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3D Graphics Tutorial - Lightwave 7.5 Beginners Guide
Welcome to the Lightwave 7.5 Beginners Guide! This Guide is only an update from my Lightwave 6.5 Beginners Guide to suit Lightwave 7.5; the content is pretty much the same, however, a few new additions has been made in the Tutorial section. We will start out with an introduction to 3D in general, and if you feel that you know the basic concepts already, you can simply skip this part and dive directly into the Lightwave Parts. The best way to get to know the Interface and how tools work is to use them, and tutorials are great for this purpose, so we will be doing a tutorial as I explain the bits and pieces of Lightwave.
An Introduction to 3D
I'd say that the most important thing you need when you want to create 3D art is your imagination, a picture in your head of how you want it to turn out. Your choice of 3D software doesn't really matter, since it always comes out to the artist and how creative one can be. All 3D programs are based on the same idea, where you build up your scenes with Objects, and Objects are built up by Points and Polygons. Take a look at the two pictures below, it's just a box right? Well this is an object, a very simple one, but still an object.
As you can see in Picture 1, there's a point in each corner of the box. Picture 2 on the other hand shows the Polygons, and these are the ones you give materials to, and they are the ones you will see in the final render. I guess you already knew that 3D stands for 3Dimensional, and this is what you work with in any 3D program out there. In Lightwave, these Dimensions are called X, Y and Z, and these could be described as Left/Right, Up/Down and Near/Far respectively.
What's the advantage of using a 3D program then? Well, you can create nice artwork by drawing them in a 2D program, but when it comes to animating what you've created it becomes a bit harder, and this is where the 3D program has an advantage. Another thing to mention is that you can change anything in the pictures you create. If you didn't like the material on a certain object, or if the light setting was wrong, just change it and re-render.
That'll do for an introduction; lets get going with Lightwave!
The Basics of Lightwave
Follow the installation instructions and install Lightwave on your harddrive. Lightwave comes as two separate programs, Lightwave Layout and Lightwave Modeler, and from now on they will just be referred to as Layout and Modeler.
Lightwave Layout
If you start Layout up it should look something like picture 3.
This is where you load objects you've created, give them textures, edit lights & cameras, animate things and render your final pictures. As you can see I have added a few descriptions on some of the items in picture 3. However, we will not start the tour in Layout, but we will get back to it later on in the Guide.
Lightwave Modeler
If you load Modeler up, it should look something like picture 4.
The Modeler lets you model all the necessary objects you need for your scene. You also prepare your objects for Layout here, like attaching surfaces to them etc. I put a few descriptions on picture 4 as well, and we will get to know the interface better next.
Getting to know Modeler
We'll start with a few explanations on how Lightwave is built up, and then we'll start the main tutorial and learn the tools we use as we go along.
The Interface & Workflow
The Workflow is one of Lightwave's stronger areas. If you look at the Interface, you'll see that every Tool or Button is named with text. No image buttons that takes ages to learn, plus that the interface is very clean. You also have shortcuts on your keyboard for almost every Tool in Lightwave. The menus are also configurable and you can create your own menus to fit your own needs.
Keyboard Shortcuts
If you look at the "Box" Tool button in the "Create" Tab, you'll see that in the right side of the button there's an "X". This means that a capital X is the shortcut key for the Box Tool, so if you hit "shift+X" on your keyboard, you'll see that the Box Tool gets activated. This is how it works with all the other Tools that have a key assigned to them as well.
If you would like to assign a shortcut to a Tool that perhaps doesn't have one, hit "alt+F9" on your keyboard and you will get a list over all the Tools available, and a list over all the keys on your keyboard. You can also access certain setting panels from the "Modeler" pull-down menu at the top left of Modeler.
Lightwave comes with lots of Plugins that you need to get things working properly. We will start by installing these in Modeler. At the top left of the Modeler window, you should see a button named "Modeler". If you click this one with your Left Mouse Button, you will get a small menu with a few sections and options. One of the sections is named "Plug-ins", so click that one and a sub-menu will appear. From this sub-menu, select "Edit Plug-ins".
A Panel will appear and this is where you control your Plugins. If you didn't install your Plugins already, we will do it now. Click the "Scan Directory" button on the right of this Panel, and a browser window will appear. Browse to your Lightwave Directory (on your harddrive) and find the Folder named "Plugins", simply just mark this Folder and click OK. Lightwave will now install all the Plugins it will find automatically. When it's done you can simply close down the Plug-ins Panel.
Display Options
Modeler has got four Viewports by default. Each of these Viewports can have their own unique settings. Open up the Display Options panel by hitting "d" on your keyboard, it should look something like picture 5.
Picture 5: Display Options Panel
The first tab called "Layout" in this panel contains a few global settings. This means that if you change something here it will take place in all of the Viewports. As you can see I've turned off a few options here, and this is just my own preference. What we will change though, is the Top Right Viewport (Perspective View) and how that one should appear. So to edit just one of the Viewports, click the "Viewports" Tab. The first thing to do here is choose which of the Viewports we want to edit, so click on the "TR" (Top Right) button to select that one, then use the options that picture 6 are showing.
Picture 6: The settings for the Top Right Viewport
Once you've entered all the settings here, just click OK to save it, and if you look at the perspective view now, it should look something like picture 7.
Picture 7: The Top Right View/The Perspective View
There are a few more things we are going to change in the Display Options Panel, so hit "d" once more to bring it up again. Click the last Tab - "Units", then use the settings shown in picture 8.
