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Five days ago the Senate defeated a measure aimed at requiring the Keystone XL to move forward…and today the vote was repeated. The Senate just can't stop voting on the issue…how many defeats are needed? The repeat vote was part of a broader package of issues promoted by Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) who sought to win approval for constructing the KXL, to expand offshore oil and gas leasing, to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, and to allow oil shale and tar sands leasing, among other provisions. Fortunately the measure failed 41-57.
The Keystone XL struggle isn't going away…and neither are its opponents.
This morning before the Senate vote, Cornell University's Global Labor Institute released a new report: The Impact of Tar Sands Pipeline Spills on Employment and the Economy. This is clearly a must-read for all legislators. The report reminds us: "The largest tar sands oil spill in theU.S. occurred on theKalamazooRiver inMichigan in 2010. This spill affected the health of hundreds of residents, displaced residents, hurt businesses, and caused a loss of jobs. The Kalamazoo spill is the most expensive tar sands pipeline oil spill in U.S. history, with overall costs estimated at $725 million."
Why risk more of the same?
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Tom Carter and Jamie Tulloch, of Mid Wales, attended alongside Chris Rees and Zoe Herbert, both of Wyre Forest, Severn & Teme Valley.
The venue was the Millennium Hotel, Mayfair and there were in excess of 160 members from the UK and overseas, including representatives from the Cannes office, one of the recent additions to the company's global presence.
Managing director of Fine & Country Malcolm Lindley reflected on the success of 2012, highlighting the fact that the company offers a service under the Fine & Country banner which is a business class service and should be sold as 'just that'.
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CALHOUN, Ga. — Candlelight tours are being offered of the historic capital of the Cherokee tribe in north Georgia.
The Calhoun Times reports (http://bit.ly/Ut2ErU ) that visitors can tour the grounds by candlelight the evening of Dec. 1.
The Cherokee Legislature established New Echota in 1825. It was the site of the first Indian-language newspaper office. From the town, Cherokee leaders resisted relinquishing their remaining lands to the state of Georgia. The legal battle reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
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In this course, English 131 for ESL students, we will examine the power of language. Language can unite us or it can tear us apart. During Autumn Quarter 2013, we will explore the power of language throughout the world, understanding it both as genre and as argument. We will read texts ranging from slam poetry to film, from elegant prose to academic writing. These texts will serve as a backdrop to our writing adventure as well as function as living texts with which your writing will interact. The goal of this course is to prepare you, a new university student, for the task of academic writing at the university level.
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From time to time during the past two decades the trustees of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts tried to get John Spaulding to join their board. They were frank about their purpose: Mr. Spaulding had an enviable collection of modern French paintings which he would, if a trustee, be inclined to leave to the museum. But Mr. Spaulding never consented to become a trustee. He died last winter and not until the will was read did the museum learn that he had given it his paintings. The Spaulding collection is one of the most perfect of its kind, worth about $2 million and including some of the best works by the great French Impressionists. It was the selection of a man who, in his possessions and preoccupations, was an old and special Boston typea kind of storybook Bostonian.
John Spaulding, the son of a wealthy sugar dealer, wound up a gentlemanly education at Harvard ('92) and then, after a few years in his father's business, proceeded to enjoy what his wealth could give him. There was the house on Beacon Street and the huge summer place shared with his brother at Pride's Crossing about 20 miles from Boston. There was the staff of 90 servants and the special greenhouse for raising orchids. There was the family yacht, Isis, on which he steamed to Boston one or two mornings a weekor, almost as easily, cruised around the Mediterranean and the Adriatic. On one trip to the Orient he and his brother bought a Japanese print, which started them off to collect eventually 6,000 Japanese prints and 452 knife handles. Then around 1920 his interest shifted to the works of Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and others.
A quiet, withdrawn gentleman, Spaulding bought only what pleased him and never thought about the investment value of a painting. He often hung paintings in the bathroom. "People spend so much time there," he said, "why not have pictures to look at?" In the summer, when he moved to Pride's Crossing, he took his choicest prints, which were packed in boxes and loaded on a van. A butler rode with them carrying a fire extinguisher.
At 56 John married, but his wife died in 1943 and soon afterward he moved to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel where he lived surrounded by a few of his lesser paintings. A man of fixed habits, Spaulding descended at six every evening to the hotel mezzanine, ordered two old-fashioneds and, because he hated poorly dressed women, sat there muttering about the frumpy hats worn by Boston dowagers. At dinner he ordered the best inexpensive food on the menu, never plunged beyond a $.25 dessert. He died last January at the age of 77. Speaking of John Spaulding and all that he stood for, Mrs. William Spaulding, his brother's widow, sighed gently and said, "It's too bad it's all gone and finished now. We had such wonderful fun."
SPAULDING HOME in Boston is on this Beacon Street corner, overlooking the Charles River. When his brother married in 1909 Spaulding moved to top floor. When he himself got married he took over the house and filled it with paintings.
SPAULDING YACHT, Isis, was anchored off family's summer home at Pride's Crossing. Summer home (below) had rooms with high vaulted and decorated ceilings and such steep stairs that footmen had to carry the babies up and down them.
Excerpt from "The Spaulding Collection: A Boston Storybook Character Gives Magnificent Art to Museum," Life (1 November 1948), n.p.


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Labor has accused Opposition Leader Tony Abbott of harbouring extremists, as debate heated up over MPs' comments on Muslims and immigration policy.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has called on Mr Abbott to send two senior coalition members - Senator Cory Bernardi and immigration spokesman Scott Morrison - to the backbench over their recent comments.
