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My gamer's intuition is tingling! The problem this girl's facing is important to the storyline! The kind that makes the powerful go out of their way, that she can't easily share with others! The kind that suddenly gets revealed when it's too late, but could've been easily dealt with if only we all knew earlier!
They say Helen of Troy had a face that could launch a thousand ships: well, the Living MacGuffin has a similar ability to launch a thousand quests in search of them. She may be a heart wrenchingly beautiful princess whose hand can only be won with miraculous feats, a long lost (or left) parent, sibling, close friend or Love Interest, some variation of The Chosen One who is needed for some greater purpose, or any number of typical MacGuffin functions. Either way, expect her to be female, because Men Act, Women Are.
Subtropes include:
- Hostage MacGuffin: A person who is a MacGuffin because they're important (they're the president, a rich businessman, a top scientist, etc) or related to someone who is (family, Love Interest, True Companion, etc).
- MacGuffin Person Reveal: The Reveal that the MacGuffin they've been looking for has been with them all along, in the form of one of the characters.
- MacGuffin Turned Human: An inanimate MacGuffin embodied in, or transformed into, a person.
- Mundane MacGuffin Person: A living MacGuffin who's sought after for some mundane trait (beauty, wisdom, etc) turned Up to Eleven.
- MacGuffin Super Person: A living MacGuffin who's sought after for some unique power or status they have (eg, they're The Chosen One or an Apocalypse Maiden), usually with world-shaking consequences.
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Anime & Manga
- Insane Casca during the Retribution arc in Berserk. Not only does Guts, who was once her lover before the horrible events that took her mind went down and has sworn to be her protector, want her, but everybody is after Casca in this arc, primarily the pagans who want to make her their queen and the Holy See and Bishop Mozgus who want to burn her as a witch.
- Fairy Tail: Both Jellal and Grimoire Heart want to resurrect Black Mage Zeref for their own purposes. In Jellal's case he wants Zeref to create a 'perfect world', and in Grimoire Heart's case, they want him to create a world that only mages can live in. It's too bad that not only is Zeref not dead, he has absolutely no intention of going along with any of these plans.
- Naruto.
- Sasuke becomes this after he leaves the Leaf Village.
- Jinchurikis provide a straighter example, as they are the hosts of the Tailed Beasts the Akatsuki want so badly.
- While not strictly an example of "living", the cells of the First Hokage Hashirama Senju are so prized for their regenerative properties as well as their other properties that it's not an exaggeration to say every Big Bad has used them in some form or another, usually as a Badass Transplant.
- Saint Seiya:
- Saori/Athena in general.
- Seiya's sister Seika was played up as this, despite only turning up at the end of the series and not appearing in the sequel, yet.
- Saint Seiya: Next Dimension: Saori becomes one (again) after she is transformed into a baby.
- While it's debatable whether the torches in Shakugan no Shana are "alive", Yuuji Sakai is generally treated as living by the main characters. That's partially because unlike other torches, he isn't going to just go out one day. But it's also because he's managed to validate his humanity, even before he found out he wasn't going to become Ret Gone.
- The Firebird from Time Bokan series Yattodetaman. In this series, two royal houses battle for the power to rule the Kingdom of Fir. In order to secure the Kingdom, two representatives go back in time to find the mythical Firebird, which will allow its bearer to become the rightful ruler
- Nico Robin of One Piece is this; she is the only person still alive who can decipher poneglyphes, through which the location of ancient super weapons can be discovered. The Enies Lobby arc was all about saving her from the Government, who wanted to find said weapons for their own means.
- If an intelligent computer program can be considered "living," then the AI nicknamed "Ai" on Yu Gi Oh Vrains counts. Five years ago Ai sealed away the real MacGuffin, the Cyverse, and now everyone's hunting Ai down so they can steal the coordinates to where the Cyverse was hidden. Except Yusaku, who has no clue about any of this and just wants to use Ai as leverage.
Comic Books
- Yorick in Y: The Last Man is a male example; various factions want him, mostly alive, some dead. Yorick has a Living MacGuffin of his own in his girlfriend Beth.
- Linkara refers to Ray Palmer (The Atom) in the trainwreck DC crossover event Countdown to Final Crisis as "The Mini-MacGuffin".
- Hope Summers since Messiah CompleX before really settling into this role with Avengers vs. X-Men.
- Kei Kawade aka Kid Kaiju is this in Monsters Unleashed. His ability to summon powerful monsters that can occupy entire superhero teams makes him a valuable strategic asset. Between SHIELD, the Intelligencia, the Poisons, and the Inhumans, everyone wants him on their side. He's keenly aware of this and is reluctant to trust any of them as a result.
Fairy Tales
- Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, and many other fairy tale heroines were Living MacGuffins in the Disney films and in those iterations of these fairy tales inspired by the Disneyfication. In the pre-Disney versions of those fairy tales, the nameless prince was the Living MacGuffin; for example, Cinderella competed with her wicked stepsisters for the hand of the prince, who is treated as a non-entity who exists in the story only to provide the winner with a castle, title, and wealth.
Fan Works
- Child of the Storm has Harry occasionally put in this role, because thanks to the reveal that he's Thor's son, any number of bad guys want a piece of him, something that is met with his vocal displeasure. One day, he's going to be King of Asgard, with all of the power and influence that implies, and probably as much Chronic Hero Syndrome as ever. Pretty much all the bad guys want him now, while he's still in the Person of Mass Destruction stage and able to be manipulated or even killed.
- Combined with Dismantled MacGuffin in The Sweetie Chronicles: Fragments: Twilight Sparkle gets Taken for Granite and is split into a series of crystals (in which Twilight is still completely sentient) spread over The Multiverse. Sweetie Belle must then gather these crystals by traveling through various Alternate Universes, which correspond to various My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Fan Fics.
- Kurama is searching and gathering all the jinchuuriki he can find in Reverse so they can protect themselves from the Akatsuki, who need to capture them to kill them all to take over the Elemental Nations.
- In The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, Paul and George go on a fairly pointless delivery mission to a small fishing village, only to discover that the recipient of their stuff has been kidnapped by Tayhil. The actual rescue of this man is not nearly as important as the method the two come up with to deal with the Tayhil, or Paul's confrontation with Spectrem, who wants to call in an airstrike on the Tayhil, or the aftermath and the angry reaction of the villagers.
- Lenora Baratheon from Hell Hath No Fury is King Robert's only trueborn child, meaning that any son of her has a claim to the Iron Throne. For this, she's sought by many factions in the war, intent to marry her with the most convenient pawn.
- Reluctant Hero:
- The discovery that Zuko is the new Avatar makes everyone frantic to find him and secure his loyalty: the Northern Water Tribe and White Lotus want to train and prepare him to restore balance to the world, the Dai Li wants to brainwash him for the Earth Kingdom's greatness and the Fire Nation wants to make him a Living Weapon to achieve world domination.
- On a lesser degree, the Fire Nation recruits as much as it can from benders and spiritually aware people to ensure its dominance over its conquered land and keep the spirits appeased. Zuko and Aang were almost kidnapped and sold because of this while Sokka is intented to be given to the Fire Sages for training.
Films Animation
- The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!: The last dodo bird, Polly.
- Barbie: Mariposa has Queen Marabella, who created the magical lights that protect Flutterfield from the Skeezites. When she's poisoned, the lights slowly die, and the main plot revolves around curing her.
Films Live-Action
- Troy is a subversion. It is established early on that Agamemnon is only using Helen as an excuse to wage war on the city. At one point Helen says she would give herself up to prevent further violence, but Hector makes it clear that even if she did, it would not end anything. Agamemnon even says that he didn't come here for Helen, but for Troy.
- In The Darjeeling Limited, the brothers use a trip to find their long left mother to tell her about their father's death and try to bond with each other. Another long lost mother variation of the living MacGuffin is Mike's mother in My Own Private Idaho, whom he never finds.
- The monster in Cloverfield. The movie is mostly uninterested in the monster itself, and more in its effects.
