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We recently got our hands on a S822L, an dual socket OpenPOWER server. IBM claims that this is an affordable, high performance and highly expandable alternative to the typical Xeon x86 Linux server. Will Intel finally have some competition in the mid range server space too? Find out as we take a look inside the server and unleash all kinds of benchmarks upon it.
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Over the past couple of decades, the server market has evolved from closed, proprietary, and most importantly extremely expensive mainframe and proprietary RISC servers into today's highly competitive x86...60 by Johan De Gelas on 8/5/2013
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Intel SSD DC S3500 Review (480GB): Part 1
We always knew that Intel would build a standard MLC version of its flagship S3700 enterprise SSD, and today we have that drive: the Intel SSD DC S3500.54 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/11/2013
AMD Opteron X1150 & X2150 "Kyoto": Kabini Heads to Servers
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Inside AnandTech 2013: Power Consumption
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Updating the 2012 AnandTech SMB / SOHO NAS Testbed
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What Sickz said. My personal story: I am...
What Sickz said. My personal story:
I am currently in a jazz performance program at university and it took two auditions to get in. The first year, I applied to two different schools. I had to send...
|Forum: Musician Talk 05-16-2015, 01:24 PM
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In my experience with Truefire instructional...
In my experience with Truefire instructional material, the lessons progressively got better. If you look at the old lessons they had, most of the courses are honestly useless. What bothers me the...
|Forum: Musician Talk 05-15-2015, 03:13 AM
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In music performance, I would say rhythm In a...
In music performance, I would say rhythm
In a live show, for example, if something is wrong with your timing, the audience can tell almost immediately.
Non-musicians don't listen analytically and...
|Forum: Musician Talk 05-11-2015, 05:15 PM
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In practice, C major = A minor = E phrygian scale...
In practice, C major = A minor = E phrygian scale (all the fingerings on the guitar are the same, you dont need different fingerings, just relate to the parent scale)
I think all mode threads should...
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great post Jet, it seems like you received a...
great post Jet, it seems like you received a really solid education. I'm lucky to study in a jazz program that has a lot of interesting courses too.
I'm really looking forward to study arranging,...
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Can confirm. Same thing here in Canada :haha:
Can confirm. Same thing here in Canada :haha:
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Congratz dude!!! Good luck for your music...
Congratz dude!!! Good luck for your music projects and bands!
What did you think of your education/teachers? What kind of classes helped you develop your musicianship? Did you study mostly jazz or...
|Forum: Musician Talk 04-29-2015, 06:16 PM
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I finished yesterday the first year of my studies...
I finished yesterday the first year of my studies in jazz performance. Its my 2nd year of study (last year I was in the same music faculty, but I didn't get into performance). Some general advice...
|Forum: Musician Talk 04-26-2015, 10:25 PM
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playing alone vs with a band is completely...
playing alone vs with a band is completely different. i think its hard to find reliable and serious people when you start out. something like a music summer camp is really beneficial, because of the...
|Forum: Musician Talk 04-26-2015, 10:21 PM
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:y: just saw this thanks! too many final exams...
:y: just saw this thanks! too many final exams and guitar playing, my head is going to blow up :(
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SUP ive got another request, if you have time....
ive got another request, if you have time. this is a bill evans tune, the changes are a bit weird!
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nice, thanks!! I thought maybe there was more to...
nice, thanks!!
I thought maybe there was more to this song harmonically than I chords moving by different intervals. This tune really is a bitch to solo over :haha: I guess ill have to transcribe...
|Forum: The Pit 03-16-2015, 07:35 PM
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first song i teach complete noobs is a Horse with...
first song i teach complete noobs is a Horse with no name
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upgraded from xp to windows 8.1 in september i...
upgraded from xp to windows 8.1 in september
i bought this asus beast, reliable and fast, no problems so far http://www.amazon.ca/ASUS-K750JN-DB71-CA-Notebook-Screen-Processor/dp/B00LGPSM08
when you...
|Forum: Musician Talk 03-09-2015, 06:29 PM
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back with more songs, i hope this isn't too much :haha:
How would you...
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^ this no need to think of each and every note...
