...Las Vegas, Nevada known as “sin city.” It is a city that never sleeps because of how alive the place is. As you’re driving into the fabulous Las Vegas, you are entering a party that goes on 24 hours, 7 days a week. Everywhere I look, there are fluorescent lights and attractions that lights up the city. With buildings that seem to be tall enough to touch the sky. Busy roads like New York City with taxi’s, buses and cars speeding on the main road. Groups of people crowding the sidewalks as if there is enough room to breathe. Then as you enter hotels, you could see the number of floors that were filled with stores to shop at. Being here would make you feel luxurious, as if you were to get whatever you wanted. It doesn’t work that way, but being...
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...Introduction The Las Vegas shooting had to be one of the most tragic mass shooting in world history. A shooting that left over fifty eight people dead and more than two hundred injured. The most hardest thing to grasp is how and why did this happen. With so many questions left unanswered the role of social is a task of its own when it comes to explaining to all of these innocent victims exactly what triggered a person to do such an evil act of violence. Social workers roles would be providing ongoing support for any issues such as trauma, becoming a crisis worker, and providing counseling. Support So much trauma has occurred from this mass shooting the role of a social worker has many hats. Providing support to a families who lost a loved...
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...On the night of October 1, 2017, a horrific tragedy took place that left at least 59 people dead and more than 500 people seriously injured. This event took place in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Route 91 Harvest music festival. More than 20,000 people attended this concert. People's enjoyment of the concert was soon interrupted by gunshots. A gunman opened fire on the crowd from the 32nd-floor window of a nearby hotel. Soon after this deadly mass shooting occurred, conspiracy theorists flooded the internet with theories of the shooting being a hoax and the victims being "crisis actors". After reviewing the evidence, it is apparent that this was not a hoax and was a horrible crime committed by an American citizen. The first reason that the Las...
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...While reading an article about the Las Vegas shooting, A name was brought to my attention. ¨Jonathan Smith¨ was the name of the man who took a shot to the neck; Only question I had was why? That day Smith took all his bravery and put it to use. As the shooting started Jonathan told all 9 of the people who he had attended the music festival to run and hold hands but sadly they all got separated. Smith directed people to the handicap parking lot. He didn't clear that many people out however, he did manage to save the lives of several people. The way the bullet gained access into his neck was the most heroic way to ever take a bullet; trying to cover several little girls who were not in cover. In the end of it all he did make it out alive and...
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...The City of Las Vegas, Nevada Budget Process Sarah Molda Missouri State University The City of Las Vegas, Nevada Budget Process In accordance with Nevada state Law, City governments in Nevada are created either by general law or special charter. The City of Las Vegas is a special charter city, and operates under a council-manager form of government as proscribed by Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS) Chapter 268, with our mayor elected at-large and six City Council members representing the 6 single member wards that represent the City. The vision of the City of Las Vegas is to be “a world-class, vibrant, affordable, economically and ethically diverse, progressive city where citizens feel safe, enjoy their neighborhoods and access their city government. Its mission is to provide residents, visitors and the business community with the highest quality municipal services in an efficient, courteous manner and to enhance the quality of life thorough planning and visionary leadership.” (City of Las Vegas) The Las Vegas city council oversees the general administration, makes policy, and sets budget. The council appoints a professional City Manager who is charged with the running day-to-day operations, with the City Managers office being responsible for the administration and operation of all municipal services for the City of Las Vegas as well as the oversight for all redevelopment and economic development. The City Manager's staff also tracks the progress of various projects,...
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...Environmental Analysis Paper Executive Summary In today society, how many students are informed of how to stay healthy and how to properly develop one’s body? R.T. Athletics is a health and strengthening athletic program that help informs and develop student physical attributes. In order to incorporate this program management has to forgo an environmental analysis. Environmental analysis is one of the contingency factors that have to be taken into account in designing an organization. In our research R.T. athletics has gather that Environmental analysis of the forces and trends in customer profiling provides sound knowledge of the demographics, personalities, and physical surroundings, as well as, purchasing power and behaviors of customers, (Pearce & Robinson, 2011). Determining the competitive position of other athletic training agencies within the Las Vegas area assists R.T. Athletics in creating unique services and care that sets them apart from other agencies. Identifying what has and has not worked for its competitors also provides the agency with insight into what methods are detrimental, and which ones are successful. R.T. Athletics managers conduct bi-annual assessments within the sports athletic industry. Therefore, understanding the macroeconomic factors involve the creditworthiness of the business as well as interest rates, inflation rates, and other trends affecting the current status of the economy, (Pearce & Robinson, 2011). Las Vegas, Nevada is a vast,...
