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HOLIDAY BLOSSOMS

ON THE COVER Valerie Kimani, 30 Hometown: Nairobi, Kenya Specialty: Music, singing, acting Show: “Michael Jackson ONE” For complete Q&A, visit lasvegassun.com (PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER DEVARGAS/STAFF)

Ever wonder what goes into creating the festive horticultural displays at the Bellagio Conservatory? Like how they are changed out, who comes up with the themes or how many flowers they go through in a year? We did, and in five minutes, we can make you an expert on this staple of free Strip tourist attractions.

FACES OF CIRQUE

The performers of Las Vegas’ Cirque du Soleil shows wow us with their feats of strength, creativity and grace. They have been plucked, happily, from the far reaches of the planet and assembled here to amaze audiences. We offer a glimpse of their stories.

PRAYERS FOR 2015

Faith leaders offer their hopes for Las Vegas in the new year.

MORE LIFE ■ Recipe: Panettone bread pudding, P29 ■ Pet adoptions, P31 ■ Calendar of events, P40

WASTING THE WORK DAY

Employees burn about two hours of time every day on nonwork-related activities at the office — thanks mostly to technology. Experts discuss ways time is wasted, what can be done about it and some of the strangest things workers have been caught doing on the clock.

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a rotating door of CEOs at UMC 20 Fixing In 2014, the city’s public hospital changed top executives twice. Will the third CEO be the charm?

THIS TIME, THE FIGHT WILL BE FINISHED

Jon Jones, right, and Daniel Cormier brawled at a UFC news conference in August. They will pick up where they left off Jan. 3, and judging by both fighters’ rhetoric, neither can wait.

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Hate crimes down, but stat is deceiving There is little incentive for law enforcement to classify acts as hate crimes, given the difficulty in proving them.

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Angels in the Valley: Karin Roelf Hundreds of homeless people in the valley have Roelf to thank for helping them stay warm in winter.

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Events boss: 40 million visitors isn’t enough Pat Christenson talks about the tourism record set in 2014 and the opportunity Las Vegas has to push the mark even higher.

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Casino promotions Feeling lucky? There are dozens of deals to be had at local gaming establishments.

OPINION Youth commentary Nevada Learning Academy junior Caitlyn Anderson shares teenagers’ thoughts on being heard.

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NEWS

DEC. 21 - JAN. 10

WEEK IN REVIEW WEEK AHEAD NEWS AND NOTES FROM THE

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The sun sets over Panguitch Lake in Utah. (MIKAYLA WHITMORE/STAFF)

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A 46-year-old man who police say approached them wielding butcher knives was shot multiple times by officers. The man’s father told Metro Police his son had threatened to kill him.

Brother-sister duo Donny and Marie Osmond signed an extension to continue performing at the Flamingo through 2015. Their show opened in September 2008.

The valley’s 73-degree high broke a record as the highest measured temperature for this date since official record keeping began in 1937. The previous record was 68 degrees set in 1950.

International CES will run Jan. 6-9 and is expected to attract more than 160,000 people from 140 countries.

A whopping 20,000 products are scheduled to debut.

Congress will reconvene for the 2015 session.

With 29 Hispanics in the House of Representatives and three in the Senate, the 114th Congress will be the most Latino in U.S. history.

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$18.4B Amount of debt owed by a subsidiary of Caesars Entertainment that plans to file for bankruptcy in January. That’s about the same amount of debt the city of Detroit owed when it filed for bankruptcy.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! Some fun facts to impress your friends ...

■ The first new year was celebrated 4,000 years ago by the Babylonians.

■ More vehicles are stolen on New Year’s Day than any other holiday.

■ The top three New Year’s Eve destinations in the world are Las Vegas, Disney World and New York City.

■ Midnight will hit these cities in this order: Sydney, Tokyo, London, New York, Las Vegas.

■ Eat beans and greens for prosperity.

Believers say leafy vegetables look like money, while legumes resemble coins.

REBELS SHOOTING FOR STARS The UNLV basketball team will have a shot at knocking off another nationally ranked opponent Jan. 4 when it travels to Kansas. The Rebels were overwhelmed in three games against quality competition this season, losing each by double digits, but rebounded with a stunning upset of third-ranked Arizona on Dec. 23. But before heading to Lawrence, Kan., the Rebels open Mountain West Conerence play on New Year’s Eve at Wyoming.

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Rabbi Mendy Harlig watches his son Levi, 9, during a Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremony in the District in Henderson. The event, celebrating the third night of Hanukkah, was organized by Chabad of Green Valley. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS ... SORT OF The Bishop Gorman Gaels, winners of six consecutive state titles, were ranked No. 1 nationally in high school football by two composite rankings. Two other rankings dropped Gorman to No. 2 in favor of De La Salle in Northern California and Allen in Texas.

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Average percentage of deadly New Year’s Day vehicle crashes that involve an impaired driver, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

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DANGER IN THE TREES It sounds like a freak accident: A tree trimmer dies in North Las Vegas after getting trapped in a palm tree.

But every year, several people suffocate in palm trees — and likely more, arborists say, since many incidents go unreported.

The massive weight of collapsed palm fronds can suffocate a climber in as little as 20 minutes.

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Rashad Vaughn (1) drives to the basket between Utah defenders Brekkott Chapman (0) and Jakob Poeltl during their game Dec. 20 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena — the third Las Vegas arena the Rebels played in this season. UNLV lost, 59-46, despite Vaughn’s 16 points. (L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)

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Number of fireworks planned for the Strip’s New Year’s Eve celebration. The 7-minute, 11-second show will be fired from casino rooftops.

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5-MINUTE EXPERT The Christmas tree in the holiday display is a 42-foot silver fir that was trucked in on a flatbed trailer from California. It weighs 6,800 pounds and is decorated with 7,000 lights and 2,500 ornaments.

“Fur” for polar bears is made of 28,000 white carnations. During the monthlong exhibit, workers will use 70,000 flowers on the bears.

Potted flowers are provided mostly by local suppliers.

Specialty features, such as pumpkins and the holiday tree, come from out of state.

HOW EXHIBITS ARE DESIGNED AND BUILT PLANNING

BY RIC ANDERSON STAFF WRITER

In a town where fall colors and spring blossoms are scarce, the Bellagio Conservatory is a man-made reminder that seasons do change.

But replicating Mother Nature is no easy task.

Swapping out the display takes dozens of people working around the clock for days on end, and maintaining it involves diligent watering and constant refreshing. Then there’s designing and building the exhibits, which happens year-round behind the scenes.

The result is an attraction that draws hundreds of thousands of locals and visitors. But who creates the displays? How are the props moved in and out?

And how much vegetation is needed? In other words, how does it work?

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1 The Bellagio’s executive director of horticulture and conservatory manager works with an MGM Events executive to come up with a theme for the display.

2 The concept is presented to conservatory staff, who brainstorm props, plant arrangements and features.

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All displays must have two new props, and the holiday exhibit must be designed with a middle walkway to accommodate large crowds.

3 A contract artist sketches the design. A black-and-white roughout is presented to Bellagio executives for approval. Once approved, the artist creates color drawings of the design.

4 Construction work for props are bid to local contractors. Conservatory managers also work with seamstresses and other specialists.

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* Water drains from planters into the catacombs, where it’s recycled.

EXECUTION 5 Old displays and new displays are swapped simultaneously. Staff create two staging areas: one in the parking garage outside the lobby, the other on an access road between the Bellagio parking garage and the Cosmopolitan.

6 The bulk of the display is placed in four main planters.

Each is 3 feet deep and extends below the floor into “the catacombs,” a series of service passageways that contain electrical line, ventilation equipment and ductwork. Iron tables are used to set the height of the display and to hold potted flowers. The tubs are filled with recycled rubber, used instead of dirt to reduce mold and repel insects.

7 Irrigation lines and electrical wire are routed within the planters through holes in the iron tables. Any portion that shows is covered with flowers or other materials.

8 Metal frames for props are built by hand using rods thin enough to bend. The rods are fastened together, and irrigation lines are placed at the top of the framework to allow water to seep down and keep moisture from saturating the bottom.

9 The prop frames are loaded with floral foam to hold flowers in place and absorb water, which prolongs the flowers’ freshness.

10 Staff members place flowers in the foam one at a time by hand.

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Horticulturists choose trees that thrive with limited direct sunlight (birches and firs, for example) because the angle of the conservatory’s roof prevents the foliage from getting much direct sunlight.

Live animals are rarely used in the exhibit, although koi live in the conservatory ponds. MGM employees own and care for the fish. One of the rare animal exhibits included birds, and at least one laid eggs that hatched.

CHECK OUT THESE NUMBERS In a typical exhibit, there are:

HOW DOES IT ALL GET DONE?

HOW THE PLANTS ARE WATERED

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The conservatory uses water from the same system that supplies the Bellagio with drinking water.

■ Water is piped through an irrigation system with 3,000 feet of soaker line that snakes through the catacombs. Tubs and flowerpots all contain holes to allow water to drain into the catacombs, where it’s recycled into the irrigation system.

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■ Potted flowers are hand-watered.

■ Trees, plants and flowers on props are watered through the irrigation system.

■ Unlike the conservatory, the Bellagio fountains use water from a well that fed the Dunes golf course.

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Annually, the five exhibits use:

Polar bears sit on shelves in the storage area for the Bellagio’s Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. (STAFF FILE)

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE DISPLAY IS TAKEN DOWN?

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325,000 3,000 FLOWERS SHRUBS

The conservatory measures 13,500 square feet and includes 7,500 square feet of planter space. The ceiling is 52 feet high.

Up to

MGM Resorts International owns the majority of the props used in the display.

■ Items are stored in a 30,000-squarefoot warehouse on Industrial Road near the Mirage.

■ Most props are used a maximum of three times. Each gets refinished and redecorated before reuse.

■ Some retired props are sent to other MGM properties, such as MGM Macau.

As for the plants:

70° Year-round temperature of the conservatory, the same as throughout the Bellagio.

■ Trees are hauled away and mulched.

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pass through the exhibit each day during peak periods.

■ Some potted flowers are offered to employees.

■ Some foliage is donated to charitable organizations.

■ Most is sent to a third-party company to be turned into mulch.

It takes 75 workers and 144 hours — 24 hours a day for six days — to set up a new conservatory exhibit.

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A staff of 25 workers maintains the conservatory.

THINK AGAIN Conservatory staff routinely hear two misconceptions from visitors: 1 Displays are changed out through the roof, which is retractable.

Wrong. The change-out happens through two corridors, one that leads to a service road and the other to the parking garage. The roof is fixed.

2 The floor can be lowered to change out displays.

Again, wrong. The iron tables that support the flowers can be moved in and out of planters, but the floor stays put.

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For 30 years, Cirque du Soleil has amazed audiences with its distinctive brand of circus performance. Its character-driven stories, stunning costumes and death-defying stunts have been seen by almost 150 million people worldwide, a good number of them in Las Vegas. ¶ For many performers, landing a gig with Cirque marks the pinnacle of their career. The Montreal-based company — the largest theatrical producer in the world — employs more than 4,000 people, about 1,300 who perform onstage. The artists’ talents are diverse, from contortion to clowning, acting to acrobatics, singing to synchronized swimming. ¶ The performers represent more than 50 nationalities and speak 25 languages. But among them, a few sentiments seem to be universal: They are amazed to have been selected by Cirque, they love what they do, and they hope to continue performing, in Las Vegas and beyond, for decades to come.

MORE ONLINE: For more about the performers, including their backgrounds and favorite foods, visit lasvegassun.com.

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Hometown Melbourne, Australia Show “Ká” Area of expertise Karate, freestyle martial arts, tricking

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MELISSA URBANO, 26 “I also have performed as a stunt woman in numerous short films in Australia.”

About the character “The archers and spearmen and spearwomen are the ‘bad guys.’ They are martial arts experts, loyal followers and warriors, out to destroy the empire and anyone who gets in their way.”

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NIELS VAN DEN HEUVEL, 25 “My favorite food is anything Italian, and randomly, I love pancakes!”

About the character “The Walrus is the rock star of the group and keeps the party going. He is a product of Dr. Roberts.

Even though the Walrus encourages everyone to have fun, he will confront people with the truth and the downside of love.”

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Hometown Amsterdam, Holland Show “The Beatles Love” Area of expertise Professional dancer

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EREZ KAPLAN, 32 “I was a gymnast on the Israeli national team for a little over 11 years.”

Hometown Tel Aviv, Israel Show “O” Area of expertise Russian Swing and Cerceaux, both aerial acrobatic acts

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About the character “As a Comet, I’m the theater soldier, or the aquatic world/stage guardian. As Cerceaux, I’m a biker from the sky, where I perform on an aerial hoop high above the stage with other artists. We represent the air part of our world, ‘O.’ As Russian Swing, I’m a groom, part of a big happy, crazy wedding. I control and push the heavy-duty swings that our diving artists fly off.”

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ARAZ HAMZAYEV, 27 “I am a second-generation circus artist in my family.

My father was my first teacher, but later I continued training in gymnastics school in my country.”

About the character “The name of my act and ‘character’ is Dislocation.

My act is an intense contortion act, bending my body in all sorts of ways. There are some cringe-worthy moments and audience gasps!”

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Hometown Baku, Azerbaijan Show “Zumanity” Area of expertise Contortion

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Hometown Chisinau, Moldova Show “Zarkana” Area of expertise Aerial duo with my wife, rolla bolla, character work and clowning

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IURIE HLINOV, 33 “I grew up in a circus family.

I learned everything from my dad.”

About the character “The Chinese Cook is funny and stupid and tries to be a kung fu master, but it never happens.”

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MAREK HACZKIEWICZ “I am married with three children.

Apart from family and work, I would golf 26 hours a day!”

About the character “Moha-Samedi, or the Pink Guy, is the ringmaster, emcee and narrator of the show.

He tries to keep balance and peace during the show.

Nobody listens to or respects him.”

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Hometown Jawor, Poland Show “Mystére” Area of expertise Trampoline, tumbling, acrobatics and character work — “I’m a master in gibberish!“

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Hometown Platanos, Buenos Aires, Argentina Show “Believe” Area of expertise Carpentry, clowning, juggling, comedy

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MARIANO DI YORO, 35 His favorite thing about Las Vegas: “That I can have chickens in my house.”

About the character “Slim. Magic assistance, funny character.

In the beginning, my character was much more complicated. With changes over the years, my character is much simpler now.”

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Fixing a rotating door of CEOs at UMC

BY CONOR SHINE STAFF WRITER

At University Medical Center, 2014 is ending the way it started — with a new CEO. Lawrence Barnard announced this month he would leave the hospital’s top job after less than a year for an executive position with Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican Hospitals. His predecessor, Brian Brannman, left UMC in January after two and a half years as CEO for a similar position with Dignity Health.

