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In 1999, The Regina Hammel '41 Outstanding Recent Graduate Award was created by Gary and Laura Hammel Dicovitsky in honor of Mrs. Dicovitsky's mother.
The award honors a recent graduate, not more than 10 years ago, who has exhibited professional achievement and/or contributions to community life and who had demonstrated loyalty to the University.
2015 Award Winner - Nicole Kotulak '09 Ph.D.
Since November 2014, Nicole has been working at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., as a National Research Council postdoctoral associate. Her research is in photovoltaics (PV): devices that convert light directly into electricity. Nicole has also served as an external mentor for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Excellence program, helping students explore career options in science, technology, engineering, and math
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She received her graduate degrees in 2014 (Ph.D.) and 2011 (M.S.) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware (UD). As an NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) fellow at UD, she co-chaired a student-run energy and sustainability conference that showcased research, and featured a classical concert with internationally-renowned artists. In 2010, she became a George W. Laird Merit Fellow—an award given to one first-year graduate student of the College of Engineering. Nicole concluded her graduate career with a fellowship from the NSF Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technology (QESST) program, and traveled to conferences across the United States. She also was visiting scholar at Arizona State University, working with leading researchers in the PV field.
Nicole graduated from Notre Dame in 2009 with a B.A. in Physics as a member of the Elizabeth Morrissy Honors Program and as a Marion I. and Henry J. Knott Scholar. She gained experience both inside and outside of the classroom as a teaching apprentice for Physics I, as a research assistant to Dr. Joseph DiRienzi, and as an intern at the marine and coastal engineering firm, Moffatt & Nichol. All of these experiences helped lead her into research on technologies that can help us to maintain both quality of life and environmental stewardship in an increasingly energy-dependent world.
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General McLane graduate Colin Feikles, a junior at La Roche, recently had the kind of week that few college baseball players experience.
Feikles, a second baseman, was named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association NCAA Division III player of the week after hitting .750 while leading the Redhawks to four AMCC wins. He also was named AMCC player of the week.
Feikles finished the week 12-for-16 at the plate while hitting two home runs and five doubles, with 10 runs scored and 14 RBIs.
Feikles' career as a high school and college standout has been especially impressive considering he is deaf.
In one doubleheader against Penn State Altoona on April 9, he finished 7-for-9 with 10 RBIs, driving in five runs in each game while leading La Roche to 23-12 and 24-4 wins. In a sweep of Hilbert on April 13, Feikles went 5-for-7 with four RBIs as the Cardinals claimed 19-2 and 15-0 wins. He finished the week with a lofty 1.438 slugging percentage.
He stayed hot last week by going 3-for-5 with two runs and two RBIs Wednesday in a 15-0 non-conference win over Denison.
Feikles had helped La Roche to a 19-11 record (9-1 AMCC), including seven straight wins going into Saturday's AMCC doubleheader at Pitt-Bradford. In 20 games this season, he was hitting .467 with three home runs, nine doubles, 24 RBIs and 23 runs scored.
- McDowell graduates John Dahlstrand and De'Vion Tate helped Akron claim the men's title at the 16-team All Ohio Track and Field Championships at the University of Cincinnati April 11-12.
Dahlstrand, a junior, placed second in the decathlon with 6,505 points. He won the high jump (6 feet 6 3/4 inches), shot put (41-6), discus (131-8) and javelin (169-9).
Tate, a sophomore, finished third in the long jump (23-3 1/2) and fifth in the triple jump (45-11/2).
Akron finished with 205 points to easily top runner-up Cincinnati (138).
The Zips are the defending Mid-American Conference champions.
- Penn State football coach James Franklin will appear at Penn State Behrend on May 22 in the final stop of the 17-event Coaches Caravan, which is sponsored by the Penn State Alumni Association and the Nittany Lion Club.
Franklin will be joined on the visit by assistant coach Herb Hand, softball coach Amanda Lehotak and men's volleyball coach Mark Pavlik.
Tickets for the 6 p.m. reception are on sale for $40 for members of the Penn State Alumni Association and the Nittany Lion Club. Tickets for non-members are $55 and $15 for those younger than 18. The caravan begins May 1 in State College. To register, call (800) 548-5466 or visit http://alumni.psu.edu/events/coachescaravan.
- Edinboro's sixth annual Student-Athlete Auction for Make-A-Wish is set for Thursday at 8:30 p.m. at the Frank G. Pogue Center in the multipurpose room.
The event, sponsored by the Edinboro University Student Athlete Advisory Committee, features Edinboro student-athletes being auctioned off to the highest bidder. All are welcome to attend and make bids. The evening also features free food and refreshments in addition to prizes awarded courtesy of area businesses. One of the highlights in past auctions has been a comical video presentation from the cross country program.
The event also features a presentation from a Make-A-Wish recipient and an Edinboro celebrity auction, which includes athletic director Bruce Baumgartner and assistant volleyball coach Jimmy Chan.
Last year's auction raised more than $4,200. Edinboro student-athletes have been raising funds for Make-A-Wish throughout the year as part of a PSAC initiative.
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Donations also can be made online at Ssl.wish.org/NCAADII. Choose "Pennsylvania" as your state and "Edinboro University" as your school.
- Former Buffalo Bill defensive back Mark Kelso will speak about sports-related concussions in a talk titled "Confronting the Concussion Crisis" at Edinboro on April 29.
Kelso played on the Bills' four Super Bowl teams. He is a leading advocate for better helmet protection for youth sports and is working toward that objective with the Hanson Group, an Atlanta-based materials research company. Kelso began wearing a special "pro cap" addition to his helmet in 1989 after suffering his fourth concussion in two seasons. He credits that move with extending his playing career for another five seasons.
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I play tournaments in real life and I'd like to use Computer Analysis to check out my blunders and mistakes. For some reason, I can't seem to do this. Is it possible. PLEASE HELP!
I dont th ink it is.
But, even if it was, it's still better to get a desktop application, like scid, and a few strong engines and build a DB of your games on your PC.
