Celebrating Today -- We can't think of a better way to celebrate the New Year than with this fantastic article about the winners of the 'What I Am Most Grateful To My Pet(s) For...' essay contest, which was created by the 'One Stop For Las Vegas Homes' dream team and co-sponsored by a number of wonderful companies.  The article, written by Ed Koch, is featured in today's edition of the Las Vegas Sun.:  http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-other/2005/dec/31/519894988.html

And, if you would like to read the winning essays, please click here:  http://www.onestoplasvegashomes.com/gotpets.html


"Making life less difficult for others is to be encouraged.  Creating happiness for others is to be rewarded."
-- Sophie Bedford-Pierce

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"The doors we open and close each day, decide the lives we live."  -- Flora Whittemore

The Beginning of the End -- According to Jennifer Shubinski, staff writer for In Business Las Vegas, it's the beginning of the end for Las Vegas 'high-rise pretenders.'  She writes, "Liberty Tower and Ivana Las Vegas will not be built...and while these towers aren't the first condominium plans to be sold or put up for sale, experts say others will surely drop off."  According to John Restrepo, principal of Restrepo Consulting Group, "It's the combination of rising construction costs, rising land prices and the fact that the mid- and high-rise condo market (in Las Vegas) is still in its infancy."  Again according to Shubinski, " many condo projects are striking gold.  Experts said the towers destined to succeed are those being built by companies with solid track records, backed by investors who made shrewd evaluations of the Las Vegas market before plunging ahead.  Some are already completed and some are well under way:  Metropolis, east of the Strip at Desert Inn and Paradise roads, SoHo Lofts, south of downtown at 900 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Sky Las Vegas, just north of the nw corner of Sahara Avenue and Las Vegas Blvd., Panorama Towers, just west of I-15 on Dean Martin Dr., and Turnberry projects including Turnberry Place, east of the Strip on Paradise, across the street from the Las Vegas Hilton, and the Residences at MGM Grand."

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"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity." -- Johann K. Lavater

Smiles and Grins -- Helpful hints for Living in Las Vegas:

1. First, it's pronounced LOSS-VAYGUS. It doesn't matter how they say it in other places.

2. Forget the traffic rules you learned elsewhere. Las Vegas has it's own set of traffic rules. There's no book about them. All you can do is get in your car and hope you survive to learn them.  Hint: 10 mph over posted is a good rule of thumb, but see Rule 8.

3. All directions start with, "Go down 95...'cause you don't want to get on I-15."

4. Las Vegas Blvd, Charleston Blvd and Torrey Pines have no beginning and no end.

5. It's impossible to go around a block and wind up on the same street that you started on. The Chamber of Commerce calls this a "scenic drive".

6. The 8:00 am rush hour is from 4:30am to 11:30am. The 5:00pm rush hour is from 11:30am to 10:15 pm. Friday's rush hour starts on Thursday morning and ends sometime late Sunday night.

7. If you actually stop at a yellow light, then you cannot possibly be from Las Vegas. You may only apply your brakes when the end of a yellow light and the beginning of the red light create a "pumpkin-orange" hue.

8. For the most part, you can do anything you want, as long as it isn't in a school zone.

9. Just remember that Camino Al Norte is Martin Luther King Blvd., Boulder Highway is Fremont Street, Eastern Ave is 25th Street or Civic Center Drive, Desert Inn is Lamb Blvd. Spring Mountain/Sands/Twain are all the same street, as is Fort Apache/Rampart/Durango. Don't try to figure it out. Just accept it. If you question the intelligence behind this naming convention, people will simply tilt their heads to the right and stare at you.

10. Henderson is the only place in the world where THREE "parallel" streets intersect at one traffic light. That would be the 4-way of Green Valley Parkway/Eastern Avenue/Maryland Parkway. For laughs ask your middle school Geometry teacher to try to explain it.

--Author Unknown

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself." -- Amelia Earhart

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