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[Announcement] Patch 1 for DS 1.2 Beta1 year ago News 1 comment
A first update for the current Beta release of Dynamic Shaders 1.2 containing a set of hotfixes and improvements will be available soon.
Author: Meltac (C) 2011-2015
With contributions from Sky4ce, Kingo64, BAC9-FLCL, Daemonjax, LoNer1, Lyoko774, DDraig, OGSE Team, Thunderfreak, Gnomus, and ket
- Reflective dynamic wet surfaces (totally new implemented)
- Indoor light reflections in selected places
- New Sun Shafts aka "God Rays" (totally new implemented) with additional sun effects
- Rainbows with dynamically changing size and intensity depending on sun appearance
- Adaptive Night Vision Scopes, now also switchable by keypress
- Dynamic Depth of Field and Zoom DoF
- Reflective suit visors (from the outside and the inside)
- Reflective lighting optimized (slightly improved lighting model)
- Thermal/Infrared Vision
- Soft Shadows - Improved shadow jitter implementation
- Refractive water drops on visor HUD during rain fall
- Lens Flares on specific light sources (not only sun)
Tested on SoC patch 1.0005 and 1.0006 - might work with other versions will no to little changes (untested). Please check the Release Notes .
Many thanks to everybody who helped developing, testing, and releasing this mod!
The long awaited version 2.0 of Dynamic Shaders is now available as CTP in the download section. When installing it make sure you've read the following notes.
This is a preview version, which means that the final release has not been finished. In software development we talk of a Community Technology Preview for pre-releases that don't "fit" in the regular "Alpha-Beta-Final" release chain, and serve as a showcase of what main features the upcoming version is about to contain. In terms of DS 2.0, there are still a lot of areas that need refinement, balancing, or even one or the other fix to be applied in order to be considered a "final" release.
In other words: Enjoy the new features - but be prepared to encounter some glitches or bugs ;-)
The CTP contains almost all features that DS 2.0 has been advertised for, plus two or three things that haven't been announced publicly. A few minor features have been crossed out, and things that have not been mentioned as part of DS 2.0 will not be contained.
Feature List (as on the mod's summary page):
- Reflective dynamic wet surfaces (totally new implemented)
- Indoor light reflections in selected places
- New Sun Shafts aka "God Rays" (totally new implemented) with additional sun effects
- Dynamic rainbows
- Adaptive Night Vision Scopes, now also switchable by keypress
- Dynamic Depth of Field and Zoom DoF
- Reflective suit visors (from the outside and the inside)
- Reflective lighting optimized (slightly improved lighting model)
- Thermal/Infrared Vision
- Soft Shadows - Improved shadow jitter implementation
- NEW: Lens Flares on specific light sources (not only sun)
- NEW: Water Drops on Visor HUD during rain fall
Further improvements:
- Semi-transparent HUD cross-hair of selectable color
- Improved Parallax Mapping
- Added jitter and edge distortion to night vision scopes and NV binoc
- support for all 41 levels of the extended Kostya's STALKER Map Pack
- support for mods with zoom-less weapons (to still have zoom DOF in aim mode)
- support for modified FOV (Field Of View), like with FOV-Switcher tools
- scopes with additional scope zoom
- many small fixes and improvements.
As for a CTP some areas of the mod either haven't been finished, or would be ok but haven't been fine tuned and balanced well yet. The following list contains features with refinement requirement:
This mod is all about configuration - it is not meant to be run "as is". Sure, the release *does* run out-of-the-box, when put onto a vanilla installation (i.e. no other mods installed), but realistically in most cases you'd wan't to adjust one or the other feature to your liking and other mods.
So, it's really worth the effort looking into the various pieces that might be configured:
1. Shaders
The shaders themselves have several settings files - those end with .txt extension in gamedata/r2 folder. There is a general ShaderSettings file (including wet surfaces settings), and decidated files for sun shafts, visors, rainbows, and lens flares.
2. Scripts
Some scripts have configurative elements as well: shader_control, weather_control, visor_control. Most settings can be left as they are, but you'd want to check the console settings in weather_control (only change first list value of respective console setting, leave the second one!).