Picture 8: The Units settings
Once you're done with these settings, click OK again to save the changes.
Each Viewport has got a Pan, Rotate and Zoom Tool, and a variety of render modes, picture 9 shows the Toolbar for one of the Viewports.
Picture 9: Viewport Tools
As you can see on picture 9, this view is set to "Top XZ", but you can easily change it to any of the others by using this pull-down menu. Just to the right of the View menu you can select what type of Render Mode you wish to use for that view, such as Wireframe, Smooth Shaded and so on. The Pan Tool lets you Pan the Viewport, and if you prefer to use the mouse and keyboard, just hold down the "Alt" key while you click inside the view with your Left Mouse Button and drag it around. The Rotate Tool only works in the Perspective View. In any Perspective view you have, you can also hold down the "Alt" key while dragging in the view, which will work as a Rotate Tool. The Zoom Tool will zoom in or out using the centre of the view as a target.
Modes & Tools
At the bottom of Modeler, you should see two buttons named "Points" and "Polygons". These are the two modes of Modeler, and will give you more control over what you are doing when you model your objects. If you read the first part of this Guide then you should know what Points & Polygons are, otherwise, move back and read it. It is essential that you know what Points and Polygons are if you want to get anywhere with modelling.
The Tools that come with Modeler, has been nicely categorised under the Tabs, just above the Top Left Viewport. The "Create" Tab is open by default when you load Modeler, and if you click any of the other ones, you should see that the Tools to the left of Modeler changes. To activate a Tool, simply click on it once. Activate the Box Tool in the "Create" Tab now. If you move your mouse over any of the Viewports now you can see that the mouse pointer has turned in to a small 3D box. The same thing happens with the other Primitive Object Tools, the Ball Tool turns into a small ball, the Disc Tool into a small cylinder and so on. To Deactivate a Tool simply click it again or hit "Space" on your keyboard. We are going to go through the most common tools a bit later in this Guide, to get to know them better.
The Numeric Panel
Almost every Tool in Modeler comes with a Numeric Panel. This panel lets you enter exact values of how you want the final result to turn out. For example, using the Numeric Panel when you have the Box Tool activated lets you enter exact values of how big the box should be, and if you're using it when you have the Move Tool activated, you can enter an exact value as to how much you want to move the object and so on.
Activate the Box Tool and hit "n" on your keyboard. Once you hit "n" the Numeric Panel will come up showing you default values of the Tool you selected, in this case the Box Tool. Once you activated the Numeric Panel, a box was created in real-time in the ViewPorts of Modeler, and as you make changes in the Numeric Panel, it will affect the Box in the ViewPorts. Close down the Numeric Panel by clicking "n" once more (or by clicking the "X" at the top right of the Numeric Panel window), and then hit "Space" on your keyboard to deactivate the Box Tool and to create the Box. Don't delete this box; we'll need it later on.
The Hub
The Hub is what Lightwave uses to communicate between the Layout and the Modeler. When you've finished modelling your objects for instance, simply send them to layout via the Hub. This increases the workflow even more, and makes Lightwave more like one program instead of two. As soon as you start Lightwave up, the Hub will automatically start running, you'll notice a small green icon in the System Tray. If you don't have enough ram in your machine, and Lightwave tends to get slow after a whiles usage, then you can turn the Hub off via the System Tray, its requirements are pretty high.
If you would like to run without the Hub permanently, then do the following steps. Add two shortcuts to Layout and Modeler in your Windows hotbar (down where the Start menu is). Right click the Layout shortcut and select Properties. In the Window that comes up, you should have a "Target" string, indicating where on your harddrive the executables are. In the end of this string, add "-0", making it look something like:
...Newtek\Programs\Lightwav.exe -0
Do the same with the Modeler shortcut, and the next time you run either of them, the Hub will not start automatically, saving you lots of RAM.
Objects & Layers
You can have many objects loaded at the same time in Modeler, and just above the Top Right Viewport you should see a pull-down menu where it currently says "Unnamed". This is the object you are working on at the moment, and if you have more than one object loaded in Modeler, you can switch to which one you wish to work with here.
To give you even more control over your objects while you work with them, Modeler brings you Layers. Each object can have 990 layers, and this is more than plenty. Just above the Top Right Viewport you should see 10 small boxes, and these are the layers. Picture 10 shows the Layer Tools.
Picture 10: The Layer Tools
The one to the very left is lit up with a yellow colour, which means that it is active. As you can see there's a little black dot in this Layer. Remember the Box we created earlier? Well, the little black dot indicates that this layer has got an object in it.
If you look at picture 11 you will see that each of these boxes is divided in two. The Top part indicates Foreground Layer, and the Bottom part indicates Background Layer.
Picture 11: A Closer look on the Layers
One of the new things since LW6.5 are the Layer Groups. Earlier you could only have 10 layers per objects, but with this feature you can have 990. 10 Layers per group and a total of 99 groups. Picture 12 shows the Layer Groups.
Picture 12: The Layer Groups
Lightwave Universe
Both Modeler and Layout has something called Lightwave Universe, and the Universe has got a centre spot. As you can see in the four views of Modeler, there are two lines in the grid pattern that are a bit thicker than the others. Where these two meet, that's the exact centre. The values for X, Y and Z here are all zero.
Working in the Bottom Left Viewport, put your mouse pointer at the exact centre and watch the Position Window. It should look something like picture 13.
