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Value-Based Purchasing and "Free Lunch Syndrome"
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By KIP SULLIVAN
Imagine that a drug company released a "study" that claimed to find that if all 75 million Americans with high blood pressure took the drug company's hypertension drug the nation's annual medical expenditures would drop by $20 billion. Imagine as well that the "study" failed to take into account the $40 billion cost to patients and insurers of buying all those hypertension drugs. Such a study would be roundly criticized for failing to take into account an essential component of cost – the cost of the intervention that led to lower medical expenditures.
But studies like the hypothetical drug company study appear constantly in the health policy literature. Almost all peer-reviewed papers that examine managed-care interventions – HMOs, ACOs, "medical homes," "value-based purchasing," etc – fail to report the cost of the intervention. Instead, they measure only medical costs or medical utilization rates. If they find that costs or utilization rates fell, the vast majority of studies imply or come right out and claim that "costs" went down. This unethical practice is so widespread and so chronic I propose we give it a name. I propose we call it the "free lunch syndrome."
In this post I will present four case studies of the free lunch syndrome. The four studies I will examine were written by experts affiliated with Harvard, the Commonwealth Fund, and other well known institutions, and were published in highly regarded journals. They examined managed care proposals elevated to law-of-the-land status by the Affordable Care Act. I will close with a call for research on the incentives that induce so many health policy experts to commit the same mistake over and over.
Hospital readmissions and the free lunch syndrome
Case study number one is a paper on Medicare's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) published in the December 2016 Annals of Internal Medicine. The authors, Jason Wasfy et al., reported evidence that the program has caused reductions in 30-day readmissions of patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), congestive heart failure (CHF), and pneumonia. In a blog comment posted a few days after their paper was published, Wasfy et al. claimed, "Our research suggests that penalties such as those imposed by the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program can play important roles in improving performance [and] lowering costs…."
But Wasfy et al. made no effort to determine what it cost the hospitals to achieve these reductions and whether patient health was improved. Nevertheless, the authors thought it was ethical to claim the HRRP program is "improving performance [and] lowering costs."
Commonsense and anecdotal evidence tells us that whatever hospitals did to lower readmissions was not performed by elves working for free. Whatever it was the hospitals did (Wasfy et al. admitted they had no idea what that was) cost money.
I wish I could offer you peer-reviewed evidence on what it is the hospitals did to reduce readmissions after July 9, 2009, which is when CMS added AMI, CHF and pneumonia readmission rates to its Hospital Compare Website, or after October 1, 2012, which is when CMS started punishing hospitals for "excessive" AMI, CHF and pneumonia readmissions. But I can't. US policy-makers and health policy analysts are relentlessly incurious about the costs that pay-for-performance and other managed care schemes force providers to incur. I can, however, offer anecdotes. Here are two.
On October 5, 2012, four days after CMS begin punishing hospitals for "excessive" readmissions under the HRRP, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission met to discuss yet another evidence-free, "value-based payment" fad – punishing hospitals for "potentially preventable admissions." Near the end of the meeting Commissioner Peter Butler, a recently retired executive of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, offered three examples of interventions hospitals deploy when "value-based payment" schemes are imposed on them. Here are the last two:
Another situation, 25 years ago I was in, where you had a very highly incented, primary care motivated, capitated Medicare product…. [T]he ER doctors called the participating primary care physician to come in … before it registered an ED visit to help avoid the admission. It was almost – it was over the top. And if they didn't get there within the 20 minutes, it converted to an ED visit. I mean, it literally was that kind of management, suggesting the payer incentives do make a difference, to an extreme in that situation.
The third situation, I was in [was] a large capitated system. We actually had chest pain clinics set up in ED … to manage the capitated business to help avoid the admission. [pp 137-138, transcript of October 5, 2012 meeting ]
Butler's anecdotes confirm what anyone with common sense knows – hospital responses to the HRRP and other P4P schemes create costs for someone. The lunch is not free. [1]
ACOs and the free lunch syndrome
Another 2016 Annals of Internal Medicine paper is the subject of my second case study. This paper bore the extremely misleading title, "Savings from ACOs – building on early success." The author was J. Michael McWilliams. I have already criticized McWilliams for modeling a simulated version of Medicare's MSSP ACO program and claiming he studied the real program (see my last post on THCB). Now I have an additional criticism to make: McWilliams has free lunch disease.
McWilliams begins "Savings from ACOs" by claiming Medicare's MSSP ACO program cut Medicare's costs by 0.7 percent in 2014 (after taking into account CMS's bonus payments to the ACOs). His only authority for this is his ACO simulation study , the one I criticized in my last post. According to the CMS data I quoted in that post, the actual MSSP program did not cut Medicare's costs by 0.7 percent as McWilliams would have us believe, but rather raised Medicare's costs by roughly two-tenths of a percent over the 2012-2015 period.
After citing that 0.7-percent simulated savings figure, McWilliams steps deeper into the simulated reality he has constructed by arguing that his 0.7 percent estimate is actually an underestimate, and that the "real" (simulated) savings figure is 1.6 percent. McWilliams presents three arguments for this claim:
(1) "ACO contracts probably also affect care of patients that are served by ACOs but not attributed to [them]";
(2) "ACO spending reductions … reduce ACO benchmarks [for succeeding years]"; and
(3) "Spending reductions by ACOs similarly lower Medicare Advantage spending because payments to Medicare Advantage plans are tied directly to local fee-for-service spending."
Arguments 1 and 2 are debatable (we have no evidence that ACOs apply ACO magic to all their attributed patients; we have only mixed and debatable evidence for the argument that non-ACO providers adopt ACO magic; and we have no reason to believe that ACOs will continue to participate in ACO programs if insurers keep driving benchmarks down year after year). But for now let's assume all three arguments are valid and examine two more fundamental defects in McWilliams' claim.
First, as I noted above, real-world MSSP ACOs drove Medicare's costs up, not down. If we apply McWilliams' three creative arguments to the higher costs generated by the real-world MSSP ACOs, we may conclude the ACOs raised Medicare's costs by more than double the two-tenths of a percent reported by CMS, or roughly half a percent. Second, McWilliams labors under the free lunch illusion: He thinks that whatever it is ACOs do to lower medical spending, they do with doctors and nurses who work for free, computers that cost nothing to buy and run, etc.
I wish I could tell you we have excellent research on what it costs ACOs to start up and maintain operations, but, as is the case with the intervention costs of hospitals responding to the HRRP program, I must report that ACO advocates and analysts do not give a fig about ACO start-up and maintenance costs. They have spilled oceans of ink about the tiny effect ACOs have had on medical costs (and a thimbleful of quality measures), but for some reason they just can't find the time to report on the start-up and overhead costs ACOs incur to achieve those tiny effects. [2]
I can, however, report that MedPAC's staff tells MedPAC that ACO intervention costs equal 1 to 2 percent of ACO medical spending. [3] If we add that 1-to-2 percent to the half-percent increase in the real-world Medicare costs we derived from McWilliams' clever arguments, the total damage to the health care system (not just Medicare) is 1.5 to 2.5 percent – half a percent increase in the real-world costs incurred by Medicare plus 1 to 2 percent in costs incurred by the ACOs. [4]
ACOs, "medical homes" and the free lunch syndrome
