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|Jul 20, 1993
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|Apr 2, 1992
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|Apr 2, 1992
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|Basil B. Travis
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|Travis Basil B
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|Patent Citations (8), Non-Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (12), Classifications (12), Legal Events (3)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention generally concerns both colorimetric detection of water and alcohol in gasoline, but also includes a volumetric determination of alcohol if present in fuels commonly known as "gasohols." Additionally, the tests are also applicable to a variety of liquid hydrocarbons for detection of water and/or alcohol therein. Moreover, they are believed environmentally safe.
2. Prior Art
Alcohol is fastly becoming a familiar component of gasolines known as gasohols wherein the alcohol content is often found to be as much as 10%, and in some specialty fuels it can approach nearly 100%. Although ethanol is most often the alcohol of choice, other alcohols such as methanol or tertiary butanol are sometimes added to gasoline or even used as fuels themselves for various reasons. In this regard the propensity of alcohols to absorb water from the environment has long been known where it is theoretically possible to find as much as 10% disbursed water in alcohol which would translate into about 1% water disbursed in gasohols containing 10% alcohol. The adverse effects of excessive water in a fuel system cannot be overstated as ranging from corrosion to poor engine performance, and accordingly over the past 30 years of prior art in the field there have been various methods described for detecting water and/or alcohol in engine fuels.
For example, in U.S. Pat. No. 2,968,940 (1961), Feldman, et. al., describes a method to detect 30 parts per million disbursed water in jet aircraft fuels (the "go-no go" limit) by adding one-half gram of a mixture of sodium o-cresolsulfonphthalien and barium carbonate to 100 cc's of jet fuel, shaking it, allowing the powder to settle and noting its color. Although several common additives were found not to interfere, none of these included alcohols in the concentration normally found in gasohols.
In U.S. Pat. No. 3,505,020 (1970), Caldwell, et. al., discloses an improved mixture of methylene violet or fuchsia (3-amino-7(dimethylamino)-5-phenylphenazinium chloride) and an absorbent from the Group II metals, such as calcium carbonate, to detect 30 parts per million disbursed water in jet fuels but without reference to the presence or absence of alcohol therein.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,070,154 (1978), Mascher, et. al., discloses a colorimetric test for as little as 0.1% alcohol in jet aircraft fuels (the ice formation inhibitors) by an emulsion reagent of sodium vanadiate, 8-hydroxyquinoline, water, acetic acid and an organic solvent. Because water is part of his reagent it was not intended to detect water in the fuel.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,608,345 (1986), Feldman, et. al., describes a colorimetric test for detecting small amounts (1%) of alcohol in gasoline using a variety of alcohol soluble-hydrocarbon insoluble dyes with an absorbent from the Group II metals, such as calcium carbonate, however since the absorbent is non-selective, water must first be removed from the fuel by treating with a drying agent.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,676,931 (1987), I first proposed forming colored hydrates to detected disbursed water in fuels by adding an anhydrous powder which, when shaken with the fuel, would remove only the water so that the presence of alcohol would not interfere with the test. The preferred anhydrous powder was cupric sulfate because it formed two colored-hydrated crystals, light blue and dark blue, depending upon the amount of water present, however a few problems were found using this test under actual field conditions.
First, it was found very difficult to measure a small amount of the powder into a test vial in the field. Secondly, it was also nearly impossible to keep the anhydrous powder dry because every time its container was opened the powder absorbed water vapor from the air and became discolored prior to use. Thirdly, a relatively large fuel sample was required for enough sensitivity where disposal of the sample after the test became increasingly difficult with the advent of environmental regulations. And lastly, the formation of the blue hydrated crystals was always somewhat masked by the usual yellowish hue of various fuels. Accordingly, and in view of the above problems, it was felt that a method be developed that would specially detect water and/or alcohol in the presence or absence of the other with smaller fuel samples of about five cc's to facilitate their easy disposal with relatively safe and inexpensive chemicals. The present invention addresses that need.
