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I visited Erewhon Natural Foods in Los Angeles on May 28, 2011 along my book tour for Ani's Raw Food Asia. Erewhon is my favorite Raw Food store. These beautiful photos are courtesy of the very talented Sherman Lee at http://www.digitalslimages.com.
Juan Hernandez, the store manager, makes sure to offer the largest range of Raw Food products and brand, and has created the nexus for Raw Foods here in LA. Juan was one of my earliest supporters of my SmartMonkey Foods packaged and prepared foods products.
Each year's visit celebrating my new book always draws a packed house. I love Erewhon!
I showed everyone how easy it is to make my Mushroom "Bul Go Gi", from Ani's Raw Food Asia, page 186, using mushrooms marinated in tamari or nama shoyu (raw soy sauce), toasted sesame oil, asian pear, and sweetener of choice like agave or brown rice syrup. We topped off these beautiful Lettuce Wraps, from page 188, with my version of a traditional Korean Gochujang Sauce, page 225, made with miso, sesame oil, chile powder, and sweetener like agave.
Following my food demo and Q+A…next, I get to sign books and meet people 1 on 1!
This tour, many people had me sign multiple copies of Ani's Raw Food Asia for friends and family. I do love when people bring their entire collection for me to sign too…..a blessing for me.
My friends Ron Gilmore and Caroline Jue create an awesome animated series called Rawman & Green-Girl. They are doing great work educating and sharing information about our food sources.
Elaine R. Johnson hand delivered this beautiful porcelain sculpture she made to me all the way from Arizona with her mom. Elaine is amazingly talented. I can't even begin to express my gratitude for such a beautiful gift.
This is the beautifully talented Elaine R. Johnson. She told me how challenging porcelain is to work with….cracking as it dries, or cracking out of the kiln during baking. A labour of love, it shows!
We launched FoodStuff LA with a big celebration at the Pedal Patch Community offices in downtown LA. Above is founder Jason Boarde and Rebecca McQuigg Rigal who works through GOOD with the Pepsi Refresh Project as the Arts & Culture Ambassador.
My RAWvolution event is on September 19th, where we'll be harvesting from the PPC local community and rooftop gardens, then preparing a delicious raw food meal. Hope you'll join me for this fun event.
Christian Page is a locavore, sourcing the finest organic ingredients from our local community. He made all the food happen for this event, including delicious black mission figs, which I ate by the pint! Christian's Living La Vida Local event is in October.
LA Green Girl Siel was at our event, and it was lovely to finally meet her in person…a fellow Korean American!
My NYC tour kicked off last Monday at Rockefeller Center on the set of LX New York at NBC studios. I chat about the benefits of a raw food diet with hosts Janice Huff and Jane Hanson. You can watch my segment here, though it's stretched out horizontally and the audio is out of synch. (As soon as I get my own copy of the segment, I'll repost)
Tuesday evening, I had a food demo, talk, and book signing at Bonobo's Restaurant. The room was packed with folks eager to learn more about raw food nutrition and recipes. I demonstrated how fast and easy it is to make my Simple Rosemary Oregano Noodle Salad with zucchini, tomato, avocado, and herbs.
Pictured above is Rose Voisk of the World Olympians Association. She was a gymnast in the 1948 London Olympics. She looks great, is vibrant, and strong. A testament for eating well.
Wednesday evening, I was hosted by the lovely Hyacinth Mills of New Life Journeys and her Montclair Raw Food Meetup Group. I demoed my Super Cacao-Coconut Energizer smoothie recipe from page 39 of Ani's Raw Food Essentials. Hyacinth's group is full of vibrant folks excited about raw foods. Her husband and 2 boys are handsome as can be, and Hyacinth has a natural glow of beauty. A great spokes model family.
I had randomly bumped into Hyacinth at Port Authority late on Monday night, 2 evenings before our event, as we were both catching our buses back to NJ that night. What's the chances of that? It's magic!
Thursday night I was at Organic Avenue for a workshop hosted by Mia Santos Andres. Above are my lovely assistants Sara, Sam, and Lee who helped to prep my recipes and samples, and then helped me set up before my workshop. They all had that glow of inner health and beauty. What angels!
In my workshop, I demoed my Tomato and Tarragon Bisque, page 137, Pad Thai Kelp Noodles, page 227, and Strawberry Kream Pie, page 266 from Ani's Raw Food Essentials. It was another packed house with great audience participation, questions, and book signing.
Thanks Mia for a great event, and for my goodie bag full of green juice in the cute Organic Avenue bottle, and BlackBird Truffles, handmade by raw model Anthony Andersen. Yum!
Mia is so pretty, I look shiny. Ha haaaa. I can't wait to get back to NYC before another 6 years passes….
I had the honor of meeting Dr T. Colin Campbell at the Farm Sanctuary Hoe Down last weekend in Watkins Glenn, New York, where we were both invited to speak about vegan lifestyle, health, and diet. He's pictured above with his wife Karen.
Dr Campbell is the author of the best selling book The China Study. Campbell says about his research in the Philippines "In this project, however, I uncovered a dark secret. Children who ate the highest protein diets were the ones most likely to get liver cancer…" A 20-year research project partnership between Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine found that "People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease … People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease. These results could not be ignored," said Dr. Campbell.
In the Farm Sanctuary 'People Barn', I spoke to a full house about the benefits of the raw food diet, why whole and unprocessed foods are important, showed everyone how fast and easy it is to make a healthy Strawberry Kream Pie using just a handful of ingredients, from page 267 of Ani's Raw Food Essentials, and then passed out pies to taste. Folks thought the pie was delicious. You can't really go wrong with dates, cashews, almonds, vanilla, and strawberries.
Next, Dr. T. Colin Campbell took the stage, and reinforced many of the same concepts I had presented. He explained why taking supplements doesn't work, and emphasized the importance of avoiding processed foods like all the junk vegan convenience foods on the market. He explained how protein turns-on cancer cells in the body.
In the USA, we promote high protein diets made up of about 80 percent protein. Most Americans eat around 50 percent protein. However, Dr. T. Colin Campbell advocates a diet of at most 20 percent plant-based protein for optimal health and longevity.
My mom and step dad came to the Farm for the weekend, and left inspired by all the great speakers and information, as did everyone! I can't wait to visit the Farm Sanctuary again very soon.
Last weekend, I was invited to speak and demo my raw foods at the Farm Sanctuary Hoe Down annual celebration in Watkins Glen, NY. It was a huge honor to be included in the speaker lineup with founder Gene Baur and T. Colin Campbell, author of the China Study. The Hoe Down was one of the best organized events I've attended.