UMC is trying to fix the rotating door by giving a substantial raise to incoming CEO, Mason VanHouweling, whose salary was set at $380,000 when he was hired Dec. 17. That’s nearly $140,000 more than Barnard received in base pay, and VanHouweling’s three-year contract includes bonuses and incentives that could boost his annual compensation to more $500,000.

While the timing of Barnard’s departure was a surprise, it wasn’t a shock he left.

Although UMC’s CEO is one of the highest-paid public officials in Southern Nevada, the salary is a fraction of what other hospitals offer.

A recent study found the median pay for a CEO at a hospital the size of UMC is $525,000, not including bonuses and other benefits. The study found Barnard’s pay was among the bottom 10 percent of similar-sized public and private hospitals. Even with the increase, VanHouweling’s salary remains lower than 83 percent of hospital CEOs’ salaries.

Public hospitals often struggle to compete with the private sector in pay, in part because taxpayers demand that the institutions be operated at a low cost.

Factor in the added scrutiny that comes with being the head of a public institution, the political skills the job requires and the challenges of managing a

UMC, a public hospital, offers uncompensated care for the region’s poor and uninsured. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

cash-strapped hospital, and it’s easy to see why UMC has a hard time retaining a CEO. “We’re in a market that places a premium on good CEOs,” said John O’Reilly, chairman of UMC’s governing board. “As evidenced by our last two CEOs that have come and gone, UMC is a popular place for other hospitals to recruit.”

The struggle to retain top talent is a problem public hospitals around the country deal with, said Dr. Bruce Siegel, president of America’s Essential Hospitals, an association for safety net hospitals.

“Often the jobs aren’t paying competitively,” Siegel said. “The salary gaps are sometimes enormous. The problem with

that is not only is the pay lower, the job is harder.”

Siegel said some public hospitals decided to “bite the bullet” and increase their CEO’s pay, but that often comes with a difficult political battle. Other solutions include signing CEOs to multiyear contracts that guarantee job security or finding ways to offer bonuses for performance or longevity.

“In the long run, they’re better off with stable leadership that can run a hospital efficiency. That will save millions,” he said.

Finding extra money for UMC’s CEO is especially challenging because the hospital regularly loses money, in large part because of the uncompensated care

it provides for the region’s poor and uninsured. This year, the hospital needed a $70 million subsidy from Clark County to balance its budget.

O’Reilly said the governing board is discussing ways to better compensate UMC’s chief officer, but he noted that, regardless of pay, the job remains one of the best in local health care because of the opportunity to help those who need it most.

“It is, and should be, a job that is coveted because of the fact that it has challenges true professionals look for,” he said. “You’re caring for a large population base, from those who are in our trauma unit to those who haven’t been to a hospital before.”

MASON VANHOUWELING Tenure: Dec. 17, 2014-present Salary: $380,000

THEN AND NOW: WHAT THE TOP EXEC AT UMC EARNS $400,000

KATHLEEN SILVER Tenure: April 15, 2008-July 1, 2011 Salary: $250,000

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WILLIAM HALE Tenure: Feb. 1, 1999* - April 25, 2003 Salary: $218,416

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LACY THOMAS Tenure: Dec. 29, 2003 -Jan. 16, 2007 Salary: $240,000

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Hate crimes down, but stat is deceiving There is little incentive for law enforcement to classify acts as hate crimes, given the difficulty in proving them

BY ANA LEY STAFF WRITER

The FBI recently released statistics showing hate crimes are down in Southern Nevada and across the country.

Metro, Henderson and North Las Vegas police departments reported 68 incidents in 2013, down 21 percent from the year before. Agencies nationwide reported 5,928 offenses last year, down 10 percent.

At face value, that sounds like good news, but experts warn the numbers can be deceiving.

HATE CRIMES ARE TRICKY TO DEFINE The FBI defines hate crimes as traditional offenses such as murder, arson or vandalism with an added element of bias. Lawmakers define a hate crime as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.”

Civil rights attorney Allen Lichtenstein said criminal motivations can be nuanced, and lumping offenses into such blunt categories is a knee-jerk approach. Except in the most obvious instances, such as a white supremacist bragging publicly about targeting someone of another race, offenses aren’t likely to be classified as hate crimes.

“I’ve always been a bit concerned by the idea that something automatically is going to be called a hate crime or something is not going to be called a hate crime,” Lichtenstein said. A better option is to adopt “a more holistic, caseby-case analysis and consider what the mitigating factors are. I don’t know that putting it into a statutory form really is that helpful.”

BIAS IS HARD TO PROVE Prejudice often is mixed with other criminal motives that are hard to peg or quantify. Biases aren’t easy for investigators and prosecutors to identify, because people easily can lie about them.

“Sometimes hate crimes are a very

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In 2013, Metro Police reported 65 hate crimes, down from 73 the previous year. Experts say the legal complexities of proving hate crimes can deter law enforcement agencies from seeking that designation. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF FILE)

difficult thing to prove,” said Natalie Collins, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nevada.

Just because someone seems to be racist — say, a robber who targets only victims of a certain race or ethnic group — that bias isn’t easy to confirm. Appearance is different from proof.

Under Nevada law, incidents involving a proven bias are treated as crimes with enhancements, which theoretically upgrade the severity of the crime and increase the punishment. But the impact of the hate-crime enhancement is vague. State law requires only that victims be compensated for monetary damages, which they likely would have been anyway, and doesn’t specify harsher penalties for criminals.

The legal complexities raise a question for law enforcement: Why try to prove something is a hate crime if it won’t make a real difference in court?

HATE-CRIME STATISTICS AREN’T CONSISTENT Law enforcement agencies aren’t required to report crime data to the FBI.

Because of that, civil rights advocates say the federal agency has unreliable year-to-year comparisons.

Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center said the number of agencies that reported data to the FBI plunged to just 79 percent in 2012, the lowest level since 1995. The trend seems to reflect a diminished interest from officials, he said, noting the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center ended its hate-crime programs in 2009. The Southern Poverty Law Center ended a similar program in 2008 due to dwindling enrollment.

The programs taught law enforcement officials how to identify crimes involving bias.

“This apparent lack of interest and focus on hate crimes is worrying,” Potok said, noting that more than half of all hate crimes are never reported to police, and the majority of those that are tend to be categorized as other kinds of crimes.

There actually are 25 to 40 times more hate crimes throughout the United States than the FBI numbers suggest, Potok said.

HATE CRIMES REPORTED BY AGENCY IN 2013 METRO POLICE The department reported 65 hate crimes, down from 73 in 2012. n Race: 27 n Sexual orientation: 23 n Religion: 9 n Ethnicity: 6

HENDERSON POLICE The department reported one hate crime, down from three in 2012. n Race: 1

NORTH LAS VEGAS POLICE The department reported two hate crimes, down from 10 in 2012. n Sexual orientation: 1 n Ethnicity: 1

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A N G E L S I N T H E VA L L E Y Karin Roelf crochets dozens of hats, scarves and blankets for the homeless every year and donates them to Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada.

(KRYSTAL RAMIREZ/SPECIAL TO THE SUNDAY)

‘I want to give something of myself’ “All by yourself?”

“Yes.” “Let me see your hands.”

The scarves and hats piled on a table waited for their In Angels in the Valley, an She raised her hands and wiggled her fingers. new owners, who had formed a long line outside Cathoccasional series, we “They still working?” the man asked, feigning disbelief. olic Charities on a cold, drizzly December day. profile individuals who’ve made a difference in Roelf giggled as the man chose a black hat and yellow scarf.

Behind the table, the crafts’ creator, 73-year-old Karin Rothe lives of others and As he moved on, others took his place, announced their favorelf, fussed with the rainbow-colored mound, giving order to deserve to be recognized ite colors and uttered sincere thanks. the assortment. She plucked a bright green knit cap from the for their willingness to “Keep warm,” Roelf said over and over. mix and examined it. help. If you know At one point, a man leaned in for a hug.

“These I started this year,” she said in a soft voice punctuan Angel, email “His coat was soaked,” Roelf said. “I felt so awful.” ated by a German accent. “They are very popular. They are news@thesunday.com During her cancer treatments, Roelf crocheted to pass fivecalled slouchy beanies.” with details. and-a-half-hour chemotherapy sessions. Each usually was Since Easter, Roelf crocheted 152 hats, 46 scarves and five long enough to finish one hat. baby blankets, all for people in need. She started crocheting 25 Roelf’s cancer has been in remission for two years, but crocheting remains years ago to stay awake while her husband watched television and continued a daily part of her life. To keep the activity from growing monotonous, she crowhile undergoing chemotherapy, first for breast cancer, then uterine cancer. chets several styles of hats and scarves.

Doctors inserted the injection needle higher on her arm so it wouldn’t interRoelf won’t discuss the cost of yarn. It’s not something she and her husband fere with the yarn weaving through her fingers. like to publicize, other than to acknowledge that she tries to buy whatever Eight years ago, Roelf began dropping off bags of crocheted winter wear at types are on sale. Friends occasionally pitch in, and a woman at Wal-Mart Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada. This year was the first time she met once gave Roelf $20 to buy more yarn after hearing her plans for it. the recipients.

“I want to give something of myself,” said Roelf, who moved to Las Vegas 35 Staff at the downtown nonprofit agency, which provides shelter for the years ago from Germany. “It makes me feel good to put a happy face on somehomeless and other services, ushered a group of men indoors, including some body.” using wheelchairs and others hobbling with canes.

She isn’t taking a break for the holidays, either. As soon as one batch of hats “You make these?” one man asked. and scarves has been delivered, Roelf starts crocheting the next.

Roelf nodded and smiled.

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Pat Christenson, president of Las Vegas Events, welcomes the challenge of topping the record 40 million tourists who visited Southern Nevada in 2014.

(CHRISTOPHER DEVARGAS/STAFF)

Events boss: 40 million visitors is not enough

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at Christenson is at the wheel of most major events in Las Vegas, whether it’s the Las Vegas Bowl, National Finals Rodeo or a New Year’s Eve party in which seven Strip hotels blast fireworks into the sky.

2014 brought a record number of visitors to Las Vegas, and developers broke ground on MGM Resorts International’s new festival venue on the north Strip and the 22,000-seat MGM Resorts Arena mid-Strip.

Christenson, president of Las Vegas Events, is forever busy, but his responsibilities as one of the city’s leading promoters and marketing officials are expected only to grow in 2015.

We just passed 40 million tourists who visited Las Vegas in 2014. What does that mean to someone who promotes the city?

For those of us who work in developing events that bring people to town, it’s another benchmark. It’s always nice to have benchmarks, and it’s always

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nice to shoot for the next benchmark.

Everybody is proud of getting to 40 million, but what is the next benchmark? We have to just keep trying to create events that will exceed what we already have accomplished. There is no stopping that process for us.

America’s Party on New Year’s Eve, with multiple hotels on the Strip and Fremont Street involved.

That proves again that we can handle major events.

Las Vegas has a new identity as a megaJOHN club and festival KATSILOMETES city. What are your thoughts about promoting that image?

We have two things we can develop Are 40 or 41 million visitors a over the next five to 10 years, and one year going to be enough to fill is festivals. When you look at what has the new room inventory we’re been going on and the different investexpecting over the next few ments that have been made in festival years? sites and festivals, we have a great opI know, working for the LVCVA and portunity there. working with my staff, that 40 million isn’t enough. We will be continually Is it going to be a challenge to looking for events, looking for convengenerate civic support, espetions, looking for things that continue cially among competing resort to push the envelope. Let’s maximize companies, for the new arena the number of visitors we can bring since it is privately owned by here through the different specific MGM Resorts International? programs we have.

If you look at the history of Las Vegas We are bringing 340,000 here for

with the different special events all of the hotel properties have done, they all have supported them — even in the days when Caesars did their big title fights outdoors.

This is a state-of-the-art venue.

There’s nothing like it in Vegas, and there might not be anything like it in the country. The fact that they are working on new, incremental events makes it incumbent on everybody to work together to bring and grow special events.

Is that true for resorts with their own venues to fill?

Yes. That’s part of what Las Vegas Events will do. We’ll work on targeting events that can integrate all the properties.

Our slogan is, “Your Event Connections.” We need to get involved in connecting the hotel properties and the event producer, and connect all the marketing for the events.

I don’t see that as a challenge. I see that as an opportunity. We’ve got the venues, and we’ve got the expertise.

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PRAYERS FOR THE NEW YEAR

BY TOM GORMAN | STAFF WRITER

A year-end drill for many publications is to ask experts and pundits to look into their crystal balls and offer their best predictions as to what the new year will bring. ¶ We took a different approach and asked members of the local clergy to offer their prayers for 2015. We are happy to share them with you.

RABBI SANFORD AKSELRAD Congregation Ner Tamid My prayer is for a Las Vegas where people look deeper — deeper inside themselves and deeper into those they encounter, to move beyond stereotypes and prejudgments and take the opportunity to truly know and understand “the other” who enters their life.

My hope is for a Las Vegas that embraces diversity and celebrates that which we have in common.

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THE REV. RALPH E. WILLIAMSON

THE REV. DAN EDWARDS

RABBI MALCOLM COHEN

THE REV. RON ZANONI

THE REV. IAN W. RIDDELL

Senior pastor of First African Methodist Episcopal Church

Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada

Temple Sinai

Pastor at St. James the Apostle Catholic Church

Minister at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Las Vegas

With so much racial and religious conflict and tension in the world, I hope the Las Vegas community will continue to embrace diversity while respecting individuality, demonstrating to the world how to celebrate and live harmoniously, not despite diversity and difference but because within our differences and diverse cultures we find strength.

Our visibility on the national and international stage provides us this unique opportunity to be exactly who we are, and God willing, will continue to be.

My hope for 2015 is that faith groups and secular groups will work together to form a real community spirit in Las Vegas, that we will learn to serve the people who live here, that we will take concrete steps locally to improve the lives of immigrants, heal race relations by addressing injustice and give our public schools the support they need to educate our children.

I hope the Las Vegas community continues to come together in a coalition on public education and that faith groups, businesses and nonprofits can come together to support our school district in taking the education of our children to the next level.

My prayer is that we not only yearn for but work together to better the lives of all who call Southern Nevada home — that the hungry be fed, the homeless find shelter, our children receive the best education possible, our elderly be treasured and cared for, that we welcome the immigrant among us, and that all families live together in security and peace.

My deep wish for the new year is that we grow in our ability to see each other as neighbor and kin across divisions of race, age, economics and sexual orientation.

I hope we can further commit ourselves to working to build the beloved community — a community of love, justice and faithfulness to each other — here in our valley home.

