Outside of Tesla, semi-autonomous driving modes are still quite rare. GM, however, wants to make it relatively mainstream. The upcoming 2018 Cadillac CT6 (due this fall) will be the company’s first car with Super Cruise, a technology that can take ov…
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This week I talked with filmmaker C. Fitz and LGBTQ pioneer Jewel Thais-Williams about their documentary . The film tells the story of Jewel Thais-Williams and her legendary Jewel’s Catch One nightclub often referred to as the Studio 54 of the West. It was a hub for cutting edge fashion and music for over 42 years in LA before it closed last year. When Jewel opened her club in 1972 to all races and sexual orientations the club became a target of racism and homophobia especially during the AIDS crisis. She even turned her parking lot into a soup kitchen during that time to make sure people could get care when so many were being ostracized. Jewel became a civil rights leader and then ultimately a healer who has now saved countless lives through her Village Healthcare Foundation. The film is narrated by CCH Pounder and features exclusive interviews with Sharon Stone, Evelyn “Champagne” King, Thelma Houston, Sandra Bernhard, Bonnie Pointer, Thea Austin, Jenifer Lewis and more as well as fabulous vintage footage that includes Madonna’s 2000 album release party where it was rumored that she learned to Vogue at the club. I talked to Fitz and Jewel about their inspirational must-see documentary and their spin on our LGBTQ issues.
When asked how she sees our LGBTQ community moving forward in a Trump administration Jewel stated:
United and on all fronts I feel is the key to it as well as being supportive of other groups. I think that we saw during the Civil Rights Protests and Campaign embrace every aspect of the human conditions and so we had folks joining from various and slightly different groups to support that cause and I feel if we can get that kind of support around our LGBTQ issues and we’re finding hope with millennials. We see them protesting things like “Black Lives Matter’ and they might be Asian, Indian and Caucasian, whatever, this is the kind of support we need to face anything that is happening politically to us now. We all have to join together every facet of our Americana especially those people that are being discriminated against and of course we’re one of the main ones of that. If we all come together there’s power in numbers.
Filmmaker C. Fitz met Jewel after volunteering to direct a 3-minute short for charity and realized there was a much greater story to tell. She has spent the last six years bringing Jewel’s Catch One a labor of love and inspiration to fruition. Fitz is also a television and marketing veteran who through her creative agency “Dancing Pictures” has worked with many clients including HBO, Pepsi, FOX, Disney and Showtime where she has conceptualized and produced hundreds of international and domestic broadcast and social media campaigns. Early in her career Fitz was the producer behind the launch of the BRAVO series, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy where she helped introduce the ground-breaking new format as an international brand. In the late 1990’s Jewel Thais-Williams at age 56, driven by an overwhelming need to make a difference, enrolled in Samra University of Oriental Medicine and received a Master of Science degree. She went on to pass the state and national boards and is currently a Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist at her new clinic at 4077 Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, California under the same name Village Health Foundation .
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By Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court appointee took the first of two oaths on Monday to be sworn in, with the private ceremony to be followed by another at the White House as new justice Neil Gorsuch restores the court’s conservative majority.
Trump earned the biggest political victory of his presidency and fulfilled a major campaign promise when the Republican-led Senate voted on Friday to confirm the federal appeals court judge from Colorado to the lifetime job. With Gorsuch, the court will have five conservative justices and four liberals.
“He will be a great Justice,” Trump said in a Twitter post on Saturday. “Very proud of him!”
Gorsuch, 49, was the youngest Supreme Court nominee since Republican President George H.W. Bush in 1991 picked Clarence Thomas, who was 43 at the time. Gorsuch could be expected to serve for decades, while Trump could make further appointments to the high court to make it even more solidly conservative because three of the eight justices are 78 or older.
Gorsuch took his constitutional oath, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts, in a private ceremony at the Supreme Court with the other justices. Gorsuch’s wife, Louise, and his two daughters were present, said Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg. Louise Gorsuch held a family Bible as her husband took the oath, Arberg said.
Gorsuch will take his judicial oath at 11 a.m. (1500 GMT) in a White House Rose Garden ceremony with Trump. The oath will be administered by Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, for whom Gorsuch worked as a clerk as a young lawyer. Gorsuch will become the first justice to serve alongside a former boss.
All the other members of the court are due to be at the ceremony, including liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who called Trump “a faker” last year during the presidential campaign but later said she regretted the remark.
The Senate, which last year refused to consider Democratic former President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland, voted 54-45 to confirm Gorsuch. The vote brought an end to an almost 14-month battle over a vacancy created by the death of conservative justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016. Scalia’s widow, Maureen, and one of their sons were present at the swearing-in ceremony at the court, Arberg said.
Once sworn in, Gorsuch can prepare for the next round of oral arguments, starting on April 17, at the court, whose current term ends in June.
He will also participate in the justices’ private conference on Thursday to consider taking new cases. Appeals are pending on expanding gun rights to include carrying concealed firearms in public, state voting restrictions that critics say are aimed at reducing minority turnout, and allowing business owners to object on religious grounds to providing gay couples certain services.
Gorsuch could also play a vital role in some cases on which his new colleagues may have been split 4-4 and therefore did not yet decide. Those cases potentially could be reargued in the court’s next term, which starts in October.
(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Will Dunham)
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Of all travel problems, this one stinks most.
Many travelers complain about an increased need to fart on planes, or, less commonly, feeling bloated while flying. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone: There’s a scientific name for this scenario.
HAFE stands for High Altitude Flatus Expulsion. Coined by a pair of researchers in the 1980s, the “tongue-in-cheek” term describes a phenomenon observed when mountain climbers experienced flatulence at high altitudes, said Dr. David Shlim, a physician and former president of the International Society of Travel Medicine.
Turns out HAFE is likely at play when you pass more gas on a plane.
Airplane cabins are pressurized to between 6,000 and 8,000 feet, which is a significant altitude change for your body if you’ve come from sea level, Shlim told HuffPost. And just as the air in your water bottle expands at higher altitudes, the gas in your intestines can expand on a plane, growing to take up about 30 percent more room than usual.
Then, it needs to escape.
“The air pressure in an airplane is different than on the ground,” said Dr. Scott Kalish, a travel medicine doctor in New York City. “In certain people, it can predispose them to developing more gas.”
Expanding gas can also lead to feelings of bloat, Kalish says, though he said he doesn’t hear that complaint often.
If feeling gassy or bloated is an in-flight problem for you, there are ways to help prevent it. Drinking water is always a good idea, especially when you’re flying, and avoiding salty and fatty foods helps combat bloating. Dr. Marvin Cooper, a travel medicine physician in Manhattan, recommends walking around the plane to “shake up your bowels a bit,” he told HuffPost. Kalish says an over-the-counter anti-gas medication should ease discomfort, too.
Oh, and let your farts out, even if it’s awkward. In a 2013 paper on in-flight flatulence, researchers from the University of Copenhagen noted that holding back a fart can lead to discomfort, pain and more bloating. Over time, the habit could also increase your risk of colonic diverticular disease, an inflammation of the colon.
Bottom line: Let your farts fly when you do, and all will be fine.
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