1. Directors, officers, and employees of The Slate Group, a division of Washington Post.Newsweek Interactive, 1515 N. Courthouse Road, Arlington, VA 22201 ("Slate") and its affiliates, subsidiaries, and divisions (as well as each member of their immediate family and of their household) are not eligible to submit an entry/submission.

2. Void where prohibited by law. All federal, state and local laws apply.

3. To enter, fully complete and submit (as directed) the online entry form available on the entry page.  Submissions will be accepted beginning on 10/8/2010 and must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on 10/29/2010 ("Entry Period"). Each entrant must follow the presented instructions and provide the information (as requested) including your Proposal, Proposal Title, Proposal Summary and Image (collectively, "Entry Materials").  

4. Entry Materials must be written solely by such entrant.  By entering, each entrant agrees and affirms that entrant is submitting solely his/her own work, which is owned by entrant, which has not been published previously, and with respect to which the entrant has all necessary rights and permissions to submit to Slate for all purposes described in these rules.  Submission of Entry Materials and participation in promotion is subject to the User Agreement and Privacy Policy for www.slate.com including the Slate Message Board Guidelines (http: http://slate.com/id/2244575) which govern all user-generated content provided to Slate.

5. Entry Materials that are late, unintelligible, incomplete, unreadable, damaged, destroyed, delayed, tampered with, forged, misdirected or otherwise not in compliance with these Term and Conditions may be disqualified.

6. Each entrant agrees and acknowledges that his/her Entry Materials do not violate or infringe the rights of privacy, publicity, or any other rights, including but not limited to copyrights or trademarks, of any third party, nor do the Entry Materials contain libelous or defamatory material.  Slate reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant who submits Entry Materials which Slate believes may be defamatory, obscene, profane, offensive, harassing, inappropriate or that may infringe upon or violate another party's rights. In its sole discretion, Slate reserves the right to modify any material submitted prior to posting (or not to post such materials at all) or otherwise disseminating such materials. Submitted materials will not be returned.

7. All entries generated by a script, macro or other automated/repetitive electronic means will be disqualified and ineligible for the promotion.

8. During the Entry Period, submitted Entry Materials will be promptly posted on the Slate web site upon submission so that the public will be able to vote for their favorite entries.  The voting period to determine six (6) of the finalists ("Finalist Voting Period") will be identical to the Entry Period.

9. On or about 11/5/2010, Slate will select twelve finalist entries.  Six of those finalist entries will be the entries with the most votes received during the Finalist Voting Period as described in Paragraph 8.  The remaining six (6) finalist entries will be the entries which Slate determines are the best entries based on originality, creativity and general quality  Each entrant whose entry is selected as a finalist entry (each, a "Finalist") will be notified of his/her selection as a Finalist via email to the email address submitted as part of his/her entry.  Each such entrant must respond to such notice within two (2) business days in order to advance to the next round of the promotion (i.e., the Winner Selection round).  Each selected Finalist may also be required to provide Slate with additional information and/or sign appropriate documentation at this time.  Failure to comply with any of these requirements may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate Finalist

10. Subject to the requirements herein, each selected Finalist will advance to the Winner Selection round.  Slate reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to select fewer than twelve (12) Finalists based on insufficient number of eligible entries or in the event that any of the twelve (12) originally selected Finalists failed to comply with the promotion's Terms and Conditions.  Notwithstanding the above, Slate may select alternate Finalists in accordance with these Term and Conditions.