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Casting the Runes

M.R. James (1911)

April 15th, 190_

DEAR SIR,___ I am requested by the Council of the ________ Association to return to you the draft of a paper on The Truth of Alchemy, which you have been good enough to offer to read at our forthcoming meeting, and to inform you that the Council do not see their way to including it in the programme.

I am,

Yours faithfully,

_______Secretary.

April 18th

DEAR SIR,___ I am sorry to say that my engagements do not permit of my affording you an interview on the subject of your proposed paper. Nor do our laws allow of your discussing the matter With a Committee of our Council, as you suggest. Please allow me to assure you that the fullest consideration was given to the draft which you submitted, and that it was not declined without having been referred to the judgment of a most competent authority. No personal question (it hardly be necessary for me to add) can have had the slightest influence on the decision of the Council.

Believe me (ut supra).

April 20th

The Secretary of the _______ Association begs respectfully to inform Mr Karswell that it is impossible for him to communicate the name of any person or persons to whom the draft of Mr Karswell's paper may have been submitted; and further desires to intimate that he cannot undertake to reply to any further letters on this subject.

"And who is Mr Karswell?" inquired the Secretary's wife. She had called at his office, and (perhaps unwarrantably) had picked up the last of these three letters, which the typist had just brought in.

"Why, my dear, just at present Mr Karswell is a very angry man. But I don't know much about him otherwise, except that he is a person of wealth, his address is Lufford Abbey, Warwickshire, and he's an alchemist, apparently, and wants to tell us all about it; and that's about all - except that I don't want to meet him for the next week or two. Now, if you're ready to leave this place, I am."

"What have you been doing to make him angry?" asked Mrs Secretary.

"The usual thing, my dear, the usual thing: he sent in a draft of a paper he wanted to read at the next Meeting, and we referred it to Edward Dunning - almost the only man in England who knows about these things - and he said it was perfectly hopeless, so we declined it. So Karswell has been pelting me with letters ever since. The last thing he wanted was the name of the man we referred his nonsense to; you saw my answer to that. But don't you say anything about it, for goodness' sake"

"I should think not, indeed. Did I ever do such a thing? I do hope, though, he won't get to know that it was poor Mr Dunning."

"Poor Mr Dunning? I don't know why you call him that; he's a very happy man, is Dunning. Lots of hobbies and a comfortable home, and all his time to himself."

"I only meant I should be sorry for him if this man got hold of his name, and came and bothered him."

"Oh, ah! yes. I dare say he would be poor Mr Dunning then."

The Secretary and his wife were lunching out, and the friends to whose house they were bound were Warwickshire people.So Mrs Secretary had already settled it in her own mind that she would question them judiciously about Mr Karswell. But she was saved the trouble of leading up to the subject, for the hostess said to the host, before many minutes had passed, "I saw the Abbot of Lufford this morning." The host whistled. 'Did you? What in the world brings him up to town?" "Goodness knows; he was coming out of the British Museum gate as I drove past." It was not unnatural that Mrs Secretary should inquire whether this was a real Abbot who was being spoken of. "Oh no, my dear.. only a neighbour of ours in the country who bought Lufford Abbey a few years ago. His real name is Karswell." "Is he a friend of yours?" asked Mr Secretary, with a private wink to his wife. The question let loose a torrent of declamation. There was really nothing to be said for Mr Karswell. Nobody knew what he did with himself.- his servants were a horrible set of people; he had invented a new religion for himself, and practised no one could tell what appalling rites; he was very easily offended, and never forgave anybody. he had a dreadful face (so the lady insisted, her husband somewhat demurring); he never did a kind action, and whatever influence he did exert was mischievous.

"Do the poor man justice, dear," the husband interrupted. "You forget the treat he gave the school children." "Forget it, indeed! But I'm glad you mentioned it, because it gives an idea of the man. Now, Florence, listen to this. The first winter he was at Lufford this delightful neighbour of ours wrote to the clergyman of his parish (he's not ours, but we know him very well) and offered to show the school children some magic- lantern slides. He said he had some new kinds which he thought would interest them. Well, the clergyman was rather surprised, because Mr Karswell had shown himself inclined to be unpleasant to the children - complaining of their trespassing, or something of the sort; but of course he accepted, and the evening was fixed and our friend went himself to see that everything went right. He said he never had been so thankful for anything as that his own children were all prevented from being there: they were at a children's party at our house, as a matter of fact. Because this Mr Karswell had evidently set out with the intention of frightening these poor village children out of their wits, and I do believe, if he had been allowed to go on, he would actually have done so. He began with some comparatively mild things. Red Riding Hood was one, and even then, Mr Farrer said, the wolf was so dreadful that several of the smaller children had to be taken out: and he said Mr Karswell began the story by producing a noise like a wolf howling in the distance, which was the most gruesome thing he had ever heard. All the slides he showed, Mr Farrer said, were most clever; they were absolutely realistic, and where he had got them or how he worked them he could not imagine, Well the show went on, and the stories kept on becoming a little more terrifying each time, and the children were mesmerised into complete silence. At last he produced a series which represented a little boy passing through his own park - Lufford, I mean - in the evening. Every child in the room could recognize the place from the pictures. And this poor boy was followed, and at last pursued and overtaken, and either torn to pieces or somehow made away with, by a horrible hopping creature in white, which you saw first dodging about among the trees, and gradually it appeared more and more plainly. Mr Farrer said it gave him one of the worst nightmares he ever remembered and what it must have meant to the children doesn't bear thinking of. Of course this was too much, and he spoke very sharply indeed to Mr Karswell, and said it couldn't go on. All he said was: "Oh, you think it's time to bring our little show to an end and send them home to their beds? Very well!" And then, if you please, he switched on another slide, which showed a great mass of snakes, centipedes, and disgusting creatures with wings, and somehow or other he made it seem as if they were climbing out of the picture and getting in amongst the audience; and this was accompanied by a sort of dry rustling noise which sent the children nearly mad, and of course they stampeded. A good many of them were rather hurt in getting out of the room and I don't suppose one of them closed an eye that night. There was the most dreadful trouble in the village afterwards. Of course the mothers threw a good part of the blame on poor Mr Farrer, and, if they could have got past the gates, I believe the fathers would have broken every window in the Abbey. Well, now, that's Mr Karswell: that's the Abbot of Lufford, my dear, and you can imagine how we covet his society."

"Yes, I think he has all the possibilities of a distinguished criminal, has Karswell, " said the host. "I should be sorry for anyone who got into his bad books."

"Is he the man, or am I mixing him up with someone else?" asked the Secretary (who for some minutes had been wearing the frown of the man who is trying to recollect something). "Is he the man who brought out a History of Witchcraft some time back - ten years or more?"

"That's the man, do you remember the reviews of it?"

"Certainly I do; and what's equally to the point, I knew the author of the most incisive of the lot. So did you: you must remember John Harrington; he was at John's in our time."

"Oh, very well indeed, though I don't think I saw anything of him between the time I went down and the the day I read the account of the inquest on him."

"Inquest?" said one of the ladies. "What has happened to him?"

"Why, what happened was that he fell out of a tree and broke his neck.But the puzzle was, what could have induced him to get up there. It was a mysterious business, I must say. Here was this man - not an athletic fellow, was he? and with no eccentric twist about him that was ever noticed - walking home along a country lane late in the evening - no tramps about - and he suddenly begins to run like mad, loses his hat and stick, and finally shins up a tree - quite a difficult tree - growing in the hedgerow; a dead branch gives way, and he comes down with it and breaks his neck, and there he's found next morning with the most dreadful face of fear on him that could be imagined. It was pretty evident , of course, that he had been chased by something, and people talked of savage dogs, and beasts escaped out of menageries; but there was nothing to be made of that. That was in "89, and I believe his brother Henry (whom I remember well at Cambridge, but you probably don't) has been trying to get on the track of an explanation ever since. He, of course, insists there was malice in it,but I don't know. it's difficult to see how it could have come in."

