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Parents everywhere are driven by a dream — for their children's lives to be better than their own. Economic empowerment is not an end in itself, but a tangible expression of God's love that radically improves the lives of children and families today — a transformation that lasts for generations and can help to lift families out of poverty. Yet millions of people in the most impoverished parts of the world lack access to the knowledge, capital, markets, technology, and information they need to build thriving businesses.
World Vision has learned the best way to help people is to empower them to unleash their own drive and talents. That's why we work to give some of the world's poorest people the tools they need to start or build small businesses, save money, take responsibility, care for their communities — and break the cycle of poverty in their families for good.
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat.—Matthew 25:35 (NIV)
Pray For Opportunity To Provide For Their Families
Valentine Uwingabire's five children used to cry for food.
"You can imagine a little child crying for food from the morning up to the evening," she said.
She tried farming in the valley below her home with little success. Then in 2015, World Vision started the Akagera Marsh Project in Nyaruguru, Rwanda.
"We were very happy because we knew World Vision has the potential … to initiate the irrigation system and also to put all the farmers together. So we felt hope that this is going to work," she said. "And indeed, this has worked so well for us — beyond what we even expected."
World Vision funded the building of a water intake system plus canals along the sides of the valley. This system — completed in September 2016 — provides water during the dry season, but also channels floodwaters away during the rainy season.
Valentine's first crops with the Marsh project were onions and cabbages followed by corn. She sold enough corn to earn $100 and had some left for her family.
The Marsh Project then linked the farmers' corn harvest to a local corn-flour processing plant — another World Vision project. By grouping the farmers together and providing them access to markets, the farmers' profits are greatly increased.
"I feel independent," Valentine said. "When I wake up in the morning, and I see that I have sacks of beans and every kind of food, I feel good. I feel secure."
Join us in prayer for hardworking families like Valentine's to break the cycle of poverty for good.
Pray For Increased Family Livelihoods
When families' livelihoods improve, they can break from the cycle of poverty and sustainably improve their family's education, health, food security and nutrition, and shelter.
Great Counselor, bless families taking the risk of starting a business. Grant them wisdom in their decision-making. May their successes benefit their children and family and then overflow to the community.
"From the fruit of their lips are people filled with good things, and the work of their hands brings them reward." —Proverbs 12:14
Pray For Families To Manage Their Finances In A Way That Reflects The Love Of God
It's important for people to understand that they are created in the image of God, have great value, and have the power to move from poverty to prosperity.
Loving Father, let Your presence shine in and through families' finances. May learn to be good stewards of what You provide for them more and more every day.
"That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither — whatever they do prospers." —Psalm 1:3 (NIV)
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Pray For Good Weather So Farmers Can Have Healthy Crops And Animals
Globally, 2.5 billion people depend on agriculture for income and food. Dry spells and floods destroy families' crops, but poor weather conditions can also kill animals, another valuable source of food and income. Because the weather is unpredictable, World Vision teaches improved farming and livestock management techniques that help families to be more resilient when hard times come.
Holy God, we see throughout the Word Your powerful control of the weather. Please provide the right amount of rain and sun for farmers' crops and animals. Use World Vision staff to help teach even more families how to overcome farm and livestock challenges so they can better provide for their families.
"Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness." —2 Corinthians 9:10 (NIV)
Pray That Hardworking Farmers Will Become Resilient, So They Have Plenty During Lean Seasons
World Vision's community-led THRIVE model — Transforming Household Resilience in Vulnerable Environments — addresses underlying causes of vulnerability for farmers, since the journey upward from extreme poverty to one of improved well-being is not without interruptions. Resilient families can withstand or recover quickly from droughts and other emergencies, adapting to a changing environment.
Merciful Provider, watch over farmers and their crops, especially during times of vulnerability. Help farmers learn and practice good storage techniques and other measures, so they don't experience loss or waste.
"Those who work their land will have abundant food …" —Proverbs 12:11 (NIV)
Pray That Women Will Be Equipped To Start And Grow Their Businesses
Through microloans, savings groups, and training, World Vision is focused on especially teaching women around the world about best practices in operating small businesses, such as tailoring, mat weaving, or selling crops they grow. As women gain confidence and contribute to the family income, they are able to positively influence decision-making on important issues such as nutrition, children's education, healthcare, and child marriage.
Alpha and Omega, thank You for generous donors who help World Vision equip women and men with training and microfinance support to start their own businesses. Bless these small business ventures so families can live healthier, more secure lives. Help women become voices for improvement in their families and communities.
"She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks." —Proverbs 31:17 (NIV)
World Vision is an international partnership of Christians whose mission is to follow our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice, and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God. Written by Denise C. Koenig and Laura Reinhardt, World Vision staff.
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By D.J. ShortMar 30, 2015, 9:15 PM EDT
In a decision that was all but inevitable after news of Jaime Garcia's renewed shoulder issues, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny told Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch this afternoon that right-hander Carlos Martinez has won the fifth spot in the starting rotation.
Things likely would have turned out differently if Garcia was healthy, but Martinez earned the opportunity after posting a 3.94 ERA and 16/5 K/BB ratio across 16 innings during Grapefruit League action. The 23-year-old owns a mediocre 4.28 ERA through his first 117 2/3 innings in the big leagues and has had some issues putting away left-handed batters, but it's hard to bet against his raw stuff.
Matheny ultimately chose Martinez over prospect left-hander Marco Gonzales, who will now head back to Triple-A. The 2013 first-round pick struggled with his control in his first taste of the majors last season, but it was a small sample and he owns a 2.48 ERA in the minors. He should get another shot soon.
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Letters 6/2-6/9
IN REPLY TO "PICKS: NOT JUST A NUMBER" (5/27)
I stopped by Troy field on three different times this Memorial day. Each time, Tracy and some of her dedicated people continued to read the name, age, and town that our fallen heroes heralded from, followed by a single beat of the drum. The boards with the names of the fallen carefully arranged around the area where the drum and the readings were taking place. It doesn't matter what your age, gender, race or political affiliation. This is a very solemn and special event to attend. If you have children, bring them and teach them that they are able to sleep safely at night because of the men and women who's names are written on the panels. Thank you Tracy and your staff for enduring the long day that it takes to bring a voice to our fallen heroes!
—Dave Westoby
IN REPLY TO "POLL SHOWS MAJORITY SUPPORT FOR OSU-CASCADES" (6/4)
The questions in the poll were extremely biased. The results, therefore, are meaningless PR.