Three chemical reagents, their formulations and uses are disclosed to test gasoline for water and alcohol in the presence or absence of the other, and if alcohol is present the method further provides a simple volumetric test to determine the amount of alcohol present in the fuel. Only small samples of fuel (approx. 5 cc's) need be tested to allow their easy disposal pursuant to environmental concerns, and only small amounts of relatively harmless chemicals comprising methylene blue dye, gentian violet dye, anhydrous sodium borate, mineral oil and dilute nitric acid (less than 10% in strength) are used in the method along with re-usable glass test vials, all of which post no known hazard to the environment. These easy to use and readily interpretable tests make them ideal for use in the field because the reagents are forever stable, storable and usable under extreme weather conditions, and readable by flashlight in darkness.
A colorimetric reagent is used for detecting water is a suspension of 0.1% methylene blue-2% anhydrous sodium borate in mineral oil for easy dispensing from plastic dropper bottles, while preserving anhydrous integrity of the reagent, and the test for water may be carried out in a clear glass vial preferably with screw cap so that approximately 2 cc's of fuel need only be vigorously shaken with approximate 5 drops of the reagent for production of a color easily observed in the vial and compared against a color chart if necessary, or since the test result is stable, the test vial may itself be kept as a record of the test.
A colorimetric test for alcohols (any alcohol) comprises 0.1% gentian violet dye in mineral oil suspension which when shaken with fuel causes the fuel to become purple when there is at least 1% alcohol present. The purple color is proportional to the alcohol concentration in the range 1% to 5% where the percentage of alcohol may be estimated by the intensity of the purple color. However, as is often the case, where more than 5% alcohol is found in gasohols, a volumetric measurement is required to determine its percentage.
A volumetric test for alcohol uses a water solution of approximately 9% nitric acid reagent and an especially designed calibrated test vial of approximately 7 cc's capacity with graduations from zero to 100. To perform the test about 1 cc of the nitric acid reagent is filled to the zero mark and then fuel is added to the 100 mark on the test vial. A screw cap is preferably placed on the vial, the vial shaken and the layers therein allowed to separate at which point the percentage of alcohol is indicated by the graduations.
FIG. 1 illustrates a preferred 1 dram-type test vial being filled with approximately 2 cc's of gasoline for colorimetric testing for the presence of either water or alcohol.
FIG. 2 shows the addition of about 5 drops of a mineral oil reagent suspension (previously shaken) to gasoline sample in the test vial.
FIG. 3 illustrates shaking the test vial to mix the gasoline sample with a colorimetric reagent.
FIG. 4 depicts a typical colorimetric test result as seen by a color inside the test vial.
FIG. 5 illustrates a volumetric test for determining the percentage of alcohol in a fuel using a calibrated test vial, as shown filled to its zero mark with dilute nitric acid reagent.
FIG. 6 shows the calibrated test vial filled to the 100% mark with fuel.
FIG. 7 shows shaking the calibrated test vial to extract alcohol from the fuel by the reagent.
FIG. 8 depicts the results of a volumetric test with a fuel containing 10% alcohol.
i. Anhydrous Sodium Borate
As previously discussed in the Prior Art section above, the detection of disbursed water in fuel by colorimetric methods requires in every case that the water first be separated from the fuel by some physical or chemical means, such as an absorbent or by forming some type of crystalline hydrate so as to concentrate the disbursed water onto a relatively small volume whereon a water soluble dye may react and can be observed. Anhydrous sodium borate was found to be the preferred compound of choice in the present invention for several reasons. First, it is not a Group II Metal as claimed in the prior art nor is it mentioned as an absorbent for water in fuels. Secondly, it is inexpensive, non-toxic and readily forms white hydrates upon which methylene blue dye attaches to give the hydrated crystals a vivid blue color insoluble in fuel and easily readable with the naked eye. Thirdly, anhydrous sodium borate is easily made from common "Borax" by placing Borax in a conventional kitchen oven at 150 degrees centigrade for one hour or until the powder appears to take on a slight violet hue indicating that the water has been driven off. When allowed to cool it is fairly stable from the moisture in the air if kept in a closed container, such as a Mason jar.
ii. Methylene Blue Dye
Methylene blue dye or 3,7-bis(dimethylaminol)-phenazothionium chloride is a commonly used biological stain and relatively inexpensive. It should be distinguished as a separate chemical compound altogether than Methyl Violet as claimed in the prior art, although both dyes are known to be water soluble-hydrocarbon insoluble, methylene blue preferably attaches to hydrated borate in the presence of alcohol in gasohols, and moreover, methylene blue has not been utilized in the prior art as a test for water in the presence of alcohol when in a mineral oil suspension with anhydrous sodium borate.
iii. Mineral Oil Suspension of 2% Anhydrous Sodium Borate & 0.1% Methylene Blue Dye.