After a time the talk reverted to the History of Witchcraft. "Did you ever look into it?" asked the host.

"Yes, I did," said the Secretary."I went so far as to read it."

"Was it as bad as it was made out to be?"

"Oh, in point of style and form, quite hopeless. It deserved all the pulverizing it got. But, besides that, it was an evil book. The man believed every word of what he was saying, and I'm very much mistaken if he hadn't tried the greater part of his receipts."

"Well, I only remember Harrington's review of it, and I must say if I'd been the author it would have quenched my literary ambition for good. I should never have held up my head again."

"It hasn't had that effect in the present case. But come, it's half-past three; I must be off."

On the way home the Secretary's wife said, "I do hope that horrible man won't find out that Mr Dunning had anything to do with the rejection of his paper." "I don't think there's much chance of that, " said the Secretary. "Dunning won't mention it himself, for these matters are confidential, and none of us will for the same reason. Karswell won't know his name, for Dunning hasn't published anything on the same subject yet. The only danger is that Karswell might find out, if he was to ask the British Museum people who was in the habit of consulting alchemical manuscripts: I can't very well tell them not to mention Dunning, can I? It would set them talking at once. Let's hope it won't occur to him."

However, Mr Karswell was an astute man.

This much is in the way of prologue. On an evening rather later in the same week, Mr Edward Dunning was returning from the British Museum, where he had been engaged in research, to the comfortable house in a suburb where he lived alone, tended by two excellent women who had been long with him. There is nothing to be added by way of description of him to what we have heard already. Let us follow him as he takes his sober course homewards.

A train took him to within a mile or two of his house, and an electric tram a stage farther. The line ended at a point some three hundred yards from his front door. He had had enough of reading when he got into the car, and indeed the light was not such as to allow him to do more than study the advertisements on the panes of glass that faced him as he sat. As was not unnatural, the advertisements in this particular line of cars were objects of his frequent contemplation, and, with the possible exception of the brilliant and convincing dialogue between Mr Lamplough and an eminent K. C. on the subject of Pyretic Saline, none of them afforded much scope to his imagination. I am wrong: there was one at the corner of the car farthest from him which did not seem familiar. It was in blue letters on a yellow ground, and all that he could read of it was a name - John Harrington - and something like a date. It could be of no interest to him to know more ; but for all that, as the car emptied, he was just curious enough to move along the seat until he could read it well. He felt to a slight extent repaid for his trouble; the advertisement was not of the usual type. It ran thus: "In memory of John Harrington, F.S.A., of The Laurels Ashbrooke. Died Sept. 18th, 1889. Three months were allowed."

The car stopped. Mr Dunning, still contemplating the blue letters on the yellow ground, had to be stimulated to rise by a word from the conductor. "I beg your pardon," he said, "I was looking at that advertisement - it's a very odd one, isn't it?" The conductor read it slowly. "Well, my word," he said, "I never see that one before. Well, that is a cure, ain't it? Someone bin up to their jokes 'ere, I should think." He got out, a duster and applied it, not without saliva, to the pane and then to the outside. "No," he said, returning, "that ain't no transfer; seems to me as if it was reg'lar in the glass, what I mean in the substance, as you may say. don't you think so, Sir?" Mr Dunning examined it and rubbed it with his glove, and agreed. "Who looks after these advertisements, and gives leave for them to be put up? I wish you would inquire. I will just take a note of the words." At this moment there came a call from the driver: "Look alive, George, time's up." 'all right, all right -, there's somethink else what's up at this end. You come and look at this 'ere glass." "What's gorn with the glass?" said the driver, approaching. "Well, and oo's 'Arrington? what's it all about?" "I was just asking who was responsible for putting the advertisements up in your cars, and saying it would be as well to make some inquiry about this one."

"Well, sir, that's all done at the Company's office, that work is: it's our Mr Timms, I believe, looks into that. When we put up to-night I'll leave word, and per'aps i'll be able to tell you to-morrer if you 'appen to be coming this way."

This was all that passed that evening. Mr Dunning did just go to the trouble of looking up Ashbrooke, and found that it was in Warwickshire.

Next day he went to town again. The car (it was the same car) was too full in the morning to allow of his getting a word with the conductor: he could only be sure that the curious advertisement had been made away with. The close of the day brought a further element of mystery into the transaction. He had missed the tram, or else preferred walking home, but at a rather late hour, while he was at work in his study, one of the maids came to say that two men from the tramways was very anxious to speak to him. This was a reminder of the advertisement, which he had, he says, nearly forgotten. He had the men in - they were the conductor and driver of the car - and when the matter of refreshment had been attended to, asked what Mr Timms had had to say about the advertisement. " Well, sir, that's what we took the liberty to step round about," said the conductor. " Mr Timm's 'e give William 'ere the rough side of his tongue about that: 'cordin' to 'im there warn't no advertisement of that description sent in, nor ordered, nor paid for, nor put up, nor nothink, let alone not bein' there, and we was playing the fool takin' up his time. "Well," I says, "if that's the case, all I ask of you, Mr Timms." I says, " 'is to take and look at it for yourself," I says. "Of course if it ain't there, " I says, you may take and call me what you like." Right," he says, "I will." and we went straight off. Now, I leave it to you, sir, if that ad., as we term 'em, with 'arrington on it warn't as plain as ever you see anythink - blue letters on yeller glass, and as I says at the time, and you borne me out, reg'lar in the glass, because, if you remember, you recollect of me swabbing it with my duster." "To be sure I do, quite clearly - well?" "You may say well, I don't think. Mr Timms he gets in that car with a light - no, he telled William to 'old the light outside. "Now," he says, "where's your precious ad. what we've 'eard so much about?"

"Ere it is," I says, "Mr Timms" and I laid my 'and on it." The conductor paused.

"Well," said Dunning, "it was gone, I suppose. Broken?"

"Broke ! - not it. There warn't, if you'll believe me, no more trace of them letters - blue letters they was - on that piece o" glass, than - well, it's no good me talkin'. I never see such a thing. I leave it to William here if - but there, as I says, where's the benefit in me going on about it?"

"And what did Mr Timms say?"

"Why 'e did what I give 'im leave to - called us pretty much anythink he liked, and I don't know as I blame him so much neither. But what. we thought, William and me did, was as we seen you take down a bit of a note about that - well, that letterin' -"

"I certainly did that, and I have it now. Did you wish me to speak to Mr Timms myself, and show it to him ? Was that what you came in about?"

"There didn't I say as much?" said William. 'deal with a gent if you can get on the track of one, that's my word. Now perhaps, George, you'll allow as I ain't took you very far wrong to-night."

"Very well, William, very well; no need for you to go on as if you'd 'ad to frog's-march me 'ere. I come quiet, didn't I? All the same for that, we 'adn't ought to take up your time this way, sir. but if it so 'appened you could find time to step round to the Company's orfice in the morning and tell Mr Timms what you seen for yourself, we should lay under a very 'igh obligation to you for the trouble. You see it ain't bein' called - well, one thing and another, as we mind, but if they got it into their 'ead at the orfice as we seen things as warn't there, why, one thing leads to another, and where we should be a twelvemunce 'ence - well, you can understand what I mean."

Amid further elucidations of the proposition, George, conducted by William, left the room.

The incredulity of Mr Timms (who had a nodding acquaintance with Mr Dunning) was greatly modified on the following day by what the latter could tell and show him; and any bad mark that might have been attached to the names of William and George was not suffered to remain on the Company's books. but explanation there was none.

