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Contents

Vice President's Column Notes from the Disk of the Editor... RVC Message From the Web George Haynes for 2nd Vice Chair Report Of The First Friday Dinner Meeting, January 4, 2019 Fake History Would you Believe It? Second Sunday Dinner Review Birthdays New Arrivals Mensaversaries Departures 2018 - 2020 Palm Beach Area Mensa Local Group Officers & Volunteers Mensans Eat, Meet & Greet and... Color Pixel Page Children of all ages: Check out the new Norton Museum! Treasurer's Report

 

Vice President's Column by Scott Schwartzberg

Greetings from your Vice President/Deputy LocSec.

We had a very productive quarterly meeting of the Executive Committee on February 23^rd, and I will pass along some information from that meeting. We have scheduled quarterly meetings for the rest of 2019, all at the Clubhouse of Colony Preserve in Boynton Beach, home of our Gifted Youth Coordinator, Beth Rappaport.

The meetings are scheduled as follows, and all members are welcome to attend, we just need RSVPs to get you through the gate:
June 8, 2019 -- 11 AM
September 14, 2019 -- 11 AM
November 9, 2019 - 11 AM

We are looking to set up a beach cleanup for our Local group, and will provide further details when it is scheduled. Our chapter will provide Mensa Cares T-shirts to all of our members that RSVP. They can be seen at https://www.mensastore.com/men/tees/mensa-cares-tee-royal.html

Is there any interest in forming one (or more) teams for CultureQuest? From the National Mensa website:
Facing questions that range from film to politics, from literature to geography, from music to history and further afield, Mensan teams of up to five members gather in their neighborhoods on a single day across the U.S. and Canada and, for 90 minutes, compete for cash prizes and cultural literacy bragging rights.

While CultureQuest might be considered a trivia competition, its intent has always been to promote and test cultural literacy.

Our Chapter will provide the entry fee for the team, and there is also CultureQuest: The Next Generation for Gifted Youth members, so we could have a team for them as well. Teams consist of 5 members, and up to 2 alternates.

Central Florida's team, "Tragic Kingdom" (we'd also need a team name) has won the competition from 2014 -- 2018. Let's try to unseat them for 2019! If you want to join/Captain our team, please get in touch with me at sschwartzberg@comcast.net.

Finally, please ensure that your contact information (mailing address, email, phone number) is up to date with the National Office (you can select privacy settings) at https://members.us.mensa.org/eweb/StartPage.aspx?Site=AML

Sincerely,

Scott A Schwartzberg
Vice President/Deputy LocSec
Assistant Gifted Youth Coordinator
Palm Beach Area Mensa

 

Okapi picture by Elissa Rudolph

 

Notes from the Disk of the Editor... by Dan Tobias

Last issue I mentioned that things published in 1923 are finally out of copyright. There's one peculiar exception, however: sound recordings (records, tapes, CDs, music downloads, streaming audio, etc.). These have a copyright that's distinct from that of the underlying song (or literary work if it's an audiobook). However, Congress didn't get around to creating a copyright for sound recordings until 1972 (at the time of the previous major copyright revision in 1909, they were still too newfangled to consider for this status, though the 1909 act did add a mechanical royalty for the songwriter when a song was recorded). This meant that things recorded before February 15, 1972 had no federal copyright (after that date they use a Ⓟ symbol in place of the more common © symbol). This didn't mean they were in the public domain, however; various state laws and common law principles provided a confusing patchwork of protection for those old records on the shelf, at the whims of legislatures and judges. Usually these had no expiration date, no matter how old the record, so even the Edison cylinders of the 1800s might be under protection.

But this has changed. In a new law that somehow managed to pass the otherwise-gridlocked Congress last year, all sorts of reforms were made to music-related copyrights, including technical stuff about royalties paid by streaming services. But it also had a section that extended federal copyright protection to pre-1972 recordings (pre-empting state laws and common law), and specified when those copyrights would expire. Since this is Congress we're talking about, this obviously couldn't be done in any kind of simple, logical way; rather than simply having the copyrights expire after 95 years as other pre-1978 copyrights do, the terms are set by a complicated set of ranges of years. The first batch consists of everything up to 1922 (including those Edison cylinders), which expires on January 1, 2022. Then you have to wait two years until records from 1923 expire on January 1, 2024 and you finally get legal royalty-free downloads of the earliest records of "Yes, We Have No Bananas" even though the song itself is now in the public domain.