- Zuzu Petals in The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. Everyone Ford meets in the first act tells him to find her, and that's his motivation until he does, at which point it becomes clear she's not even involved in what's going on. After that she's more of an Escort Mission, albeit one attended begrudgingly.
Ford: Don't worry. If you fall, I'll make it.
- TRON: Legacy: Quorra is The Last ISO.
- The hobo in Mystery Team.
- In El Dorado, the evil rancher Bart Jason.
- The 2007 film version of Sweeney Todd portrayed Johanna Barker as this, especially as they cut most of her songs and speaking parts from the original musical.
- Luke Skywalker becomes one in The Force Awakens, having disappeared many years prior, and with the main conflict of the film being over a map to his location.
- Adolf Hitler is this in Inglourious Basterds. Despite being the main leader of the antagonists, he never affects the plot in any big way and ends up as just another target for the protagonists to kill. His role could be replaced with any high ranking Nazi, without the plot of the film being changed that much.
- Frankenstein's Monster in the Universal Horror "monster rally" movies (Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula, and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein). All four films are driven at least partly by some variety of mad scientist seeking to revive the Monster, who is mostly dormant or weakened for the bulk of the film. All four end up in a rhubarb with the Monster revitalized and the lab going down in flames or explosions.
- Help!: Ringo when wearing the ring, since the cult are not so much trying to take the ring from him as trying to sacrifice him because he's wearing the ring (It's a different religion from ours).
- The entire plot of Chan Is Missing revolves around two Chinese-American cabbies trying to find their friend Chan, who has disappeared along with $4000 of their money. They never do find him, but the plot is really just a means to portray life and culture in San Francisco's Chinatown in the early 1980s.
- Solomon Lane is this for much of Mission: Impossible Fallout. Lark wants him to trade him for the plutonium. The Apostles want their leader freed. Ethan and co. want him freed to lead them to the plutonium. And MI-6 wants him freed so they can kill him since He Knows Too Much.
- The whole plot of The Raid 2: Berandal focuses on an undercover cop's efforts to root out a corrupt police commissioner, Reza. However, Reza himself gets very little screentime, and couldn't really be called the main villain of the film. He moves the plot along but doesn't do much else.
- Older Than Feudalism: Helen of Troy from The Iliad is a prime example. Helen wasn't attacked by Paris or the Trojans during the whole war, and in fact went willingly because she fell in love with Paris. Or was made to, by Aphrodite.
- The Shahnameh: Key Kavous is this for Rostam. After Key Kavous and the Persian army are captured by Deev-e Sepid (the White Demon), Rostam undertakes seven labors to save his king and his comrades.
- Queen Guinevere is also not in distress, as most versions have her go willingly with Lancelot. The whole kingdom goes down because the vassals have to choose sides, help Arthur get her back, or help Lancelot keep her.
- Most of the variations have the vassals torn between personal loyalty to Arthur (who would pardon his beloved and his best friend, despite the pain they have caused him) and loyalty to the law itself which demands she and Lancelot be tried for treason against their king (with the lawful side being spear-headed/manipulated by one enemy or another of Arthur's).
- The French chef Anatole in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster stories; the universal desire to lay claim to his peerless talents led to the hatching of many a Zany Scheme.
- Jeeves himself is highly sought-after; Bertie notes that plenty of his friends want to steal him and make him their valet, and this is borne out in Thank You, Jeeves when Jeeves quits and Bertie's pal Chuffy snatches him up almost instantly. Later in the book, Jeeves goes to work for American multimillionaire J. Washburn Stoker, who offers him a position, before returning to Chuffy and finally settling down with Bertie again.
- A few crop up during the course of The Chronicles of Prydain: Hen Wen the pig in The Book of Three, Princess Eilonwy in The Castle of Llyr, and Taran's long-lost parents in Taran Wanderer.
- In Tobias Buckell's Crystal Rain, Oaxyctl is looking for John deBrun because he wants to torture "the code" to a spaceship out of him. We later find out that John is the code — he has to be bodily present (and alive) to open the spaceship.
- Clockpunk pretends to be one in "Clockpunk and the Vitalizer" to lure The Vitalizer away from the actual MacGuffin's trail.
- It could be argued that The White Rabbit is one. The entire reason Alice ends up in Wonderland is her curiosity about the Rabbit. And it's often the Rabbit, constantly hurrying from one place to the next, which brings her from scene to scene.
- Bree Pym is this for Lori and Bill's college chum Cameron; they spend most of the novel Aunt Dimity Down Under pursuing the girl over New Zealand's North and South Islands to deliver the Pym sisters' letter and convince her to meet Ruth and Louise before they die.
- Deconstructed in the Sword of Truth: while fully half of the main cast are some level of this trope, the Confessors have it notably bad. Confessors can't control their ability during moments of passion (read: sex), so they can't have kids with someone they like, or they'll destroy their mind. Male confessors are such a threat that all male children of Confessors have to be strangled at birth, and for their troubles, the Confessors are feared and hated, and since they're raised secluded, have almost no friends. By the time Kahlan met Richard, all of her few friends had been murdered by D'Haran assassination teams. Yeesh.
- Wizards are able to create these in general; the Rahl bloodline is the result of such an experiment, as are Slides, Dreamwalkers, Mriswith, the Sliph, and a whole host of other exciting pieces of work.
- Happens in all three books of His Dark Materials. The first book had two for LyraRoger and her father. The second book for Will had his father while, unbeknownst to either of them, his father was seeking Will. The third book had both Lyra and Will acting as Living MacGuffins for both the bad guys and the "good" guys. A large, deadly battle occurred to try to take them. For Lyra, it was again Roger, though at this point, he wasn't really a living MacGuffin anymore.
- Kindar Pomma D'ok and Erdling Teera Eld in Zilpha Keatley Snyder's Green-Sky Trilogy. After they connect with each other telepathically and rediscover important psychic abilities, some lost to their people for many generations, they are literally named Holy Children and worshiped by nearly everyone — except Pomma's brother Raamo, who believes worshiping anyone is harmful — he was a member of a sacred order revered as demigods, since disbanded. Living examples of the Rejoyning of the Kindar and Erdling peoples, Pomma and Teera are the hope of their respective nations. Then they disappear. Have they been kidnapped by dissidents?
- In Ravenor vs. Eisenhorn, there are at least seven different factions that want to get their hands on the protagonist Beta Bequin for various reasons. Some of them want her because shes a pariah who can use Enuncia, some want her because of her connections to the Maze Undue and by extension, the Cognitae, and several want to use her as a weapon against an eighth faction. Toward the end of the book, she privately laments that shes become the grail which all these people are questing for.
Live-Action TV
- Doctor Who: Used very literally in "The Armageddon Factor", where it turns out that the last piece of the cosmically powerful Key to Time, which has served as a MacGuffin for the whole past season, is Princess Astra herself. This also serves to expose the Black Guardian who had been masquerading as the White Guardian, because the Doctor realizes that the White Guardian would never be willing to sacrifice Astra's life.
- Towards the end of Maddigan's Quest, it's revealed that Jewel, not the talisman, is what gives Eden his powers.
- Oatmeal, Nadia's cat in Russian Doll. At the start of the series, finding and caring for the missing cat seems to be Nadia's only long-term goal in life. As with most cats, it's not entirely clear that he needs the help.
- Mr. Big in Sex and the City, to the point that they don't even bother to give him a real name. You find yourself wondering what is wrong with Carrie Bradshaw and then you remember ... oh yeah, she's Carrie Bradshaw.
- Murphy on Z Nation is the only person on the planet with a working cure to the zombie virus in him, making him immune to their bites and even their attention. Getting Murphy to a working laboratory makes up most of the plot, and most of the villains on the show are trying to hunt down Murphy for their own ends.