Picture 13: Closer look at the Axes
The red dot in the middle of the View indicates the centre of the Universe, and as you can see in the Position window, the values are both zero there. The picture also shows that each axis has got a negative and positive side. In my example I'm using the "Back" View, or the Bottom Left Viewport, and this viewport shows the X and Y axis. Left of the vertical centre line you have the negative X, and on the right you have the positive X. Below the horizontal centre line you have the negative Y, and above you have the positive Y. Does it sound hard? Well, I've made a few pictures to ease things up a bit.
Picture 14 shows 4 different positions for the mouse pointer, which is indicated by the little red dot. Note that the Grid Size is set to 500mm, and therefore each square in the grid pattern indicates 500x500 millimetres of space.
All of the views in picture 14 show the Back View (Bottom Left Viewport), and you can try this out yourself by just moving your mouse pointer in the Viewport.
There you have some information on how Modeler is built up and how things work in general. We will now start the main Tutorial, and while we go along we will do a few smaller tutorials on the tools we use etc.
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v27 v28 1 == Using SCSI Persistent Reservations with Red Hat Cluster Suite == 1 == Using SCSI Persistent Reservations with Red Hat Cluster Suite == 2 2 === 1 Introduction === 3 3 When cluster nodes share storage devices, it is necessary to control access to the storage devices. In the event of a node failure, the failed not should not have access to the underlying storage devices. SCSI persistent reservations provide the capability to control the access of each node to shared storage devices. Red Hat Cluster Suite employs SCSI persistent reservations as a fencing methods through the use of the fence_scsi agent. The fence_scsi agent provides a method to revoke access to shared storage devices, provided that the storage support SCSI persistent reservations. … … 31 31 In order to use SCSI persistent reservations as a fencing method, all shared storage must use LVM2 cluster volumes. In addition, all devices within these volumes must be SPC-3 compliant. SCSI-2 devices are not supported. If you are unsure if your cluster and shared storage environment meets these requirements, a script is available to determine if your shared storage devices are capable of using SCSI persistent reservations. See section 5.1. 32 32 33 === 4 Limitations === 33 === 4 Limitations === 34 34 In addition to these requirements, fencing by way of SCSI persistent reservations also some limitations. 35 35 … … 42 42 * Devices used for the cluster volumes should be a complete LUN, not partitions. SCSI persistent reservations work on an entire LUN, meaning that access is controlled to each LUN, not individual partitions. 43 43 44 * fence_scsi can not be used in a 2-node cluster [[http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=cluster.git;a=commit;h=66c513bfc91bdd325c3620b4da9c66d5028fcf23|yet]]. 44 * fence_scsi can. 45 45 46 * fence_scsi cannot be easily used with qdiskd in a predictable manner today 47 * Predictability can be enhanced utilizing Eduardo Damato's patches: 48 * STABLE3 branch: [[http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=cluster.git;a=commit;h=66747c23e6791b7a3360c85f36ad4c865ebea7d4|1]] [[http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=cluster.git;a=commit;h=710af80f016ce390f957c3726c1825411598d2c8|2]] [[http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=cluster.git;a=commit;h=305b7f1c01f195d0df069eadf805433d522e789e|3]] 49 * RHEL5 branch: [[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511113|bug 511113]] 50 * the qdiskd LUN must be separate from CLVM LUNs or else qdiskd will require quorum to start, causing a chicken-and-egg problem 51 * doing this means your quorum disk will ''not'' get fenced when the rest of the LUNs are fenced 52 * a clever heuristic could be used to detect loss of ''other'' LUNs 46 * fence_scsi can be used with qdiskd only in RHEL 5.4.z and later. The qdiskd LUN must be separate from CLVM LUNs (see qdisk man page section 1.4 "Limitations" for more information). The reason for this limitation is the prevent the quorum disk from being fenced with the other LUNs are fenced. 53 47 54 48 To assist with finding and detecting devices which are (or are not) suitable for use with fence_scsi, a tool has been provided. The fence_scsi_test script will find devices visible to the node and report whether or not they are compatible with SCSI persistent reservations.

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Well, this an unexpected road block…
Went to work on today's Ebin & May page… only to find I was out of paper. Doh! Totally my bad – I should have checked paper stocks earlier. Alas, because my van, Circie, is in the shop, I am unable to go over to my favorite paper store and get more until the weekend, when I'll have driving access to Ken.
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In Slate Richard Whitmire and I take a look at the big implications of what so far is a small fight over charters in New York City:
From the rhetoric, you'd think de Blasio had personally bounced kids out of charter schools across all five boroughs. In fact, in his first executive action on the issue, he blocked only three expansions, but in the process managed to anger charter supporters with his tactics and allowed centrist Democrats such as Gov. Andrew Cuomo to score points by portraying him as an ideologue. De Blasio also finds himself in a pretty lonely situation: By going after the charters, he is attacking one of the most promising urban school reform strategies available to Democratic mayors across the country these days, and he's doing it without offering a clear alternative…
…If de Blasio can figure out how to regain momentum and harness progressive support to improve schools in New York City—taking the rough edges off of Mayor Bloomberg–era policies and hewing a different path from reformist Democratic mayors—that would change the terms of the national education debate. If de Blasio can't produce political and educational results, he will deal a devastating blow to the national anti-reform movement. That's why so much is riding on who comes out on top.


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you could just buy the game.
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change it in the pause menu
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ya but then your stuck on automatic with all the assist on which i guess for some people is fin but i find it so boring.