My third case study is a paper published in 2015 in the New England Journal of Medicine by David Blumenthal and two of his colleagues at the Commonwealth Fund which reviewed the impact of the Affordable Care Act five years after its enactment. In that paper Blumenthal et al. manifested an unusually severe case of the free lunch syndrome. Blumenthal et al. claimed the Pioneer and MSSP ACO programs, and CMS's Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative (CPCI,"medical home") demonstration, had all saved money, and they quoted specific dollar figures for each of the three programs. But in all three cases, the dollar figures represented gross savings only. If Blumenthal et al. had bothered to take into account CMS's payments to the ACOs and "homes," they would have had to report much lower savings for the Pioneer ACOs and that the MSSP and "home" programs actually raised Medicare's costs. And when costs incurred by ACOs and "homes" are taken into account, even the Pioneer ACOs are probably raising total costs.
Here is an example of Blumenthal et al.'s free-lunch logic. They stated the CPCI "has reduced monthly Medicare expenditures per beneficiary by $14, or 2 percent," but conveniently failed to mention that CMS paid the "homes" $20 per beneficiary and the net effect, therefore, was a loss for CMS (see p. xvi of Mathematica's first-year evaluation , the very document Blumenthal et al. cited). Free lunch disease does not get much worse than this.
When Ted Marmor and I submitted a letter to NEJM pointing out that Blumenthal et al. failed to mention CMS's payments to ACOs and "homes," Blumenthal et al. replied with more disingenuous arguments. They claimed that they did mention the $20 per beneficiary payment in an online appendix to their article and, in defense of their free-lunch ACO "savings" estimates, they misrepresented a CMS document Ted and I cited. [5] They just could not bring themselves to discuss the issue Ted and I raised, namely, it is extremely misleading to conceal or ignore the intervention costs of ACOs and "homes" and to claim that the gross savings represent net savings or losses.
The Alternative Quality Contract and the free lunch syndrome
My last case study examines a 2012 Health Affairs paper by Zirui Song and seven colleagues. In this paper, Song et al. claimed repeatedly that the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), an ACO set up by Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Massachusetts in 2009, "lowered medical spending."
Like Blumenthal et al., Song et al. failed to measure (1) the shared-savings and other payments BCBS made to the participating physician groups and (2) the costs those groups incurred to provide whatever services it is ACOs provide. However, unlike Blumenthal et al., Song et al. had the integrity not only to mention the bonuses and other payments BCBS made to providers, but to say as well that those payments "probably" exceeded the reductions in medical costs. "[T]otal payments to groups from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, including surplus sharing, quality bonuses, and infrastructure support, probably exceeded the savings achieved by most groups that year," wrote the authors.
But despite having the backbone to warn readers BCBS's payments to providers "probably" exceeded the reductions in medical costs, Song et al. couldn't refrain from stating repeatedly – first in the title, then in the abstract, and then in the text – that the AQC cut "spending." And when Song et al. were challenged by a letter to Health Affairs from Rachel Nardin et al., Song and co-author Michael Chernew responded with bafflegab. In their letter, Nardin et al. noted what I have just stated – that Song et al. claimed BCBS's "spending" went down when in fact, as Nardin et al. put it, "[BCBS's] total costs under the AQC went up by some undisclosed amount, not down."
But like Blumenthal et al., Song and Chernew just refused to concede that conflating gross with net spending is misleading and that a few edits would have avoided this problem. Instead, Song and Chernew argued that conflating medical with total spending is ok because (forgive me, this will make no sense, but I'm merely the messenger here) readers want to know how physician "behavior" changes in response to ACO incentives, and readers can't know that unless Song et al. celebrate the reduction in medical spending and ignore or downplay the intervention costs.
This is free lunch disease in its worst form. How is the paper by Song et al., and Song and Chernew's response, any different from the laughable hypothetical drug "study" I described at the outset? It isn't. Like the hypothetical drug company, Song et al. went out of their way to induce readers to think the intervention in question created net savings when in fact the reverse happened – total spending went up when the intervention costs were included – and when they were challenged, they dodged the issue and spouted nonsense.
Etiology of free lunch disease
The relentless spread of free lunch syndrome among "value-based payment" advocates and allegedly objective analysts cries out for analysis. What causes this form of groupthink? What are the incentives that cause so many intelligent men and women to pretend that the extra services provided by ACOs, "homes" and other creatures from the managed care menagerie are free or are so inexpensive they can be ignored?
Most analysts who publish in health policy journals, especially ACO proponents, are obsessed with incentives, especially financial incentives. They routinely accuse doctors and hospitals of caving in to financial incentives at the expense of payers and patients. But managed care proponents show utterly no interest in looking in the mirror and asking what incentives influence their profession and whether those incentives might be warping their judgment. The prevalence of the free lunch syndrome is circumstantial evidence that health policy entrepreneurs and analysts are influenced by a common incentive or set of incentives. I believe money, tenure, and status are among those incentives. Research on my hypothesis is at least as important as research on the incentives that influence physicians and hospitals. I urge the health policy community, including the foundations and other institutions that finance health policy research, to get on with it.
[1] Here is another comment by a hospital executive about hospital responses to "value-based performance" schemes. The executive in this case was Dr. Lara Gotein, medical director at Christus St Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In a 2014 article in JAMA Internal Medicine in which she commented on a paper that reported on the perceptions of CMS's "quality" measures held by hospital executives, Dr. Gotein observed that hospital responses to the HRRP and other P4P schemes include short-changing patients whose care is not being measured, and changing coding and documentation policies. "Lindenauer et al surveyed hospital leaders (chief executive officers and executives responsible for quality) about publicly reported quality measures required by the CMS," wrote Gotein. "Although most respondents said that they used the measures extensively, more than half were concerned that the measures encouraged teaching to the test, and almost half reported trying to maximize performance primarily through changes in documentation and coding."
[2] We do have some gray-literature reports on absolute sums of money ACOs incur to start up and maintain ACOs, but to my knowledge no one has translated those estimates into percent-of-medical-spending estimates.
[3] Here is an example of a statement by MedPAC staff that ACO overhead is 1 to 2 percent of medical spending by the ACO. At the September 11, 2014 MedPAC meeting, commissioner David Nerenz asked MedPAC staffer Jeff Stensland if "we know anything about" ACO "overhead." Stensland replied, "[P]eople we talk to and the data we have seen, it looks like maybe 1 to 2 percent of your spend, that that's what they're spending on their ACO to operate it…." (p. 133 of the transcript ).Stensland also reported, "[I]f you averaged everybody [that is, all ACOs] so far, at least in the first year of the program, the share of savings, on average, that they get is going to be less than their administrative costs of being in it…." (p. 144)
[4] ] Of course, it's possible the ACOs finance some of their 1-to-2-percent by short-changing patients, for example holding ACO "attributees" in hospitals for "observation" instead of admitting them, or driving away sicker "attributees." If hospitals finance all of their 1-to-2 percent overhead costs that way, then total spending in the short-term would not rise. It might rise over the longer term due to the damage done to patient health.
[5] In their New England Journal of Medicine paper about the ACA, Blumenthal et al. claimed CMS's MSSP program had saved $700 million and the Pioneer program $385 million. Both of those numbers were free-lunch numbers – they were gross savings, not net savings to Medicare, and did not take into account ACO start-up and maintenance costs.