While Mr Abbott has resisted the call, he used a party room meeting on Tuesday to admonish the two members for going "a little too far" in their public comments.
Senator Bernardi told a radio station last week that: "Islam itself is the problem - it's not Muslims".
He added that: "Islam is a totalitarian, political and religious ideology".
Mr Morrison gave a qualified apology a day after he publicly questioned the taxpayer-funded travel arrangements for asylum seekers attending the funerals of people killed in the Christmas Island boat tragedy.
It also was reported that Mr Morrison had suggested to shadow cabinet last year the coalition capitalise on fears about Muslim immigration.
But, Mr Abbott said, the coalition did not support a discriminatory immigration policy and believed Australia benefited from being a multicultural society.
"We will never say to perfectly good Australians that they are not fully valued in their own country," he told coalition MPs.
However, the federal parliament's only Muslim MP, Labor's Ed Husic, said Mr Abbott had allowed the comments to be "deliberately floated in the public arena for political advantage".
"The extremists continue to cloud commonsense and decency within the coalition," Mr Husic said.
"As I stand here today, I think of the mums, dads, students, small business people ... those drawn from the Islamic faith who are trying to do their best to contribute to the betterment of our nation.
"What are those people meant to feel when they ponder on how they were admitted to share the richness of life here but while others of their faith have been locked out?"
He said there was a potential impact on $30 billion of Australian exports to countries with large Muslim populations.
"Do we believe that people in these countries would not react?" he asked.
Former Howard government immigration minister Philip Ruddock told parliament the coalition would never seek to impose a discriminatory immigration policy.
He said it was coalition policy to ensure everyone upheld the Australian values of civic duty, cultural respect, social equity and productive diversity.
Mr Ruddock said Ms Gillard had not appointed anyone to the multicultural affairs portfolio after the 2010 election, until Kate Lundy was officially named in the position this week.
The prime minister described the comments over the past two weeks as a "dreadful spectre haunting the parliament and the nation".
Independent MP Tony Windsor said Mr Abbott was "preying on some of the same nerve ends" as Pauline Hanson and One Nation.


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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Sequins at Sunset
21 comments :
- Neris / Fashion Fractions said...
LOVE it Kimberly! The blouse, the sequined skirt, and of course the leopard pumps! GORGEOUS!
Fashion Fractions
- November 8, 2011 at 6:09 AM
- Diana said...
Love that you got such a great bargain on the skirt...it's beautiful and so versatile. Can't wait to see other ways to style it. I'm jumping on ebay now to find a similar on :-)
- November 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM
- Lia said...
Such a steal on the skirt!! I love how you've styled it too and can't wait to see how else you will!
- November 8, 2011 at 8:40 AM
- Syl said...
That is so pretty! How do you knot your belt like that, I love it!!
- November 8, 2011 at 8:45 AM
- Kimberly said...
Syl, the belt is from H&M and it came this way! It's knotted in the front with a tab closure in the back - pretty sneaky! :)
- November 8, 2011 at 8:47 AM
- My Dressy Ways said...
Ok. Wait. That blouse is F21? And that is a skirt you found on ebay? You have MAD shopping skills, my friend, I thought I was good but I am in complete awe.
- November 8, 2011 at 9:17 AM
- jenn~the stylish housewife said...
i never win on ebay! =( you look gorgeous...the lighting is so pretty in these pics. love how you belted the skirt too!
xoxo, jenn
the stylish housewife
- November 8, 2011 at 10:05 AM
- Katya said...
I can't decide what I love more, the gorgeous skirt or those rockin' shoes!!
triangle necklace giveaway
- November 8, 2011 at 10:06 AM
- Sarah @ Pencil Skirts and Lattes said...
this outfit is fantastic!! Love the colors you put together and the shoes are perfect!!! love it!
- November 8, 2011 at 10:09 AM
- Alysson said...
I'm so jealous of this great find!! I want something like this!
- November 8, 2011 at 10:26 AM
- Christa said...
That skirt is fabulous! I need to start hunting on eBay for some good fashion finds ;) thanks for the inspiration!
- November 8, 2011 at 12:58 PM
- Nicole - The Wardrobe Code said...
Wow - this outfit is amazing! When I think of sequins, I think of obnoxious bright colors and metallics, but this is so chic.
- November 8, 2011 at 12:59 PM
- Megan, The Frugalista Diaries said...
this is gorgeous..
- November 8, 2011 at 1:20 PM
- Cam | Bibs and Baubles said...
that looks gorgeous. i would have never thought to put that together! work it!
- November 8, 2011 at 2:10 PM
- Fashion By Alicia said...
Love the skirt! Such a great eBay find! I have been looking for a sequin skirt, but haven't had luck yet. You will inspire me to keep looking.
- November 8, 2011 at 2:31 PM
- Yo said...
I think of sequins as being so fancy, but this skirt styled the way you did it could be worn to work or somewhere non ball-esque.. I also would have never though of pairing that brown belt around the skirt but that's really that key that made it - oh I'm fashionable and not soo super fancy.. Love it!
- November 8, 2011 at 4:11 PM
- Tee @ She Writes, Bites, and Window Shops said...
Wow what a great outfit! I love the gold necklace against the color of that blouse.
- November 8, 2011 at 5:37 PM
- Candy Apple Fashion said...
This is gorgeous! I am so jealous that you always find such great pieces for great prices lol. I never would have thought sequins could be pulled off in the daytime but you look so chic and sophisticated!
- November 8, 2011 at 6:54 PM
- Nnenna said...
That skirt is gorgeous! I never think to shop on ebay, but now I'm thinking I need to! Can't wait to read your tips and tricks :)
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- November 8, 2011 at 10:35 PM
- jas said...
love the sequin skirt!
