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July 6, 2017 JenCuriousDiane Hoh, Funhouse, Open Road Media, Point Horror Leave a comment
Hey guys, guys, you guys, let's not think about how close my fortieth birthday is while I'm spending all this time thinking and blogging about teen horror novels written three decades ago during my first blush of youth, m'kay?
And that's all I'm going to say about existential crises this week, because it's time for some FUUUUN…house. Funhouse. 1990's Funhouse by Diane Hoh, to be exact, also known as Point Horror #9. It's just like the love potion, but with blood, blood, blood…and bits of sick. And let me tell you, Diane isn't fucking around.
Tess Landers would always remember exactly where she was and what she was doing when The Devil's Elbow roller coaster went flying off its track, shooting straight out into the air and hanging there for a few seconds, before giving into gravity and plummeting straight to the ground. The crash killed Dade Lewis, destroyed Sheree Buchanan's face, and separated Joey Furman forever from his left leg.
Those, ladies and gentlemen, are the first two sentences on page one. So let's dive right into this maelstrom of legless, faceless teen corpses, shall we?
I'd like to start off by telling you how our heroine du jour has just gotten a weird cash-in-hand job to pay for her prom dress or answered a creepily worded classified ad to catalog some old psycho's library for mad benjamins, but none of those little plot movers apply here, because Tess's family is rich. All of her friends are rich, too–the richest little Richies in town.
An artist's impression of Tess Landers.
She and her friends all hang out at The Boardwalk, which their parents own, because it has cotton candy and games and funhouses and roller coaster tracks painted red with the blood of teenage carnage. And their parents fucking own it, so they must get free hot dogs or goldfish with short lifespans or something to make the sacrifice worthwhile.
So Tess and her friends witness a roller coaster literally leaving its tracks, flying into the air and leaving their friends either mutilated or dead, and what do they do? Have a birthday party at The Boardwalk, that's what they do. They are not pussies, as we used to say in the nineties and try not to now but rarely succeed. Trouble is, incidents on The Boardwalk keep happening and kids keep getting hurt, almost as if these incidents aren't accidents. Spoiler alert! They're not.
In between Tess navigating her frankly worrisome home environment (she left her dad's mansion to live with her stepmother when they split; her stepmother promptly flew off for an extended vacay in Europe, leaving seventeen-year-old Tess to fend for herself in a condo in the woods, which is totally plausible) and the entirely intentional hazards of The Boardwalk, we get glimpses into the mind of the killer and, well, it's all a bit complicated.
Ha, ha, ha. Shredded tires. Now her car won't go!
Yeeeeeah.
So we discover, in detail, why the killer is killing the wealthy townspeople's offspring, but we never find out why Tess's dad, whose name is Guy Joe, Sr., thought it would be just the best idea to name his son Guy Joe, Jr. And everyone actually calls him Guy Joe all the time like it's nothing, like his very name name doesn't pinpoint him as the crazed hillbilly serial killer child of suicides who's been terrorizing them this whole time. Oh shit…did I just give it away? Never mind.
You haunt my dreams, Guy Joe.
I was a little worried about straying from my beloved Richie T.; I know I read other Point books back in the day, but I don't remember much about them because I'm old now and tired and everything hurts all the time. Would I lose the comfort of familiarity? Be disappointed by the probable names? Turns out I had nothing to worry about. Thanks Diane.
I give Funhouse 3 Killer Clowns from Outer Space out of 5 for the odd mix of old-fashioned dialogue and gleeful teen-killing.
If it arrives in time!
June 21, 2017 JenCuriousOpen Road Media, Point Horror, Richie Tankersley Cusick, Silent Stalker 1 Comment
I've read Cusick's Silent Stalker more than once, and I sat down to write this review several times before I gave up entirely. I have spent the past six months not writing a review for this book, because I can think of no other way, no better way to describe it than batshit crazy.
Silent Stalker is my white whale, so welcome aboard the SS Curious: we're gonna harpoon a bitch.
We're just going to get straight into this, because if I try to think about it too much, my brain will melt. First, let's meet our 'heroine' Jenny and her douche nozzle father who doesn't need a name and possibly doesn't have one anyway, because he's the nozzle of a douche, and who knows what that's even called.
"You're being a brat," said Dad under his breath as he pulled their suitcases from the car. "You're upsetting me."
"Because I'm scared to stay here?"
"Just like your mother," he snorted. "Always trying to ruin my plans—"
In case you haven't already guessed, Jenny's mother and father are divorced. Jenny's mother, who only appears briefly at the end of the book but still manages to come across as the most well-adjusted of the characters, wants her ex-husband and daughter to spend some quality time together. So Jenny finds herself at a rebuilt English castle in the middle of rural America where her father is going write an article about a local Renaissance Faire. Sounds mundane, yeah? In case you think Jenny's being hard done by, please note that she has a habit of coming out with daft shit like this:
"Is it…is it real? Jenny heard someone whisper, and then realized with a start that it was her.
I hate Jenny.
So Jenny and Superdad rock up to this castle during an actual dark and stormy night and a tree falls on their car, proving that even nature hates this book, which gives Superdad the perfect excuse to just invite himself—"oh and that pain in the ass I share my genes with I guess what a drag mmm cookies"—over to stay the night. Before you get all jealous, the castle is a mess. And it's inhabited by an inbred gang of total fucking nobheads: the Worthingtons. There's Derrek and Malcolm, dashing if you like that kind of thing identical twins, who dress up in "romantic clothes" all the time; their demented father Sir Something-or-other; and their younger brother, who dresses as a court jester. His name…his name is WIT. Yeah, you read that right. I don't think I can take this much longer.
When Jenny wakes up the next day, her father's already fucked off to go write some other article…and left his daughter in the care of complete strangers who talk in terrible rhymes and who, instead of calling Child Protective Services like reasonable human beings, proceed to torture the poor girl for no discernible reason. I mean, it's obvious Jenny scares easily–that's the Cusick protagonist trope–but they really go for it in this: chaining her up to the wall, playing mind games, going "woo-woo" while wearing sheets, and other things I didn't bother to note down because I gave up. But it's okay man, cos two of the brothers are wikkid hot and one is, like, boyishly handsome with dimples and sociopathic tendencies, and it's not Jenny's fault that she suspected them all along when actually, once she ends up in exactly the same climactic sequence as Kelsey in The Lifeguard, she finds out it was the third twin I mean triplet who's truly psychotic and has been trying to kill her all along, even though the others knew the whole time and instead of warning her just fucked her about and put her in danger because they have such wonderful senses of humor okay cool let's all be friends The End.
And then they literally all ride off into the sunset together as the best of friends in the epilogue.
I give this blight five what-the-fucks out of I can't even. Is this a good book? Goodreads thinks so. Is it a bad one? I honestly can't tell, but some things should probably stay buried in 1994 where they belong. I only have myself to blame for digging it up.
I still love you Richie!
December 1, 2016 JenCuriousOpen Road Media, Point Horror, Richie Tankersley Cusick, Silent Stalker 1 Comment
You guys. It's happened again–I know the title, I know the cover…but I have absolutely no idea of the story inside. No clue. I even broke my own rule and had a very quick and squinty-eyed peek at the synopsis, but no. No bells were rung, not a single memory was jogged. Let's see what Open Road Media has to say about this:
Trapped in a madman's castle, a young girl must fight to save her sanity