—Shannon N Jimmy Sbarra
Shannon, it is my opinion that the Truth in Site group has been spreading biased disinformation for over a year now, so advocacy in the opposite direction is warranted.
—Scott Aycock
.003 percent of a random sampling isn't a large enough sample size to be meaningful. I fully support an extension college here, I just feel there are other parcels of land better suited for future growth of the campus. No matter where it's built [it] will take a major capital investment! Lots of money being spent already on keeping a gravel pit closed—$30k a month, not sure on the PR feel good stories.
Coalition members have a vested interest in the proposed campus site. It is too bad they can't look beyond their bank accounts and see what is needed for a real university campus.
IN REPLY TO "BRAIN DRAIN OR BRAIN GAIN" (6/3)
In the June 4 Glass Slipper op-ed article you made an apt comparison of Southern Oregon University with the planned OSU-Cascades campus in Bend. OSU-Cascades is planning for roughly 5,000 students, and SOU currently has 6,000. However, there is a critical comparison you failed to mention. The SOU campus occupies 175 acres. I repeat, 175 acres. As in one hundred and seventy-five acres. For a comparable number of students, OSU-Cascades intends their campus to begin with 10 acres and expand to an additional 46 acres. The LaGrande campus of Eastern Oregon University, which also has a comparable number of students, occupies 110 acres. That's 110 acres. Yet OSU-Cascades plans for just 56 acres? WTF? Do we want a first-class university in Central Oregon, or are we willing to accept this cobbled together insufficiently sized patch of old industrial land that's being pushed down our throats, and that will result in a second-rate campus?
—Viki Wooster
Viki Wooster's post is a classic example of the anti-intellectual NIMBYs on the westside trying to twist facts to fit their meritless argument. So OSU-Cascades will have 10 acres and the SOU and EOU campuses, with comparable enrollments, are much larger campuses. So what?
SOU established its current campus in 1926, and EOU established its campus in 1929, nearly 100 years ago. University education and instructional techniques may have changed just a little bit since the 1920s. One obvious change is that all students used to live on campus, but now most college students live off campus.
Is there some reason why OSU-Cascades cannot thrive with a campus much smaller in physical size than traditional universities? Have the leaders and planners of OSU-Cascades missed some critical aspect of planning a college campus that requires thousands of acres? Does Viki Wooster know some secret that everyone from the Oregon Legislature to the President of OSU has missed? —NIMBYs Ruin Bend
In reply to NIMBYs Ruin Bend: First, I am not a NIMBY. I live in northeast Bend and would love to have a university campus in my back yard. Second, I have a masters degree and doctoral candidacy, pursue continuing education always, and am hardly anti-intellectual. Third, of the 1000 reported apartment units to be built in the near future in Bend, just 151 of them are on the westside. It's likely that the majority of OSU-Cascades students living off campus will be living on the eastside. And I don't believe for a moment that all of them will be riding bikes or taking the bus all the time, unless the bus routes and frequency are vastly improved. Fourth, none of us can predict what OSU-Cascades will be like in 30, 50, 100 years in terms of enrollment, programs and so forth. Why shoot ourselves in the foot before we even begin? And last, this is an opinion column. I have mine, you have yours.
IN REPLY TO "LETTER: TIME FOR OUR FOREST SERVICE TO GO SMOKELESS!" (5/6)
Forest Service Poisons Air for 80K in Town! What if the headline read like this instead of announcing another vaguely directed "Controlled Burn?" I woke this morning to see Bend covered with the poisonous residue of another useless effort to control forest fires by somehow predicting where lightning will strike. I have never seen any evidence or claim that a previous burn has prevented or even helped control a forest fire outbreak and yet we suffer air worse than L.A. could possibly generate. I wonder how many cases of lung disorders are generated or aggravated and how many subsequent deaths might be attributed to the noxious leftover from useless Forest Service exercises? Let's consider the tradeoff and consider people more than playing "Where will the Lightning Strike?"
—davidap42
IN REPLY TO "LETTERS" (6/3)
Re: Listening local. Bands pick their openers, not the venue.
Re: Drinking local. I think there is probably a contract involved with who provides beer at Les Schwab. Last year, 10 Barrel was there, but for several years prior to that, it was Deschutes. There's probably a couple years left of 10 Barrel beer at Schwab, then my vote is for Boneyard after the contract is up.
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Question: What is an eleven-letter word explaining why the June 4th crossword puzzle was a repeat of the May 28th crossword puzzle? Answer: "INATTENTIVE." Boo! —A bummed Bender
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The Pandemic Continues
Reminders from a perusal of the news.
Steven L. Taylor · Sunday, October 18, 2020 · 33 comments
No doubt OTB readers are well aware of the fact that the threat of the coronavirus remains ever-present, I was just struck by the number of stories about the pandemic this morning. I also was struck by this NYT headline: As the Coronavirus Surges, a New Culprit Emerges: Pandemic Fatigue.
First, just a status check, which is not encouraging:
summer did not extinguish the virus. And with fall has come another dangerous, uncontrolled surge of infections that in parts of the world is the worst of the pandemic so far.
The United States surpassed eight million known cases this past week, and reported more than 70,000 new infections on Friday, the most in a single day since July. Eighteen states added more new coronavirus infections during the seven-day stretch ending on Friday than in any other week of the pandemic.
In Europe, cases are rising and hospitalizations are up. Britain is imposing new restrictions, and France has placed cities on "maximum alert," ordering many to close all bars, gyms and sports centers. Germany and Italy set records for the most new daily cases. And leaders in the Czech Republic described their health care system as "in danger of collapsing," as hospitals are overwhelmed and more deaths are occurring than at any time in the pandemic.
Second, the fatigue:
If the spring was characterized by horror, the fall has become an odd mix of resignation and heedlessness. People who once would not leave their homes are now considering dining indoors for the first time — some losing patience after so many months without, others slipping in a fancy meal before the looming winter months when the virus is expected to spread more readily.
"In the spring, it was fear and a sense of, 'We are all in it together,'" said Vaile Wright, a psychologist at the American Psychological Association who studies stress in the United States.
"Things are different now," she said. "Fear has really been replaced with fatigue."
The fatigue is real, to be sure, and understandable. But if that fatigue leads to complacency in the context of growing cases, it is going to get ugly in the next couple of months. The glimmer of good news is that we know more about the virus and how to treat it now than we did back in March.
