text:
Written by Bruce Elliott, Walter B. Gibson
Work of Various
207 pages (Hardcover),
published by Louis Tannen
Language: English
(296 entries)
|Comments & References
|pay off\nspectator deals half the deck and tries to separate red and black, you predict the relations of the cards to the other half, two phases\nwalter b. gibson\nfollow the leaders\nroger barkann\nskill-nil!\ndr. william t. palchinas\npay-off\nwalter b. gibson\npay-off\nwalter b. gibson\none thousand skulls\nal mann\ncharlie cheats\nkarl fulves 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|Pay Off
|new finger! finger!\nperformer divines amount of fingers two person hold up, with his back turned\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|New Finger! Finger!
|grade-a-vanish\nmilk vanishes from glass, covered with a cardbord cylinder, see p. 8 for further idea with beer\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|mind over money\nmemorizing the serial number of a bill and other ideas about quickly memorizing things on a bill\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|Mind Over Money
|the back room\non a telephone gag, blackstone, john brandon and russell swann performing, jarrow's "rope magic" controversy\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|hard boiled miracle\nnickel vanishes and travels into chosen hard boiled egg\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|Hard Boiled Miracle
|the blackstone show\n\nphoenix jr. \nharry blackstone 1942 Phoenix Jr. (reviewer)
|The Blackstone Show
|lost in the shuffle\nmedium reveals three cards, pocket writing on playing card\nwalter b. gibson\nlost in the shuffle - again\nstylesmith 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|Lost in the Shuffle
|clip color\nfour different colored cards are cut into different amount of pieces and sealed in envelopes, chosen color is spelled and found\nwalter b. gibson\nclip color\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|Clip Color
|the back room\non the film version of clayton rawson "miracles for sale", blackstone, carlyle\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|scrambled thoughtwaves\ntwo cards are selected and deck put into pocket, cards transform into the thoughts of the spectator's (stripper, famous actor etc.) cards are eventually found and deck is normal again\nclayton rawson 1942 Clayton Rawson
|Scrambled Thoughtwaves
|card switch\n\nclayton rawson\nmiracle change no. 3\nedward marlo 1942 Clayton Rawson
|Card Switch
|penny-tration\nseven pennies counted in spectator's hand, one penetrates it\nharry baker\npenny-tration\nharry baker\nthe seven penny trick\nterry lynn\npenny-tration\nharry baker 1942 Harry Baker
|blow up\nmarked coin penetrates inflated balloon\nfranklin v. taylor 1942 Franklin V. Taylor
|Blow Up
|gaglets \ngag, doing the pass openly\nrussel swan 1942 Russel Swan
|the back room\n\nwalter b. gibson\nbruce elliott 1942 Walter B. Gibson, Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|ball-istics\nfour balls appear one by one and vanish again\nwalter b. gibson\ncorrections and improvements on p. 28 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|rehydration\ncondensed pieces of "milk" put in water and they rise and fall for several hours\nalvin r. plough 1942 Alvin R. Plough
|willistons's pull\nmagician's gag\nbill williston 1942 Bill Williston
|Willistons's Pull
|the back room\notis manning, keith clark, schlumpini\nwalter b. gibson\nbruce elliott 1942 Walter B. Gibson, Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|the expert at the card table\nstacking three aces in a four hands game, modified erdnase system, openly shown\nbruce elliott\ns. w. erdnase\ncorrections on p. 28\nerdnase system of stock shuffling\ns. w. erdnase\nthe expert at the card table\nbruce elliott\nthe expert returns\nkarl fulves\nhole-card play\ndarwin ortiz 1942 Bruce Elliott, S. W. Erdnase
|The Expert at the Card Table
|slide-less\nsigned by performer and spectator, without the slide\nann y. mous 1942 Ann Y. Mous
|forecast\nthree people think of a word, medium writes them on separate papers, numbers them and throws them in a hat, clever one ahead routine\ntheodore annemann\nsooth sayer\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Theodore Annemann
|the back room\non trick exposure\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|The Back Room
|cut to measure\ncut and restored tape measure\nwalter b. gibson\ncut to measure\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|Cut To Measure
|on the head\nspectator thinks of a word, medium divines it and writes the word on a playing card\nfrank thomas 1942 Frank Thomas
|On the Head
|deal change\n\n unknown 1942 Unknown
|Deal Change
|the back room\non carl brema's shop\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|The Back Room
|the farmer's daughter\nthieves and sheep with hats and different colored blocks, gaffed\n shaman 1942 Shaman
|The Farmer's Daughter
|embers\nbillet in envelope burnt and divined\njames g. thompson jr. 1942 James G. Thompson Jr.
|carl rosini in the roosevelt patio, jacksonville, florida. march 26, 1942\n\nphoenix jr. \ncarl rosini 1942 Phoenix Jr. (reviewer)
|Carl Rosini In the Roosevelt Patio, Jacksonville, Florida. March 26, 1942
|topper\n\nwalter b. gibson\ntopper\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|the back room\non russel swann and on scarne and rawson working on a series called "magicians of the underworld"\nbruce elliott\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Bruce Elliott, Walter B. Gibson
|The Back Room
|call it a puzzle\nsix discs with a different sign on each side are thrown and turned over while spelling a word, then one disc is hidden and performer turns back, he reveals which side is up on the hidden disc\nl. vosburgh lyons\nunder-hand coin\ngerald kosky\nparity coin\ntieneblas \nheads or tails\nkarl fulves\nthe 'snappy' thirteen cent trick\nbob hummer 1942 L. Vosburgh Lyons
|Call It A Puzzle
|gaglet: henry's paper switch\ngetting rid of the torn napkin, when doing the torn and restored with fake explanation routine\ns.s. henry 1942 S.S. Henry
|Gaglet: Henry's Paper Switch
|one good trick...\n\nwalter b. gibson\ndeserves another\nwalter b. gibson\nskill-nil!\ndr. william t. palchinas\none good trick deserves another\nwalter b. gibson\none good trick deserves another\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|One Good Trick...
|the knights of magic - april 25, 1942\n\nphoenix jr. 1942 Phoenix Jr. (reviewer)
|The Knights of Magic - April 25, 1942
|deserves another\npredicting a card at a number, follow up\nwalter b. gibson\none good trick...\nwalter b. gibson\none good trick deserves another\nwalter b. gibson\none good trick deserves another\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|Deserves Another
|sooth sayer\nwith different colored paper instead of numbered slips\nwalter b. gibson\nforecast\ntheodore annemann 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|Sooth Sayer
|the back room\ndan morris russell swann and leonard lyons\nwalter b. gibson\nbruce elliott 1942 Walter B. Gibson, Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|cardee foolee\nchinese writing cut in half reveals selection, published under feng huang\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|Cardee Foolee
|filtration\nliquid vanishes after performance of the hydrostatic glass\nwalter b. gibson\nchung ling foo 1942 Walter B. Gibson, Chung Ling Foo
|twister\nchung ling foo's torn and restored paper with sucker element\nchung ling foo\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Chung Ling Foo, Walter B. Gibson
|confetti of cathay\nthree cups, one filled with confetti, confetti vanishes and travels to another, published under hee foo you\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|Confetti of Cathay
|tip for torn paper and hat tearing\n\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|Tip For Torn Paper and Hat Tearing
|chicago assembly s.a.m. annual show - may 8th, 1942\n\nphoenix jr. 1942 Phoenix Jr. (reviewer)
|Chicago Assembly S.A.M. Annual Show - May 8th, 1942
|blackstone anecdote\n\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|Blackstone Anecdote
|the back room\ngreer marechal, clayton rawson\nwalter b. gibson\nbruce elliott 1942 Walter B. Gibson, Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|magician's nightmare \nfirst impossible card location and then another card is spelled out from the spectator's pocket, four times thirteen koran deck (audley walsh idea), clever fishing method\nroger barkann\naudley walsh\nmissing lines on p. 44 1942 Roger Barkann, Audley Walsh
|Magician's Nightmare
|silver arrow\n\njames g. thompson jr. 1942 James G. Thompson Jr.
|Silver Arrow
|a hilliard vanish\n\njohn northern hilliard\na hilliard vanish\njohn northern hilliard 1942 John Northern Hilliard
|A Hilliard Vanish
|gaglet department\n- card coding with name badges (gibson) - card in balloon gag (morris) - cut and restored tie performance at army shows without a stooge (morris) - bar bet, naming three numbers of a serial number on a bill\nwalter b. gibson\ndanny morris 1942 Walter B. Gibson, Danny Morris
|Gaglet Department
|two\n- presentation for vanishing a rabbit with the break-away box - invisible hair attached to deck, one card rises and is levered again\naudley walsh\ntwo\naudley walsh 1942 Audley Walsh
|the s.a.m. convention shows - may 22 and 23, 1942\nshow with artists like dell o'dell, clayt rawson, al baker and cardini, later did not his famous act and got a bad review\nphoenix jr. 1942 Phoenix Jr. (reviewer)
|The S.A.M. Convention Shows - May 22 and 23, 1942
|the back room\nbert allerton, lu brent\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|out of the smoke\npaper match turns into light cigarette, three more cigarettes appear\ndave spindell\nclayton rawson\nout of the smoke\ndave spindell\nclayton rawson 1942 Dave Spindell, Clayton Rawson
|Out of the Smoke
|string-ring\nwith duplicate ring\nharry burns 1942 Harry Burns
|lady in red\npicture of a dressed lady is folded, clothes removed and she is seen undressed on the picture\npaul morris 1942 Paul Morris
|Lady in Red
|mathematics of magic\nnumbers are called and added, prediction\ndr. aaron weiss 1942 Dr. Aaron Weiss
|Mathematics of Magic
|the back room\nfred keating, john scarne, prince mendez\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|together again\nthree duplicate aces\nlu brent 1942 Lu Brent
|Together Again
|die force improvement \none of four cards with rolling of die, see 202 method of forcing for original\nclement de lion 1942 Clement de Lion
|Die Force Improvement
|one ahead peek\nspectator peeks a card, which is glimpsed boldly\nlu brent 1942 Lu Brent
|One Ahead Peek
|how'd he find it!\nselected card is taken out from the packet by touch\nlu brent 1942 Lu Brent
|How'd He Find It!
