Buddies Online Toastmasters Club

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Saturday June 10, 2023 12:50 PM to 1:50 PM
 

We meet every Saturday 1PM UTC in Zoom. Guests: to join our meeting, please email buddiestmi@gmail.com for meeting room information.

Meeting Theme:

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. ~ Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the U.S.A.

Word of the Day:

judge (verb)


President: Nicole Torres

Sergeant At Arms: Lucile Bationo

Toastmaster of the Day Patrick Guilfoyle, DTM
Audio, Video and Body Language Monitor Open
Timer Begnadehi Bationo
Grammarian Open
Ah Counter Open

Speaker 1 Pinto Herman, DTM
Speaker 2 Lucile Bationo
Speaker 3 Open
Please use the Introduction field to express any expectations from your evaluator. Thank you for your cooperation!
Backup Speaker Open

(TMOD: Request Best Speaker Poll)


Topics Master Nicole Lopez Torres

(TTM: Request Best Table Topic Speaker Poll)


General Evaluator Karen Randels
Evaluator 1 Open
Evaluator 2 Karen Randels
Evaluator 3 Open
Backup Evaluator Open

(GE: Request Best Evaluator Poll)

Topics Evaluator Open

(GE: Request Best Facilitator Poll)


RSVP deadline is past

Event Types:

Posted by Nicole Lopez Torres on January 14, 2023

Saturday June 17, 2023 12:50 PM to 1:50 PM
 

We meet every Saturday 1PM UTC in Zoom. Guests: to join our meeting, please email buddiestmi@gmail.com for meeting room information.

Meeting Theme:

Word of the Day:

fecund (fē′kənd, fĕk′ənd)

(pronounce like beckoned)

Word Formadjective
DefinitionMarked by intellectual productivity.
Synonymsprolificfertile
UsageHe had a fecund imagination and wrote four novels in two years.

President: Nicole Torres

Sergeant At Arms: Lucile Bationo

Toastmaster of the Day Maurice Warburton
Audio, Video and Body Language Monitor Open
Timer Patrick Guilfoyle, DTM
Grammarian Karen Randels
Ah Counter Pinto Herman, DTM

Speaker 1 Patrick Guilfoyle, DTM
Speaker 2 Begnadehi Bationo
Speaker 3 Not Available
Please use the Introduction field to express any expectations from your evaluator. Thank you for your cooperation!
Backup Speaker Open

(TMOD: Request Best Speaker Poll)


Topics Master Karen Randels

(TTM: Request Best Table Topic Speaker Poll)


General Evaluator Lucile Bationo
Evaluator 1 Not Available
Evaluator 2 Pinto Herman, DTM
Evaluator 3 Not Available
Backup Evaluator Open

(GE: Request Best Evaluator Poll)

Topics Evaluator Marina Marin

(GE: Request Best Facilitator Poll)


RSVP deadline is past

Event Types:

Posted by Nicole Lopez Torres on January 14, 2023

Saturday June 24, 2023 12:50 PM
 

This is the Buddies way of providing newcomers with more speaking opportunities at the end of each month.  There are six prepared speech slots to take instead of three. To make time for this, the speeches will only be only evaluated in writing after the meeting. Each evaluator is expected to watch the speech to be evaluated and complete the corresponding evaluation form after the meeting. 
Thanks for being our Buddy!

We meet every Saturday 1PM UTC in Zoom. Guests: to join our meeting, please email buddiestmi@gmail.com for meeting room information.

Reminder: In a Speech-A-Thon, evaluators only provide written evaluations. Because there are no verbal evaluations, there is no best evaluator poll during Speech-A-Thons.


Meeting Theme

Changing of the Guard

Word of the Day:


President: Nicole Torres

Sergeant At Arms: Lucile Bationo

Toastmaster of the Day Nicole Lopez Torres
Audio, Video u0026amp; Body Language Monitor Open
Timer paivi kero
Grammarian Marina Marin
Ah Counter Begnadehi Bationo

Joke Master Karen Randels
Speaker 1 Hodan Hilmi
Speaker 2 Lucile Bationo
Speaker 3 Pinto Herman, DTM
Speaker 4 Not Available
Speaker 5 Not Available
Speaker 6 Open
We have six speakers in the meeting to give a prepared speech from one of the many Toastmasters manuals

(TMOD: Request Best Speaker Poll)


Topics Master Patrick Guilfoyle, DTM

(TTM: Request Best Table Topic Speaker Poll)


General Evaluator Open
Evaluator 1 Nicole Lopez Torres
Evaluator 2 Denisse Echevarria
Evaluator 3 Open
Evaluator 4 Open
Evaluator 5 Open
Evaluator 6 Open

Reminder: In a Speech-A-Thon, evaluators only provide written evaluations. Because there are no verbal evaluations, there is no best evaluator poll during Speech-A-Thons.

