’d definitely like to go back to construction. If work comes up, I’ll take it. Construction is better money,

and it’s more consistent. With cabs, one day you’re busy, one day you’re not. How have Uber and other ridehailing companies affected your business? Uber and Lyft haven’t affected us much. When someone comes out of a hotel, there’s a line of taxis already waiting. They don’t need to wait for an Uber to come. People I’ve picked up complain Uber fares are always changing. They say the drivers get lost and don’t know where they’re going. Of course we don’t want them here because they’re competition, but it

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who throw up on themselves so you have to take the cab back and pick up a clean one. I don’t make any money then, because I work on commission. I get a percentage of the fare; there’s no hourly pay. Passengers always ask you to party with them. I did with a couple of girls from Canada. What do you do if a client steps out of line? I have a video camera in the front of the cab. It films everything, but sometimes I’m scared. I’m not allowed to carry anything like pepper spray, and I pray every day that I go home safe. If I have jerks in the back, I just try to ignore them, agree with them if I have to and hurry up and get them to their destination. I kicked out three girls one night. They were being snotty, telling me where to go and how to do my job. I dropped them at a casino, and they didn’t pay their fare. So I told the door guy, which meant they couldn’t get another cab to leave. The door guy isn’t going to call them a cab if they’re not paying their fare. Who are your favorite clients? I enjoy the company of most people who get in my cab. I like the old couples who are here for their 50th anniversary and couples on their honeymoon — that’s fun and exciting. And people who have never been here before. They want to see the sights and are in total awe.

hasn’t drastically affected me. What are your hours? I work 12-hour shifts, five or six days a week. I always work at night; that’s the shift the company gave me. I have only one of my children at home, and he’s 19, but if you had little kids, there’s no way you could do this job.

What sort of clients do you get? I drive people from all over the world, from all walks of life, from the richest to the poorest who can’t afford to pay their fare. I’ve had to pay fares myself out of my tips.

I have a lot of businessmen who like to go to strip clubs and lots of 21st birthdays. There’s always one drunk, vulgar one out of the bunch. I have drunk women who just want to cry, and I get some famous clients, too, like Joe Beaver, the ESPN rodeo commentator. Do you see outrageous behavior? Girls don’t wear panties under their short dresses, and some people try to have sex on the seat. I’ve had a drunk Australian guy stick his naked butt out of the window, and there are the ones

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Amy Taylor worked construction for years in Southern Nevada and now makes her living driving a taxicab. (mikayla whitmore/staff)

They’d say, ‘The job site’s no place for a woman,’ and ‘I’d never let my wife work on a construction site.’ I’d say, ‘I make more money than your wife.’ ” — Amy Taylor, cab driver and former construction worker

Do clients hit on you? Men try to pick up on me all the time. They offer me money; they think any female is up for it. Drunk men can be obnoxious and obscene. One drunk guy told me he wanted to rape me. I just hurried up and got him to his destination. Some of them invite me to visit them in their country, but I say no because they’re creepy. Do you have interesting conversations? Sure. As they get drunk, my back seat turns into “Taxi Cab Confessions.” A lot of people are relieved they can talk to a stranger without being judged. I’m nice, I’m friendly, I talk to everyone just the same. I’m here for 12 hours; I have to talk to somebody. Women confide in me more than men. It tends to be about cheating on their husband back home. One man told me he was going through a sex change, and I was the only person he’d told. Some clients stay in touch; they call me when they’re coming into town. A couple of passengers I’ve become friends with on Facebook.

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Age: 1-year-old female Breed: Chihuahua Description: Coqueta takes her time getting to know new people, but once she does, she is friendly and loving. Adoption fee: $155

Age: 8-month-old spayed female Breed: Pit bull terrier Description: Roxy is social and energetic. She would love a new playmate. Adoption fee: $25

Age: 9-year-old spayed female Breed: Tabby shorthair Description: Suzie likes sitting peacefully at your side or lounging near you and watching you. She asks for kindness and a quiet home environment. Adoption fee: $20

Age: 1-year-old neutered male Breed: Small Heinz 57 (Pomeranian, papillon and spaniel) Description: Malachi needs more socialization. Please be patient and understanding to help him continue improving. Adoption fee: $40

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Age: 8-month-old male Breed: Domestic mediumhair Description: Bow is an outgoing kitten who enjoys being stroked and receiving belly rubs. Be his friend, and heâ€™ll reward you with head nudges and cuddles. Adoption fee: $25

Age: 1-year-old male Breed: German shepherd and chow chow mix Description: Capers is a happy boy who loves attention. Adoption fee: $105

Age: 4-year-old neutered male Breed: Bully mix Description: Craig is overjoyed when you bring him tennis balls for playtime. He adores people and is a devoted companion. Adoption fee: $40

Age: 5-year-old spayed female Breed: Domestic mediumhair Description: Greta is drawn to gentle people and cats. She likes building relationships over time and growing stronger bonds with trust and respect. Adoption fee: $20

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flock of pigeons descends on a small house in northeast Las Vegas. Their gray and white feathers flutter as the birds uniformly circle the residence then dive in for a landing. Tony Sosa bursts through his back door as the birds set anchor. He’s not there to shoo them away but greet them in celebration. Pigeons — or as some call them, rats with wings — are seen by many as a nuisance. It’s illegal to feed them in some cities. But these are Sosa’s breadwinners. The 58-year-old Cuban immigrant races the pigeons competitively. His yard is filled with coops and cages, and his house is filled with trophies. Sosa’s well-kept, athletic pigeons bear little resemblance to the ones chased off of park statues. “I love this sport,” Sosa said. “It’s my hobby, and it’s my passion.” Pigeon racing has been around since the late 1800s. It involves releasing homing pigeons at various distances from their coop to see which make it home fastest. The birds wear tracking chips on their ankles that are read by a scanner when the pigeons enter their loft (the wood structure where racing homers are housed). Awards are given for fastest pigeon and fastest team. Distances typically range from 100 to 600 miles, but races over 1,000 miles have been recorded. Sosa usually participates in 400-mile races, because he says longer ones are too hard on the pigeons in the Las Vegas heat. Races sometimes are decided by milliseconds. Homing pigeons can fly at altitudes of up to 6,000 feet and soar at an average speed of 50 mph. The fastest pigeon speed recorded is 92.5 mph. Scientists believe the birds use magnetic and solar compasses to navigate. The earth’s surface has magnetic contours the birds can follow, and they know how to track the movement of the sun. Oxford University researchers found that pigeons also can track using landmarks such as rivers and roads. The furthest homing pigeon flight ever recorded was 7,200 miles, from France to Vietnam. The journey took 24 days. Not all pigeons are cut out for the sport. Unfit birds are weeded out in their youth. “This is a sport for the brave,” Sosa said. “The good birds come back home, and the bad ones don’t.” Sosa says typically only young pigeons wander off or are spooked away by predators such as hawks. Even then, it is rare. Sosa keeps 45 to 50 birds in his coop, but one stands out — a large pigeon named Dreamer with shiny turquoise feathers around its collar. Sosa paid $1,000 for her. A large grin stretches across Sosa’s face

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Tony Sosa shows off the backyard coop he maintains for his team, which competes in the Silver State Racing Pigeon Club. (L.E. Baskow/staff)

as he holds Dreamer; he fans her wing out to show off her feathers. Seconds later, he scolds the other birds in Spanglish as they fly past his head. Some might say he treats the pigeons as if they were his children. The birds are housed in a sophisticated coop Sosa built. The roost stands more than 7 feet and has all the amenities the birds could dream of — a nesting area, a breeding center, feeding troughs and automated watering tanks. It took two weeks and about $3,000 to build. “I spared no expense,” Sosa said. “Everything costs money, but we take extra good care of the birds so they can be healthy.” Sosa says he spends over $2,500 every year on pigeon-related expenses, including a custom diet and special vitamins. He feeds the birds more oils and fats in winter and replaces proteins with carbohydrates and amino acids when race days approach. Sosa trains the pigeons twice a day, at sunrise and in the afternoon, driving the birds 30, 50 or 60 miles away from home, then timing their trip back. In competition, Sosa has released his pigeons from as far away as 100 miles north of Salt Lake City, only to welcome them home in less than a day. Sosa’s friends Carlos Lopez and Cesar Viamontes also participate in pigeon racing, and the three compete regularly. “We are all friends now, but once we re-

lease the birds into the air, we are enemies,” Sosa joked. “Then they land, and we celebrate with a barbecue and a couple beers.” There are high-stakes pigeon races around the world, including the Million Dollar Pigeon Race in South Africa, which features 4,300 birds from 25 countries competing for $1.3 million in prizes. But Sosa and his friends compete only for trophies, diplomas and pride. “You get really nervous when the birds are flying and you know it’s close to the time of arrival,” said Lopez, 47, who has raced pigeons since 1989. “Every bird that you see come over the horizon sends your heart pounding.” Sosa’s nerves and over-the-top personality have earned him a nickname among Las Vegas pigeon racers — “El Gordo Del Wow!” for his bulbous physique and bombastic celebrations. Sosa’s home is filled with trophies, including one that stands almost as tall as him, earned during the 2009 Silver State Racing Pigeon Club championship for average speed, champion bird and champion loft. “When I came over here to America and found out who Tony was, I wanted to learn from him,” said Viamontes, 28, who recently migrated from Cuba. “Then I found out how nice of a guy he was. He took me into his house and treated me like family.”

How pigeons are judged in competition Average speed The times of all the pigeons in a loft are added together and averaged.

Champion bird The bird with the most points, determined by distance traveled and number of birds in the competition. The more birds that compete, the more points are available to win.

Champion loft The loft with the most points when all the pigeons’ points are added.

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‘tis the season for some of the wildest wagers Proposition bets, or prop bets, aren’t new to Las Vegas sports books, but in recent years, they’ve garnered national attention during the Super Bowl for the variety of betting options they offer. With every passing year, prop bets seem to gain popularity and a permanent place in Super Bowl culture and fanfare. The bets are not typically considered big money makers — although Mark Cuban famously tweeted, and later denied, Which team will win the coin toss? that he won $20 million on a prop bet during Super Bowl XLVIII — What will the largest but they make the game fun for lead of the game be? handicappers, casual bettors What will the jersey and observers alike. number be of the player to

What color will Katie Perry’s hair be when she begins the halftime show?

How many total touchdowns will be scored throughout the game?

Who will the Super Bowl MVP mention first in his speech?

score the first touchdown?

What are prop bets? The defining difference between prop bets and all other bets — such as point spreads, over/unders and moneylines — is that prop bets don’t hinge on the outcome of the game but rather specific occurrences within the game. Traditionally, the prop bets offered at major sports books have been limited to game-related occurrences. This allows bettors to wager either on the team or on individual players.

Will one of the teams score a rushing touchdown? Will one of the teams score in all four quarters?

Once the teams for Super Bowl 50 are determined and the lines are set, many prop bets will focus on specific players, such as their passing yards, passing attempts, rushing yards, completions, interceptions, tackles, field goals and touchdowns.

who do they appeal to? Many sports books offer team and player prop bets during regular season games, but the number of available prop bets increases dramatically during the Super Bowl, appealing to bettors regardless of their experience level. Casual bettors enjoy making prop bets to get in on the excitement, and many handicappers place prop bets because they offer lighthearted relief during the biggest sports betting day of the year.

What color Gatorade will be dumped on the head coach of the winning team?

Which team will call the first timeout? Which team will commit the first turnover? Will at least one quarter be scoreless?

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what about those who like to analyze? Some prop bets might lend themselves to more in-depth analysis than others. For instance, if the bet is how many interceptions Russell Wilson will make, you could review his stats from the season and try to find trends and averages. But many prop bets during the Super Bowl are wild, which is what makes them so fun.

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Will the NFL fine Marshawn Lynch for an incident during media day?

Will there be a safety in the game? Which player will score the first touchdown of the game? Will the game go into overtime?

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Double Your Luck drawings Date: Saturdays and Sundays Time: 7 p.m. Information: Fifteen names will be selected at each drawing. Earn 50 slot points, 100 video poker points or have an average bet of $5 for 30 minutes on a table game to earn one drawing entry. The top prize is $5,000. Players can earn double their entries every Monday and Tuesday. $25,000 Ring in the New Year slot tournament Date: Fridays Time: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Information: Loyalty card members can win up to $2,000 in free play. Play all five Fridays for entry into a bonus tournament Feb. 4, with a grand prize of $2,500 in free play. Point multipliers Date: Jan. 14, 18 and 28 Information: Earn 3x points on video poker and 10x points on slot machines. Gift giveaway Date: Jan. 21 Information: Mail recipients and players who earn 250 slot points or 500 video poker points can receive a gift.

PALMS

$50,000 Lucky 7 drawings Date: Fridays and Saturdays Time: 7:15 p.m. Information: Earn 2x entries 4-6 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays. Ten winners will be selected each week, with a maximum prize of $3,000. Play for Prizes-Fill Your Tank Date: Through Jan. 15 Information: Redeem points for Chevron gift cards. Play for Prizes-Warehouse Blitz Date: Jan. 18-29 Information: Redeem points for McDonald’s or Costco gift cards. Gift days Date: Saturdays and Sundays Information: Earn 100 base points on video slots or 500 base points on video poker. Swipe your card at any promotional kiosk. Jan. 16 – shower curtain; Jan. 17 – milk bottles; Jan. 23 – mason jars; Jan. 24 – flatware set; Jan. 30 – floor mat; Jan. 31 – flashlight set. Point multiplier Date: Jan. 20 Information: Swipe your loyalty card at a kiosk and receive a multiplier of

up to 15x points.

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and 6x points on video poker.

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Lucky 8 Ball kiosk game Date: Fridays and Saturdays Time: 2 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Information: Earn 300 points to play. Win up to $1,000.

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New Year’s resolution fitness giveaway Date: Mondays Information: Earn 250 base slot points or a $25 table theoretical and receive fitness equipment. Different gifts will be available each week. Palooza point multiplier Date: Tuesdays Information: Receive 10x points on slots and 5x points on video poker Carnival of Cruises giveaway Date: Jan. 29 Information: Sixteen people will win a 14-day cruise for two to the Caribbean, Mexico, Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada or Europe. Receive 10 entries for signing up for a loyalty card. Receive one entry for 200 base slot points or a $10 table theoretical. Swipe your loyalty card at a kiosk for additional entries. Receive 10x entries on Jan. 15 and Jan. 22. Point multiplier Date: Thursdays Information: Receive 20x points on slots and 5x points on video poker.

