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FiveThirtyEight’s culture blog reported that a Florida man was arrested for attempting to ride a manatee, a threatened marine mammal protected by state and federal law. The man chanted, “Take me to jail!”

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on the cover Activist art collective Indecline bestowed a nude Trump statue on Las Vegas earlier this week. (Mikayla Whitmore/Staff)

Medical science has come far since 1954 and the first successful transplant of a human kidney. Today, people are living with faces and hands, lungs and hearts that once belonged to others, and the waiting list for vital organs in the United States is always growing. In Nevada alone, more than 550 people are awaiting life-saving donations.

In August, the nation reeled as five statues of a nude Donald Trump popped up in five cities at the same moment. Reaction was a mix of outrage and delight, just as Indecline intended. The underground collective, which has often operated in Las Vegas, isn’t shy about its motivations for shocking protest art.

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Which congressional candidate is a tomato? This and other vital questions are answered in this week’s Election Insider.

Tight House races could shape the future From attack ads to ticket-splitting, a look at how the GOP’s majority may be threatened.

Does that crazy ab belt actually work? Inventors and other pros of the infomercial industry talk trends at the D2C convention.

Dr. Joey Adashek readies his plane for 11-year-old Elana Armas. Through Angel Flight West, the volunteer pilot flew Armas to a California camp for serious burn sufferers on June 11. (L.E. Baskow/staff)

Vicarious rebellion

pro hockey’s ripple effect

Bill Foley, owner of the NHL expansion team that will skate into Las Vegas next year, wants to build a fan base from the ground up. The organization has big plans to beef up the youth hockey scene, including inviting programs such as the Las Vegas Storm to play in the team’s practice facility, and building more rinks.

the politics of marijuana

As Nevada voters mull whether to legalize the use and possession of recreational marijuana, political action committees on both sides of the issue are working hard and paying big to sway public opinion. That means October will be flooded with ads about the potential costs and benefits of the Silver State becoming an early adopter.

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Mountain bikers pile onto a truck for a trip up to the trailhead during the Interbike Outdoor Demo Day and Marketplace at Boulder City’s Bootleg Canyon on Sept. 20. The Interbike Expo at Mandalay was expected to draw 25,000 bike enthusiasts. (STEVE MARCUS/staff)

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HOCKEY FEVER Las Vegas’ NHL team announced that it reached its season-ticket cap, securing deposits for 16,000 seats for the 2017-18 season at T-Mobile Arena on the Strip.

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MEET THE NEW BOSS The Clark County Commission appointed Yolanda King as the next county manager. She will replace Don Burnette, who announced his decision to step down last month.

SEPT. 21

MAKING PROGRESS The final steel beam was placed in UNLV’s new hotel building. The facility across from the Lied Library is expected to be completed around this time next year.

SEPT. 27

CUT THE CARDS Global Gaming Expo (G2E) begins its three-day run at the Sands Expo and Convention Center. The show is expected to attract more than 25,000 attendees.

OCT. 1

BRING ON THE DOGS UNLV’s football team hosts Fresno State to open Mountain West Conference play. The Rebels lost, 31-28, last season to the Bulldogs, so the game is highly anticipated.

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Water bottles collected by HELP of Southern Nevada and Whole Foods Market during the fifth annual HELP2O water drive to help the homeless this summer. Since 2012, HELP2O has collected and distributed more than 146,000 bottles of water.

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MASSIVE SHOW OF LOVE On Sept. 30, Las Vegans will gather at Town Square for an official pump-up party before they get to work. But this is not about painting one school or packing meals for one shelter — it’s United Way of Southern Nevada’s Day of Caring, unifying volunteers to tackle 90 projects for more than 20 nonprofits and 16 schools. “We already have confirmed 850 volunteers,” said volunteer-engagement lead Chris Cappas. “United Ways across the country have been doing this for a significant amount of years, and so we decided in Las Vegas it’s about time we get started.” Visit uwsn.org/caring to sign up after viewing opportunities to help, ranging from planting a garden at Dooley Elementary School to polishing up the kids’ hangout at Boys & Girls Club. Indoor and outdoor projects are available for full- or half-day commitments, starting with the kickoff from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., when volunteers will eat complimentary breakfast, pose for team photos, score goodie bags and get in the spirit. As United Way prepares to unleash the “collective power of the community,” Cappas said the original goal was 50 projects and 500 volunteers, but response to the call for help crushed expectations. “I can’t even imagine what next year will look like.”

sweet moment on stage Marc Anthony talks to a toddler as he performs in the Axis theater at Planet Hollywood to celebrate Mexican Independence Day Sept. 17. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas News Bureau)

CUTTING THE CORD SEPT. 20

the puc gets some new blood Gov. Brian Sandoval appointed two new commissioners to the three-member Public Utilities Commission, bringing outside perspectives to a regulatory body that is often criticized for being insular. Sandoval’s general counsel, Joe Reynolds, and former conservation administrator Leo Drozdoff will replace David Noble and Alaina Burtenshaw.

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CAUSE FOR aLARM The Stratosphere was partially evacuated after an unattended backpack containing an object that was making noise was discovered. The casino and a floor above it were evacuated, and authorities shut down traffic on Las Vegas Boulevard in both directions nearby. It turned out that the bag had been left by a hotel guest and contained a medical device.

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Tino Garcia, left, track operations manager for the Richard Petty Driving Experience, assists Paul Schneider, Nevada Division assistant administrator for the Federal Highway Administration, into a NASCAR-style racer during a Nevada Department of Transportation news conference at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sept. 19. NDOT announced the groundbreaking of a $33.8 million widening of I-15 between Craig Road and the Speedway. (STEVE MARCUS/staff)

Private gifts and pledges to UNLV during the recently completed fiscal year. The UNLV Foundation has raised $150 million during the past two years — the greatest fundraising activity since UNLV’s last capital campaign in 2009.

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Approximately 95 percent of Americans say they favor being a donor, but only 52 percent are registered to donate.

TRANSPLANTS OF ORGANS AND TISSUES HAVE COME A LONG WAY

HOW THE TRANSPLANT PROCESS WORKS Transplants of organs or tissues involve removing a body part from one person and placing it in another person to replace damaged or absent materials. Transplantation is often the only treatment for patients with end-stage organ failure. Organs typically are harvested from a person who recently died, although some organs and tissues can come from live donors. Tissues, such as heart valves, also can be transplanted from animals.

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In July 2015, doctors from Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia transplanted two hands and forearms onto an 8-year-old boy in a first-of-itskind surgery. Only 25 hand transplants have been done worldwide, and Zion Harvey was the first child to undergo the procedure. ¶ It was a success. Weeks later, Zion could wiggle his new hands, which doctors expect will grow with him. ¶ Organ and tissue transplants Zion Harvey, 8, have come a long way since throws the first pitch for a game between 1954, when surgeons first the Baltimore Orioles transferred an organ from one and Texas Rangers on Aug. 2. He was the first person to another — a kidney child to have a bilateral shared between twin brothers. hand transplant. Today, an average of (ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE) 80 people receive organ transplants each day, but every 10 minutes, another person is added to the national waiting list.

WHAT ELSE CAN BE TRANSPLANTED?

PEOPLE

are registered as organ donors.

Only 3 in 1,000 people die in a manner that allows for organ donation.

STEP 2: EVALUATION Representatives from the organ-procurement organization review the patient’s medical history to determine whether he or she qualifies as a donor.

More recent medical breakthroughs: face, hands, lower legs

STANDARD STORAGE TIME

One donor can provide up to nine lifesaving organs and many more tissues.

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Statewide,

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Medical conditions that can rule out donation include morbid obesity or a cancer diagnosis.

Tissues: bones, tendons, eyes, skin, nerves, heart valves, veins

HOW TO HELP Register with the Nevada Donor Network as an organ, eye and/ or tissue donor. Visit nvdonor. org, call 855-683-6667 or check yes on the organ-donor box when applying for or renewing a driver’s license, permit, identification card or driver authorization card.

STEP 1: REFERRAL Every time a patient dies, hospitals are required by federal law to notify their local organ-procurement organization to determine whether the patient is medically suitable for donation.

LIVER

Liver transplants are the second-most common.

Note: The total number of patients for all organ types is less than the sum of patients by organ type because some patients are listed for multiple organs.

Sources: U.S. Department of Health and Human

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It’s a myth that if you register as an organ donor, doctors won’t work as hard trying to save you. In fact, your life always comes first. Organ donation is considered only after a person has died.

STEP 3: AUTHORIZATION If the person is a suitable donor, the organ-procurement organization checks the local donor registry to see if the person registered as a donor. If the patient is from another state, the organization coordinates with the organ-procurement group in the patient’s home state to determine whether he or she is a registered donor.

STEP 4: FAMILY DISCUSSION If the person is a registered donor, staffers from the organization discuss the person’s choice with his or her family, outline the process, answer questions and offer support. If the person is not a registered donor, then staffers offer the family the option of organ donation.

STEP 6: FINDING RECIPIENTS The organization receives a list of possible matching recipients from UNOS. The list uses numerical IDs so the identities of potential recipients remain confidential. Staffers then contact hospital transplant centers with information about the organ. The potential recipient’s surgeon can ask questions and decide whether to accept the organ.

STEP 5: DONOR CARE If donation is authorized, the organization performs a thorough review of the donor’s health and lifestyle. Once a donor is declared dead or in a state of brain death, the organization assumes responsibility for the donor’s body. Fluids and medications are maintained to preserve the organs and tissues. Information and test results are entered into the United Network of Organ Sharing database to generate a list of potential recipients.

HOW QUICKLY MUST ORGANS BE HARVESTED AND IMPLANTED?

STEP 7: ORGAN RECOVERY Once all of the donor’s organs have been matched to recipients, the organization coordinates organ-recovery surgery and transportation, if needed. The donor’s body is then transported to a funeral home.

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STEP 8: FAMILY SUPPORT Staffers from the organization contact the donor’s family and provide general information about the organs that were donated and the recipients who received them. Organizations also typically provide aftercare to grieving families.

FINDING A MATCH Doctors screen donor organs carefully for many factors, including size, but most importantly to try to reduce the chance of rejection. The body of a recipient can recognize a transplanted organ as foreign, causing the person’s immune system to attack the new organ. Organ recipients typically must take anti-rejection drugs for the remainder of their lives.

For optimal outcomes, donor materials must be utilized as quickly as possible. Just prior to removal, an ice-cold preservation solution is flushed into the organs, and sterile ice is placed in the body cavity to aid in their cooling. All organs except the kidneys are preserved using hypothermia (kidneys are placed on a machine that constantly pumps solution through them, helping surgeons determine their health). Because of rapid tissue deterioration, UNOS distributes organs locally first.

120,000 PEOPLE Approximately

Intestine transplants are the least common. STANDARD STORAGE TIME

6ORHRS LESS

Heart transplants are the third-most common.

are on the national transplant list, enough to overflow the largest football stadium in the U.S. ■

Almost 2,000 are children.

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Two out of three are older than 50.

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About 58 percent are minorities.

An average of

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PANCREAS Kidney transplants are the most common organ transplants globally.

562

PEOPLE are waiting for an organ transplant in Nevada.

The most common tissue transplants are corneas, bones and tendons. These outnumber organ transplants by more than tenfold — more than 1 million tissue transplants are performed annually.

Services, Nevada Donor Network, National Institutes of Health, World Health Organization, United Network for Organ Sharing, University of Michigan Transplant Center, NPR

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The artist known as Ginger came to Las Vegas to design monsters for the Goretorium. The monstrosities he designed for activist collective Indecline, though, have appeared on the street, not in haunted houses. (Mikayla Whitmore/Staff)

Does the First Amendment protect protest art? You have the right to expression, but not to damage public or private property. Altering billboards or painting murals or putting up statues of birthday-suited politicians in public places can land you charges as minor as permitting violations, or as major as felony vandalism.

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here’s this famous picture of Claude Monet in his studio in Giverny, France, where he’s standing next to a busted old couch, a tiny island leagues away from these massive, sweeping paintings of water lilies. A skylight ceiling reaches up maybe 40 feet like you’d see in a high-rise hotel lobby. And the paintings wrap around Monet like he’s in the front row of an Imax theater, a sturdy man dwarfed down to a 5-year-old trying to sit at the grown-ups’ table. Ginger doesn’t have that problem. His defining work could fit on Monet’s couch, though the shadow it casts might cover the planet. Ginger is the nom de guerilla art of Josh Monroe, a 36-year-old Cleveland native who has been in Las Vegas since 2012, when he came out to help open the Strip’s dearly departed year-round haunted house Goretorium. He’s also the most buzzed-about artist of the election cycle since, on Aug. 18, five statues of a naked Donald Trump with a tiny penis and no testicles went up simultaneously in five cities across America. It was, perhaps, the signature moment for politically motivated micropenis art in American history. Monroe lives in a nondescript house in an older neighborhood in east Las Vegas. It’s not a big space, but it’s all the smaller for the giant mold in the middle of the living room being prepped for the next round of Trump statues. They were designed by him but masterminded by Indecline, the nationwide underground-art collective of graffiti writers, photographers, writers, musicians and filmmakers that has frequently operated in Las Vegas in its 15 years of very colorful activism. The original Trump statue — named not-so-subtly “The Emperor Has No Balls” — dominates Monroe’s studio, sharing real estate with monster-movie ephemera and “Lost Boys” posters. The thing is straight-up wrecked. Monroe said it got attacked with a claw hammer for a video posted to news and culture site Uproxx. There’s a sword

resting under Trump’s hands, tip at his feet. If they gave out an Oscar for Yuuugest Picture, this is what the trophy would look like. More than anyone save Melania, Monroe and his cohorts have been living with the Republican candidate for president. “All of our shins and legs are tore up from that fiberglass mold,” Monroe said, explaining that they keep accidentally kicking it. “I still have nightmares to this day because of the massive amount of stress to get these things done and out there. I still have to wake up and remind myself this really happened.” Monroe is something of a surrogate father to the world’s most disconcerting baby. Indecline had the concept for the installation, the plan and the manpower to pull it off. They just needed someone with enough experience in grotesquerie to bring it to life. He had a friend in Cirque du Soleil who had friends in Indecline and made the connection. Monroe admits he took the assignment to get his name out there, and that he had been considering voting for Trump until the candidate mocked a reporter with disabilities at an appearance. That set Monroe off, as he has relatives with disabilities. Which brings us to our first conundrum: Is a protest object of art still a cry of dissent if the sculptor is initially ambivalent about the message? Or is this, like even the most auteur-driven films, simply a collaborative effort, in the way that “Citizen Kane” would still be “Citizen Kane” if protest art, Continued on page 15

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Keith Haring Haring’s joyous New York works in the early ’80s — forever immortalized in the cover art to the quadruple platinum 1987 compilation “A Very Special Christmas” (“Christmas in Hollis,” represent) — began to focus on AIDS activism in the latter part of the decade. Haring died from complications of the disease in 1990.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Ron English Sometimes described as the Godfather of Street Art, English was on the ground floor of altering billboards, like his Camel “Cancer Kids” or Apple-Charles Manson “Think Different” mashup.