Volunteers helped me prepare pies for over 120 people in about 30 minutes just before my presentation. We chose the manual 'food processor' style of hand mixing dates with almonds. Good forearm exercise.
Strawberry Kream Pie, from Ani's Raw Food Essentials. Made with dates, almonds, cashews, vanilla, and strawberries. Simple and delicious.
A photo of my raw food demo, taken by Morgan Jamie Dunbar.
It's so much fun to sign books after a raw food demo and talk. I love having this opportunity to connect with other like minded folks in the community.
Later, I got to visit the animals out on the other part of the 200 acre farm. This guy was 3,000 pounds big, what a cutie pie!
Amazing to stand in the pasture with a flock of sheep as the sun was setting. It was so peaceful. Actually, I rested really well on the farm every night.
That evening was the Barn Dance where we line-danced first, then it broke out into a full on night club with a packed dance floor until after 1am. Everyone had tons of energy and was jumping up and down, especially Gene Baur, who was wringing sweat out of his t-shirt! My hair was soaked in sweat too. I noticed no one stunk of body oder, and people's sweat didn't gross me out as it usually does. That's a huge plus for eating clean, vegan, and raw.
I realized this was my 20th year reunion from Cornell, and I hadn't been back to Ithaca since I graduated in 1990 (except returning briefly for my brother Max's graduation in 1993). So, it was a double treat to visit Ithaca and Farm Sanctuary. I'm looking forward to the next Hoe Down in California, and visiting New York's Farm Sanctuary again soon.
My introduction to Sarasota RAWked! Exploring my idea that creating something together with other people in our raw community, rather than going it alone, is more fun, plus makes a bigger splash. We produced and threw down a pumping RAWktail Party, it was the biggest and most successful raw event in Florida to date! Dress code was RAWkstar, of course. A wonderful event and a very warm welcome to Florida and Sarasota.
A RAWstar RAWktail Party isn't complete without headshots. Is that too cheezy?….
We brought together a fun crowd of local hipsters, movers, and shakers. Raw foods help us feel great, look our best, and fuel up for a long night of celebration. Raw food is also great for recovery, detox, and combating damage after a night of partying too hard and not sleeping enough.
The event was held at the Weller Historic Estate, and it was filled with rich period furniture and wonderful styling details. The host Jeff Weller is below in the white button down and jeans. I was to discover later that Jeff gives great massages!
The Weller Historic Estate was at full capacity with well over 120 attendees, and the energy was contagious.
I demoed 4 recipes, which follow below, while people stood around a 20 foot long table to watch and learn how to make fast, easy, delicious raw food treats. Below is Bryant Meyers, to the right, an ingredient sponsor who's home is packed full of cutting edge healing therapy machines like an infrared sauna and scalar wave technology. I was skeptical at first, but the scalar waves made me pass out and sleep restfully the following day. Now I'm a believer.
Above is the spread for our Taco Wraps, served in a cabbage leaf. With raw food, it's easy to have our 'kitchen' anywhere, even in the living room.
Lisa Tomasi, in pink, runs the Naples raw food meet up group. She saved the day and was the best assistant I've ever had! A testament for raw foods, Lisa drove over 2 hours to come to the event, worked all night, drove home, then came back the next day again. An enegizer bunny and beautiful woman.
The man in black above is Vincent Dessberg, who has a roof top garden on a warehouse in the industrial area of town, called "I Grow My Own Veggies". He sponsored cabbage, edible flowers, herbs, and strawberries. I harvested from Vincent's garden just a few hours before the party. It was amazing to see so much food growing on top of an industrial warehouse!
Now, for my recipes. Enjoy!
Ginger Lime Aid
Place all into blender, and blend. Serve immediately.
Raspberry Daiquiri
Place all into blender, blend and serve immediately.
Fresh Green Taco Wraps Filled with Taco Nut Meat, Avocado, Tomatoes, and Mole Sauce
Taco Nut Meat
Place all ingredients into your food processor and process into small pieces.
Mole Sauce
Place all into blender, blend smooth.
Toppings and Shell
To assemble tacos, into each cabbage leaf, spoon Taco Nut Meat. Top with avocado, tomato, and cilantro. Drizzle on your Mole Sauce, and enjoy.
Strawberries with Cashew Kream and Chocolate Sauce
Cashew Kream
Chocolate Sauce
To make Cashew Kream, place cashews, honey, vanilla, and water into blender. blend smooth. Add as little water as possible for thicker consistency.
To make Chocolate Sauce, place honey or agave and cacao in blender. Blend smooth.
To assemble, scoop Cashew Cream into serving bowls. Top with your favorite berries. Drizzle over Chocolate Sauce and serve.
Visit GoSuperLife.com for organic ingredients, kitchen tools, and specials on Kelp Noodles and sproutable raw Cashews.
Photos are Copyright 2010 and courtesy of a very handsome man named Rich Schineller.
Day 4 of my SF tour was a dream come true. I visited the YouTube Google campus in San Bruno, where Chef Fletcher Starkey and Pastry Chef Jenna served up 6 raw vegan recipes in their campus cafeteria (recipes follow below).
They labeled each of my raw food dishes with my headshot photo, and they tasted delicious! I enjoyed lunch with my beautiful hosts before my talk, from left to right: Cat, Jill, and Cheryl Pon.
My chili recipe with Taco Nut Meat….how cool is this!
2 raw food salads. Folks said they didn't even realize these recipes were raw! They liked the texture of the wild rice and loved all the flavors and colors.Raw food desserts included my Pineapple Ice Box desserts from Ani's Raw Food Desserts, chocolate truffles, and a blended cantaloupe with blueberries. Yum, and just what I needed before my talk…cacao!
After a delicious lunch, we made our way over to the "UN Auditorium". It was indeed tiered, just like at the United Nations, and was wired with video, projection screens, and monitors. All set up and ready to go for netcasting between all the Google campuses!
What an experience to speak in a fully wired room to YouTube and Google employees across all campuses! YouTube is amazing, enabling us to reach a global audience.
In the mid 90s, I was Internet Media Director for Simon and Schuster. I produced a project where video jockeys went around the Mediterranean. They shot video and then overnighted video tapes to me in California. I would sit with my Avid editors and edit together educational clips, then upload onto our websites. Today, this is all instantaneous and accessible to everyone, thanks to YouTube!All campuses were connected for my presentation and food demo. Next we'll need to find a way to send raw food through the internet, George Jetson's style!
