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TorBUG meets on the last Wednesday of every month from September through April. Research presentations by bioinformatics leaders, students and industry representatives are followed by networking over pizza and refreshments.
Meetings are held in the Red Room at the Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, 160 College Street at 4:00 pm and are free and open to all.
Meeting Format:
|3:00pm – 4:00pm
|By Request Only - Trainees meet with Speaker (Black Room, Terrence Donnelly Centre). Contact email@example.com to arrange a meeting with the guest speaker
|4:00pm – 4:15pm
|Trainee Presentation (Red Room, Terrence Donnelly Centre)
|4:15pm – 5:00pm
|Speaker Presentation (Red Room, Terrence Donnelly Centre)
|5:00pm – 7:00pm
|Pizza and Beverage Session with Speaker and Bioinformatics community (Red Room, Terrence Donnelly Centre)
2014-2015 Season
Next Talk: March 25, 2015
3:00-4:00 - If you would like the opportunity to have a 'fireside' chat with Nicholas Provart, please contact us at email@example.com. Discussions will be arranged between 3:00-4:00pm in CCBR Black Room
4:00-5:00 - Main Event in CCBR Red Room
Trainee Speaker: Dr. Mohammed Uddin, Scherer Lab, TCAG
Talk Title: Integrated Genomic Approach to Identify Genes Associated with Developmental Delay
Guest Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Provart, University of Toronto
Talk Title: Raising the BAR for Integrative Biological Data Visualization Tools for Hypothesis Generation in Research and Education
Abstract: We have developed tools, available as part of the Bio-Analytic Resource at http://bar.utoronto.ca, for visualizing large data sets, to allow deeper insights into biological questions. These web-based tools permit easy exploration of data sets of a single type, such as gene expression compendia, protein-protein interaction networks, or cis-regulatory elements. We are also developing tools that facilitate the visualization and integration of data from different biological scales, such as variation data at the kilometer scale, through expression data at the cm or finer scale, down to protein structure data at the nanometer scale. With these tools it is possible to ask the question "on which part of the protein structure does this particular non-synonymous change occur?" or "where are these genes, whose gene products interact, expressed?" Our experience with developing these tools as "apps" for other international cyberinfrastructure assets will also be presented. I'll discuss the development of two hands-on introductory bioinformatic lab courses, Bioinformatic Methods I and II, currently running on Coursera.org.
Upcoming Speakers in 2014/2015:
September 24, 2014 – Sandrine Dudoit
October 29, 2014 – Heng Li
November 26, 2014 – Mads Kaern
January 28, 2015 – Anna Goldenberg
February 25, 2015 – Benjamin Haibe-Kains
March 25, 2015 – Nicholas Provart
April 29, 2015 – Paul Flicek
Past Speakers
- Watch our past presentations on YouTube
Wednesday September 24, 2012
Speaker: Lincoln Stein, Director of Informatics and Bio-computing at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.
YouTube Presentation: modENCODE: The Good, the Bad and the "Uggh"
Short Presentation: Marc Fiume, PhD Candidate in Computer Science, Brudno Lab, University of Toronto.
YouTube Presentation: Next-generation genome browsing
Wednesday October 31, 2012
Speaker: Brian O'Connor
YouTube Presentation: Hack a What? Doing bioinformatics the Hack-a-thon Way
Speaker: Robin Haw
YouTube Presentation: Google Summer of Code: Bringing Google to Bioinformatics
Short Presentation: Yue Dong
YouTube Presentation: My Experience in the Google world
Speaker: Jean Lozach, Senior Scientist at Illumina Bioinformatics.
YouTube Presentation: BASE Space: Open Tools in the Cloud
Wednesday November 28, 2012
Speaker: Lars Jorgensen, Director of Genome Informatics, Personalized Genomics & Innovative Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Title: Bioinformatics in a Clinical Setting
Short Presentation: Omar Wagih, Masters Student in Computer Science, Bader Lab, University of Toronto
Title: SGATools: tools for image analysis, normalization and scoring SGA screens
Wednesday January 30, 2013
Speaker: Michael Brudno, Director, Centre for Computational Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children & Associate Professor, University of Toronto.
Title: Analyzing and Visualizing High Throughput Sequencing Data
Short Presentation: Leopold Parts, Research Associate, Boone & Andrews Labs, University of Toronto
Title: How come I have my father's nose? Quantitative genetics of protein traits.
Wednesday February 27, 2013
Speaker: Fritz Roth, Senior Scientist, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute and Canada Research Chair in Integrative Biology.
Title: 1) Pointing to causal genes on a prix fixe GWAS menu, and 2) protein network mapping via wild sex and sequencing
Short Presentation: Juri Reimand, Postdoctoral Fellow in Bader Lab, University of Toronto
Title: Chasing cancer drivers in cell signalling networks
Wednesday March 27, 2013
Speaker: Sara Diamond, President and Vice-Chancellor, OCAD University.
Title: Information and Scientific Visualization: Experiments in Aesthetics, Meaning and Process
Short Presentation: Jamie Waese, PhD Candidate, Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto
Title: Building Data Visualization Tools for Large Biological Data Sets
Wednesday April 24, 2013, 4:00pm
Speaker: Dr. Wyeth Wasserman, Professor of Medical Genetics, Senior Scientist and Co-Director at CMMT at the University of British Columbia.
Title: Discovery of Regulatory Variations in Whole Genome Sequences
Short Presentation: Dr. Nuno Barbosa-Morais, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Title: Studying the evolution of tissue-specific alternative splicing using RNA-Seq data
Wednesday September 25, 2013
Speaker: Brian Shoichet, Professor at Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto.
Title: The Metabolic Code
Short Presentation: Maria Safi, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
Title: Efficient a priori modeling of drug resistance: structural models
Wednesday October 30, 2013
Speaker: Paul Boutros, Principal Investigator, Informatics and Bio-computing, OICR.
