text: Firm profile submitted by Addleshaw Goddard LLP Senior Partner Monica Burch Managing Partner John Joyce The Firm Addleshaw Goddard creates and delivers outstanding value. The firm has exceptional lawyers and is a market leader in client investment and understanding. It is known for its constant enquiry and innovation and combines insight with business knowledge to deliver the best results for clients, whenever and wherever required. Addleshaw Goddard is also recognised for its differentiated approach to attracting, retaining and developing great people. The firm offers a full range of commercial legal services from its offices in London, Leeds, Manchester, Dubai, Hong Kong, Oman, Qatar and Singapore and through a world-wide network of strong relationships with chosen firms in North America, Europe and other key and emerging jurisdictions. As part of an increasing focus on the Asia Pacific region, the firm also has a formal alliance with Tokyo-based Hashidate Law Office. The firm's client portfolio is testament to its strength and range of expertise, including financial institutions, public sector bodies, successful businesses and private individuals. It is a leading advisor to FTSE 100 companies, and a market leader across the firm's operating divisions – commercial services, corporate, finance and projects, litigation and real estate – as well as in its chosen sectors: financial services, government, energy and infrastructure, healthcare, retail and consumer and real estate. Principal Areas of WorkCommercial Services: With strength and depth across outsourcing, IP, media, sport, IT, commercial contracts and competition, pensions and trade and regulation, the firm also provides advice on advertising, publishing, broadcasting, new media and e-commerce issues. In addition it has one of the leading employment and employee benefits groups in the UK, renowned for their ability to deal with a range of people issues, unexpected contractual matters and employment claims that are high value, sensitive and have the potential to affect business reputation. Its award-winning Employment Channel provides employment news and training programmes over the internet. Corporate: Recognised as one of the leading groups in the UK, the firm is well known for its work in M&A, Stock Exchange flotations, corporate finance, public to privates, joint ventures, management buyouts, private equity, corporate restructuring, partnerships, tax, insurance: corporate, regulatory and venture capital. The institutional side of the City practice combines the company, securities, compliance, commercial and tax expertise necessary to advise corporate finance clients. The firm has advised numerous sponsors of domestic flotations and underwriters of equity issues. The firm also has a leading reputation in private equity with strong relationships with all the UK's equity houses.Finance & Projects: A practice with a breadth of expertise advising banks, financial institutions and corporates on all areas of finance including general bank lending, acquisition finance, asset finance (including aviation), capital markets, securitisation and structured finance, islamic finance, leveraged finance, project finance, property finance and trade finance. A leader in the PFI and projects field acting for banking clients as well as project sponsors, it also has a leading reputation in the building society sector. The firm's Business Support and Restructuring Group advises a portfolio of blue-chip clients. Litigation: The firm has significant expertise in relation to all aspects of dispute resolution. 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On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 02:57:12PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> Wow - is there a new virus spreading around the 'net?
Yep! :)
"SoBig.F worm starts to bite again"
... The file size, said iDefense, varies in order to attempt to thwart
anti-viral software, and typically comes as an attachment with email
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"Great place to work. Excellent "
- Work/Life Balance
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I have been working at Ameriprise full-time (Less than a year)
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none that I can think of
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I worked at Ameriprise full-time (More than 5 years)RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEORecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Great People in all areas
Some stupid people, as to be expected
Advice to Management
Stop outsourcing customer service, and promoting VA's.
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"Worst company for which I've ever worked "
- Work/Life Balance
- Culture & Values
- Career Opportunities
- Comp & Benefits
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I worked at Ameriprise full-time (More than 8 years)Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookDisapproves of CEODoesn't RecommendPositive OutlookDisapproves of CEO
The company puts clients and their needs first, and they take fiduciary responsibilities very seriously.
Costs of services are reasonable by industry standards.
Great personal satisfaction in helping clients to achieve their goals.
Home Office representatives are very knowledgeable, helpful, and resourceful.
Senior management has a very antagonistic and exploitive attitude towards field staff.
Employees working in franchised advisor practices are excluded from all company benefits—neither health insurance nor disability coverage, and not even access to the company's retirement plan nor ESPP.
User-hostile technology and unannounced changes to processes and procedures are extremely frustrating and set you up for constant failure.
Raises are even less than inflation, thus guaranteeing that your purchasing power will go down regardless of job performance. Compensation in general is extraordinarily unfair, with 100% of income growth going to executives and advisors even though staff does all of the actual work.
Franchise staffs are specifically excluded from the employee satisfaction survey. Senior management doesn't care nor want to know about your on-the-job challenges even though you're the public face of the company.
Don't take a job with Ameriprise unless you're really desperate, and even then get out asap; long-term, it's a dead-end without opportunities for advancement.
Advice to Management
Stop treating your frontline employees like disposable trash. Invest in some kind of professional development and help them plan a career path with the company. I worked there for almost a decade and I don't know any staff people that are satisfied, so you may be quite surprised at the mass exodus out the door when the job market finally recovers.


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New slides, Double Top, September 1932
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New rock slides are shown on the face of Double Top mountain in the Katahdin range. Three of the slides were made following a severe storm on September 16, 1932.
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- Title: New slides, Double Top, September 1932
- Creator: Whitney, G. Herbert
- Creation Date: 1932
- Subject Date: 1932
- County: Piscataquis
- State: ME
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- Dimensions (cm): 9 x 13
- Local Code: Coll. S-6196 Misc. Box 178/1
- Collection: Millett, Charlotte photograph album
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Burpeachsix was patented 12/24/2002 by The Burchell Nursery, Inc., Oakdale, CA. It is patent #13392.
BACKGROUND OF THE NEW VARIETY. The present invention relates to a new, novel and distinct variety of peach tree, Prunus persica which has been denominated varietally as `Burpeachsix`. The `Burpeachsix` Peach Tree produces an exceptionally high quality, peach which is mature for harvesting and shipment in the mid-season. Still further, another unique aspect of the `Burpeachsix` is that it yields a very firm peach that has a high eating quality as compared with the other peach varieties which ripen at approximately the same time of the season. ORIGIN OF THE NEW VARIETY. The present variety of peach tree resulted from an on-going program of fruit and nut tree breeding. The purpose of this program is to improve the commercial quality of deciduous fruit and nut varieties and rootstocks by creating and releasing promising selections of prunus, malus and regia species. To this end, we make both controlled and hybrid cross pollinations each year in order to produce seedling populations from which improved progenies are evaluated and selected. The seedling `Burpeachsix` was originated by us in 1994, and was chosen from among a population of seedlings which resulted from a controlled cross pollination of the `Grand Diamond` Nectarine Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,095), which was used as the pollen parent, and the `July Lady` Peach Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,023), which was used as the seed parent. The resulting seed from this cross was planted in the spring of 1995. The new variety was selected from among seedlings growing in experimental orchards near the city of Fowler, Calif., County of Fresno, in the Central San Joaquin Valley. The Peach Tree `Burpeachsix` was subsequently marked and noted as having exceptional characteristics. After the 1996 season, the Peach Tree `Burpeachsix` was selected for advanced evaluation and repropagation. It has been subsequently evaluated during the 1996-1999 fruiting seasons. ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION. Scionwood from the original seedling of the Peach Tree, `Burpeachsix` was collected and grafted in the evaluation plot in the experimental orchard previously described onto two different and existing `Nemared` (unpatented) rootstocks in February of 1997. The resulting propagation (fruit and scion) have been subsequently evaluated in the 1998 and 1999 seasons. These evaluations clearly demonstrated that the repropagated trees are true to the fruiting and vegetative characteristics of the original seedling in all observable aspects. SUMMARY OF THE VARIETY. The `Burpeachsix` Peach Tree is characterized as to novelty by producing fruit which have a mid-season ripening date, and which are further of high quality, firm, and have an attractive exterior coloration. In this regard, the present variety of peach tree bears freestone fruit which are ripe for commercial harvesting and shipment on approximately June 18 to June 25. These harvesting dates are approximately one week later then the harvesting dates of the commercial freestone peach variety `Red Top` Peach Tree (U.S.D.A. nonpatented). The present variety distinguishes itself from the `Red Top` Peach Tree, however, by producing fruit having a brighter and more extensive exterior coloration, and which has a firmer flesh. Further, the Burpeachsix Peach Tree distinguishes itself from the Red Top Peach Tree in that the fruit of the Burpeachsix Peach Tree has a keeping quality after it is harvested, that is superior in relative comparison to the fruit produced by the `Red Top` Peach Tree.
