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A new kind of doctor's office charges a monthly fee and doesn't take insurance — and it could be the future of medicine
Dr. Bryan Hill spent his career working as a pediatrician, teaching at a university, and working at a hospital. But in March 2016, he decided he no longer wanted a boss.
He took some time off, then one day he got a call asking if he'd be up for doing a house call for a woman whose son was sick. He agreed, and by the end of that visit, he realized he wanted to treat patients without dealing with any of the insurance requirements.
Then he learned about a totally different way to run a doctor's office. It's called direct primary care, and it works like this: Instead of accepting insurance for routine visits and drugs, these practices charge a monthly membership fee that covers most of what the average patient needs, including visits and drugs at much lower prices.
That sounded good to him. In September, Hill opened his direct-primary-care pediatrics practice, Gold Standard Pediatrics, in South Carolina.
Hill is part of a small but fast-growing movement of pediatricians, family-medicine physicians, and internists who are opting for this different model. It's happening at a time when high-deductible health plans are on the rise — a survey in September found that 51% of workers had a plan that required them to pay up to $1,000 out of pocket for healthcare until insurance picks up most of the rest.
That means consumers have a clearer picture of how much they're spending on healthcare and are having to pay more. At the same time, primary-care doctors in the traditional system are feeling the pressure under the typical fee-for-service model in which doctors are incentivized to see more patients for less time to maximize profits.
Direct primary care has the potential to simplify basic doctor visits, allowing a doctor to focus solely on the patient. But there are also concerns about the effect that separating insurance from primary care could have on the rest of the healthcare system — that and doctors often have to accept lower pay in exchange for less stress.
How direct primary care works
For Brent Long and his family, paying for healthcare is now like paying a cellphone bill. Since they joined Black Bag Family Healthcare in Johnson City, Tennessee, about two years ago, the family has paid about $150 a month to belong to the practice.
Long joined around the time he was shifting his insurance to a high-deductible health plan. There were two reasons he decided to switch and start paying for all six members of his family to get direct primary care: the cost-effectiveness of not having to deal with copays or urgent-care visits, and the fact that it could easily fit his family's busy lifestyle that doesn't jibe with spending hours in waiting rooms.
Included in that monthly fee are basic checkups, same-day or next-day appointments, and — a big boon to patients — the ability to obtain medications and lab tests at or near wholesale prices.
Direct primary care also comes with near-constant access to a doctor — talking via FaceTime while the family is on vacation, or taking an emergency trip to the office to get stitches after a bad fall on a Saturday night. Because direct primary care doesn't take insurance, there are no copays and no costs beyond the monthly fee.
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When Blythe Fortin went in for a recent visit at sparkMD, a direct-primary-care practice in Boise, Idaho, Dr. Julie Gunther spent an hour chatting with her before getting to the results of her blood test, which showed elevated blood-sugar levels.
"She listened when I said I can manage with diet," rather than starting her on medication, Fortin said.
Fortin, who pays $60 a month for sparkMD, had used a different kind of subscription healthcare called concierge medicine. It has some similarities to direct primary care but often costs thousands per month and still incorporates health insurance. She says she prefers direct primary care because the quality of care she has received is better than concierge medicine, and she likes that it's available to a wider base of patients.
At the 17 direct-primary-care practices Business Insider spoke with, the percentage of members who still had insurance varied. At some practices, all but a handful had some form of insurance, while at others a little more than half didn't have insurance.
To describe how coverage functions under direct primary care, doctors use the example of car insurance: You don't use your car insurance for small transactions like oil changes, but it's there for you if you get in a car accident. Likewise, health-insurance plans — especially those with high deductibles — can be there if you require healthcare beyond primary care.
For those who have insurance, the choice to pay for both makes financial sense, even if they can't use it at their doctor's office.
Fran Ciarlo has coverage through Medicare but decided to pay for sparkMD as well. One of the ways she's seen an advantage is in prescriptions — like many direct-primary-care practices, sparkMD can provide prescriptions at wholesale prices, adding a 10% fee. On a recent visit, Ciarlo estimated she had saved at least $100 on prescriptions for standard steroids and antibiotics that in total cost her $6.
And for those with high health-insurance costs, it's occasionally a choice between paying a monthly premium or the monthly membership fee for a direct-primary-care practice. For Rebekah Bennett, paying for direct primary care at sparkMD made more sense for her and her children than opting for insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, since for roughly the same cost, if not less, her family could see their doctor without any copays.
The history of the direct-primary-care movement
Philip Eskew, who has tracked the movement through his website, Direct Primary Care Frontier, said direct primary care began at the end of the 1990s and early 2000s. Around that time, three doctors had the idea to go insurance-free, charging monthly fees instead and freeing up time to enjoy practicing medicine. This way, patients who might not have insurance could have a clear idea of how much going to the doctor would cost.
One of the three founded Qliance, a direct-primary-care system based in Washington state that got its start in 2007. The company was backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Dell founder Michael Dell before the company leadership bought it to run it privately, without investor pressure. Qliance now has about 25,000 members visiting a handful of clinics around Puget Sound.
Cofounder Dr. Erika Bliss sees this movement growing in the future from its grass roots, rather than becoming big and national.
"It keeps the resolve and the drive toward independent primary care," she said, which she described as a critical element. She says she envisions independent practices with maybe 10 to 20 providers at three to five locations being about as big as they'd get.
Getting off the ground
Dr. Matthew Abinante opened his practice in Huntington Beach, California, in September. Since then, he has had two people call his office to find out more about his practice. When he explained the system, he said, the callers thought it had to be a scam.
It's one of the biggest hurdles doctors face when starting direct primary care — the "too good to be true" factor, the learning curve that comes with the understanding that "No, you won't be using insurance here." Even so, Abinante has signed up about 150 patients.
Going into direct primary care often means ditching the reliability of a salary. Because the practice relies on membership fees, the more patients who sign on, the more money that can be made. Practices cap their number of patients at anywhere from 300 to 1,000.
And it's not exactly cheap to get started. Dr. Vance Lassey, who runs Holton Direct Care in Holton, Kansas, took out a loan to start his practice and spent time renovating a 750-square-foot space he rented from a friend at an industrial park. He picked up a lot of old equipment from a nearby nonprofit hospital and surplus stores. For his in-house pharmacy, Lassey took mismatched cabinets and refinished them so they matched.
Keeping his costs low helped Lassey break even within four months of opening his practice. Still, he's not earning as much as he used to when he worked at a hospital and had only five to 10 minutes with a patient — a lot less time than he gets to spend with his patients now.
"I am making a profit, I have more free time, and I can practice properly," he said. "It's worth it to me."
Others, like Dr. M. Chad Williamson in Fort Payne, Alabama, went upscale — he offers his patients a 24-hour gym as part of his practice's $60 monthly membership fee. Williamson, who opened his practice in August, a few months after finishing his residency, currently has 215 members. He wants to bring that up to between 600 and 1,000 people, ideally.
And it's not just building the office space — direct-primary-care doctors are also responsible for building referral relationships with other doctors in the area.
What's holding direct primary care back
While doctors and patients using direct primary care might praise the model — it was hard to get anybody to suggest a group, geographic or otherwise, that they thought wouldn't benefit from direct primary care — not everyone is sold just yet.
