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Suzuki X6 Hustler
Years made: 1965-1968
Claimed power: 29hp @ 7,500rpm
Top speed: 100mph (period test)
Engine type: 247cc, 2-stroke, air-cooled parallel twin
Weight: 134.7kg (297lbs)
Price then: $650 (approx.)
Price now: $1,500-$3,500
MPG: 45-50mpg (est.)
When Suzuki first hit the U.S. market in 1963, it was just another link in a growing chain of new — and often forgettable — companies from the Land of the Rising Sun. Three years later we got the Suzuki X6 Hustler, and Suzuki got remembered. Today, it's one of the most popular classic Japanese motorcycles.
Suzuki chose three models to headline its 1963 U.S. lineup; the S31, powered by a 124cc 2-stroke twin, and the S250 Colleda (a transcription of "Kore-da" or "that one") and TC250 El Camino, both powered by a 248cc 2-stroke twin. Like Honda and other Japanese motorcycle manufacturers, Suzuki hoped to cash in on U.S. riders seeking a smaller, simpler machine than the booming twins coming from Milwaukee or Great Britain at the time.
1964 saw those models phased out in favor of a new trio consisting of a 50cc single, an 80cc single and a new 246cc twin, the T10. More new models were announced in 1965, including the highly anticipated Suzuki X6 Hustler, although it would be 1966 before the new model finally hit U.S. showrooms.
New frame, new engine
The Suzuki X6 Hustler made quite a splash when it hit dealers' floors. With the T10 from 1964 leading the way, the X-6 set new standards for style in the rapidly expanding field of mid-size bikes from Japan. A 247cc, 2-cylinder engine was bolted to a tubular, duplex frame, a first for Suzuki. All previous Suzuki models had used a pressed-steel frame, making the steel tube frame of the X-6 a step in the right direction.
Suzuki tapped Masanao Shimizu to create the X6 Hustler engine. Masanao, previously in charge of Suzuki's racing program, had already earned an enviable set of records under the Suzuki banner and quickly turned his talents to the design of the X6 engine.
The parallel twin Masanao designed was a 2-stroke, as were all Suzuki engines until 1977. A major advancement was the engine's Posi-Force automatic lubrication system, which freed owners from having to keep a can of 2-stroke oil in their tool bag. As long as the separate oil tank was full, the Posi-Force system did the rest, increasing reliability and ease of use immensely.
Made of aluminum alloy for lightness and strength, the X6 Hustler's 247cc parallel twin was rated at 29 horsepower at 7,500rpm, which was, for the day, a fairly significant figure. Only three years prior to the release of the street legal X-6, the Suzuki factory race bikes were only achieving 28 horsepower at 11,000rpm.
Six speeds and more
Suzuki set another standard when it chose to add a 6-speed gearbox to the compact Hustler. Known as the "Suzuki Super Six" in some markets, it was the first ever production motorcycle to feature six ratios, just one of the many endearing qualities of the new model. Mating this stone-solid engine to a 6-speed gearbox meant it was easy to stay right in the powerband. The bike was easy to start and almost as easy to maintain and ride. And at just over 300 pounds wet, the Suzuki X6 Hustler was quite light and manageable.
Additional features that helped to set the X6 Hustler apart from the crowd were the front brakes, of racing design with double-leading shoes in an 8-inch dimension. A wide saddle had enough room for two grown adults and was well padded for their riding comfort. The rear shocks offered three positions so you could cater the stiffness to your size and riding style. The circular instrument mounted in the top of the headlight nacelle features a split display with both a tachometer (featuring an 8,000rpm redline) and speedometer. An onboard air pump came in handy when you found the pressure in the tires a bit low, and it saved you a trip to the corner filling station.
The X6 Hustler could turn the quarter mile in 14 seconds at a speed of 90mph, with a top speed of 100mph. The fuel tank held 3.7 gallons of fuel, enough to provide hours of fun for the rider and a passenger. With fuel at about 35 cents a gallon, who wouldn't have fun? Buying a new Hustler wasn't much harder, with new bikes available for around $650.
Designed to shine
Styling on the Suzuki X6 Hustler was right on target and remains a crowd favorite. The curves of the fuel tank were accented with chrome side panels and rubber knee pads. The front fender was silver in color and included a painted accent stripe that ran down the center, matching the body color of the tank. Some traditions remained despite the dramatic new features of the X-6. A telescopic front fork also used oil damping to improve the ride, and the exposed coil springs were an obvious feature. The flat-bottomed headlight housing has become a classic today, although it's very difficult to replace if lost or damaged. Anyone who takes on a restoration will quickly learn of the scarcity of parts for these early Suzukis.
The combination of innovative design, sturdy assembly and ease of operation all added up to make the Hustler a popular choice for those who raced their 2-wheeled craft. It didn't matter if you chose paved or dirt tracks, the X6 quickly became a dominant factor in every segment of the field.
The 1966 X6 Hustler was little changed from its debut offering and continued to be the biggest machine in the Suzuki ranks. American buyers were getting used to seeing the perky Japanese machines around their towns, and they continued to gain in popularity. The Suzuki sales catalog for 1967 grew to include 16 models, and while there were many smaller displacement models shown, the Hustler remained at the top of the heap. Yet as popular as it was, 1968 would be the final year for the T20 X-6.
1968 saw Suzuki pare down the lineup, but add several new models with larger displacements. Two machines carried a 305cc mill, while yet another, the new T500, was listed with a whopping 500cc powerplant in its frame. As buyers looked for more and more power, the days of the small displacement machines were waning fast. While the Hustler name lived on until 1973 (from 1969 on it was attached to Suzuki's uprated T250), after 1968 the X6 designation disappeared forever.
The $25 Hustler
To look at Tom Sanecki, you have to wonder where his passion for the Suzuki X6 Hustler stems from. He appears to be much too young to have been around when the machine made its premier offering, so what's the catch?
In 1974, the story goes, Tom had a buddy who was moving away but owed him the princely sum of $25. To satisfy this debt, the friend offered Tom his 1967 Suzuki X6 Hustler. A deal was made and Tom brought his new ride home. Although non-running, Tom soon had it going and it became his main transportation during his last two years of high school. After high school, he disassembled the bike to correct a problem with the shifting — and there it sat.
At some point, a girl Tom was dating suggested he get rid of the bike because, she said, "it will never run again." Although Tom reassured her it would, she scoffed at the notion: The gauntlet had been thrown. Within two hours, Tom had the bike reassembled and running. The bike, we should note, is still around, but the girl is long gone. "I threw it together because she dissed me, and it's still running to this day," Tom adds.
Tom found the bike shown here on eBay. "It was just a parts bike, and it was rough," Tom says. "It hadn't run since 1977, the oil pump was seized, the clutch was locked up, it was junk." That Tom works as a Lexus technician tells us he has higher than average mechanical ability, and that a build like this wouldn't likely scare him.
Before beginning the actual restoration, he gathered most of the parts he needed and prepared them. Pulling together his shopping list of parts meant hours spent searching in faraway places like Singapore, Thailand and England. Adding more frustration to the process, many components for early Suzuki models have become scarce on a good day and almost impossible to find on the rest.
"When I was younger, I'd just go down to the Suzuki dealer and get what I needed. Now, it's all unobtanium," Tom says, adding he found the correct hand pump for the bike in Japan after exhausting U.S. sources. "NOS [new-old-stock] seats or seat covers are unavailable, and NOS grips are virtually unobtainable now," Tom adds.
Thanks to his mechanical chops, the only things that Tom didn't do himself were the paint, powder coating and chroming of parts. From rebuilding the crankshaft (Tom has his own press and the jig to line up the crankshaft) to lacing the wheels, Tom attended to every facet of the restoration to achieve the standard he sought. The end result is stunning, and worthy of any collection.