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We just setup a home office for our new marketing company. I did a significant amount of research to figure out just what security system to buy. After all was said and done, I wrote the following post.
Alarm devices can now be armed, disabled and watched by using your mobile phone. If you have a Blackberry, iPhone or Google Android mobile phone, you can get a program that you can download to your phone. This will supply you with alerts when any sensors in your home or office premises are activated. The program also allows you to arm and disarm your alarm remotely. Imagine of how many times you have left home and a few minutes down the road thought about if you actually did initialize the alarm or not. Now instead of having to turn around and go back home to look at, you can do so using your portable phone. If you discover that you haven't armed the alarm, you can instantly do so at the click of a button. One of the wonderful functions of the mobile phone software is that you can view a live video feed from your security cameras. In this way, you can know what the children really get up to when they get home from school. You can check to see if their acquaintances are really there to do homework or if they are having fun with video games instead. You can also keep an eye on your pets and make sure they are not chewing something they shouldn't be or dragging your new throw quilt outside for fun. If you are organizing a night out and have a babysitter arriving over to keep an eye on the children, you can keep an eye on the babysitter with mobile phone monitoring. This will give you peace of mind so you can enjoy your evening out without worrying about what's happening at home.
Online Monitoring Systems Even if you do not get one of these types of mobile phones, you can still make use of the mobile monitoring and account activation functions if you have obtain to the Internet from your phone or computer. Because the system works off web-based technology, you can access your home security systems just as easily, as long as you can link to the Internet. This indicates that you can keep an eye on your home or organization from wherever you are. If as an organization owner you make a decision to work from your home that day, you can occasionally check the monitoring technique and make sure your workers are doing their work as they are supposed to. If you realize that it is past closing time and you have not yet received an alert that the alarm has been activated, you can easily see if anyone is working late or if your employees have easily forgotten to arm the alarm when they closed up.
Assisting Your with Property Maintenance and Protection It used to be that as long as doors and windows were close or open there was absolutely nothing to be concerned about. However, alarm systems nowadays offer you much more. Think about the headache of a burst geyser that floods your house or a facet that has been left on by mistake which floods your kitchen or bathroom. By getting sensors installed at floor level, you can receive an alert when there is an excessive amount of water on the floor. Getting the alert means that you are notified of the problem sooner and can take instant action. This can end result in much less harm to your home than if the issue were to go unnoticed for a longer moment of time. Another function of the alarm system is that it can send you an alert if the garage or front door has been left open for longer than it should. This can ensure that your home is never left unsecure. In addition, if there is a situation and reason that the door has been left open, you can immediately alert the local police or fire station. Sensors can also be mounted on specific storage cupboards such as medicine units, gun lockers or liquor cabinets. If these cupboards are opened while you are not around, you can instantly be alerted to the fact and take necessary action.


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US Airways posted a time-lapse video showing one of its airplanes being repainted into American Airlines colors. It's kind of neat. You'll notice immediately that this is clearly not an inexpensive process.
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Southwest wants more than $500 million in LAX Terminal 1 upgrades, an increase over prior budget
Southwest Airlines wants to spend more than $500 million its renovation of Terminal 1 at Los Angeles International Airport, or about $125 million more than the project was originally allocated last year, according to documents before the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners.
In the course of planning for the project, Southwest discovered it could do even more with the space, the documents show. The old plans called for Southwest and LAX to combine to spend about $384 million over the next several years …."improving the passenger security screening checkpoint, designing and implementing a new inline CBIS and baggage sorting system, upgrading holdrooms and associated building infrastructure, refurbishing the arrival/baggage claim area, replacing passenger boarding bridges, and replacing aircraft paving sections and associated fuel hydrant pit locations to accommodate larger aircraft."
The new budget calls for about $509 million in upgrades, the vast majority of which will be funded by the landlord, Los angeles World Airports. This is the new stuff being proposed, most of it taken directly from the report.
- Concourse Improvements – Increase the square feet in the northern portion of the concourse by approximately 25 feet on each side to provide for larger holdrooms, larger restrooms, and open and inviting retail, food and beverage concessions integrated into the holdroom experience.
- Security Screening Check Point Improvements – Increase the square feet of ticketing building to provide post-security screening check point recompose area and allow state-of-the-art, industry standard Transportation Security Administration (TSA) passenger screening lanes to be constructed within the footprint of the existing facility.
- Roof Replacement – Since the existing roof is nearing its useful life it is in the best interest of LAWA and Southwest to replace the roof as part of the renovation.
- Fire Water Loop Replacement – The airside fire loop will be upgraded as part of the aircraft parking ramp replacement in order to avoid operational disruptions and additional cost of performing this work independently.
- Seismic Improvement Program – Structural voluntary seismic upgrades will be included in the renovations.
- Canopy Replacement and Exterior Facade Enhancement – The exterior façade will be improved by replacing the existing automatic doors and storefront glazing system. Perforated metal panel screens will be incorporated into the existing façade to improve and modernize the overall curb appeal of this first terminal the public sees as they enter LAX
- An extra gate. The original plan called for Southwest to get preferential use of 12 gates in the terminal. It will now have the right to use a 13th gate if it "maintains an average number of departing and arriving airline seats per day of 2,200 per gate in Terminal 1."
Here's the timeline for the Southwest project.
|West Terminal Building: New Skycap, Ticket Lobby, New Baggage Claim, Airline Admin Offices and Bus Gate Holdroom
|4th Quarter 2015
|Exterior Canopy: Terminals Canopy and Exterior Facade
|3rd Quarter 2016
|East Terminal Building: New Security Screening Check Point, Checked Baggage Inspection System
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|Concourse: New Holdrooms and Concessions, Gate System, Passenger Boarding Bridges
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United Airlines says it has begun its popular Mercedes-Benz car service at LAX
United Airlines on Wednesday confirmed my March report that it is bringing its popular chauffeured Mercedes Benz service to Los Angeles International Airport.
This is good news for all you big spenders, folks who spent $10,000 or more on a single plane ticket to London or Sydney. The rest of us will probably only notice the program when we see the cars parked on the ramp.
Here's how it will work, according to a United release. (The Global Service customers mentioned below are United's version of high rollers.)
"United will chauffeur selected Global Services members and United Global First customers to their connections in Los Angeles using its fleet of Mercedes-Benz GL350 BlueTEC SUVs, powered by environmentally friendly, clean diesel technology," the airline says in its release. "United representatives will meet customers at the aircraft, escort them to the waiting Mercedes-Benz vehicle and drive them across the tarmac to their connecting flight."
Delta has a similar service at LAX, but it uses Porsches.
United has already rolled out its Mercedes service in Chicago, Newark, San Francisco and Houston.
Not that long ago, I interviewed travel industry expert Henry Harteveldt about these on-ramp car services.
"I think only an appearance from Santa Claus and being able to ride in his sleigh would get people more excited," Harteveldt told me. "I have seen adults get all giddy like schoolchildren when they realize they get the Porsche transfer in Atlanta. It's special. It's different. It's distinct. It shows Delta's appreciation for its most important customers."
Palm Springs International Airport is growing
Just about every airport of its size in the country is steadily losing passengers, but not Palm Springs International Airport.
