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(eTN) Menene masu hankali suke yi? Idan Mensa wata alama ce, suna tafiya. Kowane Hudu na karshen mako na Yuli, Mensa na Amurka yana haɗuwa a wani yanki na ƙasar don taron shekara-shekara (AG).

(eTN) Menene masu hankali suke yi? Idan Mensa wata alama ce, suna tafiya. Kowane Hudu na karshen mako na Yuli, Mensa na Amurka yana haɗuwa a wani yanki na ƙasar don taron shekara-shekara (AG). Yuni 30 zuwa Yuli 5, 2010, Detroit/Dearborn ita ce birni mai masaukin baki ga babbar ƙungiyar IQ.

A cikin inuwar hasumiyar hedikwatar duniya ta Ford, Mensa ta sadu da kwanaki shida a AAA Four Diamond Hyatt Regency Dearborn, inda wasan wuta na dare daga Greenfield Village (gidan kayan tarihi na tarihi) ya faranta wa baƙi otal murna.

Daruruwan mutane 2,000 da suka halarci taron Mensa sun ziyarci ƙauyen Greenfield, wani wurin tarihi mai ban sha'awa wanda ke da fiye da kadada 90 na kayayyakin tarihi da aka yi bikin tun daga ƙarni na 17, gami da ainihin Logan County, Illinois, kotun da Abraham Lincoln ya yi. doka (wanda aka kawo wa Dearborn bulo ta bulo kuma an sake haɗa shi). Sauran abubuwan adana tarihi masu ban mamaki da aka ƙaura a nan sun haɗa da gidan Nuhu Webster's Connecticut; Shagon keke na Wilbur da Orville Wright da gida daga Dayton, Ohio; Thomas Edison's Menlo Park dakin gwaje-gwaje daga New Jersey; da kuma gonar iyali na Harvey Firestone, inda ake noman amfanin gona kuma a yi hidima a wurin a cikin masaukin tarihi.

Judy Marshak, daga Henderson Nevada ya kwashe tsawon yini a Greenfield Village. "Mun ci abinci a gidan abinci, inda suka ba da ingantacciyar hanyar tafiya ta 1850 a teburan katako. Mijina yana da rowa, kuma ina da masarar masarar kaji tare da gasa kayan lambu [quiche]. Mun zauna tare da baki; haka suka yi a zamanin da. Gurasar ta yi fice, kuma masarar ita ce mafi ban mamaki da na taɓa dandana a rayuwata. Babu masarar da ke makale a cikin haƙoranka, kawai ka cije cikinta sai kawai ta faɗo daga kan kusoshi. Suna shuka masara a nan a cikin lambun kwayoyin halitta. Ni da mijina mun yi sharhi ba mu taɓa ɗanɗana abinci irin wannan ba. Yana da ƴan giya, waɗanda suka zama ruwan dare a cikin 1850s, kuma ina shan shayin mint,” in ji Marshak.

Ta ci gaba da cewa "Akwai mutane iri-iri da suke yawo cikin kayan al'ada." “Akwai kyakkyawan aiki da wasu mutane biyu suka nuna bayi. An sake ba da labarin daga wallafe-wallafen da ainihin bayi suka rubuta kafin yakin basasa, suna bayyana labarin abin da ya kasance kamar jimre wa bauta. Akwai mawaƙa a zauren gari, da yawa daga shagunan wanzami, da mawaƙa guda uku suna yawo a filin wasa suna waƙa - duk yana da kyau sosai. Na zo daga wani wuri inda lambuna suke kawai a cikin gidajen caca kuma ganin waɗannan kyawawan furanni a buɗe yana da ban mamaki. Yana da ban mamaki yadda duk abin da yake kore a nan, daga kogin Suwannee har zuwa jirgin kasa na tsohon lokaci, zuwa ƙananan Model T yana gudana a cikin gari. Ya kasance mai ban sha'awa sosai."

