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Last update : 24.11.2008:
Normal Mapping:
3D Studio Max :
How to model with various programs :
Texture Resource Sites:
http://www.psicosonic.net/index.php?zona=00products#zona - 25 free per day
http://www.mayang.com/textures/ - 20 files a day limit
Texture Tutorials (Photoshop) :
http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/Adobe_Photoshop/All/ really good
http://www.armedassault.info/index.php?cat=news&id=558&newlang=eng (to be used in/for ArmA only!)
ArmA specific tutorials :
http://forum.armedassault.info/index.php?showtopic=1144&st=0&gopid=26398&#entry26398 by ObmaR
http://www.armedassault.info/index.php?cat=articles&id=24&setlang=en by ObmaR
Island Making
General BIS addonmaking tutorials :
Wow good links D@nte... always our m8 you are!
here is another link:
I made a list for myself of my most used shortcuts for 3DSMAX:
posted by Araon from BIS, in the BIS forum
Seems to be pretty tough to create addons with normal-maps. But then, I am not really an experienced modeller.
I've been saying all along that it won't be as easy as people think (also to convert addons to ArmA standards), but would they listen? ....of course not....
Tutorial sites
Lots of links to blueprints & some tutorials on this forum.
Texture Resources
http://www.psicosonic.net/index.php?zona=00products#zona - 25 free per day
I did not know the first, thx
Does anyone know any good texturing tutorials, especially for clothing textures?
Clothing tutorials
i didn't find a link for this kind of tuts. but maybe, you could find what you need here: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=77484
Good, these will come useful for sure. Thanks!
More would be appriciated, of course...
what d o you need, photoshop tutorials? or 3dsmax tutorials?
photoshop tutorials:
I had forgotten these websites:
http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/Adobe_Photoshop/All/ really good
a browser for tutorials (good too)
These are all good tuts people there are quite a few i need to use
i have some videos and webtutorials related to the techniques involved here. i would recomend 2 kind of tutorials to you guys.
1- creating bumpmaps with greyscale textures- its really easy to do, and results are good. i think u need the nvdia plugin for photoshop. anyway i have that video tutorial link somewhere, but its in portuguese...but u can understand almost everything just by watching it.
2-creating normalmaps from the high resolution models- this is the process that gives us a way to extract the perfect normal maps textures, directly from a 200.000 tris model to a low resolution model. i use this daily, so i'm very pleased with the results. it gives a lot of work ( creating a very high resolution model), but worth the trouble. but i agree that modeling 2000 rivets isnt the smart option. u gota learn to mix techniques.
there are enough xsi tutorials for that, and even more tutorials for max i'm sure
i dont have any suport from softimage, but xsi is really the best software i could buy now. the essentials version costs only 500dolars!! xsi is a professional tool, that was market leader few years ago (in anination industry)...max isnt for my wallet, so my option went directly to xsi. i was a max user before, so i know all that max can give... the point here is the $ ...
cant wait to have the game in my hands...and the basic moding editor tools for the addons...
maybe one day i'll try to compile it, in english.who know...
i'll post links when i found them. cya all soon.
The problem is...
How many of Us can use 3DStudio max????
I still can't, since I create addons for COD2 and FarCry... but I just don't even know how to:
map a solid (even a cube)
it's not difficult, follow the tuts.
Ok, I'll do it! thanks
Well, ive been using 3ds max for about a year now, and im studying 'computer games design' at college using 3ds max etc. and all i can say is that it looks complicated, but when you have spent an hour or two in it, you will soon start to pick it up dont worry!
So for all those of you who wanna learn 3ds max, or who dont know much about it. Go out there and download the free trial! hop on to www.3dtotal.com and have a look at some of the tutorials. And i can promise you, you will be fast on your way!
Be confident, anyone can learn it!
i tried a while ago also with a trail-version...But 3d-moddeling is definately not my thing (enligh isn't either)
I'll stick to mission editing, coding and perhaps island making:D
GIMP 2.0 auto-creates normal maps I believe.
hum! i don't think, you need a plug-in like for photoshop.
u can get it here... http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/%7ecocidius/normalmap/
its very simple to use, but the results can be very tricky...all depends on the image ur starting from. the best option is start from a greyscale bump map image . if u start from a color image, u will have a normal map, but it wont have much "realism". it will calculate the normals anyway, but what's suposed to be "in" can show up "out" and viceversa.
so in gimp do this:
-open image
-go the layer panel and u will be looking to your image in an autocreated layer.
-right click the image in the layer panel and "add layer mask"---"grayscale copy of layer"
-now u will see there's a copy of the layer (greyscale) attached to the image in layer panel
-click the layer again and then go to "filters-maps-normal maps"
-a window pops out and u will see a preview of the normal map and some parameters to change. play around, raise the scale a bit. filter depends on the starting image and so do the other options. u can have a 3d preview, so my advise is click the light button and drag mouse around. it will simulate the light influence in the normal texture. when ur happy click done.
-voilá, u have a normal map now, but probably it will look faded, that's because of the mask u created before, so click on top of the maks layer (in the layer window) and remove your mask.
-now u'll have the normal map texture rdy to be saved and used.
like i said before, this is the more inacurate way of extracting normal maps. the best way is always extracting from a high resolution model to a low resolution. but if the starting map is a bump map texture, the results are very good.
i hope to start seeing some works here with this techniques, and some discussions about it. arma is almost on our machines, rdy to be moded
does anyone have any good UV mapping tutorials or programs?
Here is something:
Thanks Jukka, very useful tut there
Cheers SS I'll pass the link onto him
Rock on,
EDIT: User banned so post as been trashed
I decided to write this tutorial because I came into the deep process of normal and specular mapping with my ftp://www.armedassault.info/armad/addons/High_Def_Tropic_island_objects.exe.
The process isn't easy, since you should have experience with many graphic tools like Adobe Photoshop©, or Maya© and 3DStudio max©.