According to a story today in the Desert Sun, passenger traffic was up 7 percent in the first three months of 2014, compared to the same period last year. Palm Springs even has seasonal service to the Midwest — Chicago on American Airlines — and the East Coast, with once-weekly flights to New York on Virgin America. It also has flights to Canada on Westjet.
Yes, it's no LAX. But compared to L.A./Ontario International Airport, which is 74 miles to the west, Palm Springs is in pretty good shape. (There are a bunch of reasons Palm Springs is doing better, but one of them is that Palm Springs is more of a destination people want to travel to. Being a tourism hub has its benefits.)
That's the good news. The less good news? Palm Springs is one of the most seasonal destinations in the nation. Airlines add flights starting in the fall and start to drop them off in May. You probably know why. But in case you don't, take a look at this week's weather report, and you'll figure it out. Palm Spring is not a happy place to be in the summer. In Yiddish, we call it a shvitz.
Here are some of the airlines now pulling back, according to the Desert Sun.
Virgin America already suspended its daily Palm Springs-to-San Francisco route and weekly service into John F. Kennedy International in New York, while American Airlines will close its nonstop route into Chicago in early June. Frontier Airlines will end its seasonal flights to Denver on Wednesday, said Kate O'Malley, manager of corporate communications for Frontier.
Alaska Airlines also alters its summer Palm Springs schedule, a spokeswoman told the newspaper.
"Palm Springs demand is very seasonal, with traffic shrinking substantially in the summer months," Lindsey continued, via email. "In order to maintain acceptable performance levels and more accurately match supply to demand, we seasonally reduce our PSP flying during the summer."
Virgin America wins gates at Dallas Love Field; LAX flights planned
You will soon be able to fly Virgin America from Los Angeles to Dallas Love Field.
You might not be excited by this, especially since Virgin now flies from LAX to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. But Virgin is stoked.
With two gates at the airport, obtained from American Airlines, Virgin will be able to operate a mini focus city at Love Field, which is considerably closer to downtown Dallas than DFW. I don't profess to know much about the Dallas market, but given the way that Southwest, Delta and Virgin fought over which carrier would receive these gates, a lot of folks seem to think Love Field is a lucrative airport.
Virgin plans to fly to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington Reagan and New York LaGuardia.
For more complete coverage, including details on the local Dallas politics impacting this choice, your best bets are the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram and the Dallas Morning News.
@SouthwestAir Thanks! See you soon neighbor.
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Houston, TX. (PRWEB) October 06, 2012
After the iPhone 5 was released earlier this week and proved to have the same type of instant success as the iPhone 4S sales, the business and marketing strategy solutions company ABM Solutions announced a new free report offer for companies inspired by these Apple sales. The new marketing and sales report came after the successful debut of the iPhone 5, which according to analyst reports, could potentially hit 50 million sales in the fourth quarter.
The company hopes that many small businesses will see the way in which Apple has used professional marketing and sales tactics to reach this type of success and be inspired to get their own professional marketing and sales advice. This new report details the ways in which companies looking to get their feet off the ground can immediately start seeing success! By using the materials ABM Solutions offers, they can reach the top of their own niche industry much like Apple has with their iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S sales especially during high shopping times such as black friday 2011 when the sales hit an all time high. The report is designed to help people learn about the company's Marketing Course titled "Everything is Marketing! How to End All of Your Marketing Problems Forever!" This book is a 364 page instruction manual that teaches any business the guaranteed ways to get more customers and sales.
The company hopes that many people who have seen the success of Apple and the way they have dominated their own niche, will be inspired to turn to this company to get professional insight on marketing and sales and to see the way in which this manual may be able to provide additional assistance. The new free report is now available for any interested individual and comes with a free instant "Leadership Development" download.
To find out more about ABM Solutions and all of their sales and small business marketing strategies visit the company online at http://abmsnow.com.


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Banning Cameras in Barns and Slaughter HousesApril 20, 2012
Big Ag doesn't want the public to know what goes on inside their facilities–hogs and chickens in cages, dairy cows sleeping on concrete, animal waste polluting our water, feedlots knee deep in that waste, slaughter houses employing unskilled workers doing dangerous jobs for low wages. But cell phones that double as cameras, teeny tiny video cameras, and documentary filmmakers are getting the word out. The industry is worried and is pushing back. Read more here.
In two states industry-backed laws have been introduced that ban cameras in food-producing facilities without written permission. The bill that's been introduced in Florida would make it a felony to photograph or videotape a farm without the farmer's permission. It's aimed at animal rights activists who take photos to document animal abuse.
The Iowa legislature approved a bill that would punish people who work in the ag industry and secretly record the abuses. They would face heavy fines and up to five years in prison. But there is not a single federal law that protects farm animals from the cruelty they endure.
The existence of these proposed laws tells us several things: (1) Industrial food producers have a lot to hide. (2) The politicians who support these laws are immune to animal suffering. (3) Indie films are successful in shedding light on the abuses. (4) The pushback from consumers is working. (5) Running scared, Big Ag is trying desperately to look green. Click here for an example. (6) Our best course of action is to buy local from farmers who have nothing to hide.


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Found this link on dKos. MSNBC.com reports that January 24th is the "most depressing day of the year." A British psychologist, Dr. Cliff Arnall, devised this equation for determining a person's "low point":
[W + (D-d)] x TQ
M x NA
...where W = weather, D = debt, d = monthly salary, T = time since Christmas, Q = time since failed quit attempt, M = low motivational levels and NA = the need to take action.
Well, I thought today went pretty well, actually! This weekend was kind of bad for me-- homework and boredom piled up already-- but today was just dandy. Classes went well, people were nice, and of course, UDFL started up again. It's gonna be a good semester. Well, that's what I'll tell myself anyway. ;)Posted by smit2174 at January 24, 2005 7:29 PM


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Aubrey McClendon
|Aubrey McClendon
|Aubrey Kerr McClendon
July 14, 1959
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
|United States
|Alma mater
|Duke University
|Net worth
|US$1.1 billion (2015)[1]
|Katie McClendon
|Joe Connor McClendon & Carole Kerr McClendon
Aubrey Kerr McClendon (born 1959) is the co-founder, retired chief executive officer and former chairman of Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK). He is an outspoken advocate for natural gas as a cleaner and safer alternative to oil and coal fuels. He was the highest-paid CEO of all S&P 500 companies in 2008, receiving a compensation package totaling $112 million.[2] In 2011, he was named "America's Most Reckless Billionaire" in a Forbes magazine cover story.[3] On the other hand, in 2011, Forbes also named McClendon to its "CEO 20-20 Club," a group of eight chief executives (including Warren Buffett) that produced at least 20% returns over 20 or more years of service[4] and activist investor Carl Icahn called him a "genius."[5] Former Houston mayor Bill White described him as "at the forefront of those heroes" of the American natural gas industry.[6]
In June 2012, in what The Wall Street Journal writer David Benoit called a "historic revolt," Chesapeake Energy shareholders voted to rein in McClendon's leadership, rejecting two board members and approving increased proxy access.[7] He relinquished his chairman title in June 2012 but retained his CEO title.[8] In January 2013, noting "philosophical differences" with a reconstituted board, McClendon agreed to retire from Chesapeake Energy, effective April 1, 2013.[9] McClendon is now the owner of American Energy Partners with an office located less than a mile away from Chesapeake Energy.
Early life and education[edit]
McClendon was born on July 14, 1959, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Joe Conner McClendon and Carole McClendon, née Kerr, and is a great-nephew of Robert S. Kerr, a former Oklahoma governor, U.S. Senator and founder of Kerr-McGee Corporation (an Oklahoma City-based oil and natural gas company founded in 1927 and acquired by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation in 2006).
