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For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came here. It was the only place left.

I am the gilding of the gold I am the painting of the lily I am the crushing of the sand I am the tirading tide of bland I am the taunting silver light which penetrates and scars the sky I am the remnant hopes and dreams of all good men that come to die I am the surgeon’s chromium dagger I am turgid Las Nevadas

Today, we must look to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, as a metaphor of our national character and aspiration, its symbol a thirty-foot-high cardboard picture of a slot machine and a chorus girl. For Las Vegas is a city entirely devoted to the idea of entertainment, and as such proclaims the spirit of a culture in which all public discourse increasingly takes the form of entertainment. Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.

The philosopher’s stone which turned a mobster in Newport, Kentucky into a pillar of the community in Las Vegas, Nevada was “philanthropy.

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15. La buena gente brilla de lejos, como las montañas nevadas; los que no son buenos no se ven aquí, a semejanza de las flechas disparadas en la noche.

—Vete, hija, a los campos petroleros, a la selva, a la Sierra Nevada de Mérida, a la séptima paila del infierno, pero no te quedes aquí de sepulturera que ese no es oficio para ti. No importa que en ese lugar donde tú quieres irte los hombres digan malas palabras, que delante de ti no las dirán. Ni que haya mujeres perdidas, que dejarán de serlo cuando tú las estés mirando.

One is standing on a highway in the middle of a vast hostile desert looking at an eighty-foot sign which blinks ”stardust” or “caesar’s palace.” Yes, but what does that explain? This geographical implausibility reinforces the sense that what happens there has no connection with “real” life; Nevada cities like Reno and Carson are ranch towns, Western towns, places behind which there is some historical imperative. But Las Vegas seems to exist only in the eye of the beholder.

A veces pienso que las personas están en lo cierto sobre todo, la gente del otro lado en Zombilandia. Tal vez sería mejor si no pudiéramos amar. Si no pudiéramos perdernos. Si no pudieran pisotear nuestros corazones, destrozarlos; si no tuviéramos que remendarlo como monstros Frankenstein, todo cosido junto y ligado por no ser que. Si solo pudiéramos flotar, como la nieve. Eso es Zombilandia: frio, calma, silencio. Es el mundo después de una nevada, la paz que viene con ella, el silencio sordo y el sentido de que nada en el mundo se mueve. Es hermoso, a su modo. Tal vez es mejor así. Pero como alguien que ha visto el verano -grandes explosiones de gris y el cielo iluminado como una explosión de electricidad a la puesta del sol, un montón de flores y viento que huele a miel- elegiría la nieve?

The Strip was still lit by a million neon lights, though the crowds on the sidewalk had greatly decreased by this hour. Still, Bosch was awed by the spectacle of light. In every imaginable color and configuration, it was a megawatt funnel of enticement to greed that burned twenty-four hours a day. Bosch felt the same attraction that all the other grinders felt tug at them. Las Vegas was like one of the hookers on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Even happily married men at least glanced their way, if only for a second, just to get an idea what was out there, maybe give them something to think about. Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.

Viví con poco sufrimiento los tres años de Segunda. No porque quisiera distanciarme de un equipo fracasado; de hecho, iba a Anoeta siempre que podía y mastiqué por la tele un montón de partidos tóxicos sin pestañear. En el fondo le veía cierto encanto: mientras las radios y las teles nos metían por un embudo el Barça y el Madrid y Schuster y Guardiola y los partidos del siglo a todas horas, nosotros jugábamos en otro universo menos histriónico contra el Racing de Ferrol, el Huesca o el Girona. Disfruté de una alegría de esas que en el momento no se pueden confesar a nadie: en diciembre de 2008 me escapé de dos amigas navarras en Nueva York con alguna excusa, entré a un locutorio para mirar los resultados en internet y me enteré de que la Real había ganado 1-0 al líder Salamanca con un cabezazo de Ansotegi en el minuto 92. Salí a la calle, correteé por las aceras nevadas, di algún saltito y algún remate de cabeza en el aire y luego caminé normal para reunirme otra vez con mis amigas. Ellas no hubieran entendido nada así que me callé. Seguimos andando los tres y yo pensé que era la única persona de todo el barrio de Harlem, quizá de todo Nueva York, que en ese momento caminaba contento por un gol de Ansotegi. Fue un momento de felicidad intensa y secreta.