He dated Madonna, was in a Blondie video and collaborated with David Bowie, but Basquiat’s socially conscious graffiti was a cultural force in New York in the early 1980s.

influential artists in time Guerrilla Girls

Banksy Street art’s reigning heavyweight, Banksy’s tongue-in-cheek productions and clever interactions with the environment have drawn high praise from all but strident anti-vandalism groups. His works frequently touch on the existential horrors of modern life. But funnier.

Members of this feminist collective wear gorilla masks and take aliases from famous female artists, and illuminate gender inequality in the art world.

Shepard Fairey From his early “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” stickers to the Obama “Hope” poster to countless dudes wandering around in Obey T-shirts, Fairey is perhaps the one artist most responsible for bringing street art into mainstream American culture.

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Joseph Cotton were an America-first jingoist who wanted nothing more in life than to lock up that skrilla? It helped that Monroe wholeheartedly supported Indecline’s vision, even if his motives were more on the “art” side of “protest art.” For the sake of argument, let’s file this under “consistent artistic vision of dissent.” So then the question becomes: Is this effective as a form of protest? The Trump statues went up — and promptly were taken down by local authorities — in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, New York and Cleveland. It was New York that turned them from a fleeting shred of viral cool that your more Facebook-argumentative friends might have posted to a full-blown moment of point-and-laugh catharsis for some, when the New York City Parks Department issued a release on the Union Square installation: “NYC Parks stands firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small.” (Come on, give it up. That is the “Eddie Murphy Raw” of municipal department public statements.) But aside from the Cleveland statue, the other four were in states that are Democratic strongholds where there’s little chance of a Trump victory. “When we chose the five cities, that was a big conversation. On one end you’ve got longevity. What do these statues have in terms of shelf life if we stick these in front of a courthouse or in front of Trump Tower? Are we killing ourselves for something that’s going to have five minutes of shelf life? Or do we take advantage of it being the 21st century and knowing the second this thing gets the tarp pulled off, everyone’s going to be pulling out their phone?” an Indecline spokesman said on the condition of anonymity, which is key to the group’s ability to engage in illegal stunts for the sake of its message. “And do we put it in an area that’s going to be maybe a little more anti-Trump, a little more hipster, and do we gift it to those areas knowing those are the areas that will make it viral and from there our message can spread and do its thing? For us, it’s like (Trump supporters are) going to see it anyway. And they’re going to see it in a way that hurts them so much more when it’s all over the international media and in their face. The five to 15 minutes it would have run in Kansas or wherever, it doesn’t justify it.” In this battle between candidates polling with some of the highest unfavorable ratings ever, FiveThirtyEight.com, the gold standard in election forecasting, has consistently shown America likes Trump even less than Hillary Clinton. While he’s currently ahead of or tied with Clinton in three major polls, FiveThirtyEight routinely assigns the GOP contender only a 30 to 40 percent chance of winning. The day the statues went up, the site gave Trump only a 23.8 percent chance. So there’s an element of protesting against him that’s like protesting a chilly Vegas day in September. It could happen. It’s just not terribly likely. “It’s a real threat. I don’t want people to think it’s OK to just not care. I think it’s really important in the next two months to do whatever you can to diminish this guy, or fight against him. As we learned with Bush, elections can be stolen. It’s not worth it to me to be like, it’s in the bag,” Indecline’s spokesman said. “Trump has this little role he plays that seems to resonate with people, but when you look at those people, good God, it’s scary. He’s abrasive and he’s disgusting, and the things he says are completely inappropriate. He’s every definition of bigot and tyrant that you could assemble, but I think what pisses me off the most is he’s got this following. It’s that susceptibility, that mentally malleable populous that can fall for (expletive) like him.” Two more Trump statues went up Sept. 14, one in Miami and the other overlooking the Jersey City road to the Holland Tunnel. This time it was legal. Art collector Moishe Mana worked with Indecline to install the Ginger-made pieces on properties he owns. The Miami installation was originally placed atop a billboard until police

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begged Mana to take it down on the grounds that it could cause traffic accidents due to gawkers. Mana moved it to the rooftop of a building he owns in the same neighborhood, and that statue will stay in place until the election. The Jersey City specimen lasted all of five days before it was stolen — something Indecline predicted would happen after one of the original statues showed up at an auction in Los Angeles. nnn

Danger is part of the appeal of underground art. The artist is risking fines, jail time and the raw embarrassment of being nicked in the act. There are real repercussions, though. Charges were filed over the Trump statue in San Francisco, claiming $4,000 in damage to public concrete. In Rochester, N.Y., activist Beth Wittenberg was recently arrested for painting a Black Lives Matter mural on state property. And Brian Whiteley, who put up a Trump tombstone in Central Park, earned himself a visit from the Secret Service. Speaking of New York, in 2012, artist Takeshi Miyakawa decorated the city with LED-lit plastic bags and was rewarded with charges of reckless endangerment and planting a fake bomb. And in the same city in 1974, co-founder of the Guerrilla Art Action Group Jean Toche got into trouble with the FBI thanks to fliers calling for museum curators to be kidnapped. This year, when evolutionary biologist Steven Le Comber wanted to prove the usefulness of geographic profiling, his case study was famed British provocateur and street artist Banksy. Crime is component. This is the art of vicarious rebellion. But another big part of the equation is surprise. Los Angeles street artist Plastic Jesus has surprised Oscars Week visitors to the Hollywood Walk of Fame with large gold statuettes, maybe on a stripper pole (protesting sexism this year) or on all fours snorting drugs (protesting celebrity addiction last year). One of his calling cards is a giant, rolled-up bill of American currency flanked by equally oversized rails of cocaine. He’s doing his part to derail the Trump Train, building a tiny wall around The Donald’s star on the Walk of Fame and posting “No Trump Anytime” parking signs around L.A. The Trump statues, as powerful as they are, are somewhat diminished in legality and permanence. “Part of the message is lost,” said the Brit who’s been called the “Banksy of L.A.” about underground art’s mostly illegal nature. “The fact that your art piece is done without permission, that itself sends out a message. However, once a piece goes global and gets widely viewed, I think that’s often more important. I will use walls with permission if I think the message is strong enough.” Plastic Jesus, who declined to use his real name, has only been doing this for three years. In another life, he was a photojournalist who covered the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo and the nation-shattering earthquakes in Haiti and Japan. He said the element of danger to street art gave the whole thing a jolt of adrenaline. Indecline’s spokesman insists the art comes first, but he admits the outlaw thrill isn’t entirely excluded from the calculus. Las Vegas’ devil-may-care character tends to seep all over everything. It makes for fertile ground as a crossroads for underground artists. Aficionados can read the backs of signs all over the city like a road map of the country. There are more stickers from far-flung artists here, Indecline’s spokesman said, than just about anywhere else. “Las Vegas has always treated the edgier aspects of culture very well,” he said. “Once you start traveling out in the country or the world, you start looking around and you realize how special Las Vegas is. There’s an inherent rebel nature. It still has that cowboy swagger.” The swagger is apparent to artists working in the more high-profile Los Angeles media market. Shepard Fairey, the street-art elder statesman whose Obama “Hope” poster is the socially conscious yang to naprotest art, Continued on page 17

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1937: Pablo Picasso paints “Guernica,” one of the most defining and enduring anti-war protest images in art history. Nazis were officially on blast.

1974: Tony Shafrazi is arrested in New York for spray-painting “KILL LIES ALL” on “Guernica,” in protest of the release of William Calley, who participated in the My Lai massacre. Shafrazi claimed he was bringing the painting “up to date” and back to life. Jean Toche would be arrested for his fliers defending the incident, calling on museum curators to be kidnapped.

1984: Ron English is arrested in Dallas for altering billboards, frequently twisting advertisements into anticorporate messages.

1978: The Village Voice brings attention to JeanMichel Basquiat’s original graffiti collaboration project with Al Diaz, SAMO.

1977: The Billboard Liberation Front, one of the earliest practitioners of altering billboards, forms in San Francisco.

1989: Shepard Fairey creates his “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” stickers.

the Value in the art Shepard Fairey’s work “War Is Over” sold for $71,700. It’s a spraypaintand-mixed media painting.

the Value in the art The Jean-Michel Basquiat piece “Untitled” sold for $57.23 million. This acrylic is 17 feet long and has a Darth Vader-looking devil front and center. 1999: Banksy’s “The Mild Mild West,” showing a teddy bear throwing a Molotov cocktail at police, goes up in Bristol, England, marking the artist’s first well-publicized piece.

2008: Fairey debuts his Obama “Hope” poster, which would serve as the campaign’s iconic image. 2010: “Exit Through the Gift Shop” popularizes Banksy — and art-hack Mr. Brainwash — with the public.

the Value in the art Banksy’s work “Keep it Spotless,” sold for $1.7 million. It’s a spray-paint on canvas conveying his take on ’50s domesticity.

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Indecline exploded onto the national scene with the first edition of “Bumfights,” the 2002 video compilation of, you know, bums fighting. Outcry was immediate and predictable. Subsequent “Bumfights” volumes were produced outside Indecline’s purview, but the group came back with a 2003 video, “Indecline: Vol. 1 — It’s Worse Than You Think,” that showed in uncomfortable, unflinching detail the plight of the mentally ill and street people, but it also veered into chronicling assault in a way that made everyone — perpetrators, filmmakers and viewers — feel complicit. The rest of the video focused on skateboarding and graffiti, which was spotlighted in Indecline’s “Legalize Crime” videos. Those productions are heavy on graffiti artists tagging under cover of darkness, deploying their personal calling cards or sometimes the Indecline logo of a devil-horned businessman. In 2012, the group offered up “Wheel of Misfortune,” a graffiti project by member artist Aware that took to an abandoned manganese leeching pond southeast of Las Vegas. With planks that read “Lose a Job,” “Lose a Home” and “Lose All Hope,” this one struck a sharply political chord. Around the same time, “Dying for Work” and “Hope You’re Happy Wall St.” billboards popped up overlooking Interstate 15 near Bonanza Road and on South Highland Avenue. Both featured suited mannequins hanging by their necks. This election cycle, though, has seen a creative surge from Indecline. Last October the group painted a mural of Trump wearing a ball gag below the words “¡Rape Trump!” along the U.S./ Mexico border. (Complete with instructions on how to reach Trump Tower from Tijuana.) In March, it affixed the names of Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Freddy Gray — black people controversially shot and killed by police — to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Next up is a project that focuses on gun control. “When we finished Trump and we started talking about what the next move is, it wasn’t how do we captivate the world or how do we break the internet?” Indecline’s spokesman

are 35 to 40 core men and women across the country (and some operating in Europe), typically no more than three to six in any given city, who will execute the mission. Normally, the turnaround time is counted in weeks, not months. But the Trump statues required an enormous amount of collaboration and organization, in a way that was unprecedented since Indecline’s inception. Along the way, the mainstream seems to have caught up to, if not the message of protest-focused work, at least the aesthetic of street art. Fairey’s 2008 Obama poster and the 2010 Banksy documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop” were breakthrough moments. And as the renegade form broke through, Las Vegas was right there to capitalize on it. The Cosmopolitan turned its parking garage over to muralists — all major players in the street-art scene — with works by Retna, Stephen Powers, Kenny Scharf, Shinique Smith, Curtis Kulig and Fairey adorning the concrete walls. The short-lived Rattlecan at the Venetian opened in 2013 with a collection of walls done by Defer, Rime, Aiko, King Ruck, Kulig, Invader and others. And works created for Life Is Beautiful have “literally changed the face of downtown Las Vegas, which now doubles as an open-air art gallery,” Vice offshoot Noisey recently reported. Having art in these spaces is objectively better than the alternative — D*Face’s lovelorn zombie on the side of El Cortez Cabana Suites makes Seventh and Ogden way cooler than it has any right to be. Yet they were all done with permission, or on commission. They’re all positive. On-brand. The only one with a hint of controversy — Ukrainian artist Interesni Kazki’s cowboy with a slot machine in his chest menaced by grasping, disembodied hands on the side of Emergency Arts — was painted over in 2013 for being too negative. Even the grimiest of revolutionary art has to bow to commerce sometimes. One patron in Oregon has commissioned a Trump statue for his private collection, though the Indecline mouthpiece said proceeds all would be rolled into future projects. On its website, Indecline sells all kinds of branded merchandise, some of it pushing the “Legalize Crime” idea from past projects. This is either brilliant meta-commentary on consumer culture or a deft way to rope impulse control-challenged 17-year-olds into footing the bill. You can fight corporate power all day long, but spray paint doesn’t pay for itself, and starving artists aren’t as much fun when you’re the one starving. “I was pretty much being a whore. I wanted to get my name out there and ride on the coattails of this,” said Monroe, who has been stalked by major media outlets since the incident, ranging from Rolling Stone and The Washington Post to Newsweek, The Guardian and The Daily Beast. Indecline’s video of his creation of the statues has nearly 800,000 views, and if you search “Naked Donald Trump Statue” on YouTube, it yields over 14,000 uploads. “The only statement I wanted to do was, ‘Hey, look what I can do. ... Give me a job.’ For anybody in any industry to strike gold like this, to be able to hit a home run like this, the idea that you may not hit anything like this, it 2016: weighs on me. If I had the opportunity to go do Indecline’s “The something major, I would jump on it. If I had Emperor Has No Balls” to commute to L.A. every week, I would do statues popped up in New it because I know it would be worth it. If I York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, could finally get paid for doing what I love San Francisco and Cleveland. A month later, another appeared in Las — any artist would do that.” Vegas on the corner of Sixth Street and There’s love of message and love of Carson Avenue for the Life Is Beautithe game, whether it’s in the craft or ful Festival. The roped-off Trump was the thrill. Even Picasso’s “Guernica” installed in a parking lot around midwas initially done on commission, so night Wednesday. The statue was to be

said. “It was: What are the issues that we’ve missed while focusing on this (expletive)? It took up six months of our time. We’ve never spent that much time on a project.” Projects start with an internal discussion about what issues to tackle and what direction a new piece should take. From there, there

love of money isn’t out of the question, either. Motives aren’t always clean and intentions aren’t always pure, but a big, naked blowhard and his missing balls? Well that’s funny, or offensive, forever.

