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The Colorado River, which gushed across the land with such gusto that it carved the majestic Grand Canyon in a measly five million years, once reigned as an unchallenged force in shaping and nurturing the Southwest.
But then humans came along, and the mighty river has been reduced to a trickle in some places, even dying out in the desert during dry years before it reaches the Gulf of California.
It doesn't take a lot of smarts to figure out that if you take away the water, creatures and plants that depend on it will die. But now scientists have compiled an extensive record of what the Colorado was like before humans re-engineered the river, compared to what it's like now. It's not a pretty picture.
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About 95 percent of the marine life in the river's delta has been wiped out in less than 70 years. Where great beds of clams once flourished, ultimately providing the white sand that nature reshaped into large offshore islands, very little survives today. What's astonishing is the scale of the impact.
"It's pretty shocking," says paleontologist Michal Kowalewski of Virginia Tech, one of the leaders in a four-university study of the price the environment has paid for reshaping the river. The study was published in last week's issue of the journal Geology.
Today, the river is, at best, a stream when it reaches the gulf that separates the Baja peninsula and mainland Mexico. The region used to be one of the most biologically productive areas on the planet, supporting billions of clams and other marine life in the nutrient-rich waters of the delta.
Measuring by Clams
The researchers concentrated on clams, because their hard shells have survived the ravages of time, and those shells provide a biological yardstick of the marine ecosystem, according to paleontologist Karl W. Flessa of the University of Arizona, one of the principal investigators.
"The clams were in a sense a proxy for the whole marine ecosystem," Flessa says. "There were so many there because of the very high productivity of marine microorganisms" which thrived in the nutrient-rich waters. Thus more clams means more wildlife ranging from tiny sea creatures to fish to birds.
The researchers found that clams were so abundant that a total of more than two trillion thrived in the delta over the last 1,000 years, a density of about 50 clams per square meter at any time.
That number today has been reduced to about three clams per square meter, if they can be found at all.
Thus the scientists estimate a drop in marine life of at least 20 fold, but Kowalewski says that figure is "quite conservative."
"I think 20 times is a pretty staggering number, but in fact my hunch is that it's probably much more than that," he says. There may have been 100, or even 200 times more marine life in the delta before the 1930s ushered in a new life for the Colorado, he adds.
Distributing its Flow
Some would argue, of course, that what humans took away, humans put to good use. Electricity from the Hoover Dam brought jobs and power to areas like Las Vegas, allowing that region to become one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the country. Without the dam, the lights of "glitter gulch" would be more like candles.
Water was diverted from the river to farms and cities, turning some desert regions into bread baskets, and allowing major urban centers like Phoenix and the megalopolis of Southern California to prosper.


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I get emails like this all the time. Mostly through the Academy but quite often through AN as well. Message is edited to protect the identity of the individual.
I am currently looking for some talent to help us with a project we are working on. I work for a small Independent company called. I am also an employee at ****** here in Hollywood. We are working on an Animation project with help from our VFX and Animation Departments here at ******. We have some Investors interested but we still need to do a presentation with a "Bible" that explains the storyline, plot and character backgrounds. What we need is motivated 3D artists to help us draw 24 characters so we can get this project going. There is no pay but they will get Credit, their own copy of the Bible with their name in it with all sketches and progress of their work, we will include them in our website and hopefully if we get picked up we will try to give them a job on our team. What I'm wondering is if there is a possible way to get some of your students to do maybe an internship with our Independent company or if this would even be possible at all. I hope to hear from you soon and thank you for your time.
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This was my response...
I'm afraid there's not much that we can do without compensation associated with the project. Students will simply not respond. We get requests like yours all the time and they go nowhere. What you're looking to do is the same thing our students are doing. Developing their own projects. If we forward this notice it will be an embarrassment and our students will find it offensive. It's not possible to generate interest by offering production credit alone. Especially in consideration of the amount of work that you're asking for which is significant.
Thanks for getting in touch and for keeping the Academy in mind. In the future should the nature of the situation change and you're able to offer something realistic as part of the deal, something that would attract talent to what you're doing, we'll be happy to help.
Good luck and best wishes,
Charles Zembillas
The Animation Academy
Burbank CA
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Spec projects and vanity projects go hand in hand, but vanity ones are more rewarding.
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The professional thing to do, as always with any project, is to offer some form of compensation. Bottom line. I don't care if it's a gift card, free season tickets to Chargers games, or free website hosting space--just, SOMETHING, y'know?