YouTube Presentation: World War B: Making Benchmarking Exciting
Short Presentation: Carl de Boer, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
YouTube Presentation: Poly-dA:dT tracts form a directional nucleosomal turnstile in vivo
November 27, 2013
Speaker: Michael Hoffman, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
YouTube Presentation: Semi-automated annotation of the human genome using chromatin and RNA-seq data
Short Presentation: Sarah Gagliano, Joanne Knight lab at CAMH
YouTube Presentation: A method to incorporate hundreds of functional characteristics with association evidence to improve SNP prioritization
January 29, 2014
Guest Speaker: Jared Simpson, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
YouTube Presentation: Designing scalable algorithms for sequence analysis
Short Presentation: Lee Zamparo, Zhang Lab at University of Toronto
YouTube Presentation: Dimensionality reduction for high-content screening data
February 26, 2014
Guest Speaker: Guillaume Bourque, McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Center
Title: Mapping the functional elements in the human genome
Short Presentation: Oren Kraus, Frey Lab at University of Toronto
YouTube Presentation: Outlier Detection for High-Content Cell Screening
March 26, 2014
Guest Speaker: Michael Lawrence, Genentech
Title:Scalable and Integrative Genomics with R/Bioconductor
Short Presentation: David Shih, Taylor Lab at Sick Kids
YouTube Presentation: Investigating the molecular subgroups of medulloblastoma: means, motive and opportunity
April 30, 2014
Guest Speaker: Titus Brown, Michigan State University
YouTube Presentation: Building khmer, a platform for research in scalable sequence analysis
Short Presentation: Julio Diaz Caballero, David Guttman's lab at University of Toronto
YouTube Presentation: Periodic Selection Drives Pseudomonas aeruginosa Diversity in the Cystic Fibrosis Lung
September 24, 2014
Guest Speaker: Sandrine Dudoit, University of California Berkeley
YouTube Presentation: Normalization and Differential Expression in RNA-Seq
Short Presentation: Joseph O'Neill, University of Guelph
YouTube Presentation: Multi-locus GWAS analysis/genomic selection as a "clique" problem solved through evolutionary computation
October 29, 2014
Guest Speaker: Dr. Heng Li, Broad Institute
Title: Experimenting FM-index for multiple human samples
Short Presentation: Ladislav Rampasek, University of Toronto
Title: Probabilistic Method for Detecting Copy Number Variation in a Fetal Genome Using Maternal Plasma Sequencing
November 26, 2014
Guest Speaker: Dr. Mads Kaern, University of Ottawa
Title: Evidence for non-genetic causes of eukaryotic drug resistance
Short Presentation: David Kim, Cowen Lab, University of Toronto
Title: Investigating the Fungal Microbiome of Cystic Fibrosis Patient Lungs
January 28, 2015
Guest Speaker: Dr. Anna Goldenberg, University of Toronto
Title: Patient network-based framework for data integration in complex human diseases
Short Presentation: Amit Deshwar, Morris Lab, University of Toronto
Title: Reconstructing the evolutionary history of tumours
February 25, 2015
Guest Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Haibe-Kains, Princess Margaret Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics Laboratory
Title: Biomarker Discovery Using In Vitro Drug Sensitivity: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Short Presentation: Sunny Yu Liu, Wrana Lab, University of Toronto
Title: Translational bioinformatics: the key to precision medicine


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recommendations for shallow terra cota pots
I have 2 old terra cota pots that are only about 4" high and maybe 10" around. What flowers would grow well in that shallow of a pot? I am open to sun or shade flowers (I can place the pots in the yard accordingly) and don't care if they're drought tolerant or need to be watered frequently. Are there flowers that do well in shallow pots like this? Thanks!
These types of shallow containers are ideal for sedums and other succulents. They tend to have very shallow root systems and don't need the soil depth that most other plants require. A combination of low growing sedums (stonecrop), some sempervivums (hens and chicks) and a couple of stunning and more tender echeverias will make an attractive and very low care container planting. Best in full sun.
If you can get your hands on any more of these pots, I'd consider planting one up with a large, dramatic agave as well.
Hint: Shallow containers are more difficult to grow in because they will have a much higher % of saturated soil than a deeper container with like soil. They also retain less water by volume, and have a greater % of soil exposed to the drying effects of the air and winds, so they dry quickly.
I grow things like Sempervivum (house leeks/hen & chicks), Sedums, cacti, and a wide range of succulents in terra-cotta saucers using a soil that drains quickly. I'll see if I can find some pics later, I'm at work now.
Wow Tapla! Those are gorgeous container combinations.
I'm just starting to explore the wonderful world of sedums and succulents and I would like to make a couple of containers similar to yours. Can you recommend any hardy plants that can be left outdoors year round? I have some hens & chicks already. Are the shallow pots terra cotta or plastic, and do they have drainage holes?
Thanks for sharing your photos.
You might try Ice Plant (Delosperma nubigenum) in addition to the already mentioned sedums / hens and chicks. Some sedums are fast spreading and so can overwhelm a container. Fast growers include sedum acre, sedum 'john creech'. Most other sedums you can divide or remove if they get too large. Look for the low growing sedums versus the taller ones like Autumn Joy or Meteor.
A - the shallow containers are terra-cotta or hypertufa & will definitely need holes in them. You can buy a "spear-point" drill at a good hardware or big box store & drill them yourself in short order. I'll provide a link if you wish.
In addition to what Sedum suggested, you might ask about more hardy cacti/succulents on the forum devoted to that subject.
I overwinter several cacti containers in the basement where it's cool & light is dim and they remain quiescent until I put them out in spring (after frost) and acclimate them to full sun where they just take right off again.
