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It is still a difficult concept for many people to grasp: how can there be harms from screening for cancer?
Maybe the study published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine, "Overdiagnosis in Low-Dose Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer," will make some of the potential harms a little more clear.
The analysis shows that nearly 20% of all lung cancers found by CT screening seemed to be harmless (indolent is the term the researchers used). The researchers wrote:
"These patients may undergo an invasive diagnostic procedure, have surgical resection, be given a diagnosis of lung cancer, and require multiple sequential follow-up studies when some tumors are potentially clinically insignificant. These cases of overdiagnosis are treated as any other lung cancer because it is generally not possible to distinguish indolent lesions from more aggressive tumors."
"Putting the word 'harmless' next to cancer is such a foreign concept to people," said Dr. Michael LeFevre, co-chairman of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
In testimonials, patients often say lung cancer screening via CT scans cured them, but the study suggests that in many cases, "we cured them of a disease we didn't need to find in the first place," LeFevre said."
WebMD quoted Dr. Otis Brawley of the American Cancer Society:
Brawley said the clinical trial had successfully detected two types of lung cancers — the 80 percent that could not be cured and the 20 percent that could be successfully treated.
"Now we're realizing there's a third kind of cancer — the kind that doesn't need to be cured but can be cured," Brawley said. "We cure some people who don't need to be cured, but the study clearly shows by treating everyone we cure people who need to be cured."
Meantime, the Chicago Tribune carried a story promoting a hospital's free lung cancer screening on the same day that most other news media were reporting on the troubling findings from the study. The Tribune story made no mention of the new study. Sigh.
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How to Make Lip Balm
Five Methods:Quick Lip BalmLemon Lime Lip BalmHealing Lip BalmMint and Honey Lip BalmLemon Mint Lip BalmCommunity Q&A
Do you use lip balm a lot? If so, making your own is a great way to save money. Create a customized lip balm with your favorite ingredients and scents, then use it up yourself or pour it into containers to give away to friends. This article instructs for making three types of lip balm: quick balm, lemon lime balm, and healing balm.
Method 1
Quick Lip Balm
1Add some petroleum jelly to a microwaveable bowl. Use as much or as little as you want. If you use the entire tub of petroleum jelly, you can put your lip balm back in the container for storage.
2Heat it up. You can heat up your petroleum jelly in the microwave or in a heatproof bowl over simmering water.
3Add some color. Tint the petroleum jelly by cutting a small piece of your favorite lipstick,scraping out some eye shadow, or scraping out some blush and mixing it in. Use a spoon to stir it thoroughly. Heat back up to make it easier to stir.
4Add a flavor. Mix in a little juice or extract. Add as much as you want depending on how much flavor you want it to have.
5Let the mixture cool. Put the balm in a container and use it as needed.
Method 2
Lemon Lime Lip Balm
1Mix the balm ingredients. Lip balm is made from a combination of oils and solids that blend to create a mixture that is spreadable, but not liquefied. The oils make the balm soft and moisturizing, the beeswax stiffens it, and the essential oils add scent. Mix the following ingredients together in a bowl:
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoon chopped beeswax
- 5 drops lemon essential oil and 5 drops lime essential oil (substitute these for other essential oils if you wish)
2Pour the mixture into a double boiler. The lip balm mixture needs to melt slowly over low heat.
- If you don't have a double boiler, you can make one with two pots. Find a large pot and a smaller pot that fits inside it. Fill the larger pot with a few inches of water, then place the smaller pot inside. Pour the lip balm mixture into the small pot, taking care not to get any water in the pot.
- You may want to use a pot reserved especially for making lip balm and other body products, since beeswax is difficult to remove from cookware.
3Melt the ingredients over medium-high heat. Turn on the burner under the double boiler to heat the water and melt the ingredients. Stir them frequently so everything is evenly incorporated.
4Add color. Add a chunk of your favorite lipstick, blush, or eye shadow color if you wish. Mix it in with a spoon.
5Pour the mixture into containers. If you are saving it for yourself, pour it into a large container. If you are giving it away to friends, divide it into smaller containers.
- You may want to place newspapers under the containers so your work area will be easier to clean up.
- Empty lip balm tubes and tins can be purchased from craft supply stores.
6Allow the mixture to cool completely. Use the balm and decide how you like the texture. If you want a firmer balm next time, use more beeswax. If you like it softer, use more oil.
Method 3
Healing Lip Balm
1Mix the balm ingredients. Healing balm is made with vitamin E and peppermint to soothe your lips and sinuses when you have a cold. Mix the following ingredients together in a bowl:
- 1 tablespoon Shea butter
- 2 tablespoon sweet almond oil
- 1 tablespoon chopped beeswax
- 5 drops vitamin E oil
- 5 drops peppermint oil
2Pour the mixture into a double boiler. Melt it slowly over medium heat, using a spoon to stir it frequently to make sure the ingredients become incorporated and smooth.
3Pour the mixture into containers. Empty mint tins make the perfect container for healing lip balm. Pour it carefully into containers and allow it to cool completely.
4Use the balm when your lips are chapped. When you get sick, spread it liberally on your lips. A dab just under your nose helps heal the area, and the peppermint essential oil helps to open your sinuses.
Method 4
Mint and Honey Lip Balm
1Put one teaspoon of petroleum jelly in a bowl. Heat it in the microwave for 30 seconds.
