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Kuru is an incurable degenerative neurological disorder endemic to tribal regions of Papua New Guinea. It is a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, caused by a prion found in humans.[1]
The term "kuru" derives from the Fore word "kuria/guria" ("to shake"),[2] a reference to the body tremors that are a classic symptom of the disease; it is also known among the Fore as the "laughing sickness" due to the pathologic bursts of laughter people would display when afflicted with the disease. It is now widely accepted that Kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via funerary cannibalism.[3]
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Kuru was first noted in the Fore tribes of the eastern highland and lowland provinces of Papua New Guinea as Australian administrators explored the area in 1953–1959. Kuru (Keru) was reported by W. T. Brown in Kainantu Patrol Report No 8 of 1953/54 (13 January 1954 - 20 February 1954.) .. "The first sign of impending death is a general debility which is followed by general weakness and inability to stand. The victim retires to her house. She is able to take a little nourishment but suffers from violent shivering. The next stage is that the victim lies down in the house and cannot take nourishment, and death eventually ensues." The same reports described the cannibalism practiced by the Fore people. In the late 1950s, the full extent of the disease was realized, after it had reached large infection rates in the South Fore of the Okapa Subdistrict, though the agent was unknown.
Awande Hospital was built in 1961 in the eastern highlands to accommodate kuru patients and research. Kuru was first noted in 1952-1953 by anthropologists Ronald Berndt and Catherine Berndt among the Fore, Yate, and Usanufa people. Charles O. Pfarr, Lutheran Medical Services, was brought to the area by tribal persons and reported the disease to Australian authorities. Vincent Zigas, District Medical Officer, began observation. Blood specimens and brain tissue were sent to Melbourne.
In 1957, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek of the National Institute of Health joined Zigas at the research center. Sister Eva Hasselbusch of Germany joined the hospital in 1959 to take care of the patients. Sister Maria Horn of Germany was the first trained sister to work with the doctors to study the disease. By 1968, the hospital ceased to function as a kuru hospital and was closed (1886-1986, the Lutheran Church in Papua New Guinea by Herwig Wagner and Hermann Reiner).
The disease was researched by Gajdusek as part of an international collaboration with Australian Michael Alpers.[4] In the mid-1960s, Alpers collected post mortem brain tissue samples from an 11-year-old Fore girl, Kigea, who had died of kuru. He took these samples to Gajdusek in the USA, who then injected two chimpanzees with the infected material. Within two years, one of the chimps, Daisy, had developed kuru, demonstrating that the unknown disease factor was transmitted through infected biomaterial and that it was capable of crossing the species barrier to other primates.
Subsequently, E. J. Field spent large parts of the late 1960s and early 1970s in New Guinea investigating the disease,[5] connecting it to scrapie and multiple sclerosis.[6] He noted similarities in the diseases interactions with glial cells, including the critical observation that the infectious process may depend on structural rearrangement of the host's molecules.[7] This was an early observation of what was to later become the prion hypothesis.[8]
In 1976, Gajdusek, along with Baruch S. Blumberg, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,[9] in part for showing that kuru was transmissible to chimpanzees. This was the first time this group of encephalopathies had been demonstrated to be infectious, so was a major step forward in their investigation. As kuru is the only epidemic of human prion disease in known human history, it has provided important insights into Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle.
The victims are usually those people who follow the practice of family mortuary cannibalism.[10] In some parts of Papua New Guinea, bodies of those who died from kuru were dismembered to feast on the internal organs. "Often, they would feed morsels of brain to young children and elderly relatives."[10]
Kuru is believed to be caused by prions and is related to CJD.[11] It is best known for the epidemic that occurred in Papua New Guinea in the middle of the 20th century, and earlier.[12] Although it is considered a transmissible prion disease, some evidence shows the origin of the outbreak was due to eating a human (or a corpse) with sporadic CJD, thus implying a common pathophysiology.[1]
Kuru causes physiological, as well as neurological effects that ultimately lead to death. It was endemic among the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea and was confined to the Fore population and those nearby populations with whom they intermarried. It is characterized by truncal ataxia, preceded by headaches, joint pains, and shaking of the limbs. Trembling is present in almost all patients with this transmissible spongiform encephalopathy; kuru is also known as "shiver".[13]
The preclinical or asymptomatic phase, also called the incubation period, lasts between possibly 5 to 20 years following initial exposure. The clinical stage lasts an average of 12 months.[14]
The symptoms of kuru are divided into three specific stages. The first, ambulant stage, exhibits unsteady stance and gait, decreased muscle control, tremors, deterioration of speech, and dysarthria (slurred speech). In the second, sedentary stage, the patient is incapable of walking without support and suffers ataxia (loss of muscle coordination) and severe tremors. Furthermore, the victim is emotionally unstable and depressed, yet has uncontrolled sporadic laughter. Interestingly, the tendon reflexes are still normal at this point.[13]
In the final, terminal stage, the patient is incapable of sitting without support, suffers severe ataxia (no muscle coordination), is unable to speak, is incontinent (unable to restrain natural discharges/evacuations of urine or feces), has dysphagia (difficulty swallowing), is unresponsive to their surroundings, and acquires ulcerations (sores with pus and necrosis). An infected person usually dies within 3 months to 2 years after the first symptoms, often because of pneumonia or pressure sore infection.[13]
