Early Riser's 25Jan11 Open House

Theme: Idioms, idiomatic expressions and figures of speech

Break a leg fellow toastmasters !
in attendance: Steve K., Yamming, Kamal, Stephanie, Eileen, Dalia, Phillip, Jane W., Malcolm, Steve E., Frank, and 3 guests

Toastmaster: Connie
Three great speeches; difficult to pick a winner!
Stephanie: "Tying the Knot", Entertaining Manual speech #3, Make them laugh
Humorous series of short vignettes of Stephanie’s life with Norm: “I knew exactly what he was like when I first met him”
Evaluator: Malcolm

Eileen: "Reducing Rationalizations”, Entertaining Manual speech #1, Entertaining speech
What I want to do is lose weight; what I don’t want to do is diet…
Evaluator: Steve E

Dalia: Verbal Variety, CC Speech #7
How to give a speech with ”feeling?” Anchor yourself to your emotional state.
Evaluator: Frank

Table Topics: Phillip
Some great questions about idioms, and many idioms and figures of speech were used. A subset: raining cats and dogs; heads over heels; fall through the cracks; go back to the drawing board or back to square one (why square one?), no guts, no glory; bitr the bullet, shoulder you way in; push the envelope; send chills down the back of your spine

Ah Counter/Grammarian: Steve K
WordMaster: Yamming
Timer: Kamal
Inspiration: Eileen
Jokemaster: Steve K

Word of the day: salient (adj) prominent or conspicuous, relating to standing out: salient traits.

officer's meeting 19jan11

in attendance: Steven, Phillip, Malcolm, Jane W., Eileen, Stephanie, Connie

Social media:
- ER will pay for Meet-up for next 3 months, then re-evaluate the cost/performance of this website; Phillip to promote Meetup as well as Facebook, freetoast/TM website (latter 2 have no charges)

- continue Meetup if: there are N members who join and attend 3 meetings

- Malcolm to compose and send welcome letter to Phillip for use on social media sites

ER Website:
- Jane to send info about mentoring for addition to website in 3 weeks
- Stephanie to send crib sheet with info for new members for website

Distingushed club series
- Steven to discuss with Stephanie offline

Open House Jan 25
- Steven to send email for sign up sheet/request for snacks for Open House for avoid duplication

Miscellaneous
- VPM manual for Malcolm: Malcolm to see what available at training; inquires to be made of former VPM for manuals
- for next Open House, someone (who?) to inquire about trading room with AA group because this room used by AA group allows food

Early Risers Palo Alto Jan 18 2011

in attendance:
Steve K. Stephanie, Nik, Dalia, Eileen, Frank, Steve E., Connie, Yamming, Jane S, Kamal

Theme: Frangrances, Smells and Odors

Toastmaster: Stephanie

Speeches:
Frank: "Lessons Learned", CC Speech #9 Persuade with Power
Description: The important role parents play in one's education; entertaining personal anecdotes describing Frank's own impact on one person's pursuit of a degree
Evaluator: Steve K.

Steve E.: "5 myths of the Stock Market", CC #7 Research your topic
The myths: 1) It's like gambling; 2) Impossible for small guy to compete with the big guys; 3) Market is short term; 4) Market is efficient and therefore difficult to make (reasonable) returns; 5) Market is just a bunch of financial engineering ie market doesn't add real value
Evaluator: Yamming

Nik: Impromptu speech, topic determined at start of meeting: "Shakespeare"
Evaluator: Jane W

Word of the Day: ephemeral
definition: lasting for a short time

Ah Counter/Grammarian/WordMaster: Dalia
Timer: Eileen
Inspiration: Nik
Jokemaster: Jane S.

Early Riser’s Toastmasters January 11 2011

Attending were: Frank, Nik, Malcolm, Dalia, Steve K., Yanming, Jane
S., Phillip, Steve E. and Eileen


Today's meeting featured a late change, with Phillip as Toastmaster
and Malcolm delivering speech no. 2, "Why having a pet is good for
your health", in which we learned that a pet's presence can even
improve healing from heart attacks. Nik delivered speech no. 1,
"Margaret Fuller's Journeys" in which we learned about an unusually
accomplished woman who was lost in ship wreck but whose reputation
lives on with scholars.

Dalia was our Table Topics Master, asking interesting questions mostly
about our topic, Nature. Steve K. evaluated the meeting, while Yanming
evaluated Nik and Jane Slater gave her first evaluation for Malcolm.

Frank inspired and joked us, I timed us, and Steve E. paid attention
to all our speech strengths and unfortunate ah's.

Nik will soon send out requests for Feb. availability. Steve E.
reminded us of the January officers' meeting.

(minutes by Eileen; thanks Eileen!)

Early Riser’s Toastmasters January 4, 2011

Happy New Year!

Toastmaster: Nik S.
Inspiration: Phillip M.
Speakers:
- Jane S. The Icebreaker: “The Accent”; Competent Communicator Speech #1; 4-6 min
- Steven K. Impromptu Speech: “Positive Effects of Toastmasters” 5-7 min
- Jane W. “Early Risers Mentoring” non-manual speech 6-8 minutes

Evaluators: Phillip M.; Dalia O., Stephanie C.
Table Topics Master: Malcolm B.
General Evaluator: Steven E.
Wordmaster/Timer/Ah Counter/Grammarian: Connie O.
Jokemaster: Phillip M.

Topic of the Day: New Year’s Day/New Year’s Resolutions/Memorable past events

Word of the day: preponderance: superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength; a superiority of excess in number or quantity; ;