Mr Dunning's interest in the matter was kept alive by an incident of the following afternoon. He was walking from his club to the train, and he noticed some way ahead a man with a handful of leaflets such as are distributed to passers-by by agents of enterprising firms. This agent had not chosen a very crowded street for his operations: in fact, Mr Dunning did not see him get rid of a single leaflet before he himself reached the spot. One was thrust into his hand as he passed: the hand that gave it touched his, and he experienced a sort of little shock as it did so.It seemed unnaturally rough and hot. He looked in passing at the giver but the impression he got was so unclear that, however much he tried to reckon it up subsequently, nothing would come. He was walking quickly, and as he went on glanced at the paper. It was a blue one. The name of Harrington in large capitals caught his eye. He stopped, startled, and felt for his glasses. The next instant the leaflet was twitched out of his hand by a man who hurried past, and was irrecoverably gone. He ran back a few paces, but where was the passer-by? and where the distributor?

It was in a somewhat pensive frame of mind that Mr Dunning passed on the following day into the Select Manuscript Room of the British Museum., and filled up tickets for Harley 3586, and some other volumes. After a few minutes they were brought to him, and he was settling the one he wanted first upon the desk, when he thought he heard his own name whispered behind him. He turned round hastily, and in doing so, brushed his little portfolio of loose papers on to the floor. He saw no one he recognized except one of the staff in charge of the room, who nodded to him,and he proceeded to pick up his papers. He thought he had them all, and was turning to begin work, when a stout gentleman at the table behind him, who was just rising to leave, and had collected his own belongings, touched him on the shoulder, saying, "May I give you this? I think it should be yours," and handed him a missing quire. "It is mine, thank you," said Mr Dunning. In another moment the man had left the room. Upon finishing his work for the afternoon, Mr Dunning had some conversation with the assistant in charge, and took occasion to ask who the stout gentleman was. "Oh, he's a man named Karswell " said the assistant; "he was asking me a week ago who were the great authorities on alchemy, and of course I told him you were the only one in the country. I'll see if I can catch him.. he'd like to meet you, I'm sure

"For heaven's sake don't dream of it!" said Mr Dunning, "I'm particularly anxious to avoid him."

"Oh! very well," said the assistant, "He doesn't come here often; I dare say you won't meet him."

More than once on the way home that day Mr Dunning confessed to himself that he did not look forward with his usual cheerfulness to a solitary evening. It seemed to him that something ill-defined and impalpable had stepped in between him and his fellow-men - had taken him in charge, as it were. He wanted to sit close up to his neighbours in the train and in the tram, but as luck would have it both train and car were markedly empty. The conductor George was thoughtful, and appeared to be absorbed in calculations as to the number of passengers. On arriving at his house he found Dr Watson, his medical man, on his doorstep. "I've had to upset your household arrangements, I'm sorry to say, Dunning. Both your servants hors de combat. In fact, I've had to send them to the Nursing Home."

"Good heavens! what's the matter?"

"it's something like ptomaine poisoning, I should think: you've not suffered yourself, I can see, or you wouldn't be walking about. I think they'll pull through all right."

'Dear, dear . Have you any idea what brought it on ?"

"Well, they tell me they bought some shell-fish from a hawker at their dinner-time. it's odd. I've made inquiries, but I can't find that any hawker has been to other houses in the street. I couldn't send word to you; they won't be back for a bit yet. You come and dine with me tonight, anyhow, and we can make arrangements for going on. Eight o'clock. Don't be too anxious."

The solitary evening was thus obviated; at the expense of some distress and inconvenience it is true. Mr Dunning spent the time pleasantly enough with the doctor (a rather recent settler), and returned to his lonely home at about 11.30. The night he passed is not one on which he looks back with any satisfaction. He was in bed and the light was out. He was wondering if the charwoman would come early enough to get him hot water next morning, when he heard the unmistakable sound of his study door opening. No step followed it on the passage floor, but the sound must mean mischief, for he knew that he had shut the door that evening after putting his papers away in his desk. It was rather shame than courage that induced him to slip out into the passage and lean over the banisters in his nightgown, listening. No light was visible; no further sound came; only a gust of warm, or even hot air played for an instant round his shins. He went back and decided to lock himself into his room. There was more unpleasantness, however. Either an economical suburban company had decided that their light would not be required in the small hours, and had stopped working, or else something was wrong with the meter; the effect was in any case that the electric light was off. The obvious course was to find a match, and also to consult his watch: he might as well know how many hours of discomfort awaited him. So he put his hand into the well-known nook under the pillow: only, it did not get so far. What he touched was, according to his account, a mouth, with teeth, and with hair about it, and, he declares, not the mouth of a human being. I do not think it is any use to guess what he said or did; but he was in a spare room with the door locked and his ear to it before he was clearly conscious again. And there he spent the rest of a most miserable night, looking every moment for some fumbling at the door: but nothing came.

The venturing back to his own room in the morning was attended with many listenings and quiverings. The door stood open, fortunately, and the blinds were up (the servants had been out of the house before the hour of drawing them down) there was, to be short, no trace of an inhabitant. The watch, too, was in its usual place; nothing was disturbed, only the wardrobe door had swung open, in accordance with its confirmed habit. A ring at the back door now announced the charwoman, who had been ordered the night before, and nerved Mr Dunning, after letting her in, to continue his search in other parts of the house. It was equally fruitless.

The day thus begun went on dismally enough. He dared not go to the Museum: in spite of what the assistant had said, Karswell might turn up there, and Dunning felt he could not cope with a probably hostile stranger. His own house was odious; he hated sponging on the doctor. He spent some little time in a call at the Nursing Home, where he was slightly cheered by a good report of his housekeeper and maid. Towards lunch-time he betook himself to his club, again experiencing a gleam of satisfaction at seeing the Secretary of the Association. At luncheon Dunning told his friend the more material of his woes, but could not bring himself to speak of those that weighed most heavily on his spirits. "My poor dear man," said the Secretary, "what an upset! Look here: we're alone at home, absolutely. You must put up with us. Yes ! no excuse: send your things in this afternoon." Dunning was unable to stand out: he was, in truth, becoming acutely anxious, as the hours went on, as to what that night might have waiting for him. He was almost happy as he hurried home to pack up.

His friends, when they had time to take stock of him, were rather shocked at his lorn appearance, and did their best to keep him up to the mark. Not altogether without success: but, when the two men were smoking alone later, Dunning became dull again. Suddenly he said, "Gayton, I believe that alchemist man knows it was I who got his paper rejected." Gayton whistled. "What makes you think that?" he said. Dunning told of his conversation with the Museum assistant, and Gayton could only agree that the guess seemed likely to be correct. "Not that I care much," Dunning went on, "only it might be a nuisance if we were to meet. He's a bad-tempered party, I imagine." Conversation dropped again - Gayton became more and more strongly impressed with the desolateness that came over Dunning's face and bearing and finally - though with a considerable effort - he asked him point-blank whether something serious was not bothering him. Dunning gave an exclamation of relief. "I was perishing to get it off my mind" he said. "do you know anything about a man named John Harrington?" Gayton was thoroughly startled, and at the moment could only ask why. Then the complete story of Dunning's experiences came out - what had happened in the tramcar, in his own house,and in the street, the troubling of spirit that had crept over him, and still held him; and he ended with the question he had begun with. Gayton was at a loss how to answer him. To tell the story of Harrington's end would perhaps be right; only, Dunning was in a nervous state, the story was a grim one, and he could not help asking himself whether there were not a connecting link between these two cases, in the person of Karswell. It was a difficult concession for a scientific man, but it could be eased by the phrase "hypnotic suggestion". In the end he decided that his answer tonight should he guarded; he would talk the situation over with his wife. So he said that he had known Harrington at Cambridge,and believed he had died suddenly in 1889, adding a few details about the man and his published work. He did talk over the matter with Mrs Gayton, and, as he had anticipated, she leapt at once to the conclusion which had been hovering before him. It was she who reminded him of the surviving brother, Henry Harrington, and she also who suggested that he might be got hold of by means of their hosts of the day before. "He might be a hopeless crank, "objected Gayton. "That could be ascertained from the Bennetts, who knew him," Mrs Gayton retorted and she undertook to see the Bennetts the very next day.

