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Volume 18 • Number 10 October 2009 SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT MENSA CHRONICLE If you or someone you know would like to be a speaker at our monthly dinner , please contact Jim Mizera at 203-522-1959 or [email protected]. The dinner is held the third Saturday of the month. ARCHIVED COPIES OF THE CHRONICLE going back to 2000 are available on the Internet at http://scm66.org (Note: this is a new URL). You can download the latest e-mail version of the Chronicle there, as well as previous issues. All issues are in read-only Adobe Acrobat format so there is no chance of viruses accompanying the files. TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Schedule of Southern Connecticut Mensa Events Schedule of Connecticut and Western Mass Mensa Events Happy Hours & Get Together’s 6 From Regional Vice Chair 7 Good Wine, Cheap 8 September Dinner: Acupuncture 10 Treasury Report 11 Puzzles & Answers 12 Word Check 13 Noted and Quoted 14 Mensa Mind Games Results 15 Chapter Notes Member Advertisements Change of Address Form 16 List of Officers 1 Volume 18 • Number 10 MENSA CHRONICLE October 2009 ATTENTION SOUTHERN CT MENSANS: The Admitted in CT, NY & OR Southern CT Mensa Executive Committee needs members to assume the open position of Secretary. We also need Proctors, who adminis- Sharon Oberst DeFala, Esq. ters admissions tests to local candidates for GENERAL PRACTICE OF LAW Mensa. This is your chance to put ideas that can help our local chapter into action. Please notify Law Offices Gary Oberst Office (203) 866-4646 one of the current board members to volunteer A Professional Corporation Home (203) 852-9571 111 East Avenue Fax (203) 852-1574 for these positions. Norwalk, CT 06851 [email protected] cool and damp, the races run rain or shine. SCHEDULE OF CHAPTER EVENTS - OCTOBER Meet us on the Infield Spectator Area overlook- 3 Saturday 11 am - 5 pm ing the Esses. Look for yellow balloons. Note: Mensa Multi-Chapter Event: A Day at the Races BYO lawn chairs or blankets, picnic food and Lime Rock Park Racetrack, Lime Rock CT. drink. No pets and No Glass Bottles. Park admis- Hosts: Mike Yost (Greater N.Y. Mensa), Tom sion is reasonable, 15 dollars at the gate, 10 dol- Thomas (CT & W. Mass. Mensa). The Bruce lars advance purchase from the track's website. Grohe Memorial SIG invites you to the beautiful Lime Rock is located in northwestern Lime Rock Park race track to enjoy a day of Connecticut, and getting there on the scenic SCCA Sports Car racing. Join That Nice Tom roads of the area is part of the fun. For direc- Thomas and Mike Yost, sit on a grass hillside tions, or to order tickets, they have a website: watching a variety of sports cars negotiate Lime http://www.limerock.com/ or you can call them Rocks twisty, challenging circuit. Feast on what- at 1-800-RACE-LRP. For details about this event, ever you bring (and what you might care to buy or to RSVP, email [email protected], or call from the surprisingly good concession stands) his mobile 917-603-0410 and enjoy autumn in New England. Dress in lay- ers, expect anything from sunny and warm to Friday, October 9, 7:00 Danbury Dinner - Southern Connecticut and Connecticut/Western Massachusetts Joint Dinner at a new venue, The Pasta Garden, 174 Federal Rd, Brookfield CT 06804 (restaurant phone: (203) 775-0426).Interested M's should contact Ward Mazzucco at 203-744-1929, ext 25, [email protected] or Rev. Bill Loring at 203-794-1389, [email protected] for more info on location and/or reservations. Saturday, October 24, 6:30 pm MONTHLY DINNER. TONELLI'S RESTAURANT 41 Grassy Plain St., Bethel, CT 06801. Dress is casual. Speaker to be announced. Before the presentation, we will enjoy dinner. Choose what you like from the menu; restaurant adds tip onto the bill. You can bring a donation of money or food to benefit the Connecticut Food Bank. There are plenty of seats. Contact Jim Mizera, [email protected], 203-522-1959, for infor- mation and reservations. Reservations encour- aged but not required. 