Kowace yamma daga ranar 1 zuwa 4 ga watan Yuli, kungiyar kade-kade ta Detroit Symphony Orchestra ta yi "Salute to America" ​​na musamman a harabar kauyen Greenfield, bayan haka wani gagarumin wasan wuta ya haska sararin samaniyar daren. Yanayin ya kasance sarai sarai duk sati. Wanene zai san abubuwa da yawa za su kasance daidai?

Maria Sawczuk, daga Newcastle, Delaware, ta ce: “Mun kashe dubban ɗarurruwan awoyi a cikin shekaru huɗu da suka gabata muna shirya wannan bikin cika shekaru 50. Komai ya yi ban mamaki, fiye da yadda nake tsammani. "

Francesca DeLuca, wata mace mai ƙwazo daga Long Island, NY, ta ce, "Ban je rangadin kocin ba, saboda an kore ni da kaina daga Kanada sau biyu." Ba lallai ba ne a faɗi, Fran yana son shindig mai kyau.

John Recht, memba na Kwamitin Mensa na Amurka ya yi tsokaci, “Dinner Gala ita ce aikin da na fi so. Abin burgewa ne sosai ganin tarihin Mensa [a kan DVD], da kuma jin [takardun tambayoyi] abin da ke da muhimmanci ga mutanen da suka kasance membobin Mensa na tsawon shekaru 40 zuwa fiye.”

Barry Schmidle, shugaban Mensa Canada, ya ce: "Abin da na fi so game da AG shine saduwa da mutane daga ko'ina cikin nahiyar. Na yi tattaunawa mai ban sha'awa da su sosai."

Ƙungiyar Mensans da baƙinsu sun ziyarci Cibiyar Fasaha ta Detroit, wadda ke da ɗaya daga cikin mafi girma, mafi mahimmancin tarin fasaha a Amurka. Marco Airaghi ya ce, "Na ji daɗin ganin ayyukan da masanan suka yi, kamar Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, da Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn."

Hatta gwamnatin tarayya ta shiga cikin bikin cika shekaru 50 na Mensa. A ranar 2 ga Yuli, Ma'aikatar Wasikun Amurka ta kafa kanti a cikin taron da fakitin fastoci da wasiku tare da soker hoto na tunawa da mai gudanarwa na Mensa's Philately SIG ya tsara. Alamar gidan waya, bikin Mensa a Arewacin Amurka, ya shahara sosai ga Mensans; Har ila yau, ya ja hankalin masu ra'ayin falsafa daga yankin Detroit da ke neman tambarin da ba kasafai ba.

Rushewar hoton ya yi nasara sosai, taron philatelic zai gudana na kwanaki uku a babban taron shekara mai zuwa, wanda za a gudanar a kyakkyawan Portland, Oregon.

Michael Meagher zai jagoranci AG na 2011, Yuni 30 zuwa Yuli 4. "Na ba da tabbacin za mu yi balaguro zuwa Multnomah Falls, wani yanki na kyakkyawan yanki na Kogin Columbia. Ita ce babban abin jan hankali na yawon shakatawa na Oregon kuma mafi tsayi na tsawon shekara guda a cikin al'umma. Za mu kuma yi rangadin zuwa ƙasar giya. Akwai guraben guraben sana'o'i da yawa a cikin gari, don haka tabbas za mu sami guraben mashaya da taswirori don balaguron kai. Akwai yuwuwar za a yi rangadi zuwa Dutsen St. Helens da Mt. Hood, kuma za mu iya kai masu yawon bude ido zuwa bakin teku don ganin tekun," in ji Meagher.

"Karshen karshen mako na 2011 AG ya zo daidai da bikin Waterfront Blues, kuma, ba shakka, wasan wuta yana nuna," in ji Meagher.

