Monthly Archives: May 2011

Attractions in Vegas

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Less than fifty years ago a trip to Vegas meant visiting
caesars casino hotel las vegas , gambling the night away and maybe catching a performance featuring scantily clad showgirls or Hollywood crooners. Some visitors managed to wake up in the daylight and head to Hoover Dam or a state park, but for the most part it was about booze, gambling, and floor shows.

While gambling is still at the heart of the Vegas experience, everything else has evolved. The city has so many attractions that it can compete with places like New York and Los Angeles in the variety of experiences it can offer to tourists. Even families can find things to do in the city, from the children’s museum to the planetarium to Adventureland, the world’s largest indoor theme park.

Many people don’t even need to leave their hotel to enjoy a trip to Vegas. Each resort has numerous restaurants, shops, and entertainment stages. They offer spas, swimming pools, indoor rock walls, bowling alleys, and anything else that can be thought off. Though each resort has different attractions, they are not limited to the guests staying there. So tourists can stay in a reproduction of an Egyptian pyramid and still visit Venice, New York, and Paris. They can see an aquarium, ride amusement park rides, and attend rock concerts or Broadway musicals, all on one street in one city: Las Vegas.

Finding the Right Map for the Job

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Anyone who has ever spent time in a map store or archive will quickly realize that there is so much more to the art of cartography than they ever imagined. The commonality of the standard wall map and atlas are augmented by the existence of maps of all shapes, sizes, and purposes.

Unless you have hours to spend browsing through map inventories, it is best to identify the type of map you need before you ever set foot in a map store or visit one online. Each function has its own map and by narrowing down the function, you can begin to weed out the maps that won’t suit your stated purpose.

Government officials and agencies rely heavily on political maps that show legal borders between countries, states, counties, and other government entities.

Maps that highlight geographical features are used by everyone from hikers and hunters to forest rangers, developers, and scientists conducting research and studies on a given area. Topographical maps fall into this category along with geological maps, wildlife tracking maps, and anything charting the natural world.

Geography students are likely to need world and country maps that combine both political and geographical features.

Urban planners, administrators, businesses, and even residents will find many uses for city maps as they will include valuable local data.

Demographic maps can be used by any number of different social scientists as well as governments, news media, developers, and anyone else wanting to understand the relationships between people and place.

Transportation maps, including road maps, bus routes, highway systems and even nautical maps are all about navigating through space. At some time or other everyone uses these, even if it’s just through the GPS system in their car or cell phone.

Get the Right Covers for the Menus

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When you’re opening a restaurant for the first time you may feel overwhelmed by the number of minute decisions that you have to make. You may decide at one point, that it is too much and delegate some of the choices to other people. While this is certainly a logical way to deal with the staggering number of choices that need to be made, you need to be careful that everyone making decisions understands the overriding idea of the restaurant. Otherwise you will end up with an incoherent or even jarring clash of themes, colors, and design elements.

Take for example the question of menu covers . Ordering these can seem like a waste of time, but they serve two key roles in your restaurant. First, they actually protect the menus from the dozens of hands that will touch them every day, to say nothing of the food and drink that they will encounter. Second, they can enhance a menu or, if poorly chosen, detract from the overall ambiance of the restaurant.

Imagine walking into a romantic bistro with soft music, cozy lighting and beautifully designed menus using aesthetically pleasing fonts and colors. Now imagine that that menu is encased in a clear plastic cover that is scarred with scratches and tears. That cover is something you would expect to find in a family restaurant or 24 hour pancake house, not a romantic restaurant . Likewise, the elaborate leather covers that belong in a gourmet restaurant would be useless in protecting the menus in a family-friendly establishment where kids hands are covered in ketchup, soda, and ice cream.

Make the menu covers — and every other little detail in the establishment — match your restaurant and avoid this type of disconnect.