The recipes I made included:
Sprouted Wild Rice with Corn and Tomato
Simple Rosemary Oregano Noodle Salad
Fresh Tomato Chili with Taco Nut Meat
Visit GoSuperLife.com for specials on Kelp Noodles and Raw Cashews, organic ingredients, and my favorite kitchen tools.
On day 2 of my SF book tour I joined Dixie Mahy and Sharon at their combined SF Life and SF Vegetarian Society potluck in the Mission District for a book signing. I demonstrated my recipe for Pad Thai with Kelp Noodles, from page 227 of Ani's Raw Food Essentials (recipe is below). Dixie, the host, is well into her 70s, and full of fire and good energy. She's a testament to the vegan lifestyle.
The Mission was my old stomping ground in the early 90s, I lived at Treat Street and 24th Street. I was happy to see that much of the neighborhood seems to have kept its charm over the years.
Three beautiful ladies were excited to recently discover raw foods. Common questions were about weight loss and ingredients like agave. What I answer is to be happy, live in moderation, and have an attitude of gratitude. Stressing out about whether a goji berry has been dried 10 degrees too hot adds stress. We are blessed to have the knowledge we do to make informed decisions when it comes to what we choose to eat. We're privileged be able to decline food when people are starving in other countries. Keep perspective, and be happy. Happiness is a reflection of our inner health.
This lovely lady told me how her mom had been sent home to die over 40 years prior. Her mom instantly changed her diet to raw vegan, and has been thriving ever since! I believe illnesses comes from the accumulation of garbage in our body. Enjoying more raw vegan food, which are naturally cleansing and detoxifying, helps to decrease our toxic load along with our overall stress, boosts are immune system, and fuels longevity.
Here she is, thriving after 40+ years on raw vegan foods! She made by day by telling me I was going to save the world. That's a tall order.
A great group of people in SF, where I lived 8 years through the 90s. I miss all my friends and the culture of SF including electronic music, design, fashion, art, and the vibrant community culture. I didn't get to go dancing this trip, so I'll need to visit again soon, socially next time, just to hang out and absorb the beauty of SF.
Pad Thai with Kelp Noodles
Blend all sauce ingredients and toss with noodle ingredients. Enjoy!
For organic ingredients, visit my estore GoSuperLife.com, where we are running specials on Cashews and Kelp Noodles to celebrate my new book!
I kicked off my SF book tour at the Ferry Building Farmers' Market yesterday. It's sunny and warm here in San Francisco, and the market was packed with people shopping locally and seasonally. This has got to be the best farmer's market in the country. I found amazingly sweet peaches and beautiful heirloom squash that are only available 1-2 weeks a year. What a treat!
I spoke to a full house about the benefits of raw food, weight loss, natural living, happiness, and my new book Ani's Raw Food Essentials. I demoed a recipe for TOMATO AND TARRAGON BISQUE, page 137, and STRAWBERRY KREAM PIE, page 266.
Sarah, who organizes the chef demoes, helped me portion and pass out samples. Most people in the audience were already familiar with raw foods, but it's always fun to watch their reactions when they taste one of my raw recipes. Of course, folks loved the soup and dessert. You can see Barry Jan behind the camera on the left, and you'll find a couple of his photos in Ani's Raw Food Essentials from last year's farmer's market talk and demo.
This may have been my longest line for book signing yet. Patient people stood in line for 50 minutes to meet me and to have me sign their books. What a huge honor for me that folks would wait around so long. I love meeting people, hearing their stories in person, and feeling the love they share with me. This bright energy is what keeps me doing what I do…it fuels my soul.
It was lovely to see many long time friends, like Dr D, and old friend from LA who now lives in Thailand. He happened to be in town, and brought me a moss monkey that's the cutest plant I've ever seen! He'll have to care for monkey while I'm in Florida since I don't think it would make it on the plane.
Another long time friend and two lovebirds Jeff, who took all these photos for me, and Frog.
Hanging out at this awesome farmers' market on a warm, sunny day was the best way to spend my Saturday. From here, I headed to Napa next….
I'm excited about my newest book Ani's Raw Food Essentials, available everywhere by May 3rd. It's a huge hard cover book with over 250 recipes. It's printed in 2 color, like Ani's Raw Food Kitchen. My goal is to make my books accessible, and get these recipes into your hands so you can enjoy making healthy treats with them. By printing in 2 color instead of full color, the book only costs $27 rather than $45. There's gorgeous color inserts, as you can see from the photos above.
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(Updated Apr.5/5:45pm: Added Natalie Portman Google Map tracker)
Here is a new Google Maps powered mashup that plots locations of celebrity sightings and fan encounters. The site has a pretty nifty domain naming scheme as well; Spotted.at is the main website URL, then each celebrity is issued their own sub-domain (Eg: http://axlrose.spotted.at or http://britneyspears.spotted.at). The mashup creator is quick to point out that this not meant to be a real-time map: "This site is celebrity-oriented, not time-oriented and isn't intended (or even really equipped) to facilitate the meeting/stalking of celebrities." Spotted.at provides a linkback to your fan site or myspace page for anyone that submits a sighting.
In other news Gawker Stalker (the realtime Google celeb map mashup) continues to make major major news in the mainstream media. This time George Clooney is at the center of it all. (Take a look) This story made it to the national news last night here in Canada and I first learned about Gawker Stalker on BBC World while I was in Sri Lanka! It always blows my mind when I see a Google Map on television news, and this is one that has been seen around the world! :)
Update: This Google Map tracks Natalie Portman while she's in Toronto. [via]
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Scientific research study proves that high-performance solid-core tennis racquets dramatically reduce harmful shock and vibrations that can lead to arm injuries.
NEW YORK, April 25, 2014 — High-performance multi-layered solid core tennis racquets won "hands-down" over conventional hollow racquets in a recently published scientific study that measured the effectiveness of the two designs in dampening shock and vibration and reducing the harmful energy transmitted on ball contact that can cause wrist, arm, elbow and shoulder injuries.
Three dual-core and two triple core frames that are exclusively designed and manufactured by the Xenecore and Donnay brands were tested against five hollow-core racquets from the leading manufacturers in the study published by Elsevier Ltd., a global academic publisher of medical and scientific literature.
"Overall, the dual and triple core designs demonstrated significantly lower shock forces and vibratory forces and dampened vibration quicker than the hollow designs," reported the authors from OrthoKinetic Technologies. LLC of Southport NC, which conducted the test using an ISO17025 certified third-party independent test facility and a team of highly qualified mechanical and biomechanical engineers.
The dual and triple core designs successfully dampened the oscillations (the pendulum-like back-and-forth movement of the vibrations after impact) by at least 35% for the dual core and 50% for the triple core compared to the hollow frames, according to the study. The range of vibration dampening time in all models tested was from two-tenths of a second for a triple-core frame to .8 seconds for one of the hollow frames.
