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thegloriouscollectorlady · 6 years ago

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Deaths on TWD and what Beth’s means to Daryl’s story

My original plan was to post a continuation of my thoughts on Lydia/Henry and Daryl/Beth and where the writers might be headed with that story and those parallels but I realized in working through those thoughts in my head that it might be best to discuss this topic first because it affects my thoughts on Daryl’s coming arc and how Beth relates to that. So below I am going to discuss my thoughts on deaths on TWD and how the writers use them and why they are placed at certain points in the story and what this means for Daryl’s story moving forward and how it is still very much connected to Beth.

So the pike deaths in 9X16 got me thinking about deaths on TWD and how and why they are written. I started to mull this idea over when I was considering all the ramifications of Henry’s death and how and why the writers were using his death. Those thoughts had me considering main character deaths on TWD and how they have been used in general throughout the show and in considering that I realized there are some key similarities to all the big character deaths. The two that I want to talk about today are that big character deaths always do two things. They affect a target character or characters in a way that is visible to the audience and they alter the course of the story in an important way through their relationship with the characters that are affected by their death. So below I am going to talk about a few big character deaths that we’ve seen over the last few seasons and how these principles apply to them.

So the first big death that I want to talk about is Herschel’s. Herschel died in season 4’s midseason finale at the hands of the Governor. Just as a side note I would mention that the Governor used Michonne’s katana to kill Herschel by slashing at his neck which is exactly what Pete does to Reg when he is going after Rick. But I digress from the main discussion which is Herschel’s death and which characters it affected and why he was the character chosen to die at that moment in the story. So the really interesting part of Herschel’s death is that the characters it affected the most were Rick, Daryl, and Beth and there was very little effect on Maggie which is curious because we will see something similar later when we talk about Beth. So now that we’ve identified which characters were most affected by Herschel’s death we can examine from a story standpoint why. Herschel’s death affected Rick in a huge way because Herschel was almost like a surrogate father to Rick. He guided him and pulled him back from his darkest moments. Herschel created balance for Rick. Herschel helped Rick to understand that there had to be something “ after” that there was more to life than just surviving and that it was up to Rick as a leader to be able to see that. Herschel reminded Rick that “after” surviving came living and that was the important part of life. Without Herschel Rick could easily slide into the role of red machete Rick who was solely focused on survival and the brutality that comes with that mindset. Herschel’s death in 4X8 is intended to help catapult Rick into the mindset of red machete Rick which is important for the coming story line and which we see play out throughout seasons 4, 5, and into season 6.

The other characters who are affected in a huge way by Herschel’s death are Beth and Daryl. Beth struggles to cope with the loss of her father and tries to find a way to reconcile herself to it and in those struggles she pulls Daryl along with her. The interesting thing about the development of Beth and Daryl’s story in season 4 after the fall of the prison is that it is almost entirely predicated on Herschel’s death. Daryl is struggling with the fact that he blames himself for what the governor did and he is particularly bereft over Herschel’s death as Herschel was a mentor and father figure to Daryl as well as Rick. Daryl feels responsible for Herschel’s death and the writers paired him with Herschel’s daughter to help him work through that grief. There could be no more in your face reminder for Daryl of what happened than being paired with Herschel’s daughter Beth. But not only does Beth not blame Daryl for her father’s death but she is responsible for helping him to move beyond his feelings of inadequacy that stem from what happened and she helps him to understand that there are still good people in the world despite the bad ones. When Beth and Daryl stop in the graveyard in Alone and place yellow flowers on the beloved father grave it is a way for them to mourn Herschel but it also represents Daryl laying to rest his insecurities and letting them go because of the comfort and understanding he found with Beth. The character development that we see in Daryl throughout season 4 is a result of the story that takes place because of Herschel’s death and without that death those character developments would not occur.

The next big death I would be inclined to discuss would be Beth’s but I am going to skip that for now and move onto Tyrese. So Tyrese’s death is really interesting in hindsight because it happened for several reasons. So the really interesting thing to consider about Tye’s death is that it would not have occurred without Noah. TF taking Noah to his home is the catalyst for Tye’s death and in fact it’s even Noah’s brother who bites Tye. But the crux of this discussion is what characters does a death affect and why and I think Tye’s death is interesting in that it affects more than just the characters in the story. Tye’s death affects Sasha primarily. Not only did she just lose Bob at the beginning of the season but she then loses her brother also propelling her into a really dark and violent place. This is important to the story because it later explains why Sasha does what she does after Abe’s death, it creates the context for her later actions, but it also does something else. Tye’s death in the mid-season premiere shifts the audiences focus away from Beth and through Tye’s funeral gives the audience an allusion of closure for Beth that never occurs. There are still many people in the fandom who think Beth had a funeral because they mistakenly remember Tye’s funeral as Beth’s. The placement of 5X9 directly after 5X8 also creates a scenario where the focus of 5X10 is on more than Daryl and Maggie’s grief and it becomes about Sasha’s as well.

The next death I want to talk about is Glenn’s and then also Abe’s. I know I’ve skipped a bunch in between but I really want to focus on the big deaths and how they shift the story with the understanding that the other character deaths can be observed and examined through a similar lens. So Glenn’s death was particularly tragic because of its senselessness. But from a writers point of view there was a purpose for it occurring at that point in the story. So the characters most affected by Glenn’s death are Rick, Daryl, and Maggie and the main character affected was Maggie. So for Rick and Daryl Glenn’s death was a catalyst for their story moving forward. For Rick Glenn had to die in the way that he did to evoke a feeling of hopelessness and loss. Abe had literally offered himself as a sacrifice and his death would not have done enough to quell Rick’s desire for retaliation against Negan. In fact I would surmise that if only Abe had died then it would have fueled Rick’s desire to strike back. However Glenn’s death in all its tragic, senseless, and horrifying abruptness shocked Rick into submission. It’s the same reason the writers had Negan threaten to cut Carl’s arm off and the same reason Negan took Daryl. It was all intended to pound Rick’s character into submission in a way that Abe’s death alone would not have. So Glenn’s death affected Rick’s story and the overall Negan story line and it also affected Daryl and his continued story line. After Beth’s death Daryl struggles to find his place again. Alexandria does not feel like home to Daryl and he struggles to find a purpose. Aaron bring Daryl back to himself a bit when he suggests that Daryl help to find recruits for Alexandria. It’s a role we know Daryl played at the prison because of things C@rol said and also because we see it through Bob’s story. It’s a small piece of himself that Daryl gets back for a short period of time until he meets Dwight and Sherry.

Once Daryl meets Dwight and Sherry his confidence in his own judgment is shattered. Aaron tells Daryl at one point that he knows the difference between good people and bad and Daryl knows that Sherry and Dwight are good people but their actions are not the actions of good people and Always Accountable is a huge turning point for Daryl’s character. That last little bit of hope that Daryl was holding onto that he could do something good that would honor someone he cared about slipped away catapulting Daryl into a really dark and emotionally vulnerable place. Daryl’s anger at Dwight is in a way a reflection of his own self-loathing which is directly related to the huge emotional loss he was still coping with. The writers used Denise’s death and then Glenn’s to help beat Daryl towards rock bottom. The Cell was Daryl’s breaking point. The point at which his character not only reach rock bottom and broke but the point at which the writers began to build him into a wholly different character than he was before. But it was Maggie whom the writers were looking to most impact with Glenn’s death. Her arc as the leader of Hilltop and the strength she shows as that leader is a direct result of the loss she suffers. In season 4 the writers showed the audience Maggie’s single minded focus in regards to Glenn. Her love for him was so overwhelming that the writers make it the focal point of her story with little to no mention of her sister or father. With Glenn’s loss Maggie becomes the sole protector and provider for her child and in that role becomes a leader she would not have become with Glenn still a part of her story. Firstly because it’s highly unlikely that Glenn would have left Rick to go to Hilltop and secondly because Maggie turns her single minded love for Glenn towards her child and that love is what drives the choices she makes as a leader.

The writers used Abe’s death to also affect multiple characters. Those most affected by Abe’s death were Eugene, Rosita, and Sasha. Abe’s death was used as a balance to Glenn’s for the audience. It showed TF’s resilience and courage and it showed their willingness to sacrifice for each other and that sacrifice is something Rosita later comes to understand. Rosita’s story line is directly affected by Abe’s death because she is finally able to confront her relationship with men and move on as a much healthier individual. Eugene’s story line is affected by Abe’s death in a way that affects the entire outcome of the war with Negan. But Abe’s death affects Sasha the most as it compounds a story line that for her began with Bob and continued with Tye. Sasha went to a very dark place after losing both Bob and Tye and Abe helped to pull her out of that place but after losing Abe Sasha is bereft. Her single minded determination to go after Negan stems directly from Abe’s death and her death directly affects Maggie and Rick’s determination to finish he war with Negan and win.