3. Configs
There are some .ltx files in the config sections, most important those in the shaders subfolder. There you can also add locations for areas in the game that should have a ground always dry, wet, or reflective.
Short answer: Yes, it can. Realistic answer: In most cases some basic file merging might be required. This affects mainly a few script and config files, although in some rare cases shader merging might be needed as well.
I can't give a general merging instruction here because the effort to be taken depends very much on the mods that you want to run DS 2.0 along with. However some file comparison / diff tool will certainly do a good job in assisting the merge procedure.
Files that need merging in almost every case (when not run on plain vanilla) are bind_stalker.script and environment.ltx, often also level_weathers.script, ui_main_menu.script, and ui_custom_msgs.xml. There are also some files that you might or might not take over, such as the textures (but some features might not work then as expected), or anything that is duplicate with no differences in your other mods, obviously.
DS 2.0 is a beast, shader-wise. You'll want to make sure you have a well optimized (and not extremely out-dated) rig. The mod is DirectX 9 only (full dynamic lighting / R2 renderer). Check the sample user.ltx provided in the download section to avoid renderer errors on a fresh game installation. Plus, DirectX 11 runtime needs to be installed on your system. But relax - you won't need a fully DX11 compliant graphics adapter to run the mod. Anything not older than a Geforce GTX 260 should do, although in order to get a decent frame rate you'll need something like a GTX 560 Ti or newer. CPU load is reasonably high as well, but a moderate multi-core machine should do. However be sure to have enough memory available and run a patch of the game allowing to address enough of it (in my tests the game used about 1.7 GB on full load).
Ah, almost forgot: An SSD disk or at least decent harddrive might really help speeding up launch times!
As mentioned above, the mod runs on the DX11 runtime. To enable best hardware support I had to provide two binaries to copy into your bin folder. This way you won't need to replace any native DirectX binaries on your system.
If you got any questions or comments don't hesitate to contact me. I can't always reply instantly, but I will look into any request as soon as I get a chance to.
Important Note: Fix for start-up crash
In case you get an error message on start-up after installing the CTP with this log (or similar):
error is error X3539: ps_1_x is no longer supported; use /Gec in fxc to automatically upgrade to ps_2_0
error X3539: Alternately, fxc's /LD option allows use of the old compiler DLL
Can't compile shader postprocess
To fix this, simply copy this sample user.ltx into your stalker documents folder (something like C:\Users\Public\Documents\STALKER-SHOC).
A first update for the current Beta release of Dynamic Shaders 1.2 containing a set of hotfixes and improvements will be available soon.
The long awaited next version of Dynamic Shaders has finally come to a state where we can proudly announce the beta release of version 1.2.
We are preparing a CTP containing a subset of the new features.
After extensive work including various code rebuilds I've come to the decision to start version 2.0 instead of continuing with 1.2.
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no way to make it work with Autumn Aurora? :P
yes there is, AFAIK there are several people already doing this - however nothing from my side here, you got to look for those specific merges on the web.
Hi... Maybe this is a superfluos question, but I'm not sure...
Will this mod look even more cute if I install sweetFX for SoC too? Or will it spoil it completely?
I ask cuz I can't get a shot on it, I'm without PC for now :3
The only thing sweetFX really does is applying some simple post-processing effects on the final rendered image. I had checked it out a while ago but didn't find it worth considering any further. It will work with DS, however the result might become looking somewhat strange or overtuned, depending on your settings. You'd need to try it out and see yourself if you like it or not.
Mmm, I see... I just noticed that stalker looks oddly brown colored sometimes and green colored some other times, and when I installed sweetFX the shaders went clearer (whited out). And yes, of course, the natural FXAA... That's why I like sweetFx...
But frankly, I think your mod is the only thing stalker shoc needed to be the best of the trilogy... Wonderful work, keep it up... I'd like to join your project but my experience with c or c++ is limitated to cleaning programs and those kinds of stuff :3
And thanks for the quick reply
Thanks. Well just try running DS with sweetFX then, if you like it then everything is fine :P However I think it will require some good balancing to get it looking nice.
I'll post the shaders once I get the DX10/11 ones done too (though those will require using the modified engine I'm using for COP).
Cool, awaiting your files :P
"Lens Flares are only configured for Agroprom Underground, and only on certain light sources."
