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Maxon and Red Giant Merge in New Media and Entertainment Division
Cinema 4D parent company, Nemetschek Group, merges Maxon and post-production plugin developer Red Giant.
Hot on the trails of the acquisition of Redshift Rendering Technologies earlier this year, Nemetschek Group doubles down on their red offerings with a merger with Red Giant.
Red Giant, makers of Trapcode, Magic Bullet, Universe, and my personal favorite PluralEyes, had just released their own subscription all-you-can-eat offer with Red Giant Complete. After a successful launch, it looks like the company made enough noise for others to notice.
In the announcement, it was revealed the Maxon and Red Giant would from a new Media and Entertainment Division under Nemetschek. This will allow them to bring all their production and post-production tools together.
Maxon's Cinema 4D, Redshift, and Red Giant are now all subscription services that are used by countless production facilities all around the world.
"This merger is a major milestone, not only for Maxon and Red Giant but also for the design industry as a whole," said David McGavran, CEO of Maxon. "Our combined technology and know how have the potential to progressively reshape the content creation landscape for years to come."
"The combination of our companies is an exceptional fit of people, culture and technology." said Chad Bechert, CEO of Red Giant. "We look forward to working together under a shared vision of how to design powerful and approachable software to serve creative artists around the world."
Greyscalegorilla founder Nick Campbell shared his excitement, "Huge news! I can personally say that I've never met two companies so full of talented, creative, and genuinely nice people. Can't wait to see what they do together."
The merger is still pending, and is expected to close in January 2020, subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions.
We will be sure to keep you up to date with the latest.
*Update – A previous version of this story incorrectly reported this as an acquisition, but it is in fact a merger.
Looking for Cinema 4D or Red Giant Trapcode tutorials? Check out the free tutorials page.
Back in April, Maxon aquired Redshift. Stay tuned for an upcoming podcast with the latest on the Red Giant merger.
Arnold is the Most Versatile Render Engine for Cinema 4D
With the latest release, Autodesk's Arnold renderer becomes the most versatile C4D render engine that works on both CPU and GPU.
One of the most asked questions Greyscalegorilla receives is which render engine to use. It's still not a simple answer, but for the first time, we can definitely recommend one based on versatility + features.
Autodesk Arnold is one of the leading Cinema 4D render engines that can be used by both Mac and PC artists, and now that the NVIDIA GPU version is fully released it's incredibly powerful.
Arnold 6 is not the most feature-rich new release, but it doesn't really have to be.
The removal of the word BETA from it's GPU offering could be called premature (and I wouldn't necessarily argue with them), but there is no denying the power of being able to flip from CPU to GPU. The new licensing methods are also a welcome change to the old, overly complicated system that required a degree in IT to get up and running (though still has tons of room for improvement).
Let's dive into the latest release, and really take a look at things.
Overall Benefits to Arnold 6:
- Easy to Use
- Most versatile renderer for both Mac and PC (CPU + GPU), though GPU is not supported on Mac
- Works across all major DCC's including Cinema, Houdini, Maya, and Max
- Most feature-rich renderer (including a full Toon System)
- Supports more native C4D features than most current renderers (Noises, Background Object, Floor Object, etc)
- Extremely stable
- Memory Efficient
- Affordable Single Seat Licenses
- Monthly subscriptions available
- No watermark restrictions – You can work on the watermarked version with no feature limitations
- Extremely responsive IPR in both CPU/GPU
- Supports industry standards like OCIO+ACES, OSL
5 Must-Know Things About Arnold 6
- Arnold GPU:
- Out of Beta
- More Stable
- Supporting nearly every feature of CPU (including light filters, LPE's, and nearly all AOVs)
- No Mac Support
- Lower Pricing Structure
- New Arnold license process – Somewhat easier to get up and running, and cheaper options.
- A ton of bug fixes. Stability matters in production.
- Quality of life updates (node alignment tools, material exports, etc)
Thoughts on Arnold GPU
Arnold GPU was no small feat. Taking a production-proven CPU renderer and pushing it to deliver 1:1 results on the GPU is very difficult. Renderman is currently working on XPU which promises to harness the power of your CPU and GPU simultaneously, but it's proved challenging to bring to market. We believe the future is about leveraging ALL your hardware. Power and flexibility will always win out. Arnold being able to give 1:1 results on both CPU and GPU is incredibly compelling.
If I were starting a small studio right now, I would be using Arnold GPU on my artists' workstations to do look dev/lighting and then switching to CPU mode to throw to an inexpensive cloud render farm solution such as Pixel Plow. I'd outfit every 3D workstation with dual 2080ti's and a Threadripper to give every artist the flexibility to use whichever mode better suits their work. What a time to be alive!
Now I've been on the beta for Arnold GPU since it opened over a year ago. I've watched it slowly go from a buggy, noisy mess into something I actually use on a daily basis.
The first question anyone ever asks me is whether or not it's faster than it's competitor Redshift. My answer is always the same, mostly no. In my testing, Arnold GPU is 10-20% slower than Redshift on most tasks. However, in some cases, it can close that gap very nicely (usually on scenes with tons of GI bounces).
Even with Redshift besting it in terms of sheer speed (as one would expect from a biased GPU renderer), it cannot touch Arnold in terms of features and user experience. Arnold outshines its competitors with production proven features and a Cinema 4D plugin that is easily best in class.
I'm also a bit spoiled as I use Arnold with a 64-core AMD Threadripper. So Arnold CPU for me is certainly no slouch. In fact, only now with Arnold 6 can I say that their GPU offering is giving my beast of a CPU a run for it's money.
Should I switch to Arnold GPU?
Well, there are a few things to consider
- Arnold GPU is Windows only, sorry no Mac support at this time
- Arnold GPU is Nvidia ONLY and more cards the better. I HIGHLY recommend RTX cards as Arnold GPU is optimized for that platform. I've got two 2080ti's and I wish I had more!
- Arnold GPU takes advantage of NVLink (an $80 device that links multiple RTX cards together) and in my opinion, is a MUST HAVE if you want to maximize speed in Arnold GPU.
- You also have to be "OK" with Arnold GPU taking a bit longer to render than it's competition, but in exchange you get superior features and first-in-class plugin experience. Plus, you can always design in GPU and send to a CPU farm. Versatility!
