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How can we see it if you do not even tell us the name of your club... Please always enter your club number and name of club in signature when posting here.
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What was the last thing you added to your home page?
I see a multitude of youtube iframe are the all necessary to your home page? You can log into your admin console by going to 614.toastmastersclubs.org/directions.html, accept the cookies and log into the admin console. the go to 614.toastmastersclubs.org/directions.html again Thank you, Brian McDonald DTM, PDD D61 FTH Lead Technical Support member Cataraqui Valley Toastmaster 9560 |
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Thanks Brian,
Our VPE has been adding lots of youtube videos to the webpage recently. Could this have crashed the site? I'll check the link you sent. Oak Park Toastmasters Club 614
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If the content was not added properly yes it can crash the page. You should be taking backups of the page before adding content.
See Doc on how to backup a page. Thank you, Brian McDonald DTM, PDD D61 FTH Lead Technical Support member Cataraqui Valley Toastmaster 9560
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I was able to briefly access the link you sent but it would only show me the meeting information screen. I was unable to access the home page. The error is telling me there is a memory issue. I'm not sure what to do next. If I can get to the home page, I can remove the videos but it doesn't seem to want to let me get there.
Thanks! Oak Park Toastmasters Club 614
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This is the code from your home page I have cleared your home page you will now have to rebuild it. from this code adding parts until you find the problem.
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><b>Please join us for our next meeting!</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#e74c3c;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><b>Thursday, May 24, 2018</b></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 22px;">7- 8:30 p.m.</span></b></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-49a816e4-3a1e-faaa-8ea8-0c447a04772a">at the Oak Park Public Library, <span style="color:#e74c3c;">Dole </span><font color="#e74c3c">branch</font></b></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">255 Augusta St, Oak Park, IL 60302</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size:16px;">We'll provide refreshments, we'll listen to fun speeches and have a Table Topics discussion - guests are welcome to participate.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-size:16px;">Congratulations to our new member, <strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;">Mickey Bryant</span></strong>, who joined the club on May 10, 2018!</span></u></p>
<p><span style="color:#e74c3c;">Martha Smith</span> was the Toastmaster and she talked about the history of the word "Toastmasters". <span style="color:#e74c3c;">Jennifer Ellis</span> was the Master Grammarian and she did a great job counting our crutch words. We still have a lot of work improving our speeches.</p>
<p>For the first time <span style="color:#e74c3c;">Tanisha Blakemore</span> was the Table Topics Master and she came up with a creative idea to use colors describing our experience in our stories.</p>
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U6QzFIPHq70" width="640"></iframe></p>
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<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Rz76HC7nmZc?start=9" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kiKMsGNdGfQ?start=2" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LsNV2l3PxcI?start=12" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p>Winners of the May 10 Contest:<span style="color:#e74c3c;"> Vinny Sharma</span> - Best Table Topics Speech, <span style="color:#e74c3c;">Jennifer Ellis</span> - Best Evaluator, <span style="color:#e74c3c;">Katie Fairchild</span> - Best Speaker</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/imageuploads/614/Winners_May_10__2018.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 450px;" /></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size:16px;">We could see a great improvement in our new members' speeches on April 26, especially Rahul's. </span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size:16px;">The meeting was more informal, we didn't vote for the best speaker, we had group evaluation instead of assigning individual evaluators.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size:16px;">Jennifer diligently counted all our crutch words which was very helpful for our discipline as speakers.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:16px;">Allen Matthews gave a really interesting invocation about Ulysses Grant</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e9V2rwwypkM" width="640"></iframe></span><span style="font-size:16px;"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">We discovered that sometimes impromptu volunteer speeches work as well as the rehearsed ones. </p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Russell spoke about a driver with no arms:</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZRieoGPEcT8" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Jennifer shared an interesting insight about networking:</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z3AFeVKWbaY" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Nonna spoke about Marshall Field seen through the novel:</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RI6MgYRPkZ4?start=2" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">The group evaluation was fun, both members and guest actively participated:</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ElIyljOluy0" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/epmXgXdDgzo" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b5Lcn7n69OE" width="640"></iframe></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Table Topics discussion was as fun as always.