Carolyn Long Engelhard, a public-health expert and professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, broke down the main concerns with direct primary care:
- It might give the false impression that it's a kind of insurance, so people might not opt to also get a real insurance plan. But if a patient were to have a health issue outside the scope of primary care, they wouldn't be protected financially. All the providers Business Insider spoke with said they recommended patients have some form of insurance, and there were many instances where most patients in a practice had insurance or took part in a healthcare sharing plan, a program that functions like insurance in which an amount is sent monthly to people who have medical expenses in the plan.
- Because doctors at direct-primary-care practices take on fewer patients than doctors at traditional primary-care practices, it might add to the caseloads of primary-care doctors. There is a shortage of these doctors in the US, partly because many choose to go into specialty medicine. Some doctors, on the other hand, say that they would have considered leaving medicine outright if they hadn't had the option to do direct primary care. "There are doctor shortages already, so I say, 'Compared to what?'" Dr. Chad Savage, who runs YourChoice Direct Care in Brighton, Michigan, told Business Insider.
- Direct-primary-care physicians could become isolated from other doctors, and because the only person the direct-primary-care doctor has to answer to is the patient, there are fewer insurance regulations in place, potentially putting patients at risk. This is one of the reasons that getting hard data on how direct primary care compares with traditional practices is difficult. But between direct-primary-care networks and the referral relationships doctors build in their communities, there might not be so much isolation from the rest of the system. Dr. Deborah Moore of AmarilloMD in Amarillo, Texas, said she has more time now to do research than she did when she worked at a clinic. "I can do what I really need to be doing," she said.
Engelhard worries about the direct-primary-care model becoming the norm. Generally, she said, "I do think it has a place in our healthcare system." Instead, though, she'd like to see more adoption of the "patient-centered medical home," a model in which primary care is more of a team effort.
Medical organizations have had mixed reactions to the movement as well. The American Academy of Family Physicians supports it, while the American College of Physicians, which represents internal-medicine doctors, has chosen not to take a stance on direct primary care.
There are also logistical hurdles that present challenges. For example, Eskew said that in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service, having a health savings account is illegal if you're a member of a direct-primary-care practice. The IRS views the monthly fees as insurance payments, making the person ineligible for an HSA, he said. Patients also can't use the funds from an HSA, flexible savings account, or Medicare savings account to pay their monthly membership bills.
But politicians have shown support for the business model. Libertarians see direct primary care as a free-market solution to healthcare, and legislation at the state level has gained support from Democrats and Republicans alike. And direct primary care is on the radar of Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, who while he was a member of Congressintroduced a plan that would allow HSA funds to pay for direct primary care.
"Whoever is in power tries to take credit," Eskew said. The ACA contains a paragraph about direct primary care that allows for the business model. It's unclear what would happen to direct primary care under the American Health Care Act, the proposed bill to replace the ACA.
Where does direct primary care go from here?
As one of the first pediatricians to go into direct primary care, Hill has had the additional challenge of figuring out how the service works with children. Unlike many direct-primary-care physicians, he offers one-time visits to nonmembers. He said he also spends a lot of time listening to what parents want and sets his prices accordingly, offering discounts to families with three or more kids.
Doctors who are part of the movement tend to be the first in their area to have a direct-primary-care practice, and patients the first of their friends to use direct primary care. But all said they had positive experiences with the model.
"This is a niche, but a niche that makes sense," Long said.
If direct primary care continues to gain traction, it could lead to new kinds of insurance plans — ones that don't necessarily factor in primary care. Already, patients with high-deductible healthcare plans are using this. But direct-primary-care doctors also said they'd prefer to recommend catastrophic health insurance plans, which have deductibles as much as $10,000 or $30,000 and aren't allowed under the ACA.
Even with the growth in the last few years, Bliss said the market is still slow, and a lot of unknowns would come with the AHCA should it become law. And it will be hard to get fully insured employers to use it in the same way self-insured employers and unions have picked it up.
Either way, those in direct primary care are optimistic about the movement's future.
"In 10 years, we're going to be an overnight success," Eskew said jokingly.
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This article appears in the Fall 2017 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.
Americans often look back to the mid-20th century as a time when the country was cohesive and unified, unlike today's bitterly divided society. That image of mid-century America was always incomplete, but insofar as there was a culture of consensus, it was not a wholly spontaneous development. Much of the country's leadership and national media from the 1930s through World War II and the early postwar years made concerted efforts to foster unity across social and religious lines in the face of threats from abroad and at home to America's stability and survival.
The United States is surely different today—the lines of cleavage have shifted, the media have fractured into separate worlds, and we have a president who acquired power with explicitly anti-immigrant and racist appeals. But the mid-20th century experience nonetheless offers instructive lessons for confronting the divisions that endanger America now.
National unity in the mid-20th century, as the historian Wendy L. Wall argues in her book Inventing the "American Way," was a political project that came in several different varieties. While Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal promoted a pluralistic and economically inclusive vision, corporate leaders championed free enterprise and class harmony as "the American way," a phrase introduced into the political lexicon through an advertising campaign by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in the late 1930s. Rather than question whether there was an American way, other groups sought to appropriate the idea. In a world with anti-Semitism and other hatreds on the rise, interfaith groups promoted the American way as the ability of people with different religious beliefs to live together. The fall of France to the Nazis in 1940 was widely interpreted as evidence of the danger of a divided society, and when the United States entered the war, it became a national imperative to encourage mutual tolerance and cooperation. A month after Pearl Harbor, FDR warned: "Remember the Nazi technique. 'Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice.'"
Wall points out a key difference between the elites who promoted civility and tolerance and others, including those on the left, who put equality at the center of their vision. The former ignored power imbalances, while the latter "tried to use the language of consensus to correct them." As Wall says, the efforts to define a national consensus "gave religious, ethnic, and racial 'outsiders' a powerful lever with which to pry open some doors of America's mainstream culture." White ethnics made considerable progress in getting through those doors; African Americans, not so much, at least not in the New Deal, which to its great shame perpetuated black exclusion and disenfranchisement.
Overcoming that failure became the concern of the civil rights movement and liberal reforms of the 1960s, which in turn gave rise to the politics of white backlash that we have been living with ever since. The pattern isn't new; every advance African Americans have made since slavery and Reconstruction has generated a backlash. America seems forever caught in a racial loop, in which efforts to escape from racism repeatedly expose how deep it runs and set off new bursts of hatred. Other groups also face prejudice, but the situation of African Americans is historically distinct. Racial slavery was a singular evil lasting more than two centuries, and overcoming its long aftereffects poses singular demands for tenacity in the struggle for justice. As frustrating as the reversals in that struggle have been, we have surely come too long a way to make Donald Trump's election a final verdict on America's possibilities.
The renewed growth and tremendous diversity of America's immigrant population, another development dating to the 1960s, add to the challenge of America's racial legacy. While the new immigrants have enlarged the nonwhite base of Democratic support, they have also intensified the politics of white grievance and backlash. Faced with right-wing xenophobic attacks on immigrants, many of us are drawn to a general defense of all the foreign-born in the country. But distinctions are necessary. The young Dreamers who grew up here and know no other country ought not to be confused with those who may have come recently as adults and overstayed their visas. To be in favor of protecting Dreamers and providing a path to citizenship for the long-resident undocumented does not imply an indiscriminate forgiveness, much less support for "open borders." America owes all people within its jurisdiction certain fundamental human rights, including due process of law, but its primary obligations are to its citizens. No political party can expect to win majority support if it fails to make clear the primacy of those obligations.