No story about Las Vegas should begin in Vegas. It is a place one goes, often rashly, and from which one returns often poorer in money and richer in experience. It is a crapshoot—pun intended—if the outcome will match the intention. Las Vegas will not disappoint, becoming a story one can tell in a bar, how one got an unfortunate tattoo, or drunkenly married a new acquaintance at the Little Vegas Chapel in front of an Elvis impersonator.

Las Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification, a place the tone of which is set by mobsters and call girls and ladies’ room attendants with amyl nitrite poppers in their uniform pockets. Almost everyone notes that there is no “time” in Las Vegas, no night and no day and no past and no future (no Las Vegas casino, however, has taken the obliteration of the ordinary time sense quite so far as Harold’s Club in Reno, which for a while issued, at odd intervals in the day and night, mimeographed “bulletins” carrying news from the world outside); neither is there any logical sense of where one is. One is standing on a highway in the middle of a vast hostile desert looking at an eighty-foot sign which blinks ”stardust” or “caesar’s palace.” Yes, but what does that explain? This geographical implausibility reinforces the sense that what happens there has no connection with “real” life; Nevada cities like Reno and Carson are ranch towns, Western towns, places behind which there is some historical imperative. But Las Vegas seems to exist only in the eye of the beholder. All of which makes it an extraordinarily stimulating and interesting place, but an odd one in which to want to wear a candlelight satin Priscilla of Boston wedding dress with Chantilly lace insets, tapered sleeves and a detachable modified train.

De súbito me vi agarrando la cruz de granito de Cuatro Postes. Apenas me atrevía a darme la vuelta y tender la vista sobre la ciudad nevada. Cuando lo hice, un sentimiento amplio, inconcreto, me resbaló por la espalda. La ciudad, ebria de luna, era un bello producto de contrastes. Brotaba de la tierra dibujada en claroscuros ofensivos. Era un espectáculo fosforescente y pálido, con algo de endeble, de exinanido y de nostálgico. La torre de la Catedral sobresalía al fondo como un capitán de un ejército de piedra. En su derredor las moles, en blanco y negro, de la torre de Velasco, del torreón de los Guzmanes, del Mosén Rubí... Ávila emergía de la nieve mística y escandalosamente blanca, como una monja o una niña vestida de primera comunión. Tenía un sello antiguo, hermético, de maciza solidez patriarcal. La villa, centrada en plena y opulenta civilización, era como una armadura detonando en una reunión de fraques. Imaginé que no otra, en todo el mundo, podía ser la cuna de Santa Teresa. Porque su espíritu impregnaba, una por una, cada una de sus piedras y sus torres.

How many people know 10 good things about America? Almost anyone can tell that. But thing is that cities in America is not certain or similar to each other. The many popular cities are also popular due to their food style like Portland Oregon, San Francisco, California, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Seattle Washington etc and many other cities like this including Miami too. According to wallet hub, Miami stands at 3rd position about their craze of food and other things. But Miami is not just a food city but also claimed a name as a crime city.

but being over’s no problemo, it’s the getting there that’s a bitch or a boor or a bother, to that small apresbellum, the birth of the universe in reverse, the door unshut after the party’s over and the guests uncoupled on the floor. In Las Vegas in the ‘50s, there were parties on hotel-tops, parties that went on all night long, everyone swinging to the sounds of some sassy swinging-hair’d sister backed by the brassy cool combo, and the show-stopper was the morning’s nuclear test, sponsored by the US Army, the white light skirled across the shar Nevada desert, blotting the sun, they called them dawn parties because they done broke the day.