|site-unseen\nthree selection are found by stabbing an unknown card reversed into the deck , cards next to the card and reversed card itself are selections\nlu brent\nsite-unseen\nlu brent 1942 Lu Brent
|false face glimpse\nbold glimpse\nlu brent 1942 Lu Brent
|False Face Glimpse
|the back room\ntelephone gag, russell swann, jordan, rawson\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|hegira\ntwo cards travel, envelopes and card changing tray\ngeorge armstrong 1942 George Armstrong
|the g.a. card changing tray\n\ngeorge armstrong 1942 George Armstrong
|The G.A. Card Changing Tray
|hegira ii\nimpromptu version\ngeorge armstrong 1942 George Armstrong
|Hegira II
|the back room\non keith clark, al flosso, george krage, a coin trick, a card rising gag by henry gordien and a joke by al plough\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|in the pocket\ntwo different colors change places, hand and pocket\nwalter b. gibson\nhenry hatton\nadrian plate 1942 Walter B. Gibson, Henry Hatton, Adrian Plate
|In the Pocket
|over the top\ntorn and restored cigarette paper\nkarl germain 1942 Karl Germain
|Over the Top
|no corpse for the coffin\n\nclayton rawson\nthere it is!\npaul lepaul 1942 Clayton Rawson
|No Corpse for the Coffin
|what's on your mind?\nword from a book is predicted on a billet\ngeorge armstrong 1942 George Armstrong
|What's On Your Mind?
|gaglet department\n- idea for al baker's "salt trick" (morris) - idea for cleaning slates, when done with chemical formula (grant) - gag, where two eggs are cracked and one put in pocket, but still three yolks are seen (howcani)\nu. f. grant\ndanny morris\nhowcani \nsalt trick\nal baker 1942 U. F. Grant, Danny Morris, Howcani
|Gaglet Department
|the back room\nlast ideas by annemann, on greer marechal building a changing bag from a hat, newspaper clippings\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|the window washer's dream\nframed piece of a glass is penetrated by several objects, mime\ntheodore annemann\ndave spindell 1942 Theodore Annemann, Dave Spindell
|The Window Washer's Dream
|influencing a scale\none of the pans depresses\nedward saint\nsolution on p. 68\nletter\nedward saint 1942 Edward Saint
|Influencing a Scale
|blackout magic\nwriting of three face down cards is revealed in darkness\njames g. thompson jr.\ngreta annemann's eyes of the unknown\ntheodore annemann 1942 James G. Thompson Jr.
|Blackout Magic
|blackout magic - adam's apple\nwrists of performer held by spectator's, apple travels from one hand to the other\nbruce elliott\nadam's apple\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|Blackout Magic - Adam's Apple
|builder-upper\nrevelation of a writing, luminous paint\njames g. thompson jr. 1942 James G. Thompson Jr.
|gaglet department\n- appearance and vanish of a bowl bit (han ping chien) - on the lota bowls (lafolette) - lose thread pulled from jacket gag (morris)\nhan ping chien\ngeorge lafollette\ndanny morris 1942 Han Ping Chien, George LaFollette, Danny Morris
|Gaglet Department
|the coin dowser\ncoin is found with a dowsing rod in the dark\njames g. thompson jr.\nbruce elliott 1942 James G. Thompson Jr., Bruce Elliott
|The Coin Dowser
|the back room\ndante appearing in a laurel & hardy movie, on amateurs telling professionals what to do\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|ry for mystery\npreparing ootw while performing\nwilbur t. kattner 1942 Wilbur T. Kattner
|Ry for Mystery
|match stickler\nburnt match vanishes and appears in spectator's hand among unburnt matches\nmilbourne christopher 1942 Milbourne Christopher
|Match Stickler
|gaglet department\n- on routining a fishbowl production/vanish (goldin) - person vanish in cabinet bit\nhorace goldin 1942 Horace Goldin
|Gaglet Department
|simplo-transpo\nimpromptu and ungaffed version\nbob hanko\ninsto-transpo\ntheodore annemann\nan earlier transpo\ntony bartolotta 1942 Bob Hanko
|deal change\n\n unknown 1942 Unknown
|Deal Change
|the back room\nbar bet with a coin, gag with a bill (al cohn), on semantics, exposure, george karger, keith clark and bill larsen\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|greer's growth\nrice bowls with a appearing flower bouquet as a finish\ngreer marechal jr. 1942 Greer Marechal Jr.
|Greer's Growth
|gaglet department\n- bit of business for the walking through a ribbon routine (hanko) - deck transforms into a forcing deck gag\nbob hanko 1942 Bob Hanko
|Gaglet Department
|betcha\nbar bet, drinking from a glass while arm is held by spectator, coin gag\ndanny morris\ndoc hurwitz 1942 Danny Morris, Doc Hurwitz
|letter\non how to catch fleas\nedward saint\ninfluencing a scale\nedward saint 1942 Edward Saint
|the back room\non exposure, response to bill larsen, book exposure like greater magic, modern magic, magician's magic etc.\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|The Back Room
|shear nerve!\ncut and restored paper, unusual method\n shaman 1942 Shaman
|Shear Nerve!
|kiss and tell\nlipstick kissed card by female spectator is burnt and a blank card in an initialed envelope transforms into it\ndell o'dell\njames f. herpick 1942 Dell O'Dell, James F. Herpick
|Kiss and Tell
|envelope switch\n\njames f. herpick\nhalf and half\nkarl fulves\nenvelope switch\njames f. herpick 1942 James F. Herpick
|Envelope Switch
|chance! thought! coincidence!\nwith three different colored cardboards, one taken, one thought off and one stopped at by coincidence\nbruce elliott\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Bruce Elliott, Walter B. Gibson
|Chance! Thought! Coincidence!
|art lyle says:\ncoin through handkerchief, how to make coins shiny and building an easy coin holdout\nart lyle 1942 Art Lyle
|Art Lyle Says:
|gaglets\n- gibson's wand vanish - han ping chien swallowing billard ball vanishes\nwalter b. gibson\nhan ping chien 1942 Walter B. Gibson, Han Ping Chien
|self-shuffle\nobserving spectator's riffle shuffle, following the card \nlu brent\neeny-meeny\nrussell "rusduck" duck 1942 Lu Brent
|letter\n\ndick freytag 1942 Dick Freytag
|the back room\ndr. hurwitz, al flosso, u.f. grant, george sands' non-make-up version to look like a chinaman, orson welles\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|super-duper speller\nclarification on page 90\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|Super-Duper Speller
|streamlined hoffmann\n\ngreer marechal jr.\nthe transformed handkerchief\n unknown 1942 Greer Marechal Jr.
|Streamlined Hoffmann
|betcha\n- coin jumps from mouth of empty bottle, without touching - pepper in glass is attracted or repelled by finger\ndanny morris\ndoc hurwitz 1942 Danny Morris, Doc Hurwitz
|gaglets\none object is revealed by medium on telephone\ntheodore annemann 1942 Theodore Annemann
|the back room\ncredit information on the speller\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|ball from beyond\nsteel ball between two soup plates, answers questions\nl. vosburgh lyons\ntheodore annemann\nbell, book, and... brenda!\nbrenda 1942 L. Vosburgh Lyons, Theodore Annemann
|Ball From Beyond
|change, please!\nbill into signed envelope, envelope is cut, bill vanishes and two coins fall out\nlouis tannen\nhalf and half\nkarl fulves 1942 Louis Tannen
|Change, Please!
|floating smoke\ncigarette floats in hat, loop passed over it\ntheodore deland 1942 Theodore DeLand
|Floating Smoke
|betcha\n- drinking from a sealed bottled without opening it - moving a coin without touching it\ndanny morris\ndoc hurwitz 1942 Danny Morris, Doc Hurwitz
|the furloined rope trick\nremoving knots from rope\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|The Furloined Rope Trick
|the back room\nblackstone, bert kalmar\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|letter\ngenii rant\nwilbur t. kattner 1942 Wilbur T. Kattner
|cremation\nselection is burnt and a glass half filled with confetti is shown, the confetti vanishes and the selection is inside the glass\ntheodore deland\ncremation\nkarl fulves 1942 Theodore DeLand
|sefalaljia jr. \nring on string bit with safety pin from "sefalaljia", under handkerchief\nstewart james\nsefalaljia\nstewart james\nsefalaljia jr.\nstewart james 1942 Stewart James
|Sefalaljia Jr.
|force\nforcing an ace with a special lighter\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|betch\n- bar bet, predicting which side lands up, when tossing a match box - betting burning a handkerchief without injuring it\ndanny morris\ndoc hurwitz 1942 Danny Morris, Doc Hurwitz
|gaglet\numbrella is stuffed into a hat\narthur gans 1942 Arthur Gans
|tricklet\nstamps are produced from a rolled up bill\nwilbur t. kattner 1942 Wilbur T. Kattner
|the back room\ndante, ed saint, max malini\nwalter b. gibson\nbruce elliott 1942 Walter B. Gibson, Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|materialization\ncoin appears with the help of a spring clothes-pin and a handkerchief\nfranklin v. taylor\nfruit cup\norson welles 1942 Franklin V. Taylor
|miracle monte\nthree cards on three coins, monte presentation, coins travel under one card\nsolomon stein 1942 Solomon Stein
|Miracle Monte
|it goes double\ndeck cut in half, top card on one packet is looked at and tells the top card of the other heap, repeated several times, as a finale both cards are named\ntheodore annemann\nprofessor hoffmann\noutwaited\ngerald kosky\nit goes double\ntheodore annemann\nthe calculating deck\nharry lorayne\nname a card\nharry lorayne\ncause an effect\nkarl fulves 1942 Theodore Annemann, Professor Hoffmann
|It Goes Double
|glimpse\nglimpsing a card while transferring it from the deck on the palm\ntheodore annemann 1942 Theodore Annemann
|gaglets\nwith assistant, coin falls on the stage and assistant is looking for it during the show\n unknown 1942 Unknown
|betcha\nword play bet with a coin and three matches\ndanny morris\ndoc hurwitz 1942 Danny Morris, Doc Hurwitz
|the back room\non the tabell course volume 2 and performing for children\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|scarne's drunken deal\n\njohn scarne 1942 John Scarne
|Scarne's Drunken Deal
|strong man\nripping the cellophane paper of a cigar, spectator can't do it\njohn scarne 1942 John Scarne
|Strong Man
|gaglets\nhandling for folded bill that turns upside down\njack chanin 1942 Jack Chanin
|clear through!\nhandkerchief put on deck and corner folded in, selection penetrates the silk \njimmy grippo\nclear thru!\njimmy grippo 1942 Jimmy Grippo
|Clear Through!
