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A solar heating wall including a water pipe circulation system having a plurality of separate tubes, each formed as a loop, connected between a water supply and a return. The separate tubes are arranged in a single vertical plane at the approximate center of the wall. The wall is formed within a frame which is packed with a material suited for use as a thermal reservoir, such as concrete. The frame provides extra support by having a series of horizontally disposed cross supports on one surface of the wall and a series of vertically disposed cross supports on the opposite surface. A pressure relief valve may be provided between the water supply to the separate tubes and the water supply to the building or structure containing the solar wall, so that the solar wall can be adapted for use with a city water system.
1. A water heatable wall for a structure comprising:
a first rectangular frame having a first upper horizontal frame member, a first lower horizontal frame member, and a plurality of parallel vertical studs extending between said first upper and first lower frame members;
a second rectangular frame having at least one vertical side frame member and a plurality of horizontal spaced apart parallel frame members extending across the width of said second rectangular frame;
said first and second rectangular frames having the same size and being attached to one another in superimposed relationship to form a wall frame having a thickness which comprises the combined thickness of said first and second frames;
at least one elongated flexible water tube positioned in at least one of the spaces between said spaced apart horizontal frame members of said second frame, said tube having an inlet end and an outlet end extending beyond the outer rectangular edges of said second rectangular frame;
concrete filling the open areas within said wall frame so as to form a concrete wall having a thickness and shape of said wall frame; and
said water tubes, said vertical studs of said first frame, and said horizontal members of said second frame being embedded within said concrete.
2. A water heatable wall according to claim 1 wherein an upper plate and a lower plate are attached to the upper and lower edges of said wall frame, said plates extending beyond one of the side edges of said wall frame, a vertical wall stud spaced from said one side edge of said wall frame and interconnecting said upper and lower plates so as to form a wall cavity adjacent said one side edge of said wall frame, said inlet and outlet ends of said water tube extending into said wall cavity.
3. A water heatable wall according to claim 2 wherein a sheet of wire mesh material is positioned between said first and second frames and is embedded within said concrete.
4. A water heatable wall according to claim 1 wherein said second rectangular frame comprises only one vertical said frame member, said horizontal frame members of said second frame each being connected at one end to said vertical said member and extending horizontally across said second rectangular frame.
5. A water heating system comprising:
a vertical wall formed at least partially from concrete;
a water tube partially embedded within said concrete wall and having an inlet end and an outlet end extending outside said concrete wall;
a water inlet pipe adapted to be connected to a source of potable water;
a solar storage unit adapted to store heat received from a solar collection system;
a heat exchanger within said solar storage unit and connected to said inlet pipe so as to permit the water from said inlet pipe to be heated by the heat within said solar storage unit;
a water heater connected to said heat exchanger so as to receive preheated water from said heat exchanger and to further heat said water to a predetermined temperature, said heater having a water outlet connection and a water return connection;
means connecting said water outlet connection to said inlet end of said water tube, and further connecting said outlet end of said water tube to said return connection of said water heater.
6. A method for constructing a water heatable wall comprising:
forming a first rectangular frame having a first horizontal upper frame member, a first horizontal bottom frame member, and a plurality of first vertical frame members in spaced apart parallel relation;
forming a second rectangular frame having at least one vertical side frame member and a plurality of horizontal frame members in spaced apart parallel relation to one another;
positioning said first frame in registered allignment over said second frame and securing the two together;
placing at least one flexible water tube within at least one of the horizontal spaces between said horizontal members of said second frame; with the opposite ends of said water tube extending outwardly beyond the outer edges of said first and second frames;
pouring concrete into the open spaces within said super-imposed registered first and second frames whereby said water tube, said first vertical frame members of said first frame, and said parallel horizontal members of said second frame will be embedded within said concrete, the opposite ends of said water tube extending outside said concrete.
Circulating water systems have been used in the past in active solar heating systems to transfer solar energy into concrete floor slabs. However, if a concrete floor slab is used to cover a basement, a great deal more support for the floor is needed than with a conventional wood floor. This, in turn, increases the expense of the structure employing a slab floor. Further, because the concrete floor serves as a thermal reservoir to facilitate thermal conduction and radiation to the surrounding air, the surface area of the floor exposed to and in contact with the surrounding air is an important factor in determining the rate of heat transfer. A heating system which provides more surface area of the thermal reservoir in contact with the air within the building to be heated than is afforded in floor heating systems, is thus desirable. Furthermore, prior solar water circulating heating systems have used a piping system separate from the potable water system of the building, thus increasing the cost of the solar system.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide an improved water circulating solar heating system for a commercial or residential structure.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a water circulating solar heating system which maximizes surface area in contact with the living space within a structure.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a water circulating solar heating system which is adapted to use potable water supplied through city water systems.