Is there a quick and dirty way to enable them for all light sources, or a way to configure which light sources use them on my own?
No, you'd need to collect the position coordinates of all light sources where you want the lens flares to be applied to, and add those coordinates to the shader script.
Plus, as result of a limitation of the engine / shader model itself it's not possible to have all features active at the same time ("shader overload"), so flares will always only be visible as long as it's completely "dry" in the level (ie. no rain for some time ie. no wet surfaces active).
Also (for debugging purposes): Is there a way to make it so rainbows always show up?
Yes, sort of. Try setting extreme values to the two color diff settings in ShaderSettingsRainbows.txt (try both high positive and high negative value, can't remember right now which will work).
Thanks, I'll try that :)
For the record I'm doing this for Call of Pripyat with Atmosfear 3. I can't get your wet shaders working, but I'm sure rainbows will work if I can see one first, and in terms of lens flares I'll try and figure out the coordinates of all the lights and add them.
I'll post the shaders and I'll also add them to the COP engine in such a way that people can enable/disable them via in-game menu.
I'm working with the COP engine and doing all kinds of stuff, so I'm hoping for a mix of your shaders and the OGSE shaders, and I'll post both the shaders and a link to the Github where the code is, once I have things working.
I need to talk to K.D. to get his effects working as well.
One last thing (sorry for spamming):
Do you have a list of effects that have to be compiled under DX11 shader mode and those that don't? I know rainbows don't look to require the DX11 shader path, but I'm not sure about the others. It's just so I can figure out how to approach incorporating them.
Your project idea sounds ambitious but mighty :P
Generally all effects should work under DX9, but given the fact that DX9 both has a lower instruction limit and takes much longer to compile shaders than DX11, some of the effects are either not possible to get fully compiled under DX9 or will take horribly long. This means the more code instructions the more diffucult to get a shader working without DX11 in a reasonable time. All should run as long as run stand-alone, but when it comes to combining several effects you'd have to test where the limit is (also depends on the X-Ray version I'd say). I've tested DS under DX9 a while ago, when there where not yet that much complex effects and it worked but took around 15 times longer to compile...
I wish you good luck with your mod, and let me know how it works :)
So far no luck, and I know I can add shaders (added a few from other mods already).
Just to make sure, for rainbows, the only files affected are: rainbow_draw.h, ShaderSettingsRainbows.txt, and sky2.ps, right?
And I'm dumb :P
I had a hunch and checked sky2.ps....I never #included rainbow_draw...
I'm going to hide now...
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After greeting Ms. Sevigny backstage, Mr. Hernandez said he and Mr. McCollough were inspired by "the lexicon of classic American dressing, but subverting it, playing with it, mixing it up and making something new from that language." As he spoke, he laughed and gesticulated wildly with his hands, illustrating how he and his design partner don't take anything too literally.
Although Messrs. McCollough and Hernandez nodded to fall trends like colorful fur, knitwear and tailored sportswear, Saks Fifth Avenue's President Ron Frasch said the best trend was "the personality of this design house—going back to what they do well."
Isaac Mizrahi celebrated American style with a collection called "Central Park Story Book," that according to the show notes was "sort of Avedon meets 'Avatar.'" It was a love letter to New York, and a reaffirmation of the designer's love of color, texture, and not least of all, bling.
Against a backdrop of a New York City skyline—sheer screens printed with leaves, fake snow flurries and a live band—models walked the runway, made to look like a concrete sidewalk, in bright fur coats. One wore a bias-cut ball gown printed with skyscrapers and another donned a pink sequined cocktail dress called "Pinkberry"—no doubt a reference to the frozen-yogurt chain. One standout look was a shift dress decorated with crystals in a pattern that resembled crocodile skin. (He called the look "diamond crocodile.")
Francisco Costa, creative director for the Calvin Klein brand, also returned to the house's minimalist sportswear roots, creating wearable suiting and elegant outerwear featuring the architectural tailoring for which he has become known. Mr. Costa's unconventional model lineup, which mixed 39-year-old Stella Tennant and 43-year-old Kristen McMenamy in with younger catwalkers, seemed to emphasize that the brand's longtime clients aren't only 17-year-old girls.
