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My name is Jenna. I go to a high school where I'm part of the marching band and the cheerleading squad. I'm pretty busy, but I always find time to read. I'm also very creative and I like doing little crafts out of random things I find.
Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles
Already a lover of the Perfect Chemistry novels, I knew I would love this conclusion to the trilogy. Keep in mind that you could understand the plot of Chain Reaction without reading the first two novels.
Luis Fuentes comes from a family of gang members. His two older brothers, Alex and Carlos, were both involved in the Latino Blood, but the LB is a Chicago gang and Luis now lives in Colorado for the sole reason of avoiding the gang. Luis thought he was safe, but when his mother forces him to move back to Chicago, Luis knows that involvement in the gang is inevitable, despite his family's protests and his new girlfriend, Nikki's, love.
This novel is told between two perspectives, Luis' and Nikki's, and readers will experience unexpected surprises in both of these young people's lives. Nikki is falling in love again and Luis discovers the true reason why it seems he has a deep connection with the Latino Blood. The climax of this book will shock everybody. Also, if you were a reader of the previous novels, the epilogue to this book will satisfy and give closure.
If you like a forbidden love story and acceptance of others and yourself, Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles is the novel for you.
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Sunday, September 1, 2013
Vegan Ramen Burger!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are some bloggers who ONLY blog during Mofo and not the rest of the year. And there are others who blog once or twice a week but really it step it up during Mofo. Since I already blog daily, Mofo isn't much out of the ordinary here on Vegan Crunk. I briefly considered going with themed posts this year, but the very idea stressed me out so much that I nixed that idea. But I do hope to bring you a few more original recipes and maybe a giveaway or two throughout the month.
That being said, I'm starting this Mofo off with a BANG! You wanna know why? Cause I veganized the Ramen Burger!!!
The Ramen Burger is all the rage on the internetz these days. Some chef in New York came out with it, and it straight up stole the spotlight from the once-adored cronut. HuffPo posted a video tutorial on making ramen burgers, but of course, the original recipe contains eggs. What's a ramen-obsessed vegan to do?
I turned to Facebook and asked my friends their suggestions for an egg replacer here. MeShell had already successfully used flax goop, but I didn't want to steal her recipe. A few people suggested Vegg powder, and Stephanie told me to go with pureed silken tofu. In the end, I used a combo of silken tofu and Vegg as the binder to hold the fried noodles together. You could probably leave Vegg out and just use tofu, but the Vegg does seem to add an extra binding factor.
The ramen makes the bun, but you can stuff whatever you want inside. I used a Match Stuffed Mushroom Burger, lettuce, pickles, sriracha ketchup, and mustard. You can definitely pick this sandwich up with your hands, but because the noodle bun is fried, it's kind of messy. I ended using a fork halfway through.
And I'm sure someone will ask me how it tastes, but I mean, duh, it's a RAMEN BURGER!!! Of course, it's amazing.
Here's the recipe!
Vegan Ramen Burger
Yields 1 burger
1 pkg. vegan ramen noodles & seasoning packet
1/2 cup crumbled silken tofu
1 Tbsp. Vegg powder
2 tsp. olive oil
1 vegan hamburger patty
Lettuce, tomato, pickles, condiments, vegan cheese, whatever fixins you desire
Boil the noodles according to package instructions. Drain off the liquid and stir in the seasoning packet. Set aside.
Crumble the tofu into a food processor. Add the Vegg powder. Process until very smooth and creamy, stopping at least once to scrape down the sides of the processor.
Put the tofu mixture in a bowl, and stir in the noodles with a fork, making sure to coat evenly.
Spray two bun-size ramekins with non-stick cooking spray. Use the fork to lift out half of the noodles, and place them into one ramekin. Place the remaining noodles in the other ramekin. Press the noodles down into the bottom of the ramekin, spreading as necessary to fill the entire bottom of the bowl. Place a sheet of plastic wrap over each ramekin and press down so the plastic is touching all of the noodles and no air can get in. Set a heavy 28-ounce can (or a smaller can if you're using smaller ramekins) on top of the plastic in each ramekin. This will weight the noodles down so they will form a tight bun. Place the ramekins into the fridge for 15 minutes.
Heat 1 tsp. oil in a small non-stick skillet. Remove one ramekin from the fridge, and remove the heavy can and plastic. Using your finger or a butter knife, lightly go around the edges of the ramekin to loosen noodles from the side of the dish. Then carefully turn the ramekin upside down into the skillet and tap on the backside of the ramekin so the noodle bun falls out in a perfect circle.
Fry on one side for 5 to 7 minutes or until noodles are crispy and browned. Flip and brown on the other side. Remove cooked bun from the skillet and place on a paper towel-lined plate to drain.
Heat the other tsp. oil in the skillet. Repeat the process with the other ramekin and fry the noodle bun on both sides. Drain on paper towels.
Once the bun is cooked and cooling, heat your veggie burger. Prepare burger with whatever fixins you desire.
Sound complicated? This video tutorial from PopSugar should help. Just pretend like the egg in the video is actually tofu!
17 comments:
- John McDevitt said...
That looks RAD!
- September 1, 2013 at 11:48 PM
- Maya Mange said...
Haha ! I've been waiting for this post on your blog. I just knew you'd have to veganize this nonsense ! Yay for ramen !
- September 1, 2013 at 11:52 PM
- The Peace Patch said...
I am so trying this with a Sunshine burger...I love giant messy sandwiches and crunchy ramen goodness. :)
Thank you for the recipe...Happy MoFo!
- September 2, 2013 at 12:02 AM
- vegan.in.brighton said...
Whaaaaat?! This is epic! I'd never hear of a ramen burger but I'd eat that!
- September 2, 2013 at 3:18 AM
- MeloMeals said...
Oh my dogs.. that looks so good!
- September 2, 2013 at 6:52 AM
- janessa said...
Oh my god this looks extraordinary.
- September 2, 2013 at 7:27 AM
- Lioncourt said...
Awesome post, just dont forget to let everyone know that it's the Nissan brand of Raman that is vegan not maruchan Thanks :) http://www.peta2.com/boards/topic/oriental-flavor-ramen-noodles-made-by-maruchan-are-not-vegn/
- September 2, 2013 at 9:03 AM
- Unknown said...
- September 2, 2013 at 10:29 AM
- T said...
Thank goodness someone veganized this!
- September 2, 2013 at 11:30 AM
- Sarah said...
I've never heard of a ramen burger but I'm glad you introduced me to it! It looks incredible!! You are starting off this MoFo with a bang! :) Crunchy ramen... mmmm. ;)
- September 2, 2013 at 11:41 AM
- Unknown said...
WoW, this is quite impressive! Nice job ^_^
- September 2, 2013 at 2:24 PM
- River said...