In 1961, Australian Michael Alpers conducted extensive field studies among the Fore accompanied by anthropologist Shirley Lindenbaum.[15] Their historical research suggested the epidemic may have originated around 1900 from a single individual who lived on the edge of Fore territory and who is thought to have spontaneously developed some form of CJD.[16] Alpers and Lindenbaum's research conclusively demonstrated that kuru spread easily and rapidly in the Fore people due to their endocannibalistic funeral practices, in which relatives consumed the bodies of the deceased to return the "life force" of the deceased to the hamlet, a Fore societal subunit.[17]
The dysmorphism evident in the infection rates — kuru was eight to nine times more prevalent in women and children than in men at its peak — is because, while the men of the village took the choice cuts, the women and children would eat the rest of the body, including the brain, where the prion particles were particularly concentrated. Also, the strong possibility exists that it was passed on to women and children more easily because they took on the task of cleaning relatives after death and may have had open sores and cuts on their hands.[2]
Although ingestion of the prion particles can lead to the disease,[18] a high degree of transmission occurred if the prion particles could reach the subcutaneous tissue. With elimination of cannibalism because of Australian colonial law enforcement and the local Christian missionaries' efforts, Alpers' research showed that kuru was already declining among the Fore by the mid‑1960s. However, the mean incubation period of the disease is 14 years, and cases were reported with latencies of 40 years or more for those who were most genetically resilient, continuing to appear for several more decades. The last sufferer died in 2005.[15]
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Simon Mead of University College London, and others, showed in their genetic and clinical assessment that people who survived the epidemic in Papua New Guinea were carriers of a prion-resistant genetic variant of prion protein G127V.[19][20] Further implications of the discovery, including evidence for rapid natural selection of populations, are being discussed.[21]


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Two Ministers – S. T. Chellapandian and A. Mohammedjan – were dropped from the Cabinet on Monday.
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The 43-year-old Abdul Rahim told The Hindu that his father Sahul Hameed too was a member of the AIADMK since inception. As far as his association with the party was concerned, he was a member of the AIADMK faction led by Ms Jayalalithaa in 1989.
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In another order, the State government appointed six functionaries of the AIADMK to head its undertakings. J.C. D. Prabhakar, Villivakkam MLA and deputy secretary of the party minorities wing, had been made chairman of the Tamil Nadu Small Industries Development Corporation; A. Arunmozhithevan, former Chidambaram MLA and the party's Cuddalore (west) secretary – Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation; T.G, Venkatesh Babu, north Chennai secretary – Textile Corporation; G. Muniasamy, Ramanthapuram district secretary - Warehousing Corporation; P.R. Senthilnathan, Sivagangai district secretary – Backward Classes Economic Development Corporation and M. Ravichandran, Perambalur district secretary and who headed Handicrafts Development Corporation during 2004-2006 – State Agricultural Marketing Board.
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Worlds collide! Zac had a low-key but apparently extremely star-studded birthday bash in Los Angeles on Oct. 18, as huge names like Rob and Joe Jonas were spotted ringing in the star's big day. Now THAT'S a party we wish we were invited to.
Apparently, sometimes all the former teen heartthrobs get together and hang out. Oct. 18 was one of those times, as Robert Pattinson, Joe Jonas, and Zac Efron were all spotted together celebrating Zac's 26th birthday.
Robert Pattinson, Joe Jonas & More: Zac Efron's Birthday Bash
Zac reportedly kept things low-key on Oct. 18 for his real birthday, having just completed a rehab stint in Sept. 2013, but that doesn't mean that the guest list wasn't totally impressive.
The party, which was reportedly held at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, Calif., included guests like Rob and Joe, as well as Joe's girlfriend Blanda Eggenschwiler. Eyewitnesses understandably were freaking out about seeing the powerhouse trio together:
Nice to see Zac Efron out celebrating his birthday with Joe Jonas, Robert Pattinson and more tonight :)
— Stalker Sarah (@SarahMOnline) October 19, 2013
Umm I was just sitting at the table next to Zac Efron's bday party with Robert Pattison and Joe Jonas. I'm not joking. I SAW THEM ALL. 😵😵☺😘😳
— Ally Austin (@AllyAnnie23) October 19, 2013
Joe, Zac Efron and Rob Pattinson and more in the same room. I can't right now
— claudia (@JONAStralians) October 19, 2013
These three guys aren't exactly BFFs — Rob and Zac did attend a producer's wedding together in 2012 — which almost makes it even cooler that they all got together to celebrate Zac's big night. This generation doesn't really have a Rat Pack, but maybe Rob, Joe, and Zac are starting to form one!
Regardless, what a cool get together, right?
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Samuelle 40
Posted at 6:52 AM on October 20, 2013
Who can prove he takes them all home,any photos ,no none whatsoever ,where was Dylan,did she let him have a night off .He was having a boys night out give him a break and let him get a life.
See all you haters can't resist all the old comments regarding both R/K give them both a break this has gone on long enough.Whoever he Is dating or not ,his business ,still don't think all is as it seems or as we are led to believe its all gossip and rumours .Only fact plus picture is he is working out and has a beard.Big Deal.
Listen to Phil Collins How many times can I say Im sorry You can run you can hide but belive when I say Im sorry. The other is Beautiful by Peter Murray but as if Kristens singing it make you cry
I feel sorry for both of them though I dont know them but the years they spent together has to ???
I notice that all pictures of either Robert or Kristen are old except when he went to get Chinese food. HWL you have dates beside the pictures but those dates are wrong. If Rob was flirting with a 100 babes what business is this of yours, or ours either Only one who should care is Robs. Yes we all know that Rob likes to take the ladies home, so what if they go its their business. We don't have the right but if you saw him flirting where are the picture proof.