Is there any word on customizing your car?
just to let you know the road you were saying you could "free roam" on is a road you can drive on in the demo.
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According to the company: "Due to extremely limited supply, we expect to reach our quota quickly, in minutes."
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Botros, Sylvia M. MD; Abramov, Yoram MD; Miller, Jay-James R. MD; Sand, Peter K. MD; Gandhi, Sanjay MD; Nickolov, Angel MS; Goldberg, Roger P. MD
From the 1Division of Urogynecology, Evanston Continence Center, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Evanston, Illinois; 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Carmel Medical Center, Technion University School of Medicine, Haifa, Israel; 3Center on Outcomes Research and Education, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois; and 4North Shore Urogynecology, Lake Forest, Illinois.
Corresponding author: Sylvia M. Botros, MD, 1000 Central Street, Suite 730, Evanston, IL 60201; e-mail: email@example.com.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of childbirth on female sexual function by using an identical twin study design.
METHODS: A survey including the Pelvic Organ Prolapse/Urinary Incontinence Sexual Questionnaire (PISQ-12) was administered to 542 twin sisters, and PISQ-12 scores of 29 twin pairs discordant for parity were compared. Multiple linear regression models were used to evaluate impact on total PISQ-12 scores in 276 identical, sexually active twins. Three models were used 1) to evaluate the effect of parity and general risk factors, 2) to examine the impact of birth mode, and 3) to examine the role of episiotomy and operative delivery.
RESULTS: Mean PISQ-12 scores were significantly higher for discordant nulliparous twins than for parous twins (102.5 versus 93.5, P < .001). The mean (standard deviation) PISQ-12 score was 99.3 (11.7). Age of 50 years or older (difference in mean scores –5.4, P = .019), stress urinary incontinence (−3.3, P = .02), urge urinary incontinence (−5.9, P < .001), parity (−6.5, P < .001), and fecal incontinence (−5.7, P = .048) were associated with decreased mean PISQ scores in the univariable analysis. Parity (−4.9, P < .001) and urge urinary incontinence (−4.3, P = .009) were the only factors remaining independently predictive of diminished sexual function in the multivariable analysis. Mode of delivery did not significantly affect mean PISQ scores (P = .763). Among women who had vaginal deliveries only, neither episiotomy nor operative delivery was associated with change in PISQ scores (P = .553).
CONCLUSION: Nulliparous women reported superior sexual satisfaction scores compared with parous women, regardless of age and mode of delivery. Childbirth appears to have a lasting impact on sexual function, due to psychological more than physical factors, well beyond the postpartum period.
Female sexual function is an important quality-of-life issue and is influenced by a variety of psychological, relational, and physical factors.1 Childbirth represents a central event in a woman's reproductive lifetime, in physical and psychosocial terms, with the potential to impact female sexual function across all of its domains. Although up to 25% of women report diminished sexual function that persists at 6 months postpartum,2,3 no prior studies have focused on the potential long-term sexual repercussions of childbirth.
Sexual function represents a key aspect of female pelvic health, which has only very recently emerged as an openly discussed subject. Barrett et al3 demonstrated that only 15% of women with a sexual problem postnatally reported discussing it with a health care professional. Many women, and indeed many physicians—possibly due to paucity of information4—have been reluctant or too embarrassed to confront these inherently private physical and functional changes.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term effects of childbirth and mode of delivery on sexual function by using an identical twin study design. This design provides a "biologic" control group that eliminates genetic variance, and thus provides unique insight into the impact of environmental risk factors. Our aim was to compare the sexual function scores of twins who had children with those of their counterparts who did not, and to compare the scores of parous twins who delivered by different modalities.
An extensive survey including demographic, historical, and obstetric information as well as validated questionnaires was administered to 342 twin sister pairs (n = 682) of whom 271 pairs (n = 542) were monozygotic. The questionnaires included in the survey were the short form of the Pelvic Organ Prolapse/Urinary Incontinence Sexual Questionnaire (PISQ-12), the short form of the Incontinence Impact Questionnaire, and the Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory. Data were obtained at the 2003 and 2004 Twins Day Festival, the world's largest annual gathering of twins in Twinsburg, Ohio.
In 2004, subjects were asked if they had filled out the survey in the prior year and were refused participation if they had. Each participant anonymously completed the survey without assistance by the physicians and research assistants administering the study. Sociodemographic, environmental, surgical, and obstetric factors were analyzed for possible impact on total PISQ-12 scores and individual items.
The PISQ was previously developed and validated to evaluate the effects of urogynecologic symptoms on sexual function in patients with urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse. The 12-item short form was validated in 2003.5 Each question receives a score from 0 to 4, with higher scores indicating better sexual function. The 31-item questionnaire can be subcategorized into 3 domains: emotional, physical, and partner related.6 For this study, using the short form, subcategories were analyzed by individual questions in the PISQ-12 as recommended by Rogers et al.5
Introductory questions to the PISQ-12 were administered to obtain information about current sexual activity or reasons for absence of sexual activity. Only subjects who were currently or recently (within 6 months) sexually active were instructed to complete the PISQ-12. A logistic regression analysis was performed to identify predictors of sexual activity in the sample of 271 monozygotic twin sister pairs. A subset of this population, 138 identical twin pairs (n = 276), was identified in which both sisters were sexually active and were included in the majority of analyses. Only the findings related to sexual function are presented in this article. Findings regarding urinary incontinence and anal incontinence have been previously reported.7,8
A further subset of 29 twin pairs discordant for parity was identified in the data set and comparison of mean PISQ-12 scores were performed using the paired 2-tailed t test.