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PANETTONE BREAD PUDDING RECIPE PROVIDED BY BISTRO 57 AT ALIANTE CASINO

Bread pudding started out as a poor man’s dish — merely a means of preventing stale bread from going to waste — but for centuries, chefs have refined it into a rich dessert with layers of flavor. At Bistro 57, an order will cost about $7, but the chefs have provided their recipe for home cooks to impress their friends and family over the holidays.

INGREDIENTS

(makes 8 servings)

ACCOMPANY WITH:

1 /2 cup golden raisins

1 /4 cup brandy, heated

1 /2 stick unsalted butter, softened

1 pound panettone, sliced 1-inch thick

Store-bought panettone is the foundation of this raisin and bread pudding. Because the bread is so eggy, it bakes into an extra-silky custard that contrasts with a generous expanse of buttery golden brown crispness on top. (Using a shallow pan is key.)

DIRECTIONS 1. Soak raisins in hot brandy for 15 minutes, then drain.

2. Butter panettone on both sides and cook in batches in a large, heavy skillet over medium heat until golden brown on both sides.

3. Whisk together remaining ingredients.

lightly whipped heavy cream

4. Tear panettone into bite-size pieces and spread evenly in a buttered 13-by-9-inch baking dish. Scatter raisins over top, then pour in egg mixture. Let stand for 30 minutes.

5. Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle.

/4 cup sugar

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3 large eggs, lightly beaten

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2 1/2 cups half-andhalf

2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract

6. Bake until pudding is golden and just set, 35 to 40 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.

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Their websites provide information about how you can help support animal care in our community.

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LOOKING FOR A NEW BEST FRIEND?

The Animal Foundation and the Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are shelters dedicated to finding homes for dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, turtles and even roosters. Each week, we feature a selection of animals available for adoption.

Timber (A816449)

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Tabitha

Age: 2-year-old neutered male Breed: Cairn terrier mix Description: Timber can be a little timid, but go slow and he’ll become your lifelong companion. He walks well on a leash and happily would join you on trips around the block.

Adoption fee: $155

Age: 1-year-old spayed female Breed: Domestic shorthair Description: Coco is one friendly feline! She hasn’t been around dogs, but she gets along with children and other cats. If your family needs one more, make it Coco!

Adoption fee: $100

Age: 7-year-old spayed female Breed: Tortoiseshell shorthair Description: Inca relishes lounging in cat trees and playing with mice-shaped toys. She loves friendly humans, dogs and cats.

Adoption fee: $20

Age: 6-year-old spayed female Breed: Norwegian forest mix Description: Tabitha likes to meow quietly at people and aims to please.

She appreciates simple pleasures, such as a soft cat bed and snacks.

Adoption fee: $20

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Age: 2-year-old spayed female Breed: Pit bull terrier mix Description: Ivory is smart, sweet and eager to please. She can sit and stay, and lies by the door when she needs to go out. She’s a good jumper, so a high fence is needed.

Adoption fee: $105

Age: 2-year-old female Breed: Miniature Schnauzer mix Description: Tinsel is shy but curious and needs a trusted partner. She becomes more friendly and social when she feels comfortable and would be a great couch companion.

Adoption fee: $105

Age: 2-year-old neutered male Breed: Flame point Siamese Description: Sonny is confident and mellow and likes napping by windows to soak up the sun while keeping safe indoors. He is compatible with cats and dogs.

Adoption fee: $40

Age: 1-year-old neutered male Breed: Small terrier mix Description: Toto is a chipper boy — a friendly, fun-loving youngster eager to begin a new life with someone who will never fail him.

Adoption fee: $75

Brogan (A813884)

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Whistles

Age: 3-year-old neutered male Breed: Domestic shorthair Description: Brogan takes time to warm up to new people, but get to know him and he’ll seek you out for ear and chin scratches. He’s chatty and will meow back to you.

Adoption fee: $80

Breed: Male shorthair rabbit Description: Interested in adopting a rabbit? Grizzly can’t wait to join a new family. Let this cutie hop his way into your heart!

Adoption fee: $25

Age: 9-month-old neutered male Breed: Terry-poo Description: Aniello (“little lamb”) is an affectionate puppy looking for a forever home. He enjoys people and dogs. Please puppy-proof your home and yard for his safety.

Adoption fee: $75

Age: 9-year-old spayed female Breed: Boxer mix Description: Whistles is young at heart and loves to be included in fun activities. She is compatible with most dogs and wants to feel like she belongs in a family.

Adoption fee: $35

ANIMAL FOUNDATION 702-384-3333 x131 | animalfoundation.com/adopt Animals are assigned a color next to their name indicating location: 655 N. Mojave Road, Las Vegas 286 W. Lake Mead Parkway, Henderson

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NOW, TO FINISH THEIR FIGHT

A brawl between rivals Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier at a news conference set up what may be the biggest fight of 2015

BY CASE KEEFER STAFF WRITER

Daniel Cormier continues to blame Jon Jones for the infamous brawl they had four months ago in the MGM Grand lobby. Jones blames Cormier for escalating the situation.

Neither fighter has taken full responsibility for the fight that started when Jones thrust his forehead into Cormier’s and heated up more when Cormier shoved Jones away by his neck.

“I wasn’t there to be touched,” Cormier said during a recent fight card. “I was there for a photo opportunity, and Jon took it too far.”

“A guy grabbed my throat, and I had to stand my ground and let him know that I wouldn’t put up with nonsense like that,” Jones said. “So I think I’d do it again.”

Jones and Cormier, quite possibly the two best fighters in the world, don’t agree on much of anything. Before long, they’ll take their dispute into the octagon.

The undefeated Cormier challenges Jones, the light heavyweight champion whose only loss came via disqualification in a fight he dominated, Jan. 3 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in the main event of UFC 182.

It’s expected to be one of the biggest fights of the year, in large part because of the rivalry between the two fighters. The feud between Jones and Cormier began long before they turned MGM’s foyer into a combat pit. Their schoolyard scuffle, which sent a promotional backdrop tumbling as Jones charged forward throwing punches at Cormier, was only the latest battle in a war that has raged for four years.

Cormier knew he had found an enemy from his first encounter with Jones. That was in October 2010, when Cormier had just begun transitioning into mixed martial arts from his career as a two-time Olympic wrestler.

Cormier was at UFC 121 in Anaheim, Calif., accompanying American Kickboxing Academy teammate and current UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez before his first title fight against Brock Lesnar.

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Jones, six months before becoming a champion himself, approached Cormier backstage. Familiar with Cormier’s wrestling credentials, Jones began to tease him.

Jones taunted that he could take Cormier down. Cormier was not amused.

“He insulted me,” Cormier said. “So he gave me material, and I put his picture on the wall, and I have been looking at it since then.”

For Cormier, the interaction confirmed Jones’ reputation of being cocky and fake. Jones said the whole episode was a misunderstanding.

“I had no idea he was going to be so prideful,” Jones said later.

But Jones never let up. As Cormier worked his way through the heavyweight ranks, never losing so much as a round, Jones routinely dismissed him or made barbs about his weight. Cormier since has dropped to light heavyweight.

Cormier also called out Jones regularly, issuing him warnings for more than a year before the UFC booked their fight.

The talk from both sides seemed innocent enough — to everyone except the two fighters involved.

“His mouth is what has gotten him in this situation,” Jones said. “I’m dealing with a guy who’s a smooth talker, and I’m always going to react when I’m getting insulted.”

Cormier can’t bite his tongue, either. He reacts incredulously every time Jones refers to him as the instigator.

“He shouldn’t deflect it on me,” Cormier said. “He started this.”

In the case of the MGM brawl, the Nevada State Athletic Commission sided with Cormier. Jones received a much harsher penalty — a $50,000 fine and 40 hours of local community service. Cormier was fined $9,000 and assigned 20 hours of community service in his home city of San Jose, Calif.

The fighters, to this day, refuse to apologize to each other.

“I’m going to push that man to a place he’s never been in his life,” Cormier said. “I will make Jon Jones quit.”

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UFC DELIVERS BIG ON NEW YEAR’S WEEKENDS It was no surprise that the UFC rescheduled Jones vs. Cormier for Jan. 3 after Jones injured his knee before the originally scheduled date in September.

The UFC has staged many of its most significant fights on New Year’s Eve weekend in Las Vegas.

This is the ninth year a fight has been part of the Strip festivities.

The company rarely skimps in providing one of the most highly demanded events of the year in the slot.

The UFC has sold more than 1 million pay-per-views seven times in history, according to MMAPayout.com. Three of those came on the holiday cards, including the first and latest.

Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz had a grudge match at UFC 66, in the main event of the first New Year’s Eve weekend card in 2006, and notched close to 1,050,000 buys. Last year’s event, UFC 168, featured rematches between Chris Weidman and Anderson Silva as well Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate, selling about 1,025,000 payper-views.

UFC 168 also broke the Nevada record for attendance at a UFC event, with 15,650 spectators for a gate of $6.2 million.

UFC FEUD Top photo, Daniel Cormier, right, shoves UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones during a UFC news conference Aug. 4 at the MGM Grand.

Bottom left, Jones pushes past Dave Sholler, UFC senior director of public relations, while trying to to get back to Cormier. Cormier’s shove, prompted by Jones, who thrust his forehead into Cormier, touched off a brawl that led to both men being disciplined by the Nevada State Athletic Commission — a $50,000 fine and 40 hours of community service for Jones, and a $9,000 fine and 20 hours of community service for Cormier. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

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Information: First entry is free, with additional entries per 500 points earned that day. First place is $1,000 in slot play. Top 20 players win slot play prizes, which must be used within 24 hours. Winners must pick up prizes between 6 and 11:59 p.m. the day of the tournament.

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Holiday multipliers Date: Through Dec. 31 Information: Earn 6x multiplier on video poker and 12x on all reels.

Champagne giveaway Date: Dec. 30 Information: Earn 250 slot points or $10 rated average bet for two hours to redeem one bottle of Ballatore Champagne.

Aliante Armada kiosk game Date: Jan. 2-31 Information: Guess the location of 12 ships on a kiosk game board. Receive one free hit daily. Earn 150 reel points, 500 video poker points or $10 rated average bet per hour to receive additional hits, up to three per day. A “miss” wins drawing entries; a “hit” wins prizes, including free slot play, dining and resort credits, point grants and more; each sunken ship wins a bonus prize. The first person to sink the entire fleet wins $10,000.

Other players who sink the fleet win up to $1,000 in free slot play. $70,000 Aliante Armada drawings Date: Saturdays in January Information: Ten names will be called, two people will play. Hits win from $100 in free slot play to $3,500.

Other guests will receive $250 in free slot play. On Jan. 31, there will be drawings at 7:15, 8:15 and 9:15 p.m.

Ten names will be called, with two people at each drawing earning a chance to play the Aliante Armada game. First place wins $5,000 in free slot play; second place wins $3,000 in free slot play; all other winners receive $500. $5,000 Hot Seat Battle Rounds Date: January Information: All carded slot players qualify. On random days, guests will be picked to participate in the Aliante Armada Game.

Mobile madness Date: Tuesdays in January Information: Qualified guests will receive a message via the Aliante mobile app to swipe at a kiosk for a bonus prize. Prizes are free slot play up to $1,000.

Information: Earn 6x multiplier on video poker and 12x on all reels.

Sweatshirt giveaway Date: January Information: Earn 600 video poker points, 300 reel points or $10 rated average bet for two hours on table games and receive a sweatshirt. One per guest while supplies last. Limited to the first 5,000 guests.

New Year’s Day dauber giveaway Date: Jan. 1 Information: Free dauber giveaway during all sessions.

WESTGATE Rockin’ 777 slot tournament Date: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays Time: 4-8 p.m.

Information: Free to loyalty club members. Top five winners get $100 in free slot play.

BOYD GAMING Pick the pros Date: Weekly contest Information: Players have a chance at a guaranteed first-place prize of $10,000 each week. Loyalty card required.

ORLEANS Holiday hot seat Date: Dec. 28 Time: 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

Information: Random machine players will be selected every 15 minutes to win $100 cash.

Point multipliers Date: Jan. 1 Information: Receive 15x points on all penny reels from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

RAMPART CASINO $2,500 50-plus slot tournament Date: Jan. 12 Information: Play in a free three-minute slot session from noon to 4 p.m.

Top 25 scores will share $2,500 in free slot play. Open to all Aliante Players Club members 50 and older.

Prize is Right Spin and Win Promotion on 50-plus Play Day Date: Mondays in January Information: Earn 50 slot points and spin to win up to $500 in free slot play and other prizes. For Aliante Players Club members 50 and older.

January multipliers Date: Wednesdays in January Information: Earn 5x multiplier on video poker and 10x on all reels.

New Year multipliers Date: Jan. 1

Pirate’s Treasure progressive drawings Date: Last Wednesday of the month Time: 6:15 and 8:15 p.m.

Information: Ten winners at each drawing. Progressive jackpot increases every month it doesn’t hit.

GOLD COAST Holiday point multipliers Date: Jan. 1 Information: Earn 15x points on penny reels.

SILVER SEVENS Halftime drawings Date: Last Monday of every month Information: Earn entries through slot play. Prizes include official team jerseys, free slot play and more.

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Point multipliers Date: Thursdays and Saturdays Information: Earn 3x points on video poker and 7x points on slots on Thursdays; earn 4x points on video poker and 10x points on slots on Saturdays.

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50-plus party Date: Tuesdays Information: Players 50 and older can participate in a slot tournament, get point multipliers, earn slot play bonuses and get other incentives.

Point multipliers Dates: Mondays Information: 4x points on reels and video reels and 2x points on video poker.

GOLDEN NUGGET Point multiplier Mondays Date: During football season Information: Earn 10x points on video reel machines and 5x points on video poker.

EL CORTEZ Gift card giveaway Date: December Information: Players who win a $200 or more jackpot on a slot machine, a $200 or more jackpot on a video poker 5-cent or lower denomination machine, a $300 or more jackpot on a video poker 10-cent or higher denomination machine, or a $200 or more jackpot on live keno receive their choice of free gift card from El Cortez, Wal-Mart, Walgreens, Shell, Chevron, Smith’s or Zappos.com.

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M RESORT Touchdown football drawing Date: Through Dec. 28 Information: Hit any four-of-a-kind combination with a minimum bet of 25 cents on bar-top video poker machines during select football games at 32° Draft Bar, M Bar or the main casino bar to be entered into a drawing for a Super Bowl getaway.

Final 2014 warehouse gift event Date: Dec. 29 Time: 1-6 p.m.

Information: Earn 300 same-day base points from 12:01 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. to be eligible. Two-for-one T-shirt blowout and limited M gifts available.

Cheers to the New Year $25,000 slot tournament Date: Dec. 30 Time: 2-8 p.m.