It is not necessary to tell in further detail the steps by which Henry Harrington and Dunning were brought together.

The next scene that does require to be narrated is a conversation that took place between the two. Dunning had told Harrington of the strange ways in which the dead man's name had been brought before him, and had said something, besides, of his own subsequent experiences. Then he had asked if Harrington was disposed, in return, to recall any of the circumstances connected with his brother's death. Harrington's surprise at what he heard can be imagined: but his reply was readily given.

"John," he said, "was in a very odd state, undeniably, from time to time during some weeks before, though not immediately before, the catastrophe. There were several things; the principal notion he had was that he thought he was being followed. No doubt he was an impressionable man, but he never had had such fancies as this before. I cannot get it out of my mind that there was ill-will at work, and what you tell me about yourself reminds me very much of my brother. Can you think of any possible connecting link?"

"There is just one that has been taking shape vaguely in my mind. I've been told that your brother reviewed a book very severely not long before he died, and just lately I have happened to cross the path of the man who wrote that book in a way he would resent."

"Don't tell me the man was called Karswell."

"Why not? that is exactly his name."

Henry Harrington leant back. "That is final to my mind. Now I must explain further. From something he said, I feel sure that my brother John was beginning to believe - very much against his will - that Karswell was at the bottom of his trouble. I want to tell you what seems to me to have a bearing on the situation. My brother was a great musician, and used to run up to concerts in town. He came back, three months before he died, from one of these, and gave me his programme to look at - an analytical programme: he always kept them. " I nearly missed this one," he said. " I suppose I must have dropped it: anyhow, I was looking for it under my seat and in my pockets and so on, and my neighbour offered me his, said "might he give it me, he had no further use for it," and he went away just afterwards. I don't know who he was - a stout, clean-shaven man. I should have been sorry to miss it; of course I could have bought another, but this cost me nothing." At another time he told me that he had been very uncomfortable both on the way to his hotel and during the night. I piece things together now in thinking it over.Then, not very long after, he was going over these programmes, putting them on order to have them bound up, and in this particular one (which by the way I had hardly glanced at), he found quite near the beginning a strip of paper with some very odd writing on it in red and black - most carefully done - it looked to me more like Runic letters than anything else. "Why," he said, "this must belong to my fat neighbour. It looks as if it might be worth returning to him; it may be a copy of something; evidently someone has taken trouble over it. How can I find his address?" We talked it over for a little and agreed that it wasn't worth advertising about, and that my brother had better look out for the man at the next concert to which he was going very soon. The paper was lying on the book and we were both by the fire; it was a cold, windy summer evening. I suppose the door blew open, though I didn't notice it: at any rate a gust - a warm gust it was - came quite suddenly between us, took the paper and blew it straight into the fire: it was light, thin paper, and flared and went up the chimney in a single ash. "Well," I said, "you can't give it back now." He said nothing for a minute: then rather crossly, "No, I can't; but why you should keep on saying so I don't know." I remarked that I didn't say it more than once. " Not more than four times, you mean," was all he said. I remember all that very clearly, without any good reason - and now to come to the point. I don't know if you looked at that book of Karswell's which my unfortunate brother reviewed. it's not likely that you should: but I did, both before his death and after it. The first time we made game of it together. It was written in no style at all - split infinitives and every sort of thing that makes an Oxford gorge rise. Then there was nothing that the man didn't swallow: mixing up classical myths, and stories out of the Golden Legend with reports of savage customs of today - all very proper, no doubt, if you know how to use them, but he didn't: he seemed to put the Golden Legend and the Golden Bough exactly on a par, and to believe both: a pitiable exhibition, in short. Well, after the misfortune, I looked over the book again. It was no better than before, but the impression which it left this time on my mind was different. I suspected - as I told you - that Karswell had borne ill-will to my brother, even that he was in some way responsible for what had happened; and now his book seemed to me to be a very sinister performance indeed. One chapter in particular struck me, in which he spoke of "casting the Runes" on people, either for the purpose of gaining their affection or of getting them out of the way - perhaps more especially the latter: he spoke of all this in a way that really seemed to me to imply actual knowledge. I've not time to go into details, but the upshot is that I am pretty sure from information received that the civil man at the concert was Karswell: I suspect - I more than suspect - that the paper was of importance: and I do believe that if my brother had been able to give it back, he might have been alive now. Therefore, it occurs to me to ask you whether you have anything to put beside what I have told you."

By way of answer Dunning had the episode in the Manuscript Room at the British Museum to relate.

"Then he did actually hand you some papers; have you examined them? No? because we must, if you'll allow look at them at once, and very carefully."

They went to the still empty house - empty, for the two servants were not yet able to return to work. Dunning's portfolio of papers was gathering dust on the writing-table. In it were the quires of small-sized scribbling paper which he used for his transcripts: and from one of these as he took it up, there slipped and fluttered out into the room with uncanny quickness, a strip of thin light paper. The window was open but Harrington slammed it to, just in time to intercept the paper, which he caught. "I thought so.," he said. "it might be the identical thing that was given to my brother. You'll have to look out, Dunning; this may mean something quite serious for you."

A long consultation took place. The paper was narrowly examined. As Harrington had said, the characters on it were more like Runes than anything else, but not decipherable by either man, and both hesitated to copy them, for fear, as they confessed, of perpetuating whatever evil purpose they might conceal. So it has remained impossible (if I may anticipate a little) to ascertain what was conveyed in this curious message or commission. Both Dunning and Harrington are firmly convinced that it had the effect of bringing its possessors into very undesirable company. That it must be returned to the source whence it came they were agreed,and further, that the only safe and certain way was that that of personal service; and here contrivance would be necessary, for Dunning was known by sight to Karswell. He must, for one thing, alter his appearance by shaving his beard. But then might not the blow fall first? Harrington thought they could time it. He knew the date of the concert at which the "black spot" had been put on his brother: it was June 18th. The death had followed on Sept. 18th. Dunning reminded him that three months had been mentioned on the inscription on the car-window. "Perhaps," he added with a cheerless laugh, "mine may be a bill at three months too. I believe I can fix it by my diary. Yes, April 23rd was the day at the Museum; at brings us to July 23rd. Now, you know, it becomes extremely important to me to know anything you will tell me about the progress of your brother's trouble, if it is possible for you to speak of it." "Of course. Well, the sense of being watched whenever he was alone was the most distressing thing to him. After a time I took to sleeping in his room., and he was the better for that: still, he talked a great deal in his sleep. What about? Is it wise to dwell on that, at least before things are straightened out? I think not., but I can tell you this: two things came for him by post during those weeks, both with a London postmark, and addressed in a commercial hand. One was a woodcut of Bewick's, roughly torn out of the page: one which shows a moonlit road and a man walking along it, followed by an awful demon creature. Under it were written the lines out of the 'Ancient Mariner' (which I suppose the cut illustrates) about one who, having once looked round -

'walks on, And turns no more his head Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.'

The other was a calendar, such as tradesmen often send. My brother paid no attention to this, but I looked at it after his death, and found that everything after Sept. 18th had been torn out. You may be surprised at his having gone out alone the evening he was killed, but the fact is that during the last ten days or so of his life he had been quite free from the sense of being followed or watched."

The end of the consultation was this. Harrington, who knew a neighbour of Karswell's, thought he saw a way of keeping a watch on his movements. It would be Dunning's part to be in readiness to try to cross Karswell's path at any moment, to keep the paper safe and in a place of ready access.

