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The first installment of Raya Martin's journal as a part of the Residence du Festival de Cannes.
In my early days as a child, there was not much to look at in terms of filmmaking potential. The most pronounced and personally memorable, bit from my childhood was playing with my uncle's camera. I presume every Filipino family, who has at least two or more relatives working overseas (specifically as seamen), will have a video camera with them. The sole camera would then travel to the different immediate families on important occasions: reunions, weddings, graduation parties, 10th birthday celebrations. So when my older brother and sister would have their commencement dinners, the camera would be in our hands.
During celebrations, teenagers would separate from their elders and find their own corners in the house. Theatre actress and then mortal enemy Banaue Miclat (who plays granddaughter Huling in Lav Diaz's epic Evolution of a Filipino Family) would hole up in the computer room, in an intimate telephone conversation with a guy. In between breaks, she would pretend to be a desk lady from a disaster relief center. Shooing me away, I would later shoot the cracks of the house in a jagged manner, run the water hose against closed windows while shaking the blinds, knock down flower pots-- it was an early attempt at Bruckheimer cinema.
My involvement in filmmaking could not exactly have come from my father's influence, having had an unstable love-hate relationship with me when I was young. He wrote for publications as a student, articles on the introduction of cinema in the islands and profiles of great Filipino producer-directors like Vicente Salumbides. Later, he would revise these, one of them included in an anthology book of significant film essays. He was a member of the Film Chamber Club, one of the early film organizations (put up by now film director and Cinemanila founder Tikoy Aguiluz). Gradually, his interest in film writing waned out, and my father became a journalist and a staunch activist during the Marcos era. Yet, he would still be in touch with friends who had gone on to pursue their film dreams.
It must have been in the first Cinemanila Film Festival where he and I saw an Iranian film that bored him to death. He dozed off for almost the entire film, while I was trying to comprehend what the tedious shots of rocky terrain meant (reminiscent of Abbas Kiarostami's style, to which I was very much oblivious then). Outside, an Iranian approached him asking what he thought of the film. Admitting that he slept through it, he instantly pointed at me. To my surprise, I remember being a very articulate young boy, talking about spirituality in films, something which I still cannot fully understand today.
A year or two later, still at the same festival, we saw Walter Salles' much celebrated and highly popular Central Station. Right then and there, we had a feeling of agreement about its beauty: for him an interest in Brazilian culture and its similarities to local characteristics, and for me, a personal attachment to Fernanda Montenegro's character. I had just separated from my nanny then, who had moved back to her province.
It was not really about my love for form, my experience in the darkened room, or wanting to share an interesting feeling. My filmmaking origins came from the love-hate relationship with my father. My wish was to impress the father who had then been concentrating well on my brother as a budding writer, and my sister who he loved as unica hija (the only daughter). I must have wanted to prove something to him, and to do so in the field the secretly enjoyed as well. In short, we had found a common ground.
In highschool, I directed a class short film, conscientious object-or: The Reality of Olaf, that was a visual interpretation of an e.e. cummings poem. It premiered to a packed auditorium, where suspicious teachers and nuns only made subtle congratulatory remarks as a reaction to a then-shocking head-dunking-to-toilet scene. Needless to say, as in the competition, we did not win.
I took up journalism in the mountain province of Baguio, the summer capital of the Philippines. I had been traveling there every summer, and my godfather had been teaching in the state university since he moved there. As my original plan to study film in Manila did not work out (not passing the entrance exam), my option was to finish a year in the mountains before shifting back to the Manila campus. I swore, after much sleepless nights crying my heart out, that if ever I was not able to shift that I would drop out of college and pursue my film education through workshop courses. In the middle of the year, Khavn dela Cruz, programmer and director of .mov Digital International Film Festival, informed me that our highschool film will screen in the program. I immediately took the next bus back to the city.
In the Philippines' only film school, there is not much to do. Most of the viewing was limited to class hours and required titles due to an inefficient archive system and inexperienced professors. Yet I was able to catch what turned out to be some of my greatest film discoveries: Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon, Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror and Andrei Rublev, Mikhail Kalatozov's I Am Cuba and the early actualities of the Lumiere Brothers and Thomas Edison. It also helped that in-between I had been writing for the college section of the most widely-read paper in the country. I had written on independent filmmaking, a topic I was not really knowledgeable on then, but that eventually led me to my love for Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger, knowledge on the films of Wong Kar Wai and the Dogme Movement.
As a class requirement, my groupmates and I had agreed to do a short film on the aswang, a legendary witch whose body cuts itself in half at night. Eventually, this led to Bakasyon, a quiet film about a young girl's startling discovery of provincial reality. Submitting the film to the Cinemanila film festival in the hopes to get it screened, it had surprisingly been shortlisted as a competition film. The jury that year included Ho Yuhang, whose Sanctuary I later saw and very much loved. Eventually, the film won the Ishmael Bernal Award for Young Cinema. And I was able to profess shortly to Yuhang my interminable love for Russian Cinema.
In the summer after my sophomore year, I had gone to Batanes on a whim. Hearing ceaselessly about the island from social science professors and seeing its charming scenery in pictures, I had decided to take loads of tapes and a digital video camera (my parents had bought it for me as a graduation present) for an almost guerilla shooting. In two weeks, I had finished almost all my tapes, totaling to 23 hours of footage. Failing to finish the film before I turned 19, school had suddenly preoccupied my mind. Only after my internship with Kidlat Tahimik a year after was I able to muster enough courage again to go through the hours and hours of footages. After almost a year of editing, Ang Isla sa Dulo ng Mundo was made and quietly premiered to family and close friends at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. (My father was the first to see the finished work, and told me earlier that it was a strange work, and that no one would be able to relate to its slow and quiet style. It was also my father who best expressed his joy when the film won the Best Documentary at the .mov International Digital Film Festival 2005, by texting every single person in his phonebook.)
It was Tikoy Aguiluz, festival director of Cinemanila, who suggested that I apply for Festival du Cannes' Cinefondation. It was one of the few film residencies in the world as well as the most prestigious. The residency states, it "provides accommodation in Paris to young filmmakers and assists them in bringing to fruition their project for a first or second feature film." As a filmmaker friend had said, it was the "Formula One of almost-there filmmakers."
At the time, I had just shot my thesis film cum-feature attempt, a period film titled Maicling Pelicula nang ysang Indio Nacional. Tikoy thought it would be beneficial that I finish such an ambitious project in the best of conditions and facilities. Previously, Filipino filmmaker Mariami Tanangco (whose thesis film Binyag remains to be one of the country's most awarded student films) had submitted her application to the residency, but was not able to get in. I thought it would be a long shot, but was worth a try.
I had mailed the requirements in the nick of time. My father had accompanied me to the nearest FedEx, driving while I finished the application inside the moving car. The questions, I thought, were bogus, such as people who I'd like to meet at the residency and things like that. I had filled it up with Aleksander Sokurov, Jonathan Rosenbaum, and producers who would be interested in South East Asian co-productions. It was coming from someone who previously had previously been spending boring days inside the house, in front of the computer, walking aimlessly around the city at night.
I had almost forgotten about that application. A few months later, I was in the midst of a week of disappointing letters of regret that I received in the mail. Festival after festival had turned my entries down. This made the impact of the Cinefondation news that much more pleasant. I froze on the spot for a few seconds before rushing to my parents' room. "You look pale", my Dad remarked. I was shortlisted together with 11 other finalists from abroad, including countries like Australia, Argentina, Poland, and South Korea. Immediately, my instinct was to Google each of their names, and the dreadful information came about their numerous previous involvement with prestigious festivals, including Cannes itself. At that time, I had not been able to participate in any international festivals (yet my local image seemed to operate otherwise). My parents had said that it was enough for me to be flown in to Paris for the interview, and that an extra week of stay was an additional graduation gift (earlier, I had been to Singapore for the SIFF as Press).
I was flown in to Paris for the final interview (all expenses paid by Cinefondation), and informed that the shortlisted filmmakers of 12 shall be cut down to 6. Upon arrival at the hotel, I kept guessing which of the guests were part of the interview. A bunch that included a Korean-looking girl were suspects, and to my surprise later in the afternoon, they were.
At the Cannes headquarters in rue Amelie (that I found quirky, as everyone kept saying how Jean Pierre-Jeunet's film has the biggest impact in France today), I was astounded at the sight of Cahiers du Cinema, and a festival catalogue that were free. Needless to say, the Filipino in me picked up copies to bring back home. I even reminded the Polish, Peter Otlowski, to pick up his own copies.
The interview was scheduled for the day after my arrival, and as it turned out, I was the last to be interviewed. This year's panel included Christine Laurent, who was the head juror, and wrote for Jacques Rivette, as well as being an actress and director herself. In an informal interview with a jury of around 10 filmmakers and producers, including the foundation's current director, Georges Goldenstern who was most accommodating, I thoroughly regretted not being a smoker-- the tension was one of the greatest I have had in my life. Here I was, in front of producers and distributors of films I was only familiar with from pirated DVDs, talking about my approach to filmmaking. One of the most memorable moments was when I mentioned Mikhail Kalatozov, whose The Cranes are Flying remains one of the most memorable pieces I had seen during my starting years in film school. While bragging about my Russian Cinema background, I had hoped to impress them also with insights about the phenomenon of piracy in the region. Yet they weren't surprised. And it was me who got surprised, days later, when I found a store by the Centre Pompidou selling pirated CDs.
Kislap ng Kalyeng Paroo't Parito (English: Glint of an Alley in a Rush) is hopefully a tribute to filmmaking, and I plan to get these homages out of my system as early as now. Yet more than that, the new project is essentially about growing up in the midst of That's Entertainment (a popular local show in the early 90's akin to today's American Idol), horror movies, movies made for television, the mass media. More than a lesson about today's generation disconnecting themselves from reality, it is about my relationship with particular people, how that has evolved throughout the years, and how its future appears in my head.
Georges, the foundation's director, had promised to call for the results in the early evening on the same day of the interview. The very nature of waiting is a cruel joke. As we were all waiting for the results, each of us seeing the other through our balconies at the hotel room, everyone kept a somber look on his or her face. One by one, heads disappeared as phones rang in our rooms.
Then, mine.
Georges' first words were "Don't worry" and it registered differently in my head. Needless to say, everything got clear when I had visited the office a week after during my visit's extension, where they handed me the official letter of selection instead of mailing it to Manila.
It still feels surreal, writing about all this in my new Parisian room, at the heart of what they say is the young producers' neighborhood (and right next to the red light district). Next to me is a poster of a father about to hug a woman (that quite refers to my film), while outside are pictures from what seem to be a Bresson film. My room is a mess now. It feels good to write all this, get ready to get down and dirty starting next week.