Information: Earn 400 reel slot or 800 video poker same-day base points from 4 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. to receive entries. Maximum of five entries can be earned. Each entry consists of one five-minute session in a slot tournament that runs 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Top 100 finishers win. First place is $7,500 cash or free play.

New Year’s Eve $50,000 free slot play giveaway Date: Dec. 31 Time: 6 p.m.-1 a.m.

Information: Drawings every 30 minutes with 10 winners at each drawing. Receive an entry by earning 250 reel slot or 500 video poker sameday base points from 4 a.m. Dec. 31 to 12:30 a.m. Jan. 1. Top winner gets $1,000 in free play.

New Year’s Eve $25,000 Table Games Hot Cash giveaway Date: Dec. 31 Time: 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Information: Cash drawings every hour. Earn entries by getting select hands at table games starting Dec. 28. Top winner gets $1,500 cash. $25,000 New Year’s Day Drawings Date: Jan. 1 Time: 5-10 p.m.

Information: Ten winners every 30 minutes. Receive entries by earning 250 reel slot or 500 video poker same-day base points from 4 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Jan. 1. Top winner gets $1,000 in free slot play.

BINION’S 2x points Date: Thursdays in December Information: Earn double points with a loyalty card. $2,000 blackjack tournament Date: Fridays Information: Throughout the week,

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guests on the casino floor can qualify to play in blackjack round from 6 to 8 p.m. The top three winners receive $250, $750 and $1,000.

Cash Drawing will take place at 6:15 p.m. Jan. 30. Five people will win cash prizes. The top prize is $10,000.

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New Year’s week point challenge Date: Dec. 29-Jan. 2 Information: For every 2,500 base points earned, guests can pick a card and receive $15 to $250 in free slot play. On Jan. 2, receive a $100 cash bonus for every 5,000 total base points earned, up to $500 cash.

Wrap up holiday cash Date: Through Dec. 31 Information: For every 10,000 base points earned, receive $50 cash.

WILLIAM HILL RACE & SPORTS BOOK Pro Pick’em football contest Date: Through December Information: Pick the winning teams to collect your share of $13,000 each week of the football season.

20/20 College Bowl Challenge Date: Dec. 28-29 Information: Pick 20 college bowl games against the spread for your chance at $30,000 cash. Go 20 for 20 and receive a $100,000 bonus.

TUSCANY 5x points Date: Wednesdays Time: Midnight-5 a.m.

Information: Rewards members get 5x points on slot, reel and video poker games.

Gift card giveaway Date: Dec. 30 Information: Earn 1,000 points for a $10 gift card to Wal-Mart, Rebel Gas or Albertsons.

SLS Gift giveaways Date: Dec. 31 Information: Earn 250 slot points for a free gift, including SLS sweatshirts, blankets, organizers and wine. $2,000 slot tournament Date: Dec. 30 Information: To participate, earn 100 points while playing slots. Top three players win $1,000, $750 or $250 in free play, and everyone is guaranteed $5 in free play.

Winter warm-up giveaway and drawing Date: Jan. 6-30 Information: For every 1,000 base points earned each week, guests will receive a gift or entry into a $20,000 cash drawing. Earn up to two gifts each week and keep playing for drawing entries. From Jan 26-30, receive a drawing ticket for every 500 points earned. The $20,000 Big

SILVERTON $10,000 Reel & Win weekly slot tournament Date: Tuesdays Time: Registration 11 a.m., tournament noon-5 p.m.

Information: Open to rewards card members. First entry is free; earn additional entries for every 100 points earned from noon to 4 p.m. Prize payouts begin at 6 p.m., with a top prize of $1,000 and a prize pool of $10,000.

Twelve Lucky Elves swipe and win Date: Dec. 28-31 Information: Guests who earn 300 points in one day can win up to $12,000 in cash or free slot play.

Guests who earn 1,000 points in one day can win up to $24,000 in cash or free slot play.

Table games drawings Date: Dec. 31 Time: 8 and 9 p.m.

Information: Each drawing will have 10 winners. Top prize is $1,000 cash or chips. Earn entries by getting qualifying hands at table games.

Earn 2x entries from 3 to 8 p.m.

CLUB FORTUNE Top of the Hill slot tournament Date: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays Time: 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

Information: Cash prizes.

HOOTERS 5x points Date: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays Information: Club members receive 5x points on select slot machines.

PLAZA Spin to Win Date: Daily Information: Win up to $1,000 10x points Date: Tuesdays Information: Earn 10x points on reel slots.

50-plus slot tournament Date: Wednesdays Time: 10 a.m.

Information: Best combined score from two sessions wins $1,000.

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YOUTH COMMENTARY

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Opinions of young people are worth listening to About 1,000 juniors and seniors from high schools throughout Southern Nevada recently participated in the 58th annual Sun Youth Forum at the Las Vegas Convention Center. They gathered in groups to discuss a variety of topics that affect their community, Nevada, the nation and the world. Each group chose a representative to write about the experience. Here is one of them.

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eople often say young people are our future, but I think they’re wrong. Our youth are our present.

The world is changing because we are willing it to do so, through our passion and activism.

CAITLYN Recently, I had the opportunity to be in a ANDERSON room full of teenagers who think similarly.

Junior, Nevada Learning Academy The Las Vegas Sun Youth Forum allowed me to speak with passionate students about issues affecting us in Nevada. Topics included sex education, access to birth control and lowering the drinking age to 18.

The Clark County School District recently held meetings to discuss reforming the sex education curriculum. Students are concerned because many of us feel we aren’t receiving the information we need.

As students shared stories about sex education, there was shock at the variation of content we’d been taught. Some said by the time they were in sex education, there were already-pregnant sitting 5549_SPatSunday_2_FIN.pdf 2 3/5/14 7:51 teenagers AM

beside them. Others were upset that some parents had tried to sweep the issue of sexual identity under the rug during curriculum conversations.

There was consensus, with no opposition in a room of more than 20 students, that we need updated, improved sex education. It should be mandatory, fact-based and inclusive; it should teach safer sex; and it should provide us information about where we can access resources such as birth control.

Schools need to do a better job of providing us with lists of resources, beginning with posting clinic information in health offices.

The discussion soon shifted to lowering the drinking age to 18. Some students stood firm that 18- to 21-year-olds already are drinking alcohol, so lowering the legal age would allow for safer behavior, fewer nonviolent offenders in prison and more money funneling into our economy. There was strong sentiment that it would encourage safer behavior, such as young people seeking

help if they need it while drinking, rather than hiding it and harming themselves or others.

Conversely, some students were concerned that lowering the age limit could lead to more people driving under the influence.

They argued that our maturity levels might not be strong enough to have such responsibility.

There was no consensus because we needed more studies and conversations on the topic.

It is clear that students have a lot to say.

Events such as the youth forum give young people the space to voice our concerns and opinions while advocating for change.

The overall feeling among us was that in many instances, our voices aren’t being heard. They need to be.

We need adults, decision makers, administrators and our school board to bring us to the table when they are making decisions that affect us.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28 Oil recycling: Bring your used cooking oil and grease to the Springs Preserve for safe recycling. Pour used oil back in its original container, seal it, then bring it to the special collection receptacle in the south ticketing parking area. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., free, Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd., springspreserve.org. *Also: Through Jan. 15.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 29 Reflecting & Projecting: 20 Years of Design Excellence: This exhibit celebrates the architecture produced in Nevada over the past 20 years.

9 a.m.-5 p.m., free, Marjorie Barrick Museum, UNLV, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-895-3381. *Also: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, noon-5 p.m.

Saturdays through Feb. 28.

Stroller Strides: This total fitness program for women and their babies combines power walking, jogging, body toning and strength exercises using the stroller and the environment. The program also engages children with songs and activities.

8:30-9:30 a.m., Town Square Park, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. South, lasvegas.fit4mom.com, 702-882-1795. *Also: Wednesdays and Fridays.

Improv Kingdom comedy class and show: Get your feet wet in improvisational comedy with players of all skill levels. Tackle the basics and play theater games, then see a show. Class at 6 p.m., show at 8 p.m., $10, the Baobab Stage Theater, 6587 Las Vegas Blvd. South, baobabstage. com.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30 Kwanzaa celebration and lunch:

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Evolve Vegas New Year’s Eve celebration: Drag queen Edie of “Zumanity” hosts the evening, which features Jujubee and Raven from “Ru Paul’s Drag Race.” Free wedding ceremonies are available to four same-sex couples. 10:30 p.m., $95, Havana Room, Tropicana, 3801 Las Vegas Blvd. South, evolvevegasnye. com.

George Bugatti: The singer, songwriter and pianist will perform at Le Bistro Lounge. Guests must be 21 or older. 11 p.m.-1 a.m., free, Riviera, 2901 Las Vegas Blvd. South, rivierahotel.com, georgebutgatti.com.

Christmas tree recycling: An easy way to get rid of your Christmas tree.

Remove lights, wire, tinsel, ornaments and nails. Flocked trees cannot be recycled. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., multiple locations including Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd., springspreserve.org *Also: Through Jan. 15.

D3 Holiday Hoops Classic: This college basketball tournament features NCAA Division III men’s and women’s teams. 11 a.m., $20, South Point, 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. South, southpointarena.com, 702-796-7111.

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Enjoy a light lunch of African traditional foods. For people age 50 and older; advance registration required. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., $5, Derfelt Senior Center, Lorenzi Park, 3333 W. Washington Ave., 702-229-6601.

Vintage Vegas Jazz: Enjoy a night of dancing and jazz with the DRS Trio. 7-10 p.m., $4 for nonmembers, $5 for dinner, German American Social Club of Nevada, 1110 E. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-649-8503 La Casa Cigars Lounge: Listen to blues on Tuesdays, Cuban music on Wednesdays, soul on Thursdays, jazz on Fridays and R&B on Saturdays.

Closed New Year’s Day. 8:30 p.m., free, La Casa Cigars Lounge, Tivoli Village, 440 S. Rampart Blvd. *Also: Wednesdays through Saturdays.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31 House of Paper Birds: The Cosmopolitan brings artist JK Russ to the Strip. Her collage installation turns the foundation of contemporary biological classification on its head.

6-11 p.m., free, P3Studio, the Cosmopolitan, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South, cosmopolitanlasvegas.com. *Also: Through Jan. 4.

New Year’s Eve at Tivoli Village: Eat, drink and ring in the new year at Tivoli Village. Free rides home are available within 10 miles. 8 p.m.-2 a.m., free, Tivoli Village, 440 S. Rampart Blvd.

Noon Year’s Eve party: Enjoy a New Year’s Eve party early in the day with food and festivities. For people age 50 or older; registration required. 10 a.m.-noon, $5, Lieburn Senior Center, 6230 Garwood Ave., 702-229-1600.

Noon Year’s Eve for kids: Celebrate the new year with your little ones.

Attractions include an inflatable slide and rock wall, bounce houses, face painting, balloon artists, live music and a dance party. 10 a.m.–1 p.m., free, Town Square, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd., South, mytownsquarelasvegas.com.

Michael Feinstein’s New Year’s Eve: Ring out the old and ring in the new with Grammy Award nominee Michael Feinstein. Special guests include Broadway star Laura Osnes and “American Idol: Season 11” finalist Jessica Sanchez. 7:30 p.m., $49-$199, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, 361 Symphony Park Ave., thesmithcenter.com.

Glitterati gala party: This New Year’s Eve party features the Graceland Ninjaz and Roxy Gunn Project. 7 p.m., $15, House of Blues, Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South, houseofblues.com/lasvegas Ditch the Strip parties: Enjoy live music, dancing, drink specials, party favors and a Champagne toast at midnight. 9 p.m., free, Remedy’s, 3265 St. Rose Parkway; Remedy’s, 530 Conestoga Way; Elixir, 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway; Distill, 10820 W. Charleston Blvd.; or Distill, 4830 W. Pyle Ave., remedystavern.com,

Commitment Day festival: A pet-friendly, stroller-friendly 5K fun run in Summerin and kids 1K fun run that’s open to all ages and abilities.

The run is followed by an indoor Ironman Triathlon workout, a “Stop Trying to Lose Weight” fit talk, an all-ages Zumba jam, workshops, group cycling classes, yoga and more.

9 a.m., $25 for 5K run and Ironman workout, other activities free, Life Time Athletic Summerlin, 10721 W. Charleston Blvd., Life Time Athletic Green Valley, 121 Carnegie St., lifetimefitness.com.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 2 Sinatra Sensation: Enjoy the sounds of vintage Vegas, performed by tribute artist Peter Pavone. 7 p.m., free, two-drink minimum, The Parlour, El Cortez, 600 Fremont St., elcortezhotelcasino.com.

Scottish country dancing: Celebrate the ballroom styles of Scotland. Wear comfortable clothes and soft shoes. 6:30-8:45 p.m., $4-$5, Charleston Heights Arts Center, 800 S. Brush St., 702-229-6383 First Friday: A monthly arts and entertainment festival. This month’s theme is “Endless Summer,” a Hawaiian- and Polynesian-inspired gathering. 5-11 p.m., free, downtown Las Vegas, firstfridaylasvegas.com.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 3 The Mob on Trial: The Kefauver Hearings and their impact on organized crime: David Schwartz, director of UNLV’s Center for Gaming Research, will talk about the hearings and their impact on organized crime, law enforcement and state gaming regulations. 7 p.m., free, Clark County Library, 1401

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Cleveland Museum of Art Series: A videoconference conversation about the New Testament. This edition introduces depictions of Jesus, Mary and John the Baptist in paintings, prints and carved ivory. 11 a.m.-noon, free, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, 888 W. Bonneville Ave., keepmemoryalive. org/socialservices, 702.778.6702.

Qi Gong and Tai Chi for Health, Vitality & Longevity: Bring a lunch; drinks and dessert will be provided.

Noon-1 p.m., free, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, 888 W. Bonneville Ave., keepmemoryalive.org/socialservices, 702.778.6702.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 8 Ward 5 Coffee with the Councilman: Join Ward 5 Councilman Ricki Barlow for coffee and to talk about how to improve Ward 5 and the city of Las Vegas. 9-10 a.m., free, Starbucks, 751 N. Rancho Drive.

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Las Vegas Stories: A History of Las Vegas Neon: This monthly series examines the history of Las Vegas and its people. 7 p.m., free, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, lvccld.org.

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7:30 p.m., $20-$65, Orleans Arena, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., orleansarena.com. *Also: Friday through Sunday.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 9 Moscow Nights and the Golden Gates: An Evening of Russian Folk Music, Dance and Stories: A Russian ensemble of musicians. 7 p.m., free, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, lvccld.org.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 10 Couponing 101: Learn how, when and where to save money using simple tips and techniques. 10:30 a.m., free, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, lvccld.org.

Affordable Care Act information session: Learn about important dates and resources, how the Affordable Care Act affects you and your family, and how to enroll in a health plan.