They parted. The next weeks were no doubt a severe strain upon Dunning's nerves: the intangible barrier which had seemed to rise about him on the day when he received the paper, gradually developed into a brooding blackness that cut him off from the means of escape to which one might have thought he might resort. No one was at hand who was likely to suggest them to him, and he seemed robbed of all initiative. He waited with inexpressible anxiety as May, June, and early July passed on, for a mandate from Harrington. But all this time Karswell remained immovable at Lufford.

At last, in less than a week before the date he had come to look upon as the end of his earthly activities, came a telegram: "Leaves Victoria by boat train Thursday night. Do not miss. I come to you to-night. Harrington."

He arrived accordingly, and they concocted plans. The train left Victoria at nine and its last stop before Dover was Croydon West. Harrington would mark down Karswell at Victoria, and look out for Dunning at Croydon, calling to him if need were by a name agreed upon. Dunning, disguised as far as might be, was to have no label or initials on any hand luggage, and must at all costs have the paper with him.

Dunning's suspense as he waited on the Croydon platform I need not attempt to describe. His sense of danger during the last days had only been sharpened by the fact that the cloud about him had perceptibly been lighter; but relief was an ominous symptom, and,if Karswell eluded him now, hope was gone: and there were so many chances of that. The rumour of the journey might be itself a device. The twenty minutes which he paced the platform and persecuted every porter with inquiries as to the boat train were as bitter as any he had spent. Still, the train came, and Harrington was at the window. It was important, of course, that there should be no recognition: so Dunning got in at the farther end of the corridor carriage, and only gradually made his way to the compartment where Harrington and Karswell were. He was pleased, on the whole, to see that the train was far from full.

Karswell was on the alert, but gave no sign of recognition. Dunning took the seat not immediately facing him and attempted, vainly at first, then with increasing command of his faculties, to reckon the possibilities of making the desired transfer. Opposite to Karswell, and next to Dunning, was a heap of Karswell's coats on the seat. It would be of no use to slip the paper into these - he would not be safe, or would not feel so, unless in some way it could be proffered by him and accepted by the other. There was a handbag, open, and with papers in it. Could he manage to conceal this (so that perhaps Karswell might leave the carriage without it), and then find and give it to him? This was the plan that suggested itself. If he could only have counselled with Harrington! but that could not be. The minutes went on. More than once Karswell rose and went out into the corridor. The second time Dunning was on the point of attempting to make the bag fall off the seat, but he caught Harrington's eye, and read in it a warning. Karswell, from the corridor, was watching: probably to see if the two men recognized each other. He returned, but was evidently restive: and, when he rose the third time, hope dawned, for something did slip off his seat and fall with hardly a sound to the floor. Karswell went out once more, and passed out of range of the corridor window. Dunning picked up what had fallen, and saw that the key was in his hands in the form of one of Cook's ticket-cases, with tickets in it. These cases have a pocket in the cover, and within very few seconds the paper of which we have heard was in the pocket of this one. To make the operation more secure, Harrington stood in the doorway of the compartment and fiddled with the blind. It was done, and done at the right time, for the train was now slowing down towards Dover.

In a moment more Karswell re-entered the compartment. As he did so, Dunning, managing, he knew not how, to suppress the tremble in his voice, handed him the ticket-case, saying, "May I give you this, sir? I believe it is yours." After a brief glance at the ticket inside, Karswell uttered the hoped-for response, "Yes, it is; much obliged to you, sir," and he placed it in his breast pocket.

Even in the few moments that remained - moments of tense anxiety, for they knew not to what a premature finding of the paper might lead - both men noticed that the carriage seemed to darken about them and to grow warmer; that Karswell was fidgety and oppressed; that he drew the heap of loose coats near to him and cast it back as if it repelled him and that he then sat upright and glanced anxiously at both. They, with sickening anxiety, busied themselves in collecting their belongings; but they both thought that Karswell was on the point of speaking when the train stopped at Dover Town. It was natural that in the short space between town and pier they should both go into the corridor.

At the pier they got out but so empty was the train that they were forced to linger on the platform until Karswell should have passed ahead of them with his porter on the way to the boat, and only then was it safe for them to exchange a pressure of the hand and a word of concentrated congratulation. The effect upon Dunning was to make him almost faint. Harrington made him lean up against the wall, while he himself went forward a few yards within sight of the gangway to the boat at which Karswell had now arrived. The man at the head of it examined his ticket, and, laden with coats he passed down into the boat. Suddenly the official called after him,"You, sir, beg pardon, did the other gentleman show his ticket?" "What the devil do you mean by the other gentleman?" Karswell's snarling voice called back from the deck. The man bent over and looked at him. "The devil? Well, I don't know, I'm sure," Harrington heard him say to himself, and then aloud, "My mistake, sir; must have been your rugs! ask your pardon." And then, to a subordinate near him, "'ad he got a dog with him, or what ? Funny thing: I could 'a' swore 'e wasn't alone. Well, whatever it was, they'll 'ave to see to it aboard. She's off now. Another week and we shall be gettin' the 'oliday customers." In five minutes more there was nothing but the lessening lights of the boat, the long line of the Dover lamps, the night breeze, and the moon.

Long and long the two sat in their room at the'Lord Warden'. In spite of the removal of their greatest anxiety, they were oppressed with a doubt, not of the lightest. Had they been justified in sending a man to his death, as they believed they had? Ought they not to warn him, at least? "No," said Harrington; "if he is the murderer I think him, we have done no more than is just. Still, if you think it better - but how and where can you warn him?" He was booked to Abbeville only," said Dunning. "I saw that. If I wired to the hotels here in Joanne's Guide, " Examine your ticket-case, Dunning," I should feel happier. This is the 21st: he will have a day. But I am afraid he has gone into the dark." So telegrams were left at the hotel office.

It is not clear whether these reached their destination or whether, if they did, they were understood. All that is known is that on the afternoon of the 23rd, an English traveller, examining the front of St Wulfram's Church at Abbeville, then under extensive repair, was struck on the head and instantly killed by a stone falling from the scaffold erected round the north-western tower, there being, as was clearly proved, no workman on the scaffold at that moment: and the traveller's papers identified him as Mr Karswell.

Only one detail shall be added. At Karswell's sale a set of Bewick, sold with all faults, was acquired by Harrington. The page with the woodcut of the traveller and the demon was, as he had expected, mutilated. Also, after a judicious interval, Harrington repeated to Dunning something of what he had heard his brother say in his sleep: but it was not long before Dunning stopped him.

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@ dimetrodone

I think there is a fine difference between people who write darker fiction and people who indulge themselves in creepy shit and write incest and pedophilic “ships”, the latter being the context I usually see “antis” get thrown around in…

Saw this ping but it was 5 am so I didn’t reply immediately.  I apologize if this reply is disjointed; this is something I think about a lot.

Anyway, I’ve seen it go both ways.  I am not actually anti “anti” and I think they have some good points, but I’ve also seen a longtime friend called a rapist and rape apologist for writing noncon fics.  Now, full disclosure: noncon squicks me pretty badly.  In my opinion people are being irresponsible if they don’t clearly tag and warn for noncon and aren’t very upfront about what’s in the fic.  But moving from that to calling someone who writes a fic including noncon scenes a rapist/rape apologist is going way too far, as is going to the blogs of people who reblog their posts to call them a rapist and rape apologist.  That is harassment and it’s not a good look on anybody.

Also, I have to ask, what are you defining as a “pedophilic ship”?  Because I see it used interchangeably to describe ships involving young children, and ships involving teens, two 16 year olds or a 17 year old and a 25 year old and etc etc.  

There is a LOT to talk about and unpack regarding the sexualization of teens in our culture, which is something that I agree is really wrong.  There’s a lot that contributes to it and it is a terrible problem in real life.  However, a fanfic depicting a teenager in a sexual situation is not pedophilia and it’s incendiary and misleading to use that word for it.