Accordingly, and what is believed to be a new, novel and non-obvious improvement over all prior art colorimetric methods for detecting water in fuels is the unique combination of anhydrous sodium borate with methylene blue powder in a suspension of mineral oil. Since the purpose of mineral oil is to merely provide a hydrocarbon-soluble medium for the chemical reaction while at the same time preventing entrance of atmospheric moisture, any inexpensive mineral oil available at the local drug store should suffice. It appears important, however, that the initial mixing of mineral oil with the dry borate and dye be done in some sort of blender such as a common juice blender for several minutes so that the resulting powder particles are of somewhat uniform size and evenly distributed throughout the mineral oil before filling a reagent bottle. For example, if a pint of the test reagent is to be prepared (500 cc's) it can be conveniently done in a common juice blender by simply pouring a pint of mineral oil into the blender with one-half gram of methylene blue dye and one gram of anhydrous sodium borate, turning on the blender for about five minutes and then while in suspension, simply pouring it into dispensing bottles, such as plastic dropping bottles wherein the reagent is not only stable but can be easily dispensed into fuel after shaking it.
As it may be perhaps obvious in the prior art tests for water, sensitivity of a test largely depends on the sample size. For example, 100 cc's of fuel is often required to detect 30 parts per million water and it logically follows that the sensitivity of a colorimetric test can usually be increased with a larger sample size which is the case with the test of the present invention. But from a practical standpoint more than 30 parts per million water will often be found in gasohols so that a much smaller sample only need be tested.
FIG. 1 illustrates about 2 cc's of fuel 10 being placed into a test vial 11 by means of a plastic dropper 12. This quantity is about one-fiftieth of the amount usually used for colorimetric tests and likewise the sensitivity of the test has decreased as well. However, it was found in actual practice that where there were problems with gasohols that caused corrosion or affected engine performance, the water content approached 1000 parts per million or 0.1% which is the minimal detectable limit of the present test, but of course its sensitivity can always be increased by using a larger sample of fuel.
As an example, if one needed to detect 30 parts per million water in gasohol it would be within the scope and spirit of the present invention to use 100 cc's or perhaps even 1,000 cc's of fuel with 5 or more drops of the preferred reagent because the principle of the test would remain the same, but the disposal problem would greatly increase. Thus, it is believed another advantage of the present invention over the prior art that a smaller sample of fuel can be used to conform to environmental concerns.
FIG. 2 shows the addition of about 5 drops of water test reagent 13 to a test vial 11, however since the reagent is a suspension it must be shaken prior to use so as to disburse its borate-dye particles throughout the mineral oil. Because the reagent 13 when thoroughly mixed is approximately 2% anhydrous sodium borate plus 0.1% methylene blue dye, it can be easily calculated that 5 drops (1/4 cc) will deliver about 20 milligrams of the borate plus 1 milligram of the dye to the fuel sample 10 in the test vial 11.
FIG. 3 illustrates the preferred way to mix the fuel sample 10 with water reagent 13 in a test vial 11 by vigorously shaking for about 5 seconds. Because only a small fuel sample is used (2 cc's) it is important that said 20 milligrams of borate be given the opportunity to contact all of the disbursed water in the fuel 10 so that the water can be absorbed for the dye to react. For example, if a fuel 10 was to contain, say, 1000 parts per million water, it would follow that only 2 milligrams of water would be present in 2 cc's of fuel so it is understandable that adequate mixing of fuel is necessary for the borate to absorb the disbursed water therein.
FIG. 4 shows test results when more than 1000 parts per million water is present in fuel 10. The usual result is that blue reagent 13 particles adhere to the inside of the test vial 11 and are easily observable through the glass, which is another improvement over the cited prior art wherein, for example, the color of insoluble powder precipitate needed to be observed within the fuel 10.