That is SO cool! I had never heard of such a thing! Very cool indeedy. Happy MoFo!
- September 2, 2013 at 2:36 PM
- tamara said...
!!!!!!! drooool that looks AWESOME.
- September 3, 2013 at 8:28 PM
- Lindsay said...
this recipe just blew my mind! and my man is going to flip out when i make it! good post!!! thanks!!!
- September 8, 2013 at 2:19 PM
- 藤島明輝子 said...
I made my own Vegan ramen burgers and I didn't need to use a binder at all.. My ramen stuck together without the need to add anything.
- September 17, 2013 at 10:28 PM
great to see how you did it; i made it with mie noodles and its awesome!
- February 11, 2014 at 8:25 AM
- Unknown said...
I like everything about this. I have a recipe that I haven't tried yet but these have lots fewer ingredients, will try soon!
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Welcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today, we have reports from Motoramic, Petrolicious, and Hemmings.
Three decades later, Gilles Villeneuve's legacy lives on — Motoramic
Undoubtedly one of the most exciting drivers to ever grace F1, we lost Gilles Villeneuve 32 years ago today. Former Jalop, current Yahoo, and former IndyCar driver Alex Lloyd sums up the man's career beautifully.
It was May 8, 1982. Zolder – a fast, twisting racecourse running through the forests of Belgium – played host to the fifth round of the Formula One world championship. With eight minutes to go in the final qualifying session, Gilles Villeneuve, driving for Ferrari, crested the rise after the first chicane to find a slowing Jochen Mass in the middle of Butte – a high-speed left-hander preceding the right-hander,Terlamenbocht. Mass, having seen a red flash with the familiar "V" on the helmet, moved right to allow Villeneuve to pass; Villeneuve, age 32, unaware of Mass's decision, kept his foot flat.
An Interview With Ford GT Designer Camilo Pardo — Petrolicious
This man designed one of the finest looking supercars of the last 20 years. Take notes.
Allow us to introduce you to Mr. Camilo Pardo and his work. Camilo is best known as the primary designer of the mid-2000s Ford GT, the recreation of the legendary Le Mans-winning racer. Like many other designers though, his interests are varied and he is constantly working on a variety of projects that span a wide range of disciplines. Unlike many other designers, he has enjoyed success in the vast majority. He is based in Detroit, Michigan although he has "one foot in Los Angeles." We were able to get a few minutes out of his busy schedule, between shooting a new TV show called Motor City Masters (TruTV, Tuesdays at 10PM beginning on June 24) and meeting with clients, to talk about his interests and career thus far.
Milwaukee Fire Department's first ambulance, a 1947 Cadillac Sayers & Scovill, returns home — Hemmings
Just a cool bit of history from the fine folks at Hemmings.
Bought for use on the scene of some of Brew City's biggest fires, Milwaukee Fire Department Ambulance No. 1 could handle the heat – even the heat of the Texas sun, under which it spent its retirement. But it belonged back in Milwaukee, and to Milwaukee it has recently returned, where, refurbished, it will go on display in this summer's Milwaukee Masterpiece.
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Clairvoyant reading about President of Syria Bashar al-Assad Now – January 31,2017, 11am. – by Clairvoyant House "Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna. http://sites.google.com/site/dimitrinkastaikova
Small part of Clairvoyant Reading – expect soon the whole prediction in our new Ebook and Paperback book – "Elections in Europe and the World year 2017"
……It will be buried a man whol looks like the President Bashar al-Assad. I see a hospital and four surgical operations. The real President Bashar al-Assad is allive….


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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Music at the plantation house
Shalini sings Nick Drake's "From the morning", and my own rendition on the guitar, at the Plantation House.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Plantation house
I am putting up some of my old watercolours at Shalini Subramanian's beautiful store, Plantation House, at the Leela Palace, Bangalore.
Shalini has been making her exquisite hand crafted garments for the longest time, and finally has her own store.
I will be there in person on the 25th, through to the 28th, after which I will visit the store for a couple of hours a day during the week.
Please drop by, it would be lovely to see you.
Here's the invite.
Ta ta,
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Healing propositions
Hello companions of this lusciously mad journey,
It seems to be the wildest trip yet. I locked my right knee while climbing a tamarind tree in Assam, last December. Since then I've been hobbling along for a couple of months, with my crutch, or a walking stick, still travelling, and soaking it all in.
I had an arthroscopy to trim the torn cartilage, a couple of weeks ago, and I'm recovering and healing here in Bangalore.
This period, has definitely altered the wiring in my brain. Pain and circumstance has changed my cycles, and creative episodes flourish while I learn to run with my madness.
Here are some outpourings from the release of these episodes, during my time in the hospital, or details from various states of mind.
Hugs galore,
Getting Younger Old man Prash
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Travel brochures
I recently did the illustrations for Cox and Kings travel brochures, and annual planner, with my friends Anoop and Priyanka who run Design Stack in mumbai.
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Nural Orgun and Garrett Booth
- Written by Woodinville Weekly Staff
Nural Orgun and Garrett Booth and were married in a small ceremony witnessed by family and friends on September 8, 2012, at Blessed Sacrament Church in Seattle.
Nural, daughter of Munir and Audrey Orgun of Woodinville, graduated from Woodinville High School in 2000, the University of Washington in 2004 and recently earned her MBA from Seattle University.
Garrett, son of Tom and Vicki Jenkins of Bend, Oregon, grew up in Coos Bay, Oregon before moving to Seattle for college and graduated from the University of Washington in 2004.
Currently he is working on his MBA at Seattle University.
The couple met at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center where Garrett is a researcher and Nural is a financial analyst.


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Apple Dreams (Dices - Natural)
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Apple Dreams (Dices - Natural) are obtained by removing moisture from fresh, ripe apples in continuous air dryers. This product is an apple based natural fruit with a long shelf life and makes a great alternative to real fruits. Applications for this product include: muffins, doughnuts, bread, cereal bars, granola bars, snacks, ice-creams, cookies, fillings and frozen biscuit dough.
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To paraphrase – and update – the opening line of perhaps the most influential album in rock history, it was 45 years ago Friday Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.
It sounds like ancient history. But 45 years after the release of the Beatles' game-changing "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band," the album – and the act we've known for all these years – still matter, albeit in different ways to different folks.
For many Baby Boomers, the anniversary is sure to raise vibrant memories, fond and otherwise, of the Summer of Love – a major point in the cultural upheaval that pit a youth-fueled demand for change against old-school values amid a backdrop of war, drugs and music. For fans too young to recall the album's debut, "Pepper" transcends any one given moment in time. Either way, the Beatle masterpiece's impact stretches far beyond its birth in Abbey Road Studio 2.