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Employees burn about two hours of time on nonwork-related activity. What you can do about it.

BY DANIELLE BIRKIN | SPECIAL TO VEGAS INC

It’s 2 p.m. Tuesday. Managers, what are your employees most likely doing? ¶ Updating a Facebook status? Texting relatives? Dissecting the latest episode of “The Walking Dead”? Or working on the Acme account? ¶ If you guessed one of the first three — or any other lollygagging on company time — you’d be correct about 25 percent of the time, according to a 2012 survey by Salary.com and AOL. American employees squander more than two hours each workday, TIME WASTERS, CONTINUED ON PAGE 53

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CONTENTS PUBLISHER Donn Jersey (donn.jersey@gmgvegas.com)

EDITORIAL

NOTEWORTHY STORIES

47 48 56 Q+A WITH SHELLI RYAN

She’s the chairwoman of the board for the Stride Center and Dress for Success Southern Nevada, in addition to being CEO of her own consulting company. Shelli Ryan talks about corporate life as a woman, her goals for the nonprofit groups she is so passionate about, and her warm but disciplined management style.

MEET: AXIM FRINGE SOLUTIONS GROUP

James Campbell, a veteran of the U.S. Marines, explains what makes his human resources consulting company unique.

THE NOTES People on the move, P46 TALKING POINTS Pro hockey could have trickle-down effect, 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 List: Largest conventions in 2014, P60

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for innovative space, food and beverage selection and presentation and overall “wow” factor.

Dana Bennett is Nevada Mining Association president, succeeding Tim Crowley. Bennett owns Bennett Historical Research Services and is former regional director of the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority won two national awards from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada. For the 26th consecutive year, the LVCVA received the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award, and for the seventh consecutive year, it received the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Annual Financial Reporting.

Nevada Pain is accepting patients with Dr. Neville Campbell, who offers medication management and interventional procedures. Campbell’s office is 1681 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, Henderson.

Lori Murphy is the 2015 chapter chairwoman of Score Las Vegas, which provides free counseling and mentoring to small-business owners, managers and entrepreneurs.

Leah Irons is a financial operations representative at Clark County Credit Union.

Clark Wood is U.S. Bank market president in Las Vegas, leading the company’s middle-market commercial banking team and gaming business nationally. He succeeds Lori Soren, who retired.

Dan Lee is CEO of Full House Resorts, which develops, owns and manages casinos in Nevada, Indiana, Mississippi and elsewhere.

Robert McCord is a senior fellow at the Kenny Guinn Center for Policy Priorities. McCord is an associate professor emeritus at the UNLV School of Education and owner and principal of Education Management and Consulting Services.

Michael Esposito is an associate at Gordon Silver in the estate planning, probate and guardianship, corporate and securities and real estate transactions practice groups.

Bob Roper will be the new administrator of the Nevada Division of Forestry in the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

Attorney Michael Lowry’s “Compelling Discovery” blog was named one of the country’s top 100 legal blogs by the ABA Journal. Lowry practices at Thorndal Armstrong Delk Balkenbush & Eisinger.

Michelle Layton is executive director of the Las Vegas Downtown Achieves Program, a public/private partnership that helps children who go to school downtown. Layton previously was community affairs executive director and community promotions director at KLAS 8 News Now.

Betradar will provide CG Analytics with access to a comprehensive package of pregame and live odds data.

The Las Vegas Latin Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the Nevada Small Business Development Center, graduated 27 students from its Money Smart/Como Empezar un Negocio (How to Start a Business) Saturday class. The students had to attend six weekend sessions to qualify for the diploma. broke ground on the All Net Resort & Arena. The $1.4 billion, privately funded, multiuse development is scheduled to open in early 2017 on the former Wet ’n Wild site on the Strip.

Commercial Alliance Las Vegas has new officers and directors for 2015. Bobbi Miracle is president. Miracle, of Commercial Executives Real MIRACLE Estate Services, previously served as president-elect and a director of CALV’s board.

Other members include Hayim Mizrachi, immediate past president; Soozi Jones Walker, president-elect; Cathy Jones, treasurer; Paul Bell, director; Chris McGarey, director; Jennifer Ott, director; Tedd Rosenstein, director; and Tom Lisiewski, director. Board members are Robin Civish, CCIM; Xavier Wasiak, SIOR; Rod Martin, Nevada Association of Industrial and Office Properties; McGarey, Institute of Real Estate Management; Melissa Campanella, Commercial Real Estate Women; Lisiewski, Commercial Marketing Group; Andrea Blue, Building Owners and Managers Association; Petra Latch, Las Vegas Appraisal Institute; and Bob Burley, Nevada Business Brokers Association.

Larry Barnard is president and CEO of St. Rose Dominican HospitalsSan Martin Campus. He was CEO of UMC.

Laura Jacobsen is an associate at McDonald Carano Wilson. She is a 2011 graduate of Stanford Law School, where she also completed her undergraduate studies.

Jackie Robinson, a former UNLV and NBA player and businessman,

Kevin Burke, president and CEO of Burke Construction Group, was

Celebrity chef Alex Stratta opened Tapas by Alex Stratta at Tivoli Village.

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reappointed to the Nevada State Contractor’s Board.

Robert Caldwell, a shareholder at Kolesar & Leatham, was elected president of the UIA Litigation Commission, the oldest international associaCALDWELL tion of lawyers in the world, with more than 2,000 members and 200 bar associations from more than 110 countries.

Caldwell is the only Nevada member.

Sean DiCicco, vice president of food and beverage at Mandalay Bay, is president and chairman of the Epicurean Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides scholarships and mentoring for students pursuing careers in hospitality or culinary arts. The chairman of the board is Michael Kennedy, director of food operations at South Point.

Comedy-magician Mac King was named Entertainer of the Year at Win-Win Entertainment’s Headliners Bash 2014, presented by the John C. Kish Foundation.

TMC Financing provided more than $20 million in SBA 504 financing during fiscal year 2014 to become the leading Small Business Administration-certified development company in Nevada, based on value of loans.

Staff from Gaming Laboratories International successfully conducted GLI’s first Master’s Level Commissioner Certification Training for the National Indian Gaming Association.

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The Las Vegas chapter of the National Association for Catering and Events named Picnic at the Downtown Grand its 2014 meeting venue of the year. Picnic, the resort’s rooftop pool area, was recognized

AT&T launched High Definition Voice in the Las Vegas area, providing improved audio quality while surfing the Web. Callers need to be in an AT&T HD Voice coverage area using an AT&T HD Voice-capable device with HD Voice set up on their account.

Sensavis will distribute Business Continuity Technologies’ 3D Classroom, which helps lecturers explain complex and abstract subjects in understandable ways.

PT’s Entertainment Group opened its first Cigar Lounge, in Sean Patrick’s Pub & Grill at 11930 Southern Highlands Parkway, Las Vegas.

Four Southern Nevada companies earned perfect scores on the 2015 Corporate Equality Index, a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBT workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Top marks were earned by Caesars Entertainment Corp., MGM Resorts International, Cosmopolitan and Wynn Resorts.

Mahana Spa at Tahiti Village, 7200 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, is open to the public.

Aria teamed with Las Vegas’ Sin City Brewing Company to create a special edition Sin City Extra Pale Ale that will be available only at Aria.

Clear, which provides biometric identity systems, installed fingerprint and iris verification systems at McCarran International Airport.

Centennial Hills Hospital opened a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that can care for newborns who arrive as early as 23 weeks. The hospital added nine Level III beds, bringing the total to 15, and installed oversized bays for twins and triplets and other specialized equipment.

CenturyLink invested in the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance’s “Engage Southern Nevada” campaign, a three-year effort to raise $7.5 million for regional economic development.

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Q&A WITH SHELLI RYAN

Combining warmth with military-style precision Shelli Ryan is a busy woman in the business and philanthropic worlds. As CEO of Ad Hoc Communication Resources, an international consulting company she founded in 1996, she manages campaigns and teams all over the world. And away from the office, she works tirelessly as chairwoman for the Stride Center and Dress for Success Southern Nevada, nonprofit organizations that empower disadvantaged people to work toward fulfilling careers.

What do you hope to accomplish as board chairwoman for the Stride Center?

My passion is fighting poverty by helping lowincome adults with barriers to employment achieve financial self-sufficiency. The Stride Center is one of California’s most effective workforce development organizations in training and placing the disadvantaged in vibrant, well-paying, upwardly mobile careers in the technology field.

As chairwoman, I hope to lead the social enterprise and its 34 staffers to accomplish three things: 1) To continue to deliver high-impact programs to low-income men, women and families.

2) To play an essential role to close the projected 1 million-worker gap in the information technology sector between now and 2020.

3) To empower those who come in contact with the Stride Center to know: Not all is beyond your control.

As the second woman to chair the board since the company’s inception in 1999, what are your goals for diversifying the company?

I broke into the technology field at 19 by writing software programming manuals for an engineering company, and I’ve been representing major multinational companies in the field ever since.

Through most of my career, I’ve observed that women need to work harder, smarter and faster to be seen as equals to their male counterparts and to be recognized by upper management.

Perhaps the brightest hope is that, because of the visibility I bring as a female chair and by sharing my story, my example in some small way plays a role in empowering women not only to get into the technology field and get in the game but to play to win.

You also are board chairwoman for Dress for Success Southern Nevada. Tell us about the organization.

A neighbor of mine had been an executive director for Dress for Success in New Jersey and served on the worldwide board of directors. I had just relocated to Las Vegas from the Midwest and wanted to make a difference. She connected me to the founder of Dress for Success Southern Nevada, Paige Candee, and I joined her as a founding board member.

When Paige stepped down as acting chair and founder in 2012, I was nominated and unanimously approved by the board of directors as the new chairwoman. To date, we have served over 1,600 women in the valley with interview attire, a network of support and a variety of job-readiness programs.

But what I’m most proud of is our new career cen-

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Shelli Ryan is board chairwoman for Dress for Success Southern Nevada, CEO of technology consultancy Ad Hoc Communication Resources and board chairwoman for the Stride Center. (L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)

ter, which provides our ladies with much-needed technology services, hardware and software, and experts who teach and advise them on how to conduct their best interview. Some of our clients don’t own a computer or know how to use the Internet, so this was a very big accomplishment for us.

Complementing the career center is our new mentoring program that matches clients with volunteer mentors.

What is the most challenging part of your job?

Hearing the phrase, “We can’t do it that way, because this is how we’ve always done it.”

What is the most rewarding part of your job?

About 80 percent of our business at Ad Hoc comes through referrals by clients or former clients. Our company helps chief sales officers of multinational companies get the most out of their marketing departments by nesting our outsourced chief marketing officers inside their team and providing them marketing services they may not have internally.

The most rewarding part of my job has been following our executives from company to company as they climb the corporate ladder and take us with them. Some executives have been with the Ad Hoc family for decades.

What are you reading right now?

I usually read biographies of businesspeople and

try to reverse engineer their success. Lately, I have enjoyed fun, fast-reading books from Omaha author Rainbow Rowell. I just finished “Landline.” I am now ready to turn the pages of “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed.

Blackberry, iPhone or Android?

I’m very much a Blackberry girl but was forced to go to the Android several years ago after my ISP quit supporting the Blackberry network. It was a sad day.

Describe your management style.

I try to adjust my style of management to each situation, since part of my job is to assess the best way to complete a project efficiently and the style of leadership that works best with staff dynamics. However, I have been known for a style that combines warmth with military-style precision to empower teams.

What is your dream job?

Ice cream tester.

What is something that people might not know about you?

I played the accordion for nearly 10 years growing up.

Anything else you want to tell us?

I love Las Vegas, both for my business and life.

Wouldn’t be anywhere else.

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BY THE NUMBERS

NO. 1

Las Vegas’ national ranking for underwater borrowers — 27.8 percent — in the third quarter, according to Zillow. The national rate was 16.9 percent.

$8 BILLION

Collective income of Nevada’s Hispanic residents after taxes in 2013 — 16 percent of the state’s spending power, according to a study by the Partnership for a New American Economy.

2.43 PERCENT

Increase in shares of Caesars Entertainment stock at the close of trading Dec. 19, after company officials announced its largest subsidiary reached an agreement with creditors on a financial restructuring plan.

$5.2 MILLION

Amount Charles Horky, CEO of CLS Transportation, a limousine service, agreed to forfeit after pleading guilty to a federal racketeering charge that prosecutors say involved a multimillion-dollar prostitution, drug trafficking and fraud scheme.

7.1 PERCENT

Unemployment rate in Las Vegas in November, up from 6.8 percent in October.

70,500

Number of jobless workers in Las Vegas in November, compared with about 67,500 in October, according to the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

40 MILLION

Approximate number of people the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority says visited Las Vegas in 2014, an all-time record.

$1.73 BILLION Amount Deutsche Bank sold the Cosmopolitan for to a division of the Blackstone Group.

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James Campbell is CEO of Axim Fringe Solutions Group, a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business that offers human resources consulting. (L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)

Subcontracting HR has benefits ing and DoL compliance. With this AXIM FRINGE expertise, we can build customized Axim Fringe Solutions Group is SOLUTIONS GROUP Address: 6445 S. Tenaya Way, Suite benefit packages that are specific for primarily a human resources con120 (LoftWorks) each of our clients’ needs and still sulting company. We provide a variPhone: 240-720-0313 help them eliminate costs. ety of HR services that include benEmail: jcampbell@aximsg.com Lastly, we are the only certified efits consulting and administration, Website: aximfsg.com Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Department of Labor compliance Hours of operation: 8 a.m.

Small Business that is a contractor services, fringe dollar accounting to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday with these capabilities.

Our cost is and technology and human capital Owned/operated by: James Campbell eliminated because our clients can management for government conIn business since: 2011 apply our fees toward fulfilling settractors. Specifically, we provide aside requirements. Set asides are these services for employees workthe fixed percentages of a federal ing under Service Contract Act, contract’s total dollar value that are allocated with the inDavis-Bacon Act or other wage determination-mandated tent of utilizing specific businesses such as small, veterancontracts as well as Defense Base Act contracts for overowned, women-owned, minority-owned, etc. seas operations.

Describe your business.

Who are your customers?

Federal contractors that work with SCA, DBA, wage determination or Defense Base Act-mandated contracts.

On a smaller scale, our customers are also the individual contract employees that we provide benefits, fringe dollar accounting and DoL compliance services for. Whether there are 100 or 100,000 employees on a contract, we are responsible for everyone.

What makes your business unique?

There are a few things that set us apart from our competitors. We have devised a unique business model and methodology around being a collaborative partner to contractors that are subject to SCA, DBA, wage determination and Defense Base Act contracts. Our main difference is that we team with our clients as a subcontractor, not as a vendor.