And Tom's hardly done. Including the Suzuki X6 Hustler that kicked off his fascination with the model back in 1974, he's got four more, including a 1966 with VIN No. 10702, making it the 702nd X-6 ever made. "That's in the basement waiting to get done," Tom says. "It has a chunk out of the case, but I'm gonna save it because it's the lowest numbered one I've ever seen." MC
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Bought a '67 X6 Hustler in 1971 while living in Denver. Oh, MY! Fast? YES! Did 105 a few times, and 110 one cool day on I-70 while passing under the runway of Stapleton International Airport. I was stretched straight, helmeted, chin on the tank, legs straight back over the taillight. It was AMAZING.
Bought a '67 X6 Hustler in 1971 while living in Denver. Oh, MY! Fast? YES! Did 105 a few times, and 110 one cool day on I-70 while passing under the runway of Stapleton International Airport. I was stretched straight, helmeted, chin on the tank, legs straight back over the taillight. It was AMAZING.
I got out of high school in 1966. Friends were buying 305 Honda Scramblers. I wanted a 650 Triumph TT Special so I could be king of the hill. Couldn't afford it. X-6 Hustler was fresh at the local dealer. He was a good salesman and let me drive it around an empty parking lot for a turn or two. Then he put me on the back and gave me the ride of my life. Told me it would blow off any 305 and any 650. After the ride I believed it. I was hooked. He told me to give him...get this...a $10.00 (FACT) deposit and we'd work out the payments. I came home to find a Selective Service notice that Uncle Sam wanted me. Never did get the $10 back or the Hustler, but did buy a used 650 TT Special when Sam let me come home later on.
I bought mine in 1966 for $650 and had to borrow from the bank, dad co-signed. Two years of riding this bike before it had to go, also drafted. Fun bike and plenty of power it seemed, at least for me then. Mine was a cherry red, I have one photo but I guess I can't post it, darn. Sweet bike.
I bought one new in 1966 and have one photo to show for it and wish I had more. I was drafted in the Army so the Suzuki had to go, it was a sweet bike.
The day I brought my 1969 TC250 home from Midway Suzuki in St.Paul for $625, my draft notice was in the mailbox. A friend trucked it out to San Diego for me where I toured & off-roaded during my Navy days. It must have been one of the last x-6's as it looked different from any others I've seen. It was a high piped scrambler with a gray painted swoosh on the black tank (no chrome) surrounding the rubber knee pads. The tailight holder was the same as the GT's. They must have pieced it together with various parts toward the end of the model. It was faster than my friend's Honda 350. Oh...and I still have it & it runs.
i had one used to blow away sportsters for about 2 blocks & then superior torque won out i had a rotary trans.had an indicator lite on the speedo.told you that you were in 6th& your next upshift would be a major down shift into 1st.at 60 or so it was worth a trip to the hospital.never had that experience,but wondered about the bulb burning out.
A great story on a great bike...can't believe I haven't seen this one until this morning. I lusted after these when I was a teenager...truly one of the world's all time greatest classics. Thanks for a great read.
I was a Suzuki dealer in '67. I used to ride for Fox Corp, a Kawasaki regional distributor, and we had a friendly rivalry once I got into the Suzukis. I ported every X6 that we got in and put them back in the crates. Fox were on the phone to Cali all the time getting the latest "poop" to modify their Samurais and I kept telling them my X6 demo was stock. The X6 kept whipping their Samurai and they kept saying my X6 wasn't stock. Finally I asked their guy, Ed Spenski, to come over and help me set up a new demo so he'd know it was stock. By then I was getting really good at it and the new "Stock" demo beat them more baddly than the 1st one. The X6 in America came with a carb slide with W A Y too much cutaway and had a low rpm flat spot and then hit like gangbusters. I measured the distance between notches on the needle and cut that much off the back of all the slides and raised the needle one notch to get the midrange back to stock. Even my ported engines pulled from near idle screamed to high rpm. Good times indeed.
"The parallel twin Masanao designed was a 2-stroke, as were all Suzuki engines until 1977". Not so, you forget the 1974-1976 Suzuki RE-5 Rotary-engined motorcycle. (most people do, it was rather a flop compared to the GT500 and GT750)
I owned a 1966 Suzuki X6, cherry red. I am trying to find one for sale (preferably running). I rode this bike throughout high school (graduated 1968). For nostalgic reasons, would appreciate owning one to show off to my 3 grandsons. God Bless, Kane Combs firstname.lastname@example.com 601/934-5616 cell phone
I bought a brand new Hustler in 63. It was my first bike and it was pretty darned forgiving. I remember when some guy pulled up next to me on a Honda 160 and rapped his engine and laughed when I rapped mine (ring ding ding ding ya know) but when I pulled a wheelie on him and blew his bike away he wasn't laughing anymore... Damn what a bike that was. I got drafted 6 mo after I bought it and it was the only thing I ever had repossessed in my whole life. I still miss that screaming machine.
I owned a Suzuki X-6 Scrambler-a high pipe version of this great bike. I was a student in college and several of us had the x-6 bikes. They were fast and reliable although I messed up my wrist trying to trail ride the Scrambler. I used to out drag a buddy who rode a Triumph 500 and I could wheelie that thing pretty well. I dunked it in a lake , rode it down railroad tracks , won a trophy drag racing it , dreamed of road racing the biek , and just really enjoyed owning a great motorcycle. I sold it to get some money after I graduated-wish I still had it!!
I owned a Suzuki X-6 Scrambler-a high pipe version of this great bike. I was a student in college and several of us had the x-6 bikes. They were fast and reliable although I messed up my wrist trying to trail ride the Scrambler. I used to out drag a buddy who rode a Triumph 500 and I could wheelie that thing pretty well. I dunked it in a lake , rode it down railroad tracks , won a trophy drag racing it , dreamed of road racing the biek , and just really enjoyed owning a great motorcycle. I sold it to get some money after I graduated-wish I still had it!!
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Veganuary is a campaign that "aims to reduce the suffering of animals by inspiring and supporting people across the globe to try vegan in January and throughout the rest of the year." In lieu of a New Year's resolution, people forgo animal products for 31 days. With 50 000 people having signed up this year, Veganuary is at its most successful level ever, with chains from Wagamama to Handmade Burger Co participating and offering new vegan options. In 2017, with everything from vegan food blogs such as Vegan Womble, to the holy grail of Holland and Barrett, it's never been easier to go vegan.
My point is trying to convince you to adopt the vegan lifestyle. Veganuary may be almost over, but there's always the The Great University Vegan Challenge in February. And while these campaigns are helpful in recruiting people to take on the vegan lifestyle, no one intrinsically needs a New Year's resolution or a campaign to decide to cut out the brutal murder, enslavement, and torture of billions of sentient, feeling creatures from their lives. It was on 13 April that I decided to go vegan for instance: no New Year's campaign required.
It's not a popular opinion (but then again this column is entitled Editor's Opinion, not popular), and it may not be the dominant ideology, but there is an enormous fundamental issue with humanity using animals for their own selfish gain. Despite the argument of any benefits that are gained from the use of animals, these are astronomically outweighed by the suffering that is caused to our fellow sentient beings. Their lives are their own; they are an ends-in-themselves, not a means to an end.
And, as I've said, while it is not a widely held opinion, it is my own. The argument also exists that education, rather than preaching (as I've done here and as I've been accused of time upon time) is a better way to convert people from ignorance and speciesism to veganism. But, to be fair, I wrote this article in twenty minutes in the Nouse office, and writing a strong educational piece is much more hard work and effort than having a bit of a rant.
So. Go vegan! Oscar out.

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The Mysterious Fishin Ms Aya's Papers
Beneath you'll find a disoriented looking sheep.. along with a brush and some hair clips that I've not used for a very long time. (Laughs nervously) ↓
A lot has been going on for me.. most of which were unfortunate happenings which I do not wish to speak of.
I can tell you a strange happening though.
One night, the whole neighborhood blacked out and there wasn't much we could do other than to wait for the current to return.
While my brother and mother were talking, suddenly I heard a strange sound coming from outside.
"Pat pat pat…," it sounded.