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ked Trump’s fire-and-brimstone yin, stopped by this month’s Life Is Beautiful festival to talk about the form. He was among other street artists contributing to the fest’s collection of murals. “I was quite pleasantly surprised at the amount of art that’s there,” Plastic Jesus said of the downtown Las Vegas landscape. “You’ve got my fellow Brits: Banksy has had a piece there, and D*Face. It’s really good quality art that’s there. Sadly, a lot of people who go to Vegas are overlooking the art, the creativity that’s going on there. ... Vegas has lots of roots in fighting establishment, fighting the government and fighting the normal. Really, it’s a bit of a shame people aren’t more vocal, don’t get more visibility for the street art going on in Vegas.” On the one hand, you have a town operated in its formative years by the syndicate, a kleptocratic golden age that’s remembered fondly by those who lived it and romanticized by those born too late. On the other, you have an ersatz architectural vernacular. When the most iconic buildings in the city are goofy re-creations, you start to take the idea of mocking things through art for granted. Once you get used to it, everything in the world becomes fodder for appropriation. In other words, the primordial soup of underground art is built into this city’s bones. nnn

moved around during the festival, but between Thursday night and Friday morning, vandals knocked the statue down and covered it in graffiti.

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INSIDER By Megan Messerly Staff Writer

Another week means another deluge of politicking, as candidates woo voters (and attack each other) and operatives supporting them pull every possible big-money stunt. For those blissfully unaware or purposely avoiding the crush of information, we’ve boiled down the essentials from the past week. From the money pouring into the race for U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s seat to famous feminist Gloria Steinem stumping for Hillary Clinton, the Insider has the details you need.

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ads attack with symbolism n An ad from the National Republican Congressional Committee compared Democratic congressional candidate Jacky Rosen to a tomato. Rosen, a local synagogue leader, has never held office. That makes it hard to attack her, since she doesn’t have a political record to pick THE RACE: apart. Republicans nv-3 have tried to tie her to Democratic U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, who encouraged Rosen to run in the 3rd District. The ad says Rosen was “handpicked for Congress by Washington liberals” like you might handpick a tomato.

n If the pro-abortion group Emily’s List is to be believed, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Heck, who is a physician, only wears a white coat and stethoscope when he’s playing a doctor on TV. The ad shows an actor portraying Heck taking off the white coat and wiping his stage makeup off to reveal the “real” Heck, in full suit and tie with a “Dr. Joe Heck for THE RACE: U.S. Senate” button pinned u.s. senate to it. The ad pushes back on positive spots Heck’s campaign has been running touting his experience as a doctor and as a member of the Army Reserve.

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The race to replace veteran U.S. Sen. Harry Reid could wind up being the most costly Senate race in Nevada’s history. But the two competitive races in Nevada’s 3rd and 4th Congressional Districts are running up the bills as well. Here’s a sampling of how much money has been raised and spent in the three races, in addition to how much money groups have poured into the races: senate $16,304,997 raised $7,346,547 spent

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That’s the rating PolitiFact gave an ad from the LIBRE Initiative attacking Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto for opposing the state’s Education Savings Account, or school choice, program. The ad overstated Hispanic support for the program, as well as the number of students benefiting. The ad claims “Latinos in Nevada support Education Savings Accounts, helping more than 450,000 students access better schools,” but there have been only about 7,800 applicants. A poll cited showed support from 71 percent of Hispanics in Nevada, but a more recent poll found 47 percent in support.

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Breaking the glass Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign staged a weeklong series of events called “Glass Breakers.” They showcased women running for office in Nevada, including congressional candidates Jacky Rosen and Rep. Dina Titus, as well as candidates for the state Legislature, including state Sen. Joyce Woodhouse and Assemblywoman Teresa Benitez-Thompson. Women’s rights’ advocate Gloria Steinem campaigned in Reno for Clinton on Sept. 20. The week wrapped with a Glass Breakers Summit on Sept. 24 with U.S. Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto and Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan at the College of Southern Nevada’s Cheyenne campus.

tra i l Amodei for Trump With only seven weeks before the election, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign named Republican Rep. Mark Amodei as Nevada state chair. In a statement, Trump said Amodei “has resisted the pull of special interests in Washington to fight for change and for the people of Nevada.” Unlike the other prominent Republicans running for re-election in the state, Amodei is relatively safe in the 2nd Congressional District — a Republican stronghold in the North — though he does face a challenge from Democratic former businessman Chip Evans. Amodei has campaigned for Trump several times in Northern Nevada, though in July he told the Reno Gazette-Journal that Trump would either be a “smoking black hole” or the “next messiah.”

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Four storylines in competitive House races could shape the nation’s future Editor’s note: In advance of the Oct. 19 presidential debate at UNLV, The Sunday and the Brookings Institution, in partnership with UNLV and Brookings Mountain West, are presenting a series of guest columns on state and national election issues. The columns will appear weekly.

ut of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives, only a small number (between 35 and 55, depending on the forecast) have the potential to change hands this fall. Nevada is home to two of them: the seat in the 3rd Congressional District vacated by Rep. Joe Heck, who is running for Senate; and Rep. Cresent Hardy’s seat in the 4th District. Other Mountain West states have competitive races, as well, including two in Arizona and one each in Colorado and Utah. Five of these six seats are occupied by Republicans, and most of the national attention on them will be focused on the implications of the GOP’s efforts to maintain a majority in the House. If we dig just below the surface, however, here are four more storylines to watch in the coming weeks: Is ticket-splitting making a comeback? In 2012, according to analysis by political scientist Gary Jacobson, roughly 10 percent of people voted for presidential and House candidates of different parties — the lowest rate of ticket-splitting since the American National Election Study began collecting such information in 1952. High levels of straight-ticket voting also have helped produce smaller numbers of split-outcome districts, where a majority of the votes go to a House member of one party but the presidential candidate of the other. These trends often are attributed to the broader polarization of the parties: As the parties have become more different from one another, fewer voters find themselves attracted to presidential and

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congressional candidates of different parties. Recently, observers have debated whether this trend will continue in 2016, arguing that Donald Trump’s presence at the top of the Republican ticket may lead more voters to support Hillary Clinton while casting ballots for Republican congressional candidates. Polling in several key Senate races suggests this kind of ticket-splitting is possible, as some Republican candidates are polling better than Trump in their states. If we observe this kind of ticket-splitting in a meaningful way at the House level, the Mountain West races are likely to be ground zero for it: In 2012, five of the six competitive districts in the region were won by a presidential candidate of one party and a House candidate of the other.

West will find themselves well acquainted with messages from the region’s congressional campaigns, thanks to large planned media buys by the party’s congressional campaign arms and prominent super PACs. According to reporting by The Hill, the DCCC, the NRCC and a super PAC supporting House Democrats (House Majority PAC) have reserved a combined $20 million in airtime in the Las Vegas media market. The same three groups also have set aside nearly $11.4 million to spend in the Denver media market, home to vulnerable incumbent Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo. An extensive body of political science research has suggested that while advertising’s effects at the presidential level are small and fade quickly, they can play a larger role when the candidates may be unfamiliar to voters, like in House races.

Will national party targeting make a difference? Each election, the congressional parties’ campaign arms target competitive races by sending extra resources to them. This year, Democrats are targeting four of the five competitive, Republican-held House seats in the Mountain West as part of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Red to Blue Program. Republicans, meanwhile, have included their candidate for the Democratically held open seat in Arizona’s 1st District in the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Young Guns Program. Research by political scientists Jason Roberts, Jacob Smith and Sarah Truel finds that when the party that does not hold the seat targets a race in this way, the seat is more likely to change hands.

Can Republican candidates adjust to changing demographics? One of the most interesting congressional races in the country this cycle comes from Colorado’s 6th District, in suburban Denver. Coffman is attempting to hold on to his seat by distancing himself from Trump, releasing an ad announcing that he doesn’t “care for (Trump) much” and that if Trump is elected, he’ll “stand up to him.” Thanks to redistricting, Coffman now represents a different constituency than when he was first elected in 2008; Latinos make up about 20 percent of his current district, compared with approximately 8 percent of his original one. Coffman won his new seat by just 7,000 votes in 2012, and 2016 will present him with an even greater test of his ability to recast himself for a more diverse constituency. If he’s successful, his campaign may provide some lessons for other GOP incumbents in changing districts beyond 2016.

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Molly E. Reynolds is a fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution.

If we observe ticketsplitting at the House level, the Mountain West races are likely to be ground zero for it: In 2012, five of the six competitive districts in the region were won by a presidential candidate of one party and a House candidate of the other.

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Talking fitness myths and internet threats at the infomercial industry’s D2C convention

ack when I was in Los Angeles studying to be an on-camera host, I watched a lot of infomercials. I even attended a few live tapings. Fellow actors treated audience work like the dregs, but as an aspiring host, I considered it a golden opportunity to watch working presenters and evaluate their delivery. Once, after waiting seven hours to get to set, the host turned out to be a famous movie actress from the ’90s. Boredom turned to fan-girl elation. She spoke to us like we were her best friends. A warm demeanor and careful elocution were sewn into every Elly brown word. I’ll buy two face creams plus a backup, I thought, hypnotized, skin problems or not. The Electronic Retailing Association’s Direct to Consumer convention — D2C for short — is the major annual gathering of the infomercial industry, and Wynn Las Vegas hosted it Sept. 1315. Under one roof were celebrity spokespeople, product inventors and the executives who turn their work into commercial wonders such as the Shake Weight and Pajama Jeans. First, I met John Abdo, inventor of the Ab-Doer. A former Olympic coach, Abdo designed a series of infomercial releases, from “The Science of Getting Lean and Strong” to “Make Your Body a Fat-Burning Machine.” As an expert developing his own products, Abdo reflects a growing trend in the industry: “real” people who genuinely enjoy the product and believe in its benefits. “I’m not the guy on TV saying, ‘Pick up your phone now and call this number.’ I’m the guy saying, ‘Here’s what you need to do,’ ” Abdo said. “I just want to be myself. ... I want to be known for educating and motivating people.” Abdo sells many of his products in traditional retail settings such as Target and Wal-Mart, but maintains that the infomercial is what creates awareness and lends credibility.

Top, Poonam Khubani of TeleBrands International at the D2C Convention at Wynn Las Vegas. Malibu Tote Bags (left) and the pool-ready Floatinator cupholder were among the products showcased at the convention. (Photos by mikayla whitmore/staff)

“People know it’s expensive to get and keep a product on TV,” he said. “The Ab-Doer will be on TV 20 years in January, and that’s how they know it’s the real deal.” Most D2C attendees agreed that television presence cements audience trust, including Poonam Khubani, vice president of TeleBrands International. TeleBrands develops TV spots for everything in the As Seen On TV stores, such as My Pillow, the Ped-Egg and Furniture

Feet. Khubani said the company has sold products in 130 countries. While the web might be vital for the Amazons of the retail world, she sees it as an add-on. “We are in the problem-solving business, finding solutions for everyday problems in household, auto or any category,” Khubani said. “The internet is a space where the consumer can check out the benefits of the product. First they say, ‘OK, I’ve seen this on TV,’ then, ‘I’m going to do some research

before I buy.’ ” But has the internet hurt television sales? “This year’s conference is one of the least-attended in history,” local infomercial producer Ben Kalb said. “Maybe more people are buying through the internet.” I asked if he was discerning about the types of projects he produces. “If it’s just outrageous, yes. One guy wanted to do a ‘Reservation in Heaven,’ a lithograph with a number on it. That’s when you say, ‘Sorry, I’m not the guy for that.’ I love putting these shows together, and I have a really good sense of which products have a shot.” With fitness products, Kalb said he can’t sell them based only on an improved heart rate or the promise of improving strength. “None of that counts. We have to cater to the viewer, and the viewer wants to lose weight, or inches.” So does that crazy ab belt actually work? “An ab belt will help tone your abs a little bit,” Kalb said. “If you expect to lose weight from an ab belt … not a chance in the world unless you incorporate a diet plan.”

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Tips to help you train for a marathon As it cools down, there are many opportunities to participate in long-distance races in Las Vegas and the surrounding areas. Whether you’re gearing up to run the Strip or thinking about a night run through the desert, endurance running requires dedicated and intensive training. “Training to run 26.2 miles requires a real time investment,” said Nayab Zafar, MD, cardiologist at the Heart Center at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and an avid runner. If you’re an aspiring first-timer or a seasoned marathon runner, follow this guide to help prepare to go the distance. Create a training schedule Depending on your activity level and cardiovascular fitness, you’ll need to create a running schedule to build up for the race. There are marathon-training schedules available to download or purchase online, or you can create your own. “Most training schedules take the same basic approach of progressively building endurance by adding miles to weekly runs,” Zafar said. at the start of your training Run 3-4 miles several times a week. Gradually add more distance as you’re able. Use weekday runs to maintain your strength, and use weekend runs as an opportunity to increase your distance. During the beginning weeks of training, be sure to finish the distances you set for yourself, even if it means walking some. If you’re following a six-month training schedule, you should aim to run four to five days a week and rest for two to three days throughout that period.

“Give yourself at least six months if you’re training for your first endurance run. If you are in the habit of running shorter distances fairly regularly, you should still appreciate that you’ll need time to train for longer distances, too,” Zafar said.

