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Actually, I'm not impressed in the unit. Despite the touted improvements in efficiency, it's a hardly a viable solution to water shortages given that the unit's annualized operating cost (excluding maintenance) is prohibitive. Using India as the test case, here's the breakdown: From the company website. The GEN-350G ground atmospheric water generator produces 450 liters/day (120 gallons/day) at conditions of 25°C and 55% RH. The unit requires 0.310 kWh (under those conditions) to produce 1 Liter of pure potable water. Zoraptor's comments on the relative efficiency of the unit under extreme conditions are pertinent but let's just use the idealized operating conditions. The UN suggests that we need 20-50 litres of safe freshwater a day for drinking, cooking and cleaning. That's 100 to 250 litres per day for the average family in India*. I'm going to use 150 L/day as the average. That is slightly higher than Indian government standards for rural India (135 L per day as of 2011) but less than the UN average of 175 L/day. The average cost for electricity in India is ~7 cents per KwH. (That comes pretty close to matching the 2 cents per liter the article quotes i.e. 7 cents/KwH x 0.310 Kwh/L = 2.17 cents/L) So the yearly per family energy cost is 150 L/day x 365 days/yr x 0.310 KwH/L x 0.07 $/KwH = $1,188 per year The only problem is that the average per family annual income in India is $1,219. The majority of families in India simply can't afford one and that's excluding all the maintenance and upkeep not to mention the 7 year lifespan of the unit. It's probably a decent unit for emergencies and when you're less concerned about cost but as a long term solution to water shortages, not so much. If you want to carry the analysis further, you can check out these two sites: http://phys.org/news156506896.html#jCp http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/10/the-energy-water-nexus/#sthash.u5fC1OLX.dpuf Those two sites calculate the energy cost of a regional purification and filtering system at 1.39 x 10^-3 KwH/L and 1.06 x 10^-3 KwH/L respectively. Roughly 1/2 of 1% of the KwH cost of the GEN-350G. *The average family size is India may actually be closer to 4. Running the analysis on that assumption makes the Un average and Indian government estimates almost the same. Using the UN average of 140L/day reduces the annual cost by about 7% but doesn't change the conclusions.

No, it was actually much sooner. Check near the end of Tim Cain's video at around the 4:12 mark in update #7 on September 22 (at least three weeks before the Kickstarter campaign ended) . Here's the link to that page of updates: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity/posts?page=16 Tim said: "We're not going to reward you for killing things. We're going to reward you for doing the quests laid out in the game." There was even a thread about it that was started two days later. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/60641-xp-only-for-questing-some-observations/page-2

Fund raising effort for research to find a cure for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). According to the ALS Association, it has received $15.6 million in donations between July 29 and August 18 from people who took videos of themselves being doused with cold water . I think it started with golfers from the PGA tour.

Yep. Has been relieved of duty and suspended indefinitely. Thankfully one of his fellow officers forced him to lower his weapon and helped diffuse the situation.

So nobody covered the civil rights movements in the 60's? History is only 30 years old. Hey lets not stand in the way of some great over the top hyperbole. Actually it has an even shorter memory than that I am afraid or it suffers from ADD ....... https://storify.com/jcstearns/tracking-journalist-arrests-during-the-occupy-prot

Yeah. They're playing their worst stretch of baseball right now. Starting a series with the Angels on Friday. Key series for both teams. Angel's Garrett Richards went down with left patellar knee injury. Huge hit for the Angels as Richards was their staff ace this year. The injury could be anything from a dislocation of the knee cap or a tear of the patellar tendons or ligaments. Won't know more until the MRI results come in. I'm not an Angels fan but really hoping this isn't serious.

Heads up. The Witcher 3 design documents were stolen and leaked on 4chan and reddit. According to reports they include massive spoilers on the game, revealing key details about the game's story including plot details and game endings so be forewarned. Apparently the documents also include references to a sequel to TW3.

The same place as ISIS member's 72 virgins. Spoiler, those 72 are all hairy fat dudes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl8ajhu_e5Y

It's being shipped with your free lunch.