- November 14, 2011 at 10:09 AM
- Real Girl Glam said...
An amazing score for only $20!! Love the whole look.
- November 21, 2011 at 11:50 AM


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OC Considers "Dangerous Dog" Map
The Board of Supervisors is expected to vote on the issue on Dec. 17.
The proposed website would allow residents to click and see where dogs have been cited in 17 cities including
"Anyone who has a vicious dog should probably have their head examined in the first place," Supervisor Todd Spitzer said during a meeting in September. "Why would you even want a vicious dog? But assuming you do, the public has a right to know you have it."
According to county ordinance, a vicious dog is defined as one that has killed or seriously maimed a person.
After an attack, animal control officers launch an investigation, talk to witnesses, check records and find out if there have been other unreported attacks, Orange County Animal Care Director Ryan Drabek said.
"Any time a bite to a human happens a dog has to be quarantined for up to 10 days, either at its home or here at the shelter," Drabek told the newspaper.
Dog-bite reports have risen slightly in the county. Last year, 2,384 dogs reportedly bit people in Orange County, an increase from 2,281 in 2011, Drabek said.
The online map would show residents where the county's estimated 150 vicious and potentially dangerous dogs reside.
Some people think the county should have behavior training for dogs instead of shaming them on the Internet.
"They're labeling the dogs and not the owners, and they're putting dogs on death row at that point.
The owner needs to accept responsibility because most of the time they don't care," said Leonard Ludovico, a dog behavior specialist.
But Board Chairman Shawn Nelson had a different view.
"I don't want that dog in my neighborhood or anyone else's," Nelson said. "I don't want vicious dogs in neighborhoods period."


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'Tinkering that promotes the continued flow of play is worth considering. But, like Ruff said, anything that hints at digression should be out of the question. The new rule book serves its purpose. The NHL has been revitalized. The approach to next season should be reduced to a two-word game plan: continued enforcement.'
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The latest from master of precision Howard Norman is again set in the gray majesty of Nova Scotia, where 17-year-old orphan Wyatt Hillyer moves in with his devoted aunt and uncle and their adopted daughter, Tilda, the love of stoic Wyatt's life. The ravages of Hitler and his dastardly German U-boats lurking beneath Canadian waters hit their home hard. In What Is Left the Daughter, Norman writes with spare elegance and dry humor, and the extraordinary emotional power of his slim new novel is earned with authentic grace. A


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The winner of our giveaway of the Oakleaf Shawl and Baby yarn is….
Jackie! She said that Milky Spite and Fortune were the colors that reminded her of spring.
We'll be notifying Jackie by email that she's the winner! Stay tuned for next week's contest, which will be run on Ravelry. Have a great holiday weekend!


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This is rather vague and long-winded but I am looking for the name of an NHS form signed by a doctor in a Community Hospital where my husband was a patient for five months. Previously in two acute hospitals after fracturing his hip November last year and had surgery in the first hospital Then moved to another hospital for rehabilitation, but eventually moved from there to the local small Community Hospital for rehabilitation for the eldery physically and mentally frail.
My husband has vascular dementia, which deteriorated during hospitalization. Almost seven months ago he attended to his personal needs, was continent, mobile, went out every morning for his newspaper. Now his short-term memory is almost non-existent, balance and mobility is very poor, he is 'High Risk of Falls' (has had several) although he can use a zimmer (when he remembers/is reminded) and eventually he became incontinuent, then doubly incontinent, requires personal care.
He also has Type 2 diabetes, well controlled at home with tablets and diabetic diet. Usually 7-11. Soon after surgery this became erratic, going up into the high teens and over 20. Before being moved to the Community Hospital I was told it had been stabilizd at 10.
Unknown to me until he became very ill in April some months after being in the Community Hospital his glucose level had gradually risen up through the teens, and the 20s and mid-30s. He became very ill, bed bound for several days, delirious, and a staff-nurse admitted it was a life threatening situation.
Apart from a consultant at the hospital one morning a week, there was a young doctor who was sometimes there. The only time he ever talked to me was when I visited and was shocked to find my husband not in the sitting room but in bed and delirious. I saw the doctor on the phone in the office and told a nurse I wanted to speak to him. I was told the diabetic tablet mediction had been stopped and insulin injections started, my husband was now insulin dependent. Had I not spoken to him I might never have known of this as information from nurses was like drawing blood out of a stone.
The doctor said I should see an improvement in my husband in about 5 days time but that he might not return to what he previously was. Once out of bed he spent 11 days strapped into a wheelchair, could not speak, feed himself, do anything, although knew me.
Very gradually my husband did improve. His diabetes is being closely monitored in the care home where he now is, he can now speak, feed himself very well, move around with the zimmer and is more or less back to what he was before the diabetic crisis. Although of course not, and never will be, back to what he was before he fractured his hip and went into hospital.
The hospital consultant did not "recommend" my husband returning home, he would have been at risk, plus other factors. A great shock.
He has now been in a care home for two weeks and two days. On Friday his Named Nurse had a long discussion with me including the 'end of life' subject. To resuscitate or not. We talked at length but briefly, I said that as he presently is if he became ill, a heart attack or whatever, I would wish him to be resuscitated. But if in the future he had reached a stage where he had drastically mentally and physically deteriorated, and had no quality of life at all, then I would agree to DNR - Do Not Resuscitate. But that is a decision I could only make in the future, depending on the circumstances as they might then be. I do not want to lose my husband, but I do know that would be his choice. His nurse wrote this in his folder - his Care Needs.