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No, but you could post your games in the forum and I'm sure someone would be happy to critique it. Lots of free engines and so on available for download if you want to do it at home.
Simple answer - no it's not. The suggestion to post your games in the Game Analysis forum is a good one (click on Forums then Game Analysis) - you'll get lots of help (mostly) if you do that.
rooperi, the OP can't change their username more than once - that's a fixed rule for all members!
The quality of the computer analysis on chess.com is not that great. Better follow rooperi's suggestion.
Well, I suppose when you're 13 a year seems like forever. Now it's over in the blink of an eye.....
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Helicopters and grass don't mix
Or to put it more accurately, helicopter tails and grass don't mix.
To wit: A few days ago, I had the Skyartec Wasp X3V I'd reviewed with me and I thought it would be fun to do a little bit of flying at the park.
All was A-OK until I went to bring it in. I ran it a bit too long and the battery was dumping, so I eased it into some thick grass not far from me.
Bad move. The brief contact between the tail rotor and the grass was enough to strip the tail rotor shaft. One quick phone call to Max Ettinger at Park RC Models netted me a new shaft. That marvelous little machine is now as good as new.
Max is a straight-up kind of guy; he simply couldn't resist a gentle chiding.
Today, I took the HK 450TT Pro for a spin at - you guessed it - a park. I've flown from that soccer field countless times without an issue, but today was a bit on the windy side. Instead of my usual gentle spot landing, I bounced it on the skids, catching the tail rotor in the grass.
Not a good thing with a torque tube tail. The resulting crunch was a sure sign that I'd stripped the umbrella gear, only the second time I'd ever done so.
Off to the hobby shop tomorrow for an Align brand replacement and some fairly involved dissection to set things right.
UPDATE: Taking that tail drive apart was easier than I remembered. It only took me 20 minutes to do this morning. My wallet is ten bucks lighter, but I have the parts and they'll go in tonight after work. A good thing to be sure, but the weather is lousy! I hope to be able to test it tomorrow morning.
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The premise behind the game is simple; you're a genetically altered super cop whose been tasked with cleaning the crime ridden streets of Pacific City. The whole super cop element comes from the various superhuman feats you're able to perform, which happen to neatly divided into five different categories: strength, explosives, driving, agility, and firearms. The more you use a certain skill, the stronger it gets. For example, beat enough bad guys to death, and you'll eventually find yourself being able to pick up and launch cars like footballs. This is what really draws you into this game; your character's accession to this god-like entity and finding all those these different to use them through out the game.
This ties in nicely with the game's incredibly open-ended single player campaign. At no point does the game ever tell you how to play or force the player to handle a situation in a certain way. It's because of this that you'll find yourself falling to the mindset of this bizarre, Looney Toons-style strategist as you ponder the best way to approach a boss. Do I scale the skyscraper next to his headquarters and try and snipe from the top of it, or should I charge through the front gate in the largest vehicle I can find, gunning down any guards that get in my way in the process, or perhaps I'll just make a pile of cars that I can use to climb over the front gate.
Unfortunately, it's this same open-endedness that hurts Crackdown. With no solid structure or pacing, the single player campaign quickly boils down to a long string of manhunt missions, having you go after crime bosses in the same tired, old way as you have to storm their fortress yet again. It would have been nice to the developers draw more from the game's Grand Theft Auto roots and incorporate missions that don't just have you storming through the front door of the enemy's base. This, coupled along with the disappointing length of single player, may leave gamers feeling letdown after they've brought their last criminal to justice.
Co-op mode is what really redeems this game. Basically, you're taking your friend's character and dropping him off in your city or vice-versa. And while yes, you can both tackle the various kingpins of the game together, you'll find yourself, more often then not, just finding new ways to screw around with each other with your powers. Your imagination is pretty the limit on what you can do, and you'll find that seeing who can out top each other in terms of the crazy shit you can do just ends up becoming hours of fun. Now, if only this game's network wouldn't be a crimp in the creative juice with all of its lag-tasticness.
Crackdown is a game that is very solid but also very rough around the edges. It manages to take a very creative and fun device like your character's evolving powers but fails to create a situation that draws out its full potential. Still, despite all the bitching and groaning, Crackdown is a very fun game and I want to see more of it.


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Most people will tell you they're long-term investors. They think they are able to ignore the distractions that make others panic and sell. They think they buck the trends, and have the equanimity to buy when others are selling and sell when others are buying.
But there's ample evidence that many of those investors are deluding themselves. In reality, most investors act like very bad traders. They regularly react to short-term events, making decisions that harm their investment returns. This is a key reason so many investors, individual and institutional, lag behind performance benchmarks like the Standard & Poor's 500 index.
Now, a new type of options contract that expands the roster of short-dated puts and calls may help investors save themselves from the fallout of emotionally driven investment decisions.
These new options—call them shorties—enhance existing options called weeklies, which expire in one week, along with options that expire in standard cycles from one month to three years.
WITH LAST WEEK'S INTRODUCTION of shorties, investors will see a menu of weekly options that expire for each of the following five weeks. This flexibility is a big deal because it allows investors to pair options to specific events—like matching wine to food or fine-tuning the ballistics profile of a rifle cartridge.
Consider Apple AAPL -1.666375850636887% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD112.71 -1.91 -1.666375850636887% /Date(1474664400168-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 52080945 AFTER HOURS USD112.23 -0.47999999999999 -0.42587170614852277% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 400206 P/E Ratio 13.167056074766355 Market Cap 607331391067.71 Dividend Yield 2.0228906042054833% Rev. per Employee 1990500 More quote details and news » (ticker: AAPL). Apple's stock often makes extraordinary moves around the company's product launches. Imagine for a moment that Apple, whose stock is falling like a rock, tells investors it plans to launch a new product like Apple TV in two weeks. Until now, investors could buy only weekly options, which would expire before the Apple event.
Shorties will let investors make pure-play trades—or hedges—around events. Aggressive traders will speculate, but shorties also provide investors with a tool to isolate volatile market events. Hopefully, this will stop some investors from making emotional, event-driven decisions. Instead, investors can trade or hedge an event using shorties, rather than absorbing risks into their total portfolio.
