Why Hollywood gay club bans bachelorettes
What happen-Google Book full of 'porn, racism'
Tough punishment-Honour student jailed for missing class
Wow-Scientists develop needle-less injection ( Video)
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A gay nightclub in West Hollywood, Calif., refuses to play host to straight women's bachelorette parties until same-sex marriage is legal nationwide.
Patrons of the club expressed mixed reactions to the new rule.
Everyone should be able to get married, Roshanna Sabaratnam said. We shouldn't, as straight people, be flaunting it in front of people who can't
Tough punishment-Honour student jailed for missing class
Playing hooky is illegal in Texas, where a 17-year-old honour student who works full time and supports her siblings was recently sentenced to jail for missing class.
Last month, Judge Lanny Moriarty sentenced Diane Tran, a Grade 11 student in Houston, to 24 hours behind bars and a $100 fine.
She also helps to pay for her older brother's university education and helps financially support her baby sister, who lives with relatives in Houston.
Tran lives with the family who owns the wedding venue where she works. Her other job is at a dry cleaner's.
"She goes from job to job, from school she stays up 'til 7 o'clock in the morning," Devin Hill, Tran's friend, co-worker and classmate, said.
"We love our straight girlfriends coming in to celebrate one of the happiest days of their life," David Cooley, owner of the Abbey nightclub, told NBC. "But it's also a slap in the face to my customers and my life that we can't have that same celebration."
It's a significant move for the club, which hosts dozens of bachelorette parties every weekend. The male go-go dancers are a big draw for the soon-to-be-wed ladies. Patrons of the club expressed mixed reactions to the new rule.
Everyone should be able to get married, Roshanna Sabaratnam said. We shouldn't, as straight people, be flaunting it in front of people who can't
Tough punishment-Honour student jailed for missing class
Playing hooky is illegal in Texas, where a 17-year-old honour student who works full time and supports her siblings was recently sentenced to jail for missing class.
Last month, Judge Lanny Moriarty sentenced Diane Tran, a Grade 11 student in Houston, to 24 hours behind bars and a $100 fine.
"If you let one (truant student) run loose, what are you gonna do with the rest of 'em? Let them go too?" Moriarty told KHOU.com.
Tran told KHOU she's often late and absent because she's exhausted from working a full-time job and a part-time job ever since her parents split up "out of the blue" and both moved away, leaving her in Willis, Texas. She also helps to pay for her older brother's university education and helps financially support her baby sister, who lives with relatives in Houston.
Tran lives with the family who owns the wedding venue where she works. Her other job is at a dry cleaner's.
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What happen-Google Book full of 'porn, racism'
About half of the Google Book is "revolting medical photos, porn, racism or bad cartoons" -- and it could be yours. Two U.K. artist/geeks ran some computer code and replaced all 21,000 words in an average dictionary with the first Google image that pops up for each word.
The result is a 1,240-page tome of the best and worst of Google's image search algorithm, laid out in colourful columns, in alphabetical order -- starting with a picture of an aardvark. The thumb-indexed pages are bound in a swirl-patterned hardcover.
"If the Internet goes off, you made need this reference book Felix and I made," artist Ben West says on his website.
"It's really an unfiltered, uncritical record of the state of human culture in 2012," West told creativeapplications.com. "I would estimate about half of the book is revolting medical photos, porn, racism or bad cartoons."
West and co-artist Felix Heyes hope to print a small number of the books for sale. Anyone interested in signing up can visit their websites at bewe.me and felixheyes.com.
The result is a 1,240-page tome of the best and worst of Google's image search algorithm, laid out in colourful columns, in alphabetical order -- starting with a picture of an aardvark. The thumb-indexed pages are bound in a swirl-patterned hardcover.
"If the Internet goes off, you made need this reference book Felix and I made," artist Ben West says on his website.
"It's really an unfiltered, uncritical record of the state of human culture in 2012," West told creativeapplications.com. "I would estimate about half of the book is revolting medical photos, porn, racism or bad cartoons."
West and co-artist Felix Heyes hope to print a small number of the books for sale. Anyone interested in signing up can visit their websites at bewe.me and felixheyes.com.
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Wow-Scientists develop needle-less injection (video)
Scientists at MIT have developed a high-pressure "jet-injection" device that shoots medicine through the skin painlessly (or very nearly painlessly).
The device can benefit diabetics and others who have to self-inject but are squeamish and avoid doctors' orders.
"We think this kind of technology - gets around some of the phobias that people may have about needles," research team member Catherine Hogan said.
The injector, which looks like a small cylindrical gun, works by means of a powerful magnet attached to a piston that ejects the drug at very high pressure and velocity out through the nozzle -- which, the researchers said, is the size of a mosquito's proboscis. So the injection should feel like nothing more than a mosquito bite.
The MIT team's device is a breakthrough because, unlike the jet-based injectors on the market today, it can deliver a range of doses to various depths under the skin, and with more precision. Giving a baby a vaccination, for instance, requires less pressure than a shot to an adult.
The device can benefit diabetics and others who have to self-inject but are squeamish and avoid doctors' orders.
"We think this kind of technology - gets around some of the phobias that people may have about needles," research team member Catherine Hogan said.
The injector, which looks like a small cylindrical gun, works by means of a powerful magnet attached to a piston that ejects the drug at very high pressure and velocity out through the nozzle -- which, the researchers said, is the size of a mosquito's proboscis. So the injection should feel like nothing more than a mosquito bite.
The MIT team's device is a breakthrough because, unlike the jet-based injectors on the market today, it can deliver a range of doses to various depths under the skin, and with more precision. Giving a baby a vaccination, for instance, requires less pressure than a shot to an adult.
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