ArmA, unfortunately, use a different method of applying NormMap: you'll have to write some C++ code lines into your main config.cpp in order to define it, but I'll clear it up afterwards.
Some definition
Before starting, it would be good to make you understand what we are going to do:
Normal mapping: is the technique to replace the existing normals on model. It can be used to greatly enhance the appearance of a low poly model without using more polygons, so we could have a 2.000 poly model (very poor model) with a lot of details.
Specular mapping: basically in real life every highlight in an object is actually a reflection of a light source and specularity is a way to fake those reflections by placing a highlight in the position that the giving object would be reflecting the virtual light.
Bump Mapping: are textures that store an intensity, the relative height of pixels from the viewpoint of the camera. The pixels seem to be moved by the required distance in the direction of the face normals. You may either use greyscale pictures or the intensity values of a RGB-Texture.
Let's start!
Ok, in this tutorial, we are going to make a simple normal mapped cube with a texture applied to it.
I can assure the results will be very good.
Point 1: First of all, make sure you installed all the required tools:
Download and install http://www.kegetys.net/dl.php/tools30032007.zip
Download and install http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nv_texture_tools.html (for users with a NVIDIA GPU) OR Download and install http://www2.ati.com/developer/NormalMapper-3_2_2.zip (for users with an ATI GPU)
Point 2: Now Open your http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/index.html and create a new image, 256x256 px, and paint something like in this one:
(remember to have it in RGBA format, neither greyscale or other formats)
Point 3: Now save your Image as TGA, so: tex1.tga, 32 bits/pixels. Then open TexView 2 and save the file as tex1_co.paa
It's easy, cause in TexView 2, this extension means: color (difuse map)
Point 4: Now that the texture has been done, create a folder, call it BOX, and cut and paste the file in it. (se we have ..\BOX\tex1_co.paa)
open up Oxygen, create a new cube, and apply the texture. Save the model as box.p3d:
(if you can't use Oxygen, I invite you to follow http://ofp.gamepark.cz/_hosted/brsseb/tutorials.htm)
Point 5: Well, we created a very simple model (indeed for a tutorial we don't need a UBER 30000 poly one )
Cut and paste it into the BOX folder (as for texture tex1_co.paa).
And the little part of the addon has been done. Now let's proceed to the difficult one.
Creating Normal Maps
Since now, we've just created a simple cube that will appear very ugly in ArmA game:
Ok, let's proceed to make a lifting for it!
Point 1: Open up your Photoshop, and open the texture tex1_co.paa thanks to PAAplug by Kegetys.
Now, I have a NVIDIA Graphic Card, so I'll explain the process for NVIDIA USERS, even if I think for ATI USERS would be the same.
Go to the Photoshop menu Filter and then NVIDIA tools-->Normalmapfilter:
A new tab will come up, the NormMap filter interface: configure it as in the image below:
Then apply it:
Ok some explanation:
Filter type defines the size of the pixel depth.
Scale defines the pixel depth.
Average Source defines the source from which the filter takes the colours to be normal mapped.
Other options seems not to work in ArmA.
Point 2: Now that the normal map texture has been done, save it as tex1_nohq.paa (using PAAplug, and leaving all the options as they are)
Then cut and paste the file into BOX folder.
You'll notice that if you'll try to open the texture with texView 2, the program will crash: don't worry, it's not a problem
Point 3: let's create the Specular map.
Open texView 2, then tex1_co.paa, and go to EDIT-->FILTER... and write in the box (repacing the exiting code):
This tutorial it's not correct, and kinda misleading.
The correct way to create a normal map is by making a Hi poly model to bake the normals, OR to transform a BUMP MAP into a normal map using the Nvidia photoshop filter (or gimp).
Just creating a normal map using a color map as a base, it's useless.
Some links
i'm pretty sure that i've read you can take a decent normal map off of a Desaturated colour map,
yet to try it as of yet though.
first effect on a tree...
Linker Split : This topic is not here to show off your texturing skills. Post the pics in your HDS thread
BTW: I listed every tutorial, link.... whatever in the first page. Time to get some structure in this tuts thread
Shouldn't you be using rvmat files instead of sections in the config for cfgtexturetomaterial and cfgmaterials?
Hi Folks!
Due to the enormous requests I had in these weeks about the use of the MatEditor (included with Oxygen2PE), I finally wrote a tutorial!
Here is the download link:
cheers all
Linker Split
Thanks Linker Split
Very well written and easy to follow.
Added your tutorial on our http://www.armedassault.info/index.php?cat=articles&class=tutorials. Good job!
You got that wrong mate The author refers to the person that added the tut o the section. If you open up the dteails you will clearly see, that you are presented as the tutorial author.
*changed the options to get all the templates working
Download Link:
cheers all
Linker Split
Noticed this tutorial for getting a soldiermodel ingame: http://www.aos.armaholic.eu/tutorial2.html
there's also Opteryx Tutorial on how to make an island in ArmA:
grab it http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard311/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=77;t=68535
I also make short list of some Mappint tutorials.
Community Tut's (ArmA)
3D Total (3Dmax):
More examples:
Texturing basics ( 3DTotal):
Some Resources:
Some more links:
Maybe helpfull for some of you.
here is a tutorial I just wrote added to my website.
maybe of some use here?
Su-25 conversion tutorial. http://dodownload.filefront.com/9218177//9cc010a43d4eedf795a31bd690b56d18caf939c58fda0b2c117974fa0cb4c8a73d13b48dad433771
here is another usefull website, http://www.3dbuzz.com
If you register you will get access for free video tutorials for Maya, and 3ds max. Which can be found in video section.
how do i use texview to turn a paa into an editable format?
I found this low-poly game character tutorial http://www.paultosca.com/makingofvarga.html, it's mainly about workflow and tangent space normal maps.
anybody know of a plug in for paint shop pro and ot a tutorial
i think i went thru every link on that page and i still cannot find a .paa file plug in for paint shop pro 7......
can anybody help?