SAMPLE SCHEDULE for the first month of training WEEK Mon. tues. wed. thurs. 1 2 miles Rest 2 miles Rest 2 3 miles Rest 3 miles Rest 3 Rest 3 miles Rest 3 miles 4 3 miles Rest 3 miles Rest

fri. 2 miles 3 miles Rest 3 miles

sat. Rest Rest 4 miles Rest

sun. Rest 3 miles Rest 5 miles

* Maintain 3- to 4-mile runs during the week and continue to increase the distance of your weekend runs through week 21, before recovering for the race.

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Monitor your heart rate

While you should continue to increase your distance over time, it’s not necessary to run the full marathon distance, or even close to it, while training. “Many experienced marathoners caution against running more than 20 miles at a time before the event. Some say the impact on bones, ligaments and other body systems when running for longer than three hours can cause injuries that may derail your training,” Zafar said.

In order to train more efficiently, determine if your exertion is within a healthy range and properly gauge your cardiovascular fitness level, it’s important to monitor your heart rate. Here are key steps for heart-rate monitoring: Know your resting heart rate. “When you wake up, before doing any physical activity, check your pulse. Count how many times your heart beats in 20 seconds and multiple that number by three to get your resting heart rate,” Zafar said.

Know your maximum heart rate (MHR). This is a measurement you’ll take during physical activity. First, warm up properly to ensure you’re able to exert your maximum output. Then, sprint for two minutes and jog for one minute. Repeat this cycle two more times and make the final sprint an especially fast one. Then check your heart rate; this number is your MHR.

Monitor your heart rate on your regular runs and compare it to your MHR. For beginners, your heart rate during your runs should stay within a range of 65 to 75 percent of your MHR. Zafar warns that if you cannot get your heart rate to stay below 80 percent of your MHR as you train, you will have a more difficult time getting your heart ready for the race.

Throughout your training, you should see both your resting heart rate lower and your heart rate during your runs lower as compared with your MHR. If you do not see these changes occur within the first few weeks of training, consult your doctor before continuing to train.

Nutrition is key A key component of a good training regime is maintaining a healthy diet while being sure to get enough calories and nutrients to fuel your runs. The nutrition required for training is different for everyone and depends on the individual’s activity level, age, weight, height, food sensitivities and more. As a general guideline, Zafar recommends investigating different nutritional products that are crafted for performance athletes (such as protein powders and electrolyte blends) and practicing intuitive eating. “You have to pay attention to what foods don’t sit well when you are training. For example, dairy products generate a lot of sugar in the body, which can make you feel sluggish, whereas bananas can boost endurance because of their high potassium levels,” Zafar said.

A month before the race Once you’re three to four weeks away from the marathon, you should begin tapering your runs and taking more rest days. While this may seem counterintuitive, if you’ve been training gradually in the months prior, taking a more restful approach during your last month of training can be very beneficial. “The point of this is to eliminate all body fatigue because you’re going to need your muscles to totally rebound before the race. You won’t lose the aerobic capacity that you’ve been building,” Zafar said.

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angels in the cockpit

Through Angel Flight West, volunteers take those in need on healing journeys

Sheena Armas looks on as Omar Armas hugs their 11-year-old daughter Elana, who suffered second- and third-degree burns on her legs in a cooking accident when she was 10.

By Katie Visconti Special to The Sunday

lana Armas was cooking chicharrónes when she noticed the oil she was heating up had started to turn black. The 10-year-old poured it into a plastic container she’d placed on the stove, and when she went to move it, the bottom melted immediately. Scalding oil spilled down both of her legs. Elana screamed, and her 17-year-old sister ran into the kitchen and rushed her into the bath, placing her legs under cold water so the oil would stop burning her. Elana’s mother, Sheena, had been working overnight and overtime as a trauma nurse at University Medical Center and woke up to the screams as her daughter suffered second- and third-degree burns. She called her boss and raced Elana to UMC’s burn center, stunned and embarrassed that she wasn’t awake when it happened. “Elana is a big, adamant baker; our whole family cooks together,” Sheena said. Safety tips had always been discussed and practiced. The accident took the entire family by surprise. Every day for two weeks, Elana went to the Lions Wound and Burn Care Center at UMC, Nevada’s only burn center. Her legs were covered with mesh bandages and Aquacel, a wound dressing with ionic silver that helps prevent scarring, and the skin healed remarkably well. She was fortunate enough not to need grafts, and after the initial treatment phase, Sheena was able to dress and care for her daughter’s wounds at home. The process wasn’t always easy. Elana was a soccer player and spent time on the sidelines after the accident, watching her teammates. Sheena recalled that Elana was scared of what others would think of her scars, initially saying how ugly her legs would be and how she’d never be able to wear shorts.

Dr. Joey Adashek readies his aircraft for an Angel Flight from the North Las Vegas Airport on June 11. (photos by L.E. Baskow/staff)

At the burn care center, Sheena learned about the Lil’ Roar Pediatric Burn Survivor Support Group and an opportunity for her daughter to go to a camp for burn victims, Champ Camp, where she knew Elana would enter a judgment-free environment. She also learned of Angel Flight West, an organization that ensured the girl’s flight was free to the June camp in Fresno, Calif. Angel Flight West, a nonprofit headquartered in Southern California and serving 13 western states, is sustained by volunteers providing free, non-emergen-

cy air travel for people of all ages with serious medical conditions and other “compelling needs.” For families looking for treatment and other resources that are inaccessible because of medical, geographical or financial reasons, Angel Flight West makes it possible. The organization flies 10 missions every day. For pilots, there is no obligatory amount of fly time. Volunteer hours are at the pilot’s discretion. The one who helped Elana, Dr. Joey Adashek, is a high-risk pregnancy doctor at his practice, Desert Perinatal Associates, and an advocate for the work done by

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Elana checks out the plane set to carry her to a California camp for young burn victims.

Angel Flight West. Adashek got involved because he loves to fly and had the resources to help. He has been a pilot for Angel Flight West for five years and has taken kids for rare medical care, chemo treatment and camps like the one Elana attended. Adashek explained that each week, Angel Flight West sends a list of patients who need help. His time may be limited, but he flies missions once a month. Summers are usually slower because of the heat, but in the past few years, Adashek has taken kids to various burn camps, a woman to a cancer center at UCLA, and a little boy with a rare skin disease to get treatment in Arizona. “I love to fly, and now I’m doing it for a good reason,” Adashek said. His plane, a Cirrus, can typically carry a small child and parent, or kids in Elana’s condition can fly solo. Planes are inspected by Angel Flight West, and pilots are screened to make sure they have up-to-date

training and certification. Adashek said the reward is instantaneous. He pays for the fuel, grateful to give families the chance to get where they need to go. “I’m hoping to be doing it forever,” he said. Sheena said the experience opened her eyes, and her daughter’s. After coming home from camp, now-11year-old Elana said, “I wanted to come back because I missed you, but I didn’t want to leave.” Her perspective on her situation had changed. Elana met a young boy at Champ Camp who had burned 80 percent of the skin off his body. She told her mom, “It really hurt my heart to see how bad this boy was burned, when I only got burned on my two legs.” She still plays soccer, loves to bake and is now involved with support groups. “Scars tell stories,” Sheena says. “If we can help educate other families through our experience, we want to share.”

WANT TO GET INVOLVED? What Angel Flight West does: “Angel Flight West arranges transportation for medical care, special needs camps and other essential services. Many people cannot reach needed care because of the cost, or they are too ill to fly commercially or drive long distances.”

How you can help Visit angelflightwest.org for more information on qualifications and submit an application, which will be reviewed within a day or so. If you’re not a pilot, the organization also is looking for volunteers to be mission assistants and to help with ground transportation, outreach and wing leadership.

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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 more. Each week, we feature a selection of animals available for adoption.

Honey (A915526)

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Sunflower

Archie

Age: 6-year-old spayed female Breed: Cocker spaniel Description: Honey is sweet but prefers to be in an adult-only home. She’s social wwwand outgoing around older people and will give you lots of kisses. Adoption fee: $200

Age: 6-year-old spayed female Breed: Domestic shorthair Description: Shatzee is affectionate and will come right to you and rub up against your body hoping for an ear scratch. Adoption fee: $25

Age: 10-month-old female Breed: Domestic shorthair Description: Sunflower gives wonderful hugs and likes taking shoulder rides. Please carefully kitten-proof your home for her safety. Adoption fee: $50

Age: 5-year-old neutered male Breed: Shar-Pei mix Description: Archie is blessed with puppy-like enthusiasm and a funloving nature. We believe he has the temperament to be terrific with mature children. Adoption fee: $40

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Bellatrix (A915705)

Abby

Gustav

Age: 1-year-old male Breed: Domestic shorthair Description: Colby is sweet but can be a bit of a scaredy-cat. Give him time to warm up and he’s kind and loving. Adoption fee: $25

Age: 2-year-old spayed female Breed: German shepherd mix Description: Bellatrix loves to run outside and play. She’s active and would make a great hiking buddy. Adoption fee: $200

Age: 10-year-old spayed female Breed: Abyssinian mix Description: Abby enjoys resting on your chest while you watch TV or read a book. She has a quiet, humble nature. Adoption fee: $20

Age: 3-year-old neutered male Breed: Lhasa apso mix Description: Gustav is improving every day. He has been scarred by cruelty, so trust does not come easily. He yearns for kindness and peace of mind. Adoption fee: $30

Zoey (A917045)

Tinkerbell (A916742)

Buggy

Mindy

Age: 1 8-month-old spayed female Breed: Pit bull terrier Description: Adorable Zoey is friendly, energetic and outgoing. She prefers to be the only dog in the home but promises to be the only one you need. Adoption fee: $25

Age: 5-year-old spayed female Breed: Domestic shorthair Description: Tinkerbell needs your love and affection to bring out her sweet and vibrant personality. Adoption fee: $25

Age: 6-year-old neutered male Breed: American bulldog Description: Buggy is 77 pounds of hugs and kisses. He adores children and adults, and he is house-trained and crate-trained. Adoption fee: $40

Age: 3-month-old spayed female Breed: Domestic mediumhair Description: Mindy survived abandonment and needs to know that people impart kindness and love. She has been compassionately raised and socialized in a wonderful foster home. Adoption fee: $70

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SharinG Local youth hockey is in for an assist from the coming NHL team A player does his stick work as the Nevada Storm Midget 16 AAA youth travel team practices at the Las Vegas Ice Center.

By Case Keefer STAFF WRITER

If the Los Angeles Kings and Dallas Stars need a scouting report of the ice at T-Mobile Arena before their preseason game next Saturday, they’ll need to seek out local youth hockey players. Members of the Las Vegas Storm are the only ones who’ve played in the venue that will be home to an NHL expansion franchise starting next year. The franchise welcomed 100 players, from preschool to high school, for a skate- and shoot-around during a preview for season-ticket holders in August. “All those kids had such a great experience, and the families got to have a vision of what their kids could look like on NHL ice in 10 to 15 years,” Storm coach Gabe Gauthier said. “I wish all of our kids got a chance to go out on that ice and skate it.” It wouldn’t be a surprise if that happened someday. The opportunities for youth hockey players in the wake of Las Vegas landing a team have just begun. Shortly after officially getting awarded the team this summer, owner Bill Foley said the most important community outreach would be creating a bond and growing the existing youth hockey scene. “We’re going to create a really strong program,” Foley said. “That’s the way we build our fan base over years and years.” There are only two rinks in Southern Nevada, including the Las Vegas Ice Center, where the Storm are based and Gauthier works as hockey director. Foley wants to double that total within three or four years, and contribute to the proliferation beyond that. It will start with the team’s practice facility, under construction across from Downtown Summerlin. Foley wants the building to belong to the community as much as it does to the team. “The NHL only practices on the ice for an hour,

(photos by L.E. Baskow/staff)

hour-and-a-half a day,” Foley said. “So, other than that, it’s going to be available.” Gauthier has no doubt youth hockey can succeed here. The 32-year-old former professional player bases the opinion on his own experience growing up outside of Los Angeles. He was part of a small group that played at the one rink available in the area. Gauthier left at age 13 to hone his hockey skills in Canada just as the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Mighty Ducks were building junior programs. He marveled at the progression every time he returned to his native Southern California, which now has more than 30 sheets of ice in place. “For me, it’s like we’re flashing back 25 years,” Gauthier said. “It’s something that if it’s done right, with the passion that the people in Southern California had, it’s going to be on an upward move immediately and become successful.” He said the process was further along than most realized. Since he arrived here from Denver two years

ago, Gauthier has helped nearly double participation within the Storm program, with more than 400 children now enrolled in various levels of competition. And the NHL announcement gave him an assist. “We’ve already seen a small influx just from getting emails and inquiries from families saying they’re wanting to get their kids established in hockey,” Gauthier said. “There is definitely a big buzz.” Gauthier met with officials from the NHL team shortly after taking his current position. They haven’t coordinated as much recently, with Foley’s staff taking care of everything that goes with the team’s impending first season. Gauthier has focused on sustaining what he’s helped build so far with knowledge that major-league help is on the way. “If you have accessibility to those rinks, in due time, you’re going to build more and more young hockey players and fans of the game,” he said. “Kids are going to have their own role models to look up to and cheer for.”

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n Youth hockey programs range from skate classes to high-level travel teams

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If you have accessibility to those rinks, in due time, you’re going to build more and more young hockey players and fans of the game ... now kids are going to have their own role models to look up to and cheer for.” — gabe gauthier, las vegas storm coach

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CASINO PROMOTIONS DOWNTOWN GRAND 2017 Cadillac XT5 giveaway Date: Through Oct. 1 Time: 10 p.m. Information: Receive one virtual drawing ticket for every 25 base points earned on slots, video poker or live table games. Three players will be drawn for a chance to win a car in their choice of red, white or blue. Apple-a-Day giveaway Date: Through Sept. 30 Time: 8 p.m. Information: Earn 25 base points to be eligible to win an Apple TV, iPad Mini 2 or Apple Watch. Gas card giveaway Date: Sept. 30 Information: Receive a drawing ticket for every 25 base points earned. Drawings are every half-hour from 7 p.m. to midnight. Prizes are gas cards worth $75-$500.

be present within two minutes to win. Winners can spin the wheel for a chance to win up to $1,000 or land a touchdown prize — $250 cash plus $100-$500 in promotional chips.