In our letter to NEJM, Ted Marmor and I noted that fact and stated that the MSSP program had raised Medicare's costs by 0.2 percent. We cited a 2015 report by CMS's Office of the Actuary (OACT). Rather than simply concede the fact that the MSSP program had raised costs and that they had misled readers by citing gross rather than net figures, Blumenthal et al. claimed that the OACT report concluded "the MSSP have been shown to produce savings…" That was false. I urge readers to go to page 4 of the report and read this statement: "[T]he MSSP beneficiaries in the program's first performance period (covering April 2012 through calendar year 2013) exhibited total spending that was only 0.5 percent below the combined benchmark, or slightly less than the offsetting cost of resulting shared savings payments (net of shared losses) that represented about 0.7 percent of the combined benchmark." If we subtract savings of 0.5 from payments to ACOs of 0.7, we get a loss to Medicare of 0.2 percent.
The OACT report also examined a simulated version of the MSSP which did not simulate shared savings, and reported modest gross savings for the MSSP ACOs. Blumenthal et al. may have been referring to this simulation of gross savings. If they were, they were being doubly disingenuous. Citing a SIMULATION that examined GROSS savings to demonstrate that the REAL-world MSSP achieved NET savings is disingenuous twice over.
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trleith
To Matthew's point about top-down global budgets — as long as the USA has a sovereign currency, it'll never happen. But the bundled payment programs like CJR begin to set individual budgets for common, high-cost interventions. Transplant has been this way for a long time. Dialysis has recently shifted to bundled payment in order to convert drugs from a profit center for the docs into a cost center. AMI, CABG, and SHFFT are on the horizon. It's a start. I have seen how one health system struggles to deal with the CJR program — moving into cardiology will be at… Read more »
LeoHolmMD
Agree, if ACOs are going to work, Primary Care has to be allowed to own it. I think one of the reasons they had poor results is that the wrong groups are implementing and following the same status quo business model of starving Primary Care to feed specialists and hospitals. Can't blame them entirely, revenue streams have not changed that much. A lot of docs in so called value models are still on production based compensation.
Yes, exactly — a lot of initial ACOs are health systems intent on feeding their hospitals, and bloated executive compensation budgets. Permitting primary care docs to actually do the job of teaching their patients would tend, I think, to work against that. Might also work against some specialist income too. Other of them amount to insurers, who have no firm control over anything. The problem for the government is a lot like a surgeon's problem — they have to make structural changes to improve function without killing the patient. The big difference is patients are pretty cooperative with their surgeons… Read more »
Rmcnutt got it. Way to much self serving, self invalidating garbage being sold by the same crowd trying to promote "evidence based" information. You will never be sucessful if you study and promote failure. It is such a farce that CMS and so called "medical societies" will promote these bogus care models and then ignore and actively destroy the providers that are practicing what they are looking for day in and day out.
rmcnutt
I am a clinician, thanks. Private practice oncologist. Nothing cynical about my view, either. Shouldn't we be creating an environment for best science, not expedient science? These papers are being used to support causes and authors defend as cause/effect to payers. We are either going to push for better science or not.
DFH NNY
Thanks for this point-by-point on the intellectual dishonesty dominating Healthcare formerly known as medicine. I sat in a Quality meeting today with our civilian Quality officer to discuss an Outcomes study of time-from-diagnosis-to-treatment for a subset of cancer patients. We're a small community hospital struggling to stay relevant, serving mostly working and ageing poor who are swamped with out of pocket costs, and about to be decimated by loss of regulated health insurance. When we've identified that hiring a few more doctors and nurses to help out these patients, or relieving doctors and nurses of data gathering makework, or heavens,… Read more »
William Palmer MD
Excellent paper, Kip. I agree. Let me give you a slightly less cynical view: when these authors fail to present all the costs of implementation of a new idea, they may not have totally devious motives. They may be young, enthusiastic, excited and thrilled to have found something: incentives, drivers, vectors, partial etiologies, partial derivatives if you will. Lesson: Don't use this paper for policy. Use for occasional bits of information. Accordingly, all the information in such a paper may not be irrelevant or useless. It is like CO2. It is surely a driver of some atmospheric warming, but probably… Read more »
Thank you for nice discussion. To me, this is example of how poorly we do research. I did a fellowship in decision analysis and cost analysis. Leaving out implementation costs of my models would have flunked me. Yet, those who taught me and would have flunked me are publishing these crappy studies. I have claimed, to criticism, that we are lost in medical care. Science is biased; can you imagine the political underpinnings of the groups doing the studies. Conflict of interest is ubiquitous and intertwined with every decision a doctor or researcher makes, at present. The data is collected… Read more »
"I did a fellowship in decision analysis and cost analysis. Leaving out implementation costs of my models would have flunked me. Yet, those who taught me and would have flunked me are publishing these crappy studies. "
Rmcnutt, that is the luxury of being an academic. You can create an expensive system and because of your academic status pass on the costs to others. The system can fail, but instead of losing your job you are likely promoted.
Kip is right but theoretically the cost of process change–which is buried in the CapEX and OpEx of every organization–isn't that great. And as trleith points out in his earlier comment, those hospitals have huge capital reserves built up from a lifetime of noses in the Medicare and private insurance trough. No reason for those process change expenses to be paid out of current care payments. The problem is that the savings are so small from the various ACO experiments that both the bonus payments and the costs incurred in process change make a significant difference between "savings" and "added… Read more »
Jeff Goldsmith
THANK YOU, Kip, for this wonderful post! There are more than a few of us asking the societal ROI question from all this tinkering, and being ignored by policymakers. Of course, you could easily have extended your thesis to Value Based Purchasing, PQRS and Meaningful Use, the pillars of the "bipartisan" MACRA legislation. (MACRA- a habitrail for busy health professionals). The costs you cite that no-one accounts for aren't merely the overhead and consulting expenses of all these new schemes, but the staggering waste of clinician time that diverts physicians from the exam room and ORs and rivets them in… Read more »
Kip, I am another front line doc who LOVES your posts. Great job putting numbers to the reality we face. We are "saving" millions by spending "billions" to show we are saving the "millions." Awesome. Keep up the good work! It is inspiring a very marginalized group of us fighting to stay alive.
John Irvine
I think we should call it "No Free Lunch/Research" Syndrome …
Note: Kip's observation can be applied much more widely to medical and health services research in general, particularly research that is designed to show R.O.I.
Hmmm. Medicare programs like HRRP aren't about saving the hospitals' money, or the doctors' money; they're about saving Medicare's money. Whatever it costs the ACOs to get the desired outcomes, they have to do it within the MLR regulations. Whatever it costs the hospitals, they have to live within their PPS reimbursements. I have a sneakin' hunch the attitude behind what you're calling free lunch syndrome is "you've got plenty of resources — deploy them effectively." I think that's mostly right. The other thing is "incentives are not forever", only until a new standard practice is in place. Then it… Read more »
meltoots
Kip, I absolutely LOVE your posts. As a front line physician, I can see the ridiculousness of the buzzword care and nonsense and massive costs and burdens piled on us. It has rained down so hard, we are barely keeping our heads above water. Its gonna break. The nonsensical, hyper-regulatory climate we are living in, cannot last. I read all kinds of "value based" articles on this blog and its always from those chasing rainbows and unicorns. You put the math and numbers to my argument. That is why I love your posts. If you ever need "real street level"… Read more »
The incentives for the management/observer class? Diversion of health care dollars into their pockets within the next growth industry. Highly unethical, as you pointed out. More regulations produce more regulators. More metrics produce more mongers and squander more resources. People are getting rich off of "cost savings" right now. Haven't even started on the opportunistic costs. Thank you for pointing out the better features of this alternative reality masquerading as health delivery reform. And of course, they are just getting started…


