"air-quality" Articles & Blogs:
Women & Hollywood on the Radio
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Here’s the link to the radio show from this morning where we talked about women’s box office successes of 2009, can a woman get a best director nomination and win, and had a great conversation with Nell Scovell, Theresa Rebeck and Katherine Dieckmann ...[Read on] |
Women on the Bench: The Quality of Justice
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by Amy
Matsui, Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center
It’s come up a lot: Elena Kagan would be the fourth woman Justice ever to be confirmed to the Supreme Court, and would, for the first time, join two other female Justices on the bench. It’...[Read on] |
Battle of the Billionaire iPad Publications
| PROJECT magazine cover video from PROJECT on Vimeo. Today, goateed British capitalist Richard Branson unveiled Project, a new iPad publication, a cultural magazine for tablet devices. Since Project’s inception, Branson and Co. have struggled to publiciz...[Read on] |
Child Care and Family Leave Essential for Working Women
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by Karen Schulman, Senior Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center
Two recent articles in the Wall Street Journal and in The Economist highlight the expanded participation of women in the workforce—the proportion of the workforce accounted for b...[Read on] |
Booze Reviews: Stiletto Vodka
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Rating: ★★★★★ If the woman on the bottle doesn’t allure you, the taste will.
I recently got to try Stiletto Vodka this past weekend and after one sip I was hooked.
I’m not going to lie: this isn’t your run of the mill vodka. It’s t...[Read on] |
Chevrolet Engineers show that quality control can be fun
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Chevrolet is launching a new web series featuring their quality control engineers from Department 180. The short clip shows the real engineers seemingly having a blast freezing, heating, crashing cars, and performance testing their products.
Those wa...[Read on] |
Proposition 86ed: California Overturns Ban on Gay Marriage
| Photo by AJ Alfieri-Crispin/Flickr.Just a few minutes ago, U.S. District Court judge Vaughn Walker ruled that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, thereby repealing the state’s ban on gay marriage. Proposition 8 was approved by slightly mor...[Read on] |
Rooney Mara to Play With Fire as Lisbeth Salander
| Rooney Mara in 2009. Photo courtesy of PatrickMcMullan.com. If you are like me, or, for that matter, like just about every other free citizen with functioning eyeballs and a rough grasp of phonics, you have been eagerly awaiting the news of which young ac...[Read on] |
Five Tips for Preparing for Summertime Car Travel
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Summer vacation times are nearly here! Whether you're planning for long distance summer travel, or just running errands on a hot day, you don't want to be left stranded in the summer heat. Now is the time to "summerize" your car and make sure the entire...[Read on] |
The Old Media Is Dead—Really, Truly
| The world is about to radically change. Let me explain. The Internet business, which began to radically change the world in the mid-nineties, stalled out in 2001 partly because the Internet didn’t work very well. It just wasn’t fast enough to do all t...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood Radio Show #1
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So it wasn’t perfect, but it’s the beginning and next time will be better. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
If you can make it through the first couple of minutes of me talking to myself about Kathryn Bigelow and the Oscars, the show starts to rock...[Read on] |
Book Review: The Lost Recipe for Happiness
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Author: Barbara O’Neal
Pages: 447
Date Started: 8/8/10
Date Finished: 8/15/10
Simple Summary: Elena is a chef and has a past. Mega horror film director Julian Liswood wants her to spearhead his new restaurant in Aspen, CO. And to taste her naughty bits....[Read on] |
Actress Profile: Blair Brown
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If you’re a big fan of Fringe like I am you were psyched to see Blair Brown as Nina Sharp the mysterious woman who runs the day to day operations at the multi-national corporation Massive Dynamics. Nina also has intense bionic type arm that without sk...[Read on] |
Senators Point to Shattered Glass Ceilings, Historic Nature of Nomination During Committee Vote on Elena Kagan
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by Rachel Peck, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee met to vote on Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court. We were particularly happy that, in their statements supporting her nomination, Senators Kohl, Fein...[Read on] |
Why Men “Buy” and Women “Shop”!
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When it comes to buying or repairing a car, lots of women responded to a recent survey that they prefer having a root canal versus visiting a car dealer or repair shop. That’s very hard for all male dominated businesses to understand. After all, ...[Read on] |
Two women start new film studio
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Mary Dickinson and Charlene Fisher announced the formation of DFIS on Friday which will develop, produce, market and distribute films with a budget of up to $10 million dollars.
They plan to produce 10-12 independent pictures per year and have $150 milli...[Read on] |
AskPatty Reviews: AutoTex PINK Wiper Blades
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AskPatty has been enjoying a partnership with AutoTex PINK for a while now, so of course when my own wipers began letting me know it was time for them to retire, I went to AutoTex PINK for my replacements. They arrived recently, and I, your dutiful blo...[Read on] |
Need to Unwind? Check Out our Wine Picks
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William Shakespeare once wrote, “Good wine is a good, familiar creature if it be well used.”
Wine is one of the most enjoyable yet detailed and intricate delicacies of our time. The cultivation and combination of different vines is truly an art, an...[Read on] |
Wine Buys - When is a Deal Not a Deal (or, How Not to Buy Wine to Pour Down the Drain)
| I LOVE a great deal - on anything. You name it. And in these economic times - soon to be known as Era of the Bargain - there are deals to be had...and deals to make you mad.Even if you're not watching your nickels, dimes and quarters, you can find yoursel...[Read on] |
How will more Best Picture Nominees effect women?
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The Academy blew the minds of pretty much everyone following the film business by doubling the Best Picture nominees starting this year. So instead of five best picture nominees there will be ten.
The news was greeted with mixed emotions (as expected) ...[Read on] |
Five myths (and the truths behind them) about car care
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It doesn't matter where you live, summer has pretty much arrived! I celebrated the season's arrival by washing and hand waxing my own car this weekend, removing the winter's grime and restoring the worn paint to a shiny lustrous glow I had forgotten it c...[Read on] |
Why Can’t DIII Football Be Co-Ed?
| Lebanon Valley College photo
By Laura Pappano
The phrase “college football” evokes testosterone-charged pre-U.S. Marine-style intensity and mammoth bodies colliding at ridiculously odd angles and high speeds.
That may accurately describe DI teams o...[Read on] |
Does Ch. Margaux Go with Cottage Cheese & Ketchup?
| In doing some research for my most recent blog about food and wine pairings for a fun Oscar night, we came across some interesting facts.
Richard Nixon's favorite food was cottage cheese with ketchup. Yes. When we were kidding around with various nicknam...[Read on] |
Cool Chick to Watch: Anais Mitchell
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Anais Mitchell is not new to the music scene, and although she may not be topping the charts in quite the same way as Lady GaGa, she’s definitely been making her mark. Signed to Ani Difranco’s label, Righteous Babe Records, this sweet-voiced songstres...[Read on] |
A Bleak Employment Picture for Women – and Shelter from the Storm
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by Valerie Norton, Public Policy Fellow, National Women's Law Center
The unemployment data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics paint a bleak employment picture. The economy lost 467,000 jobs over the last month and the nation’s unemploy...[Read on] |
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