The nurse said I could read the Care Needs folder at any time and today I sat alone and looked through it. Now to the point of this post.
The very first page was an NHS A4 size Form with red border on the right with large intials printed on it, and elsewhere. It had been signed by the Community Hospital doctor in April on the first day my husband was out of bed and in the wheelchair. I was so upset, and I cannot quote the title and initials - I think there was a 'C' first letter - nor the content . I need to read it again. Although I could not see the words or letters DNR on the form that is what it to be about. I also saw a mention somewhere about relatives.
In an emergency I could imagine a nurse running to check my husband's Care Needs file, seeing this form on the first page and acting on it.
I was shocked to think that unknown to me, his wife and also his Power of Attorney for both Finances and Welfare, such a form had been passed on to the care home, signed by the hospital doctor, and that I had never been consulted. Shocked that the form had been signed the first day my husband was out of bed and in the wheelchair.
I could not make out the handwriting of the "reason" for the signing of this form, but the meaning was obvious. Had my husband again taken seriously ill in the Community Hospital there would have been no attempt to treat him. He would have been allowed to die.
Why? Because he has dementia?
Did that young doctor look at my husband sitting in the wheelchair obviously having lost his abilities, decided he could never recover them, he would be a vegetable, he had dementia, and write him off?
He was wrong.
I know that young doctor spoke to other patients who did not have dementia, and their relatives, but over five months he never ever approached me. The wife and legal representative. Not until that occasion when I asked to speak to him. I had to ask staff-nurses, and information was little.
The care home duty nurse today was not my husband's Named Nurse, she will be back on duty on Friday. But today's nurse removed the form from the folder and said she would contact out GP practice and others.... I *think* she mentioned paramedics. I was so shocked and was not taking it in. But I will speak to the Named Nurse on Friday. Today's nurse also showed me stickers that are put on residents bedroom doors as to whether or not they have to be resusciated. She was going to put one on my husband's bedroom door to say that yes he should be resuscitated.
A long post, I am upset. This is an important NHS form and I want to know who else received a copy of it apart from the care home and our GP practice, and to make sure it is removed from every source where there is a copy.
I do realise that doctors can overrule relatives and make a decision in favour of DNR. But that was not the situation with my husband. Nor does it apply to my husband as he presently is. He has no heart condition, he does have HBP well controlled, and he does have a reasonable 'quality of life'.
This morning for the second time in the care home he was playing carpet bowls, and apparently very well although he has never played the game in his life! How you play carpet bowls with poor balance and using a zimmer I do not know, but he was enjoying himself. Even if when I later saw him he had no memory of it at all!
Sorry for the long ramble, but if anyone can give me any informaton concerning this form, it's title or anything at all, I would very much appreciate it.
Thanks for bearing with me.
Loopiloo (Loo)


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The Chapman Park Market was one of the first West Coast markets designed specifically for customers arriving by automobile. Architect Stiles Clements of Morgan, Walls & Clements is responsible for this 1929 Spanish Colonial Revival style complex with extensive Churrigueresque detailing. It now serves Los Angeles' vibrant Koreatown neighborhood.
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Several of our music and other databases are available through the same vendor (Ebsco). This means that you can search in more than one of these databases simultaneously.
1. Go to the Online Research Resources page
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3. Once you have found the database, click to enter it.
4. Click on the drop-down menu next to the word "in." (It will already display the name of the database you started in.)
5. Check as many database names as you'd like to search at once.
You could search Music Index and ERIC at the same time for education-related items or you could search MLA International Bibliography and the International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance at the same time for theatre-related items.


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SPORTS >>Owls outlast Oak Grove in double OT
Leader sports editor
Abundant Life won in exciting fashion last Friday night just up the road at Oak Grove. The Owls and Hornets scrapped through regulation and two overtimes, with the visiting team coming out on top 71-66.
The game became a two-man show between Abundant Life senior guard Colby Woolverton and Oak Grove sophomore guard Cedrick Williams.Woolverton finished with a game-high 38 points while Williams led the Hornets with 35.
That kid can play, Oak Grove head coach Wayne Herren said. It was a battle. We just missed shots in the end.
The Hornets had two shots to win it in regulation. After a missed shot, Brandon Hudson got a point-blank putback attempt, but missed it, sending it to the extra period.
The first overtime saw little action. Oak Grove pulled the ball out to halfcourt and held it. Abundant Life was content to let them hold it, and the two teams stood around for the rest of the extra frame. The Hornets scored with 30 seconds left, but Abundant Life answered with a bucket after being trapped at halfcourt. The Hornets bailed the Owls out after successfully executing the halfcourt trap by fouling.
Their 1-2-2 zone gave us trouble all night, so I just pulled it out to see if they would come and get us, Herring said. They didnt so we just held it. I thought we might be able to capitalize on our quickness if we could get some space, but give them credit. They didnt go for it.
Tied at 63 to start the second extra period, action stayed slow. Not a single bucket was scored. All eight of Abundant Lifes points were scored at the foul line, as well as all three of Oak Groves points.
Woolverton hit six of those eight while Keathley nailed the other two to put the Owls in front to stay.
Abundant Life took command of the game early and maintained it through three quarters. The Owls jumped out to a 17-9 lead, and took a 32-21 lead into halftime.
The lead continued to grow in the third, with Abundant Life carrying a 45-32 advantage in the final quarter of regulation.
Oak Grove then went off for 29 points in the fourth, led by Williams until he fouled out with a little over a minute to play.
Keathley added 11 total points to supplement Woolvertons 38. Dane Lottner added 10 for the Owls.
