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"I'm now full circle – I'm battle-scarred, there are bits that don't work, nothing's where it used to be and … that's OK."
For Gemma Mahadeo, 37, a relapse of a history of disordered eating left her feeling negative about her body.
"I thought that was well and truly behind me and I've found that since gaining weight from then, I really, really hate my body," she says.
She hopes that performing in Trilogy will help her overcome these feelings.
"I just thought I've got to try something, and even after a couple of rehearsals, just simple things like three hours of vigorous activity have meant it's a no-brainer to eat straight after, and I can already feel muscles, my posture is better…"
She's also nervous – but excited. "It's nice to be in a space where you know that people are not going to be looking at you with agendas."
CHICAGO — Amanda Downing, the head chef at Smoke Daddy shared their recipe for Brisket Skillet Hash.
Wicker Park: 1804 West Division St.
Wrigleyville: 3636 North Clark St.
Brunch: Every Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Knife, Cutting Board, Large Sauté Pan, 2 x Large Stainless Steel Bowls, Whisk.
1. In a large sauté pan combine first five ingredients over medium to high heat.
Sorry Baltimore Ravens fans but cornerback Lardarius Webb is out for the season. Webb tore the ACL in his right knee during Sunday’s game against the Dallas Cowboys.
After undergoing an MRI exam Monday morning team officials confirmed the ACL tear and told members of the media that he is out for the remainder of the season.
Webb injured his knee during a collision with Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant. After laying on the field for several minutes Webb was eventually helped to the sideline by team doctors.
Team officials originally thought the ACL tear was nothing more than a sprain but coach John Harbaugh quickly changed that diagnosis.
Webb, currently in his fourth season, has one interception, one forced fumble and a fumble recovery over six games this season.
Also injured for the Ravens during the game was middle lineback Ray Lewis who injured a tricep and defensive tackle Haloti Ngata who sprained his MLC. Both Lews and Ngata were scheduled to undergo MRI’s on Monday.
In 2015 the polling establishment and the mainstream media had in unison proclaimed that the 2015 general election was too close to call, one where the Labour and Conservative parties were neck and neck and where even if the Conservatives managed to pull a handful of seats ahead would still lose by default as they woul...
As a reminder the consensus was for the Conservatives would win just 270 seats, where even the BBC's exit poll AFTER the polls had closed at 10pm proved WRONG by forecasting the Conservatives would FAIL to win an outright majority on 316.
However, what did prove highly accurate in forecasting the outcome of the 2015 General was my market skewed perception based on my house prices trend trajectory forecast that forecast the Conservatives would win the 2015 General Election with on a single digits majority of approx 328 against the actual outcome of 330.
So find out in my latest video in the BrExit election series what UK house prices are now forecasting for the outcome of the June 8th General Election.
Forget invisible ink or lemon juice – spies can now send messages hidden in genetically engineered bacteria. The new method, dubbed steganography by printed arrays of microbes (SPAM), uses a collection of Escherichia coli strains modified with fluorescent proteins that glow in a range of seven colours.
Each character of the message is encoded using two colours, creating 49 possible combinations – enough for the alphabet, the figures 0 to 9 and a few other symbols. “You can think of all sorts of secret spy applications,” says David Walt, a chemist at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, who led the research.
Messages are grown on agar plates then transferred to a thin film that can be sent in the post to the recipient. The film appears blank in everyday conditions, but the message is revealed when the recipient transfers the bacteria to an appropriate growth medium.
As well as giving the bacteria their fluorescent palette, genetic modification also defines which growth medium they will respond to – so the medium type can act as a secret key. For example, bacteria engineered with resistance to a certain antibiotic will display a message only when treated with that particular chemic...
It is also possible to develop bacteria that lose their fluorescent properties over time, creating a message that self-destructs in the style of Mission Impossible.
The new technique is not the first example of biological encryption – researchers have previously hidden messages in DNA – but Walt says his method is easier to use. “If you’re out in the field and trying to send a message, you’re not going to have access to a DNA synthesiser,” he says, whereas you could carry vials of...
The bacterial code has a much lower information density than DNA, however, which would limit the size of a message. “You probably could send 500 to 1000 symbols on a regular piece of paper,” says Walt – enough for a quick mission update, but it probably won’t let you smuggle state secrets out of a country.
“It’s a nice piece of work, but I’m really doubtful about the practical relevance,” says Dominik Heider, who researches DNA cryptography at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He says that simply sending an encrypted email would be a more useful way of transmitting secret messages; the DNA method, for instance, ...
The first two months that the new Fox Business Channel was on the air, it averaged a mere 6,900 viewers on any given weekday. The handful of viewers for the new Fox venture equals about 2% of the audience for its chief rival CNBC News.
With so many structural challenges plaguing Americans' ability to get ahead in the economy, it's likely that the Fox Business Channel's narrow focus on personal responsibility is not a credible sell with audiences.
Recently, Oregon made headlines with America’s first statewide rent control law.