Using the quantities of fuel 10 and reagent 13 of the preferred embodiment, there will be no detectable reaction, e.g., no blue reagent on the glass, where the fuel sample contains less that 1000 parts per million water, and any powder observed after the test will appear white at the bottom of the test vial 11.
As previously mentioned, this test is not affected by alcohol in the fuel, if any, because most alcohols do not form hydrates with borate thereby making the test particularly ideal for gasohols. However, it should pointed out here that the test is not limited to gasohols nor is it limited to gasolines as it can be also used to test any hydrocarbon fuel such as diesel fuel or even industrial solvents which are water insoluble such as liquid halogenated hydrocarbons.
0.1% Gentian Violet Dye in Mineral Oil
As it is perhaps well known, gentian violet dye is chemically methylrosaniline chloride and has been used as both a bacteriological and histological stain, in internal medicine to treat some fluke infections and topically as an antibacterial and antifungal agent. It is also commonly used in veterinarian medicine and has classically been utilized in law enforcement for detection of criminal activities, namely by application of fire alarm boxes to identify those persons who turn in false alarms. Because it is virtually water insoluble, gentian violet dye is nearly impossible to remove from the skin with soap and a scrub brush thereby making it useful to identify criminals. However, gentian violet dye is also very soluble in common alcohols but virtually insoluble in gasoline, including various liquid hydrocarbon fuels, thusly making it ideal for detection of alcohol in gasoline, whether water is present or not. Accordingly, the use of gentian violet dye is believed another improvement over the cited prior art because it has not been heretofore utilized by itself nor in suspension with mineral oil for alcohol detection.
Because gentian violet dye is also insoluble in mineral oil it need be placed in suspension preferably with a common juice blender, as previously described, wherein, for example, 500 cc's of mineral oil plus about one-half gram of said dye should be blended for about 5 minutes to achieve uniform particle size while also suspending the dye for dispensing the suspension into reagent bottles, such as plastic dropping bottles for use in the field.
Reference is once again made to FIGS. 1 & 2 to illustrate about 2 cc's of fuel 10 being added to a typical test vial 11 where the illustration in FIG. 2 shows the addition of about 5 drops of alcohol test reagent 14 in a manner previously discussed, however said reagent 14 must be shaken prior to the test for uniform distribution of the dye particles throughout the mineral oil so that by adding 5 drops of the suspension there will be delivered about 1 milligram of gentian violet dye into the fuel 10.
Referring again to FIG. 3, there is shown mixing of fuel 10 with alcohol reagent 14 in a test vial 11 by vigorously shaking for about 5 seconds. It has been found experimentally that 1 milligram of gentian violet dye will detect a minimum of 1% alcohol in a 2 cc fuel sample, and it naturally follows that a lesser amount of alcohol may accordingly be detected with a greater fuel sample. However, in actual practice the need for an alcohol test has only arisen where there were larger amounts, rather than smaller amounts, of alcohol in fuels, therefore the preferred detection limit of 1% has been satisfactory for field testing.
It should be remembered at this point that one of the primary goals of the present invention is to minimize both the sample size and quantity of reagents used in the test in respect for environmental concerns which has not been addressed in the prior art and believed to be an improvement thereof because not only 2 cc's (approx. 40 drops) of fuel need be tested but also only 1 milligram quantities of medically acceptable dyes require disposal.
FIG. 4 also illustrates the results of a typical test for alcohol where the alcohol reagent 14 causes the fuel 10 in a test vial 11 to become a discernable purple color if at least 1% alcohol is present. It has been found in actual practice that the intensity of the purple color is proportional to the concentration of alcohol in fuel between 1% and 5% wherein said range a color chart may be prepared and utilized to estimate the concentration of alcohol with fair accuracy, however since where said color indicates 5% or more alcohol a volumetric test should be preformed as conformation because the purple color produced by gentian violet dye is too intense to distinguish with the naked eye. Therefore, a volumetric test is further described as necessary for a complete disclosure of the present invention.