Thunder bellows as Jenny and her father pull up to the gate of Worthington Hall. As they inch onto the grounds of the ancient estate, a disheveled young woman thrusts her head through the open window. "Leave!" she yells. "Before it's too late! He'll kill you. I swear." Jenny is terrified, but her dad laughs it off. The girl is just an actress—part of the medieval fair being held on the castle grounds. But it's not long before Jenny wishes they'd heeded the warning. The house is a drafty maze of narrow hallways and dungeons. Jenny wants to flee, but her father is intent on the work he's come to do. Soon the Worthington family sets upon young Jenny, playing twisted tricks on her until she forgets what's real. The Worthingtons play cruel games—and if Jenny loses, it will mean her life.
Looks like Jenny's getting off the block (of small-town middle America) for this one. But who the hell are these insane-sounding Worthington freaks? 'Hey, uh, thanks for coming to help us set up our Ren Faire. Can we terrorise your daughter? Oh, no real reason, just for the lulz.'
Point Horror, ladies and gentlemen.
November 24, 2016 JenCuriousFatal Secrets, Point Horror, Richie Tankersley Cusick 1 Comment
Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American readers! And to everyone else, I pity your lack of pumpkin pie.
But we're not here to talk turkey–we're here for Point flippin' Horror. And our next installment is going to be all Fatal, all Secret, all the time. That's right, it's 1992's Fatal Secrets by Richie Tankersley Cusick, and if you're wondering why I haven't got straight into what I remember about the book, it's because I remember nothing. Not a single damn thing.
Granted, I'm not one to recall titles all that well, but even this cover looks only vaguely familiar to me. It's kind of a mishmash of themes, with its creepy doll, haunted-y house, and carnival detritus, so I'm not getting a clear sense of the story from that either. What about the tagline?
The killer is only a heartbeat away…
Yeah, that could mean literally anything. I know I must have read Fatal Secrets–I'm pretty sure I read every Richie title in the nineties, as her books were kind of my jam–but man, I got nothing. So let's make some shit up!
Beautiful, young, and improbably named Titanic Nietzsche takes a part-time job at the local travelling night carnival to feel less lonely while her deadbeat Fortune 500 CEO mother honeymoons with the new husband on Mars. When creepy things start happening at the ring toss kiosk, she teams up with undercover cop Tornado Lightningballs who, disguised as a carousel horse, has been tracking a gang of possessed Punch and Judy marionettes intent on flooding the town's black market with kidneys harvested from the local high school's population. Can Titanic and Tornado the Wonder Horse stop the kindeynappings? Is it weird that no one ever wins at the ring toss, or is it designed that way? Find out if the gigantic metal bar anchoring Tornado to the carousel floor gets in the way of his budding romance with Titanic in Fatal Secrets.
If Fatal Secrets isn't exactly like this, I'm going to be crushed.
Pointless Horror: Mall Brats, Part 2
November 21, 2016 JenCurious21 Jump Street, Point Horror, Richie Tankersley Cusick, The Mall 1 Comment
Holy crap, time got away from me for a minute there. Did you miss me? It's been two weeks since Part 1, but since I didn't remember a huge amount about this book pre-read, it probably doesn't matter anyway. God, I'm starting to sound like a teenager again. I hate my life and stop telling me what to do.
Enough of that. To the review and beyond!
Naked mannequins are well creepy. There's no denying that they're similar to dolls in their power to render even the bravest of us a slobbering mess. But on this cover of Cusick's suburban teenage horror The Mall (1992), they just look a bit staid and generic. So sorry, Open Road Media, but the original's neon hysteria wins the round. Again. (I'm beginning to think I might be some kind of throwback: 'You kids don't know how good you have it. Back in my day everything was hot pink!').
It's been a couple of weeks since I read The Mall, so let's try to remember the story together, eh? Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young princess named…uh…Trish. No, yeah, it was Trish. She kissed a frog, and then it turned into a serial killer? Hang on, let me check my notes.
Ah, yes, here we are: Young Trish gets a job at the bakery in her local mall's food court because teenagers like money and those white jean skirts aren't going to buy themselves. Sounds pretty typical, right?
'I'm telling you, weird things happen at this mall,' Nita shook her head. 'Gives me the creeps.'
That's on like page four, kids, so we're getting to the point real quick in this one. (Not that it ever takes long in Point Horror–this isn't Stephen King we're talking about.) Our Nita, along with her bookish and therefore instantly likable twin Imogene, are Trish's best friends. They also work at the mall, in a clothing store called something embarrassingly nineties and a bookstore, respectively. I like Imogene best, for obvious reasons. Trish's single mother is, of course, as far away from this plane of reality as she can get without actually being dead.
'She's still on that stupid business trip flying around Europe somewhere,' Trish said ungratefully gloomily. 'You're so lucky your parents aren't divorced. And that you have a normal mother instead of a business executive!'
Right. Moving along.
So Trish is working her first shift at the muffin grinder–grinding muffins–when she catches the eye of a slightly odd gentleman with a penchant for honey muffins. His manner is a little off, but she pays it no mind because at the pizza place across the court she's just noticed the man of her effing dreams, guys. Get ready for it…
'I never have trouble remembering his name,' Nita sighed. 'Storm Reynolds….'
Because who could possibly forget an improbable name like STORM REYNOLDS. You have truly outdone yourself this time, Ms. Cusick. Truly. And I love you for it.
Storm–may I call you Storm?–Storm is exactly what you'd expect him to be: tall, handsome, high cheekbones, hung like a…. And the ladies can't keep their eyes off him (except Imogene, who prefers his friend and metal-enthusiast Weird Wyatt, which is also why I like her best.) The girls are just having their day in the mall, you know, when all of sudden Trish gets sort-of called away for a phone call (on a payphone yeah you heard me rite).
'I'm eating the muffin,' he said. 'It tastes just like you.'
Well. Shit just got not funny. I guess Nita was right. Turns out weird things have been happening at the mall (lots of missing girls (some dead), merchandise disappearing, honey muffins all over the goddamn place like Winnie-the-Pooh got perverted, you name it). Trish is the latest in a long line of the Muffin Man's obsessions, but that's practically beside the point because Storm and Wyatt (spoiler) are undercover cops.
Now, in Part 1 I said I hoped this would be the book that bleached my brain clean of all traces of Vampire, and I'm happy to report it was. Not only did Cusick have a little fun with her formula, she brought some realistic fear to an otherwise over-the-top (if pretty imaginative) crazy stalker/serial killer character. And with Cusick introducing both the possibility of a dangerous environment (creepy mall) and the Muffin Maniac* within the first ten pages, Trish's immediate and escalating fear didn't come across as unfounded and hysterical–just pretty fucking rational under the circumstances. No running from wet leaves like a Southern train for this girl.
A few tiresome cliches still poked through (how many times are the good guys going to have uncharacteristic attacks of outpatient behaviour just so we have weak reason to suspect them?), but all in all, an entertaining read.
The Mall gets four out of five honey muffins for genuine stalker fear and for releasing me from Vampire's egregious embrace.
*Fun fact: The bakery Trish works at is called Muffin-Mania. MUFFIN-MANIA, y'all!
November 3, 2016 JenCuriousPoint Horror, Richie Tankersley Cusick, The Mall 1 Comment
Early nineties' clothes are terrifying.
Aaaand we're back in the room.
After a much-needed week off, we're continuing the Pointless Horror series with The Mall, Richie Tankersley Cusick's 1992 offering. Judging by the five-star Amazon UK rating, this should be a smidgen better than the book That Shall Not Be Named, also known as The Book That Broke Pointless.
I don't really remember the killer or the premise of this story–except, you know, it's in a mall–but I do know there's a definite 21 Jump Street angle to it, with undercover cops posing as high-school students. It makes me wonder just how many cops actually look like children, and how much that must suck for them.
The fabulous mullets make up for all the beatings.
Tune in Monday for what I hope will be a happy happy joy joy review of awesomeness, because I just know this is going to be the book that turns things around (even though we already had that).