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RW7h4cp0Lu0?start=9" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7Wt7abzx754?start=5" width="640"></iframe></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><strong><font color="#c0392b">What an interesting meeting it was yesterday! As Bill Byrnes, a returning member, put it: "That is not fair that while I was gone, all the fun started happening." </font></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><strong>We had a few new and returning guests, including a fellow Toastmaster from Brasil and a fellow Toastmaster from Maywood. </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Joe McCarty, DTM and our former President, visited and took a role of General Evaluator. </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Jennifer Ellis was the Toastmaster</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fXrASANSUcc" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J04nCl4oLpE?start=6" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><strong>We had three new members delivering their speeches. Watch them here:</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5iujg6S3Nz0" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TWYbalMmlA4" width="640"></iframe></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Lindsay was talking about her amazing career as an artist inspired by science. You can look at her projects here:</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><strong>https://lindsayolsonart.com/main.html</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><b>Here you can listen to some speeches' evaluations:</b></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CU8M_E2ArEM" width="640"></iframe> </b></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/29phG4wmSbk" width="640"></iframe></b></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">The Table Topics were very funny. Julie asked Toastmasters to introduce each other in a particular way. </p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HLMPblLRfDI" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YymNE3CNf1c" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qjTPfA2J2TQ?start=2" width="640"></iframe></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Winners of April 12, 2018 contsts: Tanisha Blackmore, Lindsay Olson and Tracy Cooper</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/imageuploads/614/Winners_April_12__2018.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 450px;" /></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Check this video from Bruce Lambert, our guest speaker and friend of the club, about how to be a charismatic public speaker:</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#e74c3c;"><strong>Congratulations to our new members, Allen Matthews and Huan Tran, who joined our club on March 22!</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>We had an amazing number of guests, both new and returning. <u>Dipti, Fang, Haisheng, Scott, Vinny and Jacob </u> - thank you for visiting us and actively participating in our Table Topics discussion. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Rahul Handa, a new member, did a fantastic job as a Table Topics Master. We had ten Table Topics speeches that night.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Here they are:</strong></p>
<p><strong><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DM_ig2FboV0?start=7" width="640"></iframe></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:black"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EHh9kp1fr1w?start=21" width="640"></iframe></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:black"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2yEmkyTUbh0" width="640"></iframe></span></span></span></p>
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ibUmjGSTOW0?start=7" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GgvfB4rHkj8?start=3" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KMcrTviJsSc" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z6l14JzFLqM?start=12" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r_HI3IRUuZQ?start=13" width="640"></iframe></p>
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<p><img alt="" src="/imageuploads/614/Winners_of_March_22__2018.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 450px;" /></p>
<p>You can also see their winning speeches on our Facebook page.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px;">The excitement is in the air! We had a lot of new enthusiastic members and guests at our meeting on <span style="color:#c0392b;"><strong>March 8, 2018</strong></span> and had a lot of fun.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px;">Katie Fairchild gave her "Ice Breaker" speech - that was an amazing performance for a beginner. The title was "My Juggling Act" and she did not use notes and said only two "word parasites." She also was a Table Topics Master and handled it very well. ThereT were a lot of volunteers to talk about the topic she had introduced - "How did you prepare for something important in your life?" You can see a few videos of the speeches below.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px;">The new system of giving roles to new members worked very well: Lindsay Olson was a Master Grammarian, Siobhan Goree - the Timer.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bbn89-XnO-8?start=13" width="640"></iframe></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o8U_8EAo5ng" width="640"></iframe></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A-38TR0rLlM" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nzZg1Y2LatU" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9UXOpzOED_c?start=1" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_JYdMnvR910?start=2" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>New members: Katie Fairchild, Scott Cole and Lindsay Olson:</strong></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><img alt="" src="/imageuploads/614/New_members__03082018.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 450px;" /></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size:16px;">Winners of the March 8 meeting: Martha Smith (Best Speaker), Nonna Working (Best Evaluator), Scott Cole (Best Table Topics Speaker)</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><img alt="" src="/imageuploads/614/Winners_of_March_8._2018_meeting.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 450px;" /></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#e74c3c;"><strong>At our meeting on February 22, Lindsay Olson joined or club! Now we have 28 members. Our club is growing.</strong></span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:18px;">Our President, Melody Linnear, shared a message from <b>Donoley Williams, DTM</b><br />