What are the Key New Features of Arnold 6?
- Faster creased subdivs: Hard creases are now fully supported in adaptive and multithreaded mode. This means creased surfaces will use all procs during subdivision.
- Dielectric microfacet multiple scattering: Rough dielectrics are now energy-preserving by accounting for multiple scattering between microfacets for both reflection and refraction, avoiding the energy loss of the previous implementation. Disabling the global option enable_microfacet_multiscatter will restore the previous look.
- Physical Sky shader improvements: The physical sky shader will now extend the color at the horizon all the way down to the bottom pole.
- Improved roughness mapping of the Oren-Nayar diffuse BRDF: The Oren-Nayar roughness parameter has been remapped so that values close to 1 no longer result in excessive darkening. This change also improves the Standard Surface and Car Paint shaders.
- Improved rough thin-wall transmission in Standard Surface shader: Refractions in thin-walled mode now appear blurry with non-zero roughness.
- OCIO roles: Roles can now be listed with the color manager API by querying color spaces available in the Role (OCIO) family. This makes it possible to build UIs that list all known roles.
- Skip RGBA denoising: Noise now accepts -ignore_rgba or -irgba to skip denoising of RGBA even if it's present.
- OpenImageIO 2.1.4: OIIO support is now upgraded to 2.1.4.
- More accurate albedo AOVs: Albedo AOVs now correspond more closely to the true albedos of the material's BSDFs.
- New AOV Write Vector shader: This enables the writing of vector values into a typed AOV, for example for recording positional values. These would previously have been clamped when using typed AOVs
C4DtoA Plugin Enhancements
- Material export/import: Materials can be exported to ASS files and MaterialX files (.mtlx) via the C4DtoA > Utilities > Material > Export to ASS… menu item or via the Alt~W+X shortcut in the Material Manager. Materials can be imported via the C4DtoA > Utilities > Material > Import from ASS… menu item or Alt~W+I shortcut. Selected shaders from a material can also be exported from the network editor.
- Align nodes in the network editor: New Edit > Align nodes menu item and Alt~W+L shortcut is added to the network editor to align graph nodes in the layout.
- Notification when no license found or license will expire: Now a message is displayed in the render settings when no Arnold license found or two weeks before the license expires.
- New Licensing menu: Licensing menu moved to C4DtoA > Licensing with menu items to open the new Arnold License Manager, help and purchase pages. Note that single-user licensing is not available for testing.
- Added
- Add Details and Project tabs to Arnold Sky: ****Light filters, user options and light linking settings are moved to these new tabs to be consistent with other lights.
- Flush Caches menu moved under Utilities
Want to learn more?
Check out the C4DtoA 3.0.1 documentation and Arnold 6 overview.
Redshift Gets Cinema 4D Noises and Nodes — First Impressions
Cinema 4D Noises and Nodes are now available in Redshift, or are they? A look into the confusing world of experimental updates.
This week I found the latest Maxon Press Release, Redshift update integrates Cinema 4D Noises and Nodes for improved rendering workflow, in my inbox. It was some exciting news that I was quick to open and read.
Per the release, Redshift 3.0.12,
provides content creators deeper integration of Redshift within Cinema 4D. Redshift materials can now be defined using Cinema 4D's nodal material framework, introduced in Release 20. As well, Redshift materials can use the Node Space system introduced in Release 21, which combines the native nodes of multiple render engines into a single material. Redshift is the first to take advantage of the new API in Cinema 4D to implement their own Node Spaces. Users can now also use any Cinema 4D view panel as a Redshift IPR (interactive preview render) window, making it easier to work within compact layouts and interact with a scene while developing materials and lighting. – Maxon
It was some pretty exciting news that garnered quite a bit of attention online.
Now there was something blatantly missing from this press release. Maxon never clarified that the latest Redshift release was in fact a beta.
Then I looked at the version number again. "3.0.12"
Redshift 3.0 has not yet been released, so this new announcement just fed further confusion.
If you were to head to the Redshift download area, you'll notice that only v2.6.50 is currently listed. That is the recommended production-ready build of Redshift.
If you actually want to experiment with the C4D Noises and Nodes, you'll need to find the Redshift experimental builds in the forums.
Experimental builds is the term used by Redshift for their beta builds. You get what you get. Know that there will be many bugs and likely crashes involved.
Typically Redshift experimental builds are just rolled out to users without much fanfare. But in this case, I was led to believe that C4D Noises and Nodes were production ready.
It seems like there may be some miscommunication between Maxon and Redshift regarding "updates" versus "experimental builds" but despite the confusion, we still wanted to investigate the newest feature additions to Redshift.
After a quick install, it was quickly apparent that this release IS NOT production ready.
Now to further investigate, I turned to our resident render expert Chad Ashley to take a deeper dive into the latest Redshift release. He too found a series of issues with this release. I asked for him to catalog his experience, and here are his findings.
First Impression
This is a good first stab at supporting both C4D noises and nodes, but this still feels very beta overall. I'd say that the noises seem farther along than the node experience.
I should note that the noises are missing some key features, like looping and movement, but they are at least functional. However, until the node system gets a bit more mature, I'll be sticking with the Xpresso editor.
Redshift Node Implementation
I've never particularly enjoyed using the Xpresso nodes in Redshift or Arnold. Connecting those minuscule lines make my eyes water, so when Maxon released its own node-based material editor, I was very excited.
I even did some C4D node training (using physical) and got to know it a bit better. Overall their node system has a clean, functional, UI that doesn't cause blindness but is not without its flaws.
A majority of the issues I found were with the node editor itself, not necessarily the Redshift implementation. Though there were a few things that bugged me.
- Ability to Mute wire's is nice
- Ability to right click to replace nodes is useful
- Grouping is useful but would be better if groups could be opened/closed quickly
- Overall Node issue: Undo doesn't work when connecting/disconnecting nodes.
- Overall Node issue: UI desperately needs a CTRL+A select all hotkey.
- Redshift Node issue: Some RS previews show black or are the wrong color for no apparent reason.
- Redshift Node issue: Frequently, nodes require a manual renderview refresh to see any changes.
- Overall Node issue: New nodes start in the center of the UI and not under your mouse as one would expect.