Dr. Neslon talks about some of the implications on health and performance of the very popular ketogenic diet.
You can make an argument for using periods of ketosis, possibly, for health, possibly for some types of pathologies. I think it has a massive potential for that, things such as maybe type II diabetes, TBI (traumatic brain injury), but, for performance, maybe there is a few outlined cases that it may be superior, I'm not entirely sold on it for that.
Now again I have a presentation coming up on this too, it's that if we take someone and put him on a ketogenic diet and then we give him back more carbohydrates, they've lost some of that ability to use carbs to their full potential. So, we will not see an instant increase in performance if they were doing that.
However, if they were doing a period of intermittent fasting, that does not change the body's ability to use carbohydrates. That's probably related to the PDH enzyme, pyruvate dehydrogenase.
High fat diets will change PDH. Again, we don't know how long you have to be on a high fat or a ketogenic type diet to see changes in that. Again, the changes are not permanent, so if you talk to researchers, like my good buddy Dr. Don D'agostino, he'll say that in some athletes, this period of time is a couple days, so that's not a big deal. In other athletes it can be a couple weeks. So that can be a big deal. Right, so just keep that in mind, the high fat diets will change PDH, which will negatively decrease your body's ability to fully use carbohydrates. Again, that doesn't mean you're not using carbohydrates, it just means that you're losing a single digit percentage off of a top end. It's usually speed and power that athletes report that just drops when they do a ketogenic diet. Now, if don't care about performance, probably not a big deal. But if you're a performance eccentric, then it is a very big deal.


