Stories from Around the World: “A Chronicle of Hovering” and “Death in Las Vegas”

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 179-207
Author(s):  
Vladimir Pištalo ◽  
Nada Petković
Keyword(s):  
Las Vegas ◽  
The World

The Economics of Casino Taxation

2013 ◽  
pp. 17-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Tax Policy ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
Market Analysis ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Casino Gambling ◽  
The World ◽  
Efficiency Effects ◽  
Casino Game

This chapter examines how governments in many nations and regions tax casino gambling and also considers the economic effects of that taxation. The first section analyzes the nature of casino gambling, along with the forms of taxation that governments apply to casino operations, including wagering taxes, admissions taxes, fees, and other taxes. Section 2 examines the economics of casino taxation, including market analysis of a casino game, efficiency effects of casino game taxation, equity impacts or the incidence of casino taxation, and optimal government tax policy regarding casinos. Section 3 provides a summary of the forms of taxation used around the world, highlighting major gambling locations, such as Las Vegas, Macau (Macao), and Singapore, among others.

scholarly journals City as Flux: Interrogating the Changing Nature of Urban Change

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Aseem Inam
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

What do we mean by the changing nature of urban change? First of all, in the 20th and 21st centuries, cities have been changing in different and dramatic ways, whether through grassroots mobilizations, through technological leaps, or through profit-driven speculations. Second, our understanding of how cities change has also been evolving, in particularly through empirical work that challenges the broad-brush universalizations of conventional thinking. The authors of the six selected articles take us through an around-the-world tour of cities and regions that range from Mulhouse in France to Dakar in Senegal to Las Vegas in the United States to Bogota in Colombia and beyond. Each author carefully examines the nature of urban change and how planners, developers, and citizens are either dealing with that change or even shaping it. Together, what the articles suggest is that we need a more fine-grained understanding of the city as flux in order to obtain better theoretical insights as well as urban practices that can better manage and ultimately shape urban change to benefit citizens, especially those who are marginalized.

scholarly journals Analysis of Fire-fighter Access as Protection against Fire Hazard in High-rise Building

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-203
Author(s):  
Niswa Dewi A ◽  
Vinky Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
Fire Hazard ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Fire Hazards ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Reliability Level ◽  
High Rise Building ◽  
The World ◽  
Hierarchy Process

There have been many cases of fire in high-rise building occurring in the world taking a lot of casualties, some of them are the World Plasco Building in Tehran, the Grenfell Tower in London, and the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in Las Vegas. One of the problems that arise in many cases of fire in a high-rise building is the difficulty of access for firefighters to control fire. According to these cases, it is crucial to analyse further the access of firefighter in a high-rise building as protection against fire hazard. The study aims to find out how to assess the reliability of the fire fighting access, water supply, access aperture, and shaft of the firefighter in a high-rise building as protection against fire hazards by using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) which is sufficient to solve the problems of the reliability level of firefighters access in a high-rise building. The result is that the access of firefighter in the high-rise building on the Good level of reliability. Therefore, to improve the results of the reliability value of firefighters access in the high-rise building to be better by giving some design recommendations which according to the requirements of firefighters access. Meanwhile, the researchers can use these results of the study as reference and information for future research.

scholarly journals Networking in the #BEAVegas

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
Yerodin L. Carrington
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Intergroup Communication ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Understanding ◽  
Education Association

Networking in the #BEAVegas is a basic understanding of the Network Theory, and its properties. This theoretical framework investigates the intergroup communication of individuals within other group systems. Networking in the #BEAVegas also explores Littlejohn's methodologies of connectedness, group networks, and organizational networks along with Actor-Network Theory (ANT). However, the original elements of the Network Theory were given to the world in 1385 through the Wycliffe Bible. I applied the participant-observation inquiry, as Poster Presenter, during the 2019 Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Annual Conference in Las Vegas using the Network Theory.

Voice and Disjuncture in Celebrity Impersonation

Multivocality ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 71-90
Author(s):  
Katherine Meizel
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
Distinctive Character ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Corporate Capitalism ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Las Vegas is a reflection of neoliberal globalization—not only in its collection and display of global imagery but also in its shift from mob-dependent finances to late 20th-century corporate capitalism (Ventura 2012: 46). The topography of the world captured in a souvenir snow globe, the city offers visitors a set of intertwined performative layers, a collection of façades and masquerades that shape the city’s distinctive character. Theatrical transvestism in Vegas has performed and celebrated many permutations of difference (a Black Elvis, a male Barbra Streisand), at once underlining and undermining the fluidity of identity. Chapter 3 details the ways in which such disjunctures between bodies and voices—gendered, disabled, racialized—are manipulated by Vegas celebrity impersonators, and how they paradoxically contribute to the construction of these performers’ own identities.

scholarly journals Engineering for the Spectacle

2005 ◽  
Vol 127 (01) ◽  
pp. 42-44
Author(s):  
Robert Boehm ◽  
Brackley Frayer ◽  
Joe Aldridge
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Computer Graphics ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Structural Function ◽  
Engineering Collaboration ◽  
Finite Element Calculations ◽  
The World

This article reviews a design revolution that is taking place in entertainment, and technology is playing a major role. Just as computer graphics have enhanced movies and video games, live entertainment, too, is showcasing spectacles requiring evermore sophisticated technical effects. Nowhere has this trend been more evident than in Las Vegas, the live-entertainment capital of the world. In its work, Sceneing Solutions involved engineering collaboration with theater people to perform a number of analyses. Included were finite element calculations of the structural function, and input on the manufacturability of the various scenery elements. All of the aspects were developed with the assistance of CAD drawings. The last two decades have seen a rapid increase in the technical sophistication of live entertainment. Nowhere is there more spectacle than in Las Vegas, as each new hotel casino tries to offer more excitement to draw customers. To service this growing demand, there is a new technical business for theatrical engineers, who can both design and realize the high technology of stagecraft.

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