It is a further object of the present invention to utilize the walls of a residential or commercial structure as the thermal reservoir in a circulating, solar water heating system.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a frame for a concrete wall which is economical and affords good support.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a solar wall structure which can be easily constructed by personnel at the building site.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a solar wall structure which is economical in manufacture, efficient in use, and strong in construction.
A water circulating, solar heating system is shown on the drawings and utilizes a solar heating wall. The wall frame includes on one side a four member rectangular main frame with horizontally disposed, evenly spaced cross supports along one face of the main frame. On the other face of the frame are vertically disposed, evenly spaced cross supports.
A series of separate water circulation tubes formed into single loops lies in single vertical plane in the frame. Each separate tube extends from a supply pipe (which is connected to the water source of the structure) to a return pipe (which is connected to the drain of the structure's water system). The separate loops are horizontally disposed and extend substantially along the entire length of the wall. The supply and return pipes for the separate circulation tubes are located adjacent one another in a cavity formed at one end of the wall's frame.
The exterior surfaces of the cross supports lie flush with the exterior edges of the main frame. The frame, except for the cavity, is filled with concrete which serves as a thermal reservoir. Two spaced lifting lugs are set in the concrete at the top of the frame. A solar collector which receives incident sunlight is connected to a solar storage unit which stores thermal energy, and which is placed in the structure's water system between a pressure reducing valve and the inlet to the circulating tubes. The pressure reducing valve limits the water pressure supplied to the structure to 30 psi.
FIG. 1 is a shortened sectional view of the solar heating wall.
FIG. 2 is a shortened sectional view of the solar heating wall taken along line 2--2 of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a schematic of the plumbing system connected to the solar heating wall.
FIG. 4 is a partial perspective view of the wall showing portions broken away.
The numeral 10 generally refers to a solar heating wall of this invention. The basic structure of wall 10 is two rectangular frames 23, 25 which are formed of conventional 2�2 stock. Frame 23 is formed by a side member 20, a top horizontal member 24, a bottom horizontal member 28, and three interior horizontal members 32, 34, 36. There is no vertical member at the right hand side as viewed in FIG. 2 of frame 23. Immediately below frame 23 is a mesh reinforcing wire 52 which rests on top of frame 25.
Frame 25 is comprised of an upper horizontal member 26, a lower horizontal member 30, outer vertical side members 31, 33, and interior vertical members, 38, 40, 42, and 44. Thus frame 23 includes horizontal members 24, 28, 32, 34, 36 whereas in contrast frame 25 includes only vertical members 38, 40, 42, 44. Horizontal members 24, 28 34, 36 of frame 23 are secured in place by nails 35 which extend downwardly into the frame 25 below so as to secure frames 23, 25 together.
An outer rectangular wall frame 12 is formed by securing an upper plate 14 and a lower plate 16 in covering relation over the top members 24, 26 and the bottom members 28, 30 of interior frames 23, 25. Plates 14, 16 are preferably of twice the thickness of frames 23, 25. Furthermore, plates 14, 16 protrude beyond the right hand edge (as viewed in FIG. 2) of frames 23, 25. Plates 14, 16 are interconnected by a stud 18 to form a rectangular cavity 21.
Interior frames 23, 25 are filled between vertical support member 22 and vertical member 20 with a material 46 which can be packed therein and is substantially solid or will form into a substantially solid mass. Preferably this packing material 46 is concrete. Extending through frame member 14 are two lift lugs 48 and 50 which lie in a vertical plane in the approximate center of wall 10. Lugs 48 and 50 extend into and are set in packing material 46.
A series of separated water circulation tubes 54, 56, 58 and 60 are formed into individual loops. Each tube rests on top of mesh wire 52 (as viewed in FIG. 2) and extends horizontally from the cavity 21 into one of the horizontal spaces formed between horizontal members 32, 34, 36 of frame 23. The water circulation tubes are all disposed in the same vertical plane adjacent and parallel to the reinforcing wire mesh 52.