When I staff up my project, the crew will be fairly compensated. That's a minimum.
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Boone's First Rule Of Business:
"Free is the most damned expensive thing that you will do in business."
With 1/3 of all Americans on some form of federal welfare, people losing their homes right and left, there are still people and companies that will try to rip you off with that 'spec' bull.
Nobody in the Free Friggin' World can work for spec. Don't even approach me with spec or I just might kick an ass until the Sun roasts crumpets in their butt.
Right now I'm looking at the global internet marketing industry trying to get Americans to work for the same salaries as people in Third World countries. The Liberals got their wish with that "Global Love The World One Brotherhood" nonsense because now Americans are just as poor as those other countries that don't understand what a Republic is. The whole country has turned into a slum and some creep wants people to work on spec?
Charles your reply was gracious. I would have cussed that guy out for trying to get cheap labor by exploiting young people.
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I get requests like these all the time. Phone calls and email. Last week I started laughing on the phone when one fellow called looking for interns to do free work on his project in exchange for... dig this... class credits at my school!
My response was literally... Lotsa luck pal.
Oftentimes they have this confident bravado to their voice like they're doing us a favor by having Academy students work on their projects for free.
Anyway Greg, I try to be as gracious as possible and do my best to educate these people.
I got a call from someone today who's looking for an artist to do some animation work and they're willing to pay. How much I don't know as I haven't returned the call yet. The irony in this is that they're from a non-profit group! Maybe they understand what it's like to fish for funds first and not take artists for granted. We'll see what happens.
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Haven't sent a reply to this yet. Here's what came in today. At least with these guys there's some good exposure as they have a substantial following and community.
I am writing you because we thought it would be mutually beneficial for us, the artist and a design school to partner up on these projects. We would get to see a variety of videos to choose from, and the school would have an exciting project to assign students that allows them to be as creative as they want, and the artist gets to see their work and their credited name displayed to roughly half a million people. We are very open to artistic interpretation and there are no boundaries. How it would work would be for us to send you the audio sample for the release or promo, and your students can design any video they want, and we'll pick the best one and post it, giving full credit to the student. So it also has kind of a contest aspect to it to further contribute to the fun factor of the project. So overall it's easy to see how this benefits every one involved. Thanks for your time and I hope to hear back and work with you.
Notice friends that an importance issue has not been mentioned.
Who owns the video? If we're using the audio that they provide and produce the content for free in exchange for exposure through their network... who... owns... the video???
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Unfortunately there will be a student who will jump at this thinking they might hit it big. I don't get too many of these inquiries any more and I rarely do spec storyboards or designs. When I do spec work it is usually for agencies that have thrown me quite a bit of work over the years. More often than not I generally charge for pre-pro work and credit that amount to the production if the job gets awarded.
Also, as a warning to students out there, make sure that you always get an artistic services agreement stating who owns the property, when you can use the work for portfolio purposes, what the terms of payment are, and when those payments are due. This document should be signed by both parties and the artist should get either an original or a copy for their records. In general, unless you know the producer well, never start work until you have money down. When it comes to starting work, most companies should be able to cut a check almost immediately. If they can not get you a check to start work, then don't do anything: as my grandpa use to say, it isn't a job till you get the check. I normally do 50% down. If you quote the job correctly, 50% should be your cost. If you do the work and don't get paid in full, the 50% down covers your cost so you aren't out any major amount. However, final payment generally take anywhere from 1 to 6 weeks depending on the company. If you feel like a producer might be a little sketchy, you can hold final delivery of work until you get final payment. This might entail low res files with water marks to prove that the work has been completed according to the standards required. Also remember that all things are negotiable and most producers will expect to haggle a bit.
Again, always get money down and a signed contract!
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If any of these requests got to the point where there was a reason for students to negotiate contracts your professional advice would be well received. It's well received anyway even in light of these "free work we're doing you a favor" emails.
Here's another one that came in yesterday. At least they're offering $150 to $200 for 4 minutes of Flash animation.
This is paraphrased...
I am a Producer looking to find a talented, local animation student for a fun project. We need someone who has a gift for Flash animation. This will be a 4min (at the most) short geared towards [several major animation networks and outlets named], and the like. I am looking to work with someone who is passionate, talented, and thinks outside the box. My production team and I are prepared to offer between $150 & $200. It is imperative that this person is communicative, and efficient as well as talented.