I guess I never thought about it that way & wasn't looking for an "opportunity" to post it. That's not why I posted the pic. Like the others, it just shows examples of different plants growing in shallow containers, something the original poster asked about.
I need glasses... I didn't see "it" until you guys mentioned the fact! I must be getting old!
Certainly don't mean to embarrass you, Al... it's a fabulous planter of cacti! But I must say... I've saved it so my husband can get a good chuckle when he comes home from visiting up north! I, also, admit to chuckling at the image! Don't worry... my mind has been in the gutter before! LOL!
All things aside, I did enjoy seeing your photos, especially the hypertufa planter. Did you make it yourself? I've been wanting to try some hypertufa planters, but haven't gotten around to collecting the ingredients and mixing.
Mmhmm - I have lots of home-made hypertufa stuff, but nothing I've made lately. - soo busy.
Dwarf conifers in the one at the bottom right:
I screen Turface for bonsai soils & use the fines in hypertufa instead of sand - it makes them soo much lighter. ;o) I never imagined the pics would cause a stir. Lol
I really like the look of the square hypertufa tubs... when I see them, I always think of alpine or rock garden plantings... dwarf conifers look very nice in them.
You must admit, Mother Nature has a strange sense of humor when it comes to how she shapes some plantings as they grow! Not just the shape of the cacti, but the fact that they're prickly with spines brings extra humor to the photo! There must be a men's magazine or something you could send a copy of that to, who would pay you for submitting it!


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Meet some of the people featured in the November 2012 issue of The Scientist.
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Meet some of the people featured in the November 2012 issue of The Scientist.
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Large RNA-protein packets use a novel mechanism to escape the cell nucleus.
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From basic research to beneficial therapies
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Swapping chromosomes from one human egg to another could eliminate mitochondrial DNA mutations that cause disease.
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Scientists use human stem cells to show that nuclear defects may play a role in Parkinson's disease, and suggest a way to reverse the problem.
October 12, 2012|
Keith Campbell, a biologist who was part of the effort to clone Dolly the sheep, has passed away at the age of 58.
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Laboratory-raised populations of dung beetles reveal a mother's extragenetic influence on the physiques of her sons.
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Mice raised in isolation from their mothers developed cognitive deficits similar to those of babies raised in orphanages where physical contact is infrequent.
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In "Get Hard," Will Ferrell's entitled millionaire reflexively and wrongly turns to Kevin Hart for advice on how to toughen up for prison.
Opening the night with "It's a Miracle," the hits came one after another as the consummate showman showed that at 71, he's still got it.
The mixed repertoire program will include collaborations with Pittsburgh CAPA students at Reflections Theater Co-op of New York City.
Trumpeter Jon Faddis and his band look for Ellington's "Black, Brown and Beige" in the red, white and blue.
John Edgar Wideman to give public reading at Hill House's Kaufmann Center today
"Wild Tales," an anthology of six tales from director Damián Szifrón, is wildly well-done and opening today at the Manor Theater.
"It Follows" is the rare horror thriller that prefers to traffic in suspense and dread than in titillating gore.
"Human Capital" is a time-fractured, Italian-language examination of wealth, status, desire and the cost of a life cut short.
The Post-Gazette's annual Keep or Cancel? poll kicks off, giving viewers the chance to pick which shows they would renew or put to bed.
This is the third time that a group of students from Mt. Lebanon High School will perform at the famed music hall.
A juried exhibition of Bible-based art will be displayed at Wallace Memorial Presbyterian Church on Greentree Road from April 24 to May 3.
Lynda West is owns The Fiber Mill & Studio at Ten Mile Village in Washington County.
The Decemberists come off a four-year hiatus with "What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World."
Abstract painter Ramon Riley teaches art in the Pine-Richland School District.
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Anthony McKay's play about sisters fallen on hard times has its world premiere at Point Park's The Rep.
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Hard Rain releases new album, "Deep in the Shadows."
PSO horns take center stage at the Pittsburgh Symphony, Barry Manilow hits town for maybe the last time and the Bunny Trolley begins to run.
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Kathleen Montgomery's "Body Memory Architecture" explores past and present. The exhibition runs through Sunday.
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Italian Film Festival USA will open Thursday in Carnegie and show another six movies at the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium through late April.
The author of "Real Moms Making Real Money Blogging at Home in Their Pajamas" shares some tips of blogging success.
The crying piccolo girl talked with Jimmy Fallon and performed with The Roots on "The Tonight Show" Monday.
"The Addams Family" ran March 6-14.
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Darlene Harris' measure addresses the permit process for screen and TV projects that's designed to meet the industry's "unique needs."
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With artful singing from guest vocalists and resident artists, this staging presented new insights into "Carmen's" timeless themes.
There was a perceptible shift in programming from Point Park's Conservatory of Dance Company at its annual program at the Byham Theater.
The mixed repertory program of old and new works was arguably one of the company's strongest, most sophisticated shows to date.


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Green Bay police warn Nicolet Bank members of stolen debit card numbers
Police say they received several calls from customers of Nicolet Bank saying their debit card numbers were stolen and used in Texas.
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The restored field house opened in time for basketball practice Nov. 18, 2014.
Roy and Jennie Lambrecht of De Pere received the 2014 Governor's Outstanding Adoptive Parents award.
More than three months after a fire caused significant damage, cameras were allowed inside Green Bay Preble High School's restored fieldhous…
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Wide receiver Jordy Nelson and his wife, Emily, hosted "Light Up the Night." It's an annual fundraiser for Young Life Green Bay.