Full disclosure: I’ve taught teenagers and to me, they’re very young people on the cusp of adulthood and greater independence.  When I work with them and get to know them I want to protect them and see them explore more of the world and learn more and be safe and well and have good lives.  I can assure you I don’t want to have sex with them and if they were in a sexual relationship with an adult especially, I’d feel obligated to do something, report it or whatever.  

I’ve also shipped fictional teenagers with each other, and with fictional adults, and with fictional immortals who happen to look like hot 25 year olds.

It’s my responsibility to make it clear that I understand the divide between real life and fiction there, and I think that I do.  I don’t mind the ships and tropes I like being critiqued, even harshly critiqued - we all have a lot to learn.  I’m not trying to put off responsibility for that and esp on a platform like tumblr, where things get lost and pushed down the dash and we can’t sticky posts or anything, I don’t think it’s unreasonable for people to be asked what they actually feel about problematic tropes splashing over into real life.

Tangent: I think the argument that fans turning on fans for writing and liking problematic stuff is not... effective or helpful holds some water, actually.  Like, published work pushed on a wide audience should be held to highest standards and critiqued harshly.  Drag GRRM for his weird fixation on noncon and his portrayal of an incestuous relationship between Cersei and Jaime.  Trashing Suzy Q. Ficwriter for her tropey incest fic is not going to make a big net change for good in the world though.  If she hasn’t tagged it and warned appropriately, tell her to fucking do that, b ut otherwise, I think fandom should focus on punching up against popular creators and publishers who propagate these bad and nasty tropes.

This isn’t to say that I don’t think there are any predators writing fic including incest or teenage characters having sex - I think there are.  And as an adult in fandom now, I would want to tell the teens in fandom to be careful and wary of adults, to get out of the conversation if it became sexual, and that what they saw in fiction was not something they should seek to emulate in real life.  But I think there are bullies and awful people on the “anti” side too, and I think it’s disingenuous to act like someone couldn’t use that stance to bully others and be abusive towards them (even people who were on their own side).

Dialogue is a good thing in fandom.  Critique is a good thing.  I genuinely think “antis” make some good points.  But there are bad outliers in both communities and just in general, I think it’s a matter with slightly more nuance to it than @bogleech ‘s original post reflected.

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Contest! - Who can find the most lies in this Neil Salonen interview? - Good luck!

http://www.tparents.org/UTS/DoH3/DoH3-3f.pdf

Washington Star

September 18, 1976

Neil Salonen was interviewed by Washington Star Staff Writer Gloria Borger

Page 7

Q: One of the keystones of the Moon movement is the divine principle. Can you explain that?

A: The divine principle is basically a deeper understanding of the nature of God...We never think in terms of which are the right religions and which are the wrong religions...

Q: What is Rev. Moon's role in the divine principle other than formulating it?

A: We believe that he is a prophet playing a role at this time similar to that of John the Baptist. It's entirely possible that if he can fulfill that mission we believe at that time God will then ordain someone to be the Messiah. We believe that that's a possible role for him but we don't believe that its already been decided.

Q: Do vou think it's possible or probable?

A: Possible.

Q: Do vou put a time limit on this?

A: We think it has to be decided in this century...We're a little early in the messianic age...So we feel that within Rev. Moon's life time, he will make some conclusive announcement. But at this time he hasn't revealed his role because it's evolving.

Q: Do you think he knows?

A: You have to ask him...

Q: What of the controversy about what the church does to the family? There are those who say that when children go into the church they are brainwashed and they never see their families again.

A: The essence of our teaching...we strongly believe that the family is the essence of God on earth...So, we emphasize close families and we realize that something different has to be done...I would say the basic purpose of the Unification Church is not to create just individuals who are centered upon God but families who are centered upon God.

Q: What about the people who complain that they are never able to see their children that they don't know where they are?

A: I believe, first of all. that in most cases there was already a strain in the family relationship before they ever joined the church. And rather than accept any responsibility for that they displace it and try to find and use the church as a scapegoat.

Q: How do you respond to the charges that the weekends that members spend with new members are brainwashing sessions weekends of indoctrination when, for 96 hours, people are not allowed to sleep?

A:...we want to give them an in depth view of the church...they can leave at any time. I don't think we use anything other than standard educational techniques and I've never heard anybody say seriously otherwise...they feel the need to rationalize the pull they (still) feel. But, I don't think we imbedded that feeling.

Q: There have been allegations that the church is really connected with the Korean CIA, and that Rev. Moon is trying to gain political power in the United States and that is his real purpose. What do you have to say about that?

A: Our church has absolutely no political goals and we have no special affiliation with the Korean government or any government, including our own...we do have a ministry on Capitol Hill. They have never at any time lobbied a single individual on anything.

Q: You are the president of the Freedom Leadership Foundation and a former FLF president charges that when he was in charge the organization was really a political group lobbying for South Korea and was very active politically on Capitol Hill.

A: I'm familiar with his having said something like that. Well, it's not true...We have no religious attachment to Vietnam but we have really committed ourself to educational campaigns about Vietnam...we didn't get involved in all the political odds and ends and small points...

Q: The Washington Monument rally has been billed as Rev. Moon's last major statement in the United States. What does that mean?

A:...After this rally we have no other plan for the continuation of his public ministry...He will, of course, continue to attend some affairs here in particular we have the science conference in November here in Washington...

Q: What about his beautiful estate at Tarrytown. Hasn't that become home?

A:...Tarrytown is not his hometown...I think he'd like to go back to Korea.

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Education

San Diego Unified will launch online instruction and grading by April 27

San Diego Unified will officially start conducting school online beginning on April 27.

It is one of the first large area districts to announce a plan to return to grading and formal instruction.

“San Diego Unified will return to instruction next month to guarantee students an opportunity to successfully complete the current academic year, even as physical school facilities will remain closed until public health officials determine it is safe for students to return to classrooms,” the district said in a statement Tuesday.

The district’s plan is meant to answer the concerns of many students about whether they’ll be able to finish the school year or complete course credits to move on to the next grade or graduate.

“The schedule outlined today by the district will give members of the Class of 2020 the assurance they need that they will graduate, whether or not public health officials approve a return to in-classroom instruction,” the district of 103,000 students said in the statement.

The timeline means most students will get about six weeks of formal instruction for the rest of the school year, which for most students ends on June 9.

San Diego Unified School Board Vice President Richard Barrera acknowledged that students will be losing several weeks of official instruction but said that the current circumstances make it impossible to replicate a normal education.

“Of course parents have every right to be concerned and students have every right to be concerned,” Barrera said. “What we’re doing is we’re providing the best possible educational program that we can to students under the circumstances that we’re in. So we need to be crystal clear that this is not in any way even close to what they would get if the schools were open.”

The district’s plan is to launch a “revised online learning system” that will allow for interaction with professional educators, San Diego Unified Superintendent Cindy Marten said in a letter to families Tuesday.

The plan assumes students and staff will not return to physical school sites by April 6, which was the original re-open date San Diego Unified set. Barrera said the district is preparing as if schools will remain closed for the rest of the school year.

On April 6, after the district’s spring break ends, there will be an online learning “soft launch” where teachers will start receiving training on how to transition to online instruction, according to the district’s plan.

Some of that training will focus on how to serve students with disabilities and English learners in an online format, Barrera said.

Teachers also will start working with students remotely and identifying students “who are unable to take part.”

Barrera said he expects that many teachers who are already comfortable with online tools will start providing instruction to students much earlier than April 27. He said students will still be learning during the soft launch; their work just won’t be graded.

During the soft launch, district officials also plan to distribute about 40,000 district-owned laptops and corresponding WiFi hotspots to students who need them, Barrera said.

Academic work will not be graded for credit during the soft launch but it will count toward students’ progress in their courses.

“We don’t want to get the graded assignments until we’re at the point that all students have access to the program,” Barrera said.