Everyone has their own reasons for their involvement in cinema. Filmmaking has become a tool for me to understand what is happening around. More importantly, it is my way of mapping out and analyzing what has become of me as an entity of emotions. I'm quite getting there with pleasing my father, but the bigger hope of trying to make sense of this world looms over.
The title is borrowed from a Ken Kelman article published in The New American Cinema anthology edited by Gregory Battcock.
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One of my pet peeves in conversations about cleantech is what I think of as the "still photo of an object in rapid motion" discussion. The still photo's usually some sliver of data – the current percentage of the world's power provided by renewables, today's sticker price on an electric car, something like that – which is then used by Very Serious People as irrefutable evidence of absolute limits. Never mind the rate of change in those numbers, the abundant evidence that cleantech functions under some of the same tranformative, paradigm-busting forces that revolutionized telecommunications over the last quarter century – no, never mind all that. This stuff's marginal now, a statistical irrelevancy, and that's all it will ever be.
Here's a trusty old example from Germany, the world's leading cleantech economy. In the early 1990s, when Germany first started flirting with large-scale renewable energy development, the German Nuclear Forum asserted baldly that renewable energy would never produce more than one percent of the country's power. Never. Case closed. Just the other day, solar power was generating half of the entire country's electricity all by itself, and there will be no more nuclear power on Germany's grid at all by 2022.
Unexpected results like this are always good to keep in mind when we talk about our future energy needs – particularly future energy demand, which is by default assumed to follow basically the same fast-expanding wasteful trajectory that it did for most of the 20th century. And then you stumble on some bit of news, and do a quick Google search for other info in that sector, and you realize that most of the world's still working under the false certainties of the German Nuclear Forum, so to speak.
For example, you see a headline like this one from Wired: "Ultra-efficient LED puts out more power than is pumped in." Which would of course seem to defy the laws of physics, which (if you're me, anyway) then makes you very curious about just how many chapters in the LED development story you've missed while you were arguing about the long-term prospects for German solar.
The Wired story acknowledges the seeming miraculousness of the breakthrough – the LED light, it observes, exists in "a category normally occupied by perpetual motion machines" – before explaining that it works its miracle by using the electricity provided to it with staggering efficiency and by absorbing latent heat energy in the air around it. The amazing LED, which operates at 230-percent efficiency overall and is being developed by physicists at MIT, is still very much at the lab-experiment stage, but Wired suggests it could one day be used to improve the efficiency of electronic devices.
Larger point, to my mind, being that we've only begun to discover the potential in this stuff. If you and I had been reading that old German Nuclear Forum prediction about renewables by incandescent light 20 years ago, the prospect of ubiquitous LED light would've seemed even more distant than a German grid drawing half its juice from solar panels. As we pondered just how much nuclear power we'd need a generation or two hence, it would've been impossible to account for a world in which buildings were lit by something exponentially more efficient than the standard light bulb.
But here we are in 2012 – lit, increasingly, by the bridging technology of compact fluorescents. LED light, meanwhile, is expected to expand its share of the general lighting market worldwide from 7 to 70 percent by 2020, according to a McKinsey & Company report. General Electric is ready to introduce an LED replacement for the standard household light bulb, which requires almost 80 percent less power to provide the same illumination. By decade's end, LEDs will be the most common light source. And it's a veritable certainty that there are further breakthroughs in efficiency and application that we can't even imagine yet.
Which is why, as I said, I find those conversations about that still photo some Very Serious Person just took – look, LEDs are just seven percent of the market! – so frustrating. (And let's not even mention the nearsightedness common to House Republicans, who continue to fight hard to protect the inefficiencies of the soon-to-be-obsolete incandescent bulb.)
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Interstitial Lung Disease
Interstitial Lung Disease is a canopy term used to identify a family of roughly 100 different types of pulmonary disorders that affect the absorption of oxygen in the lungs. All of these disorders alter the interstitium, which is the tissue and space surrounding the alveoli—the cluster-like air sacs—of the lungs. Typically the interstitium is not visible, but when an individual has interstitial lung disease, the interstitium becomes visible as a result of progressive scarring. This progressive scarring is characteristic of the whole family of disorders encompassed by interstitial lung disease such as pulmonary fibrosis. The scar tissue impedes the ability for oxygen to pass into the bloodstream from the lungs. Previously the effects of interstitial lung disease were completely irreversible; now there are a variety of treatments available for individuals suffering from stage 2 interstitial lung disease.
Stage 2 Interstitial Lung Disease Treatment Options
Unfortunately, stage 2 interstitial lung disease is not curable, but that does not mean that the disease is untreatable. In fact, there are many potential treatments for interstitial lung disease as there are a variety of possible causes and prognoses. As an incurable disease, the treatment is not meant to make the disease disappear, but rather treatment can be used to improve a patient's quality of life, to improve symptoms or to delay the progression of the disease. Initially, many physicians prescribe a combination of medicines to suppress the immune system, but these have not proved successful in the long run. In these situations, patients often progress past stage 2. In order to help individuals struggling to breathe, supplemental oxygen can work to prevent shortness of breath and make life more comfortable. Occasionally, pulmonary rehabilitation and nutritional counseling are offered as a means of boosting a patient's endurance. In the most severe cases, physicians may recommend a lung transplant, but this often has limited availability and extensive requirements for procedure eligibility. Thankfully, a new treatment using cells is available as a result of the hard work of a visionary group of physicians dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with lung disease.
An Introduction to Cells
Cells are the building blocks of every living organism. They have the ability for self-renewal and replication, thus are capable of forming any type of tissue or organ in the body. Adult cells from one organ are capable of forming tissue for another organ, which is called plasticity. It has been found that adult cells are capable of being transferred into any one single organ of the body.
Cellular Treatment for Stage 2 Interstitial Lung Disease
In the case of people with stage 2 interstitial lung disease, autologous cells are used, meaning the cells come from the patient's own body. They can be found in bone marrow or in the patient's blood (venous). Cells derived from bone marrow or blood have the capacity to form many types of differentiated cells. During the procedure, cellular therapy involves isolating adult cells from bone marrow and blood, which requires special laboratory techniques to collect them.
After being extracted from the patient's body, the cells are isolated. Finally, they are given back to the patient intravenously. The treatment is minimally invasive and typically an outpatient procedure. The procedure should be performed in a clinical setting under the supervision of a professional. It takes a physician that has sought specific training to perform cellular therapy adequately and safely. If you would like to find out more about our available treatment options for stage 2 interstitial lung disease, please contact one of our patient care coordinators today at 888-745-6697 to schedule a free consultation.


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Championship preview
Crystal Palace are the new leaders in the Championship, but the chasing pack remain within touching distance and could pounce this weekend.
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Crystal Palace are the new leaders in the Championship, but the chasing pack remain within touching distance and could pounce this weekend.
Middlesbrough get the weekend action up and running in front of the television cameras, there is a top-of-the-table clash at the Cardiff City Stadium, an East Midlands derby at the King Power Stadium, an all-Yorkshire clash at Oakwell and another managerial bow at Bloomfield Road.
Middlesbrough could return to the top of the second tier table on Friday night when they play host to Sheffield Wednesday, live on Sky Sports 1HD, with Tony Mowbray's side going in search of a sixth victory in their last seven outings.
Should Boro see off the Owls, Crystal Palace will be looking to offer a positive response when they attempt to keep their goal rush going during a trip to struggling Peterborough.
It is possible that either Cardiff or Hull City could end the weekend leading the Championship promotion race, and they go head-to-head in South Wales with the Bluebirds eager to address a slight wobble and the Tigers determined to maintain forward momentum.
Before attention turns to the 3 o'clock kick-offs, local rivals and top-six hopefuls Leicester and Nottingham Forest will do battle on Saturday lunchtime, in a game which can be seen live on Sky Sports 2HD .
Blackburn boss Henning Berg will be hoping it is third time lucky for his Rovers side as they attempt to secure a first victory under their new manager in a home date with Birmingham.
Burnley have made a perfect start to life under Sean Dyche, and boast Europe's most prolific marksman within their ranks in the form of Charlie Austin, and will fancy their chances of continuing their climb up the standings when they go to rock-bottom Ipswich.
Back-to-back victories have carried Derby to within a point of the play-off places, but they face a tough ask this weekend when they travel to The Den to face an in-form Millwall side that has gone eight games unbeaten.
Blackpool and Bolton have both undergone managerial changes in recent weeks and new Seasiders boss Michael Appleton will take in his first game at the Bloomfield Road helm when Dougie Freedman's Trotters make the short trip across Lancashire.
No win in five has seen Wolves boss Stale Solbakken come under mounting pressure and he will be calling for a marked improvement from his side when they play host to Brighton.
Leeds and Watford are locked together on 20 points after 15 games and both could do with a morale-boosting success at Elland Road to have them looking upwards once more.
South Yorkshire meets West Yorkshire in the final fixture on Saturday, with Barnsley looking to snap out of a three-match losing sequence when they entertain play-off chasing Huddersfield.
On Sunday, lowly Bristol City will attempt to avoid suffering a seventh straight defeat when Charlton arrive at Ashton Gate.


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Don't expect any major policy pronouncements right away — the president-elect may have to focus on a little thing like fixing the economy first. (A call to the Obama transition office about possible secretaries of agriculture brought a polite "We'll have to get back to you" response.)
For now, farm organization leaders and ag writers are left having to review the Obama campaign's previous statements on agricultural issues to such groups as the National Corn Growers Association and the National Farmers' Union to get a sense of what he might do.
During the campaign, Obama spokesmen seemed to go out of their way to emphasize their candidate's support for renewable fuels, due, in part, to the Illinois senator's relationship with the Illinois Corn Growers Association.
Obama is also expected to be less of a free-trade enthusiast than the current president. One farm organization CEO alluded to that in assessing the odds for restarting the Doha Round of World Trade Organization negotiations. WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy was expected to come to Washington in mid-November to try to enlist U.S. help in getting the Doha talks under way again.
"If he meets with the Obama transition team, he (Lamy) is likely to have heart failure," the CEO said. "The Obama people have indicated they want to look at every detail of the Doha agreement before they agree to restart anything."
In comments to the Corn Growers prior to the election, Obama said he understands trade is vital to the agricultural sector, noting that 50 percent of the wheat, 20 percent of the corn and 35 percent of the soybeans grown in the United States are exported.
Obama indicated he would support full funding of market promotion programs — something which Republican presidential nominee John McCain had said he would not do.
Obama also pledged to "break down trade and investment barriers that restrict our access to markets" and continue to support bipartisan efforts to lift bans on U.S. beef.
"It's also important that we ensure that our trade agreements create a level playing field for American businesses and workers, and that our farmers and businesses secure robust market access as a result of these agreements. Trade agreements must contain strong and enforceable labor and environmental standards so that American farmers are able to compete on a level playing field."
Since the last Doha Round language tabled in Geneva before the WTO negotiations collapsed there in July would have exempted more of India and China's markets from increased access, it might be assumed an Obama administration would have problems with it.
