Las Vegas Nevada Temple
The Las Vegas Nevada Temple is the 43rd operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Located in the Sunrise Manor CDP near Las Vegas, Nevada, a groundbreaking ceremony and site dedication for the temple were held in November 1985. Hinckley, a counselor in the churchs First Presidency, construction began soon after the ceremony. After construction was completed, the temple was open to the public for tours between November 16 and December 9,1989, almost 300,000 toured the temple and its grounds during these three weeks. The temple has six spires, the highest of which is 119 feet, at the top of this tower stands a ten-foot statue of the angel Moroni. The exterior is a finish of pre-cast stone walls with a copper roof. The temple has 192 rooms, which includes four rooms, a Celestial room, six sealing rooms, a baptismal font. Hinckley dedicated the Las Vegas Nevada Temple in sessions held December 16–18,1989, eleven sessions were held and more than 30,000 Latter-day Saints attended the dedicatory services
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America. Nevada is the 7th most extensive, the 34th most populous, nearly three-quarters of Nevadas people live in Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas–Paradise metropolitan area where three of the states four largest incorporated cities are located. Nevada is officially known as the Silver State because of the importance of silver to its history and economy. It is known as the Battle Born State, because it achieved statehood during the Civil War, as the Sage-brush State, for the plant of the same name. Nevada borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, Nevada is largely desert and semi-arid, much of it located within the Great Basin. Areas south of the Great Basin are located within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe, about 86% of the states land is managed by various jurisdictions of the U. S. federal government, both civilian and military.
Before European contact, Native Americans of the Paiute, the first Europeans to explore the region were Spanish. They called the region Nevada because of the snow covered the mountains in winter. The area formed part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the United States annexed the area in 1848 after its victory in the Mexican–American War, and it was incorporated as part of Utah Territory in 1850. The discovery of silver at the Comstock Lode in 1859 led to a boom that became an impetus to the creation of Nevada Territory out of western Utah Territory in 1861. Nevada became the 36th state on October 31,1864, as the second of two added to the Union during the Civil War. Nevada has a reputation for its libertarian laws, in 1940, with a population of just over 110,000 people, Nevada was by far the least-populated state, with less than half the population of the next least-populated state. However, legalized gambling and lenient marriage and divorce laws transformed Nevada into a major tourist destination in the 20th century, Nevada is the only U. S.
state where prostitution is legal, though it is illegal in Clark County, Washoe County and Carson City. The tourism industry remains Nevadas largest employer, with mining continuing as a sector of the economy. The name Nevada comes from the Spanish nevada, meaning snow-covered, most Nevadans pronounce the second syllable of their state name using the vowel of trap. Many from outside the Western United States pronounce it with the vowel of father, although the latter pronunciation is closer to the Spanish pronunciation, it is not the pronunciation preferred by most Nevadans. State Assemblyman Harry Mortenson proposed a bill to recognize the alternate pronunciation of Nevada, though the bill was not supported by most legislators, the Nevadan pronunciation is the de facto official one, since it is the one used by the state legislature. Nevada is almost entirely within the Basin and Range Province, and is broken up by many mountain ranges
Eldorado High School (Las Vegas)
Eldorado High School is a public high school in Clark County, United States. The school is a part of the Clark County School District, located in Sunrise Manor and its team mascot is the Sundevils and its school colors are Maroon and Gold. Eldorado High School was established in 1973 on an open desert lot just west of the Las Vegas Wash between Washington and Bonanza Roads, in the 1980s, Eldorado received former students from Robison and Von Tobel Middle Schools as well as a handful from Roy Martin Middle School. Today, its zoning border covers areas east of Nellis Boulevard, north of Bonanza Road, three other Las Vegas-area schools were built this way, Basic High School, Bonanza High School and the Southeast Career Technical Academy, all built in the early to mid-1970s along with Eldorado. Both Basic and Bonanza were built according to the blueprints as Eldorado. In 2007, the facilities of Bishop Gorman were purchased by CCSD to house the rising number of freshmen. Eldorado Preparatory Academy, the name of the ninth grade campus.