To evaluate multiple covariates, a regression model with all sexually active monozygotic twin pairs was created. After univariable analysis, stepwise multivariable linear regression models for repeated measures were used to account for correlated data within twin pairs.9 Three models were used: 1) 138 sexually active identical twin pairs (n = 276), to evaluate the effect of parity and general risk factors; 2) 98 sexually active parous-parous twin pairs (n = 196), to examine the impact of birth mode; and 3) 76 sexually active twin pairs with previous vaginal deliveries only (n = 152), to examine the role of episiotomy and operative delivery.
Further linear regression analyses were performed using the answers to individual questions from the PISQ-12 as outcomes to evaluate emotional, physical, and relational parameters. A P value of .05 or less was considered statistically significant. Data were analyzed with SAS version 8.2 (SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, NC). Institutional review board approval was obtained from the Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute before implementation of the study.
Of the 271 monozygotic twin pairs (n = 542), 352 (65%) twins were sexually active and 190 (35%) were not sexually active. Women who were sexually active were more likely to be premenopausal and multiparous (Table 1). Reported reasons for no sexual activity were lack of a partner (68%), lack of desire (11%), partner's impotence (7%), partner's lack of desire (2%), and multiple or other reasons (12%). Less than 0.5% of women cited pain or irritation as a reason for not having sexual relations.
Twenty-nine twin pairs discordant for parity were identified in the data set. The parous and nonparous twins were similar in terms of age, body mass index (BMI), prior surgery, and stress incontinence. They were not similar in terms of urge incontinence; 32% of parous twins had urge urinary incontinence compared with 7% of nonparous twins (P = .008). Mean PISQ-12 scores were compared between groups and parous twins scored significantly lower than nonparous twins (93.5 ± 11.5 versus 102.5 ± 15.5, P < .001).
Among the 138 sexually active twin pairs, 99.6% fully completed all portions of the sexual questionnaire. Demographic and obstetric characteristics of the study sample (138 twin pairs), including modes of delivery, are presented in Table 2. Among sexually active women, 13.4% stated that they seldom or never felt sexual desire, 16.7% seldom or never climaxed, 6.4% seldom or never felt excitement with intercourse, 7% usually or always had pain, and 2% usually or always had leakage during intercourse (Table 3).
The mean (standard deviation) PISQ-12 score was 99.3 (11.7). Age of 50 years or older (difference in mean PISQ score −5.4, P = .019), stress urinary incontinence (–3.3, P = .02), urge urinary incontinence (−5.9, P < .001), parity (−6.5, P < .001), and fecal incontinence (−5.7, P = .048) were associated with decreased mean PISQ scores in the univariable analysis. In the multivariable regression analysis, parity (P < .001) and urge urinary incontinence (P = .009) were the only factors remaining independently predictive of diminished sexual function. Significantly higher mean scores were observed for nulliparous women compared with primiparous women (105.5 versus 99.5, −5.3 P < .001) and multiparous women (105.5 versus 100.6, −4.93, P < .001) in the multivariate analysis. (Table 4)
Model B, comparing twin pairs in which both sisters had given birth regardless of delivery mode, revealed that mode of delivery did not significantly affect sexual quality of life according to mean PISQ scores (P = .763). Among twin sister pairs in which both had delivered by vaginal route only (model C), neither episiotomy nor operative delivery was associated with change in sexual quality-of-life score (P = .553). Other factors found to not significantly impact sexual function included weight of largest baby, BMI, and hysterectomy (Table 4).
Multivariable linear regression analyses were also performed on individual questions in the PISQ-12 questionnaire, to gain insight into the effect of parity on specific domains of sexual function. Parity (−1.09, P = .007) and fecal incontinence (−1.74, P = .0001) were predictive of decreased sexual desire. In addition, increasing parity and age were predictive of decreased feelings of excitement at the time of intercourse. Parity did not affect patient reports of dyspareunia, leakage with intercourse, erectile dysfunction, or change in orgasm from 6 months prior.
Sexual function is multidimensional and is affected by psychological, physical, and relational factors.1 The majority of studies evaluating the effects of childbirth on sexual function have focused on immediate physical effects, namely episiotomy,2,10,11 and their conclusions are conflicting. Whereas some studies indicate no difference in short-term sexual function among women who have undergone vaginal delivery versus those delivering by cesarean,12,13 long-term sexual function after these two modes of delivery has not been compared. Even fewer studies have focused on emotional or partner-related aspects of sexual dysfunction specific to childbearing women.12,14 Certainly, for some individuals the psychological strains of parenting may represent a contributing cause for diminished frequency and desire.
Upon evaluating the psychological aspects of sexual function, previous investigators have demonstrated decreased sexual desire and frequency of intercourse within the first year after childbirth.3,15 Few studies, however, have assessed the specific reasons underlying these changes, or how long they persist. Barret et al3 demonstrated that sexual desire initially decreased at 3 months postpartum, and then increased at 6 months postpartum without fully returning to prepartum levels. Their follow-up period, however, did not extend beyond 6 months postpartum. Waterstone et al16 found that common reasons for not reestablishing intercourse after childbirth included lack of a partner, lack of interest, and concern relating to possible genital tenderness or pain. Interestingly, women who suffered severe obstetric morbidity were more likely to list fear of becoming pregnant again as a reason for decreased frequency of intercourse.