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Michael K. Williams, who protrayed one of the most memorable characters on TV as Omar Little, has admitted that he was able to be so villainous through the usage of cocaine and marijuana.
Michael K. Williams, who protrayed one of the most memorable characters on TV as Omar Little, has admitted that he was able to be so villainous through the usage of cocaine and marijuana.
In an interview with The New Jersey Star Ledger, Williams says that he would go on days-long drug binges after becoming addicted in 2004. "I was playing with fire," Williams said. "It was just a matter of time before I got caught and my business ended up on the cover of a tabloid or I went to jail or, worse, I ended up dead. When I look back on it now, I don't know how I didn't end up in a body bag."
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By late Saturday morning, three men and three women will have earned a spot to represent the United States in London in August. That is merely six athletes out of more than 300 who have qualified to even line up for the 26.2-mile course around downtown Houston.
In addition to producing the first members of the U.S. Olympic track and field team, Houston will become the first city to combine the men and the women on the same day at the same venue.
For decades, the men's and women's races were staged separately alongside large, prestigious marathons such as Boston, New York and Los Angeles. Houston even hosted the women's trials in 1992.
But in a divisive move by former USA Track & Field executive director Doug Logan, USATF awarded Houston's combined men/women bid over separate bids from New York City (men's trials) and Boston (women's trials), both of which hosted the 2008 trials for the men and women, respectively.
The men's and women's races will start and finish in front of the George R. Brown Convention Center, with the men beginning at 8 a.m. and the women 15 minutes later.
In total, 158 men and 223 women achieved qualifying times over the past three years. For the men, that meant running a marathon in 2:19 or faster, a half-marathon in less than 1:05 or a 10,000-meter race in less than 28:30. For the women, the standards were 2:46, 1:15 and 33:00, respectively.
The course, which was created to emulate the course in London, begins with a 2.2-mile loop through the heart of downtown, after which the athletes will run three 8-mile loops on a flat course that race organizers expect to result in fast times.
Five of the six reigning U.S. Olympians will be returning: Ryan Hall, Dathan Ritzenhein, Deena Kastor (2004 Olympic bronze medalist), Magdalena Lewy Boulet, and Blake Russell. They will be joined by 2004 marathon team members Meb Keflezighi (2004 Olympic silver medalist), Colleen De Reuck, and Jen Rhines.
Typically in championship events such as the trials, the races are more strategic than fast. But Hall proved that false in the 2008 trials, dropping the pace and his competition midrace and powering on to an Olympic trials record of 2:09:02.
His 2:04:58 last year at Boston certainly puts him at the top for a ticket to London. Should he win, he would join Frank Shorter (1972, '76) as the only two repeat trials winners. But he will have to outrun former training partner Keflezighi, who ran well at New York City two months ago.
This is the deepest U.S. women's marathon field at the trials with the most qualifiers ever: sub-2:25 (two), sub-2:30 (seven), sub-2:35 (18) and sub-2:40 (50). Like Hall, Desiree Davila is a favorite to make the team based on her stellar 2:22:38 at Boston. 2010 New York City runner-up Shalane Flanagan is always tough as will be rising star Stephanie Rothstein. Expect Kara Goucher to be in the mix.
At 50, 1996 Olympic marathoner Linda Somers Smith qualified for her seventh trials.
Locally, Christopher Raabe (2:15:13, D.C.) and Michael Wardian (2:17:49, Arlington) lead the men, and Serena Burla (2:35:08, Falls Church) and Amanda Rice (2:38:57, Bethesda) lead the women.
Also at stake is a prize purse totaling $250,000 in each race, plus bonuses, with $50,000 to the men's and women's champion.
NBC will broadcast two hours of same-day delayed coverage beginning at 3 p.m. ET.


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Click the image at right for the tentative agenda and registration for the NDACo Annual Conference October 25-27. Earlybird registration prices have expired, but there's still plenty of time to register at the regular price.
This year, for the first time ever, the NDACo Annual Conference will be held at the Bismarck Event Center. Shuttle transportation will be provided from the Downtown Radisson, Ramkota Hotel, Expressway Inn and Expressway Suites.
