"heated-seats" Articles & Blogs:
National Child Passenger Safety Week - Get Your Car Seat Inspected
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Did you know that three out of four child safety seats are improperly installed in vehicles according to research by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration? That's why we urge all parents and caregivers to attend the annual “National Seat Ch...[Read on] |
Tangled and The Black Swan Kick Box Office Butt
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Tangled overtook Harry Potter at the box office this weekend on its second weekend out and is close to making $100 million in just two weeks.
On the one hand its great that a woman centric film (ok, a princess centric film) is doing so great but it wil...[Read on] |
Best Ways to be Pampered in your Car
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Some of the BlogHer women were discussing recently whether we tend to be the ones who get spoiled, or whether we are the ones who do the actual spoiling. So the question was asked "Is it better to be spoiled than to spoil others?"
It got me to thinking ...[Read on] |
WNBA: Something just ain't right
| Something is different about the WNBA this year.I'm not talking about the so-called parity that has resulted in teams with veteran basketball stars regularly getting their butts kicked. I'm talking about the way many longtime WNBA supporters and fans have...[Read on] |
Stand with women and against Stupak
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Women hold only 17% of the seats on Congress.
With the health care debate raging now in the Senate, women’s health is on the potential...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Politic...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Yahoo’s 100 Movies to See Before You Die
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Yahoo just published a list compiled by its movie staff of the 100 movies you must see before you die.
ONLY ONE IS DIRECTED BY A WOMAN- Fast Times at Ridgemont High by Amy Heckerling.
Here’s the description of how they came up with the list:
Many mov...[Read on] |
Woman's Review: The GMC Terrain can wear as many hats as I do
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Imagine a car that could carry five passengers--making you very popular for carpools. A car with a trunk that can carry soccer equipment, a month's worth of groceries, and lots of luggage. A car that is kind of like a little black dress--it works well ...[Read on] |
Do the Balloon People Have a Right to Publicity?
| The boy in the balloon or, as it were, the boy not in the balloon, is a publicity stunt which has many people outraged, questioning the sanity of the boy’s father, the intelligence of the media, and the values of a media-driven culture. But other than t...[Read on] |
Happy tail travels: Make sure auto safety is a priority when traveling with your pet
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My Welsh Corgi, Roxy, has a disturbing relationship with my car’s windshield wipers.
When those wipers start to swish, her furry little body is flying full
speed at the windshield, barking and crying the entire way. She seems
to think the wipers are eit...[Read on] |
As Judge Sotomayor Concludes Her Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Committee…
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by Marcia D. Greenberger, Co-President, National Women's Law Center
This post is part of a series about the nomination of Judge Sotomayor for the Supreme Court.
Judge Sotomayor just concluded what has been estimated to be about 24 hours of testimon...[Read on] |
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day: Not Just Another Holiday
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by Megan Tackney, Program Associate, National Women's Law Center
I opened my email this morning to find a well-timed announcement that today is Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. It could not have come sooner. Even as I was walking to work this morni...[Read on] |
Notes from a bitch - nutrition...
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A few Sundays ago I watched 60 Minutes and caught a segment highlighting the work of Alice Waters, the "mother of slow food." I was inspired by Waters' love of food and her passionate belief that everyone is entitled to good food.
I couldn't agree mor...[Read on] |
Female Judges on the Rise in Pennsylvania
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by Rachel Peck, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
Women have been long underrepresented in the judiciary. While women now make up half of all law school classes, outside of law school, the number of women serving as judges is sorely lacking. The...[Read on] |
How to analyze a film based on more than the actors
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“That movie was terrible. Don’t go see it.”
When people say a movie is “bad,” what do they mean? Was it boring? Was the plot too slow or nonexistent? Or, is the excuse simply, “I just didn’t like it?”
I’m sure if we’re passionate at ...[Read on] |
BarkBuckleUP Reviews the 2011 Jeep Patriot 4x4
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The 2011 Jeep Patriot 4x4 has been reviewed by pet travel safety experts (and AskPatty.com partner & contributor) Bark Buckle UP and put to the test with Betty & Princess (dogs) on city streets, highways and dirt roads. In their two part video review, ...[Read on] |
Minivan moms can be pretty high-tech
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I am a high-tech Mom and here's the proof: I purchased my first CD burner in 1989 and used it to create holiday music mixes I gave to friends at Christmas. I was one of the first people I knew to sign up for broadband internet in 1998. I opted for a DV...[Read on] |
2010 Elantra Blue Can Save You Some Green - If You Can Overlook a Few Things
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Unless you've been hiding somewhere, you know that the days of Hyundai being the butt of jokes are over. Many of Hyundai's products go toe-to-toe (or bumper-to-bumper?) with the best. Hyundai's most recent entrant in its Elantra line, the 2010 Elantra Blu...[Read on] |
Ford increases passenger safety with inflatable seatbelts
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It's a fact that seatbelts and airbags have a proven record of saving lives in automobile crashes. Ford has now combined the two technologies to create a new kind of inflatable seatbelt that will better protect rear seat occupants, especially more vulner...[Read on] |
Food for Fitness: Breakfast Omelet
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Breakfast has always been my favorite meal of the day, simply because breakfast foods are the best in flavor and variety in my opinion.You probably roll your eyes when you hear “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day” because you have heard...[Read on] |
So Cal Mom Auto Review: The Family-Friendly Ford Flex - The Coolest Car on the Road
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This is another in a series of posts Donna Schwartz Mills is writing about her search for a new car to replace her current leased Volvo, which she has to give up in July.
Catch up with the entire series here.
Can two middle-aged mothers and four twee...[Read on] |
Bette Midler talks women and funny
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I can’t think of the last time I saw a movie starring Bette Midler that wasn’t on a basic cable station. I remember a time when she was everywhere. Guess its been over a decade now since her last good movie which I feel is The First Wives Club....[Read on] |
Olympic pricing: Equality? Economics? Gender?
| What equality is remains contextual and questionable. I don't know much about economics. And gender continues to present so many interesting issues with which to contend.Hence all the questions in the title of this post.But what I really want to talk abou...[Read on] |
Women’s Summer Box Office Recap
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The weather is changing here in NYC, the kids are getting ready to go back to school and the fall film festivals are upon us, so before too much time passes let’s take a look at how women fared this summer at the box office.
We all know that in gener...[Read on] |
'Twas the Night Before Christmas - A Woman's Smart, Car Savvy Christmas Tale
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'Twas the night before Christmas, and at the North PoleOld Santa was pacing a path through the snowOn his rosy cheeks he now wore a frown;His new fancy sleigh had just broken down.It had heating and air, GPS, leather seats,and a 200 Reindeer-Power Five ...[Read on] |
My Dad still driving at 85 - Happy Father's Day!
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My Dad is still driving at 85 years old and is one of the big reasons I love cars! My Dad did not own a car at all until he was he was 33 years old. Owning a car was a luxury item for a post WWII blue collar family man in the 1950's, he car-pooled to wor...[Read on] |
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