My mother left us when I was twelve. She found a man who was not as parsimonious as my father and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada which is two thousand five hundred miles away. She doesn't visit. She doesn’t call. She sends me a card on my birthday with fifty dollars in it, which my father nags me about until I finally go to the bank and deposit it. And so, for all six years she’s been gone, I have $337 to show for having a mother. Dad says that thirty-seven bucks is good interest. He doesn't see the irony in that. He doesn't see the word interest as anything not connected to money because he’s an accountant and to him, everything is a number. I think $37 and no other and no visits or phone calls is shitty interest.

El farol que la bruja había plantado -sin saberlo- brilló día y noche en el bosque narniano, de modo que el lugar donde creció acabó llamándose el Erial del Farol; y cuando, muchos años más tarde, otra niña de nuestro mundo entró en Narnia, una noche nevada, la pequeña encontró el farol todavía encendido. Y aquella aventura estuvo, en cierto modo, conectada con las que te acabo de contar. La cosa sucedió así. El árbol que surgió del corazón de la manzana que Digory plantó en el jardín trasero, vivió y creció hasta convertirse en un árbol espléndido. Al crecer en el suelo de nuestro mundo, muy lejos del sonido de la voz de Aslan y lejos del aire juvenil de Narnia, no dio manzanas capaces de revivir a una mujer moribunda como había sucedido con la madre de Digory, aunque sí dio las manzanas más hermosas de todo el país, que además eran sumamente saludables, aunque no del todo mágicas. Sin embargo, en su interior, en su misma savia, el árbol -por así decirlo- jamás olvidó aquel otro árbol de Narnia al que pertenecía. En ocasiones se movía de un modo misterioso cuando no soplaba viento: creo que cuando eso sucedía soplaban fuertes vientos en Narnia y el árbol inglés se estremecía porque, en aquel momento, el árbol de Narnia se balanceaba y oscilaba bajo un fuerte vendaval del sudoeste. Fuera como fuese, se demostró más tarde que quedaba aún magia en su madera; pues cuando Digory era ya un hombre de mediana edad -que se había convertido además en famoso erudito, catedrático y gran viajero- y la vieja casa de los Ketterley le pertenecía, estalló una gran tormenta en todo el sur de Inglaterra que derribó el árbol. Como no soportaba la idea de hacer que lo cortaran para convertirlo en leña, pidió que construyeran un armario con parte de la madera, que luego colocó en su enorme casa en el campo. Él no descubrió las propiedades mágicas de aquel armario, pero otra persona sí lo hizo, y así empezaron todas las idas y venidas entre nuestro mundo y el de Narnia, sobre las que puedes leer en otros libros.

Recorría sin descanso la inmensidad del sur con su pequeño ejército, adentrándose en los bosques húmedos y sombríos, bajo la alta cúpula verde tejida por los árboles más nobles y coronada por la soberbia araucaria, que se perfilaba contra el cielo con su dura geometría. Las patas de los caballos pisaban un colchón fragante de humus, mientras los jinetes se abrían camino con las espadas en la espesura, a ratos impenetrable, de los helechos. Cruzaban arroyos de aguas frías, donde los pájaros solían quedar congelados en las orillas, las mismas aguas donde las madres mapuche sumergían a los recién nacidos. Los lagos eran prístinos espejos del azul intenso del cielo, tan quietos, podían contarse las piedrecillas en el fondo. Las arañas tejían sus encajes, perlados de rocío, entre las ramas de robles, arrayanes y avellanos. Las aves del bosque cantaban reunidas, diuca, chincol, jilguero, torcaza, tordo, zorzal, y hasta el pájaro carpintero, marcando el ritmo con su infatigable tac-tac-tac. Al paso de los caballeros se levantaban nubes de mariposas y los venados, curiosos, se acercaban a saludar. La luz se filtraba entre las hojas y dibujaba sombras en el paisaje; la niebla subía del suelo tibio y envolvía el mundo en un hálito de misterio. Lluvia y más lluvia, ríos, lagos, cascadas de aguas blancas y espumosas, un universo líquido. Y al fondo, siempre, las montañas nevadas, los volcanes humeantes, las nubes viajeras. En otoño el paisaje era de oro y sangre, enjoyado, magnífico. A Pedro de Valdivia se le escapaba el alma y se le quedaba enredada entre los esbeltos troncos vestidos de musgo, fino terciopelo. El Jardín del Edén, la tierra prometida, el paraíso. Mudo, mojado de lágrimas, el conquistador conquistado iba descubriendo el lugar donde acaba la tierra, Chile.