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Pharaoh’s Billion-Point Pyramid Date: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays Information: Play the kiosk game each weekend. Pick a tile on the pyramid for guaranteed points and for the chance to find a pharaoh and move up the pyramid. Players who make their way to the top of the pyramid win 1 million points. Guests must earn 5 points to play the kiosk game. Room of Riches cash drawings Date: Through Jan. 31 Time: Drawings at 6:15 p.m. Information: Players can earn 10 free drawing entries every day for a chance to participate in the Jan. 31 drawings. Win up to $10,000. Earn 5x entries on Wednesdays. Each property will have 10 drawing winners. The top two slot and the top two video poker base-point earners from each property through Jan. 30 will win an additional spot in the drawing.

Monthly Wheel of Cash drawings Date: Fridays and Saturdays Time: Begins at 7 p.m. Information: One player will be chosen every half-hour to win up to $3,000.

Gift day Date: Jan. 18 Time: 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Information: Earn 500 base points to receive a fleece jacket.

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January drawing Date: Jan. 16 and 30 Times: 7 and 9 p.m. Information: Ten winners will win up to $5,000 at the 7 p.m. drawing and up to $2,500 at the 9 p.m. drawing. Earn 200 points to participate. Earn 10x entries on Saturdays.

$90,000 Jump Into a Jeep giveaway Date: Thursdays Time: 6:15 p.m. Information: Win a 2016 Jeep Renegade every Thursday. Earn 2x entries on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Earn & Win jackets Date: Sunday and Monday Time: 2 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Information: Earn 2,500 points to receive a double-layer jacket.

$90,000 Key to Luxury car giveaway Date: Fridays and Saturdays Time: 8:15 p.m. Information: Win up to $1,000 or a key for the Lexus car giveaway. The grand-prize drawing will be Jan. 30. Earn 5x entries from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The top two slot and top two video poker base point earners, as well table games players with the top two scores, also will qualify for a spot in the giveaway.

Earn & Win faux mink blanket Date: Jan. 20 and 27 Time: 2 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Information: Earn 1,000 points to receive a blanket. Mystery multiplier Date: Jan. 19 Information: Swipe your loyalty card at a kiosk to receive up to 10x points

SANTA FE STATION

Point multiplier Date: Thursdays Information: Earn 10x points on slots

Point multiplier Date: Monday and Tuesday Information: Earn 10x points on slots and 6x points on video poker.

CANNERY

Mystery multiplier Date: Tuesdays Information: Swipe your loyalty card at a kiosk to receive up to 10x points and 20 drawing entries.

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Smith Center Sundays Date: January Information: Earn 500 points playing slots and receive two tickets to a performance in January at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts. Mystery Free Play Mondays Date: January Information: Earn five points to participate; win up to $500 in slot play. $10,000 gift card giveaway Date: Fridays and Saturdays Time: 7 a.m.-noon Information: Guests can win $100 gift cards. One grand prize winner will win a $500 gift card at midnight. Must be present to win. Earn one entry in the hourly drawing for every 25 base points earned.

EL CORTEZ

Free Play Frenzy Date: January Information: Loyalty card players who win a $200 or higher jackpot on a slot machine, 5-cent or lower video poker machine or live keno will receive free play. Players who win a $300 or more jackpot on a 10-cent or higher video poker machine will receive free play. Saturday Point Fever Date: January Information: Ten Club Cortez members will be selected randomly for a chance to win 100,000 points. Players will receive one virtual drawing ticket for every 200 points earned each day during the week.

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$80,000 Snowstorm of Cash Date: Saturdays through Jan. 30 Time: 6:15 and 8:15 p.m. Information: Players who earn 500

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base points will receive entries into weekly cash drawings. The top prize is $3,000. Warm Up & Win Giveaway Date: Jan. 19-28 Information: Earn 1,000 base points to participate in the kiosk game. The top prize is $1,000.

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Two Ticket Touchdown drawing Date: Jan. 23 Information: The grand prize is two tickets to the Super Bowl and a $2,500 Visa gift card.

SOUTH POINT

Point multipliers Date: Jan. 18 Information: Earn 5x points on slots; receive 1,000 base points and get $15. Earn 2x points on video poker; receive 1,000 base points and get $6. Jersey giveaway Date: Jan. 24 Information: One poker player will win a professional football team jersey after each game.

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$6,500 Galleons of Gold mid-month drawing Date: Second Wednesday of the month  Information: Players who earn 2,000 base points during the previous calendar month can participate in the following month’s drawing. Ten winners will be chosen.

SUNCOAST

Spin and win kiosk game Date: Tuesdays Time: 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Information: Earn 25 points to play. Win up to 1 million points, dining credits and more. Swipe and win up to 1 million points Date: Fridays and Saturdays Time: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Information: Earn 10 base points to play. The top prizes are 1 million points or $1,000. Saturday cash drawing Date: Jan. 30 Time: 8:15 p.m. Information: Earn 10 base points to participate. Win up to $10,000. $20,000 Bonus Tourney Date: Thursdays Information: Loyalty card members playing select penny slots are eligible to win up to $1,000 in play. Point multipliers Date: January

Information: Receive 15x points on penny machines, 11x points on slots and 7x points on video poker on Jan. 18. Receive 15x points on Buffalo slot games on Sundays. Players 50 and older will receive up to 50x points on Wednesdays. Win up to $2,500 Date: Thursdays Time: 5-9 p.m. Information: For loyalty card members playing table games. If your name is called, the whole table wins.

GOLD COAST

Kiosk game Date: Mondays Information: Earn 25 points to play. Win up to 1 million points. Swipe and win up to 1 million points Date: Fridays and Saturdays Time: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Information: Earn 10 base points to play. The top prizes are 1 million points or $1,000. Gift giveaways Date: Tuesdays Time: 2-9 p.m. Information: Earn 300 points to receive a gift. Jan. 12 — T-shirt; Jan. 19 — hat; Jan. 26 — shoulder bag. Point multiplier Date: Sundays Information: Receive 11x points on penny reels. Martin Luther King Jr. Day point multiplier Date: Jan. 18 Information: Receive 15x points on penny reels, 11x points on reels and 7x points on video poker.

Silver sevens

$3,000 Roaring Riches Date: The 15th of every month Time: 7 and 8 p.m. Information: Twenty people are guaranteed to win cash or play; top prize is $1,000. Held inside the Corona Cantina.

Eldorado

Take it or Trade it Date: Saturdays Time: Hourly, 4:30-10:30 p.m. Information: Cash giveaway. The top prize is $1,000. Earn entries through slot or table play. Rolling for Dough Date: Fridays Time: Hourly, 2-9:30 p.m. Information: Earn entries through table or slot play. Roll the dice and win 10x the amount.

ORLEANS

Point multiplier Date: Sundays Information: Earn 11x points on penny reels. Swipe and win up to 1 million points Date: Fridays and Saturdays Time: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Information: Earn 10 base points to play. The top prizes are 1 million points or $1,000. Saturday cash drawing Date: Jan. 30 Time: 7:15 p.m. Information: Earn 10 base points to participate. Win up to $10,000. Cash grab Date: Tuesdays Information: Earn 300 base points to win up to $500. Gift days Date: Thursdays Information: Earn 300 base points and receive a gift. Jan. 14 — sweatshirt, Jan. 21 — blanket, Jan. 28 — robe. Martin Luther King Jr. Day point multipliers Date: Jan. 18 Information: Receive 15x points on penny slots, 11x points on other slots and 7x points on video poker.

SAM’S TOWN

Bonus play Date: Mondays and Tuesdays Information: Play slots and earn up to $50 in play that can be redeemed the following day.

Cash for Play Date: Sunday Information: Get $10 cash for earning 600 base points; valid one time only each Sunday.

Hot seat drawings Date: Thursdays Time: 3-7:30 p.m. Information: Three players will be selected every 30 minutes.

Cash Grab Date: Jan. 24 Time: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Information: Earn entries via mailed advertisement or by earning 300 base points on Jan. 24.

Swipe and win up to 1 million points Date: Fridays and Saturdays Time: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Information: Earn 10 base points to play. The top prizes are 1 million points or $1,000.

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Saturday cash drawing Date: Jan. 30 Time: 6:15 p.m. Information: Earn 10 base points to participate. Win up to $10,000. Earn and Win — polar fleece Date: Through Jan. 31 Information: Earn 12,000 base points to receive a fleece jacket. Maximum of two per loyalty card. Point multipliers Date: Fridays and Sundays Information: Receive 15x points on Buffalo machines, 11x points on slots and 7x points on video poker.

Jokers Wild

Take it or Trade it Date: Saturdays Time: Hourly, 6-10 p.m. Information: Cash giveaway. The top prize is $1,000. Earn entries through slot or table play. Cash Grab Date: Jan. 31 Time: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Information: Earn entries via mailed advertisement or by earning 300 base points on Jan. 31. Hot Seat Date: Sundays Time: 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Information: Players selected at random will win cash. Earn up to $30 in play Date: Sundays Information: Receive $10 in play for every 600 base points; up to $30. Saturday Early Rewards Date: Saturdays Time: Hourly, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Information: Earn entries through table or slot play. Tthe top prize is $100 or $120 in slot play. Rolling for Dough Date: Fridays Time: Hourly, 1-9 p.m. Information: Earn entries through table or slot play. Roll the dice and win 10x the amount.

BOYD GAMING

It’s on the House Date: Fridays and Saturdays Time: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Information: Earn 10 points to play. Prizes include 1 million points, up to $1,000, dining credits and more. Grand prize drawings for a chance to win $10,000 will be Jan. 30 at the Orleans, Suncoast, Gold Coast and Sam’s Town. The drawings will be at 7:15 p.m. at the Orleans; at 8:15 p.m. at Suncoast and Gold Coast; and at 6:15 p.m. at Sam’s Town.

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NV Energy must update its business model, as others are

he fight between NV Energy and the commercial solar industry shows how cemented the utility is in its business model and how the Nevada Public Utilities Commission is doing nothing to nudge the monopoly to reflect the evolving energy industry. Elsewhere throughout the country, utilities are coming to grips with — if not outright welcoming — changing technology and the importance of tapping electricity generated by customers with rooftop photovoltaic solar panels. But NV Energy seems obstinate when it comes to finding a way not only to accommodate residential solar power producers but to embrace them as an important component of a robust, diverse electricity system. Utilities across the country have identified rooftop-generated electricity as a valuable contributor to the power grid. In fact, depending on the location of distributed energy sources such as solar panels, those home-brewed megawatts may be the most valuable asset a utility can have during peak consump-

It has shown no eagerness to explore how it can better serve its customers as the energy landscape moves into a new paradigm. tion hours or grid disruptions. Such a strategy is being adopted in New York, Vermont and California, where lawmakers ordered utilities to accommodate two-way distributed energy such as that from solar panels. Rooftop solar power, along with other forms of independently generated electricity, have “the potential to offer customers more choices, more control over their energy bills and cleaner power,” according to Southern California Edison. Taken collectively, these nickel-and-dime energy producers, if strategically located, can eliminate the need for large power plants and new transmission lines, utility officials say. But Nevada’s Warren Buffett-owned power company seems strictly focused on making money for investors while giving the bum’s rush to solar house-

holds. It has shown no eagerness to explore how it can better serve its customers as the energy landscape moves into a new paradigm. Other states, in the meantime, are moving in innovative directions. New York’s sprawling electricity landscape, for example, has sprouted with a multitude of individual power suppliers, especially among renewables, chosen by consumers based on cost and environmental criteria. In Vermont, Green Mountain Power, a privately owned, regulated power monopoly, has for years aggressively courted rooftop solar power. In 2008, Green Mountain proposed, and regulators agreed, to offer financial incentives to customers for installing rooftop solar, as a way to economically meet community power needs during peakdemand hours. Without that rooftop solar power, Green Mountain would have to pay top dollar to fill its grid with electricity during peak hours, spokeswoman Dorothy Schnure said. Because they don’t buy as much power from the utility, solar customers

aren’t as financially attractive to Green Mountain as are traditional customers. But rather than charge solar customers more, the utility has found other sources of income, such as installing electric vehicle charging stations around the state and leasing efficient heat pumps to customers who had been using oil or propane. “Our business model — being consumer-centric and offering other new products and services that use technology — gives our customers a better experience and saves them money,” Schnure said. “People are going to solar and other renewable power sources, so we decided to find ways to benefit the customers while remaining financially healthy. We have been flexible and nimble, and it’s working for everyone.” Monopolies are regulated, but maximum profits are not part of the deal. Even if it takes Gov. Brian Sandoval and the Legislature to lean heavily on NV Energy, the utility needs to learn what it means to be flexible and visionary, and evolve as other utilities are, by working with solar-powered homeowners.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Sunday, january 10 Hot, Dry and Inked: An exhibit of tattoo art, created by Las Vegas tattooers, that explores how the Mojave Desert influences their art. This is the last day of the exhibit. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., free with general admission, Big Springs Gallery at the Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd., springspreserve.org. Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival: Watch films that provide insight into Jewish identity, history and culture, promote solidarity with Israel and remember the Holocaust. Times vary, $10 per screening, Adelson Educational Campus, 9700 Hillpointe Road, lvjff.org. *Also: Through Jan. 24 Cabrera conducts Rachmaninoff: Presented by the Las Vegas Philharmonic. 2 p.m., $46-$96, Smith Center for the Performing Arts, 361 Symphony Park Ave., thesmithcenter.com.

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Monday, January 11 Art Explorations: Engage in therapeutic art-making with discussions about the process, the finished product and the feelings that emerge. 4-5:30 p.m., free, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, 888 W. Bonneville Ave., 702-483-6055.