Obama has said he would support efforts to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oils by promoting the development of a number of renewable energy sources such as biofuels, solar and wind energy. "We are already replacing millions of barrels of imported oil thanks to our successful biofuels program," he said.
"I recently established a goal to have 60 billion gallons of our fuel come from biofuels by 2022," he noted, promising to invest $150 billion in a green energy sector over the next 10 years. The latter, he said, would create up to 5 million new jobs that cannot be outsourced.
McCain, in contrast, had voted against renewable fuel mandates several times and had indicated he would continue to oppose the use of such legislation, preferring to allow the markets to dictate America's sources of energy supplies.
Some farm group leaders said they believe President-elect Obama will be more supportive of agriculture than his opponent in a number of arenas.
"We have appreciated Sen. Obama's leadership on issues ranging from strong safety net programs within the farm bill to the promotion of corn-based ethanol as an important source of domestic energy," said National Corn Grower President Bob Dickey.
Dickey, a farmer from Nebraska, said the NCGA has already developed a positive working relationship with Obama's campaign staff and advisers as they reached out to the agricultural community on policy issues.
"We have a number of challenges facing us," added Tom Buis, president of the National Farmers Union. "We are going to have a president who does want to work with rural America and address these issues."
One concern for some farm organizations — and for farm-state congressmen — is Obama's earlier endorsement of stricter payment limits.
"The president-elect has said he thinks payments should be capped at $250,000 per person," said West Higginbotham, agricultural aide to Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., who spoke at the Stoneville, Miss.-based Delta Council's mid-year board of directors meeting.
"We also have a new Republican senator — Mike Johanns of Nebraska — who wrote the current administration's language changing the payment limit eligibility rules while he was secretary of agriculture. This is an area that we will continue to watch very closely in the months ahead."
When he outlined his position on agriculture for the Corn Growers, Obama said he supports a safety net that "targets assistance appropriately and provides farmers with risk mitigation tools that protect them from weather and market conditions that are beyond their control.
"This includes traditional farm programs, crop insurance and disaster assistance. I supported the 2008 farm bill and both the bill's permanent disaster program and ad hoc disaster assistance when farmers in Illinois and around the country needed it," he said.


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Liberal Democratic party (Japanese political party)
Liberal Democratic party (LDP), Japanese political party. It began as the conservative Liberal party, which, under Shigeru Yoshida, became the dominant political force in Japan following World War II. In 1955 the Liberals merged with the newly created Democratic party. Retaining control of the Japanese government for 38 years, the LDP supported Japan's alliance with the United States and fostered close links between Japanese business and government. Following charges of corruption in Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa's government, it lost its parliamentary majority in the 1993 elections, which put a coalition government in power. In spite of numerous defections by LDP members of parliament over the party's failure to enact political reform, it remained Japan's largest political party. From 1994, when the LDP returned to power, it was the senior partner in a series of coalition governments.
Ryutaro Hashimoto became LDP leader in 1995, assuming the post of deputy prime minister in Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama's cabinet. Upon Murayama's resignation early in 1996, Hashimoto became prime minister; Keizo Obuchi succeeded Hashimoto as party leader and prime minister in 1998. When Obuchi was incapacitated by a severe stroke in 2000, Yoshiro Mori, secretary-general of the LDP, succeeded him as prime minister, but the unpopular Mori was replaced in less than a year by Junichiro Koizumi. Koizumi was succeeded as party leader by Shinzo Abe in 2006, Yasuo Fukuda in 2007, and Taro Aso in 2008. In 2009 the LDP's long dominance of postwar Japanese politics ended when the Japan Democratic party won the elections in a landslide and displaced the LDP as the largest party in the Diet. Aso resigned as party leader and was succeeded by Sadakazu Tanigaki, a former finance minister. Shinzo Abe was elected as party leader in 2012. The LDP subsequently won (Dec., 2012) a landslide victory and, Abe became prime minister; early elections two years later continued Abe's mandate.
See E. S. Krauss and R. J. Pekkanen, The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP (2010).


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Written by Karl Fulves
Work of Various
385 pages (Hardcover),
published by L&L Publishing
Illustrated with drawings by Joseph K. Schmidt.
Language: English
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|Comments & References
|remembrance of things past\nesp signs design duplication with gaffed peek slate and paramnesia presentation, see also p. 690 for comment\nkarl fulves 1973 Karl Fulves
|Remembrance Of Things Past
|one-way reversal\nout of hands\nal baker\nthe two-card location\nal baker 1973 Al Baker
|One-Way Reversal
|babel\ncardini's death, stripper deck contest in linking ring (see also p. 728 for comment by winner george kimery)\nkarl fulves 1973 Karl Fulves
|history\non peek slates, see-through, electronic with light source\nkarl fulves 1973 Karl Fulves
|clipboard peek\nbrief\nraymond hafler\n"clipboard peek" (ray hafler, m.u.m.) 1973 Raymond Hafler
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|some deal - double coincidence\nfrom twelve-card packet spectator choses two cards which are mated\nkarl fulves 1973 Karl Fulves
|Some Deal - Double Coincidence
|fourcast\nfrom twelve-card packet spectator choses two cards which are mated and form a four-of-a-kind\nkarl fulves\nfourcast\nkarl fulves 1973 Karl Fulves
|subconscious poker ii\none card is controlled during the repeat-dealing of five poker-hand and appears in a royal flush, see also p. 840 for idea by cushing strout\njoseph k. schmidt\n"subconscious poker" (bob fisher, the sphinx, april 1939, or daley's notebooks #407)\npoker iii\njerry k. hartman\nsubconscious poker handling\nroy walton\nhow to deal a royal flush\njoseph k. schmidt\npoker challenge\nharry lorayne\nsubconscious poker\njoseph k. schmidt\nsubconscious secret\nkarl fulves\nfurther than that and the lie detector\ncushing strout\njungian poker\njustin higham 1973 Joseph K. Schmidt
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|babel\njohn fisher's "the magic of lewis carroll" & "magic book"\nkarl fulves 1973 Karl Fulves
|magic book\nexcerpt reprinted from ny times\nmartin gardner\njohn fisher 1973 Martin Gardner (reviewer)
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|latest rope & ring\nmultiple knots appear on rope and ring in chosen knot, see also p. 711\ng. w. hunter 1973 G. W. Hunter
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|copy cat\ntwo decks, performer puts one of his in the spectator's and vice versa, they both are placed next to their mates, see also p. 830 for comment by roy walton\ntony cole 1973 Tony Cole
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|split second\ntwo cards from two decks (same face, different backs) change place through table\nkarl fulves\nusing sleeves\nkarl fulves 1973 Karl Fulves
|Split Second
|sticky sleeve steal\ndouble-sided tape on sleeve, arm comes to rest over deck\nkarl fulves 1973 Karl Fulves
|Sticky Sleeve Steal
|remember isis?\ndivination of writing on pad, ring and glass sphere used in presentation, ncr paper, steel shim and magnet for impression device, writing stolen with magnet\nkarl fulves 1973 Karl Fulves
|Remember Isis?
|the 5th jack\nred jacks put on table, top card of deck are also red jack, tabled ones now black, all put on table, top card is another jack, cards on table are now aces, see also p. 782 for improvement\nharvey rosenthal\npiet forton\ntrick of piet forton (see also gus southall and francis haxton variations in the new pentagram) 1973 Harvey Rosenthal, Piet Forton
|The 5th Jack
|false cut\ndouble charlier cut\ncraig milgrim 1973 Craig Milgrim
|False Cut
|bobby baxter's addition\ngag\nbob baxter\nring & spring\nvincent sabatino 1973 Bob Baxter
|Bobby Baxter's Addition
|reference shelf - a modern chinese marvel\nreply to ed marlo's letter on p. 679\noscar pladek\non the roll-up move\nedward marlo\na modern chinese marvel\noscar pladek\nreference shelf - a modern chinese marvel\nedward marlo 1973 Oscar Pladek
|Reference Shelf - A Modern Chinese Marvel
|ring & spring\nroutine with metal spring and ring prop - chop stick addition see also p. 711 & p. 730 for comment by ken eastin, p. 756 for credit information by ed marlo, p. 792 for comment by bob eagle\nvincent sabatino\nbobby baxter's addition\nbob baxter\nring and spring\nharvey rosenthal 1973 Vincent Sabatino
|Ring & Spring
|bulls eye\ntwo pieces of paper, one with writing, spectator holds one in each hand, performer divines the hand with the writing\nned rutledge\njames g. thompson jr.\nproblem posed in "private journal" (bob lynn)\nbull's eye ii\nrobert parrish 1974 Ned Rutledge, James G. Thompson Jr.