He is a warden for Hells Prison. A politician shoved in the guise of a devil. He doesn’t care about the Lost Souls he steals with his promises of illusion. He just wants numbers like the republicans want votes. He lives with the other Fallen and Demons in a place made especially for their kind…The city of Sin itself. Las Vegas, Nevada. They call it Wanton. I call it hell. It's certainly hot enough."-Lilith

The Basin and Range Province is one of the mostly highly stretched places on Earth. If you add up all the displacements on all the faults that divide the basins from the ranges between Reno and Salt Lake City, you come up with 250 miles of east-west extension. Given that Reno and Salt Lake City now lie 450 miles apart, that means that east-west stretching has more than doubled the width of the crust. A map of California shows how the coastline bulges into the Pacific Ocean. The east-west stretching of Nevada and Utah pushed it out there. During Basin and Range stretching, a 400-mile-long block of granite that once lay near Las Vegas was pulled 150 miles west and tilted up into the air. Today we call it the Sierra

Cuando estuve por primera vez frente al océano quedé sobrecogido. Allí entre dos grandes cerros (el Huilque y el Maule) se desarrollaba la furia del gran mar. No sólo eran las inmensas olas nevadas que se levantaban a muchos metros sobre nuestras cabezas, sino un estruendo de corazón colosal, la palpitación del universo.

Las Vegas may have residents and not merely tourists, but it does not want to welcome you. You are swallowed. Maybe it will hack up your hair and bones later, but the oddsmakers are not on your side.

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Senator John Kennedy, relentless in his pursuits of women, will involve himself with a young lady named Judith Campbell—who will soon become the mistress of the very dangerous Sam Giancana. CHAPTER THIRTEEN FEBRUARY 7, 1960 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 10:00 P.M.

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El tío Juan -hermano de la tía Julia, del tío Pablo y de mi padre- y la tía Luisa, que era su mujer, ya tenían el coche por entonces, y recuerdo que llegaron a la fiesta diciendo que se habían acercado hasta la Malvarrosa para contemplar la nevada y ver las olas moviéndose por encima de la nieve, y que aquello había resultado ser el espectáculo más hermoso que jamás habían visto. Sentí una envidia infinita de ellos.

The idea for this book came to me in the last days of December 2015. I live in South Lake Tahoe, but I’d spent Christmas (and my birthday, which is on Christmas) with my family in Colorado. I have two dogs, so instead of flying, I’d driven the grueling sixteen hours. I left Colorado to return home on Dec. 28th, but I didn’t want to do the drive all in one fell swoop, so I stopped at a hotel in Primm, a town near the Nevada/California state line, about thirty minutes from Las Vegas. A couple hours after arriving at the hotel—a grimy, less than desirable room in a dingy casino—my stomach started to gurgle. You know that feeling, the “Dear God, please don’t let this be what I think it is” feeling. But it was.