Additionally the authors reported that the amplitudes (the greater the amplitude the more energy it transmits) during oscillations following the initial shock impulse force for the core-handle design resulted in a reduction of shock force "by at least 65%" compared to 22% for the hollow frames.
It is well documented that the long-term repetitive impact on the upper extremities in tennis can increase the risk of tissue fatigue and injury, leading to inflammation of the tendons and soft tissue in the wrist, elbows and shoulders and small stress fractures and chronic degeneration of the surrounding soft tissues from small tears that were incompletely healed.
"The solid-core racquets help players avoid arm injuries because the tendons in their elbows, forearms and shoulders are seeing less stress," said Dr. Joshua Dines, an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in Sports Medicine at New York's Hospital for Special Surgery and former team doctor for the U.S. Davis Cup team.
"I think in addition to using proper technique and avoiding overuse, solid-core racquets provide a huge potential safety benefit for recreational players."
The purpose behind the study is that there is little that has been written and documented about the effects of racquet frame design on the extremities compared to volumes on how poor player mechanics and even how tight and harsh string can result in increasing stress transfer and vibration from the racquet to the player.
"Poor stroking technique is frequently accused, conveniently diverting scrutiny from racquet design, but, as the calculations on this site prove, risk factors for tennis elbow include: (1) light racquet weight and (2) head-heavy balance. Stiff frames are also bad," according to RacquetResearch.com.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF), the global governing body of the sport, reported in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in 2006 that "the combination of the increased stiffness of modern rackets and the tendency for tennis balls to have become harder has led to an increased shock transmission from the racket to the player, which is probably a major contributor to tennis elbow." The ITF also states that about half of recreational tennis players will suffer at least one bout with tennis elbow during their playing lifetimes.
This epidemic wasn't the case when all tennis racquets were made from flexible solid-core wood. Vibration on ball contact disappeared quickly because it was dampened by the flexibility of the solid wood. But they weighed as much as 16 ounces, making them difficult to maneuver, especially for smaller and less accomplished recreational players.
However, with the advent of new carbon materials racquet manufacturers were able to reduce weight by making the frames hollow and compensate for the weight loss with much stiffer frames that were much more powerful than the flexible wood frames.
But while the lighter and stiffer racquets have made the game more accessible for recreational players, some critics say it has gone too far. Tennis legend Martina Navratilova, for one, complained that modern composite racquets have "added too much power and have put enormous wear and tear on young bodies" in an article titled "Sidelined in their Prime" that appeared in the Jan. 9, 2009 edition of Newsweek.
"More injuries are likely," she sternly warned, "unless tennis's governing bodies modify the [large numbers of tournaments on the] calendar and fight back against the racquet manufacturers that have hijacked the game."
"The study shows that hollow rackets transmit 45,000 pounds of force per match and kids in intensive training programs hitting 2,000 balls a day means 400,000 pounds of force is transmitted to the arm with hollow racquets," said Jerry Choe, CEO of Xene Corporation that designs and manufactures the Donnay and Xenecore racquet brands. "After six straight months of 6 hour days, they will need surgery.
The Xenecore material and process results in the manufacture of solid frames that achieve the highest strength-to-weight ratio in the industry," added Choe.
As a result, the Xenecore and Donnay racquets match hollow racquets' power potential in a flexible frame like the old wood racquets but without the weight. "It's what we call 'arm-safe performance,"' Choe said, "all the zing but without the sting."
Other racquet companies fill a few of their models with a solid core substance for their sponsored tour professionals and high-level tournament players but the substance (usually polyurethane) makes the racquet too heavy for recreational players.
"Xenecore and Donnay are the perfect balance for modern tennis of high performance and no risk," says Choe.
"It's not just a claim or a slogan," he adds. "We're so confident that we're guaranteeing players won't suffer an upper extremity injury while using a Xenecore or Donnay racquet. If they do – even if it's a wrist, arm, elbow or shoulder injury from improper stroke mechanics, they can choose to return it for a full refund with a note from the attending physician about the injury."
(To see the full study entitled "A mechanical study on tennis racquets to investigate design factors that contribute to reduced stress and improved vibrational dampening," go to http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705813010667 and click on the "download the PDF" in the upper left-hand corner.)
Donnay and Xenecore designs, manufactures, and distributes premium tennis equipment, apparel, and accessories under the Donnay brand. The technologically advanced and innovative new X-P Dual, X-Dual and Formula and Pro One racquets developed using XēneCore™ Technology represent the return of Donnay to the global market. Headquartered in New York City, the company's products can be found in tennis specialty shops as well as online.


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Top 8 killer tips to make your lawyer website awesome
Potential clients are searching for lawyers to work for them and give them legal advice online. It's a good idea to have a website for your practice. This article will tell you exactly how to create a good website that will attracts the clients. First impression is the last one, follow these simple tips to make your clients comfortable approaching you.
1. Have all the information included in your website regarding you and your practice. You should provide information like what type of law you practice and how much experience do you have.
2. Always build the website keeping in mind the prospective of your client. Make sure to include how you can help them in any way possible. Include all the services you can provide to your clients elaborately. Potential clients will make sure that you can solve their problem before approaching you.
3 Use simple terms when building your website. Your clients are not lawyers and they will not understand the terms used by lawyers. Use language which they can understand.
4. Include a professional photo of yourself in your website. Professionalism makes you approachable and presentable to potential clients. Before hiring you people wants to see who you are. Also try to include other photographs related to your practices.
5. Don't forget to include search engine optimized contents in your website. With proper keywords you can get a higher ranking. This will make it easy for client to find your website.
6. Add a blog to your website. Blog will show your client that you have expertise and you are up to date with your practices. If you post update regularly people will follow your blog, which in turn will improve your reputation. 7. Various promotional tools are available online. Use these tools to widen your reach to people. The more people know about your website, more are your chances of getting clients.8. Last but not the least; include proper contact information on your website. Tell them how to reach you both online and offline.
A good website plays an important role in online marketing. Building website for lawyer was never so easy; follow these simple tips to deliver just what your clients want.


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- Nuclear collisions from 0.3 to 2 GeV/nucleon are studied in a microscopic theory based on Vlasov's self-consistent mean field and Uehling-Uhlenbeck's two-body collision term which respects the Pauli principle. The theory explains simultaneously the observed collective flow and the pion multiplicity and gives their dependence on the nuclear equation of state.
