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		<title>Joe Givan Talks About &#8220;America&#8217;s Got Talent&#8221; and Magic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to my commentary on Dan Sperry's recent performance on "America's Got Talent," magician Joe Givan , who provided Dan Sperry's mutilation illusion , talks about the judge's response as well as the presentation of magic.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In response to my commentary on Dan Sperry&#8217;s recent performance on &#8220;America&#8217;s Got Talent,&#8221; magician Joe Givan , who provided Dan Sperry&#8217;s mutilation illusion , talks about the judge&#8217;s response as well as the presentation of magic.</p>
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		<title>How To Begin Being A Magician</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last several years magic has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity. Once again people are thoroughly enjoying watching the performance of magic tricks. And once again more people are beginning to take an interest in becoming magicians. While it certainly isn&#8217;t easy to perform magic it isn&#8217;t impossible either. Here is how to begin [...]]]></description>
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<p>Over the last several years magic has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity. Once again people are thoroughly enjoying watching the performance of magic tricks. And once again more people are beginning to take an interest in becoming magicians. While it certainly isn&#8217;t easy to perform magic it isn&#8217;t impossible either. Here is how to begin being a magician.</p>
<p>Obviously to be a magician you need to be able to perform magic tricks and the best way to do this is to start out with easy tricks. There are many easy tricks that you can learn. Many of these are also entertaining to audiences. These easier tricks will allow you to learn to use your hands for the slight of hand tricks. They will also help you learn the pacing that is so important to performing magic. Work on the basics and put together a few basic tricks that you perform more and more.</p>
<p>Once you get a few tricks down then you should practice as much as possible. <span id="more-8"></span> Practice as much as you can and get as good as you can be. There is no substitute for practice and there is no way around it either. So practice, practice, and then practice some more. Once you get good at the basic tricks then you can continue to begin being a magician by practicing more complex tricks.</p>
<p>Once you get good enough to finally put a show together then you need to begin performing as much as possible. Just as there&#8217;s no substitute for practice, there&#8217;s also no substitute for performing. You have to get on the stage as much as possible and perform as often as possible. The more you perform the better you&#8217;ll get at being a magician. And before you know it you&#8217;ll go from being a beginning magician to being an experienced magician. </p>
<p>How to begin being a magician is easy to know but not so easy to do. It takes a lot of hard work and a lot of practice. You should begin learning to perform easy tricks and then you should practice these tricks as much as possible. Then you can perform more complex tricks until you&#8217;re able to put together a show. From there you should log as much stage time as possible and become the best magician you can possibly be. With knowledge, practice, and repeated performances, you will be able to become a great magician.</p>
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		<title>Old 97&#8242;s Guitarist Ken Bethea Shares His Thoughts on The Grand&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old 97's guitarist Ken Bethea is one of just two of the band's four members that still calls Dallas home.]]></description>
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		<title>Ray LaMontagne: on music, succes, and push-ups</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toledo Blade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To say Ray LaMontagne is understated is an understatement. The folk singer, known for his forceful, passionate voice and such swoon-worthy songs as "Trouble," "Shelter" or "You Are The Best Thing," is notoriously celebrity-wary, preferring the comforts of a good book and his Massachusetts farmhouse to rock-star parties and the red carpet.]]></description>
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		<title>Magician convention materializes in Austin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Dunn, who goes by Professor Whatsit, performs with his puppet Witch Hazel at the Austin Street Magic Festival on Thursday.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jim Dunn, who goes by Professor Whatsit, performs with his puppet Witch Hazel at the Austin Street Magic Festival on Thursday.</p>
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		<title>Magician&#8217;s Dexterity Pays Dividends Onstage and Off</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Mid-County Post</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most parents may not greet the news that their child wants to be a magician when he grows up with much enthusiasm.]]></description>
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		<title>Colm Mulcahy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>American Mathematical Monthly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Card Colm August 2010 For a quarter of a century, stretching from 1956 to 1983, Martin Gardner wrote an extremely popular and influential monthly column called "Mathematical Games" for Scientific American .]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Card Colm August 2010 For a quarter of a century, stretching from 1956 to 1983, Martin Gardner wrote an extremely popular and influential monthly column called &#8220;Mathematical Games&#8221; for Scientific American .</p>
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		<title>Snooker greats in town to raise cash for charity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A ROCKET and a Whirlwind whipped through Colchestera s Charter Hall as two snooker legends went head-to-head. Ronnie Oa Sullivan and Jimmy White played in front of an entranced crowd for a cancer fundraiser.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A ROCKET and a Whirlwind whipped through Colchestera s Charter Hall as two snooker legends went head-to-head. Ronnie Oa Sullivan and Jimmy White played in front of an entranced crowd for a cancer fundraiser.</p>
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		<title>5 More Complete the Top 10 on &#8216;America&#8217;s Got Talent&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight is going to be huge. It's the first results show I can't predict with certainty.]]></description>
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		<title>No trick to joining new chapter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years he's been a mentor magician to many high school students learning the fine art of magic.]]></description>
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