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Q: When do I initialize variables in JavaScript with null or not at all? I have seen different code examples with variables declared and set to undefined and null. Such as:
var a; // undefined - unintentional value, object of type 'undefined'
var b = null; // null - deliberate non-value, object of type 'object'

If the code to follow these declarations assigns a value to a or to b, what is the reason for using one type of declaration over another?

A: I would explicitly choose null, to not create an object whose id is later overwritten anyway:
var foo = {}; // empty object, has id etc.
var foo2 = null; // good practice, // filled with an object reference at a later time
var foo3;// undefined, I would avoid it
console.log(typeof foo);
console.log(typeof foo2);
console.log(typeof foo3);

Setting null also ensures good readability to identify the datatype (object),
results in
object
object
undefined

Source (Professional JavaScript for Web Developers 3rd Edition):

When defining a variable that is meant to later hold an object, it is
  advisable to initialize the variable to null as opposed to anything
  else. That way, you can explicitly check for the value null to
  determine if the variable has been filled with an object reference at
  a later time, such as in this example:

if (foo2 != null){
    //do something with foo2
}

The value undefined is a derivative of null, so ECMA-262 defines them to be superficially equal as follows:

console.log(null == undefined); // prints true
console.log(null === undefined);// prints false

A: The first example doesn't assign anything to the variable, so it implicitly refers to the undefined value (see 10.5 in the spec for the details). It is commonly used when declaring variables for later use. There is no need to explicitly assign anything to them before necessary.
The second example is explicitly assigned null (which is actually of type null, but due to a quirk of the JavaScript specification, claims to have type "object"). It is commonly used to clear a value already stored in an existing variable. It could be seen as more robust to use null when clearing the value since it is possible to overwrite undefined, and in that situation assiging undefined would result in unexpected behaviour.
As an aside, that quirk of null is a good reason to use a more robust form of type checking:
Object.prototype.toString.call(null); // Returns "[object Null]"

A: I just saw this link which clarified my question.
What reason is there to use null instead of undefined in JavaScript?
Javascript for Web Developers states "When defining a variable that is meant to later hold an object, it is advisable to initialize the variable to null as opposed to anything else. That way, you can explicitly check for the value null to determine if the variable has been filled with an object reference at a later time."