McClendon graduated from Duke University in 1981 with a B.A. in history and was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He met his wife Katie, a 1980 Duke graduate, while attending college there. In 1981, they married in St. Joseph, Michigan. He and his wife, who have three adult children, live in Nichols Hills, Oklahoma. Kathleen Upton Byrns "Katie" McClendon is the granddaughter of Frederick S. Upton, a co-founder of Whirlpool Corporation, and cousin of U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-Michigan).[10] Aubrey McClendon is related to supermodel Kate Upton.[11]
Chesapeake Energy Corporation[edit]
McClendon started his first oil and natural gas investment company, Chesapeake Investments, in 1982 at the age of 23. He co-founded Chesapeake with the company's former president Tom L. Ward, the founder and former CEO of Oklahoma City-based Sandridge Energy Corporation (NYSE: SD), in 1989 with a $50,000 initial investment.[12] They took the company public in 1993, and today Chesapeake is the second-largest producer of natural gas, a Top 11 producer of oil and natural gas liquids and the most active driller in the United States.[13]
Focusing its operations onshore in the U.S., Chesapeake has pioneered development of unconventional natural gas and oil plays that require high-technology drilling and completion techniques and very large land positions. McClendon, who began his energy career as a landman, led the company to hold significant positions in the nation's largest shale gas plays, the discovery of which has radically changed estimates of the U.S. supply of natural gas and reduced natural gas prices by 50% to American consumers since 2008, while providing a daily economic stimulus to the U.S. economy of approximately $300 million.[14]
In 2005, McClendon was named one of America's top-performing executives by Forbes magazine.[15] He was the highest paid CEO at all S&P 500 companies in 2008, receiving a compensation package totaling $112 million, which included a one-time payment of $75 million in recognition of the role he played in developing multiple joint ventures with foreign industry partners, which increased the company's intrinsic value by at least $10 billion[16] and started a trend of foreign investment in the U.S. natural gas industry that has lowered natural gas costs for consumers and created thousands of new jobs in the natural gas industry.
It was announced on October 10, 2008, that McClendon sold approximately 33.4 million shares, approximately 90% of his stock in Chesapeake Energy (stock symbol CHK), for $16.52 per share to meet a margin call after the drop in the U.S. stock market that week. The stock had been worth as much as $74.00 per share in the year prior to the sale, a loss of nearly $1.92 billion.[17] McClendon was shortly thereafter awarded a controversial one-off $75 million[18] 'Well Cost Incentive Award' by the board of directors.[19] The award could only be applied toward payment of McClendon's 2.5% working interest share of leasehold, drilling and operating costs for company wells and was subject to a five-year clawback.[20] The award was subsequently challenged by way of a shareholder proposal[19] and a number of lawsuits.[21]
In 2010, McClendon began directing the company's transition toward more balanced production, with the goal of having 50% of its revenues come from oil production by the end of 2013. In 2010, McClendon was a finalist for the Platts Global Energy CEO of the Year Awards, with the company a finalist for awards in the categories of Deal of the Year, Industry Leadership, Energy Producer of the Year and Community Development Program of the Year.[22] Platts also awarded Chesapeake Energy with Producer of the Year and Industry Leadership awards in 2009; and Hydrocarbon Producer of the Year in 2007.
In early 2011, McClendon was named to the Forbes "CEO 20-20 Club," a group of eight American chief executives who have a minimum of 20 years of service as CEO and produced at least 20% annual returns to shareholders during their tenure.[4]
In November 2011, McClendon was named the Ernst & Young National Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2011 Energy, Cleantech and Natural Resources Award winner. According to the Ernst & Young, McClendon was recognized for redefining Chesapeake's focus and strategy, taking it from its small-time Oklahoma origins to its current position as the second-largest producer of natural gas and the most active driller of new wells in the U.S.[23]
On April 18, 2012, a Reuters report revealed that McClendon borrowed as much as $1.1 billion against his personal stake in thousands of company wells, raising the potential for conflicts of interest and raised questions on the corporate governance and business ethics of Chesapeake Energy's senior management.[24] On May 1, 2012, Chesapeake's board announced that an independent, non-executive chairman would be named and that McClendon would relinquish his position as chairman of the Chesapeake Energy board.[25] On February 20, 2013, Dow Jones reported that a Chesapeake board review of millions of pages of documents and more than 50 interviews of Chesapeake and third-party personnel found no improper conduct, no improper benefit to McClendon and no increased cost to the company.[26]
On June 7, 2012, Reuters reported that McClendon had used Chesapeake employees to perform $3 million of personal work, including engineering and accounting support and the repair of his house, in 2010.[27] McClendon's employment contract expressly permitted such personal services by company employees and provided the formula for reimbursement of associated salary and other company costs.[28] According to Chesapeake's proxy statement filed with the SEC on May 11, 2012, McClendon reimbursed the company for all but $250,000 of the employee costs.[19] The Reuters account also stated that McClendon had used corporate planes for non-business-related travel for the McClendons' family and friends.[27] "For safety, security and efficiency" reasons, McClendon's employment agreement authorized the personal use of company aircraft by McClendon, his immediate family members and guests.[29]
Later in June, Chesapeake appointed Archie W. Dunham as chairman, replacing McClendon, who retained his position as CEO.[8]
McClendon retired from the company on April 1, 2013.[30] In February 2015, Chesapeake sued McClendon in Oklahoma County District Court, alleging that he had misappropriated confidential information about resource prospects in Ohio during his last days in office. McClendon denied the accusation and said that his access to the information had been specifically agreed as part of his agreement to depart the company.[31][32][33]
After his departure from Chesapeake, in April 2013, McClendon set up his new company, American Energy Partners, and leveraged that data to make a series of deals to snap up more than 100,000 acres across the Utica shale play. According to Chesapeake's complaint, "these purchases involved the same acreage evaluated in the data stolen by McClendon."
According to the complaint:
"McClendon committed this theft by requiring his assistant to print highly sensitive maps and prospect data, which he took with him as he left Chesapeake. He also included a blind carbon copy to his own private e-mail account on e-mails which contained the same highly sensitive and valuable information."
Chesapeake alleges that even before McClendon was gone from the company — pushed out after extensive revelations of self-dealing, conflicts of interest and even what prosecutors say was collusion with the head of a rival firm — he was using his possession of confidential information to lure in investors for his new venture. Chesapeake is seeking the return of all confidential data as well as payment of compensatory and punitive damages.[33]
On 4 April 2015 Chesapeake Energy Corporation dismissed AEU and the John Doe Defendants 1-20 from the lawsuit filed by Chesapeake on February 17, 2015. AEU apparently chose to settle with Chesapeake before any discovery was taken, evidently for the business purpose of mitigating further damage that Chesapeake's litigation had been having on AEU's business and financing activities.[34]
Natural gas advocacy[edit]
McClendon is known as an outspoken advocate for the expanded use of natural gas as a cleaner alternative than oil for transportation fuel and coal-fired electric power generation. On November 14, 2010, McClendon appeared on 60 Minutes, making a case for natural gas as a clean fuel and a significant job-creating industry. He also defended the natural gas and oil industry's use of hydraulic fracturing techniques for well completion.[35]
McClendon is a founding member of America's Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA), a Washington, D.C.-based trade organization of independent natural gas producers.
NBA Oklahoma City Thunder[edit]
McClendon is a member of the Professional Basketball Club LLC (PBC), which owns the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder franchise, as a 20% investor.[36]
In 2008, the NBA had fined McClendon $250,000 for comments he made in the (Oklahoma City) Journal Record about his hopes of moving the Seattle SuperSonics to Oklahoma City.[37] McClendon was fined specifically for his statement that the ownership group "didn't buy the team to keep it in Seattle." PBC Chairman Clayton Bennett stated that McClendon did not speak for the franchise in any official capacity, and therefore was simply stating his own personal opinions. Subsequently, on July 2, 2008, the PBC and the city of Seattle reached a $45 million settlement agreement. As part of the agreement, the remaining two years on the SuperSonics' lease at KeyArena was terminated, allowing the PBC to move the team to Oklahoma City for the 2008-09 season, where it was renamed the Thunder.