*-* Bad Kitty
Posted at 9:10 AM on October 20, 2013
Lots of notches on it
Posted at 9:03 PM on October 20, 2013
*-* Bad Kitty
Posted at 10:07 PM on October 20, 2013
Posted at 6:22 PM on October 20, 2013
Well, well, I thought of all people that you would have noticed as soon as you click on this BS that you would have noticed this pic is over a year ago from a wedding that Rob and Kristen attended together in NY don't slip on me you catch everything well except this time around I am counting on you for true 411 on them or separately
Posted at 2:00 AM on October 20, 2013
I am not Mr. Pattinson fan, but I think the media exaggerates everything. His last photo was not much of anything but looks normal for me. And patts fans they are right, everyone is replaceable. If you want to be with someone else, it's his life. I love Kristen, but I think, both are moving forward in their lives. Rpatts have his friends around you and Krist Stewart has her friends around you. I absolutely don't care with whom Kristen will be, I very looking forward to her new movie, and I hope she adding even more more beautiful movies.
Posted at 11:08 PM on October 19, 2013
Posted at 11:47 PM on October 19, 2013
Posted at 12:44 AM on October 20, 2013
As I said, sad your case. Anyone with half a brain knows the seriousness of these problems. And clarifying the issue I did not say anything like that, in fact it was the litle "Miss K" fans (like you) those who said that. So… what are you talking about? Are you really so desperate that you don´t know what you are talking about.
*-* Bad Kitty
Posted at 2:01 PM on October 20, 2013
Haha, you say you are FLUENT in 4 languages, and you cannot even spell properly in English.
Pardon, but your ignorance and stupidity is showing.
Your English-as-a-second -language teacher will be so ashamed. I know I am, therefore, until,and not a moment before, you learn to PROPERLY address those of us whom do know how to properly write and use proper grammar, stay off of the adult boards and possibly go back to Disney and Nick,Jr. boards. Maybe they can appreciate your lack of intelligence there. Ok, honey ?
Posted at 12:58 AM on October 20, 2013
Zac went to rehab for his problems and got help. People found out after 5 months because he was actually serious about curing his addiction. He didn't announce it to the world like Lindsey Lohan or Amanda Bynes. In fact he didn't want anybody to find out at all because he didn't want this kind of attention. Stop being so judgmental because I'm sure you're so perfect.
Posted at 8:50 AM on October 20, 2013
Posted at 11:12 PM on October 20, 2013
*-* Bad Kitty
Let me see… Sad votre cas, avec toujours la même chose, alors que vous utilisez le langage à votre goût, vraiment à l'aise. Should I used another language, let me know your majesty. Yea right. Mi dispiace non mi ricordo che io parlo con una persona che abusa gergo volte. Ohh, And let me clarify something, I am not insulting you, Ok. jajaja
Posted at 11:38 PM on October 20, 2013
Posted at 8:48 AM on October 20, 2013
What is wrong with you, nobody has said anything about Robert as yet, and nobody is complaining about him seeing other people since they split up, what is wrong with you, and always the same, do you read before you hit the "post Comment" button, you sound so stupid, I can't believe that you don't know any better. YOU most certainly life on another planet, or do you hear voices!
*-* Bad Kitty
Posted at 9:53 AM on October 20, 2013
Posted at 12:58 AM on October 21, 2013
Nothing lasts
Posted at 10:18 PM on October 19, 2013
Posted at 11:57 PM on October 19, 2013
You are so right. He has really sunk to a low lately. It's the fast crowd he is running with. Bad influences. She kept him grounded and with purpose , now all he has are these so called friends who will eventually be his down fall. Once the looks fade , age sets in he will find it hard to be cast. If any more films of his never make it to the box office, and his fans fall away, his career will be over. No studio will hire an actor that can't bring in the bucks. He had better save his money. Sad to see someone with such promise hit the skids. His life is nothing without her. This is his biggest mistake.
*-* Bad Kitty
Posted at 12:31 AM on October 20, 2013
Posted at 1:05 AM on October 20, 2013
Posted at 5:01 AM on October 20, 2013
Posted at 5:04 AM on October 20, 2013
Nothing lasts
Posted at 7:25 AM on October 20, 2013
Posted at 7:28 AM on October 20, 2013
I seems as if someone spoke Rob about his partying after he was stumbling drunk at The Weekend's listen party at No Vacancy in Sept. A journalist from the LAT tweeted about it as did another who said Rob stumbled into her. Since then his partying has been limited to dinner dates with woman, concerts, and b'd celebrations. No more reports of Him being a fly at the local watering hole. I feel bad for Rob. He is a young guy who's upbringing included throwing them back with his buds at the local pub, but it seemed that his drinking increased once the scandal hit. I think he drank more to numb the pain. And certainly post split, while I don't think he thought of himself as in pain, he's shy and alcohol became his liquid courage. I don't know if he misses Kristen or not. From his collective actions it seems that he doesn't. But if he's still hurting he should reach out to her. Forgiveness is a wonderful healer. I can't help but wonder if subconsciously he wants to be non-perfect too so he and Kristen can be on the same level again increasing their chances of starting afresh without people judging. What can people say if he takes the unfaithful back and she takes the alcoholic back? I'm not implying that would be a deliberate move on his part. IDK, the subconscious works in mysterious ways. Despite her indiscretion, Kristen loved Rob, tremendously. I don't think she would turn her back on him in a time of need regardless of what's happened. I think she would be very loving and supportive. I hope these two can put ego aside and talk, face to face. It can help them heal and move forward. All this while I've been worried for Kristen b/c I believe she was the one devastated over the split and he was ok with it. I'm beginning to worry about Rob now. Hope he's ok.