In addition, participants were entirely unaware that their performance was being affected by their own future perceptions, suggesting that unconscious nervous system activity may be used to detect precognitive perceptions. Studies relying on unconscious responses may be more effective than those relying on conscious responses by bypassing psychological defense mechanisms that may filter out psi perceptions from ordinary awareness.8 Future Feelings In a recent series of experiments conducted in our laboratory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, we’ve explored unconscious nervous system responses to future events. Strictly speaking, such responses are a subset of precognition known as “presentiment,” a vague sense or feeling of something about to occur but without any conscious awareness of a particular event.9 The unconscious responses studied in our experiments took advantage of a well-known psychophysical reflex known as the “orienting response,” first described by Pavlov in the 1920s. The orienting response is a set of physiological changes experienced by an organism when it faces a “fight or flight” situation. For human beings, the response also appears in less dangerous contexts, such as when confronting a novel or unexpected stimulus. The classical orienting response is a series of simultaneous bodily changes that include dilation of the pupil, altered brain waves, a rise in sweat gland activity, a rise/fall pattern in heart rate, and blanching of the extremities.10 These bodily changes momentarily sharpen our perceptions, improve our decision-making abilities, increase our strength, and reduce the danger of bleeding. This makes sense from an evolutionary perspective because when our ancestors were challenged by a tiger, the ones who survived were suddenly able to see and hear exceptionally well, make very fast decisions, become unusually strong, and not bleed as easily as usual. It’s relatively easy to produce an orienting response on demand by showing a person an emotionally provocative photograph. Stimuli like noxious odors, meaningful words, electrical shocks, and sudden tactile stimuli are also effective. Because a person’s general level of arousal is affected cumulatively by successive stimuli, the strength of the orienting response tends to diminish after three to five emotional pictures in a row. In our study, to prevent participants from “habituating,” we randomly interspersed the photos used to produce the orienting responses within a pool of twice as many calm photos.

In the teeming crowd gathered for a ceremony outside Las Vegas on the afternoon of September 17, 1930, there must have been quite a few people hoping to see the guest of honor look ridiculous. They were not disappointed. Interior Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur had come west for the formal launch of the Boulder Canyon Project. His role in the ritual was to drive a spike of Nevada-mined silver into a tie at the spot where the Union Pacific’s Salt Lake-Los Angeles trunk line was to branch off toward the future site of Boulder City, which was to be the staging point for the project and the hometown for its workers and their families.

And the desert shall reclaim, it’s wealth!

A veces nos encontrábamos en la cima de una montaña con precipicios a nuestros pies que parecían prontos a tragarnos: era tal su profundidad que nuestra mirada no podía sondearla. Otras, era un pueblecito encantador con sus graciosos chalets y su campanario sobre el cual se balanceaban suavemente algunas nubes resplandecientes de blancura. Más lejos, un vasto lago, dorado por los últimos rayos de sol y cuyas ondas serenas y puras reflejaba el azul del cielo y del fuego del poniente, presentaba a nuestros ojos maravillados el más poético y encantador espectáculo que se pueda imaginar. Al fondo del vasto horizonte se veían las montañas cuyos contornos imprecisos hubieran escapado a nuestra vista si sus cumbres nevadas brillando al sol no hubieran venido a añadir un encanto más al hermoso lago que nos cautivaba.

Some key features of the Kelly Criterion are: (1) The investor or bettor generally avoids total loss; (2) the bigger the edge, the larger the bet; (3) the smaller the risk, the larger the bet. The Kelly Criterion, not having been invented by the old-line academic economists, has generated considerable controversy. Bill Gross, co-founder of PIMCO, who learned about the Kelly Criterion in the summer of 1969 when he played blackjack in Nevada, is still influenced by it in making investment decisions.

The Baldwin strategy was the best way to play the game when nothing was known about which cards had already been played. Their analysis was for a single deck because that was the only version played in Nevada at the time. The Baldwin group also showed that the advice of the reigning gambling experts was poor, unnecessarily giving the casinos an extra 2 percent advantage. Any strategy table for blackjack must tell the player how to act for each case that can arise from the ten possible values of the dealer’s upcard versus each of the fifty-five different pairs of cards that can be dealt to the player. To find the best way for the player to manage his cards in each of these 550 different situations, you need to calculate all the possible ways subsequent cards can be dealt and the payoffs that result. There may be thousands, even millions of ways each hand can play out. Do this for each of the 550 situations and the computations just for the complete deck become enormous. If you are dealt a pair, the strategy table must tell you whether or not to split it. The next decision is whether or not to double down, which is to double your bet and draw exactly one card to the first two cards of a hand. Your final decision is whether to draw more cards or to stop (“stand”). Once I had figured out a winning strategy, I planned to condense these myriad decisions onto tiny pictorial cards, just as I had with the Baldwin strategy. This would allow me to visualize patterns, making it much easier to recall what to do in each of the 550 possible cases.