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Tuesday, January 12 The Lufthansa Heist: Learn the inside story of the Lufthansa heist, the largest never-recovered cash haul in history, a crime memorialized in the 1990 Martin Scorsese film “Goodfellas.” 1 p.m., free with museum admission, Mob Museum, 300 Stewart Ave, themobmuseum.org. SpeedVegas job fair: Apply for a job at the $30 million, 100-acre motorsports complex, which opens in March. SpeedVegas executives hope to fill 75 positions, such as concierge, sales agent, driving coach and paramedic. 3-8 p.m., free, Gaudin Porsche of Las Vegas, 6800 Redwood St., speedvegas. com. *Also: 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Jan. 13.

Wednesday, January 13 Bird walk: Enjoy native wildlife during an early-morning walk at the

Vincent Asaro leaves Brooklyn federal court Nov. 12 in New York. Asaro was acquitted of charges he helped plan a legendary 1978 Lufthansa heist retold in the film “Goodfellas.” A program detailing the heist will be offered free with admission to the Mob Museum on Jan. 12. (associated press file)

Springs Preserve. Bring binoculars. 8-10 a.m., free with general admission. Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd., springspreserve.org. Lunch and Learn educational series: Finding Home: Examine considerations for long-term care planning and the emotional struggles faced by caregivers to find a new home for loved ones. Guests are encouraged to bring lunch; drinks and dessert will be provided. Noon-1 p.m., free, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, 888 W. Bonneville Ave., 702-483-6055. Downtown Cultural Series: The Bridge: Bring lunch and enjoy music by the Bridge, a duo that meshes mainstream music and philharmonics, covering classics such as Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” and Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze.” Noon-1 p.m., free, Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse, Jury Assembly Room, 333 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 702-229-3515. Memory loss caregiver support group: A weekly group for adults who provide care and/or support to loved ones with memory loss. 1:15-2:45 p.m., free, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, 888 W. Bonneville Ave., 702-483-6035. Know Thyself Series: The Native Son Bookstore: Participate in educational and cultural activities designed to empower and uplift residents of West Las Vegas. This week’s theme is “Black Boys to Men.” 5-6:30 p.m., free, West Las Vegas Arts Center, 947 W. Lake

Mead Blvd., 702-229-4800. *Also: Series runs through March 25 Ethnic Express international folk dancing: Learn international dance styles, including Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Greek, Israeli, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian and Turkish. No need to bring a partner. 6:30-8:45 p.m., $4, Charleston Heights Arts Center, 800 S. Brush St., 702-229-6383. The Poets’ Corner: A monthly forum for poets and open-mic participants, featuring local artists. 7 p.m., free, West Las Vegas Arts Center Community Gallery, 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-229-4800. Voices of Rudy: The Journey to the Movie: Rudy Ruettiger will share the story of how he accomplished his dream of attending Notre Dame and how he persuaded Hollywood to make a movie about his life. 7:30 p.m., free, West Charleston Library, 6301 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-507-3964

Thursday, January 14 OV Nation membership drive mixer: OV Nation is made up of rising Las Vegas professionals who are committed to expanding Opportunity Village’s connection to future leaders. The event will feature food and drink specials, raffle prizes and an opportunity to learn more about OV Nation’s mission, programs and membership benefits. 5:30-8 p.m., free, Born and Raised, 7260 S. Cimarron Road, opportunityvillage.org.

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Healthier living workshop: This series is designed to help people suffering from such chronic illnesses as diabetes, high blood pressure, Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis set goals to enhance their well-being. 12:30-3 p.m., free, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, 888 W. Bonneville Ave., 702-778-6702. *Also: Every Friday through Feb. 19 Mesquite Motor Mania: More than 700 cars, trucks, bikes and special interest vehicles will be on display. Car owners can compete for awards and prizes. Times vary, free, Las Vegas Cruisin’ Association, 7540 Ullom Drive, mesquitecarshows.com, 702-643-0000. *Also: Jan. 16-17

Saturday, January 16 A Cut Above: Pruning: Learn the what, when, where, why and how of pruning to help reveal your yard’s beauty. 8:30-10:30 a.m., $10 for members, $15 for nonmembers, Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd., springspreserve.org. Southern Nevada Women’s History Project meeting: Gina Geldbach-Hall, a former Clark County Fire Department battalion chief, will discuss her book, “Firegal ... Rising from the Ashes.” 11:30 a.m., $26, Las Vegas Country Club, 3000

“Rob the Mob”: Watch a screening of “Rob the Mob,” a movie about a Queens couple who specialize in robbing mafia social clubs, then discuss criminal justice, psychology and law enforcement with experts. 2 p.m., free, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Rd., 702-507-3458. Think For Yourself: A Restoration of Our True Selves: A workshop that uses creative writing, film, literature and critical-thinking activities to help attendees develop perspective and understanding of self. 2-4 p.m., free, West Las Vegas Arts Center, 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-229-4800. *Also: Jan. 23 and 30; Feb. 6, 13 and 20

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Sunday, January 17 Dr. King Peace Week Celebration: Celebrate the life, legacy and contributions of Martin Luther King Jr. Events include a performance by the Trinity Dance Academy. 2 p.m., free, Doolittle Senior Center, 1930 N. J. St., 702-229-6125. Distracted Driving and Accident Prevention Community Safety Forum: Metro Police officers will discuss distracted driving and how crashes can be prevented. People who attend the safety forum will receive free admission to the Mob Museum after the program. 2-3 p.m., free, Mob Museum, 300 Stewart Ave., themobmuseum.org.

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Why do employees quit? And what, if anything, can employers do to change their minds? ¶ Not surprisingly, the answers to both questions depend on the specifics of each situation. ¶ The relationship employees have with their immediate supervisors is the No. 1 reason people stay or leave a job, said Ann Simmons Nicholson, owner of retaining workers, Continued on page 53

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Size, in acres, of Cadence, a masterplanned community at Lake Mead Parkway and Boulder Highway in Henderson. Its developer, LandWell Company, recently met with the Las Vegas 51s to discuss providing the Triple-A team with a new baseball park.

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The president and chief operating officer of Las Vegas Coffee Investors, which owns 20 Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf locations in Southern Nevada, talks about his work with special-needs children, the importance of being transparent with employees, and baseball. THE NOTES People on the move, P46

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Robert Richardson and Brian Rogers — both of whom began their careers as paramedics in Las Vegas — launched their business in an unhealthy economy but have watched it grow without taking on debt. TALKING POINTS Speculative development reaching equilibrium, P49

DATA AND PUBLIC INFORMATION A listing of local bankruptcies, bid opportunities, brokered transactions, business licenses and building permits.

MORE VEGAS INC BUSINESS NEWS Calendar: Happenings and events, P55 The Lists: Staffing agencies and largest conventions of 2016, P60

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Dr. Savita Chander and Dr. Sara Kabsoun specialize in inpatient care and skilled nursing at chander kabsoun Southwest Medical Associates’ Tenaya Health Center, 2716 N. Tenaya Way, Las Vegas. Joyce Coleman is an coleman grace Han advancedpractice registered nurse at Southwest Medical’s Rancho/Charleston Breast Care Center, 888 S. Rancho Drive, Las Vegas. Marie Grace Han is an advanced-practice registered nurse at Southwest Medical’s Montecito Health Center, 7061 Grand Montecito Parkway, Las Vegas. Danielle Schorr is special events manager for Opportunity Village’s Foundation schorr hoxie Department. Kristin Hoxie is marketing manager. Evelyn Connors is lifestyle director at DK Las Vegas, which owns the Ogden, One Las Vegas, Juhl, Loft5 and Spanish Palms. Connors oversees social programming, activities and events for residents of the properties, with a focus on the Ogden and One Las Vegas.

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Winners of the Nevada Restaurant Association’s 2015 Culinary Awards include NvRA Champion of the Year: Gino Ferraro, owner of Ferraro’s Italian Restaurant and Wine Bar; Bartender of the Year: Ju Young Kang, lead mixologist at Delmonico’s; Pastry Chef of the Year: Jin Caldwell, founder and owner of JinJu Chocolates; Restaurant Allied of the Year: Michael Severino, general manager

and head of event marketing at Southern Wine & Spirits; Culinarian of the Year: José Andrés; and Restaurateur of the Year: David Robins, managing partner of operations and a corporate chef at the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group. The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation recognized Raja Majid of Origin India as Restaurant Neighbor of the Year, and the Brown-Forman Retailer of the Year Award from National American Beverages Licensees was presented to Roger Sachs of Steiner’s Pub.

fies hospitals that health care consumers choose as having the highest quality and image.

Doug Bradford is director of marketing and community engagement at the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors. Bradford is a former director of communications for Clark County and Las Vegas.

All Shred Auburn Fibers, 2901 S. Highland Drive, Las Vegas, is a U-Haul neighborhood dealer.

Candyce Farthing is chief academic officer at Coral Academy of Science Las Vegas.

Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort changed its name to Lee Canyon, the area’s name when it was established in 1963. The company’s website is leecanyonlv.com. Jolly Beans Cafe opened at 2016 Via Firenze, Henderson. Fresco Italiano opened at the Westgate.

A program launched by North Las Vegas, Teamsters Local 14 and the Department of Veterans Affairs will offer placement, training and financial asssitance to eligible veterans seeking local, state or federal employment. bradford

Sam Kaufman is CEO of Henderson Hospital, a 142-bed, $168 million facility scheduled to open in 2016 at Gibson Road and Galleria Drive. Kaufman also is CEO of Desert Springs Hospital. Ensemble Real Estate Solukaufman tions is leasing and managing a medical office building adjacent to Henderson Hospital. Hospital Corp. of America won the Lee Anderson Veteran and Military Spouse Employment Award at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s 2015 Hiring Our Heroes event. The award is given for excellence in hiring and retaining veterans, transitioning service members and military spouses. Additionally, HCA acquired Urgent Care Extra’s Nevada operations, including 14 urgent care centers in Las Vegas. Southern Nevada Children First opened at 3755 Lake Mead Blvd., North Las Vegas. The building was donated by Station Casinos and the renovation project was led by Grand Canyon Development Partners, which provided services pro bono. Part of a partnership with Sunrise Children’s Foundation, the facility will house four early-childhood classrooms. Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican’s Siena Campus won a Consumer Choice Award from the National Research Corporation. The award identi-

Solutions Recovery expanded services in Southern Nevada by expanding levels of care at its primary location and opening an off-site lab at 2975 S. Rainbow Blvd. Also, it opened an office downtown at 1000 N. Main St., Suite 200. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., will manage one of the SLS towers, a deal that will rebrand the tower. The agreement with Starwood will convert the 289-room tower currently running as SLS Lux into a W Hotel by the end of September. The deal also makes SLS part of Starwood’s loyalty program. Bite Squad hired One7 Communications for its public relations and marketing. Carbone, an Italian-American restaurant, opened at Aria. Towbin Motorcars of Las Vegas bought the Penske Wynn Ferrari/Maserati dealership. Dick’s Sporting Goods opened at Fashion Show mall. Fogo de Chao opened at Downtown Summerlin. En Fuego Cigar Lounge opened at 790 Coronado Center Drive, Suite 150, Henderson. Clark County Credit Union opened at 6120 N. Decatur Blvd., Suite 105, North Las Vegas. Anime Revolution, Vegas Print Factory and One Monarchy opened at the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood. Hong Kong Cafe opened at the Palazzo. It fuses Asian and Western cuisine.

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Educated workers will take pride in their work The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf opened its 20th Southern Nevada location in March at the Venetian. Phil Patent is president and chief operating officer of Las Vegas Coffee Investors, founded in 2001 by Jeffrey Fine. Patent was entrusted in 2014 with improving the coffee shops’ food program and started by what he called “pushing the envelope on delivering excellent salads, sandwiches and wraps,” as well as introducing a panini line at Strip locations. What is the best business advice you’ve received, and from whom did it come? Frank Dunkel, who was vice president of purchasing for a 140-year-old restaurant chain in California, always encouraged me to be firm, fair and consistent, even when it was difficult. He implored me to always rise above the emotions of the moment. What attracted you to the coffee industry? I love the simplicity and straightforward nature of it. Coffee shops have become an everyday meeting place. You interact with the customers on a close level. You have to have pride in the product and recognize how important product consistency is to the customer. It’s important they start off their day in a consistent and pleasant manner, otherwise it can set them on a road that is difficult to correct. Also, when people come in as a respite to get a break from their normal daily stresses, they look to Phil Patent, president and chief operating officer of Las Vegas Coffee Investors, came from a full-service restaurant the coffee shop as an oasis. So this is background as vice president of operations for Lyons Restaurants, based in Foster City, Calif. (mikayla whitmore/staff) a covenant we have created. Where do you like to go for busia clean slate. There is renewed hope situation. I believe in developing a ness lunches? every year, and everyone just kind of proprietorship mentality within our What are you reading? I like to take people to I Love Burggoes for it. management team. I do not believe in I just finished “Season of the ers in the Palazzo or, for a fast, casual hiding financials; rather, I believe the Witch” by David Talbot, which is break, I go to Lobster Me in the MirIf you could live anywhere else employees should know the financials based on San Francisco during the acle Mile Shops. The Daily Kitchen in the world, where would it be and understand the business, because ’70s and ’80s. The book examines the on Eastern Avenue and Triple George and why? we are in a for-profit business. I beevolution of the hippie culture, the downtown also are favorites. I would live in San Francisco, believe in educating employees so they Grateful Dead and the music scene, cause that is where my family is from understand the ramifications of even and the unfortunate assassination If you could change one thing and that’s where I have many longtime the smallest actions within our four of San Francisco’s mayor, George about yourself, what would it friends and memories. I was educated walls. They should take pride in repMoscone, and how all of those events be? at San Francisco State University. resenting Las Vegas Coffee Investors. affected that area. My single-mindedness. I focus on the completion of a task to the point Whom do you admire and why? Where do you see yourself and What do you do after work? that I am the type who, if I have a tube I admire Jeffrey Fine. I have had the your company in 10 years? I like to spend time with my wife of toothpaste, I have to get every last opportunity to watch him grow as a We would hope that in 10 years, we and daughters. I sit on the Juvenile drop out of it. While this is a great business professional and as a person would be double our size and be open Diabetes Research Board and am diltrait, sometimes to squeeze that evwho cares about the community he in more neighborhoods within the igently helping to raise funds toward ery last bit out of something is inconlives in. He has become a wonderful, Las Vegas Valley because we believe a cure to eliminate Type 1 diabetes. I sequential. family-oriented, proactive individual we are a local business. also am proactive with Opportunity in the 14 years I have known him. Village, Best Buddies and programs What is something that people What is your dream job, outside that serve special-needs children. I might not know about you? What is your biggest pet peeve? of your current field? think it’s important to break down I played softball with Barry Bonds Dishonesty. To me, even the smallI would want to be president of the perceived social barriers and cherish when he was 16 years old. He could hit est lie or white lie is indicative of a San Francisco Giants. I love baseball. everyone for their uniqueness. a softball farther than you can imagperson’s integrity. Without integrity, It’s a microcosm of American society, ine. At the time, I had no idea who you can’t base a relationship, build a except with one major caveat: EveryDescribe your management style. this kid was. career or grow a business. one gets to start fresh every year with I adjust to the individual and the

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$1.2 Million Amount the Nevada Department of Transportation will invest in lighting improvements along the Spaghetti Bowl.