|Bulls Eye
|babel\nfrank thompson lecture, walter graham, e. g. brown\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|the magic lesson\n"two down-under routines" four selections from fifteen-card packet made and found with down-under deal\nroy walton 1974 Roy Walton
|The Magic Lesson
|teaching the future\n"two down-under routines" spectator ends up with only card with an x on its back\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Teaching the Future
|step right up\ncollection of proposition bets, see following entries\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Step Right Up
|parity bet\neleven cards on table with one free section, sliding task for spectator as bet\nmartin gardner 1974 Martin Gardner
|Parity Bet
|chess bet\nsee also p. 782 for additional information\nmel stover 1974 Mel Stover
|Chess Bet
|odd/even bet\nplay on words\nken beale 1974 Ken Beale
|Odd/Even Bet
|checkerboard bet\ntracing path in checkerboard\n unknown 1974 Unknown
|Checkerboard Bet
|the nile river bet\ndoes nile flow south or north, exploiting misprint\n unknown 1974 Unknown
|The Nile River Bet
|"say red"\nbetting game whether next card is red\nrobert connelly 1974 Robert Connelly
|"Say Red"
|five quick bets\nsee also p. 782 for credit information\n unknown 1974 Unknown
|Five Quick Bets
|a dice proposition\n\nkarl fulves\na dice proposition\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|A Dice Proposition
|stabbing effect\nbanded deck, joker apparently tossed between selections\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Stabbing Effect
|direct lap\n\nkarl fulves\nderek dingle\ncoins thru table\nderek dingle 1974 Karl Fulves, Derek Dingle
|Direct Lap
|impromptu haunted deck\nrubber band around deck, deck pivots and card sticks out - bert fenn - schmidt & fulves see also p. 780 for comment by joseph k. schmidt\nbert fenn\nkarl fulves\njoseph k. schmidt\nthe pack that cuts itself\ncharles t. jordan\nimpromptu haunted deck version\nphilip t. goldstein\nshootout\njerry k. hartman\nflash aces\nkarl fulves\nimpromptu haunted deck presentation\nkarl fulves\nhoudini's getaway\njoseph k. schmidt\nsprung\ngerry scharnböck\ntension trap\njoseph k. schmidt\nkarl fulves 1974 Bert Fenn, Karl Fulves, Joseph K. Schmidt
|Impromptu Haunted Deck
|swindle ring\n\nmitchell dyszel 1974 Mitchell Dyszel
|Swindle Ring
|babel\nkreskin, exorcism\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|double thot\nnamed card is only odd-backed card, then it changes into another selection, chicago opener, credits to walter gibson, carlyle, george sands\ncushing strout 1974 Cushing Strout
|Double Thot
|rise\nusing handkerchief, see also p. 786\nkarl fulves\nthe rising packet\njoseph k. schmidt\ngeneral rise\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|asulikeit\na set of esp cards is used to reveal chosen symbol, "trick that cannot be explained", multiple out, see also p. 758 for comment by marvin johnson\ne. leslie may 1974 E. Leslie May
|money in the bank\npenny dropped in piggy bank, then it turns out that piggy bank has no slit, see also p. 758 for comment by marvin johnson\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Money in the Bank
|witchcraft\n\nkarl fulves\nwalter b. gibson 1974 Karl Fulves (reviewer)
|tarbell 7\n\nkarl fulves\nharry lorayne 1974 Karl Fulves (reviewer)
|Tarbell 7
|windex\n\nkarl fulves\nroy walton 1974 Karl Fulves (reviewer)
|fickle nickle\n\nkarl fulves\njohn cornelius 1974 Karl Fulves (reviewer)
|Fickle Nickle
|yin-yang\nonly high cards used, five cards dealt out in row, spectator marks them with either red/black, odd/even or high/low property, all cards divined, three-way gray code\nmartin gardner 1974 Martin Gardner
|etcetera\non magazine magick and mentalism\njerry fulton\nsteve bryant\nkarl fulves\netcetera\njerry fulton\nvictor marsh\njohn bethel\nkarl fulves 1974 Jerry Fulton, Steve Bryant, Karl Fulves
|on mental magic\nand uri geller\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|On Mental Magic
|in the mirror\nspectator writes number on mirror, performer on another mirror, numbers transpose in mirror writing, variation with words, see also p. 786 for comment by reinhard müller\nrobert e. neale\nkarl fulves 1974 Robert E. Neale, Karl Fulves
|In the Mirror
|mirror problem\nsomething manifests in infinite reflections of two faced mirrors, unclear, posed as problem\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Mirror Problem
|the second sam schwartz issue\nissue introduction\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|The Second Sam Schwartz Issue
|babel\nsarles, uri geller, magigram, paul swinford, kreskin poke on john scarne\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|red or black force\nforcing one of the colors, "for me"\ngeorge blake 1974 George Blake
|Red or Black Force
|calculator spelling\nspelling words with upside down calculator\n unknown\ndevil's dial\nfrancis j. baker 1974 Unknown
|Calculator Spelling
|thot echo\ntwo card location, straight set-up, see also p. 758 for comment by marvin johnson\nsam schwartz\nthought echo\nsam schwartz\nthot echo\nsam schwartz 1974 Sam Schwartz
|Thot Echo
|ring flite\n\nsam schwartz\nring flite\nsam schwartz 1974 Sam Schwartz
|Ring Flite
|blindfold drive idea\n\nclaude crowe 1974 Claude Crowe
|Blindfold Drive Idea
|etcetera\npirating of "beam shot", kreskin effect with three glasses of liquid\nmartin kaplan\nrobert eagle 1974 Martin Kaplan, Robert Eagle
|thumb coin vanish\nas transformation into multiple small coins\njoe berg\n16 - joe berg's thumb coin vanish\njoe berg 1974 Joe Berg
|Thumb Coin Vanish
|down & under (done over)\ncard chosen by cutting off cards, removing some of those into pocket, remembering card at position in rest, down-under deal location\nsam schwartz 1974 Sam Schwartz
|Down & Under (Done Over)
|lightning link ii\n- lightning unlink\nsam schwartz\nlightning link\na. kojima 1974 Sam Schwartz
|Lightning Link II
|alchemy with coins\ntwo copper and two sliver coins, transpositions and transformation, surprise appearance of handful of pennies, see also p. 758 for comment by marvin johnson\nsam schwartz\n"alchemy with coins" (sam schwartz, linking ring) 1974 Sam Schwartz
|Alchemy with Coins
|super rise\nloading move, see p. 985 for wesley james reference\ntom ellis\ncoming up in the world\nwesley james 1974 Tom Ellis
|Super Rise
|11¢ transpo\ntransposition between marked penny and dime, spectator holds one coin under table\njohn benzais\nsuper transpo\njohn benzais 1974 John Benzais
|11¢ Transpo
|babel\nmovie "the sting" and scarne, "sealed card rise", kay-gee card control\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|cup chop\n- the karate acquitment showing cup empty despite ball underneath\npete biro\nhorace goldin's cup & ball move\nhorace goldin\nfrank garcia 1974 Pete Biro
|Cup Chop
|7-16\ndown-under deal, spectator's and performer's remaining cards predicted, game presentation\nbill taylor\nthe game of 7-16\nbill taylor\n7-16\nalex elmsley 1974 Bill Taylor
|retrospective\ncolumn about hard to find tricks, comments on ootw\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|color scheme\nwith face-up/face-down mix of twenty cards behind spectator's back\noscar weigle\ncolor scheme\noscar weigle\naddenda\nkarl fulves\nfurther ideas\nmartin gardner\nclayton rawson\nthis is it\nbob hummer 1974 Oscar Weigle
|Color Scheme
|addenda\nhandling variation\nkarl fulves\ncolor scheme\noscar weigle 1974 Karl Fulves
|further ideas\n\nmartin gardner\nclayton rawson\ncolor scheme\noscar weigle 1974 Martin Gardner, Clayton Rawson
|Further Ideas
|slop shuffle separation\nred black separation, credited to gardner\nmartin gardner\nseparating the colors\n unknown 1974 Martin Gardner
|Slop Shuffle Separation
|reference shelf - a modern chinese marvel\nreply to oscar pladek\nedward marlo\na modern chinese marvel\noscar pladek\nreference shelf - a modern chinese marvel\noscar pladek 1974 Edward Marlo
|Reference Shelf - A Modern Chinese Marvel
|okito notes part 5\nintro\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Okito Notes Part 5
|hook coin + okito box\nthree coins in box, one penetrates, playing card used in handling\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Hook Coin + Okito Box
|thru the table\nsingle coin through table, playing card used in handling\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Thru The Table
|half shell + okito box\nsliding shell\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Half Shell + Okito Box
|etcetera\n\nsydney bergson\njohn holland\nbob bruning\ngeorge kimery\neric kaufman\netcetera\nobie o'brien\nrobert eagle 1974 Sydney Bergson, John Holland, Bob Bruning, George Kimery, Eric Kaufman
|modified boston boxes\n\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Modified Boston Boxes
|john cornelius issue\nissue intro\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|John Cornelius Issue
|babel\ndai vernon, skinner on tonight show, houdini, george daily, doug henning's "the magic show", lengthening fingers in candle by ali kasim dheen (anecdote from sphinx)\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|s=c2\nsilver coin placed in hand, two copper coins come out, ends clean\njohn cornelius\nmeta-fusion\njohn cornelius 1974 John Cornelius
|magnetic fork\npowerful magnet below table makes fork magnetic above table\njohn cornelius\nwith magnets\nmartin gardner\nlines of flux\njohn cornelius 1974 John Cornelius
|Magnetic Fork
|gotcha! - sleight of foot\ngag for "coin brushed under foot" in which it is not there at the end\njohn cornelius\non cuffing\nronald zollweg\nconvention fooler\nalexander de cova\nunder foot\njay sankey\ndavid acer 1974 John Cornelius
|Gotcha! - Sleight Of Foot
|gotcha! - invisible downs palm\ncoin position that allows to display hand more freely, as magician's gag\njohn cornelius 1974 John Cornelius
|Gotcha! - Invisible Downs Palm
|slow motion coin vanish\nsee also p. 786 for credit information\njohn cornelius\nslow motion coin vanish ii\nsteve freeman\nderek dingle\nslow motion coin vanish\njohn cornelius\nslow motion fadeaway\njohn cornelius 1974 John Cornelius
|Slow Motion Coin Vanish
|no theft\nanti-theft device for car\njohn cornelius 1974 John Cornelius
|No Theft