Since Trump's victory, Democrats have been arguing about how to win back a majority, a discussion that has focused on attracting white voters, especially working-class whites. The attention to whites makes some progressives and African Americans uneasy, as it suggests deemphasizing racism and such issues as police accountability. Their concern is understandable. From the Constitutional Convention to the end of both Reconstruction and the civil rights era, black interests were sacrificed in the name of national unity and political expediency. So this much must be clear:
The cause of racial equality is too central to liberal values to be sacrificed again.
But neither can progressives ignore the need to win white voters in the belief that a growing nonwhite population will eventually make lost white support irrelevant. If that day ever comes, it is a long way off, and in the meantime Republicans will use every means at their disposal to stop it from coming at all. Nonwhite voters are also so geographically concentrated that winning more of them will not be sufficient to achieve majorities in state legislatures and Congress anytime soon. So regaining more white support is not optional either for Democrats or for African Americans and other minorities who depend on Democrats for a voice, unless they want to resign themselves to indefinite rule by an increasingly right-wing Republican Party.
Since Republicans have been winning white majorities for some time—Trump only extended the pattern—the challenge may look impossibly difficult. But Democrats don't have to win a majority of whites, only enough whites to win majorities overall. In that case, some suggest, why not just focus Democratic efforts on more affluent and highly educated whites, many of them in suburban districts that have been trending Democratic? Isn't the preoccupation with working-class whites just an outdated impulse?
To be sure, Democrats need to win more votes wherever they can get them, but where and how they win those votes will affect the kind of policies they can carry out. Focusing attention on affluent whites will increase internal strains in a Democratic Party that generally supports progressive taxation and other redistributive policies and continues to enjoy more support from lower-income minority voters and unions. If Democrats are going not just to maintain their tradition of economic progressivism but to advocate it more forcefully, they need to devote energy and resources to building support among working-class voters, white as well as nonwhite. And since African Americans benefit when Democrats are able to enact economically progressive policies like universal health coverage, they have a big stake in the success of that kind of coalitional politics.
THE SUCCESS OF THAT politics is vital to future possibilities for the country, not just the Democrats. Bringing America together is as important now as it was in the mid-20th century, but the real question is on what terms. Trump's terms are clear. The implicit reference in his slogan, "Make America Great Again," is the America that fully incorporated white, working-class ethnics but not blacks or more recent immigrants. It's a vision of unity that not only fails to anticipate the future—it doesn't account for the America that already exists today.
As in the mid-20th century, however, there is more than one alternative for a broadened vision. We can try to bring Americans together on the basis of civility and tolerance, or go further and pursue a more ambitious ideal of equality. Don't get me wrong: Civility and tolerance are essential in their own right. Without them a good society is impossible. But the unity we need in America ought to be based on more than tolerance; it ought to reflect a commitment to equality, and those who believe in that ideal ought to promote a politics that can sustain it.
To be sure, the old New Deal coalition, with its base in industrial unions, can't be resurrected. The post-industrial economy, however, breeds its own deep dissatisfactions, and the remedies Trump offers don't respond to them at all. The growing problems of precarious employment, the hyperconcentration of new businesses and job growth in the largest metropolitan areas, the excessive power of platform monopolies in the new online economy, disparities in income that Republican tax and budget changes will only exacerbate, out-of-control health-care prices—these are some of the items that ought to be on a new agenda for economic fairness and inclusion that the Democrats alone are in a position to take up.
With Trump as president, the Republicans are now fully invested in an aging, almost entirely white electoral base and the politics of white grievance. In what turned out to be a fateful call to the Prospect's co-editor Bob Kuttner on August 15, Steve Bannon said he would be happy to have Democrats "talk about racism every day. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats." Of course, Bannon himself has his own identity politics—white identity politics. And his version of economic nationalism would leave displaced coal miners and industrial workers no better off. But Democrats should take Bannon's words as a challenge to show that they can continue to address racial injustice and still win enough votes from whites by framing a vision of national prosperity and a decent society that all Americans will see as the country they want to live in.
Even at their best, the mid-20th century versions of the American way weren't fully inclusive, and they couldn't possibly anticipate the economic and social changes that the next half-century would bring. But they did have one thing right. They encouraged Americans to see themselves as sharing a common culture and common fate. They promoted solidarity. That solidarity now has to reflect a multiracial and egalitarian vision, not a backward-looking exclusive one. A crucial feature of the American way is that it hasn't been static and unchanging. We have an elastic, living tradition, and we need to make sure it continues expanding to keep up with all the people who make America their home and who must work together for the country to work at all.


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Associating custom elastic images with Bamboo
Associating a custom elastic image with your Bamboo installation allows you to start elastic instances with capabilities that are different from those inherited from the default image. For example, you may wish to associate a Ubuntu operating system-based elastic image with your Bamboo installation, so that you can run Ubuntu-related tests on the instances started from that image.
Once you have associated a custom elastic image with Bamboo, the settings for your elastic image are stored as an elastic image configuration.
To associate a custom image with Bamboo:
- From the top navigation bar select > Elastic Bamboo > Image configurations.
In the panel under Create elastic image configuration enter the details of your custom elastic image:
The name of your custom elastic image. If you created your own custom image, you should have named it in step 6 of the Creating a custom elastic image instructions. You can also view the image name via the AWS console.
A description for your image, which is used in Bamboo only.
The AMI ID obtained as an output from step 6 of the Creating a custom elastic image instructions. You can also view the AMI IDs of elastic images via the AWS console.
Automatically attach an Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume to new elastic instances
Select this option if you want the elastic instances started from this image to use the EBS. Read more about Configuring elastic instances to use the EBS.
EBS Snapshot ID — Specify the EBS Snapshot ID of the EBS volume that you wish to attach to new instances.
Instance type
The instance type for new instances started from this image. Amazon offers a number of instance types that provide different computing capacity. Read more about Amazon EC2 instance types.
Virtual Private Cloud Subnet
The Subnet of the Virtual Private Cloud where your Elastic Bamboo agent will start up. Select multiple subnets from the list to enable Bamboo to automatically switch between Availability Zones when starting agents. This reduces the chance of a build failing because of a lack of available resources in a particular zone. For more about VPC, see the Amazon VPC FAQ.
Availability zone
The availability zone used to start your new instances from this image in (e.g. if you wish to use Elastic Bamboo with reserved instances). We recommend that you select "Default (chosen by EC2)" to allow Amazon to select the best zone for your instance. Read more about Amazon EC2 availability zones.
The EC2 product name.
Creating elastic images with custom agent capabilities
You can customize the agent capabilities of an elastic image that is already associated with Bamboo. The initial process is similar to that of associating a custom elastic image with Bamboo (above). Here, however, you use the AMI ID of an image already associated with Bamboo — most commonly the default image.
To create an elastic image with customized agent capabilities:
- From the top navigation bar select > Elastic Bamboo > Image configurations.
- Select the name, or View, for the image that you want to view.
- Enter the details of your custom elastic image. See the section above for details.
- You now have a new elastic image configuration based on an existing elastic image. Follow the procedure on Configuring elastic agent capabilities to customize this elastic image's agent capabilities.


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A statement Apple posted in Chinese on its website Monday said the complaints had prompted "deep reflection" and persuaded the company of the need to revamp its repair policies, boost communication with Chinese consumers and strengthen oversight of authorized resellers.