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Never in the entire month, the number of people most satisfied with him fell before 50 per cent.
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'Ordinary sailors' urged to take on charity challenge
Laura Hodgetts
The 26-mile sailing marathon will take place in Plymouth this July
Ordinary sailors, who normally steer clear of a racing buoy, are being urged to sign up for this year's 26-mile sailing marathon in Plymouth.
Billed as a 'chase' and very definitely not a 'race', the 12th Eddystone Charity Sailing Pursuit will be held on Saturday 13 July.
The event will culminate in an evening of supper, entertainment and prize giving, hosted by The National Marine Aquarium for the first time. The reserve date, in case of postponement, is Sunday, 14 July.
Since its inception in 2002, the Eddystone Charity Sailing Pursuit has raised more than £300,000 for 123 charitable causes.
This year organisers are adopting a new formula for awarding prize money from the 'prize pot' which has been increased to £15,000.
Organiser Julia Creeke, who created the charity challenge in memory of her mother, said: 'If you've got access to a boat and a charity close to your heart, then sign up for a fun, rewarding day out on the water which always adds a thrill to fundraising.
'The chase always captures the imagination of supporters and can boost a charity's coffers through sponsorship as well as prize money.'
Last year, 73 cruising and racing yachts raised £41,569 for 40 different charities, which were crewed and skippered by individuals, entire families and charities with crew ages ranging from nine year olds to octogenarians.
'King Magic' sailed in at the top of the prize ladder, scooping £1,000 for the RNLI.
By raising £4,525, the highest amount of sponsorship the Pursuit has ever seen, The Island Trust also received a special prize of £500.
This year Plymouth Yacht Haven, Yacht Haven Quay and Blaster Master have joined forces to raise the public profile of the event.
Dr David Gibson, managing director at the National Marine Aquarium, said: 'We're delighted to be supporting the Eddystone Charity Sailing Pursuit, and to be welcoming the successful crews to the Aquarium in July.
'It's great to be able to support events such as this, which help raise money for charity and share our views on protecting the seas.
'Our visitors will have a perfect vantage point with all the sailing action taking place just outside the Aquarium, and we are greatly looking forward to the event.'
This year yachts will start from a line off the Hoe, from approx 8am, at intervals depending on their handicap which is based on Portsmouth Yardstick.
The course takes them out to round the Hand Deeps buoy, three miles west of the Eddystone, and back to finish at the same line off the Hoe.
Early bird entries for the individual event and the three boat team event -where all three boats sail for the same charity- began on 1 April and will continue online at www.eddystonepursuit.org until 9 July.
Entries cost £15 with a minimum sponsorship requirement of £50.
As the main aim of the event is to fundraise for charities that 'benefit the human condition' the new points system aims to encourage participants to raise as much sponsorship as possible for their nominated charity.
Now with points aggregated for sponsorship, sailed position and date of entry, boats will buy a proportion of the 'prize pot'.
There is an opportunity for businesses, charitable trusts or individuals to help support the Pursuit by becoming a 'Friend' and donating prizes, goods in kind or services; or a sponsor of the three-boat Team event.
For more details contact: sec@eddystonepursuit.org
(Pictures: 'Chasing' at past Eddystone Charity Sailing Pursuit events. Picture: Phil Russell at Flipix)