One end of each separated water circulation tube, i.e., the intake end identified as 54a, 56a, 58a and 60a, respectively, is connected to a water supply pipe 62 as shown in FIG. 2. Similarly, the return end of each water circulation tube, i.e., 54b, 56b, 58b and 60b, respectively, is connected to the same system return pipe 64 by way of drain pipe 66. Drain valve 68 on drain pipe 66 and air vents 70 and 72 atop supply pipe 62 and return pipe 64, respectively, complete the water circulation piping within main frame 12.
The tubes used are currently commercially available under the trade designation SolaRoll, and are sold by Bio-Energy Systems, Inc. of Ellenville, N.Y. Each tube includes a plurality of tubes (usually 6) which are joined together by flexible plastic. FIG. 1 illustrates how these tubes appear in section, but FIGS. 2 and 4 illustrate the tubes schematically rather than in full size.
The cross sectional view shown in FIG. 1 is a true representation of the preferred embodiment. In particular, circulating tube set 74 includes a cross-sectional view of three identical supply tubes 76 and three identical return tubes 78 placed in the preferred compacted position. Similarly, FIG. 1 shows a cross sectional, partial view of a second tube set 80 wherein two supply tubes 76 and one return tube 78 are shown. A suitable covering material 82 (FIG. 4), such as sheet rock or masonite, can be utilized to finish the exterior and interior surfaces of wall 10.
The construction of wall 10 is simple and can be done by a carpenter during the construction of a house. The entire wood frame and wire mesh are built and assembled on the floor. Next concrete is poured through the wire mesh 52 until frame 25 is completely filled to the level of wire mesh 52. Then tubes 54, 56, 58, 60 are laid in place between the horizontal members 32, 34, 36 of frame 23. The tubes 54, 56, 58, 60 are preferably pressurized prior to being covered with concrete. Concrete is then poured within interior frame 23 so as to completely cover tubes 54, 56, 58, 60. The wall may be lifted to a vertical position by means of hooks 48, 50 and sheet rock 82 sheets can then be attached to both faces of the wall.
FIG. 3 is a schematic of the plumbing located on the exterior of main frame 12 which connects to supply 62 and return 64. From left to right in FIG. 3, water from a supply such as city water (which would pass through a water meter 84) leads to gate valve 86. A pressure reducing valve 88 which reduces the water pressure (which is typically 60 psi) to 30 psi is the next item in the plumbing system. A cold water supply 90 is then conventionally connected to the various cold water taps.
Water softener 92 is placed in the system and it includes an intake valve 94 and outlet valve 96 as well as a bypass valve 98. Water softener 92 is followed by a solar storage unit 100 which receives water from inlet valve 102. Outlet valve 104 permits water to be drawn out of storage unit 100. Bypass valve 106 is positioned between valves 102, 104.
Solar storage unit 100 includes a heat exchanger coil 101 in the bottom thereof, and coil 101 is connected to a solar collector (not shown) which collects heat from the sun. Coil 101 and the solar collector are connected in a closed fluid system which uses glycol or other suitable fluid to carry the heat from the solar collector to heat exchanger 101. Exchanger 101 transfers heat to the water in storage unit 100 which is potable water coming from the city water supply. Thus, the potable water is preheated while in the storage unit.
After solar storage unit 100, another inlet valve 108 joins the plumbing to water heater 110. An aquastat 112 is connected to the water heater outlet pipe 114. Pipe 114 leads to the various hot water taps in the structure, as well as to supply 62 by way of valve 116. Pipe 118 connects to return 64 and leads to drain 120. Drain valve 122 leads from the base of the water heater to drain 120. Thus, the present system utilizes the structure's potable water supply and supplements the structure's water heating system.
The cold water line may be placed before or after the pressure reducing valve 88. Similarly, the relative positions of the other valves may be varied so long as the water heater and the solar storage tank are located after pressure reducing valve 88.