|the back room\nbill larsen and genii rant, annemann's bullet catch\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|magic's-a-poppin\nibm new york ring 26, dell o'dell, chaplain willard s. smith, jay marshall, ann garland, arthur elmer, samy birch, richard dubois, jack miller, miaco\nphoenix jr. 1942 Phoenix Jr. (reviewer)
|voodoo\nsword cabinet with a pins and a voodoo doll in a box \nwalter b. gibson 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|21 plus\nspectator guesses in which row his card is, in the end the card is found by spelling "this is the card you took"\n shaman\n21 plus\n shaman\n21 plus\n shaman\nthe 21 card spelling trick\nmartin sunshine 1942 Shaman
|21 Plus
|daub\nsecuring it and what to use\njames g. thompson jr.\ncharles nyquist 1942 James G. Thompson Jr., Charles Nyquist
|betcha\n- boiling water in a paper bag - beer bet - coin bet / puzzle ("one is not a nickel")\ndanny morris\ndoc hurwitz\nwalter b. gibson\nthree coins\nstephen tucker\ndavid britland\nnot a half\nkarl fulves 1942 Danny Morris, Doc Hurwitz, Walter B. Gibson
|gaglets\nwhen forcing one card, let him grab two and take one back\n unknown 1942 Unknown
|the back room\non the "barnstormer", bob hanko, jean hugard's dinner, milbourne christopher\nwalter b. gibson\nbruce elliott 1942 Walter B. Gibson, Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|peek deck\n\nfranklin v. taylor\nsee also page 199 for an improvement\n"peek-deck" pappy\njames g. thompson jr.\nthe twitching muscle\nkarrell fox 1942 Franklin V. Taylor
|Peek Deck
|elas-trick\ntwo bands are apparently linked and unlink\nken crossen\nbanded together\nkarl fulves 1942 Ken Crossen
|getting away from card tricks\nwhile explaining a color change, a whiskey glass appears\nwalter b. gibson 1942 Walter B. Gibson
|Getting Away From Card Tricks
|gaglets\nthumb tip, silk is not glued but attached with wax so it can be used for other things as well\n unknown 1942 Unknown
|the back room\non think-a-drink-hoffman, fred keating, a bar bet by stuart robson, albenice, orson welles, greater magic, john scarne\nbruce elliott 1942 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|twist for ring and string\nhands tied with rope, ring on rope\nclayton rawson 1942 Clayton Rawson
|Twist for Ring and String
|coin in bottle idea\nspectator holds coin under handkerchief and lets it fall into a glass of water, that stands on a deck of playing cards and everything is balanced on a bottle, coin ends up in bottle\naudley walsh 1942 Audley Walsh
|Coin in Bottle Idea
|than which no whicher\none of the kings is chosen, cards dealt and performer says stop when the king is reached\njames g. thompson jr. 1943 James G. Thompson Jr.
|Than Which No Whicher
|sefalaljia iii\nring tied on string, without cover\ncharles nyquist\njames g. thompson jr.\ncabbalistic cord\ndavid britland\nchristmas cord\ndavid britland 1943 Charles Nyquist, James G. Thompson Jr.
|Sefalaljia III
|mystery on the half shell\ncoin production, vanish and penetration of the pocket\njames g. thompson jr. 1943 James G. Thompson Jr.
|Mystery on the Half Shell
|coin vanish\nas a penetration, trouser pocket, fabric is folded over coin\njoe berg 1943 Joe Berg
|Coin Vanish
|coin change\nde manche coin switch\n unknown 1943 Unknown
|Coin Change
|digit-telepathy\nmedium reveals card\njames g. thompson jr. 1943 James G. Thompson Jr.
|the back room\npresentation idea for 7 keys to baldpate by fetaque sanders, on walter gibson, joseph dunninger, john scarne\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|gaglet\ncigarette is light without the use of a lighter\norville wayne meyer 1943 Orville Wayne Meyer
|the back room\non dorny, hy mayer and why this is the wacky issue\nwalter b. gibson 1943 Walter B. Gibson
|The Back Room
|gaglet\nborrowed watch is seemingly thrown away\n unknown 1943 Unknown
|ultra wacky\ncut and restored handkerchief, bluff\n unknown\nultra cut\nphoa yan tiong\nkarl fulves 1943 Unknown
|Ultra Wacky
|count them out\nfalse count based on words\nwalter b. gibson\nu. f. grant 1943 Walter B. Gibson, U. F. Grant
|Count Them Out
|big man!\nperson grows and shrinks, gag\n shaman 1943 Shaman
|Big Man!
|horrors!\npins through tongue, lamb's tongue\nstuart robson\njames mc knight 1943 Stuart Robson, James Mc Knight
|nuts!\nsmall elephant imitation appears and vanishes, see also hopkins' "20th century magic"\nn. m. hopkins\n unknown 1943 N. M. Hopkins, Unknown
|with whiskers\nde kolta's beard pochette / topit\nbuatier de kolta\ncarl brema 1943 Buatier de Kolta, Carl Brema
|With Whiskers
|line up!\ntwelve men appear in a cabinet, then a girl vanishes from that cabinet\n unknown 1943 Unknown
|Line Up!
|gone!\nwater vanishes in midair, naphtha, from goldson's "tricks and illusions"\nwill goldston 1943 Will Goldston
|threadless\n\n unknown 1943 Unknown
|ghost\nliving and dead people's names written on slips, slip with dead person jumps in the air\nu. f. grant 1943 U. F. Grant
|billard ball act\n- perfect color change - extra ball getaway - down the ladder - through the pocket - gaining white ball - throw color change - the vanish getaway - instant ball to silk - the smash change - quick one to four\nwalter b. gibson\nsecond billard ball routine\nwalter b. gibson 1943 Walter B. Gibson
|Billard Ball Act
|the back room\nbill larsen and genii rant, jimmy grippo, burce elliott's baby\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|paper match throwing\nmatch landing on the side, bar bet\nrichard himber 1943 Richard Himber
|Paper Match Throwing
|coin betcha\n\njames g. thompson jr. 1943 James G. Thompson Jr.
|Coin Betcha
|duolette\ndevice for switching decks\nroger barkann\nrichard himber 1943 Roger Barkann, Richard Himber
|changing tray substitute\n\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|Changing Tray Substitute
|the perfect steal\nselection vanishes from deck into envelope, with duolette\nroger barkann 1943 Roger Barkann
|The Perfect Steal
|magician's nightmare\nselections is spelled out, with duolette\nroger barkann 1943 Roger Barkann
|Magician's Nightmare
|t.t.t.\n\njames g. thompson jr. 1943 James G. Thompson Jr.
|improved "the eyes have it"\n\n unknown\nthe eyes have it\njames g. thompson jr. 1943 Unknown
|Improved "The Eyes Have It"
|bottom deal second\n\nart lyle 1943 Art Lyle
|Bottom Deal Second
|13 steps\nby placing the deck on the stairs, different positions\n shaman 1943 Shaman
|13 Steps
|the pluperfect steal\ndeck is shuffled face up and face down, four cards put in a box, the cards vanish and the deck is in order again, with duolette\nroger barkann 1943 Roger Barkann
|The Pluperfect Steal
|the back room\non jay marshall, the book "english rogue", jules romain\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|hoomdangs\nresult of some calculations with the serial number of a chosen bill, appear on slates \nclyde cairy 1943 Clyde Cairy
|card-incidence\ndeck is cut in two, spectator and performer's selection are found at the same position \ncharles terraneau\nskill-nil!\ndr. william t. palchinas 1943 Charles Terraneau
|geomancy of the gods\nq & a with one envelope and sand as a reading tool\ngeorge armstrong 1943 George Armstrong
|Geomancy of the Gods
|the back room\non flames from the finger tips, bob hanko, annemann, dunninger, john scarne, houdini's library, arthur lloyd, warner perry, harry baker and russel swann\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|coin vanish\nnesting coins gaff, idea\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|Coin Vanish
|greer's gadget\npull for making a handkerchief appear or disappear, clever design\ngreer marechal jr. 1943 Greer Marechal Jr.
|Greer's Gadget
|cute coin\ncoin production gimmick\ne.s. hoffman 1943 E.S. Hoffman
|Cute Coin
|peeksie\ndo as i do, but spectator probably fails finding performer's card\nwalter b. gibson 1943 Walter B. Gibson
|the back room\non a show by the ibm ring nyc, john scarne, jimmy grippo, how to soften a deck for back palming, two newspaper clippings from dunninger\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|psychic ammeter\ncard stand with arrow, arrow points to two selections without being touched\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|Psychic Ammeter
|betcha\nholding a burning paper match upside down for 50 seconds\nal cohn 1943 Al Cohn
|sealed mystery\nsealed message reading system, razor thumb tip\njoseph dunninger\nforeword\nal mann 1943 Joseph Dunninger
|Sealed Mystery
|pointer\ncard is secretly signed on one side of the face, put back and spread so the signature is not seen, card is found\ncharles nyquist\njames g. thompson jr. 1943 Charles Nyquist, James G. Thompson Jr.
|key card placement\n\ncharles nyquist\njames g. thompson jr. 1943 Charles Nyquist, James G. Thompson Jr.
|Key Card Placement
|the back room\non the show of dunninger, a letter by second deal sam, lloyd jones "the bat", an idea for robson's "leopard cards"\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|future-hue\ncard selected, thought of and unseen are all predicted board with three different colors\nhen fetsch 1943 Hen Fetsch
|past present and future \ncard selected, thought of and unseen are all predicted by a medium on different colored papers\nhen fetsch 1943 Hen Fetsch
|Past Present and Future
|betcha\nremoving two coins balancing on rim of mouth of a galss, with one hand, bar bet\nhen fetsch 1943 Hen Fetsch
|gaglet\npresentation for disappearing wand in a piece of newspaper\nhen fetsch 1943 Hen Fetsch
|the back room\non hen fetch, john scarne, james g. thompson jr. orson welles, dunninger and tom osborne\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|biblio thot\nno force, based on an annemann magazine test\nbruce elliott\ntheodore annemann 1943 Bruce Elliott, Theodore Annemann
|Biblio Thot
|mickey finn\n\nwalter b. gibson 1943 Walter B. Gibson
|Mickey Finn
|betcha\nturning over a coin under a beer mug without touching the mug\nhen fetsch 1943 Hen Fetsch
|gaglet\nidea for bowl of water from a table \nhen fetsch 1943 Hen Fetsch
|cue it!\ncode with a thread, routine wit cigarettes, a book, cards and numbers\n elray 1943 Elray
|Cue It!
|the back room\non al plough, mourning envelopes, emil jarrow\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|funny talk\n\nbruce elliott\nfrank lane 1943 Bruce Elliott (reviewer)
|Funny Talk
|slate sleights\nwith small slates, two routines - the great oriental enigma (selected card appears written on slates, two flaps) - ghost writer's cramp (four messages, one on each side)\nclayton rawson 1943 Clayton Rawson
|Slate Sleights
|answer to hey magish! "show us a trick"\nshort changing in a routine, dime to penny but not revealing it\ntom osborne 1943 Tom Osborne
|Answer To Hey Magish! "Show Us A Trick"
|paper money\ncrumpled piece of newspaper changes in a dollar bill\nmilbourne christopher 1943 Milbourne Christopher
|Paper Money
|the back room\non stuart robson, keith clark, newspaper clippings\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|bar bet\nletting bill fall and spectator has to catch it\n unknown 1943 Unknown
|Bar Bet
|turnabout\ntwo decks, two cards are exchanged and match\nwalter b. gibson 1943 Walter B. Gibson
|glass-ic\nsealed message reading technique\n elray 1943 Elray
|gaglet\ncalculation and multiple outs\nalvin r. plough 1943 Alvin R. Plough
|transition\nholder for folded silk, clever\nhen fetsch 1943 Hen Fetsch
|blitz-match\nwinning game\njohn r. boyko\njohn mccormick\ncorrection on page 154 1943 John R. Boyko, John McCormick
|the back room\non harry segal, table-lifting, walter gibson and clayton rawson\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|the backward ghost\ntwo slate mysteries, different working and preparation - a merlini mystery - the message from nowhere\nclayton rawson 1943 Clayton Rawson
|The Backward Ghost
|disembodied c.p.a.\nlady from audience is blindfolded and reveals a result from a calculation\nvivian st. john 1943 Vivian St. John
|Disembodied C.P.A.