Saugatuck Township settlement[edit]
From 2004 to 2006, McClendon bought 400 acres of undeveloped duneland fronting Lake Michigan in Saugatuck Township, Michigan, for $39.5 million with plans to build luxury homes, 28 condos, a hotel, a marina and a golf course. In 2006, prior to McClendon finalizing the sale but after McClendon had signed contracts to purchase and without notice to McClendon, the Saugatuck Township Board rezoned the land to R-4, severely restricting the use of the land and requiring a PUD for any development, generally treating this land in a different fashion than any other land in Saugatuck Township. The Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance opposed McClendon's plans, citing environmental concerns. In 2009, McClendon sold 171 acres of the land to a conservancy. In March 2010, McClendon sued the township in federal court to overturn the zoning.[38] In July 2011, McClendon and the Township Board submitted a proposed Consent Agreement to the court for approval.[39] In November 2011, Judge Maloney rejected the proposed Consent Agreement, but outlined a way for the parties to proceed toward a conclusion of the litigation.[40] In 2012, the Federal District Court in Western Michigan approved a Consent Decree that restored the zoning to the status at the time of McClendon's purchase.[41] In 2013, Saugautuck Township approved plans for the property.[42]
Since August 2011, McClendon's development company, Singapore Dunes, has provided free mooring for the Saugatuck Township Fire District's 41-foot rescue boat, reducing response times to assist Lake Michigan swimmers and boaters by about 15 minutes according to the fire chief.[43]
Other interests[edit]
McClendon had formerly been highly involved in the architecture of Chesapeake's headquarters campus in Oklahoma City as is currently involved in his other private building endeavors in Oklahoma City. Working exclusively with Oklahoma City-based award-winning architect Rand Elliott, Chesapeake's 50-acre Oklahoma City headquarters campus has won more than 24 national and international design awards since 2003.
Between 2000-04, McClendon donated $700,000 to a variety of Republican candidates and conservative interest groups.[44] Most notable of these was a $250,000 donation to Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, a group whose purpose was to oppose John Kerry's candidacy for the presidency in 2004. McClendon's donation made him the eighth-largest contributor to the group.[45]
In 2007 McClendon bought several full-page ads supporting the Duke men's lacrosse team in the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case.[46] The case was ultimately dismissed, and the Durham County prosecutor who brought the case was forced to resign and was disbarred.
McClendon is one of the nation's 100 largest land owners according to the magazine Land Report.
He also is owner of the iconic POPS restaurant located on historic Route 66 in Arcadia,[47] Oklahoma, which features the world's largest collection (more than 500 varieties) of soda pops for sale at one site. POPS has won numerous architectural awards and has been featured in a wide variety of magazines and television shows since it opened in 2007.
In addition, McClendon is noted for his philanthropic generosity, having donated more than $75 million in the past 15 years to a variety of institutions, most notable of which have been Duke University in Durham, N.C.; Heritage Hall and Casady college preparatory private high schools in Oklahoma City, and the University of Oklahoma, where in 2008 the university's Honors College was named in honor of his parents.[48]
McClendon was allowed to invest in wells drilled by Chesapeake Energy. Known as the Founder Well Participation Program (FWPP), the perk was first formalized and incorporated into the founders' (McClendon and Ward) employment agreements in connection with Chesapeake's IPO in February 1993.[49] The FWPP was put to a proxy vote and approved by shareholders for a period of 10 years in 2005.[50] In 2012, after investor complaints and several loans from business partners of the company were called into question, the Chesapeake board and McClendon agreed to end the program 18 months early.[51] A thorough board review of McClendon's financing relationships found no improper benefit to McClendon or increased cost to the company.[26] McClendon retained the option to continue investing in Chesapeake wells through July 2014.[52]
From 2004 to 2008, McClendon, while CEO of Chesapeake Energy, also ran a hedge fund that traded in commodities including natural gas and oil. The fund, Heritage Management Company LLC, located in New York City,[53] was undisclosed to shareholders and drew concerns and criticism over McClendon's fiduciary duty to shareholders.[54][55]
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- ^ Malony, Paul L. "OPINION AND ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR ENTRY OF CONSENT JUDGMENT" (PDF). Court filing. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
- ^ Scott Sullivan, "Judge OKs settlement, dunes suit ends," The Allegan County News. June 13, 2012.
- ^ Scott Sullivan, "Township signs off on revised dunes plan." The Allegan County News. July 3, 2013
- ^ Scott Sullivan, "Singapore Dunes new berth place for rescue boat." The Allegan County News. August 17, 2011
- ^ FEC Disclosure
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Another Caddie Week in the Books
It's a stupid f-ing game, this one we continually play. Hit a white ball, chase it, hope to find it in a good lie on grass that is groomed, but groomed with human error.
We stand over putts thinking we know what is going on, but not really knowing anything. It looks like it should go left but something in the cosmos takes it right. It appears to be slow but a river 11 miles away keeps it rolling fast. It's a game of guesses, not misses, yet we continually think this iron or that infomercial has fixed our problems.
This week, at the LPGA Tour Championship, I got to see first hand the highs and lows of professional golf. See, a friend of mine happens to be a tour player, and called me to caddie for the second time this year, apparently in desperate need of a caddie that talks too much at the wrong times and isn't that great at reading greens.
No matter, I jumped on the first flight possible because, shit, if I'm not making it professionally I'd like to see someone who is. How was the week in Houston, Texas? (tops on my list of "reasons I wish our forefathers had administered erasers to city developers." It's a town of traffic, torrential humidity and not enough health options at restaurants.) Well, it was a lot of fun, very interesting, and at times downright frustrating.
Erica Blasberg and I were stuck in Sugar Land, Texas, a suburb that would make Arlington roll her sweet little eyes. McDonalds? Got 10 of 'em. Buffalo Wild Wings? It's the only place to drink. Applebees? You betcha. We stayed at a Marriott, obviously.
The tournament was Bethpage Black 2.0, a constant reminder that when Mother Nature has her way, we can't do shit about it. It rained so much even the turtles in the ponds at the Houstonian needed a break.
None of this stopped us from somehow going out on Thursday and playing 16 holes, eventually finishing our first round Friday afternoon before we kicked off the second round. Those 14 holes would be the last we'd see for a day, as Saturday was rained out and Sunday became the second round.
I'll admit this, and I have no problem doing so. Being involved in a rain delay at a pro golf tournament was one of the more interesting things I've ever been a part of, sports related. Pat Hurst and caddie instituted a card game. Team Europe huddled around a television to watch Arsenal play. The young generation killed their iPhone and Blackberry batteries faster than an hour-long conference call. Twitter took on a face of his own.
The catered food took a hit. And another hit. If losing pounds is all the rage on tour, rain delays are God's gift to the hefty fan base.
It became a bit of a joke. Players would show up at random times hoping to play, only knowing they wouldn't. On Friday, playing with the extremely entertaining and equally talented Karren Stupples (and caddie/husband Bobby, who also was a great guy), a cart drove our threesome out to the 8th tee to complete our first round. The rain was still coming down and the course looked more lazy river than championship golf venue, but we did as were told, and got to the tee only to be called back because, well, we weren't playing golf (Nobody told us. Thanks, LPGA).
So, that was the only time something like that happened, right? Ha. On Saturday, all the groups were rushed to their holes to finish the second round, only to be told there wasn't going to be golf played because, in the words of Collin Raye, "That was a river, this is an ocean." The course was unplayable, and it turns out we weren't going to be playing any golf, but a ride in a mud-soaked van out to the course is always a good time, right?!