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Pick Your Poison Date: Wednesdays in September Information: Earn 375 base points to receive a bottle of liquor.

75th anniversary $75,000 drawing Date: Thursdays through October Time: Drawing at 7 p.m. Information: One winner will receive 500,000 points; two winners will receive 250,000 points; five winners will receive 100,000 points; and 10 winners will receive 50,000 points. Players will earn one virtual drawing ticket for every 100 slot-based points earned every day of the week; earn 3x entries on Thursdays.

Gift giveaway Date: Thursdays in September Information: Earn 500, 1,000 or 1,500 base points to receive a kitchen-themed gift.

Gridiron Glory Football Contest Date: Ongoing Information: Up to $15,000 is paid out weekly. Guests can win $10,000 by picking the winners of each game.

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$500,000 Pick the Pros football contest Date: Ongoing Information: Each week, $30,000 will be awarded with a minimum of $10,000 guaranteed for each firstplace winner.

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Play for Your Meal Date: Sept. 27 and 30 Information: Earn at least 150 points from 3 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesdays to receive 50 percent off breakfast or lunch buffet coupon. Earn 650 points to receive a free buffet coupon for any meal of the day. Play for a deli coupon every Friday night between 6 and 11:59 p.m. Earn 650 points for $10 dining credit toward the Sportsbook Deli. T-Shirt Thursdays Date: Thursdays in September Time: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Information: Earn 100 points to receive a voucher for a T-shirt. Each redeemed voucher will be placed into a drawing, with three $100 winners selected every hour between 11 a.m.

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New member Cruise & Play Date: Through Sept. 30 Information: Sign up for a loyalty card to receive a chance to play a kiosk game and win a free night or other prizes. New members who earn 75 base points can win up to $1,000 in play for a Mexican Riviera cruise. NASCAR truck race ticket giveaway Date: Through Sept. 30 Information: Receive one ticket for every 100 base points. The race is Oct. 1. Blue card multiplier Date: Tuesdays in September Information: Locals with a blue players’ card can earn 2x points. Orange card multiplier Date: Thursdays in September Information: Locals with an orange players’ card can earn 3x points. September Cool Cash giveaway Date: Through Sept. 30 Information: Receive 5,000 base points in September and get $25. Earn a maximum of $500; players can keep their points.

GOLD COAST

Lucky Friday table game drawings Date: Fridays in September Time: Every hour from 7 to 10 p.m. Information: Earn entries Monday through Friday. Ten players will win $500 in chips. Tournament Tuesdays Date: Tuesdays in September Information: Earn 100 points to receive a tournament entry with a shot at the first-place prize of $1,200 in play. Members who participate in all four tournaments and place in the top five in each will win a share of $100,000 cash.

WESTGATE

$50,000 Hoot for Loot giveaway Date: Through Sept. 30 Information: Earn one scratch card for every 250 slot points earned and win up to $1,000. Earn 2x cards on Sundays.

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Wheel Frenzy Date: Fridays in September Time: 4-11:30 p.m. Information: Sixteen players will get a chance to win up to $1,000.

WILDFIRE

Gift giveaways Date: Wednesdays in September Time: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Information: Earn 100 points to receive one gift. Earn 250 additional points to receive a second gift. Receive a mystery gift on Sept. 28. Hot seat bonus Date: Sept. 29-30 Time: 4-6 p.m. Information: Valid at Wildfire Rancho. Players can win $10 in slot play every 10 minutes. There will be a $100 bonus drawing in which one winner will be selected at 6:30 p.m. Gift giveaway Date: Sept. 26-29 Information: Valid at Wildfire Valley View. Receive a gift when you earn 400 points. Points must be earned on same day. Limit is two gifts per person, per day.

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60th anniversary bonuses Date: Thursdays in September Information: Earn 100 points to receive a free breakfast and earn 200 points for a free dinner at Paradise Buffet. In addition, earn up to 60x points. Play the kiosk game for a chance to win $100 in play.

TUSCANY

Point multiplier Date: Sept. 26 and 30 Information: Earn 12x points on reels and 6x points on video poker. Senior Day Date: Thursdays in September Information: Earn 200 points to receive a gift. Gift giveaway Date: Sundays in September Information: Earn 300 same-day points for a gift.

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Fall Frenzy gift giveaway Date: Thursdays in September Time: 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Information: Earn 300 points to get one free gift. Earn 300 more points to receive another. Maximum of two gifts per day. Keep the points. First gift is free for Chairman, President and Platinum members.

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Play and Pour Date: Wednesdays in September Information: Earn 200 base slot points for a free bottle of wine or liquor, or a six-pack of beer. Max of four per player, per day.

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Point multiplier Date: Wednesdays in September Information: Earn 5x points on video poker and 10x on reels.

$100,000 Grand Progressive Giveaway drawing Date: Sept. 30 Time: 8:15 p.m. Information: Earn 10x entries on Sundays and Tuesdays. There will be 94 winners throughout the month; four winners will split a minimum of $10,000 at the final drawing.

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n addition to choosing a president, members of Congress, legislators and other leaders this fall, Nevada voters will be asked to decide a ballot question related to gun safety. ¶ In essence, that question is whether Nevada should close a loophole that allows purchasers of guns from private sellers to avoid background checks. ¶ It’s a measure designed to help keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them. ¶ Look at some key numbers behind the measure and you’ll find they add up to an inescapable conclusion. Here’s the equation:

5,379

Number of gun sales that were blocked through background checks over the past three years in Nevada. By federal law, checks must be conducted on all purchases from licensed dealers, but they’re not required for transactions involving private sellers at gun shows, on the internet and elsewhere. The ballot question would extend the federal law to private sales and transfers of firearms. Among those barred by law from legally obtaining weapons are felons, violators of domestic violence laws and the mentally ill. Under existing law, those 5,379 people could easily have gone to an unlicensed dealer at a gun show or online to buy a gun. Might they still be able to get one without the measure? Yes. Would it be more difficult? Absolutely.

+ 23

Number of years that a mandate has been in place for background checks for buyers of guns from licensed firearms dealers. Five years after Congress passed the mandate, which was part of the Brady Bill, the FBI implemented its National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The requirement for background checks has survived court challenges since it was enacted.

+ 15%

As reported by PolitiFact, the estimated portion of U.S. gun sales that take place between buyers and unlicensed sellers who are not family members or friends, according to a 2015 Harvard study that is being prepared for publication.

+ 85%

Share of respondents to a July 2105 Pew Research Center poll who supported extending the check system. Support was strong among both Republicans (79 percent) and Democrats (88 percent).

+ 1.3 million

Number of sales that have been blocked nationally through background checks since the NICS was implemented.

+ 1,036

Number of Nevadans killed with guns in the past decade, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

+ 65%

Amount that Nevada’s domestic gun violence rate exceeds the national average.

Number of states that have approved expansion of background checks to private sales.

+ 35,000 Annual number of online ads for guns in Nevada on sites that connect buyers with private sellers. There is no background check required for these purchases.

+ 270-350 million

Estimated number of guns in the U.S. Why the huge range in the estimate? There is no comprehensive, centralized national registry for firearms. There is a federal collection of purchase records, but it contains only documents from licensed dealers who have gone out of business. In addition, by federal law it cannot digitize the records, which instead are kept in boxes and on microfilm.

A Yes vote on Question 1 is the right choice for Nevada.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 The Melancholics: Local band the Melancholics will perform original material from their latest indie release “More Than You Can Chew.” 7 p.m., $20-$30, the Smith Center for the Performing Arts, 361 Symphony Park Ave., thesmithcenter. com. TEAL Night to Knock Out Ovarian Cancer: Bid on silent auction items, vie for raffle prizes and enjoy entertainment. Proceeds will benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance. 21+, 6 p.m., free, Elixir, 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, elixirlounge.net.

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“In the Blood: A Staged Reading”: This play is based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.” An interactive discussion with the production cast and crew will follow. 7:30 p.m., free, Clark County Library, Jewel Box Theater, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.

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Picnic and Health Fair in the Park: All ages can join Doolittle Senior Center at the park. There will be music, lunch and a health fair. Attendees are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs. 11 a.m.1 p.m., free; $3 lunch, Kianga Isoke Palacio Park at Doolittle Complex, 1930 N. J St., 702-229-6125.

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Lawyers: Learn to work with AI or risk termination

ay it please the court: I am HAL 9000, attorney for the plaintiff. Stephen Hawking once told the BBC that “the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Bill Gates and Elon Musk have voiced similar concerns. It could be that humanity’s demise will look something like Skynet’s takeover of the world when it became self-aware in the “Terminator” movie franchise. Irrespective of how the day of AI reckoning will look, we carbon-based lawyers have to figure out a way of making a living while competing against computer programs for work. Until fairly recently, AI never posed an existential threat to the critical-thinking professions such as law and medicine. However, thanks to the exponential leap in processing power (see Moore’s law: the number of transistors in a dense integrated

replace the “think on circuit doubles guest column: your feet” instincts approximately alexander leveque of a trial lawyer, or every two years), a transactional lawcomputer systems yer’s ability to obtain can handle complex the inside scoop on upcoming legislacomputations quickly, which has tive amendments through personal propelled AI alarmingly close to the connections? While it is probably true problem-solving needed for work that Agent Smith from “The Matrix” that traditionally required an abovewill not be making closing arguments average IQ, a license and a fancy anytime soon, work that has traditiondegree. For example, IBM’s “Watson” ally been reserved for new associates is a computer system capable of anwill be increasingly handled by AI. swering questions posed in a natural BakerHostetler, one of the counlanguage. In 2011, Watson competed try’s biggest law firms, recently on “Jeopardy!” against two former “hired” a robot lawyer, ROSS, to champions and won. assist with bankruptcy cases. ROSS is In 2013, IBM announced that powered by IBM’s Watson technology Watson’s first commercial applicaand helps lawyers research faster. tion would be for utilizing manageWhat once took a few associates ment decisions in lung cancer treatseveral hours now takes only one asment; and a reported 90 percent of sociate a fraction of the time. This is nurses who use Watson now follow good news for clients but is bad news its guidance. for the legions of recent law grads This leads to the unavoidable looking for work. question: Will AI replace lawyers? AI is not just affecting the big firms. “Of course not!” we say. How can AI

Last year, a British IT student set up a website (donotpay.co.uk) to assist users in appealing parking fines, which has reportedly saved motorists £2 million in four months. Users fill in some facts about their case and choose from a list of potential defenses to generate an automated appeal. Instead of hiring a lawyer, people are using this service for free. It is inevitable that AI will continue to have a significant effect on the future of the legal profession. It therefore follows that there will always be a need for lawyers who understand the technology and how it can be effectively implemented into practice. And that is the key. Learning how to bring ROSS in on a case will save a client money, which will save a lawyer a client. “I don’t get technology” is no longer an excuse that a client will accept and is a phrase that will soon be synonymous with “I am unemployed.” Alexander G. LeVeque is a partner with Solomon Dwiggins & Freer.

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Scott Beckmen and Stephen Crystal formed the Beckmen Crystal Law to focus on eSports and iGaming.

Pisanelli Bice was named among the country’s best litigation firms in rankings daum compiled by Chambers and Partners. It is one of three Nevada firms honored in Band 1 of the Chambers USA 2016 guide for general commercial litigation. James Pisanelli was ranked as a Band 1 attorney and Todd Bice was ranked as a Band 2 attorney for general commercial litigation.

Labor and employment attorney Howard Cole, a partner in the Las Vegas office of Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie, was ranked as one of most powerful labor lawyers in the United States, according to Human Resource Executive magazine.

Naqvi Injury Law was named one of America’s fastest-growing private companies in the 2016 Inc. 5000. The firm was founded by managing partner Farhan Naqvi.

Timothy O’Reilly of the O’Reilly Law Group was crystal recognized in Super Lawyers Mountain States Rising Stars and Nevada Business Magazine Legal Elite, as well as the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers and the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40.

McDonald Carano was naqvi recognized in the Chambers USA 2016 guide in the areas of general commercial litigation and commercial real estate. Seven partners were recognized: John Frankovich and Andrew Gabriel for real estate law, P. Gregory Giordano and A.J. “Bud” Hicks for gaming and administrative law, Sylvia Harrison for energy and environmental law, and Pat Lundvall and George F. Ogilvie III for commercial litigation.

Berna Rhodes-Ford joined Brown Law Group as of counsel in the Las Vegas office. Sherman & Howard attorney Kendra Follett is an elected fellow of the American College of Bond Counsel.