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NORTHRIDGE, Calif. - Cal State Northridge Director of Athletics Dr. Brandon E. Martin has announced that Gina Umeck, who led the women's golf program at the University of Albany in 2012, has been named head women's golf coach Cal State Northridge.
"We are delighted to welcome Gina Umeck to the CSUN family," said Martin. "Gina brings a unique blend of talents to our women's golf program as a former professional player, collegiate coach, and national championship experience as a student-athlete. Coach Umeck's deep knowledge of the golf recruiting landscape in Southern California will impact our program immensely. I look forward to her contributing to our overarching goal of comprehensive excellence."
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Umeck began her coaching career as an instructor at Stanford University's annual summer camp. She was a recurring staff member at Aroma Golf Academy in Los Angeles, where she offered instruction in Korean and English to junior and amateur players, and held a similar position at Wilshire Country Club.
While at the University of Albany, Umeck began with a squad of four players but recruited five new domestic and international players for the fall of 2013. Her recruiting class included a national top NJCAA player in Victoria Choi. Prior to Albany, Umeck spent two seasons (2010-11, 2011-12) as the head coach at Barry University in Miami, Fla. She led Barry to the 2012 NCAA Division II national championships where the Buccaneers finished fourth. It was the schools first appearance in the national championships since 2002.
Umeck earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish from UCLA in 2005 and also has a minor in Korean language.
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Clifton Ridge's Davilynn Dozier hit a free throw with 36.6 seconds left to tie the game, and neither team could score the rest of the way, sending it to overtime.
Sydney Lanford stole the ball and scored on a layup for the Lady Cougars halfway through the overtime period for the only points in the extra period to give Clifton Ridge the victory.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. --- The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's basketball team kept its home court win streak intact Saturday night, but just barely. Chattanooga lost an 18-point lead but came away with a 69-60 win over Georgia Southern Saturday night at the McKenzie Arena to remain undefeated in league play. Chattanooga improves to 11-3 on the year and 3-0 in SoCon action. The Eagles drop the 3-11 overall and 1-2 against the conference.
After leading by as much as 18 points early in the second half, Chattanooga saw its 42-24 lead dissipate on a 12-3 run by the Eagles to make it 45-36 with 15:38 to play. UTC managed just four points over the next 3:48 and Georgia Southern knotted the game 49-49 with 10:19 on the clock.
Chattanooga would miss its next shot, but senior Taylor Hall (New Tazewell, Tenn.) forced a turnover and fed the ball down court to junior Ka'Vonne Towns (Lilburn, Ga.) who was fouled on her fastbreak attempt. She drained both free throws to spark a 10-0 Chattanooga run.
Towns would force the next Eagle miscue and was hit two free throws after she was fouled on her trip down the court. Hall grabbed a defensive rebound following a Georgia Southern miss and hit the jumper to make it 55-49 with 8:31 to play.
Georgia Southern missed a couple of 3-point attempts and Chattanooga pushed the tempo with Hall connecting on a layup who forced another turnover on the ensuing GSU possession and getting the ball down court to sophomore Tatianna Jackson (Atlanta, Ga.) who put up a left-handed layup on the fast break to make it 59-49 with 6:14 on the clock.
Georgia Southern would only get as close as 61-55 over the final stretch and Chattanooga came away with the win to make it 31 straight at the Roundhouse. That is the second longest active win streak in the nation behind Baylor's 67 consecutive home court wins.
Chattanooga was led in scoring by Hall who went 6-of-6 from the free throw line, four in the final 1:23 of the game. She had 15 points with five rebounds, 5 assists and a season-high six steals. That is the most steals by a Chattanooga player this season.
Senior Alex Black (Memphis, Tenn.) was 2-of-3 from beyond the arc and had 12 points with three assists while senior Ashlen Dewart (Spartanburg, S.C.) scored 11 points with a pair of 3-pointers and five rebounds while Towns was 4-of-4 from the charity stripe and was the fourth UTC player in double figures with 11 points.
Chattanooga had 12 steals on the night, the most by the team this season and had 17 assists. UTC edged GSU 30-24 in the paint but was outscored 26-23 off turnovers despite forcing the Eagles into 19 miscues. Georgia Southern outrebounded Chattanooga 32-29 and scored 15 second chance points off 11 offensive boards compared to Chattanooga's six points off eight boards. UTC's bench stepped up with 27 points to GSU's 10.
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It was the $2.5 million dollar lawsuit heard round the blogosphere. The Seattle Weekly reported that an "Oregon blogger" had been found guilty of defamation and ordered to pay an investment firm $2.5 million. The writer suggested that part of the problem for self-proclaimed "investigative journalist" Crystal Cox was that the judge in the case determined that she wasn't a "journalist" according to Oregon law, because she was not "affiliated with any newspaper, magazine, periodical, book, pamphlet, news service, wire service, news or feature syndicate, broadcast station or network, or cable television system." This has led to a slew of angry stories, pointing out that bloggers are journalists. But these stories have not dug deeply enough. The facts in the case are far more complicated, and after hearing them, most journalists will not want to include Cox in their camp.
This story is not like that of Johnny Northside Hoff, the Minneapolis blogger who was (unfairly) ordered to pay $60,000 to a university employee after a truthful post about mortgage fraud led to his firing. If you Google Crystal Cox's work about Obsidian Financial Group, you will find a host of websites full of erratic writing about the firm's allegedly unethical practices, with domain names like "obsidianfinancialsucks.com." She mainly directed her ire at firm principal Kevin Padrick. His search results are ruined — dominated by posts on websites Cox created, such as "bankruptcytrustfraud.com," "realestatelies.com," and "realestatehoax.com." Obsidian's tech team found dozens of sites that appeared to have been created by Cox to write about Obsidian, says Padrick, and over 1,900 others that she had created to write about other people and companies. This is not the work of a journalist, but the work of someone intent on destroying reputations.
Padrick told me this has been going on for three years. There is a rather complicated back story — involving his being appointed a Chapter 11 trustee for a business that went belly-up Ponzi-style in 2007, and some of those involved not being happy about misappropriated funds being reclaimed. After hundreds of posts — those that I've read strike me, frankly, as unhinged – Cox contacted Obsidian and offered them "reputation services." Padrick sent along a copy of an email that Cox sent to his attorney:
After a failed attempt to get the Oregon Attorney General to investigate Cox, Obsidian filed a defamation case in January 2011, and Padrick first met Cox on the first day of the trial.