Sunday saw us complete our second round, but not without a little fun of it's own (Sunday can't let Friday and Saturday get the best of 'em, right?). Taking a white van reserved for mechanics and child molesters, our driver took the scenic route out to the back nine, so we could tee it up on 14 and complete golf for round two. Hurdle? In the words of Jackie Joyner-Kerse, hell yes. There was a gate, and the gate had a Master Lock, and sadly, neither Erica, Karen or myself has ever been especially great at picking locks. There really isn't a moment that defines this LPGA Championship like seeing three professional golfers in skirts and shorts jumping a four-foot tall fence in order to complete a round postponed due to weather. It almost had a touch of irony muddled with "are you fucking kidding me" to it. "Wanna finish this round? Well, you gotta climb."
Monday was perfect. We got out to the course, without really knowing our tee time, but when in Rome ...
As for my caddie duties? I'll explain it like this. My golf game is no Tiger Woods, and my caddie skills are sure as hell no Steve Williams. I pissed off Erica at one point because I boneheadidly asked her if she wanted a candy bar or banana during the most intense part of any round we had, knowing full well she didn't give a shit about a banana when she was trying to figure out a way to finish strong and make some birdies. She might be cute and sweet, but it took me a while to realize she's still a pro, and bothering her with things like candy bars shows how unprofessional I really am at this.
I didn't screw up any yardages, so there was that.
The good news is, when Erica and I have teamed up together, we're 2-for-2 in made cuts, even though my name probably shouldn't be included in that. She hits the ball well enough to be a contender on tour, and in the near future that will be the case. She'll win on tour. She'll be sporting American flag emblems on her face with the rest of the Solheim Cup. She'll call me one day telling me about another top-10 or another sponsorship or how she's really happy dating Shia Lebouf. The response I'll have to all of that is that I got the opportunity to be behind the serious ropes. The ones where putts count for thousands of bucks and the players changing shoes in the parking lot have names like Ochoa, Wie and Kerr (speaking of Kerr ... the area the hotel was in was all restaurants and bars, and Kerr was out an Italian food place we went to one night. Honestly, one of the cooler females I've ever run across in my life. Intelligent, sarcastic and can see through my bullshit ... huge fan. She's awesome.)
It was another week where I learned as much about golf as I ever thought I could. Gracias, Erica. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I.
6 comments:
- Lee said...
People complain about Kerr's attitude but i dig her. As far a Erica goes, i think she's a standup gal and a real pro. After round 2 at the Navistar tourney I was sitting next to her on the patio at the clubhouse while i was waiting for my player. Erica was just relaxing, (tanning her white feet) and another caddie was firing away at her. He hit on her continually until Grzebien interupted and told him to knock it off. It was fun to watch, and i could tell what a real pro she is by the way she handled herself and the situation. She kind of just laughed it off. I guess she's probably used to it!
- November 24, 2009 at 12:58 PM
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- November 24, 2009 at 2:24 PM
- Aussie Golfer said...
Well done Shane, great read. I can imagine being part of a rain delay round the clubhouse of a professional tournament is an interesting place to be. I was stuck at the clubhouse at the australian Open last year and was absolutely fascinated. 2-2 is not bad. Keep up the good work.
- November 24, 2009 at 3:58 PM
- Vince Spence said...
Cool beans..!!
Did you pick up any course management tips?
- November 24, 2009 at 5:45 PM
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
I'm a big Blasberg fan and look forward to her career taking off. I think she is great for the LPGA (those Puma ads ain't bad!) and look for her to hit her stride next year!
cool report Shane, sounds like a great weekend to me.
- November 25, 2009 at 2:09 PM
I am doing research for my college paper, thanks for your brilliant points, now I am acting on a sudden impulse.
- Kris
- October 19, 2010 at 8:46 PM


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This is nice!
From Publishers Weekly:
"A murder case complicates Sebastian St. Cyr's recent marriage in Harris's excellent eighth Regency mystery (after 2012's When Maidens Mourn): the accused, former privateer Russell Yates, is the husband of Kat Boleyn, St. Cyr's long-time love interest, for whom he still pines. Yates is charged with the fatal shooting of diamond merchant Daniel Eisler at the merchant's London house. Yates, who had an appointment with Eisler, claims he heard a pistol shot at the door before rushing inside and finding the merchant dead in the parlor, where Eisler's nephew discovered him crouching over the body. St. Cyr learns that the unscrupulous Eisler tried to sell a large blue diamond that had been one of the French Crown Jewels, but that disappeared in 1792. The combination of complex back story, intricate plotting, surprising developments, and poignant evocations of the lives of the underpriviledged makes this one of the best entries in Harris's superior historical series." Reviewed on 12/14/2012
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Sabai Technology customers tend to lead exciting lives, full of adventure and travel. Just looking at our customer map, one can only imagine the diversity and excitement that some of these expats experience day to day. Our staff is inspired and impressed by the courage and intensity that Sabai customers commit to their everyday lives.
The world just celebrated the start of 2013, another year of promise and untold adventures. Sabai founder and President William Haynes, who has experienced his share of adventure and travel himself, is one of those people that seems to have done it all. As a missionary and expat in Thailand, he and his family experienced a breathtaking new culture and the seeds where planted for the company that would later become Sabai Technology. Earlier in life, as a Tony Robbins coach, William traveled the country and met an array of brilliant and inspiring thought leaders.
One such thought leader, recently making headlines, is Robert D. Smith. Usually a 'behind the scenes' guy, Robert has managed the career of best-selling author and motivational speaker Andy Andrews for over 30 years. Recently, Robert shared some of his own wisdom and insight in a newly published book, 20,000 Days and Counting.
When asked why a reader should be interested in this book, Robert says:
"We all have things we want to accomplish. So why are we waiting? 20,000 Days and Counting will give you the tools and mindset you need to begin completing the major "musts" in your life today. Unfortunately, though we can count our days, we ultimately do not know how many we will have. Now is the time to take advantage of each and every day."
Early on, Robert shared a draft of his book with William. After reading it, William realized that this book could change people's lives. He offered encouragement and insight to Robert along the way, and even gets a mention in the acknowledgements.
While many Sabai Technology customers are already taking life by the horns and living each day to it's fullest, we all need the occasional inspiration. If you – or someone you know – needs a bit of encouragement to accomplish some lofty goal, try picking up 20,000 Days and Counting.
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In most cases, a second DUI conviction will lead to an increase in all types of penalties. While the laws vary in each state, you may see steeper fines, longer license suspension and more time in jail.
In many states, a second DUI offense results in mandatory minimum jail time. You could be facing a sentence that calls for anywhere from a week to several years behind bars.
Even if you have a DUI on your record already, you may still fight your charges. A DUI lawyer may help you protect your rights and challenge your charge in court.
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Probably. In recent years most states have cracked down on repeat DUI offenders, and they've done this by increasing the penalties for second and third DUI offenses.
These increased penalties typically include a longer minimum sentence in jail. A "mandatory minimum sentence" means you must spend at least so much time in jail. The time varies in each state, but in some states the minimum may be more than a week!
A second DUI offense may also include steeper fines and the required use of an ignition interlock device on your car. In these cases, you will need to pay for the maintenance and service on the device.
These are fairly standard second DUI penalties, but more states are also introducing mandatory alcohol rehabilitation and treatment. These laws are often aimed at repeat offenders, and, if convicted, you may be required to take part in an alcohol education program.
Additionally, the court may require more conditions for your release and license reinstatement than during your first case. These may include house arrest, an alcohol monitoring bracelet and more.
The term "A person is innocent until proven guilty" applies here. Even if you have a DUI on your record doesn't mean you'll be convicted of another. Having legal counsel is not mandatory but many people see it as an asset when fighting a second DUI charge. You have the right to challenge your drunk driving charges and stand up for your rights in court.