The whole piece is worth reading, but it underscores an ongoing comparison between the US and Europe in terms of response as well as the fact that fatigue leads to back public health decisions (and we in the US have not been great with those decisions in the first place).
A story that intersects well here is a column from Yahoo Sports: Florida's Dan Mullen learns the hard way about COVID-19.
Last Saturday afternoon, Florida coach Dan Mullen was pushing for his school to allow some 90,000 fans to jam Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville for this week's matchup with LSU.
By Wednesday, the game was postponed due to an outbreak of COVID-19 among Florida players and coaches.
By Saturday, Mullen announced he had COVID-19 himself.
Which, in turn, dovetails with this: Florida Reports Highest Coronavirus Numbers In Past Two Months.
Florida reported its highest coronavirus numbers in two months with another uptick in new infections Saturday, surging to more than 4,000 cases.
The state also reported nearly 90 more deaths, which pushed its official death toll to nearly 16,000 Floridians since March. Since the outbreak began, Florida has recorded more than 752,00 coronavirus cases.
And let me tack on, via WaPo: How the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have spread coronavirus across the Upper Midwest
Within weeks of the gathering, the Dakotas, along with Wyoming, Minnesota and Montana, were leading the nation in new coronavirus infections per capita. The surge was especially pronounced in North and South Dakota, where cases and hospitalization rates continued their juggernaut rise into October. Experts say they will never be able to determine how many of those cases originated at the 10-day rally, given the failure of state and local health officials to identify and monitor attendees returning home, or to trace chains of transmission after people got sick. Some, however, believe the nearly 500,000-person gathering played a role in the outbreak now consuming the Upper Midwest.
More than 330 coronavirus cases and one death were directly linked to the rally as of mid-September, according to a Washington Post survey of health departments in 23 states that provided information. But experts say that tally represents just the tip of the iceberg, since contact tracing often doesn't capture the source of an infection, and asymptomatic spread goes unnoticed.
And, there are these ongoing events: Trump tells thousands in Janesville that Wisconsin is key to winning 'the whole ball game'
President Donald Trump packed thousands together for a re-election rally Saturday, arguing that his own recovery proved the response to COVID-19 was working and claiming the pandemic was "rounding the corner" in a state setting records daily for new cases.
The president didn't mention that Wisconsin is grappling with one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the country, with nearly 4,000 new cases reported just on Friday and a surge of infections that has pushed state officials to open a field hospital to give relief to hospitals in the northeastern part of the state.
Thousands of followers packed together on the tarmac at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport to hear the speech. Plenty wore masks, especially those sitting near the president and within view of cameras filming the speech. But many others did not appear worried about the rally spreading the virus and didn't wear masks.
The event was held a day after Wisconsin posted a record for the most coronavirus cases in a day — 3,861. The number of people hospitalized because of COVID-19 has tripled in Wisconsin in the last month and nearly 1,600 people in the state have died from it.
Despite the worsening situation in Wisconsin, attendees of Trump's rally were neither required to wear masks nor stay distant from each other.
There is perhaps nothing more emblematic of the Trump administration than the assertion that since Trump himself got the disease and recovered that it proves he is handling the pandemic well. First, it is utterly, totally self-centered. By that logic, there is no employment problem in the United States, since Trump himself has a job. Second, it underscores yet again an utter and total ignorance of what his job actually is. There is no governing going on here. And, third, it reveals the utter disconnectedness between himself and common Americans, who aren't getting helicopter rides to the hospital to get personalized care in a suite at no cost.
It is just a reminder of what a bad president he is and what a morally bankrupt human he is.
And all of this is a reminder that while Trump is no responsible for the pandemic, his handling of it has been atrocious and has worsened its effects by several magnitudes.
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Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog). Follow Steven on Twitter
Scott F. says:
Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 12:15
Amen to all three points in your nut graph, Steven. I'd only add that Trump's personalized care included treatments unavailable to almost everyone outside of a clinical trial applied with an urgency given no other patient.
The pandemic fatigue is going to bring really ugly results. My family, including 2 college age sons and an at-risk mother-in-law, are fully aware of the risks and thoroughly committed to the safe behaviors, yet we are all bristling at the isolation and the loss of public activities (like concerts, theater, the movies, and dining out) that we enjoy so much. It easy to imagine how the separation and sense of loss would be an even greater challenge to those who are not as aware or as committed.
grumpy realist says:
We've got to start hitting back hard on people who don't take COVID or the "good neighbor" rules seriously. You decide to not wear a mask and cluster with other non-mask wearing people? Fine. Just don't expect to get at the front of the line when you show up at the emergency room. You go at the back of the line, and you only get treated after you've ponied up the cash for your treatment up front and if there's a doctor who isn't suffering from stress, overwork, and lack of sleep. You assumed the risk–now deal with the consequences.
Stupidity should hurt.
CSK says:
Not to make excuses for Trump, but this disaster is confined to the U.S.:
http://www.cnn.com/2020/10/16/europe/europe-coronavirus-records/intl/index/html
@CSK:
I meant to say that "this disaster isn't confined to the U.S." And I screwed up the web address. It should be:
http://www.cnn.com/2020/10/16/europe/europe-coronavirus-records-intl/index.html
I really wish the edit function worked.
Steven L. Taylor says:
@CSK: FWIW, I certainly did not mean to suggest this was only a US problem. The "fatigue" piece noted a number of areas of concern in Europe.
Michael Reynolds says:
Yep, people are fatigued at wearing masks and staying out of bars. I mean, we've had to endure that crushing, brutal regimen for 7 months now!
Roughly the same amount of time it took pioneers to ride in a wagon from Missouri to Oregon with too little food, too little water, no medicine to speak of, frequent backbreaking labor, floods, snowstorms and the constant threat of Indian attacks.
What is proof that we are soft, Alex?
@Steven L. Taylor:
Oh, I know. But it's depressing to read that some of the countries that did a model job initially are now seeing big surges in in the incidence of Covid.
What I fear is that some people, aware that even model countries have been hit hard a second time, will say "What's the use of doing anything?"
Kylopod says:
And it's incredible to realize that if he had handled it well, it would have been of great benefit to him politically. We can see that clearly by looking at the fate of political leaders around the world who did handle it well. That's the true, horrible irony of the situation: he's incapable of looking at the situation except through a political lens (or, rather, through the lens of what will help him), which is what led him to his central strategy of pretending the problem doesn't exist. It's self-destructive, but it's his only way of processing the situation since he has literally no idea how to think long-term about his own interests, let alone anyone else's.