The judge found that most of what Cox had written about Obsidian was purely opinion, protected by the First Amendment — and so hyberbolic that no reasonable person would believe it — but did let the case go to trial based on one blog post with very specific allegations about Padrick and Obsidian committing fraud. Cox claimed to have a source for that information, but a trial by jury found that her claims were false, and found her guilty of defamation. Obsidian's lawyers had asked for a million dollars. The jury awarded Obsidian and Patrick $2.5 million.
"She has decimated my business. It's half of what it was," says Padrick. "She's ruined my reputation, my life."
A reminder here: she wasn't able to prove at trial that what she had written was true. Do we really want to claim this person as one of our own, folks?
Most of those who have written about the case have focused on a pre-trial opinion from the judge in which he points out that "blogs" are not defined in Oregon's laws as "media." (They should probably fix that.) But the more important definition of media was closer to the end of the opinion [PDF]:
Defendant fails to bring forth any evidence suggestive of her status as a journalist. For example, there is no evidence of (1) any education in journalism; (2) any credentials or proof of any affiliation with any recognized news entity; (3) proof of adherence to journalistic standards such as editing, fact-checking, or disclosures of conflicts of interest; (4) keeping notes of conversations and interviews conducted; (5) mutual understanding or agreement of confidentiality between the defendant and his/her sources; (6) creation of an independent product rather than assembling writings and postings of others; or (7) contacting "the other side" to get both sides of a story. Without evidence of this nature, defendant is not "media."
"The medium shouldn't define who is media," says Padrick.
Yes, there are bloggers who are journalists. But just because you have a blog doesn't mean that what you do is journalism.


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- Article (4) (remove)
- magnetic compass (2)
- asymmetry (1)
- conformational change (1)
- cryptochrome 1a (1)
- flavin cycle (1)
- maturation process (1)
- migratory orientation (1)
- photoreceptor (1)
- Magnetoreception: activated cryptochrome 1a concurs with magnetic orientation in birds (2013)
- The radical pair model proposes that the avian magnetic compass is based on radical pair processes in the eye, with cryptochrome, a flavoprotein, suggested as receptor molecule. Cryptochrome 1a (Cry1a) is localized at the discs of the outer segments of the UV/violet cones of European robins and chickens. Here, we show the activation characteristics of a bird cryptochrome in vivo under natural conditions. We exposed chickens for 30 min to different light regimes and analysed the amount of Cry1a labelled with an antiserum against an epitope at the C-terminus of this protein. The staining after exposure to sunlight and to darkness indicated that the antiserum labels only an illuminated, activated form of Cry1a. Exposure to narrow-bandwidth lights of various wavelengths revealed activated Cry1a at UV, blue and turquoise light. With green and yellow, the amount of activated Cry1a was reduced, and with red, as in the dark, no activated Cry1a was labelled. Activated Cry1a is thus found at all those wavelengths at which birds can orient using their magnetic inclination compass, supporting the role of Cry1a as receptor molecule. The observation that activated Cry1a and well-oriented behaviour occur at 565 nm green light, a wavelength not absorbed by the fully oxidized form of cryptochrome, suggests that a state other than the previously suggested Trp/FAD radical pair formed during photoreduction is crucial for detecting magnetic directions.
- Development of lateralization of the magnetic compass in a migratory bird (2012)
- The magnetic compass of a migratory bird, the European robin (Erithacus rubecula), was shown to be lateralized in favour of the right eye/left brain hemisphere. However, this seems to be a property of the avian magnetic compass that is not present from the beginning, but develops only as the birds grow older. During first migration in autumn, juvenile robins can orient by their magnetic compass with their right as well as with their left eye. In the following spring, however, the magnetic compass is already lateralized, but this lateralization is still flexible: it could be removed by covering the right eye for 6 h. During the following autumn migration, the lateralization becomes more strongly fixed, with a 6 h occlusion of the right eye no longer having an effect. This change from a bilateral to a lateralized magnetic compass appears to be a maturation process, the first such case known so far in birds. Because both eyes mediate identical information about the geomagnetic field, brain asymmetry for the magnetic compass could increase efficiency by setting the other hemisphere free for other processes.
- Avian ultraviolet/violet cones identified as probable magnetoreceptors (2011)
- Background: The Radical-Pair-Model postulates that the reception of magnetic compass directions in birds is based on spin-chemical reactions in specialized photopigments in the eye, with cryptochromes discussed as candidate molecules. But so far, the exact subcellular characterization of these molecules in the retina remained unknown. Methodology/Principal Findings: We here describe the localization of cryptochrome 1a (Cry1a) in the retina of European robins, Erithacus rubecula, and domestic chickens, Gallus gallus, two species that have been shown to use the magnetic field for compass orientation. In both species, Cry1a is present exclusively in the ultraviolet/violet (UV/V) cones that are distributed across the entire retina. Electron microscopy shows Cry1a in ordered bands along the membrane discs of the outer segment, and cell fractionation reveals Cry1a in the membrane fraction, suggesting the possibility that Cry1a is anchored along membranes. Conclusions/Significance: We provide first structural evidence that Cry1a occurs within a sensory structure arranged in a way that fulfils essential requirements of the Radical-Pair-Model. Our findings, identifying the UV/V-cones as probable magnetoreceptors, support the assumption that Cry1a is indeed the receptor molecule mediating information on magnetic directions, and thus provide the Radical-Pair-Model with a profound histological background.
- Interaction of magnetite-based receptors in the beak with the visual system underlying "fixed direction" responses in birds (2010)
- Background: European robins, Erithacus rubecula, show two types of directional responses to the magnetic field: (1) compass orientation that is based on radical pair processes and lateralized in favor of the right eye and (2) so-called 'fixed direction' responses that originate in the magnetite-based receptors in the upper beak. Both responses are light-dependent. Lateralization of the 'fixed direction' responses would suggest an interaction between the two magnetoreception systems. Results: Robins were tested with either the right or the left eye covered or with both eyes uncovered for their orientation under different light conditions. With 502 nm turquoise light, the birds showed normal compass orientation, whereas they displayed an easterly 'fixed direction' response under a combination of 502 nm turquoise with 590 nm yellow light. Monocularly right-eyed birds with their left eye covered were oriented just as they were binocularly as controls: under turquoise in their northerly migratory direction, under turquoise-and-yellow towards east. The response of monocularly left-eyed birds differed: under turquoise light, they were disoriented, reflecting a lateralization of the magnetic compass system in favor of the right eye, whereas they continued to head eastward under turquoise-and-yellow light. Conclusion: 'Fixed direction' responses are not lateralized. Hence the interactions between the magnetite-receptors in the beak and the visual system do not seem to involve the magnetoreception system based on radical pair processes, but rather other, non-lateralized components of the visual system.


