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the basics Pick 'Em Get smart Power tweets Power Lunch The Numbers Overheard Sin City Media talking points Done Deal the numbers Chatter Smith's world We hear .com YOUR AD HERE Buy high Sell low Mike Smith is an award-winning editorial cartoonist featured daily in the Las Vegas Sun. Smith's work also is distributed nationally by King Features Syndicate. See archives of his work at lasvegassun.com/smithsworld. $954.3 million VEGASINCmag Executive class Read this! The Pitch is back NOW SERVING 95 LAS VEGAS Vegas then ? ? ? ? ? ! The innovator Nevada's gaming win in October. VEGASinc2021 Gate keeper American dream Moonlighting $ 3.7 million FortuneCookie Grilled The Survivor McCarran International Airport's passenger traffic in October, up 1.2 percent from a year ago. 4th Las Vegas' national ranking for restaurant concentration. The city averages 79.7 eateries per 10,000 residents, according to Infogroup Targeting Solutions. Orlando is No. 1, with 99.3 restaurants per 10,000 residents. $1.3 million The amount the Las Vegas Tourism Commission spent in December on an advertising campaign to promote skiing in Lake Tahoe. The commercial is expected to be seen more than 95 million times, commission administrators said. 171,000 The square footage of a Life Time Fitness being built near the Green Valley Ranch resort in Henderson. The gym is expected to open in late 2014. Reader comments We want to hear from you. Visit vegasinc.com to post your opinion. steve marcus on the lookout: A cabin is shown attached to the 550foot tall High Roller, the world's tallest observation wheel, near the Las Vegas Strip and Flamingo Road. 28 The number of cabins on the Linq's 550-foot observation wheel. The final cabin was attached in early December. 40 The number of people who can fit in each cabin of the High Roller. 7 percent The United States' unemployment rate, a five-year low. Employers added 203,000 jobs in November, causing the unemployment rate to fall from 7.3 percent. | 16 DECEMBER 2013 20131216_VI19_F.indd 19 | On John Katsilometes' Nov. 14 lasvegassun.com story about a pair of California investors who bought a shuttered club on Paradise Road ("In a game of crazy 8s, Silicon Valley group claims the Stirling Club"): Interesting development, and I hope it is headed in the right direction, which depends on the trajectory of the new owners. If the new owners have a vision and feel of the current residents at Turnberry, namely the owners of the units, they will be properly persuaded and do the right thing for themselves and the unit owners. Absent of this synchronous partnership, the new owners will find it a hard sell. ... The unit owners, whether by design or not, are still a big variable in the success of the future operation of the new club. — Wilfrido Sy (FinnbeckSy) I am an owner, but not full-time resident, and could not be more excited and optimistic about the new ownership group opening the club back up. The reason we purchased and loved Turnberry Place was because of the Stirling Club. Without the Stirling Club, it would just be another upscale condo. I also am a strong advocate for mandatory membership, just like it was when everyone purchased at TBP, prior to shutting it down in May 2012. — John Desilets (jgd1998) On Ed Komenda's Nov. 19 vegasinc.com story about the ongoing battle between a Strip giant and the Culinary union ("Culinary, Bartenders unions reach agreement with MGM Resorts"): I didn't agree with the tactic of taking the message to the tourists. As a community we need all of the positive advertising we can get, not bad press from our own people. Gambling is everywhere now, and people can stay in their own state to do it. — Mitchzone On Ed Komenda's Nov. 19 vegasinc.com story about SLS President Robert Oseland's thoughts on the opening of the resort ("Will the SLS change the game for the north Strip?"): On the inside, most casinos look exactly alike. You've got loads of slot machines, several types of table games, bars and restaurants. I don't know what the SLS can do to "change the game" so to speak. Here's a novel idea: Let the customers win sometimes. Set the slot machines so you get more bonuses, lower the maximum penny bets and better the table game odds. Good idea? — Robert Kutner (RobertKutner) They need to do something with the rest of the north Strip. What about the old Fontainebleau? Is the old Wet 'n Wild property just going to stay vacant? Who will invest in the LVH property? What about the ugly eyesores known as the Riviera and Circus Circus? — Mike Conrad 19 12/11/13 5:37:03 PM

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