|etcetera\n\nrobin robertson\nkenn eastin\nmichael lewis\ndan mayer\narthur karas\nforrest norman 1974 Robin Robertson, Kenn Eastin, Michael Lewis, Dan Mayer, Arthur Karas, Forrest Norman
|phantom cigarette\nmiming cigarette, it appears, thread hook-up, rubber cigarette, see also p. 786 for note by lu brent\njohn cornelius\nthe phantom cigarette\njohn cornelius 1974 John Cornelius
|Phantom Cigarette
|fold-a-card\nin quarters, while spreading through deck with faces towards performer\njohn cornelius\nfold-a-card\njohn cornelius 1974 John Cornelius
|sample effect\nfolded blank card changes into signed selection, optional with paper clip\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Sample Effect
|the griffin envelope switch\nswitching two signed envelopes secretly with stack, used for prediction in which spectator's billet is used as actual prediction\nal mann 1974 Al Mann
|The Griffin Envelope Switch
|babel\npsychics, uri geller, nixon, eddie joseph died, al flosso, "the endless octave" acoustical illusion\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|double vision\ntwo cards predicted on paper slips, using ballpoint pen with pencil lead, mirage deck\nsam dalal\nmagigram (rough-smooth part, by sam dalal) 1974 Sam Dalal
|Double Vision
|instant mindreader\n\nal mann 1974 Al Mann
|Instant Mindreader
|even money world\n\nronald b. edwards\neven money proposition\nkarl fulves 1974 Ronald B. Edwards
|Even Money World
|2nd thot\nspectator remembers card and its position from top ten cards, klondike shuffle\njeff busby\nthotograhy\nbob hummer\nthotography ii\njeff busby 1974 Jeff Busby
|2nd Thot
|knot possible\nknot tied in loop of rope, in the end the knot drops off as ring, three phases\nkarl fulves\nmilbourne christophe routine in the sphinx 1974 Karl Fulves
|Knot Possible
|the james-coughlin list\nlist of words that can be read as words upside down on a calculator, see also p. 786\nwesley james\nnoel coughlin 1974 Wesley James, Noel Coughlin
|The James-Coughlin List
|speak up\nphone number converted to "psychic equivalent" with calculator, this number called and something divined, see also p. 815 for comment by j. benson\nkarl fulves\ndevil's dial\nfrancis j. baker 1974 Karl Fulves
|Speak Up
|pocket calculators\nintro to some effects\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Pocket Calculators
|you're in the army\nupside down number to word gag\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|You're In The Army
|strange bedfellows\nupside down number to word gag\nmartin gardner 1974 Martin Gardner
|Strange Bedfellows
|it's delete-ful\nsum prediction, using calculator ruse, see also p. 815 for comment by ronald herman\nrick johnsson 1974 Rick Johnsson
|It's Delete-Ful
|mathemagic\nintro\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|the slide rule trick\nspectator does some actions with slide ruler, performer in the end divines the number he started with\nh. r. fisher\nhummer effects\nkarl fulves 1974 H. R. Fisher
|The Slide Rule Trick
|add and subtract\nnumber thing with desk calculator\nl. vosburgh lyons 1974 L. Vosburgh Lyons
|Add and Subtract
|royal marriages\nmatching with the four queens and kings, down-under deal\ndave ossip\nthe royal marriages\ndai vernon 1974 Dave Ossip
|Royal Marriages
|babel\nphil houghton, on joseph k. schmidt and how he works, uri geller demonstration on tv show "not for women only", edward levy\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|educated envelope\nswitch envelope, thought-cards-across application\nemil loew\nother applications\nemil loew\nkarl fulves 1974 Emil Loew
|Educated Envelope
|other applications\nof the "educated envelope"\nemil loew\nkarl fulves\neducated envelope\nemil loew 1974 Emil Loew, Karl Fulves
|Other Applications
|poker iii\nslightly elaborated handling, re-dealing\njerry k. hartman\nsubconscious poker ii\njoseph k. schmidt 1974 Jerry K. Hartman
|Poker III
|squeeze rise\nrubber ball\ndavid (foote) drake\nsuper card rise\nderek dingle\nsuper rise revisited\njohn carney\na theory of revolution\nkarl fulves 1974 David (Foote) Drake
|Squeeze Rise
|impromptu levitation\nwith presentation angle by martin gardner (reaching up)\ned balducci\nimpromptu levitation\nkarl fulves\nthe greatest\nkarl fulves 1974 Ed Balducci
|Impromptu Levitation
|reference shelf - a modern chinese marvel\nmore credit claims\nherb zarrow\njohn e. mintz\na modern chinese marvel\noscar pladek\nreference shelf - a modern chinese marvel\nedward marlo 1974 Herb Zarrow, John E. Mintz
|Reference Shelf - A Modern Chinese Marvel
|casual cull displacement\nspreading over cards in right hand\ndave ossip 1974 Dave Ossip
|Casual Cull Displacement
|etcetera\n\nsam dalal\nmarvin johnson 1974 Sam Dalal, Marvin Johnson
|drop out solution\n\nsam dalal\ndrop out\nkarl fulves 1974 Sam Dalal
|Drop Out Solution
|mental mate\ndeck shuffled face-up/face-down, spectator counts to number (ignoring face-up cards), then performer, the cards match\narthur hill\nmental mate\nkarl fulves 1974 Arthur Hill
|Mental Mate
|slow motion coin vanish ii\n\nsteve freeman\nderek dingle\nslow motion coin vanish\njohn cornelius\nslow motion iii\nken krenzel\nderek dingle\nkarl fulves\nslow motion coin vanish\nderek dingle 1974 Steve Freeman, Derek Dingle
|Slow Motion Coin Vanish II
|robert parrish\nfolio intro\nkarl fulves\nrobert parrish 1974 Karl Fulves, Robert Parrish
|Robert Parrish
|prologue\non robert parrish\noscar weigle 1974 Oscar Weigle
|mental opener\nspectator names number and that card is counted to face-up, number and card predicted, mirage deck, miscalling number\nrobert parrish 1974 Robert Parrish
|Mental Opener
|forcing from mirage deck\ncounting face-up\neric williams 1974 Eric Williams
|Forcing from Mirage Deck
|mysterious casket\nborrowed unknown item put in wooden box and covered with paper bag, performer describes it\nrobert parrish\nthe hometown test\nkarl fulves 1974 Robert Parrish
|Mysterious Casket
|great slate test\nchosen card divined on slate and duplicate writing appears on another slate, repeated with random name written down by spectator\nrobert parrish\nlaurie ireland's "three slate routines" (1930s) 1974 Robert Parrish
|Great Slate Test
|floating table\nseance type\nrobert parrish 1974 Robert Parrish
|Floating Table
|stole steal\ntwo bowls of water produced from stole of assistant\nrobert parrish 1974 Robert Parrish
|Stole Steal
|bull's eye ii\nspectator draws something on one of two slips of paper, both are mixed on table, performer divines the slip with writing and then its content\nrobert parrish\nbulls eye\nned rutledge\njames g. thompson jr. 1974 Robert Parrish
|Bull's Eye II
|picture esp\nslate as mirror\nrobert parrish\npicture projection\nrobert parrish 1974 Robert Parrish
|Picture ESP
|cups & coins\nfour different coins and cups, spectator drops coin in any cup, under cup is prediction of that coin, bottomless paper cups\nrobert parrish\nproblem in prophecy\ndon nielsen 1974 Robert Parrish
|Cups & Coins
|torn paper enigma\ntorn and restored cigarette paper, pieces impaled on needle/hat pin\nrobert parrish\ntheo "okito" bamberg\nvynn boyer's torn & restored cigarette paper (hugard's magic monthly, dec. 1957) 1974 Robert Parrish, Theo "Okito" Bamberg
|Torn Paper Enigma
|hat pin switch\n\nrobert parrish\nhat pin\ndr. stanley jaks 1974 Robert Parrish
|Hat Pin Switch
|epilogue\non robert parrish\njohn goodrum 1974 John Goodrum
|needle and thread\nthread on needle, needle pierced through handkerchief while spectator holds thread ends, needle penetrates thread, and back on\ngene finnell\ngene finnell's needle trick\ngene finnell 1974 Gene Finnell
|Needle And Thread
|babel\ndick gustafson, "chaos" ad in new phoenix, j.w. sarles died\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|fish layout puzzle\n\nmartin gardner\nel pez japonés\nkabon fujimara\njuan tamariz 1974 Martin Gardner
|Fish Layout Puzzle
|14 carats\nprobabilistic force of vegetable "carrot"\nroger crabtree 1974 Roger Crabtree
|14 Carats
|prophet by post\ncard predicted by sending letter to host previously\njack potter 1974 Jack Potter
|Prophet by Post
|coin toss card force\nforcing one card out of three, see p. 863 for credit information by jack potter\nvictor farelli\n"magic wand" no. 206, june-sept 1945, p. 68 1974 Victor Farelli
|Coin Toss Card Force
|aces to go\n\nfrancis haxton\nheir to the throne\nmilton kort 1974 Francis Haxton
|Aces to Go
|cups and balls\nsee also p. 780 for note by mike rogers, p. 863 for al cohn credit by richard stride, p. 1053 for comment by milton tropp\nsam aaronson\ncups & balls\nal cohn 1974 Sam Aaronson
|Cups and Balls
|the basic sleight\nfalse transfer\nsam aaronson 1974 Sam Aaronson
|The Basic Sleight
|the basic loading move\n\nsam aaronson 1974 Sam Aaronson
|The Basic Loading Move
|coin to cuff\nmarked coin travels down to cuff, two methods, one with secret tube slide and one impromptu\nmartin gardner 1974 Martin Gardner
|Coin to Cuff
|on "drop out"\nsolution to fulves's problem\nmartin gardner\ndrop out\nkarl fulves 1974 Martin Gardner
|On "Drop Out"
|etcetera\nabout magazine magick\njerry fulton\nvictor marsh\njohn bethel\nkarl fulves\netcetera\njerry fulton\nsteve bryant\nkarl fulves 1974 Jerry Fulton, Victor Marsh, John Bethel, Karl Fulves
|5-second rice\nrice in double foo-can, tube that is open on both ends and rice does not fall out when poured into it and also not when turned over, but on turning back it does, with notes by karl fulves\nrobert e. neale\nconfetti\nrobert e. neale 1974 Robert E. Neale
|5-Second Rice
|complete circle\nthree ropes tied into loops, they then form one big loop, then repeat and the big loop is actually one rope\nconrad c. bush\nfrom tom hubbard\ntom hubbard 1974 Conrad C. Bush
|Complete Circle
|tarot trick\nnasick magic square with sixteen tarot cards\nwilbur t. kattner\nsquarot\nphilip t. goldstein 1974 Wilbur T. Kattner
|Tarot Trick
|babel\nuri geller and nasa research, john scarne on today show, beginners in magic & personality development, david roth\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|no way\ntwo spectators decide on a number up to 25, first spectator counts down to that card in half the deck, performer writes down two cards, second spectator counts down, both cards match prediction\njames g. thompson jr. 1974 James G. Thompson Jr.