Mickey MacDougall on a blackjack foray. Mickey was perfect, being both a magician and a well-known card detective. His book Danger in the Cards describes his adventures detecting swindles in private games. He also had worked as a special consultant to the Nevada Gaming Control Board for several years. This led to the board citing several small casinos for cheating.

As time passed, blackjack players faced escalating casino countermeasures in Nevada. Management watched us through the “eye in the sky,” a system of one-way mirrors above the tables. Our faces were checked against a book of photos of undesirables. Honest card counters were treated like player cheats and other criminals. When a casino spotted an undesirable, it passed the word around. Countermeasures included reshuffling the pack of cards by the time half or fewer of them had been played. This not only limits the card counter’s chances to make favorable bets, but is also costly for the casino because it slows the game down, fleecing the ordinary players more slowly and reducing casino profits. If one likens a casino to a slaughterhouse for processing players, then more time spent shuffling means less efficient use of plant capacity.

Mary Carter Paint Company. Founded in 1958 as the successor to a 1908 company, it started as an acquirer of other paint companies, then evolved into a resort and casino developer in the Bahamas. Changing its name to Resorts International, it divested itself of the paint business and name. In 1972 the company had warrants that sold for 27 cents when the stock traded at $8 a share. The warrants were so cheap because they were worthless unless the stock traded above $40 a share. Fat chance. Since our model said the warrants were worth $4 a share, we bought all we could at the unbelievable bargain price of 27 cents each, which turned out to be 10,800 warrants at a total cost, after commissions, of $3,200. We hedged our risk of loss by shorting eight hundred shares of the common stock at $8. When the stock later fell to $1.50 a share, we bought back our short stock for a profit of about $5,000. Our gain now consisted of the warrants for “free” plus about $1,800 in cash. The warrants were trading close to zero but below the tiny amount the model said they were worth, so I decided we should put them away and forget them. Six busy years passed. Then in 1978 we started getting calls from people who wanted to buy our warrants. The company had purchased property in Atlantic City, New Jersey, after which it successfully lobbied, along with others, to bring casino gambling to the state, limited to Atlantic City. On May 26, 1978, Resorts opened the first US casino outside Nevada. Having received early approval, they had no competition and reaped windfall profits until other casinos opened late in 1979. With the stock now trading at $15 a share, ten times its earlier lowest price, and the warrants trading between $3 and $4, the model said they were worth about $7 or $8. So, instead of selling and reaping a $30,000 to $40,000 profit, I bought more warrants and sold stock short to hedge the risk of loss. As the stock broke through the $100 mark, we were still buying warrants and shorting stock. We finally sold the 27-cent warrants and others for above $100 each. We ultimately made more than $1 million.

El anhelo que sentimos de la Mujer Salvaje surge cuando nos tropezamos con alguien que ha conseguido establecer esta relación indómita. El anhelo aparece cuando una se da cuenta de que ha dedicado muy poco tiempo a la hoguera mística o a la ensoñación, y demasiado poco tiempo a la propia vida creativa, a la obra de su vida o a sus verdaderos amores. Y, sin embargo, son estas fugaces experiencias que se producen tanto a través de la belleza como de la pérdida las que nos hacen sentir desnudas, alteradas y ansiosas hasta el extremo de obligarnos a ir en pos de la naturaleza salvaje. Y llegamos al bosque o al desierto o a una extensión nevada y nos ponemos a correr como locas, nuestros ojos escudriñan el suelo, aguzamos el oído, buscando arriba y abajo, buscando una clave, un vestigio, una señal de que ella sigue viva y de que no hemos perdido nuestra oportunidad. Y, cuando descubrimos su huella, lo típico es que las mujeres corramos para darle alcance, dejemos el escritorio, dejemos la relación, vaciemos nuestra mente, pasemos la página, insistamos en hacer una pausa, quebrantemos las normas y detengamos el mundo, pues ya no podemos seguir sin ella. Si las mujeres la han perdido, cuando la vuelvan a encontrar, pugnarán por conservarla para siempre. Una vez que la hayan recuperado, lucharán con todas sus fuerzas para conservarla, pues con ella florece su vida creativa; sus relaciones adquieren significado, profundidad y salud; sus ciclos sexuales, creativos, laborales y lúdicos se restablecen; ya no son el blanco de las depredaciones de los demás, y tienen el mismo derecho a crecer y prosperar según las leyes de la naturaleza.