We are not trying to just sell a product to our clients and then disappear. We bring a unique mix of knowledge to our clients as our expertise is in benefits, federal contract-

What is the best part about doing business in Southern Nevada?

The business environment is conducive for growth, which will help us as we expand and launch our wellness technology platform next year. There is a large talent pool to draw from, and we are in the same city as the multitude of contractors that support Creech and Nellis Air Force bases — and a direct flight to all the other bases west of Texas.

How can Southern Nevada improve its business climate?

I’d like to see more small-business incentives to keep my business and others like us growing. I don’t expect Teslasize incentives for a small business, but it would be great to see more hiring and tax incentives on a smaller scale.

What have you learned from the recession?

Chin down, hands up and keep fighting. There is always a chance.

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On Conor Shine’s lasvegassun.com story “City Council approves funding for Las Vegas soccer stadium”: Traffic in this area is already a disaster with the Smith Center and World Market … Stick this white elephant out in Jean.

— Summerof69 Yay, now we’re just like Detroit! Politicians ripping off the public for personal gain. — ScottPurcell Even the Rebels could play football in that stadium. It will be better than Sam Boyd. — LasVegas9 Carolyn Goodman better not ask the Legislature to remove the property tax cap. If anything, our property taxes should be reduced.

This is the worst of the worst, to saddle the taxpayers with this private stadium for private business.

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Pro hockey could have trickle-down effect

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Sharks, there were a handful of youth clubs o the joy of local hockey fans, a group and some aging rinks in the Bay Area. Since of investors wants to bring the NHL then, hockey has grown considerably, with new to America’s gambling den. teams, facilities and feeder businesses.

If all goes as planned, the invesYouth sports is an estimated $5 billion-pertors not only would give Las Vegas its first year industry in the United States. Hockey big-league sports club but also boost amateur surely plays a sizable role, as parents often spend hockey — a far smaller but still lucrative line of thousands of dollars a year on team dues, travel business — with more players and better faciliand equipment. ties.

ELI There were almost 352,000 youth players Title-insurance mogul Bill Foley and Palms SEGALL nationally last year, according to organizing casino developers the Maloof family are trying to group USA Hockey. Nevada had just 486 players land a National Hockey League franchise. They 18 and younger. Most states had more, including want to use the arena being built behind New Alabama (728) and New Mexico (695). By comparison, hockey York-New York, whose developers broke ground without a titan Minnesota had 45,512. team lined up, and launched a website to drum up interest Las Vegas has two year-round recreational ice rinks — SoBe among fans.

Ice Arena at Fiesta Rancho and Las Vegas Ice Center on Foley also reportedly wants to open a practice facility that Flamingo Road near the 215 Beltway. Neither is bad, but Foley could be used by locals to grow youth hockey here. potentially could poach customers with a shiny, upgraded Hockey is small in Las Vegas, but thanks to new NHL facility. teams nationally, the sport has grown in nontraditional Even with the NHL in town, Las Vegas won’t mass-produce markets like ours. top-flight youth players, like the Midwest and Canada do, anySan Jose, Calif., is one. I grew up near there and joined my time soon. But it would spur interest in hockey and get kids first ice hockey team in middle school in 1993, two years after off the couch — as the NHL’s San long as their parJose Sharks were There were almost 352,000 youth players nationally last year, accordents don’t go broke founded. ing to organizing group USA Hockey. Nevada had just 486 players. along the way.

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NV Energy or the Public Utilities Commission? Talk about picking the lesser of two evils.

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Report: Outlook on housing not ‘warm and fuzzy’

BY ELI SEGALL STAFF WRITER

With home sales and construction plans sliding, and prices flat, there’s little reason to feel “warm and fuzzy” about Las Vegas’ housing market in 2015, a report says.

Builders sold 548 new homes in Southern Nevada in November, bringing the year’s tally to 5,396, down 20 percent from the same period in 2013, according to Las Vegas-based Home Builders Research.

The median price of November’s closings was $295,000, down less than 1 percent from a year ago.

The permit total “was again a disappointment,” the report said, as builders pulled 379 new-home permits during the month. That put the year-to-date tally at 6,126, down 7 percent year-over-year.

Local and national economists have given upbeat projections about the economy for 2015, but with housing activity down, “it is hard to feel warm and fuzzy about the 2015 housing market in Las Vegas,” Home Builders Research President Dennis Smith said in the report.

Sales plunged in 2014 as would-be buyers, saddled with credit woes, flat wages and sticker shock, couldn’t pay developers’ high listing prices.

Moreover, despite “what some press releases suggest,” the resale market has been slumping as well, Smith wrote.

Real estate agents are describing Las Vegas as a buyer’s market, and listings of previously owned homes no longer get multiple offers or bidding wars, according to Smith. Sales incentives are common, as buyers’ agents get followup calls from sellers’ agents asking what the sellers can do to help get acceptable offers.

The resale business is slowing as investors, faced with fewer bargains, pull back from Las Vegas.

After the economy tanked, investors bought cheap homes in bulk to turn into rentals, helping revive the battered housing market and pushing up prices at one of the fastest rates nationally.

Now, faced with those rising prices, they are buying fewer homes. As a result, more listings are being ignored, sales volume is dropping and prices aren’t rising nearly as fast.

Despite the overall slowdown, Las Vegas’ housing market is still better than it was at the depths of the recession, when prices plunged, construction dried up, foreclosures swept through the valley and the vast majority of homeowners with mortgages were underwater.

“Although the 2014 annual housing numbers were not as good as most had hoped,” Smith said in the report, “it could have been worse.”

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Rep. Dina Titus, Sen. Harry Reid, center, and Rep. Steven Horsford pose with casts of mammoth teeth during a news conference at the Las Vegas Paiute Resort. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

Spike in ecotourism could be among benefits of new national monument

BY ED KOMENDA STAFF WRITER

Nevada has a new national monument — and state leaders hope it will stoke the local economy by attracting more visitors to the Las Vegas Valley.

“It’s a game changer not only for Las Vegas but really for the entire country,” said Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman.

Spanning more than 22,000 acres of desert about 20 miles north of the Las Vegas Strip on a slice of the Paiute Indian Reservation, the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument is peppered with prehistoric animal bones.

Paleontologists, business groups and local governments have sought the designation for years, citing the area’s historical significance and its potential as a tourist attraction.

“Like a snail, this moved so slowly,” Goodman said.

After years of wrangling, Congress passed a bill in December designating 22,650 acres in the area a national monument.

Republicans often are opposed to expanding federal control of land. But Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., embedded the legislation — and seven other Nevada lands bills — in a must-pass defense bill that cleared both chambers relatively quickly.

That victory brought dignitaries like Reid, Goodman and Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., to an ordinarily quiet banquet hall on the Paiute reservation Dec. 22.

The rugged landscape of the new monument, located in the Las Vegas Wash, offers a glimpse at what the region looked like during the ice age.

It’s there, where the bones and teeth of hundreds of species of mammals, rodents, amphibians and

birds are well preserved, fossilized in the dirt.

The animals roamed, swam or flew more than 250,000 years ago, when Southern Nevada was home to the 12-foot-tall giant ground sloth; the American lion, a quarter larger than its African counterpart; larger ancestors of modern camels called camelops; and the 14-foot-tall Columbian mammoth, an herbivore that feasted on 500 pounds of vegetation every day.

More recently, the site was run by the Bureau of Land Management. Now, the BLM will begin the process of transferring stewardship to the National Park Service.

State leaders believe Tule Springs can become a community asset similar to the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles or Diamond Valley Lake, known as the “Valley of the Mastodons,” outside Hemet, Calif. Both sites feature visitor centers and museums where members of the public can learn about natural history.

Kristin McMillan, president and CEO of Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce, said the Tule Springs site would increase ecotourism by drawing more visitors from around the globe and promote job growth, potentially providing clues to help scientists make sense of climate change and its effects on the Las Vegas landscape.

It is unclear exactly when the monument will begin to take shape.

“The public wants to know when and what will they see,” said Lynn Davis, Nevada field officer with the National Parks Conservation Association. “That’s a little bit premature.”

Goodman had some advice for the BLM as the transformation begins.

“Please work quickly,” she said. “Not like government.”

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City’s underwater mortgage rate improving but still worst in nation

BY ELI SEGALL STAFF WRITER

Las Vegas’ rate of underwater borrowers is better than it was last year, but it’s still highest in the country and poised for little improvement, a new report shows.

Among local homeowners with mortgages, 27.8 percent were upside-down — meaning their debt outweighs their home’s value — in the third quarter. That’s down from 39.6 percent a year ago and a peak of 71 percent in early 2012, according to Zillow.

Still, Las Vegas’ rate was highest among the 35 metro areas listed in the report. Nationally, the rate of underwater borrowers is 16.9 percent, down from 21 percent a year ago.

The valley’s rate is expected to slide to 24.4 percent in the third quarter of 2015 — the highest forecast in the report.

Nationally, housing problems such as low inventory and weak sales

volume won’t be solved overnight, largely because many homeowners will remain underwater for years — “easily into the next decade in some hard-hit areas,” Zillow chief economist Stan Humphries said.

Las Vegas was ground zero for the housing bubble last decade, with bloated prices across the valley. But it also was one of the hardest hit by the bust, causing the majority of local borrowers to fall underwater.

Homeowners have escaped underwater status the past few years largely because investors, after the economy tanked, started buying inexpensive homes in bulk to turn into rentals, pushing up property values at one of the fastest rates nationally.

But now, with fewer bargains out there, investors have been backing out of Las Vegas, and the market has slowed. More listings are being ignored, sales volume is dropping and prices aren’t rising nearly as fast anymore.

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Hundreds of millions needed to fix decaying Nevada roads, official says

BY CY RYAN STAFF WRITER

An estimated $661 million is needed to fix Nevada’s decaying road system, much of it in rural Nevada.

The state Transportation Board was told that 95 percent of Nevada’s highways were in fair to very good shape. But the remaining roadways are in a mediocre to very poor condition.

Reid Kaiser, assistant director of operations for the Transportation Department, said $241.5 million has been spent in the past fiscal two years for rehabilitation and repair work on 392 miles of highways.

Most of the problematic highways are in rural Nevada, due in part to the rebirth of the mining industry, Kaiser said. The highways were not built to withstand the heavy trucks used by mining companies.

The goal of the department is to keep 95 percent of state highways in fair to good condition. And there is a

five-year plan to reduce such problems as potholes and ruts on roads in poor condition.

He told the board $119 million is needed to preserve bridges but emphasized that none is in danger of collapse. There are 1,952 bridges in Nevada, with the state responsible for 1,154 of them.

Christopher Cooper of the Nevada Highway User Preservation Association told the board the “roads are rapidly deteriorating” and the state is not spending enough to preserve them. He said 50 percent of the highways are in less-than-fair condition.

The federal government funds a large part of the highway construction money. Rudy Malfabon, director of the Transportation Department, said the federal funding is unable to keep up with the requirements of the state.

Gasoline taxes are not keeping pace as more efficient fuel cars are being manufactured, he said.

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Unions preparing for assault in Legislature

BY KYLE ROERINK STAFF WRITER

Public employee unions are gearing up for a battle against Republicans in the 2015 legislative session.

Conservative lawmakers and activists are rallying to upend some of the state’s collective bargaining laws, the rules that guarantee unions the right to negotiate pay and benefits for their membership.

For union workers employed by schools, cities or counties, changes to the laws could mean a shift in how labor leaders negotiate pay raises, benefits and working conditions with local governments.

Three Republican lawmakers have submitted bills aiming to change the laws, and the right-leaning Nevada Policy Research Institute has issued a Top-10 list of union reforms that has collective bargaining as a high priority. With the GOP in control of the Legislature and NPRI’s Geoffrey Lawrence an Assembly policy adviser, unions are not taking any threats lightly. Lawrence is leaving NPRI this month to work full-time in the Legislature.

The Republican push is the latest chapter in a decades-long debate that’s carved a divide in American politics. Danny Thompson, executive secretary treasurer for the AFL-CIO, said the focus on collective bargaining is a “right-wing, Tea Party agenda” based on bill models that are shipped across the country from think tanks such as NPRI and the American Legislative Exchange Council.

“The fact of the matter is this: When you’re dealing with my money, as a taxpayer, I want to know what you’re doing.”

— Assemblyman Jim Wheeler

Supporters of the reforms say collective bargaining laws give unions an advantage over government, providing them with leverage to force concessions on compensation and benefits. Reform proponents say it’s also inappropriate for government union employees to have collective bargaining ability when most private-sector employees aren’t union members and therefore don’t have the same power. The result, they claim, is that government workers receive more than their private-sector counterparts, who foot the bill for their salaries.

Victor Joecks, executive vice president of NPRI, has proposed to end collective bargaining among government employees altogether.

“It is not right for a select group of citizens to be able to have powers over the rest of society,” he said.

NPRI lists bill models of policy reforms on its website, but no lawmaker has submitted draft requests for its proposals.

Nevada is one of few union strongholds remaining in the country and has not seen the Republican-led overhauls that have affected states such as Wisconsin, where legislative and gubernatorial efforts led to the end of collective bargaining for pub-

lic employee unions.

Since 2009, unions have worked within the confines of a Democratically controlled Legislature. Attempts to thwart power or make union reforms have had little impact. But now Republicans have the majority in Carson City.

“We are going to be facing a lot of challenges,” said Ruben Murillo Jr., president of the Nevada State Education Association, which represents 23,000 school employees.

When similar legislation made headlines during the 2011 session, the AFL-CIO, NSEA, Service Employees Union international and Culinary Union Local 226, among others, joined forces to defeat attempts to change collective bargaining.

That’s likely to happen again.

Murillo said his organization would partner with unions and businesses to shield attacks. Culinary, which doesn’t represent employees in the public sector, said it would offer its support.

“An attack on one union is an attack on all unions,” said Yvanna Cancela, political director of the Culinary Union Local 226.

The AFL-CIO’s Thompson said any attempts to hack at collective bargaining laws would guarantee an

election backlash from organized labor.

He said the AFL-CIO, which represents 200,000 Nevadans in 120 unions, would mount a vigorous defense.

One of the proposed laws stems from a collective bargaining lawsuit filed in North Las Vegas. The city, which was facing bankruptcy, wanted to freeze pay raises for public employees. The city argued it could do so because it was in a “fiscal emergency,” saying a down economy was tantamount to a natural disaster or riot. But courts ruled North Las Vegas couldn’t freeze pay on those grounds.

Sen. James Settelmeyer, sponsor of the bill, said he wanted to clarify the language so the law includes fiscal emergencies with natural disasters.

Assemblyman Jim Wheeler is sponsoring a bill to forbid collective bargaining from taking place behind closed doors.

“The fact of the matter is this: When you’re dealing with my money, as a taxpayer, I want to know what you’re doing,” he said.