The next death I want to discuss is Carl’s. Carl’s death affects many characters but it’s intended to mostly affect Michonne and Rick. The writers use Carl’s death to help Rick to see that his mercy can prevail over his wrath. Carl’s death gives Rick a reason to fight for something greater than what he sees. Rick’s entire arc from Carl’s death until the end of this own is driven by Rick’s desire to honor his sons vision for the future. A vision where the communities come together and work as one and where mercy and justice prevail over anger and violence. While Rick is alive Michonne works with him to honor this vision and later in season 9 we see her reminded of Carl and what he hoped for through Judith. In fact Carl’s dreams for Alexandria and his family directly callback to the things Herschel was trying to teach Rick and by extension Carl and also to what Bob said to Rick in season 5. That nightmares end but that they sounded end who you are. In the end Rick was always the sheriff doing the right thing even when it was hard. Rick symbolized at the end of his arc on TWD justice , honor , and self-sacrifice. In fact Rick’s own “death” was in a way a mirror of his mentor Herschel’s. When Herschel risks his own life to go into the infirmary to help people in season 4 he makes that choice knowing what he is risking. His death at the hands of the Governor is something he is okay with because he’s made peace with himself and he sees that Rick has learned the things he was trying to teach him.

Rick’s “death” in season 9 while not a true death deeply affects the characters on the show because they believe him to be dead. Michonne and Daryl are the characters most affected by Rick’s “death” and they are profoundly affected in ways that drive the story forward throughout season 9. Without Rick and after Jocelyn’s betrayal Michonne falls back onto her desire to protect her children in a way that is unbalanced. Without Rick to reassure her Michonne has no ballast to balance her characters inclinations and it isn’t until Judith becomes Michonne’s balance that she sees what her actions have allowed. Rick’s bridge was a symbol of unity and bringing the communities together and Michonne verbalizes to King Ezekiel in 9x16 that she understands that what the Whisperers did to them as a group stemmed from their lack of cohesion as a group. What DJ, Ozzy, and Alec did was to remind Michonne and everyone that survived the Whisperers that it’s worth fighting on the side of good to save people even people that you don’t know. Siddiq says of that moment that they all fought together like family even though some of them did not know each other. That moment was the writer’s way of illustrating their point about unity and family and doing what’s right even when it’s not personally expedient. Alec, Ozzy, and DJ could have made different choices but they chose to do the right thing even if it meant dying for people they barely knew. Tara and Enid’s death’s in particular were about this theme. Their sacrifice was intended to remind TF that standing up for what is right is more important than simply living. The courage that Tara in particular showed is something that I also think we will see King Ezekiel grapple with in season 10 as it appears her death may play a role in his story moving forward.

The other character profoundly impacted by Rick’s loss is Daryl. During season 7 and 8 we began to see cracks forming in Daryl’s relationship with Rick as both characters changed and evolved. Daryl began despite himself to shift more into the role of a leader and at the same time he felt that Rick was pulling away from him. Leading Daryl to make some choices that he later felt led to what happened to Rick. Losing Rick was the final straw for Daryl in a way. Losing Beth separated Daryl from the group in a way he doesn’t ever appear to recover from but losing Rick causes Daryl to physically separate himself. Because none of the communities were ever home to Daryl he goes off into the woods to live by himself and search for the brother he believes may still be out there somewhere. We know through the story shown to use in season 9 that Daryl continued to have contact with both Michonne and C@rol but to a large extend he spend his time alone and solitary until C@rol came to him and requested that he watch over her son.

Henry’s death is the final one I want to discuss before returning to the point of this very long discussion which was Beth’s death. So Henry’s death affected C@rol, Ezekiel, Lydia, and Daryl and Daryl mainly because of Lydia. So Lydia is affected by Henry’s death because she feels responsible for it and her trauma directly affects Daryl who has taken on the role as her father figure. Lydia and by extension Daryl’s story will be driven in season 10 by the fallout from this event. The other two characters most affected by Henry’s death are Ezekiel and C@rol and their stories will be driven in a huge way in season 10 by the fallout. We’ve already seen a direct affect in that C@rol walked away from Ezekiel at a time when he was losing everything. I think we will see a big character arc for Ezekiel in season 10 having to do with courage and perseverance. C@rol’s arc will most likely be much more complicated but we’ve already seen her expressing that she is losing herself again and she seems to be falling back into the C@rol we saw in previous seasons so it will be interesting to see how that all plays out. But we saw with Henry’s death huge story line shifts for characters who knew and loved him and whose stories are being driven forward by his loss.

So we see through how the writers use main character deaths on TWD that they are almost always done with a purpose and with far reaching consequences that affect the story itself in an indelible way. Which brings me back to the original point of this discussion which was Beth’s death in Coda. So I have listened to a lot of pod casts and you tube videos about Coda and one of the biggest things commentators bemoan is the role Maggie played in searching for and finding Beth. Maggie’s character was so removed from Beth’s story arc that her response at the end of Coda almost seemed out of left field. I think the reason the writers did this was twofold. One it illustrated for the viewers that Maggie’s story revolved around Glenn with a single minded focus that was important to later events in the story. Two the writers doing this brought to the forefront something many viewers chose not to acknowledge which was that Beth’s story was primarily about Daryl with a small side note thrown in for Rick at the end. And that side note wasn’t so much about Beth as it was about rescuing Beth and Rick’s world view and how it was affected by that experience. So Beth’s death minimally affects Maggie which we see at the end of Coda and then in Them when Daryl fixes the music box for Maggie as a reminder of Beth and the other two characters most affected by her death are Rick and Daryl.

I want to talk about Rick first and then conclude with Daryl. So Beth’s death in Coda affects Rick because it affects Rick’s world view by reinforcing his current mindset of brutality. The Rick we see in Coda is red machete Rick to the extreme. A series of events sets Rick on this path which culminates with his outburst at Alexandria. It started with the Governor when Rick tried to reason with him using Herschel’s philosophy and failed. Not only did he fail but Herschel died. Rick’s mindset continued to deteriorate because of Gareth and Terminus and what happened after Terminus. Rick and crew only did enough damage to leave Terminus. They weren’t actually intent on killing everyone that had anything to do with the place. But then Gareth and company followed Rick and his family and then they kidnapped Bob and did what they did and that drove Rick over the edge. Rick’s actions at Father Gabriel’s church are so traumatic for Tye that they inform his hallucinations in WHAWGO. Not only is the voice on the radio Andy Lincolns but the things the radio is talking about are a hodge podge of how Tye sees Rick and all the bad things Tye has seen that he can’t reconcile anymore. The voice talks about machete wielding bad guys (that’s Rick) going up and down the coast (TF travels) and the deaths of innocent young mother s (Beth) and children (Mika and Lizzie). Rick’s actions towards Gareth’s people make Tye question everything and the fact that he is responsible because of not killing the one Terminus guy is something he can’t cope with. Rick’s decline continues in Crossed when he runs officer Bob over in such a cold blooded way. It’s interesting because we see Sasha respond to Officer Bob and the callback is supposed to be that this man symbolizes Bob. Bob told Rick at the beginning of season 5 that nightmares end but that they don’t have to end who you are and then in Crossed Rick runs down and kills Officer Bob which is a symbolic rejection of what Bob said to Rick about nightmares not ending who you are.