- Overall Node issue: Cant save node materials to the content browser (big one for me)
- Overall Node issue: No preferences to set initial view state for nodes (no previews, etc)
- Overall Node issue: Doesn't support custom material previews
- Redshift Node issue: RS Texture nodes are shown on sphere material preview for some reason (see below image)
- Redshift Node issue: Referenced materials are not yet supported
- Redshift Node issue: Soloing upstream textures in a material with displacement shows the material with no displacement. Displacement seems to be omitted from upstream solos.
Redshift Noise Implementation
Redshift's implementation of Maxon's noises is a welcome and long-awaited addition. It is fairly feature-complete with only a handful of omissions. I'm especially delighted that they included UV/vertex, Object and World source (spaces).
- Missing looping animation features.
- Missing movement + speed features.
- Would be nice to drive noise types with user data.
- Would be nice to drive noise seeds with user data.
- Maxon Noise material preview is on a sphere despite being a texture?
It looks like Redshift 3.0 is on it's way to incorporating some nice new features, but it's apparent that the build just isn't quite there yet. Which brings us to wonder when the public will finally see a Redshift 3 full release.
We saw issues with Arnold's first GPU release beta which has made major strides since it's first release earlier this year. With Maxon backing Redshift, let's hope that Redshift is also quick to innovate and release big updates soon. It's really starting to look like the GPU rendering competition is about to heat up.
Overall, it looks like there was a lot of "noise" made for features that aren't ready for the public, but if you are tempted to play with the new experimental build, Redshift customers can find a download in the Redshift forums.
Beeple's Short Film is a Wake-up Call for Everybody, Including Himself
Four years in the making, Beeple never thought he'd finally release 'Manifest Destiny.' Now you can watch it and download all the scene files he made for free.
Mike Winkelmann, a.k.a. Beeple, wrote the treatment for his latest film, Manifest Destiny, a little over four years ago, never dreaming that it would actually take so long to get the film finished.
Derailed by procrastination, he finally got back on track after making a deal with an artist he met at SIGGRAPH, him agreeing that he would finish his film in 100 days, and she would create an Everyday for 100 days. "I don't know why I agreed to that, but it forced me to f—ing do it," he says, admitting that "I still didn't do anything until the last two weeks, and I seriously finished it on the 100th day."
Reached in Denver last week where he was one of the featured speakers on Maxon's 26-city 3D Design + Motion Tour, Winkelmann talked with me about the making of Manifest Destiny, using Cinema 4D, Octane and Houdini; losing interest in making longer films; and how his Everydays have turned darker and more political in the last year, but he remains optimistic about the future.
Meleah Maynard: Your other films, Transparent Machines and Zero Day, were social commentaries too, but Manifest Destiny feels stronger and more pointed. Would you agree?
Mike Winkelmann: Yeah, this one is not vague at all. The things I'm pointing out are literally happening now. But there is a bit of sensationalizing, like I did with the other films. There is so much inequality in the world, and it is improving in some areas, like statistics show that the number of people living in extreme poverty is slowly declining.
But things are getting worse in a lot of ways too. I tried to choose statistics that people may not have been aware of, like how Jeff Bezos made over $100 million dollars every single day in 2018, and the average Chinese worker assembling iPhones makes $1.85 per hour. I wanted to hit on a lot of different points about money.
MM: You've been saying this film would be done for a long time. What happened?
MW: I don't know. I think, to be honest, I'm not actually that interested in making things that are this long anymore. I'm more interested in doing short 10- to 30-second videos. I think that you can be more experimental when you have less time, like, 'I've got two days invested in this, who cares? I can do whatever.' But when you spend four years, you're like, 'OMG, should I do this, or that, or this?' It becomes paralyzing. I don't even watch short films much anymore. If I do another video, I'm giving myself a deadline, like a month or something.
MM: Were you redoing it over and over? What was left to finish?
MW: No, the only thing left to do was edit it to the Run the Jewels track. I had everything done and rendered. But then I just didn't touch it for a year and, honestly, it wasn't even bugging me that I wasn't getting it done. I was always planning on using that Run the Jewels song, "Legend Has It." I liked the overall vibe of the song, but I hadn't talked to them about it yet. And then one of the guys got in touch with me to say they'd seen some of my Everydays and wanted to talk about making a video. So it all worked out.
MM: Talk a little bit about your process for making this.
MW: The workflow was pretty simple, really. I mainly used Cinema 4D and Octane. Octane gave it a great look that really felt super realistic. I could just set up a couple of lights and throw some volumetrics on it to get a lot of depth and atmosphere.
The buildings were modeled in C4D, and all of the fire and destructions was simulated in Turbulence FD and rendered in Octane. There was no compositing: I just went straight out of C4D and Octane and did one color correction and that was it.
MM: What about the fat gold characters, and how they sort of melted together?
MW: Oh, yeah, I used Houdini for the melting gold people. I have no idea how I did that. When I started this four years ago, it was the first time I'd ever done characters. I used Mixamo for the big gold character, and Houdini for the melting effect. It's a good thing I saved that as an Alembic file, or I would have had to start over since I don't remember how I did that.
All of the fighting was done with Mixamo models that we already in poses, like they were hitting, ducking or punching. I just had to choreograph the characters, so it looked like they were fighting. I'm happy with how it turned out. The melting thing was kind of symbolism for this weird orgy of people at the top, like our politicians and upper-class elite, all bumping heads and wrestling around in a big pile. They're not really doing anything meaningful, just shifting their weight around while very little changes for the rest of us.
MM: Why did you go with text and music rather than narration this time?
MW: I was going to do a voiceover with music, like I usually do, and I had like 140 people submit auditions, but none of them were right. So I decided, pretty much at the last second, to put use text, even though it would be covering up all that sh-t I worked on for so long. That was probably a better choice anyway because a lot of people watch videos on mute, so they wouldn't have heard the narration. I wanted to get a lot of stuff across, like how much debt we're in, how rich Americans are, and how so many people are insanely poor and a few are insanely rich.
MM: Do you worry, or think about, the state of the world a lot these days?
MW: No, I wouldn't say that. But I do work a lot more with two TVs on, one turned to FOX News and the other to CNN. I mute the sound, but it's very interesting to see how differently they cover things. FOX is just all of this propaganda and, pretty much the opposite of what CNN says. You can see why the country is so divided.