I am looking for a tutorial that covers changing just the uniform texture. for example i want to take the default unit and change his uniform to cadpat. Does anybody have a tutorial to cover this? I dont want to create a new unit, just edit the one i already have.
also does anybidy have layered templates to do this? i used to edit race cars for NR2003 and there were plyered templates that added all the shadowing and rough edges.
i understand how to import convert and export the textures. What i dont understand is i dont think everybody paints each individual stitch in the uniform or molle pouch
This thread is not for asking help in making something, it's for depositing helpful links and information. For getting help, we have the http://forum.armedassault.info/index.php?showtopic=850&st=0&start=0
Here is the Glass Damage Tutorial I promised, I have converted it to .pdf for easier reading and downloading as well as online viewing.
Added to the tutorial section :
Thx for your time ObmaR
Not so much a tutorial, but rather a very good source of information for ArmA addonmakers are the http://www.armedassault.info/index.php?cat=news&id=558&newlang=eng.
Any tutes on taking a unique character model and getting it walking within Arma? I'm thinking of making some sci-fi soldiers or something
un-pbo http://www.armedassault.info/index.php?cat=addons&id=325 from Solus and have a look at the model (with selections....)
To get the unit ingame http://www.aos.armaholic.eu/tutorial2.html might be helpful :
anybody have a tut for doing damage textures and applying them?
this is a little little tutorial on how to increase your vegetation performance impact on FPS:
New Video Tutorial. First in the series. This one is preparing your model in 3ds Max for import into Oxygen.
Second in the series
Third in Series
maybe you can reupload your Crysis tutes to vimeo too ? veoh do not work with a lot of the countries for some reason
My second tutorial for the series of exporting from 3ds max to Armed Assault
This one is how to import into Oxygen and how to get the textures working
Great ! I hope you don't mind the news I made
Also please don't doublepost..use the edit button in the futur
Cheers Deadeye
thanks mustang for using the vimeo and vimeoHD service!
btw are there both videos ? and could You update the news with these links ? t
I need RVMAT files that I can open with the MatEditor that comes with O2. I unpbo'd the ones I needed from the ArmA Addons folder, but they do not work. I can't edit them in the program. I get an I/O error and i have to edit them in the text editor.
Please use the Modelling/Question thread for these issues...only Tutorial links in here
DO you know any cloth and vehicle (metal & rust) for GIMP?
Hi Sir D@nte,
At first..
I'm sorry fro annoying You,
but I don't know how to do,
though I read many forums and guides about my problem;
Could You help me for this basic editing problem?:
I have doubts about starting to edit an already existing Arma1 map;
This is my doubt:
All objects (men, tanks, groups and so on), by default
are invisible (deactivated); then go to activate (spawn for the first time) with Bluefor presence in town... OK
Instead, it doesn't happen for my objects? (addons):
All my placed addons, stay already there just when I start the mission! - And I think, later a few minutes I'm playing... the map becomes heavy and losts fluidity! (though I've initializing many things by "doStop" and "doFollow" commands).
I know I'm a noob..., but:
Which one is the metod to keep the AI no-spawned just start the mission?
Do exist a simple way to keep all disactivated.. or invisible, till Bluefor come around enemy? Just like the default objects?
For example.. An easy way by a big trigger or similars... to keep
all Ai addons disabled ?
I've seen many forums and explainings, but nowhere it's explained how to start editing and what "logic" needs like base for the new Units and vehicles to create!
Please Sir... if You could tell me an easy and "genial" solution...
.. mmhh.. am I too much noob?!?!
All my hope in Your hands!!
I'm sorry for my bad English
Kind Regards
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.99 n.5 Cape Town May. 2009
Metabolic syndrome and obesity among workers at Kanye Seventh-day Adventist Hospital, Botswana
Roberto A GarridoI, *; María B SemeraroI; Samuel M TemesgenIII; Marcelo R SimiII
ISeventh-year medical student, River Plate Adventist University, Entre Rios, Argentina
IIMD, PhD, River Plate Adventist University, Entre Rios, Argentina
IIIMD, Kanye Seventh-day Adventist Hospital, Kanye, Botswana
INTRODUCTION: Metabolic syndrome and obesity are risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes mellitus and/or cardiovascular disease, especially stroke. There is evidence worldwide of the high prevalence of these pathologies in health care providers.
OBJECTIVES: To determine the frequency of metabolic syndrome, overweight, obesity and risk of developing metabolic syndrome in workers at Kanye Seventh-day Adventist Hospital, Kanye, Botswana.
METHODS: An observational and cross-sectional study. For the detection of metabolic syndrome, the criteria of the Adult Treatment Panel III were used; for obesity, the body mass index of 150 workers was applied. Data were grouped and analysed according to gender, age and type of work.
RESULTS: Thirty-four per cent of the hospital's workers had metabolic syndrome, the same percentage were at high risk of developing metabolic syndrome, 28.7% were obese, and 27.3% were overweight. Female gender was found to be strongly associated with obesity and metabolic syndrome. The age group of 35 - 54 years was most affected.
CONCLUSIONS: There is a high prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome among Kanye Seventh-day Adventist Hospital workers. We recommend the implementation of programmes to screen these risk factors by means of routine medical exams and improving the lifestyles of Botswana health care workers. The study findings could be the basis for future research among hospital staff and the general population.
Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a set of disorders including central obesity, raised fasting blood glucose (FBG) levels, elevated serum triglycerides (TG), low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) values and high blood pressure (HBP). Other definitions include impaired plasma insulin regulation and body mass index (BMI) changes.1 Whichever definition is used, the presence of MS is associated with a doubled risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD),2,3 and especially stroke,4 and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2).5 The population at large, despite being under-diagnosed,6 is estimated to have a high prevalence of MS, leading to higher morbidity and mortality.