This is all really interesting when you consider that Rick’s nightmare continues into season 6 and when Jesse and her boys die in a way that is the literal nightmare of what C@rol threatened Sam with we actually see Rick see red like what Morgan talked about when he talks about losing himself. But it’s afterwards when he’s sitting with Carl at the infirmary that we begin to see Rick coming back to himself a little bit. It’s not for him but instead for Carl which is a theme we see continue into seasons 7, 8, and 9. Rick’s nightmare ends because he finds a greater purpose in his son and honoring his son. But I digress from my point which is that Beth’s death helps to reinforce Rick’s red machete mindset. Rick wanted to go into Grady guns blazing and just take C@rol and Beth. He doesn’t trust anyone anymore besides his family and he felt that was the best way to get his people back. C@rol had basically done just that when she rescued them at Terminus and now they had to rescue her. In Rick’s mind this would work just like it had before but the rather interesting thing about this is that the writers very subtly show us that it would not have through Beth’s actual death and it’s such a subtle thing that it’s very easily missed. So Rick wants to go into Grady guns blazing and use violence to take C@rol and Beth back and Tye and Daryl talk him into negotiating. If Rick hadn’t of killed Officer Bob the Grady standoff would have never happened. They would have had three people to trade for three people. However Rick’s brutality causes them to be one person short in that hallway and it provokes the confrontation between Beth and Dawn. The rather interesting point here is that if Rick had followed the plan Tye and Daryl’s plan would have worked flawlessly. Then there is a snag in the plan and the writers show us a very subtle point that is easily missed. Most people walked away from Grady believing that Beth’s death reinforced Rick’s red machete beliefs. That if they had stormed the building and just taken their people back it might have worked. I mean who would have guessed that Dawn would be the way she was not TF and obviously not the officers ( or maybe they did and were hoping to provoke Dawn as a way to take her out). Rick probably believes this as well. However the writers gave us a very subtle and easily missed clue that this was not actually their point. When Beth approaches Dawn she has two choices neither of which is TF aware of. They don’t know that Beth has scissors in her cast but they also don’t know that Dawn owes Beth and told her as much after Beth helped with Officer O’Donnell. That scene seems ridiculous and useless to the story unless you consider that the writers left it in the story for a reason. The reason was this Dawn owed Beth and if Beth had brought that up in that moment she could have used it to force Dawn to let Noah go. She could have told Dawn you owe me and I am calling in my favor and if you don’t let Noah go then I am going to tell everyone what happened to O’Donnell and it would have been the final nail in Dawn’s coffin as leader at Grady. Beth literally had all the leverage and could have chosen a peaceful resolution to the situation with Dawn. Instead Beth takes Rick’s route of violence and attacks Dawn leading to the aftermath of Coda.

Viewing Coda through this lens also makes you consider Beth’s statement before she stabs Dawn when she says “I get it now”. I think the reason this statement is so confusing to the viewers is because it doesn’t make sense in the context but on its simplest level maybe it does. Beth says “I get it now” and physically attacks Dawn implying that she thinks she understands that violence is the only way that works in this world. It shows a huge but also very tragic shift for a girl who was once an optimist. It shows just how much Beth has been traumatized by the events that have happened to her at Grady. But more than that Coda shows that violence is wrong because not only is it not the way but Beth’s death highlights that it’s not the way. Beth had a more diplomatic tool at her disposal and she didn’t chose to use it which is something only the viewers know. This is something that Rick will not learn until much later because of Carl. But Coda is essentially the writer’s way of very subtly reinforcing something that becomes a huge part of Carl and Rick’s arc moving forward. The rather interesting thing about this is that while Beth’s death reinforces Rick’s red machete point of view in the story the other subtle aspects of this story are not driven home by the writers to either the audience or the characters. They are instead left to linger like unfinished puzzle pieces which would seem to indicate that they are unfinished pieces of the story. The viewers never get to see Beth lament the fact that she made the wrong choice and the characters never know that Beth had a different choice that she could have made. It’s all very interesting in hindsight because that’s not the way TWD stories traditionally work especially when they involve character deaths. In this instance the audience knows something the characters never did and that knowledge has yet to play into the story in a way that pays off. Not only that but something else really interesting happens in Coda and that’s the reintroduction of Morgan at the end. Coda as an episode is thematically about mindset. It’s about the mindset of violence versus diplomacy and we see that play out through what happens to Beth. During Coda both Beth and Rick represent violence over diplomacy and at the end of Coda the writers reintroduce Morgan whose journey and story is very much about learning to reject violence for diplomacy. So thematically through that lens it makes sense why the writers reintroduced Morgan at the end of Coda as a Coda. The Coda to the story can be seen through Morgan’s approach to the world. Again this is all very interesting because we have not yet seen these points driven home within the narrative itself.

So finally I want to focus on Daryl who was the main character affected by Beth’s death. With all major character deaths we see one main character most affected by the loss. For Glenn it was Maggie, for Abe Sasha, for Carl Rick, for Henry C@rol. In all of these instances there is one person usually a lover or family member who is most affected by the tragic loss of a character and it’s that character whose story is mainly being driven forward by the death of their loved one. We saw for example that Glenn’s death drove Maggie to be the leader at Hilltop, Abe’s death drove Sasha to attack Negan’s compound, Carl’s death informed all of Rick’s behavior towards Negan at the end of the war and then Rick’s vision for the communities afterwards. I am sure in season 10 we will see how Henry’s death directly drives C@rol’s story moving forward. So through that narrative lens I ask how did Beth’s death directly affect Daryl’s narrative in season 5 and or 6 or even longer in to 7, 8, and 9? If a main character death is used to directly affect the narrative of the character closest to them which is what makes the death not a pointless plot device then how did Beth’s death affect Daryl and why did they chose her specifically to die and not any of the other potential characters they could have used to advance the story forward? Because the writers can use any character at any point in the story to affect the story. When they chose a character it is to make a specific point in a way that only that characters death can. So in my mind this is where Beth’s death differs from any other the writers have done on the show and below I will detail why and what I think it means.

So the reason Beth’s death differs is that unlike Carl’s, or Glenn’s, or Abe’s there is no direct and immediate in your face effect on Daryl and his story moving forward. We see Daryl grieve a bit but not in the normal way that a main character is affected by another main characters death. With Rick or Maggie or Sasha we saw them grieve the loss of their loved one and then we directly understood that their actions were a result of the loss of that loved one. With Daryl the writers don’t show a direct and immediate effect on Daryl’s story due to his loss of Beth. In fact the writers do cause other characters motives to be affected by Beth’s loss but not Daryl. In 5X9’s WHAWGO both Glenn and Rick indicate that the desire to take Noah home is based on what Beth would want but Daryl is not even a part of that attempt. He doesn’t show up until the end of the episode to help bury Tye. But the thing is I do think the writers used that to signal something very important about Beth’s story and what she is intended to symbolize to Daryl and his overall story.

So after Grady TF is lost and grieving and with nowhere to go. They are reunited but Eugene’s promise of a cure was just debunked a couple of episode before and they refuse to stay at Grady. So taking Noah home becomes the obvious next step. The thing about the group traveling North is that this could have been accomplished even if Beth had not died because it wasn’t like TF had anywhere else to go. Beth’s death did not have to occur in order to inspire TF to help Noah. Even if Beth had survived Grady they could have helped Noah because why not. Even without Noah TF could have chosen to travel north because Eugene’s idea about DC did make sense which is why he came up with it in the first place. So there were reasons TF could have traveled north without Beth’s part in the choice but by choosing to make the trip north about Beth the writers use Beth as a symbol. Beth becomes a symbol of home. Within the narrative the writers create TF losing Beth is what drives them to take Noah home to honor Beth and it is because of that decision that Aaron finds them. So in the larger scheme of the narrative Beth is the reason that TF find Alexandria and then later Hilltop and the Kingdom. Beth is the reason that each of the characters find the home they were intended to become a part of. The really really interesting thing about this narrative is that while Beth’s death and the results (finding home) affect nearly every other character in the story the one character whose story is least affected by this is the one whose story should have been most affected and that is Daryl.

If the point of Beth’s death was to lead TF home and that seems to be the only real outcome from her death then Daryl’s story should have been most affected by this theme and Daryl should have found not only a home but his place within the larger narrative of the story because of her death. Not only should Daryl have done this but the audience should have been pointedly reminded that Daryl was only able to do this because of Beth. The thing is though that this is not what happened. In fact I would argue the exact opposite happened. Back when the prison first fell in season 4 we are shown Daryl completely unmoored. Not only is he separated from everyone but Beth but he’s also lost possibly the only real home he has known. At the prison Daryl has people who care for him, people who need him, and an important role in the larger community. We see this at the start of the season. He’s settled and almost happy. We see a foreshadow of events to come later in the season when Daryl takes Zack on a run and he doesn’t make it back. Daryl is clearly upset and it’s Beth who comforts him. This foreshadows Beth’s role in Daryl’s loss later in season 4. After the prison falls Daryl is completely without purpose. He’s lost his home and his role in the community and he feels as if he has failed in his role as protector. This failure demoralizes him badly and he refuses to even look for the rest of their missing family .He gives it a halfhearted attempt when Beth really pushes at him but when they find the bodies at the railroad tracks he stops. What’s really interesting about this scenario is it highlights what happens later both in season 5 and during the arc with Negan. Daryl finds his purpose and home through a connection to people. He uses his skills as a tracker, hunter, and guardian to protect the people he cares for. When the prison falls he loses all confidence in those skills and who he is and becomes very depressed and in doing so gives up in way because he loses all hope.