$30,000

Amount the owners of Lucky Little Chapel invested to open a wedding chapel on the third floor of Downtown Container Park.

$500,000

Amount Whole Foods agreed to pay New York City to settle allegations that the store, known for its organic products, overcharged customers for prepackaged food.

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Countries to which Amazon shipped items for the holidays, due largely to the popularity of Amazon Prime, a $99-a-year loyalty program that offers unlimited two-day shipping. During the third week of December, the program added 3 million members.

95 Percent

Drop in the Dow Jones U.S. coal index over the past five years. The decrease is the result of more utilities switching to cheap natural gas and tighter restrictions on carbon emissions.

Number of codeshare agreements Virgin America has. In December, the company entered into a codeshare agreement with China Southern Airlines to streamline booking and travel between China, Southeast Asia and the United States, including Las Vegas.

$2.7 Million

Amount Martin Shkreli paid for a 50-percent stake in pharmaceutical company KaloBois, which has been removed from the Nasdaq stock exchange.

Robert Richardson, left, and Brian Rogers are CEO and chief operating officer, respectively, at Community Ambulance. (courtesy)

Foundation of successful business is caring about their community Describe your business.

Community Ambulance provides medical transportation using the latest technology to ensure employees are given every tool to deliver patients and customers the highest level and fastest service. We’re licensed to transport from Henderson, Boulder City and all federal facilities and installations. What is your business philosophy?

We take care of our employees, and our employees take care of our patients. As a result, the business takes care of itself. What is the hardest part about doing business in Las Vegas?

Southern Nevada is a business-friendly community, but each jurisdiction is unique in its needs. What works in one jurisdiction may not be the best for another. Identifying how we fit into each has been time-consuming and challenging, but we’re seeing tremendous progress that is paving the way for better medical transportation care and response times. What is the best part about doing business here?

Caring for and getting to know our patients. Our EMTs like helping people and, like us, that’s why they got into this business.

meet: Community Ambulance Address: 91 Corporate Park Drive, Suite 120, Henderson Phone: 702-438-9100 Email: rrichardson@communityambulance.com Website: communityambulance.com Hours of operation: 24/7 Owned/operated by: Owned by RBR Management and operated by Ambulance Management Group In business since: 2010

proud that the company grew without acquiring debt. Also, there have been some changes in federal regulations and reimbursement policies that have created some ongoing challenges. Do you plan to expand to more communities throughout the valley?

Absolutely. We’re prepared and eager to serve every community in Southern Nevada. We’re accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services — the highest industry standard for EMS excellence — and we can expand our fleet quickly to accommodate a bigger service area. How can Nevada improve its business climate?

By continuing to provide the best possible choices when it comes to meeting various needs.

What is the biggest obstacle your business has overcome?

What have you learned from the recession?

Building the company while remaining debt-free. Community Ambulance started in a down economy, and we’re

The use of smart fiscal policies within a company is vital to success in bad times and in good times.

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guest column: on rental rates. North Las Vegas offers the ophisticated businesses study doug roberts lowest rental rates in the valley, and the trends that can affect the intensity Southwest is the most expensive. and frequency of business cycles As we saw in 2015, the factors that help and try to mitigate downturns and new development get started also can take advantage of upswings. change quickly. Although rents still are increasing, vacancy Real estate cycles are no different. Knowing when to rates are decreasing. Land pricing is escalating, and the build is both an art and a science, particularly during the time it takes to secure necessary permits is growing longer frequent and intense cycles of the past 15 to 20 years. as workloads for municipalities have grown faster than The Las Vegas real estate market has been extremely their ability to add staffers. volatile during and since the Great Recession. For many So is the market in danger of overbuilding industrial years, commercial developers were cautious about building product? The way I view a project’s viability is based on new product — retail, office or industrial space — on two main questions: First, if you build the project, how speculation due to worries about high vacancy rates, a many existing and planned options would a tenant have lack of financing and a general lack of confidence in the that would compete against your project? Second, what is market. While other parts of the country experienced new the historical amount of product the market has absorbed speculative construction since 2010, the Las Vegas Valley on average over about 15 years, and how does that compare had been slower to make the turn. with what is being absorbed now? In 2013, developers started considering new speculative It would be logical to think that if the amount of space projects after reviewing reports of decreasing vacancy rates, being built, coupled with the amount of existing vacant increasing rental rates, reasonable land costs and increased space, greatly exceeds the average amount of annual tenant activity. ProLogis, in particular, came out of the absorption, we likely are overbuilding. At this point, we gate with a large speculative project in North Las Vegas appear to be in good equilibrium. that essentially was leased before the slab was poured. The However, escalating land prices may push developers to company was rewarded for being bullish on the market. raise rental rates, which tenants may or may not accept. If Industrial development in the valley usually is focused on tenants push back, developers then can decide whether to three submarkets: North Las Vegas, the Southwest (generally lower their returns or simply not build until rental rates rise. west of Interstate 15 along the 215 Beltway) and Henderson. Doug Roberts is a partner at Panattoni Development Co. Each submarket has its appeal, and each varies materially

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Wraps are off of Faraday Future car But questions remain about the company By daniel rothberg Staff Writer

Faraday Future pledges to redefine mobility. It has hinted at offering an Uber-like service and producing cars that operate autonomously. It vows to sell an electric car in two years that changes our relationship with driving. But when the company, linked to a Chinese billionaire who emulates Steve Jobs, unveiled a high-end concept car this month as the first tangible look into its plans, observers were still left struggling to assess Faraday’s ability to bring a vehicle to the mass market. As promised, the car was far Faraday Future’s concept vehicle FFZERO1 is unveiled Jan. 4 at an event before from an anodyne vehicle, geared to the start of CES. (mikayla whitmore/staff) appeal to a large swath of customers sion of the design and engineering and made for everyday travel. batteries can be easily changed withphilosophies informing (Faraday’s) Faraday’s car resembled more of an out replacing the entire pack. A Faraforthcoming production vehicles,” as enthusiast’s toy. It’s a one-seat sports day official likened this to Christmas Richard Kim, Faraday’s head of decar, dubbed FFZERO1, that boasts lights arranged in a parallel circuit; sign, said in a news release. 1,000 horsepower, a carbon-fiber finone lightbulb dying does not affect With no production car at Faraday’s ish, a driver seat tilted at a 45-degree the entire system. The battery strings highly anticipated pre-CES news conangle, aerodynamic air ducts, four also allow Faraday to vary the size of ference, which was attended by state motors taking it up to 200 miles per its cars more easily. officials who helped put together a hour and a smartphone inside the n Vehicle modification: Faraday $335 million incentive package to get steering wheel for live images. touts a modular design system. With the company to build a $1 billion fac“It’s a very dramatic concept, as it, Kim said, Faraday could produce tory in North Las Vegas, the auto inmany concepts are,” said Bruce Belnearly any type of car from a flexible dustry was left with Faraday’s ideas, zowski, the managing director of the chassis that can be made shorter or the technology that will support its Automotive Futures Group at a Unilonger. The modular design, which eventual car. versity of Michigan transportation Faraday says could help cut costs, also “It’s very different from what we’ve institute. allows for up to four electric motors heard from other companies,” BelBut he added, “We’re really interwhile offering an array of power and zowski said. ested in the production vehicle.” range options. During the company’s presentation, Faraday’s concept car is not the pron Personalization: Calling its car a Faraday’s top executives attempted to duction car. Tim Stevens, a CNET edi“tablet on wheels,” the firm has long set its product apart by arguing that it tor, said Faraday would have to price said it was building a piece of technolrepresented an improved electric car the concept car at a level out of range ogy rather than only a vehicle to go in the following ways: for all but the wealthiest consumers. from Point A to Point B. The FFZERO1 By his estimate, the window-sticker brought more clarity to that vision by n Battery strings: The car is built price of the FFZERO1 would be more including a smartphone in the steerupon a battery pack that is separated than $1 million. ing wheel. With enhanced connectivinto strings of batteries rather than Instead, it is “an amplified verity, Faraday said it could personalize existing as a single pack. That means

vehicle configuration and give drivers access to real-time data and live image feeds. “They really want to make a car that increases in value,” Stevens said. “The idea Faraday is going for is they want cars that are a lot more personalized, smarter about you, your driving habits and your needs. A big part of that is interaction with your smartphone.” Personalization is part of an industry trend to better integrate cars with everyday life. A smart car, for instance, could know when to open the garage or turn on the air conditioning in a home when a driver gets near. But despite the technology Faraday unveiled, several questions remain. n Redefining mobility: A primary goal of Faraday’s is to create a new generation of mobility, which would suggest movement that does not revolve around personally owned and operated cars. In the past, the company has suggested an Uber-like sharing system. During the unveiling, Faraday did not elaborate on that aspect of its business model. And while the company said its concept car could be fully autonomous, officials did not specify on what level of autonomy their production car would have. n A mass-market car: To many who watched, including Stevens, the most interesting question was whether the company would be able to create an affordable car that could compete with other carmakers’ products. Faraday has hired hundreds of employees from tech giants like Google, SpaceX, Tesla and Apple. It also has financial backing, partnering with LeTV, a firm known as the Chinese Netflix. Stevens said that without seeing a more practical concept car or the production car, it was difficult to determine how successful Faraday would be. “That’s the big thing we were hoping to see,” Stevens said. “And we did not see that.”

For second consecutive year, Las Vegas tourism hits new high By j.d. morris Staff Writer

Las Vegas surpassed 42 million annual visitors for the first time last year, tourism officials announced. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority said the addition of new nonstop flight routes and a

boost in convention attendance were among the factors driving the number of visitors past 42 million, breaking the record set in 2014, when Las Vegas saw 41.1 million visitors. More than 39 million visitors had come to Las Vegas through November, according to the authority, which

put the annual total on track to pass 42 million. Visitor volume was well over 3 million each month of 2015. Through November, visitor volume increased 2.8 percent, with every month except March reporting an increase from 2014. Occupancy rose by a half percent on the Strip and 3.4 percent in

downtown Las Vegas over that period. At the same time, average daily room rates and revenue per available room — a key performance indicator for hotels — rose 3.3 percent and 4.4 percent, respectively. Official totals for the year will be announced soon.

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SolarCity lays off more than 550 workers in Nevada By daniel rothberg Staff Writer

SolarCity laid off more than 550 employees — about a quarter of its workforce — in Nevada. The news Jan. 6 came two weeks after the company announced it was halting the sale and installation of rooftop solar panels here after utility regulators approved cutting the rate NV Energy pays solar customers for generating excess power. The new rate went into effect this month. The company plans to keep some employees in Nevada to service existing customers and said it would work to relocate some employees to other states. SolarCity, one of the largest providers of rooftop solar in the nation, also began dismantling a Las Vegas training center. The center opened in November to train employees from Nevada, Colorado, Texas and Arizona. The company will close warehouses in Henderson, North Las Vegas and Reno, officials said. Many employees were notified of the terminations Dec. 23, the day after the Public Utilities Commission approved the controversial rates for solar customers, a company spokesperson said. The spokesperson could not recall a layoff of this size ever occurring at the company, which was founded in 2006 and backed by Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk. “Telling employees they can no longer work for SolarCity is the hardest thing we’ve ever done,” Lyndon Rive, the company’s CEO, said in a statement. “These are hard-working Nevadans, and

a single government action has put them out of work. This is not how government is supposed to work.” Last month, the PUC, which regulates NV Energy, approved new rates that gradually increase a fixed service fee for solar customers and reduce the value of credits solar ratepayers earn for generating excess electricity. Under the new rates, Southern Nevada solar customers this year will pay a fixed monthly fee of $17.90, up from $12.75. By Jan. 1, 2020, the fee will rise to $38.51. Until Friday, NV Energy reimbursed solar customers about 11 cents per kilowatt hour for the excess energy they generated. That was cut to about 9 cents this month and will drop to 2.6 cents in 2020. Companies like SolarCity say the new rates make solar too expensive, rolling back an industry that has about 17,000 customers and has created thousands of jobs. NV Energy argued solar customers had avoided paying some of the utility’s fixed costs in the past, which resulted in other ratepayers subsidizing solar customers. The new rates, it argued, compensated for that cost shift. The solar industry and the state’s Bureau of Consumer Protection are challenging the rate change. Gov. Brian Sandoval said he is a supporter of the solar industry, but there were legitimate public policy questions the PUC must weigh. He said that included finding the right balance of subsidy for the solar industry.

Court sides with Clark County in fight over slot parlor regulations By cy ryan Staff Writer

A federal appeals court has rejected the petition of Dotty’s and other slot parlors in Clark County that challenged an ordinance imposing tighter regulations for such businesses. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the constitutional rights of Dotty’s, Jackpot Joanie’s and Eclipse Gaming were not violated a year ago when the county adopted the ordinance. The ordinance said the operations must make 50 percent of their revenue from the sale of food and drinks. The former ordinance said gaming revenue must be “incidental” to the main business. County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak said some mini casinos were making 90 percent of their revenue from slot machines. These small casinos must serve food prepared in a kitchen.