Health care workers have a high prevalence of MS. In South America, about a third of nurses had HBP, and 16.6% were obese,7 while 26% of all health workers had HBP.8 In Europe, there was a high prevalence among doctors of components of MS and a greater risk than the general population of developing any form of CVD.9 In the USA, a large increase in the components that constitute MS was found in doctors, as part of the Physician's Health Study (PHS); of the total of 22 046 doctors, 354 presented with >3 metabolic changes at the beginning of the study, reaching 2 050 at the end of the observation.10 A study of 1 027 health workers found that the prevalence of excess weight and obesity was 17.6% and 14.5% respectively at the start of the investigation. A strong association was established between high BMI and the development of metabolic disorders within the subsequent 10 years of follow-up.11
There is little information on the prevalence of MS and obesity among hospital staff in Africa. We therefore aimed to determine the frequency of MS, excess weight, obesity and the risk of developing MS, and to establish the relationship between MS and age, gender and type of work, and the frequency of the biological changes that comprise MS, among Kanye Seventh-day Adventist Hospital (KSDAH) workers.
Materials and methods
A cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted between 15 December 2007 and 15 February 2008 among KSDAH workers, in Kanye, Botswana, in the context of a general medical examination proposed by the chief medical officer of the hospital in response to the Wellness Program for Health Workers (WPHW) initiative by the Botswana Ministry of Health.12
Data were collected from all workers who voluntarily attended the medical examination on the designated days; 228 (74%) of a total of 301 workers attended. Participants with incomplete data and/or DM2, and pregnant women, were excluded. As a result, 78 (34.2%) were excluded 66 for incomplete data, 10 for DM2, and 2 pregnant women. The final study population therefore consisted of 150 (49.8%) of the 301 hospital employees. Student's t-test was applied to the included and excluded groups, and no significant difference for the variables was shown (p>0.05).
Data from all participants who signed the informed consent form were included, comprising sex, age, working place/department, weight, height, abdominal circumference (AC), blood pressure (BP), TG, HDL and FBG values. Those with known HBP according to the Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) definition were also included.
BP was measured on the left arm, with a properly calibrated aneroid sphygmomanometer, as described in The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7).13
AC was measured by a flexible, conventional, non-elastic tape measure, midway between the last costal margin and the upper border of the iliac crest, and weight and height were measured to determine the BMI of all participants. To measure HDL and TG values, participants were instructed to fast for 8 hours before attending the KSDAH laboratory, where their blood samples were drawn and then analysed by an ABX PENTRA 400 spectrophotometer. FBG values were obtained by test strip. Participants whose FBG levels were >7 mmol/l repeated the laboratory test on the following day under the same fasting conditions, and the lower value was recorded.
To detect MS, the ATP III definition from the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) was used, according to which 3 or more of the following are sufficient for a diagnosis: FBG >6.1 mmol/l; HDL <1.0 mmol/l in men or <1.3 mmol/l in women; TG >1.7 mmol/l; AC >102 cm in men and 88 cm in women; systolic BP >130 mmHg and/or diastolic >85 mmHg, or a person on antihypertensive treatment.1,2
To detect excessive weight and obesity, the WHO BMI was used: underweight = BMI <18.5; normal = BMI 18.5 - 24.9; overweight = BMI 25 - 29.9; and obese = BMI >30.14
To estimate the risk of developing MS, participants with 2 criteria were considered to be high risk, and those with 1 or no criteria to be low risk.
To establish the relationship between MS and age, participants were grouped into 3 age groups: <35, 35 - 54, and >55 years.
To correlate MS with workplace, participants were divided into 3 groups: (i) office workers (doctors, pharmacy personnel, laboratory staff, administrative staff, accounts, records and secretaries); (ii) nurses and health orderlies; and (iii) industrial workers (cleaners, maintenance staff, drivers, stores staff and kitchen staff).
Ethical approval was obtained from the Bioethical Committee of the River Plate Adventist University and from the Human Research Office of the Ministry of Health, Botswana.
Data were analysed by means of a descriptive technique of frequency and percentage, using measures of dispersion for the numerically continuous variables. The level of association was determined using the chi-square test for categorical variables, with 95% confidence interval (p<0.05). Statistical analysis was done by the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 11.5.
Of the total study population of 150, 44 (29.3%) were men and 106 (70.7%) women; 144 (96%) were black and 6 (4.0%) were white. The average age was 39.2±11.1 years, the youngest 22 and the oldest 65 years of age; 67 (44.7%) were 20 - 34 years of age, 66 (44%) were 35 - 54 years, and 17 (11.3%) were >55 years.
Grouped by type of work, 46 (30.7%) were office workers (group 1), 56 (37.3%) were nurses and health orderlies (group 2), and 48 (32.0%) were industrial workers (group 3).
The average height, weight and BP of participants were 163.8±7.6 cm, 72.1±15.9 kg, and 121±21.1 mmHg systolic and 80.2±14.1 mmHg diastolic, respectively. The average FBG, HDL, TG and AC values were 5.5±0.9 mmol/l, 0.8±0.3 mmol/l, 1.0±0.6 mmol/l, and 87.4±13.7 cm, respectively.
Of the 150 participants, 51 (34.0%) had MS, i.e. more than 3 out-of-range findings, according to this study's definition; another 51 had 2 metabolic disorders, and therefore a high risk of developing MS.
A strong association was observed between female gender and high prevalence of MS, which was present in 44 (24.5%) of all women. Women also comprised the highest percentage (31.2%) at risk of developing MS. A high frequency (50%) of MS was found in the 35 - 54-year-old age group (Table I).
The most prevalent metabolic change observed was low HDL values, present in 120 (80%) participants; 66 (44% of the total) had HBP or were on treatment for HBP; AC was excessive in 63 (42%); FBG values were abnormally high in 40 (26.7%) subjects, and 21 (14%) had raised TG levels.
There was a high association between altered HDL and AC values, and female gender (Table II); however, high plasma TG levels were associated more with men than women (Table II).
Raised BP, TG and AC values were strongly associated with the age group 35 - 54 years, in which raised FBG and HDL values were also prevalent, but these were not statistically significant (Table III).
An association was found between increased AC values among the industrial workers (44.5% of participants with higher values were in this group). However, the nursing staff also had a high frequency of greater AC.
