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Magic || Eugene Burger

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Eugene Burger is an American magician based in Chicago Illinois and reputed for his close-up skills and his work in mentalism and Bizarre Magic. He is the author of books on the presentation of close up magic and is featured on several instructional DVDs and videos for magicians. The books include: Intimate Power, The Performance of Closeup Magic, The Experience of Magic, Strange Ceremonies, Spirit Theater, and Mastering the Art of Magic. The video productions include: Eugene Goes Bizarre, Real Magic, Gourmet Closeup Magic and Eugene Burger’s Magical Voyages. He also produced a rare audio program - Growing in the Art of Magic.

Eugene frequently teaches with Jeff McBride at his school of magic in Las Vegas, NV.


External link

  • Official Eugene Burger homepage
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Inner Magic || Trollkarlen

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Trollkarlen is the name of a Swedish magazine for magicians. It is put out by the “Swedish Magic Circle” organization.


See also

  • Tom Stone (magician)
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Tricks || Hummer card

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The Hummer card is a levitation magic trick in which, unlike many other levitation tricks, a regular playing card floats, hovers, spins and flies around the body of the magician in a seemingly impossible manner. The trick works for any form of card such as a credit card or business card. Due to this flexibility it is often used as street magic or a fancy way for a corporate magician to hand out his business card, and is very easy to work into almost any routine. The trick was originally invented by Bob Hummer and is often sold on mainstream magic sites.

It is often referred to as the Hummingbird card or and some dealers sell a rebranded version with a variety of different names, such as Hummer’s Whirling Card.

It is done by taping invisible string to the back of your ear (the string should be as long as from your right hand streched out to your left shirt pocket) and using magicians wax, tape or orthodontal wax to connect the string to the card you spin the card and control its movements with your head and by placing the string between your thumb and index fingers.

Inner Magic Circle before || Magic Lantern

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Magic lantern may mean:

  • magic lantern, the ancestor of the modern slide projector
  • Magic Lantern (software), the FBI’s keylogger.
  • The Magic Lantern is the name of a theater in Prague which served as the headquarters for the reform movement (see Velvet Revolution
  • It is also the name of a book by Timothy Garton Ash recounting the fall of communism throughout Eastern Europe
  • Magic Lantern (comics) is an alternate version of the hero Green Lantern who comes from Earth-17, an Earth based on drug culture.

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Magician || Zombie ball

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The zombie ball is a magic illusion in which a metal sphere on a small pedestal is covered with a silk cloth, and appears to levitate upwards carrying the cloth with it. The magician continues to hold two corners of the cloth. The ball dances and seemingly moves of its own accord.

Routines can involve the magician letting the cloth hang down and the sphere sitting on the top edge, the sphere seemingly floating down behind the magician and back up, appearing behind his arm, and floating so high up the magician has to stand on his tip toes to pull it back down.

The ball then returns to its stand and the cloth is removed.

The effect was invented by magician Joe Karson, in the 1940s.

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Club || Floriana basketball club

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The Floriana Basketball Club was founded in 1977 and is affiliated to the Malta Basketball Association.
This Club was originally founded under the auspices of the Fsobians Club of Floriana and in fact for the first two seasons it played under the name of Fsobians Basketball Team with the first Chairman of the Club being Nigel Holland.
The present premises of the Club is at the Independence Arena in Floriana.

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A number || 109 (number)

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109 is the natural number following 108 and preceding 110.

Cardinal

<td>one hundred [and]
nine

Ordinal 109th
Factorization

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Roman numeral CIX
Binary 1101101
Hexadecimal 6D


In mathematics

One hundred [and] nine is the 29th prime number, and also a Chen prime. The previous prime is 107, making them both twin primes. 109 is a centered triangular number. 109 is the smallest number which is palindromic in bases 5 and 9.


In other fields

109 is also:

  • The atomic number of meitnerium.
  • The registry number of the famous patrol boat PT-109, commanded by John F. Kennedy.
  • The year AD 109 or 109 BC.
  • The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was a World War II fighter
  • The 109 Department Store in Shibuya, Tokyo
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Magic || Magic Link

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The Magic Link was a personal communicator and PDA marketed by Sony from 1994, based on the General Magic’s Magic Cap operating system. The “Link” part of the name refers to the device’s ability to send and receive data over a wireless cellular network.

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Tricks || Walk the dog

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Walking the dog is, first and foremost, the act of taking a pet dog on a walk as part of an exercise regimen. Other meanings or similar phrases:

  • Walk the dog[1] is a common yo-yo trick where the player does a sleeper and then allows this spinning yo-yo to roll along the ground as if it were a leashed animal.
  • “Walking the dog” is also a technique for retrieving a surface (top water) fishing lure.

Also CBers walk the dog

  • Wag the Dog is the title of a 1997 film starring Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman, about the creation of a fake war in order to divert public attention from a presidential sex scandal. The term has subsequently found its way into common political vernacular to describe similar situations. See Spin (public relations).