Prepackaged or prepared meals reheated in an oven cannot be used to meet the requirement. Major casinos say the slot parlors don’t contribute to efforts to draw in tourists and should pay a higher tax. Sisolak, one of the main sponsors of the ordinance, said the county tried to get the state Gaming Control Board and the gaming commission to define the word “incidental.” But when the state declined, the county stepped in. The court said the ordinance does not violate the Constitution’s equal protection clause because it applies to hundreds of taverns and does not single out the three companies that appealed. The ordinance exempts taverns licensed before Dec. 22, 1990. The court said the retroactivity is “justified by a rational legislative purpose.”

Median price for new homes in Las Vegas hits $321,405 By eli segall Staff Writer

New homes in Las Vegas are selling at prices not reached in more than eight years, according to a new report. But anyone hoping for a quick return to the days of rapid-fire construction is in “for a rude awakening,” and overall, November’s numbers “would again have to go into the ‘blah’ category,” says the report by Las Vegasbased Home Builders Research. Builders sold 657 new homes in Southern Nevada that month, bringing the year’s tally to 6,104, up 13 percent from the same 11-month period in 2014, according to the report. The median price of the closings was $321,405, up 9 percent year-over-year and the highest in Las Vegas since August 2007. Builders also pulled 437 new-home permits in November, the lowest monthly sum since January and well below the monthly average in 2015, 636. Still, the tally put the year’s total through November at 6,999, up 14 percent from the same period in 2014. If prices keep rising anywhere near their pace in 2015, a record would be set by mid2016, if not by the end of the year, Home Builders Research founder Dennis Smith wrote. During the housing bubble, builders sold nearly 39,000 new homes here in 2005 alone. But people who “still like to speak about the housing production reaching the levels prior to the recession, especially in Las Vegas, in the next three to five years are in for a rude awakening,” Smith wrote. The market, he noted, remains bogged down by various problems — wages are largely flat for many people, and Las Vegas still has the highest rate of underwater borrowers among large U.S. cities. Some 22 percent of Southern Nevada homeowners with mortgages were underwater — meaning their debt outweighs their home’s value — in the third quarter. That’s down from 27.8 percent a year earlier and far below its peak of 71 percent in early 2012, according to Seattle-based online real estate database company Zillow. Despite the improvement, Las Vegas’ share of upside-down borrowers was highest among the 35 metro areas listed in the report. The rate nationally is 13.4 percent. “There will be no magic wand or solution to immediately cure this malady,” Smith wrote. “Only time will cure it.”

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Homebuilder in Rhodes Ranch, Tuscany on state of real estate market: ‘It’s a steady, healthy climb’ By Eli Segall Staff Writer

Homebuilder Don Boettcher has been in Las Vegas for more than 20 years, and he knows all about the ups and downs of this boom-and-bust town. He’s spent most of his time here with Pulte Homes, a top-selling builder at the peak of the bubble in one of the most overheated markets in America. In 2005, Pulte and Del Webb, which have the same ownership, sold more than 3,500 new homes in Southern Nevada, second-highest in the market. In 2006, the company rose to No. 1 with more than 4,500 sales. Then the market crashed. In 2009, Pulte still was No. 2 in the market — but with only 560 sales that year, acDon Boettcher, president of Century Communities’ Nevada Division, smiles cording to research by VEGAS INC. during an interview at the company’s offices. (steve marcus/Staff) Boettcher joined Dunhill Homes in built, and are there other buildplus sales in 2016. Our big stores this 2010, helping develop Rhodes Ranch ers in those communities? year are Rhodes Ranch and Tuscany. in the southwest valley and TusAt Rhodes Ranch, we’re the excluThose are our mother ships. cany Village in Henderson. Dunhill sive builder. We’ve got about 500-plus took charge of the two partially built lots left and about three more years of Why did Century buy those communities as part of developer building and selling houses ahead of communities? Jim Rhodes’ $400 million corporate us. Same thing with Tuscany — we’ll It was a package deal, so it was all bankruptcy case. be out there through 2018, 2019. Lenor nothing. They’re both in prime Today, the 55-year-old Boettcher is nar is building there as well. I can’t positions in their submarkets. When building out those projects as Nevada speak for when they’ll finish, but I you look around the valley for a golfdivision president for Century Comknow they bought 340 lots and probcourse community with production munities, which bought Dunhill’s loably have 225 to 240 left. We’ve got homes being built, your choices are cal assets in spring 2014. about 450 lots left at Tuscany. pretty slim. Century is in a growth Colorado-based Century has since mode. The company went public last bought more land here and has projThe valley grew fast for deyear and has purchased other compaects all over the valley, including in cades, but from 2004 to 2007, nies’ operations in Atlanta, Houston, master-planned communities Skye it really accelerated. What was Las Vegas and central Texas. Canyon, Inspirada, Mountain’s Edge different about those few years and Lake Las Vegas. versus, say, the 1990s? In Las Vegas, new-home sales Boettcher spoke with VEGAS INC Money was accessible. One can rose more than 30 percent in recently about Century’s developargue whether that was good policy 2013 but fell about 20 percent ments and the valley’s housing maror bad policy or somewhere in bein 2014. Last year, sales were ket, including the go-go years last detween, but the policy drove a lot of climbing again. Is the industry cade and the wide price gap between this phantom market. Everybody and still volatile? new homes and resales. their brother had a house. The funWhen you look at what happened in In Southern Nevada, the median damentals of lending were compro2013, that was the first catch of breath sales price for new homes is around mised — stated-income loans, no-doc from the recession. The pendulum al$316,800, according to Home Builders loans. People were using their houses ways swings a little too far left or right. Research. That’s more than 40 peras ATMs, the resort corridor was Housing had dropped 40 or 50 percent cent above the median price of resales, booming, everybody had their new before rising in 2013. That was a one$220,000, according to the Greater $2 billion casino. And then the music time ratchet-up in the opposite direcLas Vegas Association of Realtors. stopped, and there just weren’t that tion. Historically, if the market goes many chairs for people to sit down in. along at 3 to 5 percent annual appreHow is business this year for ciation, that’s normal. It was a steady, Century? You appear to have What were the signs for you healthy climb last year, but I don’t exclosed about 220 sales this year that those days wouldn’t last pect the market to shoot up like it did through late November. forever? Was it the stereotypiin 2013. That sounds about right. Our goal cal, say, stripper with five housis to hit 265 closings this year. We es, or were there other things Can you give an update on want to grow the existing operations. you saw behind the scenes? Rhodes Ranch and Tuscany? We’re positioned to have a dozen comAll the above. You cited an example How many more homes can be munities in the next year and 500-

which I know is for illustrative purposes, but it’s kind of right on. Even for the people just entering the industry in that bubble era, with no other reference point or context, you knew it wasn’t normal and it wasn’t going to last. You didn’t know how it was going to all end, and I’m not going to sit here and say I knew it wasn’t going to end pretty, because I didn’t. But we all can look back and read the literature where, once upon a time, Vegas was recession-proof. There were many articles coming out that said that. Was there a point when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, or that you’d never seen this kind of recession before? I was as scared as the next guy. Back in the late ’80s with the oil crisis, that was more localized; I happened to be in Texas at the time with Pulte Homes, and the state got pummeled because it was a one-horse town. But with the recent recession, everybody felt the pain. Look at what happened to home prices. Lending dried up. Everybody was running scared. How is lending right now? It’s not as tight as it was two or three years ago, but it’s not as loosey-goosey as it was during the bubble era. It’s a fluid process and will adjust as it needs to — maybe not as quick as others would hope — but I don’t think lending is an impairment to our industry right now. What are the weaknesses in the homebuilding market? For single-family resales, we still have a disproportionate amount of distressed properties. We also have an excess amount of rental properties in our single-family inventory. What does that do to builders when you’ve got so many rental homes out there and a big inventory of unsold existing homes? Those are housing alternatives for somebody. There’s also a big price difference between new homes and resales. When somebody’s got an option to buy the same square footage and you have that big of a gap — a new home generally has a lot more to offer than a resale, but that gap needs to be narrower. Historically, it’s always been a 15 percent spread.

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Younger workers less likely to stay if unhappy Simmons Group, a human resources consulting and training firm in Las Vegas. “Feeling valued, feeling as though they are learning and feeling listened to” is key, she said. That’s a constant that hasn’t changed in at least a decade. “The research has been very consistent,” Nicholson said. “The biggest change in the past 10 years, up until perhaps the past 12 months, is people didn’t feel as though they had any choices. If there was no other job to go to, they may have stuck it out even if they were unhappy. This has begun to change, and it will definitely be a factor with millennials.” Millennials are less likely than their older colleagues to remain in a situation where their needs are not being met. Anthony Lai, student affairs program manager at the International School of Hospitality, counsels students training for second careers. They cite a variety of reasons for quitting their former jobs, but chief among them is burnout. “They often tell me they were lai overwhelmed with the amount of work their bosses assigned to them, putting greater importance on maximizing productivity and stifling their creativity, which had been what initially made their work rewarding,” Lai said. Many people don’t mind working demanding jobs, as long as they feel appreciated, said Mike Murphy, president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Nevada. “People stay at a job if there’s an environment where they feel valued and have career-development opportunities,” Murphy said. It is important that managers foster such an environment and encourage collaboration by being champions for individual and team successes. “If one does well, the team does well, and all seem vested in each person’s success,” Murphy said. Evolving technology has changed the landscape. “With smartphones, we’re in an environment now where people are always checking work emails regardless of the hour or the day,” Murphy said. “But on the flip side, this connectivity gives employees newfound flexibility to balance work and home life.” Many employers realize how important it is for workers to juggle busy lives, which is why Anthem provides flexible schedules and work-from-home opportunities where it makes sense. “Our employees consistently say they value this kind of flexibility,” Murphy said. “More than twothirds of our associates work from home at least one day a week, and 35 percent of Anthem associates are full-time work at home.” Getting employees to stay Retaining employees who quit or want to quit takes finesse, aplomb and other skills managers

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seldom are trained for. Sharing cold, hard economic truths with employees threatening to leave — for instance, pointing out that they could have a hard time finding another job, be forced to accept a lower salary, lose seniority, get laid off, etc. — can help persuade them to stay. But making it easier for them to achieve success often is a better approach. “If you see an employee struggling, offer assistance to let them know you care and empathize with their work situation,” Lai said. “Promote a culture that encourages a work-life balance. Employees appreciate bosses who take time out of their busy schedules to simply listen and who are receptive.” What should bosses avoid? “When an employee makes a mistake, threatening termination will not help them correct the problem or encourage them to try new approaches,” Lai said. “Recording and documenting every mistake will not make the employee improve.” Instead, bosses who are good leaders go out of their way to coach struggling employees and praise their improvement. “This further encourages them to do better,” Lai said. Business leaders are wise to pay attention to employee satisfaction. Workforce retention can be essential to keeping a company competitive and successful. Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield conducts an annual survey to determine employee satisfaction and workplace engagement, and it takes the results seriously. Company officials also offer learning and development opportunities to keep workers content. “We know that many of our associates can best take advantage of learning and development opportunities when they are self-paced and selfscheduled,” Murphy said, which is why Anthem partnered with the College for America at Southern

New Hampshire University to offer every employee a free associate or bachelor’s degree. “It allows enrollees to complete their degree online at an accelerated pace, quickly opening the doors to new, broader roles at work,” he said. So far, more than 1,200 Anthem associates have enrolled. “As a manager, you need to have frequent and candid conversations with your employees about their career goals and what their strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for advancement are within the organization,” Murphy said. “Don’t mislead your employees in these assessments just so they will stay with the company in the short-term. Eventually it will catch up.” At Anthem, managers are encouraged to meet quarterly with associates to discuss career goals and objectives. Nicholson also recommends creating a culture in which management demonstrates the value of their workers. “Offer managers the training, the time and the support to invest in their teams,” she said. Nicholson warned against offering more money when someone resigns. “Once an employee has made the emotional break with a company and had the resignation conversation, even if they stay for more money, statistically, they will be gone in six to 12 months anyway,” Nicholson said. “And money is rarely the reason someone leaves a job. Unless they are leaving for a 25 percent to 30 percent increase, they may say it is for more money, but the real reasons are likely different.” Nicholson recalled a client who gave an employee a 20 percent raise to stay with the company. “The individual stayed for almost four more months and spent time during those four months recruiting more people to the new company,” she said.

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Calendar of events Tuesday, Jan. 12 Southern Nevada Society for Human Resource Management: How to Respond to an Active Shooter in the Workplace Time: 7:30 a.m. Cost: $25, $15 for students Location: Spanish Trails, 5050 Spanish Trail Lane, Las Vegas Information: Visit snv.shrm.org Darrel Clifton, author of “Hospitality Security,” and David C. Shepherd, a former member of the FBI, will discuss how to respond to an active shooter situation, what to do when law enforcement arrive and how to manage the aftermath. Clark County Association of Health Underwriters luncheon Time: Registration begins at 11:30 a.m. Cost: $30 for members with RSVP, $35 for members without RSVP, $40 for nonmembers with RSVP, $45 for nonmembers without RSVP Location: Sierra Gold, 6515 S. Jones Blvd., Las Vegas Information: Visit clarkcountyahu.org National Association of Health Underwriters president Don Goldmann will be the guest speaker. Nevada Center on Foreign Relations: The Impact of Current Global Developments on U.S. Business, the USD and the International Financial System Time: 5:30 p.m. Cost: $100 Location: The Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas Information: Visit www.ncfr.us Meg Lundsager, former U.S. alternate executive director of the International Monetary Fund, will discuss ways global markets affect business in the United States. Henderson Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast Time: 7-9 a.m. Cost: $25 for members, $45 for nonmembers, additional $10 for walk-ins Location: Sunset Station, 1301 W. Sunset Road,

Henderson Information: Email disraelson@hendersonchamber.com Network with local professionals while celebrating Station Casinos’ 40th anniversary.

wednesday, jan. 13 Urban Land Institute: Maryland Parkway revitalization Time: 8-10:30 a.m. Cost: $15 for members, $25 for nonmembers Location: Nevada System of Higher Education, 4300 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas Information: Visit nevada.uli.org Transportation, real estate and other experts will discuss proposals to revitalize Maryland Parkway and reinvigorate the area surrounding UNLV. Southern Nevada Home Builders Association 2016 Economic and Housing Forecast Time: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $35 for members, $45 for nonmembers Location: Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas Information: Visit snhba.com Economic and housing experts will speak about what to expect in the new year. Attendees also will have an opportunity to network with members of the association. Fennemore Craig Attorneys: Bob Maheu First Wednesday Lunch Time: 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Cost: $30 Location: Las Vegas Country Club, 3000 Joe W. Brown Drive, Las Vegas Information: Call 702-692-8000 Carole Vilardo, president of the Nevada Taxpayers Association, will discuss Nevada’s tax structure and the impact of recent changes. Air and Waste Management Association luncheon Time: 11:45 a.m. Cost: $25 for members, $30 for

nonmembers, $35 for walk-ins, $10 for full-time students Location: Cili Restaurant, 5160 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas Information: Call 702-373-0362 Steve Cooke, chief of environmental services at the state Department of Transportation, will be the guest speaker.

