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Raul Martinez’s restaurant career started with a catering business, delivering food with his truck.

Martinez still has a catering company but he also owns Los 4 Vientos restaurant in Reno and recently sold his Los 4 Vientos 2 restaurant in Carson City.

But his career might have crashed if he did not participate in the NxLeveL Entrepreneurial Training Program of the Nevada Small Business Development Center at the University of Nevada, Reno College of Business Administration.

“I was working hard but I wasn’t managing the business very well,” Martinez said. “I didn’t know the cost of the food or cost of labor. My administration was not very good, and I didn’t know where I was focusing.

“These classes helped me organize my businesses,” Martinez said. “It showed me how to manage the business in the right way so I was able to go ahead and open another one.” Read full story:

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February 8-9, 2008
Spring Valley High School
3750 S. Buffalo Drive
Las Vegas, NV

More than 70 presentations, covering a multitude of K-12 science subjects, will be held in the school’s cafeteria with vendors showing off their best products. Registration fees includes a light dinner Friday night, and breakfast and lunch on Saturday.

For additional conference information or to download a registration form, please visit:
http://www.snvmath.org/conference/

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February 13th 2008
Reno Convention Center

Expo Hall opens at 11:00am
General Sessions start at 12:30pm
You CAN DO it with the right IT!

The Reno Tech Expo is Northern Nevada’s only business and information technology trade show and technical event. Now in its 7th year, it is rapidly becoming recognized as a “must attend” event for anyone involved in managing and deploying technology in business, government and educational environments.

Industry experts from companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, HP, Sonicwall, Citrix and many others will be there showcasing the latest information technology in a unique format consisting of an exhibit area and over 20 technical breakout sessions. This year’s event promises to be bigger and better than ever with some exciting format changes and more opportunities for exhibitors and attendees to interact, share and learn.

This will mark the first year that the show will be an all day event with morning sessions running by invitation only. These sessions start at 9:00am and have an 8:30am check-in.   To find out how you can get your invitation, please click here.  The afternoon sessions and the expo hall will be open to all registrants.  This event is free for all attendees, so please bring a guest!

The theme for this year’s event will be “The Past, Present and Future of Information Technology”.  Come see how information technology has changed the way organizations function, work and communicate from the past to the present and how IT will affect you in the future.  Don’t miss this opportunity to meet the industry experts and learn how technology can positively impact your success!

Anything is possible… you can do it with the right IT.

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Joe McConnell, a research professor at the Desert Research Institute, has been awarded the inaugural Nazir and Mary Ansari Medal for Excellence in Science.

“The Ansari Medal reflects Dr. McConnell’s superb scholarship, which has received international recognition,” DRI President Stephen Wells said.

McConnell, of the Division of Hydrologic Sciences, was named Regents’ Researcher of the Year in 2006 and is being awarded the Ansari Medal for his development in the last three years of one of the world’s premier ice-core analytical programs. Read more:

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Nevada Development Authority’s January breakfast meeting featured Michael W. Yackira, President and CEO of Sierra Pacific Resources. Yackira addressed NDA members, guests and media with a keynote speech entitled “Nevada’s Energy Future.”  He discussed strategies to meet the state’s future energy needs such as increasing energy efficiency and conservation programs, expanding renewable energy initiatives and investments and building new generating plants.

Yackira spoke specifically of Nevada’s need to have a “balanced portfolio of power supply,” including renewable energy sources such as geothermal and solar as well as more traditional natural gas and coal fired plants. Yackira also related that Nevada’s current power is derived primarily from natural gas (70%) and by diversifying our energy sources we not only reduce our dependence on energy markets but also are able to provide “reliable energy at a reasonable and predictable cost.”

By 2015, Nevada Power (a part of Sierra Pacific Resources along with Sierra Pacific Power) will be providing 20% of its power from renewable resources investing some $2 billion to meet the Nevada Renewable Portfolio Standard recently passed by the legislature. Nevada has always been a leader in renewable energy and the renewable resources available in the state are significant. The United States Department of Energy for example, estimates Nevada’s geothermal output potential at 2600–3700 megawatts. Nevada is also already the nation’s leader in solar watts per capita and solar as a percentage of retail sales.

Overall, Sierra Pacific Resources is on course to meet the considerable energy demands that a growing Nevada needs in the future, a demand estimated to increase by 200+ megawatts annually. Through conservation and efficiency efforts alone, 192 kilowatt hours were saved statewide in 2007. Combined with the use expansion of Nevada’s renewable energy resources and an increase in power from new gas and coal fired plants, which also have increased efficiency and decreased negative impacts on the environment, the state is poised to meet its rising power demands and continue its national leadership in renewable energy.

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