But of course! It's imperative that this person is all of the above for a $200 at the most job for 4 minutes of animation.
I'm debating whether it's worth my while to answer any of these emails anymore. When I do it's mostly to educate these people about our business. What do you do Mr. or Ms. Producer? Would you work for a month or two for $150 to $200 or even for free? While using your own equipment? And give away the rights to your work on top of that?
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Create a form letter from your intitial response about students laughing etc and just use that to respond to all these people.
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Living in the Northwest, we're far enough removed from the majority of the populace to sit back and notice the differences in our lifestyle. And from our little corner of the world, I often wonder what makes Seattle such a great place to live and work.
The answer may seem obvious to any Seattleite: It's the ubiquitous coffee shop.
That said, I don't think it's actually the coffee, as much as the shop.
Having spent the last 20 years starting startups in and around downtown, two key small differences make this city's business culture great.
First, we have a compact, walkable downtown with affordable commercial rents. That allows our startups to set up shop in the core of the city; not out in the ring-road interstates (others can explain to me why their startups are over on the Eastside, in the midst of the sprawl).
Second, we have coffee shops on nearly every corner (and not uncommonly, two).
When combined, these two facts mean that there exists a place to have a meeting without the formality of one person visiting the other's office. It means that often it's possible to literally and physically meet someone halfway, in a more casual setting than an office.
Add WiFi, notebooks, smartphones, and iPads, and the coffee shops fill up with people squeezing in some work in-between meetings as well. Truly, this is the "Third Place" vision popularized by Starbucks twenty years ago.
These thoughts came to me last week, having bumped into three people I knew at Cherry Street Coffee, and another at the Tully's on Harbor Steps, and then three more at Uptown Coffee in South Lake Union a few days later. All of these chance encounters made me wonder whether this coffee shop culture is indeed unique to Seattle.
As I hate to leave a measurable question unanswered, I sought some numbers.
According to an NPD Group study, Seattle/Tacoma ranked as the #1 coffee city with 1,640 coffee shops. That's about 35 stores per 100,000 residents.
This is 261 more shops than San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose combined; a metropolitan area with a million more people than Seattle/Bellevue/Tacoma.
This is also nearly twice the number of shops in Portland and 8.2 times more than Austin, Texas. In terms of density, it's four times higher than New York City.
So, both anecdotally and quantitatively, Seattle has a penchant for coffee and coffee shops.
And beyond the double-tall, half-caff mocha vanilla lattes, grande caramel macchiatos and venti multi-syllabic orders no whip, it's the shops that brew this city's special blend.
Michael "Luni" Libes is a serial entrepreneur who founded Seattle's Ground Truth, Medio Systems, Nimble and 2Way. You can follow him on Twitter @lunarmobiscuit.


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Outside Money Making The Race A Rich Man's Game
Originally published on Thu May 31, 2012 7:59 am
Hotshot political consultant Matt Mackowiak is a rising star in the very lucrative world of political consulting. His firm, the Potomac Strategy Group, helps Republicans win elections, but he's not working with Gov. Mitt Romney's campaign this election year.
People who are part of Mackowiak's tribe — the strategists, the opposition researchers, the pollsters — are discovering that they can have a much bigger impact working for outside groups that can raise unlimited amounts of money, unencumbered by the rules that restrict what a presidential campaign can do.
These political money men are already changing the way elections are won and lost.
"That's one of the interesting things about this," Mackowiak says. "These outside groups are playing an outsized role on the campaign right now. Campaigns and candidates themselves have less control over the narrative, less control over the media, less control over the story — and you now have this finance system that's unlike any we've ever seen."
The Supreme Court's 2010 decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission allows outside groups to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to advocate for a particular issue or even candidate.
Now strategists and donors are going where the money's going, and growing evidence suggests that this election year — not just on the presidential level, but also for congressional races — will be dominated by superPACs.
Right now, more than 80 percent of the money raised by superPACs has gone to pro-GOP groups. And, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, 80 percent of all the money raised by these groups has come from just 100 individuals — the wealthiest people in America. People like Texas billionaire Harold Simmons.
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Simmons is believed to be the single largest donor to Karl Rove's superPAC, Crossroads GPS. He's probably best known for being one of several large donors to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group that dogged Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential bid.
Several donors from that group and other Karl Rove projects are back this election year, too, says Charles Homans, who wrote a piece about Simmons for The New Republic. "If you look at the top of the list, it's got most of the Swift Boat Veteran donors on it. And Harold Simmons is one of them."