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This past week, we had an offsite brainstorming session at the new Novelty Hill • Januik winery in Woodinville to discuss our upcoming MIX08 event in Las Vegas. Jennifer Ritzinger (who still doesn't have a blog for some reason) challenged each speaker to come up with a creative way to present their topic using a single slide. Never ones to take a creative challenge lightly, my co-presenter, Thomas Lewis, and I asked ourselves: "what have we never seen in a PowerPoint presentation?" A few minutes of brainstorming later, we decided to make our slides in 3D. Not your average everyday 3D, mind you, but the kind of 3D that would require everyone to wear cheesy red and cyan anaglyphic cardboard glasses!
Like so many of the ideas that Thomas and I come up with, we never let trifles like feasibility get in the way. What fun would that be!? So, we split up our tasks, and I volunteered to figure out how to actually make the 3D idea work.
Okay, I thought...first thing's first: search the internet and find a PowerPoint plug-in that creates stereographic images. Ummm...none exist. And believe me, I looked! Alright, alright...I get it. Nobody has made one for PowerPoint, but surely someone has made a simple application that lets me type in text and create the final composite image. Nope. Nada. After probably 30 minutes looking for a simple solution, I decided that I was going to have to dig-in and learn a bit about stereographic image creation. Enter Wikipedia's entry on Anaglyph image.
I followed a lot of links from the Wikipedia entry and learned quite a bit in the process. Although I probably could have hacked away at Photoshop and tried to get the sizing and colors to work just right, I decided to take the "easy" route and create a real 3D scene in 3ds Max. Then, I'd only have to create two cameras about 6cm away from each other (to match the average distance between human eyes). I'd render scenes from both cameras, then merge the two images. I thank Eumel3d for the nice tutorial that worked very well.
As you might imagine, because of the red and cyan glasses, color choice can make a big difference in the final result. Choose colors with too much contrast, and you'll introduce a "ghosting" effect. I spent a lot of time rendering and combining images...more time than I'd care to admit. But, the end product was worth it.
At the presentation, we handed out cardboard glasses that I had ordered from American Paper Optics, Inc. Someone took a photo of everyone wearing the glasses, but I haven't seen it yet. Because of our creativity, we were included in the final random drawing, and Thomas took home the prize for a job well done.
Since our presentation, I've discovered an excellent (and free) 3ds Max script/plug-in called Stereographer Max by Ron Lussier and Larry Minton. This makes the job much easier, and I wish I had found it earlier. I used it to create the sample slide accompanying this post. Click the image to see a larger version.
Here are some other thoughts and resources if you want to dig-in more:
Trust me...you can spend hours geeking out with this stuff. It's a lot of fun. I've thought about writing a stereographic slide creation tool or game using Silverlight. Maybe something simple like 3D Pong or Breakout. At first glance, I think I'd need to use a blending mode that Silverlight doesn't support. And frankly, I doubt I'll be able to find the time. If someone out there does create some cool stuff, I'D LOVE TO SEE IT!
Party on!
Remember that you are unable to see the intended effect when you have only a slight problem in your eyes and their coordination.
You can get just about any type of 3d glasses for free over at Rainbow Symphony. Just go to their free stuff page and follow the directions. They have about 6 different kinds of glasses for different applications.
hi this helped me do a progect thak you!.
I am doing a report for school and I have no idea how to make slides. Can you help.
hey! i had the same idea, for an englsih project at home and so i look it up and i found this, boy am i glad that you laid of the steps for me, thx :) now i need to know how to get free glasses for the whole class, any suggestions?..


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I enyoy going to Lake Placid because there is plenty of things to do if there is bad weather or there are non-skiers in your group. If you get tired of skiing be sure to visit the public tobaggon slide right on Mirror lake. You pay a reasonable fee for a tobaggon and walk up stairs and shoot down a slide on to the frozen lake. You can keep going up as long as you want. There are dog sled rides(more expensive) and Snowmobile rentals(even more expensive). Be sure to visit the Ski Jump and Bob Sled run outside of town. The public can ride the Bob Sled (2 at at time between a driver and brakeman). There is public Ice Skating on the outdoor Olympic oval in front of the high School with a rental shop accross the street. There is an indoor arena that has open skating(call first for the open times). I am aware of x-country skiing in the area but have never done it myself.