Brandon Hudson and Corderrell Harris each scored 12 for the Hornets.
Abundant Life hit 29 of 41 foul shots, including a 17 of 21 effort by Woolverton.
Oak Grove made 23 of 30 from the line, but hit just one of 17 from beyond three-point range.
Abundant Life opened conference play on the road last night against defending conference and state champion Riverview.
Look for details of that encounter in Saturdays edition of The Leader.


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"Worst. Episode. Ever." This is a corruption of yesterday's post about the Portal Potty. Which of course, are going to be present at the atheist festival on Fort Bragg, NC. None one of them will have portals installed. If you want to get shitfaced, do it back at the hotel afterwards. A little buzz? No [Read More…]
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SPD 2013 Student Design Competition Entries
The Society of Publication Designers (SPD)
Ends Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 5:00 PM (EST)
Event Details
The annual SPD Student Design Competition fields hundreds of entries from an increasingly competitive array of accredited schools, and is open to any undergraduate student. The top three winners receive a cash prize ($2,500 First Place, $1,000 Second Place and $500 Third Place) and Adobe software, as well as, along with the top runners-up, summer internships.
And we all know: Internships lead to jobs.
Now, the prizes are good, but there are other reasons you should enter:
1. You get your work in front of an awesome panel of judges, comprised of some of the top talent in the magazine design world. The truth of this industry is, the more people who see your work and love it, the better your chances of getting hired. Let your work be seen!
2. Aside from the little old internship, Adobe® software and cash prizes, there's fame and glory to be found on our blog and in our SPD Annual (Pub 48). If you're not aware of our Annuals yet, you can get a few here, and you'll find that for magazine designers and photo editors, they are essential resources. Getting into that essential resource this early in your career is a very good thing.
For complete details, FAQs, tips and more, check out our informational blog post here:
Download it, open, and get to work!
And for more help and advice, keep an eye on our blog and Facebook page.
1. CHOOSE: Select a project from one of the five categories listed above (also on the pdf ENTRY FORM available here).
2. DESIGN: Create the first 4 pages of a story (two spreads) on the project you choose. Each page measures 8"w x 10"h, so a spread is 16"w x 10"h. Original photography or illustration is required for one category and encouraged in the others. You may enter more than one design in the same or different categories.
Remember SPD Student Members get their first 3 entries for free -- you can choose the options above to join or renew if you need to. (You read that right: all current Student Members get free entries, a free Annual, free admission to events, and a huge discount on your first three years of professional membership after you graduate. You may want to be sure you check that out!)
3. SUBMIT: Either printed material or digital files as follows.
Printed Material: Full-size spreads, not reduced copies. DO NOT MOUNT THE WORK TO ANY TYPE OF BOARD. Tape a copy of your completed entry form to the BACK of each submission. Staple the spreads together in the upper left-hand corner. (Slides will NOT be accepted).
Digital PDFs: You must include your name in two places somewhere on each spread in 4pt type. Each file Must be named "First_Lastname.pdf" Entries should be full size spreads, print quality, 300 dpi, PDF files (all fonts embedded). Burn all submissions to a CD. It is ok to put multiple entries on one CD. Include a printed copy of the entry form for each entry. Mark clearly the name of the school & students' last name(s) on CD.
4. SEND all entries with your PayPal receipt from this payment form as proof of payment to:
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27 Union Square West, Suite 207
New York, NY 10003
Entries must be received before or on Monday, March 4, 2013, 5pm. Anything later will not be eligible as the judging process begins Tuesday, so plan some cushion time for yourself. There are NO EXTENSIONS.
Please read the instructions carefully and stay within the guidelines. SPD reserves the right to disqualify any miscategorized or incomplete entries.
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Our members are art directors, designers, photo editors, photographers, illustrators and information graphics professionals, editors and students. Since drafting its charter in 1965, SPD remains the only organization specifically addressing the visual concerns of print and digital editorial professionals, whether that be journalism, storytelling, service or more. Editorial design plays a crucial role in shaping and documenting our common history; as such, the efforts of the Society serve to educate and enlighten our members, their fans, and the general public about the importance of magazines.
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Brisbane centre Justin Hodges compared hulking Eels winger Semi Radradra to former team-mates Wendell Sailor and Lote Tuqiri after his own commanding return from injury.
Hodges played 58 minutes of his comeback from an Achilles' tendon problem at Suncorp Stadium, laying on two tries in a 25-18 defeat to Parramatta.
But Fijian Radradra stole the show with a blazing first half try.
"He's a massive unit," said Hodges. "I didn't realise how big he was until I got out there.
"He's a great player. I think he's only going to get better.
"The only two guys who come to mind are the Big Dell and Lote when they played here.
"Semi Radradra ... semi-trailer or whatever they call him ....."
Broncos coach Anthony Griffin said his men were "very poor", describing the outing as their worst of the year.
"Defensively, we just weren't there," he said. "We've been good for a month but tonight we let ourselves down."
Brisbane centre Jack Reed left Suncorp Stadium complaining of a sore jaw and is expected to be checked over the weekend.
Hodges said of his own return: "Coming out of dummy half was always going to be hard but I did it a few times without too much problem."
Asked about the Eels, Broncos captain Corey Parker said: "They've certainly got a good side and when you don't turn up against them, it makes it pretty hard."


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Tammy Jo borders on TSTL, but this book is entertaining.
This is a fun, light-hearted read. Tammy Jo is having a bad week, a really bad week and despite her lack of magical abilities finds herself mixed up in more hocus-pocus than she can handle. And some of it is just plain funny. The humour is what makes the book worth reading. Tammy Jo has a sharp wit and her sarcasm is a joy to partake in.
