The Magic Circle (organisation) 75% of members voted to admit women. As of 2010 there were around eighty female members of the Magic Circle, including Paul Daniels' wife, Debbie McGee. In 2014, Megan Knowles-Bacon became the first female officer in the Magic Circle, as well as the youngest person to be elected as an officer; she was elected as secretary. The motto of the society is the Latin "indocilis privata loqui", roughly translated as "not apt to disclose secrets" (lit. "incapable [of] speaking [of] private [things]") ; members give their word not to wilfully disclose magic secrets other than to bona fide students of
Out of a Center Which Is Neither Dead nor Alive have "no catchy harmonies or sing-along choruses, but plenty of blissful textures are woven among the downtrodden loping." Out of a Center Which Is Neither Dead nor Alive Out of a Center Which Is Neither Dead Nor Alive is the debut full-length album by Chicago-based post-metal band Minsk. Produced by Sanford Parker, the album was released in 2005 on At a Loss Recordings. In a review of the album, Allmusic's Greg Prato wrote: "Although the group has obvious roots in metal (as evidenced by tracks like 'Narcotics and Dissecting Knives'), Minsk has plenty of tricks up its sleeve, such as