Thursday, Jan. 14 Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce: Cocktails and Conversations Time: 5-7 p.m. Cost: $100 Location: Hakkasan, MGM, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas Information: Call 702-586-3846 Local leaders will share their thoughts on issues affecting the state and business community. The event is a fundraiser for BizPAC, the chamber’s political action committee.

Friday, Jan. 15 Women’s Chamber of Nevada: 14th annual legislative luncheon Time: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $40 for members, $50 for nonmembers, $80 for VIP seating Location: Cili Restaurant, 5160 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas Information: Visit womenschamberofnevada.org Candidates running in 2016 elections will outline their platforms and positions.

Saturday, Jan. 16 One-day business boot camp Time: 8:15 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Bear’s Best Las Vegas, 11111 Flamingo Road, Las Vegas Information: Visit hendersonchamber.com Learn ways to grow your business and make a profit, as well as branding strategies used by successful business owners.

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National Potato Council 2016 Potato Expo

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Kitchen and Bath Industry Show

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Jan. 19-21

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International Builders Show

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Jan. 19-21

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Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show

Sands Expo and Convention Center

Jan. 19-22

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AVN Adult Entertainment Expo

Hard Rock Hotel

Jan. 20-23

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TUESDAY, JAN. 12 2:15 p.m. Desert Inn Road, Sir George Drive and Winterwood Boulevard improvements Clark County, 603873 Tom Boldt at tboldt@clarkcountynv.gov

THURSDAY, JAN. 14 2 p.m. Replacement of medical air system and addition of two basement fan coil units University Medical Center, 2016-01 Veronica Kammler at veronica. kammler@umcsn.com 3 p.m. Various current production model vehicles Clark County, 603952 Sandra Mendoza at sda@clarkcountynv.gov

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Brokered transactions SALES $14,000,000 for 43,343 square feet, retail Northeast corner of Tropicana Avenue and Hualapai Way, Las Vegas 89147 Seller: Siena Town Center LLC Seller agent: David Grant, Grant Traub and Chris Connell of Colliers International Buyer: Siena Town Plaza LP Buyer agent: Al Twainy of Colliers International $9,650,000 for 50,959 square feet, retail 4180/4220 S. Grand Canyon Drive, 9701-9827 W. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas 89147 Seller: 9827 West Flamingo Road Holdings LLC Seller agent: Auction.com Buyer: FC Development Properties LLC Buyer agent: Chris Richardson and Jason Otter of Logic Commercial

$4,950,000 for 39,902 square feet, industrial 4565 W. Post Road, Las Vegas 89118 Seller: Seashore Holdings Inc. Seller agent: Dan Doherty, Susan Borst, Chris Lane and Jerry Doty of Colliers International Buyer: Eagle Creek Holdings LLC Buyer agent: Did not disclose $4,865,000 for 128 acres, hospitality 5201 Dean Martin Drive, Las Vegas 89118 Seller: Did not disclose Seller agent: Marcus Threats of Marcus & Millichap Buyer: Did not disclose Buyer agent: Did not disclose $2,700,000 for 7.9 acres, land 1459 Rock Springs Drive, Las Vegas 89128 Seller: GES Family Seller agent: Did not disclose Buyer: Ovation Development Buyer agent: Chris Richardson and Jason Otter of Logic Commercial $2,000,000 for 4.5 acres, land I-215 and Durango Drive on Pitching Avenue, Las Vegas 89113 Seller: PF1LP-Pitching Ave LLC Seller agent: Dan Doherty, Susan Borst, Chris Lane and Jerry Doty of Colliers International Buyer: Khavkin Medical Group PLLC Buyer agent: Did not disclose $1,125,000 for 10,000 square feet, industrial 4535 Copper Sage St., Las Vegas 89118 Seller: Roxy Real Estate Invest II LLC Seller agent: Brian Riffel and Tyler Jones Buyer: Silver State Refrigeration & HVAC Buyer agent: Did not disclose $857,210 for 7,454 square feet, industrial 5955-1 Wigwam Ave., Las Vegas 89139 Seller: MCA Wigwam LLC Seller agent: Dan Doherty, Susan Borst, Chris Lane and Jerry Doty of Colliers International Buyer: ADS Commercial LLC Buyer agent: Did not disclose $810,060 for 7,044 square feet, industrial 5955-2 Wigwam Ave., Las Vegas 89139 Seller: MCA Wigwam LLC Seller agent: Dan Doherty, Susan Borst, Chris Lane and Jerry Doty of Colliers International Buyer: Gramercy Holdings LLC Buyer agent: Did not disclose $570,000 for 5,700 square feet, industrial 6560 Spencer St., Suite A10, Las Vegas 89119

Seller: MC International Seller agent: Did not disclose Buyer: Marter Holdings LLC Buyer agent: Brian Riffel and Tyler Jones of Colliers International $330,000 for 4,075 square feet, industrial 2567 Washburn Road, North Las Vegas 89081 Seller: Jall Real Estate Investments LLC Seller agent: Did not disclose Buyer: 2567 Washburn Road LLC Buyer agent: Dan Doherty, Susan Borst, Chris Lane and Jerry Doty of Colliers International $180,000 for 7 units, multifamily residential, NNN investment 2112 Sunrise Ave., Las Vegas 89101 Seller: Salina Ramirez of Commercial Executives Real Estate Services Seller agent: 2112 Sunrise Avenue Land Trust Buyer: Mark and Marisa Schmidt Buyer agent: Donald Lainer of Berkshire Hathaway Nevada Properties $112,500 for 1,200 square feet, retail, NNN investment 2230 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suite 100, Las Vegas 89052 Seller: Sawtelle Properties LLC Seller agent: Robert S. Hatrak II of Virtus Commercial Buyer: HHTN LLC Buyer agent: Robert S. Hatrak II of Virtus Commercial $70,000 for 0.81 acres, land Alexander Road and Rancho Drive, Las Vegas 89108 Seller: Barnett Family Trust Seller agent: Brian Fike of Colliers International Buyer: Anthony Bedard Buyer agent: Brian Fike of Colliers International

LEASES $286,176 for 2,428 square feet for 65 months, retail, NNN investment 5165 Fort Apache Road, Las Vegas 89148 Landlord: Reno Capital Group LLC Landlord agent: Chris Richardson and Jason Otter of Logic Commercial Tenant: Squeeze In Tenant agent: Did not disclose $206,780 for 2,310 square feet for 60 months, retail, NNN investment 4245 S. Grand Canyon Drive, Suite 102, Las Vegas 89147 Landlord: E-Grand Ventures LLC Landlord agent: Nelson Tressler and Michael Zobrist of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Tenant: T&J Beauty Concepts LLC dba Hue Salon and Spa Tenant agent: Matthew Nelson of J.A. Kennedy Real Estate Co.

$144,488 for 1,360 square feet for 60 months, retail, NNN investment 4616 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 1, Las Vegas 89102 Landlord: Sahara 3D LLC Landlord agent: Nelson Tressler and Michael Zobrist of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Tenant: Cargil Enterprises LLC dba the UPS Store Tenant agent: Did not disclose

License type: HVAC contractor Address: 2420 La Estrella St., Henderson 89014 Owner: Duck Mechanical Services LLC

$125,000 for 1,300 square feet for 63 months, retail, NNN investment 2980 St. Rose Parkway, Suite 130, Henderson 89052 Landlord: 2960 St. Rose Parkway LLC Landlord agent: Chris Richardson and Jason Otter of Logic Commercial Tenant: Guns Unlimited LLC Tenant agent: Deanna Marcello of Logic Commercial

Dynamic Spine & Sport Rehabilitation License type: Professional services - medical Address: 7050 Smoke Ranch Road, Suite 110, Las Vegas 89128 Owner: Joseph Indrieri

$107,511 for 2,758 square feet for 36 months, retail, NNN investment 4704 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 2, Las Vegas 89102 Landlord: Sahara 3D LLC Landlord agent: Nelson Tressler and Michael Zobrist of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Tenant: TIMM Productions LLC dba Meepleville Board Game Cafe Tenant agent: Jason Rosenberg of Realty Executives

BUSINESS LICENSES Daniel Callister License type: Real estate sales Address: 2028 Daley St., North Las Vegas 89030 Owner: Daniel Callister

Dukes Surface Solutions Ltd. License type: Contractor Address: 200 Juniper St., Las Vegas 89801 Owner: Jordan Duke

EAC Funding Inc. License type: Business support service Address: 6875 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite B, Las Vegas 89117 Owner: Yu Zhou El Rodeo License type: General retail sales Address: 1560 N. Eastern Ave., Suite D2, Las Vegas 89101 Owner: Lizette Medellin Elegant Hair Extensions/Glamour Girl Hair Extensions License type: Cosmetics Address: 6110 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas 89107 Owner: Glamour Girl Cos. Ltd. Elegante Banquet Hall License type: Banquet hall Address: 3020 E. Bonanza Road, Suite 110, Las Vegas 89101 Owner: Bonanza Mojave LLC

Diann Burns License type: Real estate sales Address: 1925 Village Center Circle, Suite 150, Las Vegas 89134 Owner: Diann Burns

Elisaâ€™s Alterations License type: Tailor and/or dressmaker Address: 2300 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 103, Las Vegas 89108 Owner: Charles Lee

Direct Tax Multiservices License type: Bookkeeper Address: 2736 E. Lake Mead Blvd., North Las Vegas 89030 Owner: Direct Tax LLC

ERF Properties LLC License type: Rental property Address: 2313 Seco Adobe Circle, North Las Vegas 89030 Owner: ERF Properties LLC

Distinctive Plumbing License type: Contractor Address: 4170 S. Decatur Blvd., Building C, Suite 4, Las Vegas 89103 Owner: Did not disclose

Events With a Twist LLC License type: Events services Address: 495 S. Grand Central Parkway, Las Vegas 89106 Owner: Events With a Twist LLC

Divine Cafe License type: Cafe Address: 770 Las Vegas Blvd. North, Las Vegas 89101 Owner: Ynie LLC

Evergreen Lawn Services License type: Repair and maintenance Address: 2509 Jubilance Point Court, Las Vegas 89032 Owner: Norma Tovar

Downtown Crown British Pub License type: Pub Address: 107 E. Charleston Blvd., Suite 150, Las Vegas 89101 Owner: SNP Entertainment Inc. Duck Mechanical Services LLC

Executive Maintenance License type: Residential property maintenance Address: 5135 Camino Al Norte, Las Vegas 89031 Owner: Executive Maintenance LLC

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Records and Transactions Feliciano Law Office LLC License type: Professional services Address: 2421 Tech Center Court, Suite 100, Las Vegas 89128 Owner: Amy A. Feliciano Fotografia El Paisa License type: Photography Address: 1560 N. Eastern Ave., Suite C3, Las Vegas 89101 Owner: Rosa Amalia Escovar Grassroots License type: Medical marijuana production facility Address: 1961 Pacific Ave., Las Vegas 89431 Owner: Nevwa LLC Green Exteriors License type: Residential property maintenance Address: Did not disclose, Las Vegas 89128 Owner: Rodolfo Enriquez Guymon & Hendron PLLC License type: Professional services Address: 625 S. Eighth St., Las Vegas 89101 Owner: Gary L. Guymon Healthcare Partners Medical Group South Decatur License type: Professional services - medical Address: 4500 W. Oakey Blvd., Las Vegas 89102 Owner: Healthcare Partners Medical Group Ltd. Heather Michelle Lear License type: Independent massage therapist Address: 3370 St. Rose Parkway, Suite 137, Henderson 89052 Owner: Heather Michelle Lear Help for Homeowners License type: Short-term residential rental Address: 8636 Blissville Ave., Las Vegas 89145 Owner: Help for Homeowners Inc. Hernandez Carpet Cleaning License type: Repair and maintenance Address: Did not disclose Owner: Jorge E. Hernandez Hillary Boone License type: Professional services Address: 6859 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas 89117 Owner: Hillary Boone Hispanic Baseball League License type: Professional promoter Address: Did not disclose, Las Vegas 89108 Owner: Hispanic League LLC Hongyan Liu License type: Independent massage therapist Address: 4601 W. Sahara Ave., Suite F, Las Vegas 89102

Owner: Hongyan Liu Hoop City LV LLC License type: Management or consulting service Address: 1900 Western Ave., Las Vegas 89102 Owner: Larry Camacho House Of Fades License type: Cosmetics Address: 450 S. Buffalo Drive, Suite 117, Las Vegas 89145 Owner: Tracy D. Mays Intermex Wire Transfer LLC License type: Travel and ticket agency Address: 1805 E. Charleston Blvd., Suite 130, Las Vegas 89101 Owner: Darrell Ebbert Isabela’s Seafood, Tapas & Grill License type: Restaurant Address: 2620 Regatta Drive, Suite 114, Las Vegas 89128 Owner: Lakeside Trifecta LLC J&L Distributing Inc License type: Solicitor Address: Did not disclose Owner: Lori Bowen Jabarrett Company LLC License type: Management or consulting service Address: 3271 S. Highland Drive, Suite 702, Las Vegas 89109 Owner: James A. Barrett Jr. Jack’s Tax Service License type: Income tax preparer Address: 2535 W. Craig Road, North Las Vegas 89032 Owner: Did not disclose James J. Ruggeroli License type: Professional services Address: 2421 Tech Center Court, Suite 100, Las Vegas 89128 Owner: James J. Ruggeroli Jcord LLC License type: Contractor Address: 980 American Pacific Drive, Suite 106, Henderson 89014 Owner: Jcord LLC Jeffrey Del-Giudice License type: Real estate sales Address: 1820 E. Sahara Ave., Suite 101, Las Vegas 89104 Owner: Jeff Del-Giudice Jessica Te Rosa License type: Real estate sales Address: 10220 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 3, Las Vegas 89145 Owner: Jessica T. Rosa Joel’s Appliance Rescue License type: General services counter/office Address: Did not disclose, Las Vegas 89129 Owner: Joel B. Sagaya Juice N Go