Housing prices are a serious burden for Oregon renters, but rent control can’t fix the problem.
Thanks to state and local rules that severely limit new construction, there simply isn’t enough affordable housing to go around at prices many renters can afford. Fortunately, lawmakers are looking into that, too.
Many Oregon towns and cities cannot expand outward or upward.
In 1973, Oregon required its larger localities to adopt urban growth boundaries that prevent development on nearby agricultural land or open space. This raises the price of developable land, driving up house prices across the state.
Oregon municipalities also use common-yet-flawed zoning rules to limit housing density, which leads to fewer rental units. Forty-two percent of Portland’s land, for example, allows for only low-density, single-family homes.
That means as people flock to the city, many old, expensive homes are replaced by newer, larger and even-more-expensive houses, instead of the less-expensive townhouses or apartments that low-income buyers and renters need.
From an environmental standpoint, growth boundaries reduce sprawl, but zoning prevents dense, environmentally-friendly development within town.
Meanwhile, the rent control law helps very few of those struggling renters. It caps annual rent increases at 7 percent (plus inflation) in units that are at least 15 years old. According to Zillow data spanning 2010 to 2017, only seven of the 98 Oregon neighborhoods it tracks saw average rents increase of that much.
Tighter rent controls would make things even worse for anyone not lucky enough to live in a rent-controlled apartment when the law takes effect.
Strict rent control encourages landlords to turn their apartment buildings into condos. It also incentivizes landlords to evict tenants and build new, exempt buildings. Cities with tight rent control - like New York in the 1960s and ’70s - tend to have few options and long waitlists for any housing that low- and modera...
Only an abundant housing supply can provide better options for more people. States have a role to play in facilitating housing affordability.
In particular, Oregon policymakers can set limits on excessive zoning rules.
Senate Bill 10 would place limits on local zoning near public transit, most notably by allowing townhouses and six-story-or-less apartment buildings near transit lines. Oregon spends billions on its transit, much of which is wasted when localities don’t permit dense housing along transit lines.
House Bill 2001 would go even further by blocking single-family zoning. It would allow duplexes or “cottage clusters” - groups of small, detached homes on a single lot - on lots that are currently zoned only for single-family homes. It would also require cities to allow “fourplexes” in at least some parts of all reside...
Both SB 10 and HB 2001 would address housing shortages directly.
Unlike rent control, this approach does not require renters to compete for a shrinking supply of housing.
Homeland: It hasn't changed since 9/11, but its people have.
This Florida town, population hovering around 335, has only about a dozen streets -- several unpaved -- a gas station, a post office and a meat market that sells hominy in giant tin cans. It's famous for its phosphate mines, and for its name, which two months after Sept. 11, 2001, became a catchword in a nation struggl...
And Homeland -- four hours north of Miami and 50 miles from Disney World -- is protected. In fact, the village has not changed in decades. Spanish moss drapes listlessly from the oak trees in the summer heat, and people sit on the front porches of their old wooden bungalows. There are no shiny strip malls or manicured ...
It's just that people don't feel safe anymore.
"Homeland is pretty much out in the middle of nowhere, and you'd think that everything would be safe," says Gary Hacking, who works at Homeland's only public park. But, he says, "There's an uneasy feeling, even here."
It's not that the people of Homeland think terrorists will target them. They just describe, as people across America do, a loss of innocence and trust since Sept. 11. A realization that if Americans' homeland can be attacked, then attacks could happen again.
"We were all kind of naive before," says Alexa Hamm, a 43-year-old mother of 11 who lives in one of the oldest houses in town.
Homeland was a farming community for decades -- cattle and oranges. To this day, giant orange trees bear fruit, though strawberries and blueberries are common, too. The town was called Bethel in the 1800s but in 1887, a traveling salesman who peddled wares from a covered wagon said the area reminded him of his homeland...
It used to be a bigger place, with a hotel and a hat shop and a handful of other businesses. That was before the phosphate mines encroached on the town and swallowed much of it.
Known as "bone valley," that part of Central Florida contains the largest known phosphate deposit in the country. Giant mines nearby extract the phosphate for use as agricultural fertilizer.
Many in town have worked there, like Lesse Tucker. The 49-year-old was working at a phosphate mine on Sept. 11. He was making a cup of coffee when he heard the news. Tucker, who now works for the county's public works department, still has a lot of questions.
"Why weren't we on our toes to begin with?" he says. "Our security was so slack. Our security let them come over and do this to our people."
"Them," Tucker says, is the terrorists.
Steve Tregear, a 55-year-old construction company owner who is a relative newcomer -- only a resident for 12 years -- is pessimistic about the country's future, especially after a very bad decade that he says began on Sept. 11, 2001.
Even though everything's the same in Homeland, "Every single thing has changed since then," he says. "Economically, socially, politically."
What a tribute to an irreplaceable icon!
Actor Jamie Costa uploaded a video of spot on impressions of the late Robin Williams, who passed away at 63-years-old late August. He calls it "my tribute to the man whose spark ignited my passion," and while no one can do it better than Robin himself, Jamie's tribute might be the closest we've ever seen!