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Duncan Campbell
Paul Ray
Episode 37: Paul Ray – Co-Creating a New Wisdom Culture
Coleman Barks (click on his name at right for Living Dialogues program), poet and leading American translator of the world-centric poet Rumi, has observed that "we are trying to create a civilization without elders to lead us". That is not to say that this new civilization – or wisdom culture – will be without elders, but as I take it, only that in these literally unprecedented 21st century times we must become our own elders. Collectively we can do this by recognizing that only through mutually informing and respectful dialogue, between generations, between men and women, between different ethnicities, between different spiritual traditions and approaches, between private enterprise and government, etc. can we collaboratively bring forth a new wisdom culture. To meet the demands of interpenetrating globalization, peak oil, and global warming, such a culture must be planetary in scope, capable of holding the exploding worldwide diversity in a larger creative and cooperative whole. To do this, we also have to grow up, to mature beyond what Paul Ray in this dialogue describes as the narcissistic, self-centered adolescent economic model that currently dominates in many spheres. We here elaborate on what I have said in many of these dialogues -- that we can do this by activating an energizing remembrance of a deeper felt sense of unity that is part of our collective past, together with the individual creativity and innovation of our modern mind, to co-create the new structures and content of a transformed culture.
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Duncan Campbell: From time in memorial, beginning with indigenous councils and ancient wisdom traditions, through the work of Western visionaries such as Plato, Galileo and quantum physicist David Bohm. Mutually participatory dialogue has been seen as the key to evolving and transforming consciousness, evoking a flow of meaning, a dia flow of logos meaning beyond what any one individual can bring through alone.
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Welcome to Living Dialogues. I'm your host Duncan Campbell and with me for this particular dialogue I'm truly delighted to have once again as my guest Paul Ray. Author with his wife Sherry Anderson of the ground breaking book The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World. Paul welcome once again here to Living Dialogues.
Paul Ray: Oh it's so good to be back with you Duncan.
Duncan Campbell: It really is Paul. I've been deeply inspired by the work of you and Sherry as have I know many people. All of us yearning for similar kinds of transformations in the world and yet having many diverse paths to get there and different personal styles and so on. One of the things that I've come across since you and I last talked at the time of the publication of the paperback edition of your work was a quotation by our mutual friend Coleman Barks [sp] who said at one point that in observing the modern mind he feels that we are trying to invent a civilization without elders and that has never been tried before and in his own life, he is bringing through the spirit and the wisdom of the great Persian poet Rumi from the 13th century and he is as relevant we might say today perhaps even more so as he was then.
This is an example of how we are trying to call back in some kind of ancestral wisdom or ancestral spirits into our present world and yet the problem remains that the modern culture in a sense is so fascinated with novelty and innovation and a certain kind of individualistic creativity that the honoring of elders, the honoring of tradition, the honoring of the old altogether is a problem. A problem of consciousness and it's one that I think we all feel intuitively and yet it's only together I think that we can find our way out of this and so perhaps we can talk about what you've been talking about in your own presentations around the country and around the world and that is how to create a true wisdom culture in our time.
Paul Ray: Well as it happens I am in the midst of writing a new book called Creating A Wisdom Culture, strange you should ask.
Duncan Campbell: It just in synchronicity I actually didn't even know that.
Paul Ray: Yeah one of the key things about traditional cultures of course is that they are typically not literate so everything depends on memory and the elders are the keepers of wisdom. You can have really terrible traditions for elders where they're the ones who remember every slight, every injustice, every bad thing that was ever done to us. That kind of elder we do not need. What we want are the keepers of wisdom is really to start developing a clear cut picture of what it is that the next culture after the commercial getting and spending, materialistic culture is let go of.
We've been on a very rapid economic and population growth path in the world for the last several hundred years and we got to have a leveling off of old population and we got to have a new pattern which is ecologically sustainable where you can have increasing levels of well being without using up the planet. That means the population growth has to slow, come to a stop, actually have fewer people after awhile so you have a population decline back to what's sustainable for the long run either that or we'll have a crash.
Part of that development is a development of a wise perspective which is a longer term perspective. One of the things the elders were really responsible for is getting past the adolescent pattern of reasoning that so dominant in Western culture today and taking a long term perspective and taking a perspective of what's good for everybody's children. The native American pattern used to say "Do what's good for the seventh generation." That's a classic way of putting it, but there's lot of wisdom themes about what's the wisdom needed for our time. It's probably going to be a new wisdom. It's probably going to be more sophisticated than the wisdom of the past but wisdom is going to be what's needed.
Duncan Campbell: Then I think that's obviously one of the themes that is a real harbinger of this wisdom culture that there's a psychological and spiritual path that needs to be awakened in all of us to let go of certain kinds of attachments and arguments with one another and arguments with the world. That really is a different way of embracing tradition as you point out.
Paul Ray: Yes, it's like the Middle East has to get past that old business of never to forgive, never to forget. Yeah what we're looking at is the emerging pattern is linking our future oriented perspectives to our deep collective past. So we draw from the themes of what was here before industrialism but now we don't have to do it just inside of our Western cultural tradition. We can pick up cultural themes from countries anywhere in the world because there's going to be a certain number of cultural universals who we are going to want to draw from.
I don't know how many people who are listening have come across that book Guns, Germs and Steel but in there Jared Diamond talks about why was that so much more cultural inventions came in Asia and of course the answer was you can carry food and seeds and trade goods and all sorts of inventions back and forth across Asia on an East West pattern but you can't carry them back and forth North South across Africa or South America. That is a very major issue in why the particular countries of the world, some of them have enormous numbers of inventions because they were recombining ideas, traits, possibilities from many, many cultures in the world.
Jared Diamond actually started that book Guns, Germs and Steel with this highly intelligent guy from Papua New Guinea who is obviously smarter than Jared Diamond and he comes from a low primitive tribal culture. He is obviously smarter than most Westerners because he's had a very tough survival pattern in the mountains of New Guinea. But the thing about New Guinea of course is they were in the stone age because they were completely isolated from the rest of the world. There was no stuff to recombine from other cultures because you didn't even deal with your neighbors 20 miles away.
We are now at a point where we can draw from spiritual traditions. Everywhere in the world, people are using co housing ideas that come from Denmark from 25 years ago. We're going to lift that into American culture and it's going to probably make a difference. So this inclusiveness, the willingness to draw from all kinds of people and to be concerned about what happens with humans and nature alike, that's much wider, that's new, that's the wisdom culture of the next level of civilization. On the other hand the willingness to reach way back into the past for items, justifications, myths and think forward into the future is partly new and also in a way kind of ancient and reassuring.
I like to use the term "drawing the bough" for this. The more you want to have an invention go into the future, the more you have to reach for symbols and myths and structures back into the past and that creates tension. If you say, "I want to shoot an arrow into the future." You got to grab hold of the bough right here in the present but have your other arm that's pulling the air reach back into the past and that will give you the energy to propel you forward.
Duncan Campbell: So Paul what do you see as some of the challenges going forward in that perspective? I think you've rightly termed our modern civilization adolescent and in fact that reminds me of Dwaine Elgin [sp] in his work in which he says that in all the presentations he makes around the world, he often asks a question at the beginning of his presentation to whatever audience, whether they're in Asia or Latin America or Africa or United States, Europe.
He says, "If we think of the development of the species on a planetary basis as the development of a single consciousness like the development of a human being, an individual human being. What stage do you think we are as a species? Are we at the toddler stage? Are we at the childhood stage, the adolescence stage, the mature parent stage, the elder stage?" He says about three quarters of the time, people all over of the world intuitively: a) understand the question and b) immediately say adolescent.
Perhaps we can define what some of those features are because there's both positive and negative aspects to the adolescent phase of development and what would be the initiation that we might describe that we are going through as a species into a mature adulthood to create something new and to create a culture that could be enduring, a wisdom culture.
Paul Ray: Oh that's very good. That notion that people intuit worldwide that we are adolescent species is very, very crucial one because willing to take a longer term time perspective is something adolescents have a hard, hard time with and something corporations have a hard time with and politicians have a hard time with. So we've got reward structures put in place in the West and in the industrial urban civilization that are adolescent reward structures. They favor short term perspectives over long term perspectives. One of the things you can say about maturity is that it is a wider, more encompassing kind of consciousness.