The schools principal is David Wilson, the principal in school history. Niles Bayles was Eldorados first principal and its longest serving principal, Bayles left to take over Valley High School in November 1982 and was replaced by Richard Paulin, who remained until 1990. Gail Dixon, Thomas Barberini, Richard Carranza, Ron Lustig, Danielle Miller, the campus is home of the Sundevil Theater. One of the most successful program at Eldorado has been the wrestling program which has won a total of 12 state championships. The Sundevils were ranked 12th as the High School Scholastic Dynasty Teams of the Last Decade, the school holds at least one state championship in each of the following major sports, American football, boys basketball, baseball Soccer. Eldorado holds Nevada state championships in track and field
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population, the term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses, other common censuses include agriculture and traffic censuses. United Nations recommendations cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, the word is of Latin origin, during the Roman Republic, the census was a list that kept track of all adult males fit for military service. Current administrative data systems allow for other approaches to enumeration with the level of detail but raise concerns about privacy. A census can be contrasted with sampling in which information is obtained only from a subset of a population, typically main population estimates are updated by such intercensal estimates. Modern census data are used for research, business marketing, and planning. Census counts are necessary to adjust samples to be representative of a population by weighting them as is common in opinion polling, stratification requires knowledge of the relative sizes of different population strata which can be derived from census enumerations.
In some countries, the census provides the official used to apportion the number of elected representatives to regions. In many cases, a carefully chosen random sample can provide accurate information than attempts to get a population census. A census is often construed as the opposite of a sample as its intent is to count everyone in a rather than a fraction. However, population censuses rely on a frame to count the population. This is the way to be sure that everyone has been included as otherwise those not responding would not be followed up on. The fundamental premise of a census is that the population is not known, the use of a sampling frame is counterintuitive as it suggests that the population size is already known. However, a census is used to collect data on the individuals in the nation. This process of sampling marks the difference between historical census, which was a house to house process or the product of a decree. The sampling frame used by census is almost always an address register, thus it is not known if there is anyone resident or how many people there are in each household.
Depending on the mode of enumeration, a form is sent to the householder, as a preliminary to the dispatch of forms, census workers will check any address problems on the ground. While it may seem straightforward to use the postal service file for this purpose, a particular problem is what are termed communal establishments which category includes student residences, religious orders, homes for the elderly, people in prisons etc
Marriage
The definition of marriage varies according to different cultures, but it is principally an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually sexual, are acknowledged. In some cultures, marriage is recommended or considered to be compulsory before pursuing any sexual activity, when defined broadly, marriage is considered a cultural universal. Individuals may marry for several reasons, including legal, libidinal, financial, whom they marry may be influenced by socially determined rules of incest, prescriptive marriage rules, parental choice and individual desire. In some areas of the world, arranged marriage, child marriage, conversely, such practices may be outlawed and penalized in parts of the world out of concerns for womens rights and because of international law. These trends coincide with the human rights movement. Marriage can be recognized by a state, an organization, an authority, a tribal group. It is often viewed as a contract, Marriages can be performed in a secular civil ceremony or in a religious setting via a wedding ceremony.
The act of marriage usually creates normative or legal obligations between the individuals involved, and any offspring they may produce, some cultures allow the dissolution of marriage through divorce or annulment. In some areas, child marriages and polygamy may occur in spite of laws against the practice. For example, the number of marriages in Europe decreased by 30% from 1975 to 2005 and these changes have occurred primarily in Western countries. The word marriage derives from Middle English mariage, which first appears in 1250–1300 CE and this in turn is derived from Old French and ultimately Latin, marītāre, meaning to provide with a husband or wife and marītāri meaning to get married. The adjective marīt-us -a, -um meaning matrimonial or nuptial could be used in the form as a noun for husband. Anthropologists have proposed several competing definitions of marriage in an attempt to encompass the wide variety of marital practices observed across cultures, even within Western culture, definitions of marriage have careened from one extreme to another and everywhere in between.