|No Way
|tossed ii\nthree-way forcing deck instead of one-way, see p. 863 for comment by peter warlock, p. 985 for comment by jerry fulton\norville wayne meyer\nthe tossed out deck\ndavid hoy\ntossed ii variation\norville wayne meyer 1974 Orville Wayne Meyer
|Tossed II
|retrospective\ncolumn about hard to find tricks, larsen & wright in this case, excerpt from "random conceptions with cards"\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|trick #1\nthree aces dealt on one half, one on the other, then there are three on the second and three aces on the first half\nwilliam larsen\nt. page wright\nin "random conceptions with cards" (ca. 1930) 1974 William Larsen, T. Page Wright
|Trick #1
|trick #2\ndone one-handed\nwilliam larsen\nt. page wright\nin "random conceptions with cards" (ca. 1930) 1974 William Larsen, T. Page Wright
|Trick #2
|scoop-up addition/switch\nwith multiple cards\nwilliam larsen\nt. page wright\nin "random conceptions with cards" (ca. 1930) 1974 William Larsen, T. Page Wright
|Scoop-Up Addition/Switch
|trick #3\nno-palm\nwilliam larsen\nt. page wright\nin "random conceptions with cards" (ca. 1930) 1974 William Larsen, T. Page Wright
|Trick #3
|false-count cover\nspectator and performer count simultaneously\nwilliam larsen\nt. page wright\nin "random conceptions with cards" (ca. 1930) 1974 William Larsen, T. Page Wright
|False-Count Cover
|trick #4\nbacks change from red to blue, cards become blank and back to normal\nwilliam larsen\nt. page wright\nin "random conceptions with cards" (ca. 1930) 1974 William Larsen, T. Page Wright
|Trick #4
|trick #5\ntwo cards change, two card monte sequence with impromptu double backer\nwilliam larsen\nt. page wright\nin "random conceptions with cards" (ca. 1930) 1974 William Larsen, T. Page Wright
|Trick #5
|trick #6\npacket of cards put under handkerchief, pulled away, cards have vanished, in sleeve\nwilliam larsen\nt. page wright\nin "random conceptions with cards" (ca. 1930) 1974 William Larsen, T. Page Wright
|Trick #6
|trick #7\ncards openly separated into suits, then shuffled together fairly with riffle shuffle, yet red-black colors remain separated\nwilliam larsen\nt. page wright\nin "random conceptions with cards" (ca. 1930) 1974 William Larsen, T. Page Wright
|Trick #7
|trick #8\ncards openly separated into suits, then reds shuffled together and blacks, halves put together, they magically mix\nwilliam larsen\nt. page wright\nin "random conceptions with cards" (ca. 1930) 1974 William Larsen, T. Page Wright
|Trick #8
|cup & ball technique\n\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Cup & Ball Technique
|speedball\nfeaturing hand-to-hand transfer of ball with cup\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|etcetera\nreply re "obie's $5 card trick"\nobie o'brien\nrobert eagle\netcetera\nsydney bergson\njohn holland\nbob bruning\ngeorge kimery\neric kaufman 1974 Obie O'Brien, Robert Eagle
|tenkai pennies transfer\npointing\ntenkai ishida 1974 Tenkai Ishida
|Tenkai Pennies Transfer
|simplex triumph\n\nrick johnsson\nneat slop shuffle\nphil thomas 1974 Rick Johnsson
|Simplex Triumph
|tenkai turnover variation\n\nrick johnsson 1974 Rick Johnsson
|Tenkai Turnover Variation
|3 quick tricks\nintro\nrick johnsson\nkarl fulves 1974 Rick Johnsson, Karl Fulves
|3 Quick Tricks
|the hidden persuader\n\nrick johnsson 1974 Rick Johnsson
|The Hidden Persuader
|kamikazee koins\none of two coins (copper and silver) penetrates table, see p. 786 for credit information\nrick johnsson\n"invisible transportation" (felix greenfield, linking ring, feb. 1968)\nthe tenkai pennies\ntenkai ishida\ntenkai tossover\ncurtis kam 1974 Rick Johnsson
|Kamikazee Koins
|stewart judah\nfolio intro\njohn braun 1974 John Braun
|Stewart Judah
|aces & jacks\nthree jacks transpose with three aces one at a time\nstewart judah\ncolors in sequence - aces and jacks jr.\nphilip t. goldstein\nrelative interchange\nphilip t. goldstein\nletters\ngeorge draper\njames frasier\njohn mackay\ned hammond\nrelative interchange\nphilip t. goldstein\nheir to the throne\nmilton kort 1974 Stewart Judah
|Aces & Jacks
|secret addition and switch\npartial\n unknown 1974 Unknown
|Secret Addition and Switch
|drop-off switch\npartial\npaul swinford 1974 Paul Swinford
|Drop-Off Switch
|lightning strikes thrice\nthree numbers and totals arrived at with blank cards, they are all identical, see p. 1053 for note by johnnie murray\nstewart judah\nlightning strikes thrice\nstewart judah\nblue lightning\nkarl fulves\ncubic code\nkarl fulves 1974 Stewart Judah
|Lightning Strikes Thrice
|small packet fan weave shuffle\n\n unknown 1974 Unknown
|Small Packet Fan Weave Shuffle
|thieves & sheep\ncredit information, labels stuck on coins\nstewart judah 1974 Stewart Judah
|Thieves & Sheep
|substitution trunk\ncard case prop with flap, card inside and outside transpose\nstewart judah\nsub plot\nkarl fulves 1974 Stewart Judah
|Substitution Trunk
|metamorphic sponge\nroutine with ball-to-cube item\nstewart judah 1974 Stewart Judah
|Metamorphic Sponge
|mcdonald aces\nthree double facers\nstewart judah 1974 Stewart Judah
|McDonald Aces
|repeater\n- part one (biddle trick) - part two (sucker version of part one)\nstewart judah 1974 Stewart Judah
|octo\noctahedral die with symbols, chosen symbol divined\npaul swinford\nchapter one of "the second scientific american book of mathematical puzzles & diversion" (martin gardner)\nthe moon die mystery\nbob hummer 1974 Paul Swinford
|babel\nfulves lecture, crandall, john scarne anecdotes\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|predelection\nspectator makes cross on slate with chalk on list, location is felt behind back\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|gypsy coin\ncoin vanishes and reappears in hand\njoel moskowitz 1974 Joel Moskowitz
|Gypsy Coin
|a trick with sandpaper\ntwo pieces of sandpaper are folded together, performer can pull them apart but spectator cannot - thumb variation - lock position - warnings\nrobert e. neale 1974 Robert E. Neale
|A Trick with Sandpaper
|etcetera\n\nronald zollweg\nroger crabtree\nronald herman\nj. benson 1974 Ronald Zollweg, Roger Crabtree, Ronald Herman, J. Benson
|on cuffing\n\nronald zollweg\ngotcha! - sleight of foot\njohn cornelius 1974 Ronald Zollweg
|On Cuffing
|criss cross\nnines through aces removed and sorted in reds and blacks, dealing procedure on table mixes and then sorts the colors again, spectator cannot duplicate it credit information, see also p. 812 for marlo claim\ngeorge sands\n"unbeatable" (george sands, sep. 1951, p. 14)\nto teach the company a trick which they learn without difficulty, then to allow them to succeed or to cause them to fail at your pleasure\n unknown\ncolor blind\nkarl fulves\ncriss cross\ngeorge sands\nkarl fulves 1974 George Sands
|Criss Cross
|dynamic duo\ntwo spectators each take a card from half the deck from performer's pocket, both written on slips of paper by performer\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Dynamic Duo
|once upon a time....\njack and queen of hearts removed and put under handkerchief, jack transforms into rubber frog\nroy walton\nprince charming\nsid lorraine 1974 Roy Walton
|Once Upon A Time....
|mind echo\nspectator writes memory on slip of paper which is torn and burnt, medium in other room divines it\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Mind Echo
|something bright\n"problems", green light bulb in handkerchief lights and turns red when held over selected card, posed as problem, see p. 874 for credit information\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Something Bright
|grimoire\n"problem", selected page from book audibly tears itself and rises, posed as problem\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|timed release\n"problem", slotted coin shoots out other coin in glass, copentro-style, posed as problem\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Timed Release
|babel\nslydini, george cook\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|dice cup\ndice chop cup, used for visual die through cup\ndon nielsen\ndie penetro\nbill scott 1974 Don Nielsen
|Dice Cup
|dice problem\ntwo dice underneath cup, coin vanished and reappears between dice under cup, posed as problem\nkarl fulves\ndice trap\nted glick\ndice trap\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|Dice Problem
|color blind\nno-palm handling of criss cross, nines through aces removed and sorted in reds and blacks, dealing procedure on table mixes and then sorts the colors again, spectator cannot duplicate it, see p. 1053 for comment\nkarl fulves\ncriss cross\ngeorge sands 1974 Karl Fulves
|Color Blind
|introduction\nregarding tenth year of publication\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|noel\nrandi escape failure at houdini festival, david hoy, the blueprint, pabular\nkarl fulves 1974 Karl Fulves
|calculator gag\n"shell oil" spelled out\n unknown 1974 Unknown
|Calculator Gag
|lewis ganson explains\nintro about fred lowe, followed by dice stack routine\nlewis ganson 1974 Lewis Ganson
|Lewis Ganson Explains
|dice stack\nroutine written by lewis ganson, elaborate with divided cup, magnets, two dice towers from one cup - unfaked cup - faked cup - first routine - the eventual routine\nfred lowe\nremovable flap dice cup\nkarl fulves 1974 Fred Lowe
|Dice Stack
|4 girls & a janitor\npatter for walton's "chameleon cards"\nsid lorraine\nchameleon cards\nroy walton 1974 Sid Lorraine
|4 Girls & a Janitor
|with magnets\npicking up metal things with match, see also p. 834 for clarification, p. 874 for obtaining magnets\nmartin gardner\nmagnetic fork\njohn cornelius 1974 Martin Gardner
|With Magnets
|speaking of spells\nsetting up for the referenced spelling tricks with location routine\ncushing strout\n"baker + johnson combination" (f. j. baker, marvin johnson)\ncrazy clocks\nfred g. taylor\nperfect speller\nbruce cervon\nchild's play\nkarl fulves\ntri-multaneous\nsam schwartz 1974 Cushing Strout
|Speaking of Spells
|etcetera\n\nroy walton\nphilip t. goldstein 1974 Roy Walton, Philip T. Goldstein
|subconscious poker handling\nre-dealing\nroy walton\nsubconscious poker ii\njoseph k. schmidt 1974 Roy Walton
|Subconscious Poker Handling
|impromptu haunted deck version\n\nphilip t. goldstein\nimpromptu haunted deck\nbert fenn\nkarl fulves\njoseph k. schmidt 1974 Philip T. Goldstein
|Impromptu Haunted Deck Version
|thinking machines - part one\nlonger article on using calculators - forward - general patter outline\nal mann 1974 Al Mann
|Thinking Machines - Part One
|golden digits\ntwo people with office machines/calculators on stage, numbers called out and added, two numbers thought of and added, prediction on slate - first method - revised method\nal mann 1974 Al Mann
|Golden Digits
|bottoms up\nthree coins penetrate through table upwards, visibly appearing in upside down plastic beer glass, slot in glass - the mug move - the routine - notes see p. 1053 for vague dick zimmerman credit\nrick johnsson 1975 Rick Johnsson
|Bottoms Up
|babel\nsid lorraine, machine-produced music, lu brent, jack chanin, ibm lecture on the magazine, spellbinder, slydini lecture\nkarl fulves 1975 Karl Fulves
|removable flap dice cup\nidea\nkarl fulves\ndice stack\nfred lowe 1975 Karl Fulves
|Removable Flap Dice Cup
|future shock\ncard predicted by cards with same suit and value, with impromptu version\nroy walton 1975 Roy Walton
|Future Shock
|a trick of henry christ\nthree cards, values added up, one card put on table and other two on top and bottom, tabled card changes to jack with pseudo-mathematical presentation\nhenry christ\nthe linking ring, oct. 1943 1975 Henry Christ
|A Trick of Henry Christ
|thinking machines - part two\nmore on calculators and addition machines\nal mann 1975 Al Mann
|Thinking Machines - Part Two
|alpha and omega\nseveral spectators call out three-digit-numbers, total predicted, using calculator\nal mann 1975 Al Mann
|Alpha And Omega
|1001 mysteries\non multiplying with 1001\nal mann 1975 Al Mann
|1001 Mysteries
|the phantom digits\nnumber multiplied with two other known numbers, total named, performer immediately names original number\nal mann 1975 Al Mann
|The Phantom Digits
|the five-digit phantom\nnumber multiplied with two other known numbers, total named, performer immediately names original number\nal mann 1975 Al Mann
|The Five-Digit Phantom
|etcetera\n\ncushing strout\njerry fulton 1975 Cushing Strout, Jerry Fulton
|zero gee\nlunaball (scientific toy), light metal sphere with magnetic outer surface, close-up levitation\nkarl fulves\nbabel\nkarl fulves 1975 Karl Fulves
|Zero Gee
|malini's chink-a-chink\nsugar cubes, see p. 1053 for johnny thompson credit\nmax malini\ndaley notebook #589\nchink-a-chink\njohnny thompson\nmax malini\nsugar cube assembly\nmax malini\njohnny thompson 1975 Max Malini
|Malini's Chink-A-Chink
|stewart judah\nfolio intro\nkarl fulves 1975 Karl Fulves
|Stewart Judah
|six-card stunner\nprediction on blank card matches free choice of six\nstewart judah\n"pre-cardiction" (aldini, marketed by joe berg)\nthe swinford version\npaul swinford 1975 Stewart Judah