In operation, valve 116 is simply opened to allow water heated by water heater 110 and solar storage unit 100 to enter supply 62, thus filling circulation tubes 54, 56, 58 and 60. Primarily by conduction, heat will be transferred from the hot water within the circulation tube to packing material 46. By conduction and radiation, the thermal energy within packing material 46 will be transferred into the air in contact with the exterior and interior surfaces of wall 10. The relatively large volume of the packing material 46 as compared to the volume of the water circulating through the various circulating tubes, allows for the storage of much more thermal energy than can be obtained within the circulating water at any given time. The packing material 46 will radiate and conduct heat into the surrounding air at a rate depending on the thermal conductivity of the packing material 46 and the covering material 82, the movement of the surrounding air and the humidity in the surrounding air, as is well known. The number of solar walls utilized in a particular structure is, of course, discretionary with the owner, however, it is clear that a much larger surface area containing circulating water tubes can be placed in contact with the air within a given structure by utilizing several solar walls as opposed to the use of a solar, circulating water, concrete floor slab.
Placement of cross supports 32, 34, and 36 perpendicular to oppositely disposed cross supports 38, 40, 42, and 50 provide support for the packing material 46 when the wall 10 is flexed along either its height or its width. If flexed along either direction, one or the other sets of cross supports serves to assist main frame members and cross beams of main frame 12 and reinforcing mesh 52.
It is obvious that the dimensions and materials utilized in the construction of solar wall 10 can vary greatly. Copper tubing is preferred for supply pipe 62 and return pipe 64, but various materials will suffice. Similarly, the number and shape of the various circulating tubes is not crucial, but clearly it is preferable to have the largest possible surface area of circulating tubes in contact with the packing material 46 per unit volume of water circulated therethrough. Further, good thermal contact between the circulating tubes and the packing material is preferable. Other packing material and materials for the frame of wall 10 can be utilized with the only limitation being cost. If circulating tubes of sufficient strength are utilized, it is possible for the pressure reducing valve to be deleted and a city water supply can then be directly fed to the solar plumbing system. Further, the solar walls can be used in conjunction with a circulating water, concrete floor slab, but additional support for the floor will then be needed. Many other variations within the scope of the claims will be obvious to those skilled in the art.
It is clear from the above description that all of the above stated objectives are met by the present invention.
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Good catch.
Real or not. The mom's a wack job and so are her kids. If you even read the page you can conclude both the parents and the sons have no clue about paintball other than you put a tank and a hopper on the marker, shove balls in it and shoot. And really, how can you discipline your kids for playing with each other? Sure, because of their stupidity they ended hurting themselves, but I rather have that then them lighting up someone else's kids.
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 05:48 AM
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 06:10 AM
If that picture IS from one of the sons, you can CLEARLY see how those are not normal welts, as Puz already pointed out.
Damn straight they should have their markers taken away if they can't have the common sense to use them correctly. Heck, they shouldn't have used them at all with the parents being gone.
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I did the old e-bay report. I hate scammers.
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Eskimo, on Jul 10 2008, 11:39 PM, said:
and the chin hair on that 17 year old is thick. If I let mine grow for 3 months its only a little peach fuzz, well its there, just not that thick.
also. his face was really difined. especially the chin, I wouldent be suprised if this was a 20 ear old
im 16 and i can grow pretty much a beard in about 2 and 1/2 weeks......
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 07:23 AM
But, if this was real in any way, Daeorn hit the nail on the head. As was previously mentioned. If kids don't treat their markers as potentially dangerous objects, AKA, with respect and use properly, they may start with welting each other, and then move on to something even dumber, such as shooting up the neighborhood. How many of you guys have gone into the "local gov't makes moves against paintball" threads and talked about how stupid people ruin it for everybody else? Well...it is kids like this who do it.
Even if this example is a fake, take it as a pretty good thing for parents to do if their kids start being stupid. We definitely don't want them to be out there getting PB banned.
As for possible reasons they got in trouble, whatever they did, they broke the rules in a major way. If kids break rules in a major way, I hope their parents have guts enough to make the punishment fit the crime. Kids without discipline in their lives generally fare far worse than kids who have it. The facts support tough parenting, and it needs to be done.
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A fire that claimed 22 boats at Riveredge Marina Sunday night is being investigated by the state Fire Marshal's Office. (DAN SEUFERT PHOTO)
ASHLAND - While customers and store representatives milled about at the Riveredge Marina store Monday, state Fire Marshal's Office investigators stood near what's left of a dock marina building that burned to the waterline.
Fire broke out at the marina on Little Squam Lake Sunday about 10:30 p.m., according to Ashland Fire Department Capt. Timothy Joubert.