Schumacher who wrote Small is Beautiful also did another book that I really love called A Guide For the Perplexed. In here he updates a medieval concept called Adaequatio. Is this explanation adequate to the problem is one way the medieval scholastics put it but the key idea of Adeaquatio the way Schumacher put it is the lesser awareness is never able to encompass the greater awareness.
So an adolescent for example has a hard time understanding mature love between adults. Adolescents have a hard time encompassing longer time horizons. Adolescents have a hard time understanding how noble purpose could be a life commitment and indeed the adolescent has a very self centered view point. Now that's developmentally appropriate, they just don't out grow it but the think you know about adolescents is not only raging hormones but it's a time of very intensely self centered kind of development and getting the adolescent to learn how to take wider perspectives, more idealistic perspective and all is in fact a crucial thing.
One of the great evils of our time is that the corporate community and a lot of the libertarian community wants to insist on the crucial importance of selfishness and self centeredness as what's rational and that of course is a very destructive kind of thing in the history of Western culture. Our mutual friend Elizabeth Saturist [sp], the evolutionary biologist talks about the Western culture as the psychology of the weeds which grow very rapidly into disturbed spaces but the climax for us has very little extra energy available because all the niches are filled. The weeds on the other hand are using up resources very rapidly for a very fast transition.
That kind of a weedy path of development once things fill in and become a complex and interdependent is no longer what you want. So the weed mentally is like the adolescent mentally. The fully developed climax forest which has very, very sophisticated interconnections is the more mature part and that's what we're moving towards. So that much more mature part will have spiritual principles that are things that are in many cases not about up, up, and away into the clear, white spaces, but about what's good for all of us? What's good for all life? That goes right back to our classic notion of what's the elder concern? Concern for all the children of the world, no one excluded. It's also accepting change and it's going after philosophical depth. What we're looking at here is the idea that there is a new kind of wisdom needed for our time. That's not trivial, it's a new kind of wisdom.
Duncan Campbell: And I think even hallowed elders in our time like Joe Campbell recognizing that he was at the end of an era and that indeed the age of the hero and the hero's journey that he described so beautifully by bringing in and weaving together sources from many traditions around the world was in a sense coming to an end. That we're embarking now on something beyond the individual hero's journey of going off and having the isolated vision and bringing it back into the collective. Even in the native tradition you now have the beautiful vision of black elk doing the same and coming back and saying that I understood more than I saw and I saw more than I can say and bringing that gift back to the collective.
Yet there are many of us feel that what is characteristic of this particular next evolutionary leap is a co creation of the vision that it will be coming through many people together and each person will have a piece of it so that it is a real dialogue and creation of community and a community of people humble enough not to attach to the proprietariness of the particular vision that they would understand that it is something larger than all of us that is coming through all of us collectively is already a movement away from the hero's journey as traditionally conceived.
I remember on this program talking with Sam Keen a number of years ago an American philosopher. He had just written a book called Hymns to an Unknown God and he was talking about how in his view that the time of King Arthur was a proto-typical, modern heroic journey where the individual knight would ride into the forest alone into the darkest part, knowing that this was the challenge that had to be met in order to search for the grail.
At this time although each one of us is on our individual steed if you will or individual energetic consciousness, we don't ride into the forest alone but we can ride into the forest together and together evoke a larger collective vision and create at a time when really there are no direct elders in modern culture.
Paul Ray: Also we're not out there to kill dragons, we're out there to build something new together.
Duncan Campbell: Exactly.
Paul Ray: What I'd like to talk about exactly this image that you're talking about is that each one of us cannot imagine the whole of a new civilization. It's too big to hold in any one mind but each one of us can help build one of the facets of a new civilization. Kind of like a fuller dome or bee's eye which has thousands and thousands of facets in the bee's eye. In fact I've done brain storming with citizen groups where they clearly see this after awhile is that no one of them can encompass the whole complexity but together we do indeed invent something that's an image of a desirable future, an image of a new guiding story for ourselves. That's quite remarkable, you can get that sense of having to create it together and having to trust so that all of us together will do the job that in fact we are all needed now.
Duncan Campbell: And in fact that could be one of the ways of answering the question we rhetorically posed earlier in this dialogue is, what would be the description of the kind of initiation that awaits us as we are moving from adolescence in this stage of human evolution into a deep and more mature wisdom culture that could sustain the species on the planet? One thing that has come to my mind for many years is this image diamond culture. As you described, a bee's eyes having thousands of facets like a diamond wisdom or consciousness emerging that would have literary countless facets. Each one of us would understand that we were a facet of the whole and would have bring through whatever clarity that we can in our own life, in a collective way and yet at the same time a sense of remembering a collective deep wisdom in the species that would take us again beyond argument, beyond polarity. The very kind of either, or reductive mentality that was at the core of scientific revolutions in the West that allowed us to deconstruct if you will certain material reality and then reconstruct it in ways that invented the steam engine and the airplane and the laws of physics.
That kind of the use of rational divided consciousness in either or to promote inventiveness is now something that has become in a sense a kind of trap and that we can go beyond that in a more poetic and more evocative way of letting revelation if you will come to us out of a larger, alive universe rather than continue to try to master in a reductive way a universe seen to be in the modern mind as inert and unenchanted and something that we can fashion for our own benefit. So in a way it really I think at it's core involves a kind of remembrance of a deeper, spiritual unity if you will. That is part of our collective past as a species.
Paul Ray: That's right. Looking for the spiritual level as a collective enterprise means that you probably don't have just one prophet either. Just like you don't have just one hero leader who will do it all in our behalf. You don't have just one prophet, you have the ability to get guidance and perceive things in a prophetic mode as something that can get passed around the room almost. That leadership is present in the room, that's what hierarchy is as an idea is about. That's what it is when you really go into a community that's got a spiritual base is that you start realizing that it doesn't just all hang on the guru and his insights or the prophet or on the unique holy book. In fact what we're doing is coming to a kind of consciousness which is got this collective co creation.
One of the things that I thought was fascinating that came up recently in the new, engaged Buddhism is that they're starting to say, "Oh my try of the Buddha of the future is the collective Buddha, not a single individual Buddha." That's a typical insight, a little glimmer of what's starting to emerge with the new guiding story of our time.
That's an interesting issue is the sense that there's a guiding story and it's not going to be handed to us by the ancestors, it's not going to be handed to us by a hero author writing in a garret somewhere but we are going to create that new story ourselves. It's going to say something like this, humanity is all one people living on small, fragile planet. We have to care for our home, we have to care for our home and we have a wonderful diversity of spiritual insights and arts and foods and philosophies and we should be celebrating that rather than fighting over it.
Every culture has a facet of some larger truth that we can't comprehend until we hear from all of us. That the real spiritual center will hold because it's everywhere. That unthinking modern production and consumption are rather immature responses to the world because we are deprived of our real satisfactions and other people are struggling with physical deprivation because of it. So the idea that maybe if some of us are oppressed, all of us are going to turn out to be oppressed together. The inner life is going to have to be more satisfying, much more important so that the commercial life doesn't destroy the planet. The technologies are only good if they are placed in a wisdom context rather than a context of maximizing profits and production and so on.
It's that kind of new story that some of the novelistic have to create perhaps and the great artist has to hit those themes but that's the kind of thing we are looking at. I predict we're going into a time the next 20 years of crisis, upon crisis, upon crisis. That we are going to be looking at global warming that is going to be triggering this whole series of crisis of disease and water shortages and outbreaks of extreme weather, droughts, and floods and monster storms across the Atlantic with hurricanes and like that.
In that time of instability, what happens of course is just like a rite of passage, initiation for an adolescent, part of the old ego structure has to fall apart and a new more mature ego structure has to happen. First the old ego has to get stripped away and then you get to be nobody and nothing for awhile. You get to lose some of the old highly integrated structures before you go to the next level. Tightly organized living systems don't just take on a new kind of organization, you have to delegitimate some of the government stuff, you have to delegitimate some of the corporate stuff. Some of that has to lose control, some of that has to be taken away.
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Beating Heart è un brano musicale della cantautrice britannica Ellie Goulding. Il brano è stato scritto per il film Divergent ed è stato scelto come secondo singolo per promuoverne la colonna sonora. È stato scritto da Ellie Goulding e Joe Janiak, e prodotto da Greg Kurstin.