The first thing that struck me was perhaps 1 of our tortoise got out of the pond. So I hurried outside and shined the torch light into the drain to check and there — I found not my green friend but a fish… A LIVE FISH – Wriggling in the shallow and dried drain.
I called my brother over to take a look and he was puzzled.
How did the fish end up in the drain?
Even stranger… We have no such fish in our pond!
More questions were in mind but we decided to save the fish before it dies. So my brother scooped the fish out, placed it gently into our pond and watched it come back to life.
We then scouted the house to look for any suspicions as what may have thrown or place the fish in our drain. I doubt there were anybody playing a prank on us because my brother and Auwlithe were outside most of the time. I'm very certain no one could have thrown the fish into our drain.
And here's the thing:
- We don't have a fish like that. We only have 3 red-bellied fishes and gold fishes whereas the new fin looks like one of those you have on your dinner plate.
- The damn thing was alive, struggling in a dried drain.
If you think this is strange, well indeed it is. However get ready for something stranger..
In less than 2 minutes, my brother and I went to check the pond to later find the fish nowhere in sight.
It disappeared. <O_o>
It just did!
We searched high and low for the mysterious fish but to no avail.
My brother could only draw out 2 explanations to this freaky happening:
- Perhaps it's a glitch. You know, world glitch? An error as those seen in video games.. Suddenly something that shouldn't be there appeared and removed quickly?
- Perhaps years from now, my brother and I used a time machine to play a prank on ourselves.
[ . . . ]
Okay… We can't explain this… just as we can't fathom how the fish reappeared on our lawn the next morning.. <=__=> ↓
Stupid fish… Where did you come from?


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-3026?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13069422#comment-13069422 ] angela commented on JCR-3026: ----------------------------- thanks a lot for the patches. i will take a look and apply them as soon as possible. > davex remoting has a performance bottleneck due limit of 2 http connections > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: JCR-3026 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-3026 > Project: Jackrabbit Content Repository > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: jackrabbit-spi2dav > Affects Versions: 2.2.5 > Reporter: chad davis > Labels: dav, davex, performance, remoting > Fix For: 2.3.0 > > Attachments: JCR-3026_Spi2davRepositoryServiceFactory.java.patch, JCR-3026_Spi2davexRepositoryServiceFactory.java.patch, JCR-3026_org.apache.jackrabbit.spi2dav.RepositoryServiceImpl.java.patch, JCR-3026_org.apache.jackrabbit.spi2davex.RepositoryServiceImpl.java.patch > > > The spi2dav service implementation use of HttpClient did not support configuration of the maximum amount of http connections to the server. The default value, in the HttpClient code, is two. This was a performance bottleneck. This work makes the number of connections configurable via a parameter to the map passed to the repository factory. > It also fixes a concurrency issue which was exposed by the increased concurrency effected by this work. This fix is a replacement of a HashMap cache of client connections with a ConcurrentHashMap, thanks to the java 1.5 available in Jackrabbit 2.x > USAGE: > Set the number of connections (Spi2davRepositoryServiceFactory.PARAM_MAX_HTTP_CONNECTIONS) when creating a factory via the dav or davex rep factories. Default is 20. > NOTE: > See also the server side fixes: JCR-3027 The patch on that ticket allows configuration of the concurrency level on the server, which should be tuned in conjunction with the client side connection levels. > -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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Don't take this as an rant against Apple. It isn't. It's just an acknowledgment that, in my view, Apple has finally and publicly admitted that like all corporate behemoths, it has moved on from the original vision on which it was founded. On Friday, Apple held a public funeral for that original spirit that attracted so many to the company and its products in the first place. The funeral was disguised as a press conference to address the "death grip" issues that plague the iPhone 4. Don't get me wrong, Apple had thoroughly become the "take no prisoners" corporation it now is quite some time ago. But the press conference was the final shovel full of dirt being tamped on the grave of that whole "think different" thing, even though it was cleverly disguised.
Following the PR playbook, Apple did what it had to do during the press conference. It made good (free Bumpers, no re-stocking fees for returns) and it addressed the issue. But it did so by changing the language around the problem and deflecting those issues with the same deft skill that it creates the hysteria that greets any new Apple product these days. Love 'em or hate 'em, you have to admire the work and effort. After goofing considerably and uncharacteristically in the initial response to the "death grip" issue, Apple regrouped and came back swinging. Let's look at a few specifics.
"Antennagate" is now the term for this entire episode. Funny, but there are very, very, very few mentions of "Antennagate" prior to the press conference that I can find. Apple effectively got everyone to move away from the more abundantly used phrase "death grip" by having Steve Jobs repeat "antennagate" over and over. The semiotics attached to that phrase help transfer the scandal away from the actual technology problem and over to the "overblown" coverage. Clever.
"We love our customers." Whenever a large corporation starts spouting "we love our customers" you know that what they really mean is "we love our shareholders." Sure, Apple works hard to make "each and every customer happy," a business can't survive if it doesn't. But, the reality here is that Apple, like any other public corporation pushing a product extends that love only as far as it affects the bottom line and market cap.
The problem is an industry problem. That may be true. But Apple has made it more true. Some, (especially the other companies Apple highlighted) are saying Apple is not playing fair here, and to Apple's benefit, no one is going to reveal their own methods to refute this. This may indeed come back to take another bite out of Apple's logo, if anyone or any company has the chutzpah to step up and challenge Apple and so it was the riskiest rabbit pulled out of the hat on Friday. But it may also be setting the stage down the road for Apple to continue to say we're working on fixing the problem and others aren't. At least the pictures of its super secret testing areas look cooler than anything else anyone else has been willing to show. That was a clever bit of theatrics.
When you're on top everyone tries to tear you down. I love the sympathy card. Add this to "we love our customers so much we built them Apple Stores" and Steve Jobs was practically begging for an A for effort. The sad fact of life, that Steve Jobs knows all too well, is that once your reach the top of the hill, you're an easier target than when you're climbing it. History proves that we love a winner in all walks of life, but only so that we can knock them down a few pegs, and watch them take some knocks. I don't know why we have this in our makeup, but we do. History, and mythology, also proves that those with too much arrogance someday will take a tumble. Ask Icarus.
Statistics. Apple trotted out some interesting numbers. But, anyone with any sense knows that you can make numbers mean what you want them to. There's no denying that 3 million units sold is huge. But, if you parse the language on that 0.55% of calls complaining, or the 1.7% of returns, you can bet there are other numbers that didn't get reported. Do they matter? Who knows. Apple took a moderate risk by saying that it responds to data, but it also gave itself some cover. If the data starts going the wrong way, then Apple can cover any future changes it makes due to this issue buy coming back to this statement. There's nothing wrong with picking and choosing your numbers and data points. Corporations, governments, the media, etc…. do that all the time. We drink it in at the water cooler, and the numbers become truth.
So, in my view, the event was handled with the consummate skill of a funeral director who has laid many a body to rest. The family can now move on with some closure, even though some nagging questions about how the deceased met an untimely end still exist. But the real impact of this episode won't be known until Apple's next product release or a few product releases down the road, when we see if any lingering residue sticks. The telling point will be if journalists and bloggers who get granted access bring up the "antennagate" issue when they probe features of the next big thing Apple unveils. I'm betting that they don't, as memories are short things. Apple is too.
As for me, I'm basically content with the iPhone 4. The Bumper case, so far, has eliminated my "death grip" issues. The iPhone 4 is a good phone and one that I'm content to use at the moment. It has a flaw, (maybe several) but then most of the other hardware I've used in my lifetime has had flaws as well. Since this episode has become such a hot potato, I've been shopping around and seriously looking at other options, mostly in the Android vein. I haven't found anything yet that makes me want to jump platforms, and the reasons for that are the subject of another post or two. I long ago gave up on seeking perfection, just like I long ago gave up on expecting companies to do anything beyond what the PR/Marketing mavens and lawyers tell them to do. In my book, anyone who expects a public company to do anything else, needs to, well… think different. But then that, like all things in the end, was just a passing fad.