During Still Beth helps to restore Daryl’s hope and creates a connection with Daryl that is so strong his purpose becomes about her. Daryl’s connection to Beth becomes so strong that when they find the funeral home he suggests to her that they stay there and try to make it a home. He is willing to settle there with her. Not only do we see Daryl finding renewed hope in Beth but he also teaches her skills that are most important to him including tracking and hunting. Daryl is sharing with Beth the things that make him who he is and that are most special to him. He wants her to understand them and to be able to do them as well. The reason that I wanted to point out that Daryl suggested to Beth that they stay at the funeral home is because the funeral home is the last place we see Daryl happily settled (like at the prison) that he considers making a home. The Daryl we see at the funeral home with Beth is prison Daryl from early in season 4. He is the man who has a purpose and is happy and settled. The funeral home is the last place we see this because it is the last time Daryl feels that sense of home. The writers do a really interesting thing when Beth is taken. They show Daryl as an inverse version of himself. When the prison fell Daryl lost all hope and connection and stopped looking for his family. When Beth is taken Daryl desperately searches and tracks her even once he is reconnected with the rest of his family. He is even willing to just disappear on them when he has the chance to track a car with a white cross on it. When the prison fell Daryl was convinced everyone had died but when multiple characters ask if Beth has died Daryl insists that she is just gone clearly holding on to the hope quite strongly that she is alive and okay somewhere out there.

After Beth’s death Daryl holds onto the feelings that Beth helped him to feel until Always Accountable which was an episode riff with Beth symbolism. The point was however that after losing Beth Daryl was only able to hold onto the hope that she created within him for so long before he lost it because of the world around him. Daryl had been struggling to fit in at Alexandria and make it a home but at that point he stops. Daryl never feels at home at Alexandria. The writers make a point of this. Aaron tries to help Daryl by giving him a purpose and it works for a short time until Always Accountable. After meeting Dwight and failing to help him Daryl’s confidence shatters again just as it did after the fall of the prison and this time there is no one there to help him pick up his pieces. The reason that Dwight shatters Daryl’s confidence is this. Beth told Daryl that there were good people in the world and that they were worth helping. She tells him he is one of those good people and that he has value to the world. The reason Always Accountable is so riff with Beth symbolism is because it is the episode where Daryl is stripped of Beth once and for all. He loses hope in all the things she taught him and instilled within him and he loses hope in the feelings she helped him to feel which were love, value, and worth. He loses those feelings because he knows that Dwight is a good person. He knows that Dwight is a good person and when he tries to help him Dwight turns on him. What happens after that first encounter with Dwight only rams home to Daryl that even good people can’t be trusted. Because Dwight hurts Daryl over and over again and deep down Daryl knows that Dwight is a good person that he tried to help and this is what happened. Dwight is a parallel to Daryl because he is what Daryl could become if he made different choices. Daryl sees this and it makes him question all the hope he found in Beth to the point that he loses it and becomes very depressed.

If Daryl was attempting to make Alexandria a home by holding onto the feelings Beth made him feel then he stops after Always Accountable and we then see an endless cycle of Daryl moving from place to place to place. After losing his final connection to Beth he loses his desire to try to make somewhere a home. After he escapes Negan he is shuffled from Hilltop to Kingdom to Alexandria and back again. After the war with Negan Rick asks him to run the Sanctuary and then Daryl goes to the camp to help Rick. Rick is the last tie that really holds Daryl to a community in the sense of a home. After losing Beth Rick becomes Daryl’s reason and he wants to be with Rick because where Rick is has a semblance of feeling like home (home is where the heart is and the show has narratively shown us only two people that hold Daryl’s heart in that strong a manner). However when Rick is lost Daryl completely leaves all the communities and makes a home in the woods at the last place he knows Rick was. Being close to Rick becomes home for Daryl even if Rick is not there anymore. But beyond that we see that Daryl has no real ties to any community as a home. At Hilltop he is sleeping in the barn, we know based on Judith and Michonne that he has not stayed at Alexandria for a while, and before Henry’s death C@rol and Ezekiel offer Daryl Kingdom as a home. So it’s clear by this season that if Beth’s purpose was to lead TF to their home the character least affected by that purpose was Daryl who never truly found a home and that is not the recipe for how the writers write these kinds of things on this show. In fact Daryl should have been most affected by Beth’s death and he should have found his home. I think the point is that Beth’s effect on Daryl’s overall story is still happening and that the conclusion and the point is still to come.

So this anomaly in the way the writers used the story structure made me consider Daryl’s story and where the writers are going with it and the theme the writers are using. Daryl’s story while with Beth in season 4 and afterwards all these seasons later has been about home and it is still unresolved. If Daryl’s arc is about finding his place and finding his home he has still not done that even after all these seasons. But the writers steered Daryl’s story in a very interesting direction this season with the addition of Lydia and I have a lot of thoughts about how this theme of home affects Daryl through his relationship with Lydia and how it connects to Daryl’s larger story with Beth who is a literal representation of what home means for Daryl. Because this ramble is already so long I am going to post those thoughts about Daryl, Beth , and Lydia and what I think this all means to the larger story moving forward in a another post that I will hopefully have finished by the end of the weekend or early next week.

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New Year’s Update

On New Year's 2015-2016, I made a resolution which I have re-made every year since: to

1) Read as many books as possible throughout the year, with the ultimate goal of (1a) reading at least 52 books (1/week) in one year, and

2) Keep an accurate and up-to-date list of all the books I'd read, so that I'd never forget.

I'm happy to relate that, after three years of trying, I have successfully achieved Resolution 1a! This year I finished 79 books! In past years I’ve posted my results on Facebook, but for the first time ever I can share the results with ya’ll here.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson // John Green and David Levithan

German Men Sit Down To Pee // Niklas Frank & James Cave

The Music and Hymnody of The Methodist Hymnal // Carl F. Price

Finland and its People // Robert Medill

Faust // Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

John Quincy Adams // Harlow Giles Unger

The Oboe Concertos of Sir William Herschel // The American Philosophical Society, Edited by Wilbert Davis Jerome

Hark, A Vagrant // Kate Beaton

The Art of Castle in the Sky

R.U.R.: Rossum’s Universal Robot’s // Karel Capek

Are You My Mother? // Alison Bechdel

Music Master of the Middle West: The Story of F. Melius Christiansen and the St. Olaf Choir // Leola Nelson Bergman

The National Anthems of the World // Martin Shaw and Henry Coleman

Inventing Champagne: The Worlds of Lerner and Loewe // Gene Lees

The Complete Plays of Sophocles // Translated by Robert Bagg and James Scully

The Lapps // Björn Collinder

The Unbearable Lightness of Being // Milan Kundera

The Warlords of Appalachia // Phillip Kennedy Johnson

Batman: The Killing Joke // Alan Moore

Ragtime // E.L. Doctorow

March: Book One // Rep.John Lewis (GA-5)

March Book Two // Rep. John Lewis (GA-5)

March Book Three // Rep. John Lewis (GA-5)

Songs of Innocence and of Experience // William Blake

The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge // David McCullough

The Politics of Black Women’s Hair // Althea Prince

From Memory to Memorial: Shanksville, America, and Flight 93 // J. William Thompson

Ask Me About Polyamory // Tikva Wolf

A.D.: After Death // Scott Snyder & Jeff Lemire

Silent Builder: Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge // Marilyn E. Weingold

American Indians and Their Music // Frances Densmore

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town // Jon Krakauer

Russian Regional Flags: The Flags of the Subjects of the Russian Federation // Anne M. Platoff

Saga: Volume One // Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

Saga: Volume Two // Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats // T.S. Eliot

Saga: Volume Three // Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

Saga: Volume Four // Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

Saga: Volume Five // Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

Saga: Volume Six // Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

Canadian City Flags: 100 Flags from Abbotsford to Yellowknife // NAVA

Saga: Volume Seven // Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

Saga: Volume Eight // Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

Candide // Leonard Bernstein, Hugh Wheeler, and Richard Wilbur

West Side Story // Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Jerome Robbins