- Elena becomes one in season 7 of The Vampire Diaries, after being put into a magical coma in the previous season finale. Her body is placed into a coffin, which is subsequently stolen and used as a bargaining chip by various characters throughout the series. The real reason for this was because the acress had to leave the show, and thus had to be written out in a way that would allow her to come back (which she did, at the very end) but still have a presence in the series.
Video Games
- Lampshaded in Red Dead Redemption where in a co-op mission you must rescue the daughter of "Farmer MacGuffin."
- Here's an evil version of the Living MacGuffin: Sephiroth during the first half of Final Fantasy VII. Both Cloud's party and Shin-Ra are hell-bent on finding the guy, and he acts as the game's main antagonist to boot.
- In Crisis Core, Cloud becomes this after the Nibelheim incident. Genesis and Hollander want his S-cells so they can cure Genesis' degradation, Shin-Ra wants him (and Zack) dead to cover up Hojo's unethical experiments, and Zack just wants to keep him safe. He actually borders on being a traditional MacGuffin seeing as his mako poisoning-induced coma has left him with all the personality of a brick.
- At the beginning of Yoshi's Island, Kamek kidnaps Baby Luigi (who becomes the Distressed Dude), but the stork forces Kamek to drop Baby Mario, who falls onto Yoshi. Baby Mario becomes a free MacGuffin, whose only role is to point the way to Baby Luigi, while the Yoshis perform the MacGuffin Escort Mission that will reunite the babies and rescue Baby Luigi.
- Then in Yoshi's Island DS, Kamek and the Toadies kidnap Baby Luigi again, and several more babies. The Big Bad (adult Bowser from the future) is searching for the seven star children.note The villain never gets all seven; some remain free. The star children turn out to be Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Baby Peach, Baby Donkey Kong, Baby Wario, Baby Bowser, and Baby Yoshi. The last two were never captives; Baby Yoshi is still in the egg, and hatches at the very end of the credits.
- Kingdom Hearts
- The Princesses of Heart in were in this status in the first game. Maleficent and her cronies manipulated by Xehanort, wanted them so that they can open the Door to Darkness to take over the multiverse. Turns out this is also a case of Dismantled MacGuffin. The Princesses' hearts being 7 fragments of the X-Blade which as a counterpart to Kingdom Hearts, can be used to open a path to the titular location.
- Subverted in Birth By Sleep. While Eraqus tells Terra and Aqua that the Princesses of Heart are in danger and the four we see do get attacked by the Unversed, only Aurora gets sought after because she's a Princess of Heart (by Maleficent after being told about them by Xehanort, no less).
- Ventus in Master Xehanort's first attempt to snag Kingdom Hearts in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. The details are that Ventus was split into two beings in an attempt to artificially recreate the aforementioned X-blade, thinking that an equal amount of Light and Darkness must clash. As such Ventus himself is much like the Princesses of Heart. Because of this, he also counts for Dismantled MacGuffin, and also because of this Eraqus thought it be necessary to kill him, setting off a tragic chain of events that played in Xehanort's favor.
- The Princesses of Heart in were in this status in the first game. Maleficent and her cronies manipulated by Xehanort, wanted them so that they can open the Door to Darkness to take over the multiverse. Turns out this is also a case of Dismantled MacGuffin. The Princesses' hearts being 7 fragments of the X-Blade which as a counterpart to Kingdom Hearts, can be used to open a path to the titular location.
- In the Neverwinter Nights fan-made module The Bastard of Kosigan, Alex is a mix of this and Damsel in Distress. And a Chekhov's Gunman at the end. Annoyingly, despite being one of the coolest characters in the series (as evinced by her cunning plan to take over Kosigan by killing the entire ruling family), if you didn't choose to kill her at the end of the second module she dies near the end of the fourth.
- In BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, Ragna the Bloodedge is treated this way since he supposedly wields the Azure Grimoire. In the sequel Continuum Shift Noel gets this treatment after it's revealed that she is the true wielder of the Azure Grimoire and Ragna's Grimoire is a flawed imitation.
- A variant occurs in Professor Layton and the Curious Village. Layton knows that he needs to find the Golden Apple of Baron Reinhold. What he doesn't know is that the Golden Apple is really Flora, the Baron's daughter.
- Prince Alexander is a sucker for this one. In his first game, he spends half of it trying to find a way to off his Bad Boss before Bad Boss offs him. The second half of the game comes when the Oracle tells him that he's got a twin sister that's soon to meet her end as a Human Sacrifice. In his second game, he's trying to reach the Princess he's fallen for before the Grand Vizier pulls a scheme to marry her, kill her, and take the throne for himself. Runs in the family, as that's how his dad went looking for his mom...
- Similar to the TRON: Legacy example above, Tron 2.0 had this in the form of Ma3a, who carried the correction algorithims needed for Jet and Alan to get back to the analog world. However, the terrible trio from F-Con were also seeking those algorithims in order to digitize an army into cyberspace and Take Over the World.
- Ryu from Street Fighter is treated this way for most of his plot involvement. Bison is after him in Street Fighter Alpha to use him as a new host body while Seth wants to use his Satsui no Hadou to complete his bio weapon.
- The Destined Children from Romancing SaGa 3 The Abyss Lords want them to open the gate to the Abyss so they can escape. Both also serve to summon the Destroyer to end existence if both are in the abyss at once. Abyss Lords used the Devil King for them to rule the world for 3 centuries before the Holy King sent them packing.
- In MacGuffin's Curse, Alphonse becomes a Living MacGuffin when he turns into a werewolf himself and goes on a rampage.
- Princess Zelda in The Legend of Zelda is a very strong example of this trope. In fact, Word of God says that Zelda is the title character because of how crucial she is in Link's adventures.
- A humorous variant appears in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. In one of the towns Link must visit on his quest, he is begged to recover a child, who has been kidnapped and may be found in a nearby cave. The reason it's humorous is because the game treats the child like any other inventory item - including having Link lift it over his head in his traditional Item Get! pose.
- Buddy is this in LISA, being the only female left on Earth after a mysterious event known as the Great White Flash wiped all the women off the planet. However, she is also a Deconstruction of this- the fact that she is treated as such without care for her feelings or mental state forms most of her motivation as a character, especially in the DLC story.
- Averted with Rachel Amber in Life Is Strange - she's initially presented as this as a motive for Max to join in Chloe's investigation into Rachel's disappearamce which ties into most of the overarching plot of the game, but it's revealed that her influence has greatly impacted the cast.
- In Halo 3: ODST, it turns out that your squad's actual mission is to recover a Huragok/Engineer who defected from the Covenant. Said Huragok also serves this role in the audio logs; Sadie comes to value it because it downloaded Virgil, the last thing left of her father's work, while Kinsler wants to capture it so he can be branded a war hero.
- Haunting Ground: The main character, Fiona, is treated less like a human and more like an object by all four of the game's stalkers. All but one of them is after Azoth, the mystical essence of life, which Fiona happens to have a lot of. This is emphasised by Riccardo and Lorenzo, who at several points drop her name entirely and call her "Azoth" instead.
- Ciri in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The main character, Geralt, seeks her because he wants to find his lost daughter, while every other faction after her do so because of her unique bloodline and the powers she possesses.
- Yakuza 0 has the owner of the Empty Lot, Makoto Makimura, with various Yakuza factions either wanting them dead outright, or wanting to seize control of them for themselves until they can get the property rights to the lot signed over. The heroes, meanwhile, while also having use for the Empty Lot themselves, are mostly just disgusted by how the owner's been treated as a pawn in a larger power game and want to keep them safe.
Visual Novels
- Ayame Ootori in the second Fragment's Note qualifies as this. In the original timeline, Ayame dies in the same plane crash as Kyoichi. However, due to Miu's interference in the time stream in the first game, a ripple in the timeline was created, altering the events. As a result, Ayame was saved by an organ transplant from Inori Akikawa. Because she is ultimately an irregularity in the time stream, people from the future like Kazuha can alter the past through her, allowing Kazuha to save Kyoichi's life.