2Mix in 3 drops of peppermint extract. Mix well.
3Pour in about one teaspoon of honey. Mix well.
4Put the mixture into a container with a lid.
5Let it set overnight. Leave the lid off.
6Test a little the next day. Apply with finger. If it has set sufficiently, it's done. Put the lid on.
Method 5
Lemon Mint Lip Balm
1Microwave some petroleum jelly in a microwave-safe bowl.
2Add lemon juice, lemon zest and mint leaves or mint extract to the melted jelly.
3Blend together with a toothpick. Be sure to work quickly.
- If the the mixture is hardened, microwave a little more.
4Pour into a container of your choice.
5Place the container in the freezer for two minutes, then into the fridge for 15 minutes.
6Label. Keep refrigerated when not in use.
Community Q&A
Can we use Vaseline instead of petroleum jelly or beeswax?
- Yes, Vaseline is petroleum jelly. It has moisturizing properties. It is possible to use beeswax but you should use a specific recipe for that, such as How to Make Beeswax Lip Balm.
Are essential oils safe for lips?
- Yes, most essential oils are safe for the lips. However, make sure that you do not use too much, as this could dry or irritate your lips. Also, research the safety of each oil you want to use as some are not recommended for topical use of sensitive areas including lips (ie: tea tree oil).
Can I store my lip balms without storing them in the fridge?
- As long as you do not have pieces of food in them, this should be okay in a cool, dark place. The last one says to store in the fridge because it tells you to use lemon juice, lemon zest, or mint leaves to flavor the balm, all of these can spoil. Use an essential oil instead to flavor the balm and it won't need to be kept in the fridge.
- If you do not have a microwave, you can heat a pan of water with petroleum jelly in a bowl (on top of the pan).
- Check craft stores and online suppliers for essential oils, butters, waxes, and lip balm containers.
- If you want to make the quick balm firm, use some melted beeswax instead of petroleum jelly.
- Experiment with your favorite oils. As long as the basic ratio stays the same, you can swap out one oil or butter for another without changing the texture of the lip balm.
- Petroleum jelly will only mix with other oil soluble substances. Don't be surprised when some of your non-oil based substances form a separate layer.
- Keep in a fridge when you're not going to use it.
- If you add color from a makeup product, make sure it's safe for use on lips. Don't add nail polish or another product that contains chemicals that shouldn't be ingested.
Things You'll Need
Quick Lip Balm
- Petroleum jelly
- Lipstick, blush or eye shadow
- Fruit juice
- Small container
Lemon Lime Lip Balm
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons chopped beeswax
- 5 drops lemon essential oil and 5 drops lime essential oil (substitute these for other essential oils if you wish)
Healing Lip Balm
- 1 tablespoon Shea butter
- 2 tablespoon sweet almond oil
- 1 tablespoon chopped beeswax
- 5 drops vitamin E oil
- 5 drops peppermint oil
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Whatever The ECB Does This Week, It Won't "Deliver A Significant Impulse To The Real Economy"
Ahead of this Thursday's ECB meeting, speculation is rife about what Mario Draghi will announce, and as the following Nomura chart highlights most pundits are convinced that the most likely announcement is a cut in the refi and deposit rate with a probability of around 90%, an LTRO in distant third at 34%, and a full blown QE dead last with 10%.
However, as SocGen predicts, which is rather aggressive in its assumptions expecting a negative deposit rate of -0.1%, a targeted LTRO to "boost lending to the private sector", and a "signal" of €300 billion in asset purchases, the bulk of this new-found liquidity will almost exclusively go to boost capital markets, and the wealth effect. As for the broader economy? "We do not expect the 5 June measures to deliver a significant impulse to the real economy. Should euro area policy makers step back further from austerity, this would lift the economy in the short-term. Ultimately, however, the euro area needs deep structural reform. For all the energetic talk and many promises, actual progress on this front remains all too slow."
Which, as is all too clear by now, is precisely what QE does: it stimulates risk assets, and does little if anything to promote actual economic growth: for that Keynesian doctrine demands a surge in loan and credit-money creation, something Europe, with its -2.0% annual contraction in lending to the private sector, will hardly experience.
More observations from SocGen on what Draghi may announce this week:
With just four days left to the 5 June ECB meeting, the excitement is palpable. When President Draghi announced the OMT back in the summer of 2012, the impact on financial markets was spectacular; spreads narrowed, equities rallied and the euro appreciated. Consensus growth estimates, however, tracked lower (!) as the forecast for 2013 dropped from 0.5% to -0.4%. Granted, the ECB must be given some credit for the 1.2% growth now forecast for 2014. Notably, in easing market pressure on governments, fiscal drift also provided part of the answer. Recovery in key export markets was an additional boon.
Should the ECB deliver a truckload of liquidity on 5 June, we have no doubt that financial markets will rally. Short of announcing monetary financing of fiscal stimulus, which is forbidden by the Treaty, we believe that the impact on the real economy is likely to be very modest. As Italy prepares to take over the European Presidency, the hope is that Prime Minister Renzi will be able to drive a new European agenda delivering growth and jobs. Our concern remains that this will prove all too slow to give the medium-term growth outlook, of around 1.5%, the boost it really needs.