So what are your next steps? If you want more information on the laws in your state and what your options are, speak with a DUI defense attorney. A local lawyer may answer your questions, explain the legal process and help you make informed decisions.
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Art of Blender
The Art of Blender is full of inspiring renderings from Blender artists around the world.
Creating Geometric Assets in Blender
What we will do
In this Blender lesson we will take a look at the techniques needed to create Geometric Assets in Blender. We will cover how to create your own landscapes, trees, rocks, plants and other assets. We will review what geometric assets are and why we may create them.
Finally you will be shown how to create a new material which will work in Blender Internal and the Cycles render engine. This material will allow us to have all of the objects in the scene using a single material powered by vertex colors.
Discussion82 Responses to "Creating Geometric Assets in Blender"
Posts: 10Virginie Guerra says:
I finally made it ! thanks you!
Posts: 5Collin Robold says:
I absolutely love this technique and art style! It all looks like construction paper made dioramas, yet they also seem so life like! They are Adorable and cool at the same time. It's so simple but you could do SO much with it!
Thank you very much for sharing this with us! I will use it for a long time ^-^
Posts: 3SjS says:
I am really enjoying this tutorial but I am stuck on something that is probably very simple. What is going on around 25:03 when the door is being created for the house? I separated the face from the house object, but then I got lost.
Posts: 633
After separating the face, he adjusts the origin point to the geometry (in Object Mode SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+C or available via the Tool Shelf). He then makes the door and steps as a separate object from the house.
Is that all you wanted to know?
Posts: 3SjS says:
Thanks for the response! I actually was able to follow along for setting the origin part. It is the actual modelling of the separate door that I am confused. Do I just create some vertical loop cuts to separate the face for the door? Basically I am not sure how to create the door on the surface of the separated face.
Posts: 633
The separated face is scaled to size, extruded out and the back face deleted.
Posts: 4Kholoud says:
Great technique. Love it!!
Can you do another tutorial about the light setting that you used in the sample picture? I would truly appreciate that.
Posts: 7Pedro Faria says:
I second that the whole rendering setup!
Posts: 7Pedro Faria says:
Can you explain how the objects are textured or painted in this tutorial? I did everything but I can't give them that look upon rendering.
They just have a material applied to them, and vertex color groups, but I don't know how to replicate thate myself.
Can you make a simple tutorial explaining that?
Posts: 3Juan Carlos Rios Gil says:
Thank you very much!
Posts: 2Darren Cook says:
I am unable to scale the bottom of the house down after creating the roof. In the video it sounds like he says to press to Inset the faces around the bottom and then press prevent the inset on the bottom followed by holding to scale in. Unfortunately, when I press nothing happens and the inset is still occurring on both the top and bottom.
Posts: 2Darren Cook says:
Apparently my arrows were filtered out of the above post for security and I see no way to edit the post so that the keys I understood to press are mentioned. So, in short, I pressed I, then B, and finally CTRL.
Posts: 633
It sounds like you may have forgotten to delete the bottom edge/faces. The model should have no faces on the under-side of the house.
Posts: 2Wenceslao Villanueva Jr says:
This tutorial was difficult to follow, lots of note taking and rewinding because he seemed to speak briskly, mumble, which didn't help when he danced around menus. I had to pause just to see what he was selecting.
The content was excellent though. I am experimenting with a game that duplicates this style and the style shown in the ROME interactive video here: (http://www.ro.me/). This was very helpful with helping me block out some of the basics.
I got doubly excited when he mentioned that he was going to show in the next video how to import these assets into Unity. Is this video going to happen? I know how to do the import but I was hoping to get some lighting strategies and how to handle baking lighting and such.
Posts: 5Justin King says:
I did almost everything in this tutorial successfully. I was unable to bake the landscape to a vertex map, using bake full render. When I tried It would just bake as solid white. I was able to bake the house using the specular color, but not the full render. I was able to do everything else. Thank you for your help.
Posts: 17Tadd Mencer says:
At the end of the video you mention that a tutorial on taking these low-poly assets and bringing them into Unity would be coming. Was that ever realized or was that particular video tutorial put on the shelf? I'd love to watch that tutorial. This particular tutorial was amazing to watch. I loved it. Great work!
Posts: 6blender rock time says:
it's an AWESOME tutorial but I can't figure out how you bake the colors to an object I painted my model with vertex paint and clicked bake NOTHING HAPPENED!!!!!! I was hoping someone could help me with my problem because even after trying to bake several times nothing is happening and by the way I'm eleven my parents signed me up for blender and I have already made a couple of models so if any of you have an experience level of over 5 months I could really use some help.
Posts: 5Joshua Foster says:
Would be nice if key strokes were displayed.
Posts: 5Joshua Foster says:
Alex did you ever make a tutorial on how to make the low poly people?
Posts: 1smolus11 says:
hi, I have a question, how did you select all windows (32:48) to edit mode?
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To mark World Food Day - when people around the world come together to demand that their governments act to end global hunger - the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has published country scorecards based on findings from the Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI).
This series of scorecards presents data on government commitment to reduce hunger and undernutrition in developing countries. Political commitment is measured through action in the areas of public spending, policies and laws.
Sadly hunger continues to affect 870 million people globally, almost all of these people live in developing countries where 15% of the population do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life. Moreover, malnutrition contributes to 3.1 million deaths of children under five each year - 45% of the global total.
HANCI aims to make the issue of global hunger and undernutrition more transparent by recording, compiling and publishing what governments achieve, and where they fail, in addressing hunger and undernutrition. It is hoped that making this information available and accessible will help citizens hold their governments to account on these vital development issues.
The index is also a tool for policymakers and practitioners both at a national and international level. HANCI shows where political commitment is strongest while other research (such as the Global Hunger Index) tracks and measures rates of hunger and undernutrition. Together these highlight where efforts should be focused and where most impact might be made.
In the podcast above, Prof Lawrence Haddad, Director of IDS, brings together findings from HANCI and the Global Hunger Index and explains the importance of political commitment in addressing hunger and undernutrition.
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City and county firefighters say they believe lightning strikes caused two separate fires when a thunderstorm moved through Oktibbeha County Thursday.
Starkville Fire Marshal Stein McMullen said firefighters arrived at the La Quinta Inns and Suites Highway 12 East construction site approximately 10:04 a.m. after contractors placed an emergency call three minutes earlier when smoke was observed exiting the building's roof. A lightning strike, he said, is believed to have sparked the flames.
"(Contractors) said they felt the building shake, got through with a meeting … and saw the smoke," McMullen said. "One guy said it looked like (lightning) hit the roof itself."
SFD dispatched Ladder No. 1, Engine No. 3 and Engine No. 4 to the scene, and firefighters attacked the blaze from the air and through the building. Although SFD had the fire under control within 12 minutes, firefighters remained at the scene overhauling the affected portion of the building while searching for hot spots.
McMullen said no injuries were reported at the construction site and a financial damage estimate was not available.
"A good portion of the roof was affected," he said. "You can stand in the stairwell and see the sky now."
While Starkville firefighters were arriving at the structure fire, county firefighters were diverted to another structure fire while en route to a previous call.
Oktibbeha County Fire Services Coordinator Kirk Rosenhan said Central Oktibbeha volunteer firefighters were responding to an electric pole which was struck by lightning when a structure fire at 599 Oakwood Drive was reported shortly after 10 a.m. Lightning struck nearby power lines and the structure's chimney, he said.
Additional manpower from Adaton, District 5 and Sturgis volunteer fire departments joined in the firefight, Rosenhan said, and damage was contained near the fire's starting point.
"Most of the fire damage was interior to the walls and the area between the first and second story in a utility room," he said. "We remained at the scene for a few hours overhauling to ensure all vestiges of fire were properly extinguished and the building was secure."
One resident was at home when the fire started, Rosenhan said, but was able to escape with a pet.