The Combination had finally been smashed. In a world with Mickey Cohen and Bugsy Siegel on the loose, it was simply too dangerous for men like Guy McAfee to operate in Los Angeles without police protection. Moreover, it seemed evident that the new mayor was determined to “close” Los Angeles. And so the organized crime figures who had held sway over the L.A. underworld since the 1920s left Los Angeles. Most relocated to a dusty little town in the Nevada desert where gambling was legal and supervision was lax—Las Vegas.

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COEFFICIENT The nonparametric alternative, Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient (r, or “rho”), looks at correlation among the ranks of the data rather than among the values. The ranks of data are determined as shown in Table 14.2 (adapted from Table 11.8): Table 14.2 Ranks of Two Variables In Greater Depth … Box 14.1 Crime and Poverty An analyst wants to examine empirically the relationship between crime and income in cities across the United States. The CD that accompanies the workbook Exercising Essential Statistics includes a Community Indicators dataset with assorted indicators of conditions in 98 cities such as Akron, Ohio; Phoenix, Arizona; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Seattle, Washington. The measures include median household income, total population (both from the 2000 U.S. Census), and total violent crimes (FBI, Uniform Crime Reporting, 2004). In the sample, household income ranges from $26,309 (Newark, New Jersey) to $71,765 (San Jose, California), and the median household income is $42,316. Per-capita violent crime ranges from 0.15 percent (Glendale, California) to 2.04 percent (Las Vegas, Nevada), and the median violent crime rate per capita is 0.78 percent. There are four types of violent crimes: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. A measure of total violent crime per capita is calculated because larger cities are apt to have more crime. The analyst wants to examine whether income is associated with per-capita violent crime. The scatterplot of these two continuous variables shows that a negative relationship appears to be present: The Pearson’s correlation coefficient is –.532 (p < .01), and the Spearman’s correlation coefficient is –.552 (p < .01). The simple regression model shows R2 = .283. The regression model is as follows (t-test statistic in parentheses): The regression line is shown on the scatterplot. Interpreting these results, we see that the R-square value of .283 indicates a moderate relationship between these two variables. Clearly, some cities with modest median household incomes have a high crime rate. However, removing these cities does not greatly alter the findings. Also, an assumption of regression is that the error term is normally distributed, and further examination of the error shows that it is somewhat skewed. The techniques for examining the distribution of the error term are discussed in Chapter 15, but again, addressing this problem does not significantly alter the finding that the two variables are significantly related to each other, and that the relationship is of moderate strength. With this result in hand, further analysis shows, for example, by how much violent crime decreases for each increase in household income. For each increase of $10,000 in average household income, the violent crime rate drops 0.25 percent. For a city experiencing the median 0.78 percent crime rate, this would be a considerable improvement, indeed. Note also that the scatterplot shows considerable variation in the crime rate for cities at or below the median household income, in contrast to those well above it. Policy analysts may well wish to examine conditions that give rise to variation in crime rates among cities with lower incomes. Because Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient examines correlation among the ranks of variables, it can also be used with ordinal-level data.9 For the data in Table 14.2, Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient is .900 (p = .035).10 Spearman’s p-squared coefficient has a “percent variation explained” interpretation, similar

To me, and to other Connected who were, well, connected, he was the Magician. As in the Original Alchemist, the Trickster of the Tarot, the Cobbler…and the leader of the Arcana Council that was—quite naturally, I suppose—currently based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Keeping the world safe for all things magical.