- Charlie in Shikkoku no Sharnoth serves largely as comatose Macguffin to make Mary go through the plot. Except in the end, when she's actually an opponent.
- Deconstructed with Izuru in Super Danganronpa 2. He was created to serve as a symbol of hope for the world, and as such has been objectified and used by both sides, with no regards as to how he feels on the matter. The end result has left him broken and bitter with both Hope's Peak and Ultimate Despair alike.
- Blue Moon Blossom: The rabbit spirit, a glowy sprite-like being found in a golden temple with the power to turn away evil spirits and summon blue flowers. It can also change beings that have been turned to stone back to normal.
- In A Moment of Peace, the subject of one of the gods' quests is a glowing entity named Gloria on the Mountain.
Western Animation
- Red X from Teen Titans. We never even find out who he is.


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The co-worker, suspected of stealing $210,000 since 2003, is expected to plead guilty tomorrow.
"It was me being foolish and stupid," Lawrence Charles, 40, told a federal judge before pleading guilty to theft.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Maura O'Donnell said Charles rigged about 10 parking meters so that the quarters would collect in the upper part of the meter, which he could access, rather than fall through to the lower collection canister. He also obtained a key that gave him unauthorized access to the lower chamber and would replace full canisters with empty ones, O'Donnell said.
Charles worked for the city for 17 years and was a meter mechanic from 2007 through December 2011, when the thefts took place, authorities said.
Charles and co-worker James Bagarozzo came under scrutiny last year after their boss, parking Commissioner Kevin Helfer, noticed a big discrepancy in the amount of money the city's new computerized pay stations were bringing in compared with the older quarter-fed parking meters.
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I am beginning a series to share the findings of child development researchers and neuroscientists who have genuinely inspired me in my 11-year journey to create "Mind in the Making." Their research is truly "research to live by."
The first person I'm writing about is Heidelise Als of Harvard University, because her studies are so instructive in how we can help children deal with challenges and learn to become stronger as a result. Perhaps surprisingly, learning this skill doesn't just happen when children are older. Als' research is with pre-term babies born 10 to 12 weeks before their due date -- the most fragile babies in neonatal intensive care units. When adults watch what young children do to cope successfully and then create situations where they can do more of the same, the process for learning to take on challenges is seeded.
The insight that led to Als' research began in her native Germany when she was as a teacher of 3rd grade boys. One of the boys, Reinhart, always came to school early, sat in his seat close to the front of the classroom, lined up all of his pencils and books on the desk and was ready for the day to begin. Since Reinhart was doing very well and got good grades, Als decided to move him farther back in the room so another child who needed extra help could have a seat in the front. She says:
"Reinhart moved promptly, yet the next day he didn't come in. He had never missed a day of school. I was very concerned. He didn't come the next day."
After a few days, Als stopped by the bakery Reinhart's family ran. His mother told her that the doctor couldn't find anything wrong, but her son had been vomiting. The clue came when Reinhart's mother mentioned, "He did tell me you moved his seat, and he's now sitting farther back." Als says:
"I learned from that that despite [seeing] the image of a very competent child, I should have known from his need to have everything [lined up at the start of the school day] --that he didn't have the flexibility that other children had."
Reinhart was given his old seat back when he returned to school, but Als gained even more from that experience. She learned how important it is to "read" the language of children's behavior, to figure out how they cope best and then build on their own positive coping strategies. This lesson was reinforced after she moved to the U.S. to attend graduate school and had her own child, who is significantly brain damaged. She had to learn to understand the language of his behavior in order to help him.
Als brought that sensitivity into her research on premature babies. Through advances in technology in the 1970s, these babies, who couldn't yet breathe on their own, could be kept alive with medical ventilators that, in effect, breathed for them. What really interested Als was "to see what these babies were up against" and how they were handling these stressful situations.
As she observed them, it became clear to her that good medical care was coming at the price of good developmental care:
"[The premature babies] would be pinned down, held down, strapped down, and even chemically treated, if needed, so that they would not breathe against the ventilator [in order] to let the ventilator do the work that it needed to do."
A similar kind of scene took place when a nurse or doctor wanted to check on a baby, listen to the baby's heart rate or change him or her:
"The baby would just splay out -- all four limbs would fly out, and then the baby would try to grasp at something, but the nurse by then would already be [putting her] stethoscope on the chest, listening to the chest sounds. And then she would turn the baby over again and listen to the back, and then she would start to suction [his lungs] and then she would give a nebulizer treatment."
As the check-up progressed, Als reports, babies would become more and more distraught; finally, they would "go limp and typically stop breathing." It was clear to Heidelise Als that the medical care was so focused on caring for these premature babies' hearts or lungs that they were neglecting the care of the whole child:
"It seemed we were wasting a lot of the baby's energies that were very precious. We were going against the baby. We were pushing the baby to become exhausted and give in."
When a baby who was initially feisty gave in, the medical charts would record that the baby had become well adjusted. But Als saw a different reality:
"The baby had given up. The baby just let the world happen."
Als and her colleagues -- nurses and doctors -- set out to improve developmental care and to document that it can make a difference: They thought of this as listening to their behavioral "language." She says:
"If we can understand the 'words' the baby is saying, maybe we can fill in the meaning of the sentence and understand the message."
These observations led to solutions. For example, if the baby's hands splay out, give the baby something to hold onto. If the baby is squirming under the bright lights, make the lighting softer. If the baby is getting agitated, hold the baby until his or her breathing becomes more stable. After documenting and recording behavior, they launched into a study where the nurses "read" and then responded to the baby's behavior in ways that built on that baby's coping strategies, and thus gave the baby more control.
The results of this experiment were impressive. There was reduced severity of chronic lung disease in these premature babies, improved brain functioning, improved growth and earlier release from the hospital. In addition, their care was significantly less costly.
Here's the lesson I take from this. Children, even those as young as premature infants, are less prone to the harmful effects of stress when they are supported in managing their own stress by being helped to use the strategies they have for coping and for calming down.
And when children are older, they can become an even more active part of figuring out themselves how to deal with tough times. Als tells the story of a child for whom any reminders of 9/11 (like fire trucks) would trigger emotionally flooding. With the help of adults, he created his own strategy to calm down. He would put his head down on the table to "think" and would wait until he had "thought enough" -- and then he was ready to go on.
From these studies, it is clear that we can help children learn to handle tough times if we enable them to become increasingly active partners in creating their own solutions. It has worked for me and it has worked for my children. What about you?
This story is taken from "Mind in the Making." Watch an excerpt of the video of Heidelise Als, "Helping Children to Manage Their Own Stress: The Skill of Taking on Challenges".


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1: An anansi folktale: why anansi has eight thin legs
2: Once upon a time, there lived a spider named Anansi. Although his dearest wife was an outstanding cook, he took pleasure in tasting the food that others in the village prepared for themselves and for their family.
4: One day, Anansi stopped by his good friend Rabbit's house. "I see that there are delicious greens in your pot," cried Anansi eagerly. Anansi loved the vivid flavor of greens. "Indeed there are." said Rabbit, "But they're not quite done yet. Hang about and eat the greens with me, for they will be done soon."
5: Anansi knew that if he stayed, Rabbit would be sure to give him tasks to complete. "I would love to stay Rabbit, but I am quite busy today." That was a lie. "I know." exclaimed Anansi. "I'll spin a web and tie one end around my leg and one end to your pot. As soon as the greens are done, tug on the web and I'll come sprinting!" Rabbit was fond of the idea. And so it was done.
6: As Anansi was strolling, he smelled a delicious aroma. "I smell luscious beans cooking in a pot," said Anansi. "Our beans are almost done cooking. Come and eat them with us," hollered the monkeys. "I would be delighted to Father Monkey," said Anansi. Anansi proposed that he spin and tie a web to his leg and the pot of beans. The Monkey Family loved the idea. And so it was done.