Posted at 9:01 AM on October 20, 2013
@*-*Bad Kitty ………
Remember, we made remarks about that recent photo of him with, the vacant eyes!!!!!
Seems we hit the mark that time.
Nice to see your posts again, Dear Friend.
I don't want to really post about the powder in nostrils, because I do hope as a human being he will find his way back, so I don't want to give that subject energy, by making conversation about that, I do research on viruses, and try to keep people healthy so I am deeply concerned for him. Love you, as always.
*-* Bad Kitty
Posted at 11:41 AM on October 20, 2013
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Posted at 6:45 PM on October 19, 2013
Just Sayin
Posted at 1:05 AM on October 20, 2013
Posted at 5:51 PM on October 19, 2013
Posted at 9:55 PM on October 19, 2013
Return to the scene of the crime eh! The drug haven of Hollywood . Seems like the stories just might be true….he is into drugs now . Hanging with a drug. Crowd of friends can only lead to one thing….taking drugs . What a shame he has sunk so low. First it's smoking, then drinking, then womanizing every female near him, and now it's drugs. Hope we don't see him in the headlines like so many young actors before him who abused alcohol and drugs ultimately killing them selves. Boy he needs a strong girl to take hold of him and straighten him out , that was Kristen. This baby Dlyan is probably a user as well. It oes run n the family.
Posted at 10:16 PM on October 19, 2013
*-* Bad Kitty
Posted at 10:28 PM on October 19, 2013
Posted at 10:59 PM on October 19, 2013
Comment, *-*Bad Kitty and others little "Miss K" fans
That´s a serious accusation. It´s sad that little "Miss K" fans use such comments. Drug abuse is a very serious issue for you to be playing with those comments. But one thing you (Miss K fans) start and then don´t like when someone says something about the little (Miss K).
Posted at 11:45 PM on October 19, 2013
How do you know this person is a Kristen fan? Rob has lost alot of his fans because of his actions. I was a big time Rob fan but that was gone after his actions in May. So no , not all people that comment are Kristen fans , they are also former fans of Rob. He did this to himself.
*-* Bad Kitty
Posted at 12:20 AM on October 20, 2013
Posted at 12:55 AM on October 20, 2013
All are little "Miss K" fans (like you), all you have to do is see daily comments, always the same thing,even many of them admitted to be. And many of them do always unpleasant and rude comments even. So…….all you do is make little "Miss K" look so bad and the rest of the fans too.
Posted at 1:08 AM on October 20, 2013
Posted at 1:11 AM on October 20, 2013
@nb: You're not a fan of Rob anymore because he dumped Kristen? Would you have rather them both be in a relationship neither one of them was happy in and just be miserable? What is with fans and not letting certain couples go? They broke up and aren't going to get back together. Want to know why? Because it's this is real life an not a tv show or a movie. There is no happily ever after for real. They clearly weren't happy with each other and broke up. Deal with it.
Posted at 1:12 AM on October 20, 2013
*-* Bad Kitty
Ignorant, no I don´t think so. I have a college degree and I can answer you in four differente languages. And I am not the one who attacks people for the sexual preferences or possible addictions ( just speculation of you), that is being ignorant and presumptuous. And I am happy you find someone who defends you, I din´t know you need somebody.
Posted at 1:23 AM on October 20, 2013
@Alejandrina: I don't particularly like Bad Kitty either because he or she does make fun of people sexual preferences and he or she is a bit of a bully. I've seen him or her do it on several other articles. That makes him or her very ignorant. Bad Kitty should really learn the definition to that word and then take a long hard look in the mirror.
*-* Bad Kitty
Posted at 1:45 PM on October 20, 2013
Posted at 1:31 AM on October 20, 2013
Smoking ciggies isnt a crime for gods sake NOr is having a drink and sometimes getting pissed
God some of you YANKS are such hypcrytical buggars So hes dipping his wick so what
IF stupid bloody slapper want to drop their kickers for him whoopee doo for them its not a crime
SMOKING DOPE is a criminal act in USA but not in UK make of that what you will/
I tried it didnt like it had a drink instead I was a teen I get a bit hmm if your still doing it at 20 odd!
You dont kow if hes smoking dope oir Kristen unless they both ave interviews saying they did!
I dont know if hes in to drugs I hope not .If he is knowone made him take them he did it himself!
Knowone should be responsable for someones addiction you cant expect anyone to lean on
As for Dylan drug wise andcant accuse or presume because someones MUM DAD Bro had a problem they have one too My MUM was addicted to scripts drugs IM not my baby brother was an alcy and died at 45 I hardly ever drink from one month to the next. ITS a weakness some have it
Some dont doesnt make one better than the other it is just a fact
Posted at 1:30 AM on October 21, 2013
*_* Bad Kitty
I don´t have bad memory. Ok, if I say I am a lawyer, you feel offended, If I say I speak four languages, you feel offended and then you say I'm arrogant and presumptuous. Calm down, don´t be so sensitive. And I also remember what you and Just saying, said days ago (it was in a article about "Miss K"), if you don´t like Rob… what are you doing here? But, well atention is atention. So who cares. Keep writing
Posted at 2:30 AM on October 21, 2013
Posted at 10:24 PM on October 19, 2013
Did you know the Chateau has revolving door. It's the drug den of Tinsel town. Funny how his old buddies are no longer with him. An entire new crowd of dopers . Must have been quite a celebration. His actions since his break with her speak volumes . He is completely messed up. Where is his loving family all of a sudden….they have all taken a powder. I guess they aren't worried about their little boy now that they helped kill his romance with Kristen. They must approved of his new life style. So sad.