^ this
no need to think of each and every note when you play. by knowing your fretboard and how everything fits together, there is no need to "hunt" for the right notes. we leave that to muscle...
|Forum: Musician Talk 03-07-2015, 01:07 PM
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nice!!! :cheers: these are the main sounds i...
nice!!! :cheers:
these are the main sounds i would use during the solo:
Gmaj7 - D major scale, B minor pentatonic (starting the minor pent from the third of the major chord gives us all the nice...
|Forum: Musician Talk 03-04-2015, 04:34 PM
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Views: 13,654
another request here:...
another request here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiKt8DxBpeg
|Forum: Musician Talk 03-02-2015, 01:40 PM
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this is great, thanks jet! ive started recently...
this is great, thanks jet! ive started recently playing more fusion/post-bop jazz standards and this is a simple tune to get into that style of music. definitely going to jam on this one with some...
|Forum: Musician Talk 02-21-2015, 12:24 AM
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nice! ok my...
ok my suggestion
|Forum: Musician Talk 02-09-2015, 09:01 PM
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don't want to sound like a douche, but books...
don't want to sound like a douche, but books never did anything for me. i view them as a reference tool usable only once you get the basics down. i never got to learn to improvise using a book and...
|Forum: Musician Talk 12-13-2014, 05:53 AM
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i use my tascam dr-05 for that. if i need a chord...
i use my tascam dr-05 for that. if i need a chord progression with the exact chords i want at the right tempo, i will just record myself playing rhythm guitar and then play back the recording either...
|Forum: The Pit 12-10-2014, 10:22 PM
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jazz-funk / soul...
jazz-funk / soul jazz
|Forum: Musician Talk 12-09-2014, 03:52 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,207
Why Is Contemporary Art Music Hard to Listen...
Why Is Contemporary Art Music Hard to Listen To?
dunno, this kinda sounds like shit to me, no offense
I enjoy listening to other compositions by hades...
|Forum: Musician Talk 12-06-2014, 03:01 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 1,241
I'm studying in jazz, so I can improvise and play...
I'm studying in jazz, so I can improvise and play from a lead sheet. However, I am not that good at reading melodies perfectly. I might get away with easy melodies though (we usually leave the melody...
|Forum: Musician Talk 11-11-2014, 04:34 PM
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lol! elective is an optional course right? i...
elective is an optional course right? i meant by that in some music programs you have to take 6 credits or more of optional courses from other faculties that have nothing to do with music (ex....
|Forum: Musician Talk 11-11-2014, 03:24 PM
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Views: 811
depends where you study. There are 4...
depends where you study.
There are 4 universities in the city I live, only the one I go to has the perfect program for me:
jazz combos with studio recording, arrangement and composition classes,...
|Forum: Musician Talk 11-11-2014, 12:50 PM
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some universities have music technology programs focused on electroacoustic music, recording and production
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The MSDN Documentation that shows an example just catches the invalid operation exception, but it seems like there must be a proper way to do such a call without catching the exception (since this incurs a decent amount of overhead and doesn't look clean in code). What is the proper way to call .Take() and to avoid an invalid operation exception?
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These are adorable and great for grocery shopping
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Cute - keep it on the fridge and anytime you use the last of something jot it down before you forget. Cute pads - great for the store
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I always have to have paper handy. I never know when I need to write something down. I love the magnetic note pads the best. I have them on the fridge, on my file cabinet at my desk, in my truck. And I love having labs on them. With owning two labs, it just makes sense to honor them on paper too.
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I have several of these magnetic Lab pads, and love them. All my dogs are Lab mixes, and most look like labs, so that is what I collect. It is great to have paper handy when it is needed in a hurry. My husband has one stuck to his tool box to write down measurements when he is working.
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I have gotten my parents so many Lab magnetic but the one my mom likes the best is the List pad. She put it on the refrigerator and any time she realizes we need something she writes it on the pad. It also looks fairly similar to our lab and that is hard to find.
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Great for Shopping Lists
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These magnetic list pads are great for hanging on the refrigerator. They're useful for notes, reminders, or shopping lists. The pages tear off easily. Very convenient and cute too!