9% aqueous nitric acid
Nitrates have been known in analytical chemistry to react with alcohols, especially ceric ammonium nitrate and ethanol which produces a particular color, thus it was thought possible to utilize a nitrate solution to literally extract alcohol from gasoline and measure its increased volume as an indication of the percentage of alcohol in the fuel. Ceric ammonium nitrate (20% by weight in 6% nitric acid) was found to produce the most accurate results when shaken with fuel in the approximate ratio of 1 part nitrate solution and 10 parts fuel, and the alcohol was not only completely extracted but resulted in a dark brown colored solution in the bottom part of a graduated test vessel making reading of the graduations easy. However, ceric ammonium nitrate is expensive, and accordingly various strengths of nitric acid alone were tried with a variety of known gasohol samples where it was found that 9% nitric acid itself produced just as accurate results but for a fraction of the cost. Of course 6.3% (one-normal) nitric acid or higher strengths will also extract alcohol from gasoline with various accuracies, but 9% was found optimum for relatively small quantities of fuels (less than 10 cc's) and since 9% is roughly 1.5 normal it is relatively safe and easily prepared with distilled water by diluting commercially available nitric acid.
Normally, liquid extractions are easily done in stoppered graduated cylinders having some sort of vertical numerical scale on them which can be read with respect to the liquid level therein, and it is of course possible and perhaps even advisable to perform the volumetric test of the present invention in such a vessel if one if available. However, such cylinders are usually expensive and often far distant from a field location where a test need be done, therefore an inexpensive glass vial is described as a preferred vessel in which to perform the test.
As it was previously said about sensitivity being related to sample size, so too is accuracy. In other words, one would expect greater accuracy from a larger fuel sample simply because its volume in a graduated cylinder could be more accurately read. However, as also previously emphasized, disposal of a large test sample is difficult so some balance need be struck between accuracy and disposability. Accordingly, it was experimentally determined that approximately 6 cc's of fuel when shaken with 1 cc of 9% nitric acid would efficiently extract all of the alcohol into the dilute acid thereby resulting in a change of their respective volumes which is readable with fair accuracy. Obviously narrower vials that contains 7 cc's volume provide greater accuracy with respect to their vertical scale graduations but at the same time a vial should be wide enough to easily accommodate adding of reagent and sample in the field.
The preferred type of vial used in this test is a 2-dram No. L-915 clear glass screw cap vial manufactured by Acme Vial & Glass Co. in Paso Robles, Calif., as illustrated in FIGS. 5 through 8, however it is not sold with a graduated scale. Therefore, a graduated scale need be prepared.
To prepare the scale it briefly need be recalled that the ratio of dilute nitric acid reagent to fuel is 1 plus 6, e.g., 1 cc reagent plus 6 cc's fuel for a total of 7 cc's capacity. Of course one may use 10+60 for a total of 70 cc's in a larger vessel, and so forth, where greater accuracy is needed, but 7 cc's will provide a result within a few % error which is sufficient for field work. But regardless of the style of vial selected for the test it should be first calibrated with a graduated scale to measure the qualities of particular volumes used.
To establish the scale first add 1 cc (20 drops) of dilute nitric acid reagent to a test vial and then mark by a file scratch or with marking pen the position of the top of said reagent in said vial calling it "O". Next, put 6 times the amount (6 cc's) of fuel into the test vial and mark the position of the top of the fuel as "100". Measure with a metric ruler the distance between the marks making one-half way "50", and the respective distances between those marks "25" and "75" and so on until a vertically linear scale is established on the exterior of the vial or upon a thin vertical strip of adhesive labeling thereon where the numbers represent the percent of alcohol in the fuel after the test.
FIG. 5 shows a calibrated test vial 15 of the present invention filled to the zero mark with dilute nitric acid test reagent 16. In this illustration it is important to note that the bottom point of the meniscus 17 rests directly on the zero line because the accuracy of the test greatly depends on the accurate measurement of this small volume.
FIG. 6 illustrates the test vial 15 filled to the 100% mark with fuel 10 and once again it should be noted that the bottom of the meniscus 17 rests upon the top graduation. A cap 18 is placed on the vial 15 and it is shaken vigorously as depicted in FIG. 7 for about 5 seconds causing the dilute nitric acid reagent 16 to contact and extract alcohol, if any, from the fuel 10.