Grading and formal instruction will begin three weeks later, on April 27, for most students.

For the 10 percent of students who attend schools that are on a year-long calendar, full online instruction and grading will begin on May 11. The spring break for year-long students lasts until April 27.

Because of the shortened timeline, teachers will have to cut down on the content they otherwise would have taught and prioritize content that is “absolutely essential,” Barrera said.

Students should not be expected to do a full school day’s worth of work online every weekday either, Barrera said, because that much screen time wouldn’t be healthy or realistic for students.

The district has not been requiring teachers to give any mandatory schoolwork for credit or assignments since it closed all schools starting last Monday.

“Nobody’s taking attendance right now, nobody’s doing mandatory assignments right now. Everyone’s just making sure they’re safe and that their families are safe,” Marten said in an interview Friday.

The district and individual teachers have been encouraging students to use optional enrichment resources, including daily lesson plans the district has published online for each grade level and daily educational TV programming offered through a partnership with KPBS.

Many teachers have been reaching out to students on their own, but there has been no official directive to ensure that all of their students are completing schoolwork.

District officials say it will be difficult to switch entirely to distance learning partly because it will require preparing teachers who have been trained to provide classroom-only instruction for their whole careers.

“How do you flip the switch and turn it into distance learning overnight? That’s a tremendous challenge that we are up for,” Marten said.

When it comes to grading, completing courses and fulfilling graduation requirements, Marten said she expects the rules will need to be re-shaped because these school closures are unprecedented, and essentially all of the country’s schools are in the same boat in terms of being unable to complete the school year normally.

“Let’s not anybody fool themselves into thinking this is a traditional school day or a traditional school year. What’s happening right now is nothing close to traditional,” she said. “The context has changed so much.” *Reposted article from the UT by Kristen Taketa of March 24, 2020

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Faces of Cedars-Sinai: Vascular Surgeon Ali Azizzadeh

Meet Dr. Ali Azizzadeh, director of the Division of Vascular Surgery at Cedars-Sinai. He moved from Houston to LA in 2017 to join the Smidt Heart Institute.

We sat down with Dr. Azizzadeh to learn more about his work at Cedars-Sinai, the future of vascular surgery, and how he’s settling into LA.

What does a vascular surgeon do?

Dr. Azizzadeh: We deal with vascular diseases, which are diseases that affect your body’s network of blood vessels. They can affect every part of the body that receives blood flow and anybody can have them.

Read: Faces of Cedars-Sinai: Urologist Jennifer Anger

How did you come to Cedars-Sinai?

Dr. Azizzadeh: After I finished my general surgery training at UT Health in Houston, I went to Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis, which was one of the early places that adopted a minimally invasive technique for vascular surgery.

I returned to Houston and started their minimally invasive program. Cedars-Sinai recruited me to build the vascular component of the successful Smidt Heart Institute, and I’ve been here for 14 months now.

What does your average day look like?

Dr. Azizzadeh: Most days, I am in the operating room, typically doing 2-3 procedures a day to fix blood vessels. One day a week, I see patients in clinic. And then in between, I work on my research as well as my educational duties with our residents.

What inspired you to pursue this career?

Dr. Azizzadeh: I’ve liked science since I was a kid, and it just made sense for me to follow this path.

I’m also a people person, so medicine was a natural choice because it combined two of my interests.

Read: Who Should Seek Genetic Testing for Heart Disease?

What do you do when you’re not here at the hospital?

Dr. Azizzadeh: Right now, I’m very busy remodeling my new home, so that takes up all my free time. But otherwise, I love working out—my favorites are weight training and yoga.

What do you think you would be doing if you weren’t a vascular surgeon?

Dr. Azizzadeh: I really love architecture and my dad’s an architect, so maybe I would pursue that.

What’s your favorite Los Angeles-area spot?

Dr. Azizzadeh: One of my favorite spots is Laguna Beach—I just think there’s something therapeutic about that whole area. It’s so peaceful and I love spending time there. I spent a lot of summers there during my teenage years when I came to California to visit family.

What excites you about the future?

Dr. Azizzadeh: It is unbelievable how far we’ve come in just my professional career. Almost everything we do in vascular surgery has been completely replaced by a newer technology during my professional career. I think the pace of progress that we have in science is just incredible.

Read: Heart Attack, Cardiac Arrest, Heart Failure—What’s the Difference?

How do you survive LA traffic?

Dr. Azizzadeh: I live very close, so my commute is only 15 minutes. I very rarely have to get on the freeway, and that’s a blessing.

What’s the best part of your job?

Dr. Azizzadeh: The best part of my job is the immediate satisfaction you get from fixing a problem and seeing the results right then. For example, if you have diabetes, you can’t just go to the doctor and get cured that day. But if you have an aneurysm, you can have a procedure and 2 hours later, you’re cured.

What advice do you live by?

Dr. Azizzadeh: Never give up. A lot of times, we receive cases where somebody says, “We can’t fix this. This is not doable.” We don’t give up—we go the extra mile.

You can follow Dr. Azizzadeh on Twitter.

Source: https://bloghyped.com/faces-of-cedars-sinai-vascular-surgeon-ali-azizzadeh/

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Affirmative Action—Yet Again—Under Attack

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  Here we go again. Every few years, the debate over affirmative action is resurrected and the accusations of “reverse racism,” the myth of an American meritocracy, and the role of race and class return to fight another day. Now affirmative action is back in the news after the New York Times reported that an internal document was distributed to Justice Department officials in the civil rights department seeking lawyers to pursue “investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions.” The Justice Department has been involved in such cases during the Reagan administration as well as both Bush administrations, so it’s not too much of a surprise that under Sessions the DOJ would again involve itself in race-conscious admissions policies. Since the initial New York Times story was published, the Justice Department has clarified that they intend to investigate claims that some of these admissions policies, at schools such as Harvard, have a discriminatory effect on Asian-American students. We’ll come back to Harvard later, but first let’s take a step back for a moment to talk about what affirmative action in college admissions actually is and what it is not. 

  Race-conscious admissions is a type of affirmative action intended to build more diverse campuses and provide greater opportunities to disadvantaged minorities. Affirmative action is not, as apparently many people believe, a policy that provides a free college education for black students (black students actually tend to graduate with more debt than their white counterparts). It simply allows colleges in many states to consider race as one of many factors in the admissions process. The practice is also not as common as it once was. Race-based admission policies have markedly decreased in the past twenty years and only effect a small percentage of students these days. Most of America’s over 4,700 schools are not considered “selective,” which is to say they accept more than 85 percent of their applicants. In 1994, 60 percent of the selective schools considered race in their admissions process. Today, only around 35 percent consider race. Race-based consideration is most popular amongst the 63 colleges deemed the “most competitive.” In 1994, 93 percent of those “most competitive” schools considered race; today it is 88 percent. Ultimately, affirmative action is only an issue at the top universities, for around 6 percent of students nationwide. It cannot be ignored, however, that these prestigious and competitive colleges are often the gateway to prestigious and competitive jobs in government, media and powerful corporations — the gateway to the echelons of power that are still largely populated by wealthy white men.

  The Supreme Court has taken on several cases on this particular issue, starting with Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke in 1978. The Court has repeatedly held that race can be considered in the admissions process so long as quotas are not used, that race is only one of many factors under consideration, and that diversity is a compelling interest — which it clearly is, when you’re talking about the most selective schools funneling their graduates into top-tier careers. The last round of this fight was only a year ago when the Supreme Court sided with the University of Texas in a suit brought by the now infamous “Becky with the Bad Grades” Abigail Fisher, a case that was bankrolled by anti-affirmative action advocate Edward Blum (Blum is also bankrolling the plaintiff in the Harvard case). Fisher claimed that she was not admitted to UT because she was white, and that her spot was taken by minority students. In fact, she was not admitted because she did not meet the academic requirements, rather than on the basis of her race. The Court upheld previous rulings and determined that UT was allowed to use race as one of many factors in a “holistic admissions” process.