5 June shopping list: Negative deposit rate, targeted LTRO, ....
With numerous possibilities on the table, most forecasts for the ECB resemble a shopping list, with lots of items but not all equally important. Our ECB preview offers all the details, but of the major items we expect (1) a negative deposit rate (-0.1%), (2) a targeted LTRO to boost lending to the private sector, and (3) a signal of asset purchases – we look for €300bn of purchases in 2H14, split between €100bn of ABS and €200bn of European issues (EFSF/ESM, EIB, etc.) and liquid, high-grade privates assets.
In this first round, we do not expect to see large scale sovereign asset purchases. To trigger large-scale sovereign asset purchases, we believe a more significant deterioration of the outlook is required. Even then, we remain concerned that the ECB would not be able to make such purchases on a pari-passu basis.
Easier monetary policy conditions will feed through to the real economy through the following main channels:
- A weaker euro will deliver higher import prices ... and may be slow to impact exports: as we discussed on these pages a few weeks ago, the lesson from both the recent experiences of the BoE and BoJ is that a weaker currency may not do much to boost exports in the short-term, but will erode household purchasing power via higher import prices. Rules of thumb suggest that a permanent 10% depreciation of the trade weighted euro would boost GDP by around 0.7% in the first year after the shock. Our concern is that this elasticity may at present be lower for two main reasons. First, a significantly weaker euro could come with a new widening of peripheral spreads. Second, slowing demand in emerging economies, and China in particular, is unlikely to be offset by any price effect.
- A negative deposit rate comes with a cost: the main motivation for a negative deposit rate is to weaken the currency. To our minds, this has already been factored in by markets and we think it unlikely that this measure will deliver much further euro depreciation. The experience from Denmark, however, illustrated that negative deposit rates also carry a cost.
- Portfolio reallocation effects may even boost the euro ... but wealth effects are slow to trickle down: should markets deliver a thumbs-up to the ECB on 5 June, then flows in the hunt for yield could deliver a very significant boost to euro area assets ... and may even lift the euro! Stronger asset prices are welcome, but experience shows that such effects are again slow to trickle down to the real economy, unless the boost is to real estate prices.
- Credit conditions are already favourable in the core - easing financial fragmentation would be helpful: the hope is that a targeted LTRO program would trigger a wave of SME lending, resulting in job creation across the euro area. It is worth recalling that in the core, SME lending conditions are already quite favourable. In the periphery, red tape and bureaucracy, already high debt levels and a lack of domestic demand are other factors holding back SMEs. Easing financial conditions for SMEs in the periphery is helpful, deep rooted structural reform would be even better.
In sum, we do not expect the 5 June measures to deliver a significant impulse to the real economy. Should euro area policy makers step back further from austerity, this would lift the economy in the short-term. Ultimately, however, the euro area needs deep structural reform. For all the energetic talk and many promises, actual progress on this front remains all too slow.
Also considering that once again just Draghi's jawboning has managed to push the EURUSD lower by a massive 400 pips in the past month, from 1.40 to 1.36, the central banker may opt to do nothing at all, as the core target of ECB intervention, a weaker currency, has already been achieved. It is unclear if the former Goldmanite would risk this: after all as Deutsche Bank said, zero action by the ECB this week would destroy what credibility it may have left.
Which means that once again, well over 5 years into this "recovery", the one segment of the population to benefit from whatever the ECB will unveil will be those very rich few who will immediately benefit from the surge in risk assets. As for everyone else, keep up the hope.
The only remaining question is how much of the ECB intervention has already been priced into risk assets. Considering the relentelss surge in both global stocks and bonds, one would be tempted to say that this is shaping up to be more of a "sell the news" type of event...
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There will no longer be any significant dips to buy, maybe 20 DOW points or so but that's it.
Whatever Europe does will pale in comparison to what China has in mind...
Proof the World is Going Insane: China Explores Bond Buying aka QE Chopsticks Style
QE to infinity, that is all governments know how to do. The money printing madness will continue.
"Portfolio reallocation effects may even boost the euro ... but wealth effects are slow to trickle down."
You just can't make this shit up that anyone still thinks trickle down is a viable economic model. It. Doesn't. Work. The wealthy .01% use the extra money to buy influence for things like free trade agreements, then they go build factories in low wage countries. Someone with $10B doesn't spend more into the economy when he gets to $11B.
'Whatever the ECB says, it won't deliver any impulse to the 'real economy'.
Oh bullshit, the 'real economy' is stawks, so just do some jawboning and stawks will rise no matter what, very easy here in Idiocracy.
the one segment of the population to benefit from whatever the ECB will unveil will be those very rich few who will immediately benefit from the surge in risk assets. As for everyone else, keep up the hope.
'Keep up the hope'.....hope is for dopes.
Almost 100% are sure the ECB will cut rates.....yet the bailout sponge banks desperately telegraph rates are going to rise any minute. It's all just a joke.
'Cut the deposit rate to -0.01%' seems to be a very popular idea among the bailed-out banksters. Assholes. But hey if the people stand for it then they deserve nothing better.
What ever the ECB does or doesn't do this week has been "priced in"!
European banks are -3x undercapitalized. Europe has an unsustainable "youth" unemployment rate. Europe has no "universal" debt/equity disbursement mechanism.
I have rolls of Deutschemarks. ;-)
Dont worry PBOC are figuring out CTRL-P
China explores bond buying in first hint of QE (Telegraph, London)
Party on, Wayne!