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US Department of Labor orders Dana Holding Corp. to pay
whistleblower nearly $275,000 in back wages, damages
Ohio company ordered to reinstate financial analyst at Toledo facility
TOLEDO, Ohio – Dana Holding Corp. has been ordered by the U.S. Department of Labor to reinstate and pay $274,922.47 in back wages and benefits, compensatory damages and attorney's fees to a financial analyst who was fired from the company's Toledo facility in February 2009.
The order resulted from an investigation by the Chicago office of the department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration into alleged violations of the whistleblower protection provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. OSHA was able to substantiate a complaint submitted by the employee, who alleged termination for raising concerns about inaccuracies in the company's customer information assessment system database that could be reflected as inaccuracies in the company's annual financial reports.
"The Sarbanes-Oxley Act provides protection to workers who report alleged violations of federal laws relating to fraud against shareholders," said Nick Walters, OSHA's regional administrator in Chicago. "This case clearly shows the department's commitment to ensuring that individuals are provided the protections and relief afforded by the law, and sends a message that retaliatory actions will not be tolerated."
Specifically, OSHA's order requires the company to pay $47,813.72 in back wages, vacation pay, pension and 401(k) contributions; $108,167.60 in compensatory damages; and $118,941.15 in attorney's fees. In addition to immediate reinstatement, the company must expunge any adverse references related to the discharge in the employee's personnel record, post a notice about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's whistleblower provisions for all employees and train employees on these provisions.
Dana Holding supplies driveline, sealing and thermal management technologies for passenger, commercial and off-highway vehicles. The company is headquartered in Maumee and employs about 25,500 workers worldwide.
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Fibromyalgia (FM) pain is frequent in the general population but its pathogenesis is only poorly understood. Many recent studies have emphasized the role of central nervous system pain processing abnormalities in FM, including central sensitization and inadequate pain inhibition. However, increasing evidence points towards peripheral tissues as relevant contributors of painful impulse input that might either initiate or maintain central sensitization, or both. It is well known that persistent or intense nociception can lead to neuroplastic changes in the spinal cord and brain, resulting in central sensitization and pain. This mechanism represents a hallmark of FM and many other chronic pain syndromes, including irritable bowel syndrome, temporomandibular disorder, migraine, and low back pain. Importantly, after central sensitization has been established only minimal nociceptive input is required for the maintenance of the chronic pain state. Additional factors, including pain related negative affect and poor sleep have been shown to significantly contribute to clinical FM pain. Better understanding of these mechanisms and their relationship to central sensitization and clinical pain will provide new approaches for the prevention and treatment of FM and other chronic pain syndromes.
Fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) is a chronic pain syndrome that has been defined by widespread pain for more than 3 months and the presence of ≥11 out of 18 tender points [1]. In addition, most FM patients complain of disturbed sleep, emotional distress, and pronounced fatigue. FM represents the extreme end of the spectrum of musculoskeletal pain in the general population and is a chronic illness that disproportionably affects women (9:1 ratio of women to men affected). Like many other clinical syndromes, FM has no single specific feature but represents a symptom complex of self reported or elicited findings.
Pain in FM is consistently felt in the musculature and is related to sensitization of central nervous system (CNS) pain pathways. Although not specific for FM, abnormal concentration of CNS neuropeptides, biogenic amines, and alterations of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis have been described [2–5]. There is a large body of evidence for a generalized lowering of pressure pain thresholds in FM patients [6–10], but the mechanical pain hypersensitivity (allodynia) of FM patients is not limited to tender points and appears to be widespread [10]. In addition, almost all studies of FM patients have shown abnormalities of pain sensitivity while using different methods of sensory testing.
Although relevant for many clinical pain syndromes like FM, nociception alone cannot explain the human pain experience because it always undergoes modulation in the CNS by conscious and unconscious mental activity [11]. In addition, socio-cultural influences, beliefs or biases can strongly influence pain, particularly those related to cause, control, duration, outcome, and blame. These beliefs are frequently linked to negative emotions, like anger, fear, and depression [12]. Generally, pain has two emotional components, including the unpleasantness of the sensation (primary pain affect) as well as negative feelings like depression, anger and fear (secondary pain affect). This relationship of emotions with pain is bidirectional because modulation of negative feelings can powerfully alter the pain experience [13]. Due to the fact that pain is a personal (first person) experience it can only be partially captured by definitions. The International Association for the Study of Pain has defined pain as an "unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual and potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage" [14]. This definition of pain, however, has significant shortcomings because it does not encompass all aspects of pain.
