TSUKUBA TOASTMASTERS CLUB Minutes of #476 Regular Meeting Date: January 9, 2010 Time:14:00 - 16:30, Venue: Onogawa public hall Attendees: Ogawa, H. Park, Takahashi, Y. Ikenobe, Y. Ito, Matsushima,      Hirayama, Kikukawa, S.Ito, Kaneko, Kita, Hayashi,      Matsumoto,  Yoshida, Kim, Murata, Negi, Adachi,      Tanaka, Murakami, Watanabe , Arai, A. Ikenobe, Kobori Guests: Vu, Mizuarai Presiding Officer:VPE  Ogawa                                  VPM  Murata                                  VPPR  S. Ito                                  SAA  A. Ikenobe                                  Secretary  Adachi           Treasurer  H. Park Thought of the Day:Y. Ikenobe Toastmaster   :A. Ikenobe Timer   : Tanaka Vote Counter:Kobori Grammarian: H. Park U/A Counter:Murata *Word of the Day: Murakami  "appropriate" Educational presentation: Ogawa Table Topic session: Table topic mater : Yoshida TT Speaker #1  Hirayama 1'02 TT Speaker #2  Vu       0' 40 TT Speaker #3  Kaneko  1'51 TT Speaker #4  H. Park  1'30 TT Speaker #5  S. Ito   1'22 TT Speaker #6  Arai   1'28 Prepared speech session Speaker #1 Kim          6'48 (CC#3 "American Accent Training- Word Connection:T, D, S, Z+Y") Speaker #2 Kikukawa       7'40 (CC#5 "Business with Chinese") Speaker #3    Matsumoto       6'47 (CC#5 "Pom juice or Tomato juice?..Are you thirsty?") Speaker #4:   Matsushima     11'04 (Enter.Spea.#5 "Anything essential is invisible to the eyes") Speaker #5:   Hayashi           6'37 (CC#3 "Times to Remember and Forget") Evaluation session General Evaluator Kita Evaluator #1  Y.Ito       3'02 Evaluator #2  Adachi     3'40 Evaluator #3  Watanabe     3'00 Evaluator #4  Negi         3'12 Evaluator #5  Takahashi     3'30 *Award session Best TT Speaker   Arai Best Evaluators      Y. Ito, Negi Best Prepared Speakers  Matsumoto, Hayashi *Business Reports 1. Treasurer reported the last semiannual accounting statement.