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On the streets of London the public provide more than sound-bites and have their say on assisted suicide and sixth form students at the 2009 Debating Matters UK final do battle over this difficult issue. Expert judges take the students to task and Dr Michael Fitzpatrick suggests the state stepping in should be a cause for concern too. Durham Johnston School take the final prize.

nnOn the streets of London the public provide more than ‘sound-bites’ and have their say on assisted suicide and sixth form students at the 2009 Debating Matters UK final do battle over this difficult issue. Expert judges take the students to task and Dr Michael Fitzpatrick suggests the state stepping in should be a cause for concern too. Durham Johnston School take the final prize. By worldwritenn Tags : 2009, Anthony, Debating, Debbie, Dignitas, Director, Fitzpatrick, Grayling, Knetsch, Matters, Medicine, Melanie, Mike, Prosecutions, Public, Purdy, Royal, Society, Starmer, Switzerland, UK, WORLDbytes, WORLDwrite, assisted, campaign, clarity, compassion, crime, decision, dying, e, euthanasia, finals, ill, illness, law, media, news, of, online, politics, relatives, semi, suffer, suicide, terminal, terminally, video

Kenneth Elzinga The third speaker in the Jefferson Society s Fall 2009 Speaker Series was Professor Kenneth Elzinga. On Friday, September 18, Professor Elzinga spoke on the topic, Some Unconventional Principles of Leadership. Kenneth G. Elzinga is the Robert C. Taylor Chair in Economics at the University of Virginia, and has been a member of the faculty since 1967.  Mr. Elzinga has received many distinguished awards, including the Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest honor the University of Virginia accords its faculty.  Each fall Mr. Elzinga teaches the largest class offered at the University of Virginia, introductory economics. Mr. Elzinga s major research interest is antitrust economics, especially pricing strategy and market definition. He has testified in several precedent-setting antitrust cases.  He is a former Fellow in Law and Economics as the University of Chicago and a Thomas Jefferson Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University. Mr. Elzinga is the author of more than seventy academic publications. He also is known for three mystery novels, co-authored with William Breit under the pen name Marshall Jevons, in which the protagonist employs economic analysis to solve the crime.

University of Virginia Professor C. Brian Kelly and Ingrid Smyer-Kelly are co-authors of the recently published Best Little Stories from the Life and Times of Winston Churchill. The Kellys book won an honorable mention in the London Festival of Books last December and was praised by a reviewer for the international Churchill Centre s quarterly publication Finest Hour. On Friday, October 9, 2009, the Kellys spoke to the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society on Anecdotally Speaking: The Life and Times of Winston Churchill as part of the Jefferson Society s Fall Speaker Series. The Churchill book is the ninth in the Best Little Stories series of historical books produced by the husband-and-wife writing team. They began in 1989 by self-publishing Best Little Stories from World War II. Two more self-published anecdotal histories soon followed, one on the history of the White House and one on the Civil War. Each book features a section by Mrs. Smyer-Kelly on the women of the historical period. Mr. Kelly was a newspaper reporter for 20 years and now teaches news writing at the University of Virginia. Mrs. Smyer-Kelly is a former freelance writer for newspapers. In recent years she has served on the board of the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia in Charlottesville and as a member of the city s Historical Resources Committee

The Institute of Ideas and Pfizer Debating Matters Competition gets thousands of school students involved in debating key issues of the day. Privileging content over presentational style, school students get stuck in and never fail to impress. Having expanded the Debating Matters competition to India for the 2008-2009 competition, sixth form student winners from S.M Choksey High School in Pune, India visited the UK to debate the motion Protecting the public from terrorism should come before civil liberties. WORLDbytes volunteers were privileged to film the fiery debate that ensued and have edited their footage to share the inspiring highlights. The judges took the students to task and ruled the Indian students the winners on the day.

School students participating in the finals of the Institute of Ideas & Pfizer Debating Matters Competition debate the motion Copyright benefits the arts. Expert judges raise challenging questions while sixth form students hold their ground. An inspiring preparation seminar featuring Sandy Starr and Tania Spriggens takes us beyond the usual arguments and moans by the music and film industry about illegal downloads and pirate DVDs costing them a packet. We are led to consider the impact of copyright on freedom of expression, how creative ideas emerge and the unique nature of artistic labour. WORLDbytes volunteers filmed and edited this vital debate and checked out public opinion on the streets of London.

nnSchool students participating in the finals of the Institute of Ideas & Pfizer Debating Matters Competition debate the motion Copyright benefits the arts. Expert judges raise challenging questions while sixth form students hold their ground. An inspiring preparation seminar featuring Sandy Starr and Tania Spriggens takes us beyond the usual arguments and moans by the music and film industry about illegal downloads and pirate DVDs costing them a packet. We are led to consider the impact of copyright on freedom of expression, how creative ideas emerge and the unique nature of artistic labour. WORLDbytes volunteers filmed and edited this vital debate and checked out public opinion on the streets of London. By worldwritenn Tags : Bromsgrove, College, Competition, Comprehensive, Copyright, DVDs, Damien, Debating, Durham, Glynn, Graham, Guiseley, Hilly, Hirst, Ideas, Institute, J, Jack, Janes, Johnston, K, Matters, Maxwell, New, Pfizer, Philip, Rowling, Sandy, School, Sheffield, Simon, Spriggens, Starr, Tania, Technology, WORLDbytes, WORLDwrite, Walters, Watters, Wessely, artistic, creative, debate, downloads, expression, film, form, freedom, illegal, labour, news, of, pirate, politics, sixth, students, volunteers, youth

This is part of a dialogue between an atheist (Madoc) and myself. It originally started as a conversation about the internal coherency of God's Justice and Mercy; however, Madoc's last response drastically shifted ground. Therefore, I decided I would go ahead and deal with his video point by point - the Theistic world view up against his Atheistic world view. Catch previous dialogue videos on my channel starting with the video titled 'Video Response' and follow the video responses from there.

This is part of a dialogue between an atheist (Madoc) and myself. It originally started as a conversation about the internal coherency of God's Justice and Mercy; however, Madoc's last response drastically shifted ground. Therefore, I decided I would go ahead and deal with his video point by point - the Theistic world view up against his Atheistic world view. Catch previous dialogue videos on my channel starting with the video titled 'Video Response' and follow the video responses from there.

This is part of a dialogue between an atheist (Madoc) and myself. It originally started as a conversation about the internal coherency of God's Justice and Mercy; however, Madoc's last response drastically shifted ground. Therefore, I decided I would go ahead and deal with his video point by point - the Theistic world view up against his Atheistic world view. Catch previous dialogue videos on my channel starting with the video titled 'Video Response' and follow the video responses from there.

This is part of a dialogue between an atheist (Madoc) and myself. It originally started as a conversation about the internal coherency of God's Justice and Mercy; however, Madoc's last response drastically shifted ground. Therefore, I decided I would go ahead and deal with his video point by point - the Theistic world view up against his Atheistic world view. Catch previous dialogue videos on my channel starting with the video titled 'Video Response' and follow the video responses from there.

This is part of a dialogue between an atheist (Madoc) and myself. It originally started as a conversation about the internal coherency of God's Justice and Mercy; however, Madoc's last response drastically shifted ground. Therefore, I decided I would go ahead and deal with his video point by point - the Theistic world view up against his Atheistic world view. Catch previous dialogue videos on my channel starting with the video titled 'Video Response' and follow the video responses from there.

Steven L. Teitelbaum M.D., Wilma and Roswell Messing Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine discusses stem cell research.Windows MediaRunning Time: 10:30