State broadcaster CCTV and the ruling Communist Party's flagship newspaper, People's Daily, had led the charge against the American company. They accused Apple Inc. of arrogance, greed and "throwing its weight around" and portrayed it as just the latest Western company to exploit the Chinese consumer.
The attacks quickly backfired, though, and were mocked by the increasingly sophisticated Chinese consumers who revere Apple and its products. State-run media also inadvertently revived complaints over shoddy service by Chinese companies.
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"We've come to understand through this process that because of our poor communication, some have come to feel that Apple's attitude is arrogant and that we don't care about or value feedback from the consumer," Cook's Chinese statement said, as translated by The Associated Press. "For the concerns and misunderstandings passed on to the consumer, we express our sincere apologies."
Although Apple enjoys strong support from Chinese consumers, the vehemence of the attacks and the importance of the Chinese market appeared to have persuaded the company to appear contrite.
The People's Daily newspaper ran an editorial last Wednesday headlined "Strike down Apple's incomparable arrogance."
"Here we have the Western person's sense of superiority making mischief," the newspaper wrote. "If there's no risk in offending the Chinese consumer, and it also makes for lower overheads, then why not?"
Chinese observers accused People's Daily of gross hypocrisy and pointed out that the newspaper had maintained a stony silence when Chinese companies were implicated over food safety, pollution and other scandals. Meanwhile, CCTV was shamed when it emerged that celebrities had been recruited to blast Apple on Weibo, China's version of Twitter, in what had been billed as a grassroots campaign.
"The public responded in two ways to this incident," popular commentator Shi Shusi wrote on his Weibo account. "One group supports this criticism but quite a number of people felt that there are state monopolies which have severely violated customer's rights, but which are not being exposed."
Popular business magazine Caijing said its readers identified a long list of abusers, including state banks that lend to those with political connections while stiffing ordinary savers with low rates on deposits; a government oil company that sets gas prices and other rates as it sees fit; and state telecom providers notorious for their lack of customer service.
"If media is going to go after Apple, let's hope they spare some thought for those big Chinese communications companies and other monopolies, the ones that enrich special interests in the name of being publicly owned," Cai Tongqi, a lawyer from the eastern province of Jiangsu, wrote on Weibo.
Consumers seem unfazed by the state media's attacks on Apple.
Perusing the wares at an Apple reseller in Beijing's tony China World mall, recent college graduate Zeng Lu said she considered the controversy a sign of the Chinese consumer's growing maturity.
"It's great to see Chinese consumers standing up for their rights, but it's ridiculous for the People's Daily to get involved," Zeng said. "They should be criticizing state companies instead."
Apple's popularity flies in the face of China's ardent attempts to push its own brands and develop internationally competitive companies. The company also has resisted trends to enter joint ventures and move research and development to China. It also ignores big state media such as CCTV and People's Daily. Apple relies on Chinese factories, though, to make iPads, iPhones and other popular products.
Sales of Apple products in the region, which includes Taiwan and Hong Kong, grew 67 percent to $6.8 billion in the first three months of 2013, compared with the same period a year earlier, according to the company. Apple sold 2 million iPhone 5s during the first weekend it was available in China, in December.
The region is Apple's third largest market, accounting for 13 percent of all sales last year. More than 17,000 outlets sell its products in mainland China, a figure that includes 11 Apple stores and 400 premium resellers. In January, Cook said he expects China to replace North America as its largest source of revenue in the foreseeable future.
The attacks on Apple center on complaints over Apple's repair policies in China—specifically its practice of only replacing faulty parts rather than providing new iPhones, as it does in other markets. Critics say that allows Apple to avoid having to extend its service warranty by another year. Until Monday, the Cupertino, California-based company had kept silent apart from issuing a statement March 23 explaining its repair policy and pledging its deep respect for the Chinese consumer.
Yet consumers and analysts say the complaints hardly justify Beijing's campaign of vilification. Such nationalist outbursts are not uncommon, although previous campaigns against foreign companies have often been tied to perceived national slights, as often befalls Japanese firms in China. Beijing accused Google of being an arm of American "information imperialism" after the company announced in March 2010 that it would cease censoring its search responses inside mainland China and instead send visitors to its uncensored search engine in Hong Kong.
Beijing is also angry over Washington's efforts to exclude Chinese high-tech firms Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp. from the US market, amid worries over security. A spending bill signed by President Barack Obama two weeks ago includes a clause barring NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Justice and Commerce Departments from contracting with firms tied to the Chinese government.
Washington and Beijing have also sparred over more recent hacking attacks, including a forensically detailed report by cyber security firm Mandiant that tied Chinese hacking to a unit of the People's Liberation Army based in Shanghai.
Apple, however, may have been singled out simply because it is "the biggest open target," said Jim McGregor, senior counselor at consultancy APCO Worldwide.
"We're still seeing a lot of things wrapped up in economic nationalism," McGregor said.
Even before Monday's apology, he had predicted Apple would make a show of contrition to get its relations with the Chinese authorities back on track.
Duncan Clark, managing director of BDA China Ltd., a Beijing research firm, said the assault probably stems from a combination of factors, including the failure of Chinese companies to make breakthroughs in high-end consumer electronics.
"There's a general sense of frustration that China can't move further up the value chain," Clark said.


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The world's largest organic yogurt producer, Stonyfield Farm, Londonderry, NH, has embraced bioplastics, announcing today the launch of new plant-based packaging for all of its multipack form/fill/seal containers. The new polylactic acid cups, made from Ingeo™ resin from NatureWorks LLC, replace previous packaging made from polystyrene, resulting in 48% less greenhouse gas emissions.
"When we do packaging initiatives, we usually try to reduce GHGs by at least 5 percent," Stonyfield vice president of Natural Resources Nancy Hirshberg told Packaging World in an exclusive interview before the launch. "When we approached this project, it was really a priority for us to get out of polystyrene. We were hoping it would be at least a net neutral. So when we got the life-cycle assessment back, we were stunned."
In terms of Stonyfield's environmental footprint, packaging has the second biggest impact (15%) after milk (43%). The company produces approximately 200 million multipack cups per year for products that include YoBaby, YoToddler, YoKids, B-Healthy, B-Well, Probiotic, and O'Soy. "This single change will reduce our packaging climate impact by 9 percent," Hirshberg adds
The innovation, which is said to be the first use of PLA for f/f/s dairy containers, continues the company's tradition of trendsetting when it comes to making improvements for more environmentally friendly packaging. With only 5% of the impact of packaging resulting from end-of-life, Stonyfield has concentrated its efforts on reducing materials, rather than recycling. According to Hirshberg, Stonyfield was the first to lightweight its yogurt cups (1990s), as well as the first to eliminate the plastic lid in favor of flexible foil lidding (2002).
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Last April, at the NatureWorks Innovation Takes Root conference, Stonyfield vice president of sourcing and product development Rolf Carlson laid out those conditions that would be necessary in order for the company to consider the use of bioplastics in its packaging. He noted, "We would have to validate the science around bioplastics before using them. We would want to be sure there is an absence of negatives."
Since then, Stonyfield has done its homework, taking a holistic approach to evaluating the use of biopolymers, including the origin of the feedstock, the safety of the additives, the end-of-life potential, the functionality of the final package, and the cost. Its first goal was to confirm that PLA does indeed provide an enhanced environmental profile versus PS. This was validated through a third-party study comparing the LCA of PLA versus PS by Dr. Roland Geyer of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
"What he determined is that PLA outperforms PS in terms of energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and human toxicity, which for us were the most important issues," Hirshberg explains. The 48% lower global warming potential translates to 4,000 barrels of oil that will be saved annually by Stonyfield as a result of the packaging change.