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By MatthewHarris
April 21, 2010
I have to declare an interest. Although I do not know William Wallace very well, I have met him a few times, and I both like him and respect him. When I heard that he had addressed the Board of Deputies on Sunday, I was naturally very interested to hear what he had said as he is my party's Deputy Leader in the Lords and a foreign affairs spokesman. Especially amid claims of a "walk out by Deputies". Well, one friend says that six out 150 Deputies walked out; Jonathan Hoffman writes that it was four. Is four Deputies leaving out of 150 a "walk out"?
On Monday, at a very enjoyable joint election reception for Lib Dem Dem Friends of Israel, Ed Fordham (our candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn) and I, I was given a printed, partial transcript of what Lord Wallace had said. I read it with great interest. I have always viewed William Wallace as a constructive critic of Israel who, as a senior foreign policy academic, has much to say that is both useful and interesting. He describes himself as a critical friend of Israel. He engages intellectually with the long-term challenges facing Israel. As a friend of Israel myself, I find a great deal to agree with in William's words. I know a great many other friends of Israel who will agree with me on that, including some Israeli friends and relations who have themselves served valiantly in the Israeli armed forces, and whose loyalty to Israel is therefore beyond question.
I do dissent from parts of what Lord Wallace said about Baroness Tonge. While I agree with him in his criticisms of her, he has been misinformed about what happened between the JC and the Baroness regarding the story about Haiti and I disagree with his defence of her (I also defend the JC as being a great newspaper with robust editorial processes).
I think that he possibly makes the mistake of thinking that because he is a person of good will himself, then so is Baroness Tonge; I believe that Baroness Tonge is someone who deliberately says provocative things in a bid to secure publicity. Where William is right is in describing her approach as "over-emotional"; it is precisely because she approaches problems emotionally, rather than logically, that she falls into saying the appalling things that she has said.
While I disagree with some parts of what Lord Wallace said, I also agree with large parts of it.
Here is the full transcript of what he said: http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/30873/lib-dem-lord-wallace-his-controv...
Matthew Harris is the Lib Dem candidate for Hendon.
This blog is part of the JC.com's On The Campaign Trail blog for the Election 2010 where candidates in key Jewish areas have been invited to blog. Read more on our Election 2010 page


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Occupational therapist and postdoctoral fellow Skye Barbic says our current understanding of mental health recovery on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is too narrow. To outsiders, it's often referred to as the poorest postal code in Canada. But to those selling on its streets and walking the halls of its single room occupancy hotels, Vancouver's Downtown Eastside […] Read More
British Columbia Depression REACH (Research, Education, Awareness and Care Hub) is an exciting new province-wide initiative to improve treatment outcomes and quality of life for individuals with clinical depression. Based at the Mood Disorders Centre in the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (www.CentreForBrainHealth.ca; University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health), this integrative […] Read More
On June 12th the Department held its 29th Annual Research Day where almost 200 department members came together to learn and celebrate the research being done across the department. There were 12 oral presentations and over 36 poster presentations highlighting basic and clinical research being done by department members. The event is […] Read More
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The BigBrotherAwards Germany were launched to encourage public debate about privacy and data protection. It is their purpose to highlight abusive uses of technology and information.
Welcome to the German BigBrotherAwards
Nominations are in for the BigBrotherAwards 2015
The BigBrotherAwards 2015 will be bestowed on Friday, 17 April 2015. We are curious about and looking forward to the "winners".
Information about last year's BigBrotherAwards can be found here. The 2014 jury was made up with members of Digitalcourage, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), the International League for Human Rights, and the German Association for Data Protection (Deutsche Vereinigung für Datenschutz, DVD). We are always interesting in your suggestions for future awards, our (German only) nomination page awaits you.All previous winners can be found under their respective years or in our Archive (listings in German).
Starting in 1998, these "negative" or "anti" awards are now presented annually in several countries. The German Big Brother Awards were first presented in 2000. Award "winners" can be companies, institutions and persons who act in a prominent and sustained way to invade people's privacy or leak (personal) data to third parties.
The name was taken from George Orwells negative utopia "1984", which as early as in the late 1940s put forward the author's vision of a future society under total surveillance.
The sculpture for the Big Brother Awards Germany was designed for the first ceremony by Oerlinghausen artist Peter Sommer. It shows a figure tied by a lead band and bisected by a glass pane which is inscribed with a hexadecimal encoding of a passage from Huxley's "Brave New World".
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Some Thoughts On The News That Pete Doherty & Macaulay Culkin Are Roommates
According to reports, Pete Doherty and Macaulay Culkin are now living as roommates in Paris. Culkin is effectively "home not alone." Rachel and I have so many questions. Me: Rachel, what do you think an average day in the Macaulay Culkin/Pete Doherty home is like? I think it goes something like this: Wake…
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May 8, 2013
Pete Doherty Still A Junkie, Also A Film Star
Pete Doherty must be part cat; it seems like he's had a zillion lives. Despite his rampant heroin addiction, he's still around and kicking -- and doing new projects. Like a French film with Charlotte friggin' Gainsbourg called "Confession of a Child of the Century," where Doherty plays a 19th century bon vivant with a…
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December 4, 2012
Pete Doherty Auctions Off A Painting Featuring Amy Winehouse's Blood
Musician Pete Doherty is one of my favorite misunderstood anti-heroes, a true artist and transcendent thinker whose messages are often sadly sacrificed to his drug-addled lifestyle. He said it best in one of his own songs: "I'm so clever, but clever ain't wise." His inconsistencies are glaringly apparent, but Pete is openly, unapologetically who he…
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May 9, 2012
The 7 Worst Ever Celebrity Dads
I'm fully convinced that Michael Lohan's headline-making domestic violence arrest yesterday was copied straight out of Mel Gibson's playbook. Of course, Mel's famed blowouts were uniquely terrible because some of them were directed towards the teenage son of ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva. Last month, Mel paid $100,000 to Oksana's 14-year-old for the guarantee…
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October 26, 2011
Frisky Rant: Puh-lease, Pete Doherty Is NOT Fat
Last week, Babyshambles and Libertines' frontman Pete Doherty showed off some serious hotness at the launch of his men's accessory line. While his designs are gorgeous, people seemed more interested in calling the recently rehabbed rock star a heffer. From British papers to bitchy blogs, the poor dude was dubbed "fat"…
December 6, 2010
Pete Doherty Launches Jewelry Line (And Looks A Little Bloated)
Another day, another random celeb announcing a fashion line of some sort. In the spotlight now is bad boy rocker and one-time Kate Moss boyfriend Pete Doherty, who just launched a vintage-inspired jewelry line called Albion Trinketry. Designed in collaboration with Hannah Martin, the collection is "inspired by a time when men carried pocket…
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December 2, 2010
Star Couplings: Amy Winehouse And Pete Doherty, A Match Made In Roommate Hell
Is anyone else concerned that Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty are possibly going to LIVE TOGETHER? [Dlisted] Natalie Portman kept her distance from her boyfriend, Benjamin Millepied, at a "Black Swan" press event. [Huffington Post] The director of "The Tourist" says that Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp had "incredible chemistry" o…
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September 1, 2010
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December 17, 2009
Star Couplings: Pete Doherty Is A Neanderthal!