I'm definitely interested in politics, and I do think we are headed for a time when we're all going to have to make some changes and adjust to a new reality, including changing our levels of spending. But there are things we can do, like give money. Most of us can afford to give money, but we don't. Or we don't give enough. Honestly, as I've made more money, I've given less money. This film is kind of a wake-up call, for everybody, me included.
MM: It seems like you're trying to say more with your Everydays now, too.
MW: I'd say it was about July when I started doing things that are overtly political. I like taking a political- or commerce-related scenario and abstracting it out to a ridiculous degree, like the pro-choice one where robot Trump is being forced to have a baby in the future, or where Mark Zuckerberg has no nipples because women can't show nipples on Facebook.
The response has been super, much bigger than anything else I've done. It really just felt like a natural progression from the storytelling I've been doing.
MM: What else are you doing these days?
MW: I'm working on a couple of things I can't talk about yet. I just did some concert visuals for Zedd, and I'm doing a video sculpture for a festival that Amazon's doing in December. I'm traveling a lot more. A month ago, I was in Brazil with my wife and the kids. And my wife and I are going to Russia soon for a conference I'm doing with Maxon. There's a lot going on.
Credits and Free Downloads:
Directed by: BEEPLE
Music: RUN THE JEWELS
Donations to Direct Relief.
Does not require Cinema 4D.
Beeple's resources
Meleah Maynard is a writer and editor in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
News: Free Megascans for Unreal Engine, Substance Updates, and More
Big news in the material creation world. Megascans is now free for Unreal Engine 4 users, Substance announces updates to Painter and Alchemist, and more.
There have been quite a few large announcements in the 3D world lately. Let's take a glimpse at what is going on in the industry.
Epic Games and Quixel Join Forces
Quixel, makers of Megascans, have announced that they have joined forces with Epic Games. Not only does this create amazing opportunities for Quixel, it makes immediate changes to Megascans users.
Megascans is now free for use with Unreal Engine
The entire Megascans library is now completely free for use with Unreal Engine. UE4 users have free unlimited access to all Megascans through Bridge and Mixer.
If you are already using Megascans with UE4, Quixel will refund all of your subscriptions for 2019.
Megascans subscription prices lowered
Megascans pricing has been cut in half, regardless of DCC, engine, or renderer you use.
Bridge and Mixer 2020 will be 100% free
The upcoming 2020 versions of Bridge and Mixer will be 100% free for everyone, with no subscription required and both fully featured.
Bridge 2020 introduces an improved browsing experience, nearly a hundred new collections, improve search, and powerful filtering.
Quixel has also implemented an AI search feature that finds all the assets in any image you feed it, essentially making environment planning much easier, whether you have real-world references or concept art.
Mixer 2020 introduces 3D Painting, Real-time 3D Curvature, Smart Materials and more. The update also introduces 3D Blur, Grouping, Map-specific Blending, Advanced AO Mixing, Box Projection, Material ID Masking, 3D Position Gradients and 3D Normals to name a few, as another step on the path to making Mixer the ultimate, and now free, texturing app.
The new free Mixer and Bridge 2020 will be released later this year.
Adobe Max 2019
At the annual Adobe Max conference in LA, Adobe announced many of their big updates for Creative Cloud and Substance.
Substance 2019 Updates
Substance has it's own time to shine at Adobe Max during the Substance Day presentations. Here's what we learned about new features and tools coming to Substance.
Project Captis
Project Captis may be the most exciting announcement for material makers. Substance and HP collaborated on a scanner prototype that would allow anyone to create scanned materials.
Connected to Substance software, Captis will generate PBR materials for 3D rendering based on physical sample.
HP and Adobe will deliver Project Captis to partners across various industries, including game development, ecommerce, architecture and fashion, among others. Project Captis kicks off at Adobe MAX and will run through 2020.
"HP is at the forefront of bridging digital and physical worlds by providing a comprehensive ecosystem of tools and solutions to the creative community, and we will continue to progress as the landscape and needs of creators evolve," said Alex Cho, president, Personal Systems, HP Inc. "Today, with Adobe and Project Captis, we are raising the bar for how creative pros manage their digital workflows and evolve their craft."
"At Adobe we're passionate about building tools and services empowering digital artists," said Sebastien Deguy, VP of 3D & Immersive, Adobe. "Our collaboration with HP through Project Captis takes us one step closer to the fastest and most efficient way for creatives to digitalize materials and use them in their 3D design process." – HP
Substance Painter
New in Substance Painter, users can now import their favorite Photoshop brushes.
Starting with the next Substance Painter release, you'll be able to import and use .ABR brushes in your favorite 3D texturing app. We also announced opacity blending and pressure sensitivity improvements, bringing the painting experience closer than ever to Photoshop's.
Substance Alchemist
Substance Alchemist is officially out of Beta. It features an improved layer stack, the ability to share projects with other users, and an improved delighter.
The team is also working on a new fully automatic tiling filter, born from the collaboration between Adobe Research and the Substance Alchemist team. Ever used the Content-Aware fill in Photoshop? We now use the same technology to remove seams on the edges of your input image automatically, and soon a full material at once! This new algorithm is faster, doesn't require any tweaking, and often produce better results than the previous methods.
Sketchfab will also be integrated into Substance. More than 220,000 free models from Sketchfab will be available to download in Substance Painter and Adobe Dimension. There will also be 35 new free characters on Mixamo.
After Effects Updates
For After Effects users, Adobe updated the app for better performance speed. 9 to 5 Mac reports,
You can now expect smooth, fluid playback of cached video previews. A new version of Cinema 4D, bundled with After Effects, can be opened as a standalone application. Caps and bevel tools have been added.
Check out this overview from the team at School of Motion.
In other Creative Cloud news, Adobe Photoshop will now be available on iPads, with Illustrator for iPads coming soon behind it in 2020.
Greyscalegorilla Plus
After a successful VIP launch, Greyscalegorilla Plus is now available to everyone. The subscription platform gives members instant access to the renowned professional training guides as well as new exclusive training series for Cinema 4D, Houdini, and much more.
Before the end of the year, Arnold training will be available to members, as well as additional Quick Tips, and training on concepts like animation and the ACES color workflow.
Want a preview of Greyscalegorilla Plus? Stream example lessons and explore the membership overview.