The fire started in a 5,000-square-foot marina building that housed 22 boats, according to the marina's owner, Barry Gaw. All the boats were lost, as was the building.
Gaw said there was no one in the marina at the time of the fire.
He praised firefighters for saving several boats docked within feet of the fire, and for preventing flames from spreading to most of the marina's buildings and boats.
"I guess the message from this is thankfulness; they saved so much," he said.
He said business will continue at the marina as the investigation of the fire proceeds.
State fire investigators said they had not yet found the cause of the blaze or the area of the building where the fire started.
They were conducting preliminary interviews with Gaw and the marina staff Monday, an investigator said.
Gaw said he hadn't calculated how much he had lost in the fire.
"I haven't begun to figure that out," he said.
Crews dropped a boom in the water to keep anything that spilled or fell into the water within the dock's small bay.
Across the bay, trees were charred as a result of the fire, possibly because of heat generated by igniting boat fuel, investigators said.
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I am hoping Sarah Allardyce Rhine (whose great grandparents lived in Dry Creek) will check this message board and get in touch with me as I have two letters and a few pages passed down by her cousin, Gov. Sam Jones, that will help her in her search for her Jones and Jelks ancestors, who migrated to Sugartown. Her e-mail address provided on genforum no longer exists and I had no success locating her present address. In his letters Gov. Jones cited The History of Jones County by Caroline Williams as his source for info. on William Jones I, who was a prominent founder of Jones County, Georgia. His son was William Jones, who married Caroline Jelks in Monticello, Miss. ca. 1834 and migrated to Sugartown, where he died in the fall of 1865. On USGENWEB I found William Jones(I) was buried in the Jones Family Cemetery in Jones County, Finney District, and his inscription read "William Jones died Sept. 11, 1822, at 43 years." Several of William Jones children are mentioned in the index of wills of Jones County also on USGENWEB. One of his children mentioned was Robert Jones, father of Gov. Jones. Gov. Jones traced Caroline Jelks' ancestors to William Jelks and followed the migrations of her brothers and sisters. Some of his Jelks are on the 1840 USGENWEB census records of Lawrence County, Mississippi, where William and Caroline Jelks Jones married. Gov. Jones died in 1978, but it is apparent he loved genealogy and no doubt gave wonderful clues for Sara to follow. Bonnie
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WARWICK, RI - Roger R. Crepeau 53, of Elmwood Ave., died Thursday at RI Hospital. Born in Woonsocket, he was a son of Romeo H. Crepeau of Woonsocket, and the late Jeannine (Lebrun) Crepeau. Roger worked for Jannell Truck Body, Waltco Electric, and most recently, Ted's Construction. Roger was a loyal Patriots fan, an avid reader, and enjoyed doing crossword and sudoku puzzles. He liked to go fishing and as a youngster you could find him bowling.
Besides his father he leaves a brother Robert N. Crepeau of Woonsocket, and a sister, Suzanne C. Kendzierski of Pascoag, his aunts, Pauline Glaude of Woonsocket, Lorraine (Lebrun) Brunelle of FL, who had a very special place in his heart, and numerous loving relatives and friends.
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Tiger Attack: Circus Trainer Killed In Mexico
A circus trainer has been mauled to death by a Bengal tiger during a live show in northern Mexico.
Alex Crispin Suarez, 35, was attacked as he performed his act in the town of Etchojoa, Sonora, on Saturday.
Amateur video of the attack showed the trainer circling two tigers and making the animals turn slowly while standing on low platforms.
On one pass, the tiger suddenly stops his spinning routine and reaches out and grabs the trainer around the legs.
Other circus employees immediately come to his aid, trying to drive the tiger off by hitting him with a metal stand.
But the animal refused to let go and savaged the trainer around the neck and upper body.
Panicked spectators then ran from the circus tent as the employees desperately tried to save the trainer.
Mr Suarez was taken to a nearby Red Cross Hospital, but died from massive blood loss.
The tiger has been locked inside a cage in the circus while authorities decide whether it should be destroyed.
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Matt Yglesias is just wrong here. He thinks it's a bad thing that the House Financial Services chair will be a Republican who said, "Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks." I think it's terrific, and given his propensity for making statements like this, it was a huge mistake for Boehner to let him serve in the role, and one that will likely keep helping Democrats once the 112th Congress gets sworn in. Bachus isn't one to cloak his protect-the-rich antics in platitudes about Burkean caution, he just states it baldly, in the finest tradition of corrupt politicians. What's more, if his threats to cut funding to regulators aren't just bluster, then I think it would be crazy for regulators not to force a confrontation with Bachus and even if Bachus won the battle, it would be the sort of loss that would ensure he loses the war.