Thus, abnormalities of pain processing appear to play an important role for FM pain, particularly those related to deep tissue impulse input, central sensitization, and mood abnormalities. Some of the important contributions of abnormal central pain mechanisms to clinical FM pain include temporal summation of pain (or windup) and central sensitization.
FM is a pain amplification syndrome of patients who are highly sensitive to painful and non-painful stimuli, including touch, heat, cold, chemicals, light, sound, and smell. The cause for the heightened sensitivity of FM patients is unknown, but is likely to involve abnormalities in CNS sensory processing as well as peripheral tissue abnormalities. Central abnormalities appear to be related to blunting of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis responses to stressors [15, 16], increased levels of substance P [2, 17], excitatory amino acids [18] and neurotrophins [19] in the cerebro-spinal fluid of FM patients.
Although previous FM studies did not show consistent peripheral tissue abnormalities [20], more recent evidence points to possibly relevant alterations in skin and muscles. These abnormalities include increased substance P in muscle tissue [21], DNA fragmentation of muscle fibers [22], increased IL-1 in cutaneous tissues [23], and muscle perfusion deficits [24, 25]. These peripheral changes may contribute to increased tonic nociceptive input into the spinal cord that results in augmented windup and central sensitization. In addition, there is compelling evidence for the contribution of peripheral pain to overall clinical pain in FM [26]. In a large study of FM patients, ratings of peripheral pain areas accounted for 27% of the variance of overall clinical pain [26], thus emphasizing the important role of peripheral impulse input for FM pain. These findings represent a possible link between peripheral input and FM pain. Importantly, nociceptive activity in peripheral tissues of FM patients does not necessarily have to be extensive, because central sensitization requires little sustained input for the maintenance of the sensitized state and chronic pain [26].
Despite increasing evidence emphasizing the role of sensory abnormalities in chronic widespread pain in FM, the contribution of psychological factors to FM pain must also be recognized. Several psychological risk factors for FM are common in Western populations, including somatic symptoms, negative life events [27], psychological distress [28], increased focus on bodily symptoms [29], and passive pain-coping mechanisms [30]. Both community and clinic patients with FM are also more likely than the general population to have a diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, particularly depression and anxiety [31, 32]. In a prospective study of 214 women with self-reported pain, 39 (18%) were diagnosed with FM at study entry, and 33% satisfied FM criteria after 5.5 years of follow up [33]. Self-reported depression at baseline was associated with a more than six-fold increased likelihood of reporting FM symptoms at follow up and was found to be the strongest independent predictor. In addition, psychosocial factors, including high levels of distress, fatigue, and frequent health care seeking behavior, are strong predictors for chronic widespread pain and FM [34].
In this context, several studies have reported FM to be co-morbid with major depressive disorder [35, 36]. A recent large family study of FM subjects showed that FM and major depressive disorder are characterized by shared, familial risk factors [37], thus emphasizing the strong relationship between negative affect and FM pain.
Although heightened pain sensitivity is a hallmark of FM, little is known about the genetic and other factors that contribute to this abnormality. Tissue sensitization after injury has long been recognized as making an important contribution to pain. This form of sensitization is related to changes in the properties of primary nociceptive afferents (peripheral sensitization), whereas central sensitization requires functional changes in the CNS (neuroplasticity). Such CNS changes can result in central sensitization, which manifests itself in several ways, including increased excitability of spinal cord neurons after an injury, enlargement of the receptive fields of these neurons, reduction in pain threshold, or recruitment of novel afferent inputs. Behaviorally, centrally sensitized patients like FM sufferers report abnormal or heightened pain sensitivity with spreading of hypersensitivity to uninjured sites and the generation of pain by low threshold mechano-receptors that are normally silent in pain processing. Thus, tissue injury might not only cause pain but also an expansion of dorsal horn receptive fields and central sensitization.