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These are the bookings recorded for the Doris C. Gravat Detention Center for Feb. 12. Some of the people listed may not have actually spent time in jail if they posted bond and were released. Although those listed have been arrested and charged, that does not mean they have been found guilty. All bookings may be viewed online by visiting www.aikenstandard.com and clicking on the "Crime" tab.
Clifton Tyree Montgomery, 33 — assault and battery third degree
Michael David James Padgett, 22 — hold for South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services
Ashley Diamond Young, 19 — criminal domestic violence
Michael Edwards, 45 — assault and battery third degree
Trung Hieu Nguyen, 23 — shoplifting first offense
Devin Wykie Williams, 23 — violation of Youthful Offenders Act conditions, possession of drug paraphernalia
Rachel Gail Lyons, 33 — uninsured motor vehicle fee, failure to return license plate, failure to return driver's license
Alando Rawls, 40 — criminal domestic violence
Sarah Marie Mack, 42 — criminal domestic violence
James Sydnor Willis II, 32 — petit or simple larceny, forgery three counts
Carolyn Poe, 58 — shoplifting
Michael Lionell James, 31 — failure to appear and pay, driving under suspension third offense
Rueben Alexander Legrand Bethea, 24 — manufacture, distribution or possession of narcotic drugs four counts, manufacturing of other controlled substance three counts
Avis Jeremy Simpkins, 26 — driving under the influence, driving under suspension second offense
Michael Thomas Mims, 19 — public drunk
Dana Lynne Langley, 41 — trespassing
John Mark McPherson Jr., 37 — driving under the influence
Lee Wayne Curley, 72 — driving under the influence, leaving the scene
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Allied Health Services
Information Session May 20, 2015, 9am-11am at Table Rock Campus
Our goals are to:
- Prepare students for rewarding allied health careers. (Allied Health careers video)
- Support the training and professional development of local health care employers and employees.
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- Are you considering a future in the rewarding and high-demand field of health care? The Basic Health Care Certificate is a great place to start your journey.
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- Do you have an analytical mind? The Clinical Laboratory Assistant Certificate Program would be the right choice for you. This certificate will give you the education to assist in testing and processing in a medical or independent research laboratory.
- Enroll in RCC's CNA2 course and enjoy a rewarding career with many job opportunities.
- Community Health Worker
- CHW's serve as a link between health/social services and the community to facilitate access to services and are effective at building bridges between underserved communities and the health services they need.
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- Dental Assistant
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- An adult foster home licensee provides care and services to residents while supporting their independence, choice and right to make decisions. They also provide friendship and the opportunity for residents to reside in a safe and caring environment.
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We here at VH1 are strong believers that mothers are worthy of appreciation 365 days a year. That said, this Sunday is the official day we honor those special women in our lives. Seeing as how music has always been expressive and a reflection of the artist's own life, it only makes sense that everyone from Tupac to Taylor Swift have created songs expressing their love for the woman that brought them into the world. Those songs cover the entire spectrum, from light and fun to heartfelt and emotional. In honor of Mother's Day, we've put together a Spotify playlist of our all-time favorite songs dedicated to moms. Since we don't sing or rap, we're leaving it to those that do to honor all the mamas. Happy Mother's Day!
1. "Dear Mama"- Tupac
Tupac's ode to his mother Afeni Shakur has to be one of the most touching and well known dedication songs in music.
2. "Mama's Song" – Carrie Underwood
In this guitar heavy country song, Underwood reassures her mom that her husband to be is a great man, and marrying him doesn't mean her mom is losing her.
3. "Hey Mama"- Kanye West
"It don't got to be Mother's Day or your birthday for me to call and say, 'Hey, mama.'" When Kanye made this fun track for his mother, we never imagined it'd be the very song he'd perform in her honor after her death. Counting our lucky stars that she was able to hear it before she passed.
4. "The Best Day" – Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift probably has a lot of great days seeing as how she's one of the biggest country singers and all. But spending quality time with her mom tops the list of best days she's ever had.
5. "A Song For Mama" – Boyz II Men
When Boyz II Men's "A Song For Mama" played on the popular late 90s movie Soul Food, eyes welled with tears. Soulful voices singing lyrics that helms mothers as Queens would make any mama proud. Read more…


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Casino's new poker boss bringing fresh outlook to tableWritten by Dave Willinger | | email@example.com
It is said that if you stand in New York's Times Square long enough you will meet everyone you have ever known. It could also be said that if you sit in a casino poker room long enough, you will see just about everything there is to see.
Had you been sitting in the poker room at Hollywood Casino Toledo a few weeks ago, you might have noticed a lanky, bespectacled stranger wearing a sky-blue suit strolling among the tables, chatting with the floor boss and dealers on break. That man was Ken Lambert Jr. — new to Toledo but hardly new to poker rooms.
Since mid-February, Lambert has served as the casino's new poker room manager. It is the latest job title for a man whose poker pedigree reaches back three decades, all the way to Jack Binion's storied Horseshoe casino in Las Vegas, where a teenage Lambert got bit by the casino bug in the late 1970s while working as a busboy.
It was his father, Ken Lambert Sr., who got him his start. When Ken Jr. was old enough, he taught himself to deal, passed an audition and was hired at Vegas World. Since then, Lambert has been involved in some aspect of running poker rooms from Las Vegas to Oklahoma to Mississippi and now Toledo.
Lambert was hired to turbocharge Hollywood Casino Toledo's poker room. As Lambert rolls out plans to expand poker tournaments at the casino and initiate events designed to draw players from across the region, he expects his efforts will "kick it up a notch" in the 20-table poker room.
Penn National Gaming, which owns Hollywood Casino Toledo, had been searching for someone who was "the right fit for the property," said Jeffrey Goodman, vice president of casino operations at Hollywood Casino Toledo. The poker room manager slot had been vacant since last year, Goodman said, and the casino was not only seeking a replacement with extensive poker knowledge but a person with "great poker business acumen." Some company officials knew of Lambert, who had semi-retired from the gaming life a couple of years ago, and put forth his name as a candidate for the job.
Goodman said Lambert's job "is to increase traffic and revenue in the [poker] room." The company tracks poker revenue for management use but declined to release those numbers. However, Goodman said poker room business had been "a little stagnant over the past couple months," with most business coming on weekends, Friday through Sunday during the day.
According to monthly figures released by the Ohio Casino Control Commission, gamblers at Hollywood Casino Toledo wagered $10.8 million on table games in January and $12.95 million in February. Gamblers wagered a total of $234.3 million on slot machines during the same period. In 2013, gamblers wagered $1.81 billion at Toledo's casino, with about 10 percent, $159.4 million, coming from table games. Toledo has the fewest table games — 80 — of Ohio's four casinos.
