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From Logan:
From the Registration Team
There are a few changes to the wait list - we have been informed that there were a few duplicates and some teams have pulled out. A lot of you who registered twice (sometimes using acronyms or slightly different names for your second registration) have still not owned up. We are not going to punish you, but we want to hear from you before we remove a
From Scott Harris:
In other news a new road sign has been put up on the turnpike at the East Exit on I-70 in Lawrence recognizing the accomplishments of KU debate.
Debate - WUDC - Sex in Advertising - Serbia Debate Academy Final 2010 from Alfred Snider on Vimeo. This is the final round of the Serbia Debate Academy 2010. Motion: This House would ban all advertising that uses sex to sell. First prop: Victor Prija & Slobodan Trivic First Opp: Teo Radetic & Marko Krajnc Second Prop: Petros Papaliardis & Fabian Farkas Second Opp: Goran Januloski & Tijana Mijalkovic (first place)
Students from China who participated in the "bridge" program stand in from of the Vermont state capitol
A program sponsored by the University of Vermont and Kaplan Centers has brought 28 Chinese students to the University of Vermont for a ten week program. These students prepared last year to study this fall in USA universities, and this "bridge" program in the USA at the University of Vermont was designed to complete that process before the students enroll at the university in the fall.
Continuing Education at the university was involved in designing and implementing the program, and thought that a great last step in this program would be to teach them how to debate. Thus, they called on the World Debate Institute to design and implement a program for the last week of the bridge…
Recently visited the Strand, perhaps one of the more famous used bookstores in Manhattan with a great friend, and while browsing the Buddhism section, I come across a perfect book for teaching debate, titled Mouth Open, Already a Mistake. Beautiful isn't it?Although the title did get a good laugh out of us, the connections between Buddhism and Debate have always seemed obvious to me. they pop out of nowhere, everywhere, all the time. I bet you might see a few even if you are not stricken with seeing the connection, as I am. Take for instance the "division" between the two schools of Zen Buddhism in Japan, Soto and Rinzai. I believe these two different approaches to Zen can be a great analogy to debate practice. Zen Buddhism is unquestionably a religion centered on practice. The two sects of Zen Buddhism - Rinzai, famous for its reliance on koans and its famous…
Peru battles rabid vampire bats after 500 people bitten
Vampire bats feed on the blood of mammals while they sleep
Peru's health ministry has sent emergency teams to a remote Amazon region to battle an outbreak of rabies spread by vampire bats.
Four children in the Awajun indigenous tribe died after being bitten by the bloodsucking mammals. Health workers have given rabies vaccine to more than 500 people who have also been attacked. Some experts have linked mass vampire bat attacks on people in the Amazon to deforestation. The rabies outbreak is focused on the community of Urakusa in the north-eastern Peruvian…
It's pretty rare that I take up the opportunity to debate these days, but a couple of weeks ago I was invited to participate in an Intelligence Squared debate on the merit of author Bret Easton Ellis of American Psycho fame.
I think it went pretty well, and I'm somewhat surprised with how nice it turned out. Have a listen by clicking the link. You will need iTunes for the link to work.
I hope this isn't the first and the last IQ2 podcast in which I get to participate. I really enjoyed it!
The first-ever Nanjing International English Debate Workshop & Tournament 2010 was held at the renowned 128 years old Jinling High School from 24th to 30th July. 110 high school and university students (mainly from Jinling High School and Hangzhou Foreign Languages School) were taught 3-on-3 debating from 24th to 27th July. From 28th to 30th [...]
The 6th annual HKPDS Summer Workshop 2010 was held from 14th to 18th July. Over-subscribed by 50%, this year’s 5-Day residential BP debate workshop and tournament saw 72 lucky high school students being selected, including 3 high school debaters from the Hangzhou Foreign Languages School from Hangzhou City, Mainland China. Together, they all underwent intense [...]
Nick Clegg makes a brilliant defence of the budget in the Independent. He argues from an old progressive standpoint - those people who would traditionally have considered Labour or Liberal Democrat but never Conservative.
He says it is better to cut the income taxes of the poorest than take their money in tax and give it back to them in tax credits; that it is good to ensure capital gains are taxed at least the same rate as the income of the poorest; that it is right to put up pensions.
But he also makes two surprising claims, trying to win old progressives over to new territory:
"Decisions on benefits have been controversial, but I believe they meet the same test of fairness. It is not fair, progressive or liberal to make people better off living on handouts than they would be earning a living."
IDAS GETS RESULTS *WUDC Top EFL Speaker *WUDC Top ESL Speaker *2 OF WUDC EFL Top Ten Speakers *4 OF WUDC ESL Top Ten Speakers *5 OF WUDC ESL Quarterfinal Teams
20-28 NOVEMBER 2010 Full program for students – instruction, IDAS 2010 tournament IDAS 2010 tournament for students – tournament in Ljubljana at the Faculty of Administration-University of Ljubljana. Full program for trainers, teachers, coaches, club leaders, judges at any level in any debate format.
SPECIFIC DATES Arrive in Ormoz, Slovenia November 20 2010, dinner at 6 PM, program at 7 PM Instruction in Ormoz November 21-25 2010 Transfer to Ljubljana morning 26 November 2010 IDAS tournament in Ljubljana afternoon 26-28 November 2010, ending at 2 PM
2010 FACULTY
Stephen Boyle, USA/Ireland: Twice in WUDC elims, won Hart House, Yale and Irish Times as debater for University College Dublin and…
Third International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment -- THINKING AND SPEAKING A BETTER WORLD.
Two previous conferences have been held, one in Koper and the other in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The third conference is planned for October 22-23-24, 2010. The conference will be hosted at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, http://www.ff.uni-mb.si
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
ARGUMENTATION: RASTKO MOCNIK - Teaches Theory of Discourse and Epistemology of the Humanities at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana. Graduated from the University of Ljubljana in Sociology and Comparative Literature in 1968. Studied semiotics from 1969 – 1975 at l’Ecole pratique des hautes etudes,…
THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL DEBATE ACADEMY SLOVENIA 2010 & IDAS 2010 TOURNAMENT
IDAS 2009 CONCLUDED WITH 29 COUNTRIES ATTENDING!
IDAS GETS RESULTS *WUDC Top EFL Speaker *WUDC Top ESL Speaker *2 OF WUDC EFL Top Ten Speakers *4 OF WUDC ESL Top Ten Speakers *5 OF WUDC ESL Quarterfinal Teams
THE BEST IN WUDC/BP DEBATE INSTRUCTION AND COMPETITION
20-28 NOVEMBER 2010 Full program for students – instruction, IDAS 2010 tournament IDAS 2010 tournament for students – tournament in Ljubljana at the Faculty of Administration-University of Ljubljana. Full program for trainers, teachers, coaches, club leaders, judges at any level in any debate format.
SPECIFIC DATES Arrive in Ormoz, Slovenia November 20 2010, dinner at 6 PM, program at 7 PM Instruction in Ormoz November 21-25 2010 Transfer to Ljubljana morning 26 November 2010 IDAS tournament in Ljubljana…
At long last, we're happy to announce the publication of new resources for tournament direction and hosting as part of a site-wide update of materials this school year. Many teachers, as part of the Middle School Public Debate Program, decide...
I know we tend to forget what we learned over the summer. So, a brief review. An argument has three parts: Assertion, Reasoning, and Evidence. We abbreviate these as A-R-E. Now, as someone who is interested in debate, I have...
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