License type: Food services or cafe Address: 1735 S. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas 89117 Owner: C&D USA Investments LLC Justicia Ahora License type: Professional services Address: 3001 E. Charleston Blvd., Suite J, Las Vegas 89101 Owner: Ulrich W. Smith Klondike Sunset Casino License type: Casino Address: 444 W. Sunset Road, Henderson 89011 Owner: Nevada Gaming Partners LLC Xiu Xia Li Kolodny License type: Independent massage therapist Address: 9911 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 120, Henderson 89074 Owner: Xiu Xia Li Kolodny Krystal Foster Lmt License type: Independent massage therapist Address: Did not disclose Owner: Krystal Foster Lake Mead Dialysis License type: Sales/service Address: 713 E. Lake Mead Blvd., North Las Vegas 89030 Owner: Hummer Dialysis LLC Lami Nails Spa License type: Cosmetics Address: 2230 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suite 100, Henderson 89052 Owner: HHTN LLC Lantana Apartments License type: Apartment complex Address: 6501 W. Charleston Blvd., includes 1200 S. Torrey Pines, Las Vegas 89146 Owner: CCW Lantana LLC Las Vegas Energyworks License type: Instruction services Address: Did not disclose Owner: Lynne Zimmerman Las Vegas Herbal Growers License type: Medical marijuana cultivation facility Address: 3121 Industrial Road, Suite A, Las Vegas 89109 Owner: Wenger LLC Las Vegas Kitchen and Bath Remodeling LLC License type: Interjurisdictional business and general retail sales Address: 9143 Hermosa Valley, Las Vegas 89178 Owner: Las Vegas Kitchen and Bath Remodeling LLC Las Vegas Surface Washing License type: Repair and maintenance Address: Did not disclose Owner: William Everett Kaczinski

Las Vegas Swim Club License type: Community services Address: 101 S. Pavilion Center Drive, Las Vegas 89144 Owner: Joan Gallob Latinos Tax License type: Business support Address: 1701 S. Eastern Ave., Las Vegas 89104 Owner: Latinos Envios LLC Latrell Harris License type: Real estate sales Address: 1820 E. Sahara Ave., Suite 101, Las Vegas 89104 Owner: Latrell Harris Law Office of Kevin L. Hernandez License type: Law firm Address: 2879 St. Rose Parkway, Suite 130, Henderson 89052 Owner: Kevin L. Hernandez PLLC Level Up Gun Club License type: Sales - firearms Address: 1634 Himara Coutt, Henderson 89014 Owner: Noni Enterprises LLC Lezz Talk Clothing & Accessories License type: General retail sales Address: 4530 E. Charleston Blvd., Suite B5, Las Vegas 89110 Owner: Regina L. Britt Living Water Lawn & Garden Inc. License type: Contractor Address: 3625 W. Harmon Ave., Suites B and C, Las Vegas 89103 Owner: Did not disclose Lizette Loya License type: Real estate sales Address: 9420 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 100, Las Vegas 89117 Owner: Lizette Loya Look Beautique License type: Cosmetics Address: 520 Fremont St., Suite 140, Las Vegas 89101 Owner: Lilian Montenegro Morato Lowry’s Catering Inc. License type: Alcoholic beverage caterer Address: 4125 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas 89102 Owner: Robert W. Lowry M and D Investments License type: Coin amusement machine business Address: 4445 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas 89102 Owner: Mike Pohl Magic Tax License type: Business support service Address: 1500 E. Sahara Ave., Suite C, Las Vegas 89104 Owner: Eloisa Flores-Leal Magnolia Lane License type: Sales - home decoration

Address: 2260 Village Walk Drive, Suite 100, Henderson 89052 Owner: Magnolia Lane LLC Mainland Group License type: Consulting service Address: 112 S. Water St., Suite 103, Henderson 89015 Owner: Mainland Group LLC Martha Cordova License type: Short-term residential rental Address: Did not disclose Owner: Martha Cordova Marvin Peters License type: Real estate sales Address: 10750 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 180, Las Vegas 89144 Owner: Marvin Peters Mastec North America Inc License type: Burglar alarm service Address: 8 Sunset Way, Suite A103, Henderson 89014 Owner: Alberto De Cardenas Master Service Plumbing Inc. License type: Contractor Address: 325 Sunshine Lane, Las Vegas 89502 Owner: Marc Totton Meepleville Board Game Cafe License type: General retail sales Address: 4704 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 2, Las Vegas 89102 Owner: Timm Productions LLC Mei Zhang License type: Independent massage therapist Address: 4501 E. Sunset Road, Suite 2, Henderson 89014 Owner: Mei Zhang MG & PS License type: General retail sales Address: Did not disclose Owner: Marina Suslina MG Handy Plumber License type: Residential property maintenance Address: 4184 Mango Tree Court, Las Vegas 89115 Owner: Miguel Garcia Michael Costello License type: Property maintenance Address: 3817 Russet Falls St., Las Vegas 89129 Owner: Michael Costello Mojave Horticulture License type: Residential property maintenance Address: Did not disclose Owner: Bradley Daseler Mullins Law Firm License type: Professional services Address: 7251 W. Lake Mead Blvd., Suite 300, Las Vegas 89128 Owner: Neil M. Mullins Jr. Ltd. N&N Wholesale Inc.

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Records and Transactions License type: Sales - tobacco Address: 2580 Anthem Village Drive, Suite B02, Henderson 89052 Owner: N&N Wholesale Inc. Natasha Sidhu LLC License type: Professional services - medical Address: Did not disclose Owner: Natasha Sidhu Nevada Compliance Consulting Company LLC License type: Compliance consulting Address: 10120 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 200, Henderson 89052 Owner: Nevada Compliance Consulting Co. LLC Nevada Gaming Partners LLC License type: Gaming restricted Address: 4500 N. Rancho Drive; 5051 E. Bonanza Road; 7501 W. Washington Ave., Las Vegas 89130 Owner: Jon M. Athey Nevada Investments & Trade MGMT LLC License type: Rental property Address: 2217 Ellis St., North Las Vegas 89030 Owner: Nevada Investments & Trade MGMT LLC Normaâ€™s Cleaning Service License type: Repair and maintenance Address: Did not disclose Owner: Robert Tucci Northwest Construction & Consulting LLC License type: Contractor Address: Did not disclose Owner: Terry Tafoya

BUILDING PERMITS $1,015,540, commercial - alteration 4527 Losee Road, North Las Vegas Stout Building Contractors LLC $491,425, tenant improvement offices 2700 W. Sahara Ave., Las Vegas Boyd Martin Construction LLC $400,000, wall/fence 257 Fox Hill Drive, Las Vegas 6 Marshfield Road $310,714, single-family residential - production 9611 Widgeon Court, Las Vegas Toll North LV LLC $306,943, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 1621 Treviso Way, Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $282,795, residential - custom 530 Patti Ann Woods Drive, Henderson D.R. Horton Inc. $282,795, residential - custom

$184,413, single-family residential - production 12167 Dorada Coast Ave., Las Vegas Toll South LV LLC

$141,198, single-family residential - production 10841 Irving Park Ave., Las Vegas Toll North LV LLC

$254,404, residential - production 1160 Sparta Crest St., Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC

$184,413, single-family residential - production 100 Navarra Canyon Court, Las Vegas Toll South LV LLC

$141,198, single-family residential - production 10824 Irving Park Ave., Las Vegas Toll North LV LLC

$254,404, residential - production 1157 Sparta Crest St., Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC

$179,768, residential - production 1080 Via Alloro, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC

$250,000, commercial 257 Fox Hill Drive, Las Vegas RD Lawns Inc.

$179,768, residential - production 1084 Via Alloro, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC

511 Trenier Drive, Henderson D.R. Horton Inc. $254,404, residential - production 1148 Apollo Gardens St., Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC

$236,823, single-family residential - production 402 Venticello Drive, Las Vegas Toll South LV LLC

$175,090, single-family residential - production 8109 Bear Canyon St., Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC

$213,870, residential - production 2159 County Down Lane, Henderson Toll Henderson LLC

$168,000, tenant improvement 2720 N. Tenaya Way, Las Vegas SR Construction

$211,700, commercial - remodel 3001 St. Rose Parkway, Henderson St. Rose Dominican Hospital

$160,472, residential - production 1007 Solaris Glow St., Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC

$210,818, single-family residential - production 12168 Dorada Coast Ave., Las Vegas Toll South LV LLC

$154,092, single-family residential - production 10585 Leroux Court, Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada

$210,818, single-family residential - remodel 81 Navarra Canyon Court, Las Vegas Toll South LV LLC $210,818, single-family residential - production 85 Cantabria Coast St., Las Vegas Toll South LV LLC $200,623, single-family residential - production 9620 Porcupine Hills Court, Las Vegas Toll North LV LLC $200,000, electrical 257 Fox Hill Drive, Las Vegas Palmer Electric Inc. $199,096, single-family residential - production 97 Navarra Canyon Court, Las Vegas Toll South LV LLC $193,476, single-family residential - production 6390 Goldstrike Canyon St., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC $184,413, single-family residential - production 92 Navarra Canyon Court, Las Vegas Toll South LV LLC $184,413, single-family residential - production 61 Cantabria Coast St., Las Vegas Toll South LV LLC

$140,288, residential - production 1128 Barby Springs Ave., Henderson D.R. Horton Inc. $140,288, residential - production 1129 Barby Springs Ave., Henderson D.R. Horton Inc. $140,177, residential - production 1134 N. Water St., Henderson Richmond American Homes of Nevada $138,815, single-family residential - production 6917 Winter Rain St., Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $138,680, residential - production 521 Cadence View Way, Henderson Richmond American Homes of Nevada $138,680, residential - production 273 Divertimento St., Henderson Richmond American Homes of Nevada

$147,940, residential - production 529 Cadence View Way, Henderson Richmond American Homes of Nevada

$134,743, residential - production 1125 Barby Springs Ave., Henderson D.R. Horton Inc.

$146,944, single-family residential - production 12283 Los Mares Lane, Las Vegas KB Home Nevada Inc.

$134,483, single-family residential - production 12238 Terrace Verde Ave., Las Vegas KB Home Nevada Inc.

$146,722, single-family residential - production 10443 Prairie Mountain Ave., Las Vegas Ryland Homes

$129,475, residential - production 220 Shasta Meadows St., Henderson Ryland Homes Nevada LLC

$146,665, residential - production 2821 Poseidon Shore Ave., Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $145,833, residential - production 1124 Barby Springs Ave., Henderson D.R. Horton Inc. $142,395, residential - production 3125 Istria Ave., Henderson KB Home Inspirada LLC

$129,143, residential - production 1076 Via Alloro, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $128,644, residential - production 924 Tasker Pass Ave., Henderson Ryland Homes Nevada LLC $128,323, single-family residential - production 10818 Wrigley Field Ave., Las Vegas Ryland Homes

Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $117,338, single-family residential - production 7149 Dupuyer Court, Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $117,338, single-family residential - production 7140 Stanley Frederick St., Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $117,055, residential - new 3632 Greenbriar Bluff Ave., North Las Vegas J.F. Shea Co. Inc. $115,650, commercial - remodel 3001 St. Rose Parkway, Henderson St. Rose Dominican Hospital $115,298, single-family residential - production 7856 Pyramind Peak St., Las Vegas Ryland Homes $114,171, residential - production 451 Fortissimo St., Henderson Richmond American Homes of Nevada $113,617, residential - production 277 Divertimento St., Henderson Richmond American Homes of Nevada $113,342, single-family residential - production 6709 Pleasant Flower St., Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $110,339, single-family residential - production 10814 Faulkner Run Ave., Las Vegas Ryland Homes $109,846, residential - production 2617 Marvel Astoria St., Henderson Beazer-Inspirada LLC $107,585, single-family residential - production 7146 Dupuyer Court, Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $107,510, single-family residential - production 10542 Kennedy Peak Lane, Las Vegas Ryland Homes

$142,395, residential - production 710 Sea Coast Drive, Henderson KB Home LV Pearl Creek LLC

$122,187, single-family residential - production 6625 Conquistador St., Las Vegas Ryland Homes

$141,563, residential - production 212 Shasta Meadows St., Henderson Ryland Homes Nevada LLC

$121,541, commercial - alteration 985 Trade Drive, North Las Vegas Alan Jeskey Builders Inc.

$100,000, tenant improvement - store 120 S. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas Wilger Enterprises Inc.