|Six-Card Stunner
|the swinford version\nprediction on blank card matches free choice of six\npaul swinford\nsix-card stunner\nstewart judah 1975 Paul Swinford
|The Swinford Version
|sack/judah dice\n\nstewart judah\npaul swinford\nsack's spotted sorcery\ndr. theodore sack 1975 Stewart Judah, Paul Swinford
|Sack/Judah Dice
|pins & cord\nstring through spectator's wrist, string looped with two safety pins, four phases\nstewart judah\na twist thru the wrist\njohn r. boyko 1975 Stewart Judah
|Pins & Cord
|jack's gone\nfan of three cards shown, center card turns over, then changes to blank card, see also p. 856\nstewart judah\n"the bashful queen" (joe berg)\ncolor added\nstephen clark 1975 Stewart Judah
|Jack's Gone
|billiards\n\nstewart judah 1975 Stewart Judah
|penta-match\nmatch on business card covered by matchbook, penetrates it\nstewart judah\npopper upper\nverne chesbro\njames g. thompson jr. 1975 Stewart Judah
|draw poker demonstration\n"quick trix", with eighteen cards\n unknown 1975 Unknown
|Draw Poker Demonstration
|half-card transpo\n"quick trix", half cards transpose, double facer\n unknown 1975 Unknown
|Half-Card Transpo
|no-clue locator\n\nstewart judah\n"no clue card miracle" (gerald kosky) 1975 Stewart Judah
|No-Clue Locator
|decoy dice\nsix cards used, two dice rolled and selection made via counting\nstewart judah\n"scarne on card tricks", p. 210\ndecoy dice\nstewart judah 1975 Stewart Judah
|Decoy Dice
|choice & chance\n\n unknown\ndouble mental\nben christopher 1975 Unknown
|Choice & Chance
|number affinity\nspectator does some calculation, predicted\n unknown 1975 Unknown
|Number Affinity
|bill in nest of envelopes\n\nu. f. grant\n"million dollar" bill mystery\nu. f. grant 1975 U. F. Grant
|Bill in Nest of Envelopes
|credits\ninformation on judah's tricks in the folios\nkarl fulves 1975 Karl Fulves
|card thru hank\n\njohn scarne 1975 John Scarne
|Card Thru Hank
|babel\ndavid roth, mirror image numbers puzzle, die box anecdote\nkarl fulves 1975 Karl Fulves
|drop cop\n"two with coins" playing card on glass, coin on top, other glass on top, card pulled out, coin drops in lower glass and changes to copper\njon von gillern\ncoin problems (d)\nkarl fulves 1975 Jon von Gillern
|Drop Cop
|penny-trate\n"two with coins" penny between two half dollars in okito box put on hand, penny penetrates box and hand, two methods\njohn carney 1975 John Carney
|jkspell\npacket, progressive spelling set-up, see also p. 864 for credit information\njoseph k. schmidt\n"magic spell" (dai vernon, hugard's magic monthly, oct. 1946, p. 259) 1975 Joseph K. Schmidt
|thinking machines - part three\nmore on calculators and addition machines\nal mann 1975 Al Mann
|Thinking Machines - Part Three
|psychic calculator\nthree chosen numbers put into three calculators, all sums divined\nal mann 1975 Al Mann
|Psychic Calculator
|adithot improved\nsixteen digits in square formation, added, sum predicted - the calculator version\nal mann\n"adithot" (swami) 1975 Al Mann
|Adithot Improved
|tossed ii variation\nnot mentioning last card in tossed-out deck for optional direct mindreading finale\norville wayne meyer\ntossed ii\norville wayne meyer 1975 Orville Wayne Meyer
|Tossed II Variation
|etcetera\n\ned schuman\nkenn eastin\ngeorge price\nbob pearce 1975 Ed Schuman, Kenn Eastin, George Price, Bob Pearce
|white line problem\nno-touch condition definition, spectator upjogs four-of-a-kind and then removes one, performer divines it, two handlings, using different red backs in one deck\nkarl fulves\nwhite line problem\nkarl fulves\nbinary star\nmichael weber 1975 Karl Fulves
|White Line Problem
|re-opened prediction\ntwo methods\nmarvin johnson 1975 Marvin Johnson
|Re-Opened Prediction
|on the gambler's knot\nperformer demonstrates knot in slow-motion, spectator cannot duplicate it\n slydini\nthe gambler's knot\n slydini\nback story\nkarl fulves 1975 Slydini
|On The Gambler's Knot
|babel\njoseph dunninger died, with newspaper clipping\nkarl fulves\ntechnicolor cards\nkarl fulves 1975 Karl Fulves
|lefong, jr.\ncard chosen by shaking three dice in matchbox and noting card at this position, shuffled, again dice shaken and selection at this position\nroy walton\nthe karl le fong trick\nroy walton 1975 Roy Walton
|LeFong, Jr.
|trick sugar\nsugar cube thrown in bowl of water, it first sinks but then rises back to surface, chemical\njoseph dunninger 1975 Joseph Dunninger
|Trick Sugar
|with the transfer\n"okito box notes nr. 6" marked penny appears inside okito box, no turnover move\nkarl fulves 1975 Karl Fulves
|With The Transfer
|the slot box\n"okito box notes nr. 6" with slot at bottom through which a coin can slide in and out\nkarl fulves 1975 Karl Fulves
|The Slot Box
|slot coin/slot box\n"okito box notes nr. 6" combining slotted coin and box\nkarl fulves 1975 Karl Fulves
|Slot Coin/Slot Box
|nokito box\n"okito box notes nr. 6" more on the bottomless okito box, with brass ring combination, coin through hand combination\nkarl fulves 1975 Karl Fulves
|Nokito Box
|numbers up\ndeck of number cards, design duplication on two cards, mirror in lap\narthur hill 1975 Arthur Hill
|Numbers Up
|the roterberg excelsior card change\n\n unknown\nthe excelsior change\nadrian plate 1975 Unknown
|The Roterberg Excelsior Card Change
|shrinking card\none of three cards shrinks\ncharles waller 1975 Charles Waller
|Shrinking Card
|harvey rosenthal issue (part one)\nfolio intro\nkarl fulves 1976 Karl Fulves
|Harvey Rosenthal Issue (Part One)
|gaining interest\ncoin from dollar bill, many displays\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|Gaining Interest
|rolling silver\ncoin from dollar bill, many displays\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|Rolling Silver
|edge grip\nwith rolled bill tube between fingers\n unknown 1976 Unknown
|Edge Grip
|folding coin gag\nfor magicians, using welded obvious folding coin\nkarl fulves 1976 Karl Fulves
|Folding Coin Gag
|money trap\nproducing a coin from between two cards, many displays\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|Money Trap
|sidelines\ncomments on previous routines\nkarl fulves 1976 Karl Fulves
|misdirection vanish\nsleeving from closed hand\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|Misdirection Vanish
|jacket sleeve miracle\ncoin rolled into jacket sleeve near shoulder and vanishes, ditch in breast pocket, also as transformation or transpo - the vanish - miracle coin change - copper silver transpo\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|Jacket Sleeve Miracle
|the wallet subtlety\nbill removed from wallet, then coin produced from bill, way to get coin under bill\nharvey rosenthal\ngolden girl\nmichael esposito 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|The Wallet Subtlety
|perfect passe-passe\ntwo pennies on table, one travels across\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|Perfect Passe-Passe
|coin sticks to hand\nwith credit information\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|Coin sticks to Hand
|sidelines\ncomments on previous routines\nkarl fulves 1976 Karl Fulves
|harvey rosenthal issue (part two)\nfolio intro\nkarl fulves 1976 Karl Fulves
|Harvey Rosenthal Issue (Part Two)
|subtle coin steal\npalming a coin from a group\nharvey rosenthal\npalming one coin from a group\ngary kurtz 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|Subtle Coin Steal
|spellbound\nthree changes\nharvey rosenthal\nultimate 1 finger spellbound\nmichael ammar 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|half-dollar flight\none coin in each hand, one travels across, tenkai pennies alternative\nharvey rosenthal\nring travel\nkarl fulves 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|Half-Dollar Flight
|oil and quarters\nthree copper and three silver coins alternately put in one hand, one type travels to other hand\nharvey rosenthal\nnotes by fulves\nkarl fulves 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|Oil and Quarters
|himber visual retention coin vanish\nextended fourth finger, here as click pass\nrichard himber 1976 Richard Himber
|Himber Visual Retention Coin Vanish
|notes by fulves\nthree copper and three silver coins alternately put in one hand, one type travels through table\nkarl fulves\ncopper or silver\nbrooks conner\noil and quarters\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Karl Fulves
|Notes By Fulves
|sidelines\ncomments on previous routines, tip of the iceberg theory\nkarl fulves 1976 Karl Fulves
|ring travel\nusing ring instead of coin\nkarl fulves\nhalf-dollar flight\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Karl Fulves
|Ring Travel
|silver shadow\ncoin wrapped in handkerchief, ball of silver pulled through handkerchief, glass disc remains in handkerchief, then changes back to silver coin when rubbed against silver foil\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|Silver Shadow
|hr turnover change\n\nharvey rosenthal\nc/s switch-in\nkarl fulves\nthe vernon coin switch\ndai vernon 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|HR Turnover Change
|spellbound handling\nfoil rubbed against coin\nharvey rosenthal\n"transmutation" (edward victor, my favorite close-up trick, p. 32) 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|Spellbound Handling
|oil to water\ntwo copper and silver coins alternated in okito box, then all change to silver\nharvey rosenthal\nkarl fulves 1976 Harvey Rosenthal, Karl Fulves
|Oil To Water
|banish\nnickel and penny on table, covered with hands, one travels across, repeat, then chosen coin travels table, then both covered with card, one travels across, two coins joined with thread\nharvey rosenthal\ntwo coins\nmorty rudnick\ntwo coins\nkarl fulves 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|sidelines\ncomments on previous routines\nkarl fulves 1976 Karl Fulves
|c/s switch-in\n\nkarl fulves\nhr turnover change\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Karl Fulves
|C/S Switch-In
|harvey rosenthal issue (part three)\nfolio intro\nkarl fulves 1976 Karl Fulves
|Harvey Rosenthal Issue (Part Three)
|on coin magic vs. card magic\n\nkarl fulves 1976 Karl Fulves
|On Coin Magic vs. Card Magic
|purse swindle\ncoin in hand transposes with coin in purse - compounding the swindle\nharvey rosenthal\ncontemporary purse swindle\ntom gagnon 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|Purse Swindle
|rosenthal loading move\n"loads/palms/steals"\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|Rosenthal Loading Move
|jack miller palm\n"loads/palms/steals" finger palm, ramsay subtlety\njack miller 1976 Jack Miller
|Jack Miller Palm
|fulves coin steal\n"loads/palms/steals"\nkarl fulves 1976 Karl Fulves
|Fulves Coin Steal
|ring and spring\nroutine with metal spring and ring with pen, four phases - seated/standing notes\nharvey rosenthal\nring & spring\nvincent sabatino 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|Ring and Spring
|sidelines\ncomments on previous routines\nkarl fulves 1976 Karl Fulves
|rosenthal backclip\ngetting in and out\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|Rosenthal Backclip
|a treatise - the 1953 routine\ncoins across with two copper and two silver coins\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|A Treatise - The 1953 Routine
|han ping chien\nbrief\n unknown 1976 Unknown
|Han Ping Chien
|the 1954 routine\ncoins across with two copper and two silver coins, two methods\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|The 1954 Routine
|pop-up move handling\nwith two coins\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|Pop-Up Move Handling
|the 1955 routine\nhand steal\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|The 1955 Routine
|the 1956 routine\n\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|The 1956 Routine
|the 1957 coins thru table\ntwo copper and two silver coins, silver coins penetrate table, three phases\nharvey rosenthal 1976 Harvey Rosenthal
|The 1957 Coins Thru Table
|slydini on colorvision\ntwo phases, die vanishes from box\n slydini\nmarlo vision\nedward marlo 1976 Slydini
|Slydini On Colorvision
|sidelines\non the close-up folios\nkarl fulves 1976 Karl Fulves
|ultimate okito\n\nrandy jahier 1976 Randy Jahier
|Ultimate Okito
|silks to go\n"thumb trix" two silks vanish in fist, with wand\nmitchell dyszel 1976 Mitchell Dyszel
|Silks To Go
|the stretching silk\n"thumb trix"\nmitchell dyszel 1976 Mitchell Dyszel
|The Stretching Silk
|progressive elevator\n\ndavid bornstein\ndevil's elevator\ndai vernon\nbruce cervon 1976 David Bornstein
|Progressive Elevator
|modified jordan count\n\ndavid bornstein 1976 David Bornstein
|Modified Jordan Count
|ring flight\nring transforms into key case with ring inside\nhoward hamburg 1976 Howard Hamburg
|Ring Flight
|han ping chien out of shell\nonto spectator's hand\nderek dingle 1976 Derek Dingle
|Han Ping Chien out of Shell
|colors in sequence - aces and jacks jr.\nace to three of clubs and hearts, transpose one at a time\nphilip t. goldstein\naces & jacks\nstewart judah 1976 Philip T. Goldstein
|Colors in Sequence - Aces And Jacks Jr.