Pete Doherty misses Kate Moss so much that he's willing to headbutt her new boyfriend and run away with her thrown over his shoulder. [DListed] Josh Groban and Katy Perry aren't dating. According to his rep, they're just really close friends. Yeah, we've heard that one before. [People] Jermaine Dupri and…
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March 25, 2009
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Benji Madden from Good Charlotte is a goody-goody next to wild child, Paris Hilton. Although they are supposedly "still in love," they broke up due to lifestyle differences. She thought tattoos and a boy in the band would get her into the rock' n' roll lifestyle, but she picked a guy from a…
November 20, 2008
The Daily Squeeze: Breast Milk At Ben & Jerry's, Grandma Smells, And Bad Dreams
This sounds too crazy to possibly be true. PETA sent a letter to Ben & Jerry's, urging them to substitute human breast milk for 75 percent of the cow's milk in their products. A spokesperson for Ben & Jerry's responded: "We applaud PETA's novel approach to bringing attention to an issue, but we believe a…
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September 24, 2008
Shannen Doherty: Straight To The Top Of The C-List
In her 90210 rise to stardom, Shannen Doherty had it all -- fame, fortune, and the most glamorous bitch face on television. Over a decade later, we're genuinely surprised Shannen isn't still in the public eye or happily hitched to some billionaire with a pompadour. But after being a brat and leaving the show that…
August 28, 2008
Lover's Lullaby: Pete Doherty Dedicates Song & Video To Kate Moss
Drug-addled ex-Libertines and Baby Shambles singer Pete Doherty posted a new video and song, "bohemian love", on his YouTube page, and dedicated it to his ex-girlfriend, Kate Moss. The song appears to be written by Coco Sumner, who is Sting's daughter and a rumored paramour of Pete's. What the case, the song is awesomely sad…
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June 30, 2008
Hottie Trend: Rockstars Get So Much P*ssy
What could make Pete Doherty cuter than his baby face? Saving kittens! Apparently the professional musician and recovering addict is a big softie when it comes to petting little furry animals- which is weird cause we know Kate Moss has got a brazilian. He's opening his wallet like his heart and the indie angel i…
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as unfamiliar as geo-economics. The latter is a course some universities offer that combines geography and economics. A UN newsletter, Go Between (57, Apr/May '96; thanks, Pat Aller), cited an Asian conference on geopolitics and "geoeconomics". The abbreviated term 'geonomics" is the name of an institute on Middlebury College campus and of a show on CNBC. Both entities use the neologism to mean "global economics", in particular world trade. We use geonomics entirely differently, to refer to the money people spend on the nature they use, how letting this flow collect in a few pockets creates class and poverty and assaults upon the environment, and how, on the other hand, sharing this rental flow creates equality, prosperity, and a people/planet harmony. This flow of natural rent, several trillions dollars in the US each year, shapes society and belongs to society.
the policy that the earth's natural patterns suggests. Use the eco-system's self-regulating feedback loops as a model. What then needs changing? Basically, the flow of money spent to own or use Earth (both sites and resources) must visit each of us. Our agent, government, exists to collect this natural rent via fees and to disburse the collected revenue via dividends. Doing this, we could forgo taxes on homes and earnings and subsidies of either the needy or the greedy. For more, see our web site, our pamphlet of the title above, or any of our other lit pieces; ask for our literature list.
the study of the money we spend on the nature we use. When we pay that money to private owners, we reward both speculation and over-extraction. Robert Kiyosaki's bestseller, Rich Dad's Prophecy, says, "One of the reasons McDonald's is such a rich company is not because it sells a lot of burgers but because it owns the land at some of the best intersections in the world. The main reason Kim and I invest in such properties is to own the land at the corner of the intersection. (p 200) My real estate advisor states that the rich either made their money in real estate or hold their money in real estate." (p 141, via Greg Young) When government recovers the rents for natural advantages for everyone, it can save citizens millions. Ben Sevack, Montreal steel manufacturer, tells us (August 12) that Alberta, by leasing oil & gas fields, recovers enough revenue to be the only province in Canada to get by without a sales tax and to levy a flat provincial income tax. While running for re-election, provincial Premier Ralph Klein proposes to abolish their income tax and promises to eliminate medical insurance premiums and use resource revenue to pay for all medical expense for seniors. After all this planned tax-cutting and greater expense, they still expect a large budget surplus. Even places without oil and gas have high site values in their downtowns, and high values in their utility franchises. Recover the values of locations and privileges, displace the harmful taxes on sales, salaries, and structures, then use the revenue to fund basic government and pay residents a dividend, and you have geonomics in action.