Central sensitization can occur as an immediate or delayed phenomenon [38], resulting in increased sensitivity of wide dynamic range and nociception specific neurons of the spinal cord. Whereas delayed central sensitization depends mostly on transcriptional and translational neuronal changes during afferent barrage, immediate central sensitization relies mainly on dorsal horn receptor mechanisms, including the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and neurokinin-1 receptors [39].
Peripheral nociceptors can become increasingly sensitive after tissue trauma and/or after up-regulation of nociceptor expression in peripheral nerve endings. Subsequent activation of these receptors will lead to increased firing rates and pain. This mechanism (peripheral sensitization) seems to play an important role in FM pain, although only indirect evidence is available at this time to support this assumption [26]. Impulses from peripheral nociceptors are transmitted to the CNS by myelinated A-δ (first pain) and unmyelinated C-fibers (second pain). A-δ mediated pain signals are rapidly conducted to the CNS (at about 10 m/s), whereas C-fiber impulses travel relatively slowly (at about 1.6 m/s). When the distance of C-fiber transmission is sufficiently long (like the length of the arm or leg) this delay of C-fiber compared to A-δ fiber impulses can be easily detected by study subjects. An important test of central pain amplification relies on summation of second pain or windup [40]. This technique reveals sensitivity to input from unmyelinated (C) afferents and the status of the NMDA receptor system [41], which is implicated in a variety of chronic pain conditions. Thermal, mechanical, or electrical windup stimuli can be applied to the skin or musculature of patients and commercial neurosensory stimulators are readily available for windup testing.
Several important points appear relevant for clinical practice. As previously mentioned, when central sensitization has occurred in chronic pain patients, including FM patients, little additional nociceptive input is required to maintain the sensitized state. Thus, seemingly innocuous daily activities might contribute to the maintenance of the chronic pain state. In addition, the decay of painful sensations is very prolonged in FM and patients do not seem to experience drastic changes in their pain levels during brief therapeutic interventions. Many frequently used analgesic medications do not improve central sensitization, and some medications, including opioids, have been shown to maintain or even worsen this CNS phenomenon. Sustained administration of opioids in rodents over one week can not only elicit hyperalgesia but also induce neurochemical CNS changes commonly seen with inflammatory pain [52]. Thus, long-term analgesic therapy may sometimes result in unintended worsening of the targeted pain processing abnormalities.
The important role of central pain mechanisms for clinical pain is also supported by their usefulness as predictors of clinical pain intensity in FM patients. Thermal windup ratings correlate well with clinical pain intensity (Peason's r = 0.53), thus emphasizing the important role of this pain mechanism for FM. In addition, hierarchical regression models that include tender point count, pain related negative affect, and windup ratings have been shown to account for 50% of the variance in FM clinical pain intensity [53].
The mechanisms underlying the central sensitization that occurs in patients with FM relies on hyperexcitability of spinal dorsal horn neurons that transmit nociceptive input to the brain. As a consequence, low intensity stimuli delivered to the skin or deep muscle tissue generate high levels of nociceptive input to the brain as well as the perception of pain. Specifically, intense or prolonged impulse input from A-δ and C afferents sufficiently depolarizes the dorsal horn neurons and results in the removal of the Mg2+ block of NMDA-gated ion channels. This is followed by the influx of extracellular Ca2+ and production of nitric oxide, which diffuses out of the dorsal horn neurons. Nitric oxide, in turn, promotes the exaggerated release of excitatory amino acids and substance P from presynaptic afferent terminals and causes the dorsal horn neurons to become hyperexcitable. Subsequently, low intensity stimuli evoked by minor physical activity may be amplified in the spinal cord resulting in painful sensations.