Simmons is also a philanthropist, giving money to a performing arts center in Dallas and area hospitals, as well as Republican candidates. Homans tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz that it's hard to say what motivates the billionaire; he doesn't give many interviews.
"If you look at his record you can make a pretty strong case that he's not a terribly ideological guy. He has sort of business-minded, kind of old-school conservative sensibilities, but in some respects, he's fairly socially liberal," Homans says.
As a businessman, however, he's constantly rubbing up against government regulations.
"He learned fairly early on that it was important to have a say in the political process if his businesses were going to run the way he wanted to run them," Homans says.
Homans estimates Simmons has donated around $18 million to $19 million to Crossroads GPS. "It's sort of dicey to put a dollar figure on a lot of these big donors right now, because a huge amount of the money that's flowing into this race is going into these organizations that don't actually need to account for where the money's coming from," he says.
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Simmons wouldn't comment for this story, but we found another billionaire who would. Julian Robertson is No. 16 on the list of the top individual donors in the U.S. this election year, giving $1.25 million to Restore Our Future, a pro-Romney superPAC.
"I'm a little bit in the time of life when one thinks about giving away money," he says, "and I can't think of a more worthy cause than to try to get this country into the hands of the best possible man that can run it. I think Barack Obama is a smart man that the electorate put into power without any qualifications to run the biggest business in the world, which is the United States of America."
He's not allowed to give as much as he'd like to Romney's campaign itself, so he gives to outside groups instead. "This way, I can give more money," he says. The volume of private money being poured into the election does bother him some, though.
"I think part of it bothers us all," he says. "Look, all I see is that here is a chance for me to affect a leadership change that is sorely needed in America, and I'm just taking advantage of that particular thing."
The Most Expensive Election In U.S. History
Try to guess how many superPACs are operating in the U.S. today. Dave Levinthal, who covers money and politics for Politico, says there are about 450 — at the moment.
"The number is growing by the day," he tells Raz. "It's something where people have really become very aware of the fact that, No. 1, they exist, and frankly, that it's not all that hard to form one."
And how much money have Simmons, Robertson and other donors spent so far in this election cycle? More than $100 million, Levinthal says. "And if you check back with me tomorrow, that number will probably have gone up in the interim." Without question, he says, this is the most expensive federal election in U.S. history.
While both parties are pouring outside money into the race, the Republicans are outspending Democrats by about 10 to 1, Levinthal adds. "Republicans have been much quicker to the punch, to embrace the new rules and regulations that now exist in the United States," he says.
That spending has already made its influence felt. Take Iowa, Levinthal says, where pro-Romney superPACs blistered the airwaves to tear down rival Newt Gingrich. "The whole complexion of the Iowa caucuses — and then New Hampshire and South Carolina and the various other states — it changed significantly."
It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz.
Our cover story today: how unlimited money is already changing the way elections are won and lost.
MATT MACKOWIAK: Test, test, test.
RAZ: A few days ago, we called up a hotshot political consultant named Matt Mackowiak. He's a rising star in the very lucrative world of political consulting. His firm is called the Potomac Strategy Group, and he helps Republicans win elections.
OK. So you are a Republican consultant. Why aren't you working on Romney's campaign?
MACKOWIAK: I haven't been asked.
RAZ: Matt Mackowiak is laughing not because he doesn't want Romney to win. To the contrary, he really does want him to win. But people who are part of Mackowiak's tribe - the strategists, the opposition researchers, the pollsters - increasingly, they're discovering that they can have a much bigger impact working for outside groups that can raise unlimited amounts of money. I asked Mackowiak if he had a choice, either work the Romney campaign or for an outside group backing conservative values, which would he pick?
MACKOWIAK: Boy, that's, you know, an interesting question because, I think, probably before this cycle, before the Citizens United decision, which, I guess, was just before the 2010 cycle, in most cases, you'd say presidential campaign. The outside groups and the independent expenditures were seen as sort of a backwater. I think that's changed. You don't have to deal with candidates. You don't have to deal with candidates' spouses.
Generally, they're well-funded, if you have some major backers. You're able to really kind of do what you want and do it in a way where you also have control of your life. That's the other thing about presidential campaigns, is they're entirely consuming. You know, it's a 24/7 job for, you know, six, nine, 12, 15 months. I suspect these folks that are working for outside groups now are working hard, but they're not missing a lot of the things that you would miss if you worked on a presidential campaign.