A lot of liberals have fretted over Republican hypocrisy on TARP and the auto industry bailout, which were devised and initially implemented by a Republican president, and subsequently portrayed as voluntary ideological maneuvers on the part of Obama. There's the additional matter of their harnessing the public's anger at the banks while sucking up to the finance industry. It's just not fair that this should not cause an uproar, and I have personally felt that frustration too. But the fact is that a confrontation with Bachus is win-win–either he backs off and regulators get to do their thing, or he makes a mistake and cuts funding, which would infuriate Democrats and lend itself to a real populist case for the left that is so obvious I scarcely need to elaborate on it (high points: record profits, Wall Street bonuses, campaign contributions, etc.). Such a move would obliterate the populist posturing of Republicans in a single stroke, and that would redound to the Democrats' favor.
That's my theory, anyway. Let's be honest: while there are good things in the Dodd-Frank Bill, things that will give the feds the tools to deal with another Wall Street meltdown when it happens, many of the best provisions were watered down, dropped or included only in embryonic form. I've heard it described as a "B" bill on a scale from A-F, and I think that's a fair approximation of its value. But Yglesias seems to be fretting over keeping the only partly-adequate measures instead of fulfilling the bill's promise. The only way that happens is if public anger forces politicians to make it stronger. And with Republicans in the majority, Democrats will have partisan and populist reasons to push in that direction, especially with the Blue Dogs–those incipient defenders of finance–largely gone. The smartest course for the Republicans would be to keep themselves from getting too vulnerable to the very populist anger that got them in power in the first place, probably by largely accepting Dodd-Frank in exchange for dropping a few provisions they don't like. It does not appear they want to do that, and Democrats should absolutely capitalize on any mistakes that are made.
I happened to see this headline over at TPM:
Barbour Spokesman: Mississippi Gov. Is Not Racist
This is funny. Usually, politicians insist they're not racist when they're being accused of racial insensitivity of some sort or other. It's a form of the straw man fallacy. For example: Governor Jones makes a joke that accidentally offends a minority group, gets angry when people notice and bring it up, and then holds a press conference in which he says, "I am not a racist." Being racist is considered a terrible thing in our society, being called that is a terrible insult. Turning the debate in that direction usually serves to shut it down, because Governor Jones is a nice guy! No hoods in his closet.
This situation, though, is very different. It has to do with Haley Barbour saying nice things about white supremacist organizations. Angrily insisting he is not racist in the same fashion as the fictitious Governor Jones seems to me like a bad move because the quote is simply not ambiguous, and the question it presents really is, "Is Haley Barbour racist?" This differs from the hypothetical scenario I devised, where the question raised is, "Was Governor Jones's joke offensive?" If Governor Jones had said, "The joke was not offensive," the media will ask other people if they agree about this interpretation of the joke. So, Barbour's guy saying this invites, rather than shuts down, further questions into the matter. In other words, this story is merely the beginning of the Barbour racism saga, and not the end.
In spite of the horrifying implications and amateur politics of this story, I don't see this incident changing Barbour's status as a top-tier GOP presidential contender. It should. I somehow doubt he'll win the nomination, bet let's not forget the regional pull of the South. If Huckabee does not run, Barbour is the only likely Republican candidate from the South, and Mike Huckabee's better-than-expected 2008 performance can be attributed in part to him being the only viable white Southern guy in contention. The tribal currents of the region are what they have always been.
This story reminds me of this:
Ha ha: "What a bullet this country dodged in 2008. Frankly, I'm not sure he was even the best candidate on his party's ticket at this point…"
I understand if you don't have the heart to watch the video, but it's grimly fascinating. McCain sounds bad and looks bad. He's tired and worn out. I doubt he's near death, but if it were to happen tomorrow I would not be surprised on the basis of that video. He's blinking all over the place and shuddering, and he says he believes in following military leaders and names two Chiefs of Staff who are wary of ending DADT while ignoring the other three, as well as the friggin' Chairman and the Secretary of Defense, not to mention the president. He must think we're stupid. It's just funny that, in the end, McCain and Lindsey Graham are the only ones who even care about keeping DADT in place. The Senate Republican leadership doesn't even care and is probably glad it's over. Gay rights are a liability for Republicans now and the next big fight–repealing DOMA–is probably 5-10 years away at this point. Additionally, I hope this incident will help the media get over their notion that Lindsey Graham is anything special. Like Bob Corker, he often likes to talk like a Senator, but neither one has yet met an inconvenient position they couldn't just dump or an inconvenient vote they couldn't duck. There's a word for that.