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Magic || Ugu the shoemaker

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Ugu the Shoemaker is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by author L. Frank Baum. Ugu the Shoemaker is the villain of The Lost Princess of Oz (1917), book #11 in the official Oz canon.

He was once a shoemaker in Herku, located in the Winkie Country, until he discovered the magic recipes of his ancestors. Thereupon, he decided to become a powerful sorcerer and take possession of the Land of Oz as its ruler. He moved away from Herku and built a Wicker Castle in the west of the Winkie Country. After stealing the Magic Dishpan from Cayke, he used it to steal the Glinda’s Magic Book of Records, the Wizard’s Black Bag of Magic and, ultimately, he kidnapped Princess Ozma in the process and hid her in the form of an Enchanted Peach Pit.

He was finally defeated by Dorothy Gale, who used the Nome King’s Magic Belt to transform him into a dove. Realizing how much damage he had done, he only asked to remain a peaceful dove and apologize to Dorothy.

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Magic || Burling Hull

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Burling Hull (1889-1982) (alias “Volta the Great”) was an inventive magician, self-styled “the Edison of magic,” specializing in mentalist and psychic effects. He claimed to be the inventor of the Svengali deck of cards. He was also a shrewd businessman and marketer, and gave talks to magic conventions on business success.

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Of the Northamptonshire || Chelveston

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Chelveston is a small village in Northamptonshire, England and is part of the East Northamptonshire district. To the south is the hamlet of Caldecott with which it shares a civil parish.

Nearby is the former airfield of RAF Chelveston. A new memorial to the 305th Bombardment Group (Heavy) who operated out of the airfield was unveiled in the centre of the village on 26 May 2007.


Nearby Settlements

  • Ringstead, Keyston, Stanwick, Rushden, Higham Ferrers, Thrapston, Hargrave, Wellingborough, Irthlingborough, Raunds, Great Addington


External Links

  • The Chelveston-cum-Caldecott Parish Council web-site http://www.chelveston.org.uk
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Stuart || Michael Stuart (statistician)

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Dr. Michael Stuart is Senior Lecturer in Statistics at Trinity College Dublin and Director of Studies for Management Science and Information Systems Studies. Dr. Stuart’s current research interests focuses on the teaching of statistical problem solving without an over-dependence on mathematical reasoning, preferring instead a more intuitive, problem-solving approach.

Dr. Stuart is also the author of the introductory statistics textbook Introduction to Statistical Analysis for Business and Industry, published by Arnold in 2003.


External links

  • Dr. Michael Stuart’s Homepage
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Bible where || International Standard Version

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The International Standard Version is a new English translation of the Bible for which the New Testament has been published and the Old Testament is being translated.


The Project

The ISV New Testament was released on 10 April, 1998.

As of July 24, 2007 at 16:52:35, only 7,547 verses of the ISV in 7 books of the Old Testament remain to be translated.<ref></ref>


Literary attributes


Translation

The translation aims to be central between a literal translation and an idiomatic translation, a philosophy the ISV translation team call “literal-idiomatic” (p. xliii of the ISV Introduction).


References


External Links

  • ISV Website


See also

  • List of Bible translations
  • List of English Bible translations
  • English translations of the Bible
  • Modern English Bible translations
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Has worked || Rhynoc

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Rhynocs are a fictional species in the Spyro the Dragon series of video games. Rhynocs are anthropomorphic rhinoceri, relatively skilled in most troop work, and always willing to throw themselves at a war under any type of general. They use a huge range of weapons like fireworks, snow-bazookas, pickaxes, flower pots, spades, slingshots, hot coals, lanterns, chicken drumsticks, China-styled umbrellas and much more.

Their first appearance was in , where they worked for the Sorceress. Later, they worked for Grendor, and then finally for Ripto the sorcerer.

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Barry || Barry Whitbread

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Barry Whitbread is a football coach best known for winning the 1998 Tiger Cup with Singapore, the country’s first ever international trophy in football.

Whitbread was a player for Runcorn in English non-League football in the 1970s before going into management.

His son Zak Whitbread is a footballer with Millwall.

He was awarded the best player award.

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Tricks || Rubenstein’s Revenge

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Rubenstein’s Revenge is a 3-ball toss juggling pattern named by George Gillson after its inventor, Rick Rubenstein.<ref name=Gillson>Gillson, George. Beyond the Cascade: Step-by-Step Guides to 88 Classic 3-Ball Juggling Tricks. p 68, The Ugly Juggling Co: UK 1993. ISBN 0951699814 </ref> Along with Mills Mess and Burke’s Barrage it is one of three well known named juggling patterns that involve complex carries and crossed arm throws. Rubenstein’s Revenge is usually considered the most involved and difficult of the three. <ref name=Gillson> </ref> <ref name=Dancey> Dancey, Charlie. Charlie Dancey’s Encyclopædia of Ball Juggling p128. Butterfingers: Bath, England 1994. ISBN 189859113x </ref>


Description

Rubenstein’s Revenge is distortion of the three ball cascade. Each ball is thrown to the opposite hand as in a cascade, but they are not all thrown at the same height. The varying heights can be represented in Siteswap notation by the numbers 52233. In this notation, each of the numbers represents one particular throw in a sequence of five throws. Each 3 represents a ball thrown at the normal 3-ball cascade height. The 2s are not actual throws, but represent the two balls being carried through the air while still in hand. The 5 represents a ball thrown extra high (at a height usually reserved for 5-ball cascades) to buy time for the two carries.