FIG. 8 shows a test result where the fuel contained 10% alcohol as indicated at the point of separation of liquids in the test vial 15 on the "10" line. Additionally, it will be also noted that the previously colorless dilute nitric acid reagent 16 has now become dark in color which is believed caused by bonding of alcohol with the nitrate ion in the lower aqueous solution thereby also making it easy to read the graduated scale.
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|Mar 25, 1986
|Atlantic Richfield Company
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|Oct 14, 1986
|Bert Keenan
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|Oct 9, 1990
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|U.S. Classification
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Feb 25, 1997
|Maintenance fee reminder mailed
|Jul 20, 1997
|Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees
|Sep 30, 1997
|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
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11 Stage Road
Monroe, New York 10950
Re: Constitutional Issues Concerning
Proposed Annexation of Portions of Town;
Proposed Ca. 510 Acre Land Annexation by
Village of Kiryas Joel from Town of Monroe
Dear Supervisor Doles and Members of the Town Board:
This Firm has been retained by United Monroe to represent its interests, concerns,
and objections to the above-referenced Proposed Annexation. While United Monroe has a
variety of concerns about the Proposed Annexation, it wishes to advise your Board that the
proposal appears fundamentally flawed from the onset. Any Town Board action in favor of the
Proposed Annexation would violate the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution.
The United States Supreme Court's Decision in Board of Education of Kiryas Joel
Village School District v. Grument, et al. ("Kiryas Joel"), 512 U.S. 687, 114 S. Ct 2481 (1994) is
highly instructive in this regard. In that case, the Supreme Court held that a New York State
legislative Act, which created a separate school district solely to serve the Village of Kiryas
Joel's "distinctive population" (the "School Act"), violated the Establishment Clause of the First
Amendment of the United States Constitution. The Court held that such action was "tantamount
to an allocation of political power on a religious criterion and neither presupposes nor requires
governmental impartiality toward religion." 114 S. Ct. at 2485.
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By way of background, the Establishment Clause "'compels the State to pursue a
course of 'neutrality' toward religion,' favoring neither one religion over others nor religious
adherents collectively over nonadherents." Id. at 2487 (citations omitted). A governmental
entity violates the "wholesome neutrality" guaranteed by the Establishment Clause when its
actions cause a "'fusion of governmental and religious functions'' by delegating 'important,
discretionary governmental powers' to religious bodies, thus impermissibly entangling
government and religion." Id. at 2487-88. Based on this premise, the Supreme Court held that
the School Act violated the Establishment Clause because it was "substantially equivalent to
defining a political subdivision and hence the qualification for its franchise by a religious test,
resulting in a purposeful and forbidden 'fusion of governmental and religious functions." Id. at
2490 (citation omitted).
The Supreme Court noted that it was irrelevant that the School Act generically
delegated power to "residents of the 'territory of the Village of Kiryas Joel'" rather than
containing an "express reference to the religious belief of the Satmar community." Id. at 2489.
"[T] he context here persuade[d the Court] that [the Act] effectively identifies these recipients of
governmental authority by reference to doctrinal adherence, even though it does not do so
expressly." Id. As the Court noted, "[i]t is undisputed that those who [initially] negotiated the
Village boundaries when applying the general village incorporation statute drew them so as to
exclude all but Satmars, and that the New York Legislature was well aware that the village
remained exclusively Satmar in 1989 when it adopted [the Act]." Id.
In his concurring opinion, Justice Kennedy noted that the Court was not
addressing the constitutionality of the Village of Kiryas Joel itself. Id. at 2504. Justice Kennedy
noted, however, that the process for incorporating a Village was largely procedural, and did not
necessitate any discretionary action by the government. Id. By contrast, here, the annexation
process specifically requires the Town to make a discretionary determination as to whether the
proposed annexation is in the over-all public interest. See N.Y. Gen'l Muni. L. § 705. A
determination by your Board that the annexation is in the public interest would effectively be a
decision to cede electoral territory to Kiryas Joel, which would result in a constitutionally
suspect delegation of political power to the Village. See Kiryas Joel, 114 S. Ct. at 2494 (holding
that School Act impermissibly delegated political power "to an electorate defined by common
religious belief and practice, in a manner that fails to foreclose religious favoritism"). Such a
determination could improperly cause "the forced separation that occurs when the government
draws political boundaries on the basis of people's faith." Kiryas Joel, 114 S. Ct. at 2505
(Kennedy, J., concurring).