Then the record copyrights expire one year at a time until January 1, 2047 when records from 1946 expire; this is followed by an inexplicable ten-year hiatus in any records going into the public domain before this resumes on January 1, 2058, when 1947 records expire. You then get another few years of one year at a time, through 1956 copyrights expiring January 1, 2067 (we're now getting into some early rock 'n' roll).

Soon after that, you get to the wildest day in copyright history: on February 15, 2067, all sound recording copyrights for records from 1957 through February 14, 1972 expire at once. That's everything the Beatles recorded while they were together, plus a lot of other classic rock, pop, and R&B (from psychedelic rock to Motown girl groups). A lot of this is still making money for the music industry now, and maybe some of it will still be enough of a cash cow in 2067 that they'll lobby to extend this date, but as the law now stands you'll be able to make royalty-free use of all of these recordings then, in whatever manner music might happen to be accessed in this era; it'll be a boon to movie (or holographic virtual reality or whatever medium is used then) producers wanting to set period pieces in the ‘60s (a century old by then, but it's common for movies to be set far in the past) and use lots of authentic music without going broke with licensing fees. I can only hope for some good life-extension technology to come along so I live to see that day, 103 years old. Perhaps it'll be known as "The Day the Music Copyrights Died" (the original release of Don McLean's "American Pie" is among the many records freed on that day).

After this, copyrights for sound recordings finally move in step with other copyrights, for a 95 year term up through things released in 1977, and 70 years after the death of the author (or 95 years for anonymous or corporate works) after that. On January 1, 2073, everything published in 1977 goes into the public domain, wrapping up the long transition period between the various copyright laws (unless more laws get passed between now and then).

 

RVC Message by Thomas George Thomas, Region 10 Vice Chair

Mensa relies on its volunteers to keep the organization going, and we appreciate all of them. There are some who go beyond the nuts and bolts of day-to-day service, and they deserve special recognition. Each year several awards are presented at the Annual Gathering, including National Service Awards (AKA National Achievement Awards), the Distinguished Service Award, and the National Certificate of Appreciation. While these are presented by the American Mensa Awards Committee, all of these winners are nominated by members. Your opportunity to nominate these superstars is now! Nominations are being solicited through April 30. More information about these can be found at www.us.mensa.org/recognize/national-awards/ or by emailing Awards Committee Chair Robin Crawford at nationalawards@us.mensa.org with questions and nominations.

Recent award winners from Region 10 in the past five years have included Mel Dahl, Ruth Danielle, Debbie Freeland, Brian Reeves, Elissa Rudolph, and Maggie Truelove. Who else would you nominate?

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While on the topic of volunteers, I continue to encourage anyone who is interested to volunteer at their Local Group level. There are many opportunities for both long- and short-term contributions, and engaging in helping to build and run the group provides a greater personal stake in its success. Contact your Local Secretary/President or Programs Officer if you are interested, or let me know and I'll offer some suggestions.

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March 31 is the last day to renew your membership if you want to participate in this year's CultureQuest, which will take place on April 28. Although some people see this as a trivia contest, it runs deeper than mere trivia. CultureQuest was established in 1990 based on the book "Cultural Literacy", which posited that each culture has common information that becomes shorthand for communication. For instance, almost everyone in Western Culture would know what you meant by "Sherlock", whether they had ever read any of Arthur Conan Doyle's works or not. Each contest has approximately 200 questions which run the gamut from literature, geography, science, religion, history, and yes, some trivia. Each team can consist of up to five members with two alternates, and each chapter may have more than one team. But all persons on the team must have renewed before the registration date on March 31!

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You must also have renewed by the end of March in order to participate in the American Mensa elections, which include five nationally-elected positions as well as the Region 10 Vice Chair (RVC) and the Mensa International Election. There are also four bylaws referenda on the ballot this year. The election period will run from April 15 through May 15. More information will be coming over the next couple of months, but if you'd like to get a preview there is information available at www.us.mensa.org/lead/amc/elections/2019-board-election/. So make sure your membership is current in order to participate!

