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You are invited to visit the Athens Toastmasters Club to learn how you can increase your skills and your confidence when speaking in front of others, whether formally or informally. We are currently meeting online. Toastmasters Club Mission: We provide a supportive and positive learning experience in which members are empowered to develop communication and leadership skills, resulting in greater self-confidence and personal growth. For details and other meeting information, please email the Vice President Membership at vpm-1779@toastmastersclubs.org. We hope to see you soon!

The practice group is facilitated by Hema and Mandakini Pokharna. For more information about Hema and Mandakini, please visit http://www.journeysoflife.org/trainer.htm Please call Hema at 773 368 1656 to RSVP to make sure that there are more than 3 people for the class to be practicing.​ Join us on this link https://zoom.us/j/95315698146

We are just a group of friendly people who enjoy reading and studying the Bible. We are continuing to use Zoom for MeetUp since the COVID-19 restrictions. You can join at https://gloo.zoom.us/j/633741490, or dialing from a mobile phone 312-626-6799. The meeting ID is 633 741 490. Thanks! Join Zoom Meeting [https://gloo.zoom.us/j/633741490](https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgloo.zoom.us%2Fj%2F633741490&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw3N9k-8OZK-aoWB6EamPI67) Meeting ID: 633 741 490

Come join us as we continue to Learn and build with Elixir, Erlang, OTP and The Phoenix Framework. https://www.ohioelixir.com/

Lectio simply means “read” or “text”. It is a prayerful reading of a text multiple times (Scripture), interspersed with silence. The “Lectio at Lunch” practice is provided to offer you an additional avenue of spiritual practice during a time of physical distance. It will be offered weekly on Tuesdays from 12:15-12:45 via Zoom. **If you would like to participate, please send a message via Meet-Up with your email address; we will then send you the Zoom link.**

Toast of Rockdale is a diverse group of energetic individuals who meet weekly to further develop their speaking and leadership skills. Our goal is to create a safe, positive, and enjoyable environment that embraces those who want to improve their public speaking and public presence at work, in the community, or in their social network. Our door is open to all.

This event is closed to new participants and the class is full. Thank you, though, for your interest. Prerequisite: \~One year of college level Ancient Greek.\~ As of Spring 2021, only Agnes Scott, Emory University, and the University of Georgia offer Ancient Greek classes in Georgia. Our Ancient Greek class is the only free, adult Ancient Greek class in Georgia. We have reached our maximum attendance. We will favor advanced students who can teach the rest of us something! Our class starts promptly at 8 p.m. and ends promptly at 9:15 p.m. We are at the end of our first year college Ancient Greek text books and we will be reading unaltered Ancient Greek henceforth.

Conecte para uma simples e poderosa meditação guiada em grupo! A Meditação nos Corações Gêmeos, ensinada pelo Mestre Choa Kok Sui, é uma técnica excelente para aliviar o estresse, bem como intensificar a conexão espiritual!

Meditate, meet and get motivated. Meditation that you can use. Meditate for spiritual awakening, stress care, personal development, health... How to join? Please click on 'Attend Online' to get Zoom link We recommend joining by laptop for better experience. All levels welcome. You will find experience of this online class very real life like and in fact more attentive and personal Facebook for more resources- more live events, recorded sessions, self learning units, mentorship, downloads..... Join now! https://www.facebook.com/groups/WeMeditateGroup More at: https://sahajayogareview.wordpress.com/ Expected Outcome of class? 1. Learn how to meditate at home 2. Learn best practices and techniques 3. Experience the 'awakening' of healing energy within us that gives peace and balance 4. Sahaja Yoga meditation toolkit resources to apply techniques learnt in daily life What happens after this class? These recurring classes are meant to come together and meditate and learn little by little, so please plan to join them every week for growth in your meditative state and practice. You are equipped with knowledge to start practicing from day 1. As you join us for subsequent classes you are taken forward in meditation practice. In case you are unable to join a class, don't worry and rejoin any time and you can always start afresh. Do share this event with you friends, colleagues, neighbors and loved ones. It may change their life and it may be the best gift they ever got :). Need Help? Please feel free to email or WhatsApp following in case you have more questions or face difficulties joining Zoom session. We will try to keep you informed about more meditation events. Bhargava.potukuchi@gmail.com +15132038961 Stay safe and keep meditating! #free # guided #meditation # meditate #kundalini #social #language #culture #sahaja #transformation #peace #meditation #stress #depression #wellness #international #guided #experiences #sahaja yoga #Shri Mataji #Nirmala Devi #review #anxiety #center #Yoga