Shorties also have better pricing than options that expire in a month or more. Why? The more time before expiration, the more investors pay for "time premium." This makes shorties resemble inexpensive, high-class lottery tickets that pay off big or lose little.
"In the wake of the financial crisis, investors want and need the flexibility to tailor solutions and outcomes to their portfolios," says Jim Hyde, a New York Stock Exchange senior vice president. "Allowing investors to match the duration of expiration to events is a significant development in the U.S. financial market."
On Thursday, the NYSE listed shorties options on Apple, Bank of America BAC -0.5128205128205128% Bank of America Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD15.52 -0.08 -0.5128205128205128% /Date(1474664419958-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 50626018 AFTER HOURS USD15.53 0.00999999999999979 0.06443298969072164% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 978406 P/E Ratio 13.385079775765416 Market Cap 158378497640.137 Dividend Yield 1.9329896907216495% Rev. per Employee 431596 More quote details and news » (BAC), BP (BP), Citigroup C 0.08490766291657822% Citigroup Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD47.15 0.04 0.08490766291657822% /Date(1474664408016-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 14634136 AFTER HOURS USD47.12 -0.019999999999996 -0.06362672322375397% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 159390 P/E Ratio 10.001484843985322 Market Cap 136988389638.327 Dividend Yield 1.357370095440085% Rev. per Employee 368502 More quote details and news » (C), iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index EEM -1.285414480587618% iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca 37.63 -0.49 -1.285414480587618% /Date(1474678800003-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 53796754 AFTER HOURS 37.63 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2405183 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 1.4136752591017805% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » fund (EEM), SPDR Gold Trust GLD 0.0627106686525045% SPDR Gold Trust U.S.: NYSE Arca 127.65 0.08 0.0627106686525045% /Date(1474678800003-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 7595439 AFTER HOURS 127.68 0.0300000000000011 0.023501762632197415% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 106852 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » (GLD), iShares Russell 2000 Index IWM -0.7080350039777248% iShares Russell 2000 ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca 124.81 -0.89 -0.7080350039777248% /Date(1474678800001-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 23688178 AFTER HOURS 124.69 -0.120000000000005 -0.09614614213604679% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2429793 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 1.103296210239564% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » (IWM), PowerShares QQQ Trust QQQ -0.6381728104794693% PowerShares QQQ Trust Series 1 U.S.: Nasdaq 118.33 -0.76 -0.6381728104794693% /Date(1474664400202-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 21187924 AFTER HOURS 118.25 -0.0799999999999983 -0.06760753824051381% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1025470 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 0.9933913631369897% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » (QQQ), SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY -0.5479325904779445% SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust U.S.: NYSE Arca 215.99 -1.19 -0.5479325904779445% /Date(1474678800003-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 64437653 AFTER HOURS 215.84 -0.150000000000006 -0.06944765961387102% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9193268 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 2.0039224038149914% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » (SPY) and Select Sector Financial SPDR XLF -0.5133470225872689% Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca 19.38 -0.1 -0.5133470225872689% /Date(1474678800001-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 54079382 AFTER HOURS 19.34 -0.0399999999999992 -0.20639834881320948% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4930142 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 1.9170985150154696% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » (XLF). All exchanges will follow.
SHORTIES REFLECT SOME significant changes on Wall Street. Investors are more often using options to trade events—like employment data—that increase overall market volatility.
Ralph Edwards, derivatives strategist for ITG, an independent research broker, recently told clients that trading in 300 at-the-money weekly options equals 5% to 8% of daily trading volume. Each day, some 16 million options contracts trade.
For a financial product that didn't exist until a few years ago, the powerful growth in options that expire in less than a month suggests shorties will stand tall.
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Complex regional pain syndrome is an uncommon neurologic condition that can have devastating effects on athletes. It has been recognized since the U.S. Civil War era in adults, but rarely was mentioned in the pediatric populations until the 1970s. It is at least four times more common in females than males and is seen primarily in the Caucasian population (12).
LD is a 10-yr-old female gymnast. Seven weeks prior to presentation, she "landed short" on vault and sustained an injury to her right knee while attending a gymnastics camp. The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at that time showed a partial tear of the anterior cruciate ligament. She was treated by her orthopedist with a knee immobilizer for 6 wk. She was noted to have significant pain and disability at the end of 6 wk, so she was referred to physical therapy for "quad strengthening." The evaluating therapist noted an inability to bear weight, skin color changes, and marked hyperalgesia and allodynia. Her parents brought her to us for further evaluation.
Her past medical history is significant for migraine headaches that required extensive evaluation and a brief hospitalization 18 months previously for treatment. The migraines currently are not requiring any treatment. She lives with both parents and is very successful in school and gymnastics.
On physical exam, she is a pleasant, smiling 10-yr-old girl who presented on crutches. She was noted to have marked allodynia on the posterior part of the right leg extending from the gluteus muscle to the ankle. There was some intermittent mottling of the skin of the leg below the knee. She was unable to bear weight and had very poor muscle control of the right leg.
A tentative diagnosis of complex regional pain syndrome was made and she was begun on desensitizing physical therapy. Her symptoms worsened, and she was referred for inpatient therapy with an indwelling epidural catheter 4 wk after initial presentation. She did improve, but regressed quickly after discharge. She became wheelchair-bound and showed total neglect of the right leg. Trials of gabapentin and baclofen were of no benefit.
She continued with physical therapy 2-4 h·d−1, 5 d·wk−1 for 8 wk. She underwent cognitive behavioral therapy with a sport psychologist and slowly progressed back to full function. She returned to gymnastics and has returned to competition at her normal level of functioning.