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@Michael Reynolds:
…it took pioneers to ride in a wagon…
Just to be pedantic, almost all of the pioneers walked from Missouri to Oregon. Oxen were a critical component and there were no replacements, so were pampered. Certainly to the extent that everyone except the driver walked rather than rode most of the time.
R. Dave says:
@Michael Reynolds: Yep, people are fatigued at wearing masks and staying out of bars. I mean, we've had to endure that crushing, brutal regimen for 7 months now!
Indeed. I really cannot even begin to grasp this sense of great imposition and fatigue that so many people seem to have. Honestly, what the frak is so hard about not socializing in groups for a few months or even a year and masking up when you have to go out for necessary activities like work, groceries, etc.? Sure, the day-to-day absence of others kinda sucks, and I definitely miss seeing my family and close friends in person, but this isn't some unbearable burden we're talking about here. Future generations aren't going to be writing hagiographic homages to the courage and stoicism it must have taken us all to get through the terrible ordeal of only being able to socialize via social media, phones, and video chat apps for a few months.
@R. Dave:
Imagine it's the 15th century in Europe and they've just discovered that all it takes to survive the Black Plague is a scrap of cloth over your mouth and avoidance of crowded places. I think they'd have managed to do that.
Argon says:
The Zombie apocalypse scenarios seem more real by the day. Except the zombies are already here. Many people, like zombies, have little capacity for delayed gratification. If we need 80% compliance for more than a few months, we're going to have trouble. And without consistent guidance and the necessary tracking and containment systems in place, we're truly in a bad place.
Worse than simply doing a botched job, the Trump administration actually poisoned the well, making it nearly impossible for a future competent response.
Teve says:
thank heavens. Something like 10% of the people who started the Oregon Trail, didn't finish the Oregon trail. Dysentery, cholera, being kicked by a steer, scalped by a Shoshone, drowning while fording the river… 😀
Jesus, these fickle edit buttons.
Dutchgirl says:
The dismissal of hard hard it is to wear masks and keep social distance shows that few in this comment section live 10 persons to a 2 bedroom city apartment working essential service jobs. Not that they are the ones complaining, but they are ones feeling the most fatigue.
DrDaveT says:
The numbers from Europe over the last 2 weeks are appalling — exponential growth again, up to more than 80,000 new cases per day, daily deaths back up to more than 600 per day and trending upward fast enough that they should pass the US in daily deaths sometime this week. Belgium is going back into lockdown; the Czech Republic's ICUs are getting overwhelmed.
All of that excellent original response has been… well, not quite wasted, since treatment protocols are better now and nothing looks quite like northern Italy did in March. But they've taken an enormous step backward.
@Dutchgirl:
You're quite right. It's an impossible situation for those in it.
Sleeping Dog says:
We heard from one of our nephews on that. Shares a house with 4 others, he and one other have office jobs and are working from home, while the others are in the service industry. He's wistful from the time of the lock down, as his roomies are responsible and wore masks/distanced outside the house and they could do without masks at home. But now with everyone working in public, its masks pretty much 24×7.
@Michael Reynolds: On the one hand, I totally take your point and agree. On the other, I must confess that I am tired of worrying about protocols and just the daily way in which the pandemic takes up brain space and time (as we manage now and plan for Spring, etc.). There is some legitimate fatigue to be had from all of this.
@Dutchgirl: Horse puckey. Those are not the people crowding into bars, dining out in restaurants, attending packed concerts and sports events, traveling to major rallies and events, etc. The people clamoring to allow all of that stuff are **shocker** the people who have sufficient disposable income to do those things (i.e., not service workers with such low wages that they have to live 5-people to a room).
@Dutchgirl: If all the rest of us were being careful with social distancing, wearing masks, washing our hands etc., then the chance of COVID spreading would have gone down and those essential workers living 10-12 to a two-bedroom place wouldn't be under so much stress. Plus they might not have to wear protective gear quite so much.
As it is, we're acting as if they're cannon fodder to sacrifice so that we can keep grocery shopping, go to hotels and other public buildings, etc. And boy how do we complain about our inability to "go back to normal."
Gustopher says:
@Michael Reynolds: Contrasting the moderate unpleasantness of pandemic safety to the Oregon trail makes me think of one thing: it's so much easier to follow a strict diet than a "eat garbage in moderation" diet.
Either as a species or a culture, we much better good at dealing with significant hardship more than slight hardship.
Ok, two things: you can see "too little food, too little water, no medicine to speak of, frequent backbreaking labor, floods, snowstorms and the constant threat of Indian attacks." We don't see Covid.
We aren't seeing the people on ventilators, and you can't visit your aunt in the hospital. People go away, and either come back or don't. The media isn't showing us what happens, they are just showing us graphs. It's not quite real for a lot of people until they see it. And then, it's too late.
So, anyone want to take bets on how we handle global warming? No? We'll too bad, we're all taking that bet.
@Steven L. Taylor:I must confess that I am tired of worrying about protocols and just the daily way in which the pandemic takes up brain space and time (as we manage now and plan for Spring, etc.). There is some legitimate fatigue to be had from all of this.
Sure, but fatigue on a "commiserating about how sick of it we all are" level, not on a "this has become such an intolerable burden that we must be lift restrictions despite the huge increase in preventable illness and death that doing so will cause" level. In a society with a reasonable sense of perspective, pandemic fatigue would be a human interest story in the weekend edition of the paper and a topic for fluffy morning shows, not an potential policy driver
@Gustopher: Ok, two things: you can see "too little food, too little water, no medicine to speak of, frequent backbreaking labor, floods, snowstorms and the constant threat of Indian attacks." We don't see Covid.
This is a really excellent point. I do wonder how much of the divide between people who favor strong protective measures and those who don't is driven by differences in ability or proclivity to relate abstract information to concrete reality and incorporate the former into one's perception of the latter.
I do wonder how much of the divide between people who favor strong protective measures and those who don't is driven by differences in ability or proclivity to relate abstract information to concrete reality and incorporate the former into one's perception of the latter.
Unless you're going to say that there is a rural vs. urban divide in that ability… I don't think it's the driving factor.