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum // Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart, and Stephen Sondheim

A Fiddler on the Roof // Jule Styne, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick

The Big Book of Bisexual Trials and Errors // Elizabeth Beier

She Loves Me // Joe Masteroff, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick

Funny Girl // Jule Styne, Bob Merrill, and Isobel Lennart

South Pacific // Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan

The King and I // Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown // Clark Gesner & John Gordon

A Little Night Music // Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler

Of Thee I Sing // George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, and George & Ira Gershwin

Hello, Dolly! // Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart

Great Buildings and their Constructors // Albert Kahn & Associates

History of Copper Harbor, Michigan // Clarence J. Monette

History of Jacobsville and its Sandstone Quarries // Clarence J. Monette

Two Steps Forward // Graeme Simsion and Anna Buist

Step Aside, Pops: A Hark, a Vagrant Collection // Kate Beaton

The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue // Will Eisner

The Great Gatsby // F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Old Man and the Sea // Ernest Hemingway

Grief is the Thing with Feathers // Max Porter

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing // Hank Green

The Verge // Susan Glaspell

The Adding Machine // Elmer Rice

Wuthering Heights // Emily Brontë

Mulatto // Langston Hughes

First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Roll // Jeanna E. Abrams

A Long Day’s Journey Into Night // Eugene O’Neill

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo // Stieg Larsson

A Wizard of Earthsea // Ursula K. LeGuin

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? // Edward Albee

Genannt Gospodin // Phillip Löhle

Fences // August Wilson

A Christmas Carol // Charles Dickens

The Tombs of Atuan // Ursula K. LeGuin

#personal #book #books #library #libraries #i'm not gonna tag all the authors and titles #i simply do not have the willpower

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.@swindledPodcast REVIEW: THE BODY SNATCHER is the latest Pod from @SwindledPodcast.

NOT THE last show available, but there REMAIN only UNA penultimate Y LA ultima left in the can, and then ONLY TWO MORE TO COMPLETE THE SEASON.

It IS the one i nursed my sleep-deprived body with tonight; playing the professional Mardi Gras careerist, Graham Greene-stilo and choosing to dwell on more salubrious, ephemeral, and hidden sybaritic hedonism, not of the festivities, but not in a place where the festivities are nowhere to be found: NEW ORLEANS!

i took up with it tonight.

(That was the creepiest music you ever conscripted. And i’m glad it’s over.)

All Swindled Pods are thought up by your concerned anonymous pocaster/citizen (i don’t have time to go into the long line of anonymous disc jockeys, pirate ship radio and South American journalists whose longevity owes its “long” part to their obedience to their number one rule: stay anonymous, and STAY ALIVE) in a VERY CROWDED, MEDIOCRE CRIME POD-SCENE (what’s worse than a scene?) today.

"A Concerned Citizen" is serious about what he does, and doing it while protecting his anonymity.

. He goes as far as blurring out his face in photos from his Social Network platforms.

I get happy when he posts a manufactured complaint from some bored listener. His pithy sparring with fans and critics is commensurate with his on-Pod demeanor:

so dry as to make the three years i spent in Vegas seem wet.

Not one to shy away from a joke (that is close OT a Bob Dylan lyric and its making me crazy, from Infidels), or wanting us to laugh, he sometimes posts screenshots of some of his still-disparate as hell, wandering, wondering future-fans: AS SOON AS HE DOES exactly WHAT THEY TELL HIM TO DO!

This ep. features his most ghoulish twofer to date, including TWO deranged morticians, Mercury poisoning, and hundreds of dead bodies, in a gory killing field to make Jim Jones look fastidious, or John Wayne Gacy call Angie’s List.

They’re corpse-hoarders who would respectively make Herschel Gordon Lewis proud.

You're likely to hear

WARNING: i now go on a Lester Bangs-type rant as my body cries out for one person to exert a calming influence on me tonight.

(once you stop telling everyone to listen to that fucking 2-year-old PODCAST which NO ONE born yet HAS NOT yet LISTENED TO BY NOW! - and, yes, that dead guy from Alabama also likely had the Mad Hatter's Mercury poisoning chelation disease too, which probably had not a little to do with how he died and from what; although it was probably time to go, if you believe George Costanza!)

*You just made me run-on my parentheticalized sentence, too far to go back now.

Watch this podcast!

There ain't but two more left, and you're on your own, unless, you take media advice from The fucking New Yorker snobs, whose mascot has his nose in the air in top hat and specs, and wouldn’t give you the time of day if his pocket watch wasn’t being rejewled in Lucerne...They also passed Swindled over for Best Crime Pod last year ... someone to whom you're gonna transfer power of attorney, or living will rights holding dominion over your final Podlist and Testament...as you slowly succumb, but in your mind flail back in forth like a Price is Right contestant on your death bed (sounds like you’ve been zombified, like poor Narcisse in that book you have not read yet, from the tetratadactin coursing through your veins, administered by the only unfriendly Haitian at the Hotel Olaffson--he was very concerned about your PG Tipps?! (look. no fucking research, putain et salopes--as before Wikipedia as naked and only nourished what has gone in and stayed in to the cerebellum, hypocampus, or deep in the dark side of the moon/brain, WHERE IT WILL DIE UNUSED--all “up here,” AS THEY SAY, when the dumbshits aren’t trying to edit my peerlessly accurate submissions to Wikipedia “Traci Lords” article: imperfect as the ruined executive function shell shared by Keith Richards who only has to laugh until he vanquishes DEATH HIMSELF! i, mE, who thinks this is a good use of my time...

*hOP back on. it should be safe now, unless you are an editor

... and mutely scream to your Jamaican nurse,

"I don't like The fucking New Yorker's taste in podcasts, or anything else, for that matter, it turns out...AND STOP WITH THE REGGAE!”

*extra words in case you need them for continuity, like unused Ikea hardware: ***whculture, after all."*** -- this should be display:none in the html. thanks--ed.

if it gets bad ENOUGH, come back here or come see one of us on Twitter.

We'll set you straighter than Parade.

thought up by -- mrjyn 3.7.2019

*i could key-in me a goddamn Kerouac ream with this fucking Special Elite font at 25px.

Good choice, "CC".

Now go sing your song!

if you’re completely all over the place and every way but louche, you can also go to the greatest browser button ever invented. it tells you which font anything on the WWW is! Then you can write shit in that font, and act like a big fucking journalist from the 40s.

to see the full size typography sample of this font, try going below or here, but it’s also up top. just click on it and it should let you see.

https://www.typesample.com/samples/special_l0dae_2x/loading

UPDATE: IT FINALLY LOADED AND IS STUCK ON TOP OF THIS POST! LOOK AT IT IN ALL ITS SODDEN TYPEWRITER FADED GLORY! BURROUGHS MAY HAVE SHOT IT IN MEXICO, OR PAUL BOWLES MAY HAVE TRIED TO FUCK IT. WHO KNOWS, BUT ONLY ME, TOM hANKS AND POSSIBLY YOU WILL EVER BE EXCITED BY ITS DIGITAL CERTAINTY OF A NOBLY UNCERTAIN INSTRUMENT OF DEATH!

i typed this at the above url, but it was kinda longish, and so it didn’t come out for me to save it, but if you can imagine, it looked good. CC can paste it on his Telegram thing IF he’s got time.

SOURCES

CC INVENTED ‘SHOWING HIS WORK’

LINKS FROM JUST THIS EP.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/20/us/georgia-crematory-manager-pleads-guilty-and-gives-apology.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110718010013/http://www.wdef.com/node/2478 https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/ray-brent-marsh-released-from-prison-after-tri-state-crematory-sentence/372030430 https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-02-17-0202170367-story.html https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2012/feb/12/horror-in-noble/70497/ https://archive.is/20130127080006/http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_242213157.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7192462.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4552742.stm https://www.cbsnews.com/news/18-years-for-ny-body-parts-pillager/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-mastromarino-aka-the-brooklyn-bone-snatcher-dies-from-bone-cancer-report-says/ https://www.medicalbag.com/despicable-doctors/michael-mastromarino-the-organ-grinder/article/472352/?fbclid=IwAR002hKyrqdoYPJ2RFly1acm1CDGh49CA8u2aKu827IbvfsHmitIjsWVjGc https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1388122/ https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/boss-notorious-body-snatching-ring-54-years-harvesting-article-1.286586 https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/body-snatcher-michael-mastromarino-dead-article-1.1392503 https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/bodysnatcher-facing-ultimate-irony-death-bone-cancer-article-1.1304216 https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/admitted-body-snatcher-testifies-gruesome-practices-article-1.291606 https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/23/nyregion/alistair-cookes-bones-were-stolen-for-implantation-his-family-says.html https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/nyregion/19tissue.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/nyregion/thecity/19bones.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/nyregion/michael-mastromarino-dentist-guilty-in-organ-scheme-dies-at-49.html http://www.oprah.com/relationships/husbands-secret-lives-revealed/2 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/27/AR2006012701569.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120924153427/http://www.phillymag.com/articles/body-snatchers/ https://www.wired.com/2005/12/a-macabre-theater-of-greed/ https://www.cbsnews.com/video/brooklyn-da-episode-4/

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How former viral football highlight star Sam McGuffie became a U.S. Olympic bobsledder

It’s been quite a ride for the native Texan.

