"smart-key-systems" Articles & Blogs:
Smart Women Take Heart: Your Love Life Is Fine
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(WOMENSENEWS)--What should smart ambitious women with some measure of career fulfillment do to prove they're not miserable and sexless? Hold a mass demonstration with smiley-face banners?
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More Comics and Cartoons for the Smart, Savvy Girl
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I am of the opinion that comic and cartoon art is very much a form of "fine art." It is the one medium where anything you can imagine can become possible. If you dream it, you can realize it with a pen and a piece of paper. Now more than ever women are us...[Read on] |
Are keyless start/stop systems safe?
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I gotta confess, I'm not so good with car keys. I'm always fumbling to find them at the bottom of my purse, and even though I have a designated drop spot for them in the house, half the time I never remember to put them there. Yep: I am the pathetic sap ...[Read on] |
Debunking The New Smart Choices Packaged Food Label
| Uniform Food Label
I first wrote about the Smart Choices labeling program in November 2008, after it was rolled out at the American Dietetic Association Food and Nutrition Conference. In a nutshell, it is the food industry’s stab at taking all the “f...[Read on] |
Smart Phone Apps Women Really Need
| What multi-tasker isn't addicted to their phone? Now you can make calls, send emails, check into Facebook and Foursquare, take pictures, tag a song on the radio with Shazam, read the newspaper, and find a great recipe for dinner or make reservations to e...[Read on] |
Equal Pay for Equal Work: Still a Myth in the Legal Profession
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by Kavitha Sivashanker, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
A new study released this week highlights the difficulties that female partners face in law firm compensation systems, and analyzes the factors contributing to the large pay disparities between...[Read on] |
Editing Sarah Palin for accuracy
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In my day job, I'm an editor. Which is why it's hard for me to look at quotes like this, from Sarah Palin...
"The pro-life movement is pro-women, and it empowers women with the message that we are strong enough and smart enough to be able to pursue educa...[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] |
Happy to Introduce: Smart Jumper Cables!
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Today's cars are very complex. If the battery of your car dies - you want to be very careful that you do the right thing! Here are four different ways you can charge the battery to get your car rolling down the road again.
1. Slowly charge the bat...[Read on] |
Women Directors for Hire
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We all know that things suck for a woman wanting to direct films in Hollywood, especially a studio film. So what’s a talented woman director to do while waiting for the gender apartheid to end to make a living? The answer is anything and everything ...[Read on] |
The church may oppose the pill, but one Catholic bank in Germany was profiting off it
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Talk about hypocrisy. A Catholic bank in Germany was revealed by newspaper reporting to have invested money in the stock of American birth control maker Wyeth, despite the Roman Catholic Church's condemnation of birth control.
Der Spiegel newspaper dis...[Read on] |
Who Should be Madonna’s Next BF?
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As was previously noted, Madonna recently turned 51. I think it’s time for her to ditch her manpanion and pair up with someone she can grow really old with. But who’s man enough to date Madonna? She’s rich, she’s powerful, she̵...[Read on] |
Weighing in on the New Year
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So you’re a resolutionist. You’ve resolved to eat right this year and get regular exercise, right? Slimming down and getting healthier are common New Year’s resolutions, but following through on the commitment is an uncommon accomplishment.
There ...[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] |
Pretty Smart: Sally Ride Toy Challenge
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If you thought toys were just for fun, you’re wrong. Toys are also a great way to learn about science, engineering, and the design process! Creating a toy or game involves experiencing engineering as a fun, creative, collaborative process, relevant to e...[Read on] |
Q&A;: Marianne Faithfull Doesn’t Like to Talk About the Rolling Stones
| Marianne Faithfull. By Patrick Swirc.Depending on the era in which your playlist resides, you know Marianne Faithfull as a beautiful, blonde pop ingenue on the arm of Mick Jagger (60s), a strung-out New Waver with a cigarette hanging from her lips (80s), ...[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] |
Can Fashion Icon Michelle Obama Wear the Same Thing Twice?
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Yes, the day is coming when the First Lady may do the unspeakable — ‘repeat’ an outfit!
Will this cause outrage or applause? Simon Doonan, Isaac Mizrahi and four other top fashion professionals weigh inThe Etceterist | Today 10:25 am
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Ways to Stretch Your Golf Budget
| If you’re like most of us in today’s troubled economic times you are finding it difficult to play as much golf as you would like and to afford the necessary equipment. Certainly there more important things in this world than playing golf, like eating,...[Read on] |
An Education
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The second An Education opened at Sundance last January the buzz began. The buzz was most especially focused on the star making performance of a pretty unknown English actress Carey Mulligan. Sometimes the buzz blows over or gets overtaken by new buzz...[Read on] |
Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch
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Here are the women on Variety’s 10 screenwriters to Watch. It is really focused on comedy writers and seems to have a bit of a feminist bent. Here’s to hoping these women make some good films that we get to see in theatres.
Emma Forrest
“I’m...[Read on] |
Revenge of the Ghetto Hockey Mom
| I have been hearing so much from governor Sarah Palin ever since her visit to New York City a few days ago. I am sure that by now you’ve heard the jokes that talk shot host David Letterman made about her daughter. It wasn’t nearly Letterman’s best m...[Read on] |
The Technical Academy Awards- For Guys Only?
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If you didn’t know any better after reading this AP article on the Academy’s technical awards you’d think that only men worked in Hollywood. This piece is one of the strangest takes on the industry that I have seen in a while.
Here’s the first l...[Read on] |
Drew Barrymore on 60 Minutes
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It seems that this smart, young woman basically raised herself. Wolves would have been an improvement over her parents. How she got herself back on track and to the success she is today is a testimony to her strength and intelligence.
My respect for ...[Read on] |
Spotlight on Adrienne Billiau: Young woman changing the auto industry
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Purse? Check. Lipstick? Check. Job at GM? Yup.
Say hello to Adrienne Billiau, a young woman changing the auto industry forever. Fresh out of college, she is working in the Battery Systems Lab as a VOLTec Test Engineer at General Motors. That’s right: G...[Read on] |
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