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I've been meaning to write, especially with the chart-shifting events of late, but I have my head involved in too many things. Six months ago I said I would tell you why I think silver is going to $9 when the time comes. There's a lot of big events this week with ECB on Thursday and NFP on Friday, so we will see how this plays out, but it's possible that time is near. It's an interesting story that I will condense to save us both time. As you will see it's not analysis you can trade on alone, but interesting nonetheless and something to consider.
In March of 2012 I woke up one night from a vivid dream. In that dream I saw a chart of silver with a giant red bar on it and the bottom of that bar ended at $18. You might think I'm joking. I'm not. The materialists of the world will try to convince you that dreams are just the physical brain working off stress or whatever theories they want to propose. And while I think many dreams are scrambled nonsense that have little practical connection to everyday life, I personally believe when we go to sleep our spirit leaves this body and has experiences in other planes of existence, and the remnants of those experiences are what we remember when we wake. And while the nature of dreams is beyond the scope of this post, I will just say that I've had a vast array of different degrees of experience when the body is asleep that leave me with no doubt of a higher reality beyond this one. Some dreams I have are special and more vivid and I wake with a feeling of downloading information from a source that is beyond me, whether it's an idea for my writing, an insight into someone or some thing, or a vision of some sort. Take that as you will. It doesn't change my direct experience.
At the time of this dream, silver was trading at $32, and while it started going down within a week, it eventually stopped at $26 support, and then rallied into the QE3 announcement all the way to $35 before ultimately rolling back over to the capitulation move down to $18. So the timing of the dream was tricky, but the end result was correct. The attempted navigation of this was documented on posts here on ZH, although, I've never mentioned the dream before, and I didn't become confident in it until I saw the tepid response in the metals to the announcement of QE4 in December 2012. That's when I knew the dream was going to be right. And it was. Now for the part no one, including me, will like. I've had two more dreams of the same vivid quality about the future of silver in the last six months.
The first one happened sometime in November. In this dream I was in my parent's house for some kind of family event, but I was on my laptop and I saw silver trading at $9, but I had no idea of the timing of how it got there. I woke with the same feeling of awe like I saw something profound and was downloading information from somewhere beyond me. A couple weeks ago I had a second dream of the same vivid quality. In it I saw silver being violently sold from $14 to $13 and in the background there was a football game on TV. I don't expect anyone to trade on some random guy's dream on the internet, but I'm not inventing this and I have no agenda. It happened to me in 2012 and then it came true. Now it happened again. And I expect it will come true. However, I don't yet know the timing or the path of how it gets there and even I'm not crazy enough to trade just on a dream. You can go bankrupt having the end result correct but the timing wrong. It has to make sense both technically and be based on the underlying positioning. I haven't yet had that tepid QE4 moment when I knew the upside is over for sure, although, the triangle breakdown in the metals last week may be a candidate. And it makes sense that it might be now because it would likely take until fall when football starts for silver to get down to $13. I'm just trying to piece it together.
The only thing that will truly confirm to me that the time is now is a capitulation close at new lows in both gold and silver. If the ECB joins the madhouse in any form this Thursday we might see the Euro plunge, the dollar soar, and the metals tank. The big question I have is whether the Commercials are lurking beyond or around new lows to support the metals like they did the previous two times of the double bottom in June and Dec of last year. If the sellers run into a wall of buyers and we get a strong reversal, then now is not yet the time, and the metals could have a rally left in them, even a signifcant one, depending on factors like what if the Fed halts tapering due to the negative GDP print? Ultimately, though, I believe 100% that the dream will turn out true. It's just a matter of figuring out the timing. It's entirely possible Draghi disappoints on Thurs and the dollr tanks causing the metals to soar.
Whether you decide to hedge your stack via long dated puts if we close at new lows is up to you. I have enough trouble keeping track of me. I will update with my attempted navigation of this as we go. My main concern is watching out for a reversal near the lows. It's possible we see a rally first like the one from $26 to $35 in the playing out of the first dream that you don't want to hold through short. A lot will become clear this week, or later this month with the Fed. Silver has been rejected by its downtrend line from $49 a dozen times now over the past 3 years. If it slides through even sideways, it could open the door to some significant upside. That's actually what I'm hoping to see. I'd rather see a reversal, trade it up, and then short it from higher prices, but I'm fully prepared for a reversal not happening. In full disclosure, I got short small in gold on the triangle breakdown and covered half on Friday, hoping to add on a backtest of the breakdown this week, which may or may not happen. I plan on being short all the way to the lows unless a clear reversal happens, particularly if its from a news event.
As for equities, the top "seems" to be destroyed now since there's been serious technical damage to the topping pattern that was forming. I don't sound alarm bells for the fun of it. The issues in the real economy are not fixable by central banks and I think this bull market is based on Fed liquidity, the carry trade, an optimism that the Fed's policies will work, a bias of stock brokers and asset managers to stay long with the herd, meaning, it's okay to lose money on the long side but not on the short side, and the simple psychology of a bull market feeding on itself. My personal opinion for why we saw so much derisking and selling at the tops all year is based on the tapering policy change, but as it turns out that is only one component driving the market and there just isn't an urgent enough bearish catalyst to keep pushing the market lower so it runs out of sellers and the short covering frenzy begins once again. Wash, rinse, repeat. It may take a more urgent and impedning threat like Japan flirting with default, or a country leaving the Euro, or the BoJ talking about tapering, for the bears to sustain downside action. At some point the rubber of the stock market has to meet the road of the real economy. I would love to be wildly bullish, but real economic growth isn't driving this bull market. And since central banks can't print manufacturing jobs, it's just a matter of time before reality sets in. But who knows how long that will take.