Let's try something new. For the next dozen weeks or so, starting 4/17/2022, we are going to live-read and discuss Aristotle's \~*Nicomachean Ethics*\~. What is new and different about this project is that the translation, by Adam Beresford (2020), happens to be rendered in standard 'Murican English. . From the translator's "Note" on the text: . "This translation is conservative in interpretation and traditional in aim. It aims to translate the text as accurately as possible. . "I translated every page from scratch, from a clean Greek text, rather than revising an existing translation. ... I wanted to avoid the scholars’ dialect that is traditionally used for translating Aristotle. ... "I reject the approach of Arthur Adkins, Elizabeth Anscombe, and others who followed Nietzsche in supposing that the main elements of modern thinking about right and wrong were unknown to the Greeks, or known to them only in some radically different form. My view of humanity and of our shared moral instincts is shaped by a newer paradigm. This is a post-Darwinian translation. (It is also more in line with the older, both Aristotelian and Christian view of human character.) . "Having said that, I have no interest at all in modernizing Aristotle’s ideas. All the attitudes of this treatise remain fully Greek, very patriarchal, somewhat aristocratic, and firmly embedded in the fourth century BC. My choice of dialect (standard English) has no bearing on that whatsoever. (It is perfectly possible to express distinctively Greek and ancient attitudes in standard English.) ... I have also not simplified the text in any way. I have translated every iota, particle, preposition, noun, verb, adjective, phrase, clause, and sentence of the original. Every premise and every argument therefore remains – unfortunately – exactly as complex and annoyingly difficult as in any other version in whatever dialect. ... "Some scholars and students unwarily assume that the traditional dialect has a special connection with Greek and that using it brings readers closer to the original text; and that it makes the translation more accurate. In reality, it has no special tie to the Greek language, either in its main philosophical glossary or in its dozens of minor (and pointless) deviations from normal English. And in my view it certainly makes any translation much less accurate. . "I will occasionally refer to the scholars’ dialect (‘Gringlish’) and its traditional glossary in the Notes." . . Here is our plan: 1\. Read Intro excerpts or a summary to gain the big picture\. 2\. Read a segment of the translated text\. 3\. Discuss it analytically and interpretively\. 4\. Repeat again at \#2 for several more times\. 5\. Discuss the segments evaluatively\. . . Zoom is the project's current meeting platform, but that can change. The project's cloud drive is [here](https://mega.nz/folder/vqJCXIQJ#muxiUXMHhfljvxKnWaOxZA), at which you'll find the reading texts, notes, and slideshows.