a study of Earth's economic worth, of the money we spend on the nature we use, trillions of dollars each year. We spend most to be with our own kind; land value follows population density. Besides nearness to downtowns, we also pay for proximity to good schools, lovely views, soil fertility, etc. These advantages, sellers did not create. So we pay the wrong people for land. Instead, we should pay our neighbors. They generate land's value and deserve compensation for keeping off ours, as they'd pay us for keeping off theirs. It's mutual compensation: we'd replace taxes with land dues – a bit like Hong Kong does – and replace subsidies with "rent" dividends to area residents – a bit like Alaska does with oil revenue. Both taxes and subsidies – however fair or not – are costly and distort the prices of the goods taxed and the services subsidized. By replacing them and letting prices become precise, we reveal the real costs of output, the real values of consumers. Then, just by following the bottom line, people can choose to conserve and prosper automatically. A community could start by shifting its property tax off buildings, onto land – a bit like a score of towns in Pennsylvania do; every place that has done it has benefited.
one of many words I coined over 20 years ago: geoism, geonomics, geonomy, geocracy, etc – neologisms that later others came up with, too. CNBC once had a Geonomics Show, and Middlebury College has a Geonomics Institute. If "economy" is literally "management of the household", then geonomy is "management of the planet". The kind of management I had in mind is not what CNBC was thinking – top-down. My geonomics is not hands-on, interfering, but hands-off, organic. It'd strive to align policy with natural processes, similar to what holistic healing does in medicine, what organic farming does in agriculture. Geonomics attends to two key components: One, the crucial stuff to track is fat — or profit, especially profits without production, such as rent, or all the money we spend on the nature we use. Society's surplus is the sine qua non for growth, needed to counter death – not merely more, but sustainable development, more from less. Two, the basic process to respect is the feedback loop. These let nature maintain balance automatically and could do the same for markets, if we let them. Letting them would turn our economies, now our masters, into a geonomy, our servant, providing us with prosperity, eco-librium (to coin a term) and leisure, time off — a hostile environment for economan but a cradle for a loving and creative humanity.
a way to connect the dots. Making the cyber rounds is "The Cavernous Divide" by Scott Klinger, from AlterNet (posted March 21): "As the number of billionaires in the world expands, so does the number of those in poverty." Duh. The yawning income gap is not news. Nearly every issue of our quarterly digest carries a similar quote. Yet the connection was worked out long ago by one of America's greatest thinkers, Henry George, who labeled his masterpiece, Progress and Poverty. Techno- and socio-advances always enrich few and impoverish many. Yet progress also pushes up location values – the geonomic insight (is Silicon Valley cheaper now or more expensive?). Instead of taxing income, sales, or buildings, society could collect those values of sites, resources, EM spectrum, and ecosystem services via fees and dues, which would lower the income ceiling, and instead of lavishing corporate welfare, pay out the recovered revenue via dividends, which would jack up the income floor. Dots connected.
a POV that Spain's president might try. A few blocks from my room in Madrid at a book fair to promote literacy, Sr Zapatero, while giving autographs and high fives to kids, said books are very expensive and he'd see about getting the value added tax on them cut down to zero. (El Pais, June 4; see, politicians can grasp geo-logic.) But why do we raise the cost of any useful product? Why not tax useless products? Even more basic: is being better than a costly tax good enough? Our favorite replacement for any tax is no tax: instead, run government like a business and charge full market value for the permits it issues, such as everything from corporate charters to emission allowances to resource leases. These pieces of paper are immensely valuable, yet now our steward, the state, gives them away for nearly free, absolutely free in some cases. Government is sitting on its own assets and needs merely to cash in by doing what any rational entity in the economy does – negotiate the best deal. Then with this profit, rather than fund more waste, pay the stakeholders, we citizenry, a dividend. Thereby geonomics gets rid of two huge problems. It replaces taxes with full-value fees and replaces subsidies for special interests with a Citizens Dividend for people in general. Neither left nor right, this reform is what both nature lovers and liberty lovers need to promote, right now.
the Great Green Tax Shift maxed out" Economically, taxing pollution and depletion does reduce pollutants and extracts – and thus the tax base; plus such taxes are regressive, requiring a safety net. On the other hand, collecting site rent is progressive and generates a revenue surplus payable as a dividend to residents, which can serve as the safety net. Environmentally, taxes on waste and extraction do not drive efficient use of land, as does getting site rent. Better settlement patterns do reduce extraction upstream and pollution downstream. Politically, green fees have less impact if applied locally; local is where grassroots movements have more impact. Yet getting rent usually entails shifting the property tax (or charging user fees), the province of local jurisdictions; both mayors and city voters have been known to adopt a site-value tax. Ethically, putting into practice "tax bads, not goods" skirts the issue of sharing Mother Earth which collecting rent confronts head on. Since nothing is fixed until it's fixed right, ultimately, greens must lead humanity into geotopia where we all share the worth of Mother Earth.
more transformation than reform; it's a step ahead. Harvard economics students this year did petition to change the curriculum, in the wake of the English who caught the dissension from across The Channel. French reformers, who fault conventional economics for conjuring mathematical models of little empirical relevance and being closed to critical and reflective thought, reject this "autism" – or detachment from reality – and dub their offering "post-autistic economics". Not a bad name, but again, academics define themselves by what they're not, not by what they are, unlike geonomists. We track rent – the money we spend on the nature we use – and watch it pull all the other economic indicators in its wake. We see economies as part and parcel of the ecosystem, similarly following natural patterns and able to self-regulate more so than allowed, once we quit distorting prices. To align people and planet, we'd replace taxes and subsidies with recovering and sharing rents.
a neologism for sharing "rent" or "social surplus" – the money we spend on the nature we use. When we buy land, such as the land beneath a home, we typically pay the wrong person – the homeowner. Instead, since land cost us nothing to make and is the common heritage of us all, rather than pay the owner, we should pay ourselves, our neighbors, our community. That is, we should all pay land dues to the public treasury, then our government would pay us land dividends from this collected revenue. It's similar to the Alaska oil dividend, almost $2,000 last year. Indeed, the annual rental value of land, oil, all other natural resources, including the broadcast spectrum and other government-granted permits such as corporate charters, totals several trillion dollars each year. It's so much that some could be spent on basic social services, the rest parceled out as a dividend, as Tom Paine suggested, and taxes (except any on natural rents) could be abolished, as Thomas Jefferson suggested. Were we sharing Earth by sharing her worth, territorial disputes would be fewer, less intense, and more resolvable.