|cute cut\nthree selections are cut to\nart lyle 1943 Art Lyle
|Cute Cut
|slip cut\n\nart lyle 1943 Art Lyle
|Slip Cut
|the back room\non using adult methods when learning magic, john scarne, james g. thompson, annemann, miss vivian st. john, paul curry and russel swann\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|headline speller\nsilent spelling\nfranklin v. taylor 1943 Franklin V. Taylor
|Headline Speller
|knots to you\ndisc with hole on rope goes in between knots\npaul c. krank 1943 Paul C. Krank
|Knots To You
|thrice right\nthought of number is counted from the deck and cross sum as well, another spectator does the same without looking at the card, prediction matches the card from first spectator and when the card by the second spectator is turned over ist is the same as well\ngerber \na routine by stewart james in "the jinx" 1943 Gerber
|Thrice Right
|betcha\njoke, bet that the bottom card is spectator's card, miniature card\nhen fetsch 1943 Hen Fetsch
|the back room\non jerry gale and paper puppets, n. majahara, bert kalmar and edgar bergen\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|destroyed and restored dress\nhem of a dress is cut, burnt and restored\nn. majahara 1943 N. Majahara
|Destroyed and Restored Dress
|mental mirror\nword and card are divined by medium, cards code word\n shaman 1943 Shaman
|Mental Mirror
|silken switch\n\nkolmar \ntarbell color changing handkerchief\nharlan tarbell 1943 Kolmar
|Silken Switch
|axis cut\nthree rings linked, one is allowed to be cut to free all\nwilbur t. kattner\nring sation\nken beale 1943 Wilbur T. Kattner
|Axis Cut
|the back room\non jack trepel performing magic on the radio, jay marshall, shaman\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|letter to bruce elliott\non majahara's trick\nfrances ireland marshall\npage 159 1943 Frances Ireland Marshall
|Letter to Bruce Elliott
|on the barrel head\nfast and loose with a rope\nl. vosburgh lyons 1943 L. Vosburgh Lyons
|On the Barrel Head
|destined dart\ndart thrown on dartboard, where several cards are displayed, spectator throws the dart and hit card is found in an other deck reversed\nhen fetsch 1943 Hen Fetsch
|Destined Dart
|middle deal\ncenter deal presentation\nr. c. buff\nsame concepts as barrie richardson's "any card at any number" in " theater of the mind" 1943 R. C. Buff
|Middle Deal
|the back room\non the great ballantin, jean hugard and fred braue, orson welles, a bingo fraud, bill gresham gives some tips on knife throwing\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|match puzzle\neleven matches, triangle\nl. vosburgh lyons\npage 171 for the solution 1943 L. Vosburgh Lyons
|Match Puzzle
|cute! huh!\none of two coin penetrates a slate, name of selection appears on slate\nhen fetsch 1943 Hen Fetsch
|Cute! Huh!
|websterian wizardry\nprediction of a chosen word from a dictionary\ne.e. hammill 1943 E.E. Hammill
|Websterian Wizardry
|pick me up\nnumber between one and thirty is named, an indicator card is inserted at that position and the card card named\nwalter b. gibson\nthe power of two\nroy walton\nbinary division\nmichael weber 1943 Walter B. Gibson
|Pick Me Up
|pin perplexer\nsix safety pins link in hand\naudley walsh 1943 Audley Walsh
|Pin Perplexer
|the back room\non why this issue is called g.i. stuff, the solution to dr. lyons match puzzle from page167, bob gysel and annemann's bullet catching\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|suave silk\nknot travels from one handkerchief to handkerchief hold in spectator's palms\npaul rosini 1943 Paul Rosini
|Suave Silk
|instantaneous knot with both hands\n\njean hugard\n unknown\njean hugard's "silken sorcery" page 65 1943 Jean Hugard, Unknown
|Instantaneous Knot with Both Hands
|psychic uncle sam\n"p$ychic uncle $am", result of calculation shows initial number\ne.e. hammill 1943 E.E. Hammill
|Psychic Uncle Sam
|collected thoughts\nmedium and group calculation, result is predicted\nthe brain guys 1943 The Brain Guys
|Collected Thoughts
|the back room\non the nadir of publicity, rajah raboid and a picture of bruce elliott\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|the umbrella servante\n\njoseph dunninger 1943 Joseph Dunninger
|The Umbrella Servante
|popper upper\nmatch on business card covered by matchbook, penetrates it twice, match vanishes in the end\nverne chesbro\njames g. thompson jr.\nstrike one\njames g. thompson jr.\nverne chesbro\nwilliam h. mccaffrey\ngerald kosky\npenta-match\nstewart judah 1943 Verne Chesbro, James G. Thompson Jr.
|Popper Upper
|sympathy\n\nclyde cairy\nduo\nherb runge 1943 Clyde Cairy
|papo-leaso\nsigned paper ring penetrates rope under a handkerchief\nbob hanko 1943 Bob Hanko
|the back room\non dante selling his show, a blackstone anecdote, jay marshall, j. a. melrose, russ swann, jack marshall, captain harry baker\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|letter to bruce elliott\non fake explanations\njohn r. boyko 1943 John R. Boyko
|Letter to Bruce Elliott
|91¢ miracle\nthree spectators select a different color envelope each and can than put one coin out of five in it, when performer turns over and sees the remaining two, he knows who chose which coin\nwalter b. gibson\nkey chart to the 91¢ miracle\nl. vosburgh lyons 1943 Walter B. Gibson
|91¢ Miracle
|the similarity is in the difference\nspectators write names on blank cards, deck in pocket, cards are found\nart lyle 1943 Art Lyle
|The Similarity Is In the Difference
|marechal's mirage\nproducing a flower in a vase under handkerchief, bottomless vase\ngreer marechal jr. 1943 Greer Marechal Jr.
|Marechal's Mirage
|the back room\non frances ireland, greer marechal, jr., dunninger, ogden nash, john scarne\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|cleromantic chicanery\npage of newspaper is crumbled and page number is the prediction, three dice are stacked and the hidden numbers added\ne.e. hammill\nfrank n. dodd\njohn scarne\nthe double steal\nfrank n. dodd 1943 E.E. Hammill, Frank N. Dodd, John Scarne
|Cleromantic Chicanery
|cagliostro's spectacles\nspectator puts on special glasses when the cards are spread in front of him, he names all of the selections\n shaman\nan idea of delands, credit reference on page 191\nbifocals\n shaman\nbluecue\nthomas alan waters\nblind man's bluff\nsimon lovell 1943 Shaman
|Cagliostro's Spectacles
|"-and having writ-"\nsealed message reading, mixed with psychometry and handwriting analysis\njerry sorensen 1943 Jerry Sorensen
|"-and having writ-"
|the back room\non stuart robson and the war\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|special sale\ncoins and slate idea, with defense stamp\n willard s. smith 1943 Willard S. Smith
|Special Sale
|letter to bruce elliott\non his trip to the east, the mango trick, cups and balls\nharrison kimball 1943 Harrison Kimball
|Letter to Bruce Elliott
|first fumes\nperformer mimes rolling a cigarette, lights a match and later blows smoke from his mouth\nbyron churchill 1943 Byron Churchill
|First Fumes
|"peek-deck" pappy\ntaylor's peek deck, as a code \njames g. thompson jr.\npage 199 for an improvement\npeek deck\nfranklin v. taylor 1943 James G. Thompson Jr.
|"Peek-Deck" Pappy
|the $64.00 word\ntaylor's peek deck combined with a dictionary book test\nr. c. buff\npeek deck\nfranklin v. taylor 1943 R. C. Buff
|The $64.00 Word
|weirdo double\ntwo predictions\nthe brain guys \nweirdo\ncharles t. jordan 1943 The Brain Guys
|Weirdo Double
|the back room\non dunninger, vantine and cazan\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|letter to bruce elliott\nabout bob weill's and eddie clever's writing on ted annemann in "the linking ring"\nken crossen 1943 Ken Crossen
|Letter to Bruce Elliott
|slip, snap, spoof\nlinking and unlinking pins\nl. vosburgh lyons\njerry andrus' routine, same gimmick 1943 L. Vosburgh Lyons
|Slip, Snap, Spoof
|ode to the jinx\nthree piles, one card from one pile selected and packet counted, card is found in performer's pocket\nclyde cairy 1943 Clyde Cairy
|Ode to The Jinx
|primapara\nwith cards\njean-eugène robert-houdin 1943 Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
|the back room\non an article in the sunday mirror magazine about spotting gambling, john scarne, frances ireland, kolmar, shaman\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|half-head/half-tail coin\nfor rubbing-two-coins-together illusion\n shaman\ngaffed coins - 3/4 silver fake\nkarl fulves 1943 Shaman
|Half-Head/Half-Tail Coin
|carlyle's card\nidea by fred braue on page 214, see reference, for credit information see also "informant" reference\nfrancis carlyle\ndouglas dexter's "the mystic star" in will goldston's "great magician's tricks", 1931\npaddle move with a card\n unknown\nthe back room\nbruce elliott\ncarlyle's card\nfrancis carlyle\npaddle plus\nfrancis carlyle\nthe human printing press\nsteve beam\ninformant\nkarl fulves\npaddle move\nfrancis carlyle 1943 Francis Carlyle
|Carlyle's Card
|confetti spaghetti\nconfetti turns into a multicolored paper band\nbob hanko 1943 Bob Hanko
|Confetti Spaghetti
|buckram "out"\nthought of card travels to book, as an out for the think of a card you see plot\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|Buckram "Out"
|paper puzzle\na figure on a paper, has to be reorganized to form a square in no more than four cuts\nl. vosburgh lyons\npage 203 for solution 1943 L. Vosburgh Lyons
|Paper Puzzle
|key chart to the 91¢ miracle\n\nl. vosburgh lyons\n91¢ miracle\nwalter b. gibson 1943 L. Vosburgh Lyons
|Key Chart to the 91¢ Miracle
|the back room\non l. vosburgh lyons, a demonstration where a doc is beheaded, an improvement to taylor's peek deck by james g. thompson jr., fred mosteller and his spelling trick ("bravo!")\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|an egg gag\nwhen proving that an egg is real, a spectator holds a glass and the egg is cracked open, bottomless glass\n unknown 1943 Unknown
|An Egg Gag
|bravo!\nfive decks, multiple phase mental speller, suits spelled and values counted (count-spell), see back room reference for corrections\nfrederick mosteller\nthe back room\nbruce elliott\nencore!\nfrederick mosteller 1943 Frederick Mosteller
|"take it off"\nknot is slid on rope then taken off\ntom fitzgerald 1943 Tom Fitzgerald
|"Take It Off"
|slip knot\n\n unknown 1943 Unknown
|Slip Knot
|the back room\non stuart robson, al chris describing a miracle from india, dell o'dell, russ swann, selling and promotion\nbruce elliott 1943 Bruce Elliott
|The Back Room
|lota bowl and sand cup\nidea for humorous presentation \nrobert gable 1943 Robert Gable
|Lota Bowl and Sand Cup
|"visible but unseen" or " the pocket index that ain't"\ncard prediction, index in deck, switch in hat\nfranklin v. taylor\nbruce elliott\npeek deck\nfranklin v. taylor 1943 Franklin V. Taylor, Bruce Elliott
|"Visible But Unseen" Or " The Pocket Index That Ain't"
|okito outdone\nokito box with a rectangular box\nl. vosburgh lyons 1943 L. Vosburgh Lyons
|Okito Outdone
|deferred coincidence\nthree cards are selected from a red and from a blue deck, they match\nwalter b. gibson 1943 Walter B. Gibson
|Deferred Coincidence
|a sucker bet\nperformed as a bet\nclayton rawson\npage 211 for a variation 1943 Clayton Rawson
|A Sucker Bet


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Hitting the ground running
Since I heard it, I always like the idiom "to hit the ground running". There's no really good German translation of it, but the thought of arriving somewhere, knowing what to do and how to do it definitely has its charm. In practical terms it's often hard, especially if there's complicated rules, tools and processes.