The book does feel a little chaotic at times, with Tammy Jo trying to accomplish multiple tasks at the same time, with no real understanding of what is going on around her. Plus, the world-building is a little on the slim side. But, all-in-all, it's a fun little ride. And while the whole werewolf mystery is cleared up, this is still very much a first book in a series. There are a number of threads left loose and a lot of unanswered or unaddressed questions. This left me feeling dissatisfied right at the end.
I'm also at a bit of a loss about the Bryn/Zach situation. I like both men, despite their serious control issues (Zach especially). It's not quite a love triangle, but is too close to be comfortable. There's little chance of either one escaping unscathed and I find myself cringing at the prospects.
If I come across the sequel, I'll definitely be giving it a read.
Love Merc the cat , an Ocelot ! Great story about a witch that does not really think she's a witch.. , her Testosterone heavy ex-husband, one super rich sexy male witch, and a grumpy father all trying to save them selves and the town from death. The twists and turn leave you guessing.This is a sexy, fun book with fantastic characters that make me want to know them better. If you like AMry Janice Davidson,Charlaine Harris, and Gerry Bartlett you will love this book.
Despite the high price ($12 kindle edition), after reading downloaded sample I really wanted this book so bought and read.
Downloaded sample in which quirky heroine with horrid customer in an unliked job trying to take home what heroine lovingly created on commission but without paying full price (as in, yes, I like it and will be using it at the party but not at agreed upon price) tells boss and customer where to shove it. Heads home newly determined to take control of life and the on/off thing with ex-husband in very small town. On the paranormal side of things, supported by a wildchild family ghost and from a family of witches and presumably poised to come into her own powers.
Full book had a doormat of a heroine always forgiving everyone everything (drug her, steal from her, etc. all forgiven) and letting ex-husband and new romantic interest both shove her around. Ghost goes missing. Small town bullying, whining, gossiping, etc. and then sudden insertions of de rigeur paranormals for reasons barely understandable even at story end (vampire, werewolves, merpeople, etc.) without any real worldbuilding. Small town hid head in sand and knew nothing; violence of werewolves put down to gang violence. Same "love triangle" style romantic snarl and heroine being pushed around even at end of story.
Writing not horrible. But, telling point for my review, not interested in pursuing rest of series even if became free at the public library (and certainly not at $12 a book). Looking for a fun main character and not a doormat.
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The promising debut of a hot new voice in paranormal romance-and the first of the Southern Witch novels.
The family magic seems to have skipped over Tammy Jo Trask. All she gets are a few untimely visits from long-dead, smart-mouthed family ghost Edie. But when her locket-an heirloom that happens to hold Edie's soul-is stolen in the midst of a town-wide crime spree, it's time for Tammy to find her inner witch.
After a few experiences with her dysfunctional magic, Tammy turns to the only person in small-town Duval, Texas, who can help: the very rich and highly magical Bryn Lyons. He might have all the answers-and a 007 savoir faire to boot-but the locket isn't the only heirloom passed down in Tammy's family. She also inherited a warning: stay away from Lyons.
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As if we didn't already have enough reasons to say RIP Society: French "YouTube comedian" (I know) Remi Baillard recently released a video called "Free Sex," in which he's filmed pretending to fuck unsuspecting women in public. Invariably, the women notice Baillard air-humping them and give him dirty looks. And this dumb shit actually has over five and a half million views.
Yes, that's right. A sketch form of a rape joke — which I can only assume was inspired by "Austin Powers 3," circa 2002? — got almost six million hits. I was one of those hits and not only did I not laugh, but I was transported back to 7th grade. You remember 7th grade? It's a time when the 12-year-old boys were so tiresome and immature that merely walking in front of a group of them would make my eyes roll back into the base of my cerebellum.
This isn't to say that I'm incapable of enjoying some good fun lowbrow humor. I certainly am, but rape jokes aren't an example of that at all. In fact, I increasingly feel that stupid shit like this doesn't even deserve the attention from deep, feminist analysis anymore. I'd rather throw the laptop I'm currently typing on into the river, to be honest. That's the reaction that I'm having to terrible rape jokes in general. It's less Oh! How awful that the patriarchy continues to denigrate women into positions of humiliation for the purpose of cheap laughs! and more like I NEED TO GO DRINK EIGHT MARTINIS AND KICK A CAR OR MAYBE JUST NAP BECAUSE THIS WAS SO DUMB. (Or, do this.)
You're probably wondering, oh no are we going to get another tirade about rape jokes? YES, YES YOU ARE, I'M SORRY. You know, I'm actually glad "Free Sex" appeared, on some level. It is such a bad piece of rape joke vaudeville that it is hurting rape culture instead of helping it. It's like when you hate a music genre, then hear the absolute worst song from that genre and it just proves the point so much stronger. This is like rape culture/rape joke nail-in-the-coffin type stuff. It's poorly conceived, poorly executed and rapey all wrapped up into one neat little package of trash.
Of course there are a still a bunch of people who probably don't even see this as a rape joke, like all the commenters calling it hilarious on YouTube. Is that an issue? Yes. I was talking to someone about the video and he gave me the ol' "But if the women don't even know it's happening to them, is it dangerous?" excuse. To which I say: YES, DUH. Just because a joke not directly involving them, it still has an effect on the way consent is perceived to everyone who watches it. It presents women's bodies as free for the taking, even when they're shopping for groceries (the title is "Free Sex" after all). And it makes actual rapists falsely believe that rape is acceptable, even funny.
