Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Arts and Culture Events of Aspen Colorado

Aspen Colorado Summer Arts and Culture events

The resort town of Aspen, Colorado is best known for its winter activities and for the huge rush of tourists heading for the town during the months when snow falls and the skiing and snowboarding slopes are at their best. However, Aspen Colorado is also a great place to go during the warmer months, and many people who decide that they are going to take a trip to Aspen Colorado just for the summer end up staying there as permanent residents.

Clearly, there must be something more than skiing and snowboarding going on in this town to make it such a magnetic destination. Here are some of the great summer arts and culture events that you can enjoy on a trip to Aspen Colorado when the sun is shining brightly and the entire world is green.

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The Aspen Music Festival is one of the best summer events if you are interested in classical music – every year classical artists are invited to the festival, which runs from the end of June to the middle of August. The length of the Aspen Music Festival gives you plenty of time to check out some of the best classical performances that you are likely to hear in your life, and the backdrop of the mountains of Aspen Colorado give you the perfect place to go for nature hiking, animal watching and all kinds of summer sports before settling down to an afternoon of some of the best music ever composed.

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The Aspen Dance Festival also takes place during the summer and is performed by the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. If you are interested in dance this is a great way to spend time during the summer gaining a greater appreciation of the arts. Aspen Colorado also offers a host of museums such as the Aspen Art Museum which has an excellent selection of contemporary art for you to spend time studying. If you are scientifically minded, you may also enjoy the lectures which you can hear at the Aspen Center for Physics.

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All of these events give you a great way to relax and enjoy your stay in Aspen Colorado with diversions which will stimulate your mind once you get back from a day of outdoors activities that stimulate your body. Aspen, Colorado offers you a great well-rounded vacation experience during the summer with excellent arts and culture events that everyone can enjoy!

Monday, February 18, 2008

Travel-Top Five Las Vegas Hotels

The lover of elegant, opulent resorts might believe that they are a kid in a candy store when they first set eyes on the Strip or Downtown Las Vegas. This is a city where multi-billion dollar resorts are built as wild dreams immortalized in concrete, glass, steel and palpable luxury.

A great Las Vegas hotel is far from being the ultimate in hospitality and amenities. It is a theme embodied in every facet of the property, whether the inspiration is an Arthurian legend, the grandeur of the Pharaohs, the 1,001 Nights, or the majestic wonders of New York, Venice, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Bellagio, Monte Carlo, the Barbary Coast, the Gold Coast or the Saharan desert.

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Twenty of the country's thirty largest hotels are here, including all of the top thirteen. Choosing the best among this rarefied group is a difficult task as it presents a choice between the perfect and the ultimate.

Certainly among the top five would have to be the latest masterpiece from the man who built the Mirage, Treasure Island and Bellagio. Built on the old Desert Inn site, Wynn's is definitely angling to be be the ultimate among ultimates, with its indulgent catering to the wealthy and super-wealthy. The greens fee on the Wynn golf course is $500, so you can just imagine the level of the rest of the amenities.

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The Bellagio earns its place among the greats due to its exquisite fountains, unparalleled aesthetic beauty, the memorable Conservatory, the superlative art, the sublime Via Bellaggio shops, its world-class La Cirque and Picasso restaurants and the 65,000-square-foot Spa Bellagio, considerably bigger than some Strip hotels' whole casino floor.

The classical favorite has to be Caesar's Palace, perhaps Vegas' most iconic hotel. With 129,000 square feet of casino and the sumptuous Forum Shops, Caesar's is a must-stop on any Vegas tour.

In a city where bigger is always better, you cannot possibly pass on the MGM Grand, the largest hotel in the country with 5,034 rooms and a 175,000 square foot casino floor, about as large as a small airport. Everything about the MGM is supersized, from its 27,000 square foot Grand Pool Complex, the gigantic Spa at MGM Grand, and your choice of three of the top 10 world great chef's restaurants: Joel Robuchon, Wolfgang Puck or Emeril Legasse.

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Rounding off the top five, the Venetian is what you come to Las Vegas for: A convincing illusion which transports you to another continent to ride a gondola under the Rialto bridge, any resort which includes the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum and Streetmosphere has to be in the top five!

Friday, February 8, 2008

Picking a Keynote Speaker for your Event

The primary factor in deciding what kind of event or keynote speaker to hire for your next meeting or conference is twofold: the subject matter and the audience. There really aren't any leaders per se, it depends on the kind of group or conference you plan to have them address. For example, if you have a business audience you obviously want a well known and successful business man or woman. Donald Trump frequently serves as the keynote speaker to this type of audience. If the meeting is a woman's group, you most likely want a well-known woman executive. If they also have celebrity status, so much the better.

Speakers are available for every conceivable purpose and industry and you can easily find them or the bureaus that handle their bookings online on the internet. There are business speakers, motivational speakers, healthcare speakers, training and consulting specialists, celebrities, best selling authors, sports stars, personal growth experts, global affairs experts and entertainers, to mention just a few categories. The list is almost endless.

In the technology field, there are many well-known leaders from companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Boeing, Motorola…and more. They appear regularly as keynote speakers at trade shows and other meetings. So don't even consider trying to find out which speakers are rated as best. There's simply no pat answer. It depends on your topic, your audience and how much you're willing to pay.

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What is suggested is that you take a reasonable amount of time to peruse the many pages of internet listings. Many of their bureaus and representatives list their key speakers and briefly describe their backgrounds. Others ask you to answer some basic questions about what you're planning and, based upon your answers, offer up their candidates for you to choose from. It's pretty certain that you will find a selection of suitable candidates and be able to hire one or more that will fit the bill.

We all love celebrities and would feel safe choosing a well-known person or star as our keynote speaker. So take your time and look, look, look. It's pretty likely that you will even find one or more in your industry or business whom you've heard of.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Network Backup Software

Data loss and corruption of important system files is more than frustrating for any computer system or network. Losing entire hard drives or servers however is the ultimate data disaster nightmare. It is estimated that fifty percent of businesses that suffer failures of this magnitude may never recover from the financial stress put on the business. The industry average cost per hour of downtime is $82,000. For operations like a brokerage or a bank data center that cost increases to $650,000 to over 2,500,000 per hour making network backup critical.

The software products in the network backup arena offer many products to help with data backup and protection. They make restoring your system to working condition easier than it has ever been. A company called NovaStor has an Integrated Disaster Recovery option it is possible to clone your hard drive. Hard drive cloning is creating a backup of every file on a computer, network, or server. With this backup software it is possible to restore your system in a matter of minutes instead of hours, days, or even longer.

The Integrated Disaster Recovery option is included in two of NovaStor's software backup solutions, NovaBACKUP and NovaNET. Both backup solutions allow a user to perform data backup and hard drive cloning. Hard drives can be cloned to DVD, CD-R/RW, network attached storage, modern dual-layer DVD media or lomega Rev drives.

The Integrated Disaster Recovery system allows restoration of entire systems without having to reinstall the original software or the operating system. To achieve this, the system is booted up with a recovery disk, and then the system backup is recovered. For networks on Hewlett-Packard drives NovaNET is equipped to make the entire process even easier. With HP One Button Disaster Recovery from NovaStor, systems can be completely restored with the simple press of just one button.

These backup software products can be utilized for much more than their hard disk cloning abilities. Both software packages allow a user to schedule backups in advance and run automatic virus scans before the backup. But even more valuable than that is the knowledge that your data is preserved with the highest integrity and a reasonable price, check with a computer services directory for more options.