A: I don't think there's a particular better way of doing things, but I'm inclined to avoid undefined as much as possible. Maybe it's due to a strong OOP background.
When I try to mimic OOP with Javascript, I would generally declare and initialize explicitly my variables to null (as do OOP languages when you declare an instance variable without explicitly initializing it).
If I'm not going to initialize them, why even declare them in the first place? When you debug, if you haven't set a value for a variable you watch, you will see it as undefined whether you declared it or not...
I prefer keeping undefined for specific behaviours:

*

*when you call a method, any argument you don't provide would have an undefined value. Good way of having an optional argument, implementing a specific behaviour if the argument is not defined.

*lazy init... in my book undefined means "not initialized: go fetch the value", and null means "initialized but the value was null (eg maybe there was a server error?)"

*arrays: myArray[myKey] === null if there is a null value for this key, undefined if a value has never been set for this key.

Be careful though, that myVar == null and myVar == undefined return the same value whether myVar is undefined, null or something else. Use === if you want to know if a variable is undefined.

A: null is an object.. When something is undefined it is nothing.. it is not an object, neither a string, because it hasn't been defined yet.. obviously.. then it is simply a property with no function..
example:
You declare a variable with var but never set it.
var foo;
alert(foo); //undefined.

You attempt to access a property on an object you've never set.
var foo = {};
alert(foo.bar); //undefined

You attempt to access an argument that was never provided.
function myFunction (foo) {
  alert(foo); //undefined.
}

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I'm known for my cooking. How I wish that were not so. My cooking skills are legendary for all the wrong reasons.
Of course I believe in miracles! I say that every time something I bake turns out well.
If I could, I'd have all-white furniture in my living room, and admire it from afar. I'd have to. There'd be no real living going on in that room, I tell you.
How do they do it, those people in the magazines? Their sofas and chairs are spotless, their kitchens – their entire homes and gardens — are immaculate. There are no books or magazines left behind on a comfy chair, no cushions fallen from the sofa to the floor, no threadbare old carpets, no signs of daily catastrophes in any of their rooms.
A house can be a showplace, I suppose. But my home – now that's something else. Though I am all for making a comfortable nest for my family and self, mine is a dwelling that shows the marks of living. By that I mean that items are often out of place, forgotten in one room on the way to another, left there till they become fixtures in their new location.
I've assigned a virtue to my brand of housekeeping. I call it the "lived in" look. Well, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. My home looks and feels lived in, with books, blankets and cushions comfortably misplaced and eyeglasses and notebooks in any room but the one where I most need them.
An interior decorator told me there's a big difference between "storage" and "display". My dining room cupboard was meant for display purposes, he said.
One thing the catastrophes of recent years have done for me: I have shed most of my false pride and pretense. And I'm trying to stamp out the rest.
I don't worry about impressing anyone. As long as the house is clean, as long as there are fresh sheets and flowers from my garden in the guest room, and people have enough to eat, I'm content. But this attitude of mine didn't happen overnight. It took years.
The wisdom that age brings is knowing that we don't always have to accept what others think, or what they do…especially when we have experience of our own and some commonsense too.
There my husband and I were, a year ago, in a pub in Newcastle, Ontario.
We were meeting with our younger daughter's future in-laws to plan the wedding.
We were all nervous. The kids were totally in love and getting married. But what if their parents disagreed — about everything?
Then my husband started telling jokes and everyone dissolved into laughter. Loud, boisterous laughter. It broke the ice and everything went well.
There was a couple at the next table. Daughter and I went over to apologize for our loudness.
The couple introduced themselves. The husband also gave me a book and introduced himself as the book's author.
We all ended up talking. About books. And weddings. And marriages.
Meanwhile, my blog series on Ebor House was a big hit at last year's Doors Open Clarington tour. The printed version was a fundraiser for Doors Open.
This year, I told co-chairs Marilyn Morawetz and Bernice Norton that I'd volunteer again for Doors Open Clarington: I'd write about another house.
I had no idea it would be the home of someone I'd already met.
Then life went nuts. Over 3 months, Marilyn gently nudged me — repeatedly.
Finally, Hamlin decided to take a break from his busy schedule to help me out: he kindly agreed to drive us there and take the photos.
When we arrived at The Grange, hosts and visitors warmly embraced and laughed together at the coincidence.
Nick and Wendy Boothman were the couple we met in the Newcastle pub!
Wendy drove us to see Screaming Hill.
Then Nick took Hamlin to photograph the barn and the grounds, while Wendy and I stayed in the house and talked.
It reminds me that one must leave room for the unexpected. And that the thing called serendipity is sometimes, strangely, within our gift.
Thanks to Hamlin Grange, Nick and Wendy Boothman, and Marilyn, Bernice and the Doors Open Clarington team.