Sam McGuffie isn’t your typical Olympian. As a kid, he didn’t exactly dream of representing the red, white, and blue during the Winter Olympics in bobsled. McGuffie, who will compete for the U.S. on the two- and four-man bobsled teams in Pyeongchang, South Korea, dreamed of a football career.

As a native of Cypress, Texas, McGuffie played high school ball for Cy-Fair, about 24 miles northwest of Houston. The four-star recruit was the nation’s No. 17 running back in the class of 2008. But what really put McGuffie on the map nationally? A viral highlight video of him hurdling over people:

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“People still bring it up,” McGuffie said on a media call a few weeks before the Olympics. “That’s probably how I’ll be remembered ‘til I die.”

McGuffie added that a potential reason the video was so popular was its presence on the creator of MySpace’s bio (think a similar version of Facebook in the early 2000s, kiddos).

“Over on his profile, in his bio [was] my highlight tape,” McGuffie said. “So I think that’s how it garnered a lot of views. I try to tell people that, it’s just kind of a crazy story, just thinking about how that came to be.

“Yeah, you know, I had Pete Carroll come to my high school, who was the USC head coach. I had Charlie Weis, Notre Dame, Bob Stoops. I had a lot of teams come through.”

McGuffie committed to Michigan, where he played just one season. He transferred closer to home to Rice, where he rushed for 1,057 yards and seven touchdowns over three seasons.

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“I think most of it was him wanting to get closer to home,” said David Baliff, McGuffie’s coach at Rice, when interviewed by SB Nation. “One of the things he told me was there were 100,000 people in the stands and he didn’t know any of them. And it had nothing to do with Coach [Rich] Rodriguez; he loved his time at Michigan, it was just too far from home for him. Sam did a great job of taking care of his family that lived in Houston. I mean, he came back for them.”

He played a bit of professional football after his collegiate career. He was in the NFL in 2013, splitting time between the Raiders, Cardinals, and Patriots. The next year he played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Canadian Football League.

McGuffie isn’t the first former football player to try his hand at bobsled.

In 2015, he was introduced to the sport by one of his track and strength coaches, Casey Thom. He told McGuffie about Curtis Tomasevicz, who had previously played football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers before competing in bobsled.

“I mean, just based off, I guess he was looking at the athletic traits or whatever. ‘He did it, shoot, you could do it,’ so I pretty much just went from there,” McGuffie said.

Tomasevicz played linebacker for Nebraska from 1999-2003, mostly on special teams during his senior season. He took up bobsled in 2004 and participated in two Olympic games and a handful of World Cups with Team USA. Tomasevicz took home gold in the 2010 Winter Olympics in the four-man event.

Other past football players who have picked up bobsled include Herschel Walker, former CFL receiver Johnny Quinn, and former Tulsa linebacker Todd Hays. McGuffie said a lot of aspects on the gridiron translate to bobsledding.

“You have to be physical, you have to be fast, you have to be strong,” he said. “You can’t just be mediocre at both. You have to be 99 to 100 percentile in those aspects, so it’s tough, but it translates pretty well. Running back, it’s all explosive movements, and that’s what it is in bobsled basically. You have to explode off the line, off the block, and you’re hitting a 1,000-pound sled — so you have to have power and speed to get it going.”

This is what pushing a 320lb sled for 50 meters in 4.85 seconds looks like. Proud of @evanweinstock and myself for being @usabs 2 man combo push champs alongside Olympic medalists @stevenlangton and @chris.fogt. This is the first evaluation of many on the road to the Olympic Games in @pyeongchang2018 this February. Still lots to improve on but excited at the opportunity to get better alongside my teammates. #hungry #winteriscoming #athleteslife #pushchamps2017 #roadtopyeongchang

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The former running back is no stranger to trying his hand at different sports.

His senior year at Rice, he gave track a whirl.

“He was the fastest person in 15 yards I’ve ever seen in my life from zero to 15,” Bailiff said. “His senior year he decided to join the track team and try to win the decathlon, and he worked at it for two weeks, and he came in third place in the Conference USA, and would have won it had he got any points in pole vaulting. I mean he’s just the most incredible athlete — hand-eye, balance, quick twitch — that I’ve ever been around ... that any of us have ever been around.”

McGuffie will be the brakeman, who sits in the back of the bobsled and controls the sled’s brakes after crossing the finishline, for both the two- and four-man teams in Pyeongchang.

“It’s different than you think,” McGuffie said of going down the track. “You look at it ‘Oh, it looks smooth, it’s just going down the ice, it’s a joyride’ — it’s nothing like that. It’s totally polar opposite of that. It’s violent. It’s like being put in a garbage can and being kicked down a flight of stairs for a minute straight.”

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“None of it’s surprising, in the success he has, when you know the explosion he has out of the blocks and his commitment to working and learning,” Bailiff said.

His Olympic goals don’t end with bobsled, though.

McGuffie has also played professional rugby for the Ohio Aviators, part of the PRO Rugby League. Founded in 2016, the inaugural season was the first competition to be sanctioned by USA Rugby and World Rugby. McGuffie will play in the US Sevens, an annual rugby sevens tournament.

“I only played one year of rugby, but I scored 65 tries, (those are touchdowns) in a season,” McGuffie said. “It was a few tournaments we played in I was named to the all-star team for rugby my first year playing.”

Playing football helped prepare him for rugby, which uses a lot of the same elements on the gridiron.

“It’s pretty natural,” McGuffie said. “It’s kind of like pitch sweep over and over again. So as a running back, it’s natural for me to know what to do after that.”

USA 7's National championships 2016 #rugby7s #usa7srugby #usarugbysevens #1823 @tigerrugby @paulholmes_10

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Before he can do that, he’s got a job to do for Team USA in South Korea.

“Obviously you’re very proud he’s going to represent our great country,” said Bailiff, who might make a last-minute trip to see his former player. “Anything can go wrong when you’re doing it — you know, you see track athletes getting disqualified coming out of the blocks — so you’re just proud for him that his hard work has paid off. We love it when he comes back to Houston, and we maintain a locker for him (in the) Rice football locker room that says Sam McGuffie that has Olympic rings on it. We’re quite proud of Sam.”

Outside of medaling for the U.S. in bobsled, McGuffie just plans to soak up his Olympic experience as much as he can.

“I think that it’ll be cool to see, and just be involved, and just be there. Everything,” said McGuffie on what he’s looking forward to most. “It’s not just the performing aspect, the whole being an Olympian is something that you get to be, so, I’m just going to take it all in, basically.”

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INA - is an end run - around my case - they used immigration language to sell it politically - intentionally drafted to allow application to me - when they say sanctuary cities - they mean places that abide by the court order allowing me to get sleep - thats why ive been able to sleep for several years now - cant remember when I started getting sleep - I remember hearing someone on a radio saying this thing would end real fast if we could just get rid of sanctuary cities - it didnt seem uncertain - maybe a local radio guy - not sure of the town - but I remember thinking this guy is talking about me - hes wanting to have people keep me from sleeping until - until I just say whatever it is they want me to say - 953.

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The 'Bee Feces' Theory Undone

By William Kucewicz. Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]06 Sep 1985: 1. Publisher logo. Links to publisher website, opened in a new window.

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Harvard biochemist Matthew Meselson now admits that his original "bee feces" theory of Southeast Asian yellow-rain deaths -- that deadly toxins were not biochemical weapons but natural contaminants of feces -- "is not very attractive anymore." But you wouldn't know it from an article he and four colleagues have published in Scientific American this month.

