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An Autonomous Future

Getting Ready For The Driverless Car

Many cars already have self-driving Google says its
features, like Tesla’s AutoPilot, smart driverless cars
parking assistants and automatic lane have already
changing functions. Those features will driven more
continue to improve until cars become than 1.5 million
fully autonomous. miles. What
Some types of driving are easier to Google has
automate than others. Highway driving already built
and parking, for example, are much could probably
easier for autonomous cars to master be used on roads today with a lower
than city driving, because there are accident rate than humans, who are
fewer unpredictable obstacles, like accident-prone, easily distracted, and in
pedestrians and bike riders. some cases, intoxicated. But the public
may not be ready for driverless cars yet.

It’s much easier for the self-driving Even if the technology for driverless
vehicle when the weather’s good, cars is almost ready, is the public,
opposed to when it’s snowy, dark or governments and law enforcement
rainy. Those difficult driving conditions ready for self-driving cars? Obviously,
are getting closer to being resolved.  there will be people concerned about
It’s likely in a few years that it will be the safety, as they should be. For the most
norm on the highway that you won't be part, it will be in the public interest to
driving half the time or you’ll be using embrace this new way of life.
some sort of driver assistants. Some things to consider are that parking
spaces take up an estimated 25% of a
Companies cities real estate, and the spaces could
like Uber mostly be removed since people won’t
and Lyft need to own cars. That means more
will become room for parks and expanded sidewalks,
hybrid and having less cars sitting in parking
networks, lots 90% of the time,.
offering Autonomous vehicles would likely be
both driver and driverless solutions electric, which would help keep air
depending on where you need to clean. There would be no street signs,
go. So imagine in the not too distant because driverless cars won’t need
future pushing a button on your Uber them. And fewer human drivers means
or Lyft app, and depending on the less unpredictability and more vehicle
situation and location, an autonomous coordination, which means fewer traffic
car comes. Google and Apple are also jams. You will be able to work in your car
working on their own projects and will or safely send text messages while you
probably play a roll in the driverless commute in a driverless car.
future.

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ChemSex Message
Study To Trump

Popular gay hookup site Squirt.org “Let’s Make America
has found chemsex, also known as Gay Again" billboards
Party and Play (PNP) or drug-fueled are a play on the
sex, is prevalent with 30% of survey Trump’s campaign
respondents admitting that they slogan and is a part of
have engaged in the activity. Squirt.org’s effort to
The study, which surveyed 22,248 support gay rights as
Squirt.org members, also showed well as to positively
that despite widespread usage of encourage Trump and
illicit drugs during sex, only about his administration
39% of respondents said they would to take LGBT rights
consider engaging in chemsex while seriously. Billboards
61% said they would not. will be placed
Dr. Bourne, who recently interviewed along Hollywood
with the prominent Gay News Boulevard’s Walk of Fame in Los Angeles
Network (GNN) after the release and in New York City’s West Village,
of his statements emphasizing Chelsea and surrounding neighborhoods.
the sensationalization of chemsex “LGBT rights are in question with the
reports, expressed that “Chemsex is incoming Trump administration which
something we have to remain vigilant has vigorously campaigned to roll back
about, but we also have to be wary of many of the rights that protect these
drawing simple conclusions without communities. So we say, ‘Let’s make
considering the right evidence. Only a America gay again. Let’s make it happy
small minority of gay men use drugs and inclusive!” said Attila Szatmari, digital
on a regular basis, and only a minority business director for Pink Triangle Press,
of those do so in a sexual context.” Squirt.org’s parent company.
“We wanted to provide our members The billboards are the culmination of
very important information about much discussion and fear by many in the
chemsex within the gay and bisexual gay community who are apprehensive
community,” said Attila Szatmari, about the Trump presidency. Trump’s
Digital Business Director for Pink opposition in 2016 to gay marriage and
Triangle Press, Squirt.org’s parent support for judges who would seek to
company. “We now have statistics overturn the Marriage Equality Act that
from real people showing infrequent legalized gay unions is one of many points
participation in chemsex, not this of contention.
hyper-usage that seems to be reported Transgender rights are also in question
in the mainstream media.” as Trump has voiced his support for the
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bans transgender individuals from using
bathrooms that do not coincide with the
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in the know On The Go . . .!

LGBTQ Chinese New Year’s Dinner A 20-year drought has led to a government
enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens
To celebrate the Year of the Cock-Tail of Urinetown must use public amenities
(Rooster), members of Asians & Friends regulated by a single malevolent company
Chicago (AFC) will be hosting the city’s that profits by charging admission for one
only LGBTQ Chinese New Year’s Dinner on of humanity’s most basic needs. Amid the
Sat., Feb. 4, 2017 starting at 7pm at the people, a hero decides he has had enough
Jade Court restaurant, 626 S. Racine in and plans a revolution to lead them all to
Chicago, just south of the UIC Pavilion. freedom.

As experiential entertainment for the mind Tickets are available on the the Wirtz Center
and the palate, “mixologists” will create website, by phone at 847-491-7282 or by
their favorite adult-beverage concoctions visiting the Wirtz Center box office in the
for guests to sample. In addition to the Barber Theater lobby at 30 Arts Circle Drive.
beverage tasting and multi-course gourmet
meal, AFC will conduct a Year-of-the-Cock Bootycandy Anyone?
inspired raffle.
Guests can purchase tickets by visiting the Windy City Playhouse, 3014 N. Irving
AFC website at www.afchicago.org. For Park Road, announced Robert O’Hara’s
more information, call (312) 409-1573. Bootycandy, the semi-autobiographical
play about growing up gay and black.
Let's Meet Rev. Pam Under the direction of the NAACP, OBIE and
Helen Hayes Award winner O’Hara, the cast
A live interview is scheduled with local is led by rising Chicago star Travis Turner
LGBT wedding officiant, Rev. Pam of Same (whose recent credits include “Thaddeus &
Sex Wedding Venue, Pine Manor Chicago Slocum” at Lookingglass Theatre Company
during the remote broadcast of OUT and “The Flick” at Steppenwolf Theatre)
CHICAGO on WCPT 820 am Radio with as Sutter, the character loosely based on
Scott Duff at D. S. Tequila Co. in Chicago O’Hara himself.
Feb. 5, 2017 from 11am-2pm.
Bootycandy runs through April 15. Tickets
Meet Rev. Pam just in time for Valentine’s on sale now and can be purchased at the
Day and receive $25 dollars off any Windy City Playhouse Box Office online or
wedding service. Propose to your honey on by calling 312-891-8985.
the air and she will give you a gift certificate
for $100 toward any wedding service, Celebrating 10 Years!
officiating and planning wedding day
coordination. Check out websites http:// The Center on Halsted will commemorate
www.ilweddingofficiant.com/ or http:// their 10th anniversary at their upcoming
SameSexWeddingVenue.com for wedding Human First Gala on May 20th, 2017.
packages and pricing.
This past year the Center on Halsted
Urinetown in Town! celebrated the launch of their Youth
Housing Initiative, revolutionary and
Urinetown: The Musical, the Tony innovate in its scope of housing LGBTQ
Award-winning musical set in a dystopian young adults experiencing homelessness.
metropolis with a terrible water shortage, Center on Halsted also announced its new
will be presented by the Virginia strategic plan, aimed at refocusing their
Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing efforts on the areas of community that
Arts Feb. 10-26 in the Ethel M. Barber need them the most, like transgender
Theater, 30 Arts Circle Drive, on the populations, families, and youth while
Evanston campus. expanding their impact to the south and
west sides of Chicagoland.
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