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The nightlife in Vegas is legendary, and not for the faint of heart, with everything from gay cowboy-themed dive bars to the glossiest of nightclubs. Most hotels will have more than one nightclub on the premises, so you don't have to wander far from your bed to find a pumping dance floor or VIP lounge. Take the time to talk to your hotel concierge -- many will have someone on staff who specializes in LGBT nightlife -- who can help you navigate the ins and outs of one of the world's best party towns, and make the red-velvet-rope experience a little less painful.
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Share Nightclub
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Flex Cocktail Lounge
Home to the longest-running drag show in Vegas, Flex Cocktail Lounge is a fixture on any gay Vegas bar crawl, and their "What a Drag" Saturday night shows are still...
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Entourage Gay Vegas Bathhouse
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This unassuming dive bar on the East Side is actually one of the most trans-friendly watering holes in town. The scene can be a little wild, and it's in a...
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There's usually a game of Super Smash Bros or Donkey Kong underway at The Phoenix Bar and Lounge, projected onto a wall and played by patrons settled into...
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Located in the heart of Downtown's Arts District, Artifice is a hip lounge and events space with a regular rotation of bands, theater, and performance art. The...
Badlands Saloon
Badlands Saloon is a neighborhood bar with an impressive commitment to its theme, where locals come to play cowboy instead of the slots. There are plenty of pool...
Beauty Bar is a spin-off of the popular New York dive of the same name, and true to its original form, it attracts a crowd of twenty-something hipsters here to...
Charlie's Las Vegas
Charlie's Las Vegas has some of the best drink specials in town, which may be why it's so popular with the young cowboy-wannabe crowd, who pile in here for line...
Double Down Saloon
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The hilarious, potty-mouthed graffiti on the walls of Double Down Saloon is just part of the fun, which also includes a kick-ass jukebox, battered pool tables, and a...
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A classic Las Vegas gay dive catering to the denim and leather crowd, Fun Hog Ranch is a hit with locals but still welcoming to the occasional tourist. The drinks...
Monday nights are the best nights at Goodtimes, a gay and lesbian bar that also hosts popular goth parties on Thursdays and the "What A Drag" drag show on Saturdays....
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An 80,000-square-foot outpost of the original club in London, Hakkasan is half nightclub-half restaurant, serving high-end Cantonese cuisine. There are eight floors...
Hawk's Gym
Hawk's Gym - which has a second location in Portland, Oregon - is the smaller of the two gay bathhouses in Las Vegas, and has a loyal clientele who come for the dark...
Marquee Nightclub
The 50-foot ceilings, bi-level dance floor and stadium-style seating at Marquee nightclub give some sense of its vast interior, but you really have to see this place...
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One of the best nightclubs on the Fruit Loop - a group of gay and lesbian bars on the east side of town - Piranha may be small but it packs a big punch. Highlights...
REVOSundays at Revolution Lounge
Every Sunday at the Mirage's Revolution Lounge is gay party REVOSundays, which has a well-deserved reputation as the perfect place to start a night of club-hopping....
Spotlight Lounge
A laid-back karaoke-and-pool bar with a mostly local gay clientele, the Spotlight Lounge serves strong drinks at decent prices with very little attitude. It's been...
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The Luxor's Sunday evening pool party has been going strong for some time, and just one look at the bronzed bodies on display will explain at least part of its...
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The Garden from nightlife empresario Eduardo Cordova is an intimate and chic LGBTQ lounge bar located in the Art District with craft cocktails, light bites and an
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A ritzy wine bar tucked into the basement of the M Resort, The Hostile Grape has the cool, dark atmosphere of a library. The well-curated menu stocks 160 wines by...
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LEROY — Kourtney Brock is spending the summer at Pine River trying to get ready for the spring softball season.
It appears she may be more than ready.
Brock was the winning pitcher in a victory over Manton recently in Local Area Teams (LAT) League action. After losing the first game 10-8, the Bucks won the second contest 4-1.
"I did OK," she said. "I had good control."
Brock only had two walks against Manton. It's apparent her control is fine, but she wants to work on her speed. Summer ball has been very productive for Brock, who has focused on being a better pitcher.
Brock played JV last spring and will be either on that level or varsity next season, depending on the coaching staff's decision with the roster.
She has pitched the last couple of years and has seen improvement. "I'll mix it up and get faster," Brock said.
It's been a good summer for Brock, especially playing against varsity players. She's been confident against them, realizing the key is challenging them.
"It's been pretty good," she said.
Brock has also been working on her hitting.
Pine River closed action in the LAT League last week.
"We're pretty good," said Brock, who plans on pitching on her own during the offseason to get ready for 2015. Both pitchers, Brooke Pennington and Alexis Stokely, graduated from the 2014 team, leaving the door open for Brock and others to see pitching duty in the future.


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Two bills to enact same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland pass first reading in UK Parliament
On 28 March 2018, the House of Commons passed a Ten Minute Rule Bill to enact same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland, five years after same-sex couples were granted marriage equality in England and Wales.
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A vote on legalising same-sex marriage in Australia is to proceed after the High Court dismissed two legal challenges.
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Still a long way to go on LGBTI equality, warns Amnesty
Fifty years on from the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales, there is still a long way to go to achieve full equality for LGBTI people in this country and across the world, Amnesty International UK has warned.
Scottish churches advance towards marrying same-sex couples
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Scottish Episcopal Church General Synod to discuss same sex marriage
Representatives from dioceses across Scotland have gathered in Edinburgh for the annual meeting of the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church, which takes place on 8-10 June at St Paul's and St George's Church, York Place, Edinburgh.
Church of Scotland Assembly accepts same sex marriage report
The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has approved an apology to gay people for the history of discrimination they have faced in the Church. Commissioners also approved a report which could pave the way to allow some ministers to conduct same sex marriages in the future.
Sexuality, gender and disrespect for scripture
In 2017, the Church of England, along with several other churches, will be looking again at sexuality and gender identity.


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I've always believed this book is best used in print format, but so many people rely on their tablets and phones for content now that I decided to release this book in these formats.
The continued popularity of the aLearning book shouldn't surprise any of us, but despite planning to retire the book, it sells consistently enough that I know its practical, step-by-step instructions and procedures for developing an online strategy haven't lost their value, despite some changes in technology since the book was first published.
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Thanks Aussie_Pilot. I bought the car from the Ossie Park crew and have it serviced there. Pretty sure it was the foreman (recommended by Carl) that drove with me to listen and then acknowledge that there was an abnormal noise. The car still had forward and reverse motion and the transmission wasn't on fire, so he didn't really see things as urgent. I will persist! And James - thanks for the tip about the ELM327 dongle and DDT4ALL software hack. I had to google it to get the gist so will look more closely at it and see if it is something I could manage without disabling the car.
That's my thinking - that it's a clutch or the gear set on that plane. There are two Renault dealers in Perth....neither seem particularly customer-centric. I'm documenting everything and will make a few audio recordings. Thanks everyone - appreciate the input.
Thanks everyone - all good suggestions, especially the audio recording. I've had the post-service dealer survey where I detailed the issue in free text fields. I was also sent a survey from Renault Australia where I also detailed the issue (and the dealer's poor responses) and ticked the box for them to make contact. *Tumbleweeds* *Glacier rolls by* Still waiting on the contact from Renault......... Apart from this (oh, and a niggle with the audio-pod controls) I absolutely love the car's performance, steering, ride, handling and economy. There should be more of them on the road!!!