Bargaining in public could get messy, said Mark Ricciardi, a regional managing partner of Fisher & Phillips, a law firm that represents employers in labor issues.

He is opposed to collective bargaining with public unions but said doing so in the open could allow public sentiment to play a role in negotiations.

“There would be a lot of posturing,” he said. “It would be a circus.”

Cost of Nevada legislative session estimated at $18 million

BY CY RYAN STAFF WRITER

The first bill to be presented and approved by the 2015 Legislature calls for $18 million to pay for the 120-day session.

Senate Bill 1 will cover the salary, per diem and travel for the lawmakers and their office staff.

Lawmakers will receive a daily salary of $146 for the first 60 days — there is no salary after 60 days. Their per diem, which is intended to cover lodging, meals and incidental expenses, is $148 for the full 120 days. And $10,000

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is set aside for travel for each legislator, who must submit a travel claim each week to justify expenses.

Rick Combs, director of the Legislative Counsel Commission, said the initial bill in 2013 called for $15 million, but $18 million was required for the session plus the one-day special session. The 2015 session begins Feb. 2.

So far, legislators, state agencies and others have asked for 936 bills to be drafted.

Combs told the Legislative Commission he was proposing a two-year

budget of $62.3 million to finance the full-time staff of the Legislature. That is 3.7 percent higher than the current spending program.

That budget is being submitted to Gov. Brian Sandoval for inclusion in his spending program.

Combs said he was including $200,000 for out-of-state travel for lawmakers to attend regional and national conferences.

He said the travel was eliminated during cutbacks in the recession.

The request raised objections from Senate Majority Leader-designate Mi-

chael Roberson, R-Las Vegas.

“We can’t justify this,” Roberson said, suggesting political party caucuses pay for the travel.

The issue discussed by the Senate and Assembly fiscal committees during the session.

Sen. Kelvin Atkinson, D-Las Vegas, incoming president of the Council of State Governments, said that organization pays for his travel expenses. But he said the state pays dues to a lot of regional and national organizations.

He said that should be examined during the 2015 session.

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TIME WASTERS, FROM PAGE 43

Technology is the leading productivity killer costing employers tens of billions of dollars annually.

Personal use of technology is the leading productivity killer: 24 percent of workers admitted to wasting at least an hour a day on personal calls, emails or texts, according to a recent CareerBuilder poll, while 21 percent fessed to surfing the Internet for more than an hour a day with nonwork-related searches. Facebook and other social media sites have been identified as black holes of workplace productivity.

But what about other time wasters, such as noisy co-workers, pointless meetings, unanticipated interruptions and even a lack of employee motivation?

“While many managers feel their teams perform at a desirable level, they also warn that little distractions can add up to bigger gaps in productivity,” said Rosemary Haefner, vice president of human resources at CareerBuilder. “It’s important to be organized. … Minimize interruptions and save personal communications for your lunch hour or break. It can help put more time and momentum back into your workday.”

The top 10 time-sucks as identified by employers, according to the CareerBuilder poll, are: n Cellphones and texting n Gossiping n The Internet n Social media n Snacking and smoke breaks n Noisy co-workers n Meetings n Personal email n Co-worker interruptions n Speaker phones in office So what’s a manager to do?

Experts offered advice:

Biz 3.0 and Time Doctor.

But there’s a catch to thwarting “cyberloafing.” Prohibiting Internet use for personal reasons is effective only when it’s enforced. Although threats of termination can be a deterrent, the most effective approach is to let employees know of co-workers

who have been fired or disciplined for inappropriate use.

INCREASE YOUR VISIBILITY Consultant and business coach Royale Scuderi suggests having supervisors spend more time on the office floor.

WIDE RANGE OF EXCUSES FOR WASTING TIME The CareerBuilder survey included many unusual activities employees were caught doing when they should have been working.

Among the strangest: n Blowing bubbles in sub-zero weather to see if the bubbles would freeze and break n Caring for the pet bird she had smuggled into work n Warming her bare feet under the bathroom hand dryer n Shaving her legs in the women’s restroom n Lying under boxes trying to scare people n Having a wrestling match

“It’s not necessary to look over shoulders,” she said. “The mere presence of management is a deterrent to time-wasting.”

Increased interaction also may lead to a better understanding of problems and encourage resolutions.

CONSIDER WHY EMPLOYEES ARE WASTING TIME In the Salary.com/AOL survey, 35 percent of respondents said they goof off because their work isn’t challenging, while 34 percent said their workday is too long. Thirty-two percent felt they had no incentive to work harder, 30 percent were dissatisfied with their job, and 23 percent were just bored.

Astute managers might be able to recognize such concerns and address them by giving employees more responsibility.

STREAMLINE MEETINGS Is that weekly all-staff meeting really necessary? Does everyone need to be there?

Business coach Wendy Hearn warns that meetings can be tremendous time wasters if they don’t have a set agenda and timeframe.

“It’s too easy to fall into the habit of holding meetings without realizing that some of that time could be spent more effectively,” she said.

So, consider who needs to be at meetings and why, follow a set schedule and set specific time limits on discussion. Then stick to them.

Other suggestions for minimizing wasted time: n Schedule lunches and break times. n Use an open space layout rather than cubicles. n Restrict the use of speaker phones in open spaces. n Ask employees to track their day. n Start a friendly competition to recognize productivity and reward people who achieve it.

n Sleeping, but claimed he was praying n Taking selfies in the bathroom

BLACKLIST AND MONITOR WEBSITES AND INTERNET USE Many companies prohibit sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and about half of companies use software to track employees’ online activities at work, according to

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Calendar of events TUESDAY, JANUARY 6 LVBNM Kick-Off Expo for 2015 Time: 6-9 p.m. Cost: Free with ticket Location: Suncoast, Ballroom, 9090 Alta Drive,

Join Southern Nevada legislators, local government officials and business leaders to discuss ideas and policy issues. A light continental breakfast will be served.

Las Vegas

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ductionlive.com/LVBNM.html Fifty exhibits will highlight baby boomer businesses and services. The event also will include a chefs’ corner with food samples and live entertainment.

Henderson Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast: “Strategic Planning for Your Business – Why You Need to Do It” Time: 7-9 a.m. Cost: $25 for members; $45 for

THURSDAY, JANUARY 8 Henderson Chamber of Commerce Roadmap to Success: “How to Fail at Franchising” Time: 7:30-9:30 a.m. Cost: Free for Henderson Chamber of Commerce members; $25 for nonmembers; additional $10 for walk-ins; RSVP by Jan. 6 Location: HBRC Seminar Room in Wells Fargo Building, 112 S. Water St., Henderson Information: Call 702-565-8951 For anyone who works with small businesses and wants to better understand the franchise business model. Sarah Brown of FranNet is the featured speaker.

Coffee & Conversation professional development series: Embrace 2015 Time: 8:30-9:30 a.m. Cost: Free for members; $10 for nonmembers Location: Nevada Microenterprise Institute, 550 E. Charleston Blvd., Suite E, Las Vegas Information: Visit nawbosnv.org Life coach Cindy Clemens will discuss ways to learn from the past year. The event is hosted by the National Association of Women Business Owners.

QuickBooks introductory class Time: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $299 Location: 10777 W. Twain Ave., Suite 225, Las

nonmembers; additional $10 for walk-ins; RSVP by Jan. 9 Location: Wildhorse Golf Club, 2100 W. Warm Springs Road, Henderson Information: Call 702-565-8951 Bruce Ford, an executive at City National Bank, is the featured speaker.

Society for Marketing Professional Services luncheon: Economic Outlook 2015 Time: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $35 for members; $50 for nonmembers (includes lunch) Location: Maggiano’s Restaurant, 3200 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas Information: Visit smpslasvegas.com Journalist Jon Ralston will moderate a discussion among experts about the economic outlook for 2015.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14 Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce Policy Committee meeting: Health Care Time: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: Free; RSVP requested

Location: Roseman University College of Medicine, 10530 Discovery Drive, Las Vegas Information: Call 702-641-5822 Chamber members and their employees can learn about health care topics.

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“Forecast 2015 Southern Nevada’s Commercial Market Recovery: Are We There Yet?” Time: Registration begins 7:30 a.m.; program ends 11:30 a.m. Cost: $60 if paid before Jan. 9;

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2015 State of the City Time: Doors open 4:30 p.m.; program begins 5 p.m. Cost: Free; open to the public Location: Las Vegas City Hall, council chambers, 495 S. Main St., Las Vegas Information: Call 702-229-6582 Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman will reflect on 2014 and outline goals for 2015. Light refreshments will be served. Business attire requested.

Location: Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas

Information: Visit naiopnv.org The Southern Nevada chapter of the Commercial Real Estate Development Association and the Lied Institute for Real Estate Studies present a panel discussion about where Southern Nevada’s commercial real estate market is heading, including a forecast for the retail, office and industrial sectors and a look at national real estate trends.

Information: RSVP to Donna Israelson at disraelson@hendersonchamber.com; direct tiered sponsor questions to Scott Muelrath at smuelrath@ hendersonchamber.com Henderson Chamber of Commerce board members and tiered sponsors can attend for a topdown look at the economy from international, national and local points of view.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 20 Henderson Chamber of Commerce new member briefing Time: 8-9 a.m. Cost: Free Location: HBRC Seminar Room in Wells Fargo Building, 112 S. Water St., Henderson

Information: Call 702-565-8951 For new members looking to increase their organization’s visibility through member benefits.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22 Henderson Chamber of Commerce Roadmap to Success: “The Amazing Secrets to Networking in the Chamber” Time: 7:30-9:30 a.m. Cost: Free for Henderson Chamber of Commerce members; $25 for nonmembers; additional $10 for walk-ins; RSVP by Jan. 20 Location: HBRC Seminar Room in Wells Fargo Building, 112 S. Water St., Henderson Information: Call 702-565-8951 David Dassow, director of the Las Vegas Marketing Association, will be the featured speaker.

QuickBooks advanced class Time: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $299 Location: 10777 W. Twain Ave., Suite 225, Las Vegas

Information: Call 702-457-9800 or visit davehallsba.com Designed to help QuickBooks users gain a better understanding of payroll, inventory and reports.

Asian Chamber of Commerce monthly luncheon Time: 7:30-9 p.m. Cost: $35 for members; $45 for nonmembers Location: Gold Coast, 4000 W. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas Information: Visit lvacc.org Rossi Ralenkotter, president of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, will speak.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 27 Network After Work Time: 6-9 p.m. Cost: $12; $15 at door with RSVP; $20 at door without RSVP

Location: Blue Martini, 6593 Las Vegas Blvd.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 9 Southern Nevada Forum Time: 8-11 a.m. Cost: Free Location: Las Vegas City Hall, 495 S. Main St., Las Vegas

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InSight 2015: A private briefing for Henderson business leaders Time: 6-8 p.m. Cost: For tiered sponsors of the Henderson Chamber of Commerce only Location: Lux at M Resort, 12300 Las Vegas Blvd.

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Records and Transactions BANKRUPTCIES CHAPTER 7 Best Auto Sales Inc. 3887 E. Desert Inn Road Las Vegas, NV 89121 Attorney: David M. Crosby at info@ crosby.lvcoxmail.com 3215 Via Seranova LLC 3215 Via Seranova Henderson, NV 89044 Attorney: 3215 Via Seranova LLC

BID OPPORTUNITIES MONDAY, DECEMBER 29 2 p.m.

Digital recorders, cameras and binoculars State of Nevada, 8295 Gail Burchett at gburchett@admin. nv.gov 2:15 p.m.

F4 Patrick Lateral, F4 Channel to 400’ West Clark County, 603520 Tom Boldt at tboldt@ClarkCountyNV.gov

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30 2:15 p.m.

Lone Mountain Park Phase V: equestrian park and trail Clark County, 603523 Sandy Moody-Upton scm@ClarkCountyNV.gov

MONDAY, JANUARY 5 2:15 p.m.

Las Vegas Boulevard permanent obstruction removals 1.1 Clark County, 603542 Tom Boldt at tboldt@ClarkCountyNV.gov 3 p.m.

LED fixture and LED street name sign lamps Clark County, 603522 Ashley Blanco at ashley.blanco@ clarkcountynv.gov

TUESDAY, JANUARY 6 2 p.m.

One-year open-term contract for assorted fabric State of Nevada, 8293 Annette Morfin at amorfin@admin. nv.gov

BROKERED TRANSACTIONS SALES $1,750,000 for 16,660 square feet, industrial 7451 Eastgate Road Henderson 89011 Seller: Reyburn Family Trust Seller agent: Kevin Higgins, Garrett

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Toft and Zac Zaher of Voit Real Estate Services Buyer: Albrecht LV LLC Buyer agent: Tina Leavitt of CBRE $600,000 for 2.3 acres, land Northeast corner of Olsen and Eagle Rock streets Henderson 89011 Seller: Olsen Land Development LLC Seller agent: Ben Millis and Chris Beets of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Buyer: Blue Bell Creameries Buyer agent: Jerry Doty of Colliers Nevada $200,000 for 3,300 square feet, industrial 612 Martin Luther King Blvd.

Las Vegas 89106 Seller: John Hernandez Seller agent: Danielle Steffen of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce Buyer: Delfino Gomez Buyer agent: Amy Ogden of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce

LEASES $21,805,612 for 464,203 square feet, undisclosed type for 123 months 3700 Bay Lake Trail North Las Vegas 89030 Landlord: Prologis Landlord agent: Kevin Higgins, Garrett Toft and Zac Zaher of Voit Real Estate Services Tenant: Global Industrial Distribution Tenant agent: Amy Ogden of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce $3,683,425 for 14,786 square feet, office for 84 months 9499 W. Charleston Blvd.