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) was first described in 1872 in U.S. Civil War union veterans who developed burning pain after partial traumatic peripheral nerve injury (15). In 1996, the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) published diagnostic criteria to help standardize the diagnosis. These criteria were further defined by the Budapest consensus conference of 2004 (2). The Budapest conference defined CRPS as a condition characterized by a continuing (spontaneous and/or evoked) regional pain that is seemingly disproportionate in time or degree to the usual course of any known trauma or other lesion. The pain is regional (not in a specific nerve territory or dermatome) and usually has a distal predominance of abnormal sensory, motor, sudomotor, vasomotor, and/or trophic findings. The syndrome shows variable progression over time. It is broken down into CRPS I (without obvious nerve damage) and CRPS II (with obvious nerve damage). The Table shows the clinical diagnostic criteria for CRPS. CRPS also may be subdivided into sympathetically maintained pain (SMP) and sympathetically independent pain (SIP). SMP is defined by pain that responds dramatically to epidural, intrathecal, or lumbar plexus blocks or peripheral nerve blocks (13). SIP implies a more central process and has a poorer prognosis.
In the past, CRPS was divided into three phases: the acute phase, lasting up to 3 months, the subacute or dystrophic phase lasting from 3 months to 12 months, and the chronic phase, which encompasses symptoms lasting longer than 12 months. A recent article has called this classification into question (1), and the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) does not use this distinction in diagnosis. In one article, the average time from onset of symptoms to diagnosis was 14 wk (5). The physician should consider the diagnosis whenever a patient presents with pain out of proportion to physical findings in an extremity, especially after there has been a period of immobilization. The history should focus on the development, time course, and distribution of the pain. Note any swelling, temperature, and motor changes in the involved area. There are no diagnostic tests required for the diagnosis, but often plain radiographs, bone scan, and MRI should be obtained to look for other causes of the symptoms, especially in children. In the subacute phase, bone scan will show increased tracer uptake in the distal joints of the involved extremity (15). Plain radiographs may show disuse osteoporosis in patients with chronic CRPS.
Treatment of CRPS requires a multidisciplinary approach. No single therapy has been shown to be effective for the majority of patients. Most recent trials report use of physical therapy along with one or more other modalities, including cognitive behavioral therapy, pharmacotherapy, and interventional techniques (4,5,12). Very few randomized controlled trials have been performed to evaluate the efficacy of any single or combination of therapies. Treatment should be individualized and may encompass some or all of the interventions mentioned here.
The goal of physical therapy is first to accomplish desensitization, reestablish range of motion, and then return to functional activity. Massage, whirlpool, pool therapy with progressive weight bearing, and fluidotherapy are used to desensitize and restore the ability to bear weight. A review of published studies did show that graded motor imagery has strong evidence of effectiveness in adults (4). In the adolescent athlete, play therapy can be used to improve functional ability while providing distraction from pain. Frequent, aggressive therapy up to 5 d·wk−1 has been advocated by many (8,12). Some protocols recommend pain-relieving medications prior to therapy, while others do not (5,11,13). It is important that during therapy the patient does not let discomfort limit what he or she can accomplish.
While it is now accepted that this is not a psychological problem, the use of cognitive behavioral therapy is a mainstay of the multidisciplinary approach to managing CRPS (2). Therapy focused on guided imagery, coping mechanisms, and biofeedback have all been used. Combining relaxation exercises and cognitive interventions designed to increase perceived control over pain as part of a physical therapy program improved pain relief over standard physical therapy in one study (7). No randomized controlled trials have been performed to evaluate the efficacy of psychological intervention, but a large number of case reports and expert opinion support this intervention (2). Psychosocial factors are thought to play a greater role in children (12).
Multiple medications have been used in the treatment of CRPS with varying success (2). Very few double-blind studies have been described. Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory medications have not shown benefit in the treatment of CRPS but commonly are used to treat mild to moderate pain. Medications with some evidence for efficacy include the tricyclic antidepressants, gabapentin, carbamazepine, opiods, clonidine, nifedipine, calcitonin, bisphosphonates, alpha adrenergic antagonists, the 5% lidocaine patch, and topical capsaicin (5). Oral glucocorticoids given early in the disease process, when inflammation is felt to play a more important role, have shown benefit over placebo (2). One randomized controlled trial of gabapentin in the treatment of CRPS I showed no pain relief over placebo but an improvement in sensory deficits (14). Of note, the largest published series of pediatric patients with CRPS showed a 92% success rate without the use of medications (11).
Interventions that interrupt the sympathetic nervous system historically were used to diagnose and treat CRPS. As our understanding of the disease has progressed, this procedure has been called into question (2). Many patients with CRPS have sympathetically independent pain and will not respond to sympathetic blockade. If the block is performed and is successful, then the patient is believed to have sympathetically mediated pain and is a candidate for a short series of blocks in conjunction with physical therapy (2). Intravenous regional anesthetic blocks also have been used for years, but a recent meta-analysis showed no proven effect for this therapy (10).
Continuous lumbar epidural analgesia is used for pain control during intense physical therapy and has shown some benefit (3). Sympathetic ablation by phenol injection, surgery, or radiofrequency ablation is used to treat sympathetically mediated pain, but there are no high-level evidence studies evaluating the efficacy of these interventions (2).
Finally, spinal cord stimulation and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) have been used to treat CRPS (2). The TENS unit can be used early, but the spinal cord stimulator is reserved for refractory cases. In adults, spinal cord stimulators have shown good results early on, but the pain-relieving effects diminish over time, to show no statistically significant benefit at 5 yr (6). A small case series report showed excellent results from spinal cord stimulators in adolescent girls for 1-8 yr post-procedure (9).
The prognosis for patients with CRPS is quite variable and unpredictable. Case reports and series show excellent results from exercise-based therapy in the pediatric and adolescent patient (11). The recurrence rate in children is quite high, however. One study showed a 36% recurrence in CRPS symptoms during a 12-month follow-up period after initial success (4). It is unknown whether repeat treatment leads to better long-term disease-free intervals.