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FIVE IN BLOOM: The Spring Collection
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by Juhi Singhal Karan
Stories and scriveners of all forms are blooming this spring. We feature five of them this month—from novels to poems to an award-winning YA book—and hope that there is something for everyone here!
Marlin Barton's Pasture Art
Marlin Barton's Pasture Art is a collection of "[l]iterate, deftly constructed stories of backwoods Alabama." The stories are "original" even while they pay "quiet homage" to the conventions of Southern fiction, as Kirkus Reviews put it. Barton, who grew up in "a little community called Forkland, which lies in the fork of . . . two rivers," hopes that the two fictional rivers that meander through the stories in Pasture Art "come across as living things" for "they move, they have depth, they have a history that's older than the people who live along their banks." The collection features both a novella and a one-page story. In Barton's words, he ends a story "when it feels right" even though "that's a hard thing to know for certain." He goes on to say "[s]tories should not tie up too neatly. . . . The best stories work more by suggestion. They end up giving you a sense of how the character's life might be changed by what's just happened to them."
Mary Jo Bang's The Last Two Seconds
Mary Jo Bang's latest collection of poems, The Last Two Seconds, "a cultural interrogation of disaster and time," harkens back to her description of herself as more of a "pragmatist than a romantic." In her publisher's words, the book "captures the difficulties inherent in being human in the twenty-first century, when we set our watches by nuclear disasters, species collapse, pollution, mounting inequalities, warring nations, and our own mortality." Bang, whom we've featured here on Bloom, was a "Jill of All Trades" before her circuitous route led her to being a published poet at the age of 50. The collection may be, in the words of Publishers Weekly, her "harshest collection yet" and may not "provide much comfort," but the "[g]orgeous phrasing and imaginative leaps," as The Washington Post put it, "make[s] the ride worthwhile."
Kevin Brooks's The Bunker Diary
Kevin Brooks's The Bunker Diary has to be one of the most controversial winners of the CILIP Carnegie Medal in recent times. The book, which has been released in U.S. this spring, is a "fragmented, occasionally incoherent diary of 16-year-old Linus Weems, [who is] trapped with five strangers in an underground bunker." The book's lack of a happy ending and the bleak subjects it deals with has been banded as "nihilistic" on one end and "full of hope" on the other. It took Brooks ten years to get the book published because he refused to "rewrite it—tone it down, change the ending, explain a lot of unexplained things." According to him, "The Bunker Diary is a book about dark and disturbing subjects—it has to contain dark and disturbing things." He disagrees "that [the book] lacks redemption." In his own words while the book "doesn't have a happy ending . . . within the story there is genuine kindness and love and protection, and if that is not a positive look at how humans can behave in a desperate situation, I don't know what is."
Mary Costello's Academy Street
Mary Costello's debut novel, Academy Street, traces the trajectory of her protagonist from the age of 7 into her 60s and "in offering us [a] seemingly unremarkable life, give[s] us [an] extraordinarily compelling narrative." Sonya Chung noted Costello's ability to imbue her stories with "the sense that ordinary lives are filled with extraordinary desire and disenchantment" when we featured Costello here on Bloom. The story of the woman who, in the words of J.M. Coetzee, "would otherwise have faded into oblivion" were it not for Costello's "extraordinary devotion" was inspired by a short story ("You Fill Up My Senses") in Costello's previous book, The China Factory. In Costello's words, "I dread starting [a story]. I prevaricate for ages because I'm afraid of spoiling it. I accumulate a lot of notes in the months—sometimes years—before I start a story. . . . I usually know the . . . plot, insofar as there is one. The character is the main thing—I have to have a strong sense of a character and the small particulars of his or her life."
Claire Fuller's Our Endless Numbered Days
Claire Fuller's Our Endless Numbered Days has been called "a grown-up thriller of a fairytale," and "disarmingly dark, if indisputably beautiful." It has also been compared to Emma Donoghue's Room. (And yes, the title is inspired by the Iron & Wine album of the same name). The story, which has "no reliable narrators, only storytellers," is told by a teenaged girl who escapes after nine years with her survivalist father who has told her that the rest of the world no longer exists. Fuller, who started writing only after she turned 40, writes a lot of flash fiction. In her own words, "Trying to tell a story in just 100 words, with character, tension, and a beginning and an end is tough. Each word has to earn its place, and work really hard. . . . I'm a big fan of not saying everything . . . It's like drawing, which I also do a lot of. When you're drawing a face you don't have to put in all the features and join up all the lines; the viewer's mind will do that for you. It's the same with reading: it's often as much about what isn't said as what is."
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(Destroyer No. 15: dp. 600; l. 259'6"; b. 23'3"; dr. 6' (mean); s. 28.24 k.; cpl. 73; a. 2 3", 6 6-pdrs., 2 18" tt.; cl. Bainbridge)
Abraham Whipple, born on 26 September 1733, near Providence, R.I., chose to be a seafarer early in his life and embarked upon a career in the lucrative West Indies trade. In the French and Indian War period, he became a privateersman and commanded privateer Game Cock from 1759 to 1760. In one six-month cruise, he captured 23 French ships.
As American colonists began to resist what they considered unfair oppression by the British crown, acts of defiance became more and more prevalent. One such occurrence happened on 18 June 1772, when Whipple led 50 Rhode Islanders in the capture and burning of British revenue cutter Gaspee, which had run aground off Pawtucket while chasing the packet Hannah.
Three years later, the Rhode Island Assembly appointed Whipple commodore of two ships fitted out for the defense of the colony's trade. On the day the sea captain received his commission, 15 June 1775, he led his men to capture the tender to frigate HMS Rose. After cruising in the vicinity of Narragansett Bay, he headed south to Bermuda to procure gunpowder for use by the colony and, on the return voyage, transported naval recruits to Philadelphia. Upon her arrival there, his ship, Katy, was taken over by agents of the Continental Congress and was fitted out as sloop-of-war Providence.
Whipple was commissioned a captain in the Continental Navy on 22 December and was given command of 24-gun frigate Columbus. During the period from 17 February to 8 April 1776, he commanded that ship during the first American Navy-Marine Corps amphibious expedition-the cruise to New Providence, in the Bahamas, to seize essential military supplies from the British garrison at Nassau.
After returning north to New England, Whipple captured five British prizes before 27 March 1778, when his ship ran aground off Judith Point. After stripping the ship, the wily captain and his crew abandoned her and escaped capture ashore.
Next assigned to command 28-gun frigate Providence, Whipple ran the British blockade on the night of 30 April 1778, damaging HMS Lark and outrunning another Britisher during the escape. Tacking for France, Whipple's Providence crossed the Atlantic unmolested, bearing important dispatches relating to agreements between France and the American colonies, and reached Paimboeuf. After acquiring needed guns and supplies for the Continental Army, Providence and Boston sailed home to the colonies, taking three prizes en route.
Upon his return, Whipple received command of a small squadron: Providence, Ranger, and Queen of France. On one occasion in mid-July 1779, this group of ships encountered a large British convoy in dense fog off the Newfoundland Banks. Whipple cagily concealed his guns and ran up the British flag. Like a wolf among sheep, he cut 11 prizes out of the convoy, eight of which contained spoils of war valued together at over one million dollars, easily one of the richest captures of the entire war.
Following this adventure, Whipple cruised off Bermuda before arriving at Charleston, S.C., on 23 December 1779. British forces threatened that key Continental port, causing the guns and crews from the Continental Navy ships in port to be moved on shore to reinforce the land batteries to repulse the expected British assault.
However, after a rugged four-month siege, the overwhelming pressure of British arms forced the Continental forces to surrender on 12 May 1780. Whipple remained a prisoner of the British until he was paroled to Chester, Pa., and he took no further part in the war. Upon the conclusion of hostilities, Whipple took up farming near Cranston, R.I.
For the remainder of his life, he remained a farmer, with the exception of two spells of seafaring as master of merchantmen, first of General Washington and then of St. Clair. With the formation of the Ohio Company in 1788 and the initial westward migration into that territory, Whipple and his family became pioneers on the American frontier and were among the founders of the town of Marietta, Ohio. Granted a pension by Congress in recognition of his distinguished service in helping to win American independence, Whipple died at Marietta on 27 May 1819.
The first Whipple (Destroyer No. 15) was laid down on 13 November 1899 at Sparrows Point, Md., by the Maryland Steel Co.; launched on 15 August 1901; sponsored by Miss Elsie Pope; and commissioned on 17 February 1903, Lt. Jehu V. Chase in command.
After training in Chesapeake Bay, Whipple was assigned to the 2d Torpedo Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet, and was based at Norfolk. The destroyer periodically served as flagship of the flotilla and operated off the east coast and in the Caribbean until she was placed in reserve at Norfolk on 5 September 1905.
Returning to active service on 16 July 1906, the ship conducted tactical exercises and routine training operations through November of 1907. On 2 December, Whipple stood out of Hampton Roads and headed south toward the Caribbean for goodwill visits, "showing the flag."
Subsequently following in the wake of the 16 battleships of the Great White Fleet, Whipple and her flotilla-mates called at Rio de Janeiro; rounded Cape Horn for ports on the Chilean and Peruvian coasts; and conducted target practice at Magdalena Bay, Mexico. After participating in a fleet review at San Francisco on 8 May 1908, Whipple remained on the west coast, based at San Diego, as a unit of the Pacific Torpedo Flotilla.
Departing San Francisco at the end of a towline on 24 August, the destroyer subsequently took part in fleet battle problems in Hawaiian waters. Upon completion of the exercises, she steamed back to the west coast via Samoa and Magdalena Bay, Baja California, before arriving at San Diego on 1 December.
For the next six years, the destroyer operated off the west coast between San Diego and Magdalena Bay and made one cruise to Alaskan waters for maneuvers. The ship received the Mexican Service Medal for service off the Mexican coast in 1914 and 1916. While that country suffered in the throes of revolution and civil strife, the destroyer conducted patrols and stood ready to protect American lives and property.
On 6 April 1917, America entered World War I on the side of Britain, France, and Italy. Whipple soon commenced patrols off the approaches to the vital Panama Canal before departing the Canal Zone on 5 July.
Refitted for "distant service," the destroyer put to sea on 28 August, bound for the Atlantic war zone, and put into the Azores on 17 September. Whipple operated on escort duties, convoying ships to and from the strategic islands for the next three months.
She then received orders to report at Brest, France. Antisubmarine patrols and convoy escort duties occupied Whipple through the early spring of 1918. On 17 April, munition ship Florence H. blew up off Quiberon Bay. Braying flying debris from the exploding ship, Whipple joined Stewart (Destroyer No. 13) and Truxtun (Destroyer No. 14) in rescuing 32 men of the 77-man crew of that doomed vessel.
Whipple carried out her routine wartime patrol duties through the end of hostilities. On 9 December, the destroyer departed the French coast and headed homeward, touching at the Azores and Bermuda before making port at Philadelphia on 3 January 1919.
The destroyer was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 7 July 1919, and her name was struck from the Navy list on 15 September. On 3 January 1920, J. G. Hitner, of Philadelphia, purchased the ship for scrapping.
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Tell us about your YouTube channel
Symonne: my YouTube channel is a fun range of videos including vlogs, pranks and challenges with my friends. I love to create content with my friends and my boyfriend Nick. Nick and I have a major Snick (#Snick = Symonne + Nick) prank wars going on between our channels. It's so fun to come up with video ideas to entertain my audience week after week. I always ask my subscribers what they want to see in my channel and I work hard to make them happy. If they are happy that makes me happy.
How did the two of you meet?
Nick: Symonne and I followed each other a few years ago on social media & became friends! From there we filmed a few YouTube videos here & there and become close in early 2021. Once we got closer, we immediately began liking each other & started falling in love! We quickly found out that we loved spending time together, so i asked her out in May! It's actually featured in a YouTube video on Symonnes channel "Telling my crush I like him to see how he reacts". I asked her to be my girlfriend on a lookout point above Los Angeles, it was a really special beautiful moment. I'm happiest With You Symonne!
How did you come up for the idea of the song "with you"?
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# koa-load-routes
[![NPM version][npm-image]][npm-url] [![Build Status][travis-image]][travis-url] [![Dependency Status][daviddm-image]][daviddm-url] [![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/github/gbahamondezc/koa-load-routes/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/github/gbahamondezc/koa-load-routes?branch=master)

