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Australian andTab International Mensa Newsl eAus July/August 2019 Edition 442 Details pages 5 – 7 Adelaide, 1 – 3 November 2019 Australian Mensa Conference Australian Mensa 1. Log in to www.mensa.org.au. Announcements Annual General Meeting 2. Go to the Member Centre. 3. Select Membership and Payments and reminders The AGM of Australian Mensa will be option. held at 9 am on Sunday 3 November at 4. Select the Magazine/Newsletter Australian Mensa Administrative the Grosvernor Hotel, Adelaide. This preferences sub-option. Committee election results will occur during the Australian Mensa 5. Then check/uncheck the boxes for Convention and location details will be magazines. You may select more Following a terrific voter turnout, the advised at that event. ■ than 1. results for the election of the Chair of – Printed version—receive a Australian Mensa is as follows: printed copy in the mail about Votes received via Survey Monkey 778 Keep up to date with NatCom the first week of the month. 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Australian Mensa. our Constitution and Standing Orders. ■ Stay in touch by setting your Sandi Miller newsletter preferences Acting Returning Officer ■ International events Mensans have access to information through TableAus and Australian Mensa’s website. 3–7 July 2019 However, if events are organised and pass Call for Nominations—State Annual Gathering of American too quickly for these media, how can we be Secretary for Western Australia Mensa, Phoenix informed or stay in touch in other ways? and State Secretary for Victoria How much are you ‘in the know’? Do you 7–11 August 2019 receive our newsletters via email? Nominations are called for the positions of EMAG, Ghent Some of us are not into Facebook and State Secretary for Western Australia and block emails, or put TableAus aside for State Secretary for Victoria. The term of 9–11 August 2019 ‘later’, or have our email preferences on the office will be until 30 June 2020. Mensa South Africe AG Mensa website unchecked. 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Verify that the change has been made Warrandyte VIC 3113 We have now added this as a choice for ■ Email: returning @mensa.org.au ■ as in step 4. you to set yourself. 2 TableAus Contents July– August 2019 Announcements and reminders __________________________________ Inside front cover Chairtalk by Jean-Marc Genesi __________________________________________________ 2 Changing of the guard by Kymberley Wilson ______________________________________ 3 Letters ______________________________________________________________________ 4 Australian Mensa Conference 2019 ____________________________________________ 5–7 Mensa state events _________________________________________________________ 8–11 Asia Mensa Gathering by Kymberley Wilson __________________________________ 12–14 How we created our self-ruled school by Jean-Marc Genesi ______________________ 15–16 Board games by Amanda Miller ________________________________________________ 17 Memory athletes: Tansel Ali by Daniel Kilov __________________________________ 18–19 Puppets by Regan Rist ________________________________________________________ 20 Word by Kate Nacard _________________________________________________________ 21 Nocturne Nr.1 in C#-Moll by Paul Daniels ____________________________________ 22–23 Australian Mensa Inc 2017 Financial Statements _______________________________ 24–28 Young Mensans ___________________________________________________________ 29–34 Puzzles by Peter Eden, Richard Blake, Kymberley Wilson ________________________ 35–37 Mensa World Journal ______________________________________________________ 38–42 Australian Mensa Business Network ____________________________________________ 43 Mensa Merchandise by Laura Parsons __________________________________________ 44 Australian Mensa Directory ________________________ inside back cover and back cover Submissions to TableAus Send articles, letters and enquiries to Peter Gibson, [email protected]. 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Readers should note particularly that any activities organised by, or goods and/or services offered by, or on behalf of, any member or group is not an offer by Australian Mensa Inc. unless approved by its governing committee and expressly stated to be an offer by Australian Mensa Inc. Any comment, query, complaint or other matter relating to or arising out of any such article, advertisement, offer or other item should be addressed to the person, firm or company concerned and not to Australian Mensa Inc., and Australian Mensa Inc. disclaims any responsibility or liability in connection with any such article, advertisement, TableAus offer or other item. July – August 2019 1 Chairtalk Jean-Marc Genesi Chairman Elections results contractual matters with our service As I am writing my first Chairtalk, I just providers are complete. I will provide a received the results of the International progress report in the next Chairtalk. Mensa elections. Despite a very good primary vote, our Therese Moodie-Bloom Adelaide AMC was sadly unsuccessful in her bid to Our annual Australian Mensa Conference become International Chair. The honour will be held in Adelaide on 1-3 November goes to Björn Liljeqvist of Sweden, so 2019. Laura Parsons and her team have congratulations to Björn, and to Therese done amazing work to create an exciting too for getting a large share of international event. It is a great opportunity to listen support. I was quite surprised by the fewer to quality speakers, network with other than 6,500 voters, under 5% participation.