Then there's the enduring question of our age: why does the media still invite McCain onto the Sunday shows? Here's one idea:
No doubt that McCain still has many lovers in the DC press who still have stars in their eyes as they recall romantic moments with St. John in the back of the bus a decade ago. And because of those starbursts one can be sure that John McCain will still be a regular on the Sunday shows. But as the new angry McCain narrative grows those starbusts will fade. And yet, McCain will still be booked on those shows. But more and more he will be booked as a freak who can easily be poked and tormented and goaded into saying something crazy and irrational out of anger. He will be the go to 'angry old man' who yells at clouds as a predictable punchline.
I think it's just habit at this point. Like Andy Rooney. Sure, it's been at least 30 years since he was funny, but habits are hard to break.
Update: Found a different video source.
I really don't know how Sully passed on this quote by C.S. Lewis about bad writing without snickering:
[Bad writing] is immediately recognizable. 'My blood ran cold' is a hieroglyph of fear. Any attempt, such as a great writer might make, to render this fear concrete in its full particularity, is doubly a chokepear to the unliterary reader. For it offers him what he doesn't want, and offers it only on the condition of his giving to the words a kind and degree of attention which he does not intend to give. It is like trying to sell him something he has no use for at a price he does not wish to pay.
This coming from a man whose close friend, J.R.R. Tolkien, thought Lewis' writing was a mishmash of ham-handed, barely disguised Christian propaganda:
Although Lewis was very proud of his first Narnia book, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, and it would spawn a massively successful series of children's books, Tolkien didn't think very highly of it. First, he thought that the Christian themes and messages were far too strong — he didn't approve of the way Lewis seemed to beat the reader over the head with such obvious symbols. […] In general, it appears that Tolkien didn't think very much about Lewis' efforts to write popular theology.
[T]he economically downscale portion of the Republican party consists almost entirely of blithering idiots. And this is no accident: if you don't make a lot of money and you vote Republican because of young bucks buying T-bone steaks and gays/retailers/schools/MSNBC desecrating the cradle of the Baby Jeebus, then you're an idiot. You're pissing your own health care, your own retirement, your own minimum wage because you're dumb enough to believe some fairy tale that Rush Limbaugh told you. It's a self-selecting group: people who don't make a lot of money and do have brains don't join the Republican party, because they'd like to have health care, Social Security, the opportunity to join a union, etc.
When even HotAir's Allahpundit is calling out slimy anti-gay Republican Senators on their votes against Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the wingnuts probably have a problem:
I support the move, but if you don't, look at it this way: As Gates has often said, if it didn't happen here it probably would have happened in the courts. Civilian control of the military is one thing, judicial control is something else, so the fact that repeal now wears a democratic halo will hopefully make it more tolerable to skeptics inside the branches. For your enjoyment (or irritation), via Think Progress, here's video of a very peevish Maverick grumbling in his floor speech today about liberal civilians from coast to coast high-fiving over this. True enough, but it ain't just liberals — support for repeal is upwards of 80 percent in some polls — and it ain't just civilians.
This probably amounts to a new rule: Whatever pisses off President McCain is probably a good thing.
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Check a mathematical property of an expression
This functionality does not run in MATLAB.
is(cond) is(ex, set)
is(cond) checks whether the condition cond holds for all possible values.
is(ex, set) checks whether the expression ex lies in the set set.
The property mechanism helps to simplify expressions involving expressions that carry "mathematical properties". The function assume allows to assume "assumptions" such as `x is a real number' or `x is an odd integer' to an identifier x, say. Arithmetical expressions involving x may inherit such properties. E.g., `1 + x^2 is positive' if `x is a real number'. The function is is the basic tool for querying mathematical properties.
is queries the assumptions of all involved identifiers and checks whether the condition cond holds for all possible values. If this is the case, then is returns TRUE. If is derives that cond is not satisfied by any possible value it returns FALSE. Otherwise, is returns UNKNOWN.