RAZ: Matt Mackowiak is consulting for an outside group called Let Freedom Ring. It calls itself nonpartisan. And according to its website, it promotes constitutional government, economic freedom and traditional values.
Now, the Supreme Court's 2010 decision that allows outside groups to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to advocate for a particular issue or even a candidate has meant that strategists and donors are going where the money's going.
MACKOWIAK: That's one of the interesting things about this, is that you're having these outside groups are playing an outsized role. Campaigns and candidates themselves have less control over the narrative, less control over the media, less control over the story - and you now have this finance system that's unlike any we've ever seen.
RAZ: There's growing evidence that this election year, not just on the presidential level, but also for congressional races, this year will be dominated by superPACs.
Right now, more than 80 percent of the money raised by superPACs has gone to pro-GOP groups. And according to the Center for Responsive Politics, 80 percent of all the money raised by these groups has come from just 100 individuals, the wealthiest people in America.
In a moment, we'll talk to one of those donors. He gave $1.25 million to a superPAC supporting Mitt Romney. But first to Charles Homans, a reporter who writes for The New Republic. Recently, he profiled one of those donors - in fact, one of the biggest - a Texas billionaire named Harold Simmons. In mid-2010, Simmons was summoned to a meeting in Dallas.
CHARLES HOMANS: Yeah. There was this sort of interesting meeting between Karl Rove and a number of these very wealthy business types from the sort of Dallas business community who had been longstanding supporters of the campaigns that Rove had run over the years. And he was basically coming around. He had this new organization called American Crossroads, which was going to be this sort of independent campaign organization. And he was looking to basically build a campaign war chest, and he gave this pitch to these guys. And several of them anted in with what ultimately proved to be very large donations. And one of them was this guy named Harold Simmons.
RAZ: Who is Harold Simmons?
HOMANS: Harold Simmons is - he was pretty well-known in business circles as one of the sort of corporate raiders of the mid-'80s. And sort of in his later years, he'd become a more kind of conventional businessman where he had this constellation of companies, you know, including many of these sort of big industrial properties. So there was a lead company, you know, sugar beet concern and nuclear waste disposal was his other big business - sort of big industrial businesses basically.
RAZ: We believe he is the single largest donor to Crossroads, the superPAC run by Karl Rove.
HOMANS: Yeah.
RAZ: But this is not the first time he's made waves in national politics, right? I mean, 2004...
HOMANS: Right. I mean, he's best known for being one of several very large donors to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which, of course, was this group that came out of sort of nowhere in 2004 to challenge Senator John Kerry's record in Vietnam.
I mean, if you look at the people who donated to that campaign, they were, you know, several of these Texas guys who, you know, donated to Karl Rove campaigns in the past. And a lot of them are the very big figures in sort of the upper echelons of donors this year. If you look at the top of the list, it's got most of the Swift Boat Veteran donors are also on it. And Harold Simmons is one of them.
RAZ: And here's something interesting that I find articles that on the one hand, he's a huge contributor to these political superPACs; on the other hand, a huge philanthropist. I mean, he is one of the single biggest donors to the new sort of performing arts center in Dallas.
HOMANS: And many of the hospitals in the Dallas area.
RAZ: And hospitals.
HOMANS: He's contributed a great deal to medical research there too.
RAZ: Tell me about what it is that motivates him. Is he ideological?
HOMANS: It's hard to say because he gives very, very few interviews. And he gave an interview to The Wall Street Journal recently, which was the first, I think, he'd given to a major national newspaper in probably 10 years, something like that. And so you kind of have to go on the record of what he's done over the years. And he's been a reliable political contributor for quite some time now.
RAZ: Mostly to Republicans.
HOMANS: Yeah. And I think that, I mean, if you look at his record, you can make a pretty strong case that he's not a terribly ideological guy. He has sort of business-minded, kind of old-school conservative sensibilities, but in some respects, he's fairly socially liberal.
RAZ: Pro-choice, you write.
HOMANS: Yeah. He's described himself as saying he would probably be pro-choice if he had to pin himself down on the abortion issue. But he does have these business interests, many of which, as I said, sort of very large industrial properties, and they tend to, you know, come up against government regulation. And you can see how he learned fairly early on that it was important to have a say in the political process if his businesses were going to run the way he wanted to run them.