The first major concept album paved the way for works from The Who's "Tommy" to Green Day's "American Idiot" to Jay-Z's "American Gangster." The conceit of an established act playing under the guise of characters can be seen in Slim Shady, the alter ego of Eminem, the only artist to outsell the Beatles in the first decade of this century. The fashion daring embodied in the Beatles' image-changing "Pepper" outfits directly inspired Michael Jackson's faux military look and presaged the audaciousness of Gaga's meat dress. The 78-rpm evolution of a band that went from "I Want to Hold Your Hand" to "Within Without You" in barely three years no doubt encouraged the morphing of Madonna, the modern queen of reinvention.
The album's cover, packed with cutouts of figures ranging from Marx to Gandhi to Dylan, helped turn LPs into Pop Art canvases. And the four-plus month recording of "Pepper" by a group that made its first album in a day set a new standard for perfectionism in the churn-'em-out pop world – an ethos that carried beyond music. In Walter Isaacson's great biography of Steve Jobs, who named his company Apple as a tribute of sorts to the Beatle's recording label, the design-obsessed computer visionary likened the development of the iPhone to "evolving the variations on 'Sgt. Pepper.'"
But the key to the album's endurance is a wild mix of music that, unlike the fictional Sgt. Pepper's band, has never gone out of style. The ethereally trippy "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and the circus-organ mélange "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite," ushered in the psychedelic era. "Good Morning Good Morning" is a rocker powered by raw frustration. "She's Leaving Home" offered a lush, bittersweet musical poem about growing up. Growing old got the bouncy, English music hall treatment in "When I'm 64" – which is likely about the current median age of the first wave of fans to buy "Pepper" on June 1, 1967.
The album has sold more than 32 million copies since, in formats ranging from vinyl to digital downloads. The remastered CD version hit No. 2 on Billboard's Top Pop Catalog Albums chart shortly after its 2009 release – bested only by "Abbey Road."
The sales are driven by far more than nostalgia: a 2009 Pew Research Center survey found the Beatles are among the top four favorite musical acts of Americans 16 to 64. Credit music that sounds as fresh the first time as the thousandth.
Sgt. Pepper may have taught the band to play, but the Beatles – with a little help from their friends, producer George Martin and recording engineer Geoff Emerick – taught the rest of us to listen in a new way. Like the massive E-chord at end of "A Day in the Life," the album's epic finale, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" still resounds.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Hard drive maker Seagate has revamped its range of external HDDs, restyling the line as the FreeAgent GoFlex series - drives with a proprietary interface that feeds standard ports through adaptor cables.
The notion is simple. You buy your drive, which comes with a USB 2.0 adaptor, but if you want to, say, take advantage of eSata, USB 3.0 or Firewire 800, you splash out on the appropriate adaptor accessory.
Seagate's GoFlex: one drive, multiple interface adaptors
The upside for Seagate is all financial. It can charge extra for the cables - $20-40; UK prices haven't been made public yet - it saves money by not bundling these accessories, and it can make a single product that feeds all the ports, rather the producing different drives with different connectors.
We're not sure what the benefit for punters is since they'll have to cough up extra for exotic portage whether no matter what. You still need to buy a new drive, so why pick a GoFlex plus USB 3.0 adaptor over a native SuperSpeed product? There's no sign that the Seagate way is significantly cheaper.
GoFlex TV adds HD TV linkage...
Initial GoFlex drives include the Ultra Portable, a 2.5in system with capacities ranging from 320GB to 1TB. Seagate is offering slightly cheaper drive-only packs too. These are joined by the GoFlex Pro line - 2.5in drives with 7200rpm spin speeds and encryption - and the GoFlex Desk family - 3.5in drives.
...while GoFlex Net connects drives to your network
Seagate will also offer the GoFlex TV media player for hooking drives up to tellies, and the GoFlex Net gadget to bring them network connectivity. The Intelligent Dock, meanwhile, provides a cradle for any of the GoFlex drives - it comes bundled with GoFlex Pro products. ®


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By Craig Maupin at www.cfidsreport.com
It isn't difficult to see the problems with the 1994 CDC revised case definition. In fact, a quick look at some of the discrete differences in those who now are diagnosed with "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" is the best way to illustrate the confusing web that has been woven. For emerging illnesses such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), quality medical care and research will start with clear distinctions. But unfortunately for those with CFS, it is those distinctions that the CFS research community often seems to want to blur, downplay, and integrate.
Since the 1994, case definition was intended to broaden CFS, this comes as no surprise. The 1994 case definition is so broad, so nondistinct, that it has changed the face of the CFS community – creating a diverse representation of many differing illnesses. There are many patients whose symptoms appear so different yet all are diagnosed as CFS. This begs the question of both how and why the CFS research community is encouraging combining them in research and treatment.
So far the CFS research community has kept its cards to its vest, rarely taking pains to justify the fast and loose research and diagnostic standards they have formulated to govern themselves. Many CFS researchers claim that the conflicting results are proof that CFS could have many causes and symptoms – that it is not distinct. Phrases like "heterogeneous disorder", "symptom overlap", and "co-morbidity" are the trendy phrases of the day. CFS researchers toss these phrases out frequently, trying to justify a research pattern that blurs distinctions, has led to conflicting results, is uninterpretable, and has achieved little respect.
The truth is, the case definition was far less effective in finding answers to the mysteries of CFS than in providing a medical and political home to those who suffer from various emerging illnesses. And, for those crafting this definition, with their own differing ideologies and political needs, that may have been the point.
By taking a look at some of the different patients who now fit the 1994 CDC revised case definition for CFS, one can see why CFS research is so controversial and divisive. The patients who now call the CFS community home are so different that it begs some important questions. Is mixing these patients effective scientific protocol? And, why are they being diagnosed with the same illness to begin with? Is the CFS research community encouraging illnesses that already had previous definitions to be integrated into CFS research samples? And, if so, why would they do this?
Clear differences – Different patients diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Patient 1 – Post-viral/infective flu-like illness
In 2001, PWC and author Laura Hillenbrand released a successful book on the legendary racehorse Seabiscuit. The book eventually climbed the New York Times bestseller list. While promoting the book, Hillenbrand spoke frequently about what it was like to write the book while severely disabled by CFS. She painted an intense and vivid picture of the CFS hallmark symptom of post-exertion fatigue. Often bedridden, Hillenbrand spoke of having to ration the amount of effort each day that she could apply to writing her book. Activity and exercise are activities that she must pay a price to participate in. Her recovery time for even a simple shower was often as much as three hours.