When the virus hit NYC hard, there were a lot of news reports about it. And, for a lot of Americans, NYC is "them" rather than "us". So it had the same effect as starvation in Africa — you hate to see it, but it's far away and there isn't a whole lot you can do about it, and there are people in your own communities having other problems.
By the time Covid is decimating South Dakota, it's old news. Particularly to the media who are concentrated in NYC and LA and the other big cities. Also, the "us" vs. "them" divide hits. So it doesn't get the same coverage. And it's less exciting anyway, since the PPE shortages are less, so you don't have the "doctors wearing trash bags as they risk their lives against an unknown virus" angle.
And so the people who need to see it hitting rural states, the people who would say "oh, shit, that's us" don't get that.
Plus the President is downplaying it, and the right wing media has been playing along. But that's just Fox and that ilk. NBC isn't covering it beyond graphs now. The failing NYTimes covered every death when it hit 100,000, but nary a peep at 200,000. .
Very, very few people are motivated by graphs — it just happens that we are all those people.
@R. Dave: your comment misses my point significantly: I was responding specifically to the commenters above who were making light of the hardship of wearing masks and social distancing. It's easy to think its no big deal when you have your own space, choices in where/how to buy things, reliable private transportation, a safe neighborhood to get outside in, and I saw that was not being acknowledged.
I fuckin LOVE charts.
When you hang out at a place like this, it's very easy to forget that there's a big chunk of the population who can't tell you who we fought in World War II, or what a marginal tax rate is.
@Teve: Indeed. As a group we are way more informed, educated, and interested than average. But even then, there is a limit to human understanding of big numbers. I don't think the next 100,000 deaths will have the same impact as reaching the first 100,000, because the numbers are getting so big its hard to comprehend. I LOVE charts because it can visually represent those facts.
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The equivalent population of the entirety of Baton Rouge has died from Coronavirus in 7 months. And that is the official count, mind you.
How is this political?
I mourn for us.
@Teve:
Well, to be clear, neither can the President.
@de stijl: This is the University of Michigan football stadium, known also as "the Big House." It is the largest-capacity football stadium in the country–over 107,000. Take a look at the enormity of the number of people in the stands and think: COVID-19 has killed all of them…twice. Along with all the stadium staff, all the coaches and players of both teams, and probably the people who tell you where to park your car on game day.
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Perhaps another look at Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan is in order.
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At one time I thought my memory was rubbish because I come from a family of people with almost constant amnesia. However I realised today that my inability to remember names and appointments is inversely proportionate to how much I'm thinking about new material, what to have for tea or whether I should try selling a fictional murder pill on Twitter to gain notoriety. My memory is fine, I can remember lines or my jokes about willies. I just can't cope with the mundane things in life.
So if my memory is fine what does that make me? Thick I suppose. Perhaps my teachers were right when they told me I was stupid. Mathematics bamboozled as much back then as it does now. However I'll resist the temptation to go into a hackneyed rant about its practical applications. That would be tantamount to a comedy set about aeroplane food, hey Janeane?
The reason I've been thinking about my memory and consequently forgetting to breath, is because I have been trying to return a Blue-Ray disc to a friend for three days. Every night I've made sure it was placed underneath my door keys, so that I couldn't possibly forget it and every morning I've woken up late, run into the shower, thought about a new podcast that I'm working on and practiced various silly voices. Then was unable to find my gloves, which I had to find, even though it was 10 degrees outside which reduced the likelihood of getting frostbite to zero.
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Blenders Eyewear Gets Acquired
By Mariel Concepcion
Blenders Eyewear, the San Diego-based eyewear company, has been partially acquired by Safilo Group.
In its first year in business, Blenders Eyewear, sold about one thousand pairs of sunglasses. Photo courtesy of Blenders Eyewear.
According to a press release, Safilo, an international eyewear company, acquired 70% of Blenders' equity. Chase Fisher, Blenders' founder and CEO who retained 30% interest in the company, will remain as CEO. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"It's time to bring the Blenders brand global and Safilo's expertise, access and influence will help us get there," said Fisher. "We've worked tirelessly to upend this market and bring a new price point to the consumer effectively and efficiently. We hit a chord, and we can now expand to new markets, new customers."
Founded 2012, Blenders is projected to make $42 million in 2019. The company is valued at $90 million.
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Honourable Shri. N.H. Shivashankarareddy, the Minister of Agriculture, Govt. of Karnataka visited Professor M S Swaminathan, the Founder of M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) today at...
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OmiseGO solves the basic coordination problems among payment processors, gateways and financial institutions by developing a new generation of payment service. The payment service supports conversion operations between currencies and asset types. OmiseGO network and e-wallet enable everyone to conduct financial transactions such as payment, remittance, wage payment, B2B business, supply chain financing, loyalty programs, asset management and other on-demand services in a completely decentralized, high-frequency and low-cost way. In addition, users in the world's largest growing economy will be able to switch from using fiat money to decentralized currencies like Ethernet and bitcoin. OmiseGo no longer distinguishes between fiat money and decentralized cryptocurrency: as more people accept and use it, the best currency wins.
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OmiseGO solves the basic coordination problems among payment processors, gateways and financial institutions by developing a new generation of payment service. The payment service supports conversion operations between currencies and asset types. OmiseGO network and electronic wallet enable end-users to flexibly complete payment, remittance, salary storage, B2B business, supply chain financing, credit system, asset management and trade and various on-demand financial services. Specifically, it can quickly move funds at home and abroad, obtain security ledger of tracking assets in various departments of large organizations, establish credit score system for brand alliance, and issue digital gift CARDS to networks that can support multiple wallet suppliers.
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Fifty years after he ended his life, Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) resides in the American consciousness mostly in caricature. The brilliant war journalist and writer of spare, evocative fiction has been overtaken by the macho, absinthe-swilling bohemian, the writer's life having become more important than the writer's writing.
Much of the material in this collection, meticulously edited by Hemingway scholars Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon, will be of interest only to academics and obsessives. The earliest material is a slog: anodyne correspondence with family members, quotidian letters about school life, an exhaustively detailed expense report to his employers at The Toronto Star.
But the multiple accounts of his wounding in World War I—boastful, repetitive, and sometimes stingy with the truth—are fascinating, offering a glimpse of Hemingway's late teenage worldview. The young men he encountered in Italy, the cannon fodder for Kaisers and kings, would ultimately provide the contours of his most famous literary creations (Nick Adams, Jake Barnes), though the famously economical prose style isn't on display here; his letters are slang filled and overwritten, providing few hints of the crisp style that characterizes his first story collection, In Our Time (1925).