<b>2017-2018 District 103 Club Growth Director:</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;">"Toastmasters International has been accepting membership renewal payments since February 12th (March 31st is the deadline for on time payments) for membership period of April 1st - September 30th. And because of the efforts of every member we as a brand new district we are <strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;">ranked</span></strong> <strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;">21st</span></strong> in the world in paid members compared to over 100 districts globally. And in the Midwest we are<strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;"> no. 1</span></strong>. So let's continue our success over the next 40 days before the March deadline."</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;">Here is Melody's introduction:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u99JomlrAMs" width="640"></iframe></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px;">At the meeting we had two new guests: Huan Tran and Allen - they both spoke at the open evaluation (see their speeches below).</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px;">Julie Marshall-Wakeman, Vice President for Education, introduced a "NUDGE" method to involve new members in distributing roles at our meetings. She gave out sheets with pre-signed roles for the next few meetings so that the members will know what to expect.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr">We had two fun speeches:</p>
<p dir="ltr"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pHB7XX8uhKU" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lxNVIsxKcfM?start=3" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr">Then we had a free evaluation of the speeches:</p>
<p dir="ltr"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YlQhhgTlzgY" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nd2jSSCypV0" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H1V7EN7ysoc" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p dir="ltr">We had an induction ceremony for our new members: <span style="font-size:16px;"><strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;">Rahul Handa, Tracy Cooper, Siobhan Goree</span></strong></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><img alt="" src="/imageuploads/614/New_mwmbers__Feb_22__2018.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" /></p>
<p dir="ltr">The Table Topics discussion was short but fun because we we giving "Dear Abby" advice to baffled people.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Winners of the February 22 meeting:<strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;"> Best evaluator - Julie Marshall-Wakeman, best speaker - Russell Working</span></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size:18px;">At our meeting on February 8, </span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#c0392b;"><strong><span style="font-size:16px;">Guest speaker, Jay Shepherd, from Maywood Toastmasters Club, talked about new pathways for Toastmasters.</span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:16px;"> </span>Jay is </strong><b>ALB, ACB and </b><strong>Vice President for Education in her club.</strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Members and club officers can find more information about the program on this page:<span style="color:#2980b9;">https://www.toastmasters.org/pathways-overview</span>. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;">All new members should register with the Toastmasters International website<span style="color:#2980b9;"> https://www.toastmasters.org </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">in order to get updates and educational information. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Despite bad weather warning we had great attendance and a few new guests: <strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;">Aneta Trusner, Hector Valentin, and Perl Chavarry.</span></strong></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px;">The most exciting news of the meeting was that seven new members joined our club: <strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;"><u>Katie Fairchild, Rahul Handa, Tracy Cooper, Siobhan Goree, Jeff Gee, Diana Dominick, </u></span></strong><u><span style="color:#e74c3c;"><strong>Alain Adam</strong></span></u><strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;"><u> </u> </span></strong>Congratulations! This will be an exciting journey.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px;">Melody Linnear, our club President, presented a diploma given to our club for the officers training achievement:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px;">We had one member speech - it was Melody's 10 th speech from the manual. Now she is a Competent Communicator. <strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;">Congratualtions to Melody!