RAZ: You write that he is motivated in part by a commitment to free markets, open markets, free trade, less government regulation. That's really at the core of who he is, right?
HOMANS: Yeah. I mean, if you look at sort of his early business dealings, you know, there were cases where he described himself in these court documents that I was looking at, his reasoning for contributing all this money to politicians. And he talked about the fight that his companies had in Congress every year over issues like agricultural tariffs. And, you know, this was a case where he was coming down on the side of what would be called protectionism.
RAZ: He owned a sugar beet processing company, yeah.
HOMANS: Processing company, yeah. And, you know, their business was very much tied up in whether or not there would be tariffs on imported sugar. And so he was, in this case, you know, his interest in Congress was that these tariffs remain in place, which was...
RAZ: He wanted imported sugar to be taxed so he could be protected, his sugar...
HOMANS: Yeah. And his - and he said this, that his business would do quite poorly if they were to face that competition. So, yeah, he was pro-free market, except for when that got in the way of being in favor of his business interests.
RAZ: Right. How much money has he given so far...
HOMANS: I think...
RAZ: ...that we know of?
HOMANS: Yeah. That we know of, the number is sort of in the general neighborhood of 18, 19 million. You know, it's sort of dicey to really put a dollar figure on a lot of these big donors right now, because a huge amount of the money that's flowing into this race is going into these organizations that don't actually need to account for where the money's coming from. So that's sort of our best guess based on what he's told other reporters who he's spoken with and what's in the federal documentation right now.
RAZ: Talking to people who know him - and most of them talk to you on background because, as you write, they were afraid - they're essentially afraid of him - do you get the sense that Harold Simmons really believes this time, the amount of money he gives will have a proportional impact on the outcome in November?
HOMANS: You know, it's hard to say, but I think if you look back to 2004 - and one of his sort of close associates, you know, told me this - that the impact that the Swift Boat Veterans campaign had on the 2004 election was, you know, that was sort of eye-opening for him. And I think, you know, he's said in interviews that he regrets not spending more in 2008 and that he thinks he could have stopped the election of Obama in 2008.
And so I think that he's probably not inclined to make that mistake again. And based on what he's given so far, it seems like he's prepared to put a great deal of money into this race.
RAZ: Charles Homans wrote about Harold Simmons in a recent issue of The New Republic.
RAZ: Now, we wanted to speak with Simmons, but he wasn't available. So we went down the list of the top 100 individual donors to outside political groups until we reached...
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Mr. Robertson's office.
RAZ: ...another billionaire. Hello. This is Guy Raz from NPR. Is Mr. Robertson available? Julian Robertson, who runs a hedge fund in New York. Hello, Mr. Robertson.
JULIAN ROBERTSON: Yes, sir.
RAZ: Hello. This is Guy Raz from NPR...
RAZ: Julian Robertson is number 16 on the list of the top individual donors in the U.S. this election year. He's given $1.25 million to Restore Our Future, a pro-Romney superPAC. And this is why.
ROBERTSON: I'm a little bit in the time of life when one thinks about giving away money, and I can't think of a more worthy cause than to try to get this country into the hands of the best possible man that can run it. I think Barack Obama is a smart man that the electorate put into power without any qualifications to run the biggest business in the world, which is the United States of America. I think he's shown that while he's been in there.
RAZ: Why not just give money to Governor Romney's campaign directly?
ROBERTSON: Well, I can't give very much. So I'm - this is the way I can - this way I give more money.
RAZ: As you know, there's a lot of - there's been a lot of conversations, discussions about all of the private money in politics this election cycle. What's your general feeling about it? Do you think that it is potentially a good thing for the future of America, or does part of it bother you?
ROBERTSON: Oh, I think part of it bothers us all. I mean, look, all I see is that here is a chance for me to effect a leadership change that is sorely needed in America, and I'm just taking advantage of that particular thing.
RAZ: Julian Robertson, he's currently among the largest individual donors to the pro-Romney superPAC Restore Our Future.
Coming up, Dave Levinthal, who covers money and politics for Politico, on just how much money is in the superPAC game.
DAVE LEVINTHAL: It's the American way. If you are successful, you have a lot of money, why should your ability to say what you want be any more limited than anyone else, even if we're talking about politics? And herein lies the crux of an argument that has been raging for years and certainly is going to rage for many years going forward.
RAZ: That's in the next part of ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.
RAZ: It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz.