Meditate, meet and get motivated. Meditation that you can use. Meditate for spiritual awakening, stress care, personal development, health... How to join? Please click on 'Attend Online' to get Zoom link We recommend joining by laptop for better experience. All levels welcome. You will find experience of this online class very real life like and in fact more attentive and personal Facebook for more resources- more live events, recorded sessions, self learning units, mentorship, downloads..... Join now! https://www.facebook.com/groups/WeMeditateGroup More at: https://sahajayogareview.wordpress.com/ Expected Outcome of class? 1. Learn how to meditate at home 2. Learn best practices and techniques 3. Experience the 'awakening' of healing energy within us that gives peace and balance 4. Sahaja Yoga meditation toolkit resources to apply techniques learnt in daily life What happens after this class? These recurring classes are meant to come together and meditate and learn little by little, so please plan to join them every week for growth in your meditative state and practice. You are equipped with knowledge to start practicing from day 1. As you join us for subsequent classes you are taken forward in meditation practice. In case you are unable to join a class, don't worry and rejoin any time and you can always start afresh. Do share this event with you friends, colleagues, neighbors and loved ones. It may change their life and it may be the best gift they ever got :). Need Help? Please feel free to email or WhatsApp following in case you have more questions or face difficulties joining Zoom session. We will try to keep you informed about more meditation events. Bhargava.potukuchi@gmail.com +15132038961 Stay safe and keep meditating! #free # guided #meditation # meditate #kundalini #social #language #culture #sahaja #transformation #peace #meditation #stress #depression #wellness #international #guided #experiences #sahaja yoga #Shri Mataji #Nirmala Devi #review #anxiety #center #Yoga

TODOS NUESTRAS SESIONES SON ONLINE Acompañanos por ZOOM cada miércoles. https://zoom.us/j/522739465?pwd=NnBBcVpQNGNSakF3QjVwelZEb1dIZz09 ________________ ¿Sabes dónde se entrenan los próximos grandes oradores? ¿Alguna vez haz visto un orador o conferencista que te dejo impactado, como dominaba a su público, la seguridad que proyectaba y la claridad de su mensaje? Si estos temas te interesan, ven y conoce las técnicas y los secretos para perder el miedo a hablar en público. ------ ¿Qué hacemos exactamente en cada reunión? Cada reunión es dirigida por el Toastmaster de la noche, es decir el maestro de ceremonias de ese día, se divide 3 partes principales en cada sesión: (1) Discursos preparados: por lo general son de 2 a 4 discursos, presentados por alguno de nuestros miembros. Es un speech diferente cada noche y creado por cada orador. (2) Improvisados: es la parte de la noche donde retamos a los asistentes a pasar adelante e improvisar, cada persona tiene 2 minutos para hablarnos sobre un tema al azar, por lo general pasan 4 o 5 personas. (3) Evaluación: es la parte más importante de la noche en la cual todos los participantes reciben retroalimentación sobre los aspectos positivos y las oportunidades de mejora. ------- ¿Qué significa Toastmasters? Toastmasters es una palabra en inglés que se podría traducir como "el maestro del brindis", dado que "Toast" se traduce como brindar, hace referencia a esas personas que están en un evento social y se les pide realizar un brindis delante de todos los asistentes. Hoy en día usamos el término para referirnos a la persona que dirige toda la sesión de la noche. ------- ¿Cuantas personas asisten cada noche? Entre 20 a 50 personas, depende el día. ------- A mí me da mucho miedo hablar en público, levantar la mano y pasar al frente, ¿Puedo asistir solo para ver cómo funciona? Sí, tranquil@, no te obligamos a hablar frente a la cámara, la idea es que vuelvas, sabemos los nervios que se producen cuando hablas frente a un público. Todos estuvimos alguna vez como invitados y volvimos. ------- ¿Qué experiencia tienen los oradores del Club? Tenemos toda clase de personas en el grupo, desde los que están empezando y llevan menos de un mes, hasta los que llevan 5 años. ------- Dos preguntas que nos hacen constantemente y nos saca una buena sonrisa :) 1. ¿Son una empresa multinivel? No, jajaj enserio No. 2. ¿Quién es el profesor que dicta las conferencias? No tenemos profesores, no hacemos conferencias, ni nada por el estilo. Nosotros mismos nos calificamos y avanzamos en el programa académico que fue creado por la sede internacional de Toastmasters. ------- -Tienes otra pregunta no dudes en escribirnos-