</span></strong></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px;">Here is the start of her speech:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px;">Nonna Working evaluated Melody's speech. Both won ribbons for their performance:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px;">Jeff Gee invited members and guests to his event on February 16 at in the Eastgate Cafe (102 Harrison Street Oak Park, IL 60304)</span></p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">Life laughing – Val & Jeff Gee</h1>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">February 16 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm</h3>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Comedy Night with Val & Jeff</strong></em></h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px;">Please check the cafe's schedule of events here: <span style="color:#2980b9;">https://www.eastgatecafe.net/events/</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Everybody enjoyed our meeting on January 25. We had new guests: <span style="color:#e74c3c;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Alain Adam, Siobhan Goree, Tracy Cooper, Jeff Gee, and Arra Strong.</strong></span></span><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="color:#c0392b;"><strong> </strong></span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Most of them participated in our Table Topics discussion and even won prizes. They were brave enough to let us publish their speeches on our website down below.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Melody Linnear, our Club President talked about persuasion techniques which are important for public speakers.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">The Table Topics were about self-healing, including fasting, leadership, and importance of reading. Here are some of our guests speeches: </p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;">Winners of January 25, 2018 meeting:</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Katie Fairchild - 3rd place Table Topics, Jeff Gee - 1st place Table Topics, Tracy Cooper - 2nd place Table Topics, Siobhan Goree - 3rd place Table Topics </p>
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<p>We had a fun meeting on Thursday, January 11. Our new guests, <strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;">Raul Handa, Katie Fairchild, and Kelly Ortega</span></strong>, actively participated in our New Year resolutions discussions and the Table Topics. </p>
<p>Julie Marshall-Wakeman did a great job as the Toastmaster. </p>
<p>Here are some of our speeches:</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="color:#e74c3c;"><strong>Congratulations to our winners!</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;">Jennifer Ellis-Jackson - the best evaluator, Julie Marshall-Wakeman - the best Table Topics, Nonna Working - the Best Speaker.</span></strong></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">The last meeting of 2017 was informal but real fun! We had two speeches and evaluations. Special thanks to our guest, <strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;">Haisheng Zhao</span></strong>, who<strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;"> </span></strong>came despate bad weather and gave us a nice feedback.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:16px;">We had a fun meeting on December 14, despite a last-minute change of a room. We had cookies, chocolate popcorn and European pastries.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Our President, Melody Linnear, was Toastmaster that evening. Here is her opening statement:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Lynn Palmgren was the invocator:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Jennifer Ellis-Jackson gave a speech about crime in Oak Park:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Joe McCarty evaluated Jennifer's speech:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Melody talked about how to deal with a difficult member in a club</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Instead of usual Table Topics contest we watched a movie with a Toastmasters Humorous Speech Contest winner and then evaluated it:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Here are some evaluations:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#c0392b;">Congratulations to our winners! </span></span></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color:#c0392b;">Best speakers - Yinhua Jia (Angie) and Jennifer Ellis-Jackson, best evaluator - Joe McCarty</span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;">Congratulations to our new member, Tanisha Blakemore! She joined our club on November 9.</span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;">On November 9</span></strong>, we had an informative presentation by our guest speaker, Bruce Lambert, Ph.D. "How to Be a Great Communicator." Thanks to Julie Wakeman who invited Bruce to give us an insite into the science of communication. Among other things, we learned about individual differences in communication competence and took a five minutes communication assessment test (we had to describe a person relatively our age in as many details as we could). The number of descriptive units, called "constructs" was the test score. </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">That score is used to determine talented medical professionals who can take challenging communication tasks such as telling a family that their loved one was a victim of a medical error.</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">All our new guests (Asha, Brittney, Elaina, Amy and Vel) took part in the test.</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">There was a lively discussion. Everybody is invited to check Dr. Lambert's blog <strong><span style="color:#e74c3c;">HowCommunicationWorks.com</span></strong> and ask him more questions. You can subscribe to his updates.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Dr. Lambert giving presentation at Oak Park Toastmasters meeting on November 9, 2017.</p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center; margin:0in 0in 10pt; margin-right:0in; margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Guest speaker November 9th meeting</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0in; margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="background:white"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span arial="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:black">At our club meeting on November 9, we will have a guest speaker, Bruce Lambert, professor in the department of communication studies and the director of the Center for Communication and Health at Northwestern University. Please bring your friends and family! Bruce will be discussing how to become a great communicator, both professionally and personally. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="CxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-right:0in; margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="background:white"><span arial="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:black">Our club is registered for the District Fall Conference on November 10-11 in Orland Park. Attending this conference is free for our members, and we highly encourage you to attend this wonderful event. Please speak with any of our club officers if you have questions.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="CxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-right:0in; margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="background:white"><span arial="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:#222222">Please check the conference schedule here: </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Martha Smith was the Toastmaster and she spoke about the Halloween traditions all over the world:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Jennifer Ellis-Jackson delivered a great speech on October 26 about resistance bands and showed good excercises on how to use them:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Nonna Working evaluated Jennifer's speech:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">We enjoyed our Table Topics discussion - Louis Carver was the Table Topics Master. Many guests participated.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Rosemary was the first one to volunteer:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Angela did a fantastic job speaking on a challenging topic:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Angela came with her son, Nick, and he spoke too:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Scott gave a funny inspirational speech to his imaginary team:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Russell responded with a consolation to his team that had lost:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Scott and Russell ended up sharing the first prise for the Table Topics Speech:</p>
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<p>We had a fun meeting on October 12 celebrating Russell Working's Birthday the Russian style - with a cake and other tasty treats. Now we have 16 members – old and new going into an exciting year of public speaking. Our club is growing! Please join us in this amazing fun adventure. Explore your hidden talents and get confidence in public speaking.</p>
<p>We listened to two fantastic speeches - touching and inspirational.</p>
<p>Kim spoke about the "Power of Influence." How some people went out of their way to help her find her path in life:</p>
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<p>Angie gave us an amazing "icebreaker" speech about her childhood in China and her ambitions and hard work. She was the first girl to go to college in her remote village:</p>
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<p>Martha evaluated Kim's speech:</p>
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<p>Russell evaluated Angie's speech:</p>
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<p>We had fun Table Topics competition. Here are a few speeches:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span arial="" style="font-family:"><strong>Martha Smith - best evaluator, </strong></span></span></span></span><strong>Y</strong><span style="font-size:12px;"><strong><strong>i</strong>nhua Jia (Angie)</strong></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span arial="" style="font-family:"> - best speaker, <b>Melidy Linnear</b> - best Table Topics speaker.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr">Our club is growing. Lots of new and old guests on our September 28 meeting - that is fantastic!</p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center; margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span arial="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:red">Big victory for the Oak Park Toastmasters Club!</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background:white"><span arial="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="background-color:#ffffcc;">Nonna Working received 1st place in our area Humorous Speech Contest </span></span></span></span><span arial="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="background-color:#ffffcc;">on Saturday, September 23,</span><span style="background:white"><span style="background-color:#ffffcc;"> and will move on to compete in the Division competition on October 14.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>September 28, 2017 meeting</strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">Our President, <strong>Melody Linnear</strong>, gave a speech:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><strong>Lynn Palmgren</strong> evaluated Melody's speech:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><strong>Russell Working</strong> was the Tabel Topics Master - he distributed fortune cookies in the audience</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">We had a lot of fun with those - both memebers and guests actively participated. Here are some of the speeches.</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><strong>Angie:</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><strong>Julie Young:</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><strong>Lynn Palmgren:</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><strong>Mario:</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><strong>Joe:</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><strong>Julie Wakeman:</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span arial="" style="font-family:"><strong>Melody Linnear</strong> - best speaker, <strong>Lynn Palmgren</strong> - best evaluator, <strong>Julie Wakeman</strong> - best Table Topics speaker.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr">We had a fantastic meeting on September 14!</p>