In that piece, Meselson & Co. repeat at length their view that yellow rain is "a phenomenon of nature, not of man." They do not, however, report what Prof. Meselson acknowledged in a telephone interview last week: that samples of bee feces he and a colleague brought back from a celebrated expedition to a Thailand jungle last year show no traces of the mycotoxins that are widely believed to have killed thousands of people in war-torn areas on the frontier of the Soviet empire.

Profs. Meselson and Thomas Seeley of Yale got to test their hypothesis in Thailand with the help of a $256,000 "genius" award to Mr. Meselson from the MacArthur Foundation (though the areas they visited were not ones ever associated with a chemical attack). The two academics returned in March 1984 to say they had been "crapped on" by Asian honeybees. "We were caught in one of these yellow rain showers," they said. "It lasted about five minutes and deposited approximately 200 spots per square meter." The scientists collected samples of the bee droppings, along with foodstuffs from Thailand, "for chemical analysis to test the possibility that mycotoxins reported in environmental samples and the blood of refugees occur naturally in Southeast Asia." They concluded their joint statement, saying: "A detailed scientific report of our findings will be published."

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It had been Mr. Meselson's hypothesis, first laid out at a meeting of scientists in Detroit in 1983, that the deadly tricothecene mycotoxins discovered by other scientists in the bodies of Southeast Asians were a naturally occurring phemonenon of the region. Bee excrement and foodstuffs, this theory held, hosted the growth of the organisms. The U.S. government has maintained, on the other hand, that yellow rain is a Soviet-supplied toxin used in Laos, Cambodia and Afghanistan in violation of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.

Their article in Scientific American, however, includes no mention of the results of those chemical tests.

"They were all negative," Mr. Meselson responded in the interview. He said that he had sent 13 twin samples of food and feces from Thailand to two laboratories in Canada and Britain. (Mr. Meselson is not expert at conducting such tests himself.) The chemists didn't find any of the trichothecene mycotoxins previously identified in yellow rain.

There wasn't room to include these negative results in the article, Mr. Meselson explained. He said that the editors at Scientific American had set strict length limitations and "lots" of data had to be left out.

Mr. Meselson said that he now generally accepts the work of Canadian toxicologist Bruno Schiefer showing that trichothecene mycotoxins don't occur naturally in Southeast Asia -- at least not to any significant extent that might cause a health problem. That means the Harvard scientist, whose theories have become the watchword of Western doubters and Soviet propagandists who challenge the U.S. government's position, must now square his own stance. If yellow rain poisons aren't springing up on their own, and if refugees indeed are suffering and dying from them, who's the perpetrator? For scientists who've cautioned against accusing the Soviets over the matter, it's a dilemma -- and one that the critical omission in Scientific American would allow them to skirt.

Mr. Meselson's out, in the interview, was to suggest that perhaps there were no toxins to begin with. This takes the whole debate back two years, reopening issues that were seen as settled at the time Mr. Meselson first suggested that the toxins were natural products. A 1983 essay by Lewis Thomas in Discover magazine, for example, calls for more exploration of the natural-occurrence thesis in the following words:

"There is no question in anyone's mind about the existence of mycotoxins produced by the Fusarium fungus in the samples taken from the leaves and rocks in places where yellow rain attacks are said to have occurred. Nor is there any doubt about the reports by Chester Mirocha, an acknowledged specialist in mycotoxins at the University of Minnesota, that high levels of trichothecene toxins (and their metabolic derivatives) were present in the blood and tissues of patients from the same areas. What remains in question is whether this fungus species has always existed in nature in Southeast Asia, and whether its toxin might be present in the kinds of plant foods consumed by people during seasons of near starvation."

The only thing left to dispute, in short, was the hypothesis Mr. Meselson has now abandoned after negative results with his own samples, and in the face of the work by Mr. Schiefer. The Canadian's latest findings show that the unnatural combination of three different mycotoxins found in the yellow rain samples collected by the U.S. government and ABC News is a "superb" killer -- much more potent than the toxins individually or in other combinations, a cocktail put together by someone who knew what he was doing.

Mr. Meselson, it would seem, can support reopening the old inquiry only by directly challenging the findings of Minnesota's Prof. Mirocha and Joseph Rosen of Rutgers. Does he think their laboratory work in error? "I'm not saying that," he replied.

Prof. Meselson did find it telling that a U.S. Army laboratory at Aberdeen, Md., failed to find the toxins in yellow rain samples that previously tested positive by Mr. Mirocha. While Mr. Meselson uses the Aberdeen negative test results as a foil, he fails to mention that that same Army laboratory did find the toxins on two Soviet gas masks retrieved from Afghanistan in 1982.

Profs. Mirocha and Rosen, meanwhile, stand by their work. In subsequent tests on toxin-infected corn, for instance, they have never turned up any "false positives," which would have indicated that their techniques were faulty. Besides, they both noted, the U.S. Army's laboratory had great difficulty setting up its own testing procedure and delayed a year and more the analyses of many yellow rain samples; during that time, the toxins could have been consumed by bacteria in the samples or otherwise deteriorated. Even Mr. Meselson admitted that that's possible.

So what are we left with? Mr. Meselson has found bee feces, and the U.S. government has found dead bodies. Indeed, detailed medical data about a yellow rain casualty appeared in the April 1985 issue of the peer-review Journal of Forensic Science. The authors are Charles J. Stahl, the former chief pathologist for the U.S. military and now a professor at East Tennessee State University; James B. Farnum, another East Tennessee pathologist; and Christopher C. Green, formerly the Central Intelligence Agency's yellow rain expert, who holds an M.D. degree. These medical experts concluded that the yellow rain victim died from a chemical warfare agent and not from any natural infection.

As they explain for the first time, an encampment of Khmer Rouge guerrillas at Tuol Chrey in Cambodia, near the Thai border, was hit by an artillery bombardment from Vietnamese forces on Feb. 13, 1982. Three shells exploded upwind of the camp, and the soldiers smelled a sweet, perfumelike odor and experienced the rapid onset of incapacitation. There were at least 100 casualties. They suffered from tearing of the eyes, blurred vision, bitter taste, nasal obstruction, vomiting, rapid heartbeat, muscle tremors, and, in some cases, collapse or paralysis.

One of the victims, taken to a hospital, soon showed signs of recovery and was released. It was known that he had been a victim of an earlier yellow rain attack the previous September. On March 11, 1982, he was again admitted to a field hospital after his condition worsened. Five days later, he died after vomiting and urinating blood -- typical signs of trichothecene poisoning. An autopsy was performed, and tissue samples were sent to the U.S.

Both Profs. Mirocha and Rosen found traces of the mycotoxins in the samples. Pathologic examinations of the tissues showed severe damage to the heart, lungs, kidneys, stomach and liver. The victim died from "acute pulmonary edema." All of these symptoms are associated with trichothecene poisoning. The "pattern of injury," said the pathologists, "suggests the direct effects of toxic agents, as well as the possibility of hypersensitivity reaction related to the previous chemical exposure on 19 Sept. 1981."

Meanwhile, the Soviet Union has had a field day with the bee-feces conjecture. The Russians have used this theory in their disinformation campaign to cover up their chemical-warfare crimes in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan. Most recently, Joseph Adamov, a Radio Moscow "commentator" who speaks English with a Brooklyn-like accent, told an American television audience on CBS's "Face the Nation": "There is a fantastic anti-Soviet campaign on in the United States today, including the socalled spy dust, which is completely absurd, just like that yellow rain was, that turned out to be the excrement of bees."

Nicholas Wade of the New York Times shares the same sentiments. In a recent editorial-page article, he wrote: "Yellow rain is bee excrement, a fact so preposterous and so embarrassing that even now the Administration cannot bring itself to accept it." He called the U.S. government's evidence "a speck of dubious data."

What remain, of course, are the corpses and refugee reports.

Rep. Jim Leach (R., Iowa) was at the scientific meeting in 1983 when Messrs. Meselson and Seeley first announced their bee-feces hypothesis. Mr. Leach's response was direct: "We have the bodies, we have the witnesses. When you listen to a father describing his son dying in his arms from a yellow and white rain falling from the skies, you are not one to disbelieve."