Do You!
Posted at 10:40 PM on October 19, 2013
@Comment. I'm sure his family still cares about him, but he's a grown @$$ man!
You can't tell a grown man who is financially indepenent what to do.
No matter how much you think he's Phucking up.
The only thing you can do is tell him how you feel and then pray for him.
If he falls then be there to pick him up.
Now if he is found not to be mentally stable then the family can step in. Until then there is nothing they can do.
Yeah it's sad and it hurts. to see your child going down a bad path.
But if you raised them to the best of your abilities and they know right from wrong. All you can do is to be there for them when they fall. And if they do, hopefully they can recover from it.
I wish all those guys the best, and hope they don't kill themselves.
Posted at 5:16 AM on October 20, 2013
His "old" friend just spent some time with him a little while ago. These guys have lives and tours that they do around the world. It's not easy touring smaller venues 6 nights a week in a different city every night or every other night. 3 out of 4 of his friends are muscians who tour. Also, his other friend who a actor is working right now, and has a new baby. You must not have friends who don't live in your state? It's hard to see them even if you've got money. They aren't going to be seen together all the time. But I'm sure they DO see each other when they can. :)
Posted at 5:21 AM on October 20, 2013
You're completely insane if you think Rob's family had anything to do with his break up, or that they "have taken a powder" and don't want to see him? What? Would you read what you write? Complete insanity. And his friends visit him and vise-versa when they can. They can't live with him you know. They have lives and work of their own.
Alej I find it highly amusing some post you write as if you dont know English act like a middle eastern Sheltered girl Next you write in normal everyday English THEN you have a LAW DEGREE Are a LAWYER now you have a degree and speak 4 Languages? Do you work for NASA as well Just asking? The thing is ALEJ!
If your going to LIE make sure you have a good memory!
Posted at 9:10 AM on October 20, 2013
I wish Hollywooslife.com could put your comment in Neon Sighns, then these guys would appreciate the urgency to stay away from that Life Style.
Very Good Comment, (these substances really scare me, but I had to laugh with you and @Bad Kitty about is, it came out very funny)
Posted at 9:22 AM on October 20, 2013
*-* Bad Kitty
Posted at 9:34 AM on October 20, 2013
Thank you, Loui, I just ignore anything and all that she posts, even if it is addressed to me. She is immature and ignorant. She is best left to those with experience in dealing with the " special " people. Chronic lying is a serious medical red flag. Methinks she may draw a check for having "issues."
Posted at 2:12 AM on October 21, 2013
Loui and Bad Kitty
I certainly don´t need anyone to defend me like you. You are the ones who are obsessed with drinking issues, homophobia and drugs, those are very sad and sensitive issues and for your daily comments, there´s something wrong about you (and believe me I don´t need to be a psychologist). You don´t respect anyone and I don´t speak onlyfor me. But as I said atention is atention. Keep writing. Who cares. Good night. jajaja. Ahh and Bad Kitty I can speak spanish to you chica. Qué quieres que te diga, no sé tu dime, después de todo la que no me cree eres tú. If this is to be drunk…there´s something really wrong about you.
*-* Bad Kitty
Posted at 10:11 AM on October 21, 2013
Posted at 5:37 PM on October 19, 2013
Posted at 1:02 PM on October 20, 2013
@Bad Kitty …….
Wow, never thought about that one, drawing money for !!!!!!!!!!!! Now it all makes sense, I have never before encountered such inconsistencies, Thanks Friend, I will follow the ignore attitude in future, because in one post I have carefully gone through some of the legal issues of the Printed Media with their sources and the implications of printing slander based on sources, I Thank you.
Posted at 5:30 PM on October 19, 2013
More questions than answers.
Posted at 5:13 PM on October 19, 2013
Posted at 5:34 PM on October 19, 2013
Posted at 11:07 PM on October 19, 2013
Linda Louisville
Posted at 10:15 PM on October 20, 2013
Posted at 4:49 PM on October 19, 2013
*-* Bad Kitty
Posted at 4:39 PM on October 19, 2013
Posted at 5:26 PM on October 19, 2013
Guest23 you did not just try and put PEOPLE mag in the same category as HWL. That is belly laugh hilarious. One has a 1% error rate while the other has a 99.5% deliberate fabrication record. Why don't you do a bit of research. How many times has HWL debunked a story from PEOPLE? And let's lose they said Rob was dating KP. No, they never did. They reported Rob was hanging with KP at a ranch is SB post split which was true.
Posted at 5:35 PM on October 19, 2013
*-* Bad Kitty
Posted at 8:17 PM on October 19, 2013
Posted at 8:55 PM on October 19, 2013
*-* Bad Kitty
Posted at 9:31 PM on October 19, 2013
Posted at 11:24 PM on October 19, 2013
Posted at 5:29 AM on October 20, 2013
Bad Kitty sounds like Anon on Gossip Cop. Exact wording. You are a very sick person pushing this Star magazine lie. Rob, and Joe Jonas don't know each other. May Joe was there because he knows Zac, who is the birthday boy, and Jonas is in rehab? Rob was invited. I guess everyone at that party does drugs? His brother too? LOL! Get lives you losers.
Posted at 9:35 AM on October 20, 2013
@Alejandrina ……..
