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	Irish anarchist John McGuffin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He was interned in 1971 and later wrote an excellent and valuable book on the history of internment in Ireland, as well as another book, 'The Guineapigs', about the selection and torture of a group of internees, which caused much embarassment to the state.
		A mile or so out of Newry, McGuffin explained to the fabled member of the Chicago Seven that the town we were approaching was in the grip of revolution.
		McGuffin was interned in August 1971, as far as I know the only Protestant lifted in the initial swoop.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/anarchism/ireland/people/JohnMcGuffin.html (2137 words)

	Mc Guffin
		I would say that the Ring is not a McGuffin, because the powers of the ring are known, used, the use changes the story, and it's final destruction destroys the evil and saves the good.
		The briefcase would be a McGuffin because it never matters what is in the case and it is never used.
		My view of the McGuffin (as a lecture prop) is simply this: it must be an object that holds the student's attention and keeps him or her focused on the movement of the lecture material.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?McGuffin (1403 words)

	MacGuffin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or Maguffin) is a plot device that motivates the characters and advances the story, but has little other relevance to the story.
		The Double McGuffin (1979) and The McGuffin (1985) are noteworthy for the contextual use of the term in their titles.
		Snatch is a particularly textbook example of a McGuffin, as the diamond is only really significant in the very first scene of the movie, after which it becomes less and less important as the movie progresses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/McGuffin (2492 words)

	Obituaries John McGuffin 1942 - 2002
		Often irascible and definitely recalcitrant, McGuffin was a constant thorn in the side of the establishment and a vociferous advocate of free speech, Anarchism and Irish republicanism.
		Mr McGuffin was to write a number of books on his experiences as a prisoner including 'Internment' (1973, Anvil Books) and Guinea Pigs (1974, Penguin), which sold 20,000 copies and was banned after a week by British minister, Reginald Maudling.
		McGuffin will be fondly remembered by An Phoblacht readers for The Brigadier, his viciously satirical column which seemed aimed at proving that the pen is mightier than the sword.
	www.irishresistancebooks.com /john.htm (5954 words)

	~ McGuffin ~
		It appears that McGuffin's tumor is of a hystiocytic type, which are usually benign.
		The day McGuffin was surrendered to us, he had a complete medical exam, with bloodwork.
		McGuffin is just 7-1/2 years old and certainly deserves to have the medical treatment he needs.
	www.scottiekingdom.com /mcguffin.htm (609 words)

	Bookshelved Wiki: McGuffin
		In the context of Bookshelved, a McGuffin is a page that achieves something other than discussion of the book named.
		A McGuffin is an attention-catching device or plot element, especially one which can safely be ignored once it has been used.
		I started the McGuffin award (which is itself a McGuffin) to distinguish book pages which spur Bookshelvites to action or discussion of some sort, other than reviewing a book or updating a bookshelf page; BusStop linked us to the larger community of Wikis, UnfinishedTales invited a different way of discussing books.
	bookshelved.org /cgi-bin/wiki.pl?McGuffin (672 words)

	David McGuffin: ZoomInfo Business People Information
		Owners Kaye and Alan Pyles and Executive Chef David McGuffin of The Lafayette Inn in Standardsville, Virginia are proud and excited to announce that they will host a Chef2Chef Culinary Grant Fund Raiser at the Inn on November 14th, 2005.
		Part of the city's restaurant family, McGuffin said two of his friends -- one a bartender, one a cook -- were working at Windows on the World Sept. 11.
		For three days, McGuffin feared his younger brother, an executive sous chef at Metrazur in Grand Central Station, might have suffered the same fate.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/mcguffin_david_80634720.aspx (954 words)

	The McGuffin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Escape Goat," the first release from The McGuffin, is a smorgasbord of influences - the sound of a young aband of rockers with their eyes and ears wide open.
		Yet paradoxically, while the influences shine through loud and clear, the band also has a flavor all its own that is just starting to peek up out of the ground.
		See The McGuffin Dec. 21 at The Cockade City Grill in Petersburg, or on Dec. 28 at Baja Bean in Midlothian.
	www.themcguffin.com /press_dispatch2.htm (301 words)

	Valley of the Shadow: Letters of the McGuffin Family, 1861-1865
		A friend writes to John McGuffin with news from home, including the enlistment of other friends, a fire, and the arrest of several men who were thought to be spies.
		In her letter to her son, John McGuffin, Martha Roadcap writes that she is worried about his safety after reports of a battle near Shepherdstown.
		Thomas McGuffin writes to his brother Templeton after a long silence, telling him of his family's hardships during the war and asking for news of friends and family in Augusta County.
	valley.vcdh.virginia.edu /personalpapers/documents/augusta/p2mcguffinbaylorletters.html (1360 words)

	The Biocentre, University of Reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		McGuffin, L., Street, S., Bryson K., Sorensen, S. and Jones, D. (2004) The Genomic Threading Database: a comprehensive resource for structural annotations of the genomes from key organisms.
		Ward, J. McGuffin, L., Bryson K., Buxton, B. and Jones, D. (2004) The DISOPRED server for the prediction of protein disorder.
		McGuffin, L. and Jones, D. (2003) Benchmarking protein secondary structure prediction for protein fold recognition.
	www.biocentre.rdg.ac.uk /staff/staffID=724 (955 words)