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The next meeting of the American Mensa Committee (AMC) will be on March 2, 2019 in Woodbridge, NJ. The main items on the agenda are the approval of the 2019-2020 AML Budget, and proposed changes to the bylaws for the Mensa Foundation. The agenda has been posted at www.us.mensa.org/lead/amc/meeting-reports/, in the dropdown under "2019-03-02 -- Woodbridge, NJ".

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Until next month (or until I see you online),

Thomas George Thomas
Email: RVC10@us.mensa.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thomas.g.thomas

 

From the Web by Barry Karas

7 Crazy Laws From Countries Around the World

https://blog.traveltrivia.com/crazy-laws-from-around-the-world/

How a Group of Daring Bootleggers Created NASCAR

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nascar-moonshine

ULTRA-RARE footage of the very talented fighter pilot.

If you're interested in history and/or aviation, you may like this. It's from 1917, and it's a close look at the legendary combat pilot, the Red Baron, Manfred Von Richthofen.

https://videos.komando.com/watch/8095/ultra-rare-footage-of-the-most-famous-fighter-pilot-ever

When you're reading some webpages, you might have to squint in order to read the text. The following webpage covers how to make the text larger for the major browsers.

https://www.digitalcitizen.life/make-text-bigger-chrome-other-browsers

Be sure to differentiate whether you want the text enlarged for the one page you are viewing -- or for all webpages.

This works with Windows only. However, this might work with the same browsers in other operating systems such as Mac or Linux.

This Is What Will Happen If You Eat French Fries Every Day

So what! As long as they're cooked right (crispy, crunchy, not too greasy...) fries are fine.

http://stayhealthymag.com/this-is-what-will-happen-if-you-eat-french-fries-every-day/

Barry (the gourmet or gourmand)

 

George Haynes for 2nd Vice Chair

EDITOR'S NOTE: This statement from a candidate in this year's American Mensa elections was submitted for publication. As always with campaign material, publication doesn't constitute endorsement and all opinions herein are the author's.

If there existed a secret Mensa handshake, I'd ask you to pretend I was offering it to you now. Hello, Mensans all. My name is George Haynes and I'm just popping in to your newsletter to raise awareness that I'm running for a national office within Mensa that YOU will have the opportunity to vote for.

Second Vice Chair is the name of the office for which I'm running. It's like the Vice Vice President of Mensa. If Alexander Haig held this position, his grasp of the rules of succession would be correct (that's my attempt at making a joke).

This is not my official campaign statement or my official biography. This is just a friendly howdy. Although my tone is more informal in this article, you can rest assured that I take this election very seriously and the responsibilities that come with being on Mensa's national board of directors. I served on the AMC (that's the national board) from 2015- 2017. I'm currently the LocSec (that's the president) of St. Louis Area Mensa. I was also the newsletter editor for St. Louis from 2010-2015.

Interesting tidbit, I ran in 2015 for the AMC as a total newcomer to elected office for national Mensa. At that time, there were two ways to get on the Mensa ballot: The Nominating Committee (NomComm) was one way and the other way was by petition, i.e. getting enough signatures to get your name on the ballot. The NomComm initially rejected me because they thought my supposed "lack of experience" should keep me out of the running for national office. Thankfully, the people who signed my petition thought otherwise and indeed got me on the ballot. I won that election against my two opponents who were, ironically, favored by the NomComm. By the way, the two guys who were my opponents were great candidates; I consider them both my friends. My victory in 2015 as an AMC member was made even sweeter by a ballot initiative that eliminated the NomComm.

I share that story to respectfully highlight that I was a big outsider candidate four years ago. Even though I have substantially more Mensa experience, now, that outsider mentality still pervades my thinking. Everyone plays politics to a degree; there's no avoiding it. If you say you don't EVER engage in political machinations (at work, at home, etc.), I have a hard time believing you. However, there comes a point where every person should ask the question, wherever they find themselves, "Am I primarily just an authentic person or am I a politician?" My desire is to be an authentic hard-working person (with skills and strengths) who serves the organization faithfully and diligently. Politics are real, but they don't have to pervade everything.