2 Volume 18 • Number 10 MENSA CHRONICLE October 2009 3 Saturday 11:00-5:00 pm ONNECTICUT AND ESTERN ASSACHUSETTS C W M A Day At The Races CHAPTER UPCOMING EVENTS at Lime Rock Park Racetrack, Lime Rock, CT. This is not a complete listing WE - W eekly Event, Hosts: Mike Yost (GNYM), Tom Thomas (C&WM) ME - Monthly Event, YE - Yearly Event CT & W. The Bruce Grohe Memorial SIG invites you to Mass Calendar Editor Gisela Rodriguez, 860-888- the beautiful Lime Rock Park race track to enjoy 9867, email: [email protected]. a day of SCCA Sports Car racing. Join That Nice Tom Thomas and Mike Yost, sit on a grass hill- side watching a variety of sports cars negotiate OCTOBER Lime Rocks twisty, challenging circuit. Feast on whatever you bring (and what you might care to 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Thursdays 7:00 pm buy from the surprisingly good concession Scrabble stands) and enjoy autumn in New England. (WE) at Emmanuel Synagogue, 160 Mohegan Dress in layers, expect anything from sunny and Drive, West Hartford. Ellen Leonard, 860-667- warm to cool and damp, the races run rain or 1966 (Please call first to make sure this is hap- shine. Meet us on the Infield Spectator Area pening today). overlooking the Esses. Look for yellow bal- loons. Note: BYO lawn chairs or blankets, picnic food and drink. No pets and No Glass Bottles. 2 Friday 5:30 pm Park admission is reasonable, 15 dollars at the Happy Hour in Wallingford (ME, 1st Fridays) gate, 10 dollars advance purchase from the Ann Polanski (contact her at 203-269-4565 or track's website. ann.polanski@ rfsworld.com) hosts us upstairs Lime Rock is located in northwestern at George’s II Restaurant, 950 Yale Avenue, Connecticut, and getting there on the scenic Wallingford, CT 06492 Phone: 203-269-1059. roads of the area is part of the fun. For direc- Directions: Exit 66 off Wilbur Cross Parkway. tions, or to order tickets, they have a website: Turn left (south) onto Rte 5. Take first left that’s http://www.limerock.com/ or you can call them not a highway entrance onto Yale Ave. George's at 1-800-RACE-LRP. For details about this event, II is in the Yale Plaza on the right. or to RSVP, email [email protected], or call his mobile 917-603-0410 2 Friday 8:00 pm Revolutionary Thinkers 4 Sunday 12 noon An amazing assortment of entrepreneurs and Bread & Puppet Theater innovators you should know. Presented by the Glover, Vermont Connecticut Forum. It will be an unscripted con- We thought it would be fun to go Bread & versation between accomplished thinkers and Puppet Theater (I’ve lived in VT for 30 years and change-makers to talk about issues of leader- never gone!). They have a special performance ship, creativity and reform. The Connecticut in October. We’ll plan to meet at noon at the Forum is a non-profit in Hartford, CT that puts main entrance, just as a place to meet. The on four Forum events per year on various top- museum opens at 10 and Ted says it’s a “not to ics, bringing celebrities and experts together for be missed” experience (although maybe a little live, unscripted conversation. They typically weird.) Bring a picnic lunch and something to have audiences of 2200-2800 people. You can sit on (blanket or chair) as there are places on- learn more at their website www.ctforum.org. site where we can gather for lunch. Last time I No one has stepped forward to host this, but spoke to them, they had not yet decided just grab some friends and go! whether to have the performance at 2 or 3, but either should give us plenty of time for ARCHIVED COPIES OF THE CHRONICLE going back to 2000 schmoozing - is that really a word? Admission are available on the Internet at http://scm66.org. You can is by donation and they apparently have the per- download the latest e-mail version of the Chronicle there, as formances rain (inside) or shine (outside). It is, well as previous issues. All issues are in read-only Adobe Acrobat format so there is no chance of viruses accompany- of course, a beautiful time of year to be in ing the files. Vermont. 3 Volume 18 • Number 10 MENSA CHRONICLE October 2009 Directions: Glover is in the so-called Northeast lot and look for Donovan's Reef on the left. Kingdom. Take I91 North to Exit 24, VT-122, Locals can also enter Lockworks Square from toward Wheelock/Sheffield. Go a short distance the Ivy Street side just off of Main Street where and turn right onto Gilman Rd./VT-122. Shoreline Foods faces Ivy. The lounge is on the Continue to follow VT-122 for about 12 1/2 miles. left inside. I'll see about a table reservation and Bread & Puppet will be on your right. I can’ t will likely have an "M" sign visible. W e start imagine that there won’t be signs. Guests and around 6. I'm told there is some sort of daily bar prospective members welcome....Bring a goodie along with any menu items that you may friend!! want to order. Donovan's phone number is 203- Go to http://breadandpuppet.org for more infor- 488-5573. Questions? Contact Joe Wonowski at mation. Please RSVP to Blakeney Bartlett, 203-785-2998 weekdays, and 203-457-9770 [email protected] or (802)333-3683.