{"id":2412,"date":"2015-03-02T23:16:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T23:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2015-03-03T22:23:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T22:23:07","slug":"banner-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/?p=2412","title":{"rendered":"Banner Meeting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last meeting we had a banner meeting with the theme of the evening being &#8220;banner&#8221;. In the business section, <a href=\"www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/?page_id=25\">Khushi<\/a> presented a club banner to the <a href=\"http:\/\/berliner-rhetorikmeister.de\/\">Berliner Rhetorikmeister<\/a> &#8216;s President, Peter Rabeneck.<\/p>\n<p>Our lovely Toastmaster of the Evening, <a href=\"www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/?page_id=25\">Violetta<\/a>, wonderfully introduced the speakers by telling us their answer to her prepared question: &#8220;Imagine you had a banner and you are free to use it as you like. What would you put on this banner? Where would you display it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/?page_id=25\">Prateek<\/a> delivered Project 7 from the CC manual entitled &#8220;The Nimby Banana&#8221;. He brought us closer to the topic of wind energy and its problems. Even if wind power is a cheap and great resource, people complain that wind turbines are a hazard for birds. The problem is that people do not want such turbines close to them. Asked the question where to build such turbines people would answer: &#8220;Not in my back yard&#8221; (NIMBY)-\u00a0 the well-spread concept &#8220;Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone&#8221; (BANANA). The core message of Prateek&#8217;s speech was to say YIMBY (&#8220;Yes in my backyard&#8221;). With the help of his visual help, in this case Powerpoint and its animations, Prateek suceeded in presenting a serious topic in a very funny and entertaining way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/?page_id=25\">Manjana<\/a> delivered Project 3 The Demonstration Talk entitled &#8220;DNA for Dummies&#8221; from the advanced manual, Speaking to Inform. She showed us how to make DNA shaped fashion accessories. She really has an affection for science and crafts.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lesson learned<\/em>: Scientists can be funny and entertaining :).<\/p>\n<p><em>Word of the day<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/?p=2326#ubiquitous\">ubiquitous<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Diana-signature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diana-signature-e1413743726368.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last meeting we had a banner meeting with the theme of the evening being &#8220;banner&#8221;. In the business section, Khushi presented a club banner to the Berliner Rhetorikmeister &#8216;s President, Peter Rabeneck. Our lovely Toastmaster of the Evening, Violetta, wonderfully introduced the speakers by telling us their answer to her prepared question: &#8220;Imagine you had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[29,28],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsblog-archive","tag-29","tag-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"http:\/\/www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mercury-toastmasters-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}