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[One] key program at Interop Las Vegas 2006 is CIO Bootcamp, an intensive two-day program to help aspiring CIOs, CTOs, and senior IT executives understand the issues involved in landing and excelling in the role of the CIO. Led by Chairperson Thornton May, Futurist and Dean, The IT Leadership Academy, along with the "CIO Posse," these highly respected experts will present real-world scenarios and share experiences with participants who will learn skills critical to their jobs. CIO Bootcamp at Interop Las Vegas 2006 is sponsored by ConSentry Networks and ProCurve by HP.
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Las Vegas [2] is the largest city in the state of Nevada. Commonly referred to as The Entertainment Capital Of The World, it is situated in the midst of the southern Nevada desert landscape. The city has giant mega-casino hotels, decorated with lavish care and attention to detail to create a fantasy-like atmosphere. The casinos have names that evoke romance and mystery - Luxor, Mandalay Bay, Rio, The Excalibur, the Flamingo. Others evoke popular worldwide destinations such as New York-New York, Paris, Monte Carlo, and the Venetian.
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Las Vegas has one of the highest suicide and divorce rates of the U.S.[14][15] The city's high divorce rate is partly due to the fact that divorce is easier in Nevada than most other states. Individuals come from outside Nevada to receive an easier divorce than elsewhere in the country. Nevada ... has liberal marriage laws, giving Las Vegas a higher marriage rate than many larger cities elsewhere.
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Las Vegas has a favorable business climate: taxes are relatively low, and there are neither city nor state income taxes. This is because gambling and sales taxes, paid by tourists, have allowed the city and state governments to avoid personal and corporate income taxes.
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Las Vegas started as a stopover on the pioneer trails to the west and became a popular railroad town in the early 1900s. It was a staging point for all the mines in the surrounding area, especially those around the town of Bullfrog, that shipped their goods out to the rest of the country. With the growth of the railroads, Las Vegas became less important, but the completion of the nearby Hoover Dam resulted in substantial growth in tourism, which, along with the legalization of gambling, led to the advent of the casino-hotels for which Las Vegas is famous.
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Charting a new course for responsible growth in Las Vegas, MGM MIRAGE is pursuing the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership In Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification at Project CityCenter. The 18-million-square foot, multi-use project will incorporate a variety of elements -- from the use of reclaimed water to on-site power generation -- to make it one of the world's largest environmentally sustainable urban communities.
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