Accumulating evidence suggests that dorsal horn glia cells might have an important role in producing and maintaining abnormal pain sensitivity [54, 55]. Synapses within the CNS are encapsulated by glia that do not normally respond to nociceptive input from local sites. Following the initiation of central sensitization, however, spinal glia cells are activated by a wide array of factors that contribute to hyperalgesia, such as immune activation within the spinal cord, substance P, excitatory amino acids, nitric oxide, and prostaglandins. Precipitating events known to induce glial activation include viral infections, including HIV, hepatitis C, and influenza [56]. Once activated, glia cells release proinflammatory cytokines, including tumor necrosis factor, IL-6 and IL-1, substance P, nitric oxide, prostaglandins, excitatory amino acids, ATP, and fractalkine [57], that, in turn, further increase the discharge of excitatory amino acids and substance P from the A-δ and C afferents that synapse in the dorsal horn and also enhance the hyper-excitability of the dorsal horn neurons [54, 58]. Recent evidence also points towards a possible role for NMDA receptors in glial activation and pain [59].
As a normal response to tissue trauma, injury is followed by repair and healing. Inflammation occurs, which results in a cascade of electrophysiological and chemical events that resolve over time and the patient becomes pain free. In persistent pain, however, the local, spinal, and even supraspinal responses are considerably different from those that occur during acute pain. While defining the relationship between tissue events and pain is necessary for understanding the clinical context of these pathologies, defining the relationship between injury and specific and relevant nociceptive responses is crucial for understanding the central mechanisms of persistent pain in FM. It must be emphasized, however, that specific abnormalities in persons with FM have not been identified that might produce the prolonged impulse input that is necessary to initiate the events underlying the development of central sensitization and/or spinal glia cell activation. After central sensitization has occurred, low threshold A-β afferents, which normally do not serve to transmit a pain response, are recruited to transmit spontaneous and movement-induced pain. This central hyperexcitability is characterized by a 'windup' response of repetitive C fiber stimulation, expanding receptive field areas, and spinal neurons taking on properties of wide dynamic range neurons [60]. Ultimately, A-β fibers stimulate postsynaptic neurons to transmit pain, where these A-β fibers previously had no role in pain transmission, all leading to central sensitization. Nociceptive information is transmitted from the spinal cord to supraspinal sites, such as the thalamus and cerebral cortex, by ascending pathways.
A potential source of nociceptive input that might account for FM pain is muscle tissue [61]. Several types of muscle abnormalities have been reported in FM patients, including the appearance of ragged red fibers, inflammatory infiltrates, and moth-eaten fibers [62–64]. Possible mechanisms for such muscle changes might include repetitive muscle microtrauma, which could contribute to the postexertional pain and other painful symptoms experienced by these patients. In addition, prolonged muscle tension and ischemia was found in muscles of FM patients [25, 65, 66]. Changes in muscle pH related to ischemia [67] might provide a powerful mechanism for the sensitization of spinal and supraspinal pain pathways [68]. Investigations using 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy have shown that FM patients display significantly lower phosphorylation potential and total oxidative capacity in the quadriceps muscle during rest and exercise [69]. FM patients also exhibit significantly lower levels of muscle phosphocreatine and ATP, as well as a lower phosphocreatine/inorganic phosphate ratio [62, 63]. Furthermore, nuclear magnetic resonance testing of muscles in FM patients showed an increased prevalence of phosphodiester peaks, which have been associated with sarcolemmal membrane damage [69, 70].
Focal muscle abnormalities, including trigger points, are frequently detectable in FM patients and may play an important role as pain generators. Using sensitive microdialysis techniques, concentrations of protons, bradykinin, calcitonin gene-related peptide, substance P, tumor necrosis factor-α, IL-1b, serotonin, and norepinephrine have been found to be significantly higher in trigger points than normal muscle tissue [71, 72]. Recent studies have shown that advanced glycation end products may also be relevant for FM pain. These can trigger the synthesis of cytokines, particularly IL-1b and tumor necrosis factor-α, and elevated advanced glycation end product levels have been detected in interstitial connective tissue of muscles and in serum of FM patients [73]. All these biochemical mediators can sensitize muscle nociceptors and thus indirectly contribute to central sensitization and chronic pain. Because nociceptive input from muscles is very powerful in inducing and maintaining central sensitization [74], FM muscle abnormalities may strongly contribute to pain through important mechanisms of pain amplification.