Film converter Clear Lam Packaging is credited with making PLA functional with f/f/s processes through the use of additives. Rollstock for the cups consists of 93% PLA, 4% titanium dioxide (a whitener), and 3% other additives. Because Clear Lam could not reveal the additives used in the material, Stonyfield hired consulting firm Pure Strategies to develop a list of chemicals that the company did not want used in its cups. The list includes 2,600 specific carcinogens, mutagens, reproductive toxins, endocrine disruptors, and persistent, bioacculmulative, and toxic metals.
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One big concern for Stonyfield in pursuing bioplastics was the issue of feedstock production. "For us at Stonyfield, the way that corn is grown conventionally today is not really consistent with our philosophy," Hirshberg explains. "So in order for us to move forward with this, we needed to feel good about the way the corn was being grown."
Because NatureWorks cannot ensure that the feedstock used for the resin for Stonyfield's cups is non-Genetically Modified (GM) corn, Stonyfield has become the first major purchaser of offsets through the Working Landscapes Certificate. Under the program, Stonyfield contracts for the equivalent 500 acres of corn needed annually for its packaging to be grown to the WLC sustainable agriculture standards. The nonprofit Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) recruits farmers and oversees the standards and certification to WLC requirements.
The program, which will result in the production of 1.7 million lb of non-GM corn annually, comes at a cost of more than $36,000 per year to Stonyfield, in addition to its material costs. Most of the funds go directly to the farmers—a fact that was key to Stonyfield's involvement, Hirshberg adds. "We see this money being used as a market lever to drive farmers to more sustainable practices," she says.
For Stonyfield, however, corn is considered a transitional step. Ultimately, the company plans to move to cellulosic fiber as a feedstock, once the technology is commercially viable—an innovation that the Department of Energy estimates will occur by 2015.
Despite the cost of purchasing offsets in addition to the investment in a bioplastic material, Hirshberg happily relates that the switch from PS to PLA will not result in a cost increase, either for Stonyfield or for its customers. "Between a number of factors, including the fact that the cost of polystyrene is so high right now and we have reduced the breakage of our packaging with PLA, we are actually going to be cost-neural," she reports.
Potential for fully closed-loop system
At present, the end-of-life scenario for the new PLA cup is no better than it was for its PS predecessor: Neither are currently widely recycled. But Stonyfield believes that PLA has a greater potential to provide a fully closed-loop system. Last spring, BioCor announced its plans to begin developing a recycling infrastructure for PLA, based on a successful chemical recycling system in Belgium through Galactic. http://www.lactic.com/index.php/news/item/4
"I have to say, as someone who has been in involved in this industry for 20 years or so, this is the first time I've really seen a technical nutrient cycling, a real, true, fully closed-loop cycle," says Hirshberg. "So we're really excited about that and about building the recycling infrastructure."
First, however, Stonyfield must develop bioplastic-based materials to replace the paper and metallized PET that are being used for the container's label and lid, respectively. After that, the company plans to work with BioCor to optimize its PLA rollstock to be compatible with BioCor's chemical recycling operations.
Composting, however, will not be recommended as an end-of-life option. Currently, the film is too thick to compost within the time frame required by ASTM standards. But even if Stonyfield lightweights the material, Hirshberg says composting is "counterintuitive," as it releases back into the atmosphere the carbon embedded in the corn and then the resin during manufacturing. "We're not saying that composting is bad in all cases," she says, "but we do think there is a better option for end of life, and that is recycling."
As for concerns that Stonyfield might encounter some of the same unanticipated consequences as Frito-Lay's PLA SunChips bag, which was recently pulled due to consumer complaints that it was too noisy, Hirshberg says, "Our customers aren't going to notice the difference. Function and cost are always going to rise to the top."


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Pakistan tourism industry generates $20 billion in revenue and supports 3.6 million jobs directly and indirectly, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council. Foreign visitors generate nearly a billion US$ in exports.
Economic Contribution of Pakistan Tourism. Source: WTTC |
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Significantly improved security situation has helped boost annual tourist arrivals in Pakistan by 300% since 2013 to 1.75 million in 2016, while domestic travelers increased 30% to 38.3 million, according to the state-owned Pakistan Tourism Development Corp. Hotel bookings increased 80 percent in 2016, according to Jovago, Pakistan's biggest hotel booking website.
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A story in the Financial Times, a British newspaper, quotes British tour operator Jonny Bealby as saying, "While I am sure this will raise some eyebrows, we are starting to see a marked increase in tourism to Pakistan". Bealby's company arranged 55% more clients to Pakistan in 2017 compared with 2016, and advance bookings are more than 100 per cent up on this point 12 months ago, according to the Financial Times.
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Pakistan government has announced its decision to provide 30 day tourist visa on arrival for visitors from 24 countries on three continents.
Tourism industry in Pakistan is booming with 300% increase in foreign tourist arrivals since 2013. It contributed $20 billion (6.9% of GDP in 2016) and supported 3.6 million jobs in 2016. World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) forecasts it to grow to over $36 billion within a decade.
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Angel kisses. Marks located on the forehead, nose, upper lip, and eyelids that usually disappear with age.
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Hemangioma. Hemangiomas become visible within the first few weeks or months of life and continue to grow rapidly for about 6 to 9 months. Then they slowly lose this red color and shrink. They are sometimes called strawberry patch hemangiomas. By age 10, 9 in 10 of them go away without any treatment. Hemangiomas that grow into other organs or structures or become ulcerated should be checked by your healthcare provider.
Port-wine stain. A port-wine stain is a flat, pink, red, or purple mark that appears at birth, often on the face, arms, and legs. It continues to grow as the child grows. Port-wine stains don't go away and may become more purple or thicker with age. These birthmarks often need treatment if located on the eyelid or forehead. Port-wine stains involving the face may cause eye problems and be linked with other developmental disorders.
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Chronicles from the Future tells a remarkable story about a bizarre and incredible event experienced by Paul Amadeus Dienach, the author, who lived during the beginning of the previous century in central Europe.
Dienach claims that during his one-year comatose state, brought about by a serious illness, his consciousness travelled to the future in a different body and stayed there for the entire duration of his coma.
Although this sounds impossible and indeed fanciful, Dienach's written account was taken very seriously by the Freemasons, who kept his book as a closely guarded secret.
There are many books containing prophecies and visions of future occurrences, however, none come close to the strange circumstances that happened to Dienach nearly a century ago.
Only a select few have ever had the privilege of reading Dienach's detailed chronicle of events as just a small number of copies were printed and published in Greece.
But now, for the first time, people have the opportunity to read Dienach's incredible story and hear his revelations about the future and the next evolutionary step for humanity.
Who is the writer of the book?
Paul Amadeus Dienach, was a professor of German language studies. He was not a writer nor did he ever plan to write a book. Rather, Chronicles from the Future is his published diary containing a detailed description of his experiences.
Dienach suffered from a rare type of Encephalitis lethargica ('sleep sickness'), and in 1921, he fell into a coma and remained that way for a whole year in a hospital of Geneva.
What was his experience?
When Dienach awoke from his coma, he recorded in his diary that he had been awake and aware the entire time, but not in the year nor the place in which his body lay. Dienach reported that his consciousness travelled into the body of another man, Andrew Northam, in the year 3906 AD.
