Seguridad del Paciente y Cuidados Paliativos

Meets 2nd Monday, each month, 7:30 p.m., Hancock United Methodist Church, Rt. 320, Springfield, PA.

WILLIAM MCELVENNEY, Recording Secretary 7302 Merganser Place, Philadelphia, PA 19153 Web site: www.ibmring6.com

David Storey kicked off the meeting with news about changes to the club’s Web site. The new domain is IBMRing6.com. He also dis- cussed upcoming events such as next month’s auction and the Adam Elbaum lecture scheduled for May.

This was the night of our annual Close-up Contest. Calvin Tan started with a beautifully choreographed routine of cards and coins – the motion and magic synchronized to music. This wasn’t your run-of-the-mill matrix. He started out with card productions and moved on to the magical movement of coins under cards and ended with a veritable flurry of multiplying coins.

Steve Friedberg’s “Be Natural” routine made a series of card transformations in ways that fol- lowed Howie Schwarzman’s maxim: what would it look like if it were real magic? Giving

the entire audience the perfectly fair views of all his moves, his magic was all the more amazing.

Ryan Adamowicz presented his “Sleights of the Mind” completely restoring a torn card not only in full view of the audience but employing all five senses in the process. Reba Strong pre- sented an old family recipe. The amazing thing was that the only ingredient was the paper on which the recipe was written, producing from its flames an amazing confection. Bill McElvenney presented Presidents’ Day effects. “Escape from New York” was the Matrix whose patter recount- ed George Washington’s historic feat that saved the Continental Army from destruction. He ended with “The Cleveland Sandwich,” a whim- sical presentation of an Ambitious Card and Grover Cleveland’s two non-consecutive terms.

The contest winners were: first Calvin Tan, second Bill McElvenney, and third Steve Friedberg.

RING 7, COLUMBUS, OHIO – Wheeler-McGory Ring

Meets 3rd Thu. each month at 7:00pm, at The Forum, Knightsbridge, 4625 Knightsbridge Blvd., Columbus, OH 43220

STEVEN PARLETTE, Secretary / Web site: ring7sam83.org 4306 Secludedwod Ct., Columbus, OH 43230 (614) 428-5966 / E-mail: [email protected]

After a brief business meeting, Art Quinn started magic with the “Silk and Rope Event” from Hoby Tyler’s notes, Gold Metal Winners. Art tied a silk and rope together and the silk melt- ed through the rope. Joe Elliott put two quarters on a piece of plastic. With the help of a mirror, it looked like the quarters moved. When the mirror was removed, we saw that the quarters did move.

Reza Saberi asked Art to name a card. Reza set a card box on the table that had only the selected card inside. Jack Watson performed the “Travel Truth Game” by Chris Wardle. Check out the January 2015 issue of The Linking Ring page 75. This is a nice effect you may want to add to your program.

Joe Elliott started stand-up magic with knots off silk. Steve Parlette performed a Silk Blendo effect. Reza performed Any Card at any Number with a personal twist. Jack Watson performed “Grandfather’s, Grandfather Clock.” Jack also did a card prediction effect using the criss-cross force.

That’s how I saw the magic, it may have looked different from your angle. Steven Parlette

RING 9, ATLANTA, GEORGIA – Georgia Magic Club

Meets 3rd Mon. of month, 7:00pm, Mt. Vernon Presbyterian Church, 471 Mount Vernon Hwy, Sandy Springs, GA

Ring 9 Website: www.gamagicclub.com

BILL PACKARD, Secretary / Email: [email protected]

Our TIP (To Improve Performance) mini-lec- ture on optical illusions was presented by Victoria Skye. Victoria showed us over two

dozen tricks, pictures, and puzzles from her col- lection, many of which she created herself.

Outgoing President Terry Wenham introduced new President Adamson, who took over the meeting. We heard health updates on Gene Hendrix, Mary Doty, Rick Silver, and T. J. Harris (T. J. passed away), and a review of the Annual Greater Atlanta Magicians Holiday Banquet. David Oglesby brought to our attention that I.B.M. members have free access to Ask Alexander, for searching the entire library of The Linking Ring magazines through their portal. Bob Stultz provided an opportunity to have the Georgia Magic Club logo embroidered on a shirt for $10.

The theme for January was “In the Spectator’s Hands.” From six cards torn in half face-down, West Evans located the halves that matched the three that Joe M. Turner selected. Howie Marmer placed a small object in guest Crystal’s closed hand, and later revealed that it matched the “invisible” coin selected by Partha Mukherjee. Debbie Leifer performed Cards Across with a customized surprise ending, using alphabet cards and hand towels held by Dale Adamson and Joe M. Turner. David Owen predicted the serial num- ber of a ten-dollar bill that Dale Adamson placed in a locket on display. Merritt Ambrose caused Victoria Skye’s signed card to switch with a card previously held between her hands. Mike Ellis caused an animated spider to appear on a cell- phone picture of Leah Williamson’s palm, as well as on the back of her hand. Joe M. Turner caused three beads to unthread themselves from two cords while held in Max Hobb’s hand. After a dealing and trading session with Victoria Skye, Eric Swalberg, and Leah Williamson, Mal Simpson caused Victoria’s selected card to end up at the top of her packet. Gary Vaughn, Jr. invit- ed Mark Hatfield to turn a single card face up from a shuffled deck, then showed that the same card had turned face up in a second deck. The voting this month was nearly even among all the performers, but Howie Marmer edged out as our winner of the Coveted Royal Blue Pin.

In the Show and Tell segment, Steve Greenfield brought a Sandisk Streaming Wire- less Flash Drive, capable of storing hundreds of hours of (magic) video to be viewed on any Bluetooth device. Martin Baratz is looking for performers to share in an order for a great-look- ing show jacket.

For Trick of the Month, Christophe Fouquet performed and explained “Direct One to Five” from Genii December 2014, and suggested nar- rowing one of the cards to simplify the handling.

In the General Magic segment, David Oglesby turned a penny into a giant penny then into a

jumbo penny. West Evans performed a Three- Card Monte routine with Martin Baratz, ending with the Money Card replaced by Martin’s previ- ously-signed card. Dan Garrett performed a com- pletely impromptu torn-and-restored signed card with a borrowed (used) deck from West Evans. Howie Marmer slowly and visibly animated the transformation of a jumbo 6S into a four and then an eight! Projeet Mukherjee performed a pro- gressive card sandwich routine where the sand- wich cards trade places with the sandwiched cards. Victoria Skye showed us additional illu- sions, most notably her own “Age, It’s All in Your Head,” which was voted in the Top Ten of the Visions Science Society Best Illusion of the Year Contest.

In the President’s Spot, Dale Adamson sug- gested using Sortkwik Fingertip Moistener (banks use this) for dry hands when working with cards, as it does not leave a residue.

RING 11, QUAD CITIES, ILLINOIS/IOWA –