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Robo-Toilets Proposed to Stop 'Gay' Cruising
Excerpt: Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle says his city has a problem with "homosexual activity" in public restrooms and he has a plan to stop it – robotic toilets that allow occupants to stay inside for only a short time before the door automatically opens."We're trying to provide a family environment where people can take their children who need to use the bathroom without having to worry about a couple of men in there engaged in a sex act," Naugle told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. The $250,000 self-cleaning robo-johns have been installed in San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta and New York. The modular units play music and can be accessed for a fee or for free, depending on each city's policies.
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The Frederick C. Robie House – a masterpiece of Prairie School architecture – reopened to the public Friday after a multimillion-dollar restoration both inside and out.
Frank Lloyd Wright
One of Frank Lloyd Wright's finest public buildings is ready for the public again. We take a look inside the restoration of Unity Temple.
The Wisconsin native, born on June 8, 1867, is widely regarded as the greatest American architect ever. We discuss his legacy with David Bagnall, the curator of the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust.
Get a glimpse inside a rare prefab Frank Lloyd Wright house on the Southwest Side.
The famously irascible Frank Lloyd Wright estranged two artists on a single short-lived project. Learn the fate of Wright's lost Midway Gardens and play tennis at the Kenwood Country Club as local history expert Geoffrey Baer heads to the South Side.
High-end treasures in Chicago's Gold Coast are usually found in pricey stores. But we'll tell you about some being uncovered at an archaeological dig on the grounds of a famous house.
Musicologist David Patterson attempts to amend the biography of architect Frank Lloyd Wright to acknowledge the powerful influence of his father, a preacher, essayist, musician and composer.
It was a center of innovation and commerce for 32 years. And then it went dark, unused for another 32 years. The SC Johnson Research Tower recently opened to the public for the first time ever following a major restoration. We revisit Eddie Arruza's story.
Chicago is filled with architectural gems. We sit down with Chicago Tribune's architectural critic Blair Kamin to discuss some of the famed structures in the city and surrounding areas.
It was a center of innovation and commerce for 32 years. And then it went dark, unused for another 32 years. Starting Friday, the Tower will be opened to the public for the first time ever following a major restoration. Eddie Arruza tells us it may be worth your while to make a special trip just north of the border.
A classic blues play, a famous house tour and a wine tasting; Chicago Tonight knows what's going on this weekend.
After being fired by Louis Sullivan and venturing out on his own, Frank Lloyd Wright landed his first independent commission from a friend. And now the house that Wright designed for William Winslow in 1893 is up for sale.
Frank Lloyd Wright's apprentice brought the Prairie School of Architecture to Europe. We take a look at the innovations of architect Barry Byrne with Vincent Michael, the author of The Architecture of Barry Byrne. Read a book excerpt and view a slideshow.
Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses, churches and museums, but the great Prairie architect also designed a book or two. The most significant was called The House Beautiful. Only 90 copies of The House Beautiful were printed, and fewer than 30 are accounted for. Read the Artbeat blog.
How do you price a piece of architectural art? Prairie style master Frank Lloyd Wright designed nearly 100 homes in the Chicago area, but now some owners are having trouble selling these homes. Chicago magazine's real estate expert Dennis Rodkin joins us to discuss why sellers are having trouble, and he tells us more about Chicago's housing market.
The Frank Lloyd Wright you may not know -- young, inexperienced, and trying to find his way in the vast city of Chicago. A new exhibition takes a rare look at the architect's early years.

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When I was in college, a classmate distributed this image to all the engineering students. We laughed not because women are really more complex than men. But because the image illustrated the nearly universal frustration with trying to understand female sexuality.
Throughout history, men have searched the world for the best, most powerful aphrodisiac, that special potion or seduction technique that could make a woman eager for sex. But they've been looking in the wrong places. Because the key to increasing a woman's sexual desires is in her mind, in the way she thinks about sex and anticipates sexual pleasures.
Male and female sexuality are both built on a combination of biological and psychological components. But psychological components exercise much greater restraint on women. We're all born with a natural desire for pleasure. Freud described this phenomenon as the Pleasure Principle, and the process of suppressing this desire as the Reality Principle. We grow up, discover the necessities of living, and realize that there is more to life than pleasure. Working, paying the bills, seeing to our health and safety, taking care of the family, etc.; all these concerns make a woman suppress her libido and inhibit her enjoyment of sex.
According to a study published in the Archives of International Medicine1, somewhere between 26% and 52% of women in the USA suffer from low sexual desire or inadequate sexual pleasure. Even assuming the more conservative number means that millions of women aren't enjoying the full benefits of sex. And recent studies have shown that sex provides many more benefits than previously believed, including improved self esteem, lower blood pressure, reduced depression, a stronger immune system and pain relief.2
But the answer isn't a "viagra for women". No, the best way to increase the female libido is to reorient the mind to look forward to sex, reduce sexual inhibitions, and enjoy the anticipation of sexual pleasures. No drug or herbal remedy can change the way a woman thinks about sex; but hypnosis can. That's why I developed my recording, The Pleasure Principle, a sophisticated hypnotic program designed to change the way a woman thinks about sex and its pleasures. The Pleasure Principle utilizes a combination of storytelling, age regression, NLP, and positive affirmations to release sexual desire, reframe it as part of living life to it's fullest, and generate excited anticipation of all it's pleasures.


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Parsons Faculty Member Barent Roth Wins Product Design Challenge for BikeShare Helmet
Bikeshare programs are expanding all over the country as urban residents seek effective alternative to cars and traditional modes of public transit.
But these programs are often lack a crucial component to safe cycling: helmets.
Barent Roth, a faculty member in Parsons School of Design's BFA Product Design and MFA Industrial Design programs, is helping to meet that need with the The BikeShare Helmet, a sustainably designed product intended to accompany bike share memberships.
Roth recently won the award for "Best Professional Project" in the 2016 Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute and Autodesk's Product Design Challenge, a competition that asked emerging designers "to develop new solutions for improving our environment through sustainable design."
A designer and professor dedicated to creating and teaching the importance of sustainable products, practices, and services, Roth designed BikeShare Helmet using a recycled aluminum foam shell and a sustainably grown cork liner to provide maximum protection with minimal bulk and weight. He incorporated mechanical flanges into the sides of the cork liner so the two layers could "snap" into place, so no glue is necessary to secure the cork to the aluminum shell.
"I envision a time when sustainable design thinking is so completely integrated into the process that it does not even require to be defined as such, it just is," Roth, a faculty member in the BFA Integrated Design Program, told Core 77. "With 80 percent of a product's environmental impacts being determined in the design phase, it is imperative that ecological solutions be woven into the design process of every object."