Here comes the campaign slogan (forgive me if it's cheesy): "We're all in this together. You're a Mensan too."  If you have specific questions, please email me at:
haygeomensa@gmail.com

Please vote George Haynes for Second Vice Chair. Your vote is very much appreciated.

 

REPORT OF THE FIRST FRIDAY DINNER MEETING, JANUARY 4, 2019

ATTENDEES

Becky Jones
Scott Schwartzberg
Martin Schwartzberg
Mike Ward
Barry Karas

COMMENTS

The dinner meeting was at Payathai as usual. Dinner was quite good. While the turnout was relatively small, the discussion was big.

--Barry Karas

 

Fake History by Horace Hone

Some history facts are fragile, get bent out of shape and stay that way. Thus they become "what everybody knows", or conventional wisdom. A current movie called Spitfire and a 2017 book titled The Spitfire reinforce the myth that a Royal Air Force fighter with that name won the Battle of Britain.

Factually it was another plane, the Hurricane, that inflicted far more damage on the Lufttwaffe than the Spitfire plus the other three Fighter Command participants - Defiant, Blenheim and Beaufighter. In the '50s and '60s I engineered at the company that designed and built the Hurricanes, Some of the old timers here were justifiably miffed that there was insufficient appreciation of their sweat two decades earlier. Whenever I was at a company meeting at which the Hurricanes designer, Sir Sydney Camm, was present he rarely missed an opportunity to promote his creative philosophy; for instance "simplicate and add more lightness". The superbly aerodynamic Spit was five mph faster and more agile than the Hurricane but the latter was much easier to produce and to repair when it got shot up.

Basically the Spitfires were assigned to attack the fighter escorts of the bombers which the Hurricanes then dealt with. The victory was a fortuitous joint effort of the two. Neither could have succeeded without the other.During that critical summer of 1940 I was commuting to my London college from a south western suburb. Regularly we experienced the morale-boosting sight of the famous No. 303 (Polish) Squadron Hurricanes speeding to the south coast from their base, Northolt, not far from where London Airport is now. This morning I discovered that a film was made in Poland recently called simply "303". Researchers have apparently recorded the exploits of those extraordinary aviators. The only aircraft I have soloed is a glider so I have exceptional respect for those high speed aerobatic experts.

 

Would you Believe It? by Horace Hone

Surprising facts from the "STEM" field that many members may not be aware of.

Question: When did bananas become available to us?

Answer: This rare visit to a botanical subject results from a news item in February's Editorial; the copyright has expired on that oxymoronically entitled ditty "Yes, we have no bananas"! So your band can perform it any time they like without incurring fees.

We tend to take it for granted that these members of the genus Musa have been with us as long as apples and pears. However they could not be bought at a reasonable price in America or Europe until late Victorian times. My father said he never saw bananas when he was a kid but remembered them coming on the market around the turn of the century. A word comprised of 3As, 2Ns and a B was bound to turn up in pop songs such as "I like bananas because they have no bones", "Lets all go down the Strand, have a banana", "The banana boat song", "Banana phone", and " Twenty thousand pounds of bananas". Nor should we be surprised to see a headline announcing "Top banana of a banana republic goes bananas".

Bananas are technically berries and probably originated in far south-east Asia. There is evidence that they were on the diet in Papua at least seven thousand years ago. These days they are grown in India more than anywhere. Hungry children there used to scramble for discarded skins. During World War 2, shipping restrictions limited their importation in USA and in Europe they disappeared for six years. More recently the European Union issued a regulation standardizing the "straightness" of these naturally curvate fruits! That is the sort of triviality that got the Brexit faction crapped off.

 

Second Sunday Dinner Review

In January, a group of us checked out El Pueblo Chapin, a Guatemalan restaurant located west of the downtown area of Lake Worth. Attending were Mike Yamrick and his friend Tony, Dan Tobias, Sharron Ronco, Robert Schindler and his two friends Maria and Denise, Prudy Taylor Board, Per Kjeldaas, and Elissa Rudolph. I have to say the chicken soup I ordered was heavy on chicken - it looked like half a large chicken (skin-on) in broth with a couple carrot slices. Portions were generous and service adequate. Separate checks - no problem. We were happy. Join us for March's Second Sunday Dinner event!