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As an actor, Drake rose to prominence during his stint on Degrassi: The Next Generation that ran from 2001 to 2009. During that time, though, music tugged on him and Drake responded. His first efforts came via mix tapes, with Room for Improvement in 2006 and Comeback Season in 2007. The latter project yielded a single and video in "Replacement Girl" featuring Trey Songz. The track started to build a buzz and the video was aired on BET's "New Joint of the Day."
Another cut on the album included a free style over a Lil Wayne remix. In 2008, Wayne got wind of Drake's work and invited him on tour. They also collaborated on a handful of songs, including "Ransom," "I Want This Forever," and the remix to Drake's song, "Brand New."
Drake's third mix tape release, So Far Gone, dropped in early 2009 and featured Lil Wayne, Bun B, Omarion, Lloyd, and Trey Songz. Offered for free download via his blog, the album was snatched up by some 2000 fans in the first two hours. With a solid underground buzz, two singles found their way to radio -- "Best I Ever Had" and "Successful." They entered the top 10 in the same week, making Drake the second-ever artist to achieve such a feat.
Just before his charting success, Drake inked a deal with Young Money Entertainment following what Billboard described as "one of the biggest bidding wars ever." The rapper also hit the road with Wayne, once again, on the America's Most Wanted Tour.
In September of 2009, So Far Gone was released as an official EP, debuting at number six on the Billboard album chart. It went gold in the U.S. and won a Juno award for Rap Recording of the Year in Canada.
More collaborations followed with Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Kanye West, Timbaland, Eminem, DJ Khaled, Young Money, Young Jeezy, Birdman, and even Jamie Foxx. Writing credits include working with Alicia Keys, Dr. Dre, Jazz Cartier, and Bishop Brigante.
Originally slated for a late-2009 release, Drake's official debut album, Thank Me Later, was bumped a few times and eventually came out in the summer of 2010. The first three singles, "Over," "Find Your Love," and "Miss Me," all did well, the second reaching number eight on the singles chart. The CD climbed all the way to the top of the album chart selling 447,000 units in its first week.
Drake's first headlining tour – Lights Dreams and Nightmares Tour – kicked off in September, 2010.


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In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.
Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.
I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.
One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.
We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.
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A farmer group in FRB's Tanzania-Sengerema program is processing freshly-harvested cassava (a starchy tuber) into clean, high-quality flour, and packaging it on-site. The 82-member group, including 44 women, is satisfying the high demand for the product at market, and bringing in good income.The group grows, harvests and peels the cassava, grates it and presses out the moisture using a machine designed and made by local entrepreneurs from the Sengerema Informal Sector Association (SISA), and picks out woody fibers as the grated cassava dries in the sun for two hours.
When the moisture content is below 10%, it is milled into flour with another SISA-made machine, and bagged. The finished product can be used immediately, or stored for up to a year. With SISA's help, the group has obtained certification for labelling their packages, and can now sell its flour in commercial markets in nearby towns, which further increases profits.
Cassava flour, a rich source of carbohydrates, is a staple food in Tanzania, and is used to make porridge-like ugali to eat with beans, vegetables or meat. Drying the cassava and processing it into flour has always been time consuming and labor intensive. It used to take the group ten days to get its value-added product ready. With SISA's training and the processing machines the group bought collectively, they now do it in six hours!
One of the group members, Mrs. Lung'wecha, spoke about the many benefits of using the new approach. "It used to be a very difficult and tiring job for us women to peel and dry the cassava," she said. "Now we are free to do our other work and look after our children. The money we earn from selling the flour pays our children's school fees."
With less time needed to process the cassava, all group members have more time to diversify their incomes by growing other crops, such as corn or groundnuts (peanuts), or by raising chickens. The eggs and meat from the chickens are a good source of protein which, together with cassava and the greater variety of vegetables being grown, results in a much more nutritious diet.
The community is being transformed through this process. The farmers are proud of and energized by their new knowledge, their achievements and results, and the spin-off benefits of economic development and healthier families.
by Chris Enns, World Renew Program Consultant
Foods Resource Bank's Tanzania Sengerema program is led by World Renew with local partner Sengerema Informal Sector Association (SISA). Tanzania-Sengerema encompasses 16 communities, 1760 households and 8800 individuals.


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3. First unplug the front facing camera flex connector, then LCD screen flex connector, last the digitizer flex connector.
4. The flex cables should be bent a little bit before the installation, but do not use too much strength.
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Bought a few things including a luggage bag to haul back all her shopping items. Had lunch at Chillipadi Grill House. Good halal food.
Tag: Melbourne
Melbourne Day 7: Great Ocean Road
Melbourne Day 5: Penguins
We took the Mornington Peninsula and Philips Island Tour today. It was just the 2 of us. Greg picked us up. We were joining another group later so, to pass time, he brought us the Gunnamatta Beach. (Gunnamatta means Sand Hill).
We joined the rest of tour group and proceeded with the tour.
They took us to the Moonlit Sanctuary.
G'day g'day, how ya goin', what d'ya know, well strike a light
G'day g'day, and how ya go-o-o-in'
Just say g'day g'day g'day and you'll be right
Melbourne Day 4: Puffing Billy Train
Melbourne Day 2: Queen Victoria Market
After the lengthy overnight journey from Singapore & Pearl Jam euphoric concert the previous night, naturally we had trouble waking up this morning. It was noon by the time we saw the light. We took the tram from Flinders this time around and head off to the famous Queen Victoria Market. The weather was slightly cold today. It looked like some Pasar Tani thing but it was damn clean. We walked the whole QVM, wet & dry, vintage, souvenirs, groceries, live chickens with their eggs, vegetables, pasta, cheese and more cheese and a variant of vegetables. They looked very fresh, and they even displayed the egg yolks. I had one thing in mind. The hot doughnuts.
It was OMG indeed. Suger coated with jam embedded in it. Blissful indeed. .
Melbourne Day 1: Arrival + Pearl Jam Tour 2009
Day 2: Melbourne Arrival + Etihad Stadium
We finally arrived in Melbourne. Took the Airport Shuttle bus. Melbourne was having a dry spell. The grasses are all brown. Very dry indeed. At Southern Cross Station, we transferred to a mini bus to take us to Victoria Hotel. They upgraded us to a bigger room. 1 Queen Bed and another Single bed. Spacious…indeed and with the overnight stopover at Perth, the bed was welcoming.
Getting ready for Pearl Jam Live at Etihad Stadium.
We stepped out of the lobby & guess what? It was raining! Lots of people were caught off guard.
Most people are in T-shirt, tank tops, shorts, typical Pasir Ris beach summer dressing.
We walked along Bourke Street. I know there's a halal restoran somewhere around. An Indonesian one. I had rice with cooked vegetables & beef rendang. It was like SGD$5. Gulps.
We walked up to the tram stop and proceed to Etihad Stadium.
We had brought our e-tickets, printed with bar codes. Bought some PJ tour T-shirts. The PJs onesie were cute. and we are ready to Rock n Roll with Pearl Jam. Awesome! Little did we expect we will be there from 5:30pm to midnight. Eddie and brothers started from 8:30pm. We were dead tired by midnight and when we left, they were still rocking. As we made our
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Has it really been that long since I have written? Sorry about that folks. Life has been incredibly stressful here. Let me fill you all in.
I think the last time I wrote, Gillian had had her 2nd surgery and was recovering from that. She had a difficult time in her recovery and was hospitalized twice for dehydration and pain. She has since had her 3rd and last (hopfully) surgery. This was her take down surgery where they reconnect her intestines and take down the ileostomy. She has done wonderfully with this surgery. I am still fighting with her to get her to drink and take her meds...it's the whole teen thing, if I don't feel it, I don't need it kind of thing. Along with thinking she knows everything! At any rate, we made it through that surgery and I am just exhausted.
Exhausted to the point where I have been sleeping about 15 hours a day. I have to get back into the doctors and find out what is going on. They think it might have something to do with elevated testosterone levels, but since I haven't been able to get myself to the MD to get the blood taken, I don't know.