Las Vegas 89117 Landlord: PTM Co. LLC Landlord agent: Thomas and Mack — Rick Myers Tenant: Fremont Primary Care Limited Partnership Tenant agent: Mike Dunn, Paula Lea, Dan Palmeri, Bob Hawkins of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce $2,126,418 for 16,800 square feet, retail for 129 months 7380 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 109B Las Vegas 89123 Landlord: Warm Springs Plaza Landlord agent: Melissa Campanella and Terry Hamiliton of The Equity Group Tenant: 99 Cent Only Stores LLC Tenant agent: Did not disclose $1,117,718 for 24,925 square feet, undisclosed type for 39 months 770 Pilot Road, Suite A Las Vegas 89119 Landlord: Hughes Airport Realty Owner LLC Landlord agent: Kevin Higgins, Garrett Toft and Zac Zaher of Voit Real Estate Services

Tenant: Page Operations Tenant agent: Amy Ogden of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce $491,016 for 13,500 square feet, industrial for 60 months 770 Pilot Road Las Vegas 89119 Landlord: Prologis Landlord agent: Did not disclose Tenant: Refrigeration Supplies Distributor Tenant agent: Amy Ogden and Danielle Steffen of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce $469,011 for 13,613 square feet, undisclosed type for 65 months 1111 Grier Drive, Suite A Las Vegas 89119 Landlord: The Realty Associates Fund IX Landlord agent: Kevin Higgins, Garrett Toft and Zac Zaher of Voit Real Estate Services Tenant: Nordis Direct Tenant agent: Amy Ogden of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce $314,352 for 12,284 square feet, industrial for 60 months 3854 Silvestri Lane Las Vegas 89120 Landlord: Michael and Susan Mazzacavallo Landlord agent: Laura Hart of CBRE Tenant: Old World Cabinetry LLC Tenant agent: Ben Millis, Chris Beets and Michael Kammerling of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank $194,987 for 1,550 square feet, retail for 60 months 605 Mall Ring Circle, Suite 165 Henderson 89014 Landlord: Galleria Pavilion LLC Landlord agent: Eric Berggren of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Tenant: Elise Imbert-Sielaw PPLC dba Manscapes Tenant agent: Elise Imbert-Sielaw of Black & Cherry Real Estate Group

BUSINESS LICENSES Nail Tips Business type: Cosmetology Address: 1844 E. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Trang Nguyen New Grand China Business type: Restaurant Address: 8450 Farm Road, Suite 150, Las Vegas Owner: COW 2 LLC Newman Realty & Property Management LLC Business type: Real estate Address: 2810 S. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Brenda Newman Night School 4 Girls LLC Business type: Promotions Address: 2250 Corporate Circle,

Re Suite 390, Henderson Owner: Night School 4 Girls LLC Northwest Hydra-Line Acquisition Co. Inc. Business type: Retail Address: 3917 E. Lone Mountain Road, Suite E, North Las Vegas Owner: Northwest Hydra-Line Acquisition Co. Inc. Oasis To Zen Wellness Center & Transformation Business type: Massage Address: 5715 W. Alexander Road, Suite 140, Las Vegas Owner: Cheri Petroni Oscar O’Keefe Business type: Architect Address: 2256 Savannah River St., Henderson Owner: Oscar O’Keefe Parti Pak Productions Business type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 2800 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 2D, Las Vegas Owner: Parti Pak Productions Inc. Perfection Cheer & Dance Academy Business type: Instruction services Address: 7310 Smoke Ranch Road, Suite N, Las Vegas Owner: Dana Michelle Bevers Permanent Perfection Business type: Permanent makeup Address: 2150 S. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Permanent Perfection LLC Pratt Tax Business type: Business support Address: 5620 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 200, Las Vegas Owner: Pratt Tax LLC Prestige Jewelry & Gifts Business type: Jewelry Address: 1300 W. Sunset Road, Suite 2509, Henderson Owner: Prestige Jewelry & Gifts Inc. Prospect Gaming Partners Business type: Management or consulting Address: 124 S. 6th St., Suite 236, Las Vegas Owner: Prospect Gaming Partners LLC

R&D Motors Business type: Second-hand category B-Class I Address: 2065 Pabco Road, Henderson Owner: R&D Motors LLC Red Rock Mobile Business type: Retail Address: 440 S. Rampart Blvd., Suite 130, Las Vegas Owner: David Hayner Restaurant Equipment Services Business type: Maintenance Address: 4485 Wagon Trail Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Restaurant Equipment Services LLC Rocktellz & Cocktails (Jacksons) LLC Business type: Entertainment Address: 2250 Corporate Circle, Suite 390, Henderson Owner: Rocktellz & Cocktails (Jacksons) LLC San Salvador Restaurant No. 2 Business type: Alcohol on sale Address: 2211 S. Maryland Parkway, Suite A, Las Vegas Owner: San Salvador LLC Simple Computer Repair Business type: Electronics repair Address: 65 E. Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suite 140, Henderson Owner: SCR Development LLC Slater Transfer and Storage Inc. Business type: Storage Address: 1037 E. Colton Ave., North Las Vegas Owner: Slater Transfer and Storage Inc. Smart Cleaning Solutions LLC Business type: Maintenance Address: 2834 E. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Maria Vargas Corral Solid Green Landscaping Inc. Business type: Landscaping Address: 2035 E. Warm Springs Road, Suite 1043, Las Vegas Owner: Gary Acosta Sparks Engineering LLC Business type: Professional services Address: 2584 Mizzoni Circle, Las Vegas Owner: Jonathan Sparks

Protouch Business type: Automotive Address: 113 Gamboge St., Henderson Owner: Protouch Automotive Paint Services LLC

Spartan Arms and Range Supplies Business type: Firearms Address: 8350 N. Decatur Blvd., North Las Vegas Owner: Spartan Arms and Range Supplies LLC

Purrfect Auto Service No. 326 Business type: Automotive garage Address: 7131 W. Craig Road, Suite 101, Las Vegas Owner: Devine Motors Inc.

SPI Entertainment Inc. Business type: Talent Address: 2250 Corporate Circle, Suite 390, Henderson Owner: SPI Entertainment Inc.

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Records and Transactions Sunglass Optic Studio Business type: Retail Address: 10300 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 26, Las Vegas Owner: Sunglass Superstore LLC Suretax Inc. Business type: Business support Address: 10161 Park Run Drive, Suite 150, Las Vegas Owner: Amy Cohen Sydney After Dark LLC Business type: Entertainment Address: 2250 Corporate Circle, Suite 390, Henderson Owner: Sydney After Dark LLC

Address: 500 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 300, Las Vegas Owner: Tricom Networks Inc. U.S. Tire Center & Auto Repair Inc. Business type: Automotive garage Address: 1301 E. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: U.S. Tire Center & Auto Repair Inc. Vegas After Dark Tours Business type: Travel agency Address: 1400 S. Commerce St., Suites C-D, Las Vegas Owner: TDAV LLC

Target Store T826 Business type: Retail Address: 3210 N. Tenaya Way, Las Vegas Owner: Target Corp.

Vegas Baby Photography LLC Business type: Studio photography Address: 636 Blue Crystal Creek Road, Henderson Owner: Vegas Baby Photography LLC

Telexa Inc. Business type: Retail Address: 4421 E. Bonanza Road, Las Vegas Owner: Jason A. Junge

Vegas Girls Night Out LLC Business type: Entertainment Address: 2250 Corporate Circle, Suite 390, Henderson Owner: Vegas Girls Night Out LLC

The Arts Factory LLC Business type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 107 E. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: The Arts Factory LLC

Wellness Transport LLC Business type: Nonmedical supervised patient transfer service Address: 3950 W. Tompkins Ave., Las Vegas Owner: James M. Jimmerson

The Sealey Brokerage + Risk Services Business type: Insurance Address: 2620 Regatta Drive, Suite 102, Las Vegas Owner: Leslie Sealey

Winners Circle Kustom Autobody Business type: Automotive Address: 440 W. Sunset Road, Henderson Owner: Dlugos Corp.

This-N-That Gifts Business type: Retail Address: 1717 S. Decatur Blvd., Suite G37, Las Vegas Owner: PAE Online Sales LLC

Wise Guys Home Improvement Business type: Contractor Address: 8430 W. Lake Mead Blvd., Suite 100, Las Vegas Owner: Wise Guys Home Improvement Corp.

Tiberti Company Rental Business type: Contractor Address: 1806 Industrial Road, Las Vegas Owner: The Tiberti Company

Xhevahire Bilali Business type: Real estate Address: 7942 W. Sahara Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Xhevahire Bilali

Toro Insurance Business type: Insurance Address: 1924 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas Owner: Toro Insurance NV1924 LLC

Xtreme Pet Products LV Business type: Pet products Address: 1300 W. Sunset Road, Henderson Owner: Gary Burks

Toscanos Handyman Business type: Residential property maintenance Address: 2579 Pine Creek Road, Las Vegas Owner: Abel Toscanos

Your New Ride Auto Sales & Service Business type: Second-hand category B-Class I Address: 1700 N. Boulder Highway, Henderson Owner: Your New Ride Auto Sales & Service LLC

Touchpoint Contact Centers LLC Business type: Call center Address: 7777 Eastgate Road, Suite 101, Henderson Owner: Touchpoint Contact Centers LLC Tricom Networks Business type: Business consultant

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BUILDING PERMITS $3,144,942, commercial-addition 5402 El Campo Grande, North Las Vegas Bed Bath & Beyond platforms/

Northern Beltway Industrial Center LLC $1,569,000, commercial-assembly hall 11312 Parkside Way, Las Vegas The Korte Company $1,111,136, commercial-alteration 2414 E. Cheyenne Ave., North Las Vegas Allco Construction Inc./CPM Cheyenne LLC $815,500, pool and/or spa 11322 Parkside Way, Las Vegas The Korte Company $750,000, commercial-parking lot lighting 8555 W. Centennial Parkway, Las Vegas LND Construction

$218,097, residential-new 446 Paso de Montana St., Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC $203,258, residential-new 442 Beautiful Hill Court, Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC $200,000, residential-addition 2125 Plaza del Dios, Las Vegas Baker Construction Inc. $187,500, tenant improvementrestaurant 9440 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 175, Las Vegas WG Constructors LLC $179,693, residential-new 9511 Harlan Hills Court, Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada

$590,300, commercial-hardscapes 11322 Parkside Way, Las Vegas The Korte Company

$154,866, residential-new 7304 Durand Park St., Las Vegas Toll South LV LLC

$589,000, commercial-lighting 2300 W. Bonanza Road, Las Vegas Aggregate Industries SWR Inc.

$150,000, commercial-highrise foundation 501 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas SR Construction Inc.

$472,028, residential-new 7454 Yonie Court, Las Vegas Plasim Homes LLC $472,028, residential-new 7502 Yonie Court, Las Vegas Plasim Homes LLC $472,028, residential-new 7506 Yonie Court, Las Vegas Plasim Homes LLC $458,580, HVAC 10308 Canyon Valley Ave., Las Vegas Sierra LLC $340,000, residential-addition 1910 Bannie Ave., Las Vegas Robbins Construction Inc. $300,000, solar 7115 Noble Range St., Las Vegas Summerlin Energy Las Vegas LLC $300,000, tenant improvementstore 9350 W. Lake Mead Blvd., Las Vegas Starnes & Oswalt Construction $284,877, commercial-alteration 2414 E. Cheyenne Ave., North Las Vegas Allco Construction Inc./CPM Cheyenne LLC $250,000, tenant improvementstore 80 S. Martin Luther King Blvd., Las Vegas Retail Construction Services $218,097, residential-new 454 Rosina Vista St., Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC

$133,403, wall fence-block 270 Evante St., Las Vegas Desert Plastering LLC $123,813, residential-new 8125 Fleeting Twilight Place, Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $123,813, residential-new 8124 Fleeting Twilight Place, Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $115,500, tenant improvementoffices 8670 W. Cheyenne Ave., Suite 230, Las Vegas Forbush Construction Inc. $113,227, residential-new 8121 Fleeting Twilight Place, Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $113,227, residential-new 8128 Fleeting Twilight Place, Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $111,000, wall fence-ornamental iron 2300 W. Bonanza Road, Las Vegas Aggregate Industries SWR Inc.

$100,000, tenant improvementmedical offices 3150 N. Tenaya Way, Suite 440, Las Vegas Fong Construction LLC $69,394, wall fence-block 424 Fox Hill Drive, Las Vegas CEDCO Inc. $66,000, electrical-conduits 424 Fox Hill Drive, Las Vegas Tejas Underground LLC $63,000, electrical-casino banquet hall 4949 N. Rancho Drive, Las Vegas Superior Electrical Contractor $60,000, residential-addition 1910 Bannie Ave., Las Vegas Robbins Construction Inc. $48,000, tenant improvementmedical offices 7240 W. Lake Mead Blvd., Suite 2, Las Vegas Akal Construction

CONVENTIONS International CES 2015 Location: Sands Expo & Convention Center, Las Vegas Convention Center Dates: Jan. 6-9 Expected attendance: 160,000 Association of Fundraising Distributors & Suppliers Annual Convention & Trade Show 2015 Location: Paris Las Vegas Dates: Jan. 11-16 Expected attendance: 700 Manheim Sales Meeting 2015 Location: Red Rock Resort Dates: Jan. 12-16 Expected attendance: 700 Promotional Products Association International Expo 2015 Location: Mandalay Bay Dates: Jan. 13-15 Expected attendance: 20,000 International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association Wide World of Sales Meeting Location: Paris Las Vegas Dates: Jan. 13-17 Expected attendance: 500 Sports Licensing & Tailgate Show Location: Las Vegas Convention Center Dates: Jan. 14-16 Expected attendance: 4,000

$110,000, residential-remodel 2606 Mason Ave., Las Vegas Pamela K. Kenady

Army Navy Military Expo 2015 Location: Rio Dates: Jan. 18-20 Expected attendance: 3,000

$100,370, electrical-conduits 292 Evante St., Las Vegas Tejas Underground LLC

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Approximate attendees Convention

1 2 3 4 5 6 7a 7b 7c 10 11a 11b 13 14 15 16 17a 17b 17c

Dates

International CES cesweb.org

155,000

Jan. 7-10, 2014

Conexpo-Conagg conexpoconagg.com

150,000

March 4-8, 2014

Automotive Aftermarket Industry Week (AAIW) semashow.com

140,000

Nov. 4-7, 2014

National Association of Broadcasters nabshow.org

96,000

April 7-10, 2014

MAGIC International magiconline.com

80,000

Feb. 18-20, 2014

Shooting, Hunting & Outdoor Trade Show shotshow.org

61,000

Jan. 14-17, 2014

World of Concrete Exposition worldofconcrete.com

50,000

Jan. 21-24, 2014

International Market Center giftandhomelv.com

50,000

Jan. 26-30, 2014

Las Vegas Market giftandhomelv.com

50,000

July 28-Aug. 1, 2014

National Association of Home Builders nahb.org

45,000

Feb. 4-6, 2014

Associated Surplus Dealers (ASD/AMD) Las Vegas — spring asdonline.com

41,000

March 16-19, 2014

Associated Surplus Dealers (ASD/AMD) Las Vegas — summer asdonline.com

41,000

Aug. 3-6, 2014

Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) ctia.org

40,000

Sept. 9-11, 2014

JCK Show jckgroup.com

37,500

May 30-June 2, 2014

International Communications Industries Association (InfoComm) infocomm.org

32,000

June 18-20, 2014

Nightclub and Bar Convention & Trade Show ncbshow.com

31,000

March 25-26, 2014

National Kitchen & Bath Association nkba.org

30,000

Feb. 4-6, 2014

National Hardware Show nationalhardwareshow.com

30,000

May 6-8, 2014

International Council of Shopping Centers (RECon) icsc.org

30,000

May 18-21, 2014

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