We found that decreased sexual desire and excitement were the two sexual function domains most significantly impacted by previous childbirth. Interestingly, mode of delivery (vaginal or cesarean) played no obvious role. In other words, the components of sexual quality of life significantly impacted by childbirth appear to be psychological rather than physical. Previous childbirth did not predispose to pain, anorgasmia, or any other discrete physical complaint within our cohort. We found that neither episiotomy nor mode of delivery significantly impacted the risk of dyspareunia, in agreement with some previous reports.13,17 Hannah et al13 reported, at the 2-year follow-up, that mode of delivery did not affect sexual function in a randomized control trial comparing breech vaginal delivery to breech cesarean section. Similarly, Hartmann et al17 in a meta-analysis comparing routine versus restrictive use of episiotomy, found that routine use of episiotomy did not increase the risk of dyspareunia. In contrast, Signorello et al2 found that at 6 months postpartum the strongest risk factor for dyspareunia was breastfeeding, and instrumental delivery was also a significant predictor of dyspareunia.
Few studies have evaluated partner-related factors in relation to decreased sexual function. Byrd et al12 evaluated pregnant women and their partners at 4 time points during pregnancy, and observed good correlation between the answers of women and their partners. Von Sydow et al14 performed a meta-analysis encompassing most studies relating to sexuality and pregnancy, parenting or childbirth. They found few articles addressing the partners of women who gave birth, and no studies comparing the sexual function of parous women with that of childless women or couples. With respect to "partner issues," we noted an increase in premature ejaculation among partners of women who gave birth. This finding, however, did not remain significant in the multivariate analysis.
We performed a Medline and MD Consult search for articles in English published between 1966 and October 2005 using the search terms "sexual function," "sexual dysfunction," "sexuality," "childbirth," "parity," "parenting," "twin studies," and "adoption studies." To our knowledge, this study is the first to compare sexual function of parous and nonparous women, and the first to evaluate the potential impact of childbirth on sexual function years after the postpartum period. Moreover, the identical twin study design provides "biologic control" over known and unknown genetic determinants, and thus a unique opportunity to identify the impact of environmental predictors (eg, parity and birth mode) on the disease outcome of interest (eg, sexual dysfunction). Using this study design, we demonstrated that parous women have lower self-reported sexual function scores than women without children. In previous studies, lower scores on the PISQ were associated with decreased frequency of intercourse and increased likelihood of restricting sexual intercourse.18,19
Given that parous women report decreased sexual function scores well beyond the postpartum period, the question arises whether these findings are primarily related to physical aftereffects of childbirth, to the psychosocial and relational impact of rearing a child, or both. Although emotional rather than physical domains appeared to be the key factors within our cohort, the design of our study—while providing the first insight into this question—does not allow us to reach definitive conclusions. Future studies comparing the sexual function of women who gave birth with those who adopted children may help to clarify whether physical changes to the pelvic floor play a significant role.
One limitation of our study is that the PISQ-12 has not been validated in women without urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse. The original PISQ had 2 phases of validation. The first took place in women without urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse for generalizability of the instrument. We recognize the lack of validation in a general population as an inherent limitation of our study, but think that the PISQ-12 was the appropriate instrument because over 50% of our sample has self-reported urinary incontinence. It remains unclear whether depression could have played a role in the decreased sexual quality-of-life scores among postpartum women. Indeed, it has been demonstrated that depressed patients tend to report lower scores on the PISQ.5 The vast majority of respondents in our sample, however, were well beyond the postpartum period. Nonetheless, we have included a depression inventory in our survey to be administered at upcoming twin conferences to evaluate general mental health status within this population.
In conclusion, this study of 276 identical twin sisters provides new insight into female sexual dysfunction, and its "environmental" and obstetric determinants. Nulliparous women reported superior sexual function when compared with their biologically identical counterparts, regardless of their age, and irrespective of their mode of delivery. Obstetrical interventions, including episiotomy and forceps, demonstrated no impact on subsequent sexual function for better or worse. Having a child appears to have a lasting impact on sexual function—apparently due to emotional and relational factors, more than to discrete physical injury to the pelvic floor—that extends well beyond the postpartum period.
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Here we are in the last days of August, the weather is still beautiful outside, and already I have spent more time in a hockey rink than I did most of last year.
Having returned to the media mid-way through the winter last season, I missed all of the training camps and starts to the multitude of hockey seasons in Prince Albert, but that is not the case this year.
When the ice was first put back in the Art Hauser Centre earlier this month, the NorSask Hockey Development Camp was held for nine days and my friends Mark Odnokon and Arte Feher put in some long days getting various groups of players ready for the upcoming season.
I went up there a couple of times and in the process generated several stories about local players who are preparing to take off and play in various locations around North America. Arte was especially helpful as he pointed out some of the kids who were training as I was pretty unfamiliar with the local talent having been away from these circles for so long.
Next, the Prince Albert Mintos officially began their new era under head coach Ken Morrison on one of the hottest weekends of the summer. After spending several hours in blistering heat watching provincial soccer at Prime Ministers' Park, I went inside the rink to take part in the Mintos training camp and Morrison graciously filled me in on how the team was shaping up.
Then the Prince Albert Raiders started getting ready for their camp, which is presently in full swing with the rookies auditioning their talents and the main camp taking over the spotlight this weekend.