According to Dienach, individuals in the year 3906 AD realized that a different consciousness had entered the body of Andrew Northam, and so they showed him and explained to him everything about their era, as well as exactly what had occurred from the 21st century up until their present year, showing the path that humanity had followed.
Dienach reported that a new species of human being, named Homo Occidantalis Novus, will follow today's Homo sapiens, and in his memoires he traces the steps, both good and bad, that will take place over the millennia.
Dienach never mentioned his account to anyone at the time for fear of being thought crazy and exposing himself to ridicule, both in his career and personal life.
How did his personal diary come to be published?
At the age of 36, with fragile health and after recovering from his coma, Dienach decided to go to Greece in the Autumn of 1922 with the goal of improving his health, because of the mild climate, and also to teach German to university students.
One of his students was George Papahatzis, who later became the Vice President of the National Board of Greece, founding member of the Greek Philosophical Society and one of the reformers of Administrative Law in Greece, as well as a high rank member of a number of secret societies, including the Freemasons.
Two years later, seeing his health become worse and knowing that his death was imminent, Dienach decided to go to Italy.
But before he left, he entrusted his loyal student, Papahatzis, with a briefcase full of notes, telling him that if he wanted to read them in the future, it would help him with his German. He said goodbye to his young friend and left. He died from tuberculosis in the first half of 1924.
George Papahatzis translated the notes of Dienach gradually over a period of 14 years – from 1926 to 1940. He was surprised by the notes that Dienach had left him.
He initially believed his teacher had written a novel in a very peculiar way. But as he continued to read, he realized that what he was translating were Dienach's memoires.
The Second World War and the civil war that followed in Greece made Papahatzis cease translations of Dienach's notes. But later on, from 1952 to 1966, Papahatzis tried to trace Dienach or Dienach's relatives by travelling to Zurich on twelve separate occasions. He could not find any relatives or any trace of Dienach.
So his conclusion was that Dienach (who fought during the First World War on the side of the Germans) had changed his name on his arrival to Greece, a country that had fought against the Germans in the war.
Once translated, Papahatzis shared the notes only within a very closed Masonic circle involving members of the highest degree. The notes were circulated as information of upmost importance for the future of mankind, and among the Masons, Dienach was considered a prophet of modern times.
The publishing efforts and the attack of the Church
Up until 1972, the translated notes of Dienach were available within the close philosophical and masonic circles.
They believed that the information should not be made available to the masses, since it was controversial and many would not handle the information well. But George Papahatzis did not agree.
In 1972, during the dictatorship in Greece, Papahatzis published the Pages of a Diary of Dienach and he came immediately under attack.
He lost his job, was accused as heretic by the Church, and copies of the book quickly disappeared. Only a few remained.
Another attempt at publication was made in 1979, a period when Greece had transitioned to a Democracy following the overthrow of the Dictatorship. However, again the books disappeared and it was hardly mentioned again, apart from the few that knew of its existence.
Thirty years later and the book has never been outside of Greece, and almost everyone ignored its existence apart from Radamanthys Anastasakis, high ranking ex-member of many secret societies (and today teacher, author and publisher), who decided to publish the book on a small scale, exactly as it was previously written.
The huge length of the book, in combination with the fact that it was published by a small publishing company that didn't have the means to advertise it, meant that it became lost among the thousands of other books.
Properly presented for the first time
When Dienach's memoires were first published, they were difficult to read, containing over 800 pages of rough notes.
Dienach never intended his diary to be published as a book, and simply recorded what he could remember from his one year experience when he was in the coma, along with other memories from his past, making the essence of the story difficult to extract.
Now for the first time, Dienach's diary has been properly prepared and edited, presenting the key elements of his story in an easy-to-read format, along with stunning illustrations that bring to life the true essence of his experience.
This book could be life-changing, because if what it says is true, Dienach will show you what the future holds for humanity…
You can read the translation of the diary by accessing the following links:
1. Chronicles from the Future: Diary Page – December 2nd 1918
2. Chronicles from the Future: Diary Page – December 4th & 6th 1918
3. Chronicles from the Future: Diary Page – January 17 to February 24
4. Chronicles from the Future: Diary Page – December 2nd 1918
5. Chronicles from the Future: Diary Page – December 4th & 6th 1918
6. Chronicles from the Future: Diary Page – January 17 to February 24
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Reorienting the drug war
This post really follows up on yesterday's. There is an article by Ralph Espach in The Atlantic about the potential effects of drug legalization in Central America, which makes some good points.
Drugs are a major problem in Central America, but they are worsened by a much bigger problem, one that can't be solved by legalizing marijuana, cocaine, or opium: the lack of public security. From the out-gunned police on the streets to the weak judges in the courts to the corrupt politicians, communities and countries struggle to maintain basic control over their own security. Ultimately, drug legalization -- like the drug war it's meant to solve -- would succeed only if public security is fixed and would fail if it isn't. That means better-trained and -equipped police, new campaign finance rules, faster and more independent courts, and even improved prisons. It means addressing not just the problems in the police and courts but the widespread poverty, malnourished children, and poor education systems. It means creating transparency in the public sector, curbing corruption, and breaking the long-standing links between organized crime and politics. Without these enormously difficult steps, neither drug legalization nor any drug war are likely to solve Central America's problems.
I agree that drug legalization will not "solve Central America's" problems, but I've never actually heard anyone argue that it would.
Instead, I see the current discussion in Latin America as a "critical juncture." This refers to a moment when the trajectory of something can be changed. As Collier and Collier put it in Shaping the Political Arena, they may involve a "relatively brief period in which one direction or another is taken or an extended period of reorientation" (p. 27). In the context of the "drug war," it means the opportunity for a regional rethinking of policy. This doesn't necessarily mean legalization--which should not be viewed as a monolithic policy in any case--but rather willingness to look at all options based on what has succeeded and failed up to this point.
A very good idea would be for the Obama administration to get out in front of this, and convene a forum/meeting with representatives from every country. It wouldn't have to result in anything binding but rather would be an opportunity for each country to air its views. We need an opportunity to take stock and see what kind of consensus exists, and what divisions remain. Hopefully this would lead to some sort of policy reorientation that would be broadly acceptable, or at the very least would take the Latin American side more into consideration.
Of course, it won't happen, especially not in an election year. But the U.S. can keep ignoring Latin American views at its own peril. Read more...


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I have never lived in Ferguson, MO but I have a lot of ties there. I worked there for several years. I went to school there for several years (yes I know STLCC is a two-year college but it took me longer than that – plus I took continuing ed classes for many years afterward). I know how hard the people of Ferguson have worked to create a nice business, dining and entertainment district. I've had several of those businesses as clients over the years and have been a customer at many others. A couple of my best friends lived there. I don't like to see any community torn by violence but of course it's extra emotional when it's one that I am familiar with.
I believe the arts can heal and I believe that gardens can heal. That's why I'm a Master Gardener and why I've been having my #virtualartparty online. When I saw that a friend of mine that I respect for her art ability, spiritual commitment and community spirit was participating in #paintforpeace in Ferguson, I wanted to put my beliefs about the healing power of art to the test. This past weekend I painted one panel along the main drag of Ferguson to make my contribution and to see what would happen. My husband joined me for one of the two days I was there and helped me paint a panel. If you have any questions about what we experienced or opinions about the project please feel free to ask and comment.