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Grocer: ‘It will take a village’ to fight hunger Jake Cannon is district manager of Smith’s Food & Drug, which is gearing up to introduce its Marketplace concept to Southern Nevada next year. The multi-department store will include a full grocery in addition to household items and decor, dine-in and takeout food, a drive-thru pharmacy and a cheese shop. What is the best business advice you’ve received? My former district manager in Utah, Derrick, once told me, “Focus on the job you have now and everything else will come.” I took that advice to heart, put my head down and really worked hard to excel in every position I’ve held within (Smith’s parent company) Kroger, and I’m happy to say that it worked. What’s the biggest issue facing Southern Nevada? Hunger and homelessness are the biggest issues facing Southern Nevada, and they will take a village to make a difference. Smith’s has a longstanding partnership with Three Square Food Bank and just last year donated 1.3 million pounds of food to the organization, which created Jake Cannon is district manager at Smith’s Food & Drug Store, which donated 1.3 more than 1 million meals at a cost million pounds of food to Three Square Food Bank last year. (mikayla whitmore/Staff) of $2.1 million. Every day, Smith’s Last year, we donated about $40,000 Talk about your involvement stores donate unsaleable, yet still worth of baby items. in the Making Strides Against nutritious fresh foods such as meat, Breast Cancer event. How dairy and produce through the comWhat are you reading right now? important is it to give back to pany’s Perishable Donation Program. “The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Rooslocal charities? In this way, food is kept from landevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Smith’s as a company is commitfills and donated to local food banks Golden Age of Journalism,” by Doris ted to supporting the communities to supplement the more stable shelf Kearns Goodwin. where its store associates and cusitems given to pantries and feeding tomers live. We support the organikitchens. What do you do after work? zations that fight hunger, support the I have two teenage kids, so my wife health of women and families, local What has been your most and I spend our free time hauling schools’ grass-roots organizations, exciting professional project? them to games and dance recitals and care for troops and vets. Smith’s In 2015, we converted six former and the whole bit. Also, because it’s customers help us determine which Food 4 Less stores into Smith’s locaa million degrees outside right now, organizations receive donations tions, which was a more than $25 milmy family spends a lot of time in our through our Community Rewards lion investment from Kroger Co. backyard pool, with the occasional program. During the transition, Smith’s was barbecue and get-together. For example, I lead and organize able to keep every one of Food 4 Less’ a team of about 300 employees who 800-plus employees. The process Describe your management style. participate in the Making Strides was challenging yet rewarding, both I’m not very “command and conAgainst Breast Cancer event, where personally and professionally. It was trol;” I’ve been told I’m friendly and Smith’s is a presenting sponsor. great to not only be able to train and approachable. Through the years, Smith’s donates $30,000 along with transition our new employees into I’ve learned that you have to adapt bananas, water and granola bars. Our positions within local Smith’s stores, your management style to each perassociates, in addition to walking, but to be to able learn from them and son specifically in order to achieve volunteer during the event. We also their experience. the desired response. Some employpartner with Catholic Charities to Grocery retail is a tough business ees need more support, or the “softhelp them fill their baby room with in Las Vegas. Food 4 Less was owned er” approach; others prefer the disupplies. From August to Decemby Kroger, so we essentially were rect, “no nonsense” approach. It just ber, Smith’s associates collect varitwo sister companies fighting for the depends on each person and their ous items such as diapers, formula, same market share. The conversion personality, and I try to adapt to that clothes, etc., then we come together was a strategic and beneficial move to assist them in achieving their perand transport the items to Catholic that has given Smith’s a bigger footsonal and career goals. Charities and have a stocking party. print in the valley.

Where do you see yourself and your company in 10 years? Smith’s/Kroger is on the fast track, with more than 10 successive years of sales growth, which is pretty unusual in grocery retail. With so much growth in our future, I just want to continue to grow my career with Smith’s, eventually gaining more responsibility. What is your dream job, outside of your current field? If I weren’t in the grocery retail business, I would probably be a college professor, teaching business courses. If you could live anywhere else in the world, where would it be? Mexico, most likely Puerto Vallarta or Cancún. My family and I are beach people; wherever there is an ocean and plenty of Mexican food, we’ll be happy. Whom do you admire and why? My dad. He had polio as a child, which led to him being in a wheelchair throughout his life. Despite this, he never let his handicap be an excuse, never accepted charity and never let it keep him from achieving all of the things he did in life. Watching him as I was growing up was truly inspiring. What is your biggest pet peeve? Because I was so inspired by my dad’s independence and tenacity, I find it hard to accept when others make excuses rather than take charge of their lives. Where do you like to go for business lunches? Depending on which area of town we’re in, my team and I usually eat at Bonito Michoacan Mexican or Leticia’s Mexican Cocina. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I can be too sensitive at times. I receive a lot of feedback in my position, from associates and customers, and I need to learn to not take the negative feedback so personally.

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$1 billion

Amount Samsung will receive after selling its printing business to Hewlett-Packard. The deal allows Samsung to source printers and continue to sell them in South Korea under its brand.

$26 billion

Amount Samsung has lost since the global recall of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, according to financial data provider Factset. There are more than 70 reported cases of Note 7 devices overheating in the U.S.

$835,000

Amount Viacom, Hasbro, Mattel and Jumpstart will pay for using online tracking on children’s websites, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office. This is a common practice for targeted advertising, but it is illegal for websites intended for children under age 13.

65,692

Number of centenarians living in Japan, according to the welfare ministry. Some people are skeptical because in 2010, the oldest “living” man was found mummified in his family’s home after being dead for 32 years, and the oldest woman had not been seen in 20 years.

238

Miles the Chevrolet Bolt will be able to drive on a single charge, according to General Motors. The all-electric vehicle will compete with the Tesla Model 3, but the Bolt is expected to be released this year, almost a year before the Model 3.

6 percent

Share of U.S. jobs that will be performed by robots by 2021. According to a report by research and advisory firm Forrester, there will be major upgrades to artificial intelligence systems. The first jobs to be taken are predicted to be customerservice representatives, then truck and taxi drivers.

Allison Raskansky, vice president of business for SpeedVegas, poses with a selection of cars available to race at the 1.5-mile track that opened partially in April. The remainder opened this month. (Christopher DeVargas/staff)

Delivering a memorable experience puts businesses on fast-track to success Describe your business.

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SpeedVegas is a 100-acre speed complex featuring a multilevel welcome center, observation decks, café, meeting space, event center and Formula Oneinspired 1.5-mile racetrack. SpeedVegas offers exotic and muscle cars such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, Audi, Ford Shelby Mustang, Corvette and more. What is your business philosophy?

It’s all about the customer and what memories they take away with them.

What’s the most important part of your job?

First, it is to create and deliver an experience that not only fulfills customers’ expectations but exceeds what they can even imagine. But that goes to waste if the world doesn’t know about it, so equally important is to communicate with worldwide visitors and hear our customers’ feedback.

What is the hardest part about doing business here in Las Vegas?

How do you think SpeedVegas will affect tourism?

There isn’t much of a downside, but I would say there is so much to do in Las Vegas that if a visitor is here only a short time, they have to pick and choose what they do.

Las Vegas is known for one-of-a-kind experiences. SpeedVegas offers visitors from around the world an experience they cannot have at home.

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What is the most popular car people like to drive at the track?

Each car has its own personality. From small details like stitching all the way up to power and speed, they all have unique features. We had a son and his father drive out from Los Angeles to fulfill the father’s lifelong dream to drive a Corvette. The son surprised his father with 10 laps in a Corvette Z06. When the father stepped out of the car, he had tears in his eyes. We also had a soldier visit from overseas. He thought he would never be able to drive a Lamborghini, and his wife bought him a package that had him driving five laps in a Gallardo LP550 and a Lamborghini Huracán.

There are so many great things about Las Vegas. There are all types of customers, from a son and his dad to a corporate outing with thousands of people. It is a seven-day, year-round, 24-hour place of energy; there is no place like Las Vegas. What obstacles has your business overcome?

We needed to find a place that was going to allow us to be the biggest, the best, the fastest and the most easily accessible. That was not an easy task. Until that was done, none of the other expected challenges of building a new project could even begin to come into play. We definitely found what we needed on Las Vegas Boulevard South with I-15 frontage. We are the first thing you see on arrival to Las Vegas from Southern California.

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guest column: through documents and scribble notes. It t is often said the courtroom is frank M. flansburg III looks excited and you want to demonstrate theater; the same could be said calmness even in the worst of storms. of the boardroom. Some of the fundamental principles I have n Steal; do not imitate. learned over the years apply to how you It is often said that the best artists steal. should prepare for a boardroom negotiation or transaction. But do not confuse stealing someone’s techniques with imitation. You should watch others and draw from their n Be prepared and organized. expertise, taking and adopting things that you like and It should go without saying that before any transaction, that work for you. Do not, however, imitate. You have to negotiation or other discussion, you are fully prepared be yourself and embrace your own voice. Others are good on the documents and materials submitted in support at what they do because that is who they are. You can take of the discussion. Have documents neatly arranged for things from other people and incorporate them into your presentation. Have relevant provisions highlighted and own presentation, but in doing so, be yourself. bookmarked with tabs. Avoid voluminous sticky notes, as too many are distracting and sloppy. Your preparation n Get comfortable. and organized appearance will display confidence and Before any trial-like process, I take in my surroundings, readiness. talk with my adversaries, talk with the staff and get comfortable in my environment. I do not want to appear n Use your poker face. nervous, as it will distract me from thinking clearly, If my Marine father taught me anything, it was discipline. responding thoughtfully and appearing organized. My natural demonstrative facial expressions and eye rolling Accordingly, I do things that relax me in my environment. were not well received by my father. Such emotions are Everyone has their own ways of getting comfortable. Some not persuasive and actually distract from the cause. When people like to sit and be quiet; some people like to chat with listening to someone, maintain a calm appearance, no other people; some people like to pace outside. Whatever matter what they are saying. Your heart may be racing, your works for you, do it and get comfortable before entering the blood may be pumping, and you will hear things that you battlefield. did not expect. If you remain emotionless, no one can tell if Frank M. Flansburg III, Esq., is a trial lawyer and you are surprised by the information. If you need to make co-founder of the law firm Schwartz Flansburg. notes, do so calmly and deliberately. Do not feverishly flip

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Food truck wins Get Started entrepreneur contest By VEGAS INC STAFF

A Las Vegas food truck that offers a side of philanthropy took top prize in a start-up contest judged by a panel of experts. Entrepreneur Siloh Moses’ Fork & Spoon LV, which provides a plate of food to the homeless for each plate purchased by a customer, topped four other finalists in the Get Started Las Vegas contest. The winning finalist took home cash and prizes valued at more than $17,000, including a one-year Cox Business technology package. In the contest, now in its third year in Las Vegas, entrepreneurs gave a two-and-a-halfminute pitch of Entrepreneur their products Siloh Moses won and services to the Get Started Las judges in front Vegas contest. of an audience. (Wade vandervote/ In addition to special to vegas inc) Patel, who spent part of his childhood in Las Vegas before founding a national company that helps students prepare for the SAT, panelists were Allen Vance, owner of Work in Progress; Laura Lorber, executive editor of Inc.com; and Tim Washer, a standup comedian, video producer and corporate humorist. The event also featured a Get Started U competition among three college entrepreneurs vying for a $3,000 business coaching package. Those contestants were: n Elias Benjelloun, owner of Tech Start for Kids, which provides afterschool computer science classes to students ages 6 to 15. n Wendy Gelbart, who pitched a peerreviewed virtual conference platform. n Rosemary Garcia, owner of Miracle Hands Personal Home Care, which provides in-home nonmedical services to elderly and disabled Nevadans. Benjelloun won the Get Started U competition and earned a chance to pitch with the Get Started Las Vegas finalists. The other finalists were: n Jonathan Torn’s Higher Ground Produce, a hydroponic farm that would supply hundreds of Las Vegas busi-

nesses with produce while using less water and fertilizer than traditional agriculture. n Jailene Vazquez’s Remmedy Corp., maker of a reusable water bottle that doubles as a tool to help people stick with their medication regimen. The bottle offers an automated reminder to take medications

and contains compartments for pills, vitamins and supplements. n Moshe Atkins’ Stroller Costumes, a range of coverings that can be attached to strollers to make them look like fire trucks, princess carriages and other objects. n Michael Boise’s Twambit Technologies, which offers sunglasses fit-

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Las Vegas a great place to chase the American dream

rom its beginnings, Las Vegas has been a city of opportunity. People and businesses have come here looking for a better life — for themselves, their children and their employees. It’s a city that has passionately embraced the premise and promise of the American dream, a term coined by writer James Truslow Adams in 1931, in which “each man and each woman shall be able to attain the fullest stature of which they are capable … regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.” In the aftershock of the Great Recession and growing globalization, Guest column: people have questioned spencer stewart whether Las Vegas still holds promise as a city of opportunity, a place where children are likely to do better than their parents. Despite the tremendous economic and social losses that we experienced as a community, Las Vegas is ardently resilient. In a 2014 study led by Harvard economist Raj Chetty

In the aftershock of the Great Recession and growing globalization, people have questioned whether Las Vegas still holds promise as a city of opportunity, a place where children are likely to do better than their parents. (“Where is the Land of Opportunity?”), Las Vegas, in terms of upward mobility and opportunity, ranked near the middle at 31 (between Kansas City, Mo., and Chicago) in the 50 largest regions studied. The real-life implications concerning upward mobility between low-scoring regions and highscoring regions were significant. For example, children of low-income parents living in San Jose, Calif. (No. 1), were roughly three times more likely than children living in Charlotte, N.C. (No. 50), to reach the top fifth of the income distribution as adults. Place does matter. As part of the study, Chetty and his team identified five factors strongly correlated with upward mobility across regions. Cities experience greater mobility when they have “less residential segregation, less income inequality, better primary schools, greater social capital, and greater family stability.” A more recent report jointly authored by the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institu-

tion (“Opportunity, Responsibility, and Security”) arrived at similar findings: Greater mobility and opportunity are a function of three closely intertwined factors: family composition, work and educational attainment and achievement. For the Las Vegas area to continue to be a place of opportunity, it must continue to reinvent itself in ways perhaps fundamentally different from previous eras. The Great Recession exposed our economic vulnerabilities in a harsh light and, as a result, we’ve committed to a more holistic, integrated approach to building a stable economy. Much work already has been done along these lines, including the recently enacted K-12 reforms. One area in which reinvention is taking center stage is education. Transforming our education system presents an opportunity for (indeed, it must happen in concert with) our collective capacity to broaden and deepen our community’s social capital. This type of capital — our personal and professional networks and relationships, coupled with our willingness to freely share them — may be the most important factor in our ongoing efforts to enhance opportunity for our children and Las Vegas. Spencer Stewart is chancellor of Western Governors University.