Again, I went up to the rink a number of times to talk to general manager Bruno Campese and new assistant coach Tim Leonard. Their enthusiasm for what lies ahead is contagious as normally I would be at the lake during weather like this, but I don't mind for a second being at the rink because I believe that the Raiders are on the right track to having something pretty special this year and I am very happy to be a part of it.
The same goes for the A&W Bears who last weekend had their largest fall training camp to date. Head coach Jeff Willoughby was thrilled with the talent available and he too believes this is their year.
The Ice Hawks don't hit the ice for another couple of weeks and all of the developmental teams in the Prince Albert Minor Hockey Association will soon be getting ready for another campaign.
Last week I went through all of the schedules and got them all together in a book for me to carry around. My winter is looking pretty full and I don't even have every team penned in yet — and that is just hockey!
High school and junior high school sports will start next week with the return of the students from their summer break and there are still so many people to do feature articles on.
There is still a lot of golf left to play and hopefully some fish to catch, but it is getting pretty obvious to me that my new home is going to be a cold arena so I plan on enjoying every moment outside that I can.
But, when the hockey season does hit full stride I plan on being there every step of the way. I think it is going to be a truly amazing winter as every local team should be a contender and hockey fans in this area can expect a lot of success on the ice. I can't wait!
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The Auburn Tigers play their first SEC road game on Saturday when they face the No. 9 South Carolina Gamecocks. The teams meet after last facing each other in the 2010 SEC title game.
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Professor Krishnan's main areas of interest are strategy and innovation. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2008), and at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad (2011-12). He held the Jamuna Raghavan Chair in Entrepreneurship at IIMB from 2007-10.
Professor Krishnan writes extensively, and has more than 140 publications spanning outlets that include refereed journals, the popular press, case studies, book chapters, and books. These include two books on innovation: From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation: The Challenge for India, published in February 2010, and 8 Steps to Innovation: Going from Jugaad to Excellence (co-authored with Vinay Dabholkar, and published by HarperCollins in March 2013). The latter won the Best Book Award 2013-14 from the Indian Society for Training and Development.
He was listed among the Thinkers50 India, the most influential thinkers in management from India (2013) and jointly received the special Thinkers50 India Innovation award (2013). Earlier, he received the Dewang Mehta Award for Best Teacher in Strategic Management in 2010.
Professor Krishnan has served on a number of committees set up by the Government of India, Nasscom and CII, related to innovation in India, including the juries for the Nasscom and CII Innovation awards.


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Frank Vincent Zappa was born on 21 December 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. His parents were second-generation Sicilian Greeks, the family had arabian and french origins too. His father played strolling crooner guitar. At the age of 12 Frank, who had relocated to California with his family, became interested in drums, learning orchestral percussion at summer school in Monterey. In high school he had some more harmony training because he was an unruly senior, and was given permission to take some harmony classes to occupy his mind with. In fact, he found the training very boring. The first time he had any of his music performed was at Mount St. Mary's College in 1962 - an all oddball, textured weirdo stuff, that didn't sound at all like music is supposed to sound; still, the thing was actually taped and broadcast by KPFK.Read more
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This print started out as a baseball card more than twenty years ago. Every aspect of it is designed to preserve the original look and feel of the card, from the printing pattern to the slightly worn edges. In fact, this print started by finding the actual card in our vault and then painstakingly re-mastering it with a team of designers. The authenticity extends to manufacturing; each print is made on high-quality, cotton fine art paper that measures 1/64 inches in thickness. Framed prints feature 2-inch flat wood or metallic frames with high-end, glare-resistant glass. And all prints are officially licensed by MLB and the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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We strengthen Switzerland as a location for innovation and business by connecting both our own and associated initiatives for the Kick Program and creating optimum links and interfaces in order to accelerate the innovation process.
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Ben is a Regional Vice President – Nonqualified Plans (RVP-NQP) with the Principal Financial Group® (The Principal®) and assists advisors and corporate sponsors with installing successful nonqualified deferred compensation benefit plans.
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Thomas J. Kozelka is Director, Advisor Solutions Group for Pennsylvania. He has also served as Director for Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. Prior to joining Janus in October 2004, he was a Regional Vice President at Dreyfus Corporation. During his 14 years of experience in the financial services industry, Thomas has also worked at BlackRock as a Regional Vice President and at J&W Seligman as a Marketing Representative. He is a graduate of Gettysburg College, where he earned a B.A. in Political Science. He resides in West Chester, Pennsylvania, with his wife and three children.
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Prior to joining NELGPC, Chuck founded a fiduciary risk management benefits consulting firm to help employers control the liability related to the sponsorship of employee pension and benefit plans. At various times in his career, Chuck has been a partner in a large corporate law firm, trust and benefits counsel for a large regional bank, and worked for the two government agencies principally responsible for the regulation of benefit plans, the IRS and the U.S. Department of Labor. Chuck has extensive experience representing private and public companies and governmental and not-for-profit entities in a wide range of pension and benefit issues including qualified retirement, executive compensation, and health and welfare benefit plans. He consults on plan design, taxation, plan administration and plan compliance issues. He also assists clients with employee benefit issues in corporate mergers and acquisitions, in pension plan terminations, and in similar transactions.
Chuck maintains a strong interest in the development of rational federal benefits plan policy, and he is a member of various committees that liaison with the IRS and the U.S. Department of Labor to make compliance with the pension and benefits plan laws more reasonable for business. He frequently lectures on various topics, including his favorites, fiduciary responsibility and health care reform. He is a member of the IRS Pension Liaison Committee and the New England Employee Benefits Council.