Complex regional pain syndrome should be included in the differential diagnosis whenever an athlete presents with pain greatly in excess of what would be expected after an injury. It is more common in females and more common in the lower extremity in the pediatric population. The syndrome involves changes in both the peripheral and central nervous system. Imaging and laboratory tests are not needed to make the diagnosis but may be necessary to rule out other pathology. All treatment regimens should include physical therapy to include desensitization, passive and active range of motion, isometric exercises, and proprioceptive training. Medications, cognitive behavioral therapy, and interventional procedures to induce a regional sympathectomy are all used in selected patients. The overall prognosis is good, but recurrence is common.
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In this week leading up to the Labor Day weekend (and the de facto end of the 2012 summer season), the Hollywood movie development news cycle went into one of its slower periods. Where normally there might be 20 to 35 major news stories that are considered for inclusion in the Weekly Ketchup, this week, there were basically just ten, and they all are included below. Making the grade this week are news stories for such stars as Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Douglas, Ryan Gosling, and Prometheus stars Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron.
Box office and critical success continues to elude video game adaptations, as a film form, in a way that hasn't been a problem for comic book adaptations now, by and large, for well over ten years. The man who was central to Marvel's success in those early years, in the time of films such as Spider-Man and X-Men, was Avi Arad. And now, those two jigsaw pieces have come together in the form of Konami's announcement that Avi Arad has come aboard to produce the long-in-development Metal Gear Solid movie. Metal Gear Solid was of course one of the most popular games for the original Sony PlayStation upon its release in 1998, leading to a franchise of Metal Gear games that has collectively sold over 30 million copies worldwide. Central to almost all Metal Gear games is the concept of stealth, as the main character is usually master spy and saboteur Solid Snake (voiced in English by X-Men writer David Hayter, by the way). It's also worth noting that this reinvigorated development of a potential Metal Gear Solid movie comes not that long after the news earlier this summer of Michael Fassbender producing and starring in another stealth-based videogame adaptation, Assassin's Creed.
Michael Fassbender is in talks to costar with Natalie Portman (who is also producing) in an independent cowboy western called Jane Got a Gun. Natalie Portman will be playing "a woman married to an outlaw who returns home bullet-riddled and half dead, betrayed by criminal confederates hot on his heels." Michael Fassbender would play "the ex-lover [Portman's character] seeks out to help her defend her farm from the imminent onslaught of black hats" (presumably with bad guys underneath them). The $20 million independent production has already attracted a director well familiar with indie budgeting in the form of Lynne Ramsay (Morvern Callar, We Need to Talk About Kevin), working from a script by newcomer Brian Duffield which was included in last year's Black List of Unproduced Screenplays.
There's a very elite little club whose members include Ziggy Stardust, Molotov Cocktease (The Venture Bros), and Nadine Hurley (Twin Peaks). Figure out the connection yet? All of them were redheads with eye patches. Until recently, journalist Marie Colvin also fit those descriptions (almost; her hair was more auburn), except unlike them, Colvin was actually a real person. Perhaps dwelling on her personal appearance is a way of tiptoeing around the sadder reality, which is that in February, 2012, Colvin was killed by an IED (improvised explosive device) while covering the civil war in Homs, Syria. Colvin died the way she lived, which included covering dangerous war zones in such places as Chechnya, East Timor, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, and Zimbabwe. And now, we finally get to the movie development part of this story. Charlize Theron and producer Basil Iwanyk (The Town, We Are Marshall) have optioned the film rights to the Vanity Fair article, "Marie Colvin's Private War." That piece by Marie Brenner specifically told the story of how Colvin smuggled herself and (also now deceased) photojournalist Remi Ochlik into Syria to cover the civil war. Charlize Theron's interest as producer may also (and presumably will) include her playing Marie Colvin herself, but Theron isn't technically attached as the possible film's star, yet. One possible obstacle is that Charlize Theron (37) is nearly 20 years younger than Marie Colvin was when she went to Syria (56). Of course, if she does star in this film, it also wouldn't be the first time Theron has changed her appearance for a film (Monster, North Country, etc).
The first thing this writer thought of when he heard the taglines for this story (noir fantasy with a female protagonist) was the 2011 Zack Snyder-directed flop Sucker Punch. That may be why this story's logline is quick to also include "modern day." The bigger part of the headline also involves the director, which is former MMC member Ryan Gosling, making his directorial and screenwriting debuts. The independent film in question is entitled How to Catch a Monster, and it will feature Christina Hendricks (who also costarred with Gosling in Drive) as a single mother who finds "a road leading to an underwater town." Filming is expected to start sometime in the spring of 2013.
For most of his career, Michael Douglas was never one of those actors who particularly specialized in playing real life characters, or historical figures (unless I'm forgetting a film, which I'm sure commenters will point out). However, now that Douglas is approaching his 70s, he appears to be changing that profile, either deliberately or coincidentally. Douglas is currently filming the Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra for HBO and director Steven Soderbergh. That will be followed by the Hangover-with-old-guys comedy Last Vegas, and then likely after that, Michael Douglas will be returning with another very famous celebrity portrayal. Douglas has signed on to star as President Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, a drama about the 1986 peace summit in Iceland between Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (who hasn't been cast yet). Ridley Scott had previously been attached to direct Reykjavik, but he has since dropped out (probably due to Scott's always full slate of film projects). Instead, Mike Newell (Donnie Brasco, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) will be directing Reykjavic from a script by Kevin Hood (Becoming Jane). Filming is scheduled to start in March, 2013 on location in Germany, which will be standing in for Reykjavic and elsewhere in Iceland. To close, I guess this piece shows that one really can write about Mikhail Gorbachev without mentioning that thing on his head. Oh, wait…
It's pretty much an annual ritual that the director of the previous Best Picture Oscar winner will be hotly pursued by Hollywood in the following months. This year, the winner of that distinction is Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), but in his case, he's not necessarily traditional, mostly because he's A) a comedy director and B) you know… French. Paramount Pictures, however, does have a long-brewing comedy project that Hazanavicius is interested in, complete with two comedy stars attached. If and when it actually gets made, Paul Rudd will star in the comedy Will, set in an imaginary world "devoid of free will where every action is written by angelic scribes," with Zach Galifianakis set to play Rudd's angelic writer. The scenario basically sounds a bit like the Ricky Gervais comedy The Invention of Lying because the rest of the logline is that Galifianakis' character "quits" his job, allowing Rudd's character to do whatever he wants (which could also be seen as sort of like Bruce Almighty). As noted before, Will has been around for a while, with both Will Ferrell and the Little Miss Sunshine directors Valerie Ferris and Jonathan Dayton previously attached. As for who actually wrote this hotly sought after comedy script, Will was written by Demetri Martin, formerly of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Important Things with Demetri Martin, and most recently, for an unexpected dramatic supporting role in Contagion. The world will have to wait a little bit longer for Will, however, as Michel Hazanavicius is expected to next direct a remake of the 1958 film The Search.
