Tsukuba Toastmasters Club (5814-76)
Minutes of # 427 Meeting
Date: Sep.15, 2007, 14:00~16:30     Venue: Onogawa Public Hall

Attendance:  TM Hashida, TM Denda, TM Nagata, TM  Zukhra, TM Sakaki,
                  TM Nariai, TM T Aoyagi, TM R Aoyagi, TM M Suzuki,
                  TM Takahashi, TM Kaneko, TM Mori, TM Tamura,TM Machida
                  TM Tashiro, TM Ohno,TM Watanabe, TM Kondo, TM Saita,
                  TM Hayashi, TM Mizutani, TM Negi, TM Nakamura

Guest:         Ms.Marcia Kobold ( a friend of TM Kaneko)

President Officer:          TM Hashida
Thought for the Day:      TM Sakaki
Toastmaster of the Day: TM Denda
Timer:                          TM Nakamura
Ums&Ahs Counter:         TM Watanabe
Grammarian:                 TM Saita
Vote Counter:               TM T.Aoyagi
General Evaluator:         TM Kondo

Business Session : TM Hashida
    1. About improvement of rules:
       It will be discussed again at the EC meeting.

Visitor's Speech: Ms. Marcia Kobold " A trip with Junko"

Special  Feature:TM Hayashi  "Hints for an Effective Evaluation"

Table Topic Session: TM Nagata " Magic Questions"
    1. TM Mori...................... 2'47"
    2. TM Watanabe.......... 1'56"
    3. TM Takahashi.......... 1'42"
    4. TM Negi ..................... 2'17"
    5. TM Ohno.................... 2'04"
    6. TM T.Aoyagi..............1'46"

Prepared Speech Session
    1. TM Zukhra   "I am lucky because I never give up"
                          Basic Manual #1..........................4'48"
    2. TM Mizutani  "Japanese sense"
                          Basic Manual #2...........................5'02"
    3. TM Nariai     "Which type of man gives me the happiest time?"
                          Basic Manual #2...........................5'53"
    4. TM R.Aoyagi "Color palette"
                          Basic Manual #3...........................5'38"

Evaluation Session
    1. TM Tashiro for TM Zukhra.................2'08"
    2. TM M.Suzuki for TM Mizutani..........3'22"
    3. TM Tamura for TM Nariai..................3'30"
    4. TM Machida for TM R.Aoyagi..........3'12"

Award
Table Topic Session..........TM Takahashi, TM Ohno
Evaluation Session.............TM Machida
Speech Session...................TM R.Aoyagi
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Thought for the day     TM Sakaki

Among the newspaper articles covering mostly the September 11th in this
week, I found an intriguing and heart-warming article, which is nothing to
do with the September 11th, but it has somehow caught my eyes. I would like
to share it with you.



Wild male chimpanzees, especially during season, when they want female
chimpanzees to draw their attention, the male chimpanzees steel papaya or
banana even from human farming fields and present the stolen fruits to the
females. This performance was first found in primates except men.



It is, I guess, still an imaginary world how much chimpanzees can
communicate by spoken language. Thus, it is a definitely distinct
differentiator of men from other primates that we can communicate by
language even beyond countries, race, or continents.



English is a school subject we have been learning since primary school or
junior high school, but it is a still eternal subject to learn. That is why
we are here and enjoy language without papaya and banana.