The frequency of obesity was 43 (28.7%), with a BMI of more than 30 kg/m2; 41 participants (27.3%) were overweight with a BMI between 25 and 29.9 kg/m2; only 56 (37.3%) were of normal weight, and 10 (6.7%) were underweight.
The frequency of abnormal AC values was 44.5% among industrial workers and 34.9% among nurses (p=0.011 for different type of work).
There was a high frequency of overweight (23.6%), and even higher for obesity (37.7%, p=0.002 for gender differences), among the women.
Relating age and weight, the 35 - 54-year age group was the most affected, with 30.3% being overweight and 40.9% obese (p<0.001 for gender differences).
There was no significant correlation between type of work and weight of the participants.
The high prevalence of MS found in KSDAH workers is difficult to compare with other studies on health personnel because most evaluated only some of the components of MS.7-11 Botswana has no record of the frequency of these pathologies in the general population. However, this prevalence was higher than that among South African executives15 who, despite belonging to a different population group, share some features with health workers. Both groups work indoors throughout the day and are subjected to high levels of work stress. In the hospital group, stress is accentuated by continuous contact with disease and death. In our study area, where there is a high prevalence of HIV/AIDS, health personnel must deal with the constant risk of contracting the virus. Hospital work requires day and night shifts and, together with work stress, could lead to an increased incidence of MS.16,17
The prevalence of overweight and obesity found in this study was higher than that for Taiwanese hospital staff,11 possibly because of racial differences; however, the difference could also be due to regulations for health workers being better applied in developed countries than in developing countries, including mandatory regular physical and biological check-ups. Such policies do not apply to KSDAH because the workers reported that this was the first time that blood-based biochemical studies of this nature had been done on them as part of a routine medical review.
While the female staff of KSDAH were most affected, with more than a third obese, only 5% of women in Taiwan had this pathology; the former tendency could be because of social and cultural characteristics typical of this region of Africa, where substantial body mass in women is associated with higher economic status and a symbol of beauty and health. Furthermore, a slender build is associated with the stigma attached to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and therefore people are less inclined to lose weight intentionally, so tending to promote obesity among Botswana women.
In this study, the intermediate age group (35 - 54 years) was the most affected, whereas it is the elderly who are usually expected to have a higher prevalence of hypertension, abnormal cholesterol, or being overweight, because age is a non-modifiable risk factor for these conditions. One reason for this finding is that the population of Botswana is changing from its traditional lifestyle to westernised ways and so becoming more subject to similar diseases, the young being more prone in this regard. In contrast, older people, who are less inclined to change their habits, reflected healthier findings. It would be beneficial to identify lifestyle changes among the youth that could determine the increased tendency to develop risk factors for the diseases of developed countries. It would also be interesting to determine to what extent these risk factors are associated with CVD, stroke and/or DM2 among Botswana's population, since most studies have been conducted in Caucasian populations.
This study is the first of its kind in Botswana, comprising a relatively small and specific group of people, and the results may not necessarily be extrapolated to hospital staff throughout the country, let alone to the general population. However, the results show that there is a high risk of lifestyle-associated diseases within a group of people who are responsible for promoting health and healthy values and behaviours among the population. We therefore recommend that the detection of risk factors for CVD among health personnel in Botswana be included as part of a routine medical review. Such interventions would be more expeditious among health personnel who have the advantage of immediate access to medical care. Moreover, if it were possible to perform these routine tests at all health care facilities in the country, the number of participants similar to those in our study would be more representative. Programmes that promote healthy lifestyles among government employees, particularly in the health sector, are also highly desirable.
We acknowledge the support that we received from the Adventist Hospital directorship in Kanye, and especially Dr Rose Llaguno for administrative assistance.
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|CATHERINE FERGUSON -- 1749 (?)--1854 -- Founder of the First Sunday School Movement in -- New York City
In the 1922 edition of Cubberley's History of Education we find this: "In 1793 Katy Ferguson's School for the Poor was opened in New York, and this was followed by an organization of New York women for the extension of secular instruction among the poor."
So meagre were opportunities for education of any sort for the poor that this effort is given significant place in the early beginnings of American education. The Sunday School movement, originated by John Wesley and worked out in England by Raikes in 1780, had two years previous made a start in Philadelphia. Katy Ferguson, with no knowledge of the Raikes' movement, with scant material, and with no preparation save her piety and her warm mother's heart, gave to New York City its first Sunday School; and because Sunday Schools at first gave secular as well as religious instruction, her name is recorded with other early American educators.
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From the historian Lossing we gain the facts given here. She was born a slave while her mother was on her
In her life of toil and sacrifice, there was not time for learning to read. She, however, attended Divine service regularly under the excellent Dr. Mason and, not content to enjoy this religious instruction for herself alone, she gathered into her humble dwelling in Warren Street the neglected children of the neighborhood, black and white. "Sometimes the sainted Isabella Graham would invite Katy and her scholars to her house, and there hear them recite the catechism, and give them instruction. Finally, Dr. Mason heard of her school, and visited it one Sunday morning. 'What are you about here, Katy?' he asked. 'Keeping school on the Sabbath?' Katy was troubled, for she thought his question a rebuke. 'This must not be, Katy; you must not be allowed to do all this work alone,' he continued; and then he invited her to transfer her school to the basement of his new church in Murray Street, where he procured assistants for her." Some of New York's most eminent divines were in later years proud to trace their experience to helping in Katy Ferguson's Sunday School. Among these may be cited the Rev. Dr. Ferris, sometime Chancellor of New York University.
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2005-06: After dominating the Tier II GTHL with the Toronto Marlboros in 2004-05, Akim Aliu split his first season in the OHL between Windsor and Sudbury. In 18 games with the Spitfires, he score 3 goals with 4 assists and 25 PIM. A mid-season altercation with then-teammate Steve Downie contributed him being traded to Sudbury where he scored 7 goals with 6 assists racking up 54 PIM and a plus/minus rating of -2. In six playoff games for the Wolves, he had 1 assist and 7 PIM.