(GE: Request Best Facilitator Poll)


Please read notes to role takers carefully if  you  are  not  familiar  with Toastmasters  meetings.

RSVP deadline is past

Event Types:

Posted by Nicole Lopez Torres on January 14, 2023

Saturday July 1, 2023 12:50 PM to 1:50 PM
 

We meet every Saturday 1PM UTC in Zoom. Guests: to join our meeting, please email buddiestmi@gmail.com for meeting room information.

Meeting Theme:

Independence: Freedom is not free!

Word of the Day:

Courage (N)


President: Nicole Torres

Sergeant At Arms: Lucile Bationo

Toastmaster of the Day Patrick Guilfoyle, DTM
Audio, Video and Body Language Monitor Open
Timer Marina Marin
Grammarian Mary Kosovich
Ah Counter Open

Speaker 1 Pinto Herman, DTM
Speaker 2 Mufid Mustafa, DTM (guest)
Speaker 3 Open
Please use the Introduction field to express any expectations from your evaluator. Thank you for your cooperation!
Backup Speaker Open

(TMOD: Request Best Speaker Poll)


Topics Master Lucile Bationo

(TTM: Request Best Table Topic Speaker Poll)


General Evaluator Bruce Yu
Evaluator 1 Rosalind Pinsent, ACG, ALB (guest)
Evaluator 2 Patrick Guilfoyle, DTM
Evaluator 3 Open
Backup Evaluator Open

(GE: Request Best Evaluator Poll)

Topics Evaluator Begnadehi Bationo

(GE: Request Best Facilitator Poll)


RSVP deadline is past

Event Types:

Posted by Nicole Lopez Torres on January 14, 2023

Saturday July 8, 2023 12:50 PM to 1:50 PM
 

We meet every Saturday 1PM UTC in Zoom. Guests: to join our meeting, please email buddiestmi@gmail.com for meeting room information.

Meeting Theme:

According to an article titled “Forest Cover – an overview | ScienceDirect Topics” on the website https://www.sciencedirect.com, nearly a third of the world’s land surface is covered with forest, with closed-canopy forest accounting for 4 – 5 billion hectares of land. Forests provide many ecosystem services that humans and animals cannot survive without, but anthropogenic actions (activities that are created or induced by humans) and climate change are threatening global forest cover in potentially irreversible ways.

Word of the Day:

hydrophyte

Word Formnoun
DefinitionA plant adapted to grow in water.
Synonymsaquatic plant
UsageWater lilies and other hydrophytes dotted the surface of the lake.

President: Nicole Torres

Sergeant At Arms: Lucile Bationo

Toastmaster of the Day Pinto Herman, DTM
Audio, Video and Body Language Monitor Open
Timer Hodan Hilmi
Grammarian paivi kero
Ah Counter Nethma Hettigedara

Speaker 1 Patrick Guilfoyle, DTM
Speaker 2 Pinto Herman, DTM
Speaker 3 Open
Please use the Introduction field to express any expectations from your evaluator. Thank you for your cooperation!
Backup Speaker Open

(TMOD: Request Best Speaker Poll)


Topics Master Begnadehi Bationo

(TTM: Request Best Table Topic Speaker Poll)


General Evaluator Lucile Bationo
Evaluator 1 Askander, DTM (guest)
Evaluator 2 Marina Martin (guest)
Evaluator 3 Open
Backup Evaluator Open

(GE: Request Best Evaluator Poll)

Topics Evaluator Karen Randels

(GE: Request Best Facilitator Poll)


RSVP deadline is past

Event Types:

Posted by Nicole Lopez Torres on January 14, 2023

Saturday July 15, 2023 12:50 PM to 2:30 PM
 

We meet every Saturday 1PM UTC in Zoom. Guests: to join our meeting, please email buddiestmi@gmail.com for meeting room information.