Also included with membership is complete access to the entire Greyscalegorilla Material Collection library.
Plus members get instance access to the Everyday Material Collection, Modern Surface Material Collection, and Texture Kit Pro. That's over 600 drag-and-drop materials for Cinema 4D included with a membership.
Interested in joining? Learn more about Greyscalegorilla Plus.
A Must Watch: Promoting Wolkov's New Watches with a Colorful Spot
Paul Clements on how he used Cinema 4D, After Effects and Arnold to create a style-conscious watch promo.
Like many directors, Paul Clements runs his own business, London-based RocknRoller Studios. While he often handles projects on his own, he frequently builds teams of freelance artists and designers from all over the world, allowing him to keep work moving forward nearly 24 hours a day.
Known for his motion design and directorial work for Adidas, Cadillac, Sky and other brands, Clements was recently asked to design and animate a promo piece for Wolkov, a new watch company looking for a distinctive way to showcase their product's fresh, youthful features.
Because they had already seen and liked some of his previous work, Wolkov trusted Clements with a very open brief. And he spent two intense weeks using Cinema 4D, After Effects, and Arnold to create a launch promo that dynamically highlights the watch's versatility.
Here Clements explains his process explains his process, including why he chooses to work in an iterative way that can sometimes means redoing shots 20 or 30 times. Read More
Lighting iPhones and Peripheral Products in Cinema 4D and Octane
Breakdown the composition, lighting, and render settings of this iPhone product render from R4D Studio.
All images via Nik V. of R4D Studio.
After seeing the jaw-dropping renders from R4D Studio on Twitter, we reached out to creator Nik V. to talk about his product render process.
He tells us all about his work creating product renders, then guides us through his latest render of an iPhone 11. Take a look at his process and breakdown this Cinema 4D and Octane project.
How MPC Combined C4D, Maya, Houdini and Unreal for this Music Video
The making of Ed Sheeran's magical music video "Cross Me," featuring Chance the Rapper and PnB Rock.
Ed Sheeran and Chance the Rapper weren't able to actually be in the music video for their new single "Cross Me," which also features PnB Rock. But Riff Raff Films director, Ryan Staake, and the Moving Picture Company came up with a mind-blowing way to combine motion capture, photogrammetry, 3D animation, and visual effects to allow all three of them to appear anyway.
The result is a video that offers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to create a fully CG story. Read More
Exclusive New Pro Training and Last Chance Savings | Greyscalegorilla Plus
Here is your Fall 2019 Greyscalegorilla Plus update, featuring all the new training and downloads that members can access now and in the coming months.
When Greyscalegorilla Plus was first conceived, the goal was to bring you all of Greyscalegorilla's industry-leading professional training series in one place at one low price. Starting with the Guides to Cinema 4D, Redshift, X-Particles, and other pro training series, Greyscalegorilla Plus quickly became a platform where we could give members so much more.
Today, not only can you stream the training guides and exclusive new training series, members also get access to our popular drag-and-drop material collections. All of our material collections will be in Greyscalegorilla Plus before the end of the year, and even more assets and downloads are on the way.
Greyscalegorilla Plus is growing at a rapid pace, and things are not slowing down anytime soon. The team just introduced new Head of Plus, Todd Blankenship, who will oversee the release of new training series, downloads, and more.
He has already put together a new quick overview of Greyscalegorilla Plus so he can introduce himself and show you what's already inside.
Take of tour of Greyscalegorilla Plus by clicking here to checkout the lesson previews.
Join before October 31st, and you will get over $1500 in pro training and product downloads for only $348. That's just $29 a month. The price goes up on November 1st, so don't miss out. Head over to the Greyscalegorilla Plus page to join, and use discount code NEW2PLUS at checkout to save $120.
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Welcome Todd Blankenship, Head of Greyscalegorilla Plus
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Union City has thrown its hat in the ring
February 10, 2020
Union City has thrown its hat in the ring to host HGTV's newly announced
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current "Home Town" renovation show, Erin and Ben Napier of Laurel,
Miss., adopt a second community of 40,000 or fewer residents in which to
bring their remodeling skills to bear.
"Renovating one house at a time is an awesome experience, but the chance
to support an entire town, where we can help bring a community back to
life and enhance the lives of the people who live and work there, is
something we've always wanted to try," host Ben Napier said in a
statement. The series will span six episodes. It's not known when HGTV
will select the community it will feature in its new show.
Submissions require a video tour of the community itself, with a focus
on the buildings and areas that might need the most sprucing up, as well
as stories from locals and photos that point to what's special about
the community. Union City recently completed the online application
process, including the following video that was produced with the
financial support of the Union City Community Foundation. Special thank
you to Colt Productions for the drone footage and WQLN for helping with
the video footage and video production!
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Should You Be Worried About The Coronavirus?
March 2, 2020
About four weeks ago, news outlets released information on the world's most current widespread virus, the COVID-19 Coronavirus. The coronavirus has killed 2,244 people, and there are 76,000 cases identified total, including 35 in the United States. The virus originally spread in a fish market in Wuhan, China, and rapidly spread around the city around the time of many Lunar New Year celebrations, limiting many of the parties from happening and visitors coming into the city.
As something as widespread and intimidating as the coronavirus can seem daunting, it feels intimidating that a deadly virus so out of control could possibly reach us here in Bellingham. Especially as the first case of the coronavirus in the United States was in Snohomish county here in Washington.
Are Sehome students fearful of catching the coronavirus? What are the odds of the coronavirus reaching Bellingham? "A lot of people are more worried about it than others, and I tend not to worry about it," Tyler Steensland (11) said. Even though Steensland has awareness of the rapid growth of virus cases, he didn't feel that fearing the virus would help anything. "I heard originally about the coronavirus three weeks ago from a friend. A lot of people with the virus have survived, so I'm not going to worry too much," said Steensland.
The virus mainly targets those with a weak immune system, especially young children, and the elderly. "I am not too scared, especially because I heard that it's not that deadly unless you have a weak immune system," said Isaac Lawrence (9).
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Do You Side With Trump or the RADICAL Left? [VOTE NOW]
The progressive town of Breckenridge, Colorado canceled the New Year's Eve tradition of celebratory fireworks, claiming it sends "the right environmental message."