2006-07: Aliu had a breakout season with Sudbury in his second OHL season. In 53 regular season games, he scored 20 goals with 22 assists. With a deadly wrist shot and a frame that made him difficult for smaller defenders to displace, he was deadly on the power play, scoring nine times. On the down side, his lack of self-control led to unnecessary penalties at times. While penalties were nothing new (Aliu had 197 minutes with the Marlboros in 2004-05), a conflict with Sudbury coach Mike Foligno over the issue led to him being sent home late in the season. Aliu returned to the Wolves in the playoffs but in a third line role had 1 goal and 5 assists in 21 games with 50 PIM and was -4. Despite these issues, Aliu's size and potential appealed to Chicago, who selected him in the second round (56th overall) of the NHL entry draft.
2007-08: Aliu, with London after an off-season trade from Sudbury, wasted no time in making his presence felt both on the scoreboard and in the sin bin. In 60 games with the Knights, Aliu scored 28 goals with 33 assists while taking 133 minutes in penalties. Both his point and penalty totals easily surpassed his output with Windsor and Sudbury the previous two years. In addition to his offensive exploits, Aliue was given the opportunity to grow in all phases of the game by Knights coach Dale Hunter – even spending extensive time as a defenseman – particularly later in the season. In five playoff games with the Knights, Aliu scored 2 goals with 1 assist and was -4. He also had 15 PIM. Aliu made his AHL debut following the OHL playoffs appearing in two regular season games for the Black Hawk's Rockford affiliate.
2008-09: Aliu attended camp with the Black Hawks before being assigned to Rockford and ultimately being returned to juniors. A lingering training camp injury and then a five-game suspension marred the beginning of his final junior season. After getting things on track with London he was re-acquired by Foligno and Sudbury in a mid-season trade. In 45 OHL regular season games, he scored 18 goals with 26 assists and 91 PIM. He was also a -10. In six playoff games with Sudbury, he scored 2 goals with 1 assist. In five AHL regular season games with Rockford he scored two goals and he added another tally in his lone playoff game.
2009-10: Aliu's first pro season was split between Rockford in the AHL and Chicago's ECHL affiliate the Toledo Walleye. In 48 AHL games, Aliu scored 11 goals with 6 assists and was a -2. With the Walleye, with whom he finished the season, Aliu had 5 goals and 9 assists in 14 games with a plus/minus rating of -12. In the ECHL playoffs, Aliu dressed for two of Toledo's four playoff games and had 1 goal and 1 assist with 16 PIM. In June Atlanta obtained the rights to Aliu in the eight player trade that sent Dustin Byfuglien and Ben Eager and others to Atlanta for three players as well as 1st and 2nd round draft picks.
2010-11: Fast disappearing into obscurity, Aliu has little time left to prove he is a legitimate prospect. With just 4 goals in 43 games for the AHL's Chicago Wolves, and an indifferent attitude, Aliu was reassigned to the ECHL for the remainder of the season. His 12 goals in 16 games at the ECHL level provided a spark of hope, however he was again listless through Jets preseason and reassigned to the ECHL again to start the year.
2010-11: Acquired from Chicago by the Jets in a June 2010 trade, Aliu attended camp with Winnipeg before being assigned to the AHL Chicago Wolves. Aliu struggled in his second AHL season with the Wolves, and was loaned to AHL Peoria as well as playing for the Jets' ECHL affiliate Gwinnett. He scored 4 goals with 5 assists and was minus-4 with 53 penalty minutes in 43 games for the Wolves. After his 16-game stint in the ECHL with Gwinnett, Aliu skated in 16 games on loan to Peoria and was plus-3 with 4 goals and 9 assists and had 20 penalty minutes. In two playoff games with the Rivermen he was minus-two with 1 goal and 6 penalty minutes. Aliu scored 12 goals (nine on the power play) with 8 assists an was minus-eight with 22 penalty minutes while skating in the ECHL with the Gladiators.
2011-12: Aliu made his NHL debut, playing two games with the Flames, to cap an eventful third pro season. He had an assist in his first game against Vancouver on April 5th and scored a pair of goals two night later in a 5-2 win over Anaheim; drawing a third period misconduct penalty along with Ducks' heavyweight George Parros. Aliu started the year in the ECHL with Colorado after going to the Jets camp. He played ten games for the Eagles then headed to Europe to play for Austria's EC Salzburg in the 2011 Red Bulls Salute. Calgary acquired Aliu's rights from the Jets in a January trade and Aliu joined the Flames' AHL affiliate Abbotsford before being recalled in April. He scored 10 goals with 4 assists in 42 games and was minus-13 with 59 penalty minutes. In five AHL playoff games he had 1 assist and was an even plus/minus with 28 penalty minutes. Aliu scored 2 goals with 4 assists and was minus-one with 28 penalty minutes for the Eagles and scored the game-winning goal for EC Salzburg against Finland's Jokerit in the championship game of the Red Bulls Salute tournament. Aliu was signed to a one-year contract by Calgary in July, 2012.
Talent Analysis
Aliu has all the characteristics of your prototypical power forward - he is big and strong, has a devastating wrist shot with a lightning quick release and recognizes offensive opportunities. Aliu's straight-leg skating style does not allow him to change direction as quickly as required – causing him to be out of the play at times. His situational awareness is another area that needs to be addressed – sometimes getting caught up in individual battles rather than focusing on strategic play. Aliu was often able to get by on his physical advantages at the junior level.
Aliu owns all of the necessary skills to be a prolific power forward but has to show better discipline if his potential is going to be realized. The challenge will be to have the patience and dedication and put in the work necessary to best utilize those tools.
Aliu will compete to stay in the Abbotsford heat line-up with the NHL lockout still unsettled. The big physical forward is hoping to get another chance to play in the NHL with the Flames after a good performance in Calgary at the end of last season.