Meeting Theme:

Going the extra mile.

RECTITUDE

Rectitude is a formal noun that means “moral integrity or rightenousness” or “the quality or state of being correct in judgment or procedure.”
// The keynote speaker encouraged the graduates to go on to live lives of unimpeachable rectitude and integrity.


President: Patrick Guilfoyle

Sergeant At Arms: Paivi Kero

Toastmaster of the Day Patrick Guilfoyle, DTM
Audio, Video and Body Language Monitor Open
Timer Hodan Hilmi
Grammarian Karen Randels
Ah Counter Nethma Hettigedara

Speaker 1 Begnadehi Bationo
Speaker 2 Kannan Sankara, DTM
Speaker 3 Open
Please use the Introduction field to express any expectations from your evaluator. Thank you for your cooperation!
Backup Speaker Open

(TMOD: Request Best Speaker Poll)


Topics Master Patrick Guilfoyle, DTM (guest)

(TTM: Request Best Table Topic Speaker Poll)


General Evaluator Pinto Herman, DTM
Evaluator 1 Bruce Yu
Evaluator 2 Open
Evaluator 3 Open
Backup Evaluator Open

(GE: Request Best Evaluator Poll)

Topics Evaluator Open

(GE: Request Best Facilitator Poll)


RSVP deadline is past

Event Types:

Posted by Bruce Yu on July 15, 2023

Saturday July 22, 2023 12:50 PM to 2:30 PM
 

We meet every Saturday 1PM UTC in Zoom. Guests: to join our meeting, please email buddiestmi@gmail.com for meeting room information.

Meeting Theme:

People are looking for a leader, and change begins with the leader.

Change is the price we pay for growth.

All change does not represent progress, but if we do not change there will be no progress.

Word of the Day:

Mentor (n): an experienced and trusted adviser.

“he was her friend and mentor until he died in 1915”

President: Patrick M. Guilfoyle

Sergeant At Arms: Paivi S. Kero

Toastmaster of the Day Begnadehi Bationo
Audio, Video and Body Language Monitor Open
Timer Hodan Hilmi
Grammarian Christa Bonnet (guest)
Ah Counter Open

Speaker 1 Kannan Sankara, DTM
Speaker 2 Patrick Guilfoyle, DTM
Speaker 3 Open
Please use the Introduction field to express any expectations from your evaluator. Thank you for your cooperation!
Backup Speaker Open

(TMOD: Request Best Speaker Poll)


Topics Master Alice Hong, DL4, IP1 (guest)

(TTM: Request Best Table Topic Speaker Poll)


General Evaluator Bruce Yu
Evaluator 1 Askander Mirza, DTM (guest)
Evaluator 2 Not Available
Evaluator 3 Open
Backup Evaluator Open

(GE: Request Best Evaluator Poll)

Topics Evaluator Open

(GE: Request Best Facilitator Poll)


RSVP deadline is past

Event Types:

Posted by Bruce Yu on July 19, 2023

Saturday July 29, 2023 12:50 PM
 

This is the Buddies way of providing newcomers with more speaking opportunities at the end of each month.  There are six prepared speech slots to take instead of three. To make time for this, the speeches will only be only evaluated in writing after the meeting. Each evaluator is expected to watch the speech to be evaluated and complete the corresponding evaluation form after the meeting. 
Thanks for being our Buddy!

We meet every Saturday 1PM UTC in Zoom. Guests: to join our meeting, please email buddiestmi@gmail.com for meeting room information.

Reminder: In a Speech-A-Thon, evaluators only provide written evaluations. Because there are no verbal evaluations, there is no best evaluator poll during Speech-A-Thons.


Meeting Theme

Training

Word of the Day:

Professional Development (PD) (Noun): training that is given to managers and people working in professions to increase their knowledge and skills

Example: After members of Buddies take more meetings for professional development, our agenda will be filled more quickly.