But if Hemingway believed that Western civilization was in crisis, these letters suggest that his views were arrived at after the armistice. For writers including Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and Wilfred Owen, the battlefield was where their antiwar beliefs were forged. Hemingway's opinions were likely influenced by the intellectual ferment of Paris, where he and his wife lived for several years in the 1920s.
In a 1917 letter to his sister, Hemingway writes that he "cant [sic] stay out much longer," and that he is considering enlisting in the Canadian military if America remains on the sidelines. When a munitions plant explodes at the front, Hemingway writes to a friend that it was his "baptism of fire" and that he is "having a wonderful time!!!" He mentions a field "black" with corpses, not to reflect on the hideousness of the fight, but to explain the provenance of his pile of war souvenirs, and he later confesses that "what makes me hate this war" is that there is no place to fish. The Hemingway of 1918 is more Ernst Jünger than Erich Maria Remarque.
It is only when Hemingway and his new bride, Hadley Richardson, relocate to Paris in 1921 that the reader notices the emergence of a distinct voice, full of the stylistic flourishes and vivid descriptions that would become his trademark. In letters to Pound, Stein, and novelist Sherwood Anderson, whose attention and validation he craved, Hemingway writes to impress, taking significantly more care than in any previous correspondence. The juvenilia are replaced with comments on T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and anecdotes about teaching Pound to box.
This volume ends just as Hemingway is getting started. It's a collection whose existence goes against his wishes; he had instructed that "none of the letters written by me during my lifetime shall be published." We can be grateful that his wish was betrayed.


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Pediatric Acute Care, A Guide to Interprofessional Practice
>> PEDIATRICS
>> Pediatric Acute Care, A Guide to Interprofessional Practice
Autor: Beth Bolick & Karin Reuter-Rice & Maureen A. Madden & Paul N. Severin
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Categoria: PEDIATRICS
Stay up-to-date on the latest evidence and clinical practice in pediatric acute care with the definitive textbook in the field. Now in its second edition, Pediatric Acute Care: A Guide for Interprofessional Practice takes an evidence-based, interprofessional approach to pediatric acute care as it exemplifies the depth and diversity that's needed for the dynamic healthcare environments in which acutely ill children receive care. Coverage includes how to work with the pediatric patient and family, major acute care disorders and their management, emergency preparedness, common acute care procedures, and much more. With contributions from more than 200 practicing clinicians and academic experts, it represents a wide variety of disciplines including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, child life, nutrition, law, integrative medicine, education, public health, and psychology, among others. The second edition also features the addition of new physician and nurse practitioner co-editors as well as extensive content updates including updated evidence-based content throughout the text, the integration of the 2016 IPEC Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice, a new full-color design, and new vivid illustrations throughout.
UNIQUE! Interprofessional collaborative approach includes contributions from more than 200 practicing clinicians and academic experts from the U. S. and Canada, including nursing, medicine, pharmacy, child life, nutrition, law, integrative medicine, education, public health, and psychology.
Consistent organization within disorder chapters begins with a section on Physiology and continues with sections on Pathophysiology, Epidemiology and Etiology, Presentation, Differential Diagnosis, Diagnostic Studies, and a Plan of Care that include Therapeutic Management, Consultation, Patient and Family Education and Disposition and Discharge Planning.
Comprehensive content spanning five units divides coverage into introductory information, the approach to the pediatric patient and family, major acute care disorders and their management, emergency preparedness, and common acute care procedures.
NEW! Updated evidence-based content has been added throughout to ensure that you're up-to-date on all topics needed to provide care for pediatric patients in acute, inpatient, emergency, transport, and critical care settings.
NEW! Full-color design and illustrations enhance learning and make content easier to navigate and digest.
NEW! Integration of the 2016 IPEC Core Competencies ensure that you're learning the professional skills and protocols required for effective, contemporary interprofessional collaborative practice.
UPDATED! Streamlined procedures unit focuses more sharply on need-to-know content.
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instead of lying on it as she does now.
as she watches the sun and her sisters, the stars.
surrounded by the graffiti of inconsiderate travelers.
"Ryan + Sally" next to a herd of bison.
and the guide who took us to the cave of hands.
and spit it onto the backs of our hands.
we had become Old Ones.
Walk the storypath, and sing of the trees and stones.
We must remember them or they cease to be.
to this world when I leave it (as all dreams are).
and looking back down at the small hole.
It is something we need to do, I think.
An initiation, a ritual, a cleansing.
How large and terrifying is the world!
Please find enclosed, and translated, the parchment you lent me.
It was quite enlightening, and is clearly not of our world.
As to how it found its way here I can only speculate.
One time on a trip past the third border of the unnamed country I came upon a man who told me a story I was reluctant to believe. With a pipe in his hand and a pick in his teeth he slowly began to mold a new reality for me.
The vastness of this new realm was unquestionable. Everything within it broke down to one simple miniscule form, beautiful in its simplicity and simple despite its beauty. One might call it a clever manifestation of elegance. The miniscule forms in turn composed gigantic forms, at the same time precise and vague, interacting in unfathomably complex ways. The gigantic forms' behaviors were completely governed by the incredible multitude of simple interactions between the incredible multitude of miniscule forms. It gave the appearance of chaos - this writhing mass of interactions - but the rigidity was undeniable. Everything occurred at the behest of the miniscule forms. But behest they hadn't really, for their behest was merely the behest of the forms before them and before them and before them until - well. He didn't need to tell me the ultimate causal resolution.
At first you wouldn't remember where you were. You would think - you would believe you were someone else. But then it would all come rushing back, rushing back with the renewed strength in your limbs. And you would remember - the holes, the forgetting, the illusion. And it would seem funny but somehow sadly profound - because the life you lived in the hole was not yours yet it had become yours as a dream to the conscious.
A dream, yes, the perfect comparison by extrapolation. Like waking, coming out of a hole restored to you that precious commodity of being - consciousness. The experience of the hole would be remembered only in pieces - an image, a smell, a flash of color and movement, a sound - if these things have any meaning outside of the holes. One would assume they correspond somehow.
But one day, he continued, everyone fell out. The holes shut up and haven't reopened. I told him I didn't remember that. Memory functions in an odd manner outside of the holes. He nodded and shrugged slightly as if he had given up and thanked me for my time.