--Elissa

 

Some of the wildlife at the Lion Country Safari, by Dan Tobias

 

Birthdays

Robert Abbott		Jupiter		02-Mar
James Morse		Palm Beach Gardens		03-Mar
Jill Mitchell		Stuart		03-Mar
Cheryl Williamson		Port Saint Lucie		04-Mar
Martin Reisner		Boca Raton		05-Mar
Bradley Perron		Stuart		05-Mar
George Andrews		West Palm Beach		05-Mar
Ronald Capute		Palm Beach Gardens		07-Mar
George Iliff		Port Saint Lucie		10-Mar
Keira Delaney		Boynton Beach		19-Mar
Barbara Chudzik-Lea		West Palm Beach		19-Mar
Mitchell Cohen		Boca Raton		20-Mar
Steven Wallach		Boca Raton		21-Mar
Richard Haney		Boynton Beach		21-Mar
Laurelyn Delhorbe		Fort Pierce		21-Mar
Ian Blake		Hypoluxo		22-Mar
Nancy Greenberg		Boynton Beach		23-Mar
Mohan Thampi		Naples		25-Mar
Thomas Zarate		Boca Raton		27-Mar
Kenneth Olsen		Jupiter		27-Mar

 

New Arrivals

Joined: Lola Carney (Boca Raton )
MoveIn: Jamie Fairclough (Royal Palm Beach)
MoveIn: Matthew Farley (Delray Beach)
Rejoin: George Iliff (Port Saint Lucie)
Rejoin: Carol Pelligrinelli (Boca Raton)
Rejoin: Chuck Salvo (Boca Raton)
MoveIn: Bernice Sklar (Palm Beach)
MoveIn: Robert Wright (West Palm Beach)

 

Mensaversaries

Julia Hindle		West Palm Beach		47 years
Russell Sylvestre		Delray Beach		44 years
Steven Modell		Port Saint Lucie		40 years
Louis Priore		Port Saint Lucie		37 years
Charles Grande		Jensen Beach		36 years
Matthew Farley		Delray Beach		35 years
Sandra Groover		Palm City		33 years
Theodore Babbitt		Palm Beach		33 years
Stanley Friedenburg		Lake Worth		32 years
Daniel Tobias		Boca Raton		32 years
Domenick Garzone		Boca Raton		30 years
John Murray		Boca Raton		27 years
Dana Galloway		Boca Raton		23 years
Jess Ball		Juno Beach		19 years
Thomas Winchester		West Palm Beach		19 years
Devin Burns		Jupiter		17 years
Caitlin Burns		Jupiter		17 years
Lindsey Reymore		Stuart		16 years
Ute Brosnahan		West Palm Beach		16 years
Thomas O'Reilly		Palm City		14 years
Celeste Terken		Boca Raton		13 years
Marcia Tyrrell		Juno Beach		12 years
P Hammond		Del Ray Beach		12 years
Antoinette Erdheim		Lake Worth		12 years
Jay Alpert		Palm Beach Gardens		11 years
Patricia Walker		West Palm Beach		10 years
Harold Kerzner		Boynton Beach		10 years
Tim Tidd		Wellington		10 years
Ian Blake		Hypoluxo		9 years
Michael Nardone		West Palm Beach		8 years
Jill Gordon		Boynton Beach		8 years
Donald Wort		Delray Beach		7 years
Charlotte Justak		Stuart		6 years
Shawn Cherry		West Palm Beach		6 years
MaryLouise Aling		Boynton Beach		5 years
Paul Bonds		Boca Raton		5 years
Alexandra McCrary		Boynton Beach		5 years
Jennifer Dugan		Stuart		5 years
Parker McGraw		Palm City		5 years
Addison Hall		Boca Raton		5 years
Talia Levine		Boynton Beach		4 years
Ryan Banionis		Lake Worth		4 years
Allyson Nasworthy				4 years
Joel Eisler		Boynton Beach		3 years
Scott Schwartzberg		Delray Beach		3 years
Luke Isaac		Wellington		3 years
Jeannie Edwards		Wellington		3 years
Robert Burke		Boynton Beach		3 years
Gary Grossman		Boca Raton		2 years
Arnie Danoff		Palm Springs		1 year
Warren Kirschbaum		West Palm Beach		1 year
Marc Moegelvang		Aalborg		1 year
Barbara Da Luz		Boca Raton		1 year
Dominic Canela		West Palm Beach		1 year