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...Executive Summary Las Vegas Sands Corporation (“LVS”) is arguably the world’s premier casino resort operator. With its operations in Las Vegas, Macau, Pennsylvania, and its new development in Singapore and Europe LVS, is now well-positioned to capture a large slice of what is becoming an increasingly huge pie. They are the biggest company in its industry with a USD market cap of 35.1 billion as of 2011. The casino operator has been a pioneer in opening new markets in Asia, and will continue to aggressively focus on a variety of other development opportunities where it’s needed. However, LVS has faced significant financial challenges since the economic recession began in the fourth quarter of 2008. Among the significant ones is its large amount of long term debt currently at 9.58 billion. Las Vegas Sands Corporation has strategically sold some of their “non-core” assets such as the Venetian retail mall, and its Shoppes at the Palazzo in order to remain compliance with its credit covenants. With this said, there are now in the position to return to profitable operations with its Asian pipeline and its new development project in Europe with the assumption that upon completing these projects it will generate enough revenue to get rid of all their debts. In addition, to their debt issues are the ongoing lawsuits that have brought a threat from government officials questioning how the company conducts its domestic and foreign operations. This is an issue of growing importance especially...
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...REVENUE MANAGEMENT The future of pricing in services Stowe Shoemaker Received (in revised form): 2nd July, 2003 William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Mail Drop 6037, Las Vegas, NV 89154-6037, USA Tel: +1 702 895 1794; Fax: +1 702 895 1135; E-mail: stowe1202@aol.com Stowe Shoemaker is an associate professor at the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He holds a PhD from Cornell University in the School of Hotel Administration, an MS from the University of Massachusetts and a BS from the University of Vermont. Stowe also teaches strategic pricing and customer relationship management for Cornell University’s Professional Development Program. Stowe is ` a visiting professor at Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne for autumn 2003. way of thinking about the history of pricing strategies — from one price for all to the current practice of revenue management and finally to the future of pricing — value pricing. Fourthly, the paper presents a way of thinking about value. Specifically, it shows that value is more than just the financial elements of the service. Finally, ways of changing the value perception in order to earn higher revenues are presented. This last section presents actual research showing that changes in the way prices are framed can increase revenue and loyalty. WHY LOYALTY IS IMPORTANT Noone et al. (2003) articulated in this journal why customer loyalty is...
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...At the Lakefront Christina L. Bradley Professor Ralph Palumbo ACC 555—Individual Tax Research and Planning May 1, 2012 Abstract In this paper we are going to discuss three different income tax reporting scenarios. The first scenario is to determine the best way to address a $280K windfall from a business trip to Las Vegas in which you incurred $1,846 in expenses. The second scenario is to describe how you would minimize tax exposure on the purchase of an undeveloped lakeshore lot valued at $280K. The third and final scenario is to discuss the best way to address running your $36,000 race boat (that you built at your new lakefront property) into a pier—completely totaling your investment. At the Lakefront When tax season rolls around there are a lot of different types of income tax returns to file; there are personal, corporate, and even personal business and then comes the questions of how would I report certain items on my income taxes. In this paper we are going to discuss three different scenarios that are prone to appear on income tax returns. The first scenario is to determine the best way to address a $280K windfall from a business trip to Las Vegas in which you incurred $1,846 in expenses. The second scenario is to describe how you would minimize tax exposure on the purchase of an undeveloped lakeshore lot valued at $280K. For the third and final scenario we are going to discuss the best way to address running your $36,000 race boat (that you...
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...the Brand Equity awareness among the consumers but also leads to a positive Brand Image in the minds of the potential consumers. The purpose of this paper is to understand how Corporate Social Responsibility can lead to the creation of better brand image. It investigates the efficacy of Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives creating positive brand image in the minds of the consumers. The present study is based on secondary data, information collected from authentic sources such as books, journals, magazines and research reports and electronic data gathered through related web sites. Explanation and exploration of different types of conceptual information presented in the study is the result of observation, in depth reading, experiences and rational judgement of the author and co-author of the paper. KEY WORDS: Corporate Social Responsibility, Brand Image, Societal Marketing, Consumer Perceptions, Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives. INTRODUCTION With the advent of the era of globalization and cut-throat competition concern of the companies has shifted to Corporate Social Responsibility. “Doing good” seems to be the new slogan for many brands in 2010. After a year economic misery and banking crisis, consumers want to get associated with the brands that believe more than a profit. ASBBS Annual Conference: Las Vegas 681 February 2011 Proceedings of ASBBS...
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...Tourism is not only the largest industry in the world but also the number one online segment, accounting for 11% of overall sales on the Net in 1998. E-business on tourism accounted for $13 billion in 1999 (Forrester Research 1999). The online travel market is experiencing explosive growth, and is projected to go to $30 billion this year. It is already estimated that by year 2003 over 30% of online sales will be generated by online travel alone, including actual travel products as well as advertising earned by travel-oriented sites. The number of travelers who use the Internet for travel-related and other purposes tops 70 million, half of which consult the Internet to get information on destinations or to check prices and schedules (Travel Industry Association of America 1999). The number of travelers booking online has soared by more than 80 percent to 11 million in the last year (PhoCusWright 1999). Travel remains one of the most popular e-commerce categories, with 45 percent of online buyers saying they purchased travel online. This is outpaced only by books at 54 percent. According to a recent survey by BizRate.com (1999), 85% of the respondents intend to use the Internet exclusively or in conjunction with off-line resources to schedule airfare (90% of those planning to purchase travel online), hotel (52%), and car rental (42%) reservations for holiday travel. More than 75 percent of respondents indicated that discounts would motivate them to purchase future travel reservations...