<p dir="ltr">The meeting was unusual because we had the <strong>Humorous Speech contest</strong>.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Here is <strong>Julie Wakeman</strong> describes the rules of the contest:</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>Bill <span style="font-size:14px;">Byrnes</span></strong> did a fantastic job on his first speech, an "icebreaker" about the fear of public speaking. This was very relevant to all Toastmasters since everybody has this problem. Bill's speech was personal and funny and educational. We are looking forward to the next one.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Here is Bill's speech:</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>Russell Working</strong> evaluated Bill's speech:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Congratulations to our new member, <strong>Yinjua Jia</strong>! She gave a beautiful Table Topics speech on making paper flowers. Overcoming the language barrier is one of the challenges for immigrants, and the Toastmasters is the place where we can help each other. <strong>Yinjua Jia</strong> is from China. She had a lot of courage to come and start speaking without preparation and we all loved her speech.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Here is how Toastmasters helps to launch new careers</strong></p>
<p>Russell and Nonna Working just had the first successful video journalism project since they feel more comfortable talking publicly. They have been writers and print reporters for many years but never made video reporting until now.This was footage for a Russian TV program called "Morskaya" (Maritime). It is in Russian, but here what it is about. </p>
<p>They went to Santa Barbara, CA and talked about the soap opera called "Santa Barbara" which was popular in Russia in 1992-2000. Thay showed the real town - interviewing fishermen and comparing how sea mammals are treated in California and Primorye maritime region by the Sea of Japan. </p>
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<p>Winners of the September 14 meeting: Uma B. - best Table Topics speech, Russell Working - best evaluator, Nonna Working - best Houmorous speech, Bill Byrnes - best Icebreaker speech</p>
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<p>See you again on September 28.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Thank you for coming to our meeting on Thursday, August 24. We had quite a crowd and we welcome John, our new guest.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Watch Melody Linnear, our President, opening the meeting:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">This meeting was dedicated to the recent Solar Eclipse. Martha Smith was the Toastmaster of the day and she gave us interesting facts and opinions on the event. Watch her introduction here:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Julie Wakeman, Vice President of Education, gave an educational speech and a PowerPoint presentation on some aspects of Toastmasters' "ladder," so that we could see new opportunities and structure of the Toastmasters' organization.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Russell Working was a Grammarian and he chose the word "Persnickety" </p>
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<p dir="ltr">The theme of the Solar Eclipse continued in Nonna Working's speech:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Here is how General Evaluator, Paul Reyes, assessed our meeting:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Congratulations to the winners:</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>Russell Working - the best Table Topics speaker</strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>Lynn Palmgren - the best evaluator</strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>We had a lot of fun at our last meeting on August 10!</strong></span></p>
<p dir="ltr">We introduced a new form of Table Topics competition: recall the worst movie you had ever seen and try to convince us to go see it. Or pull a picture from the envelope and tell us a story about what you see. The task seemed challenging, but there were a lot of funny and witty impromptu stories. Once you do it you forget about fear. </p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size:16px;">Congratulations to Jennifer Ellis-Jackson who won the first prize!</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">We thank our guests - <strong>Angie, Porsha, Billy, and Marion</strong> - for coming and actively participating! We hope to see you again. Bring your friends, colleagues, and relatives. Kill that dragon - fear of public speaking!</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>Melody Linnear</strong>, our club's new President, did a fantastic job explaining the club's rules to our guests. She also gave us helpful speaking tips. Speak slowly - that is the best one!</p>
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<p dir="ltr">There was a great news that retail giant <strong>Costco</strong> is now spreading the word about the Toastmasters in its August 2017 issue. There is a big story "Toast of the town" on page 21.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">We had a pleasure of listening to well-prepared and sincere speech of <strong>Russell Working.</strong> Here you can enjoy it too:</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dear fellow Toastmasters and friends,</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">The Oak Park Toastmasters Club has opened a new season. We had an exciting meeting on July 27 and welcome members, new guest Lindsay Olson and Toastmasters Area Director for Area 52, Muna Amarah. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Melody Linnear did a great job as a new club President opening introducing new goals for the season. We all want to be better speakers and we'll be helping each other and all the new members. This is a liberating and fun place for all!</span></p>
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