Mensa Linda Roach, daga Portland, Oregon, ta lashe lambar yabo ta Pulitzer don Aikin Jarida na Jama'a a 1993. Ita da Claire Natola suna aiki akan tallan don 2011 AG. Ta ce: "Muna ƙoƙarin ba wa mutane abubuwan da za su motsa jiki. Mutane za su yi abubuwa. Idan muka koyi game da cocktails, za mu zahiri za a hada cocktails. Ba kawai za mu yi magana game da kayak ba, a zahiri muna fita cikin kayak. Ba za mu yi magana game da littattafai kawai ba, za mu hadu da Jean Auel. "

Auel sananne ne ga littattafan Yara na Duniya, jerin litattafai da aka saita a cikin tarihin tarihi na Turai waɗanda ke bincika hulɗar mutanen Cro-Magnon tare da Neanderthals. Ya zuwa 2010, littattafanta sun sayar da kwafi miliyan 45 a duniya.

"Akwai miliyoyin mutane a fadin duniya da suke jiran ta rubuta littafi na shida a cikin jerin shirye-shiryenta, The Land of Painted Caves, kuma yana fitowa a ranar 29 ga Maris, daidai lokacin da 2011 AG," in ji Roach. .

Babu wani ra'ayi na baƙin ƙarfe game da membobin Mensa, amma idan dole ne ku ɗauki wasu halaye na yau da kullun, tabbas zai haɗa da son littattafai da son tafiya.

Maria Sawczuk ta ce: “Ban iya gwadawa da kyau, mu ma kamar ku ne [kowa]. A nan za ka samu wanda yake da sha’awa iri daya da kake yi, za ka samu masu sana’o’i iri daya da kai, za ka samu irinka, da mutane daban-daban da kai.”

Mutanen da na lura a ranar farko ta taron sun faɗi cikin rukuni na “mabambanta da ku”, tare da haruffa masu ban sha'awa waɗanda ke tafiya game da bayyanuwa na musamman na wasanni. Alal misali, akwai wani dogon gashi sanye da baƙar fata, yana ɗauke da bulala a cinyarsa ta dama. bulala? Shin shi wani irin zaki tamer ne ko shugaban safari?

Sai na ga wani mutum yana yawo tare da “sauran rabinsa,” wani babban damisa abin wasa. Har ma yana da alamar rajista don feline mai laushi. Wanene zai kashe dalar Amurka 65 don yin rijistar dabbar cushe a matsayin abokin tarayya?

Daga nan kuma akwai masu yin quinquagenarians a cikin silifas na alade da bunny wanda yara ‘yan shekara biyar ke sawa; ko kuma mutumin da yake ɗauke da sanda, wanda aka ɗora shi a kan ƙoƙon guduro mai zazzage jajayen leza daga kwas ɗin ido. Ba ni da ma'ana a kan wannan; babu ƙwallo masquerade akan shirin.

Wanda ya fi daukar hankalin Mensan shi ne wanda na kira makaho na wucin gadi. A wasu lokuta yakan yi amfani da farar sanda a gabansa kuma ya nemi mutanen da ke da kujeru masu kyau a wurin gabatarwa da su ba shi wurinsu domin shi naƙasa ne. A madadin haka, ba da himma ba ya tafiyar da hanyarsa ta kan hanya da kewayen mutane ba tare da sandarsa ba yayin da yake kai da komowa. Ina tsammanin rashin lafiyarsa a sake, kashe-kashe yana da wani abu da ya shafi irin hasken da ke cikin dakin.

A matsayina na masanin tarihi, na san daga gwaninta idan kun yi tsayi sosai za ku sami 'ya'yan itatuwa da goro a cikin kowane bishiyar iyali.

Mensa kuma tana da rabonta na kyawawan mata masu ban sha'awa kamar wadda ta lashe lambar yabo ta Academy, mai shirya fina-finai, marubuci, ƙirar salo, ƴan wasan wasan harbi na mata na Olympics, da 'yar wasan kwaikwayo Geena Davis. Sai kuma ƙwaƙƙwaran Marilyn vos Savant, wadda aka jera a cikin littafin tarihin duniya na Guinness a ƙarƙashin “Mafi Girma IQ.”