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Legalization could have $1.1B impact by 2024 other reasons. It’s a frontier full of questions about effects on public health, the economy and the strained justice system. But voters in Nevada will be asked for one yes-or-no answer on the 13-page ballot proposal known as Question 2. “Too many people are voting on a concept instead of what this ballot really says,” said Jim Hartman, a Carson City attorney who helped form the nonprofit coalition Nevadans for Responsible Drug Policy and the recently launched No on 2 Campaign. “We’re a grass-roots effort to educate people on the dangers of doing that.” State Sen. Tick Segerblom takes a picture of the “library of pot” wall used to dry Led by former Assemblyman Pat marijuana for sale during a tour of a Denver facility in 2015. (associated press file) Hickey, the anti-legalization groups arto use this stuff.” the law in 2012 but last year told Inc. gue that wholesale legalization would A July report from Las Vegas-based Magazine he was “very proud” of Colocreate state government bureaucracy RCG Economics estimated that recrerado’s marijuana industry, though he and special interest monopolies while ational marijuana would generate over added it was “too early to understand supporting mostly out-of-state corpo6,200 jobs, $646 million in tax revenue what the impacts of legalizing marijuarate financial interests. and $1.1 billion in economic activity for na are in our community.” Hartman and Hickey have writNevada by 2024. While the state is still examining the ten news editorials to that effect, and Hartman and Hickey, however, said economic and societal impacts of reccrisscrossed the state to speak at politiNevada’s ballot proposal was written reational marijuana, a January report cal events and in community forums “by the industry for the industry,” with from the Rocky Mountain High Intenabout what they say is a damaging law. laws set to boost sales without accountsity Drug Trafficking Area, a federally Hartman contends that the few states ing for societal consequences. They funded law enforcement program, said that have legalized recreational maricompared it to the idea of tobacco laws Colorado now has the highest percentjuana have done so because of overbeing crafted by cigarette manufacturage of marijuana users in the United whelming corporate influence, not ers, or alcohol regulations being shaped States. The report found that the numsupport from government leaders. He by liquor lobbyists. ber of teenage users jumped from about pointed to Colorado, where “Big MariThe duo also argued that legalized 10.5 percent, fourth in the country in juana” groups with corporate backing adult use wouldn’t be as effective in 2011 and 2012, to over 12.5 percent in outspent opponents 5-to-1 to influence mitigating black-market sales as propo2013 and 2014. Likewise, the number of the 2012 vote to legalize the drug. nents of Question 2 suggest. users 18 to 25 years old increased from The losing side included some highInyo Fine Cannabis owner David 26.8 percent to 31.2 percent, and older profile media outlets and politicians, Goldwater says some of his biggest comadult users soared from 7.6 percent to including The Denver Post and Gov. petition in Nevada’s medical marijuana 12.5 percent. The increases were all John Hickenlooper. industry comes from illegal sellers who over 50 percent greater than those of “Politicians in Colorado knew it provided easy, anonymous access to the national averages. wasn’t in the state’s best interest at product at similar prices. “When you look at the three age the time, but they were overpowered,” The central valley dispensary owner groups, it’s obvious that recreational Hartman said. “That same thing is thinks Nevada voting yes on Question 2 happening in Colorado caused all three happening here in Nevada.” would help reduce the illegal marijuana categories to jump,” said Rocky MounOpponents of Question 2, which trade, but that many frequent street tain HIDTA Director Tom Gorman. would allow anyone 21 or older to buy buyers would continue purchasing Fifty-three percent of Nevadans up to an ounce of marijuana or 1/8 from their dealers. support legalization, according to a ounce of marijuana concentrates (can“If you’re a stoner, you’re probably Sept. 21 KNTV-TVC/Rasmussen Renabis oil, wax and shatter are examstill going to your weed guy,” Goldport poll. Support is driven by the ples), include Gov. Brian Sandoval, U.S. water said. “If it’s easier, why not just stance that cannabis should be more Sen. Harry Reid and U.S. Senate candikeep doing it?” accessible for self-medication, and by date Catherine Cortez Masto, among In Colorado, Rocky Mountain the promise of economic growth. dozens of other state and local legislaHIDTA’s Gorman said legalization of “When it becomes recreational, tors from both major parties. recreational marijuana had actually people will have that first option to But in Colorado, since the recreationincreased the number of dodgy drug take medical cannabis,” said industry al program began in 2013, Gov. Hickentraffickers since 2012. He said blackemployee RachelNell Rivera of the Relooper has changed his tune. Quoted in market growers “hide behind the legalLeaf dispensary at a news conference a May article in the Los Angeles Times, ity” of Colorado’s recreational laws to last week, staged by the pro-Queshe said the law is “beginning to look like rent homes, grow product and illegally tion 2 Coalition to Regulate Marijuana it might work.” Ditto for Denver Mayor ship it out of state. “Basically, they’re Like Alcohol. “There are a ton of ways Michael Hancock, who also opposed

using the new legalities as a gateway to doing an illegal act.” If the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol gets its way in Nevada, that scenario might be affected by the gradual normalization of the substance. The local group wants the plant to be as plentiful and available in the Silver State as adult beverages. It recently argued that Nevadans for Responsible Drug Policy had too strong a role in campaigning for a nonprofit, and that it should operate instead as a political action committee. “We’re not against people forming a healthy discussion; we’re against people hiding money,” said Joe Brezny, spokesman for the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol — a PAC that reportedly sank $800,000 into pro-legalization ads to air in Nevada next month through the election. “All I see is that Pat Hickey is flying back and forth to Vegas, spending money, and we’re just wondering who’s paying the bills.” Last week, Hickey, Hartman and company answered the call. With a beefed-up staff and a slogan of “Protecting Nevada’s Children,” the No On 2 PAC was announced Sept. 15. Its website cites child-safety concerns and statistics on Colorado’s user growth to urge Nevada voters to turn down November’s ballot question. “Nevada’s future success depends on a better education system and a well-prepared workforce,” Hickey said. “Commercializing marijuana and trying to turn the Vegas Strip into the Amsterdam of the West will harm both efforts.” While Brezny said his PAC was supported largely by Nevada marijuana companies, Hickey refused to disclose his anti-marijuana PAC’s funding sources. By state law, that information will become publicly available on Oct. 18. Both spokesmen said that starting in October, their campaigns would have a heavy advertising presence on Nevada billboards, television and radio stations as well as in print and online outlets. Brezny, who served as Mitt Romney’s Nevada campaign spokesman in 2008, agrees with Hickey that the issue is the biggest he’s ever worked on, thanks to the effect it will have on “changing a system of regulation.” “When you’re talking about the possibility of ending prohibition, that’s a huge deal,” Brezny said. “It’s time for a new approach.”

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Records and Transactions BANKRUPTCIES CHAPTER 7 IP Hunt Foundation Inc., a Mississippi Foreign Corp. 6655 W. Sahara Ave., Suite B-200 Las Vegas, NV 89146 Attorney: IP Hunt Foundation

Landlord: Edmond Town Center LLC Landlord agent: Charles Moore, CSM, Marlene Fujita-Winkel, CCIM, and Bart Debuono of CBRE Tenant: LA Properties Investment Inc. Tenant agent: Scot Prince and Neal Anzalotti of Logic CRE

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$1,176,120 for 9 acres, land Southwest corner of Clayton Street and Brooks Avenue, North Las Vegas 89032 Landlord: VFC III North LV Land LLC Landlord agent: Mike DeLew, SIOR, and Greg Pancirov, SIOR, of Colliers International Tenant: McBeath Holdings LLC Tenant agent: Did not disclose

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Mobile Simple Solutions Inc. 2298 Aria Drive Henderson, NV 89052 Attorney: Matthew L. Johnson at annabelle@mjohnsonlaw.com

3 p.m. Single-engine combination sewer cleaner Clark County, 604225 Ashley Blanco at ashley.blanco@ clarkcountynv.gov

September 30 3 p.m. Holiday lights and decorations — Sunset Park Clark County, 604194 Jim Haining at jhaining@clarkcountynv.gov 3 p.m. Paradise Palms Neighborhood Street Rehabilitation Clark County, 604208 Jim Haining at jhaining@clarkcountynv.gov 3 p.m. Nuisance Property and Building Abatement Services Clark County, 602952 Adriane Garcia at akgarcia@clarkcountynv.gov

October 4 2 p.m. Sale of artificial ice skating rink Clark County, 604240 Jim Haining at jhaining@clarkcountynv.gov

October 6 2:15 p.m. Playground safety surfacing replacement at Cesar Chavez Park, Joe Shoon Park, Laurelwood Park and Paul Meyer Park Clark County, 604220 Sandy Moddy-Upton at scm@ clarkcountynv.gov

Brokered Transactions Sales $5,500,000 for 135,182 square feet, retail 1080 W. OwensAve., Las Vegas 89106

$1,219,548 for 7,111 square feet, office 10777 W. Twain Ave., Las Vegas 89135 Landlord: TAG Town Center 1 LLC Landlord agent: Brendan Keating and Marc Magliarditi of Logic CRE Tenant: Plaza Bank Tenant agent: Ryan Martin and Patti Dillon of Colliers International

Business Licenses Zasadil Services License type: Residential property maintenance Address: Did not disclose Owner: Brandon Zasadil Zumba Fitness License type: Exercise classes Address: 42 Precipice Court, Henderson Owner: Yuki Rhea 1 Call Home Maintenance License type: Property maintenance Address: 700 Carnegie St., Suite 112, Henderson Owner: Oliver Chori 7 Eleven Store 16896E License type: Tobacco dealer Address: 875 N. Lamb Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: JMI Judge LV A Little Bit of Aloha License type: General retail sales Address: 1717 S. Decatur Blvd., Booth E43-45, Las Vegas Owner: Janette and James Maze A&A Mobile Auto Detail License type: Automobile detailing Address: 894 Stonehenge St., Las Vegas Owner: Ana S. Del Toro and Andrei Ibarra Adam Smith Law License type: Professional services Address: 850 E. Bonneville Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Adam Smith Law Jeremy Alexander License type: Door-to-door solici-

tor and peddler Address: 3920 E. Patrick Lane, Suite 12, Las Vegas Owner: Did not disclose Amazing Thai Restaurant License type: Beer-wine-spirit on-sale Address: 3000 W. Ann Road, North Las Vegas Owner: Bear99 American Auto Glass Repair License type: Repair and maintenance Address: Did not disclose Owner: Joseph Politi Amtec License type: Employment agency Address: 1 E. Liberty St., Suite 600, Las Vegas Owner: Amtec Human Capital Amy’s Donut Factory License type: Donut and ice cream shop Address: 2505 Anthem Village Drive, Suite B, Henderson Owner: Grand Investments Angel License type: Nonprofit community services Address: Did not disclose Owner: Angel’s Power Angel Mobile Mechanic License type: Mobile repair service Address: 3433 Losee Road, Suite 6, North Las Vegas Owner: Angel Luis Rivera Baez Aqua Bella Health Care License type: Instruction Services Address: 2380 N. Buffalo Drive, Suite 150, Las Vegas Owner: Aqua Bella Health Care Arce Property Services License type: Residential property maintenance Address: 800 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 208, Las Vegas Owner: Francisco Arce Art & Alloy License type: Gross revenue Address: 740 N. Valle Verde Drive, Henderson Owner: Art & Alloy Audra Damore License type: Real estate sales Address: 6628 Sky Pointe Drive, Suite 200, Las Vegas Owner: Audra Damore Bamboozles License type: Gross revenue Address: 2104 Cimarron Hill Drive, Henderson Owner: Miller Barbara Alevato Barry Ross License type: Real estate sales Address: 7854 W. Sahara Ave., Las Vegas

Owner: Barry Ross Bauman Financial Group License type: Marketing/consulting Address: 10120 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 200, Henderson Owner: Bauman Financial Group Bauman Financial Group License type: Insurance agency Address: 3425 Cliff Shadows Parkway, Suite 130, Las Vegas Owner: Todd Bauman Beck Burner Service License type: Residential property maintenance Address: 2003 Darla St., Las Vegas Owner: Donald Beck Travis Benge License type: Door-to-door solicitor and peddler Address: 8980 Rutherford Grove St., Las Vegas Owner: Did not disclose Beyond Beauty Lashes License type: Eyelash Extensions Address: 2213 N. Green Valley Parkway, Suite 101, Henderson Owner: Beyond Beauty Lashes Billiards N. More License type: General retail sales Address: 2370 S. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Billiards N. More North Bourbon Street Sports Bar #136 License type: Restaurant/food court-service Address: 2750 E. Craig Road, North Las Vegas Owner: Nevada Restaurant Services Bridge to Your Health License type: Health coaching Address: 2831 St. Rose Parkway, Suite 200, Henderson Owner: Natalie Elizabeth Calderone Cannery Casino Hotel-Sports Pool License type: Nonrestricted gaming Address: 2121 E. Craig Road, North Las Vegas Owner: Coast Hotels and Casinos Cayray License type: Management or consulting service Address: 8260 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 2, Las Vegas Owner: Ceo Wimmer Chimal’s Maintenance Services License type: Handyman/maintenance services Address: 911 Royalmile Way, North Las Vegas Owner: Chimal’s maintenance services Chris Kresser License type: General retail sales Address: 1810 E. Sahara Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Chris Kresser

Club Q License type: Professional promoter Address: 4121 Aaron Scott St., North Las Vegas Owner: No Club Cover Cold Stone Creamery License type: Food services or cafe Address: 9350 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 140, Las Vegas Owner: Thomas-Rose Core-Mark International License type: Liquor/other Address: 855 Wigwam Parkway, Henderson Owner: Core-Mark International Crafty Confectionist License type: Food services or cafe Address: 222 Bailey Island Drive, Las Vegas Owner: Debbie B. Castillo Critical Focus License type: Office services Address: 701 E. Bridger Ave., Suite 400, Las Vegas Owner: John D. Lairamore Crosscountry Mortgage License type: Professional services Address: 8670 W. Cheyenne Ave., Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Ronald Leonhardt Crystal Clean Janitorial Services License type: Repair and maintenance Address: 2000 Whiton St., Las Vegas Owner: Ruth M. Dean Cupkates License type: Food services or cafe Address: 400 S. Rampart Blvd., Suite 130, Las Vegas Owner: Hello KT D&A Designs License type: General retail sales Address: Did not disclose Owner: Amanda Webb and David Dick Dab Gotti’s License type: Tobacco dealer Address: 4109 W. Sahara Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Raymond Torino III Desert Detailers License type: Mobile auto detailing Address: 6224 Villa Emo St., North Las Vegas Owner: Desert Detailers Desert Stormwater License type: Management or consulting service Address: Did not disclose Owner: Nathan Foster and Bridgette Foster Dig This Volleyball Club License type: Instruction services Address: Did not disclose Owner: Raymond and Theresa