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We have wisc - badgers - the nra speech - in his speech a couple days ago - quoted on this page - it was mentioned - the dems - the opposition - the people that are not us - have - this or that - cant remember what the first part is - but trump at some point says - we have wisconsin - in the context of the speech it is implied to mean a reference to winning the state of wi - in the 2016 election - hes saying - scoreboard - im winning wi - what hes really saying is - we - you and me - the people in this room - are going to prevail in the conflict regarding my case - the rico trial scrp - the counterintel inv - doubling down on the rico case - what hes saying is we are going to win - we are going to defeat dennis delaney and anyone that would want to help him - because we have wi - badgers - mi - thats what hes saying - thats what i took from it and i dont think im wrong - thats exactly how the people in that room took it - what that means is that hes saying im willing to use mi in a judicial conflict - in a purely partisan effort to derail the case - and to put pressure on delaney - to concede and claim that all the chem and wasted time has been all one big misunderstanding - not going to happen - im not going to concede - hes saying he will use mi to prevail in a legal conflict he already lost - a trial based on the notion that mi was being misused for political reasons -

Joliet jake - scc - criminal record - chad jacobs - dont know that guy - never met this guy - claimed link to consent - jacob engels - jake as consent - ie how is everything - i found out when people run a background check for employment reasons - my name came back as a felon - have talked about this - its possible this is just a typo or something - bad luck - worth noting though - the jake thing is a strawberry link - winston - from what i understand - winston attys may sometimes be referred to as strawberrys - dont know anything about this - regardless - the thing about the criminal record - the county bldg - the jail - scrp - winston - thompson - chigop - thompson alums - greco baise vala - possible that defs claim at trial chad jacobs is link to consent - if so - ive never met that guy - never even seen him - they knew theyd lose -

Take article from todays globe - police ot and judge says - why not charge as rico - this sounds like rico - the judge is saying - i hear cases charging rico that dont sound this good - if shes saying this out loud - in public - after hearing the facts of the case - and shes questioning why the case isnt plead as rico - literally questioning the prosecutor - and he stumbles - and can only say the facts dont support it - he must be implying facts not offered into evidence that are exculpatory - which should have been mentioned - either way - defs claim I shouldnt arg rico - doj shouldnt charge rico - defs arg doj should not pursue the rico from my complaint. First response - theyre biased - second - its in my complaint - third - they win - fourth - they dont try to argue - they knew theyd lose - all this arg is after the fact - defs say lets solve this thing in court - until they lose - now wh says - lets do this thing in public - what hes saying is - no here on delaney - fudd - no hurry - indefinite detention - the dems should stage an intervention -

And note the art re insys - exec charged criminally for opioid case - bribes docs to rx known addictive substance - xa cocaine on garbage bags - doj - someone said i couldnt buy my food - and see cocaine on the floors and walls in jail - thats why i couldnt feel my hands and feet - and then they want to claim im an addict - balzekas - lots to talk about here - chant - angels - just trying to help people - vala - ni - see remarks re wi - chants of trumpence - rinkman - dennispmoore - wpp - that dude is in the power business - being able to fuck up my life - makes him look good - note links to thompson alums - chigop - greco baise vala - chamber - the chants of trumpence is a reference to clockwork orange - angels - good samaritans - xa sembler seed - addiction frame - cheney comment re spkr -

Unite the right - no here - needletrades - cellini busted - xa - cellini vala - rivkcs - karl kemme - cletus - clute - hecla - galv ports cleat - longies - ierc - ororke - obscene phone calls - gwb admin - perry homicidal threats frame - agriculture - ecole - agricolae - ffa - farm bro - fibro - farm chem - glyphosate - xa op - cunningham - heffe ron - cifa - usattys - mcds - ronde santis - swimmers - sharktopus - lincoln era gop - roddavis lincoln historian - ala - chamber ic - sd mitrovich - cits club - rudy davenport - no hurry - dennis consents - no one is making us stop - he will have to live like this until he gives up his case - until he gives us what we want - wes barr - tr sembler - bully -

5/4/19

Txgop - cornyn - cruz - tx22 - perry as agdir - agricolae - kid rock - duane johnson - i was put in jail on a charge of burglary - specifically breaking and entering - b & e - xa bennis elaine - b&e - benny and the jetts - pope benedict - ace lebrity we can get behind - dutton bonilla - sylvester lanning - thompson - edgar - reineke - thompson alums links to edgar - greco baise vala - richardhart - cellini - celletti - 404th chem - karl kemme - tx is usarec - tx22 - deps - galv - vester - rocky - sere guy - laffers - houpd - complaint sent to homicide - they knew i wasnt a terrorist - nix alums and political opponents of lbj - txgop - my moms family is related to lbj johnsons - i think - note also my dads family is somehow linked to wp - not by blood - my dads mom remarries a guy that has a son that worked at wp - dont know anything about my dads dad - for that matter dont know anything about grandmothers husband in chi - when i visited - all i understand is what other people seem to imply - indirectly - i think some of that talk is overstated - be that as it may - i believe that is the basis of the shark smear stuff - what thats hiding is the attack on me linked to opposition to txdems and the wp - nix fans dont like wp - txgop dont like fans of lbj - they can fuck with me and its like retaliation for the impeachment of nix - and txgop hates txdems - i honestly dont know why the people doing this to me are doing it - it doesnt matter - they are not being honest about how it started - I have been as honest as i can possibly be - it is the defendants that have continued to be completely dishonest about what has put us in this situation - the fact is they are simply unwilling to admit that what they have been doing to me is wrong - this thing has been going on a long time - longer than it should - longer than it needs to - i am committed to speaking out against the untruth of the defendants - I dont consent to addiction frame thing - its an excuse to browbeat me into giving up my case - whos extorting who - that fig leaf is getting smaller - i honestly dont know how thing ends - the people doing this to me will be exposed for what they are - understand that - lanning and rock - vest - galv - 123 oclock - sleep deprivation - haley - barber - schaive and a herr cut - ronde santis - hefferon - james elmer mitchell - sere guy - spk - spkattys - clute - cletus - herschell krustovsky - krusteil - steil - scso - sideshow bob - night mgr - 3d shift - they put me in jail - cleat galv ports - tx might muffler - cand was usmc - nabors - xa ed smith is tx - regional - and note link from delay to shim - shim factory work in tx - actually sent on job at shim factory - xa charlotte job in cape - halliburton in galv - cheney - scooter - razor scooter - schaive and a herr cutt - crazy pete hoekstra - zito link to ovp - cellnet - meters - bunn - sangamo meters - the nix link - targeting me is seen as payback for impeachment of nix - nix alums - cheney - rummy - copeland - fox ailes - simpsons - team mack - lemon tree - san clemente - while at loft - link to san clemente - loft girl - loft was radicalization frame - terr frame - xa bunn in oc - bunn at nursing home mulvaney - the 2franks - mcds poison is real - note mcds links - and execs - go away - legoland - judgement against mcds carlyle held in esgrow - remititur - schaive and a herr cutt - leggo my eggo - whos extorting who - the stuff on sere guy - rach - 123 oclock - happy days - political campaigns - advertising - wpp - pr - elections - burson - altria - winston - thompson - note esp what happened with judgement re tobacco - politics and doj - see how that works - same thing has happened to me - note slugger in the ussen - and rauner kingmaker - mel sembler - seed - addiction frame - chants of trumpence - kurtz is new guy at usccb - wojcicki is at sherriffs - cle wife picks austin as adj gen - hes ierc - ierc - airc onditioning - rett - atl - airborne - sjh - spfldconsulting - shg - shgcoaches - shgfootball - chi mckenna - big shoulders - gregory goes to dc - from atl - alton dio - stl - alton belle - saved by the bell - shs - centaurs - ackermann senterfitt - duane gibson - terry nelson - swift and blessing - kjell bc04 - ilgop - chi chamber - huizenga - servicemaster - franchises - chem - lon - wolfman - cheney - lonewolf frame - mace paolino - garbage - burson - cheney - joliet morning star - rpg gods - stl mi - 10th mi - roth dragoo - ilfopngaoi - gnuteck is right - dirt - mrt - roger stone is nix - jacob engels - bullhorn - ftl - berc - breck girl - perc - security guards - vala - perc - ierc - rice - arroz - war - sleep deprivation - night owls - hair falling out in ftl - urinary tract infection - reineke - wpp - ilgop - h/k - spflconsulting - scb - scso - rico - 1983 - equal protection - due process - 42 usc 241/242 - i was right - there are wrong - they cant admit what they did - what they are doing - they cant stop - the po is upside down on this thing - that fig leaf is going to get smaller - im making it samller - the maga hat means this - make the ag - into ga - reverse the the course of the ag - flip the ag - blow up my case from the inside - like tobacco -

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