I won't deny that there's an interesting learning experience involved if you want to get into Ubuntu development. The experience will involve a couple of round-trips, as there is no one-size-fits-all solution to every single package or piece of software.
The good news is though[1]: it's a lot easier than you think and we're there to help you.
On Friday, 2nd March 2012, a lot of Ubuntu developers and contributors are going to be there to actively help you get started with Ubuntu Development. This is a great opportunity to ask all your questions, get to know a bunch of really friendly and helpful people and learn lots and lots about Ubuntu and Open Source development. It will almost be like hitting the ground running.
So you like the idea to help make Ubuntu better for millions of users on servers, desktops, laptops, TVs, phones and elsewhere?
There are two lists of items we want to look into fixing together:
- Packages which don't build anymore. If you have worked with compiling source code before, you know that a mistake like a syntax error can get you into a situation where the build is broken and does not succeed. There are lots of other reasons why this might happen, a good idea is usually to review the build log referenced in the link above.
- Bugs which have been fixed elsewhere. Our bug life cycle works like this: make sure the bug can be reproduced reliably, gather all the information necessary, figure out if it's an Ubuntu-specific problem or if it happens in the vanilla code of the software authors as well, then forward the bug with all the relevant information upstream. The Launchpad bug tracker is a great tool, which puts us into the situation where we are able to go through bugs which were fixed elsewhere already. Taking these fixes and applying them to Ubuntu is a great target for improvements, especially being eight weeks away from release.
There's only two things you need to do:
- Make yourself familiar with Ubuntu development. Just these three articles will give you a good start: Introduction to Ubuntu development, Getting Set Up and Fixing a bug in Ubuntu. (Feel free to read more if you like. ;-))
- Join us in #ubuntu-motu on irc.freenode.net on Friday, 2nd March 2012 and we will answer all your questions, hang out with you, review code for you and have a good time.
The great thing is: this also coincides with Ubuntu Global Jam, so expect people from all around the globe to hang out and make Ubuntu better.
[1] … and this is where the actual blog post starts. :-)

subset: commoncrawl


text:
The idea that wandering attention could be beneficial has recently gained traction, at least in the media. But there's a perpendicular strain that's gotten attention in recent years, one that seeks to balance the constant buzz of connectivity with making time to think.
A typical afternoon in the newsroom of The State Journal-Register brings a flurry of distractions.Police scanners are dispensing terse instructions. Phones are ringing. A colleague is listening to a cable news network, all day every day. Someone is pounding his keyboard like it insulted his mother. The smell of popcorn wafts from a nearby desk, penetrating first my nose and then my mind, like an olfactory strobe light in a windowless room. What was I writing about? Oh, right, distraction. Last week, I wrote about the modern problem of the unwatched Netflix rental and asked, "Is life too short for 'Rashomon'?" I wrote that we sometimes have a hard time squaring "a slowly unfolding, subtitled film and our always-on, Twitter-addled attention spans." My friend Kiyoshi Martinez picked up on that phrase and offered a thoughtful response, recounting his own difficulty finding the time to read books and watch movies he's purchased. "It's become harder for me to sit down and commit time to something for several hours at a time," Martinez wrote on his Tumblr.com blog. "And yet, I can sit in front of my computer for hours and scroll through Twitter, Tumblr and refresh the Drudge Report." Participation in the social networking site Twitter.com has enriched my life, showing me stories I'd otherwise not have seen and helping me to understand the world in new ways through the 140-character aphorisms of some of the brilliant people I follow. Yet if someone had been keeping track of how much time I've spent on Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and the rest of the Internet, instead of, say, reading books, I'm afraid I'd be embarrassed at the results. Those of us whose daily life includes a barrage of e-mails and phone calls and stories and questions are already primed to frequently shift attention. It's actually a job skill for a police reporter to be able to write a story while listening for anything interesting on the scanners, or a sports editor to keep an eye on multiple games at once. The idea that wandering attention could be beneficial has recently gained traction, at least in the media. In May, New York Magazine published a story titled "In Defense of Distraction." And I heard a discussion on satellite radio in which the evolutionary basis for distractibility was explored — if a group of cavemen were sitting around a fire, rapt by a storyteller, the one who was distracted by the sound of an approaching saber-tooth tiger would be a valuable member of the tribe. But there's a perpendicular strain that's gotten attention in recent years, one that seeks to balance the constant buzz of connectivity with making time to think. That line of thinking had a moment in the sun last year when a conversation between then-candidate Barack Obama and British Conservative Party leader David Cameron was picked up by a microphone, with the men seemingly unaware. It was late July, and Cameron asked Obama if he would have any time off during the campaign. "I have not. I am going to take a week in August," Obama said, according to The Associated Press. "But I agree with you that somebody, somebody who had worked in the White House who — not Clinton himself, but somebody who had been close to the process — said that should we be successful, that actually the most important thing you need to do is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you're doing is thinking. And the biggest mistake that a lot of these folks make is just feeling as if you have to be. ..." "These guys just chalk your diary up," Cameron said. "Right. ... In 15 minute increments and ..." "We call it the dentist waiting room. You have to scrap that because you've got to have time," Cameron said. Merlin Mann, who writes about the strategy and philosophy of attention and creativity on 43folders.com, said he was encouraged and inspired by the exchange. "If people as busy as these two guys ... can make time to rise above the noise, it's hard to imagine why each of us wouldn't want to occasionally unchalk our diary enough to try something similar," he wrote. When President Obama was elected, it was widely reported that he fought to continue using his BlackBerry, and won. But I suspect many so-called knowledge workers — desk jockeys, less charitably — would relish the opportunity to shed e-mail altogether. In my case, I could bid farewell to the endless requests for coverage in A&E; national public relations flacks who seem to have no understanding that, if it's not local, it's probably not going to be covered by a mid-size paper like the SJ-R; and the endless stream of ads for ... never mind, probably best not to get into that. So we do what we can to cope. I've gained control of my inbox by following Mann's "Inbox Zero" philosophy (www.43folders.com/izero — it'll change your life). I recently disconnected my personal e-mail from my BlackBerry, hoping I can rediscover the once-a-day kick of receiving e-mail I used to feel when I got my first address in the mid-'90s. My friend Martinez also wrote about some of the steps he's taken to prevent his attention span from dwindling even further. "I've begun to read more during my commute to work. I print out longer articles to read on the Blue Line and keep them in my messenger bag. I've subscribed to a few magazines and started making it a point to read them cover-to-cover, starting with the features," Martinez wrote. "I'm doing this because I have a concern that if I can't rewire my brain to concentrate on something for an extended period, I may eventually find myself not wanting to learn something that takes time, or enjoy films of a higher intellectual order. That scares me." It scares me, too. That's why I'm going to go home and start ... hold on, I just got an e-mail ... What was I talking about? Brian Mackey can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. He's also often distracted at twitter.com/brianmackey.


text:
Since the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, certain independent advocacy groups have played an increasingly large role in political campaigns, spending an estimated $250 million during the 2012 presidential race. Now, news that some Internal Revenue Service employees targeted Tea Party and other conservative groups that engaged in political advocacy has reignited the debate over whether some of these organizations are abusing their tax-exempt status.
And some observers are concerned that the furor over the IRS singling out those groups could result in less legitimate scrutiny if the agency backs away from the political hot potato.
President Obama calls reports that the IRS targeted conservative organizations for extra scrutiny "outrageous."
President Barack Obama on Monday called the targeting of conservative groups "outrageous," and politicians from both sides of the aisle demanded accountability from the agency.
At issue is a type of nonprofit group called a 501(c)(4). The tax code allows people to form such a group under the rubric of a "social welfare organization" for the purpose of informing the public on issues like vanishing rain forests or gun control.
While contributions to a 501(c)(4) aren't tax deductible, they do offer one big advantage to donors: The money given does not need to be publicly disclosed.
What 501(c)(4) groups can do is advocate -- through advertising and by other means -- for or against a particular view: that Americans need to take action to conserve energy, for example.
What they can't do, according to IRS regulations, is spend most of their funds on outright campaigning for a candidate. Campaign election activity cannot be their primary activity.
It's up to the IRS to determine whether a 501(c)(4) group has crossed the line and has become primarily a campaign group.
The $250 million estimate from the Center for Responsive Politics makes 501(c)(4) groups important, but not dominant players on the political stage. Groups called super PACs, which are required to disclose their donors, spent more than twice as much as the 501(c)(4)s, according to the same estimate.
Lawrence Noble, a campaign finance lawyer who was general counsel for the Federal Election Commission and now heads a group called Americans for Campaign Reform that calls for taxpayer funding of elections, said that the IRS scrutiny of certain conservative groups -- and the resulting furor -- "is not totally surprising since Congress and the IRS have failed to clearly spell out what activity is permissible for a 501(c)(4). Instead, the IRS relies on vague 'factors' that come down to a 'we know it when we see it' standard. Congress must set clearer rules for what is permissible for these organizations to do."
The 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision changed the playing field for 501(c)(4)s by allowing them to spend money in elections for federal office.