Back to our cover story now about the money spigot and outside political groups. Here's a question: How many superPACS do you think there are in the country today? Take a guess. Fifty? Seventy-five? Here's Dave Levinthal, who covers money and politics for Politico.
LEVINTHAL: There's about 450, and that number is growing by the day. We'll see two, three, sometimes five, even eight, 10 superPACS show up in a given week, even in a given day. And it's something where people have really become very aware of the fact that, number one, they exist, and frankly, that it's not all that hard to form one.
RAZ: So we just heard about Harold Simmons. He's among the biggest fish in terms of donations to superPACs and so on this year. He and his wife have given a combined total of $19 million. Do we have an idea of the amount of total money people like him have contributed so far this election season?
LEVINTHAL: We do, and it's more than $100 million. And if you check back with me tomorrow, that number will probably have gone up in the interim. There's an incredible influx of money of this kind going into superPACs this election cycle.
RAZ: And the only thing that they cannot do is directly coordinate with a campaign.
LEVINTHAL: That's what the law says. You can't get into a boardroom with the campaign that you're supporting and...
RAZ: So Restore Our Future, which supports Mitt Romney, can't get into a boardroom with Mitt Romney's team and say, hey, let's talk about what we're going to do.
LEVINTHAL: And chart out a course and put marks on the calendar - can't do that. But what they can do is they can hire people who used to work with Mitt Romney or work with Barack Obama or work with any of the congressional candidates who are out there running right now.
RAZ: And, in fact, Restore Our Future is run by people who did work on Romney's campaign.
LEVINTHAL: As is Priorities USA, the Democratic superPAC that's...
RAZ: Run by Bill Burton.
LEVINTHAL: ...run by Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney who used to work in the White House with Barack Obama. So both sides are doing this. Now, the Republicans have really been much quicker to the punch to embrace the new rules and regulations that now exist in the United States that have ushered this era in.
RAZ: How much more money is going to Republican and conservative-leaning groups than to Democrat-leaning groups?
LEVINTHAL: Oh, it's about a 10-to-1 proposition.
RAZ: Wow.
LEVINTHAL: And again, that ratio is changing, but it definitely has allowed the Republicans to have a massive footprint when it comes to the amount of outside money flowing into the presidential race and also to some key Senate and congressional races.
RAZ: OK. The Obama campaign has something like $100-plus million cash on hand and the Romney campaign has far, far less. The question is, does that matter?
I mean, if Restore Our Future, the Romney PAC or Crossroads, which is the Karl Rove PAC that supports - is going to support Romney, if those superPACs have a combined amount of, let's say, 50, $100 million, does it really matter how much money Obama has or Romney has in their own campaigns?
LEVINTHAL: Well, you talk to a lot of Republicans and they say, hey, this is great because we are running against a candidate in Barack Obama who is the most successful fund-raising candidate in the history of the United States, having spent more in the 2008 presidential election than any other candidate, any other presidential candidate or otherwise.
So in a way, they see this as an opportunity for people to really play a much more significant and greater role in American politics in a way that goes above and beyond what the candidates themselves are doing with their individual operations.
RAZ: Every election year, more money is spent by the primary candidates. This year, with many of the restrictions lifted, when you factor in what the candidates are spending and the outside groups are spending, I mean, how much money could this all total up to?
LEVINTHAL: Without question, this is going to be the most expensive federal election cycle in U.S. history. And what is that going to mean for the average voter? Well, you're going to see many more television ads, even more so than you probably ever thought that you could. You're going to hear them on the radio. Your favorite websites are going to just be plastered with digital advertisements.
So if your eyes can see it, candidates are probably going to go after that platform with as much advertising as they can possibly afford or, for that matter, superPACs can go after those platforms with as much money as they can afford.
RAZ: That's Dave Levinthal. He covers money and politics for Politico. Dave, thanks so much.
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A complex biological structure with many interacting parts might appear, at first glance, as if it were originally created in its present form with all its interlocking components fully formed and intact. It doesn't seem possible that they developed step by step via biological evolution. In Darwin's Black Box, Michael Behe introduces a term that he and other proponents of Intelligent Design use for this concept: irreducible complexity.
A common argument against biological evolution is that the theory contradicts the second law of thermodynamics. The second law says that disorder, or entropy, always increases or stays the same over time. How then can evolution produce more complex life forms over time? The answer is that the second law is only valid in closed systems with no external sources of energy. Since the Earth receives continual energy from the Sun, the second law does not apply.