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Infertile couples go through a daily psychological trauma. In a couple of cases, inability to conceive and bear children after a few years of marriage has resulted in dissolution of such marriage and in worse case scenario death of either of the couple.
Incidentally, the Invitro Fertilisation, IVF was discovered some years back to serve as alternative means through which couples could eventually bear their own children.
The IVF process of conception, as effective as it turned out, is found to be too expensive for the middle or low income earner who finds himself with fertility problems.
While in most countries where technology in health has advanced, the cost of procuring the IVF treatment is within the reach of everyone, only people who can afford it travel abroad for the IVF treatment. Even in a few Nigerian clinics where the IVF treatment is available, the cost is usually on the high side.
However, a Nigerian gynaecologist also trained in the UK, Dr Eloka Manakaya, who recently put laughter in the mouths of a couple who had been branded barren when he assisted them through safe delivery, said low and middle income earners can now smile with a new technology for fertility treatment.
The chief medical director of Amana Medical Centre, operators of Frankcare Fertility Clinic, spoke with LEADERSHIP on the new technology for fertility treatment.
According to him, the cost of fertility treatment in Nigeria could come crashing if more clinics are encouraged to engage in the practice. He also averred that government's intervention could bring succour to affected couples.
" I'm here to intimate about the success we have achieved here. You. Know infertility in Africa is rising. This crop of infertility or what we call barrenness, is on the increase more in Africa than any part of the world.
This is due to what we call STD, Sexually Transmitted Disease. It could be caused by illegal abortion and many other conditions. And because of this situation, luckily for couples now, there is a new technology which is more modern than the Invitro Fertilisation, it is called Intra, Cyptoplastic Sperm Injection, ICSI.
"What happens to the sperm is that, at times it might get to the female egg and it will not penetrate. The female egg has a shell and so the sperm gets there and it would not penetrate. So when we get tothat situation, what we now do in this modern technology is to inject the sperm directly into the egg," he said.
Dr Menakaya disclosed that with the dynamic nature of technology development the problems associated with infertility would soon be a thing of the past.
"When I started this clinic, I wanted to use it to help people because Invitro Fertilisation is so expensive in this country. In India, it costs about a 1000 dollars, that's about N160,000. In Nigeria it costs more than a million naira, which only the rich can afford. The middle class and the poor people can hardly afford it.
So what we intend to do here is to get as many doctors as possible to start it. Some clinics have started it but the cost is still very expensive.
"As you all know, government does not cover infertility treatment. Even in the National Health Insurance Scheme, it is 13 on the exclusion list and insurance does not cover infertility anywhere in the world. Here we have more important ailments that government is covering. I'm not saying infertility is not important but government does not cover it.
There are other important things that are more life threatening such as malaria and HIV. Infertility is not life threatening but it can be traumatic for the couples affected by it.
"So that is why we decided to start this here. Luckily, we've had our first success, we delivered our first baby on the 24th of January by Ceaseran section and the baby and mother are all well and alive.


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It always amazes me how much of the cost gets left on the floor when the salesman is telling me how much I will save by purchasing his products. Is this a good idea? Sure. Is it a good idea economically? I still have to find $12,999 cash to purchase the item. Then I have to buy the "ingredients" for the item each month for the life of machine. Next I have to pay to transport these secret sauce parts to my house and pay store them. Then I am pretty sure this "factory in my garage" will consume electricity. (I could put up another $2,000 for solar panels to run it I guess.) I am pretty sure my Home Insurance carrier, let alone the city zoning, does not allow me to store 250+ gallons of flammable liquids at my residence. What happens when there is a spill? How much will the Hazmat team bill cost me? Convert to E85? About $1,000 ( the kit is about $500, then labor for the rest.) My 2004 F-150 gets 18.5 MPG on good Gasoline, 16.5 MPG on 10% Ethanal and it will get about, 11.5 MPG on Ethanol. That 65% more gallons of fuel I need to burn. If half of my fuel purchases are done away from my house then that cuts the efficiency of a home station by half or increases the cost by two fold. If i buy this many pump i have to assign any "CARBON REDUCTION CREDIT ASSIGNMENT" to his company. Yes, #4 in his license Agreement. Oh, and there is the $10 a month subscription fee Pay to him to use the machine. And was it only me who notice the $0.25 a gallon Fee for using my $12,999 station? Yes, some of the costs are waived the first year of placement. Then there are repairs and maintenance of all and sundry related equipment. Let's see over 10 years I would guess that I could spend $12,999 for the pump $2,000 for a solar panel $1,200 for 10 years of fees $5,000 in pump per gallon charges $2,000 to convert my 2 cars Unknown tax savings Unknown repair cost $23,200 for my 2 cars for 10 years compared to $48,000 for gasoline at $3 per gallon What's missing here? Oh, right the secret ingredients to run the fermentation pump. 12 pounds of Sugar per gallon of Ethanol. So I would need 24,000 pounds to make 2,000 gallons. I would buy in 25 pound bags to make it usable. (That is about the size of large Dump truck pile. about 8 Cubic Yards) Did anyone mention where i dispose of the waste by products? At $1 a pound I would need to spend $24K a year on sugar. Even if i got that down to 10 cents a pound, thats $24,000 over 10 years on "Sugars" So, its a wash, $48,000 for the ethanol pump or $48,000 for the gasoline. Someone remind me again, where am I saving money?
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He's a certified country music legend, with 39 No. 1 country hits and a plaque in the Country Music Hall of Fame. But these days, Merle Haggard doesn't have much to do with the country music "business," at least in regard to his choice of record labels.
Haggard's new album, If I Could Only Fly, has been released in association with Epitaph Records, which, of course, specializes in the punk rock sounds of Rancid, Bad Religion, and the Voodoo Glow Skulls, among others.
As it turns out, it's a surprisingly good fit for Haggard, who turned 63 last April.
"Well, let me say this — I'm much more proud to be on a punk rock label with some young kids that are doing something innovative rather than to be with people that's doing nothing but copying each other, running around in a circle with no songs," he says. "I'd rather see purple hair out there — I'm tired of belly buttons, you know what I mean?"
Haggard is currently on the road promoting the new album, and in addition to the concert venues, honky-tonks, and casinos that he usually plays, he'll be dropping into some rock clubs as well, like New York's Irving Plaza and St. Louis' Mississippi Nights. For Haggard, whose career has seen thousands upon thousands of one-nighters, it's all pretty much the same.
"You know, I never did draw the line," he says. "I've always been a guy that had a band who could play just about anything you wanted to hear. I grew up in the beer joints of California playing rock and roll music: Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, stuff like that. My heart and soul has always been where it's at, and they put me where they want me. Right now it seems they'd rather have me over there [at the rock clubs]."
If I Could Only Fly is Haggard at his most human, addressing some of his weaknesses, including drug use ("Wishing All These Old Things Were New"), his convict past ("I'm Still Your Daddy"), and the continuing demands of the road ("Leaving's Getting Harder").
"I didn't intend to have a young family at this period of my life," Haggard says of the latter tune. "I should be doing exactly what I want to with nobody in the way and no other reasons to want to stay home. But I have a couple of children [a daughter, 10, and a son, 7] and a lovely wife [Theresa, his fifth], and we can't just take them with us. They have to go to school, and it's kind of a heart-ripper every time we have to go. I'm missing my kids' childhood again. That's the main reason for those feelings, I guess.
"The road gets older. It's getting so like the music. It used to be that you could look forward to the town that was coming up next and know that it would have a sign with something proud to say at the edge of town, saying, 'This is so and so.' But anymore, it's a four-lane [highway] with offramps and Wendy's burgers and the same old deal. It don't make no difference where you're at."
Haggard has always been one to speak his mind, and these days, the topics that often surface include governmental fraud, especially regarding America's drug policy. Haggard — who has enjoyed his share, thanks, and accepted the consequences for his actions — thinks everyone else should be allowed to do the same.