FM is a chronic pain syndrome that is characterized by widespread pain in peripheral tissues, psychological distress, and central sensitization. Whereas the role of psychological factors in FM patients' pain has been well established, little is known about the origin of the sensory abnormalities for pain. Deep tissue impulse input is most likely relevant for the initiation and/or maintenance of abnormal central pain processing and represents an important opportunity for new treatments and prevention of this chronic pain syndrome. Three important strategies for FM therapy appear useful at this time: reduction of peripheral nociceptive input, particularly from muscles; improvement or prevention of central sensitization; and treatment of negative affect, particularly depression. The first strategy is most likely relevant for acute FM pain exacerbations and includes physical therapy, muscle relaxants, muscle injections, and anti-inflammatory analgesics. Central sensitization can be successfully ameliorated by cognitive behavioral therapy, sleep improvement, NMDA receptor antagonists, and anti-seizure medications. The pharmacological and behavioral treatment of secondary pain affect (anxiety, anger, depression) is equally important and may currently be one of the most powerful interventions for FM pain. Whether narcotics are useful for the treatment of FM pain is currently unknown because of insufficient trial experience.
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Yesterday, I had a comment posted on the Updating Dexterity code for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 post asking about getting an illegal address error after upgrading code to Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and launching into Test Mode.
The error message was:
Unhandled script exception:Illegal address for field 'System Database Name' in script 'GetSystemDatabaseName'. Script terminated.
I have seen this type message before on previous upgrades and it is caused by a minor mistake in the upgrade process, which then fails to add new global fields to the upgraded development dictionary.
The solution is discussed in the post below which was created for version 10.0 and updated for GP 2010 and GP 2013:
Hope this helps you avoid or overcome this issue.
Posting from Mark Polino at DynamicAccounting.net
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If you wish to ask a technical question, please use the links in the links section (scroll down, on right hand side) to ask on the Newsgroups or Forums. If you ask on the Newsgroups or Forums, others in the community can respond and the answers are available for everyone in the future.


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Following his conviction this week on at least five counts of espionage and several lesser charges, including fraud and theft, U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning will now do hard time in prison.
In certain circumstances, spies deserve capital punishment. Several decades in jail strikes me being as Manning's criminal due, however.
Treason rates the death sentence, but Manning didn't commit treason. In fact, he beat that rap.
Manning admitted he gave Julian Assange's Wikileaks organization at least 700,000 pages of classified U.S. documents, as well as numerous classified videos. The massive document release included classified State Department cables and military information related to operations in combat zones. So prosecutors charged Manning with "aiding the enemy," an act of treason. The prosecution argued that Manning knew the information he released would aid al-Qaida.
Proving treason involves proving "specific intent." Prosecutors had to prove Manning specifically intended to aid specific enemies. They failed to make that case.
Manning's theft and espionage, in fact, were rather unspecific. He stole information by the megabyte, with scant selectivity and little reflection. He looked for secrets addressing topics that assured sensational media coverage.
Theft, however is still theft; violating military oaths and ironclad laws protecting classified information are military crimes.
Leaking unspecific classified information, especially trainloads of it, can damage U.S. defenses.
I think it already has. Manning's filched documents provide everyone -- friend, foe or bystander -- with a detailed look at American information gathering, information assessment and decision-making in the sensitive realms of foreign policy and defense.
Liberals forever extoll "soft diplomacy," the goodnik mission of diplomats in contrast to the "hard diplomacy" soldiers wield. Diplomacy requires able, careful diplomats. Yet Manning's leaked State Department cables provide our adversaries with a highly granular, candid and often personal portrait of a generation of U.S. diplomats. The cables reveal how specific diplomats operate, what they seek to accomplish and with whom they talk.
Though Manning's leaks did not place American diplomats in immediate mortal danger (a treasonous act), the leaks damaged their ability to conduct diplomacy, both near and long term. The private first class clearly does not understand that diplomacy is America's first line of defense.
Austin Bay is the author of three novels. His third novel, The Wrong Side of Brightness, was published by Putnam/Jove in June 2003. He has also co-authored four non-fiction books, to include A Quick and Dirty Guide to War: Third Edition (with James Dunnigan, Morrow, 1996).
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