Where there is smoke, there is Fire, don't ACT naive, thought you were a lawyer, lawyers always suppose to pick up inconsistencies before other people.
No Gossip Mag will take a chance to print a story if there aren't a reliable source behind that story, it would be slander, and a court normally force them to print a public apology or they go to court and have to pay a substantial fine plus still a public apology, and the courts can force the Media to make their source known, but for a normal story the Printed media always do have a source which they protect because that source is the "Food on their Table" if you are able to understand what I mean, so just keep in mind if there is a story in Print, there is Smoke!
Linda Louisville
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Well, well, well…..Isn't this picture interesting? The guy standing between Rob and Zac Ephron is a producer (wink, wink, nod, nod…) whose name is, I think, Mohammed? The crowd at the "Chateau" and the "Snake" just called him MAT, which were his initials, I think? He was Saudi? He has been photographed many, many times with Michelle R., Lindsay L., and Zac E…….. Just, wow! This photo says volumes to me about recent rumors about robert's relationship with the lady who always wears white…… I would have never believed it otherwise. Geez Louise! Maybe this is the reason why Rob and Kristen parted ways? Just, wow……..
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Zach, Rob and Joe are all on the wagon together, lol. Come on HWL, your whole story is from tweets. Where are your stellar sources? Where any of these guys drinking? Lets hope not for Zach's sake. You can't name on other attendee other than who was mentioned it tweets? Pathetic. Guess we'll have to wait for a real outlet to cover the story. You know one with sources.
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Me, you miss the point too. They don't have to be. Supposedly Rob's pals have been speaking to HWL about Rob's unresolved feelings of love for Kristen according to HWL. So HWL has that good of sources, they shouldn't easily be able to call person's in the know to get more details. Who else was at the party, when did it end? Did they continue on elsewhere. My point I'm making is the comment about sources is to reaffirm that HWL doesn't have any. While it may not be Germaine to this story, it's certainly a point that shouldn't be forgotten for the next fabrications they write. Say like Rob and Riley did date even though Riley herself denied and now her mother…..
Posted at 5:39 PM on October 19, 2013
No I didn't miss your point. Amazingly, HL doesn't list any "inside sources" in this story other than the 3 tweets.
You, on the other hand, continuously act like you're "in the know". You know E! has a deal with Rob's reps, you know where Rob goes, what he does & what he feels, you know for a fact he's 100% with Dylan, and, somehow you know the food sucks where he was last night. Yet, you just admitted to having no inside sources and that you follow twitter & instagram all day. Do you see the hypocrisy here? Do you see how you come off as a plant with an agenda?
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I'll admit that it's hilarious that GC is calling out HL right now for their yesterday's Riley story.
But, again, you are not addressing the fact that you come off as a know it all. Am I really reading you wrong, or are you relentlessly trying to push a Dylan agenda? Because honestly, unless I see something for myself, I can not say that it is 100% for real. I just can't. So, why are you so damn certain? And, please don't tell me it's because of 1 line in the last People mag article about Rob. Because if it is, then yes, you are just as guilty as some of the other posters here who place far too much cred on gossip mags & sites. Really no different than those who believe that Rob & Kristen never broke up, just on the other spectrum of the story. You do realize that there's always at least 3 sides to a story right? With the truth usually being what overlaps in the middle. So, one source can not be accurate, especially when it's clouded by an opinion or agenda.
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Blogs are opinion based. I have mine which I will continue to express. I don't need photographic, smoking gun evidenced. In fact none of you should believe Zac, Rob or Joe were at CM celebrating Zac's birthday b/c there's no picture of it. No picture of it means it's not real according to many. I draw my opinions from all info our there, consider the outlets that have reported the info , behavioral patterns of the sites and parties involved. If you chose not to believe anything an outlet reports why come to the sites? It's all lies so why bother? We bother b/c it's not all lies however some have a far greater track record b/c they have legitimate sources. PEOPLE holds cred with me. How many times has GC called PeOple out on a story?
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Evidently you wouldn't know sarcasm if it hit you square in the nose. Did you not see my lol after the comment? anyway, since you don't do your homework, I'll give you a quick lesson. Joe was seen with a sobriety counselor last week, there's a photo of it. There's speculation the reason the JB's canceled their tour stems from infighting regarding Joe's behavior. Over the summer there was a SM post that Rob had another party at his house which Zach attended. There was a blind column two weeks ago that was about Rob. The post was about a young male actor who's fragrance campaign and romantic break up bring him much notoriety and the crowd he's spending time with will eventually lead him to rehab if he doesn't straighten up. I'm paraphrasing, but that's the gist, hence my sarcasm that they are all on the wagon. Rob knows Joe b/c he dated Ashley Green for awhile. I don't know precisely how he knows Zach. Corbin Bleu, who reportedly is still a good friend of Zach's, stared in a movie with Kristen year's ago so I don't know if the initial connection was made that way. But there are many who claim Zach began hanging with the same crowd that put Lohan on the wrong path and Rob's been linked to this same crowd before and evidently more so since Rob and Kristen split. As much as I like to joke, I believe drugs are no laughing matter and if any or all of them are battling the demon, prayer and god's blessing to them. Addiction is no joke..
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honestly,@Guest if your going to talk about someone at least spell their name correctly.like you said addiction is no joke and i don't appreciate people who use sarcasm in the wrong way to joke about something serious.
plus you just proved my point, you clearly seem to believe the stories on other sites based on speculation yet when HL talks about sources you don't believe them so you contradict yourself.