The casino reached out to Lambert, 51, who was living in his home state of Indiana, reconnecting with family after the nonstop duties of a Vegas casino official and the peripatetic lifestyle of a World Series of Poker tournament manager. The self-described workaholic — who opened the Mirage casino on the Vegas strip in 1989 and is known for being the first person to run a World Series of Poker event outside of Las Vegas — said when Hollywood Casino Toledo called, it made him realize he still had a passion for the game. That passion along with a desire to provide for his new wife, whom he married in December, made Lambert eager to end his hiatus and come to work in Toledo.
Hollywood Poker Open
One of Lambert's first duties has been to help finalize the Toledo satellite events for this year's second annual Hollywood Poker Open (HPO) tournament.
The $2,500-seat tourney will take place at Penn National Gaming's M Resort Spa & Casino in Henderson, Nev., on June 27-29. Area poker players can vie for a $4,000 prize, including a seat at the tournament, hotel accommodations and spending cash, at each of three Hollywood Casino Toledo satellite events to be held the last three Saturdays in May (May 17, 24, 31).
The structure of the satellites will be a $125 buy-in with unlimited $50 rebuys during the first two hours of play. The maximum number of players for each event is 160, and Hollywood Casino Toledo is guaranteeing five seats to the HPO from each of those satellites.
"That's a pretty strong guarantee," Lambert said.
Lambert said there would also be a free roll tournament for regular players at the casino's poker room. Players who log enough hours in cash games or play in enough tournaments this spring can sign up for a chance to play their way into the HPO. The free roll would be held in advance of the three satellites, he said, and likely be structured in two flights on the same day to avoid a repeat of last year's inaugural event when a long line of applicants were turned away.
So why should Lambert — veteran of Vegas, former protégé of Jack Binion, friend of Doyle Brunson, whose Rolodex contains the phone numbers of countless famous professional poker players — be content to pace the poker room at Hollywood Casino Toledo? Lambert said he loves the property, citing its newness and state-of-the-art technology, including the mammoth rear-projection TV screens in and around Scene sports bar.
Lambert is already thinking outside the poker room box. He has ideas for large-scale tournaments that would require additional, temporary seating beyond the 200-player capacity of Hollywood's poker room. He also said he would like to reach out to celebrity players like Todd Brunson, Vanessa Rousso and the flamboyant Robert Williamson III to participate in poker room events at Hollywood Casino Toledo.
Lambert conceded the lack of a hotel on the Hollywood Casino property is a drawback. While he called it "tough to overcome the room situation," he predicted the big events he envisions for Toledo would "fill up every hotel in Rossford and down the road."
Lambert is also interested in expanding the menu of poker room action to include higher limit Texas hold 'em games, ante-only hold 'em tournaments and a high-low split Omaha game. Those changes cannot happen overnight — new games require state gaming commission permits — but Lambert, who is licensed in eight states to run gambling operations, doesn't foresee regulatory roadblocks and is confident the changes will take place during the year.
By the way, that first World Series of Poker offsite event was a charity tournament at the ESPN Zone in Times Square in 2005. So you could have met Lambert had you been standing in that maelstrom of the masses nine years ago. Either way, should you run into him on the poker floor at Hollywood Casino, feel free to introduce yourself. Just bear in mind your interlocutor has already heard, from amateurs and top pros alike, thousands of bad beat stories — so spare him yours.
Tags: Hollywood Casino, Hollywood Poker Open (HPO) tournament, Horseshoe Casino, Jack Binion, Ken Lambert Jr., Las Vegas, Nev, o, Penn National Gaming, Penn National Gaming's M Resort Spa & Casino in Henderson, poker, Todd Brunson, Vanessa Rousso and the flamboyant Robert Williamson III


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The price tag of the MOX Project being constructed at Savannah River Site has risen by $2 billion, according to a Government Accountability Office report published Thursday.
The National Nuclear Security Administration, who oversee MOX, recently estimated the nuclear fuel project being constructed near Aiken would cost around $6.8 billion to complete.
The MOX Project being constructed at the Department of Energy-owned site is a non-proliferation project to turn 34 metric tons of plutonium from nuclear warheads into fuel for reactors.
Originally the project was estimated to cost $1.7 billion. In 2007, that was increased to $4.8 billion. It is scheduled to open in 2016 and to begin fuel production in 2018.
"GAO is currently conducting work on NNSA's project to construct its Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site, to which NNSA recently added $2 billion to the project's cost estimate even as the facility nears completion," reads the single sentence regarding MOX in a 275-page report.
Recently, the project has been thought to be the target of austerity cuts that will be forced on NNSA. Being a large project, reports have suggested MOX is an obvious place to take money from.
"NNSA has received a baseline change proposal from MOX Services, the prime contractor and is currently reviewing the estimate," an NNSA spokesman said Thursday. "We're glad GAO has removed NNSA from the high-risk list for projects under $750 million and will continue to work to meet cost estimates on all of our major projects."
The report was a review of operations deemed "high risk," due to their "greater vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement or the need for transformation to address economy, efficiency or effectiveness challenges."
The project has received much criticism and many questions for exceeding its budgeted construction cost. But the report issued Thursday is the first time the new total cost of the classified project has been revealed.
Earlier this week, Dr. Clint Wolf, executive director of the Campaign for Nuclear Technology Awareness, said that re-baselining the project was necessary, due to "construction cost skyrocketing."
"I firmly believe that the MOX Project is one of the most significant projects ... in the country," Wolf said.
According to the Handy-Whitman Index of Public Utility Construction Costs, nuclear-related construction costs have risen around 30 percent in the last 7 years. Electrical equipment and transformers have risen by approximately 72 percent and 45 percent, respectively, over the same period.
"Even if it was not a nuclear program and didn't involve plutonium – the price of construction would go up by 30 percent in this time frame," Wolf said earlier this week.
While some, like Wolf, laud the MOX Project for its potential, several environmental groups see it as a boondoggle for taxpayers and a poor solution for dealing with excess weapons-grade plutonium.
"Confirmation of a stunning $2 billion cost increase of the MOX plant construction spells big trouble for the project," said Tom Clements, Southeastern nuclear campaign coordinator with of Friends of the Earth. "It is becoming much clearer that MOX funding will be cut substantially due to mismanagement which has resulted to massive and uncontrolled cost increases and lengthy schedule delays for the facility. There has been nothing short of a cover-up by NNSA of the huge cost increase, so GAO has done a public good by doing what NNSA adamantly has refused to do."
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