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Paulo José Alves Rattes (Petrópolis, 21 de dezembro de 1933 - Rio de Janeiro, 16 de abril de 2014) foi um engenheiro agrônomo, advogado e político brasileiro que foi prefeito de Petrópolis por três vezes.

Dados biográficos
Filho de José de Moraes Rattes e Noêmia da Costa Alves Rattes. Engenheiro Agrônomo formado em 1955 pela Escola Nacional de Agronomia e advogado formado em 1978 na Faculdade de Direito de Valença iniciou sua carreira política no MDB como vice-prefeito de Petrópolis na chapa de Paulo Gratacós, a quem substituiu quando de sua cassação pelos militares em 1969. Após cumprir o restante do mandato foi eleito prefeito da cidade em 1972 e conquistou um mandato de deputado federal em 1978.

Com a restauração do pluripartidarismo ingressou no PMDB e foi eleito prefeito de Petrópolis em 1982 para um mandato de seis anos ao longo do qual foi coordenador da campanha de Moreira Franco ao governo do Rio de Janeiro em 1986, ano em que sua esposa, Ana Maria Rattes, foi eleita deputada federal. Com a eleição de Moreira Franco acumulou por alguns meses a prefeitura com os cargos de Secretário de Governo e Secretário de Assuntos Especiais. Entretanto, por causa de divergências com o vice-prefeito Matheus Soares, Rattes não renunciou ao mandato de prefeito, aceitou o cargo mas não foi oficialmente nomeado de imediato. Por ter acumulado os dois cargos foi, por esta razão, acusado pela oposição de ter abandonado a cidade durante a tragédia climática que causou prejuízos, em 1988, na cidade. O candidato vitorioso na eleição municipal deste ano foi Paulo Monteiro Gratacós, então o mais duro adversário de Paulo Rattes na política municipal; o candidato indicado por Rattes( Adilson Beck) ficou em terceiro lugar.

Pré-candidato a senador em 1990, abdicou da disputa por razões de saúde. Retornou à política como candidato a prefeito de Petrópolis em 1996, mas foi derrotado por Leandro Sampaio (PSDB). Teve como derradeiro cargo público a Secretaria de Governo do Estado do Rio de Janeiro sob o governo de Rosinha Garotinho.

Paulo Rattes morreu na madrugada da sexta-feira de 16 de abril de 2014, de insuficiência cardíaca, no Hospital Pró-Cardíaco, em Botafogo, bairro da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. O corpo foi velado na sede da prefeitura de Petrópolis, na Avenida Koeler, no Centro Histórico da cidade. Logo após seu corpo foi cremado no Memorial do Carmo do Cemitério do Caju, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro.

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After About 15 Minutes Of Talking I Started Hearing A Sound Outside – It Was My Voice
Ruchi Sharma
The next morning (Wednesday) the ranger showed up with his friends, Tiwe (a Pueblo medicine man) and his adult son Nathan.
These people are amazing. They were instantly likeable and sympathetic to my situation. I mentioned them in a tiny update in my last post, but here is what happened:
Lore and legends
Tiwe is an incredible storyteller. He told me that Pikes Peak and the surrounding area was inhabited by the Ute, Manitou, Arapaho, Pueblo, Anasazi, and other Native American groups at various times. In the 1860's, when the Gold Rush was in full swing, many Indians were violently displaced because of mining operations there. They were torn away from their sacred lands, which was catastrophic to their cultures.
Tiwe stressed that historically, Americans have not understood the significance of land and names to Native Americans, and this is critical to understanding the supernatural presence on the mountain. The major world religions like Christianity and Hinduism and Islam are "universal" – they can be practiced anywhere. You can pick up your whole life and move to Kentucky or Scotland or Istanbul, and you'll still be whatever religion you are. Your god still hears your prayers, he still intervenes in your life.
But Native Americans practice land-based religions.
The land they inhabit is a part of their creation stories. It's not that the land belongs to them, it's that they belong to the land, and both are in a symbiotic relationship with one another. History is embedded in the landscape; a person is reminded of specific lessons and wisdom when they see a part of the land. The mouth of this river has a story attached to it, that fallen tree has a story attached to it. A battle was won here. A chief died there. Peace was made between tribes with a feast here. When a Native group is forced out of its homeland, the people lose their history. What's worse, they leave behind the places where their dead are buried. Since the dead are bound to that place, the Indians who left no longer have spiritual connections to their ancestors, and thus, to their gods. Their medicines and magic no longer work. They forget the names of sacred places. As the names and history and wisdom are forgotten, the tribe's spiritual power evaporates.
Tiwe said that when Pikes Peak was taken, a group of disgruntled Utes descended on the miners and slaughtered a bunch of them. Because a complex network of alliances and peace treaties, these Utes were punished by another tribe. They dug holes in the ground and slit the Utes' throats. Then they buried them upside-down in the holes with their legs sticking out of the ground so that wolves would feast on their calves.
That was supposed to be the end of it, but then something else happened.
The legend says that these dead Utes arose from the tainted ground one night. Because their flesh had been flayed from the hips down, they looked like walking skeletons. They hobbled into the Arapaho camps and took women and children back up the mountain. They forced them deep into one of the mines, never to leave again. The howls of women and children have been reported on the mountain for over a hundred years now.
The Utes and Arapaho engaged in blood feuds, sometimes called "mourning wars," for years over this. They exchanged curses, executed and skinned and tortured each other. They stained the once-sacred earth on Pikes Peak with rivers of blood.
I was pretty mortified by this story. I just kind of sat there with the ranger while Tiwe and Nathan blessed the cabin.
They burned sage and tobacco inside and outside and used crushed herb dust to cover their hands.
They made a handprint on every window and drew small symbols in ash at the top of the front door inside and outside. They gave me bundled sage/cedar/hawthorn and told me to burn it if anyone tried to get inside. It drives bad spirits insane. Then, they provided me with small pouches filled with herbs and blessed objects to wear around my neck and in my pockets whenever I went outside. Nathan gave me a totem that he wears around his neck and told me to give it to Faye. Then they sang a really incredible chant in their language; it lasted about 15 minutes. I was blown away. I fucking love these guys.
