Dimensiones de la cultura de seguridad a nivel de Unidad/Servicio

Meets 1st Thur. each month, 6:45 pm., Shuffeld Auditorium, Little Rock, AR. / Web site: www.LittleRockMagic.org

DAVID DUGGIE, Secretary

Members and guests of Ring 29 met on January 17 for the annual Christmas dinner and show. Everyone enjoyed a BBQ buffet, while several magicians (Aaron Acosta, Cedric Morley, Blayk Puckett, and Rob Merryman) per- formed walk-around magic for the 160 present.

After the dinner, Jim Henson introduced the officers and board members. At this time, he pre- sented a life-time membership plaque and pin to Jon Bucher.

TVP Larry Bean presented the Broken Wand Ceremony in honor of Stan Tarnowsky.

Jon Bucher, who emceed the magic show, used the dictionary to provide introductions for the performers in the magic show. First to perform was Scott Davis, who performed “Comedy Flourishes” and his popular “Signed Card to Mouth.”

Jimmy Ross, dressed as a janitor, amused the audience by noticing a box on a center-staged table as he was sweeping the floors. He proceed- ed to follow the directions in the box to perform “Banana Bandana.”

Mike Jones had the audience laughing with his version of the Arm Chopper and he also had his volunteer freaked out.

Larry Bean wowed his volunteer and the audi- ence with “Color Match.” The volunteer used colored markers to create a face. He then revealed a Styrofoam head that matched the vol- unteer’s colored drawing. He also used another volunteer to help him perform a comedy Book

Test. Blayk Puckett ended the first half of the show by performing some awesome juggling with a Christmas theme: juggling Christmas ornaments to “Jingle Bell Rock” and juggling clubs, then ending with one ventriloquist club. Along with Blayk, that club sang “Baby It’s Cold Outside.”

Jo Jones began the second half of the show by enlisting an eight-year-old boy to assist her. She made the boy into a magician by putting a black hat on his head and then giving him a Broken Wand. It was then decided he needed a stronger wand. She used Multiple Wands to find the per- fect wand. Together, the two performed “Multiple Colored Ropes.”

President Aaron Acosta amazed his volunteer and the audience by using an iPhone to match a prediction he made moments before. He then used two volunteers to assist him in performing “Cue the Card.” One volunteer chose a card from thought and the second volunteer read the cue cards that led to finding the selected card in a sealed envelope.

Jimmy Rhodes came to the stage through the audience by marching to “Hail to the Chief.” Using two volunteers and a Mardo Bag, he per- formed a hilarious egg to bag routine. Everyone was in stitches!

Randall Eller closed the show by performing an entertaining version of “Magic Squares.” The audience was quite impressed. He closed with his “Magic of Memories” routine using the Floating Table and a special ring from a volunteer.

Last but not least, Mike Jones returned Rabbit E. Lee after caring for him for one year. Mike’s addition to the Rabbit E. Lee was a miniature pair of handcuffs. This figurine was retired and a new Rabbit E. Lee was introduced to its new caretak- er, Michael Wilkerson, who will return it to the next Christmas party with a magical item added. David Duggie

RING 30, Scranton/WILKES-BARRE, PA - Faye Plotkin Ring

Meets 1st Thu., 7:00pm, at The Iron Skillet Restaurant inside the Petro Travel Plaza, 98 Grove St., Dupont, PA.

DANIEL KOSLOSKI, President / Email: [email protected] Web site: http://www.nepamagic.8m.com

The New Year got off to a good start with some good, well-performed effects after a short busi- ness session.

The performance part of the evening started with me performing Banachek’s “Number Reversal.”

Keith Culver performed his version of a stan- dard ESP effect with some well written, enter- taining patter. He called this effect “Now You Know the Rest of the Story.”

“Mentalogie.” This effect was basically a well- handled Cards Across effect, with “Princess Card” trick thrown in.