Posted at 5:32 PM on October 19, 2013
Guest 23, I don't share your point of view so you seem not to be able to handle it. I will make sarcasm as I choose. If you don't like it, that's your problem. Maybe your parents don't know your on this site. IDK. You show your young age and lack of inexperience at trying to put HWL in the same category as PEOPLE. That's like comparing the NYT to the Post. All things are not equal. See my post to you above.
Posted at 5:40 PM on October 19, 2013
GUEST talk about POT AND KETTLE SO now it doesnt please you to accept tweets!
Youve based your entire premise on DYlan and Rob on tweets and gossip sites
You cant have it both ways belive tweets an goss when it suits you but decry them when it doesnt!
Where your stellar sources that Rob@Dylan in bed having great sex? Or KS out with pals?
YOu have relied and stated tweets so your the hypocryte now YOU name me one person whos able willing to say Yes Dylan and Rob are a couple? See works both ways.
I dont think theres anything wrong with a few men having drinks whats the fuss about?
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@Rtoler… No she doesn't. She needs to date someone that is not related to Rob in any matter. I hate that Franco will be in a upcoming movie with Rob because then he may hesitate to go after Kristen if he becomes friends with Rob. Franco will probably hold off out of respect to Rob and the "man code" if one exist. Franco may be a little too old for Kristen in my opinion. I would like to see her with Theo James or someone like him.
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NOT FRANCO!! Franco would not be good for her. I think he just wants to get in her pants. Franco apparently did some type of art exhibit featuring his paintings. One of them was very disrespectful to Kristen and insulting. It was a pic of snow white with her dress up and exposing her @zz. He had written over snow white's head "K-Stew." That was not a good thing to do if you are pursuing some one. So he does not deserve a chance with her after that. She will find someone but definitely not Franco!


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People who listen to Today may have heard an article in the prime 8:10 slot on the 9th about the correlation between a drop in the use of leaded petrol, and a drop in violent crime rates. (Mother Jones actually beat the BBC, having published a piece on the same research last week: I meant to post something then, but was buried by other stuff.)
The nub of the story is this: that violent crime has been falling in the past few years, and though this pattern seems to lag about 20 years behind a fall in the use of lead in petrol, the fit is pretty good: a decline in leaded petrol predicts a decline in violent crime by about two decades – which is just about the time that we might expect would elapse between the formation of the brain and the highest likelihood of violent behaviour in humans. Neat. The Mother Jones piece provides lots of links to the relevant research – links to this (from 1999), and this (from 2007), and this (from 2012).
If the lead hypothesis is sound, it seems to be ethically interesting in a couple of ways. For one thing, it opens the way to at least some antisocial behaviour to be seen as being symptomatic of a deeper public health problem. That's interesting enough as it is, but – admittedly – it might be little more than interesting, on the grounds that leaded petrol is pretty much a thing of the past anyway (Wikipedia says that, as of 2011, leaded petrol was widely available only in 7 countries).
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AS THE smiling customer brought the potted plant to the cash register at DeBaggio Herbs in Chantilly, Virginia, Tom DeBaggio began to panic. The plant was small, with spiny, silvery leaves, woody stems and blue flowers. When rubbed between the fingers it gave off a warm, strong, piney smell, a bit like floor polish. But he did not know what it was. He fumbled for the tag, and when he couldn't find that, asked his wife Joyce what it could be. She told him, rosemary.
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This is a topic which has been bugging me for some time. While most big cities around the globe have a signature food or dish that is known to be "from that city". For example; London has Fish & Chips, Philadelphia has it's Cheese Steak. Chicago has Deep-Dish style pizza, and Montreal has smoked meat and bagels. I can go on for a while, and I'm sure you can think of many other city-signature foods. But what does Toronto have to offer? We have so many different cultures here that it's hard to pin one dish that could be called Toronto's own. There is lots of great food here, but we need that dish we can call our own. I think it's too far gone, and will never happen. I do find it a joke somewhat that even small cities in Canada have their own claim to fame like "Halifax style donair" or even Ottawa with their beaver tails but we still don't have one, what does that say about us? Thoughts?
Peameal bacon sandwiches, and it's time we had them on Toronto streetcorners, too! While it's a pork sandwich, it was important in our history, and many tourists talk about it after a delicious, inexpensive encounter at the St. Lawrence market.
If the Toronto councillors ever get more variety into street food (next year, they say), the city could become known for a wide variety of ethnic foods from carts. But that is still in the future.
re: Bobby Wham
This was the first thing that came to my mind. Judging by what I read it's pretty uniquely TO and a damned fine sandwich at that.
You do realize the food police won't allow uncooked meat in the cooler of a street vendor.
Maybe they need to invent a solar powered cooler.DT
re: jayt90
I've lived in Toronto for almost forty years. In all that time, no prospective first time visitor ever mentioned their hankering for a peameal bacon sandwich as a reason to visit Toronto. Perhaps it wins by default, in that (once here) you might miss these sandwiches after moving away. Since I don't eat them, I can't comment on their deliciousness. But I don't see these as a genuine "signature dish".
I really thought about this question, and it left me feeling gloomy. If I leave Toronto, there is no specifically local food that I will especially miss.
Even in this Mickey D era, many communities have unique local foods that people make pilgrimages to eat. Think Montreal (smoked meat, bagels, and steamies), New York (pastrami, bagels, hot dogs, and pizza), Philadelphia (cheese steaks and pretzels), New Haven (pizza), Cincinnati (chili, Graeter's ice cream), Chicago (hot dogs, pizza, and Italian beef), Kansas City (BBQ, pan fried chicken). Even Buffalo (wings, hot dogs, beef on weck).