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...process, what has happened, and how was it organized during those 2 years. As this is a very important topic in the gaming sector. Moreover, I will also have a discussion to see the main reason why were those 3 companies won in the competition, and also some specific issue that raised by some of the candidates. Introduction Macau has a very long history in the area of gaming business. In the old days, Macau is being named as “Eastern Monte Carlo”. Now, Macau can be called as “Eastern Las Vegas”, as many foreign companies have started their business in Macau after the liberalization of the gaming industry in 2002. This change let Macau step into a new era and increase its reputation all over the world. Why Macau can have such a big change after the operation in the style of monopoly concession for more than 70 years? How the tender process has been gone through? Why result in these 3 concessions – even though now there are 3 plus 3 sub/concessions, but this is another story. The main purpose of this paper is to go through the tender process in the year 2001 – 2002. Through our discussion, let you understand and think about is government really do good in this area. The reason why government liberalized the gaming industry in Macau may have to trace back to the 1980’s. In May 25, 1982, the Macau SAR government enacted the gaming law (Law 6/82/M) and...
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...MGMT 102 Strategy Las Vegas Sands A Company and Industry Analysis Submitted by: Adhitya Christian Martin (G3525406X) Chye Hui Lin (S8734971C) Darren Chng Meng Hoe (S8509392D) Jasmin Hamdani Ham (G3529740K) Karina Ondang (G0638741T) Liu Fang (G3529124K) Louis Lim Wei Chun (S8416257D) * Contents Executive Summary | 1 | Company Overview | 2 | External Environment | 2 | Internal Environment | 4 | Acquisitions, Restructuring and Cooperative Strategies | 6 | Business-Level Strategy of Las Vegas Sands in the U.S. | 6 | Corporate- Level Strategy of Las Vegas Sands in the U.S. | 11 | International Business-Level Strategy of Las Vegas Sands | | Macau | 14 | Singapore | 17 | Bibliography | i | Appendix | iv | * Executive Summary Las Vegas Sands is a hotel, gaming and resort development company which operates in many countries worldwide. It has 3 significant establishments; The Venetian and The Palazzo in United States, The Venetian Macao in Macau and Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. The company places strong focus on their code of conduct and ethical behavior of their employees. The company has both tangible and intangible resources. Their capabilities include excellent management of operations and human resources, specifically tailored offerings to the Asian market, the MICE business and Eco 360 cost savings initiative. We have identified their core competencies to be in MICE, the Eco 360 program, its Paiza Club which...
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...Legal System and ADR Analysis JP LAW/531 November 24, 2013 XXXX Gray TO: Judith Gray, Professor LAW/531 FROM: John R. Peterson, Manager Team A DATE: November 24, 2013 SUBJECT: The Legal System and ADR Analysis This research paper discusses the Internal Business Dispute over the Trademark Rights for the “The Cupcakery” company. Moreover, it will cover the other possible legal phases the case could take within the Texas State court system as well as pursue Alternative Dispute Resolutions possibly skipping the traditional court system altogether. The Cupcakery lawsuit arose between the two parties that stemmed from loans paid to Pamela Jenkins from her Uncle Rockey Perrit a Texas resident. According to “Las Vegas Trademark Attorney” (2011), “Perritt, with the full knowledge of Jenkins, decided to open up his own “The Cupcakery” stores – first in Frisco, Texas (owned by the Texas based, and co-Plaintiff , The Cupcakery, LLC), and then a second store in Dallas, Texas (owned by co-Plaintiff Buster Baking, LLC), and later a third store in The Woodlands, Texas (owned by co-Plaintiff The Woodlands Baking, LLC). Perritt’s Texas stores used the same name, recipes and other intellectual property used by Cupcakery NV” (Internal Business Dispute Over “The Cupcakery” Trademark Reignites). Armed with this background, let us first take a look at what legal phases this case could take within the Texas court system. Texas Legal Court System At the time this lawsuit...
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...casino industry as there are a great amount of legal and capital issues for operating and owning a casino. There are even fewer players who have been in the casino industry for generations. The people who have been in the casino industry for decades are those that have caught on to the current trends within their industry. If any business wants to be sustainable and have a very long life than it is mandatory that they have an eye out for the current trends within their industry and apply those trends in their business. The purpose of this paper is to identify the current trends in the casino industry. Knowing this information will be very useful to me as an owner/operator of multi-business units. I am not currently in the casino industry, but I have a very big attraction to the industry as an owner. I want to do more research on the industry and there is no better way than identifying the current trends in the industry. After a lot of research, it has been noted that there are many trends that the casino industry has to keep a look-out for. These trends touch many different areas in the industry, ranging from the changes in the technology, the different types of policies and regulations as well as a shift in demographics and how they have influenced the industry. The first trend I want to identify in the gaming industry is the fact that online gaming is becoming real competition for the traditional brick and mortar casino. Some of the main competitors in the gaming industry...
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