The anthropological handbook Notes and Queries defined marriage as a union between a man and a such that children born to the woman are the recognized legitimate offspring of both partners. In recognition of a practice by the Nuer people of Sudan allowing women to act as a husband in certain circumstances, Kathleen Gough suggested modifying this to a woman, none of these men had legal rights to the womans child. Economic anthropologist Duran Bell has criticized the definition on the basis that some societies do not require marriage for legitimacy. He argued that a definition of marriage is circular in societies where illegitimacy has no other legal or social implications for a child other than the mother being unmarried. In 1955 article in Man, Leach argued that no one definition of marriage applied to all cultures and he offered a list of ten rights associated with marriage, including sexual monopoly and rights with respect to children, with specific rights differing across cultures
Las Vegas High School
Las Vegas High School is a public high school in unincorporated Sunrise Manor, part of the Clark County School District. It is the oldest high school in Las Vegas and originally opened 112 years ago in 1905 on what was the outskirts of town, the schools first campus was made a permanent location in 1904 with a tent that opened in 1905. After 29 years the school made a new campus in 1930 that opened 1931 after 62 years the school moved to a new campus in 1993, along the foothills of Frenchman Mountain. In the early 40s, the High School was considered to be distant from the rest of the town and was a commute for some students. It was torn down in 1969, Las Vegas High School is now a landmark in Las Vegas for it represents the best of the Art-Deco Style Architecture of the 1930s, that still stands in the city. The schools outer appearance has been maintained but the interior has changed quite a bit since the original construction in the 1930s. Lieutenant William Harrell Nellis, for whom Nellis Air Force Base is named, graduated from Las Vegas High School, during the late 1980s, the school district decided to build a new larger campus on the east side of Clark County.
The original buildings that were Las Vegas High School are now the home to the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies and Visual Arts, Las Vegas High Schools athletics teams are known as the Wildcats and participate in the Northeast Division of the Sunrise 4A Region. The Wildcats athletics programs are some of the best in the state and have won numerous championships and this includes several in football, including the 1944 team which went all eight games without giving up a single point. Las Vegas has won 20 consecutive games against Rancho, dating back to 1996, United States federal judge, namesake of Lloyd D. com Las Vegas High School Class of 62 reunion page
Frenchman Mountain
Frenchman Mountain is located east of Las Vegas in the U. S. state of Nevada. The peak lies on a north to north-northeast trending ridge about 2000 feet above the nearby valleys, Sunrise Mountain lies 3.6 miles to the northeast adjacent to Nellis Air Force Base. The north end of the McCullough Range about 12 miles to the south has a parallel trend, the River Mountains lie to the southeast. State Route 147 crosses its northern slope, a geologically rich area called Rainbow Gardens is located to its southeast, as is an igneous laccolith, Lava Butte. The Frenchman Mountain Fault poses a significant earthquake danger to the Clark County and it is commonly, and mistakenly, referred to as Sunrise Mountain, the name of a smaller peak to the north of Frenchman Mountain. The area from Cheyenne Avenue and Boulder Highway and Lamb Boulevard is commonly known as Sunrise Manor Township CDP, rowland, S. Frenchman Mountain Great Unconformity site Department of Geoscience, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Population density
Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume, it is a quantity of type number density. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and most of the time to humans and it is a key geographical term. Population density is population divided by land area or water volume. Low densities may cause a vortex and lead to further reduced fertility. This is called the Allee effect after the scientist who identified it, commonly this may be calculated for a county, country, another territory, or the entire world. The worlds population is around 7,000,000,000, the worldwide human population density is around 7,000,000,000 ÷510,000,000 =13.7 per km2. If only the Earths land area of 150,000,000 km2 is taken into account and this includes all continental and island land area, including Antarctica. If Antarctica is excluded, population density rises to over 50 people per km2, this number by itself does not give any helpful measurement of human population density. Several of the most densely populated territories in the world are city-states, cities with high population densities are, by some, considered to be overpopulated, though this will depend on factors like quality of housing and infrastructure and access to resources.