The theme for #virtualartparty Thursday, June 11 is Public Art. #paintforpeace is a form of public art that is intended to have a specific function. There is also a lot of other public art in the news lately – statuary and monuments from US and World History. There are monuments that are being targeted because they cause offense and make people feel unwelcome, and there are others that I theorize are being targeted to get footage of statues being toppled in the hopes of inciting fear and anger and sparking a violent revolution of our form of government. George Washington, Winston Churchill, Ghandi, Queen Victoria, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln are all under attack and if continued we in the US and any part of the world influenced by European culture will see a Cultural Revolution to rival past events in history. Has anything good ever come from that? Please give your opinion.
Although it is not perfect I still support the Democratic Republic form of government and the US Constitution. I predict public art is going to be in the news for a long time to come. In between questions and comments, if we get any, my husband Tom is going to read selections from the following books. I chose these books because they were on my shelf and convenient, and also had something interesting to contribute to the public discourse about public art and public spaces. I have a HUGE book collection (seems pretentious to say "private library" but I guess that's what it is) and I need to dig into it more often. It's very illuminating, and I also find it calming to know that the issues we wrestle with today are not new and people have the ability to persevere through a lot of tough times.
Book selections for June 11, 2020:
"The Expressive Arts Activity Book: A Resource for Professionals" by Suzanne Darley and Wende Heath, 2008. Pages 60, 68.
"American Signs: Form and Meaning on Route 66" by Lisa Mahar, 2002. Excerpts from pages 186, 189, and 190.
"A History of the American People: Volume One: To 1877" by Stephan Thernstrom, 1984. Excerpts from pages 358, 372, 377-379.
"Parks, Plants and People: Beautifying the Urban Landscape" by Lynden B. Miller, 2009. Excerpts from pages 65-66.
"Keith Haring: The Authorized Biography" by John Gruen, 1991. Excerpts from pages 68-69, and 98.
"St. Louis: Portrait of a River City" by Elinor Martineau Coyle, 1966. Excerpts from pages 56, 66-69, 82, 128.
"Arts and Ideas", Seventh Edition by William Fleming, 1986. Excerpts from pages 86-87.
"The Visual Dialogue: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Art" by Nathan Knobler, 1966. Pages 238, 261-263, 289.
If you have book, article, or art recommendations, please post them! I'm going to be posting more after tonight's discussion because there is enough material to stay on this topic for quite awhile. I might even want to turn this into a project for my Master's Degree at Webster University, if I don't get expelled first for "thoughtcrime".
Update June 12, 2020
Ok, here is how last night's video turned out.
#paintforpeace in Ferguson organizers video:
They are promoting the hashtag #wehearyou so I'm going to start adding that to related stuff in social media.
Listening and hearing I think are some of the key things I've learned from this healing experiment. We live in a "gotcha" culture and everyone is quick to see and pounce on the flaw in someone's reasoning rather than trying to understand how they got to where they are in their thinking. People in our society today have an average attention span of 8 seconds which is less than that of a goldfish which is 9 seconds. Is it any wonder that the humanity part of being human seems to be hard to find? Understanding and healing takes patience and work, but we are being pushed to instantly judge someone to see if they fall into one category or another so their concerns can be dismissed. If you treat people like that for decades you can't earn trust back in an instant. Have we all examined ourselves to see if we are worthy of trust? That's what we have to do first before we judge someone else for getting the wrong idea about us and writing them off as not worth trying to engage with.
Of course there are those who have ill intent and want to sow hate and violence to achieve their destructive goals and sometimes they hide those goals under a facade that seems benign. I believe in letting people show you who they are with their behavior before you judge. I don't blame people for not knowing who it's safe to trust. I try not to take it personally and use patience and love to "give peace a chance". You might get burned, but you might find something beautiful. We have to accept that we aren't always allowed to have peace but where we can have it I like to try it first.
Here is an amazing video I watched the other day. It's called "Before You Call the Cops".


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Thursday, October 30, 2008
I'm back!
Friday, October 17, 2008
Raspberry Rhapsody Scarf
This will be the last FO to show you before my trip. It's called Raspberry Rhapsody scarf by Jackie Erickson-Schweitzer and it's REAL lace! You don't get to relax on the wrong sides, but have to do patterning as well. I adore this little scarf! There will be another one in the future.
It's on the short side, but it will have to do, since I only had 3 balls of the yarn. I made it for my godmother, who I will see back home. I haven't seen her in years, and years, so I'm looking forward to it. I hope she likes the color, I don't have a clue what her favorite colores are.
This pattern can be found in the book "The Knitter's Book of Yarn" by Clara Parkes. It has 40 patterns in it, and this is the third pattern I've knit from it. And there are still more I want to do. This book is definitely worth its money.
pattern: Raspberry Rhapsody scarf by Jackie Erickson-Schweitzer
yarn: elann Baby Cashmere, 60% Baby Alpaca, 30% merino wool, 10% Cashmere, 3 balls ~ 327yds
needles: 4mm (used my KP Harmony straights)
size after blocking: 11" x 50"
start-finish: Oct. 04-10
Since it's written instructions I made myself a sheet with the main body instructions, giving every row a different color and printed out in landscape format, so the instructions could stand in one row for each row. Yes, I need aids like that sometimes, it made it a much more relaxed and fun knit. The pattern is very well written and I especially like the built in border, so clever!
I noticed that one of the pictures of this scarf in the book was taken around the same time of year in a similar setting as my first picture.
Now, I still have to finish my Terttu shawl II. I underestimated knitting a triangular shawl again. The rows are getting long and longer. I'm hoping to finish it by tomorrow, and after a bath and a stretch it should be dry by Tuesday. After that I'm done and ready to go.
I will have to knit the TTL Mystery Socks when I get back. I'm itching for sock knitting real bad.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Preparations ...
Well, today I went, made an appointment even for it last week. My needs are pretty much straight forward. Two employees, two customers. Should not take too long, right?
The goo was smeared on, I almost dozed off, would have, but the music was so annoying. Without my glasses on, I'm almost blind as a bat. Didn't want to sit with a magazine right in front of my nose, so I was contemplating my life. I got a little nervous, when the alarm went off, and nobody came to wash out the color. While I was waiting, there were other customers to be taken care off.
Anyway, finally I got a wash, and I told her how much she was allowed to take off. Layers in front? Don't touch that!
In the past, I once ran off with wet hair, because I could not take it anymore. After two years, I thought I should be more grown up and wait it out. I did NOT want her to style my hair, just blow dry it, for gods sake! I was tempted to grab the damn thing and do it myself, but hey, I'm almost 44, I can be patient. She burned my skin, and after I winced several times, and TOLD her it was too hot, she put me under that funny thing, where you go, when you got rollers in your hair.
At first it was fine, and immediately my eyes started to fall shut, almost dozed off again, until suddenly it got hot again, and after a second of panic, I finally figured out how to get that thing off my head. I got up, and declared, that I'm done (stick a fork in me).
I went to the counter, got my wallet out, the hairdresser came around and reached for the cover, still tangling from my neck (she was a head shorter than me, but I did not bend my knees). I paid and left. Time spent there - 1 hour and 53 minutes. See you in two years.
