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Vol. 11 Issue 5 May 2014

We meet the first Thursday of the month at Beth Sholom, 1050 S. Tuttle Ave. Sarasota FL. 34237 Workshop at 6:00 pm. Officers meeting 6:30 pm. General meeting and presentation 7:00 pm.

This months theme is

“Caper Paper” Paper is to be used by each

member’s presentation in-

cluding newspapers, decora-

tive paper, tissue paper, pa-

per bag and money.

No Cards

Some suggestions.

Afghan Bands

Clippo

Double Walled Bag

Center Tear Mentalism

Magazine Mind Reading

Torn & Restored Napkins

Torn & Restored Newspaper

Buddah Papers

Six Bill Repeat

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From the

President

“Stevie “Dee” Parties, Conventions,

Graduations.

You name it,

He does it.

Steve can be reached at:

941-752-9123 or

FAX 941-727-7410

CIGAM

HOUSE OF MAGIC 1222 12th St. West

Bradenton FL 34205

JONTI Head Magician

Slight of hand, DVDs,

Lessons

Phone: 941-746-4163 Email:

jontimagic@tampabay.rr.com

May 1st Paper Caper-Members

June 5th TBD

July 3rd TBD

Support

Our

Members

The Sharkstooth Festival was a great success as we raised over $300 for Special Olympics. Many of our members performed with some coming on more than one day. Thanks are extended to the fol-lowing Ring 81 members Dave Pitchford, Dick Johnson, Ramsey, Arnie, Michael Kent, Patty Perla Steve Roberts, Bill ? for their partici-pation and support. Pictures on Page5 Submitted by Wes Meltzer

Great magic sessions, fellows....keeping coming to the meetings prepared to show an effect. If you don't have one exactly on topic for the evening, no matter, bring what you have. We want to see members PERFORMING! As you may know, Aldo's lecture for us in November was one of his last ap-pearances. He was a great friend of Ring 81; the bio below is abridged from Gerald Schiller's notes:

Aldo Colombini He was undoubtedly one of the funniest magicians who ever appeared on a stage; he created books and novel effects that number in the hundreds; he was the only magician in the history of the Magic Castle to be nominated in six different cate-gories (comedy, stage, close-up, parlour, bar magician and lecturer); and his Italian accent made him all the more lovable. But Aldo Colombini, sadly, left us on February 12, 2014 when he died of a cat-astrophic stroke. He was born March 19,1951 in Maranello, Modena, Italy. At the age of fourteen he got a job at the Ferrari racing car factory. There he worked the assembly line doing tedious, repetitive factory labor for seven long years. Continued on P3

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In case you’re not aware, there is a web site magic auction every month. There

are a multitude of items with descriptions and prices. They may have just the

right thing you’re looking for. Check them out.

http://www.magicauction.com/Mag_auc/index.html

Purely by chance, a friend lent him a book of magic tricks and suddenly his world changed. He studied the book and soon decided to utilize his new skill, along with his witty personality, and embark on a career in magic. He did children's shows and eventually got to do a spot on a kids' show on Italian television which evolved into a long-running series. By 1993, although he knew little English, he decided to move to the United States. And it was here that his career took off. Utilizing his hilariously comic persona and combining it with his brilliant magical skills, Aldo was soon appearing at virtually all the magic conventions, lecturing, performing and promot-ing the many effects he was constantly creating. He performed in more than 61 countries and almost every state in the U.S. He was a FISM winner and twice won the Parlour Magi-cian of the Year from the Magic Castle. For many years his column,"As Always, Aldo" appeared in The Linking Ring — a col-umn that featured new and unusual tricks as well as news about his travels. For twenty years he also contributed to the British Magigram Magazine and he provided many tricks to Harry Lorayne's publication Apocalypse. Aldo was amazingly skilled in simplifying complex magic tricks. He could take an ef-fect that involved numerous knuckle-busting sleights and come up with an approach that was just as effective, but so much easier. Even now I chuckle as I remember Aldo Colombini spreading a deck of cards face up across a table, looking up at his audience and saying, "Ordinary deck?" and when they agreed, closing the spread and muttering, "Damn! I brought the wrong one!" He left us at the age of just 63 and we very much miss him.