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Howard, Emily
Author: Hannah E. Johnson, 2020
Almira Sarah Ives Burnham shared a studio with fellow artist Emily Howard. Born in Burma to missionary parents, Howard and her family were shipwrecked upon their return to America. Similarly stricken by disaster, Burnham suffered a house fire the week after several of her paintings were destroyed in a train fire coming back from the Illinois State Fair. With humor, stubbornness, and quiet defiance, these friends refused to let misfortune define their lives—preferring dedication to their art.
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Student Biography
At the turn of the twentieth century, when the public reception of visual arts in Bloomington, Illinois could be characterized as "tepid," or indeed, "positively cold," and "comparatively few people … [knew] to what extent genuine and meritorious works of art" were produced in the city, there remained a commitment on the part of local artists—largely women—and the media to elevate the appreciation and patronage of painting to levels achieved by music and literature. One such artist, Emily Howard (1836-1914), actually embodied the elevation of two of these kindred forms of artistic expression—namely music and painting.
Emily Aminta Howard was the first of seven children born to Baptist missionary parents, Reverend Hosea and Theresa Howard, in the former nation of Burma (now Myanmar). Emily was born on October 30, 1836 in the city of Moulmein (now Mawlamyine). Howard's parents were affiliated with the Missionary High School in that city, and it has been said that her father was a "pioneer in the establishment of education to supplement preaching" that was "employed in all the mission stations of the world." The Howards conducted their work at the missionary school for the first 16 years of Emily's life, until her parents' ill health necessitated the family's return—or first voyage, in the case of the children (Emily, sisters Mary and Louisa, and brothers David, Hosea, Jr., and Charles)—to the United States.
If ill health and six adolescent children was not enough to make the months-long journey by ship from southeast Asia to the eastern coast of the United States harrowing enough, the Howards were unfortunate to encounter hurricane-force winds and waves that ultimately sank their ship the Madura, with much of the cargo still onboard. Quite a bit is known of the events leading up to and following that fateful day at sea on March 20, 1850 because of a letter scribed by Rev. Howard to fellow missionaries of his who remained in Burma, which was subsequently published with permission by the New York Recorder, a Baptist newspaper of the period. In this letter, drafted from Port Louis on the Isle of France (today known as the Republic of Mauritius off the coast of Madagascar) on April 20, 1850, Rev. Howard details how, having been on the sea since March 1, the ship with its crew of 24 and 12 passengers, entered turbid waters with waves "high, irregular, and often conflicting with one another." These conditions persisted from roughly March 11 until March 20, when a "heavy lurch" of the ship sent a cask of water through a sky light immediately above the cabins below. Broken glass and bent metal rained down on the passengers—mildly injuring Rev. Hosea and Charles Howard, and water flooded the cabins. However, the worst was yet to come. Three days later on March 23, the Madura found itself in the midst of a hurricane and without a mast, sails, rigging, and bulwarks—which had all been carried away by the storm. All was not lost, however. Fortunately, two U.S. ships—the Blanche and the Columbus—came upon the floundering Madura and saw to its rescue. After multiple trips from the sinking ship, passengers and crew of the Madura eventually found themselves at the Port of Louis on April 5 awaiting passage to the United States. Rev. Howard concluded his account saying, "On the whole, though we have been cast down, we have not been destroyed or forsaken. …and all, as a family, appear cheerful in the thought of being once more on the great deep." The Howards eventually arrived in Bloomington, Illinois eight years later in 1858 by way of New York City and Massachusetts.
Having attended school in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and having taught classes in piano, vocal performance, and otherwise while living in New York City with her family, Howard was prepared to establish herself as an accomplished instructor immediately upon her arrival in Bloomington. A March 1859 advertisement suggests that Howard was actively recruiting students in piano, voice, melodeon, and organ. By the mid-1860s, Howard had expanded her class offerings to include oil painting, crayon drawing, and guitar. Howard appears to have conducted these early lessons from her father's office at 36 W. North Street, who was practicing as a homeopathic physician at the time. Following her father's death in 1868, all subsequent newspaper adverts direct prospective pupils to the Howard family residence at 403 E. North Street (later renamed Monroe Street).
In addition to private lessons, Howard was hired to teach music, French, drawing, and painting at Conover's Bloomington Female Seminary from at least 1869 to 1871. Conover's Female Seminary was established in 1856 by Reverend R. Conover and his wife, M.H. Conover. The school was located at 507 E. Grove Street, and was said to be the second best residence in Bloomington at the time (second only to the home of Asa Moore, a preeminent industry and horse railroad man). The scholastic year was divided into two terms of 16 weeks each, with two weeks vacation for the holidays. A "regular course" cost $12 in advance per term (approximately $340 in 2017 dollars), with additional costs for subjects ranging from Latin or Greek, French or German, Drawing, Painting in oil or watercolors, Music on piano or guitar, with an additional cost for extra practice on piano. Boarding costs included furnished rooms, fuel and gaslights, and washing. Students could also board with private families for a lesser charge. In the eighteen years that the school was in existence, more than 500 young women attended courses in some capacity.
In 1883, Howard began teaching guitar in the then department of music at Illinois Wesleyan University, and by 1891 was appointed Director of the School of Painting and instructor of landscape and still life in oil in the College of Arts. Howard continued to offer private lessons while employed at the university.
To the fortune of her fellow residents of Bloomington, Howard did not limit her creativity to the instruction of her students. She knew that "art has its positive influence, not only in developing character but in making life better and more useful," and thus regularly performed concerts and exhibited her works throughout the region. In February 1870, Howard performed a rendition of "Home to our Mountain" at a concert benefitting Marie Litta, world-renowned opera singer, Bloomington-native, and cousin of Howard's close friend and fellow artist Almira Ives Burnham. Howard also lent her musical talents, often as a substitute, to various local churches.
In February 1883, Howard hosted her first major art exhibition from her parlors at East North Street. Over 300 hundred people attended to view the "beautiful display of finely executed paintings, productions of Miss Howard and her students." The exhibition featured works of oil, china, crayon, pastel, and satin; with a vocal and instrumental performance by Howard and her students to complete the reception. Howard's sister-in-law, Mary Howard (married to brother David) of St. Louis, and friend Almira Burnham, assisted with affair.
Following that reception, Howard continued to exhibit her works locally—contributing a number of pieces to an exhibition just two months later at the Chicago Art Store at 103 E. Front Street. The Pantagraph article denoting the hundreds of contributions to the loaned art exhibition extended a full column and included reference to Howard's "several landscapes and flower pieces, two figure pieces, …a Limoges [porcelain] and three paintings on velvet, the last of which are perfect." Howard successfully marketed this "highly popular" velvet painting technique, even instructing her friend Burnham in the style.
At another exhibition less than one year later in March 1884, Howard's talents were singled out again in a newspaper report saying, "not to allude to the work of private individuals, it may not be deemed inappropriate to allude to the oil paintings of Miss Emily Howard…as particularly meritorious." In May 1885, Howard showed at the sixth annual Central Illinois Art Union in Peoria, Illinois, as well as at the Bloomington Art and Loan Exhibition at Rink Hall. In December 1891, Howard's contributions to an exhibit hosted at A.T. Fagerburg's at 514 N. Main Street were equally spotlighted and not without praise. Among the "most admired works" in the exhibit were Howard's, whose "special ability lies in still life." In the eternal spirit of supporting local, the Pantagraph went so far as to suggest that, "many people yearly buy from foreign artists, while if they had seen Miss Howard's they would have preferred to recognize and encourage home talent."
As equipped to preach on what she practiced, as she was to practice what she preached, Howard presented a paper to the Women's Club on February 19, 1902 on the subject of "Painting in the United States as Influenced by Foreign Study." In this talk, Howard explained the evolution of American art across three periods, beginning in 1684—when "America was still young and there had been no time and no means for any great development either in taste or serious study—to 1825—when art showed a "decided advancement, more distinctly American, especially in landscapes—to 1876—following the Centennial Exposition (World's Fair) in Philadelphia, where the "display of fine arts, both foreign and domestic, together with the national prosperity of the United States, had much to do in stimulating a new activity in the study of painting." In this period, Howard noted the "influence of younger men" who had "tired of the old methods."
Though more often the master than the apprentice, Howard was not above enhancing her artistic prowess through study with fellow experts. The opportunity for her to do so under competent instructors, however, was rare and she was often left to "dig it all out herself." The teaching of artist Albert W. Kenney was one exception. Kenney lived and worked in Elgin, Illinois, but regularly traveled to Bloomington and elsewhere to instruct and exhibit the works of the area's members of the elite. While under Kenney's instruction in 1886, Howard embarked on the creation of a seemingly personal work to those familiar with her life's story. As reported in the Pantagraph, "The sketch of this scene must have been taken directly after a storm. The heavy sky still clasps the bosom of the sea in a mystical mantle of surf and spray. An old wreck has been driven in among the rocks near the shore, around which billowy torrents beat and break with a power and fury known only to the sea…a few tireless sea-gulls are seen hovering about the old wreck." Howard's artist compatriot, Almira Burnham, was also a student of Kenney's; and both women showed in an April 1886 student exhibition. The exhibition featured 73 paintings almost all done by local women, six of which were Howard's. Howard is also reported to have studied under such "eminent artists" as Frederick Warren Freer (1849-1908) of Chicago.
Howard and Burnham showed together a number of times, often at Strickle Bros. art store at 415 N. Main Street in Bloomington. It was also reported that the two artists briefly shared a studio in the late 1890s, though the location remains unknown. In 1896, the Daily Leader made note of the "rare beauty and merit" of the works on display in these two painters' shared studio, while in the same figurative breath making a promise to its readers to "lend its influence in bringing this important factor of civilization [i.e. visual art]…more prominently before the people."
In May 1906, the History Club purchased one of Howard's paintings with the intent that it serve as the "nucleus" of a public art collection for the Withers Public Library. Elements of this collection are now preserved within the permanent collection of the McLean County Arts Center. Other prominent purchases of Howard's work includes the sale of a painting titled, "A Study of Books," to a resident of St. Louis, Missouri, by way of an art dealer in the same city; as well as the sale of a painting depicting a basket of corn—which was intended to adorn the walls of the Corn Belt Bank in Downtown Bloomington—to a man of Boston, Massachusetts.
Howard served on the board of Withers Public Library and was an early member of the Bloomington Art Association after its reorganization in 1922, of which her friend Almira Burnham was a charter member.
Emily Howard died in Louisville, Kentucky on June 10, 1914 of "infirmities of old age" following a "long period of illness." In 1909, Howard had moved to Kentucky to live with her sister Mrs. Louisa Clelland, but was residing at a care facility at the time of her death. An earlier attempt to preserve her sight through surgery having failed, at the end of her life Howard was completely blind. However, though a tragic condition for an artist, it was said that she was "always cheerful" in spite of her "affliction."
A testament to their friendship, John H. and Almira Burnham were the first locals of Bloomington to be notified of Emily Howard's passing. John Burnham served as one six pallbearers at Howard's funeral, and the couple offered to host Howard's relatives who had traveled for the funeral for the duration of their stay in Bloomington.
Howard's funeral was held at First Baptist Church on the afternoon of June 12. Reverend J.L. Jackson officiated. Those present at the funeral included Howard's sister Louisa, her brother Hosea, Jr., and Mary Howard, wife of her late brother David. Howard was preceded in death by a brother who died in infancy in Burma, her sister Mary (1862), father Hosea (1868), mother Theresa (1875), and brother Charles (1908).
Howard's mother Theresa, described as a "woman of rare mental ability and great worth," was the first teacher hired at Bloomington's first school for colored children, after its incorporation in 1860. She taught there for two years. It is possible that Emily shared her mother's compassion for all children regardless of color, as in 1887 Emily was one of three to serve on the "committee on colored children" during a citywide baby show hosted at Turner Hall in Bloomington. Winners in this category included local children Alverta Duff, Jesse Savage, and Roy Williams.
In September 1882, Emily's brother Charles was "declared insane" before Judge Reuben Moore Benjamin of Bloomington. According to a report printed in the Daily Leader, Charles's condition was attributed to an "attack of fever" fifteen years prior to this declaration. He had been committed to the Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane in Jacksonville, Illinois once before, but was released when his condition improved. However, the "cure was not permanent" with the "malady having returned with a renewed violence." The article indicated that Charles would be "sent to Jacksonville" as soon as an order for his admission was obtained. It is not clear what impact Charles's condition and related circumstances had on Emily and her other siblings. Charles spent the last eight years of his life in residence at the McLean County Poor Farm. He died on March 19, 1908.
Emily Howard is buried next to her parents and her brother Charles at the city cemetery (now Evergreen Memorial Cemetery) in Bloomington.
The McLean County Museum of History holds two paintings of Howard's in its permanent collection. Both oil-on-canvas, still life paintings came as a donation from Timothy Ives in 1996, having been displayed at the boyhood home of former Governor of Illinois and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai E. Stevenson II, located at 1316 E. Washington Street in Bloomington. One features a glass of water next to a bunch of grapes, draped over three red apples, with a few grapes loose from the bunch. The painting, purchased by Helen or Lewis Stevenson in the 1890s, is framed in a gilded gesso wooden frame with an ornate raised edge by Mandel Bros. in Chicago. The second is of a metal pan turned on its side and spilling out eight peaches onto the grass. The painting is framed in a gilded gesso over wood frame with a molded edge. It once belonged to Alice Fell and was later displayed at the Stevenson home.


