"wired-volt-challenge" Articles & Blogs:
Your chance to drive a Chevrolet Volt with the Wired Volt Challenge
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The Chevrolet Volt could very well the biggest thing to come out of General Motors in years, and the company has wasted no opportunity to tell the world about this "game changing" range-extended electric vehicle. Four lucky readers will get a chance to j...[Read on] |
Chevrolet Volt hits Tinseltown in anticipation of Los Angeles Auto Show
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Los Angeles-based fans of the Chevrolet Volt will be pleased to learn the highly anticipated extended-range electric vehicle is in Tinseltown for a few spins around the City of Angels and a whirlwind tour of activities leading up to the 2009 Los Angeles ...[Read on] |
Harnessing the Summer Sun: Chevy Volt Owners Look to the Sky for Clean Energy
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Well, as we wrap up National Tire Safety Week, my thoughts are about finding some time this weekend to soak up some well-deserved summer sun, and I'd imagine I'm not alone in the Ask Patty Nation. So it seems only fitting that today I'm sharing with yo...[Read on] |
OnStar to go mobile for Chevy Volt owners
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OnStar released a new mobile application at the Consumer Electronics Show this week that will allow owners of the highly anticipated Chevrolet Volt to have 24/7 connection and control of vehicle functions and certain OnStar features - via their smart c...[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] |
A Warning: The 2011 True E-Book Challenge Story
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Thanks to Juju at Tales of Whimsy, I’ve joined a challenge! If you haven’t heard of it (or more rightly, guessed) it’s the 2011 E-Book Challenge which is totally right up my alley.
A lot of the freebies on Amazon are romance novels. And I personal...[Read on] |
13 year old Casie Cathrea makes a hole-in-one at LPGA Challenge
| Casie Cathrea, a 13 year old golfer from California, shot a hole-in-one at the CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge in Danville, Calif. on Thursday. In the opening round – her first on the tour, she made a hole-in-one on the 155-yard 12th hole. AMAZING! Her sc...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminists of the Day: Eva Longoria-Parker and Rosario Dawson
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Kudos to Eva Longoria-Parker and Rosario Dawson for standing up and using their voices to protest the new immigration law in Arizona.
Here’s what Longoria-Parker said to Us Magazine:
I haven’t made it a secret that I’m strongly opposed to the Ar...[Read on] |
Nike+: Men vs Women challenge
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Haven’t seen this in the U.S. but in Europe, Nike has launched an integrated campaign called “Men vs. Women.” The goal is to motivate athletes to enjoy running in completely new ways.
With Gnarls Barkley crooning through their earbuds, with the ...[Read on] |
E-Bikes: Green with a boost
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Bike-to-Work Day just passed, and it’s possible you never actually got on your bike. No doubt you wanted to. You probably thought about it but maybe you were worried about traffic or you live in a city with hills. Or maybe you just wanted to be able to...[Read on] |
Happy π Day!
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Today is 3/14, or π Day to the mathematically minded. That's π, or Pi, which some of you will undoubtedly recall from your high school geometry classes - it's an irrational number that is famously approximated at 3.14 - but in reality, the number doe...[Read on] |
Are Females Interested in Supporting Women's Sports?
| NPR writer Frank Deford opens his article by highlighting all of the recent media attention given to female athletes. From Lindsey Vonn and Danica Patrick to Serena Williams, the media has taken notice. But, there seems to be a distinct divide where indiv...[Read on] |
Video games give girls "life lessons" on how to achieve their social beauty standards
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Check out Wired's take on new games for girls released in 2009, in which all but one ("The Daring Game for Girls") is about fashion, boys, princesses, modeling, and more fashion. Well, there is a detective game, but you solve mysteries using your "femin...[Read on] |
March Madness Online: Thank you, ESPN, for promoting women
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Ok, so March Madness has officially begun.
It’s my favorite time of the year!!
This year, I actually decided to participate (shocking) by filling out brackets and starting Women Talk Sports groups) for both the Men’s NCAA Championships (via CBS Spor...[Read on] |
Sports Journalism, Athletes in for a Big Challenge
| TMZ.com, a leading gossip and celebrity news web site, has entered the sports media market, launching TMZ Sports at the start of the year. And if its recent coverage of the Gilbert Arenas story is any indication, established sports media outlets are facin...[Read on] |
Out of bankruptcy in a flash, the new General Motors shares its plan for future success
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Emerging from bankruptcy just 40 days after filing, the new General Motors Company began operations on Friday touting a new corporate structure, a stronger balance sheet, and a renewed commitment to make the customer the center of everything the new GM d...[Read on] |
Ask Patty BlogHer10 New York Mystical Magical M.O.M. Tour
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I and 2400 other women converged on New York City last weekend to celebrate BlogHer10 and our womanhood in style.This was my 5th BlogHer Conference and Capital WOW have we grown, over 1000 more BlogHer's
in attendance this year. There were a ton of majo...[Read on] |
2010 Green Car of the Year to be awarded at Los Angeles Auto Show
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Now in its fifth year, the Green Car of the Year(R) award honors environmental leadership in the automobile field and recognizes vehicles that are readily available to consumers during the award year. The prestigious award will be announced on Thursday, ...[Read on] |
How I decided to run a marathon
| One woman described her foray into running, originally to help her lose weight. Over 100 pounds lighter, she’s now hooked, preparing for a half marathon, then a marathon with a goal of running an ultra event.
Another woman had loved running but was for...[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] |
NAIAS Carnival of Cars: In Snowy Detroit, Alternate Fuel Vehicles are HOT
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Neither snow nor rain nor delayed flights can keep the automotive world out of Detroit for the North American International Auto Show, which is being held at Cobo Hall through January 23. Press days were held on January 10 and 11. Here are som...[Read on] |
President Obama fills out women’s brackets for ESPN
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We all know President Barack Obama is a huge hoops fans. In fact after last year’s NCAA title, Obama invited the UConn women’s team to a championship ceremony at the White House and even ended up shooting baskets with the players. At the time, he sa...[Read on] |
Environmentalist Alexandra Cousteau Discusses the Oil Spill
| Alexandra Cousteau. With the Gulf oil spill now in its 56th day, VF Daily discussed the disaster’s ramifications with someone who has a deep connection to the health of our oceans: Alexandra Cousteau, the 34-year-old granddaughter of underwater pioneer ...[Read on] |
5 Ways to Ensure You’ll Love Exercising
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How often do you look at yourself, look at the mirror, the scale or other girls and decide you’re finally going to get into a work-out schedule? We all do it. How often have you set out on an exercise plan, only to watch it fade after a few trips to the...[Read on] |
General Motors announces bankruptcy, promising a new and better future
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It was not much of a surprise yesterday when General Motors revealed the details of its bankruptcy plans; many in the automotive industry were wondering WHEN, not IF, GM would have to resort to such drastic measures. According to News.Yahoo.com "GM's ban...[Read on] |
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