Animal rights activist Leonardo DiCaprio is teaming up with his longtime friend Tobey Maguire and his Inception costar Tom Hardy to jointly produce an untitled drama about poaching and animal products trafficking in the political ensemble style of Traffic. The project is being set up at Warner Bros, where DiCaprio has a history as both a star and producer, and a writer is currently being sought. Although all three actors are producing, there's no word yet as to whether all (or any) of them will actually costar in the eventual project. This film idea started with Tom Hardy, who was "inspired by friends who are former Special Forces operatives and went on to become anti-poaching fighters in South Africa and other nations." Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire will also be seen acting together in next summer's The Great Gatsby, also being distributed by Warner Bros.
MGM's 2013 remake of the 1980s science fiction/satire classic RoboCop has gone through something of a rollercoaster ride of online fan reactions. There had been much good will rewarded to the remake with the casting of such actors as Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson, Jackie Earle Haley, Michael K. Williams, and Hugh Laurie. Then, however, a scathing script review made its way online, and over night, you could tangibly feel millions of RoboCop fans recoil. This was followed by the news that Hugh Laurie (House MD) had dropped out of negotiations to play the remake's villain. The search for Laurie's replacement didn't last long, however, as we now know that the role has been landed by Michael Keaton, who is himself not unfamiliar to fans of 1980s genre films, in particular. Keaton has seemed to be somewhat missing in action in recent years; although he's technically still been getting work, it has, with the exception of a supporting role in The Other Guys, mostly been voice work (such as Ken in various Toy Story projects). This particular news story is definitely borderline. The film itself may indeed be a "Rotten Idea" and a train wreck, but if director Jose Padilha can make it work, this might also mean a comeback of sorts for Michael Keaton. That is, of course, if MGM allows Padilha to "make it work."
The late 2000s was a period during which it seemed like nearly every week saw another children's book series being picked up for film rights by a Hollywood studio. In 2008, such was the case for Universal Pictures and the Dragonology series, which is written by various authors under the joint pen name of Ernest Drake, writing from the perspective of a Victorian Era world in which dragons actually exist. Now, four years later, Universal Pictures is hoping to revive their Dragonology adaptation by bringing aboard as producers the writing team of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Kurtzman and Orci have frequently worked together as producers in the past (such as TV's Fringe), but they are best known as a screenwriting team responsible for such films as Cowboys & Aliens, the first two Transformers movies, and more positively, the reboot of Star Trek. It is because Star Trek and Mission: Impossible III are the only spots of red in a filmography of green splotches on their RT Tomatometer page that Dragonology is one of the week's Rotten Ideas.
Hollywood has of late become so fascinated with the hot art of the remake that they have become the dominant story type each week in this "Rotten Ideas" space. As a result, it's been a while since there was a movie news story that earned its place here just because it was truly a ridiculous story idea, period. Which brings us to a Fox property called Beached, which director Jon Turteltaub (Cool Runnings, National Treasure) is now attached to helm. Here's pretty much all that you need to know, in a tidy logline from The Hollywood Reporter: "Beached centers on a chubby 4-year-old child who falls overboard during a family outing, is raised by whales and goes on to become an Olympic swimmer." It's rare enough nowadays that a premise dares to be so completely nonsensical that this one is almost refreshing in its "Who needs logic?" mental gymnastics. I was going to fill this article with questions about how-exactly-does-that-work, but I think I'll leave them to the commenters down below to point out. Beached got its start as a script by screenwriter Ted Griffin (cowriter of Tower Heist, Matchstick Men), and the most recent draft was by Jordan Roberts (March of the Penguins).
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Homewood Suites by Hilton Fairfield-Napa Valley Area, Fairfield
- Free hot/cold buffet breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
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- Free hot/cold buffet breakfast daily
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- Conference space size (feet) - 1674
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Excellent 4.2 /5 from 238 reviews
Love this hotel for the price the rooms are like a 1 bedroom apt free washer & dryer free dinner mon-fri with wine & beer on tap. Also a small kitchen to cook in.
They put me in a smoking room and claimed it was by request even though I have never smoked in my life and am allergic to smoke. The rooms were all sold out and did nothing to make up for their mistake
I really enjoyed my stay here, the staff was always so pleasant and helpful. The breakfast was great and delicious. I wish the pool was open but it was under construction. I would definitely recommend this hotel to my friends and family. And i will definitely stay here again! Thank you all the staff for making my stay a great one! You all rock!
I hate having to leave a bad review, but my stay wasn't a pleasant one. Our room wasn't all the way clean, the floor had stains on it, the table was sticky, & the bathroom walls were dirty (which was a first for me). We asked for an extra set of towels & the front desk told us that they're running out of towels...even tho the hotel wasn't even close to being sold out lol. I left a note for housekeeping to clean the table & floor please, & they just moved the note to the stove & left it as is. And that night, as I was using the restroom I ran out of toilet paper, & there weren't any extra rolls left in the bathroom like other hotels do. So that wasn't a very pleasant experience having to air dry & run to use the phone so they can bring up toilet paper. I definitely won't be staying at this hotel again :(
I always stay here on business. It's a great mid point between Suisun Valley Wine Country and Napa Valley.
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They continue to impress.
This group of youngish Golden Eagles are making hay on the baseball diamond.