The decision led to "a dramatic increase in the number of C4's getting involved in politics generally," said Paul Ryan, senior counsel at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan group that has called for greater scrutiny of such groups. They "serve as a pretty convenient tool for legally laundering money from other entities -- business corporations, for example -- that might not want their names being disclosed publicly to their customers or to their shareholders."
But the Citizens United decision did not repeal the IRS regulations stating that campaigning in elections cannot be a 501(c)(4)'s primary activity.
Ryan said his group has long criticized the IRS "for its slow or complete lack of enforcement of the restrictions on 501(c)(4) groups getting involved in candidate elections. Notwithstanding our criticism, we find it wholly inappropriate that the agency used partisan screening criteria in order to decide which groups to take a closer look at."
The Campaign Legal Center's position is that the IRS should be scrutinizing all 501(c)(4) groups "regardless of their political ideologies," Ryan said. "It would truly be an unfortunate development if these recent revelations of IRS missteps led to even less enforcement generally across the board of C4 groups that may in fact be violating or abusing our tax laws."
Noble sounded a similar note: "My concern is that the wrong lesson will be learned from this incident and it will be used to deter any attempts to make sure that the political activity of C4 organizations stays within the bounds of the law."
Professor Donald Tobin at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, an expert on how tax laws apply to political activity, explained that "the IRS is always in a very precarious position" in trying to enforce rules on 501(c)(4) organizations since "whenever a group is being investigated, it may complain that it is being done for political reasons."
Tobin said one consequence of the recent IRS revelations is that "it may make IRS even more skittish in its regulating in this area." He added, "The IRS is not particularly interested in regulating in this area; it does not produce a lot of revenue and it's outside the agency's core function of trying to obtain revenue."
The agency, Tobin said, has a difficult task in searching for abuse of 501(c)(4) status: "The IRS needs some way of culling through the mass of information that they get" in order to figure out which groups need further scrutiny. "The IRS does need some sorting device."
But, he said, "I wish the IRS had looked for a neutral term like 'party' rather than 'Tea Party.'"
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HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. -- Cameron Scitern shot a career best in the first round of the Austin Peay State University Intercollegiate Monday morning and is tied for first after two rounds. Scitern shot a 3-under 69 before carding a 2-under 70 in the afternoon session on the Par-72, 7,132 yard course at the Links at Novadell on a warm 75 degree day with a solid breeze.
Colin McCarty of SIU-Edwardsville matched Scitern in each round and shares the lead with a 5-under, 139.
The Rockdale, Texas native recorded three birdies over the first 15 holes, but remained at even par. He would make a charge with three consecutive birdies, including the par-5, 590 yard 9th hole, to close out the round. The result was a tie with McCarty for second after the opening round, one shot behind leader 2012 Ohio Valley Conference Golfer of the Year Patrick Newcomb of Murray State.
Scitern opened the second round with a birdie on the par-4 11th, giving him his fourth straight birdie. His pinpoint play resulted in four more birdies during the afternoon, as well as hitting the flag on the par-4 8th with his second shot leaving him with a four foot putt. Scitern and McCarty hold a one-shot lead over Newcomb after 36-holes.
"It was an honor to watch his play today," said head coach Chris Seibel. "Was glad to see him shoot a career round and it helps the team heading into tomorrow's play."
The Tigers (300-297=597, 21-over) enter play on Tuesday in 12th out of 14 teams, 22-shots behind host Austin Peay. TSU is within striking distance of a run to the top half of the field. "We need to play hard and beat the players we are playing against," Seibel said. "If we can accomplish our goal, we move up the field".
James Stepp recorded two straight 3-over 75's for a 6-over 150 and is tied for 42nd. The morning round for Stepp was highlighted by a birdie on the par-5 590 yard 9th hole. The sophomore used a monstrous tee shot and a 4-iron on his second shot to reach the green. His eagle putt missed by six inches before tapping in for the birdie. Stepp stayed steady with 14 pars and registering a birdie on the par-3 17th to close out play.
Andrew Warner (74-77=151) used three birdies to shoot a 2-over and was 27th after the morning session. Warner just missed a hole-in-one on the par-3 7th as his tee shot landed on the green and rolled to within six inches of the cup.
Codie Welborn (82-76=158) recorded a birdie on the par-4 2nd, but struggled to stay even during morning play. Welborn was able to rebound in the afternoon cutting six strokes off his opening score. The Murfreesboro product began the second round with a birdie on the par-4 14th and pared the next nine holes, including the 248 yard par-3 5th. The hole played as the toughest of the day for the competitors with all golfers using a driver or a 3-wood to reach the long hole through a strong head wind. Wellborn, Stepp and Dallas Hill were the only Tigers to notch a par on the challenging 5th.
Hill (82-76=158) saved par on the 5th with a chip from off the green that found the bottom of the cup. The sophomore shot a 4-over during the second round and improved by six shots from the morning to the afternoon by using birdies on the 4th, 8th and 15th to score for TSU. Shane Sampair, playing as an individual, is 13-over after two rounds. Sampair snared four birdies on the first day of the tournament.
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Sure quickens the pulse to hear that wannabe Cubs owner Mark Cuban will be Dancing with the Stars next season. How nice. While his next team is in the thick of a division crawl, the Dallas Mavericks honcho can prepare for Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown, Helio Castroneves, Marie Osmond and the rest of the competition. Now tell me, Cubs fans, is that the billionaire you want to own your ballclub for years to come?
Sure quickens the pulse to hear that wannabe Cubs owner Mark Cuban will be Dancing with the Stars next season. How nice. While his next team is in the thick of a division crawl, the Dallas Mavericks honcho can prepare for Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown, Helio Castroneves, Marie Osmond and the rest of the competition. Now tell me, Cubs fans, is that the billionaire you want to own your ballclub for years to come? Or would you rather have the Chicago guy, the one who grew up at Kedzie and Lawrence, rode the streetcar with his father to Wrigley Field more times than he can remember, jokes "too long" when asked how long he has bled blue and had one major concern Wednesday night -- the Milwaukee Brewers-Cubs score? That would be Wolves owner Don Levin, of course. "Mark Cuban is a great guy, but is he a Chicago guy? No," Levin told me in a telephone conversation. "Should the Cubs be sold to him? In my opinion, no. But that doesn't mean it won't happen or that he wouldn't turn out to be a better owner than the rest of us." You see, that's what separates Levin from the rest. To fix the Cubs in the future, the next owner has to understand why they broke so many times in the past. As one who has lived and mostly died with the team all these years, Levin is the only known candidate who has been as successful as a local sports owner as he has been frustrated as a local sports fan. Among those who have a spare $600 million or so, anyway. "Yeah, absolutely it's important to have local ownership if at all possible," Cubs manager Lou Piniella said. "Most successful franchises have local owners. They know the team and the fans and the city. They take a lot of pride in a job well done." Word is, the next owner may not be in place for as many as eight months, but Cuban seems to be the chic pick for now. Personally, I like the guy even if the volume is a bit loud at times. Every team owner should have his passion and determination and guts to speak his mind. The bland, old game of baseball could use some fresh ideas. "Mark is very successful," Levin said. "Maybe a lot of us should want to be Mark Cuban." Just not as Cubs owner, that's all. Cuban deserves major points for the way he turned around a sorry NBA team in a matter of years, but basketball isn't baseball. In the NBA, one player can make or break the franchise. In MLB, there are farm systems but no quick fixes. If a frustrated Cuban didn't get immediate results here -- these are the Cubs, remember -- would he go young Steinbrenner on us and double the payroll? Then what -- $250 bleacher tickets? Would he sit within earshot of the players and managers and second-guess their moves, charge onto the field after blown calls? If Cuban wants another dance partner, then he can look no further than Pittsburgh, where he was born. Inject some life and resources into the Pirates team he worshipped as a kid, give it an image makeover, and baseball would have one less hopeless franchise on its hands. If ever two were meant to tango, then Cuban and The Burgh are the ones. Don't mistake that for a guarantee Levin would do what no Cubs owner has done in 98-plus years here. As even he admits, three league championships in what amounts to Triple-A hockey doesn't necessarily translate into the same in Major League Baseball. The last time I checked, the Grand Rapids Griffins aren't on the Cubs schedule, although they probably could finish third in the Central Division, if you want to know the truth. Still, when you consider how Levin has turned the fan-friendly Wolves into perennial winners, not to mention one of the best entertainment values around, it's hard to deny the guy knows what local sports die-hards want and how to deliver it. "There is no better organization in pro sports than this one," Wolves veteran Rob Brown once told me. "I've been with five NHL teams, and they're not run this way. And that's why they don't win. We're treated like people, not like what-have-you-done-for-us-latelys." A number of big-league teams could use a hands-on guy to turn them around. Given all their advantages, the Cubs aren't one of them. They need someone who will delegate authority to baseball people with proven track records, provide a low-nine-figure payroll to work with, offer some creative advice, then get the heck out of the way. For the most part, that's the way Levin has done business in the past 13 years. "I'm absolutely interested in the team," said Levin, 59, who resides in Highland Park now. "I won't buy it to lose money, but I'm prepared to pay a price that will allow me to break even. The idea isn't to be a vulture and gouge the fans but to do whatever it takes within reason to have a successful sports franchise here." Scary Spice can wait. If you're the Cubs, better to align the stars than dance with them. Daily Southtown Paul Ladewski can be reached at email@example.com.


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Remember when people would complain about those horrible working conditions at Foxconn plants? How employees worked too much? Now, people—well, Foxconn workers—are complaining about something else: too little work.
According to China Business News (via TechInAsia), Foxconn workers on the iPad line are suddenly finding themselves twiddling their thumbs with loads of time off. And for workers, more time off means lower salaries. One worker told China Business News that he already had ten unpaid days off in March.
While the new iPad seems to be selling well in stores, iPad scalpers in China's gray market are reporting dismal sales, apparently. So hopefully sales will start going bananas real soon so workers can go back to pulling crazy hours and people can go back to moaning about how horrible Foxconn is?
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Gov. Rod Blagojevich further muddied the state budget picture Thursday, acting to spare money to prevent state park closings and worker layoffs but leaving the fate of those cuts unclear and historic site closings still on schedule.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich further muddied the state budget picture Thursday, acting to spare money to prevent state park closings and worker layoffs but leaving the fate of those cuts unclear and historic site closings still on schedule.
Minutes after lawmakers went home without taking budget action in their fall veto session, Blagojevich acted on Senate Bill 1103, designed to restore more than $230 million in spending cuts he made this summer.
The governor approved about $176 million of that total, aimed at restoring funding for substance abuse centers, keeping 11 parks open and preventing more than 320 layoffs of human-services and child-welfare workers scheduled for Nov. 30.
But Blagojevich spokeswoman Katie Ridgway said human-services workers still will be laid off, and there's no guarantee yet parks won't close. Not all of the 179 workers at the Department of Children and Family Services scheduled to be laid off might be spared, either, she said.