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Been there 3 times so far and must say the food is good. Go early if you want a quiet atmosphere (which I like)
Excelent selection of local and international food dishes, like no other in town, good quality, huge quantity, for reasonable prices, definitely the place to enjoy in every visit to Tampico, Mexico. At night, this restaurant moves to a sensible sparking side with live music and all kind of bar options that take place along with friendly convivence and spectacular joy...
The enchiladas and theTampiquenas are the best in Town! I also love buying cakes for my children. Always. #1 choice when it comes to birthdays. Excellent flavor.
Very good classic mexican food, order the best in town Michelada beer, must have the tortilla soup and enchiladas suizas, for dessert pecan pie!
Relax and enjoy the live music after 10pm.
The morning breakfast is awesome too.
Every time I come to Tampico is a must visit to this restaurant.
This restaurant belongs to a chain that started with bakeries a long time ago. The menu still looks much the same. The taste is the same. Not bad... but I'd say it's diner food served in a place that's a bit more upscale. I've never been there late at night on the weekends, though they say the bar has nice...
Just delicious!!! We usually come here for dinner every time we visit Tampico. We enjoyed the atmosphere, the taste and the price. TRES LECHES CAKE just unforgetable!!!
Everything was great!
I watched the annual battle between Real Madrid and F C Barcelona in the 360. Due to a timing mix up I had an hour to kill before the game started. The beer selection is quite good and the bartender knows what he is doing.
The food was OK not particularly special but went well with the occasion
It's more of a Gen Y meeting place, with some air of English pub. Waiters don't see people. you have to raise your voice over their conversation to get noticed. Salads are fine. I'd go back, if someone else chooses it.
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Nestled on the rugged shores of Georgian Bay, and home to the Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts and Bobby Orr Hall of Fame, the Town of Parry Sound is just a short two-hour drive north of the Greater Toronto Area.
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Bacon And Sausage Soufflé Recipe
May 13, 2011 11:27 am
A Southern Chef's Aunt Bunny's perfect soufflé
While growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina, I could religiously count on my Aunt Bunny serving this tasty soufflé each and every time my family would go to her house for breakfast after early church on Sunday. The menu was always the same: bacon and sausage soufflé, a huge bowl of fresh fruit compote, pecan-cinnamon coffee cake, and Aunt Bunny's homemade peach preserves in a small cut-crystal bowl. I always thought it was the fanciest breakfast on earth and can still hear Aunt Bunny warning, "I don't want to see one scrap of that soufflé left in the dish." (And, in case you're wondering, any savory dish in the South that contains eggs can be called a soufflé.)
Servings: 6 servings
1/2 pound hickory-smoked bacon, cut into small pieces
1/2 pound bulk pork sausage
6 slices white loaf bread, crusts removed
3 tablespoons butter, melted
1 1/2 cups sharp cheddar cheese, grated
2 cups half-and-half
5 large eggs
2 teaspoons dry mustard
, to taste
- Place the bacon in a large skillet, break up the sausage in the skillet, and fry the two meats over moderate heat till fully cooked, stirring. Drain on paper towels.
- Brush the bread with the butter, cut into small cubes, and arrange the cubes in a buttered 13 by 9-inch or round baking dish. Spoon the bacon and sausage evenly over the cubes and sprinkle the cheese evenly over the top. In a bowl, whisk together the remaining ingredients till well blended, pour over the cheese, cover with plastic wrap, and chill overnight.
- When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350°F, bake the soufflé till golden, 40 to 45 minutes, and serve hot.
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I'm surprised. Almost Easter and...
Started by BadCat , Apr 05 2012 10:26 PM
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Posted 05 April 2012 - 10:26 PM
I haven't seen anyone having a hissy fit over their kid being told about Jesus at school.
Alien mind control?
You be the judge.
Posted 05 April 2012 - 10:31 PM
Could it be the non-believers gave up complaining about the believers for Lent?
Posted 05 April 2012 - 10:33 PM
I suppose. It's just as likely as the believers giving up trying to spread the word for Lent.
Edited by BadCat, 05 April 2012 - 10:34 PM.
Posted 05 April 2012 - 10:37 PM
The Librarian at school put up pictures and a brief synopsis of The Easter Story in the library (along with eggs and bunnies on the opposite wall) and I thought of you, EB
Posted 05 April 2012 - 10:41 PM
LOL, Howdo.
Christians to the left. Bunny fans to the right.
#6 Guest_CaptainOblivious_*
Posted 05 April 2012 - 10:55 PM
I would be having a hissy fit, except I'm now employed by a religious school and have to be seen to be being 'supportive of the ethos'
Although I had to work not to laugh aloud today when in our end of term church service, a reference was made to the hollow easter eggs representing Jesus' empty tomb. WTF??? What about the pagan roots of the whole thing, spring, rebirth, symbolic CHICKENS etc.
