{"id":614,"date":"2010-06-19T21:01:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T12:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2010-06-19T21:01:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T12:01:59","slug":"baiko-gakuin-university-speech-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/2010\/06\/baiko-gakuin-university-speech-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Baiko Gakuin University Speech Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 19, the Baiko Gakuin University ESS held its 2010 Mackenzie Cup speech contest. The two speeches\u00a0available to students were John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama&#8217;s inaugural addresses. Two of our 1st-Year students, Satoko Murata and Akiho Tsuji took part. Here are the results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st place: Shinichi Miwa (Yamaguchi\u00a0University)<\/li>\n<li>2nd place: Satoko Murata<\/li>\n<li>3rd place: Akiho Tsuji<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congratulations to Akiho and Satoko on the result. They both worked so hard, and performed perfectly. All of the ESS are very proud of them!<\/p>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.me.com\/malcolmswanson#100170\">Link to video of their speeches<\/a>]\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"500\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/seinan-jo.com\\\/english\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/baiko-gakuin-university-speech-contest\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:143104987}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 223px;\" data-original-width=\"500\" data-original-height=\"223\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 334px; height: 223px;\" data-original-width=\"334\" data-original-height=\"223\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko61.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"330\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"219\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"621\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko61.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,850\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1276961699&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"baiko6\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko61-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko61-600x398.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko61.jpg?w=330&#038;h=219&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko61.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko61-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko61-600x398.jpg 600w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko61-310x205.jpg 310w\" width=\"330\" height=\"219\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"330\" data-original-height=\"219\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"baiko6\" alt=\"The Seinan team!\" style=\"width: 330px; height: 219px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> The Seinan team! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-2\" style=\"width: 166px; height: 223px;\" data-original-width=\"166\" data-original-height=\"223\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-small\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko51.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"162\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"108\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"620\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko51.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,850\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1276961239&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;22&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"baiko5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko51-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko51-600x398.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko51.jpg?w=162&#038;h=108&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko51.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko51-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko51-600x398.jpg 600w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko51-310x205.jpg 310w\" width=\"162\" height=\"108\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"162\" data-original-height=\"108\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"baiko5\" alt=\"Participants and judges\" style=\"width: 162px; height: 108px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Participants and judges <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-small\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko41.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"162\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"107\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"619\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko41.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,850\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1276959922&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"baiko4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko41-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko41-600x398.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko41.jpg?w=162&#038;h=107&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko41.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko41-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko41-600x398.jpg 600w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko41-310x205.jpg 310w\" width=\"162\" height=\"107\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"162\" data-original-height=\"107\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"baiko4\" alt=\"The Seinan support team\" style=\"width: 162px; height: 107px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> The Seinan support team <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 353px;\" data-original-width=\"500\" data-original-height=\"353\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-2\" style=\"width: 264px; height: 353px;\" data-original-width=\"264\" data-original-height=\"353\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko31.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"260\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"173\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"618\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko31.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,850\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1276957121&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;120&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"baiko3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko31-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko31-600x398.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko31.jpg?w=260&#038;h=173&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko31.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko31-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko31-600x398.jpg 600w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko31-310x205.jpg 310w\" width=\"260\" height=\"173\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"260\" data-original-height=\"173\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"baiko3\" alt=\"Satoko&#039;s speech\" style=\"width: 260px; height: 173px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Satoko&#8217;s speech <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko21.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"260\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"172\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"617\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko21.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,850\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1276954249&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"baiko2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko21-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko21-600x398.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko21.jpg?w=260&#038;h=172&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko21.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko21-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko21-600x398.jpg 600w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko21-310x205.jpg 310w\" width=\"260\" height=\"172\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"260\" data-original-height=\"172\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"baiko2\" alt=\"Akiho&#039;s speech\" style=\"width: 260px; height: 172px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Akiho&#8217;s speech <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 236px; height: 353px;\" data-original-width=\"236\" data-original-height=\"353\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-small\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko11.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"232\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"349\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"616\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko11.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"850,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1276946707&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;31&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"baiko1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko11-199x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko11-398x600.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko11.jpg?w=232&#038;h=349&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko11.jpg 850w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko11-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/baiko11-398x600.jpg 398w\" width=\"232\" height=\"349\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"232\" data-original-height=\"349\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"baiko1\" alt=\"Satoko and Akiho at the start\" style=\"width: 232px; height: 349px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Satoko and Akiho at the start <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 19, the Baiko Gakuin University ESS held its 2010 Mackenzie Cup speech contest. The two speeches\u00a0available to students were John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama&#8217;s inaugural addresses. Two of our 1st-Year students, Satoko Murata and Akiho Tsuji took part. Here are the results: 1st place: Shinichi Miwa (Yamaguchi\u00a0University) 2nd place: Satoko Murata 3rd &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ess","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Gs8X-9U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}