8: Once again, Anansi smelled the mouth-watering aroma of sweet potatoes and honey. "Anansi," yelled his friend Hog, "come and share my food with me, for my pot is full of sweet potatoes and sugary honey. "I would love to join you Hog," said Anansi. He suggested that he spin and tie a web to his leg and the pot of sweet potatoes and honey. Hog thought the idea was great. And so it was done.
10: When Anansi approached a river, he had eight webs tied to each of his eight legs. "This was a brilliant idea! I wonder whose pot will be complete first," said Anansi. All of a sudden Anansi's leg was tugged. "Yay! This is the web string attached to Rabbit's pot of greens," exclaimed Anansi. He felt another tug. And another tug. Anansi was being pulled three ways at once! "Oh no," whimpered Anansi as the fourth web string began to haul him.
11: He rapidly felt the fifth web string tug. And the sixth. And the seventh. And finally the eighth web string. Everyone was pulling on the web strings at the same time while Anansi was being pulled this way and that way. Anansi rolled into the rushing river so that the webs would wash away. Anansi was in agonizing pain when he was pushing himself onto shore since his legs were thinner than a needle.
12: "This was an awful idea," sobbed Anansi. "Perhaps this wasn't the wisest choice." To this day, Anansi crawls about with his eight very thin legs. He never got any food that day either.


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A charming shoot back in one of my old stomping grounds and favorite cities. At first, our location didn't seem promising with the threat of do not enter signs and seemingly impossible entry to an adorable Japanese Garden. However, after hiking around the area, making a phone call, contemplating sliding down a hill to then climb over a fence and finally dodging a few oncoming cars to pass a busy intersection… we made it to our first destination. Hidden in the south side of Chicago, a peaceful little island garden full of character turned out to be worth the adventure while finding it.
Immediately following the garden extravaganza, we did an impromptu stop at the neighboring Museum of Science and Industry, mostly because of the incredibly impressive massive structure that I had to have incorporated with their sexy classy first choice of outfits. It worked out exactly as planned, after rebelliously "illegally" parking for only "a few minutes".
Part II mission: City Skyline. Easy peasy…. a much quicker and simpler "park and walk" situation at the second stop next to the area which I know best as a the concert going area of Northerly Island. Some people around there would probably know it better as Soldier Field area. Who needs to go watch silly sports games when you have an amazing concert venue in the backyard? No matter what reason you end up in this area for, it's always worth it to stop and take in the amazing skyline of the Windy City.
Part III: the area I HAD TO HAVE. Off of Lake Shore Drive is the calm and gorgeous view of Lake Michigan and while driving in I knew I had to incorporate this location. The scene looked so much like a painting. So, another park and walk… however, this time, the "walk" part was a bit more than expected. Thank You to Darcy and John for trusting me in this location and hiking for what seemed to be the length of Chicago to get there!
Next stop: Wrigley. If I am fully aware that Wrigley is under construction, then that should be enough proof that everyone is aware of it. Even with the construction fences and barricades, we were able to get the nostalgic stadium in our background with a few industrial style portraits underneath the Red Line. Finally some quick places to park and not have to walk 5 million miles!
Last but not least: Darcy and John's Home, Uptown Neighborhood. Near and dear to my heart because I used to live just a few blocks away. I was more than pleased to finish up this incredibly fun shoot with a few outside of their first home together. I hope they can look back years from now and be flooded with amazing young memories of their life together during their engagement in this magical city.
Big hug to Darcy and John. Can't wait to shoot your upcoming wedding!


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two new types of web ads have shown up recently, so far in limited quantities. both types of ads utilize graphics that are displayed on top of the page being viewed.
boston.com has rolled out shoshkele advertisements from united virtualities. the ad type loads a flash presentation that runs briefly on top of the page you are looking at and then disappears. boston.com offers two example pages where shoshkele advertisements definitely show up. the first is a boston globe subscription ad and the second is an ad for @batinsider.
other new types of web ads from hyper concepts are being utilized on ilor. when a user searches ilor for specific items, such as the company's allergy 123 example, ads will pop up when a user floats over a link, using the hydralinks concept. also, the banner console offers users a handy way to deal with and manage ads that they are interested in by popping up a small banner console toolbar in the banner ad itself.
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the shoshkele can be viewed as more invasive or less invasive than a pop-up window. some good things about it are that it goes away on its own and it doesn't completely block your view of content when it runs. the bad thing is that you can't make it go away immediately and it cannot launch behind your browser–it will always be in front of content. of course, shoshkeles could be used in a way that doesn't block content, but rather just blocks navigation links and such. that may not give the advertisers the click-through rates they require.
the ideas from hyperconcepts seem interesting. the banner console gives the user control over what happens with the ad. you can open it in a new window or just save the link. nowadays, when you click on a banner ad you don't know what you're getting, kind of like a mcdonald's "shake."
as for hydralinks, the technology is interesting, but the ads seem a bit invasive. even though you get a pop-up interface that has functionality, there may or may not be an ad in there. i guess that even when there isn't an ad i'm not a fan of hydralinks. it's a layer of complexity that the expert user does not need. i know how to bookmark an ad and cut/paste a link, or even launch in a new browser window. perhaps beginner users would find it more appealing.
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|crap-ass invasive ads… (3:56pm est thu apr 26 2001)
…suck – by sick of this shit
|both of these suck (3:58pm est thu apr 26 2001)
as bad as banner ads are, they are the best because i can easily ignore them. but i guess that's not what marketing is all about. – by me
|they ain't gonna click (4:03pm est thu apr 26 2001)
i'm telling you. web users do not click. if you want exposure you will have to simply have more real estate on a page dedicated to clearly visible information that is short and to the point…branding is your only hope…stick that name and association in the consumers heads as many times as you can…then when they are searching for your product/service they will think of you first.
– by brian d.
|ack hydralinks (4:06pm est thu apr 26 2001)
the flashy ones weren't too bad, but those hydralink ones are terrible. i wouldn't go to a site again after seeing those on it's pages. they're just plain ugly and annoying. – by doug
|oh boy (4:18pm est thu apr 26 2001)
a new type of commercial!!!!!
goody goody!!
yummy commercials!
(to be read with sarcasm) – by slorge gridlock
|yawn (4:55pm est thu apr 26 2001)
must be a slow news day – by rax
|seems pretty useless to me… (5:04pm est thu apr 26 2001)
i mean, think about it: when you go to a page, you go there to read something or look at something. you don't click banners to go somewhere else until *after* you're done with the page you're currently on (if you click them at all). having a banner pop up before you get to the page and then disappear would be like a tv network putting all its commercials for a time slot *before* the show. everyone would simply tune in at like 7:08 to watch the show without commercials. – by teamnutmeg
|am i missing something? (5:10pm est thu apr 26 2001)
since when is it good advertising technique to trick or annoying users into visiting you page? i make it a point to not support any company that resorts to that kind of foolishness, even if they have a pdocut i want..i'll just go to a competitors site and get it there. don't treat me like i'm a stupid consumer that really has a lot of money and time to waste by clicking on a floating banner that claims "you have 1 new message!"..etc. please…let's hopw this goes away quickly…and in the meantime, let's support those companies that do not use such methods.
– by whyze
|hmmm… (5:13pm est thu apr 26 2001)
would it be possible to have a rollover pop-up that would tell you what daisy is having for lunch? – by gropo
|let eat daisy for lunch (6:02pm est thu apr 26 2001)
then we don't need to see these messages anymore.