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Exposure of RML scrapie agent to a sodium percarbonate-based product and sodium dodecyl sulfate renders PrPSc protease sensitive but does not eliminate infectivity
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BMC Veterinary Research 2013, 9:8 doi:10.1186/1746-6148-9-8Published: 11 January 2013
Prions, the causative agents of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are notoriously difficult to inactivate. Current decontamination recommendations by the World Health Organization include prolonged exposure to 1 N sodium hydroxide or > 20,000 ppm sodium hypochlorite, or autoclaving. For decontamination of large stainless steel surfaces and equipment as in abattoirs, for example, these methods are harsh or unsuitable. The current study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a commercial product containing sodium percarbonate to inactivate prions. Samples of mouse brain infected with a mouse-adapted strain of the scrapie agent (RML) were exposed to a sodium percarbonate-based product (SPC-P). Treated samples were evaluated for abnormal prion protein (PrPSc)-immunoreactivity by western blot analysis, and residual infectivity by mouse bioassay.
Exposure to a 21% solution of SPC-P or a solution containing either 2.1% or 21% SPC-P in combination with sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) resulted in increased proteinase K sensitivity of PrPSc. Limited reductions in infectivity were observed depending on treatment condition. A marginal effect on infectivity was observed with SPC-P alone, but an approximate 2–3 log10 reduction was observed with the addition of SDS, though exposure to SDS alone resulted in an approximate 2 log10 reduction.
This study demonstrates that exposure of a mouse-adapted scrapie strain to SPC-P does not eliminate infectivity, but does render PrPSc protease sensitive.


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by Lee Stabert
As some of you may or may not know, this past Saturday we here at the Cream had a little shindig. I had the excellent opportunity to put together a DJ set (on my iPod, I admit it). We were each asked to include a local track and Kyle Andrews was nice enough to mix up one of his excellent indie pop gems for me. Here is the remix of "Polar Bear." It's pretty fracking awesome and I think it held up quite well against "Ignition (Remix)" and "No Diggity."
Thanks, Kyle.
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Kim Jong Il visits 'LCD TV factory'
Jul 30th
Posted by Martyn Williams in Business
North Korean state media has reported on a visit by Kim Jong Il to the "May 11 Factory," which it described as "a modern scientific research and production center which researches and develops varieties of electronic goods including liquid crystal display TV sets."
The KCNA report mentioned the LCD televisions several times and was accompanied with many photos of the TVs, so they appear to be something the North Korean government is proud of. There's a gallery of stills from the KRT evening news report below.
Look through them and you'll notice the pictures all appear to show the final stages of assembly where the case is put around the electronics and screen. There are no pictures showing earlier stages in the assembly process or the prior stages to that, such as the fitting of components to circuit boards.
There is also a lack of parts around the workers. In a typical LCD TV factory there would be crates of spare parts and casings nearby, so the workers don't have to walk far. It's quite possible the layout of this factory is different, but if so it's probably not as efficient.
It's reminiscent of a March television report that purported to show North Korea's first laptop PC factory. It turned out at least one of the laptops is likely being made in China and shipped to North Korea.
As in the case of the laptops, it's impossible to tell if they are from an outside source unless someone can identify the televisions on show. The front designs of the TVs are rather generic so they're difficult to identify. In any case copying of popular designs is rampant in the LCD TV industry.
Perhaps the best clue is picture 17 in the upper right. A TV is lying on its face in the foreground and the rear of the case is visible. The rear panels are mre unique and much less likely to be copied than the front panels.
The factory, said KCNA, "is capable of producing hundreds of thousands of liquid crystal display TV sets in a year."
Whether or not the factory actually makes the TV sets in question, or other devices, the report underlines it's part of North Korea's drive to improve the level of science and technology in the country.
These shining achievements are a clear proof of the validity and vitality of the Party's policy on taking hold on science and technology as the lifeline for the building of an economic power, he added. – Korea Central News Agency, Pyongyang, July 28, 2011.
Kim Jong Il was accompanied on the visit by next-in-line son Kim Jong Un.