The bulls aren't completely out of the woods just yet. There's one more scenario to watch out for. Look at the Yen futures. It's forming a triangle of its own, and you can even say an ascending wedge of higher lows, building toward the 99.20 breakout. If the Yen breaks out to the upside (downside in USD/JPY), that could put pressure on stocks as the carry trade would be one more component of the bull market fuel to be eliminated. The only way I will be a buyer of equities is if the Yen futures break the ascending wedge to the downside, bonds continue reversing and lose the 20-day, and we get a decent pullback to support in the ES and NQ. Then I'm a buyer for more than just a short term trade. There's plenty of other markets. Like the Euro. I expect a long-term trending move to come out of Thurs one way or the other. The Yen will eventually breakout of its triangle and should run. And gold and silver are gonna make some noise.
Lastly, since the NQ could probably use a pullback, beware of the stop run reversal this week, especially if its timed with a news event. I'm hoping it backtests the 3632 right shoulder failure breakout. I'd be a buyer close to that area, depending on the Yen, but I can't buy anywhere near the current price. I need a normal style pullback first. And if it closes and holds new highs, the bulls can break out the champagne. Just watch that Yen.
There would be a way to improve real economy by killing any LTRO, hiking rates, taxing wealth-increase and especially wealth gained on financial transactions, reduce taxes on producing capital including work and for the workforce, killing several banks that are/act poisonous and so on... Which is almost the opposite of what they did before.
My Ass! they will talk of not doing it and about how everything is coming along nicely, but once all the money has been stolen by way of offering loans that had no chance of being paid back, they will print. ECB is in a corner and Mario has no choice to save the Euro.


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As the peak season for Hawaii vacations winds down over the next month, our focus has shifted to the cheapest time to fly to Hawaii. Especially with this week's incredible $96 Hawaii airfare sale which is still in progress! As an update, we don't now expect the other carriers to match this incredibly cheap Hawaii airfare. That is largely because Allegiant flies only twice weekly from Los Angeles rather than daily as the other carriers do. If you're not sure about Allegiant, please read Does Allegiant Hawaii Make Sense.
Guide to Fall Hawaii Deals | Cheapest Time to Fly to Hawaii
In spite of some inventory reductions by Hawaiian, Alaska and United, the fall Hawaii travel market is notoriously soft. There will be substantial availability and the airlines will find a need to discount that. We anticipate round trip fall Hawaii airfares on sales from west coast cities for $300 to $400. Travel from the midwest and east coast cities may be up to $200 higher.
We'll keep watch and report to you more Hawaii airfare sales that will spring up at any point from now through October.
Best Tip: Subscribe to Beat of Hawaii and get ready to act immediately. When you should buy is based on your flexibility. The bird in hand versus the one in the bush analogy applies here. Sometimes the current deal is your best option, unless you can wait to see if a better sale lies ahead.
The 2013 Hawaii travel deal season is about to start! It is for travel from approximately August 12 through November 20, plus the first two weeks in December.
This is the cheapest time to fly to Hawaii but in many ways it is also the best time to visit Hawaii.
- Fall is our favorite time of year in Hawaii and it features the best Hawaii weather.
- This the time to find cheap Hawaii travel deals of every kind.
- Accommodations will be on sale and selection/availability will be much greater than in summer.
- Hawaii Activities should be available at lower cost. Book online and look for discounts, or call and ask for discounts on last minute availability.
- Have Hawaii all to yourself and be spontaneous in making your decisions on the fly.


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Blake Griffin has been the master of his basketball domain, dictating the action and seizing the control. Until now. Tonight, he will be powerless. Big Blake can do nothing about the result, and where basketball is concerned, this will be the first time in a long time that has happened. Then again, there's nothing quite like NBA's Draft Lottery. Ping-pong balls — ping-pong balls? — will determine the Oklahoma City native's fate and perhaps his hometown NBA team's future. "I am anxious," Griffin admitted via telephone last week. "I'm anxious to find out where I could possibly be going." Ditto for everyone in Oklahoma. This is a day that has long been anticipated by sports fans in our fair state. They watched a fledgling franchise move into Oklahoma City, and they witnessed a budding superstar emerge in Norman. The fairy tale wrote itself. The Thunder would have a rough first year in Oklahoma City, struggling to win games but positioning itself to have a good chance of getting the first pick in the draft. Griffin would dominate the college scene and decide to leave school early for the NBA. Then, the Thunder would get the first pick in the NBA Draft Lottery so it could select Griffin. And the two would live happily ever after. The dream scenario has come true so far. "So far" being the key words. Who knows what will happen tonight at the NBA's studio in Secaucus, N.J.? The process is so secretive that the team representatives who witness the ping-pong ball process are sequestered in a room and must relinquish cell phones at the door. They'll know the draft order long before it's announced on national television, but they won't be able to tell. The suspense will be high, not just for the Thunder and not just for Griffin. All of Oklahoma will be holding its breath, too. And why not? We're talking about an Oklahoma native playing for the Oklahoma City franchise. Wouldn't that be cool? Wouldn't that be something? This is one of the most suspenseful non-game moments in the state's sporting history. This is a big deal for Oklahomans, none more so than Griffin. "It doesn't really matter to me," he said of where he goes. "Wherever it may be, I'm going to go in and try to do my part and try to get better and help that organization. I'm not going to be disappointed with anybody." He's not pulling an Eli Manning, not saying that he will refuse to sign with a particular team if it drafts him. "Not at all," Griffin said, laughing at the notion. "I'll stick with whoever wants me." That would be every one of the teams involved in tonight's lottery, but if wishful thinking counted for anything, the Thunder would surely have an advantage over the other 13 teams. Maybe that will make the ping-pong balls bounce Oklahoma City's way. Maybe that will stir the basketball gods to answer those prayers for Griffin. Big Blake knows plenty of folks want the Thunder to hit the jackpot in the lottery, but he refuses to dwell on all the different scenarios. "I haven't thought about it a lot," he said of what happens tonight, "but the reason I think I haven't is that it's out of my control." That's not the norm for Griffin, and frankly, it's not the norm for sports fans these days, either. Most of the time, we now know ahead of time what will happen with these big non-game events. That's because someone will hide in the bushes to figure out who the new coach is or will conduct a straw poll to determine who wins the award. True secrets in sports are rare anymore. The NBA Draft Lottery remains one of the few. The suspense ends soon, sports fans. You might feel powerless as you watch the announcement show tonight, but you can rest assured you're not alone. Blake Griffin feels the same way.