Gary Rimar na Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, ya lashe kambi a cikin "Mr. Mensa” takara. Ya yi gasa a rukuni uku: gasar ƙwallon ƙafa ta sexy, yin wasan kwaikwayo na gwaninta, da gabatar da bayanin mutum ɗaya.

"Wataƙila wannan ya kasance mafi kyawun AG a rayuwata, kuma wasu daga cikin kwanakin nan sun kasance mafi kyawun kwanakin rayuwata, saboda abin mamaki ne. Kowa a nan ya yarda da ni, ya fahimce ni, kuma suna samun wargina. Wataƙila ba za su yi tunanin suna da ban dariya ba, amma aƙalla suna samun su. Yana da kyau kwarai da gaske a iya haɗawa da kowa," in ji Rimar.

Editan da ya lashe lambar yabo Cookie Bakke ya ce: “Abin da na fi so shi ne ‘Shayarwa Mai Kyau,’ wataƙila saboda in ba haka ba ba na sha duk tsawon shekara. 'Shayarwa mai ƙima' tana da ka'ida ɗaya kawai, kuma shine yayin da kuke ɗaukar harbin duk abin da kuka zaɓa daga ɗaruruwan kwalabe na barasa daga ko'ina cikin duniya, dole ne ku riƙe ruwan hoda a iska. "

Greg Skow na Las Vegas ya tafi Beer 101 da abubuwan Tasting Mead. "Ya kasance mai ba da labari, mai daɗi, kuma ainihin lokacin nishaɗi ne. Rex Halfpenny, mawallafin Jagoran Biyayya na Michigan, yayi magana akan juyin halittar giya na sana'a, kuma ya mai da hankali kan brews na Michigan. Duk giyan da na ɗanɗana a wannan makon sun fito ne daga microbreweries na Michigan na gida. Abin sha'awa ne saboda lokacin da kuke zaune a bakin tekun yamma, kaɗan daga cikin waɗannan giya suna zuwa yankin, saboda masu rarraba mu kawai ba sa ɗaukar waɗannan samfuran. Michigan wuri ne mai kyau don zuwa dandana ales da lagers, kuma yawancin samfuransa sun sami lambobin yabo na ƙasa da ƙasa. "

"Yau da dare, zan je wurin barbecue a Detroit wanda ya ƙware a giya na Michigan. Suna da injin giya, na'urar Ingilishi don isar da giya ta hanyar firkin. Yana da yanki mai ƙunshe inda akwai fermentation na biyu ba tare da pasteurization ba. Yana da yisti mai rai a cikinsa kuma an daidaita shi a cikin jirgin da aka yi masa hidima. Abin da turanci ke kira ‘Real Ale,’ in ji Skow. "Ni ainihin sha'awar wannan salon ne, wanda ba a yi amfani da shi ba mai sanyi kamar barasa na Amurka, don haka kuna da hankali da dandano. Yana da daɗi sosai ga palate kuma ƙarancin cikawa da gas. ”

"A 2011 AG, ​​za mu mai da hankali kan marubuta da giya," in ji Bakke. "Kuma dama kusa da otal ɗin Portland shine Littattafan Powell, mafi girman masu zaman kansu da ake amfani da su kuma sabbin kantin sayar da littattafai a duniya."

"Mensa abu ne mai ban sha'awa, mai rai, kuma mai kalubale. Yana kama da kasancewa a kan Autobahn na Jamus - lokacin da kuke mota gabaɗaya a cikin kayan aiki na 2, zaune a cikin zirga-zirga, Mensa AG yana kama da fitar da Ferrari akan Autobahn, kuma sau ɗaya a shekara kuna samun busa dukkan carbon ɗin, saka. shi a cikin 5th gear overdrive, da zuƙowa."