Staunton River's latest achievement was earning the top spot in the Conference 30 playoffs. It's more than just an honorarium: The prize includes a valuable first-round bye, the only one issued for the seven-team field.
River controlled its own destiny going into the final week of the regular season. The Eagles faltered, at first, absorbing a 5-3 loss on the fields of Lord Bot.
Ready or not, playoff action got underway with games on Monday.
Two days after seniors from Bedford County High Schools marched across the stage at the Vines Center to receive their diplomas, some of their teams marched into the post-season fray.
It was a mixed bag for the locals.
Jefferson Forest showed an affinity for Monday. In four games, all played on Cav fields, the school posted a perfect 4-0 mark, doing so with uneven levels of ease.
The Jefferson Forest baseball team seems to have figured out one key thing: What matters is how good you are at the end of the season.
And, it would seem, the lads are taking that knowledge to heart. They wrapped up their regular season with wins over their big county rival and over the best team in the Seminole.
The Cavs took care of Liberty, 5-1, before wrapping up things with a stunning 4-2 victory over the behemoth which is Amherst.
Indiana Hall and the Temple of Doom
They have to be darn good to win these awards.
And they are.
Up against a superb field of nominees, Liberty's Megan Beisser and Jefferson Forest's Ben Ottman were announced as the winners of this year's Bedford Rotary Grand Awards.
The presentation was made as part of the Rotary's Student-Athlete awards ceremony, held this past Sunday at Liberty High School.
The Liberty soccer seniors will certainly remember their Senior Night. The lads were introduced, along with their parents. A good number of classmates and family was on hand to support them, as well.
In all, it was a very nice Senior Night.
It was nearly perfect.
The Minutemen nearly pulled off the unthinkable: an upset of soccer titan Jefferson Forest. Instead, the Cavs escaped with a 2-1 win on the bouncy, rugged Liberty field.
Nothing can stop the red and black express.
The Jefferson Forest girls' soccer team stayed perfect and laid claim to the Seminole District title with a 3-1 win over host E.C. Glass.
"That was an intense match," said JF Head Coach Stan Golon. "But, we're smiling. You have to give them credit. Glass came out with a lot of intensity."
Once again, the Lady Cavs got off to a slow start. The match remained scoreless until the 27-minute mark.
Liberty High School will be in the position of trying to fill vacancies in two of its more successful sports programs.
Because it will have to backfill for one man.
Jeff Monroe, who has led the school to great successes in both boys basketball and softball, announced this will be his last year at the school.
When one thinks about the more solid programs in girls tennis, one's mind tends to wander toward the likes of Jefferson Forest and E.C. Glass.
And with good reason. Those two teams have dominated district play for the longest of times.
But, the Lady Cavs and Hilltoppers need to keep an eye on their rear-view mirrors. There's a crew closing in on them, and that crew hails from Liberty High School.
The Minettes are in the process of wrapping up another very good season.
There will be plenty of brainpower and athletic talent gathered in one place on Sunday, May 18.
That's when the Bedford Rotary will host its annual student-athlete awards at the Liberty High School auditorium. The festivities will get underway at 4 p.m.
Once again, the best and brightest from each of our three high schools have been nominated in 21 sports, as well as in the Grand Award category, which is designated for the county's top scholar-athletes, both male and female.
The cafeteria at Liberty High School was a place for celebration last Tuesday. That's because nine of the school's student-athletes announced their commitments to various colleges.
The nine seniors announced their choices of colleges to the crowd of over 150 family members, coaches and schoolmates. All nine will be continuing their athletic endeavors at those institutions.
All nine will be staying in state, so checking on their progress will be convenient.
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But Thomas felt he found the right hire in Central Michigan head coach Butch Jones and Quinn was left out for the second time in as many chances he's taken to become a head coach. That all changed on Sunday as it was announced that Quinn had found his head coaching job.
In an official press release from the University of Cincinnati on Sunday it was revealed that Jeff Quinn had been hired by Buffalo as their head coach replacing Turner Gill who accepted the head coaching position at Kansas.
Quinn, who is in his 26th season in college football, was recently named one of five finalists for the 2009 Broyles Award, which is given to the nation's top assistant coach. He's got experience in the Mid-American Conference, having served as offensive coordinator at Central Michigan under Kelly before coming to Cincinnati.
Buffalo will hold a press conference announcing Quinn's appointment on Tuesday.
Quinn will still coach the Bearcats in the Sugar Bowl.
Bearcat Insider congratulates Jeff Quinn on his new position at the University of Buffalo.


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TOMB RAIDER Looking Like Other Game?
Well it has been long time since i last post but here is another interesting though i had when i was playing Tomb Raider Chronicles, i was playing the 3rd level named Balck Isle where level names are Gallows Tree; Labyrinth; Old Mill. When i looked into those levels while playing i beggin to think this level looks so familiar to what the ´´new´´ TOMB RAIDER is going to be. I said ´´NEW´´ because they said it was new until you find something similar to other game. I love Tomb Raider and Lara Croft but we need to be honest with the developers and ourself, but enough talk lets beggin with the comparition. *Note: I am not giving the game a bad feedback i am just curious about how familiar looks a level made from Core Design to a new game from Crystal Dinamics.
The story starts with Lara listening to a friend talking about an isle and a mistery. Curious about that story she jump into the boat without anybody seeing her. Very similar to the new one, but this one she is with a friend and they are together in this mission.
The first thing i notice was the enviroment. It is very dark, creepy and gothic. It gives you a very fearly feeling.
Comparing this screenshot to the one show for the new TOMB RAIDER i though they were pretty alike.
You can have a look at this video and you will see what i am talking about...
While playing something that punch me hard was the enemies located here, they are almost the same in both of them. Take a look.
You see how similar are the enemies here, also they are very dark they almost look like they were taken out from Silent Hill games. :D
The White Little enemies they throw rocks to you when you are far from them, also they bite you if you are near to them. They grab you and bite your leg. The red one is in the wáter and grabs your feets so you can drown also bites you too. The other one is a corpse and the other is the death.