"We were able to save some core services today, but in the larger picture, we still have a $2 billion shortfall and need to manage that budget," Ridgway said. "Difficult decisions are being made this year, but we have to do so while maintaining core services."
Blagojevich also used his veto pen on $55 million, cutting funding for 13 state historic sites and personnel in the offices of the attorney general, treasurer and secretary of state. Lawmakers will have another shot to restore those cuts but aren't scheduled to return to the state Capitol until January.
Blagojevich said he rejected that spending with "great reluctance," but "sound financial management" and "prudent fiscal policy" required him to turn it down without enough money to pay for it.
"I share many of the spending priorities outlined in this legislation," Blagojevich wrote in his veto message. "But, due to clear hypocrisy of the revenue passed in support of this legislation, sufficient revenues are not available to meet the obligations outlined."
A spokesman for the major union for state employees said the union is gratified with Blagojevich's action to restore the cuts but disappointed historic sites were not also spared.
"We'll continue to fight for them," said Anders Lindall, spokesman for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31. AFSCME is waiting for official notice that the planned layoffs will be rescinded, Lindall added.
Blagojevich made the cuts this summer, but lawmakers returned to the Capitol in September to restore them. They approved taking money out of dedicated state funds for special purposes to cover the extra spending.
The governor then approved the so-called "fund sweeps" bill but said he had doubts about being able to take some of the money out of the funds involved.
He cited those concerns again Thursday, along with new estimates from his state revenue department that money coming into state coffers is falling far short of budgeted amounts because of the slumping economy.
"While the nation faces a tremendous crisis, we must use all available resources to protect the stability of the state and the needs of its people," Blagojevich wrote to lawmakers.
The governor earlier this week proposed a plan to deal with the growing budget hole — now estimated to be at least $2 billion — by asking lawmakers for more authority to cut back spending throughout government and seeking billions of dollars in extra federal cash.
House leaders initially intended to call the governor's plan for a vote Thursday, but that changed when the governor's office asked for more time to work on the idea.
"His (Blagojevich's) people decided that maybe it wasn't quite ready for debate and that we should do a little more negotiations. We're OK with that," said Rep. Gary Hannig, D-Litchfield.
Rep. Jay Hoffman, a Collinsville Democrat and Blagojevich's top House ally, said the state can't wait long to address the growing problem but also needs lawmakers and the governor to work together to deal with it.
He said legislators want to restrict how much the governor can take out of certain spending areas and want more say on how cuts will be handled.
"Making sure that the bill is properly drafted in this emergency time is key," Hoffman said.
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National Zoo reopens to visitors after shutdown | News
WASHINGTON (AP) - A day after most furloughed federal employees went back to work, the Smithsonian's National Zoo is open to visitors again.
The zoo opened its gates Friday morning. Zoo director Dennis Kelly greeted visitors at the main gate. The zoo was closed for nearly 3 weeks because of the government shutdown.
The zoo's popular panda cam went back online Thursday. While giant panda Mei Xiang (may SHONG) and her unnamed, 8-week-old female cub are still not on public display, zoo visitors can see the cub's father, Tian Tian (tee-YEN tee-YEN).
The cub's eyes have opened, and she can scoot around on her front legs.
The zoo is offering a 10 percent discount on food and merchandise through Sunday.


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Against The Grain
A little bit of rye goes a long way in creating complex beers.
Story by Joshua M. Bernstein
Photos by Terry Manier
In the late 1990s, Georgia was a barren land for hoppy beer. Brown ales, stouts and lightly bittered pales dominated tap lines. Seeing a niche that needed to be filled, Brian "Spike" Buckowski and John Cochran started planning Terrapin Beer, an Athens brewery specializing in bold brews with a bitter edge. They decided their first release would be a hopped-up, West Coast-style pale ale, something in the Sierra Nevada vein. Problem is, southern beer drinkers balked at the plan. "They said they didn't like the bitterness sitting on their tongue," recalls Buckowski, Terrapin's brewmaster. "Remember, this was 1997 in the South. Back then, anything hoppier than a Budweiser was too bitter."
While flipping through recipes, Buckowski fondly recalled college days spent sipping rye whiskey. "I liked that spicy character that dried out your palate," he says. Perhaps rye malt could curtail lingering bitterness in beer? Buckowski crafted a beer that incorporated about 10 percent rye (the remainder was a blend of barley malts) and citric, earthy hops. The result was fresh and clean, with a crisp, thirst-quenching character and a bitterness as fleeting as a sun shower. "Thirty seconds later, you're ready to take another sip," Buckowski, 43, says of what became Rye Pale Ale.
Though it was "created out of necessity of pleasing palates in the Southeast," Buckowski soon discovered that rye beer held national appeal. Six months after its spring 2002 release (hey, opening a brewery takes time), the Rye Pale Ale won gold at Denver's Great American Beer Festival. "As far as (American) rye beers go, we were definitely one of the pioneers," he says.
Nowadays, Terrapin isn't alone in its rye pursuits. Brewers nationwide have begun embracing the grain, which can add complexity, sharpness, subtle spiciness and dryness to beer styles ranging from piney IPAs to chocolaty porters and even more eclectic, experimental beers. New York's Ithaca Beer makes the brawny Old Habit strong ale with a quartet of rye malts and ages it in whiskey barrels. Missouri's O'Fallon Brewery offers the buttery Hemp Hop Rye. California's Bear Republic and Texas' Real Ale are resuscitating Germany's hefeweizen-like roggenbier, while New Belgium is tinkering with Finland's ancient sahti style, which derives its forest-fresh profile from juniper and, of course, rye.
Rye Rules
With brewing, it's helpful to think of rye as a supporting actor. Top billing on the grain bill is usually reserved for barley malts. This may be a matter of taste, but it's mainly due to an evolutionary advantage: barley contains husks, which help keep the mash (the grains steeped in boiling water) loose and permit drainage of the wort—the broth that becomes beer. By contrast, rye is husk-less and can create a sticky, viscous mash, something "like concrete," says Matt Van Wyk, 38, brewmaster at Oregon's Oakshire Brewing. To prevent that coagulation, which is common when using 20 percent or more rye, brewers can add enzymes or, as Van Wyk does, rice hulls. They make the mash fluffy without altering flavor, allowing rye to work its magic without driving brewers bonkers.
For Van Wyk, rye was crucial in creating Line Dry Rye, Oakshire's summer seasonal. "We wanted to make a drinkable, sessionable beer, but we didn't want to make something that was boring," he explains. "We wanted some complexity." To achieve that, he dialed up several varieties of Pacific Northwest honey, citric Centennial hops and rye. "The rye adds crispness, a spicy character and helps dry out the beer, which is great in a summer seasonal," says Van Wyk, who has seen Line Dry become a top-seller.
Besides summery beers, rye is ideal in robust ales and cool-weather brews. Real Ale Brewing in Blanco, Texas, employs rye to add complexity to its Sisyphus barleywine, while Nashville-based Yazoo Brewing's chocolaty Sly Rye Porter gets a dry finish from the grain. A potent double IPA? It's the perfect platform for rye, which balances the sweet, caramel character of Schmaltz Brewing's Bittersweet Lenny's R.I.P.A.
For Brian Owens, head brewer at Missouri's O'Fallon, rye was the secret ingredient required to unlock a curious ingredient's potential. One day, Owens' boss mentioned that he'd like O'Fallon to brew a hemp-based beer. "I was skeptical, because the first thing that came to my mind was marijuana," says Owens, 33. Duty-bound, he bought toasted hemp seeds and brewed several pilot batches, discovering that the seeds' flavor had nothing in common with the skunky, pungent herb; instead, they possess a delicate nuttiness. To enhance the subtle taste without overpowering the seeds (they're imported from Canada and tested to ensure there's no THC content), Owens turned to rye. "It added a layer of flavoring and a spicy sharpness that makes it nice and drinkable," Owens says of his silky, ruby-hued, Hemp Hop Rye.
Pleased with the results, O'Fallon has begun exploring new brews that deserve a rye dose. The brewery settled upon an amped-up IPA called Ryely Hoppy, which will be a special Brewer's Stash release. It's both a tribute to the grain and to Owens' four-year-old boy. "My son's name is Ryely," Owens says, laughing. "I love rye beers, so my wife and I thought, 'Perfect, let's name him Ryely.' "
A Hefeweizen by Another Name
Creating a new breed of rye beers can be thrilling, but other brewers are instead finding success in reviving long-forgotten styles. For Texas' Real Ale, the opportunity to dig into history books arose after it bid good riddance to its old brewhouse in 2006. It was an indoor-outdoor setup (basically, a carport attached to a basement) that "was a glorified homebrewing system," recalls head brewer Erik Ogershok, 44. Brewing on jerry-rigged equipment was a pain, especially when crafting the balanced, well-hopped Full Moon Pale Rye Ale. However, in the new building, brewing with rye was a relative snap.
Like teens given the keys to a sports car, Ogershok and Real Ale decided to take their shiny new equipment for a spin. While Full Moon possessed 17 percent rye, what would happen if they brewed a beer containing 35 percent rye or higher? To do "something different and prove a point, we decided to make a roggenbier," Ogershok says.
You may draw a blank on the German beer that fell out of favor a century earlier, but you're likely familiar with its summery sibling, hefeweizen. Whereas hazy hefeweizens are wheat-driven, roggenbiers (roggen is German for rye) contain up to 50 percent rye. When fermented with hefeweizen yeast, roggenbiers "end up with a smooth, velvety body. That clove-y spiciness of the yeast goes well with the spicy rye. It almost tastes like pumpkin pie," Ogershok says of his beer, which has attracted a cult following, along with the darker, maltier Dunkelroggen.
Though it's too early to call this a revival, roggenbier is slowly catching on with brewers bewitched by rye. Toronto's Mill Street Brewery serves the Schleimhammer Roggenbier, while Boulder, Colorado's, Avery turns out the creamy, chewy Jerry's Roggenbier. Terrapin's Buckowski crossed a roggenbier with a smoky rauchbier to create the RoggenRauchBier. It was big, smoky and challenging—just like roggenbier's uphill struggle in the marketplace, especially when compared with hefeweizen.
The issue, says Peter Kruger, 40, the mas
ter brewer at California's Bear Republic, might be less about flavor than semantics. "Hefeweizen has all these soft consonants," says Kruger, whose brewery makes a roggenbier. "With roggenbier there are lots of hard consonants. Just the name sounds hard-core." Adds Ogershok, "If we called it 'German rye ale,' it'd probably be easier to sell." However, he has faith in this once-forgotten style. After all, he says, "in America, it took time for people to become familiar with hefeweizen. With roggenbier people are like, 'What the hell is that?' As brewers, it's incumbent upon us to be rye educators."
Branching Out
Germany is not the sole European nation with a rye-brewing tradition. That's what a team from Colorado's New Belgium Brewing discovered when they flew to Seattle's Elysian Brewing to create a beer in the experimental Trip series. From a hoppy Belgian tripel to a sour brown ale, these artisanal releases explore craft brewing's flavorful fringes. And for The Trip IV, released in fall 2009, the brewers looked to the forest for inspiration.