  Other factors considered by these colleges include academic achievement in the form of grades and standardized test scores, athletic and artistic prowess, commitment to public service, overcoming difficult life circumstances, and legacy status. Many of these factors privilege wealthier students. Obviously, legacy status — that is, if one of your parents went to Harvard you have a better chance of getting in yourself — continues to have significant sway over the admissions process in the present day. Alternatively, money always talks — ask Jared Kushner, whose father paid $2.5 million to get him into Harvard. Despite that according to an administrator at Kushner’s high school, “There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard… His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted.” A very rich parent is always a great way to get into a school when you don’t have the grades. Similarly, standardized tests have repeatedly been demonstrated to carry their own bias as well, as white students generally perform better on these exams than black and Latinx students, especially those who speak English as a second language. Wealthier students also tend to do better on such exams, as their parents can afford expensive test preparation courses and/or multiple attempts at expensive exams. Middle and upper-class students are more likely to have the free time and transportation to volunteer or otherwise engage in community services. It’s difficult to be involved in extracurricular activities or volunteer work when your family is counting on your paycheck as well as your parents. Athletic and music training also require time and money that many low-income students just don’t have.

  These socio-economic factors apply across racial lines as well. Students of color that attend these highly selective colleges are more often from wealthier families and elite backgrounds as well. While people of all groups experience poverty, in general, white and Asian-American families tend to have higher incomes than black and a Latinx families. This is the primary issue with the lawsuit against Harvard. The data being utilized by Blum’s plaintiff compares only test scores, and no other factors when analyzing admissions for Asian-Americans, and have been accused of ignoring Asian-American populations that benefit from affirmative action policies. Other experts in affirmative action law and race studies doubt the sincerity of Blum’s and the DOJ’s sudden concern for Asian-Americans. For many, the claims made by Blum and the DOJ come across as an unconvincing smokescreen to justify rolling back efforts at racial equality so as to reassert the dominance of and preference for white men in the college admissions process.

  Class-based affirmative action systems have been considered with these myriad factors and concerns in mind, but they ultimately result in reduction in black and Latinx enrollment. Despite that black and Latinx families are more likely to live in poverty, their smaller respective percentages when compared to the population mean that there are more white families living in poverty as a whole, just not as a percentage of their populations. This results in an admission preference for white students at the expense of black and Latinx students in the absence of race-conscious admissions. The goal of affirmative action in college admissions is to mitigate some of the damage done to minority populations by Jim Crow policies, redlining, blockbusting, hiring and education discrimination, and other injustices to level the field a little bit every generation until that one magical day where we live in the color blind society that conservatives believe we already do and such policies become unnecessary. A combination of race-conscious and class-conscious admissions are necessary to level that playing field, even if it means Abigail Fisher had to go to LSU instead of UT, or Jared Kushner doesn’t get a spot at Harvard as a result of his father’s influence with cold hard cash.

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The Smart Way to Find Windshield Replacement Services in Salt Lake City UT

You have to understand that regardless what you do in life, there are always two ways to do things. This has consistently been the case. This was true in the past; this is true now; and it will probably continue to be true long into the future. You can always choose to do things the right way and the wrong way. Now, this might seem obvious to you, but it really is mind-blowing how many people insist on doing things the wrong way. For some reason or other, people tend to stumble into their decision, and they end up paying twice as much and encountering twice as much headache as they could have done otherwise if they had only chosen to do things the correct way from the get-go.

Believe it or not, choosing to do things the right way and the wrong way also tends to be doing things the easy way and the hard way. When you choose to take the wrong path, not only do you end up wasting your time, but you also end up wasting a lot of money in the process. Talk about doing things in the hardest way possible. I do not know about you, but if you are the typical busy American, time is a luxury to you. You probably would be better off doing other things than hassling about that task that you are worrying about.

The easiest approach when it comes to windshield replacement, and other tasks is simply to reverse engineer what other people have done. In other words, rely on conventional wisdom. Look at the traditional experience regarding the thing you are trying to do and benefit from other people’s experiences. This is the smart and easy way to do things because instead of committing mistakes on a first-hand basis, you learn to avoid other people’s mistakes and build on their correct decisions. Sounds good so far, right?

Well, when it comes to finding windshield replacement services in Salt Lake City UT, you only need to use this reverse engineering approach. This is the easiest way and the smartest way combined. Put simply, you need to find suppliers of auto glass Salt Lake City car owners would trust. By using this standard, you increase the likelihood that you would be making the right call, and you would no longer have to hassle with the waste of time and money of having a windshield replaced and afterwards getting it taken out again and then replaced and on and on it goes. It is like stepping into a rabbit hole. Who needs that?

As awesome as this idea sounds, there is quite a bit of subjectivity to it. You basically have to step into the mind frame of Salt Lake City car owners and look at the situation from their point of view. This is not always easy to do. You have to understand that there are too many people out there, and it is anybody’s guess what kind of parameters they subjectively have on a person-to-person basis.

Auto Glass Standards

Thankfully, there is an objective standard. Regardless of how different we are from each other and how many distinct experiences we bring to the table, there are just certain things that we could all agree on. By focusing on these objective standards, we can go a long way in making sure that we get the right suppliers of auto glass Salt Lake City owners would trust.

Clear Pricing

Truly professional organizations are not going to screw around with you when it comes to pricing. They are not the type of organization that would tell you verbally about one price, and once they show up physically at your place of business or at your home, they tell you a totally different price. They do not play those games. They have clear pricing from the beginning, during and after the service.

Great Selection

Truly professional installers of auto glass in the Salt Lake City area and elsewhere will at least go through the effort of giving you some sort of selection. The more selection, the better. While in most cases customers defer to the recommendation of the company, it helps tremendously to have at least some sort of choice. You need as much choices as possible because this lets you know that you are somehow, some way in control of the process. You do not want to get that feeling that your arm is being twisted, or you are just being railroaded into some sort of product choice.

Quick On-Site Appointments

The moment you put down the phone after setting up an appointment, the clock regarding when the window replacement professional would get to your place of business or residence. If they show up on time, this means that they are truly professional. This means that they respect you enough to bother with showing up on time at least. Moreover, this says volumes about how much they value their own time.

Fast Installation

Simply showing up at your place or at your work as soon as possible is not enough. While it does play a big role in determining how professional the outfit is, you have to look at how quickly they work. You have to understand that when a company does a really fast job of installing anything in your house or in your car, it lets you know, in no uncertain terms, that this company has been around the block. They know what they are doing; they know how to connect the dots; and they have the power of experience. Compare this situation with somebody who is wet behind the ears and is trying to feel their way around. It can be a total mess. Furthermore, it can be a waste of both your time and that person’s time. Look for fast installation if you are serious about doing business only true professionals.

Insurance Assistance with Warranty

Make no mistake about it if your windshield got damaged because of a collision or some sort of theft or some other non-collision related coverage, dealing with your insurance company is like going to the dentist. It really can be that unpleasant. You have to fill out a lot of forms. In many cases, you have to ship papers from point A to point B. it is a headache. Worst of all, you have better things to do with your time. You have better things to work on; you probably have more fulfilling and satisfying things in mind.

This is why it is really important to get your windshield replacements done by a Salt Lake City company that has a fixed procedure for dealing with insurance companies. This takes quite a bit of the headaches and hassles out of the process. On top of all this, the company should offer some kind of warranty. Now, it may be unreasonable to insist on a very, very long warranty; however, the fact that the company offers some sort of warranty should be a positive in your eyes because at the very least, the company is confident of the work they do.

Be very careful of companies that do not give fairly substantial warranties. This means that they are not very confident about the quality of their work. Think of it this way. If they do not trust the quality of their work, why should you?