An san mazan maza da yawa da manyan kwakwalwarsu, amma da yawa kuma an san su da manyan gindi. Don dalar Amurka 65, masu halarta sun sami damar zuwa abubuwan sha mara iyaka, giya, giya, abun ciye-ciye, alewa, da guntu. Sau da yawa a rana, an ajiye katon tukwane na miya da tiren nama, salati, da kayan zaki a kan dogayen tebura a cikin dakunan baƙar fata. Wadanda suka halarci taron kuma sun dauki faranti na abinci zuwa dakunan taron, inda suka kalli abubuwan gabatarwa na PowerPoint kuma suna jin daɗin magana mai ƙarfi.

Melissa Rennie daga Bear Lake, Michigan, ta ce, "Ina son marubutan Pulitzer-Prize guda biyu da suka zo yin magana game da karya Kwame Kilpatrick [wanda aka wulakanta magajin garin Detroit]."

A ranar 23 ga watan Yuni, girgizar kasa mai karfin awo 5.5 ta afku a yankin Great Lakes. Ba kasafai ake samun girgizar kasa a wannan yanki na kasar ba. A cikin ɗaya daga cikin shirye-shiryen Mensa, wani ɗaki da aka cika ya girgiza, gami da ƙasa, kujeru, da tebura. Ina tsammanin wani girgiza ne. Wani irin kiba ne kawai ya rikidewa Mensan yana fadowa kasa da farantin abinci.

Doguwa, mai farin gashi, siriri Jeroen Komen ya yi tattaki daga Utrecht, Netherlands, a zaman wani ɓangare na shirin musanyar jagoranci tsakanin ƙungiyoyin Mensa na ƙasa da ƙasa. Shi babban mai sha'awar Herb Guggenheim, Ph.D., ma'aikacin jin dadin jama'a mai lasisi wanda yayi magana a Detroit game da rashin lafiya. "Zan kuma yi tafiya zuwa Turai AG a Prague, Jamhuriyar Czech, a wannan shekara," in ji Komen, "Abin farin ciki ne saduwa da mutane masu ban sha'awa a duniya."

John Sokalski daga Roseville, Minnesota, ya ce babban abin da ya faru shi ne sauraron labarin ban mamaki Theodore Dutch Van Kirk a matsayin mai tafiya a kan Enola Gay, B-29 Superfortress Bomb wanda ya jefar da makamin nukiliya na farko a harin Hiroshima. Japan, a ranar 6 ga Agusta, 1945. “Ina sha’awar Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, kuma na yi mamakin sanin Van Kirk yana tuƙa bama-bamai a yaƙin Turai da na Pacific.”

Ryan Jackson, likita daga Casper, Wyoming, bai iya halartar AG na wannan shekara ba, saboda yana aikin sa kai a Haiti tare da ɗaya daga cikin kungiyoyin agaji. Yana da alaƙa ta musamman da Enola Gay. “Kaka na, Cpl. John Edward Jackson, shi ne makanikin Enola Gay."

Jackson yana ɗaya daga cikin Mensans waɗanda kuma ke cikin ƙungiyoyin IQ masu ci gaba, kamar Triple Nine Society. Triple Nine sun sami zama na gamuwa da gaisuwa kamar yadda sauran kungiyoyi da yawa suka yi.

Hakanan bikin cika shekaru 50 a wannan shekara shine Nightingale Conant Corporation, jagorar duniya a ci gaban mutum. Sun shahara wajen buga littattafai akan faifai ta mashahuran masu magana kamar Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, da Wayne Dyer. Win Wenger, daya daga cikin fitattun masu kwadaitar da su shima memba ne na Mensa; Wenger ya jagoranci zama masu ban sha'awa da yawa game da halayen ɗan adam da yadda ake haɓaka damar koyo. Dukkanin zaman da aka yi a cikin kwanaki shida an sanya su cikin farashin rajista.