 

Departures

MoveOut: Jenny Reed (Lawrence)
MoveOut: Dennis Sturm (Delray Beach)

 

NOTE: Mensaversaries are calculated by the National Office based on continuous membership. Lapses of 1 year or more "reset" the join date. If you believe your record is in error, contact the National Office at 817-607-0060, or MembershipDirector@americanmensa.org.

 

Member-submitted articles, photos, reviews, event listings, and other publishable material are always welcome; deadline is the 20th of the month for the following month's issue. The editor reserves the right to edit for content, space, spelling/grammar nitpickiness, and so on. E-mail: editor@palmbeach.us.mensa.org. Snail mail: Dan Tobias, 27 Royal Palm Way #301, Boca Raton FL 33432-8740.

 

2016 - 2018 PALM BEACH AREA MENSA LOCAL GROUP OFFICERS & VOLUNTEERS

LocSec / President*	Gene Hussey	president@palmbeach.us.mensa.org
Deputy LocSec / Vice President*	Scott Schwartzberg	vicepresident@palmbeach.us.mensa.org
Treasurer*	Tom Winchester	treasurer@palmbeach.us.mensa.org
Membership / Member at Large*	Brian Johnson	membership@palmbeach.us.mensa.org
Gifted Youth Coordinator / at Large	Beth Rappaport	giftedyouth@palmbeach.us.mensa.org
Member at Large*	Prudy Taylor Board	prudytaylorboard@gmail.com
Palm Mensan Editor / Webmaster*	Dan Tobias	editor@palmbeach.us.mensa.org
Scholarship Chair	Cindy Groover	cindygroover@gmail.com
Social Media Coordinator	Leslie Trowbridge	jakearoo00@gmail.com
Meet-Up Coordinator	Laura Bulawski	calendar@palmbeach.us.mensa.org
Proctor	Elissa Rudolph	elissa12@bellsouth.net
Proctor	Mike Yamrick	fusingmike@gmail.com
Ombudsman	Jim Wilson	ombudsman@palmbeach.us.mensa.org
Publicity	Barry Karas	barrykaras7314@comcast.net
Regional Vice Chair	Thomas G Thomas	rvc10@us.mensa.org

* ExComm Board

 

Mensans Eat, Meet & Greet and...