Winner of the 2014 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance: 1954 Ferrari 375 MM Scagiletti Coupe

I'll see your Lotus and raise you this: a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Berlinetta (Price Tag at auction: 38 million $)

Were the Cowboys really close to drafting Manziel? http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24666538/author-johnny-manziel-draft-card-was-snatched-out-of-jerry-jones-hand

So information leaks are only justified when you or Assange decide they are? Thanks for clearing that up.

Just started watching Blacklist season 1 - about halfway thru - finished the two part Anslo Garrick episode plus the Alchemist and the Good Samaritan. To be honest I didn't expect a lot but the show (and Spader) is tremendous.

I didn't use any mods but a lot of folks swear by the full combat rebalance mods http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/237/? http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher2/mods/635/?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HZ5V9rT96M&list=PLQ-7WiWmOuK9kZYOD9Z8MhZK-0Fv6T3c5

It's funny that you should post that link since I ran across that story when I was looking for statistics on employment. It's a good read. Here's another article from CIS:. http://cis.org/immigration-and-the-american-worker-review-academic-literature Here's one claim from the NYTimes: In fact, most economists do agree that immigrants boost GDP. According to George Borjas from CIS: But do those positives extend across all demographics groups? Schierholz (NYTimes) claims "there is a consensus that, on average, the incomes of families in this country are increased by a small, but clearly positive amount, because of immigration.” That seems to be true as well but here's the rub:: "on average" doesn't mean there is a net positive across all demographic groups and certainly not across all native born groups. In fact, the NYT article states that most economists "have concluded that undocumented workers have lowered the wages of U.S. adults without a high-school diploma — 25 million of them — by anywhere between 0.4 to 7.4 percent." George Borjas of the CIS goes further: And remember that Borjas is considering all immigrant employment here and hasn't broken out illegal immigration. He goes on to add: Lack of complimentaries implies competition. Even the basis of the NYTimes article with Mr Chan agreed on that point. It was pointed out that the benefits of Chan's job relied in no small part on its complimentary nature relative to his more specialized co-workers. I'll admit that at this point I am getting rapidly out of my depth. The one thing that is clear to me is that this isn't a cut and dried issue. So back to your question, "would you be able to replace them with American born labor effectively?" I'll be honest Hurl, I don't know. Given that a significant number of foreign born are employed in high tech and skilled jobs, the flip side of the question would be "Would you want to?". Okay I know - that's a huge dodge. I'll also admit that I'm not an impartial observer as my wife (and her parents) are all naturalized citizens. They entered the US legally and went thru the legal citizenship process. So I tend to side with the folks who expect immigrants to obey the law and enter the country legally as archaic a concept as that might be to some. (And the folks who jump student visas really frost my butt) /rant There are regional disparities in the supply and demand of the job pools as well as disparities in wages. I think that explains in part some of the regional disparities we see in the opinions expressed on this issue.