Katie is doing great. She still loves school and is just whipping through. She is reading up a storm and adding and subtracting. She loves science and is going to participate in the science fair with her Mama. I love watching their relationship grow together. For those who were worried that they wouldn't bond because I was breastfeeding and staying home with her, well you worried for nothing. She has a very strong bond with her Mama. Sometimes, I will admit, that I feel jealous because they are so close and Katie prefers her Mama over me, it's plain to see. So, I am just trying to be happy for them and not be jealous.
I am still waiting for disability. I hate that system I tell ya. My back is worse than it ever was and I am still waiting for Comp to come through so that I can get my ankle repaired again. I am just tired of waiting for everyone to get their act together.
See, I knew why I stopped blogging....all I seem to do is whine.
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News Release
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FOND DU LAC, Wis. (June 28, 2017) – Mercury Marine, the world leader in marine propulsion, announced today, its new "Hello Summer" repower promotion. This new program is designed to allow consumers to take advantage of special repower financing and a six-year limited warranty on outboard engines ranging from 2.5hp to 25hp.
"Mercury's FourStroke outboard line from 25hp and below continue to raise the bar when it comes to performance and reliability," said Randy Caruana, Mercury Marine vice president of the Americas & Asia Pacific. "With this new promotion, not only do you have the quietest engine on the market, but it comes with six years of coverage which allows the consumer to enjoy their time on the water with the added protection from Mercury.
The "Hello Summer" Promotion is effective for eligible, repower sales only (excluding boat packages. All portable repower retail sales must be completed between June 26, 2017 and August 31, 2017.
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LOS ANGELES --Our Pet of the Week on Tuesday is a 3-month-old male Labrador Retriever mix named Chris. Please give him a good home!
Chris came to the shelter as a stray. He is a puppy so he's full of energy and needs lots of attention. He will need to be crate trained so his new owner(s) will need plenty of patience and time.
If you're interested in adopting Chris, call the L.A. City North Central Shelter at (213) 482-9537. His ID is #A1398096.


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Volunteer Opportunities & Events
Do you have a volunteer opportunity that you would like to share? Send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
The American Association for Justice encourages and highlights trial attorneys' volunteer and charitable activities through its Trial Lawyers Care Initiative. In addition, the association provides a number of opportunities for attorneys to get involved in community service activities throughout the year and during the AAJ Winter and Annual Conventions.
AAJ Voter Protection Action Committee (VPAC)
In 2012, over 1,000 AAJ members across the country volunteered with AAJ's VPAC campaign to protect the right to vote. This year, we are organizing lawyers, paralegals, and law students around the country to volunteer at polling places, work in call centers, and join election protection legal teams on Election Day. SIGN UP HERE!
To find out more about VPAC, go to www.justice.org/VPAC
Habitat for Humanity
AAJ's New Lawyers Division organizes a public service project through Habitat for Humanity at both the Annual and Winter Conventions. AAJ members have helped build new homes, repair old ones, and clean and restore parks and public spaces in the cities AAJ visits for convention. The Habitat day of service is typically the day prior to the start of convention.
If you are interested in signing up, please contact email@example.com.
End Distracted Driving
Hundreds of lawyers across North America are volunteering in their communities and making presentations at their local high schools to inform teens about simple steps drivers and passengers can make immediately to help end distracted driving.
These attorneys are sharing an informative and inspiring presentation that was developed by a trial lawyer whose daughter was killed by a distracted driver. Together, they've reached more than 200,000 students and community members. To learn more please go to www.EndDD.org.


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FDA Approves Flu Vaccines
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The 2008-2009 seasonal influenza vaccines, including new strains of the virus, are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), AMA eVoice reports Aug. 14. Visit the FDA Web site for more information, including a list of vaccines and their manufacturers. You can also view FDA approval information for each vaccine.
If you report immunizations, be sure to review the influenza virus CPT® codes, 90665-90663, before the immunization season starts. Also, communicate with your payers about changes to reporting, adjudication, and payment.
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The Sony Corp. studio spent about $80 million to make and market the film, whose release was canceled Wednesday after threats of violence by hackers, according to Wade Holden, a researcher at SNL Kagan. On top of that, there's the bill for rebuilding Sony's computer network.
"The cost to Sony from new software and hardware, employee labor to clean up the mess, investigation, lost productivity, and reputational damage, just to name a few, is at least over a $100 million and growing daily," said Hemanshu Nigam, who founded the cybersecurity firm SSP Blue and has worked with Microsoft Corp. and News Corp.
Sony Pictures executives wrestled with whether to make "The Interview," Mr. Rogen's comedy about a TV crew that tries to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and ultimately pushed ahead. The move backfired when hackers stole documents and threatened Sony employees and fans. North American theater chains, concerned about safety, pulled out.
Sony canceled the film's release, an unprecedented step that will deprive the studio of its share of ticket sales from one of the holiday season's biggest releases. Future release plans -- for pay television, DVD and streaming -- are on hold, the studio said in a statement. That means lost revenue in the home entertainment market.
Deep attack
Sony officials had no comment beyond pulling "The Interview."
The people who took over Sony's computers in November exposed the network address of thousands of computers and other devices. They found medical records, e-mails, salaries and Social Security numbers of thousands of employees, and released movies onto file-sharing websites.
The hack drove deeper into Sony's system than the one that hit Target Corp. last year and has cost the retailer $157 million before taxes so far, after insurance reimbursements.
"This is almost impossible to quantify," Daniel Hill, president of Ervin Hill, a crisis-public relations firm whose clients include Northrop Grumman Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp., said in an interview. "I don't think there is a case study that's quite like this."
Macquarie Research said this month that Tokyo-based Sony may be forced to write off 10 billion yen ($82 million) in film assets after five movies, including "Annie," set for release this week, and "Fury" were stolen and released by hackers.
In addition, former employees have filed lawsuits claiming the entertainment unit of Tokyo-based Sony didn't do enough to secure personal data.
Insurance will defray some of the expenses, according to Daniel Ernst, an analyst at Hudson Square Research.
E-mail released by the hackers show executives at the Culver City, California-based studio were worried about the film's subject matter months before the planned release.
Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton asked both Rand Corp. and a U.S. State Department official to assess the potential risk, e-mails from the hackers show.
Rand senior defense analyst Bruce Bennett watched "The Interview" and wrote a note as a favor to Mr. Lynton, a trustee, said Warren Robak, a spokesman for the think tank. U.S. Under Secretary of State Dan Russel didn't respond to a request for comment left at his office.
U.S. officials have concluded that North Korea is behind the cyber-attack and plan an announcement this week, according to a person briefed on the FBI probe. North Korea has denied involvement.
Fan interest in the picture spiked with international news reports last month that hackers had broken into Sony Pictures' computers and were beginning to release sensitive data. More people viewed trailers and commented about the film on social media, indicators that often led to increased ticket sales.
"It's substantial loss for Sony if the film never makes it into theaters, and it's possible that retailers may fear hacking if the film were to be released on home video," SNL's Mr. Holden said in an e-mail.
"There isn't some cyberwar coming; it's here," Brian Knappenberger, director of two documentaries about internet activists, said in an interview. Every studio will have to implement more rigorous protection, he said.
Damage to Sony's reputation and industry relationships are tougher to assess. E-mails released by the hackers showed Sony Pictures Co-Chairman Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin making jokes at the expense of President Barack Obama.
The capitulation by Sony and the theaters raises new questions about Hollywood's willingness to address risky subjects. Movie studios have altered movies to placate censors in China.
Sony's decision to give in and pull the film was criticized by Frances Townsend, former homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to President George W. Bush, along with director Judd Apatow and comedian Jimmy Kimmel.
"This is a horrible -- I think horrible precedent," Ms. Townsend said at a forum sponsored by Atlantic Live. "This is not a one-off. The studios will face this again."
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Windows Subsystem for Linux Documentation
The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run Linux environments -- including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications -- directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a virtual machine.