Friday, Mar. 1, 7pm	First Friday Dinner at Payathai Asian Bistro, 5879 South Congress Ave., Atlantis (Lantana, NW corner of Lantana Rd. and Congress Ave.). Since this is a Thai restaurant, if you choose, the food can be spicy. Limited space: RSVP to Barry at 561-425-5675, barrykaras7314@comcast.net, or through the Meetup.
Monday, Mar. 4, noon	Lunch Bunch at East Ocean Cafe, 412 E Ocean Ave, Boynton Beach. A cozy, casual place with additional outdoor seating if the weather is nice. Open for breakfast and lunch only, with breakfast items - like pumpkin spice pancakes - available all day. It's a block or so south of Boynton Beach Blvd. and just west of Dixie Hwy. RSVP by March 4 on MeetUp or to Amy (561-964-3283).
Tuesday, Mar. 5, 6:30pm	Magnificent Mensa Scribes meets at Rainberry Bay Clubhouse, Lake Ida Road, Delray Beach. Are you a writer or aspire to be one? Join our Mensan Extraordinaire Prudy Taylor Board and the Scribes to hone your skills and to learn about getting published. For info, contact prudytaylorboard@gmail.com. (See Meetup.)
Sunday, Mar. 10, 5:30pm	Second Sunday Dinner at The Chickpea, 970 N Congress Ave, Boynton Beach (Boynton Town Center), 561-877-8310 (http://www.thechickpea.com/about.html). Healthy, Mediterranean, Organic food. They proudly serve a Mediterranean cuisine with a modern twist and a blend of Middle Eastern flavors. The focus is on using fresh, organic and all natural ingredients in the recipes, handled and prepared with care to produce exceptionally fresh and delicious food. Sounds tasty! RSVP by Saturday noon to elissa12@bellsouth.net or on MeetUp.
Wednesday, Mar. 13, 5:30pm	Happy Hour at Salute Market, 5530 PGA Boulevard, Palm Beach Gardens. A modern market and hangout that features small plates, wines and spirits; there's also an outdoor bar. Happy Hour is 4:00 to 7:00, with $5 wines and spirits, $3-5 beers, and small-plate specials. On PGA Blvd. just east of Central Blvd. RSVP by 3/12 on MeetUp or to Amy (561-964-3283).
Tuesday, Mar. 19, 6:30pm	Magnificent Mensa Scribes (see Mar. 5) (See Meetup.)
Thursday, Mar. 21, 6pm	Movable Feast at Devine Bistro, 2465 FL-7 #300, Wellington. A classy booth-lined spot for wine and American classic dishes - seafood, steak, pastas. Between 5:00 and 6:00, there's an $18.90 3-course special - soup/salad; entrees including sweet potato-crusted tilapia, ginger teriyaki sirloin, chicken piccata; and chef's selection of desserts. Must be seated by 6:00 and place orders by 6:30. If we get there early, the Happy Hour is 5-7. It's in the outside ring of the Wellington Mall, just off 7/441. RSVP by 3/20 on MeetUp or to Amy (561-964-3283).
Monday, Mar. 25, 5:30pm	Happy Hour at Lakeside Anchor Inn, 2412 Floral Rd, Lantana. Casual, cool hideaway with a tiki hut; a neighborhood seafood restaurant and oyster bar. The 4-7 Happy Hour features $5 doubles, the bar appetizers include gator fingers and bang bang shrimp, and Monday Madness adds $5 burgers and chicken sandwiches all day. On Lake Osborne right where it crosses Hypoluxo Rd. RSVP by 3/24 on MeetUp or to Amy (561-964-3283).
The PB Mensa Meetup	https://www.meetup.com/mensa-100/

 

Color Pixel Page

These pictures, submitted by Elissa Rudolph, are from the new just opened Norton Museum (https://www.norton.org/) free on Fridays and Saturdays. Open late on Friday til 10 p.m. for Art After Dark. Photos are of sculpture at entrance by Claes Oldenburg, an item that may be foreign to younger people who did not use typewriters.

There is an upcoming child-friendly event for our group there in April:

 

CHILDREN OF ALL AGES! CHECK OUT THE NEW NORTON MUSEUM

Saturday, April 6, 2019, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

The Norton Museum celebrated its long-awaited grand reopening February 9, 2019. adding 12,000 square feet of gallery space, new classrooms, a restaurant, and a 210-seat auditorium, in addition to the sculpture garden. Anxious to see the new Norton, we hope the crowds and seasonal residents will have eased up by April. Admission is FREE on SATURDAYS, and there is a FREE tour of the Architecture and Sculpture Garden Tour starting at 3pm and lasting 60 minutes.

The Museum is on Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach, south of Okeechobee and North of Belvedere. A passenger drop-off area is located near the Museum entrance. Meet at the Museum entrance at 1pm or text us when you arrive. (See Meetup listing.)

 

Treasurer's Report

Beginning Net Equity	Jan 1 2018		$11422.81
PNC Money Market Account	XXXXXX5894	$8339.21
PNC Bus. Checking	XXXXXX2032	$2010.41
Accts Receivable	Dec Support	363.25
Total Equity	Dec 31 2018		$10712.87
Local Group Support		$4,324.95
Testing Support	July, October	$110.00
Bank Interest		$4.51
Total Revenue			$4,439.46
Testing Expense		$0.00
Bank Fees		-$37.68
Newsletter		-$3,538.65
Meetup		-$179.88
Lapsed Member Mailings		-$12.50
Youth Event		-$128.18
Local Sponsorship	Spelling Bee	-$520.00
Scholarship	Mensa Foundation	-$600.00
ExComm Meetings		-$96.03
Total Expenses			-$5,112.92
Total Income	2018 full year		-$673.46
Tom Winchester, Treasurer 10-334