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Twelve and Traditions
AA's Twelve Traditions were introduced in 1946 to help AA stabilize and grow.
Subsequent fellowships such as Narcotics Anonymous have adopted and adapted the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions to their respective primary purposes.
By 1946, as the growing fellowship quarreled over structure, purpose, and authority, as well as finances and publicity, Wilson began to form and promote what became known as AA's Twelve Traditions, guidelines for an altruistic, unaffiliated, non-coercive, and non-hierarchical structure that limited AA's purpose to only helping alcoholics on a non-professional level while shunning publicity.
Eventually he gained formal adoption and inclusion of the Twelve Traditions in all future editions of the Big Book.
As AA was growing in the 1930s and 1940s, definite guiding principles began to emerge as the Twelve Traditions.
Narcotics Anonymous ( NA ) describes itself as a " fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem " following the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions developed by Alcoholics Anonymous, and it is the second-largest 12-step organization.
The foundation of the Narcotics Anonymous program is the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.
The foundation for this structure is the Twelve Traditions of NA and is often facilitated by the 12 Concepts for Service in NA.
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The Twelve Traditions of twelve-step programs provide guidelines for relationships between the twelve-step groups, members, other groups, the global fellowship, and society at large.
Several of the tenets of what was to become AA's Twelve Traditions were first expressed in the Foreword to the First Edition of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1939.
By 1946 AA cofounder Bill Wilson had more clearly formulated the basic ideas for the Twelve Traditions directly from such correspondence with groups ( via the group conscience method ), setting guidelines on how groups and members should interact with each other, the public, and AA as a whole.
The Traditions were first published in the April 1946 AA Grapevine under the title Twelve Points to Assure Our Future and were formally adopted at AA's First International Convention in 1950.
Wilson's book on the subject, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, was published in April, 1953.
Other twelve-step programs make small changes to the original Twelve Traditions used in Alcoholics Anonymous and offer interpretations specific to their programs.
The Twelve Traditions of Narcotics Anonymous ( NA ), the second largest twelve-step program, are as stated above with all instances of AA replaced with NA, the word alcoholic replaced with the word addict, and the word drinking replaced with the word using.
NA published their It Works: How and Why as its own study of the Twelve Traditions.
SA received permission from AA to use its Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions in 1979.

Twelve and informally
The Law of the Twelve Tables ( or, informally, Duodecim Tabulae ) ( specific laws in the " External links ") was the ancient legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law.
Twelve Mile Creek ( known informally as Bronte Creek ) flows through the middle of town and empties into Lake Ontario.

Twelve and guide
Twelve Who Ruled is a fusion of history and collective biography, focusing on the members of the Committee of Public Safety and their efforts to guide France during the Terror following their Revolution.

Twelve and how
Russian Orthodox icon of the Passion with scenes of the martyr dom of the Twelve Apostles, symbolizing how all are called to enter into the Passion ( Moscow Kremlin ).
Molly and the Weasleys are staying at the Order headquarters, Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, where she and Sirius fight over how much to tell Harry about the Order's operations.
One character says, " Twelve fingers or one, it's how you play.

Twelve and individual
Among his best known works are the series Ten Studies in Female Physiognomy ; A Collection of Reigning Beauties ; Great Love Themes of Classical Poetry ( sometimes called Women in Love containing individual prints such as Revealed Love and Pensive Love ); and Twelve Hours in the Pleasure Quarters.
Twelve issues of the main French edition of journal Internationale Situationniste were published, each issue edited by a different individual or group, including: Guy Debord, Mohamed Dahoiu, Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio, Maurice Wyckaert, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Asger Jorn, Helmut Sturm, Attila Kotanyi, Jørgen Nash, Uwe Lausen, Raoul Vaneigem, Michèle Bernstein, Jeppesen Victor Martin, Jan Stijbosch, Alexander Trocchi, Théo Frey, Mustapha Khayati, Donald Nicholson-Smith, René Riesel, and René Viénet.
However, on April 5, 1900, the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve unanimously decided that the date an individual became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve was the relevant date for succession purposes, not the date an individual was ordained as an apostle.
Rather, members believe that it encompasses the Quorum of Twelve Apostles together and that revelations can be given to individual members of the church.
The teachings Kieninger attributed to the Brotherhoods included a prediction that cataclysmic earth changes were to occur circa the year 2000, as well as recommendations for individual advancement through education, practice of Twelve Great Virtues and an emphasis on right action to improve one ’ s karma.
He was the last individual called as an Assistant to the Twelve before the position was discontinued in 1976.

Twelve and AA
A spiritual awakening is achieved by following the Twelve Steps, and sobriety is furthered by volunteering for AA and regular AA meeting attendance or contact with AA members.
Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ) as a method of recovery from alcoholism, the Twelve Steps were first published in the book Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism in 1939.
In the late 1940s through 1950, AA formed and enacted its Twelve Traditions, principles which guard the AA groups from such pitfalls as befell the Washingtonians.
Mr. Kinnon and several others were given permission from Alcoholics Anonymous to adapt the AA Twelve Steps, but Jimmy changed the Step 1 from " Powerless over Alcohol " to " Powerless over Addiction.
and the AA book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Several of the Twelve Steps of AA involve identifying and dealing with resentment as part of the path toward recovery, including acknowledging one's own role in resentment and praying for the resentment to be taken away.
Much of the show revolved around John's attempts to stay sober, and the first season roughly corresponds to one episode per the AA program's Twelve Steps.

Twelve and groups
Twelve projects proposed by private groups are at the contract-negotiation stage, Gordon Boyce, director of relations with the voluntary agencies, said in a Washington interview.
Twelve groups of stars that had six pairs of stars each were chosen.
All four outside walls bear sculptural groups in carved niches: the Twelve Apostles in three groups on the north, east and south ; the Holy Trinity above the Annunciation and below that the Risen Christ between two saints on the west.
Twelve groups of stars were studied in the program, each group containing six pairs of stars.
Twelve teams were seeded and placed into one of three preliminary groups of four teams each.
Twelve of these groups traveled through the magnetic void and eventually settled a group of habitable planets in a common stellar system.
Twelve participating teams were placed in two groups.
Twelve years after the project was started in the cities of Vienna, Graz and Salzburg, Buddhist religious education is being made available to school children of all age groups ( 6 to 19 ) at different types of schools in all of nine federal provinces of the Republic.
Twelve teams qualified for the men's event and were split into three groups of four teams.
A long admirer of different forms of music from early rock ' n ' roll, blues, jazz and doo-wop, Gaye sought to mix the styles of Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine, Little Willie John and Jesse Belvin, first getting involved in groups such as the Marquees, which he joined following his honorable discharge from a tenure in the Air Forces, which soon replaced the original members of Harvey Fuqua's group The Moonglows under the moniker, Harvey and the New Moonglows, with Reese Palmer doing most of the leads though Marvin did take some lead vocal parts, including speaking in the intro and ending of the single, " The Twelve Months of the Year ", and sung all lead in the song, " Mama Loochie ".
Both concert groups play some of the most difficult music in concert band repertoire, including " To Tame the Perilous Skies ," " Twelve Seconds to the Moon ," " Music of the Spheres ," " Spin Cycle ," " Exotic Particles and the Confinement of Quarks ," and " The Tyger.

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