You can:
- Choose your favorite Linux distributions from the Windows Store.
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awk, etc.
- Run Bash shell scripts and Linux command-line applications including:
- Tools: vim, emacs, tmux
- Languages: Javascript/node.js, Ruby, Python, C/C++, C# & F#, Rust, Go, etc.
- Services: sshd, MySQL, Apache, lighttpd
- Install additional Linux tools using the distribution's built in package manager (
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- Invoke Windows applications from the Linux console.
- Invoke Linux applications on Windows.
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Congrats! You've made it to the city everyone's talking about. Creative spirits, cheap booze, and despite those two things, a totally functional economy. You're in the European epicenter of cool and you want to explore it for real, instead of just buying a brilliantly faked piece of The Wall (it's a brick!) and visiting a fast-food chain with sliiiightly different menu choices. Here's how:
France's Fête des Lumières Is a Light Festival Unlike Anything You've Ever Seen
You've been told to: Go to Checkpoint Charlie
You should really: Head to Bernauer Strasse
Tourists' first pit stop in Berlin usually has something to do with the city's sort of, somewhat, a little bit, kind of checkered past. Skip the selfie-farm at Check Point Charlie and Unter den Linden -- where Germans dress as US Army soldiers & pose for pics -- and head to the Bernauer Strasse memorial instead. It's the last piece of the preserved, for-real Berlin Wall, complete w/ the super-intimidating border fortifications, a viewing tower & tons of info.
You want to do this: City bus tours
Do this instead: City bus 100 and 200
Sure, those massive tour buses with the apparently hilarious MC cruising around the city look tempting. Instead of overpaying for a ride around town however, hop onto line 100 or 200 of the city buses, which run along a similar route, from Alexanderplatz to West Berlin's Zoological Garten. They're also double decker, they pass basically every cool/photogenic desto in the city, and they don't have a dude demonstrating the German sense of humor.
First timers: Go on a boat tour of the city
Second timers: Go on a dig-deep tour of the city
Taking a boat tour along Berlin's Spree River can be a great way to see the views, get some info on the city & check a spotting of the major landmarks off your list. Whatever. For the real Berlin experience, get off the boat and try one of the city's awesome cultural tours, exploring topics like street art, Berlin's music scene & vintage shopping.
Newbies: Eat a currywurst
Pros: Eat a spicy currywurst
Berliners have a love-hate relationship w/ the currywurst, that is to say, many locals look down at this lowly sauced sausage like a red-headed step child. But enough people love 'em 'cause you can grab a currywurst at nearly every corner. If you are gonna try this delicacy, be in the know & order your wurst spicy. And by spicy we mean ear-smokingly hot.
Tourists: Shop on Kurfurstendamm
Locals: Get some new duds in Kreuzberg
Head to Ku'damm literally any day and you'll find this "shopping mile" packed, mostly w/ tourists looking for KaDeWe. Skip the mass of international brands and get some real Berliner style by heading to the much cooler neighborhood of Kreuzberg. Places to check out include Voo, Search and Destroy & Hard Wax.
Guide book readers: See the city skyline from the TV Tower
Guide book writers: See it from Teufelsberg
Everyone wants to get a view of Berlin, and the giant TV tower seems like as good as any place to do it from, right? Actually, no. Skip the massive fee they charge for riding the elevator 200 meters up, and instead hike yourself over to Wilmersdorf's Teufelsberg, a former spy station (!) sitting on the highest point in Berlin. The place is quasi-abandoned -- some entrepreneurial Berliner's charge admission -- but we've "heard" you can sneak in.
Chumps: Drink Sternburg
Champions: Drink craft Berlin brews
Most Berlin bars serve the cheap crap, but you're on vacation, and their foreign coin is like Monopoly money to you, so saddle up and prepare to drink something good. The city has a growing scene of microbreweries pumping out far better suds -- try Hops & Barley, Heidenpeters & Vagabund for great homebrews at the bar, or head to Berlin Bier Shop to pick up a couple bottles of something other than a pils or dunkel.
1. Hops & BarleyWühlischstr. 22, Berlin
2. HeidenpetersEisenbahnstr.42-43, Berlin
3. Vagabund BrauereiAntwerpener Strasse 3, Berlin
4. Voo StoreOranienstr. 24, Berlin
5. Search and DestroyOranienstraße 198, Berlin
6. Hard WaxPaul-Lincke-Ufer 44a, Berlin
7. Berlin Bier ShopKirchstr. 23, Berlin
With its tiled floors & walls, exposed pipes, and visible brewing gear, Hops & Barley has a distinct English brewpub vibe to it. And while Germany generally trumps England in just about everything (football, cars, delicious sausages), this Berlin spot does well taking cues from the Brits. The Hops & Barley crew regularly brews pilsners, dark pils, wheats, and cider, and, on occasion they even bring out special IPAs and brown lagers.
Johannes Heidenpeter is operating his newish brewing project out of Kreuzberg's Markthalle Neun, offering market customers a range of IPAs, pale ales, saisons, and, come winter, stouts and porters.
This microbrewery is the project of three American ex-pats who were home brewers back in the states. Although the shop is currently only open on weekends, Vagabund is hard at work on small batch IPAs, Szechuan saisons, and coffee stouts.
This clothing and apparel store in Kreuzberg has a diverse collection of items and brands from athletic gear to outerwear.
Search and Destroy certainly isn't the most inviting name, but that doesn't seem to stop plenty of folks from checking out this sweet skate shop.
Located in Kreuzberg, Hard Wax carries a massive collection of old school records, ranging from just about any genre you can think of.
With a knowledgable owner and a massive selection of beers, you can't go wrong with the Berlin Bier shop if you're craving some refreshing suds.


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How is foreshadowing used in "Conversations of Socrates"? Choose one major instance of foreshadowing and follow it through the book, finishing with how the event is fulfilled.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast Socrates and Xenophon. How are their beliefs and teachings similar and different?
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How does Socrates instruct others to change throughout this book? Detail the changes he inspires and the reasons behind those changes.
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How do the minor people in this book affect the plot? How would this book be different if one or more of these people were removed?
Essay Topic 5
How does the third person point-of-view enhance and inhibit the story? How would this book be different if a different point of view were used?
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Choose one of the main themes in this book (charges against Socrates, Socrates' virtue, true good, love and responsibility) and detail its...
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Sinusitis refers to inflammation of the sinuses. Sinuses are hollow cavities in the face and skull which produce mucus. These sinuses include the ethmoid (located between the eyes), maxillary (located in the cheeks), sphenoid (located behind the eyes) and frontal (located in the forehead) sinuses. Normally, the mucus produced by the sinuses drains into the nasal cavity. However, when an obstruction is present mucus and pressure can build up, allowing for bacterial growth. Cilia are finger-like projections in the mucous membranes that sweep away mucus, bacteria or other debris. If they are not functioning, these particles are not cleared and symptoms can present. Sinusitis is more commonly called rhinosinusitis, due to the involvement and inflammation of the nasal cavity in addition to the sinuses. There are several different forms of sinusitis: acute, subacute and chronic sinusitis.
Acute sinusitis normally lasts from 1 day to 4 weeks. Acute rhinosinusitis most frequently results from viral infection, but may occur from bacterial infection as well. Subacute rhinosinusitis is a sinus infection that ranges in duration from 4 weeks to 3 months. It is often treated in the same method as acute sinusitis. Chronic rhinosinusitis is defined by symptoms that last longer than 3 months.
Different symptoms present themselves depending on the location of the infection or inflammation. Maxillary sinusitis presents with pain or tenderness behind the cheek bones or in the upper teeth, congestion, and purulent drainage. Frontal sinusitis is characterized by pain or pressure in the forehead, which is sometimes described as a headache. Ethmoid sinusitis presents with nasal congestion, pain or pressure around the eye, drainage, decreased sense of smell, and possibly pressure or headache. Sphenoid sinusitis presents deep-seated headache and postnasal drainage, but may be severe enough to cause fever or vision disturbances.
