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29 April 2006

World Schools Debating Championships - Registration

e-mail from David Penny Debate WAles 2006 Administrator sent on April 26th

Dear all,

Only 8 days to go until registration closes for the World Schools Debating Championships 2006

So, team managers, please encourage all those in your national delegations to register on-line. We have yet to receive any registrations from, amongst others, New Zealand, Greece, Argentina, Ireland, Estonia or Indonesia.

N.B. Can EVERYONE who has already registered log in to their on-line profile through the registration system (
www.schoolsdebate.com/register/index.asp) and confirm that all your details are correct and all relevant fields filled before 4th May.

The system requires that all participants log in to confirm this data, so even if you have received a confirmation e-mail from us or your invoice for fees, please log in to review your entries. Further, even if you haven't registered yet, but intend to do so, please log in to the system again after you have registered to ensure that you can access the information.

This is very important, as it allows us to ensure that the data we hold on you is accurate, and that you intend to come to Wales in July. If you have any technical difficulties with the system then please contact
webmaster@schoolsdebate.com, feel free to reply to this e-mail for any other queries.

So, as the registrations continue to flood in, we're looking forward to even more!

Cheers,

David
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27 April 2006

International Mace Final

The English-Speaking Union will hold the International Final of the 2005-06 John Smith Memorial Mace on Saturday 13 May at Cardiff Castle, Cardiff, at 7pm.

If you would like to attend please email vivienne_thompson@esu.org.

23 April 2006

Israeli Open Tournament 2006

The Israeli Open Tournament was held in the Inter-Disciplinary Center in Herzliya on April 20th.

Winners were:Hebrew University C (Or Kroyzer & Lital Helman)

Best Speaker: Shir Parsai Bar-Niv (Haifa University, from a Hybrid Team)

Finalists were:

1G Hebrew University B (Ofir Reich & Benny Zhitomirsky)

1O Hybrid Team (Kobi Sadis & Yaron Chayat)

2G Hybrid Team (Guy Yariv & Jacob Schwergold)

2O Hebrew University C (Or Kroyzer & Lital Helman)

Remark: A Hybrid team (Shahar Ronen & Ran) broke to the finals but could not attend, and therefore relinquished their place to Hebrew University B.

Final Motion: TTHW leave wounded soldiers in the battlefield.

Preliminary Motions:

TTHW make voting for parliament contingent on military or state service

TTHW abolish all state-provided arts subsidies.

TTHBT every person has the right to bear firearms