Finish, an app brilliantly named for the person always adding to their to-do list or in procrastination mode, was built, iterated, and shipped in less than a year by young Colorado natives Ryan Orbuch and Michael Hansen.

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The relevant email was sent to Rick Piltz, a UCAR employee at the time, and copied to Michael Mann, Pennsylvania State University, James Hansen and Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Benjamin Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the late Steven Schneider, Stanford University, and several other very prominent climate scientists.

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Hansen, founder of Valiant Group, this week released a letter he wrote to Seattle Mayor Michael McGinn and King County Executive Dow Constantine thanking them for their co-operation in putting together a proposal that includes building an arena near the stadiums used by Seattle's pro football and baseball teams.

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