Costa covers many of Robin Williams classic moments.
Plus many more. Here are all of his impressions.
What a moving tribute! Costa actually does a lot of celebrity impressions on Vine.
They're all pretty good, but his Robin Williams tribute is what's closest to our heart.
Robin Williams had so many unforgettable on screen moments. Watch the video below.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that Kerala's situation was not Kerala's alone. Such disasters are national calamities and the country should come together to help Kerala. The Maharashtra CM also congratulated NDTV for the #IndiaForKerala campaign, and urged everyone to lend Kerala a helping hand. Don...
Downloaded, tried to install. Messages states it's not for my OS. I'm running XP Pro. Noticed program name includes _Vista. Maybe for Vista only?
I'm thinking the Quick Specs for Operating System is tagged wrong. I've tried to download and re-install twice, same result. Not for XP.
it's supposed to be compatible with xp, but tells me its not compatible with my os.
Adam Laxalt is a fresh and believable candidate in Nevada politics, yet new to the political wars of the state.
A first-time candidate at 35, Laxalt jumped into the race for attorney general when no other significant Republican would step up. You have to admire his courage, even his rookie enthusiasm.
He was sought after by Republicans partly because of his family name. He’s royalty by Nevada standards.
He is, of course, the grandson of former U.S. Sen. and Gov. Paul Laxalt, who was so influential in 1980s Washington politics that he was called the “first friend” to President Ronald Reagan.
Adam Laxalt has a lot going for him, politically. He’s a former Navy JAG officer who volunteered for the battle zones of Iraq. He has a wife and child straight out of central casting. Plus he’s got that royal name.
The thought here, however, is that it’s too much for Laxalt to be expected to defeat Democrat Ross Miller for attorney general this year.
Miller has been campaigning for attorney general for more than a year. Some say he’s been game-planning this race since he was first re-elected as secretary of state in 2010.
He’s raised almost $1.4 million and has his own royal bloodline since his dad, Bob Miller, served 10 years as Nevada’s governor.
The venerable and respected former Sen. Paul Laxalt, 91, is perhaps too elderly to help his grandson’s campaign much. But that is not the case with Bob Miller, who’s still strong enough to arm wrestle you for a donation to his son’s campaign. war chest.
More importantly, Miller’s Nevada Democrats have a voter registration advantage over Republicans of almost 112,000.
Many are counting on a Republican upswing in 2014. It remains to be seen if that carries the day in the AG’s race.
IF ADAM LAXALT could turn back time, it might have been better for him to start his political career in Carson City and not Las Vegas, where he lives now.
Carson City is his grandfather’s hometown. Paul Laxalt played on Carson High School’s 1938 state championship basketball team. That’s how far back the family legacy goes.
The Laxalt name remains huge in Carson City. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Warren Lerude recently finished a book on Laxalt’s brother, Robert Laxalt, perhaps Nevada’s greatest author.
The state capital would certainly have embraced the homecoming of Paul Laxalt’s grandson. Maybe the smarter move for Adam Laxalt would have been to start his political career in Assembly District 40, representing his grandpa’s hometown.
Who wouldn’t vote for a Laxalt in that district? This year especially, Laxalt could have waltzed into Carson City’s open seat in Assembly District 40 and begun plotting his ascension to Congress.
With some legislative experience, Laxalt would be a better and more seasoned candidate for attorney general — or any other office — on his way to the top.
He certainly would be setting himself up to succeed Nevada’s current 2nd U.S. House District Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Carson City, or beat him in a future primary. Amodei’s 2nd U.S. House District would be a good fit for Laxalt. Its residents respect military service and Nevada history.
As a congressman, Laxalt’s close ties to his grandfather and mother’s friends in Washington, D.C., could be put to use for Nevada voters, since we are talking about A-list Beltway Republicans.
Maybe Laxalt has the potential to become a statesman, like his grandfather. But he has to win an election first.
The hope here is that Adam Laxalt didn’t get suckered into an attorney general’s race he can’t win — one that may end his political career before it gets started.
Although the name Warren Boyd might not resonate with some of you, the self-proclaimed “extreme interventionist” is known to a lot of Hollywood celebrities – those who have had their fair share of battles with drugs and alcohol.
Warren in fact even has a show based on his life and job, Benjamin Bratt’s A&E series, “The Cleaner”. Warren battled a 20-year drug addiction with alcohol, cocaine, and crystal meth and upon getting clean has since devoted his time and energy helping others do the same.
It is believed that he is currently at the side of Bobbi Kristina, Whitney Houston’s 18-year-old daughter. Bobbi Kristina has a special bond with Boyd, as he helped Whitney battle her struggles with addiction.
It is said that he was called immediately upon the news of Whitney’s death broke, and was seen escorting Bobbi Kristina out of her mother’s funeral. Boyd was also believed to have helped Courtney Love with his extreme intervention measures, as well as musician and former heroine addict Ashley Hamilton.

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