Town spokeswoman Haley Littleton tells a local CBS affiliate the decision was earlier this year when they also canceled Independence Day fireworks "to ensure consistency and that we are sending the right environmental message."
There is no scientific evidence whatsoever fireworks cause any serious ecological harm.
"The town of Breckenridge believes that there are better options moving forward to celebrate these holidays that have less of an environmental impact," Littleton tells the Summit Daily newspaper.
Environmentalists have made banning fireworks a personal crusade, even if testifying at local meetings against harmless fireworks means driving for miles in electric cars powered by toxic heavy metals dug out of open pits by child labor.
In 2011 San Diego's Independence Day fireworks were shut down by lawsuits from stopped by an environmentalist group.
"The lawsuit, filed in San Diego Superior Court, names the La Jolla [Community Fireworks Foundation], the nonprofit group Promote La Jolla and the city of San Diego, which environmentalists contend has failed to properly assess the ecological impacts of fireworks shows at La Jolla Cove and elsewhere," The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
"Concerns about fireworks fouling water have been simmering for years. They came to the forefront in December, when [attorney Will] Gonzalez's legal challenges resulted in the cancellation of a New Year's Eve pyrotechnic show in San Diego Bay."
San Diego Bay is not only 12 square miles, but is part of the 64 million square mile Pacific Ocean, making it scientifically impossible for a fireworks show to harm the water.
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In a place that is surrounded by water bodies, how cautious should new buyers be while buying property to avoid flouting Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) norms? This must be on every Kochiite's mind post the Supreme Court order to demolish four prime properties in Maradu, Kochi for violating the CRZ rules. Was there information asymmetry? Were the residents of the apartments aware that the builders had violated CRZ rules? In this case 350 flat buyers seem to have thrown all caution to the wind when they invested heavily in these water-front properties which would have cost (by a rough estimate) nearly a crore per apartment.
The Apex court's latest directive came on September 6, 2019 questioning the Kerala Government's failing to carry out its May 8 order to demolish four apartment buildings—Holy Faith H2O, Alfa Serene, Jain's Coral Cove and Golden Kayaloram by builders Holy Faith, Alfa Ventures, Jain Housing and K P Varkey & V S Builders respectively, for violating CRZ norms. In the face of losing their homes, the residents of these apartments have refused to vacate their flats and politicians of all hues have descended in front of the buildings in solidarity with the residents.
Besides the huge financial costs to bring down the four buildings and the possibility of environmental as well as infrastructural damage in the surrounding areas, it's causing a huge headache to the Kerala government caught between the SC verdict and the emotional outpouring of the residents who are about to lose their life savings and their homes.
The Indian Institute of Technology's (Madras) Environmental assessment study on the Maradu Municipality says that in the last 12 years the Maradu Municipality has seen massive reclamation of its wetlands, paddy fields, ponds and mangroves. Quoting the report The Hindu says that 227 acres of the CRZ area were reclaimed by small and large builders. But worse still, the demolition of the flats can further damage the environment and the backwaters.
The Kochi Post spoke to advocates in the city to understand the nitty-gritty of this order and see if these are the only projects in Kerala which has been found violating CRZ norms.
The SC verdict has again raised questions on the differential treatment of CRZ violators. Previously, DLF's 180-unit luxury flat at Chilavannur backwaters in Kochi was also found to have violated CRZ norms. The Kerala High Court had observed in 2016 that the structure was illegal, but said that the demolition would cause more damage than retaining it. It spared demolition but ordered DLF to pay a fine of Rs 1 crore to the local district administration which was to be used exclusively to maintain ecological balance in the area on the eastern side of Chilavannur river. The fine seems like a rap on the knuckles compared to the strict order this time by the SC.
Why then a compulsive enforcement of the order in the Maradu case? "With the state enduring floods for two consecutive years, it is important to ensure that we take corrective measure to conserve our environment", states Supreme Court advocate Gautham. "I understand that there are families/general public who suffer in such cases more than the builders but that's where the state government play a crucial role. They need to ensure the rule breakers are penalised and residents get compensated. Having said that, we need stronger judgements like this to safeguard our ecosystem."
Agreeing to it, Kochi-based environmental advocate Ashkar Khader says, "If the judgement is reversed now, the whole purpose of having an environmental law will be lost. CRZ norms are consistently breached by the builders. The violators are the builders and they must be penalised."
On the question of whether the flat owners should be compensated, Khader says, "It is very hard to say that but I must say, when a new buyer is finalising the property, he/she must ensure the documents are in place; especially the land documents—if the claimed area by the builder is authorised, does it fall under any special area act are some of the points to be thoroughly checked. If the property is near any water body, one must check if it was a paddy field or falls under CRZ norms." It is a simple procedure wherein the buyer approaches the respected governing body—panchayat, corporation, or, as in this case, the municipality to see if things are in order or hire a lawyer to check it out.
Khader also points out that the owners were given Unauthorzation (UA) numbers, and so, the owners were well aware of the situation. "One must understand that these properties are situated in a prime location and all the owners are well educated, when they were given only unauthorization (UA) numbers they would have known the legal implications of the property from the very beginning."
But the flat owners disagree. According to them, the documents were all proper at the time of purchase and it was nowhere mentioned that the building is illegally constructed. These owners have been paying their municipality taxes too.
One the other hand, the builders shrug off any responsibility and state that the purchase procedures are over and they have no right over the property. Recently, Alfa Ventures wrote to Maradu municipality officials stating that M/s. Alfa Ventures Pvt Ltd has absolutely no physical interest in the project as all the apartments are registered in the individual owners' names through registered sale deeds and the municipality is collecting tax from those individuals.
And T A Joseph, MD of the Confident Group, in a letter that's doing the rounds on social media, says the then Maradu panchayat had cancelled the building permits because of corruption committed by the panchayat secretary.
"As the government did not have the right to revoke the permit (only the concerned secretary has the power), we all decided to approach the High Court of Kerala to reinstate the permit. Subsequently, the court allowed the petition. It is on the strength of this HC order that these builders continued the construction process. After the completion of the project, the Municipality was initially reluctant to give the completion certificates to these buildings. Then the builders approached the court for justice, and the court directed the Municipality to provide Occupancy certificates etc. Since then, these apartment owners have been living there happily for many years. Meanwhile, Kerala Coastal Zone Management Authority (KCZMA) was proceeding the cases in various courts, and the Supreme Court pronounced the existing orders. Since these projects had Occupancy Certificates and the relevant approvals backed by High Court judgement, naturally none of these builders or flat owners had ever foreseen such a shocking verdict from the Supreme Court."