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"A country unburdened by major tourist attractions" Top 5 Page for this destination Burundi by CatherineReichardt
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With the greatest of respect, I have to say that Burundi is a pleasant – and often scenic - place, but not the sort of country that I'd cross continents to visit on the basis of its own virtues. That being said, it's an enjoyable location in which to spend a few days on business, or a rewarding detour if you're already in the region, especially if you're interested in 'ticking off' another obscure country.
Although Burundi's tourist authorities gamely try to promote it as a wildlife destination, the sad truth of the matter is that the large mammals that were once here have long since been eaten, and the few that remain have sought refuge in the most remote and sparsely populated areas of the country. Rabid twitchers will probably be intrigued by the opportunity to track down a few Albertine Rift endemic bird species, and the countryside (particularly in the highlands) is pleasantly scenic, but frankly, that's probably not a reason to go to considerable effort to get here.
By anyone's standards, Bujumbura's an odd place, which establishes its peculiar credentials from the moment you step off the plan into an airport that looks like a 50s comic version of what a futuristic moon station might look like.
The town (it's impossible to think of it as a city) commands an impressive location at the head of Lake Tanganyika, where the fault-bound walls of the Rift Valley slope steeply towards the lake. The lowlying location makes for a hot and humid climate, and proximity to a lake which is not suitable for swimming is almost more of a torture than a relief, except in the evening, when a (relatively) cool onshore breeze picks up and provides some relief from the oppressive mugginess.
In most ways, Buj is a stereotypical post-independence capital of a small African nation: densely populated, sprawling and scruffy. Genocides aside, it is a placid and pleasant location and is also home to a well established community of expats comprising diplomats, NGO workers and representatives of primarily Francophone businesses who are content to be big fish in a very small pond. Initially the substantial number of diplomatic missions seems disproportional to Burundi's peanut size until you realise that their primary function is to monitor developments and seek out economic opportunity in its gigantic neighbour, the democratic Republic of Congo, which is surely destined to become the economic powerhouse of the region if it ever manages to resolve its fractious internal politics.
There are few major tourist attractions in Buj, although there are some intriguing 'second division' attractions that are the charm of exploring a town of this sort. If I had to describe a single characteristic that defines the place for me, it would probably be that its population has an unlikely passion for jogging, for reasons that I don't begin to fathom. Maybe the government once ran a highly effective public health campaign extolling the virtues of physical exercise, or (more prosaically), perhaps there's not a lot else to do here of an evening once the sun starts to set and both temperature and humidity drops into a range more conducive to physical exertion, people come out to pound the pavements en masse. Twice in 24 hours, I witnessed the Darwinian spectacle of a jogger halting in midstride and starting to do situps in the middle of a public road regardless of oncoming traffic!
It's a fair bet that most tourists visiting Burundi (and that's not a lot in the first place) know very little about its history, other than its tragic involvement in the genocide that devastated the Great Lakes region in the 1990s.
At a push, many would know that prior to independence, it was a Belgian colony, and a few - probably those with surnames like mine - would recall that it was previously part of German East Africa. The unlikely transfer of power between these two colonial forces took place in 1916 when the Germans – essentially the governor and a handful of men - surrendered to the Belgian forces under a vast spreading acacia on the outskirts of Bujumbura, which you'll pass as you drive into town from the airport.
Both German and Belgians were indirect colonial powers whose principal interest was resource security, so - unlike more hands on colonial settlers such as the British, who tended to set up bureaucractic and administrative structures - they had a minimal presence, and pretty much left the local people to their own devices. Belgium's control over Burundi was ratified by the League of Nations in 1921, and it continued to be a source of raw materials to its colonial overlord - most notably exporting much needed food supplies to Belgium during the World Wars - until Independence in 1962.
Fewer still would know that it was Bujumbura - and not Kigali - that was the former capital of the combined country of Ruanda-Urundi, and that the most recent genocide was merely the last wave of ethnic cleansing in a region that has a shameful history of violent racial intolerance.