The main method in treating acute sinusitis is antibiotics, since many of the infections are bacterial. To relieve the symptoms, the physician may prescribe nasal saline rinses or nasal corticosteroids to reduce the inflammation. Decongestants may also be helpful to control symptoms. In chronic sinusitis, the mainstays of therapy include saline rinses and topical steroids, with some benefit being gained from antibiotics and oral steroids.
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Jennifer Lee
Chancellor's Fellow and Professor, Sociology
|Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, Social Inequality, Culture, Education, Asian American Studies
|To learn more about Jennifer Lee's recent research, click here:
Pierre Bourdieu Book Award from the Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association for The Asian American Achievement Paradox. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (2016).
Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association The Asian American Achievement Paradox. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (2016).
Best Book on Asian American from the Asia and Asian American Section of the American Sociological Association The Asian American Achievement Paradox. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (2016).
Chancellor's Fellow, University of California, Irvine (2016).
Elected Member, Sociological Research Association (2015).
Fellow, Center for Social Cohesion (2011-Present).
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation (2011-12).
Otis Dudley Duncan Award (2011) from the Population Section of the American Sociological Association for The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in 21st Century America (with Frank D. Bean).
J. William Fulbright Scholar to Japan (2008).
Distinguished Lecturer, Nagoya American Studies Summer Seminar, Nagoya, Japan (2008).
Fellow, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago (2006-2007).
Outstanding Book Award (2006) from the Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association for Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity. (with Min Zhou).
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA (2002-2003).
Jane Addams Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association for "From Civil Relations to Racial Conflict: Merchant-Customer Interactions in Urban America." American Sociological Review 67 (1): 77-98 (2003).
Honorable Mention for the Thomas and Znaniecki Distinguished Book Award from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association for Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America (2003)
University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow (1998-2000).
President's Fellow, Columbia University (1996-1998).
Fellow, Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University (1997).
Andrew W. Mellon Scholar (1993-1995).
University Professors' Fellow, Columbia University (1993-1995).
Jennifer Lee is a Chancellor's Fellow and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, who has published award-winning books and articles about immigration, the new second generation, education, and race relations.
Her most recent book (with Min Zhou), The Asian American Achievement Paradox, received a trifecta of ASA Book Awards: The Pierre Bourdieu Book Award; The Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award; and the Best Book Award on Asian America. She is also author of Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America for which Lee received Honorable Mention for the Thomas and Znaniecki Distinguished Book Award, and co-author of The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in 21st Century (with Frank D. Bean), which earned the 2011 Otis Dudley Duncan Award from the ASA. She is also co-editor of Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity, which was named the 2006 Outstanding Book Award from the Asia and Asian America Section of the ASA. In addition to her books, Lee has also published dozens of articles about race/ethnicity, immigration, and the second generation.
Lee has received numerous prestigious grants, fellowships, and awards for her research. She was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, and a Fulbright Scholar to Japan. In 2015, she became one of 12 new members elected to the Sociological Research Association—an honor society recognizing the most successful researchers in the field since its founding in 1936—and this year, she is Chair of the American Sociological Association's Section on International Migration.
Lee established her career with Civility in the City, published by Harvard University Press. In Civility in the City, she sheds new light on the topics of immigrant entrepreneurship and interethnic relations. By going beyond the single group study implemented by prior scholars, and instead comparing Koreans with Jewish and African American merchants, and also contrasting two different urban environments (New York and Philadelphia), Lee shows just how ethnicity and nativity matter, demonstrating also the ways in which the environment generates conflicts, but also how those conflicts are managed and negotiated to produce civility in everyday life. Her findings dispel the popular myth of the ubiquity of interethnic conflict, and show that social order, routine, and civility are alive and well in America's inner-cities.
In The Diversity Paradox, Jennifer Lee and Frank D. Bean take two poles of American collective identity -- the legacy of slavery and immigration -- and address the question of whether today's immigrants are destined to become racialized minorities akin to African Americans or whether their incorporation into U.S. society will more closely resemble that of their European predecessors. They also tackle the vexing question of whether America's new racial/ethnic diversity is helping to erode the tenacious Black/White color line. For the first time in 2000, the U.S. Census enabled multiracial Americans to identify themselves as belonging to more than one race, and eight years later, African American Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. For many, these events give credibility to the claim that America is now a "post-racial" society.
In this major contribution, Lee and Bean recast our understanding of race, and in particular Blackness, by doing something that previous generations of scholars had mostly avoided: studying Blacks in relation to Latinos, Asians, and Whites. By doing so, they provide insight into the unique plight of Black Americans. Asians and Latinos are much more likely to intermarry with Whites, and their unions are understood by each partner and other observers as intercultural unions rather than interracial ones. Differences between Asians and Latinos on the one hand, and Blacks on the other are framed through an immigrant narrative -- a considerably smoother and easier path of understanding, and one that is less fraught with the tension and potential for conflict than the slavery narrative that characterizes differences between Blacks and Whites. Moreover, through captivating in-depth interviews, they deftly show how multiracial Asians and Latinos are little constrained by racialization processes that force Blacks into discrete racial categories through the legacy of the "one-drop rule. Boundary crossing at the individual level does not lead to the shifting of racial/ethnic boundaries at the group level for Blacks.
Consequently, we appear to be entering a new phase in the U.S. system of racial/ethnic relations, in which the boundaries of the dominant group appear to be expanding to encompass populations historically excluded from the ranks of the accepted, all the while maintaining the boundary that has kept Blacks as perpetual outsiders. These rich findings say much about racial inequality in the United States and the existence of a racial hierarchy, in which Blacks are far more likely to find themselves in positions of exclusion than Asians and Latinos -- pointing to a persistent pattern of "black exceptionalism."
Jennifer Lee's most recent book, Asian American Achievement Paradox, was published in July 2015. In the book, she and Min Zhou tackle the vexing question: Why do second-generation Asians exhibit exceptional academic outcomes, even when controlling for socioeconomic factors like parental education, occupation, income, and residential segregation? They bring culture back into the debate about second-generation outcomes and address the "Tiger Mother" controversy head on by bridging research in immigration, race/ethnicity, and social psychology in a novel way.
Building on the cultural concept of frames, they explain how Chinese and Vietnamese immigrant parents and their children frame success, how "success frames" differ by ethnicity, and how frames are supported by institutional and ethnic resources. Greater access to resources help second-generation Chinese and Vietnamese from disadvantaged class backgrounds override their low parental human capital. Moreover, Asian American students benefit from a "stereotype promise" -- the promise of being viewed through the lens of a positive stereotype that leads one to perform in such a way that confirms the positive stereotype, thereby boosting performance. As a result, Asian American students gain an advantage over their non-Asian peers in the context of U.S. schools. No other scholar has been as vocal nor as effective as Jennifer Lee in refuting the cultural fallacy that Asian American achievement can be reduced to essential traits and values of Asian culture.
Strongly committed to public engagement, Jennifer Lee has written opinion pieces for The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Times, CNN, The Guardian, TIME, Los Angeles Magazine, The Conversation, and Zocalo Public Square, and has done interviews for NPR, CBS2 News, Fusion TV, and Tavis Smiley. In addition, her research has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Economist, Slate, Buzzfeed, and a number of other national and international media outlets.
2015. The Asian American Achievement Paradox. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. (with Min Zhou).
* Winner: Pierre Bourdieu Book Award; Thomas and Znaniecki Distinguished Book Award; Best Book on Asian America
|2014. Guest Co-Editor of 50th Anniversary Issue of International Migration Review 48 (S1): Fall 2014 (with Jørgen Carling and Pia Orrenius).
|2014. "From Unassimilable to Exceptional: The Rise of Asian Americans and 'Stereotype Promise'." New Diversities 16 (1): 7-22 (with Min Zhou).
|2014. "Assessing what is cultural about Asian Americans' Academic Advantage." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111 (23): 8321–8322 (with Min Zhou).
|2014. "The Success Frame and Achievement Paradox: The Costs and Consequences for Asian Americans." Race and Social Problems 6 (1): 38-55 (with Min Zhou).
|2014. "The International Migration Review at 50: Reflecting on Half a Century of International Migration Research and Looking Ahead." International Migration Review 48 (S1): 3-36 (with Jørgen Carling and Pia Orrenius).
|2012. "A Postracial Society or a Diversity Paradox? Race, Immigration, and Multiraciality in the Twenty-first Century." Du Bois Review 9 (2): 419-437 (with Frank D. Bean).