Let's try something new. For the next dozen weeks or so, starting 4/17/2022, we are going to live-read and discuss Aristotle's \~*Nicomachean Ethics*\~. What is new and different about this project is that the translation, by Adam Beresford (2020), happens to be rendered in standard 'Murican English. . From the translator's "Note" on the text: . "This translation is conservative in interpretation and traditional in aim. It aims to translate the text as accurately as possible. . "I translated every page from scratch, from a clean Greek text, rather than revising an existing translation. ... I wanted to avoid the scholars’ dialect that is traditionally used for translating Aristotle. ... "I reject the approach of Arthur Adkins, Elizabeth Anscombe, and others who followed Nietzsche in supposing that the main elements of modern thinking about right and wrong were unknown to the Greeks, or known to them only in some radically different form. My view of humanity and of our shared moral instincts is shaped by a newer paradigm. This is a post-Darwinian translation. (It is also more in line with the older, both Aristotelian and Christian view of human character.) . "Having said that, I have no interest at all in modernizing Aristotle’s ideas. All the attitudes of this treatise remain fully Greek, very patriarchal, somewhat aristocratic, and firmly embedded in the fourth century BC. My choice of dialect (standard English) has no bearing on that whatsoever. (It is perfectly possible to express distinctively Greek and ancient attitudes in standard English.) ... I have also not simplified the text in any way. I have translated every iota, particle, preposition, noun, verb, adjective, phrase, clause, and sentence of the original. Every premise and every argument therefore remains – unfortunately – exactly as complex and annoyingly difficult as in any other version in whatever dialect. ... "Some scholars and students unwarily assume that the traditional dialect has a special connection with Greek and that using it brings readers closer to the original text; and that it makes the translation more accurate. In reality, it has no special tie to the Greek language, either in its main philosophical glossary or in its dozens of minor (and pointless) deviations from normal English. And in my view it certainly makes any translation much less accurate. . "I will occasionally refer to the scholars’ dialect (‘Gringlish’) and its traditional glossary in the Notes." . . Here is our plan: 1\. Read Intro excerpts or a summary to gain the big picture\. 2\. Read a segment of the translated text\. 3\. Discuss it analytically and interpretively\. 4\. Repeat again at \#2 for several more times\. 5\. Discuss the segments evaluatively\. . . Zoom is the project's current meeting platform, but that can change. The project's cloud drive is [here](https://mega.nz/folder/vqJCXIQJ#muxiUXMHhfljvxKnWaOxZA), at which you'll find the reading texts, notes, and slideshows.

Let’s try this popular Italian restaurant in Reynoldsburg. This is the menu: https://scaliristorante.com/#4e468054-0235-43e2-81c2-44e061341e9e

Pay attention! We’re delaying a week for those of you who may be on Spring break and/or celebrating the holiday. Ok, no pancakes, but waffles-a-plenty. Join the local UX and Digital Design community for a casual monthly breakfast. Look for us upstairs!

Join us for pizza and conversation at Vick’s Gourmet Pizza! 🍕 Good slices, good stories, and plenty of laughs around the table. Come hungry, bring your best conversation, and let’s enjoy a relaxed evening with great company. Extra cheese and extra chatter encouraged! 😄

Let's grab some coffee/food and share a morning chat! The East Market has an ample parking lot and outdoor and indoor seating. Grab a cup of coffee from Winston's Coffee & Waffles or on your way to East Market and meet us on the second floor - table behind or east of the elevator. Per what this group is about: "Everyone is welcome! International transplants to Columbus who want to improve language skills, Columbus residents who want to discuss international travel and culture, and anyone who enjoys getting together for good conversations."

Our monthly PHP meetup. A virtual shindig courtesy of Zoom. Check back here for the details around 6:15 pm

Dinner and dancing

http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/a/9/6/600_348310902.jpeg Instructor - Crow, HPS Class fee is $30 at the door or approved exchange RSVP with Advance pay of $25 (discounted) by PayPal on the web or by contacting Enchanted Elements (614) 437-2642. Reservations made directly to Enchanted Elements will be added to the class list manually not online. Private Instruction ~ Closed to the Public ~ Initiated Members Only Please come prepared for ritual. Blessings ~ Crow