North Korea Leadership Watch also spotted the presence of Jon Il Chun in official photographs. Jon, according to the website, is daily manager of Office #39 under the party's Finance and Accounting Department. Office #39 is widely believed to be the organization through which North Korea brings in much of its foreign currency. More details on NK Leadership Watch here and NK Econwatch here.
Pyongyang Spring Int'l Trade Fair 2011
May 18th
This year's Spring International Trade Fair is taking place in Pyongyang this week.
As usual, the fair serves as a showcase for domestic products and technology and a place for foreign companies to display their goods and make domestic contacts. This week's fair has drawn companies from China, Germany, Malaysia, Mongolia, Syria, Switzerland, Singapore, the U.K., Australia, Austria, Italy, Indonesia, France, Poland and Taiwan, reported KCNA.
The event opened on Monday at the Three Revolution Exhibition in the north of the city and drew a number of top-officials. Present on the fair's opening day included Kang Sok Ju, vice-premier; Ri Ryong Nam, minister of foreign trade; and O Ryong Chol, vice-minister of Foreign Trade.
KCNA carried a brief item on the event and it got 2 minutes and 20 seconds on the evening news. I've excerpted some frames from the report below. (Sorry for the poor quality, it's the best available to me.)
I've been able to determine this partial list of exhibitors from the TV footage.
Of particular interest is the stand of a company with the "Kacon" logo.
It appears almost identical to a South Korean company of the same name.
Has a South Korean company taken out space at the show, perhaps through a subsidiary or dealer? If you have any information on this, please leave it in the comments.
Some of the other companies taking part:
Korea Jangsaeng JV – Korean medicine and health food
Korea Manbok JV
Korea Sangsaeng JV
Kyongrim Trading
Puhung (possibly Korea Puhung General Trading, part of the Third Bureau of Engineers formed to acquire raw materials for the country's nuclear program, according to reports. Can anyone match the logo?)
BYD Auto – Cars
Dandong Sky Dragon
Henan Xinfei Electric (Frestech) -Refrigerators, air conditioners
Liaoning Yuhua Electrical and Mechanical Equipment – Construction equipment
Purkinje General – Spectrophotometers and environmental instruments
Shenyang Daji Industrial – Titanium pipe
Wuxi Kipor Power – generators, industrial equipment and construction machinery
Zongshen Motorcycle – Motorbikes
PUST adds 100 students
May 18th
Posted by Martyn Williams in Analysis
The Pyongyang University of Science and Technology enrolled an additional 100 students at the start of the current academic semester, according to a foundation that supports the school.
The first classes at PUST began in October 2010 with 160 students enrolled, said reports at the time. The latest intake will take the student body to 260 members, assuming none of the initial students has dropped out.
That's pretty small for a university, but PUST isn't interesting for the number of students. The school has raised heads because of its unusual backing and plans.
The university is a sister establishment of the Yanbian University of Science and Technology in China and was founded by a group of evangelical Christians based in South Korea and the U.S.
Perhaps even more radical is the curriculum and teaching plans.
After beginning with English classes in October, March was supposed to see a fuller course of information technology, business management and agriculture. Some of the lecturers at the school come from overseas, the language of instruction is English, and students will have accessed to the Internet, albeit a censored version, according to claims from the university's backers.
The university is looking for faculty volunteers to help out of one month of more. If you're interested in getting involved with the university, check the YUST/PUST Foundation website.
Here are some pictures of the classrooms at PUST, a 2003 artist's image of the site, and some pictures of current campus buildings. All images are courtesy of the Northeast Asia Foundation for Education and Culture (NAFEC).
Pyongyang Int'l Trade Fair
Oct 19th
The 6th Pyongyang International Trade Fair kicked off on Oct. 18 and was covered by KCNA and Korea Central Television.
The event is being held at the Three Revolution Exhibition in Pyongyang and has attracted exhibitors from 17 countries. On show are "machine tools, electric and electronic equipment, vehicles, medicines, daily necessities and foodstuffs," reported KCNA.
Among the companies in attendance are Haier, the Chinese home appliance maker, and the Deutsche Energie-Agentur (German Energy Agency).