Then, we went outside. I showed them the dreamcatcher, and they told me that they had never seen anything like it. The dreamcatcher is made with three branches woven together with hair, and it has old yarn or wool string with glass beads crisscrossing the center in a pattern. It is old and hand-made. Tiwe told me not to touch it or move it. If you find an object of power and do not know who made it or what it protects, you should leave it alone. I asked him if it could be evil, and he said, "Maybe."
I got them up to speed on everything that has happened. I said that a lot of my friends (Redditors, but I didn't explain that) suspected that the Faye at my house in California was a duplicate and that the real Faye was somewhere in the woods. Tiwe and Nathan disagreed with each other on whether that could be, but we searched the woods looking for signs of my Faye. We found nothing.
I told them about the missing ring, and they said exactly what many Redditors have said: if Faye loved the ring and it was powerfully symbolic to her, it could be used by a bad spirit to harm her.
They told me to find it at all costs. They also told me that if Faye indeed were still here on the mountain, she was certainly dead.
And the moment we've all been waiting for: Tiwe named the creature that was tormenting us. He said his people call it At'an-A'anotogkua, "the Impostor." Bad spirits inhabit the land everywhere, and sometimes they get the opportunity to use a tragedy like the Pikes Peak massacres to commandeer a human figure and walk the earth partly mortal. In the case of the Impostor, they collect animal and human parts piecemeal wherever they can, and stitch them together. This is why they walk strangely, vocalize strangely, and why they never show their faces or come out during the day – they cannot pass for humans.
I asked Tiwe why I always see someone facing away from me at the edge of the forest, and he said it is because it does not want me to know its identity.
But eventually, the Impostor would come for me, wearing Faye's skin and teeth and hair, and try to convince me that it was her. When I asked him what it wanted, he said,
"Nobody knows." He also told me that there is power in names, as many Redditors have stated, and that I should not speak its name, especially not to it, because that could provoke it. Of the voices I was hearing in the forest every night, Tiwe said, "They practice what they hear, for decades. It makes it easier for them to hunt."
The freaky shit
Tiwe, Nathan, and the ranger left at sunset, and I spent the rest of the evening thinking about all of this. And I think I've figured a lot of things out. Around 9PM, something disturbing happened.
I used the satellite phone the ranger gave me to call Faye. She actually answered, and was just lying in bed reading. We had a great conversation. I told her I missed her so much, and that I was up here trying to solve what was happening. I told her I wanted to have a family with her. She said that she was feeling better, and had actually gone a whole night without sleepwalking or terrifying Jason and Richard (my buddies who are looking after her while I'm here in Colorado).
After about 15 minutes of talking, I started hearing sounds outside.
I heard footsteps crunching in the dry snow, and I heard a voice – my voice. It said things like, "Flight," "insomnia," "miss you," "See you soon." The thing had been standing near the window, mimicking my conversation with Faye. I told Faye I'd call her back later, and hung up the phone, then went silent. The thing walked around the cabin slowly, trying to figure out if I had moved, and kept mumbling and repeating a few phrases as it went.
Finally, it came and knocked on the door. Its knock was gentle, just like last night. I was a little bit less scared because of all the blessings Tiwe had put on the cabin, but I still held onto the gun just in case any shit went down. He spoke to me in my own voice, and the first thing he said was,
"The hole will fill with snow and blood."
So yeah, that amped up my fear quite a bit. Every hair on the back of my neck bristled. Do you know the feeling of being so scared that your vision turns hyperreal? Everything looks like a realistic video game, so everything looks just slightly off. Then it knocked again and said,
"Hello? May I come in?"
I simply said, "No. Leave."
Then it knocked for another 30 seconds or so, and said, "What is your name? Hello?"
I lied and said, "My name is Daniel. Now leave. You can't come in."
The thing started knocking harder, a lot harder, nonstop, and said, "What is your name? What is your name?"
It was terrifying to hear my voice coming from the other side of the door, and to hear rage building in that voice.
I said again, "MY NAME IS DANIEL," but the thing just kept yammering and asking the same question. It would occasionally say things like, "Ticket, ticket, rental car. You go up in the trees! The hole, the hole, down in the hole. What is your name? May I know your name?"
Then I had an idea. I'm really good with fake accents, and when I was a child my first language was German (dad immigrated to Boston and met my mom). I started speaking in a thick accent, talking about my day, and then started shouting in German. I recited a poem I know by Hermann Hesse, Die Frauen von Ravenna Tragen. My visitor went silent and stopped knocking. I could tell it was just listening. So then I started shouting in a British accent, reciting lines from V for Vendetta (my favorite film of all time). I shouted "thank you" in every single language I know (I once committed to learning it in 100 languages and stopped around 20).
My unwanted guest just sort of stammered a little bit, trying to mimic me, but failed to do so. I was no longer speaking in any recognizable pattern or tone.
Eventually, it just started growling the sounds Faye and I heard in the forest when we first stayed at the cabin – *"Wachu, wachu, wole my, wole my" and started scratching and pounding on the door.
I grabbed the sage bundle and torched it with my lighter, then waved it all around the door frame. I don't know if the thing outside could smell it, but it walked off the porch all pissed off, growling, and went off into the night. This time, I ran to the window and tried to get a glimpse of it, but all I could see was a very dark, amorphous form disappearing into the trees.
I think I've figured a lot of stuff out. I think this entity is mimicking me because it's going to try to convince Faye that it is me. It is rehearsing my voice and then whispering to Faye while she sleeps, talking to her in her dreams, trying to get her to let it inside of our house. I think it wants to convince her that I am the impostor, not it. I think I also figured out why the voices go crazy at night, and why they're getting closer to my home. These fuckers aren't trying to scare me. They're trying to deprive me of sleep. If I'm psychologically and emotionally drained, I'm weaker. If I'm delirious, I'll make a mistake. Their (or his) attempts to get to me will be easier.
I'm still trying to figure out how controlling Faye like a puppet in her sleep plays into all this. I know what I saw. There was a man standing outside our house, walking the exact same creepy way Faye was sleepwalking, at the exact same time.
I'm also still considering the possibility that I already made a terrible mistake, and that the Impostor has already won – when I went outside on the first night at the cabin with Faye, trying to see where the voices were coming from. I left the door unlocked. A Redditor said that that was the moment that Faye was replaced by something else.
I just don't know what to think. But for now, I'm going. the fuck. to sleep.
Update: Well. I found the ring. ?
This story is published with permission from the author, Felix Blackwell and was first posted on Reddit.
Cover Image Source: Sergiy Zavarykin
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