Every field of science has unanswered questions and gaps in our understanding. Scientists typically view these as open research questions. Others sometimes argue that if science can't explain how something happened, then God must be the explanation. Such arguments are called "god-of-the-gaps" arguments. The risk in these arguments is that science is always developing. If gaps in scientific knowledge are the basis for belief in God, then as scientists fill in the gaps, the evidence for God disappears. The God of the Bible, however, is much more than a god of the gaps. Christians believe that God is always at work in the natural world, in the gaps as well as in the areas that science can explain.
Evolution is the biological model for the history of life on Earth. While some consider evolution to be equivalent to atheism, BioLogos sees evolution as a description of how God created all life. Evolution refers to descent with modification. Small modifications occur at the genetic level (in DNA) with each generation, and these genetic changes can affect how the creature interacts with its environment. Over time, accumulation of these genetic changes can alter the characteristics of the whole population, and a new species appears. Major changes in life forms take place by the same mechanism but over even longer periods of time. All life today can be traced back to a common ancestor some 3.85 billion years ago.
We at BioLogos believe that God used the process of evolution to create all the life on earth today. While we accept the science of evolution, we emphatically reject evolutionism. Evolutionism is the atheistic worldview that says life developed without God and without purpose. Instead, we agree with Christians who adhere to Intelligent Design and Creationism that the God of the Bible created the universe and all life. Christians disagree, however, on how God created. Young Earth Creationists believe that God created just 6,000 to 10,000 years ago and disagree with much of mainstream science. Supporters of Intelligent Design accept more of evolutionary science, but argue that some features of life are best explained by direct intervention by an intelligent agent rather than by God's regular way of working through natural processes. We at BioLogos agree with the modern scientific consensus on the age of the earth and evolutionary development of all species, seeing these as descriptions of how God created. The term BioLogos comes from the Greek words bios (life) and logos (word), referring to the opening of the Gospel of John. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made."
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A great food for getting vibrant colors from any fish. Clear differences have already been seen in my fish in less than a month. Not a great staple food however. It's best used when mixed with other foods.------------------------------75G Coldwater Setup (May 2011)
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Has anyone here built the bending brake in the welding projects section here on millerwelds? Just wondering how it turned out and if you'd build it again.
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Bending BrakeMillermatic 180w/autoset
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look on page 13 on projects titlled < a scroll bender and brake> I built one useing his pitures. I will put pics of mine on tomorrow
hi PJW
Here is a link to the bender/brake that I built. I looked at a few pics from around the site and made the best with what steel that I had. Mine is a little on the heavy side I am thinking that I want to use this bender for the sheet metal maybe up to 1/8, and build a nice press brake for making brackets and such.
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Kate makes them using her sewing machine which seems to be pretty easy. However I do not own a sewing machine and actually have never used one before. So I just hand stitched these pretty quickly.
Then with the fabric still inside out, sew around the edges of the rounded square, leaving a hole open. Since I am not great at sewing invisible stitches and the middle is going to be covered with another piece of fabric, I left the hole open in the top middle.
Next, flip the pouch inside out. Sew closed the hole.
Wrap a thin piece of fabric around the middle. You can do it tightly or loosely to get different looking bows.
Sew straight across the back of the strip of fabric. Make sure that it is very secure. Cut off any pieces of fabric that are sticking out.
At this point there are so many different uses for these bows. You can glue on alligator hair clips. You could also simply use a bobby pin to attach the bow to your hair. You could use them to decorate bags or lamps or outfits. You could also easily attach them to headbands.
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There is a bit of mold on the sticky side of my mohair climbing skins for my skis. How can I get rid of it?
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Some things I have used to keep my skins in good shape
Best way to keep the mold down...
Mold doesn't stand a chance against the granular snow and ice adbraiding the fur for hours on a long ski tour.
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"I sold the ranch about three weeks ago," Larry Wosick, Lassen County's district 3 supervisor, said in a first of two telephone interviews with the newspaper Thursday, Feb. 27 regarding a circulating rumor around town he no longer lives in Lassen County.
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He also said he still owns real estate in Lassen County, receives his mail in Lassen County and is registered to vote in Lassen County.
"I asked (Lassen County Counsel) Rhetta (Vander Ploeg) about it because I knew it would come up," Wosick said. "I knew this would be coming, and that's why (I asked) before it (the sale of the ranch in Milford) even closed escrow."
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