– by i hate daisy guys
|another reason not to install flash (7:11pm est thu apr 26 2001)
i used to have flash installed, but i found that i could get rid of the most annoying advertisements by not having it. sure, once in a while i'm denied looking at some cool animations, but by and large it gives me a better browser experience. with potential shoshkele adverts coming, it becomes even more of a reason to not install.
that, in addition to mozilla's capability of blocking images from selected websites, makes for a pretty advert free existence. – by dusty bottoms
|more freakin popups? (7:29pm est thu apr 26 2001)
one thing i always do is close any popup as quickly as i can. i ignore them. if i am interested in something it hadn't better be on a popup!!!!!! banners are ok as are other ads as long as they are not intrusive. those that are persistent are just a bother and hinder the site they are attached to. piss poor advertising, they piss more people off than the convince to buy or visit. oh well another attempt at screwing up an already ad cluttered web. – by watchin tv instead
|just block content (7:30pm est thu apr 26 2001)
i just block active-x and javascript from cheesy sites like that and avoid them altogether. problem solved. – by block and ignore
|the shoshkele is very bad (7:35pm est thu apr 26 2001)
interesting concept, and i can't blame the designers for avoiding dhtml and javascript, but very, very bad. shoshkele ads assume a brower of fixed pixel width (one of those design decisions i hate about many sites and web page design systems), and renders the enter page's appearance in shockwave flash.
to date, i have yet to see a voice reader for the handicapped that understood flash. a newspaper is not something i would want them to be unable to read. – by devil's advocate
|re:rax… (9:49pm est thu apr 26 2001)
…you're right…not even any decent flame bait today… – by grumpyoldman
|re: grumpyoldman (10:58pm est thu apr 26 2001)
what is life without flames. today was such a waste. – by rax
|wow!! (11:30pm est thu apr 26 2001)
great news item. for further info check out this link:
– by rainmaker
|wow (11:46pm est thu apr 26 2001)
"great news item. for further info check out this link:
– by rainmaker"
wow – here it is folks – the future of advertising. i am sure after microsoft has finished making music secure, they will then turn their attention to making the world safe for advertisers – imagine if you will, your computer will require you to view and pay attention to advertising before you can use it for anything else. pay attention – there will be a quiz. – by really.
|you complete dickhead (8:27am est fri apr 27 2001)
oh how very grown up!!!!!!! you twat. – by tre
|screen access programs and ads (8:54am est fri apr 27 2001)
well, here we go again. i hate poppup ads because all of a sudden i am in a completely new browser window. flash ads are annoying because my screen access program can't read them, and i can't really tell what is going on. maybe i should consider a suit against those who created such ads:) seriously, though, the national federation for the blind sued aol because they were not accessible to the blind. how much more are these ad creators looking for trouble if they keep this up? – by blindgeek007
|errors (10:36am est fri apr 27 2001)
haha! on my box, ie5.5 loads boston.com with 2 syntax errors and no ads. – by one hung lo
|omg (11:31am est fri apr 27 2001)
this is the future?
this shit sux.
/me uninstalls flash – by 65
|doing market research (2:03pm est fri apr 27 2001)
why can't ad companies use the web
to better target its ads at markets
that would be interested?
right now at the top of this geek.com
an "ad" company that was worth the money
what is being advertised to the
we've got a million billion dollars
|the best solution (4:56pm est mon jun 25 2001)
simply turn off javascript. that is the easiest way to get rid of annoying popups.
when a page needs javascript, just turn it on, then off again.
this doesn't block banners but they can be ignored. – by no popups
|disable shoshkeles (10:44am est fri oct 12 2001)
turning off flash will keep shoshkeles from runing, so will turning off javascript.
the problem with these ads as i asee it is not that they are invasive on the browsing experience (get used to it folks, that is how advertising on the internet is making money), rather that they are totally invasive on the web page.
i have deconstructed the process, and there is some pretty scary shit happening. they go through great lenghts to try and hide thier code (didn't work because i did decipher it all) and they actually hijack and redefine a few core javascript functions like unescape and document.writeln().
they actually export code that would never run in an iframe (permissions) to your page so that it can run as part of the page. they "ping" thier server many times during the ad, and they send as much information about the users browser and referring page as they can. they are tracking you, and they sites that aloow these things to run are helping them unwittingly.
these things need to stopped. – by redbutt
|wankers (6:25am est mon jan 20 2003)
you are all wankers – by i wank my dog
|no big deal (11:30pm est fri oct 10 2003)
just get ad muncher
ad muncher v4.51 build 8415
it has the ability to stop these and any other type of ads out there.
its small and fast and works on every program on your computer.
i simply love it. :) – by goddier
|google toolbar (1:16am est thu may 13 2004)
the google toolbar blocks popups too. – by elyk
|video ads blocker (7:19pm est mon may 31 2004)
try it!
– by kelly
|no big deal (11:08am est sat nov 05 2005)
shoshkele adds are funny, just like tv advertisement. – by fat tony


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The Sentinel on the Hill
St. Mark's Anglican Church, located at 51 King Street in beautiful Port Hope, is surrounded by many other historic landmarks. The church is just a short jaunt from the town's lovely main street which is designated a Heritage Conservation District. Port Hope is proud to have the largest number of historically and architecturally designated properties in Ontario.
St. Mark's was one of the first buildings in Ontario to be designated for architectural merit and historical interest. Within the aging walls of the oldest public building are echoes of many lives well lived. Come share the whispers of the past.
A tiny building doesn't survive nearly 200 years of rain, fire, and wind without being somewhat the worse for wear. And although painting, restoration and sheer determination have sustained St. Mark's so far, the need for funds remains to preserve this unique frame church.
Photograph courtesy of Michael Wallace, Imagelink Studio
"The history of Port Hope lies inscribed in its oldest church as in some ancient book."
W. Arnot Crai
W. Arnot Crai
Upcoming Events
St. Marks Heritage Foundation presents:
The Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir returns to St. Mark's Church on Saturday, May 11, 2:00 p.m.
Tickets available at Holton Flowers, 62 Walton St, in Port Hope.
For any further information, send us a note at email@example.com
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Preservation: It's What We Do
Raising Funds for Preservation
The Foundation raises funds which will be used solely for the preservation of one of Port Hope's oldest public buildings, St. Mark's Anglican Church. None of the money raised by the Foundation is used for church purposes. While the Foundation works closely with the leadership of the Church in determining which preservation projects it will fund, it is independent of the Church and the Anglican Diocese of Toronto of which St. Mark's is a part.
Some board members and many members of the Foundation are neither Anglicans nor members of St. Mark's. All, however, are dedicated to preserving one of Ontario's earliest wood frame churches and ensuring that the building, erected by community effort in 1822, remains structurally sound and aesthetically pristine. In this way, it will continue to be a Port Hope tourist attraction and landmark for generations to come. Some character defining elements of the building include its interior nave, chancel transepts, its square 3-storey tower with castellated roof and its Gothic twin and single pane lancet windows and main entrance with triple lancet doors.
"How soft the music of those village bells. Falling at intervals upon the ear in cadence sweet!"
William Cowper
Some Church History
Captured in Print
As captured in this 1841 Bartlett print, St. Mark's has graced a beautiful hill in Port Hope for almost two centuries. One of Ontario's earliest frame churches, it was built by community effort in 1822. Elias Smith, founder of the town, donated the land on which St. Mark's was built and his headstone (1736-1820) lies in the churchyard to this day.
The church burial ground was actually in use prior to the construction of the building and it is thought that the first sermon preached in the church was actually at a funeral. The headstones of this well-kept churchyard trace the history of the town.
Our Bell is Returned
It is interesting to note that St. Mark's actually had a bell before it had a pastor! Cast by Aspinwall of Albany, New York, it was presented to the congregation in 1826 by town developer Jonathan Walton. When the church was forced to close around 1869, a devoted warden, swearing that the bell would never ring in another church, removed it from the tower and buried it in the nearby orchard for four years!
It was returned safely when the church re-opened, although it did have a mysterious crack in it. The champions of the bell have never been discovered, but thanks to them, that same bell still rings out joyfully from the St. Mark's tower.
A Touch of Royalty
In 1959 Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were guests at the home of then Governor General Vincent Massey for three days. During their stay at his Batterwood Estate in Canton, they joined the congregation in worship at St. Mark's on July 26. After the service the royal couple signed the guestbook which remains on display in the church today.
Vincent Massey, first native born Governor General of Canada (1952-59), was a devoted parish member. When he died in 1967, he was buried in the churchyard alongside his wife Alice, his daughter Lilias Evva, and his son Lionel. This plot is situated on the north side of the building.