I would venture to say that the whole landscape of rape joke acceptance is actually shifting. Maybe I'm just being idealistic, but after years of wanting to dive out of the window when I would hear bad rape jokes told by standup comedians at open mics, I welcome my new optimism with open arms. When I started reading the You Tube comments (PSA: I DO NOT RECOMMEND EVER READING THE COMMENTS), I noticed a shift. Sure, there were the regular "LoLZ, Remi is fUny" and the "hahahahhaaaaaaa he the man!" remarks and of course, I saw some hateful commenters actually predicting that women and feminists were going to hate it, which is part of the reason they enjoyed it so much. (The misogynists were proving their own misogyny by predicting it!) But the overwhelming majority of comments were from men and women alike who thought the video was terrible, harmful, and sexist. And the comments weren't just from self-described feminists like me; most comments were about how tacky the video was and how it just looked like sexual harassment. A few years ago, there would have been arguing about whether this is even a rape joke in the first place. Now the "men's rights activists" douchebags are proving our arguments for us, which to me is hilarious.
I'm still bummed that rape jokes get so much attention, even if now it's shifting to be negative. It's heartening to me that more and more comedy fans are becoming exhausted by the juvenile corners of the rape joke stratosphere. Maybe soon we'll just ignore them entirely so that so-called "comedians" don't even try anymore?
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Trinity Mirror boss Sly Bailey tore into the legacy of previous chief executive Philip Graf, attacking the former management for letting the group's national newspapers "drift".
She said the Mirror, Sunday Mirror, People and the group's Scottish titles should have been given stronger direction from executives who were "systematically risk-averse".
"The national titles drifted," she said. "It's clear now that these great brands could have benefited from clearer direction and control from the centre. Suffice it to say, I would have done it differently."
Ms Bailey said new ideas were allowed to "wither on the vine" and the approach to structured thinking was "weaker than I had experienced elsewhere".
"No real effort has been put into areas where scale and our own multiple businesses can be a real advantage."
Ms Bailey took over in February and soon assumed direct control of the group's newspapers, overseeing the Mirror's shift away from the "serious" news agenda adopted by the editor, Piers Morgan.
Today she announced the findings of her strategic review, vowing to slash costs without resorting to the sale of any major titles.
The Trinity chairman, Victor Blank, defended his board's handling of the company before the arrival of Ms Bailey, the former IPC Media chief.
"The board's job is to ensure there's a good executive team running the company efficiently - the board did its job," he said.
"Sly described pretty accurately the situation that obtained. Change was not being executed fast enough."
Ms Bailey berated the previous management for allowing the group's Sunday and Scottish newspapers to eat into each other's market share.
"It was simply unacceptable that the Daily Mirror and Daily Record compete against each other [in Scotland]," she said.
"They were knocking the hell out of each other both in terms of positioning and price, destroying value and leaving a clear run for a key competitor."
On Sundays, when readers often make multiple purchases, few people were buying both the Sunday Mirror and the People, she said.
"If people are buying two newspapers let them buy both of ours rather than one of ours and one of somebody else's."
She said there were benefits to be gained from the "scale and variety of our publishing assets" but warned against standardising content by pooling editorial.
Ms Bailey confirmed some of the 550 jobs to be cut at Trinity Mirror will be editorial.
The group would prefer people to leave voluntarily rather than through forced redundancies, she said, insisting there was no "ageist policy" designed to offload older staff.
She insisted there were no plans to remove Morgan now the circulation of the flagship Daily Mirror has dipped below 2 million copies.
"I'm confident we have a highly talented editor," she said. "But I don't think guidance has been provided in terms of the direction of the business in the past.
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Asked if Morgan's job was safe, she replied: "I don't think I could say my job is safe. No one ever knows if their job is safe. We have no plans to change the editor of the Daily Mirror."
She said the 2 million circulation figure was not a "magic number" that particularly interested her.
"There has not been a threshold below which the Daily Mirror is no longer effective for advertisers.
"Am I happy it fell below 2 million? No, of course not... But there are many measures of brand health."
Shares in Trinity Mirror lifted 8.5p to hit 481p at lunchtime.
The group reported half year pre-tax profits of £80.4m, up from £78.4m last year.
It also announced it was disposing of its nine titles in Northern Ireland, part of its 260-strong regional stable.
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Paul Ehrlich, David Gergen, and Francis Fukuyama
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL. Today's InstaPundit links to a Charles Krauthammer column exposing ex-neocon Francis Fukuyama's convenient memory about how he initiated the conversion that has made him a darling of the anti-war left. Then the Blogfather proceeds to add a comment of his own and some updates:
(T)hat's just the beginning of a rather serious takedown. Not that his history of being wrong about, well, pretty much everything has hurt Fukuyama's career so far.
UPDATE: Ron Butler emails: "Francis Fukuyama, the Paul Ehrlich of geopolitics?"
Pretty much.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Byron Matthews emails: "His peculiar talent is to sense the intellectual tide and quickly ride it, which makes him the David Gergen of geopolitics."
This got me thinking about a perennial problem in public affairs and history. There are always highly credentialed people on the scene playing important roles in policy and decision making. In the positions they take, they are right or they are wrong, and it seems there's no good way of determining which is which until long after the fact. There can be great men who are wrong about important matters, but most often the leaders who are dead wrong are not great but small men, whose powers of vision, discernment, and judgment are simply inadequate for the challenges they face. How do we recognize the pygmies before they do us irreparable harm?