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Records and Transactions Fafard DNS Glass & 24 Hour Board Up License type: Trucking Address: 1332 Nye St., Las Vegas Owner: Carlos Valtierra Dress for Success Cleaners License type: Dry cleaning/laundry facility and services Address: 6450 Sky Pointe Drive, Las Vegas Owner: Greg Buckingham ECQ Maid and Cleaning Services License type: Janitorial service Address: 1832 Arch Stone Ave., North Las Vegas Owner: Edson Calva and Elidia R. Castaneda Elite Construction Clean Up License type: Residential property maintenance Address: 3508 Nipper St., Las Vegas Owner: Jesus Sanchez Erin Green License type: Real estate sales Address: 9525 Hillwood Drive, Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Erin Green Essence Vitae License type: Massage therapists Address: 5710 Simmons St., North Las Vegas Owner: Essence Citae First Choice Technology License type: Public utility telephone Address: 903 Lake Lily Drive, Suite A125, Las Vegas Owner: Scott Howsare Fit 2 Serve Crossfit License type: Life coaching Address: 1028 Tabor Hill Ave., Henderson Owner: Renew Focus Future License type: Instruction services Address: Did not disclose Owner: Erich F. Felton and Sarah James-Felton Gravley Michelle License type: Professional services Address: 2881 Business Park Court, Suite 150, Las Vegas Owner: Michelle Gravley Greenmart of Nevada NLV License type: Cultivation - GS Address: 1605 W. Brooks Ave., North Las Vegas Owner: Greenmart of Nevada NLV Guzman Auto Detailing License type: Automobile detailing Address: Did not disclose Owner: Maria A. Angeles and Cesar N. Guzman Terrazas HEK Filters and Maintenance License type: Trucking Address: 7491 S. Decatur Blvd., Las

Vegas Owner: Centurion Mechanical Halloween City License type: Miscellaneous sales/ service Address: 675 W. Craig Road, North Las Vegas Owner: Party City Corp. Happy Hals License type: Mobile repair service Address: 513 Crony Ave., Henderson Owner: Happy Hals

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$5,200,000, tenant improvement 700 S. Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas Oltmans Construction

$199,096, single-family dwelling 12161 Castilla Rain Ave., Las Vegas Toll South LV

$3,049,912, commercial 302 S. Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas Level CM

$199,096, single-family dwelling 12149 Dorada Coast Ave., Las Vegas Toll South LV

$1,000,000, tenant improvement 225 E. Bridger Ave., Las Vegas Tre Builders

$198,306, single-family dwelling x3 241, 257 and 263 Elder View Drive, Las Vegas Greystone Nevada

$671,000, residential - custom 8 Rockmount Court, Henderson Stanley W. Gribble Trust $575,000, tenant improvement 302 E. Carson Ave., Las Vegas Fong Construction $403,000, residential - remodel 1000 N. Main St., Las Vegas Affordable Concepts $386,770, commercial - addition 3330 E. Lone Mountain Road, North Las Vegas Better Building Systems $378,620, commercial - addition 2215 E. Lone Mountain Road, North Las Vegas Petroleum Systems & Maintenance

$180,562, single-family dwelling x2 9995 and 10001 Celestial Cliffs Ave., Las Vegas Pulte Homes of Nevada $174,223, residential - production x2 3021 and 3025 Barrett Springs Ave., Henderson Pardee Homes of Nevada $157,810, residential - production 23 Via Tiberina, Henderson Ryland Homes Nevada $156,323, single-family dwelling 367 Pollino Peaks St., Las Vegas Ryland Homes Nevada $148,699, single-family dwelling 12289 Terrace Verde Ave., Las Vegas KB Home Nevada

$375,000, tenant improvement 9460 W. Sahara Ave., Las Vegas ICE Builders

$146,554, residential - production 1124 Via San Pietro, Henderson Century Communities Nevada

$331,000, residential - remodel 1000 N. Main St., Las Vegas Affordable Concepts

$143,061, residential - production 120 Ullapool Court, Henderson DR Horton

$292,936, single-family dwelling 9702 Yellow Shadow Ave., Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada

$141,198, single-family dwelling 10825 Irving Park Ave., Las Vegas Toll North LV

$252,852, residential - production 2728 Candelaria Drive, Henderson Ryland Homes Nevada

$140,510, residential - production 3120 Beaux Art Ave., Henderson Beazer-Inspirada

$236,826, residential - production 2727 Delano Drive, Henderson Ryland Homes Nevada

$139,623, residential - production x2 3013 and 1017 Barrett Springs Ave., Henderson Pardee Homes of Nevada

$226,707, single-family dwelling 237 Elder View Drive, Las Vegas Greystone Nevada

$138,815, single-family dwelling 9701 Yellow Shadow Ave., Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of

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$137,904, residential - production 3052 Historic Horizon Ave., Henderson Beazer-Inspirada

$120,326, residential - production 2491 Venarotta St., Henderson KB Home Inspirada

$137,294, residential - production 702 Sea Star St., Henderson KB Home LV Pearl Creek

$119,162, residential - production 3029 and 3069 Echoed Rondel Lane, Henderson Century Communities Nevada

$137,240, residential - new 5720 Country Lake Lane, North Las Vegas Beazer Homes Holding

$117,055, residential - new 3620 Starlight Ranch Ave., North Las Vegas SHALC GC

$137,240, residential - new 4156 Seclusion Bay Ave., North Las Vegas Beazer Homes Holding

$116,927, single-family dwelling 16 Brigola St., Las Vegas Pulte Homes of Nevada

$136,906, residential - production 734 Bollons Island St., Henderson KB Home LV Pearl Creek

$116,927, single-family dwelling 11827 Corenzio Ave., Las Vegas Pulte Homes of Nevada

$136,129, residential - production 416 Via San Remo Circle, Henderson Century Communities Nevada

$114,171, residential - production 459 Barcarolle Lane, Henderson Richmond American Homes of Nevada

$136,129, residential - production 340 Via De Pellegrini, Henderson Century Communities Nevada $134,760, single-family dwelling 11858 Corenzio Ave., Las Vegas Pulte Homes of Nevada $134,410, residential - production 475 Barcarolle Lane, Henderson Richmond American Homes of Nevada $131,315, single-family dwelling 10556 Pelican Island Ave., Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $129,640, single-family dwelling 7141 Orion Bands St., Las Vegas Ryland Homes Nevada $129,640, single-family dwelling 7125 Arcturus Place, Las Vegas Ryland Homes Nevada $128,699, residential - production 465 Aubade Court, Henderson Richmond American Homes of Nevada $128,699, residential - production 431 Barcarolle Lane, Henderson Richmond American Homes of Nevada $126,204, residential - production x2 3076 and 3092 Porte La Paz Ave., Henderson Toll Henderson $124,318, residential - production x2 2437 and 2505 Fanano St., Henderson KB Home Inspirada $120,326, residential - production 2493 Fanano St., Henderson

$113,173, residential - production 3128 Cartanda Ave., Henderson KB Home Inspirada $109,584, single-family dwelling 6651 Radiant Red Ave., Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $107,585, single-family dwelling x3 10722, 10746 and 10807 Niobrara Ave., Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $106,969, residential - new 4129 Klondike River Place, North Las Vegas Beazer Homes Holding $106,408, residential - production 3033 Echoed Rondel Lane, Henderson Century Communities Nevada $105,909, residential - production 116 Ullapool Court, Henderson DR Horton $103,685, residential - new 3633 Starlight Ranch Ave., North Las Vegas SHALC GC $102,527, residential - production 978 Spiracle Ave., Henderson KB Home LV Pearl Creek $101,457, residential - new 3625 Starlight Ranch Ave., North Las Vegas SHALC GC To receive a complete copy of Data Plus every week in Excel, please visit vegasinc.com/subscribe.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 AviSight Drone Academy Time: 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $299 for one-day beginner course; $899 for two-day professional course; $1,499 for four-day drone master course Location: South Point, 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas Information: Visit avisightdroneacademy.com Receive the training and certification to ensure safe and legal operations while using drones, which can better your business with aerial videography and data-collection capabilities. Vegas Inventors: Product Developers Group monthly meeting Time: 6-8 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Innevation Center, 6795 S. Edmond St., Las Vegas Information: Call 702-444-1111 Inventors will speak, and there will be a seminar on the coverage of intellectual property. Vegas Young Professionals Bigwig lunch time Time: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $15 in advance; $20 at the door; members only Location: Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce, 575 Symphony Park Ave., Suite 100, Las Vegas Information: Call 702-586-3834 Jeff Civillico will share insights into his career. Become a VYP for free at vegasyp.com. Real Meal meetup Time: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Violette’s Vegan Organic Eatery, 8560 W. Desert Inn Road, Las Vegas Information: Visit eventbrite.com

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Construction Financial Management Association Putt-a-thon Time: 2-6 p.m. Cost: $45 for CFMA members; $60 for nonmembers Location: Angel Park Golf Club, 100 S. Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas Information: Call 702-493-1066 The CFMA’s annual golf event will include dinner and a live auction. Commercial Alliance Educational Symposium Time: 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $99 for Commercial Alliance Las Vegas and Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors members; $149 for nonmembers Location: Gold Coast, 4000 W. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas Information: Call 702-784-5050 CALV’s annual event is open to real estate professionals seeking continuing-education credits.

MGM’s African-American Employee Network group community mixer Time: 5:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Sake Rok at The Park, 3786 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas Information: Visit eventbrite.com Connect with African-American professionals while learning more about the local nonprofit agency Boys Town. Business attire is required, and attendees are encouraged to bring business cards.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 Governor’s Conference on Business Time: 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Cost: $50 Location: Rio, Pavilion Ballroom, 3700 W. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas Information: Visit business.nv.gov This event is designed for those seeking to launch a new venture or grow their business. Guest speakers will be Gov. Brian Sandoval and Switch employees Adam Kramer, executive vice president of strategy, and Kristi Overgaard, executive vice president of awesomeness.

I Love SaaS Las Vegas meetup Time: 5:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Hop Nuts Brewing, 1120 S. Main St., Suite 150, Las Vegas Information: Visit eventbrite.com Meet software and technology professionals and take advantage of free resources and training.

Network After Work three-year anniversary Time: 6-9 p.m. Cost: $13-$16 general admission; $35 for VIPs; $89 for all-access Location: Lily Bar at Bellagio, 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas Information: Visit networkafterwork.com Make connections in the relaxed environment to expand your network of contacts.

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Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance annual dinner Time: 5:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $275 Location: Aria Resort, Bristlecone Ballroom, 3730 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas Information: Call 702-791-0000 Celebrate how far the business community has come and developments on the horizon with speaker Gabe Klein, former director of both the Chicago Department of Transportation and the District Department of Transportation.

La Oportunidad Expo Time: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Cashman Center, 850 Las Vegas Blvd. North, Las Vegas Information: Call 702-385-7367 or visit lvlcc.com. The largest Hispanic business-to-business and business-to-consumer event in Southern Nevada is back, and attendance has historically topped 5,000. Expect more than 100 exhibitors, entertainment and opportunities for free services.

Conventions

expected Show Location Dates attendance

National Mining Association MINEXPO

Las Vegas Convention Center

Sept. 26-28

40,000

G2E: Global Gaming Expo

Sands Expo and Convention Center

Sept. 27-29

26,000

Access Intelligence: OR Managers Conference

Caesars Palace

Sept. 28-30

15,000

NHRA Las Vegas Nationals

Las Vegas Motor Speedway Motorsports Complex

Sept. 29-Oct. 1

40,000

Wedding MBA Convention

Las Vegas Convention Center

Oct. 4-5

3,500

Rodan & Fields Convention

MGM Grand

Oct. 4-8

14,500

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The List

Category: domestic airlines (Ranked by number of passengers enplaned and deplaned at McCarran International airport in 2015)

Airline

Passengers

Average daily flights

Average daily seats

Cities

Top executive

Southwest Airlines 2702 Love Field Drive Dallas, TX 75235 214-792-4000 • southwest.com

17,960,468

196.7

29,503

Gary Kelly, CEO

Delta Air Lines 1030 Delta Blvd. Atlanta, GA 30354 404-715-2600 • delta.com

3,754,255

42.2

6,079

Ed Bastian, CEO

United Airlines 233 S. Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 847-700-4000 • united.com

3,595,441

34.8

5,296

Oscar Munoz, CEO

American Airlines 4333 Amon Carter Blvd. Fort Worth, TX 76115 800-433-7300 • aa.com

3,101,161

41.7

7,189

Doug Parker, CEO

Spirit Airlines 2800 Executive Way Miramar, FL 33025 954-447-7920 • spiritair.com

2,714,193

30.0

4,647

Robert L. Fornaro, CEO

Allegiant Air 1201 N. Town Center Drive Las Vegas, NV 89144 (702) 505-8888 • allegiantair.com

2,254,219

20.1

3,427

Maurice Gallagher, CEO

US Airways* (*American Airlines discontinued the US Airways brand on Oct. 17, 2015.)

1,606,316

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Category: international airlines (Ranked by number of passengers enplaned and deplaned at McCarran International airport in 2015)

Airline

Passengers

Average daily flights

Average daily seats

Cities

Top executive

WestJet 22 Aerial Place NE Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2E 3J1 888-937-8538 • westjet.com

1,067,217

1,628

Clive J. Beddoe, CEO

Air Canada 7373 Cote Vertu Boulevard West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4S 1Z3 514-422-5000 • aircanada.com

415,108

5.5

1,219

Calin Rovinescu, CEO

Virgin Atlantic Airways Crawley Business Quarter, Manor Royale Crawley, West Sussex, England RH10 9NU 0844-811-0000 • virgin-atlantic.com

301,701

0.7

323

Craig Kreeger, CEO

AeroMexico Paseo de la Reforma 445 Mexico City, Mexico 6500 55-9132-4475 • aeromexico.com

296,229

3.3

486

Andres Conesa, CEO

British Airways Waterside HCB3 Harmondsworth, Greater London, England UB7 0GB 800-247-9297 • britishairways.com

295,137

1.4

445

Alex Cruz, CEO

Volaris Airlines Av Antonio Dovali Jaime 70 Santa Fe, Alvaro Obregon, Mexico D.F. 01210 55-5261-6400 • volaris.com

245,892

2.4

427

Enrique Beltranena, CEO

Copa Airlines P.O. Box 1572 Panama City, Panama 800-359-2672 • copaair.com

117,134

154

Pedro Heilbron, CEO

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