A buyer must carefully consider whether to invest in a property if a case is pending in the higher courts for the risk involved is very high. However, builders in not just Kochi but along the length and breadth of Kerala have been flouting CRZ rules with impunity. The Hindu reports that files regarding the CRZ violation have been disappeared and one can only guess who is behind such activity.
Some of the missing files are related to the CRZ violations by multi-storeyed apartment complexes namely Galaxy Regent, Elamkulam; Heera Waters, Jewel Homes, Poonithura; Soni Buildcon, Elamkulam; a commercial building constructed by M. A. Yusuffali and Sabura Yusuffali, Elamkulam; Rain Tree Realm Villas, Elamkulam; Galaxy Clifford, Elamkulam; Abad Lotus Lake, Elamkulam; Crown Plaza, Kochi.
According to a fact-finding committee appointed by the state which submitted its report in the SC, Maradu initially fell under 'CRZ-III' category, which prohibits construction of any type within 200 meters from the high tide line (the line on the land up to which the highest water level reaches during the spring tide). However, Maradu was upgraded from a panchayat into a municipality in 2010 making it a lesser-restricted 'CRZ-II' zone.
"The flats are still in CRZ-III as the reclassification has not been applied as yet, as the union governments chose to freeze all reclassification of CRZ areas for stricter conservation. Making them illegal, whereas if the government had completed its due process, they would have been legal," points out Gautham.
Why do we need stricter CRZ norms? Our city will turn into a concrete jungle if due action is not taken now, says Khader. "During my growing years, Maradu was a backwater island with mangroves and canals flowing into the Vembanad Lake. But due to its proximity to the city, there has been large-scale urbanisation, including two five-star hotels, a super specialty hospital and several commercial establishments. Now all we see is concrete and the mangroves are nowhere to be seen."
Retired Kerala High Court Judge, Justice Kemal Pasha, after his meeting with the families said to Times of India that it is the onus of the state government to rehabilitate the residents if the flats are demolished. He stated, "What is being demolished in Maradu region are not flats but lives of people. The Supreme Court could have directed the state government or the concerned local body to provide owners with the current market price of the apartments."
At the end of the day, it's the buyer that suffers. So to avoid sinking your life savings into a black hole, the buyer should apply due diligence and read the fine print before buying any property—especially the beautiful, serene waterfront types.
Cover Image: The skyline of Kochi (Wikimedia Commons)


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Hi Peter,
Governor's Island revealed some good birds for its debut as a Club trip destination. Although the overall species count of 28 was low, the quality of the birds seen was excellent.
We started off with a Merlin right as we disembarked from the ferry, quickly followed by Red-tailed hawk and Kestrel, brining our raptor count up to three. We got close-up looks at four kestrels as they hovered over the ballfield. The most productive area by far was Nolan Park, in particular the patch behind the old synagogue. In the shrubs at this location, we managed to pull off a "mimid hat trick": Catbird, Mockingbird, and Brown Thrasher all within minutes of each other.
Governor's Island will remain open to the public for 2 more weekends; it should definitely be added to the list for any birders looking for a unique location to spot some fall migrants. A big thanks to Ryan and Giselle for coming along on this walk!
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CONINCO participates in the 70th anniversary of AZUSA SEKKEI establishment (Japan)
Accepting the invitation of Mr. Sugitani Fuhimiko - President and CEO of Azusa Sekkei Co., Ltd in Japan, the delegation of Consultant and Inspection Joint Stock Company of Construction Technology and Equipment - CONINCO participated in the 70th anniversary of Azusa Sekkei establishment in Tokyo on Octorber 13th, 2016.
Attending the Anniversary, there were Dr. Ha Minh - Member of BoM, Deputy General Director, leader of the delegation; and Mr. Le Thanh Minh - Deputy General Director.
Also, there were Azusa Sekkei's partners such as CPG consulting company in Singapore, and CCTC consulting company in China.
Azusa Sekkei consulting company has been in the construction field since its establishment on October 10th, 1946, right after the Second World War ended, in the living room of his house of Mr. Kiyota - the company founder.
Azusa Sekkei is one of the largest consultng companies in Japan, in four main fields: Health, Sports, Aviation and Urban Development.
To develop the relationship of two companies after 4 years of cooperation, CONINCO together with Azusa Sekkei signed the cooperation agreement in design and supervision consultancy for Health, Sport and Aviation works on May 17th, 2016. Signing cooperation agreement between CONINCO and Azusa Sekkei is an inevitable development step of the long lasting relationship between two companies.
Taking part in the Anniversary marked a step promoting the cooperation between CONINCO and Azusa Sekkei into a new stage.


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We are proud to announce that this year our long term residents "Low air" will take part in one of the biggest dance festivals in Glasgow - "Dance International Glasgow (DIG)". This year festival will begin on April 6 and continues until 5th of June.
This festival was planned as a major biennial event, and produced by Tramway, which will take place across the city, including The Arches, Platform, CCA, The Beacon Arts Centre, The Work Room and Y Dance and others. These organizations will play the host to over 40 events across the six weeks. The program spans six world premieres, and a number of UK premieres. The event will be complimented with a host of family shows, workshops, exhibitions and talks. It is a place for artist to express their selves and show their talent. It is a place where everyone is wished, appreciated and supported.
"Low air " is a well-known pair of street dancers in Lithuania. Airida Gudaitė and Laurynas Žakevičius are dancing more than 20 years and of course cannot imagine their lives with-out creation process and performances. They brought urban and street dances into theatre and introduced it in high quality, meaning and professionalism.
In UK premiere Airida and Laurynas will present "Home Trip". It is a dazzling fusion of street dance, music, theatre and literature which looks at the relationships between par-ents and their adult children. They will be performing on May 15 and 16.
Besides Airida and Laurynas on 2013 were nominated as the best choreographers by Golden Stage Cross because of their piece of work - "Home trip".
The best of luck to "Low air" and we wish you to have unforgettable time in "Dance International Glasgow (DIG)"!