To date, she has found little that seems effective in treating her symptoms, and has simply succumbed to treating her illness by pacing herself and restructuring her life to live within her limits. She had to sacrifice to write her book, giving up for a time treasured activities. Despite the sacrifice, it gave her a sense of accomplishment. She has decided to learn as best as she can how to adjust to her illness after trying a host of treatments unsuccessfully.
"For the first few years I tried everything, and hoped for a possible cure," Hillenbrand says. "Nothing helped, and a lot of things set me back. Emotionally, you put a big stake in everything you try. And it hurts every time a treatment doesn't work." The picture Hillenbrand painted of CFS in interviews is very similar to what was seen in the 1980's outbreaks at Incline Village and Lyndonville that gave birth to what has become the broader CFS community. She described severe fatigue, postexertional exhaustion, nausea, flu-like symptoms, and neurological problems such as vision difficulties. So, does Hillenbrand have CFS? Yes. She fits the case definition set up by the CDC. Does she have the same illness as everyone else who meets the 1994 case definition? Read on.
Patient 2 – Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Other patients, also disabled, now call the CFS community home and paint a very different picture of CFS. These patients may not have the differing hallmark post-exertional response of CFS, but still are being diagnosed with CFS. Below, is a patient whose symptoms and clinical expression is very different than Hillenbrand, both in hallmark symptoms and in her response to treatments. Her most prevalent symptom is a distinct and disabling form of pain or myalgia. Unlike Hillenbrand, she claims to have received measured benefits from increasing her activity, saying that it has alleviated her pain and general symptoms.
Here she describes her clinical improvement from her CFS/FM following exercise. "Regular exercise benefits everyone, but especially those with chronic pain conditions. Muscles that are well conditioned and well toned can reduce chronic pain". She goes on to say that if you are diagnosed with both CFS and fibromyalgia you "should exercise regularly, and gradually increase your duration and frequency."
Another person diagnosed with CFS and fibromyalgia adds similar sentiments, "I have to exercise, and "My muscles were withering and hurting until I began doing so…it definitely helps me."
These patients' main symptoms are not exercise activity intolerance or flu-like symptoms, but myalgia, or muscle pain. Yet, like Hillenbrand, they are diagnosed as having "chronic fatigue syndrome." Many of these patients prefer names for the illness such the popular term CFS/FM. These patients also fit the CDC case definition for CFS.
Patient 3 – Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Finally, we have a patient who was also diagnosed with CFS, and has been cured by psychological counseling and exercise. This patient describes her main clinical feature as a phobia and avoidance of activity following a traumatic and acute illness. She also views her illness as a psychological response to a stressful event, which eventually led to physical deconditioning.
In an article in British magazine Mail on Sunday, the patient's mother describes her illness as: "She had fainting fits, and woke up every day feeling exhausted." She also described her illness as "feeling giddy" and "terrible all the time," along with headaches, dizziness, and muscle aches. Her physician advised her that, "the best way to recover" was "by doing a little more each day" and, according to the patient, diagnosed her with M.E, or Myalgia Encephalitis.
Eventually, according to this patient, her doctor's advice led to a physical and emotional turnaround that she describes as a cure. She was referred to psychiatrists at King's College. She is resolute that psychiatrists there have found a cure for M.E and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome that consists of treating patients with gradual increases in exercise and psychological counseling for perpetuating and avoidance behaviors. She also generally feels that patients who are not cured through gradual exercise such as Hillenbrand are rejecting a cure that is already available to them and this behavior makes her "sad and angry." She states that charities for CFS and M.E are creating a "conspiracy of ignorance" and are responsible for keeping patients like Hillenbrand "remaining ill unnecessarily." Her view toward PWC's like Hillenbrand is often repeated by psychiatrists researching "fatiguing syndromes" in the U.K.
While this patient had perhaps a wider variety of symptoms, they were less distinct than the two patients above. She also fits preexisting definitions for post traumatic stress disorder. Since the 1994 case definition weights numbers of symptoms over either severity or distinctness, she has comfortably found a home in the 1994 CDC case definition for CFS (perhaps even more so than the severely disabled Hillenbrand).
"Desirable" confusion
All three of these patients are so different that it begs the question of whether it is justifiable to continue treating and researching them as if they had one illness. Despite extreme clinical differences, all of the above patients meet the CDC's revised case definition for CFS. Each patient can be combined or funded in research samples for CFS, with no requirement for researchers to define or reveal these differences in their research. In fact, the case definition encourages research that integrates these patients claiming, "A comprehensive and integrative approach" toward CFS is "desirable." Most CFS researchers champion this view, and they have crafted a set of new rules and theorems to support it.
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Could it be that there are political and financial, rather than pure scientific motives, behind the rationale of including vastly different patients under a broadened nondistinct case definition? It very well could.
Currently, patients in the CFS community are responding differently to different treatments and sometimes describing very different symptoms. Even so, it is difficult to find CFS researchers who will publicly acknowledge this possibility. Instead, a set of porous philosophies has been designed by the CFS research community to put a positive and healthy spin on the conflicting results yielded by broad case definition.
Looking at the state of CFS research – funding different research under a broad definition
If the patient community for CFS looks dissimilar, the research community simply mirrors the differences. Today, researchers receiving government funding for CFS have such diverse ideas, research methods, and models for CFS that it is difficult to interpret CFS published research.
At Temple University, Robert Suhadolnik has found a distinct immune defect in a group of patients that have the hallmark flu-like fatigue and activity intolerance associated with CFS. He named the molecule LMW RNase L. He hasn't found the same defect in patients with fibromyalgia or in healthy controls.
Suhadolnik's research has been confirmed and extended by other talented microbiologists, such as Belgium's Kenny De Meirleir. Researchers in Belgium have observed that patients with the defect exhale less CO2 during exercise, giving clear evidence that these patients' severe activity intolerance has a microbiological rationale. These researchers paint a flu-like illness of severe fatigue, and they have drawn some clear clinical and microbiological distinctions between their research samples and other fatiguing illnesses. These researchers' patients may fit the symptom pattern of Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand.
However, at research centers under the CFSCRC in New Jersey and Seattle, a different picture of CFS is emerging. Dedra Buchwald and Benjamin Natelson head both centers. Both researchers have found the immune defects in their research samples to be less significant and very limited, certainly far short of pathological relevance, such as the defects observed by Suhadolnik. others have forwarded models for CFS that are brain central and very similar to fibromyalgia. Unlike De Meirleir and Suhadolnik, Buchwald and Natelson assert that many of their study participants have been improved by graded exercise.
Unlike De Meirleir, Buchwald and Natelson's Centers have not found any impaired exercise capacity on exercise ergometry tests in their research samples. These two researchers have been vocal supporters of a broader definition and an "integrative" approach to researching CFS.