In addition to the varying ball heights, Rubenstein’s Revenge incorporates elements of chops, claws and orbits. <ref name=Dancey> </ref> While the ball thrown as a 5 is in midair, the two other balls are carried in circular orbits around each other. These balls are then thrown and caught with the palm of the hand turned at an odd angle as in claws. One of these balls is caught with a downward diagonal movement as in Chops.

The overall pattern, while hard to describe, results in a fluid and natural spiraling motion of the hands and balls. The trick is notoriously difficult to understand <ref name=Gillson> </ref>, especially from a written description. A video link to a performance of the trick can be found in the external links.


References

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External links

  • Rubenstein’s Revenge
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Magic || Magic series

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A magic series is a set of distinct positive numbers which add up to the magic sum of a magic square, thus potentially making up a line in a magic square.

So, in an n × n magic square using the numbers from 1 to n2, a magic series is a set of n distinct numbers adding up to n(n2+1)/2. For n = 2, there are just two magic series, 1+4 and 2+3, and there is no magic square. The eight magic series when n = 3 all appear in the rows, columns and diagonals of a 3 × 3 magic square.

Maurice Kraitchik gave the number of magic series up to n = 7 in Mathematical Recreations in 1942 . In 2002, Henry Bottomley extended this up to n = 36 and independently Walter Trump up to n = 32. In 2005, Trump extended this to n = 54 (over 2×10111) while Bottomley gave an experimental approximation for the numbers of magic series:

<math>\frac{1}{\pi} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{3}{e}} \cdot \frac{(e n)^n}{n^3-\frac{3}{5}n^2+\frac{2}{7}n}</math>

In July 2006, Robert Gerbicz extended this sequence up to n = 150.


External links

  • Walter Trump’s pages on magic series
  • Number of magic series up to order 150
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Magic || Magic Mushroom

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Magic Mushroom/Magic Mushrooms may refer to one of the following.

  • Psychedelic mushroom
  • Magic Mushroom, Infected Mushroom and Talamasca
  • The Magic Mushrooms band
  • Magic Mushroom Band

Pair presented || Bridge tap

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Bridged tap or bridge tap is a long-used method of cabling for telephone lines. One cable pair (of wires) will “appear” in several different terminal locations (poles or pedestals). This allows the telephone company to use or “assign” that pair to any subscriber near those terminal locations. Once that customer disconnects, that pair becomes usable at any of the terminals. In the days of party lines 2, 4, 6, or 8 customers were commonly connected on the same pair which appeared at several different locations.

Digital Subscriber Line can be affected by bridged tap, depending on where the tap is bridged. The farther away from the customer’s location, the better. DSL signals find an impedance discontinuity at the unterminated end, and reflect back through the cable pair, much like a tennis ball against a brick wall. The echo signal is now out of phase and mixed with the original, creating, among other impairments, attenuation distortion. The modem receives both signals, gets confused and “takes errors” or cannot sync. If the bridged tap is long, the signal bounces back only in very attenuated form. Therefore, the modem will ignore the weaker signal and show no problem.
Most subscriber loop pairs in the world have bridged taps, so it definitely isn’t always a DSL killer. One method of fixing this problem is to ask the tech to “cut dead ahead” your line. This removes the extra cable past your house and can improve DSL performance and stability.

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Number of || Pisano period

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In mathematics, the nth Pisano period, written π(n), is the period with which the sequence of Fibonacci numbers, modulo n repeats. For example, the Fibonacci numbers mod 3 are , 1, 1, 2, 0, 2, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1, etc., with the first eight numbers repeating, so π(3) = 8.

The first Pisano periods (sequence A001175 in OEIS) for n = 1, 2, … are:

1, 3, 8, 6, 20, 24, 16, 12, 24, 60, 10, 24, 28, 48, 40, 24, 36, 24, 18, 60, 16, 30, 48, 24, 100 …

It has been observed that zero occurs only once, twice or four times throughout any Pisano sequence. Also, it can be proven that

π(n) ≤ 6n,

and that the equality applies infinitely often (whenever n/2 equals a power of 5).

Pisano periods are named after Leonardo Pisano, better known as Fibonacci.


External links

  • Table of Pisano periods
  • Mathworld article on Pisano periods