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This page refers to IXP Manager >= v5.0
User management prior to v5.0 was handled differently - please see this page for the legacy usage.
The IXP Manager Users feature allows you to add and manage users (people who can login to IXP Manager) on a per customer basis including:
- name / email / phone number
- username
- permissions (see below)
For details on session management and two-factor authentication, please see this page. For logging in with PeeringDB OAuth, please see this page.
Types of Users
There are three types of user:
- Customer User - a standard customer user with read only portal access to a specific customer's dashboard (
privs = 1).
- Customer Administrator - a customer administrative user. This account allows users to make changes as well as manage users for their organisation (
privs = 2).
- Superuser - IXP staff only (
privs = 3). FULL ACCESS TO ALL CUSTOMERS AND FUNCTIONS. This is only for your IXP staff!
Managing Users
If you are a Superuser, you can manage users in one of two ways:
- Via the user controller by clicking on Users under IXP CUSTOMER ACTIONS in the left hand menu. This will show all users on the system.
- For a per customer view, you can click on the Users tab in the standard customer overview page.
If you are a customer administrator user, you can manage your own users via the Users menu in the top menu bar. In all cases, you will be given a list of users such as:
The available actions include:
- a documentation link on the top right - that links to this page;
- to add a new user, click on the [+] button next to the documentation link;
- the view (eye) icon will show you more information about a specific user;
- the edit (pencil) icon will allow you to edit users;
- the delete (trashcan) icon will allow you to delete a user.
Adding Users
Since a user can be associated with multiple customers, the new user you wish to add may already exist on the system. For this reason, the first step of adding a user is to just provide and email address:
If the user does not exist, you will be invited to complete the rest of the standard details:
Note that, as always, the [Help] button will provide context help for each input field. Once you successfully complete the details, the new user will be sent a welcome email (see below for details) and invited to set their password.
If any users do exist with this email, you will be shown the user's name, username (and, if a superadmin, the other customer(s) the user is associated with). Note that it is possible for an email to be associated with more than one username but this should only happen for legacy users that predate the ability to assign a user to more than one customer.
Select the user you wish to add to the customer and set the desired privilege and click [Add User]. The new user will be sent a specific welcome email for users that already exist on the system to let them know they have been added to a new customer account (see below for details).
Deleting Users
Note that deleting a user results in one of two actions:
- if the user is only linked to a single customer (probably the most likely case), the user will be fully deleted and removed from the system.
- if the user is linked to more than one customer, then only the link to this customer will be removed.
Users With Multiple Customers
This section explains the handling around users with multiple customers.
When logging in, the last customer that the user acted for will be selected. If this customer does not exist / the relationship no longer exists / no previous customer set then a customer will be chosen at random.
If a user is associated with more than one customer, then the facility to switch users can be found under the My Account menu on the top right:
The current customer is highlighted.
Welcome Email
IXP Manager sends a welcome email to all newly created users.
The default template for new users this can be found at
resources/views/user/emails/welcome.blade.php. When an existing user is associated with an additional customer, the following template is used:
If you wish to change these templates, you can do so via the standard skinning mechanism.
Logging in as Another User
Administrative users (AUTH_SUPERUSER) can switch to other users to see what they see via the user list or the customer overview page.
The purpose of this is for both development and for support staff to replicate issues as reported by users.
Passwords and Password Hashing
As of v4.5, all passwords are stored as bcrypt with a cost >=10.
As of v4.9, administrative users are unable to set a user's password. User's can set (and reset) their passwords via their Profile page or using the password reset functionality.


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20th Anniversary Of The National Cycle Network
EDM number 507 in 2015-16, proposed by Drew Hendry on 13/10/2015.
Categorised under the topic of Cycling.
That this House offers its congratulations to Sustrans on the National Cycle Network as it turns 20 years old in 2015; notes that the Network runs for over 14,000 miles across the UK, linking up villages, towns and cities; acknowledges that in 2014 the Network saw over 4.9 million people make 764 million trips by bike and on foot; further notes that the Network has saved the UK economy more than £7 billion (equivalent to £1 million a day) since it was established 20 years ago by improving people's health and reducing congestion, pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and that the Network has saved the NHS £22 million from reducing obesity and overweight alone in the last year; commends the commitment of the Scottish Government to increase spending on walking and cycling this year; and, given the large amount of people who wish to cycle on a cross-border basis, calls on the Prime Minister to personally commit to cycling and walking and making active travel a cross-cutting, cross departmental priority for England and also to work with the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive to enable people across the UK to walk and bike many more local and everyday journeys.
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H.R.247 - Federal CIO Authorization Act of 2019116th Congress (2019-2020) |
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|Rep. Hurd, Will [R-TX-23] (Introduced 01/04/2019)
|House - Oversight and Reform | Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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|Senate - 01/16/2019 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (All Actions)
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Federal CIO Authorization Act of 2019
This bill reorganizes Office of Management and Budget (OMB) information technology (IT) activities and establishes new IT reporting requirements.
The bill renames (1) the Office of E-Government & Information Technology (E-Gov) as the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer (Federal CIO), and (2) the E-Government Fund as the Federal IT Fund. The office shall be headed by a Federal Chief Information Officer who shall report directly to the Director of OMB (currently, the head of E-Gov reports to the Deputy Director). There is established in the office a Federal Chief Information Security Officer.
Agencies must report IT expenditures to the Federal CIO. The Federal CIO must publish timely, searchable, computer-readable data on agency IT expenditures, projects, and programs.
The Federal CIO shall submit to Congress a proposal for consolidating IT across the federal government and increasing the use of shared services.


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>My goal for 2011 was to use up as much of my yarn stash as possible . . . without adding to it. I told my hubby its my yarn diet. Let's just say it hasn't been going very well.
I started out great by organizing my stash by weight and color (you can see the post here) but then my LYS decided they were closing there doors. So naturally I just had to go and see what I could get for 75% off. I got quite a bit of yarn, at a great price, and told myself that was it for the year. But it didn't quite work that way. You see, I'm trying to catch up on some orders, and I had 1/2 dozen orders for black hats. Well, I wasn't going to have enough black yarn to finish, so I had to go get some more. I vowed not to look at anything else and focus! But when I walked by this the tag stuck out at me. You see, I'm a bargain shopper, and I can't pass up a deal . . . . especially one like this.
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