But perhaps more representative of researchers such as Buchwald and Natelson is a strong desire to integrate fibromyalgia or myalgia predominant samples into the CFS research structure. Natelson was instrumental in integrating fibromyalgia into the AACFS (American Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) during his tenure as its president. Buchwald has stated that she has observed few if no clinical differences in the fatigue for FMS and her samples for CFS. Also, her researchers from her Seattle research center have stated that in 2003, they will release results of their research that claim CFS is a disease of pain/sensory amplification. This is a remarkably similar model for Fibromyalgia Syndrome, a prevalently disabling fatiguing illness with millions of sufferers.
Buchwald's descriptions of CFS suggest that their research samples look like the more prevalent fibromyalgia. Her center tends to downplay flu-like symptoms and exercise intolerance, and seems to prefer that myalgia and brain-centered symptoms be emphasized. Her research samples often look more like patient number 2 above.
Finally, bringing up the rear are a class of psychiatrists who use a completely psychiatric model to explain CFS. These psychiatrists are often referred to as the Wessely School, due to their often politically-heated defense of the controversial "integrative" research methods utilized by UK psychiatrist Simon Wessely. The Wessely School's research samples typically look like patient 3 above. There are questions as to whether Wessely is simply using the CFS funding structure to fund PTSD research, which was already defined before CFS. According to Wessely, most of his patients can be effectively cured through exercise and counseling dispensed to correct what are 'avoidance behaviors and attitudes.'
Wessely and his followers feel that clean distinctions and subgroups for emerging illnesses are actually counterproductive to effective scientific methodology. In a paper published in 1998, Wessely urged researchers to avoid classifying patients according to symptoms, claiming he and his associates in the U.K have discovered novel proof that classifying clinically differing patients is "outdated" and "misguided." He strongly feels that treating and researching patients individually by clinical differences can lead to a "risk of over investigation" and increase the "potential for iatrogenic harm."
Researchers who are strong proponents of FM integration into CFS research, such as Buchwald, Natelson, and Mohammed Yunus, have often cheered this "integrative" view toward research methods as incredibly innovative and even a step forward in scientific research methods. Wessely's view that standards and distinctions can be counterproductive to research is very popular among CFS researchers, even his conclusions toward CFS remain more controversial and less accepted.
Funding, special interests, and sloppy methods…A connection?
Aside from the differences in both the patients and researchers now covered under the 1994 CDC CFS case definition, one thing is for certain. It is obvious that the CFS research community has laid a confusing and shaky foundation for CFS research. The revised case definition for CFS has opened a Pandora's Box of conflicting results, created confusion about what defines CFS, and has contributed to a loss of respect. But when one looks at the differences in patients and research standards being applied under the 1994 CDC revised case definition, should this come as a surprise? I recall one CFS activist saying that the CDC's approach to CFS research is "garbage in, garbage out." And, often what the CFS research community is failing to see, is the loss of credibility to CFS research.
Without a previous knowledge of the research methods, philosophies, and viewpoints of given CFS researchers, there is no way to meaningfully interpret CFS research. Sadly, the CFS research community tends to be insulated. So not surprisingly, justifications for the conflicting results are often repeated with little challenge or debate.
Many researchers in the CFS community stringently support keeping the definition for CFS broad, loosely defined, and with very few standards, all the while whispering about the need for "reform." Often, a few words are whispered in support of reform, while quite a few rationalizations are trumpeted in favor of the current system. Could it be that they are aware that their bread is buttered by continuation of the broader definition? In other words, they need the broader definition to obtain funding for a broad array of personal interests and projects.
The broad definition keeps no one perfectly happy, but it keeps funds rolling in for a wide variety of interests and needs, leading to a comfortable satiation. One researcher interested in reforming CFS research standards wisely sums up the prevailing philosophy in the CFS research community, "This situation has resulted in conflicting clinical and laboratory observations that in all likelihood is due to different populations of patients being studied in different centers." This researcher has it correct!
Summing it up
At a recent CDC meeting to determine new approaches to CFS research, participants gave presentations on Gulf War Illness, fibromyalgia, and predefined psychiatric disorders, all under the "fatigue syndrome" rubric.
Some presenters at the conference seemed to strive to illustrate that their research was the true "CFS", using the broad 1994 case definition as their instrument of measurement. Others strived to proselytize the attendees with a newly formulated religion of "one illness", "one cause", many conflicting "results." Is this "science" actually based on trendy funding needs and building political consensus rather than reliable and time-tested methods? If not, what is it based on? Many say it is based on funding. Others say a lot of what is being funded is not quality research, and the support for the low standards are simply needed to allow low quality research to continue.
One thing is for sure, the broad "integrative" approach to CFS research carved out by the CDC has not been effective. And, despite a set of oft-repeated rationalizations, it is not based on effective scientific methods or ideas. Contrary to the claims of the revised CDC case definition, the integration of differing fatiguing illnesses into CFS research is not "clarifying" the disease. Years after the broadened definition, CFS research results have become as conflicting as the definition itself. Should this turn of events really surprise anyone? Not really! It should have been predictable!
Yet, not only does the CFS research community still bravely utilize low standards, they have created a whole new set of rationalizations to prop them up. To rebuild a reliable foundation for CFS research, the greater scientific community will have to reexamine the philosophies and ideologies that are used to do the "propping." It is these philosophies that are at the root of the shaky ideological foundation of CFS research. The rationalizations of the low standards are just as much a hindrance to true reform as the low standards themselves. They are now often habitually repeated by many patients, researchers, and even activists in the CFS community with little or no examination.
In order for CFS research to find itself on more reliable ground, this flimsy philosophy, not just the conflicting results it has produced, will have to be challenged and rethought.
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Quote from: kdzito on January 05, 2018, 03:28 PMI must of scrolled through the list too fast as I didn't see the Kapex?!? Maybe no price increase....You are correct...the only tool without a price increase.
I want the Kapex but by the time I'm able to afford it, it will be closing in on 2k. Can somebody help a newbie to FESTOOL understand the price increases as it relates to these points? Does it increase by 3% every year or by the same amount as inflation? If inflation is low, do they increase less? Most people I know arent getting raises which keep up with inflation ... it seems at this pace the customer base for the brand will begin shrinking??
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"It's like 1997 all over again," proclaims Brooklyn Cuzo as he records himself driving from the wrong side of the car.
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If you've ever caught a documentary on PBS, you're probably already familiar with the work of Ken Burns. For more than 30 years, the filmmaker has tackled topics ranging from the Civil War to baseball to jazz, earning multiple Emmy and Oscar nominations along the way. His most recent film, Prohibition, takes on the temperance movement, and with stunning archival footage and the voices of actors like Tom Hanks, Samuel L. Jackson and Patricia Clarkson, Burns breathes new life into the era. Here he chats with us about what he was most surprised to learn about the time period, whether or not he thinks he would have been tempted to tipple, and what he sees as Prohibition's most lasting impact on society today. Be sure to tune into PBS October 2-4 to catch the three-part series.
