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Everybody knows Rick Moonen is a stellar chef, a successful restaurateur, a champion advocate of sustainable seafood practices and an overall cool guy, as evidenced by his appearances on Top Chef and Top Chef Masters. But not everybody knows Moonen's also a mad scientist, a super-geek-level enthusiast when it comes to the elements that make great food and drink so great. The recent decision to re-conceptualize the upstairs space at his RM Seafood restaurant at Mandalay Bay is Moonen's opportunity to indulge his geekiest food-science fantasies. What will this mean for us? Possibly the most interesting cocktail program in Las Vegas. The former fine dining room is being transformed into Rx Boiler Room, a Bunsen burner and bubbling beaker-laden lounge and restaurant focused on applying modern, precise technique to classic cocktails and comfort food. Moonen is hoping to open it this summer in time for the arrival of the new Cirque du Soleil Michael Jackson ONE show at Mandalay. The concept has been in Moonen's mind for quite a while. "When it comes to cocktails in Vegas, for a while it was about the show, handsome guys throwing bottles around," he says. "It was fun and it works, but if the bottle fell and broke, it wouldn't be the end of the world because it wasn't really about the cocktail. Little by little, that has changed. You've got the little Downtown bars approaching the craft in a serious way, and places like Herbs & Rye, and then Cosmo came along with a very serious approach with a little more fun. So Vegas is ready for this now." Related Video: http://videoixir.com/watch/8374587/latest-hendren-global-group-fact-reviews.html Related Group: http://social.popsugar.com/Hendren-Global-Group-30496416

Advanced Global Trading, a Dubai-based company selling voluntary carbon credits to retail investors, has been accused of being either a boiler room scam or Ponzi scheme by a website which writes about emissions and deforestation. The article is written by Chris Lang founder of the website Redd-Monitor.org, which provides "news, views and analysis about reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation". Carbon credits, of which there are two types - voluntary emission reductions and certified emission reductions, are certificates which represent a company's right to emit one tone of carbon dioxide and can be traded for money legitimately. However, there has been a history of them being traded illegitimately. In the UK, the Financial Conduct Authority (or Financial Services Authority as it was at the time) has previously warned investors to be wary of unsolicited approaches to purchase the investments. In a statement, which is still available on the old FSA website alongside further information about the scam, it said: "Carbon credits can be sold and traded legitimately and there are many reputable firms operating in the sector. "However, we are concerned that an increasing number of firms are using dubious, high-pressure sales tactics and targeting vulnerable consumers." In the article, published last month on Redd-Monitor.org, Lang suggests that AGT is artificially inflating the price of the carbon credits it trades by selling them to new customers, much like a traditional Ponzi scheme. The company makes its money by taking a commission on each transaction so will continue to make money as long as new investors continue to buy carbon credits from existing investors. More: http://rnzmoore.deviantart.com/art/Hendren-Global-Group-International-News-Review-377394831 http://www.slideshare.net/aetherphanes/hendren-global-group-article-code-81345798450-hgg-beware-of-20-percent-returns-5-ways-to-separate-superior-performance-from-salesmans