S. Patrick performed two effects. The first, effect was “Impossible Prediction” by Aldo Colombini. A spectator created three piles of cards behind three predictions, then mixing each pile with red and black cards the effect ended with each pile matching its prediction. “Cinematrix” was the second effect. A prediction envelope was on the table in full view. A board with sixteen movie ads displayed. Each movie had a number in its title. A spectator, through the process of elimination, selected four of the six- teen movies which he would like to see. When the numbers in the four selected movies were added, they equaled thirty-four. The effect ended when the prediction was opened and a DVD of Miracle on 34th Street was revealed.

Michael Kattner performed “A story discover- ing a mummified fairy.” Instructions on the cre- ation from Dan Banes of Lebanon Circle.

Jarred and Fred Kraft, a father and son team, created their own Cups and Balls effect. Starting out with six red Solo Cups, and a set of high qual- ity aluminum foil balls. They feed off each other with entertaining patter. Ending the effect with two dozen balls, and six oranges.

The owners of the Houdini Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Dorothy Dietrich, and Dick Brookz, also NEPA members, announced after 98 years, Houdini’s 1919 lost silent film The Grim Game has been uncovered and restored for release to the public. To read more about the find- ing and restoration of the long lost Houdini silent movie go to: http://houdini.org/houdinigrimga- meuncoveredbyhoudinimuseum.html.

Those of us who know Dorothy and Dick, know they have devoted their life to the memory of Harry Houdini, from replacing the broken bust at the grave site to watching over the Harry Houdini grave site, to the restoration of this movie. Personally, I would like to thank Dorothy and Dick for their continued effort.

The performance session of the following meeting started with Michael Kattner who per- formed two effects. The first was called “The Afghan Bands.” This was a nice paper cutting effect. The second effect was a con, using three pieces of toilet paper in which you had to sepa- rate the pieces in one pull. Keith Culver per- formed his own effect which he called “It’s a Match.” He started the effect by placing a predic- tion on the table. He then showed a box contain- ing dozens of books of matches from different places he visited. Each book of matches had a number written inside. A spectator reached into the box, pulled out a book of matches and the

number inside the book of matches matched his prediction. Jarred Kraft ended the performance part of the meeting with a nice card effect where a chosen card was found using key cards from several piles.

The meeting then broke up into several groups with members discussing different effects and patter, while others demonstrated close-up mate- rial and sleights for the rest of the evening.

Burt Ebel

RING 31, MADISON, WISCONSIN – Ben Bergor Ring

Meets 2nd Sun. each month, 5:00pm. Monona Gardens Family Restaurant, Monona, WI.

WAYNE PETERSON, Ring Contact

(608) 274-9411 / E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ibmring31.com

On January 11, the first order of business was to secure officers for the New Year which was accomplished with all current officers agreeing to serve another turn in their current positions with the exception of Past President Glen “G Ball” Brown turning over his position of ser- geant-at-arms to our newest member Joshua Bremmel.

Magic for the evening was new magic people were working on and G Ball started with Steve Haynes’s prediction effect “Fair Play.” A volun- teer was asked to decide where three objects, a business card, a coin, and a dollar bill should be placed and G Ball produced a correct prediction which had been on his key ring in plain sight dur- ing the entire effect. Joshua performed his own creation of a CAAN (card at any number) effect and an Ambitious Card effect. Joshua has demonstrated a unique perspective in creating his own effects. Dan “The Magic Man” Feaster performed a Matrix routine using four uncircu- lated Kennedy half dollars that he received from Santa, which had a kicker ending production of an oversized half dollar. Dan also performed some rubber band magic making one band pene- trate another.

“Wayne the Wizard” Peterson demonstrated one of his newest acquisitions from a recent con- vention visit, a Block Penetration. Two hollow rectangular tubes are displayed and stacked with a clear Plexiglas plate separating them. Next a square block is placed in the upper tube and is dropped, heard hitting and penetrating the plate and falling through the lower tube. Wayne showed us a slip pass he is working on in order to force a card which after a few humorous misses is revealed within a wallet. Keeping with his pen- etration theme, Wayne used a pen to penetrate a borrowed bill without putting a hole in the bill. Fun appeared to be had by all with February meeting theme being magic of the heart and all members are encouraged to bring along their

partner which in this writer’s opinion may encourage use of a head chopper.

Michael Barnard