Also something else i found very similar was Lara using the torch. In previous Tomb Raider games like Tomb Raider Last Revelation was when she started to use the torch in darker areas, so on Tomb Raider Chronicles, but then the torch was removed from the games. Now is introduced again by the developers which in the Tomb Raider Chrocniles was used frequently.
Something very particular and maybe unnoticed was the prescence of a male figure in both of the games. Both are Lara´s helper and both are the one leading the expedition.
You can see how much they look and not only how much they look, the storyline is very similar too, well at least to what they had post the last days.
Well lets hope this game will be good enough to fill our taste in gaming terms. Again i am not giving a bad feedback to this game i am just letting you know i am very curious about the fact this game looks very familiar to me when i play level 3 Black Isle on Tomb Taider Chronicles. We only need to wait, maybe this is a Beta and they are going to change lots of thing, but anyway lets wait.


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District 10 swimmers, divers prepare for PIAA meets
The Class AA boys could be the District 10 swimmers to watch next week when the PIAA swimming and diving championships take place at Bucknell University in Lewisburg.
District 10 individuals are top-seeded in four events and several others have top-three seeds, according the PIAA psych sheets released Wednesday.
Franklin senior Phil Emerson and Corry junior Brent Benedict lead D-10 with two No. 1 seeds each.
Emerson, the reigning District 10 Swimmer of the Year, is a four-time state champion. He is favored to win the 50-yard freestyle (20.82 seconds) and 100-yard freestyle (45.88).
Benedict is seeded first in the 100 butterfly (50.25) and the 100 backstroke (50.24).
Grove City, meanwhile, has the No. 1 seed in the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:39.00, followed closely by Mercyhurst Prep at 1:39.18.
Here are some other D-10 highlights from the psych sheets:
- Mercyhurst Prep junior Griffin Schaetzle is seeded second behind Benedict in the 100 backstroke. Incidentally, Schaetzle placed second in the event in 2013, behind only Fairview exchange student Robert Sikatzki and one spot ahead of Benedict as D-10 swept the top three spots.
Schaetzle is also seeded eighth in the 200 freestyle and is a member of Mercyhurst Prep's two relays.
- D-10 has three of the top five seeds in the AA 50 free. After Emerson, Grove City's Austin Wilson is third (21.36) and Titusville's Jay Bleday is fifth (21.60). Both are sophomores.
- Harbor Creek's Hunter Scott is seeded third in diving (495.60) and General McLane's Hunter Truitt is eighth (441.10).
District 10 champion Fairview won a state team title in 2012 and had another outstanding year in 2013. Corban Murphey leads the Tigers with a No. 4 seed in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:00.37.
Mercyhurst Prep's John Mackowski placed fourth in the 100 breaststroke in 2013, but he will not compete in the event this year after he had to sit out the event at the D-10 meet with food poisoning.
- District 10's only other No. 1 seed is Wilmington's Lauren Barber in the Class AA 100 breaststroke. She was the 2013 state champion in the event and is the favorite again with a time of 1:03.94. Barber is seeded second in the 200 freestyle (1:48.50) after finishing as the runner-up last year.
Also in AA, the Fairview girls' 200 medley relay team (1:48.92) and 200 freestyle relay (1:38.29) are both seeded third.
Other highly seeded Class AA girls from District 10 are Union City diver Maggie Stebick (No. 4, 431.85 points), Mercyhurst Prep's Molly Phillips in the 100 butterfly (No. 4, 58.15), Fairview's Rachel Taylor in the 100 backstroke (No. 7, 58.28), North East's Hannah Feucht in the 100 back (No. 8, 58.31) and Fairview's Abby German in the 100 breaststroke (No. 8, 1:06.79).
- In Class AAA, McDowell's Jonathan Ekas leads District 10 with a No. 4 seed in the 100 backstroke (51.03). Ekas earned a medal with a seventh-place finish in the event in 2013.
Cathedral Prep's Rex Riley is the No. 7 seed in the 100 breaststroke (57.51) after placing sixth in the PIAA meet in the event last year. Prep has the highest-seeded relay team among D-10 teams in AAA with a No. 7 in the 200 medley relay (1:34.76).
- District 10 has a tougher challenge in the Class AAA girls competition, where Meadville's Mackenzie Webber is the highest seeded individual at No. 30 in the 100 backstroke (1:01.08). No D-10 relay team is seeded better than 23rd.


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Note: The default Bartik theme might appear to not follow the "show as expanded" rule as explained above for the main menu in the header, but you can place that menu in other regions and see the expected behavior. Just note that themes can have implementations that seem to deviate from the rule.
Drupal 6 and earlier
In Drupal 6 and earlier, themes generally provide out-of-the-box support for two menus commonly labeled "primary links" and "secondary links". These are sets of links which are usually displayed in the header or footer of each page (depending on the currently active theme). Any menu can be designated as the primary or secondary links menu via the menu settings page.
- On the Menu administration page, administrators can "edit" to change the title, description, parent or weight of a menu item. Under the "Enabled" column, click on the checkbox to toggle a menu item on or off. Only menu items which are enabled are displayed in the corresponding menu block. Note that the default menu items generated by the menu module cannot be deleted, only disabled.
- Use the "add menu" tab to submit a title for a new custom menu. Once submitted, the menu will appear in a list toward the bottom of the administer menu page underneath the main navigation menu. Under the menu name there will be links to edit or delete the menu, and a link to add new items to the menu.
- Use the "add menu item" tab to create new links in either the navigation or a custom menu (such as a primary/secondary links menu). Select the parent item to place the new link within an existing menu structure. For top level menu items, choose the name of the menu in which the link is to be added.
Menu administration options:
- Administer menus at Administer > Site building > Menus.
- Add a menu at Administer > Site building > Menus.
- Add a menu item at Administer > Site building > Menus > Add menu item.
- Modify menu settings (in particular, to specify a menu to use for primary or secondary links) at Administer > Site building > Menus > Settings.
- Manage menu blocks at Administer > Site building > Blocks.


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