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While Rubin didn't explicitly mention Apple, it doesn't take a brainiac to figure out who he is targeting with his first tweet. This controversy is particularly strange because "open" isn't such a hard word to define. I have a pretty well-defined opinion regarding exactly what being "open" is all out. It essentially refers to freedom. It might be freedom to choose, freedom to redistribute or simply freedom to modify. Apple's repeated attempts to redefine "open" is frankly distasteful. Rubin's definition might be geeky, but his ideas are definitely closer to the conventional wisdom. But then, nothing about Jobs is conventional.


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text: Three Tallents in the same family should be enough for anyone.But it looks as if there are more in the pipeline once Claire Tallent decides to hang up her racers – although starting a family with the man who won a second bronze at the IAAF World Walking Cup Sunday might now be on hold.Buoyed by a March PB that bettered her previous by three minutes plus, and an impressive attack on the almost impregnable Russians in the 20k that followed Jared's medal, Claire Tallent wants a bit more.Both want a lot more for sister and sister-in-law Rachel Tallent.The youngest of a unique trio – the first time three family members have competed at the World Cup at the same time – can't wait for her brother to quit the sport.He nags, you see."It's for her own good," explains Jared, "we only want what's best for her."But the bronze and silver Olympic medallist admits he takes on the role of surrogate dad when the three are away on walking trips like the one to Saransk in Russia.Does he watch what she does? What she eats, perhaps? Does he tell her off for sneaking a chocolate bar now and then?"All the time," claims Rachel in mock despair. "I keep telling Jared I'm still a junior, and I should be allowed a few treats but he's on my case."Jared counters that she is the family favourite of six, and a phone call home to Australia might not go down well if there was a dereliction of duties.The trio is half-joking of course, but when the blonde Rachel was interesting a group of young Canadian athletes during the weekend – one of them felt compelled to ask Jared for permission to ask her out to a club."I wasn't drinking or anything like that," adds Rachel hastily. Perish the thought, especially as big brother is watching warily from the next seat.The junior is clearly serious about treading in the footsteps of bruv and sis-in-law and the IAAF World Junior Championships is next on the list of majors after committing to the AIS in Canberra.The specialist sports centre for Aussies is where the best go for the next step in their athletics career.It's where Jared and Claire started out before buying a house close by, although Rachel has been invited to stay many times."No thanks," she smiles. "I see enough of them when we're training during the week."There is an afternoon session when the three might do an easy 10k together, or when Rachel and Claire are in the weights room."Jared doesn't bother with that," his wife points out.And to his credit the brother-husband admits they had to modify Rachel's training after she picked up a stress fracture two weeks in to a particular programme.It doesn't seem to have been anyone's fault, although a bit more analysis went into the 10k walker's preparation that saw her lead the first 2k in the junior 10k race at Saransk."She was always race walking around the house as child," reckons Jared, "it was pretty easy for her to make the transition to competition."But none of the other four brothers and sisters did so, and Rachel reckons that when her brother – 12 years the elder – retires, she might stop being known as 'Jared's little sister'.Come to that, Claire adds quickly, she might not be always be known as 'Jared's wife.'The man in question reckoned he was 'out of his depth' in the last 10k of the 50k against the Russians in Saransk – but he is being tough on himself having led the race from the gun in a deliberate ploy to draw the sting from the red vests.Surely a major gold will follow at some stage.As a result, it might be a while before little sister has an identity in his own right. Her walking guardian plans to medal at this Olympics in August, and the next in 2016.Maybe by then, the women Tallents will be jostling for space on the mantelpiece with their own awards thanks to his considered coaching, or nagging – depending on your point of view.Paul Warburton for the IAAF


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Jon Nash, New Thinking, New Possibilities, (2012)
"While traveling sideways at 110 KM an hour, I realized that the order of videos on the internet emerges out of a far greater chaos," London-based artist Jon Nash tells me on a busy Marrakech street corner about his accidental collision with a traffic barrier in his performance work, Morocco Drift. Later at the artist dinner, Berlin-based artist Aleksandra Domanovic tells me the story of how her sculpture Monument to Revolution was moved to make way for the Princess of Morocco in CyberPark. With the stories adding up, it was obvious Higher Atlas, the 4th edition of the Marrakech Biennale, curated by Carson Chan and Nadeem Samman, was no ordinary foray into exhibition making.
Miles from the nearest white cube in Casablanca, set in a city known for its historical attractions and film locations, Higher Atlas unexpectedly set artists on an unusual fittest test. Building an exhibition to be experienced first hand, the curatorial duo commissioned artists to fashion new, site-specific works derived from local influences. However this curatorial ethos was interrupted by a last minute change of venue. Working from an idiosyncratic vision, a newly elected government opted to move the biennale from the ruins of the sixteenth century El Badi Palace on the Medina's outskirts (a UNESCO World Heritage site) to the unfinished Théâtre Royal in the Ville Nouveau.
Perhaps because within the confines of its historical sites, Morocco's tourism board sells itself as an internet bookable chronotopic anomaly. A land of coffee and carpets, spices and slippers set in an alternate Brideshead Revisited reality where EasyJet and Club Med have replaced opiates and homosexuality.
Unfortunately, many of the Biennial's installs get lost in the new venue's cavernous wings, or are limited in their conceptual reach to begin with. Picking up on sound with secretly sequestered microphones, Tue Greenfort's Audio System (2011) thrives, but it was shipped in and destined for any environment. Of the newly commissioned site-specific works, it is those by Aleksandra Domanovic, Jon Nash, and Chicago-based Karthik Pandian that fare best.
Karthik Pandian, Untitled (2012)
And there in the middle of old Abu Dhabi, I mean, Marrakech, steps off what was the set of Sex in the City 2, Pandian's Untitled (2012) appears at night above Marrakech's iconic square, Jemaa el Fna. The square waxes and wanes throughout the day, filling up by night with green stage coaches selling music and juice, pop-up restaurants, vendors of Moroccan goods imported from India, and throngs of tourists searching for an elating experience from old school snake charmers and up to the minute hustlers. Set over this self-conscious public arena, Pandian's sculpture, drawn from commercial film production, illuminates the multifaceted desires jockeying against each other on the set below, already being filmed by the dozens of cameras brought by eager tourists. Chameleonic, Untitled becomes a leading element in the mass façade's building narrative.
