"blind-spot-detection" Articles & Blogs:
Drivers are interested in intelligent vehicle sensing features despite limited familiarity
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As automotive technology increases with new innovations like Ford’s Curve Control, consumers have a growing interest in several other new technologies geared toward safety and accident prevention. A study entitled AutoTECHCAST, conducted by Harris Int...[Read on] |
Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin and Her Campaign’s “Truth Optional” Mentality
| Courtesy of Howard Books.If being a campaign volunteer for Sarah Palin sounds like an unrewarding way to spend your free time, then you and Frank Bailey have something in common. Because, as he reveals in Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin (Howard Books), be...[Read on] |
Drilling Down: The Blind Side’s Success
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I find it really funny — and telling — how the success of The Blind Side is still making people in Hollywood scratch their heads. This past weekend the LA Times took a long look at the making of the film.
First, it seems that Julia Roberts was the ...[Read on] |
Women & Wine Hosts Press/Bloggers Event to Preview the Winners of the LA International Wine, Spirits & Olive Oil Competition
| As the CEO of Women & Wine, http://womenwine.com, I wear a lot of different hats. So it was a great privilege on Thursday, to help host a press and bloggers tasting event - a sneak peak so to speak - to showcase some of the winners prior to the announceme...[Read on] |
It’s Pinktober – Female athletes unite against breast cancer
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Organizations everywhere are kicking off month long breast cancer awareness programs.
At least half of you know someone who has or had breast cancer. Whether a mom, aunt, grandmother, neighbor, or family friend, breast cancer strikes over 200,000 wo...[Read on] |
It’s Pinktober – Female athletes unite against breast cancer
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Organizations everywhere are kicking off month long breast cancer awareness programs.
At least half of you know someone who has or had breast cancer. Whether a mom, aunt, grandmother, neighbor, or family friend, breast cancer strikes over 200,000 wome...[Read on] |
Sandra Bullock makes Box Office history
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Sandra Bullock started out 2009 pretty much off the Hollywood radar screen. She hadn’t made a movie for two years, and since most people never thought a woman over 40 could score box office successes, her upcoming films weren’t taken very seriously....[Read on] |
Sandra Bullock tops list of highest paid actresses
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According to Forbes, Sandra Bullock was the highest paid actress from July 2009 through June 2010. She earned an astounding $56 million off her two successes The Proposal and The Blind Side. She gambled — and won — on The Blind Side by taking le...[Read on] |
Celebrate National Women's Health Week!
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by Ellen Newcomb, Program Assistant, National Women's Law Center
Yesterday was the kickoff of National Women’s Health Week and the Office of Women’s Health is encouraging women to celebrate by making positive changes to their lifestyles that wil...[Read on] |
Audi says "Goodnight Moon" during the Super Bowl
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Most of us watch the Super Bowl for the commercials as much as for the game, if not more so. This year, Audi's new add titled "Goodnight" will be one of the more memorable ones from the evening.
The spot will follow a storyline pretty familiar to us...[Read on] |
X-Games 16 Girls Day August 1st
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We are experiencing technical difficulties with the online registration, fear not. If you want to reserve a spot, email courtney.gro@gmail.com or call 812-322-5254 with the following information:
Participant’s Full Name
Participant’s Age
Skat...[Read on] |
Holiday Movie Preview- Lots for and about women
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I love when I get my Entertainment Weekly preview issues. Just love them. This year’s holiday movie preview just arrived and lo and behold it looks like it could be a pretty decent season for us women.
The season has already begun with Oscar frontr...[Read on] |
New Moon brings a new dawn in Hollywood
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On Friday morning Hollywood woke up to the realization that fangirls can be as rabid as fanboys. By Saturday morning they realized that two BIG records had been broken, including the highest midnight screening opening and the best opening date in histor...[Read on] |
Ladies Top Forbes' '100 Most Powerful' List
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Forbes Magazine has just released its annual list of “The 100 Most Powerful Celebrities” and it appears the past year was particularly good for Hollywood’s most talented and versatile ladies. Raking in a ridiculous $315 million from...[Read on] |
Oscar Party Recap: Hollywood Finds Its License to Chill
| Sandra Bullock and Jesse James at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Photograph by Getty/VF. Perhaps for the first time since 2007, when the financial crisis was still a glimmer in the banking industry’s eye, Hollywood gave itself permission to have a little ...[Read on] |
Early thoughts on the Oscar nominations
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This morning I have such a feeling of relief over Kathryn Bigelow’s nomination. Since the Academy has such a shitty track record of honoring women, I thought in back of my mind that they just might give her (and us) the big finger.
But those thoughts...[Read on] |
New Female Troops Patrol South Bengal Frontier
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BONGAON, India (WOMENSENEWS)--The clear blue sky with twirls of white clouds rises above lush green fields while a soft wind blows.
It is a quiet and picturesque spot in the southern region of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.
But Rita Chakla, 23...[Read on] |
Blake Lively's Got a Brand New Bag
| New York City’s Chanel-loving socials flooded famed ladies-who-lunch spot La Grenouille (say it with us: Gren-ou-eeeee) Wednesday night to toast Blake Lively’s latest milestone—her very own ambassadorship. The actress was recently chosen by Karl Lag...[Read on] |
2010 Aspen Winternational World Cup on for Thanksgiving weekend
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Who: Many of the top female skiers in the world.
What: Aspen Winternational
Where: Aspen, Colo.
When: Thanksgiving weekend – Nov. 27 & 28, 2010.
Why: The only U.S. stop on the Women’s World Cup curcuit.
The world’s fastest women skiers will once ag...[Read on] |
A wife, mother and kiter
| Perth, Australia – We’re featuring Shannon Drucker’s story, a participant in Kristin Boese’s recently concluded kite camp in Australia. Besides Kristin’s hectic training schedule, producing kiteboarding/kitesurfing training videos and writing bo...[Read on] |
Take a test drive and Ford will give $20 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure
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Want to do something fun this weekend that also supports a great purpose? Ford is showing its support of breast cancer awareness by donating $20 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure in the name of each prospective customer who test drives a Ford, Lincoln, ...[Read on] |
Sarah Ferguson Has Her Sights Set on an Oscar
| The Queen of England's granddaughter Zara Phillips has gotten in a spot of trouble after breaking Burghley Horse Trial rules by letting her dogs off their leads. Though regulations state that dogs must be kept on leashes, Zara let pooches Spey and Corley ...[Read on] |
John McCain Is Best Friends with New Jersey’s “Snooki”
| Last night, John McCain’s Twitter engaged in some important discourse about the health-care bill’s 10 percent tax on tanning salons with “Snooki,” which is the chosen name of one of the Jersey Shore people. See if you can spot the pop-culture pun....[Read on] |
Kawasaki’s Green Goes Pink
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Jenna Goldberg
We all love action sports, and sometimes that passion drives us to do challenging and borderline- psychotic things. Take for instance, running a 24-hour motocross marathon, helping riders of all ages to learn to ride a dirt bike, re...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin Follows the White House on Twitter, But the White House Does Not Follow Sarah Palin
| Photo by Lonerockalex/Wikipedia.Introducing Friend or Follow, arguably the most uncomfortable addition to Twitter since whatever Spencer Pratt last tweeted. The gist of the program is fairly self-evident: typing in one’s username on friendorfollow.com w...[Read on] |
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