Here is one of Aldo's "Quickies:"

SIMPLY IMPROMP2 Compiled by Aldo Colombini Mind-Two by Aldo Colombini The original idea belongs to Howard Adams and appeared in his book Oicufesp, Vol. 2 and it was named "Thinkcard." I have slightly changed the handling and found two ways to produce the two selected cards. EFFECT: You reveal two selected cards! METHOD: Remove (or have removed) any five cards (or simply ask someone to re-move any Royal Flush). The spectator shuffles these five cards. Let's call this spectator A. Turn your head away. Holding the packet face down, spectator A looks at the top card and remembers it (say it is the I OH). Spectator A gives the cards to spectator B who looks at the bottom card of the face-down packet and remembers it (say it is the QH). Spectator B mentally spells his name (or any other name or word of his choice) by moving one card from top to bottom of the packet for each letter of the word. If his name is Aldo, he will move four cards from top to bottom, one at a time.

Continued from P2

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Continued from P3 Ask him to deal the cards one after the other on the table, thus reversing their

order. Ask spectator B to pick up the cards and again he mentally spells his selected

word (same one), moving one card for each letter from top to bottom of the packet

(four cards in the example given). Spectator A's card is now on the bottom of the pack-

et and spectator B's card is now on top; this is automatic. The two cards have simply

reversed their position from top to bottom and vice versa.

You will now reveal the cards in two different and magical ways.

Pick up the packet and hold it face down in your left hand. Perform a Reverse Faro, out-

jogging every other card starting with the second. Strip out the two out-jogged cards,

flip them over and place them on top of the other three cards and square. Repeat the

Reverse Faro, out-jogging every other card (leaving the reversed cards in their posi-

tion). Strip out the out-jogged cards, flip them over and place them on top. Repeat the

whole procedure, but once flipped over, the two cards are placed on the bottom.

Turn the packet over and spread the cards. One card will be reversed in the

middle of the packet: Spectator A's card. The other selected card is second from the

top. Flip the face-up card face down and leave it in the middle of the packet (or any-

where you like but leave the other selected card second from the top).

Hold the packet face down from above in your right hand. The left thumb slides

the top card into your left hand. Turn the right hand palm up and, with your left thumb,

slide the top card of the packet (face up) onto the left-hand card. Turn the right hand

palm down again and slide the top (face-down) card onto the two cards in your left

hand. Turn the right hand palm up again and slide the top (face-up) card onto the cards

in your left hand. Finally, turn the right hand palm down and place the face-down card

below the other cards.

Repeat the entire procedure but place the last card face down on top instead of

moving it to the bottom (the selected card is face down in the middle of the otherwise

face-up cards). Flip the packet over and ask for the name of the other selected card.

Spread the packet and only one card is reversed in the middle: Spectator B's card.

NOTE: The revelation of the second card is a procedure created by Doug Edwards.

Submitted by Gale Molovinsky

On Saturday April 19th there was a celebration of Life for Aldo Colombini at

Rachel’s home in Ocala. Many magical friends gathered there, and I was honored

to be one of them. We spend the day in reflecting on all the fun we had with

Aldo and the things we learned from him over the many years we knew him. A

broken wand ceremony was presented by Rick DelVeccio. He will be missed.

Submitted by Joe Floersheimer

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Some of the performers at the Shark Tooth Festival

This spot

could have

been you!

Sorry if your picture is not included in the above array. These were the only

ones submitted.

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Want More Magic? Tuesday evening’s magical

get together is held at

Applebees

1991 Main Street, Sarasota

Next to Hollywood 20 Theater

For more information contact:

Dave Pitchford dapo49@verizon.net

Arnieism of the Month

arniebaby-who wants you to know that---

-The fastest way to reduce is to eat nothing---

and then walk it off--

Your suggestions and submissions are not only appreciated they are sought. Share a trick, an event

or anything that’s relevant to Ring 81.

Officers Ring 81

President, Gale Molovinsky Secretary

gamolo@aol.com Presently unfilled

Vice Presidents, Michael Kent

and Dave Pitchford Treasurer, Ed Kaczmarek

dapo49@verizon.net edsmagic@aol.com

Past President Al Loeffler Newsletter Joe Floersheimer

Joe.shoes@verizon.net

Joe Floersheimer 5814 Fairwoods Circle Sarasota FL 34243

Thank you to our members for participating

in our FORCE NIGHT at the last meeting.

Nick Benevento, Bob Banta, David Pitchford,

Mike Sedita, Steve Berger, Gale Molovinsky,

Wes Meltzer, Arnie Friedman, Jose Reyes,

Tyler Stickler, Ed Kaczmarek, Jonti.