Most of the most densely populated cities are in Southeast Asia, though Cairo, for instance, Milwaukee has a greater population density when just the inner city is measured, and the surrounding suburbs excluded. Arithmetic density, The total number of people / area of land, physiological density, The total population / area of arable land. Agricultural density, The total rural population / area of arable land, residential density, The number of people living in an urban area / area of residential land. Urban density, The number of people inhabiting an urban area / total area of urban land, ecological optimum, The density of population that can be supported by the natural resources. S. States by population density Selected Current and Historic City, Ward & Neighborhood Density
Clark County, Nevada
Clark County is a county located in the U. S. state of Nevada. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,951,269 and it is by far the most populous county in Nevada, accounting more than two-thirds of its residents. Las Vegas, Nevadas most populous city, has been the county seat since the county was established, the county was formed by the Nevada Legislature by splitting off a portion of Lincoln County on February 5,1909, and came into existence on July 1,1909. The Las Vegas Valley, a 600 sq mi basin, includes Las Vegas as well as the primary population center. Much of the county was part of Pah-Ute County, Arizona Territory before Nevada became a state. The county was named for William Andrews Clark, a Montana copper magnate, Clark was largely responsible for the construction of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad through the area, a factor heavily contributing to the regions early development. Clark County is today known as a major tourist destination, with 150,000 hotel rooms. The Las Vegas Strip, home to most of the known to many around the world, is located not within the City of Las Vegas city limits.
It is, located in the Las Vegas Valley, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 8,061 square miles, of which 7,891 square miles is land and 169 square miles is water. The Colorado River forms the southeastern boundary, with Hoover Dam forming Lake Mead along much of its length. The lowest point in the state of Nevada is located on the Colorado River just south of Laughlin in Clark County, where it flows out of Nevada into California and Arizona. By definition, Greater Las Vegas is a valley, surrounded by four mountain ranges, with nearby Mount Charleston being the highest elevation at 11,918 ft. Other than the forests on Mount Charleston, the geography in Clark County is a desert, creosote bushes are the main native vegetation, and the mountains are mostly rocky with little vegetation. Many of these are located in, or partially located in,24. 50% of all households were made up of individuals and 6. 70% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.65 and the family size was 3.17.
In the county, the population was out with 25. 60% under the age of 18,9. 20% from 18 to 24,32. 20% from 25 to 44,22. 30% from 45 to 64. The median age was 34 years, for every 100 females there were 103.50 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.80 males, the median income for a household in the county was $53,536, and the median income for a family was $59,485
North Las Vegas, Nevada
North Las Vegas is a city in Clark County, United States, located in the Las Vegas Valley. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 216,961, the city was incorporated on May 16,1946. It is located in the Las Vegas–Paradise, NV MSA and is the fourth largest city in the state of Nevada, located in the southwestern United States in the Mojave Desert, North Las Vegas sits north and east of Las Vegas. According to the United States Census Bureau, North Las Vegas has an area of 101.4 square miles, of which 0.04 square miles. In the Las Vegas Valley, several mountain ranges are nearby, due to its location within the Mojave Desert, North Las Vegas has a desert climate. Temperatures are generally mild in the winter and hot in the summer, like most of the hot deserts of the United States, snowfall only occurs once every few years on average. In winter, temperatures fall below freezing. In the summer, monsoons can reach the area, bringing heavy rain, at the census of 2010, there were 216,961 people residing in North Las Vegas.
The racial makeup was 47. 4% White,19. 9% African American,0. 8% Native American,6. 3% Asian,0. 8% Pacific Islander, and 5. 8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 38. 8% of the population and 31. 2% of the population was non-Hispanic White, as of the 2000 census, there were 115,488 people,34,018 households, and 27,112 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,471.0 people per square mile, there were 36,600 housing units at an average density of 466.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 55. 93% White,19. 02% African American,0. 82% Native American,3. 24% Asian,0. 53% Pacific Islander,15. 78% from other races, and 4. 68% from two or more races. 37. 61% were Hispanic or Latino of any race,13. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 3. 2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.36 and the family size was 3.67. In the city the population was out with 33. 9% under the age of 18,9. 6% from 18 to 24,34. 3% from 25 to 44,16. 4% from 45 to 64.
The median age was 29 years, for every 100 females there were 104.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.1 males, the median income for a household in the city was $46,057, and the median income for a family was $46,540. Males had an income of $32,205 versus $25,836 for females