Whilst Rwanda is disarmingly open about its genocide history – and has done a staggeringly successful job of reconstructing the country from the chaos – the genocide is much less conspicuous in Burundi. One commemorative square in downtown Buj was the only tangible commemoration of this sad passage of Burundian history that I came across, and even then, you needed to know enough to join the historical dots, as there are no commentaries to give context.
On 21 October 1993, most of the Burundian cabinet in one fell swoop in a coup that plunged the country into civil war. Barely a year later, President Cyprien Ntaryamira, who was shot down in a plane with his Rwandan counterpart - and fellow Hutu – Juvénal Habyarimana in an event that sparked the fullblown atrocities of the Rwandan genocide.
The politics of the Great Lakes region can be byzantine to outsiders, and I own up to the fact that, despite my best efforts, the litany of sheer human misery caused me to quickly lost track of who did what to whom. Perhaps all that I can offer in my defence is that I was perhaps too preoccupied by the sheer enormity of a human tragedy that Ieft 300,000 Burundians dead and displaced over half a million more: figures that seemed too huge to comprehend until we arrived in Rwanda ...
For most tourists, the chief attraction of Burundi is the thrilling opportunity to follow in the footsteps of the great Victorian era explorers. In the second half of the 19th century, the colonial powers were besotted by The Race For Africa, and despatched explorers who are still household names 150 years later to resolve the major geographical riddles of the day (whilst bagging enormous tracts of land in the name of their monarch in the process).
One of the most pressing questions was the manner in which Central Africa's complex system of great rivers and lakes interacted, including the greatest prize of all: locating the source of the Nile. Inspired by the ghosts of David Livingstone, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke and Henry Morton Stanley - who devoted much of their lives searching for this Holy Grail of Victorian era exploration - I could hardly contain my excitement, I pored over the map of Burundi and was thrilled to see a point in the highland interior marked, 'southern source of the Nile', only half a day's fairly easy drive from Bujumbura and thus well within striking distance.
Whatever I may have expected of the southern source of the Nile, what we encountered wasn't it! To add insult to injury, in the last few years, its claim to fame has been rendered redundant by the discovery of a spring in Rwanda's Nyungwe National Park which has been formally recognised as the southern source of the Nile.
But that doesn't change the fact that Burundi provided the backdrop for great explorers of the Victorian era to meet. In fact the shores of Lake Tanganyika provided the setting for not one, but two meetings between these travel titans: meetings between Livingstone and Stanley, and between Burton and Speke. The meeting between Stanley and Livingstone is best known for one of the famous conversational openers of all time: "Dr Livingstone, I presume?". Not that there would have been much mistaking the elderly Livingstone in his trademark peaked cap for anyone else in these parts, but to be fair to Stanley, he'd been tracking the good doctor down for some time, and by that point, Livingstone hadn't been seen by a Westerner in over four years.
The Burundian travel industry would let you believe that this famous meeting took place in Mugere, on the shore of Lake Tanganyika and less than 20km from Bujumbura. This is a tempting claim to fame, but sadly they're being economical with the truth: although Livingstone and Stanley did meet here, it was actually a reunion, since they had first met - and exchanged this historic greeting - in Ujiji in November 1871.
Nonetheless, Livingstone and Stanley- did reunite here, and spent a few weeks in each other's company in this very pretty spot. And – unlikely though it might seem – the irascible Scottish missionary and the boorish American newspaper reporter (who was actually a workhouse boy from Wales) got on extremely well. They met at a time in their lives when they desperately needed each other and developed a fascinating codependent relationship. Stanley brought Livingstone back into the public eye and through his genuine devotion to Livingstone as a mentor and father figure, almost singlehandedly established the saintly reputation that he has enjoyed ever since. By association, Stanley gained the recognition as an international explorer that he so desperately craved, which gave him the profile that allowed him to raise funding for his subsequent explorations.
It's quite something to walk in the footsteps of such giants, although what motivated them to endure such appalling hardships with limited financial reward is still baffling. All these years later, it's almost unimaginable that men thought it worthwhile risking life and limb for little more than the opportunity to be lauded by the Royal Geographical Society, and that, as a result of their uninvited presence, a continent was arbitrarily carved up between respective monarchs with startling disregard for tribal and geographical considerations
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What a fascinating place and you write your tips so well. I enjoyed the tour you provided. Excellent page!
Thanks Dee - coming from someone who writes as well as you do, I am honoured!
Burundi and Rwanda have been a pleasure to write up because they're so much outside most people's comfort zone and there's been relatively little recent feedback on VT about the Great Lakes region.
Since you read the tip, I have posted a photo of the newly unveiled 'hooded statue' that my husband took last week - oh dear!
What have you been writing recently? I've been so caught up with addressing my backlog that it would be nice to experience something new and different through the eyes of a fellow traveller ...
A very interesting page, I'm looking forward to reading again when you've finished it. It's good to see you here again.
Love the title - very Victorian :-) what do you really mean ?
Fascinating reading! Let me know when the page is finished and I'll stop by to read the rest
So good to see you again!!!!!!!!
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If you cook every day, your stovetop inevitably gets dirty. Spills and splatters are a natural part of cooking. You may be in the habit of doing a quick wipedown after every use, but sometimes you just need to dig in and give the whole stovetop a thorough cleaning. The same goes for your range hood, if you have one, and that hood filter. (Never cleaned that before? No problem — we'll tell you how.)