Relatives and friends! See what I go through for you? ;o)
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
I had to make some tough decisions lately. One, which was easy compared to the other decisions was to frog my Noro 10-stitch blanket! That's right. I love this colorway so much, that I decided to use the yarn for a cardigan for myself. Last night, I ripped. It was almost heart breaking, because this was already lap sized, so cozy, soft and warm, and I wish I could have both. My son asked open mouthed, whether it didn't feel weird to undo so many hours of knitting in such a short time. No, it didn't. I don't think it ever bothered me to frog knitting, after I've decided to do so. I think it's great, that you can do that, if you change your mind.
But don't ask me what cardigan I'll be knitting. I don't know yet, and it will definitely be after my trip to Austria, which is upcoming next week.
On Ravelry I saw some Old Shale Lace Shawls by Evelyn A. Clark, from the Spin Off magazine 2008. There was one I liked a lot, it was the yarn, which made me take notice. I was very disappointed at first, when I saw the shawl in the magazine, so boring, and I would have never knit it just from the pictures in the magazine. But as you can see, I did. I used Noro Silk Garden Sock yarn, one ball only. It's a shawlette rather, but this way it has more chances of being worn as a scarf. I love it! I made a crochet picot bind off, because I liked it. The picot instructions for a knit bind off, sounded like a PIA to me, so I grabbed a hook instead.
pattern: Old Shale Lace Shawl by Evelyn A. Clark, Spin Off magazine Summer 2008
yarn: Noro Silk Garden Sock, color # 252 S, one ball, had a tiny bit left over yarn
needle: 4.5mm
size after blocking: 24" x 46"
start-finish: Sept. 27 -30
This shawl was fun to knit, I enjoyed it from the very first to the very last stitch. There will be more of this kind.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Phoenix mittens!
Happy Thanksgiving to all you Canadians! and (happy Columbus Day to you folks in the US)!
edited: October 14th: A very attentive and critical reader of my blog made me aware of what Columbus Day and it's controversy is all about. Ignorance is never an excuse. And I'm always happy to learn new things. Even if only meaning well, one can step on someone else's feet. I'm not deleting it, so you know what I'm talking about.
I have other, older stuff to show you, but I finished these mittens last night. I call them Phoenix mittens, after the name of the fiber.
I made some basic mittens, no pattern, just of the top of my head. I cast on 54 stitches and knit them on 2.75mm needles. They turned out a little wide around the palm, so I decreased to 50 stitches after I separated for the thumb.
They looked boring to me, so I decided to embroider them a little bit. I'm not good at this, and I don't enjoy it. A million ends to weave in, urgh! They are O.K. but I'm not thrilled. Love the strong colores though. I had lots of left over yarn for at least a pair of baby booties, if I wanted to make some. Not that I do.
Just short and sweet today. Need to enjoy the lovely weather. Sam's limping along fine, enjoying life, Biko is up to no good as always, if left to her own device. No gobble-gobble for us, just plain old chicken.
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Aran Island mittens x 2
Hey, thanks for your tips for travel knitting. I think I'll go with lace, since I knit my socks on 5 double point needles, I don't think that would be a good choice. I have several things in mind already. But here are some finished projects:
The first try to knit those mittens failed, due to me not being able to read through the instructions carefully. I used too thick yarn and too large needles. The second and third try turned out O.K. Still, these mittens are huge, even with the right needle size, and stretchy, and I LOVE them! The green ones, are for me, of course. The red ones are for Hannah.green Aran Island mittens:
yarn: Debbie Bliss DK merino
needles: 3.25mm, DP
pattern: from the book "Folk Mittens" by Marcia Lewandowski
start-finish: Sept. 09 - 11
modifications. I did a (k3,p1) on the palm side, to hold it a little together. I also didn't like the reverse stockinette look of the thumb, so I made it just stockinette stitch and I like it very much. I LOVE the green color!
This pattern is easy to knit, and memorize, that's why I did a second pair right away, and would do another one, it's that much fun!
I made some minor mistakes, but nothing major.
red Aran Island mittens:
yarn: Berroco Ultra Alpaca light, color # 4281, 1 1/2 skeins, 50g = 14yds, 50% alpaca, 50% peruvian wool
needles: 3.25mm
pattern: same as above
start-finish: Sept. 23-26 (O.K. so I knit something else in between the two pairs)
You can clearly see, that the fuzzy alpaca yarn does not show the cables as crisp as the 100% merino yarn does. Still, I like the heathered look of the red, and they are so soft and warm.
I made the same mods as with the green ones, but fewer mistakes. And - I found a different way to make the bobbles, which I liked better, and they are rounder, but smaller.
This happens, when you have headphones on and ignore the asking stare of your puppy. Biko snuck up on the bed, which both of them are not allowed to do without permission (usually they walk up to the couch or bed, turn to look at whoever is in the room and wait for the word "up"). But she's so cute, so she's forgiven. That was before I turned on the heat. I think she was cold, since she was swimming for the last time this year. Now she's fine in her own bed, heat is on, but on low. Might turn it off again, since it's supposed to get warmer towards the weekend. We'll see.
Monday, October 06, 2008
Little Sky
Alright, I'm not always finding exactly what I want/need at my LYS, but the Ladies sure do try. This time I was lucky though, and not just in one way.
The owners Beth and Karen, always nice to talk to gifted me with this new sock yarn, meant for my daughter. Thank you!
Well, the ball band says you need three balls for one pair of socks. What could I do with one ball? After dismissing several options I settled on baby booties. They can still be for my daughter some day, not that she's in need of them right now. :o)
Friday, October 03, 2008
Do I really need another blanket?
I'm using Jojoland Rhythm for the multicolored yarn, and Jojoland Wool Yarn for the natural white one. I'm going to knit not separate squares, but bands of squares one on top of each other, maybe 8 or 10, and later sew those bands together. Anything to reduce the sewing part.
I'm wondering if I should rip this square out though. I'm using 4.5mm needles, which is appropriate for this yarn, but with the slip stitch pattern it makes it stiff like a board. Can't say the wool is soft, rather scratchy, but good enough for a blanket, and I prefer wool over acrylic. So there's something to think about. I'll not put a lot of time into this one just yet. Want to work on the lace shawl and the Noro blanket first.
Will I ever knit a sweater for myself? It's getting cold, and it would be nice to have one. It's just not the same to tuck a blanket around one's body, while letting the dogs outside to pee, no, not the same. One day, I guess, I will muster enough courage to cast on for something more practical.
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
October Mystery Sock Clue # 1 - Cuff
1. Noro 10-stitch blanket (knit on it almost every night)
2. SWS 10-stitch blanket (on hold)
3. Terttu Shawl II by Lankakomero (I LOVE this shawl!)
4. Bliss entrelac blanket (scroll down a bit) - it's on time out. I wanted to rip it, but I'm more than halfway done, so I'll finish it someday.
And - I'm happy to say, that I'm back in the spinning groove! I navajo plied the Light Coopworth I've spun some time ago. It's for the mittens I wanted to spin for (and I will finish spinning for this project!). It's the second skein with ~ 245yds. With two of those that's more than enough for mittens.
I had fun spinning Phoenix. I didn't mind what the outcome would be, I just had to get back into spinning. The skein is still a little damp, and it's a little over twisted, but not too much. I've got ~ 366yds, 2-ply yarn. It will stripe, if knit in the round for mittens or socks. It's not going to be socks though, maybe mittens. I'm looking forward to knit with this yarn. It's superwash merino, and very soft. On a grey, rainy day, looking at this yarn makes me happy.
I've already started spinning the chocolate and cherries fiber! Can't wait to see how that will come out.
Lots to do, so I better get going.