Personally, I'm more concerned that my DD1's scripture teacher asked a bunch of 5 year olds 'who wants to go and live with Jesus when they die' and gave the ones who put their hand up a lolly and a sticker. Plus the all important lesson on obedience which extended to doing everything that any adult or older person told you. Um... no, I don't want my DD1 doing whatever some stupid older kid at school tells her to do, or being overly compliant to creepy people with bad intentions.
Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:06 PM
Too much chocolate already. Too much chocolate.
Thats what Easter is about.
Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:08 PM
BadCat if your a Catholic bunny fan where do you go? left or right?
CO that is horrible asking 5 year olds if they want to live with jesus. It's kinda mean.
Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:17 PM
I have noted a few radio ads announcing Easter Friday? Is 'Good Friday' banned this year?
Another Catholic Bunny fan, i'll head to wherever the chocolate is...
Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:22 PM
I have a sick baby and didn't get to the shops today so I have no idea what we are gonna eat tomorrow. I have a freezer full of meat but no seafood
Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:26 PM
Sareley if you have veggies or salad head to the fish and chip shop and grab some grilled fish.
I know in my area all the fish and chip shops have signs out front saying they are open as normal. Oh and most bakers delights are open until 2pm so maybe salar rolls and hot cross buns?
Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:31 PM
I was thinking of heading to the local fish and chip shop.
Normally I am much more organised. I don't even have any alcohol in the house! What am I gonna do?
Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:49 PM
No alcohol!! that's going to be painful I have some at my house I'll courier them for you lol, dont worry I'm usually never organized but somehow managed to get easter eggs before saturday lol
Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:58 PM
I have been too busy stuffing my face with hot cross buns to notice!
Has anyone else tried the Woolies Cranberry and white chocolate HCBuns?? omg they are good and I don't like cranberries.
Posted 06 April 2012 - 12:00 AM
QUOTE (jojonbeanie @ 05/04/2012, 11:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Could it be the non-believers gave up complaining about the believers for Lent?
Very good.
Posted 06 April 2012 - 12:13 AM
QUOTE (Chocolate Addict @ 05/04/2012, 09:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I have been too busy stuffing my face with hot cross buns to notice!
Has anyone else tried the Woolies Cranberry and white chocolate HCBuns?? omg they are good and I don't like cranberries.
that packet didn't last 12hrs after I got home from the shops... And I'm the only one who ate them
I have got DS liking hot cross buns too. We were in Officeworks and I gave him one to occupy him and the girl on the register said "Oh wow it looks like he i really enjoying that!"
Posted 06 April 2012 - 12:43 AM
Good one, Bad Cat. Crikey, people will try to weave Jesus into anything! But Easter? Come on, we just had Christmas - isn't that enough?
Leave Easter for the Bunny and chocolate and little marshmallow chickens and keep all that religion to more appropriate times, like, errr, I dunno, maybe religious days?
Posted 06 April 2012 - 03:41 AM
My sons were taught a bit about Jesus and the resurrection at school.
DS#1 thinks when Jesus rose from the dead he became Santa and DS#2 calls him the Sun God instead of the son of God. Cracks me up, the pair of them
Posted 06 April 2012 - 04:18 AM
QUOTE (Poet in New York @ 05/04/2012, 11:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
BC, I like Jesus AND bunnies. Where do I go?
You guys can hang out on the fence over there.
QUOTE (greengoddess @ 06/04/2012, 12:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Good one, Bad Cat. Crikey, people will try to weave Jesus into anything! But Easter? Come on, we just had Christmas - isn't that enough?
Leave Easter for the Bunny and chocolate and little marshmallow chickens and keep all that religion to more appropriate times, like, errr, I dunno, maybe religious days?
There are religious days?
DS#2 calls him the Sun God instead of the son of God
Well now that's totally inappropriate. A Sun God would surely just melt chocolate eggs. Totatly incompatible with Easter.
Edited by BadCat, 06 April 2012 - 04:19 AM.
Posted 06 April 2012 - 04:56 AM
Dd is in kinder at a catholic school so this is our first experience of the Holy Days etc....
Mind you I put DS in his jumperoo today and he got upset and her response was "He's just a little baby - why do you force him to do things he doesn't want to... Like making him walk the streets, dragging his cross and then putting it in the ground so you can nail him up and let him hang on it?? That wouldn't be fun would it???"
Did have to laugh though... Her class also did a Palm Sunday liturgy and all we were hearing about were 'the dicycles'
Posted 06 April 2012 - 05:19 AM
My 5 year old DS has been learning about Jesus in school. Think some of it got lost in translation though because did you know Jesus died, was put in a tomb and on the third day some Elves came and moved the rock and let Jesus out again? Too funny.
Posted 06 April 2012 - 05:43 AM
I'm missing the outrage too.
DS told me yesterday that "church is where camels go"
I can't begin to figure out who's been telling him what.
Posted 06 April 2012 - 05:58 AM
QUOTE (BadCat @ 06/04/2012, 05:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
There are religious days?
Derrr. Of course there are. I've seen it on the news. Foreign people seem to have them mostly. Overseas, like.
Posted 06 April 2012 - 07:37 AM
QUOTE (Sayerley @ 06/04/2012, 12:31 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Normally I am much more organised. I don't even have any alcohol in the house! What am I gonna do?
Suffer for Jesus.
Posted 06 April 2012 - 07:53 AM
A couple of years ago my sister was walking her children (small nephew and baby nephew) home from a friends house when a local group passed them trudging up the hill, doing a full, life sized, complete with crown of thorns, stations of the cross...
My nephew was fascinated... "What are they doing Mummy?"
My sister gave a brief potted history..
Cue hysterical reaction: "They nailed Baby Jesus to a TREE?!!!!! They nailed little Baby Jesus to a TREE????!!! Why Mummy? Oh Why..."
My sister: "Oh it was political mate.."
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