Demonio, nunca he sido amante de belicismos, pero debo reconocer que aquella noche comprendí por qué el imperialista de Napoleón y el hijoputa de Hitler lamentaron tanto no conquistar Rusia. Las montañas, las tundras nevadas, las estepas que se pierden hasta la línea del horizonte. La inmensidad.

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The American legal system is not supposed to be a karma-based organism of retribution for unpunished bad deeds, but that’s how it worked in Nevada. The Las Vegas case was a transparent attempt by the local authorities to issue payback for Simpson’s acquittal in the 1994 murders, notwithstanding the statements to the contrary by the judge in the case. The fracas in the hotel room was a kind of minor dispute that probably would have attracted little notice from law enforcement if Simpson had not been involved. Instead, he was not only prosecuted but also received a wildly excessive sentence.

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Medio desnudo, tiritando de fiebre, empezó de pronto a anunciar a gritos, paso por paso, todo lo que iba a hacer en el futuro: la toma inmediata de Angostura, el paso de los Andes hasta liberar a la Nueva Granada y más tarde a Venezuela, para fundar Colombia, y por último la conquista de los inmensos territorios del sur hasta el Perú. «Entonces escalaremos el Chimborazo y plantaremos en las cumbres nevadas el tricolor de la América grande, unida y libre por los siglos de los siglos», concluyó.

The odd thing about this little voice, this storyteller, is that it comes and goes. When researchers study the inner voice, they find that for some people, the inner voice is chattering away almost every second. Other people experience long periods of inner silence. Russell T. Hurlburt and his colleagues at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, found that, on average, people have an experience of inner speech about 23 percent of the time. The rest of the time the voice there may be a sense of mood, or a song bouncing around, but the sense of an inner narrator is absent.

Author Britton Taylor lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, with his sweet Labrador, Daisy May. Besides spending time with her, he enjoys snowboarding, watching documentaries, and rooting for his beloved sports teams—Go Cowboys, Rockets, Astros, and Runnin’ Rebels! Mr. Taylor wanted to share what a beautiful and loving soul Daisy May is and felt a children’s book would be the best way to convey that. Daisy May is an exceptionally special dog, and Mr. Taylor is certain that the world will love her just as much as he does.

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since it is the experience that gives traveling its value and not the traveling unto itself, you may want to focus on having adventures instead of just merely travel.  For example, I have individually “traveled” to: The Wind River mountain range in Lander, Wyoming. Dinosaur National Monument in Vernal, Utah. Canyonlands National Park in Moab, Utah. The Grand Canyon outside Williams, Arizona. And The Hoover Dam outside Las Vegas, Nevada. And each individual visit was fun and enjoyable in its own regard. But what I really want to do is raft the Green and Colorado Rivers, which connect all those locations above.  This will not only send me through the Flaming Gorge of Utah, but the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers in the canyons of Dinosaur Park, the heart of Canyonlands National Park, Lake Powell, the Grand Canyon, and inevitably a long paddle across Lake Meade to the Hoover Dam.  It will be a genuine, epic, Indiana Jones adventure that very few, if any people, have ever done.  And instead of a mere picture of the Hoover Dam or the Grand Canyon comfortably taken from a paved road, when my little nieces ask me, “What did you do, Uncle Aaron” I won't say, “I went to Paris and sat at a cafe.” I will say, “Uncle Aaron kayaked the whole damn Green and Colorado rivers from Wyoming to the Hoover Dam!”  This doesn't mean we all have to become Larry Ellison, sailing around the world or racing in regattas.  But having adventures as opposed to mere site seeing will add an inordinate amount of purpose and meaning to your life, not to mention a lot of fun.