[Koa](https://github.com/koajs/koa) middleware to load routes from files and directories using [koa-router](https://github.com/alexmingoia/koa-router) module

### Warning
- **Node.js 8.0** and **koa@2.x** or latest are required to use this module.
- **Since v2.0** koa-load-routes not support **Generator Functions** anymore (in favor of [Async Functions](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/async_function)).
- **Since v3.0** ***path*** option must be a absolute path
- **Since v3.0** ***firstMiddleware*** option was removed in favor of ***middlewares*** option.

## Installation

```sh
$ npm install --save koa-load-routes
```
or

```sh
$ yarn add koa-load-routes
```

##### Options

- **String ->** *path (required)*
    - Path from where the module will try to load the routes, if is a file,  it will read the routes defined just inside of the file, otherwise, if is a directory, will read all .js files in the directory and load the routes inside each one.

- **Boolean ->** *recursive (optional, default: false)*
  - If this argument is true the module will search route files recursive trhoug directories.

- **Array[Function|AsyncFunction] ->** *middlewares (optional)*
  - A list of middlewares which will be added to each route loaded, can be Array of async functions or a normal functions or mixed, this middlewares will be attached previous to each route, useful by example for authentication middlewares.

- **String ->** *base (optional)*
  - Adds the "base" string at the start of each  loaded route url.

- **Array[any] ->** *args (optional)*
  - Arguments to be pased inside the route main function, each array elements are passed as a independent argument (see examples below).

- **String ->** *suffix (optional, default: '.js')*
  - If this argument is passed the module will load only the files which ends with the passed **suffix + .js**, by default if **suffix** is not supplied will try to load all files with **.js** extension.

### Usage

###### app.js
```js
const Koa = require('koa');
const loader = require('koa-load-routes');
const authMiddleware = require('./auth-middleware');
const path = require('path');

// Some module containing business logic and db access
const Interactors = require('./interactors');

var app = new Koa();

// Loading public routes
app.use(route({
  path: `${path.resolve()}/src/resources/public`,
  recursive: true,
  // Add /api/ at start of each loaded endpoint
  base: 'api',
  // Load files only ending with route.js
  suffix: 'route',
  // Injecting your business logic module
  args: [Interactors]
}));

// Loading private routes with auth middleware
app.use(route({
  path: `${path.resolve()}/src/resources/account`,
  recursive: true,
  base: 'api',
  suffix: 'route',
  middlewares : [authMiddleware()],
  args: [Interactors]
}));

app.listen(3000, () => {
  console.log('server started at http://127.0.0.1:3000/');
});

```

###### src/resources/public/login.route.js

```js
module.exports = function (Interactors) {

  // Authentication endpoint
  this.post('/login', async ctx => {

    let userAccount = await Interactors.userAccount
      .getByEmail(ctx.request.body.email);

    if (!userAccount) {
      ctx.throw(404, 'Account not found');
    }

    if (ctx.body.password !== userAccount.password) {
      ctx.throw(403, 'Wrong Email/Password combination');
    }

   /*
    * You can create some kind of auth token here to
    * send it in body with user account info.
    * This is just an example
    */
    ctx.body = userAccount;
  });

  // Other possible routes examples

  this.get('/hello', (ctx, next) => {
    ctx.body = 'Hello world';
    return next();
  });

  // Routes chain
  this.get('/hello2', (ctx, next) => {
    ctx.body = 'hello world 2';
  })
  .get('/hello3', (ctx, next) => {
    ctx.body = 'hello world 3';
  });

  // Multiple middlewares
  this.post('/hello4', (ctx, next) => {
    console.log('im the first one');
    return next();
  },
  (ctx, next) => {
    ctx.body = 'yey!';
  });
};
```

## License

MIT © [Gonzalo Bahamondez](https://github.com/gbahamondezc/)

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The Trump administration announced late Tuesday that it is releasing an inspector general report on the whistleblower complaint that has driven the latest Democrats' demands for impeachment which found that the whistleblower had a bias in favor of Trump's political opponents.
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New insight into how the skin evades the immune system
A collaboration between researchers at UQDI and the Centenary Institute in Sydney has yielded surprising new insight into the way the skin interacts with the immune system. This could have implications on the development of treatments for diseases like inflammatory bowel disease and skin cancer. The findings were published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Normally, when the human body encounters microscopic intruders such as bacteria or viruses, a class of immune cells, called dendritic cells, engulfs the intruder and breaks it down into small parts, called antigens. The dendritic cell then presents those antigens on its surface, and uses them to activate helper T cells, which in turn alert the rest of the immune system to the presence of the intruder. The 'killer' cells in the immune system then seek out and destroy any infected cell that displays the intruder's antigens.
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Professor Barbara Fazekas de St Groth at the Centenary Institute suspected it may have something to do with Langerhans cells, the class of dendritic cells found in the skin. She and her team bred a strain of mice whose immune system could only be activated by dendritic cells, then bred another strain whose immune system could only be activated by Langerhans cells. While an immune response was easy to stimulate in the first group of mice, for the Langerhans-only mice, no inflammatory signals triggered an immune response. While the Langerhans cells initially activated T cells, those cells went on to die instead of triggering a wider immune response. In essence, the Langerhans cells were teaching the immune system to tolerate foreign invaders. To find out how, Fazekas de St Groth contacted Professor Ranjeny Thomas and Dr Brendan O'Sullivan at UQDI.
Professor Thomas is well known in the field of immunology for her research into immune tolerance, and her particular interest in a protein called RelB. In dendritic cells, RelB acts as a switch to turn on the genes responsible for activating helper T-cells and telling them to alert other immune cells. Thomas and O'Sullivan discovered that, in order to trigger an immune response, RelB must get to the cell's nucleus, where the genes are stored. Conversely, blocking RelB leads to immune tolerance.
Fazekas de St Groth sent a sample of Langerhans cells to O'Sullivan, who analysed the behavior of RelB in these cells and discovered that, in contrast to dendritic cells, RelB never reaches the nucleus. As a consequence Langerhans cells promote immune tolerance, regardless of the antigen.
Fazekas de St Groth's discovery represents the first insight into the mechanism that prevents the immune system from attacking the skin. It is also the first evidence of a class of cells completely pre-committed to immune tolerance, and it provides further support for Thomas' theory that RelB acts as a 'master regulator' of dendritic cell function. The implications of these findings are far reaching.
Like the skin, the human gut also contains a microbial ecosystem that our immune system usually tolerates. However, in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) tolerance is lost and the immune system attacks. This new research will provide fresh insight into the causes of IBD and could aid in the development of new IBD treatments.
This idea is already the basis for Thomas and O'Sullivan's development of Rheumavax, a vaccine technology aimed at treating Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Rheumavax delivers a RelB inhibitor and an antigen associated with RA directly to dendritic cells that can then 'teach' the immune system to ignore common triggers of RA. Early stage clinical trials are underway with promising results.
Finally, enabling the immune system to attack the skin might be a good idea. Anti-cancer technologies are emerging that use the immune system to attack cancerous cells. However, the development of such treatments for skin cancer is hampered by the the skin's innate immune tolerance. Therefore, the outcomes of the UQDI – Centenary Institute collaboration could open the door to treatments that could work together with these immunotherapies in the fight against skin cancer.
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