If a relation is given to is, and the operands are complex numbers or identifiers with this property, is returns FALSE, because a relations holds only with real objects. Cf. Example 4.
It may happen that is returns UNKNOWN, although the queried property holds mathematically. Cf. Example 5.
In MuPAD®, there also exists the function bool to check a relation y rel z. However, there are two main differences between bool and is:
bool produces an error if it cannot decide whether the relation holds or not; is(y rel z) returns UNKNOWN in this case.
bool does not take properties into account.
Cf. Example 3.
If bool(y rel z) returns TRUE, then so does is(y rel z). However, is is more powerful than bool, even when no properties are involved. Cf. Example 3. On the other hand, is is usually much slower than bool.
Note: Be careful when using is in a condition of an if statement or a for, while, or repeat loop: these constructs cannot handle the value UNKNOWN. Use either is(...) = TRUE or a case statement. Cf. Example 6.
If is needs to check whether a constant symbolic expression is zero, then it may employ a heuristic numerical zero test based on floating-point evaluation. Despite internal numerical stabilization, this zero test may return the wrong answer in exceptional pathological cases; in such a case, is may return a wrong result as well.
The identifier x is assumed to be an integer:
assume(x, Type::Integer): is(x, Type::Integer), is(x > 0), is(x^2 >= 0)
The identifier x is assumed to be a positive real number:
assume(x > 0): is(x > 1), is(x >= 0), is(x < 0)
is can derive certain facts even when no properties were assumed explicitly:
is(x > x + 1), is(abs(x) >= 0)
is(Re(exp(x)), Type::Real)
For relations between numbers, is yields the same answers as bool:
bool(1 > 0), is(1 > 0)
is resolves more constant symbolic expressions than bool:
is(sqrt(14) <= sqrt(2)*sqrt(7)), is(sin(10^20) > 0), is(sqrt(2) > 1.41)
bool(sqrt(14) <= sqrt(2)*sqrt(7))
Error: Cannot evaluate to Boolean. [_leequal]
bool(sin(10^20) > 0)
Error: Cannot evaluate to Boolean. [_less]
is(exp(5), Type::Real), is(PI, Type::PosInt)
In the next example a relation with complex objects is given, the returned value is FALSE:
is(0 < I), is(I + 1 > I), is(1 + 2*I <= 2 + 3*I)
The identifier in the next example is assumed to be complex, but it could be real too:
assume(x, Type::Complex): is(x > 0)
The next relation is false, either the identifier x is real, then the relation is false, or the identifiers is not real, then the comparison is illegal:
unassume(x): is(x + 1 < x)
Here are some examples where the queried property can be derived mathematically. However, the current implementation of is is not yet strong enough to derive the property:
assume(x in Z_ and y in Z_ and x^2 + y^2 = 2); is(x > 1)
Care must be taken when using is in if statements or for, repeat, while loops:
myabs := proc(x) begin if is(x >= 0) then x elif is(x < 0) then -x else procname(x) end_if end_proc:
assume(x < 0): myabs(1), myabs(-2), myabs(x)
When the call of is returns UNKNOWN, an error occurs because if expects TRUE or FALSE:
unassume(x): myabs(x)
Error: Cannot evaluate to Boolean. [if] Evaluating: myabs
The easiest way to achieve the desired functionality is a comparison of the result of is with TRUE:
myabs := proc(x) begin if is(x >= 0) = TRUE then x elif is(x < 0) = TRUE then -x else procname(x) end_if end_proc:
delete myabs:
is can handle sets returned by solve. These include intervals of type Dom::Interval and R_ = solvelib::BasicSet(Dom::Real):
assume(x >= 0 and x <= 1): is(x in Dom::Interval([0, 1])), is(x in R_)
The following solve command returns the solution as an infinite parameterized set of type Dom::ImageSet:
unassume(x): solutionset := solve(sin(x) = 0, x)
is can be used to check whether an expression is contained in this set:
is(20*PI in solutionset), is(PI/2 in solutionset)
delete solutionset:
A condition
A property representing a set of numbers (e.g., Type::PosInt) or a set returned by solve; such a set can be an element of Dom::Interval, Dom::ImageSet, piecewise, or one of C_, R_, Q_, Z_.


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