Imbibe: You've made films about everything from wars to the national parks—what inspired you to tackle the topic of Prohibition?
Ken Burns: I'm always looking for a good story, and I think this is one hell of a good story. It's sexy. Violent. Dangerous. Dramatic. It's deeply revealing of us, and it seems to be as contemporary as today's news. It's about single-issue politics, unintended consequences, the demonization of immigrants, smear tactics in presidential elections, unfunded congressional mandates, the role of governments in our lives, warrantless wiretaps and the decline of a civil discourse. And it's about a whole group of people who feel like they've lost control of their country and want to take it back by any means possible.
Imbibe: What are you most hoping viewers will take away from the documentary?
Ken Burns: I'm not one to point signs and say "Doesn't this mean this?" and "Shouldn't we be doing that?" I want viewers to say, "Wow, I didn't know that!" I never make films about something I already know about; I make films about things I want to know about. And even though I've passed through the '20s on many other documentaries that I've worked on before and others that I'm working on now, this angle was so amazingly revealing.
Imbibe: What were you most surprised to learn about the era?
Ken Burns: We look at textbooks and see one paragraph and think Prohibition is this isolated thing, but it was the century of action prior that really reveals our political circumstance leading up to it. The power of the anti-saloon league is something I'd never heard of. I'd never heard of Wayne B. Wheeler—they make the NRA look like amateurs compared to the effectiveness of their campaign. It's really an amazing story. Amazing characters like Mabel Walker Willebrandt charged with prosecuting prohibition cases when it seemed like everyone around her was on the take. Pauline Sabin, the rich heiress who found it finally in the end so hypocritical that she had to launch a popular movement every bit almost as effective as the anti-saloon league but this time for repeal. It's a story. To add dimension to Frances Willard who was one of the great reformers of the 19th century. To see the unusual coalition that came together. It was the Ku Klux Klan as well as the NAACP. It was progressives as well as conservatives. It was industrialists as well as their workers—all hoping that prohibition would cure society's ills. And, in fact, it didn't do that—it created more ills, like organized crime. We've got Al Capone and the gangsters, but what's really important is to know that millions and millions of ordinary Americans are breaking the law, too. We get distracted by the ferocity of the gangster culture, but it's the magazine writer and the filmmaker and the judge and the doctor and the banker and the guy on the corner and the working man who are making booze and selling it to their neighbors and breaking the law. What is it about this law—we don't go out and murder each other—what was it about this law that gave people permission to break it in such fashion?
Imbibe: If you'd been an adult during Prohibition do you think you would have been tempted to drink alcohol?
Ken Burns: Oh, most definitely. Of course. And I might have just done it even if I didn't drink. Just to say, "Who are you to tell me how to live my life?"
Imbibe: So what would you say was Prohibition's most significant and/or lasting cultural impact on America?
Ken Burns: Definitely organized crime. We wouldn't have organized crime in this country had we not experimented with what was called the "Noble Experiment," aka Prohibition. There's nothing noble about that unintended consequence. Female alcoholism, which was a relatively negligible social phenomenon, also became huge. Woman never drank in the saloons and then they drank freely in the speakeasies. Suddenly women entered the drinking culture in a way that only men and prostitutes had before. There was some female alcoholism in the "mother's little helpers" in the 19th century—vegetable compounds with significant alcohol content that women would take. Women only in the highest upper class might have a glass of wine for dinner, but it was not a social problem, but that's what we got. I think what we got positively was a democracy that worked. It worked in this way: that many, many people for real and legitimate and sincere reasons felt that alcohol was an evil and got rid of it. When Americans woke up and saw that [Prohibition] wasn't working and had only made matters worse, they got rid of it even faster. And more importantly, this is a cautionary tale. That every time you think there is some magic-bullet amendment that's going to fix everything—and you see that in the current political cycle ("Oh, if only you'd passed the blanket-y-blank amendment")—everything would be all right. And what we know from Prohibition and why we're healthfully suspicious of the stuff is that it doesn't work.
Imbibe: Did you discover any striking parallels between the social and political climate of the Prohibition era and that of today?
Ken Burns: I think the whole group of people feeling like they'd lost control of their country. The small-town Americans wanting to take it back. This was always going to be prohibition for someone else. Our opening quote from Mark Twain is so instructive—"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits." That speaks to something today as we see groups of people who think they've got to go back to a simpler time in America, which never existed. You see it in the lack of civil discourse, something we complain about today—that broke down completely then. People talked at each other and over each other and not with each other. The righteousness of it all—the self-righteousness of it all. The fact that people were absolutely certain they were right. They wouldn't compromise. That kind of absolute certainty we see in our politics all the time.
Imbibe: You pulled in some big-name talent to give voice to the era—Tom Hanks, Paul Giamatti, Patricia Clarkson, Samuel L. Jackson, etc. Was there a method behind the types of people you chose to give voice to the film?
Ken Burns: You say big names; I say good names. I'm not interested in celebrities; I'm interested in people who are really good at what they do. And all the people there are awesome. This is a terrific cast, but they're not there so they can light up the marquee; they're there because they're so good at what they do that you stop wondering, "Who is that?" and you just listen to what they have to say.
Imbibe: The archival footage and photos used throughout the documentary are amazing—did any of this come from unexpected sources?
Ken Burns: Oh, yeah! This is at the heart of what we do—it's detective work. It's following leads, putting ads in the paper, identifying people, finding a private collection, finding somebody that's got this, realizing that there's an anti-saloon collection in Westerville, Ohio, in the public library, and to get some of their pamphlets and posters and literature. It's wonderful—I love this part of the job.
Imbibe: In each of your films you bring life to the different characters—is there one person in particular from Prohibitionyou found yourself particularly intrigued by?
Ken Burns: I don't know. I like a lot of people good and bad. The people who seem villainous like Wayne B. Wheeler I find really, impressively organized. Mabel Walker Willebrandt is so complicated. I love Pauline Sabin—she's great. But I think its really ordinary people being unordinary. Breaking the law, perhaps, but also being entrepreneurial, inventive, improvisatory, trying to figure out how to live with this thing. The humor of this era is so interesting. So ironic and modern in its way. If you read Lois Long, who is just a little girl in a way, writing for the New Yorker about the speakeasy life it's riotously funny. Riotously funny.
Imbibe: Are you much of a drinker yourself?
Ken Burns: I go through periods. I work really hard six days a week, sometimes 18 hours a day, and that can get in the way. But my vice the last few years has been prosecco—at the end of the day I like a nice glass of prosecco.