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Kevin Hearne  (* 9. Dezember 1970 in Arizona, Vereinigte Staaten) ist ein US-amerikanischer Fantasy-Schriftsteller.

Hearne wuchs in Arizona auf und ist Absolvent der Northern Arizona University. Er lebt mit seiner Frau und Tochter immer noch dort und unterrichtet Englisch an der Highschool.

Bekannt wurde er durch seine auf neun Bände angelegte Romanreihe The Iron Druid Chronicles (deutsch: Die Chronik des Eisernen Druiden), von denen es einer (Tricked) in die The New York Times Best Seller list und ein anderer (Shattered) in die Bestsellerliste von USA Today geschafft hat.

Neben seiner Chronik-Reihe schrieb er den Star-Wars-Roman Der Erbe der Jedi-Ritter (Heir to the Jedi).

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Romane
 Star Wars: Heir to the Jedi, Del Rey/Ballantine Books, New York 2015
 (Andreas Kasprzak (Ueb.): Der Erbe der Jedi-Ritter. Blanvalet Verlag, München 2015. ISBN 978-3-734-16008-0).

Die Chronik des Eisernen Druiden (Romanreihe)
In Klammern die jeweiligen Übersetzungen ins Deutsche, die Alexander Wagner für die Bände 1 und 2, in Band 3 gemeinsam mit Friedrich Mader, und ab Band 4 (derzeit bis Band 8) allein Friedrich Mader besorgt hat.
 Hounded – The Iron Druid Chronicles 1. Del Rey/Ballantine Books, New York 2011. ISBN 978-0345522474.
 (Gehetzt (alternativ: Die Hetzjagd), Hobbit Presse/Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-608-93930-9).
 Hexed – The Iron Druid Chronicles 2. Del Rey/Ballantine Books, New York 2011. ISBN 978-0345522498.
 (Verhext, Hobbit Presse/Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-608-93932-3).
 Hammered – The Iron Druid Chronicles 3. Del Rey/Ballantine Books, New York 2011. ISBN 978-0345522481.
 (Gehämmert, Hobbit Presse/Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-608-93933-0).
 Tricked – The Iron Druid Chronicles 4. Del Rey/Ballantine Books, New York 2012. ISBN 978-0345533623.
 (Getrickst, Hobbit Presse/Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-608-96134-8).
 Trapped – The Iron Druid Chronicles 5. Del Rey/Ballantine Books, New York 2012. ISBN 978-0345533647.
 (Erwischt, Hobbit Presse/Klett-Cotta, 2016, ISBN 978-3608961355).
 Hunted – The Iron Druid Chronicles 6. Del Rey/Ballantine Books, New York 2013. ISBN 978-0345533630.
 (Gejagt, Hobbit Presse/Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-608-96136-2).
 Shattered – The Iron Druid Chronicles 7. Del Rey/Ballantine Books, New York 2014. ISBN 978-0345548504.
 (Erschüttert, Hobbit Presse/Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-608-96170-6).
 Staked – The Iron Druid Chronicles 8. Del Rey/Ballantine Books, New York 2016. ISBN 978-0356504469.
 (Aufgespießt, Hobbit Presse/Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-608-98133-9).
 Scourged – The Iron Druid Chronicles 9. Orbit, London 2018. ISBN 978-0356504483
 (Zerschmettert, Hobbit Presse/Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart Juli 2019 ISBN 978-3-608-98134-6).

Nebenroman der Chronikreihe
 The Purloined Poodle –  Oberon's Meaty Mysteries. Subterranean Pr, 2016. ISBN 978-1596068094

Kurzgeschichten
 Besieged – Stories from The Iron Druid Chronicles.  Del Rey/Ballantine Books, New York 2017. ISBN 978-0399181733.

Die Chronik des Siegelmagiers (Romanreihe)
Die Handlungen dieser Romane spielen zwar im Universum des "Eisernen Druiden", sind aber nicht Teil von dessen Romanreihe.

 Ink and Sigil. Orbit, London 2020. ISBN  978-0356515236.
 (Tinte & Siegel. Hobbit Presse/Klett-Cotta, 2021, ISBN 978-3-608-98203-9).
 Paper & Blood.  Orbit, London August 2021. ISBN 978-0356515243.
 (Papier & Blut. Hobbit Presse/Klett-Cotta, 2022, ISBN 978-3-608-98204-6).

Fintans Sage (geplante Romantrilogie)
 A Plague of Giants. Del Rey, New York 2017 ISBN 978-0356509594
 (Das Spiel des Barden. Übersetzung: Urban Hofstetter. Knaur Verlag, München 2019. ISBN 978-3-426-52329-2.)
 A Blight of Blackwings. Del Rey, New York Februar 2020 ISBN 978-0345548573
 (Der Ruf des Kriegers. Übersetzung: Urban Hofstetter. Knaur Verlag, München September 2021. ISBN  978-3-426-52479-4).

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Wake County commissioner resigns
A Wake County commissioner announced Monday that he will resign effective immediately.
Posted 11:29 p.m. May 2, 2011 — Updated 12:07 a.m. May 3, 2011
RALEIGH, N.C. — A Wake County commissioner announced Monday that he will resign effective immediately.
Stan Norwalk, of Cary, will move to Kansas to be near his family, his wife said.
Norwalk took office in December 2008. His term would have expired in December 2012.
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Wake Commissioner Gardner ousted by Democrat
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High Desert Tennis Association
Daily Press Athlete of the Year: Girls Tennis
Lauren Tarver
Serrano, Senior
Gerald Tang
© Daily Press, a Freedom Communications Newspaper
Twenty minutes into the tryout, longtime tennis coach Loren Jacobson knew what he had found. He told Lauren Tarver's parents on the spot that they would read about their eldest child in the newspaper some day.
Sure enough, the headlines did come for Tarver during a stellar tennis career at Serrano High School. The senior enjoyed her finest season this year, in which she led a deep Diamondbacks squad to another Mojave River League title and the second round of the CIF playoffs.
Eight years after Jacobson introduced her to the sport and made that confident prediction, Tarver is the 2006 Daily Press Girls Tennis Athlete of the Year.
The Wrightwood native was still in elementary school the day Jacobson spotted her on the soccer field, wearing bulky glasses and excelling at her favorite sport.
"She was going down the field, and the defenders — she would just go around them almost like pylons and score a goal every time," Jacobson said. "She took to tennis like a duck to water. She was very, very gifted athletically. Her eye-hand coordination was probably just as good as her eye-foot."
That didn't mean Tarver was in a hurry to give up soccer. She continued playing for her club team while training with Jacobson three to four times a week at his Snowline Tennis Academy.
It turned out to be more than enough practice.
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And in case there were any doubts about whether she could handle two sports, Tarver also made the all-CIF first team for soccer. She repeated as MRL singles tennis champion the next year before sitting out her junior season to work on her groundstrokes with Jacobson.
It was the weakest part of Tarver's game — and still is, the way she sees it.
"I've been practicing those a lot this last year, and I feel like it's paid off a little bit," Tarver said. "I feel like I can rally better, but I'm still working on it."
It's easy to see the perfectionist in Tarver. It comes out during matches when she barks at herself after mistakes, even with a 5-0 lead. The intensity might be her strongest asset, as long as she's able to harness it.
"It's always a challenge, the ability to keep it together and stay focused," Tarver said. "When I get angry, I can't focus. ... I'm trying to get a little better at keeping more control. I know how fast it can go downhill, and it's important to keep my game face on and be able to play my best."
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