2010. The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in 21st Century America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press (with Frank D. Bean).
* Winner: Otis Dudley Duncan Award
|2009. "The New U.S. Immigrants: How Do They Affect Our Understanding of the African-American Experience?" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 621: 202-220 (with Frank D. Bean, Cynthia Feliciano, and Jennifer Van Hook).
|2009. "Plus ça change...? Multiraciality and the Dynamics of Race Relations in the United States." Journal of Social Issues 65 (1): 205-219 (with Frank D. Bean).
|2009. "Brown Picket Fences: The Immigrant Narrative and 'Giving Back' among the Mexican Middle-Class." Ethnicities 9 (1): 5-31 (with Jody Agius Vallejo).
|2008. "Success Attained, Deterred, and Denied: Divergent Pathways to Social Mobility in Los Angeles' New Second Generation." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 620: 37-61 (with Min Zhou, Jody Agius Vallejo, Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada, and Yang Sao Xiong).
|2007 "Reinventing the Color Line: Immigration and America's New Racial/Ethnic Divide." Social Forces 86 (2): 561-586 (with Frank D. Bean).
|2007 "Becoming Ethnic or Becoming American? Reflecting on the Divergent Pathways to Social Mobility and Assimilation among the New Second Generation." Du Bois Review 4 (1): 189-205 (with Min Zhou).
|2007 "Redrawing the Color Line?" City & Community 6 (1): 49-62 (with Frank D. Bean).
|2006 "Constructing Race and Civility in Urban America." Urban Studies 43 (5-6): 903-917, Review Issue on (In)Civility and the City.
|2006 "Cultural Assets or Structural Advantages in Numbers Gambling: Comment to Darrell Steffensmeier and Jeffery T. Ulmer – 'Black and White Control of Numbers Gambling: A Cultural Assets—Social Capital View.' " American Sociological Review 71 (1): 157-161.
|2005 "Who We Are: America Becoming and Becoming American." Du Bois Review 2 (2): 287-302.
|2005 "Immigration and Racial/Ethnic Relations in the United States." People and Place 13 (1): 1-13 (with Frank D. Bean and Susan K. Brown).
|2004 "America's Changing Color Lines: Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, and Multiracial Identification." Annual Review of Sociology 30: 221-242 (with Frank D. Bean).
|2004 "Immigration and Fading Color Lines in America." Census Bulletin (with Frank D. Bean).
|2004 "Immigration and the Black-White Color Line in the United States." Review of Black Political Economy, Special Issue on "The Impact of Immigration on African Americans" (with Frank D. Bean).
2004 Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity (Edited Volume with Min Zhou, New York: Routledge).
*Winner: Best Book in Asian America
2002. Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
*Honorable Mention: Thomas and Znaniecki Distinguished Book Award
2002 "From Civil Relations to Racial Conflict: Merchant-Customer Interactions in Urban America." American Sociological Review 67 (1): 77-98.
|2001 "The Racial and Ethnic Meaning behind Black: Retailers' Hiring Practices in Inner-City Neighborhoods," in Color Lines: Affirmative Action, Immigration, and Civil Rights Options for America, edited by John D. Skrentny (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
|2000 "Immigrant and African American Competition: Jewish, Korean, and African American Entrepreneurs," in Immigration Research for a New Century, edited by Nancy Foner, Rubén G. Rumbaut, and Steve J. Gold (New York: Russell Sage Foundation).
|2000 "The Salience of Race in Everyday Life: Black Customers' Shopping Experiences in Black and White Neighborhoods." Work and Occupations 27 (3): 353-376.
|1999 "Segmented Assimilation and Minority Cultures of Mobility." Ethnic and Racial Studies 22 (6): 945-965 (with Kathryn Neckerman and Prudence Carter).
|1999 "Retail Niche Domination among African American, Jewish, and Korean Entrepreneurs: Competition, Coethnic Advantage, and Disadvantage." American Behavioral Scientist 42 (9): 1398-1416.
|1998 "Cultural Brokers: Race-Based Hiring in Inner-City Neighborhoods." American Behavioral Scientist 41 (7): 927-937.
|"Immigration, Racial/Ethnic Diversity, and Multiracial Identification." Frank D. Bean and Jennifer Lee, Principal Investigators. Funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, $265,000.
|"Immigrant and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles." Ruben Rumbaut, Frank D. Bean, Leo Chavez, Min Zhou, Jennifer Lee, Susan Brown, and Louis DeSipio, Principal Investigators. Funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, $1.7 million.
|"Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles." Ruben Rumbaut, Frank D. Bean, Leo Chavez, Min Zhou, Jennifer Lee, and Susan Brown, Principal Investigators. Funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, $136,000.
|"Immigration and Race/Ethnicity: America's Changing Color Lines." Frank D. Bean and Jennifer Lee, Principal Investigators. Funded by the Population Reference Bureau and the Russell Sage Foundation, $15,000.
|"The Mexican Minority Culture of Mobility: Coethnic Ties among Mexican Middle-Class Immigrants in Suburban Los Angeles." Jennifer Lee, Principal Investigator, University of California, Irvine, Single Investigator Innovative Grant, $3,200.
|"Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles: A Qualitative Study." Jennifer Lee, Leo Chavez, and Min Zhou, Principal Investigators. Funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, $30,000.
|"Becoming 'Ethnic,' Becoming 'Angeleno,' and/or Becoming 'American': The Multifaceted Experiences of Immigrant Children and the Children of Immigrants in Los Angeles." Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou, Principal Investigators. Funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, $210,000.
|"Los Angeles' New Second Generation: Mobility, Identity, and the Making of a New American Metropolis." Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou, Principal Investigators. Funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, $108,088.
|"Meritocracy, Racial Divisions, and the Politics of SCA 5." Jennifer Lee, Principal Investigator. Funded by the Center for the Study of Democracy, $2,500.
|"2016 National Asian American Survey." Funded by the National Science Foundation. Karthick Ramakrishnan, Jennifer Lee, Taeku Lee, Janelle Wong, Principal Investigators. $507,132. Award No: 1558986
|"Asian Americans: Affirmative Action, Intergroup Attitudes and Racial Group Formation." Funded by the Russell Sage Foundation. Jennifer Lee, Janelle Wong, Taeku Lee, Karthick Ramarkrishnan, Principal Investigators. $114,535. Award No: 93-17-07.
American Sociological Association. Section Memberships: Asia and Asian America; Community and Urban Sociology; Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility; International Migration; Population.
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Days after the election of Barack Obama, HBO has paid low seven figures for U.S. TV rights to Amy Rice and Alicia Sams' untitled docu on the senator's presidential run.
Rice brought the idea to Edward Norton and his Class 5 Films banner in 2006. Norton secured cooperation with Obama and has had cameras rolling ever since, capturing his 2006 trip to Africa and his 2007 presidential announcement (Daily Variety, March 11). The production has had close access to Obama as well as his family, friends, campaign staff and volunteers.
Shooting will continue through the inauguration. Sam Pollard, who cut HBO's "When the Levees Broke" and "4 Little Girls," will keep editing for a 2009 preem.
"We believe this film will capture a tipping point in American history, when a new generation of leadership emerged and old prejudices were finally vaulted over," Norton said.
Pic is being produced by Norton, Stuart Blumberg and Bill Migliore with financing by Good, Green Film Co., Citi Prods. and Class 5 Films. Endeavor Independent head Graham Taylor and Andrew Hurwitz negociated with HBO on behalf of the filmmakers and are seeking a theatrical distrib.