	Questions & Answers: McGuffin
		He is said to have derived it from a story about two Scottish men in a train, in which a plot device of this kind occurs; presumably MacGuffin is the way it was spelled in that story.
		However, the more common spelling now is McGuffin, which is the OED’s preference and the only one I’ve encountered in British publications.
		It’s possible, though, that the lower-case version may prevail as the word becomes generic and the links to its origin are lost.
	www.worldwidewords.org /qa/qa-mcg1.htm (175 words)

	GENOMICS AND BEHAVIOR: Toward Behavioral Genomics -- McGuffin et al. 291 (5507): 1232 -- Science
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		We predict that this is the start of a trend and that identifying genes involved in behavioral disorders will do much to improve public perception and tolerance of behavioral disorders.
		The authors are at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK.
	www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/full/291/5507/1232 (1495 words)

	A.Word.A.Day--Today's Word
		A device that helps propel the plot in a story but is of little importance in itself.
		A McGuffin could be a person, an object, or an event that characters of a story are interested in but that, intrinsically, is of little concern.
		An insane Japanese student armed with a poisonous powder invades the house convinced that he is in love with Hazel." Richard Eder; The Day After a Night of Happiness; The New York Times; Mar 16, 1999.
	www.wordsmith.org /words/McGuffin.html (374 words)

	Chestnut Hill College : McGuffin
		McGuffin, P.W. (1991) The effect of timeout duration on frequency of aggression in hospitalized children with conduct disorders.
		McGuffin, P.W. and Morrison, R.L. (1994) Behavioral Treatment of Schizophrenia.
		Greenstein, D., Franklin, M., McGuffin, P. (1999) Measuring motivation to change: An examination of the URICA in an adolescent sample.
	www.chc.edu /page_template.asp?section=1&file=faculty_mcguffin (120 words)

	Alias Smith and Jones: McGuffin - TV.com
		Confusion reigns after Smith and Jones stop to help a wounded man who calls himself McGuffin and asks them to deliver a package of perfect counterfeit $20 plates for him.
		The name McGuffin is a term that Hitchcock used to signify a precious object that the plot revolves around.
		The object doesn´t necessarily have to be particularly specified.
	www.tv.com /alias-smith-and-jones/mcguffin/episode/58704/summary.html (150 words)

	CBC News - Reports from Abroad: David McGuffin
		David McGuffin is the CBC's Africa correspondent, based in Nairobi.
		Stand in the middle of them and all you can see are sad, makeshift tents crammed together in a dry, dusty, windblown plain.
		David McGuffin reports on the desperate situation in Somalia, where the drough sweeping East Africa is hitting hardest.
	www.cbc.ca /news/reportsfromabroad/mcguffin/20060420.html (1102 words)

	Michael J. McGuffin: Research
		Animations in the prototype are smoother than they appear in the movie, due to the low frame rate of the movie.
		Summary: Builds on McGuffin's unpublished webpage "A Graph-Theoretic Introduction to Ted Nelson's Zzstructures" by considering, in addition to zzstructures, a graph structure associated with schraefel's mSpace.
		Summary: Builds on work published by McGuffin and Balakrishnan at CHI 2002, paying more atttention to design considerations for multiple expanding targets, and introducing the notion of an "Integrated Index of Difficulty" (IID).
	www.dgp.toronto.edu /~mjmcguff/research (1393 words)

	Memories of John McGuffin 1942 - 2002
		Written by John McGuffin it consists of 24 tasteless tales from the ‘troubles’, written over a 25 year period.
		Produced during the serious disturbances of August 1969, it was the first poster to advocate the abolition of the Stormont parliament.
		Within the disparate radical alliance of the People’s Democracy, McGuffin was an anarchist and, accordingly, favoured smashing all states.
	www.mcguinnessonline.com /johnmcguffin/works.htm (657 words)

	MCGUFFIN: Genealogy Queries
		James married letitia McGuffin from Newry, and Isabella, Hugh Si...
		MCGUFFIN results at MyTrees.com - Pedigree-linked database, extracted birth, marriage, and death records
		MCGUFFIN search results at Interment.net - Burial records and tombstone inscriptions from thousands of cemeteries across the world.
	www.cousinconnect.com /p/a/0/s/MCGUFFIN (199 words)