I could go on and on. In the US and Canada, in big cities and rural hamlets, there are signature foods. Jane and Michael Stern ("Roadfood") have built a successful career writing about them.
I've found many of these local specialties disappointing. Cincinnati chili was a letdown. I think steamies are yuk. But people travel to communities to try these foods.
There are many delicious foods in Toronto, but I can't think of any Toronto signature dish.
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Take off, eh! Never heard of a back-bacon-on-a-bun? You hoser...
Coo-roo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo. Just kidding. Peameal bacon, back bacon--pretty much the same thing, eh?0-
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Peameal bacon and back bacon are distinctly different. If they were not, then Irish bacon or Canadian bacon (U.S. style) would pass for peameal bacon. Those two products are smoked, drier, and cut from the smaller tenderloin of the hog.
Our true peameal bacon is juicy, tender, and unsmoked, from the 'strip' loin of the hog. Each piece is larger in area than back bacon, and the taste is quite different if thick sliced and slowly grilled before joining a crusty roll, tomato, and all the trimmings.
re: jayt90
Isn't Irish bacon brined or cured (i.e. not smoked)?
I thought peameal bacon was just "Canadian bacon" rolled in peameal. Whatever the case, it makes a good sandwich.
re: grandgourmand
Here is a description of two smoked back bacons, Irish and Canadian. The difference seems to be the part of the loin used.http://www.recipetips.com/glossary-te...
Peameal bacon is a fresher, juicier version, but unsmoked, as in the Real Canadian Bacon product: http://www.realcanadianbacon.com/pork...
re: jayt90
Having lived in Toronto my whole life, I'd never heard of 'Canadian bacon' until travelling in the US. As far as I know, peameal bacon and back bacon are pretty well interchangeable here in 'the Great White North'. They're not smoked, but brined or pickled. Have a Labatt's Blue and chill.
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The odd thing is, Canadian bacon in the U.S. is smoked. It is quite well known that way at Peter Luger and Wolfgang's.http://www.canadianbacon.com/
re: Yongeman
Peameal bacon, back bacon. I've heard of it. but peameal bacon sandwiches being Toronto's signature dish?... I would hardly say so. If I think HARD and dig from distant memory because I don't pay much attention to peameal bacon/back bacon/ham etc etc... I myself have only see those at farmer's markets and such and maybe you can get peameal bacon at the grocery store.. but the places I go to.. there are never any huge honking signs screaming "Peameal Bacon Sandwiches".. this is about Toronto... not signature dishes of farmer's markets in Ontario.
re: hippotatomus
Do you get to St. Lawrence Market much? At Carousel bakery, they sell the peameal bacon sandwich. Love it or hate it (not sure how many haters out there), it's a classic Toronto sandwich. Hell, they even have a signed picture from Emeril and Catherine Zeta-Jones testifying to the goodness of the sandwich.
re: grandgourmand
Emeril and Catherine are living in Toronrto? I need a personal chef and a personal trainer. Got their numbers?
Seriously, the point is well made that one does not see "Peameal Sandwich Served Here!" plastered in a diner window every two blocks here as one is likely to see "Le Smoked Meat", "Hot Dog Stimmé" and "Poutine" advertised in Montreal, for example.
A local specialty should be up-front, not hidden in a basement.
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re: mrbozo
Just for the sake of argument, though, many of these so-called "local specialties" are, in fact, rarely eaten by actual locals. Deep dish pizza comes to mind - many Chicago natives will tell you that it's just for tourists, and that their idea of Chicago-style pizza is actually very different. Peameal is at least something you don't generally see outside Ontario, and thus it makes it into guidebooks as something visitors should try when visiting Toronto. And, love it or hate it, they do, and leave our fair city thinking of it as something they would only get here.
It may not be advertised in the windows, but it is part of the classic diner lineup around here, and it IS in the grocery store - I always find it at NoFrills, right across the aisle from the refrigerated fresh noodles and dim sum buns. And I think THAT'S the true culinary signature of Toronto.
If we could just get portuguese har gow a la peameal grilled on the street to catch on, then maybe we could all agree...0-
re: Wahooty
portugues har gow a la peameal sounds good...but, should be stuffed into a roti and then grilled.
re: mrbozo
But part of this problem is that WE are Toronto. We don't put up big fancy signs saying how great we are. We might offend someone.
Also, if PB on a B were to make it to street level, things would most certainly change.DT
re: grandgourmand
Actually I worked at Jarvis and King for four months and frequently went to the St. Lawrence Market for lunch. I knew there were sandwiches but I had no desire really to have them.
re: hippotatomus
Every year since I was a kid (and I am closer to being a senior now than a child) we would go to the CNE - and we would always have back bacon on a bun. No, I would not call it Toronto's signature dish - to do that would ignore all of the wonderful multiculture dishes our fair city has to offer. To ignore it though would be an sad oversight.
re: jayt90
We don't have Canadian bacon in Canada. We have peameal, frying pork and, er, bacon. Nothing against a nice smoked loin of pork mind you, but it ain't bacon.
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It has been bugging me too. This is hogtown. I think we would be doing ourselves a disservice to suggest anything but pork. Peameal is high on my list too. There are a lot of talented chefs using a lot of local porkbelly. Anyone want to organize a "Porkfest" and invite local chefs out to give their best interpretation of piggy? Oink oink.
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