The Church
Historical Richness
Many centuries ago, nobles decorated their shields used in jousting matches. Over time, these artistically powerful coats of arms became grants of honour from the Crown. Eligibility was, and still is, assessed in relation to one's contribution to the country. St. Mark's, with its long vibrant history, more than qualified.
During its 175th anniversary St. Mark's was granted its own coat of arms. The parish's jubilant motto Spe tradita gaudemus sings out, "We rejoice in the hope that has been handed down to us."
Breathtaking Interior
The breathtaking interior of St. Mark's is painted in unique blue and gold hues. The striking blue pews celebrate the strength of the people, while the darker hue of the sanctuary ceiling indicates infinity.
Gothic Doors
Once upon a time the church entrance had three beautiful Gothic arched doors. During renovations before the 1900s, the side galleries were removed. The two little side doors were deemed unnecessary so they were covered up and forgotten. Tower and west wall restoration almost 100 years later accidentally exposed these two architectural gems! Today the side doors remain as decoration at the front of the church.
An Extraordinary Triptych
The sun streams into the St. Mark's sanctuary through a stunning set of three stained-glass windows. Gracing the east wall, they are made in a Gothic style and framed in wood. Depicting the theme of sacrifice, these imposing windows were crafted in England and installed in the late 1800s. The Colours of the Midland Regiment and the 136th Battalion, another reminder of sacrifice, also hang in the church. The extraordinary triptych above the altar (a triple picture on hinged panels) was painted by a Toronto artist Sylvia Hahn in 1957 and was given to the church by the Masseys in memory of departed family members.
Become a Member
St. Mark's Heritage Foundation is a federally registered charitable foundation with a single objective – to raise funds to be used solely for the preservation of one of Port Hope's oldest public buildings, St. Mark's Anglican Church at 51 King Street. None of the money raised by the Foundation is used for church purposes.
We hope that you will consider becoming a member of St. Mark's Heritage Foundation. The annual membership fee is $50 for a family and $35 for an individual.
If you choose to pay by PayPal or credit card please use the form to the right and the Single Membership or Family Membership payment links below.
If you choose to pay by cheque please download and print the form below and send the form and your cheque to:
St. Mark's Heritage Foundation
P.O. Box 34
Port Hope, Ontario
Gordon Thompson,
President, St. Mark's Heritage Foundation
Our Board
Gordon Thompson, President
Pat Bryan, Secretary
John Mowat, Treasurer
George Clements
Susan Dewhurst
Patricia Eberle
Terry Hill
Blake Holton
Peter Kedwell
Valerie Mancktelow
Jane Pinchin
Robert Fair and Arnold Massey, Honorary Directors
Pat Bryan, Secretary
John Mowat, Treasurer
George Clements
Susan Dewhurst
Patricia Eberle
Terry Hill
Blake Holton
Peter Kedwell
Valerie Mancktelow
Jane Pinchin
Robert Fair and Arnold Massey, Honorary Directors
Our Donation Page
St. Mark's is a small, beautiful National Treasure which continues to face major conservation costs. The program for historically sound structural restoration needed to preserve it for future generations of Canadians proves to be expensive. The parishioners of St. Mark's continue to make best efforts to meet these costs, but help is needed.
How can you support the Foundation's important work?
Make a Donation
Send a gift by cheque (address below), by PayPal or by credit card (see link below)
In Memoriam gifts may be made in the same way.
In Memoriam gifts may be made in the same way.
Annual Pledge Gift
Please contact the Foundation at firstname.lastname@example.com or phone John Mowat, Treasurer, at 905-377-0666.
Legacy Gift
If you wish to name the Foundation in your will, please contact your legal advisor. Please contact the Foundation for any other information required.
By Cheque
St. Mark's Heritage Foundation
P.O. Box 34
Port Hope, Ontario
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Please Note:
No part of any contribution is used for the operating expenses or religious activities of St. Mark's Church. Those funds are provided by the members of the congregation.
All gifts are acknowledged with official receipts for income tax purposes.
All gifts are acknowledged with official receipts for income tax purposes.
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Wildflower Wednesday: Astragalus utahensis aka Locoweed aka Utah Ladyfinger
This Wednesday I wanted to blog about Astragalus utahensis. It is one of many Astragalus species native to Utah. My first introduction to this plant was on the foothills of the Wasatch range. In spring their purple/magenta flowers jump out against their silver foliage. They are some of the first wildflowers to bloom in our region. Astragalus utahensis grows in rocky/sandy earth with little water. In these harsh conditions they will flourish. Here is a general information page on Weeds and Wildflowers.
Astragalus utahensis goes by several common names. Locoweed is one of them. Some Astragalus species are poisonous to cattle and can cause major problems for ranchers. For more info see this publication from NMSU. I'm not sure if this one is actually poisonous but people around here call it Locoweed.
Utah Ladyfinger is an alternative name used by folks at INPGA and Slow the Flow. They are promoting it as a lovely low water ground cover or desert rock garden addition for our landscapes. And rightly so. But you can't sell it with weed in the name.
A few years back I was lucky enough to pick up some Locoweed seed on my shoes (I think) and then had a Utah Ladyfinger pop up in the old sand box out back. I have not been lucky enough to have it reseed (not much of a weed I guess). I haven't seen any signs of it this spring, but we had a few good years. Here is a close up of this beauty.
Despite this being a Utah's Choice plant, I have not seen it for sale at the local nurseries. Maybe I just haven't noticed but I don't think so. I am planning on building a small rock garden and would like this as a permanent part of it. I was so excited to find it for sale from Rugged Country Plants. But alas, they are temporarily sold out. I will keep checking though.
Thanks to Gail over at Clay and Limestone for hosting Wildflower Wednesday.
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
PS. Seed can be obtained from Western Native Seed, Alplains.com, and Wildflowers Unlimited. Many of Utah's good nurseries carry packets of Wildflowers Unlimited's native seeds, usually by the checkout counter. If you can't find them at your favorite nursery it looks like Wildflowers Unlimited takes orders through the mail.
March 24, 2010 9:43 am
I should be so lucky to track in a gorgeous wildflower to my garden. I guess I need to go hiking more…. Hope your "weedy" friend comes back for you this year.
Christine in Alaska
March 24, 2010 7:19 pm
I have never seen this wildflower before. With it's small gray leaves, it looks like it would do well in dry climates like mine 🙂
March 24, 2010 7:42 pm
It's a beautiful plant! I have to say that after countless cowboy movie references to locoweed…Never in a million years would I think it was such a pretty plant. Here in TN we have Astragalus bibullatus. It is rare and grows in cedar glades. Thanks for joining Wildflower Wednesday…I love celebrating wildflowers and learning about new ones. gail
March 28, 2010 5:41 am
A beautiful wildflower for Wildflower Wednesday. I am so looking forward to their return here. I wish you luck in obtaining some for your rock garden. When I lived in Colorado I so enjoyed seeing the wild columbine. I always thought a vase of them would look so pretty, but it was illegal to pick them. Happy Spring!! 🙂


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Peter Gabriel could really dig deep into these soundscape songs. (Curtains is another one.) Great with headphones in the middle of the night. I've lost interest in most of what he does these days, but if I have to listen to non-blues-influenced pop music, PG's the man.


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I thought I'd give you an update on our first few days in Qingdao.
We have been very busy moving in and buying start up dong xi (stuff) for our apartment.
We have had a lot of fun though, dreaming up each room and shopping.
We have also been busy with setting up our internet, water service, maid service, gas payments, and looking for furniture.
Our landlord's daughter's boyfriend (haha) speaks pretty good English and has been helping us a lot. Our landlord is turning out to be a great one! He has helped us with all the little details. His family took Zachary out to eat and took us shopping for furniture. We haven't quite found what we are looking for yet but have lots of ideas for our office. :)
Here is a few pictures of the things that we have purchased for our home thus far and a few peeks at our new casa.