	Interactivist Info Exchange \| Death of Irish Anarchist John McGuffin 1942 - 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A well known bon-viveur and story teller, McGuffin was also a Civil Rights veteran, self-confessed anarchist, guerrilla fighter, bank robber, solicitor, rioter, drug dealer, pirate radio operator and writer.
		For those who are wondering about future editions of McGuffin's emailed satirical, highly libellous (and therefore enjoyable!) "Dispatches", which he described as "unashamedly Republican, Socialist, Anarchist, Guevarist and iconoclastic" we have it on good authority that his ghost will return to ensure their continuation in the near future.
		And those occasions when I met him after that were by chance, typical for his anarchistic nature, at a protest somewhere, perhaps in a pub or on a street in Belfast or Derr
	slash.autonomedia.org /article.pl?sid=02/04/29/0628255 (1766 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		McGuffin (or MacGuffin) is a movie slang word referring to something that, though seemingly important, in fact serves only to get the plot in motion.
		There are stolen emeralds that don't matter, drugs that can't be found, a villain who's either an alibi or a myth.
		McGuffin was coined by Alfred Hitchcock, and is still often associated with him.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19960501 (92 words)

	Schizophrenia - Interview with Dr. Peter McGuffin
		n this interview, Dr. Peter McGuffin, Director of the Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatric Research Centre at King’s College, London, talks about his research on the genetic basis of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders.
		He has contributed to 99 papers on schizophrenia, which have been cited a total of 1,312 times.
		These citations make Dr. McGuffin one of the top 15 most-cited authors in schizophrenia research of the past decade.
	www.esi-topics.com /schizophrenia/interviews/dr-peter-mcguffin.html (1233 words)

	The McGuffin
		The McGuffin’s sound has gained the attention of a wide audience, as evidenced by the band opening for national acts such as classic rockers Molly Hatchet and Little Feat, and by their frequent appearances on Richmond area new rock radio stations.
		The band’s influences cross genres within and outside of rock, but most reflect the classic sounds of The Beatles, The Doors, and The Allman Brothers Band as well as the modern styles of Beck, Pavement, and Soundgarden.
		In addition to its experience performing live, The McGuffin has two full-length studio albums to its credit.
	www.themcguffin.com /biography.htm (264 words)

	I Watch Stuff! - Indiana Jones IV May Happen Thanks To McGuffin
		The 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' situation has freed up an idea for a plot that was originally deemed too incendiary.
		But of course, when Lucas throws around an unspecified McGuffin in an interview like this, fans are only going to be wondering one thing--why the hell does he keep saying "McGuffin"?
		Posted by longwayround on August 22, 2006 10:38 AM The McGuffin is essentially something that the entire story is built around and yet has no real relevance.
	www.iwatchstuff.com /2006/08/indiana_jones_iv_may_happen_th.html (568 words)

	Amazon.com: The Double McGuffin: DVD: Joe Camp,Ernest Borgnine,George Kennedy,Elke Sommer,Ed 'Too Tall' Jones,Lyle ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Double McGuffin is a superb film, and all that I wanted to say is: Don't miss the Double Mcguffin.
		Orson Welles tells us in the ominous opening narration that a McGuffin is the driving force that propels the suspense forward; the main reason behind the story.
		Although not as good as I remember it being (and what is after twenty years?), "The Double McGuffin" can still be a charming experience.
	www.amazon.com /Double-McGuffin-Joe-Camp/dp/B0006Q945K (2204 words)

	The McGuffin (1985) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hitchcock used the term to describe a device or plot element that catches the viewer's attention or drives the logic of the plot, especially in suspense films.
		According to Hitchcock, the McGuffin can be ignored as soon as it has served its purpose.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for The McGuffin (1985)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0089570 (208 words)

	David McGuffin's Exploring Europe
		Enjoy AURALLY exploring Europe with David as he shares unique moments and personal experiences with friends he has met along the way.
		Twenty-nine years ago David McGuffin explored Europe for the first time and gained a passion for travel.
		Since then he has been teaching and sharing that passion through his writings, his tours, and his website.
	davidmcguffin.com (172 words)

	Amos McGuffin
		Hard-drinking, golf-playing San Francisco gumshoe AMOS McGUFFIN at least tries to stay sober while he's working.
		While constantly trying to meet the demands of his excitable ex-wife, Marilyn, who has custody of their daughter, Amos' has appeared in five easy-going novels so far, including 1989's The Faberge Egg, a good-natured spoof of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.
		At the tone, leave your name and number and I'll get back to you...
	www.thrillingdetective.com /eyes/mcguffin.html (80 words)

	Shoes; McGuffin and the Smoking Gun; Reineck's Observation; The Nine-Hour Silence
		So I guess we've actually had quite a number of McGuffins along the line -- the Navigator's bookcase, the grave at Aukaraime South, for example.
		There's not, of course, but the farther we've gone with the project -- even when erroneously encouraged by McGuffin discoveries -- the harder it's become to account for all the variables by any combination of events other than the end of the World Flight on the island.
		We ought to be careful not to get so hung up on finding smoking guns that we fail to put together all the little pieces of evidence that may cumulatively provide a fairly certain solution to the mystery.
	www.tighar.org /forum/Highlights101_120/highlights118.html (9579 words)

	Tony McGuffin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He is married to Abby Bardi and has owned 21 Volvos.
		Abby Bardi has said of him "McGuffin is a major driving force in folk music in America today."
		Page put together (with info and pics from Bob Gramann) by Ernest Ackermann.
	www.webliminal.com /songwrite/mcguffin.html (116 words)

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