$141,563, residential - production 216 Shasta Meadows St., Henderson Ryland Homes Nevada LLC

$117,338, single-family residential - production 7144 Stanley Frederick St., Las

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Placements

Recruiters

Industries served

Year established locally

Manpower of Southern Nevada 231 S. Third St., Suite 285 Las Vegas, NV 89101 702-363-2626 • manpowerlv.com

325

Full service

1964

Andy Katz, owner, president

Millenium Staffing Services 8230 W. Charleston Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89117 702-876-0708 • milleniumstaff.com

Mortgage banking, residential/commercial construction, manufacturing, engineering, IT, accounting/ finance, casinos/hospitality/ gaming, security, retail

2002

Jennifer DeHaven, president, CEO, owner

The Foundation P.O. Box 531322 Henderson, NV 89053 Did not disclose • godfatherlv.com

Gaming, high-tech

2004

Mark Wayman, CEO

PrideStaff 3110 W. Cheyenne Ave., Suite 300 North Las Vegas, NV 89032 702-395-5314 • pridestaff.com/lasvegas

Full service

2006

Robert Daniel, owner

CasinoRecruiter.com 313 Pilot Road Las Vegas, NV 89119 702-798-0180 • casinorecruiter.com

Casinos, gaming manufacturers, hotels

1999

Marc Weiswasser, managing member

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Recruiters Industries served

Year established locally

Manpower of Southern Nevada 231 S. Third St., Suite 285 Las Vegas, NV 89101 702-363-2626 • manpowerlv.com

5,786

Full service

1964

Andy Katz, owner, president

Millenium Staffing Services 8230 W. Charleston Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89117 702-876-0708 • milleniumstaff.com

2,608

Hospitality, convention services, administrative/clerical, skilled trades and labor, security/directionals

2002

Jennifer DeHaven, president, CEO, owner

PrideStaff 3110 W. Cheyenne Avenue, Suite 300 North Las Vegas, NV 89032 702-395-5314 • pridestaff.com/lasvegas

800

Full service

2006

Robert Daniel, owner

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Expected attendees

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CES 2016

cesweb.org

165,000

Jan. 6-9

SEMA (Automotive Aftermarket Industry Week)

semashow.com

140,000

Nov. 1-4

International Market Centers

imcenters.com

50,000

Jan. 24-28

ASD Trade Shows

asdonline.com

50,000

Feb. 28-March 2

International Market Centers

imcenters.com

50,000

July 31-Aug. 3

National Mining Association (MINEXPO)

nma.org

50,000

Sept. 26-28

World of Concrete Exposition

worldofconcrete.com

48,000

Feb. 2-5

Super Mobility Week (CTIA)

ctia.org

40,000

Sept. 7-9

Nightclub and Bar Convention and Trade Show

www.ncbshow.com

39,000

March 8-9

JCK Show

lasvegas.jckonline.com

39,000

June 3-6

International Council of Shopping Centers

icsc.org

36,000

May 23-25

International Communications Industries Association Inc. (InfoComm)

infocommshow.org

35,000

June 8-10

ASD Trade Shows

asdonline.com

35,000

July 31-Aug. 3

National Kitchen and Bath Association

nkba.org

33,000

Jan. 19-21

32,000

Aug. 25-27

Orgil Inc. Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society

himssconference.org

30,000

Feb. 29-March 4

National Automobile Dealers Association

nada.org

30,000

April 1-3

National Hardware Show

nationalhardwareshow.com

30,000

May 3-5

Global Gaming Expo (G2E)

globalgamingexpo.com

26,000

Sept. 27-29

Surfaces

tisewest.com

25,000

Jan. 20-22

Adult Entertainment Expo

adultentertainmentexpo.com

25,000

Jan. 20-23

International Esthetics, Cosmetics and Spa Conference

iecsc.com

25,000

June 25-27

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

ashp.org

25,000

Dec. 4-8

DeafNation

deafnation.com

23,000

July 6-8

Specialty Graphic Imaging Association

sgia.org

23,000

Sept. 14-16

International Baking Industry Expo

ibie2016.com

22,000

Oct. 8-11

Safari Club International

safariclub.org

21,000

Feb. 3-6

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Dr. Jaldeep Daulat Mohave Center for Dermatology & Plastic Surgery

SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2016

Dr. Mitchell Forman Founding Dean of Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine

5:00 P.M. VIP SPONSOR MEET & GREET 5:30 P.M. COCKTAILS AND SILENT AUCTION 7:00 P.M. DINNER AND PROGRAM

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874 American Pacific Drive , Henderson, Nevada 89014

FREE Bloody Mary or Mimosa

FREE Drink On Us at House of Blues Crossroads Bar

and $5 OFF adult ticket to Gospel Brunch at House of Blues.

Buy one drink and get the second FREE.

*Subject to availability. Must present coupon when booking Gospel Brunch ticket; to get a drink ticket for free Bloody Mary or Mimosa. Limit one coupon per customer. Not valid with any other offers. Offer is non-transferable and has no cash value. Not valid on holidays. Management reserves all rights. Expires 02/29/16.

*Good for one domestic beer, well drink or house wine, valid at the bar only. Must present this coupon when ordering drink. Limit one coupon per customer. Not valid with any other offers. Offifer is non-transferable and has no cash value. Must be 21+ with valid ID. Management reserves all rights. Expires 02/29/16.

HOUSE OF BLUES INSIDE MANDALAY BAY RESORT 3950 LAS VEGAS BLVD. S, LAS VEGAS, NV 89119

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Steel Panther Friday, Jan 15

Buy 1 Get 1 Free Draft Beer

Buy 1, Get 1 Free - GA Entry Ticket *Present coupon by 7pm day of show. Some exclusions apply. Management reserves all rights. Expires 1/15/16.

*Must be at least 21 with valid photo ID. Cannot be combined with any other offer. No cash value. Management reserves all rights. Not valid on holidays or during special events. Expires 1/31/2016.

(702) 632-7600 HOUSE OF BLUES INSIDE MANDALAY BAY RESORT 3950 S LAS VEGAS BLVD, LAS VEGAS, NV 89119

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20% OFF Entire Guest Check *One coupon, per table, per visit. Not valid with any other coupons or promotional offers. Coupon has no cash value. No change returned. Taxes and gratuity not included. Valid at participating Denny’s restaurants. Selection and prices may vary. Only original coupon accepted. Photocopied and Internet printed or purchased coupons are not valid. No substitutions. © 2014 DFO, LLC. Printed in the U.S.A. Offer valid on your next visit 1.17.16-1.30.16.

LOCATED CENTER STRIP AT THE LINQ UNDER THE WHEEL

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Buy One Get One FREE Buffet or 50% OFF One Buffet at S7 Buffet

Must be at least 21 with valid photo ID and A-Play Card. Membership into the A-Play Club is free. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Complimentary buffet value up to $12.99, additional fees apply on specialty, brunch and holiday buffets. Tax and Gratuity not included. One coupon per person, per table, per week. Dine in only. No cash value. Void if copied. Management reserves all rights. Expires 2/2/16. Settle to: 535.

4100 PARADISE ROAD, LAS VEGAS, NV 89169

(702) 733-7000 www.SilverSevensCasino.com

Buy One Get One FREE Drink at Sean Patrick’s

FREE Appetizer at Sean Patrick’s Buy one appetizer and get the second FREE

Wine, well or domestic beer *Expires 1/31/16. Please present coupon at time of order. No cash value. Management reserves all rights. May not be combined with any other offer. See bar host for details. VALID AT 3290 W. ANN ROAD and 6788 NORTH 5TH STREET. Settle to 1581.

*Expires 1/31/16. Please present coupon at time of order. No cash value. Maximum value at $9.99 on free appetizer. Management reserves all rights. See bar host for details. VALID AT 3290 W. ANN ROAD and 6788 NORTH 5TH STREET ONLY. Settle to 1580.

3290 W. ANN ROAD NORTH LAS VEGAS, NV 89031

6788 NORTH 5TH STREET NORTH LAS VEGAS, NV 89084

3290 W. ANN ROAD NORTH LAS VEGAS, NV 89031

6788 NORTH 5TH STREET NORTH LAS VEGAS, NV 89084

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Buy One Get One FREE Drink at Sean Patrick’s Wine, well or domestic beer *Expires 1/31/16. Please present coupon at time of order. No cash value. Management reserves all rights. May not be combined with any other offer. See bar host for details. VALID AT 11930 SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS PKWY. and 8255 W. FLAMINGO ROAD ONLY. Settle to 1581.

FREE Appetizer at Sean Patrick’s Buy one appetizer and get the second FREE *Expires 1/31/16. Please present coupon at time of order. No cash value. Maximum value at $9.99 on free appetizer. Management reserves all rights. See bar host for details. VALID AT 11930 SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS PKWY and 8255 W. FLAMINGO ROAD. Settle to 1580.

11930 SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS PKWY. LAS VEGAS, NV 89141

8255 W. FLAMINGO ROAD LAS VEGAS, NV 89147

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8255 W. FLAMINGO ROAD LAS VEGAS, NV 89147

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BEER • WINE • CIGARS

One Free Order of Fried Pickles with purchase of regular priced entrée. *Dine in only. Must present coupon to redeem offer. Not valid with any other offer. Excludes holidays and special events. Management reserves all rights. Not including tax or gratuity. One voucher per guest per visit.

BUDWEISER 36PK $22.99 One coupon per person. Cannot be combined with any other coupon. Coupon must be present. Management reserves all rights. Expires 1/17/16.

3850 LAS VEGAS BLVD. SO., LAS VEGAS, NV 89109

(702) 597-7991 www.dickslastresort.com

6030 W. WINDMILL LN., LAS VEGAS, NV 89139

8544 BLUE DIAMOND, LAS VEGAS, NV 89178 “Largest Cold Craft Beer Selection”

(702) 222-3030

(702) 629-2992

99¢

Bagel and Cream Cheese

Limit one coupon per customer per visit. Coupon must be presented at time of purchase. Shop must retain coupon. No substitutions allowed. No cash refunds. Void if copied or transferred and where prohibited or restricted by law. Consumer must pay applicable tax. May not be combined with any other coupon, discount, promotion combo or value meal. Coupon may not be reproduced, copied, purchased, traded or sold. Internet distribution strictly prohibited. Cash redemption value: 1/20 of 1 cent. © 2015 DD IP Holder LLC. All rights reserved.

Use PLU#2749 if barcode fails to scan.

Expires:

GOOD AT Valleywide

PLU # 3881

Use PLU#3881 if barcode fails to scan.

*(Plus appl. tax). Limit one coupon per customer per visit. Coupon and barcode must be presented at time of purchase. Shop must retain coupon. No substitutions allowed. No cash refunds. Void if copied or transferred and where prohibited or restricted by law. Consumer must pay applicable tax. May not be combined with any other coupon, discount, promotion combo or value meal. Coupon may not be reproduced, copied, purchased, traded or sold. Internet distribution strictly prohibited. Cash redemption value: 1/20 of 1 cent. © 2015 DD IP Holder LLC. All rights reserved. Expires: 1/30/2016

SERVING LAS VEGAS SINCE 1978 THE ONLY TRIBAL SMOKE SHOP IN LV

2 OFF per Carton* 99¢

for Medium (14 oz.) Hot or (24 oz.) Iced Macchiato *(Plus appl. tax). Limit one coupon per customer per visit. Coupon and barcode must be presented at time of purchase. Shop must retain coupon. No substitutions allowed. No cash refunds. Void if copied or transferred and where prohibited or restricted by law. Consumer must pay applicable tax. May not be combined with any other coupon, discount, promotion combo or value meal. Coupon may not be reproduced, copied, purchased, traded or sold. Internet distribution strictly prohibited. Cash redemption value: 1/20 of 1 cent. © 2015 DD IP Holder LLC. All rights reserved. Expires: 1/30/2016

(Cigarettes only) *Must be 18 years of age or older. NO LIMIT on any brand of carton purchased. Excludes fifiltered cigars. Cannot be combined with other offers or discounts. Limit one discount given per customer per day. Must present this coupon for redemption. Cannot be redeemed for cash. No photocopies accepted. EXPIRES 1/31/2016. TS

Las Vegas Smoke Shop 1225 N. MAIN STREET, LV, NV 89101

Snow Mountain Smoke Shop 11525 NU-WAV KAIV BLVD, LV, NV 89124

(702) 366-1101 (702) 645-2957 www.LVPaiuteSmokeShop.com

Player Special at Both Locations. Daily 8:00am - 2:30pm

$5 FREE Slot Play for New Members

Must become a Player Rewards Card member to redeem. Existing Player Rewards Card Members do not qualify. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other free slot play offer. Management reserves all rights. Limit of one (1) New Member free slot play offer per person and Player Rewards card. Group #5502. Valid 1/10/16 — 1/16/16.

725 S RACETRACK RD. HENDERSON, NV 89015

(702) 566-5555 www.clubfortunecasino.com

$15 OFF Any Starter Kit Expires 1/31/16.

FREE Lunch with $20 Max Coin Play *Must be a player to redeem. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. Management reserves all rights. Limit of one (1) free offer per person. Expires 1/31/16.

1350 E TROPICANA AVE LAS VEGAS NV 89119

4755 SPRING MOUNTAIN RD LAS VEGAS NV 89102

(702) 739-8676 (702) 876-4733 www.crownandanchorlv.com

1/2 OFF Range Fee for Las Vegas Residents Sundays Only Enjoy our climate-controlled 14-lane shooting range, eye and ear protection, and you can even bring your own ammo! Don’t worry about those time limits other ranges have, $5 gets you a lane for as long as you want to pull the trigger! Come see why hundreds of thousands of locals have found our range to be the best in Las Vegas. *Simply mention this ad to redeem this offer.

8380 W. SAHARA AVE. STE. 120 | LAS VEGAS, NV 89117 740 E. DORRELL LN. STE. 130 | LAS VEGAS, NV 89086

(702) 979-6000 www.vape-co.com

(702) 778-5337 www.vape-co.com

3084 HIGHLAND DRIVE. LAS VEGAS, NV 89109

(702) 567-1158 www.DiscountFirearmsLV.com

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44 Forage crop 45 Styling goop 47 Oversaw jointly 48 Gimlet liquor 49 Errant 50 Make glad 51 Fen plants 54 RR stop 58 “— boy!” 60 Goblin, e.g. 61 Unknown by 62 Nile reptile 63 Whale’s half-rise out of the water 64 Iris ring 65 Bonehead 67 Sculling item 69 Gang gun 70 Different 73 Lead-in to friendly 74 Brain test, for short 76 “... — pin drop” 79 NCO in the 35-Down 83 Rocky top 85 “— so sorry” 87 Sanctuary 89 Acerbic 90 Unyieldingly insistent type 92 Big name in lens care 94 In whatever location 95 Like kebabs 96 Morales in movies 98 Ore- — 99 Son of Adam 100 Ecru or fawn 102 Slew 105 Stellar 108 Novarro of “Ben-Hur” 109 Split to hitch 110 Monica of tennis 111 Apply 112 Listens to 113 Link up with 114 Agenda bits 115 Puffs 121 Tuck away 123 Ripken of baseball 124 Pickup’s kin 125 Soft lump 126 Northern Thai 127 Stately tree 128 Distress call

without repeating. Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 4 (easy) or 1 through 6 (challenging)

The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the

target numbers in the top-left corners. Freebies: Fill in singlebox cages with the number in the top-left corner

For answers to this week’s puzzles, go to Page 41

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