The haphazard lumping together of the three men cited in Instapundit's blog represents an interesting point of departure for examining this question. Of the three, only one has so far been exposed as a gnat squashed in the flywheel of history. While many conservatives have already consigned Gergen and Fukuyama to the limbo in which the midgets of human experience reside, it's still possible that they are right and we are wrong. It will probably take decades to obtain a clear verdict. But it was Paul Ehrlich who gave us the fantasy of the Population Bomb that would drive us to worldwide starvation and exhaustion of natural resources in his own lifetime. It didn't happen. With regard to western civilization, the converse has proven to be the real crisis -- diminishing birthrates that threaten to degrade Europe and the rest of the developed world into neo-barbarian enclaves of Islam. Thus, Ehrlich is now destined to be a minor footnote of the twentieth century.
What's interesting is that he does not conform to many of the criteria that might appear to be indicative of the Small Man. He did not work his way up to a position of power for which he was unqualified like, say, George McClellan. He did not ride the coattails of a popular/populist wave of sentiment that happened to be stupid, like a William Jennings Bryan (Fukuyama?). He did not subordinate common sense to a vain belief that he could rationally stage-manage irrational forces of history, like Neville Chamberlain. He did not succumb to simple weakness of vision, intellect, or character, like Jimmy Carter or von Hindenburg, And he did not merely feather his own nest as a clever operator in thrall to those who could grant him power and praise, like Albert Speer, Vidkun Quisling, or Aaron Burr (Gergen?). In fact, he was learned, original, dedicated, and a tireless fighter for what he believed in. He began his public life as a mere college professor without any kind of official power and attracted considerable attention to ideas that turned out to be entirely erroneous.
Some might say this nominates him as a great man, but it does not. Great men do have great achievements, whether they also exhibit great weaknesses or not. Paul Ehrlich is, on the stage of history, a mediocrity, a failure, and a man singularly devoid of accomplishment. He was completely wrong about his life's work.
What can we learn from his example? Underdogs aren't necessarily right just because they're underdogs who succeed in creating a stir. Outstanding educational credentials don't necessarily translate to true brilliance. Integrity of intellect doesn't necessarily prove rightness. So how are we supposed to arm ourselves against the seemingly brilliant true believers, especially when they come into conflict with more ordinary-appearing men?
Using the Ehrlich model, for example, how might we have decided that Winston Churchill was a great man back in the days when he was a maverick Parliamentarian opposing the consensus foreign policy of all the countries of Europe because he saw a Chaplin-lookalike chancellor as a stake in the heart of civilization? Underdog, yes, but it doesn't matter. Beautifully, classically eloquent, yes, but it doesn't matter. Absolutely sincere, yes, but it doesn't matter. How might we have known that he was as right and implacable as Lincoln, who was in power, pitifully uneducated, and derided on all sides as a stumblebum political hack?
To get a clue, I think we need a new cultural term. Intellectually, philosophically, and artistically, we live in an age that has been named "post-modern." The use of a prefix in a term that is supposed to characterize one or more generations of thought and aspiration is suggestive. It is suggestive of being at least one remove from what is genuinely original or vital. The post-moderns are "post" a lot of things -- post-Christian in faith, post-rational in thought, post-nationalist in politics, post-innovative in the arts. Their only philosophy is collage, a pasting together of discrepant styles, cultures, belief systems, and folk traditions in ways that can be taken apart intellectually but are considered inviolate with regard to their equivalence in moral terms. It is the time of the great leveling -- everything can and should be a patch in the tedious stitching of the human quilt.
When it comes to how leaders in all ages act, I believe post-modernism has always been with us in one key respect. This is that the complexity of contemporary life has (habitually) reached a point which can no longer be dominated by human will, either in the singular power of human individuality or the united spirit of a single community. It must be compromised to keep the impending catastrophe from doing us all in. We must, at last, begin to embrace the status quo, settle for less than our boldest dreams, initiate a process of self repudiation in recompense for the grievances of others, or even deny (or doubt) our own human right to survive. We become so supremely civilized we forget that survival is always at risk and always worth fighting for.
It's contemporary bias which blinds us to the fact that this is a recurring phase in human affairs. Every civilization has fallen, after all. Notably, the fall of every civilization has also been stage managed by small men in the grip of the syndrome I choose to call Post-Civilization. The fall always begins at the point when the supposedly wisest and smartest decide that the best days are behind, and the future can only be negotiated successfully be aiming lower, accepting more of the demands of opponents and enemies, and accepting the possibility that their most deeply held traditions may be flawed or defective. If a civilization were a human body, this would be a period of bleeding out, the slow numbing of limbs, the dimming of self-consciousness, the fading of strength, resignation to a death only faintly anticipated.
Most small men are simply flawed and, well, undersized, readily accepted by the hordes of like-minded comrades who are also self-righteously fixated on doing what seems easy right now. Sometimes, small men can even be courageous, as when they they defend the broken barricades of bad ideas their egos can't live without. The dangerous small men are those who possess enormous talent but approach their challenges with a post-civilization mentality. They seek to shepherd us gently into that good night where all journeys end. Their only ideal is the zero-sum game, because they are realistic, pragmatic, and wise. Paul Ehrlich is an archetype of Post-Civilization Man.
Great men come in all flavors and from all backgrounds. What distinguishes them is their vitality, their absolute determination in pursuing a better outcome than repeating the fancied high points of the past. They believe that the price we pay today and tomorrow to seek brand new accomplishments in the future is worth even their own humiliation and ruin. Their style is not to regulate or diminish, but to lead and inspire and challenge the very best in each of us, asking whatever sacrifice and pain are required to keep the human destiny looking up to the stars rather than down to the drab prospect of accommodation and retreat.
Now if you think that the small men really are wiser, name some names of the great small men who supervised the terminal stages of every great civilization.
I thought so.
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Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but is there any
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