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Five Wabash men and one future Little Giant worked together successfully to stain a Playhouse and paint some playground equipment at The Villages in Indianapolis.
The Villages provides services such as, Foster Care, Adoption, quality Child Care and Early Childhood Development Services at this Indianapolis location. The state-of-the-art Center also provides Child Care Services to children six weeks old to kindergarten age.
This is the sixth year that we have completed various projects at The Villages including painting interior walls, spreading mulch throughout the playground area and painting the playground equipment. Denise Ferrell, onsite Director at The Villages stated that our work over the last six years has saved The Villages thousands of dollars and that these savings will help those that are less fortunate to continue to utilize the child care services that The Villages are able to offer.
Pictured left to right: Ty Benefiel '08, Grant Benefiel '16, Jon Pactor '71, Joe Pfennig '82, Kevin Benefiel '81 and Wayne Bewley '85 and the hardest working Little Giant…Keynes (with his tongue hanging out)


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Whether you are uprooting a tree or adding a gazebo, there's plenty to learn before beginning your project. Not knowing what you'll face will ensure ruin, so read this article in full, in order to help you take over your landscaping project and do it right.
If you want to transform your yard, try re-edging your flower and rock beds using a soft, curved design. Curbed beds look more contemporary than their sharp edged counterparts. It doesn't cost much to cut fresh edges, but it can make your lawn and your flower bed look a whole lot nicer.
Use local plants when landscaping. Native plants are comfortable in the soil and climate of your region, so they are easier to maintain. This makes them a low-maintenance variety for any yard. If you want information about local plants, visit any home improvement center or nursery for advice.
Before beginning your project, be sure to learn the difference between plants–annuals and perennials, hardiness zones, bulbs and seeds. Keep the seasons in mind as you landscape. Know this information so you can have a great landscaping experience with good results.
If your landscaping plans include an outdoor kitchen, it pays to use granite as your primary material. While marble or some other material would cost you much less money, you can place hot things on granite without it getting damaged, and it does not require a lot of maintenance.
Do you plan on selling your home soon? Landscaping is a wise investment that offers as much as a 200 percent return. Create a design for your front yard that is visually appealing from the road. Also consider making the backyard into a friendly and relaxing outdoor sanctuary.
Landscaping is much like home renovation–knowledge is the major factor. Read everything you can find, and keep this new knowledge in mind as you design your project.
Easy Landscaping Tips For The Novice Landscaper


text: Beautiful to look at and easy to read, BESTFEEDING reaffirms the joy and ease of breastfeeding when a mother has access to both information and ongoing support. A positive and helpful book. -Marian Tompson, cofounder, La Leche League International"Among the myriad 'how-to'¬? books on breastfeeding, BESTFEEDING delivers an immensely practical guide to successful nursing. This valuable reference will enable mothers to avoid problems and enjoy their experience."-Jane Morton, M.D., Stanford University Medical Center"BESTFEEDING is a virtual treasury of the collective wisdom on breastfeeding, and it is now my first choice for parents." -Marshall Klaus, M.D., author of The Doula Book


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - August 16, 2013 - Justin's has initiated a voluntary recall of certain lots of its Maple Almond Butter 16oz jars and its Chocolate Hazelnut Butter 16oz jars due to the presence of foreign metallic fragments in unpackaged nut butter. While no metal has been found in any individual jars, out of an abundance of caution, Justin's initiated this voluntary recall. There have been no consumer complaints, illnesses or injuries reported to date.
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The products were distributed nationally to numerous retailers and were available for purchase on the internet from 07/18/13 to 08/14/13.
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Highsnobiety Photo Editorial: Maison Martin Margiela with H&M Collection Lookbook
Today we conclude our coverage of the much anticipated Maison Martin Margiela with H&M Collection. By now you have seen the collection, as well as a more detailed look of the footwear and the accessories of the much anticipated Maison Martin Margiela with H&M Collection.
Yesterday we showed you our in-house produced accessories lookbook. Here is now the final chapter, where we showcase in yet another Highsnobiety production the various menswear and womenswear looks from the collaboration. Once again we tried to stay as close as possible to the Maison Margiela aesthetic and vibe.
Go full screen and enjoy the spread in the above gallery.
Photography: Bjorn Jonas
Styling: Christof Post
Setdesign: Heidrun Troendle
Womens Hair/Makeup: Jochen c/o stiegemeyer, using Chanel products Autum/Winter 2012
Mens Grooming: Hauke Krause c/o stiegemeyer using Aveda
Photographers Assistant: Kim Bode
Models: Anna-Maria Nemetz @ Megamodels & Adam Merks @ Nest
Location: Studio Chérie
Postproduction: Alterschwede
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Can mobile apps make your kids smarter?
A consumer advocacy group says parents are getting duped into thinking mobile apps can make their babies and toddlers smarter.
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood in Boston says mobile apps by Fisher-Price Inc. of East Aurora, N.Y., and Open Solutions in Bratislava, Slovakia, are violating truth-in-advertising laws when claiming their apps can teach babies the letters of the alphabet or logic skills.
Both companies, contacted by phone and email, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The group's director, Susan Linn, says there is no evidence that mobile apps are beneficial to children, while some research shows that screen time can be harmful to young children.
In 2006, the campaign filed a similar complaint against "Baby Einstein" videos, which prompted Walt Disney Co. to alter its marketing practices and eventually offer consumer refunds.


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Two goals by forward Jose Villareal clinched the 2011 Development Academy championship for Pateadores, who won 2-1 against 10-man FC Dallas squad on Friday afternoon in Milwaukee.
The championship featured two of the best U-18 teams in the nation, as FC Dallas, one of the top MLS clubs in producing young talent, faced Pateadores, an Orange County, Calif., club that only qualified thanks to two late goals on Wednesday.
After a nervy start, Pateadores struck first in the ninth minute. A foul by FCD defender Jack Coleman gave the California club a dangerous free kick chance. Villareal, the club's leading scorer, delivered by curling a beautiful free kick with his left foot around the Dallas wall and past goalie Eduardo Cortes.
On the heels of the goal, Dallas improved, slowly getting back into the mix, dominating possession and getting forward in search of an equalizer. However, it almost proved costly in the 26th minute when Villareal tried to flick in a second goal, his shot bouncing just wide.
On the other side of the break, FC Dallas picked up where they left off in search of that elusive tying goal. The effort hit a hitch in the 58th minute as Daniel Garcia picked up his second yellow card and Dallas were reduced to 10 men for the rest of the match.
That didn't stop them from getting the equalizer five minutes later. Victor Ulloa scrapped to maintain possession in the Pateadores box, then found substitute Michael Ambrose at the top of the 18, who crossed to a wide open Bryan Leyva who calmly slotted past Jose Cervantes.