President: Patrick M. Guilfoyle

Sergeant At Arms: Paivi S. Kero

Toastmaster of the Day Patrick Guilfoyle, DTM
Audio, Video u0026amp; Body Language Monitor Open
Timer Karen Randels
Grammarian Open
Ah Counter Open

Joke Master Open
Speaker 1 Patrick Guilfoyle, DTM
Speaker 2 Kannan Sankara, DTM
Speaker 3 Atifa Deshamukhya (guest)
Speaker 4 Open
Speaker 5 Open
Speaker 6 Open
We have six speakers in the meeting to give a prepared speech from one of the many Toastmasters manuals

(TMOD: Request Best Speaker Poll)


Topics Master Open

(TTM: Request Best Table Topic Speaker Poll)


General Evaluator Open
Evaluator 1 Open
Evaluator 2 Open
Evaluator 3 Open
Evaluator 4 Open
Evaluator 5 Open
Evaluator 6 Open

Reminder: In a Speech-A-Thon, evaluators only provide written evaluations. Because there are no verbal evaluations, there is no best evaluator poll during Speech-A-Thons.

(GE: Request Best Facilitator Poll)


Please read notes to role takers carefully if  you  are  not  familiar  with Toastmasters  meetings.

RSVP deadline is past

Event Types:

Posted by Bruce Yu on July 28, 2023

Saturday August 5, 2023 12:50 PM to 2:30 PM
 

We meet every Saturday 1PM UTC in Zoom. Guests: to join our meeting, please email buddiestmi@gmail.com for meeting room information.

Meeting Theme: Collaboration

Word of the Day: Affiliation

Definition: the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular person, group, party, company, etc.

The radio station has maintained a longtime affiliation with the concert hall and often has featured performers as guests on the air.
 
A former Democrat, Joseph McCarthy had switched his affiliation and was elected in the Republican landslide of 1946 …Ted Widmer
 
… hundreds of businessmen owe their success to an affiliation with organized crime.William Bastone
 

President: Patrick M. Guilfoyle

Sergeant At Arms: Paivi S. Kero

Toastmaster of the Day Bruce Yu
Audio, Video and Body Language Monitor Open
Timer Hodan Hilmi
Grammarian paivi kero
Ah Counter Marina Marin

Speaker 1 John Kertesz (guest)
Speaker 2 Mpilo (guest)
Speaker 3 Karen Randels
Please use the Introduction field to express any expectations from your evaluator. Thank you for your cooperation!
Backup Speaker Open

(TMOD: Request Best Speaker Poll)


Topics Master Anna M Thomas, DTM

(TTM: Request Best Table Topic Speaker Poll)


General Evaluator Lucile Bationo
Evaluator 1 Kannan Sankara, DTM
Evaluator 2 Patrick Guilfoyle, DTM
Evaluator 3 Open
Backup Evaluator Open

(GE: Request Best Evaluator Poll)

Topics Evaluator Open

(GE: Request Best Facilitator Poll)


RSVP deadline is past

Event Types:

Posted by Bruce Yu on August 5, 2023

Saturday August 12, 2023 12:50 PM to 2:30 PM
 

We meet every Saturday 1PM UTC in Zoom. Guests: to join our meeting, please email buddiestmi@gmail.com for meeting room information.

Meeting Theme: Leading versus Managing

Word of the Day:

Steer (Verb)  guide or control the movement of a vehicle, vessel, aircraft or group. Example: The executive members of Buddies Online Toastmasters Club is trying to steer the club in a productive direction.


President: Patrick M. Guilfoyle

Sergeant At Arms: Paivi S. Kero

Toastmaster of the Day Lucile Bationo
Audio, Video and Body Language Monitor Open
Timer Begnadehi Bationo
Grammarian Christa Bonnet
Ah Counter John Kertesz

Speaker 1 Kothai is the memberr and she wants to speak (guest)
Speaker 2 John Kertesz
Speaker 3 Patrick Guilfoyle, DTM
Please use the Introduction field to express any expectations from your evaluator. Thank you for your cooperation!
Backup Speaker Open

(TMOD: Request Best Speaker Poll)


Topics Master Bruce Yu

(TTM: Request Best Table Topic Speaker Poll)


General Evaluator Kannan Sankara, DTM
Evaluator 1 Open
Evaluator 2 Dhananjay Parkhe
Evaluator 3 Karen Randels
Backup Evaluator Open

(GE: Request Best Evaluator Poll)

Topics Evaluator Karen Randels

(GE: Request Best Facilitator Poll)


RSVP deadline is past

Event Types:

Posted by Bruce Yu on August 12, 2023

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