Domanovic's pink futuristic looking sculpture appeared in CyberPark like a re-rendered ambassador to an unrealized present. Shortly after, a higher up informed CyberPark's director that Princess Lalla Salama of Morocco would not like it if she saw such a sculpture directly on her path. Within hours, Domanovic's completed sculpture was quickly moved by hand by 30+men to a less prominent location obscured by trees. Unbeknownst to Princess, the ersatz monument placed on 'her' path after the Biennale's eviction from El Badi Palace is titled Monument to Revolution. Yet this succession of moves adds to the relay race of dislocations already present in Domanovic's sculpture modeled after Ivan Sabolic's 1963 Three Fists Monument.
Aleksandra Domanovic, Monument to Revolution (2012)
Set on a grassy knoll in Serbia's Memorial Park Bubanj, Three Fists Monument is an abstract step away from Socialist Realist aesthetics and today stands as a symbolic relic of a dissolved State. Disavowed of its political authority, it has become an ornament, muted of its original significance, as the invented traditions of antiquemania take hold of public architecture in the Balkan States. For Monument to Revolution, Domanovic slims this multi-fist abstraction and phenomena into a single replicable structure, and rubs into it Tadelak, a tool of Moroccan antiquemania and a favored ancient Marrakechi technique to build modern Riads. Set in the crumbling shell that is El Badi Palace, the work was to mimic the wrapping and layering these near ruinous structures over each other to invent the new. Through its subsequent movement into and around CyberPark, a source of hyper-connectivity, the sculpture continues this process on its own, duplicating the dislocation beyond what Domanovic's could have planned.
Like Domanovic's work, Nash's too underwent a series of positive misadventures. Nash's Morocco Drift and New Thinking, New Possibilities orient from a macroscopic interest in how algorithms invent public space around key terms, which trend desires viral, and the symbiotic relationship between multi-million dollar CGI adverts and user generated content. But before MIA's Bad Girls drift video shot in Ouarzazate, Morocco hit the internet, Nash had long been trawling YouTube, finding Moroccan phone cam recordings that refine drift action sequences into spinning tires set to Teriyaki Boyz Tokyo Drift and Justin Bieber. Inspired by the communications of this subculture unacknowledged by the official rhetoric at hand in El Badi Palace, Nash bought a black '97 Hyundai that Moroccan mechanics handworked into a supped white piece to drive between Morocco's many feature film locations. At the outset, before the car met its functional end, Morocco Drift was to be a live performance, with a stunt driver burning out the reworked automobile to fashion loops of smoke à la the uploaded videos he's referencing in the exhibition space, thus bringing a private anti-social experience gone public into a tourism approved public arena.
But in the combination of the car's destruction, and the venue transfer from a quiet ruin to a busy street corner, this conversation with Morocco's official version of itself faded. Instead, the elevation of Moroccan drifting's full spectrum of possible outcomes into the gallery space taps into the mismatch neitherness that pulses through Marrakech: girls on motorbikes wearing lipstick and terrycloth house slippers in contrast to traditional Moroccan slippers; guys who work in the Souk changing out of a traditional work dress into track pants; Rugby balls covered in faux Louis Vuitton leather. Although a piece on its own, New Thinking, New Possibilities, which takes its title from the Hyundai commercial Nash superimposes his camera phone footage over, functions as a trailer for Morocco Drift. Fortuitously for Nash, by re-inventing the car's ability to perform, and then by loosing control of it in a final drift drama that'll never make it to YouTube, he re-calibrated his clean cut analytical framework into a messy, intimate process, which oscillated between order and chaos. Morocco Drift manifests as a trace of performative cycles, and becomes a stronger work for it, albeit one that can only be properly experienced in person.
Documentation of Monument to Revolution and Untitled, like Morocco Drift, fail to deliver the critical element of Domanovich, Nash, and Pandian's works for the Biennale: location, location, location. Integral to experiencing these three works, is experiencing them in their contexts. While Monument to Revolution and Untitled as objects themselves remain intact, these works' incorporeal existence absorb their audio-visual surroundings, which in turn alter their conceptual base over time. For Morocco Drift, the install soundscape is equally vital, but more crucial is understanding its narrative arc. The in-situ lack of wall labels or information chronicling individual works, albeit done in an effort to make the works assessable to non-specialized audiences, too, disservices them. A disservice which is amalgamated by the catalogue's relative divorce from the show's final works. Although it is a common enough circumstance for writing to be completed before works, there is something out of place about it in this instance brokered by so many last minute, and ongoing, transformations.


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I have a wardrobe that consists of denim, lightweight sweaters and button-down shirts. The lightweight sweaters already in my wardrobe are all cotton, as is nearly everything else. I have some cold-weather gear that I've used while in the Marine Corps but it isn't really for walking around on the streets (all green and tan, and obviously military in nature). However, I do have some black wool 3/4-length baselayer pants I can wear under my jeans. I also have plenty of wool socks.
I have purchased a heavy-ish wool trench coat for this trip as well as a pair of lambswool-lined, thinsulate-insulated leather gloves, some merino V-neck sweaters to wear over my button-downs and a cashmere scarf/beanie.
Our hotel is the Tremont Chicago, right near the water, and I have heard from many people that not only is it cold as hell in the winter, the closer to the water you get the worse it becomes.
Will my current acquisitions be enough? It won't get below 40°F (4°C) here in Las Vegas for me to test out the coat I've bought or the warmth level of my sweaters with it. I can always shop once I get to Chicago of course, but that won't give me a chance to look for better prices or styles — I'll just be stuck paying whatever they're asking for whatever they're offering.
We will be in Chicago from the 28th of December to the 2nd of January.