A defensive mistake by Pateadores almost proved costly later on. A defender stumbled over a bouncing ball, allowing substitute Victor Pinal in on goal alone, but Cervantes got enough on the Pinal's shot to preserve the deadlock.
Moments later, Villareal came through again in the 81st minute. With his back to the Dallas goal, the diminutive forward leapt to trap a high ball with his chest, settled, turned and fired past Cortes with his left foot.
It was a fitting end for a special player, who is reportedly a late addition to the US U-18 roster heading to Ireland for the Milk Cup next week.
LA Galaxy to face Union affiliate PA Classics in U-16 final
The LA Galaxy will face Philadelphia Union youth affiliate PA Classics in the U-16 final on Saturday after both topped their respective group.
The Galaxy triumphed in an all-MLS encounter against the Seattle Sounders to clinch a spot, with the winner of the match topping the group and advancing to the championship game. After a scoreless first half, the Galaxy scored three times in a 10-minute span after the break to clinch the spot.
The Galaxy's latest Home Grown signing and US U-17 international Jack McBean led the U-16s, who have been dominant in the group stage.
They'll face PA Classics to close out Finals Week as the Union affiliate, led by a Connor Maloney brace, knocked off the North Carolina Fusion 3-0 to win Group 2 .
Other MLS Academies at Finals Week
Seattle's heavy loss on Thursday meant a third-place finish in Group 1, and they'll take on the North Carolina Fusion on Saturday to wrap up their Finals Week experience.
The New York Red Bulls U-18s couldn't overcome an opening-day loss to the eventual champion Pateadores, and they will aim for a fifth-place finish when they take on Baltimore Bays Chelsea on Friday afternoon.
They got the result they need on Thursday, but Real Salt Lake's U-16s didn't get the help required to advance to the Finals. Needing a draw between PA Classics and North Carolina Fusion, the Pennsylvania club's 3-0 win over the Fusion consigned RSL-AZ to a second-place finish in Group 2 and the third-place game.
Travis Clark covers D.C. United, College and Youth soccer for MLSsoccer.com. Follow him on Twitter: @travismclark.


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Here's what's up in the world of TV for Wednesday, June 25. All times are Eastern.
Inside Men (BBC America, 10 p.m.): It only took a short pitch from Meredith Blake—"The lead guy in it is sort of a Walter White type—a mild-mannered everyman who gradually becomes this ruthless maniac"—to elevate Inside Men from a set of nondescript screeners sitting on our desk to a regular part of the TV Club rotation. And though we're not at liberty to say exactly why, we think you ought to tune in tonight for the latest installment of the British heist drama—once you've caught up with last week's episode (or gotten the lowdown from Meredith's first review of the series), of course.
So You Think You Can Dance (Fox, 8 p.m.): It's down to the Top 20 dancers, including… that guy, as well as that one female dancer who did the impressive thing in an earlier episode. Honestly, 20 contestants is too many to keep track of at this point—maybe Oliver Sava can pass us his SYTYCD crib notes.
Dallas (TNT, 9 p.m.): The revived primetime soap is slowly turning into a wish-fulfillment fantasy for Baby Boomers who want to get one over on their pesky offspring—you know, because doing so in every real-world corridor of power simply isn't enough. Steve Hyden is glad to sell out his Generation X comrades, so long as it's in the service of a victory for J.R. Ewing.
Futurama (Comedy Central, 10 p.m.): Hot tip: 1,000 years in the future, running for office will still be an absolute nightmare, and even the most qualified candidate can be undone by something as dumb as a birth certificate. Until Zack Handlen releases his certificate of live birth, Donald Trump refuses to read any Futurama reviews on The A.V. Club.
Arrested Development (11 a.m.): "…and, starting at catcher for your Bluth Company softball team, Ann 'The Wall' Veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeal!" She has a really low center of gravity—just try to knock her down. Noel Murray thinks he can. He won't, but he can.
The Sopranos (1 p.m.): Writing from an undisclosed location—wondering all the while why Vito didn't stick to a similar "undisclosed location" strategy—in the Great Plains, Todd VanDerWerff weighs in on the penultimate episode of season 6 (part 1), "Cold Stones."
Sports Night (3 p.m.): While Twitter debates rage over whether or not The Newsroom is, in fact, "the worst"—because if there's something that'll keep Aaron Sorkin from writing about modern media, it's highly nuanced discourse like that—Donna Bowman visits with the surrogate family of friends and co-workers forming over on Sorkin's Sports Night. Unlike your real family, friends, and co-workers, you'll want to visit with the Sports Night crew, because they haven't been yammering nonstop about The Newsroom for the last 48 hours.
Final Witness (ABC, 10 p.m.): Today in TV Club Trial By Fire: Farihah Zaman receives her first A.V. Club byline on a review of ABC's new true-crime show, which begins its run with a re-enactment of a triple homicide in East Texas. Wish her luck!
The Real World (MTV, 10 p.m.): With its various debaucheries no longer tolerated in the continental United States, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Alaska, or the European Union, The Real World shelters itself on the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Thomas. The race to make the first "not-so-Virgin Island" pun in the comments begins… NOW!
School Spirits (Syfy, 10 p.m.): Actually, it's a word-play-happy night in cable, what with this "haunted schoolhouse" program recounting paranormal experiences on the co-dead campus of the State University of Boo York, told from the perspective of a g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-graduate…
Twintervention (TLC, 10 p.m.): …as well as this twintriguing twinvestigation twinto twins whose lives may be irreversibly twintertwined.
Hot Boyz (BET, 8 p.m.): The TV Guide capsule about this 1999 crime drama begins "Yet another 'hood story"—which is a totally dismissive manner of describing the fourth feature-length directorial effort by from Percy "Master P" Miller (and his second collaboration with Gary Busey!). Have you no shame, TV Guide? HAVE YOU NO SHAME?
Delicious (TCM, 8 p.m.): 's wonderful that George and Ira Gershwin were brought to Hollywood to provide music for this early experiment in color filmmaking. 's marvelous that the score would eventually produce George's "Second Rhapsody." 's awful nice that the George Eastman House eventually preserved the film so that we can watch it today.
MLB Baseball: Tigers at Rangers (ESPN, 8 p.m.): A rematch of the 2011 ALCS, which sent the Rangers' to their second straight World Series defeat—and dashed the hopes of a Tigers squad looking to avenge its loss in the 2006 Fall Classic. Good news for both teams: The winner of this series doesn't move on to be trampled by the Cardinals.
Frontline: Get out your jokes about British dental hygiene while you can, warns Meredith Blake. From the looks of the latest Frontline report, fewer and fewer Americans can afford a trip to the dentist these days.


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