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Who is Marlen Esparza? Nicola Adams' former fiancée and boxer who has split from gold medallist
The couple were engaged for 16 months but have split, with Esparza now set to marry her personal trainer
BRITISH Olympic hero Nicola Adams was engaged to fellow boxer Marlen Esparza for 16 months – but the couple have now split.
Here is everything that you need to know about the US fighter and how her relationship with the Team GB legend came to an end...
Who is Marlen Esparza?
Marlen Esparza is a female American boxer from Houston, Texas, born on July 29, 1989.
The 28-year-old won bronze in the women's flyweight division at the London 2012 Olympics.
Esparza then took gold at the 2014 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships and bronze in the 2016 edition.
Golden Boy Promotions signed her to a pro contract in December 2016 and she made her debut in March 2017, defeating Rachel Sazoff.
Since then, she has maintained a 100 per cent record in the professional ranks, seeing off Samantha Salazar, Aracely Palacios and Karla Valenzuela.
How did Nicola Adams meet Marlen Esparza?
Having been rivals for a number of years, love started to blossom between the pair at a training camp in 2016.
Adams revealed to the Daily Star: "We've known each for five or six years but we didn't really talk because we were like nemesis and all that.
"We got talking in Colorado last year at a training camp. She hadn't made the national team for the qualifiers this time round. We got talking there and that was it really."
How did their relationship end?
Adams and Esparza looked set to tie the knot after getting engaged at London's Shard.
However, in April 2018 The Sun's Bizarre column revealed that the wedding was off, and Adams' former partner was now engaged to her personal trainer, Frank.
Friends of Adams insist she ended the relationship, with a pal explaining: "Marlen started going out a lot. It became too much.
"Nicola was left with no choice but to break things off a month ago.
"Then just a few weeks later everyone discovers Marlen has got engaged to some guy she's just met and they are getting married in six weeks — it's crazy."


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Hi everyone,
I just wanted to give the heads up to a cool indiegogo campaign by PF for squads of his 28mm aliens:
In brief:
The project will use fixed funding. This means that if it doesn't reach the amount we're asking, you'll get your money back.This project is about the production of a multi-specist alien squad at 1:56 scale (28 mm). The miniatures will be cast in metal.
Each alien will have two different heads. Most of them have separate arms and a couple of them have separate legs too. Since the torsoes are the same for most of the squad, you will probably be able to make some combos we haven't thought of.
The guns have been made via computer by the excellent and very cool John Bear Ross (or JBR) and the troopers with putty by Pierre-François Jacquet (or PF).
The squad:
1) Dylothian squad leader:
2) Tabili shocktrooper:
3) C' crysh shocktrooper:
4) Nabh shocktrooper:
5) Hent squad leader:
6) Lord of Xaam sniper:
7) Majalan shocktrooper:
8) Gobarite shocktrooper:
9) Kurabian shocktrooper:
10) Ovolo shocktrooper:
Why make an Indiegogo campaign?
This squad is already a reality. The models have been made. We even had some samples done and painted as you can see.
The models now have inserts so they aren't too difficult to assemble.
Now, we need your help so we can make some new moulds. They will be made by an independant profesional mould maker.
If you think that in a far future where there is mostly war, there aren't enough species to annihilate, help us produce the toughest aliens in the galaxy! ; )
What do I get if I help?
You get unpainted miniatures.
For 21 EUR, you will receive a five "man" squad. Choose A or B squad.Shipping included in European Union. Add 3 EUR outside of European Union.
For 36 EUR, you will receive a ten "man" squad. A + B.Shipping included in European Union. Add 5 EUR outside of European Union.
For 60 EUR, you will receive two squads of ten aliens (20 miniatures). Once again, the aliens have two heads and some arms may be swapped or reposed so you could have twenty different aliens. However we don't want you to be disappointed so if your hobby skills are very limited, choose a lesser pledge level.
Shipping included in European Union. Add 5 EUR outside of European Union.
For 100 EUR, you will receive two squads of ten aliens as described above (20 miniatures). Plus you will work with us on designing an unique alien head of one of the obscure species of the Federation so you can have your own fav guy. It will be truly unique as we will send you the head sculpt along the casts of the miniatures. The head will be sculpted in duro/ green stuff so it is resistant and durable.
For 300 EUR, you will receive two squads of ten aliens (see 60 EUR pledge). Plus you will work with us on designing a new unique shocktrooper of one of minor species of the Federation so you can have your own fav guy. We will send you the original sculpt as well as ten casts of it. We will keep a few casts for us as a souvenir. The price might seem high but we'll try to make the alien as you wish it to be so we're talking about a complete new sculpt (plus a mould for it). If you're interested and think we could reuse some parts of the armor already made, we might consider making two guys instead of one. We'll discuss it privately.There might be an additional delay for this level.
Will there be some bonuses in case the campaign is a success?
If we raise 4500 EUR, we will add a dr'akk armed with a heavy weapon and you'll receive it in addition of your minis. Citizen and scout levels excluded.
If we reach 5000 EUR, we will add an officer and you'll receive it in addition of your minis. Citizen and scout levels excluded.
If we have more money, we have a couple of other bonuses to add but we'll see and we'll tell you in updates.
Do you have some other pictures of the miniatures?
Yes. Please see the following link for more pictures including bigger ones, back views, pictures of the sculpts with several angles, comparison pictures, etc.http://15mmspaceopera.blogspot.fr/search/label/New%20federation%20projectWill it be possible to buy the miniatures from you if the Indiegogo campaign doesn't succeed?
No, that's very unlikely.
When will I get my toys?
Once the Indiegogo campaign is over, add one or two months for mould-making and then say another month for shipping everything and you receiving your package. Let's say june 2014. We find it more reasonable to tell you this than promise you'll have the squad sooner and disappoint.
Risks and challenges:
The squad is 95% finished. Things to do are:
-a second head and a new set of arms for the C'crysh. We will show you them before the end of the campaign as well as some other pics.
-the moulds.
So we're confident things shouldn't get much delayed and that you will have your shocktroopers in a few months as mentioned above.
A bit of background:
The species among the Federation are many. Not all of them can join the shocktroopers. They need to meet several criteria:
-They must be able to carry and use the Unifier MK I gun. It usually means they got fingers but that's not mandatory.
-They must be able to feed on the Standard Nutrient Of Troops. However, some species may join the shocktroopers because they can live without eating for long periods or can buy and carry their own food.
-They must be able to understand the orders. They may be transplanted with the Federation Universal Comprehension Kit for that. They don't need to be able to speak. They're shocktroopers not diplomats. Each shocktrooper gets an additonal chip for pinpointing him or her in case he or she is lost or missing. Non commisioned officers and Officers on theaters of operations are chosen among the species able to express orders through sound, usually vocal cords.
-They must have a minimum level of tolerance toward other species. Some species among the Federation are actually better at warfare than the ones found in the federal shocktroopers but if they can't live and fight next to other races, they are usually enlisted in special auxiliary forces such as the loors.
For more blahblah about the most encountered species in the shocktrooper corps see there:
These miniatures aren't toys and aren't suitable for children under the age of 14.These miniatures require assembly.


text: Hi all, currently, the UDP URLProtocol in libavformat uses a "multicast=" tag in the URL to decide if an address is multicast or unicast. I believe this is a bad idea, because it allows situations in which libavformat thinks that "127.0.0.1" is a multicast address, or "18.104.22.168" is unicast. As a result, for example, the SDP demuxer is not able to RTP receive streams directed to an unicast address. I have a set of patches for removing the need for such tag; I am currently testing them, and I'll post the results on Monday. But I have a question: to make everything as simple as possible, I am assuming that a destination address can be multicast only if it is provided as a numeric address (for example, the SDP generator is not going to resolve an host name to check if it is multicast or not). Is this reasonable? If yes, wait for some patches on Monday... ;-) Luca