|relative interchange\nace to four of clubs and indifferent cards, transpose one at a time\nphilip t. goldstein\naces & jacks\nstewart judah\nrelative interchange\nphilip t. goldstein 1976 Philip T. Goldstein
|Relative Interchange
|coins thru the hand\n- stand-up coins thru the table - in the spectator's hand version (coins penetrate performer's hand and drop into spectator's hand)\nderek dingle 1976 Derek Dingle
|Coins Thru the Hand
|shell un-nesting\n\nderek dingle 1976 Derek Dingle
|Shell Un-Nesting
|shell un-nesting\n\nlarry jennings 1976 Larry Jennings
|Shell Un-Nesting
|4-ring routine\ntwo single ring and one pair of linked rings\nken krenzel\njack dean routine\nemergency routine\nherman l. weber 1976 Ken Krenzel
|4-Ring Routine


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text: Guided by Voices (often abbreviated as GBV) was an American indie rock band originating from Dayton, Ohio. From the band's formation in 1983, it experienced frequent personnel changes, but always maintained the presence of principal songwriter Robert Pollard. Guided by Voices disbanded in 2004, though many of its former members remain musically involved in solo careers or other projects.


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WLC's campus is closed until June 8. Learn more.
Wisconsin Lutheran College offers a number of event spaces, from a concert hall and theatres to meeting rooms and private dining facilities. Spaces may be reserved by faculty, staff, and students; outside groups and individuals may rent college facilities as well, subject to availability. Reserve your space on campus today using the buttons below, or check the facility reservations calendar.
Faculty and Staff
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Thank you for your interest in using Wisconsin Lutheran College facilities and services for your next event. Please follow these steps to reserve a space.
Contact the Office of Events and Conferences at 414.443.8870 or 414.443.8877 or by email and provide the following information:
Make your reservation as soon as you know a space is needed as rooms book quickly. During the academic year, Wisconsin Lutheran College student, faculty, and staff requests take precedence.
A campus events representative will respond to your request as quickly as possible. Requests made after 4 p.m. on Friday will not be reviewed until 8 a.m. on Monday.
Your reservation is tentative until we receive a signed contract.


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By Teachers, For Teachers
The field trip is a staple of elementary education, and it's easy to see why. From the educator's standpoint, taking the students out of the classroom for a day allows them to fully engage with a subject and learn visually in a museum, cultural, or wildlife setting.
It provides the opportunity to implement goals and lesson plans that deviate from the norm. It also forces students to share, communicate, and work in groups in a way they normally wouldn't in a classroom setting.
From the student's perspective, the field trip is a great way to get out of the classroom and break from the boring routine. Even a history museum can be exciting in the field trip context, and inquisitive students will always appreciate the opportunity to go somewhere new and see something different. Teachers can consequently use such an outing as an incentive to learn.
But field trips can be expensive for a school district and stressful for the teacher who has to keep track of 30 kids in a large museum. They also can be limiting. Unless your school is located in a major metropolitan area, there are probably only so many zoos, science centers, and wildlife preserves that you can visit.
Fortunately, the power of technology can address these issues by bring the field trip to your classroom.
There are countless websites that provide pictures of famous places and recreations of famous scenes or events. These sites include those that exhibit pictures from the Sistine Chapel, exhibits from Colonial Williamsburg, and videos from the Holocaust museum. But none of these are truly virtual field trips because:
(1. the important information is presented, not explored and
(2. students view the exercise more as a classroom activity.
For these reasons many administrators have viewed virtual field trips as counter to the goals of a physical one.
Yet Google has rectified this issue by making virtual tours of art museums worldwide. Just as one can "walk" down their street using Google Street View, so too can they stroll around and explore famous museums with the click of a mouse. The Google Art Project includes such places as the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Tate Britain in London, and many more.
Clicking on a museum will provide a viewer with 360 degree views of most rooms – and artwork – in the collection. Students can move around, explore the building, and zoom in on each individual piece of art. While zoomed in, information to the right of the screen provides commentary on that piece of work. A floor plan is even provided for navigation.
So how should an instructor devise a lesson plan based on these virtual field trips? Essentially, it can be treated just as a normal field trip would – by splitting students into groups, asking them to look at various genres of painting, and requesting observational notes or comparisons of some sort. Then give students a substantial block of time to explore and to see what they can take away.
As with any class outing, there is a lot that can be gained from the experience. Can a virtual field trip be as good as a real one? In all likelihood, no. However, it can certainly provide many of the same educational benefits and it can save a considerable amount of time, effort, and money in the process.
Do you go on virtual field trips in your classroom? Share with us in the comments section!


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A Texas woman cleaning out a home for a future episode of TLC's "Hoarding: Buried Alive" developed a respiratory disease that county officials believe has been caused by hantavirus.
The home in the Houston suburb of the Woodlands has been under quarantine since Friday. The homeowner's daughter tested positive for the disease and is now recovering, with medications, after a stay in the hospital, according to ABC News affiliate ABC13. A sheriff's deputy has remained outside the home all weekend to keep everyone a safe distance away.
A second test on the woman by the state health department will determine whether she does in fact have hantavirus, according to ABC13.
Between the cleanup crew and the film crew, as many as 30 people had been in and out of the home over the past two weeks. The producers of the reality series refused to comment on the situation.
Infection with the hantavirus comes from inhaling or ingesting particles of mice droppings, or urine, and has a 40 percent mortality rate.
"Hantavirus is a disease that's carried by rodents, and when you go through processes like cleaning the home, sweeping, vacuuming, that sort of thing, it goes into the air," said Montgomery County Medical Director Dr. Mark Escott.
Escott told ABC13 that neighbors should be on the lookout for rodents.
"The best way to prevent spread of the disease is to control the rodents in the home. If rodents are found in the home, then they need to make sure that they use folks who are licensed to clean homes," said Escott.
"That house was made to order for that kind of thing. There's not any cleaning going on," said neighbor Jim Polito.
This comes after three visitors to Yosemite National Park died from the same virus after staying in infested cabins. More than 10,000 tourists were warned to watch for symptoms. The virus takes one to six weeks to incubate. Flu-like symptoms -- chills, muscle aches, fevers -- initially appear, and the disease progresses rapidly. Within a day or two it can be very difficult to breathe.


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A&M's new app could help you snare feral hogs
You don't have to be a farmer or rancher to loathe feral hogs.
Just like your rural neighbors, suburbanites struggle with damage left in the wake of these large, foraging beasts.
Now, you can get relief for your manicured yard with help from the Feral Hog Management App.
Developed by A&M's AgriLife Extension Service, the app is designed to help landowners learn legal strategies to stop the invaders.
Mark Tyson, an AgriLife Extension associate in College Station, said feral hogs are becoming the single most destructive invasive species threatening agriculture and wildlife in the United States.
"They contribute to poor water quality issues, disturb native ecosystems, and wreak havoc on landscapes and gardens," Tyson said in a news release. "Their growing numbers are now making them a menace on our roadways, with collision damage often exceeding several thousands of dollars per incident."
For 99 cents, the AgriLife Extension app is available here from iTunes.
Tyson said it provides a wealth of information -- with photos -- on various control measures such as snare-building, strategic shooting, bait recipes and trap design.
"The visuals are outstanding, with the vivid photographs providing users with the detailed examples many of us need to help us further understand the management practices outlined," he said in the news release.
With the information in this app, a landowner could conceivably identify and implement an effective feral hog management plan, the release said.
Texas is estimated to have at least 2.6 million feral hogs, with numbers rapidly increasing, according to the AgriLife Extension release. The hogs cause an estimated $52 million in damage each year.