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Fisher Student-Athletes Take Part in Annual Winter Walk
Student-athletes from St. John Fisher College and Nazareth College teamed up on Sunday, February 16, to host the 5th Annual Winter Walk for Strong kids raising over $1,700 to benefit the Golisano Children's Hospital.
The event took place at the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Athletic Center and included a short kid-friendly walk around campus followed by fun activities indoors including carnival games, cookie decorating, and a bounce house.
The Winter Walk, which is organized each year by the Student Athlete Advisory Committees of the two schools in conjunction with the Battle of the Beaks campaign, utilizes the Fisher and Nazareth rivalry to raise donations for the Golisano Children's Hospital.
On the court last Friday evening, Fisher defeated Nazareth on the men's side 67-65 and the Fisher women followed it up with a 66-57 win.
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Vince Neil Has Surgery To Remove Kidney Stones
After doubling over in pain during a concert in Sydney, Australia, over the weekend, Motley Crue star Vince Neil has undergone surgery to remove kidney stones.
The band was forced to cut their gig short on Sunday, and the frontman was hospitalized. The group's manager Allen Kovac stated that Neil had been been experiencing health problems "for the last few days."
Bandmade Nikki Sixx posted on Facebook: "As many have heard we had to cut our set short by 4 songs... due to Vince be (sic) in severe pain on stage. He was doubled over on his dressing room floor 5 minutes till show time and was told by the promoter to not even play but Vince said he couldn't do that to the fans.
"I've seen Vinnie go onstage with broken bones, his voice completely blown out and torn ligaments but he never ever cancels...Just like an athlete you sometimes have to play through the pain but last night it became to (sic) excruciating.
"I was texting with Vince most of the night last night as he was just waiting for the doctor to come back with the test results. This morning we found out he had to be admitted into surgery to remove kidney stones. He just got out 5 minutes ago and the doctors said everything went well in the operating room. I am going to the hospital to see him before I head to Brisbane."
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Experimental philosophy is largely taken up by experimental methods to find out what peoples' intuitions are concerning topics of philosophical interest. Why should philosophers care about experimental philosophy? As best I can tell, the answer to that question is bound up with an answer to the following question. Why do philosophers care about intuitions? As best as I can tell what the answer to that question is, it has something to do with philosophers' (perhaps tacit) acceptance of the following analogy between philosophy and natural science: intuitions are to philosophical theories what observations are to scientific theories. Scientific theories are supposed to offer simple and coherent explanations of past observations and are tested by their ability to predict future observations. Mutatis mutandis for philosophical theories and intuitions. Suppose that it is indeed intuitive that on TwinEarth "water" means XYZ not H20. Explanation: meanings are determined by causal-historical chains. Prediction: we would say of Swampman (a creature bearing no causal historical relations to anything) that his utterances mean nothing. If that Swampman proposition strikes lots of people as highly un-intuitive, then externalism faces, if not a refutation, then at least a challenge. So the story goes. And if the story had a title it would be something like "Philosophy is Conceptual Analysis".
The view that philosophy is conceptual analysis is a hypothesis that is supposed to explain how philosophers can come to know stuff by just thinking. Philosophers, I guess, are different from natural scientists who know stuff by looking. (This is, of course, a terrible distinction, but let's run with it for the sake of argument.) It might turn out, though, that the hypothesis that philosophy is conceptual analysis is a bad hypothesis. One consideration against it is that maybe concepts don't have analyses. Another consideration is that maybe there are no such things as intuitions (as a distinctive kind of mental state). I won't pursue these sorts of considerations much here. More interesting to me is the following. There are lots of times in which knowledge is gotten by thinking. Lots of math answers to this description. And parts of physics, like the thought experiments of Galileo and Einstein, answer to this description as well. However, in neither case is the hypothesis that what's going on is conceptual analysis very promising. And more to the point concerning experimental philosophy, in neither case would a scientific survey of people's intuitions help us learn anything about math or physics. To be sure, such surveys could yield data of interest to cognitive scientists re folk-math and folk-physics. Similarly, I'll grant, surveys of the folk concerning their intuitions about knowledge, meaning, and free-will might yield data of interest to cognitive scientists re folk-philosophy. But assuming that philosophy is as distinct from folk-philosophy as physics is from folk-physics, I still wonder why philosophers should care about experimental philosophy.
One intriguing answer to that question might be that the point of experimental philosophy for philosophy is to help us see that philosophy is not conceptual analysis. So if we didn't know whether philosophy was conceptual analysis, then, for example, finding out that people's intuitions vary widely about what names refer to might help convince us that the conceptual analysis hypothesis is a bad metaphilosophy for the philosophy of language. But suppose you are already convinced that philosophy isn't conceptual analysis. What point then, would there be for philosophers in the continued collection of data about people's intuitions? Perhaps the best answer is "none" and this can be brought out by a reassessment of the analogy between philosophy and natural science. Scientific observation in, e.g., chemistry, isn't collected by simply surveying the folk as to what they've observed about chemicals. The observations that scientific theories answer to are made by trained experts following procedures that are themselves highly informed by the bodies of theory the procedures are designed to test. An analogous view of philosophy casts it as the formulation of theories in light of judgments made by experts. In neither case should the snap judgments of non-experts count for much more than as data for a science of the snap judgments of non-experts.
Fig. 1. Socrates. Just standin' around. Thinkin'. Not surveying the intuitions of all the slave-boys in Athens.