CIS is the only published study I could find that offered such a comprehensive breakdown by job skill pools. There is a Bureau of Labor Statistics study from May 2014 that offers another comparison but with much broader job skill breakdowns. A "fairly dominant group" does not translate to "jobs that native born Americans won't do" which was my point. Here is one example from the BLS study: "Within service occupations about one-third of foreign born workers were employed in building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations, about twice the proportion for native born workers." According to Table 4 the relative percentages of foreign born and native born workers in that category were 8.6 and 3 percent respectively. The relative size of the two work pools means that native born workers in those categories would outnumber foreign born by ~ 2 to 1. The total number of people (ages 16-65) in each labor pool as of Q1 2013 according to CIS were: Native born - 113,519,000 Immigrants - 22,414,000 BLS quotes different numbers as follow: Native born - 120,340,000 Foreign born - 23,582,000 Note the ratio is each case is very close: 5.065 from CIS to 5.103 from BLS One issue is educational background. While the percentage of immigrants and native born Americans with college four year degrees (or better) is fairly close, the percentage of immigrants who lack a high school diploma is nearly five times greater than native born Americans. Here's the link to the BLS study Source: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/forbrn.pdf A back of the envelope calculation would go as follows: a given unskilled job would attract employees based on their overall skill levels and the size of the force pool; so with a 5 to 1 ratio in the size of the respective force pools, and a 1 to 5 ratio in lower levels of education levels you might expect that the immigrant - native born total employment to be nearly equal in terms of numbers. (There's a smaller percentage of native born who would be qualified for that labor but a larger pool for that percentage to be drawn from) So the relative splits on the CIS data don't surprise me. That ignores regional variations and any inequalities in wages between the two groups. In fairness, the BLS data is based on a broader classification of job skills. It only lists a couple of dozen (I didn't count them so that's a rough guess) as opposed to 450+ from the CIS study. FYI, every group except for immigrants aged 50-59 and both native and immigrants aged 60-65, saw a drop in work force employment rates from 2000 to 2013. And Hispanics suffered the biggest drop of any individual group. I'm not trying to bust your chops on this Hurlie. If you have any studies that conflict with this data, please drop a link or two.

Putting aside the issue of tapping a necessary workforce and how that should be managed, there is still a problem with the increasing number of unaccompanied minors (who can't be construed as a possible work force addition). What do you propose doing about that? PS: While I agree with you in principle on the necessity of taping into a needed workforce, there needs to be a way to do that within the boundaries of US Immigration law. If the laws need to be changed, so be it.

If the claim is that there are jobs that Americans simply won't do, you would expect to find industries that are dominated by immigrants. A study published in August 2009 by Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler of the Center for Immigration Studies found the following: http://www.cis.org/illegalImmigration-employment In fact, their study found no job categories where immigrants represented more than 56% of the total work force. As for jobs typically perceived as being dominated by immigrants, the study found the following: The study found that there were six job classifications (out of 465) that employed 50% or more immigrants and four where immigrants represented a majority. They are: Construction: Plasterers and Stucco Masons 56% Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations - Graders & Sorters, Agricultural Products 54% Personal Care and Service - Misc. Personal Appearance Workers - 53% Production - Tailors, Dressmakers, & Sewers - 51% Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations - 50% Production --Sewing Machine Operators - 50% The four job categories where immigrants comprise a majority (>50%) account for less than 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Moreover, native-born Americans comprise 47 percent of workers in these occupations. Here's the complete list: http://www.cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/articles/2009/bigtable2.html So I'm sorry but I'm not buying the premise that there are jobs that native born Americans "won't do". Just for grins: Here's a list of some of the lowest paying jobs by sector according to the BLS. I included the ones on your list and added several others. food (including fast food) cooks and service: $9.08 farm laborers: $9.65 maids and housekeepers: $10.64 janitors and cleaners: $12.09 (excluding maids and housekeepers) landscaping and grounds keeping services: $12.65 Helpers, Construction Trades: $13.54 construction (general): $16.84 painters: $18.89 all data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2013 http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes452092.htm http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes372012.htm http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes372011.htm http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes373011.htm http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes473019.htm http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472061.htm http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472141.htm It's interesting to examine the regional variations on salary by states. Here's a couple of interesting articles, one by the Brooking's Institute on the changing demographics of the US labor force: http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2012/03/15-immigrant-workers-singer

Only because I'm too tech illiterate to vomit over people on the internet. Which is sad because it's a target rich environment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57GEjjTzoM

I'm underwhelmed. It's still early but if this is indeed a co-op then I'm not interested.

You might be right. Another source says that the name Molly is now used to describe a variable mix of several drugs including Methylone, MDPV, 4-MEC, 4-MMC, Pentedrone and MePP and Ecstasy is only found in small quantities if at all. From what I have read, Scandrick tested positive for MDMA that also contained amphetamines. MDMA falls under the substance-abuse policy, and a positive test doesn’t compel a suspension for a first offense. Apparently it was the positive for amphetamines which are banned that earned him the suspension.