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Rockin' the KaZba Dipole (K aperture Z-baffle Dipole)
Here is an idea that I have been toying with for a dipole with really uniform dipole polar responses in the mid and higher frequency regions. Much of this was Freddi's inspiration and we got to thinking that given very uniform polar response that a K-aperture provides, what if we use this to enforce a sort-of slot loading on an open baffle or SLOB? Many people like the sound of a dipole, and have used various means to make the bass units more compact (H baffle, W baffle, SLOB, etc). Adding these enclosures around the baffle to enhance bass starts to affect how the dipole nature of the higher frequencies behave, making them less of a dipole.
To remind you of what a K-aperture can do for polar response, take a look at the data from the XKi (5dB variation over 45 deg off axis up to 10kHz):
So here is the general concept of the Karlson-aperture Z-baffle dipole, or KaZba Dipole. The Z configuration provides a couple of advantages: angles the driver relative to the K-aperture to reduce resonances, makes the structure stiffer with a big inherent brace, allows the mounting of a second driver in push-pull to reduce 2nd order suspension hysteresis harmonic distortion, and just plain looks cool.
So this can be implemented with a pair of full range drivers of any size really, but since we want some semblence of real bass, I am going for 8in drivers. I will be using woofers for the prototype - I am picking some relatively low cost units and so found these buyout 8in units from PE (5 mm xmax, 88dB, 8ohms, is not bad and moderate Qts and $10 ea - the price is right) http://www.parts-express.com/wfr800g...8-ohm--299-343. To this, I will add a whammy of an upper end dipole - where it makes all the difference: a Heil ESS AMT. The Heil AMT is a world-class tweeter that is almost full range, able to go as low as 600Hz. I will probably cross at about 750Hz in a 2-way. The KaZba, hopefully, will provide a nice wide bandwidth and smooth response up to well past 1kHz and be an excellent match. The woofers will be driven in parallel so sensitivity should be about 94dB at 2.83v.
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KooL! - - I'd like to understand the general effects as the overall structure's depth and volume is reduced and for fullrange buffs, a list of common drivers to try as proof of concept.
my super rough cardboard baffle had a Boss 6x9" - subjectively it improved with a rear inverted aperture. The little Boss 6.5" (BRS65), available for $10 shipped has good Q for folded baffle work - subjectively it has a character typical of polycone where there's less detail than some paper - but its $10
also, on my baffle, the fullrange was positioned where the aperture and the aperture depth to baffle was greatest - but that was only around 2" back at the very bottom as overall depth was perhaps 4.5"
besides the large AMT, do you have a low cost option for the tweeter section? it could be just one tweeter - or a bi-pole arrangement.
you could block the "rear" aperture temporarily with cardboard for a response measurement - not sure what useful info it would tell but I like weird situation graphs - Karlson's klams had front volume about the same as rear chamber.
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So the back chamber is not open to the front? I've been playing with the Ess amt for years and to my ear they are very thin sounding anywhere below 5khz.
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ESS Heil AMT (15 lb variety) is perhaps the best driver from 700Hz to 20kHz IMO. Not thin at all. I measure solid 100dB sensitivity at 2.8volts. Power limited at 40 watts though.
Back chamber open back K aperture. They share a baffle mount board.
It is an OB.
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Visaton WS25 E 10" Paper Cone Woofer 8 Ohm
Even better candidate... 10" ,Qts=1.4 ,Fs=34Hz, Xmax=5mm, 29$ ... But I don't think you are going to get that 94dB/W ... 15"Alpha on 20" OB gives 90dB, in H frame even less...
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Before making a big one for the dual 8 inchers, I am building a small prototype in FC for the TC9FD, called the mini KaZba. This will not have any bass as it is scaled way small, but will give me some practice in the construction and also to model it in Akabak so that I can optimize the chamber volumes and Karlson aperture cross sectional areas for optimum performance.
There is a lot of air pressure - need to double up layers as it is rattling now...
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OK, now I see what you did.
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Added bracing and some stuffing
I added lots of little 90deg corner angles to brace the walls and reduce rattling and vibrations. I also doubled up the K-aperture with two sheets of FC glued together. This worked pretty well, and then added some fiberglass stuffing behind the magnets of the drivers to help absorb some chamber reflections.
How does the dipole work? In a dipole box this small, there is not enough of a baffle distance to get any bass - there is some but it starts falling off below 200Hz. The K-aperture combined with the chamber reflections and some of the bracing is creating a lot of dips in the response. I took some polar data and the box seems to be doing its thing, frequency dips, notwithstanding. What is there, is following what I expected for the polar response from a K: uniform over 5dB up to 45 deg off axis up to about 10kHz. The dipole effect can be seen with a fairly uniform 20dB attenuation at 90deg off axis. The data shown is at 0.5m with a gate of 1ms before and 4ms after for a resolution of 200Hz and stuff above 400Hz is good.
Here is the impulse response from the 0 deg case:
Here is the harmonic distortion from the 0 deg case:
This quick FC study is giving me some good lessons learned for the real build with the 8in drivers. I tried listening to this speaker, and it sounds surprisingly good with the some female vocals and jazz despite the several deep notches in the response. What is good is the uniformity of the sound as I walk around the room, or behind it. Just directly to the side, the response is very low as expected.
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