"I was trying to think of ways to incorporate juniper into a beer," says human resources coordinator Andrea DiMatteo, 35, who had the idea for Trip IV. While doing research, she discovered a rye-driven, Finnish farmhouse beer called sahti. Traditionally, sahti is made with juniper berries, oats and rye, then lautered—a method to separate liquid wort from grain—over juniper boughs, which imparts notes of resinous pine. "We wanted to be consistent with the traditional style," DiMatteo says.
Though this labor-intensive process is doable at home (where sahti was classically made), it's a logistical nightmare when scaled up for a modern brewing system. For starters, where would New Belgium find the right juniper species? Luckily, the neighbor of Elysian's marketing director grew the tree in his yard. The neighbor gave them permission to trim the juniper, which they cleaned and tossed—greenery and wooded matter included—into the lauter. To construct the sieve, an Elysian salesman strolled through a Seattle park and collected juniper boughs. The result of the urban foraging was a crisp, lively rye boasting aromas of the forest and citrus, thanks to orange and lemon peel and Amarillo and Cascade hops.
"The base of juniper and citrusy hops appeal to most people," explains New Belgium's assistant brewmaster Grady Hull, 38, "while the oats and rye add a nice texture." The experiment was such a hit that, this fall, New Belgium re-created The Trip IV for its Lips of Faith series, calling it Sahti. (The brewery sourced the juniper from a nursery.) "Sahti is surprisingly drinkable," Hull says of the appeal of that style of beer, which is also brewed by Goose Island and Dogfish Head. "The words 'juniper' and 'rye' may turn people off, but the style is not that far out there."
All Rye, All the Time
Given that relatively small quantities of rye can create a gummy mash, it might seem like inviting disaster to craft an all-rye beer. But where others see a fool's errand, Bear Republic saw a worthy challenge. One day in winter 2007, the brewers were unwinding with a couple beers, discussing rye malt. Rye had long been popular at Bear Republic, driving the flavor of its burly, aggressively bittered Hop Rod Rye. "One brewer said, 'What would a 100 percent rye beer taste like?' " Kruger recalls. "We thought, 'What do we have lose? Let's go for it.' "
To transform the "brewing from impossible to very, very difficult," Kruger says, the team used enzymes and rice hulls to break up the grain bed. They carefully monitored the mash's temperature, since wild fluctuations could turn the wet grains to stone. This made the brewing somewhat easier—but it lasted much, much longer. An average Bear Republic brew day lasts about eight hours. This session lasted 17 nerve-wracking, grueling hours. "That," Kruger recalls, "was not a fun day."
But the hard work was forgotten when sampling the surprising result, cheekily called Easy Ryeder. Despite its grain bill, the hazy, coppery beer's spiciness was restrained, resulting in a smooth, refreshing beer. Easy Ryeder was, well, easy-drinking. "If you didn't tell people it had rye in it, they might not have known," Kruger says.
Though Kruger has sworn off brewing Easy Ryeder again, the experience has not dissuaded the brewery from continuing its rye research. At last year's Great American Beer Festival, Bear Republic won gold with its Belgian-style Ryevalry. "Even though it was so weird, it was a beer that all of us loved," Kruger says of the double IPA that was brewed with 30 percent rye, then fermented with a Belgian ale yeast to create a bitter, spicy pleasure.
Terrapin's Buckowski, too, continues to be bitten by the rye bug. His Rye Squared is a supercharged riff on his flagship. He collaborated with Colorado's Left Hand to create the Terra-Rye'zd black rye lager (50 percent rye), and even snuck in 10 percent rye malt in the tart, hoppy, oak-aged Monstre Rouge he made with Belgium's De Proef Brouwerij. As for the future, Buckowski dreams of perhaps blending chocolate rye and dark rye malts to create a rye stout. "There's always a side project where we can use more rye," Buckowski says. "Any way we can exploit rye, we certainly will."


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NSA Bosses Mantra: Who Cares What The Law Says, 'Collect It All'
from the law-enforcement's-job-isn't-supposed-to-be-easy deptThe Washington Post has a profile of NSA boss Keith Alexander in which they make it clear that his passion is to "collect it all" when it comes to data.
"Rather than look for a single needle in the haystack, his approach was, 'Let's collect the whole haystack,' " said one former senior U.S. intelligence official who tracked the plan's implementation. "Collect it all, tag it, store it. . . . And whatever it is you want, you go searching for it."Others have certainly reported on this before, including long-time NSA watcher James Bamford, but more and more people are realizing how the NSA functions these days. Combine the "collect it all" mentality with the fact that Alexander is the head of both the NSA, which is supposed to do signal intelligence, and the US Cyber Command, which is supposed to handle cyber security, and you have a clear conflict of interests that can lead to some sticky situations.
"He is the only man in the land that can promote a problem by virtue of his intelligence hat and then promote a solution by virtue of his military hat," said one former Pentagon official, voicing a concern that the lines governing the two authorities are not clearly demarcated and that Alexander can evade effective public oversight as a result. The former official spoke on the condition of anonymity to be able to talk freely.Remember how we just had the talking points that the NSA used with the media concerning the Utah Bluffdale data center. In those talking points, the NSA played up the US Cyber Command aspects, and how they were "partnering" with tech companies for that purpose. They left out almost entirely the surveillance side of things. And that's the problem. The NSA under Alexander can hide under the claim that they're trying to "protect our networks" allowing them to avoid admitting that they're collecting everything and spying on everyone.
Furthermore, the moral panics and FUD that Alexander spews to make his job easier is really quite sickening:
"Everyone also understands," he said, "that if we give up a capability that is critical to the defense of this nation, people will die."You can't have perfect security, and there are serious tradeoffs that Alexander doesn't seem to care about in collecting all data. There's little actual evidence that these activities have really prevented anything serious that couldn't have been prevented via more traditional means.
Furthermore, there's a key point in all of this that often gets ignored: the US Constitution was put in place, on purpose, with the idea that "making law enforcement's job easier" is not a valid excuse. The whole point of civil liberties is that we recognize that we give people more freedoms and that means law enforcement's job is harder. But we think that's a good thing, because we trust that on the whole, keeping the innocent from being spied upon and accused is much more important that stopping every possible crime or finding every criminal. But, General Alexander and others in the NSA appear to want to flip this concept on its head. And that's incredibly dangerous.
Filed Under: collect it all, cybersecurity, keith alexander, nsa, nsa surveillance, privacy, us cyber command


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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (soundtrack)
|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
|Release information
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Film score
The Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince soundtrack is the soundtrack of the 2009 film of the same title based on the book by J. K. Rowling. Nicholas Hooper composed the film's score, who also composed the soundtrack for the previous Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix[2] Hooper followed John Williams, who scored the first three films and Patrick Doyle who did the fourth. Hooper collaborated with the film director David Yates in other film projects. The soundtrack was released on 14 July, 2009.
- "Opening" - 2:53
- "In Noctem" - 2:00
- "The Story Begins" - 2:05
- "Ginny" - 1:30
- "Snape & the Unbreakable Vow" - 2:50
- "Wizard Wheezes" - 1:42
- "Speech" - 1:31
- "Living Death" - 1:55
- "Into the Pensieve" - 1:45
- "The Book" - 1:44
- "Ron's Victory" - 1:44
- "Harry & Hermione" - 2:52
- "School!" - 1:05
- "Malfoy's Mission" - 2:53
- "The Slug Party" - 2:11
- "Into the Rushes" - 2:33
- "Farewell Aragog" - 2:08
- "Dumbledore's Foreboding" - 1:18
- "Of Love & War" - 1:17
- "When Ginny Kissed Harry" - 2:38
- "Slughorn's Confession" - 3:33
- "Journey to the Cave" - 3:08
- "The Drink of Despair" - 2:44
- "Inferi in the Firestorm" - 1:53
- "The Killing of Dumbledore" - 3:34
- "Dumbledore's Farewell" - 2:22
- "The Friends" - 2:00
- "The Weasley Stomp" - 2:51
Groups and individuals behind the soundtrackEdit
- Music Conducted by Nicholas Hooper and Alastair King.
- Music Performed by The Chamber Orchestra of London.
- Music recorded and mixed by Peter Cobbin at Abbey Road Studios.
- Sam Okell - Assistant music mixer.
- Score Produced by Darrell Alexander.
- Nicole Wilson - Assistant Music Supervisor.
- Marcia Crayford - Orchestra Leader.
- Score Orchestrated by Jeff Atmajian, Alastair King, Geoff Alexander, Simon Whiteside and Daryl Griffith.
- RSVP Voices and the School Choir of Queen's College, Oxford are the Choirs.
- Allan Jenkins - Supervising Music Editor
- Robert Houston - Music Editor
- Robert Sneddon - Music Copying and Librarians
- David Hage - Music Copying and Librarians
- Ian Livingstone - Midi Programming
- Cinesite - Scanning and Recording
- Simon Burchell - Visual Effects Department Compositor.
- Titles by Foreign Office.[3]
Behind the scenesEdit
- A sample of all the official soundtracks, can be heard by visiting the film's official website harrypotter.warnerbros.com.
- There is also a preview the soundtracks through Virgin Mobile website, Select a phone, then type "Harry Potter" in the search box, and will get a selection of 14 HBP soundtrack previews.[4]
- The soundtrack "Wizard Wheezes" was never used in the film, instead the film makers decided to use the Original Soundtrack from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix entitled "Fireworks" as background music for the sequences of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.
- Also, a part of the soundtrack from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix entitled Dumbledore's Army is used for the Gryffindor's Quidditch Try-out sequence.
- A part of the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince soundtrack "The Book" can be heard in a deleted scene in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in which Dolores Umbridge is interviewing Prof. Trelawney during a Divination class.
- The Half-Blood Prince soundtrack has been nominated at the 52nd Annual Grammys in the "Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media" category.[5]
- The soundtrack "Of Love and War" was never used in the film, but acted as a bonus on the soundtrack album.
- A large portion of the track "Dumbledore's Farewell" later appeared in Alexandre Desplat's score for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, heard during Harry Potter's viewing of Severus Snape's memories in the pensieve.
- The soundtrack when Dumbledore is killed, for unknown reasons, is not included in the soundtrack album. It is possible that the editors thought the piece was too dark, or they simply ran out of space. "The Killing of Dumbledore" only contains the music before he is killed.
See alsoEdit
- Harry Potter soundtracks
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (character index)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ Half-Blood Prince soundtrack release date pushed back
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince at Amazon.com
- ↑ Ending Credits of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- ↑ Audio Previews of the "Half-Blood Prince" Soundtracks is Now Online
- ↑ MuggleNet: Half-Blood Prince nominated at 52nd Annual Grammys
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