Here are some views of the expo, courtesy of KRT:
6th Pyongyang Autumn Int'l Trade Fair Opens
Oct 19th
Pyongyang, October 18 (KCNA) — The 6th Pyongyang Autumn International Trade Fair was opened with due ceremony at the Three-Revolution Exhibition on Monday.
Displayed there are machine tools, electric and electronic equipment, vehicles, medicines, daily necessities, foodstuff, etc produced by companies of the DPRK, China, Germany, Russia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Syria, Switzerland, Singapore, Australia, Austria, Italy, Indonesia, India, Cuba, Poland and Taipei of China.
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Utah Valley University interim president selected
Published July 17, 2008 12:04 pm
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Posted: 12:03 PM- Utah Valley University's vice president for academic affairs will serve as the school's interim president.
Elizabeth Hitch was named interim president Thursday by Jed Pitcher, chairman of the state board of regents.
Hitch will start her new job Aug. 18. That's when Bill Sederburg will leave the post to become commissioner of higher education.
Hitch has held her current job since July 2007 and has more than 35 years of experience in higher education.
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BATON ROUGE – LSU will wrap up what has been a busy week for the program on Saturday afternoon when head coach Les Miles puts the Tigers through their second full-scale scrimmage of spring practice here at 3 p.m. in Tiger Stadium.
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Supporting SOILS on International Permaculture Day with Geoff Lawton
Geoff Lawton talks "What you can do with Soil in a Desert", supporting the Soil theme on this upcoming International Permaculture Day from The Greening the Desert Sequel Site in the Jordan Valley (PRI Jordan). Join us worldwide on Sunday 3rd May for International Permaculture Day: In Support of Soil!
BioDigester Wrap Up and Making Thatch
Tom Kendall from the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast shows the end result of the Bio Digester setup: the gas. He also talks about and shows making thatch for a roof from vetiver grass.
Playing with Cow Poo – Bio Digester Routines Part 4
Tom Kendall from the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast describes the process after the cow manure goes through the biodigester. The biodigester compost pits and reed bed are shown and how he generates soil fertility through the cycling process is discussed.
Organic Cattle and Grass Farming in Costa Rica
Finca Quijote is located in one of the wettest places on earth. We get 6 meters of rainfall per year on average. Our elevation is 800 meters above sea level to 1100 meters on the highest "cero" or mountain top. The 517 hectares of Quijote consists mostly of forest, some pristine old growth in the… Read more »
1st month of PRI Practical Diploma at PRI Sunshine Coast, Australia
View from the wonderful pond with forest view I have been traveling around the world for the last 5 years working on permaculture projects and communities in several countries. I shared my nomadic journey in 2 articles which you can see here and here . I decided to settle down for a while and bring… Read more »
Playing with Cow Poo: Bio Digester Routines Part 1
In Part One,Tom Kendall from PRI Sunshine Coast, shows you the daily process of feeding the bio digester to make biogas. Biogas is mixture of different gases produced by the breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen. In this he shows the routines in the morning with the cows and how to ensure… Read more »
Support Species for a Dryland Food Forest, a Practical Example
Greening the Desert II, Dead Sea Valley, Jordan Photos: Rawan Risheq October-November 2014, at the end of a long dry summer before the winter rains. You can also download the whole pdf here From its very inception, a natural system is involved in a continuous evolution, an ongoing succession of different stages toward increasing diversity… Read more »
People Training at PRI Sunshine Coast
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The Next Stage of the Bio Digester at PRI Sunshine Coast
Tom Kendall from the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast Tom Kendall talks about what the next step is for the Biogas Bio Digester at his Permaculture Demonstration Site "Maungaraeeda", which is the location of the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast. The Bio Digester already creates enough gas to cook some meals on, but it is… Read more »
Creating a Forest Floor through Chop and Drop
Tom Kendall from the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast Tom Kendall from the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast talks about his plans for the swimming pond which was dug 2 years ago. Support species are establishing growth, but after a big rain it is time to do some chopping and dropping and encouraging the growth… Read more »
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When I was younger, maybe 10 or so, I had this thing for frogs. I wanted frogs, and ponds with frogs. Lots of frogs. At an abandoned gravel quarry by my house, in the unlikely place of the city of Athens, I would find tadpoles, hundreds of them, in rain puddles every spring. I also… Read more »