Mensa Mensa da baƙi masu suna ne kaɗai za su iya halartar AG, amma tarukan gida na wata-wata a buɗe suke ga jama'a. Mutane da yawa suna kulla abota mai ƙarfi da ɗorewa tare da mutanen da suke saduwa da su yayin tafiya zuwa abubuwan yanki da na ƙasa na Mensa. Betsy Mark, mataimakiyar shugabar yanki daga Ypsilanti, Michigan, kuma mai kula da jarabawar shiga jami'a ta ce, "Mensa iyali ce ta biyu a gare ni."

Akwai wasu mutanen da ke son shiga Mensa da matsananciyar wahala. Mark ya ci gaba da cewa, “Lokacin da na fara aikin noma, akwai wanda yake son shiga Mensa da gaske. Ya ɗauki gwaje-gwajen IQ daban-daban 12 kuma ya zira kwallaye kaɗan kaɗan ƙasa da kashi 98, wanda shine yankewa. Sannan, a kokarinsa na 13 ya sanya a matsayi na 98, a karshe ya cimma burinsa."

Bayan sanin inda za ku ciyar da hutun ku na Hudu na Yuli kowace shekara, Mensa kuma kyakkyawan hanya ce ta hanyar sadarwa. Marubuci Yash Talreja ya kawo tarin littafinsa mai suna "Cikin Giant Machine, Labarin Amazon.com," kuma an sayar dashi cikin mintuna 30. J. Andrew Parsons, kwararre a fasahar voltaic na hasken rana, ya kawo kayan aikin hannu, abubuwan gilashin gilashin da aka yi daga Oregon; da wayo da aka nuna a kusurwoyi masu kamannin hasken rana ta kusa da tsakar rana, Mensans ya yi tururuwa don siyan kayan fasahar gilashin sa. Sun kasance daga cikin mafi kyawun taskoki da Mensans suka yi da hannu kuma aka ba su don siye a wani taron kasuwa na musamman.

Idan kuna jin daɗin tafiya, kuma kuna da haske, kuna iya samun Mensa ta zama ƙungiya mai kyau don shiga. Akwai wasu gwaje-gwaje 200 da aka karɓa don zama memba, "Kuma idan kun isa, za ku iya amfani da maki SAT ko ACT," in ji Betsy Mark.

Gwajin Gida na Mensa hanya ce mai daɗi don gano ko ku da Mensa kun dace da juna. Duk da yake wannan lokacin gwajin ba zai ba ku damar zama memba ba, yana ba da babbar alama ta yuwuwar ku na yin nasara idan kun zaɓi ɗaukar jarrabawar da aka ƙirƙira. Ana samunsa akan layi a www.us.mensa.org .

AGs na gaba an saka su don Portland, Reno, Dallas, da Boston. Mutane masu wayo da gaske suna neman zagayawa.

Resources:
Symphony na Detroit yana yin kide-kide a dakin kade-kade na Detroit, da kuma a wuraren shakatawa kamar wuraren shakatawa na Metro har ma da Florida. Don bayanin kafofin watsa labarai, tuntuɓi Elizabeth Twork a (313) 576-5126.

Kauyen Greenfield yana buɗe duk shekara kuma yana ba da abubuwan yanayi na yanayi kamar juzu'in-ƙarni na 20 na Hallowe'en da Dare na Biki, shahararren bikin biki a yankin, cikakke tare da hanyoyin kunna kyandir, nishaɗin raye-raye, masu gabatarwa masu kayatarwa, karusa da Model T, shagunan biki masu daɗi, Santa da raye-raye, wasan kankara, nunin wasan wuta, da ƙari. Don bayanin kafofin watsa labaru, tuntuɓi Carrie Nolan, 313-982-6126.

Gidan kayan gargajiya na Fine Arts na Detroit, DIA, zai gudanar da wani baje koli mai ban sha'awa, "Rembrandt da Fuskar Yesu" (a halin yanzu a Louvre) daga Lahadi, Nuwamba 20, 2011 zuwa Lahadi, Fabrairu 12, 2012. Don bayanan watsa labaru, tuntuɓi Pamela Marcil. , (313) 833-7899.

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