In sum, a determination by your Board in favor of annexation would be
"tantamount to an allocation of political power on a religious criterion, and impermissibly result
in the "'fusion of governmental and religious functions'' by delegating 'important, discretionary
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governmental powers' to a political subdivision whose franchise is, in effect, determined by a
religious test. See id. at 2485, 2487-88, 2490 & 2494.
Accordingly, before your Board proceeds to expend substantial municipal funds
considering the Proposed Annexation, United Monroe respectfully submits that it should
carefully consider the constitutionality of this course of action.
We would be pleased to amplify these principles to your Board or to answer any
questions your Board may have at a mutually convenient time.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Very truly yours,
By: ______________________
Daniel Richmond
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There's been plenty written and predicted about the future of cloud and Software-as-a-Service, and it's hard to argue with its benefits - for both organizations and users. If our cloud-based future is to come true though, we must pay closer attention to the service levels users are getting from Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications.
Obvious? Maybe not.
As many organizations make their first big move to the cloud with services like Office 365, a few common misconceptions - grounded in the general belief that once we move to the cloud, IT no longer owns direct responsibility for service levels - threaten to put them on a path to protracted outages and frustrated users.
The fact is that if your users can't access a cloud-based service, they are not going to call the service provider. They are going to call the IT help desk (maybe you) directly and the IT team will be expected to fix whatever problem exists, ASAP. Users don't care whether or not the problem is located in infrastructure owned and operated by their IT department, the ISP, or the cloud service provider. If they aren't having a good experience, IT will take the heat.
How do you avoid this? Here are six myths that can derail your use of the cloud. Falling for them can put you on a path to protracted service outages and frustrated users. In addition, I try to shed light on what's needed to fill in some of the gaps that exist when it comes to monitoring SaaS applications.
1. "I don't need to monitor. I have a guaranteed SLA from the provider."
Your SaaS service provider is likely able to run their datacenters with higher availability than most IT organizations, but they are not 100%. Service level guarantees are great, but if you aren't monitoring your SaaS service, how do you know your SLA is actually being met? In addition, service level guarantees only cover outages that the provider can control, i.e., their own networks, servers, and applications, not any of your infrastructure and not the Internet service providers that connect you. You're on your own to monitor and manage those.
2. "I don't need my own monitoring tools. I use the service provider dashboard."
As with the guarantees themselves, service health dashboards only cover the service provider's infrastructure, not the end-to-end service. These dashboards provide generic information that may or may not be relevant to your users and may not be up to date. Remember, they are built to be general status communication tools, not real-time monitoring solutions.
3. "I didn't monitor your previous hosted email service. Why monitor Office 365 now?"
Consuming apps from the cloud is not the same as consuming managed/hosted services. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Hosters are often running dedicated infrastructure for you and monitor those services on your behalf. Those services often extend to provide monitoring and management of your on-premise infrastructure as well. While there are managed service providers offering value-added services around Office 365, if you buy directly or through a reseller, you have to monitor the solution yourself.
4. "My existing tools monitor my cloud apps as well as my on-premise apps."
Not really. Most traditional systems management solutions (e.g., CA, BMC, Tivoli, System Center) are designed to monitor systems where they have direct access to the applications, servers, log files, and SNMP messages. They are not built to monitor services where the majority of the service infrastructure lies outside the IT periphery. Network management tools tend to focus on low-level protocol and network device monitoring and diagnostics, and are not built to monitor user experience. Both of these tools can be difficult and costly to use.
On the other end of the spectrum, web monitoring solutions often either run generic protocol tests or run from the providers' locations rather than within your own network.
None of these solutions can provide active, end-to-end monitoring of service performance and user experience from behind your firewall to the service provider and back.
5. "I don't need to monitor. My users tell you when they are having problems."
This may be okay for some less critical applications, but for most organizations these days, communication and collaboration apps, like email, are mission critical. If the service is down, so is your company. What happens when the users report a problem? Where do you start to look? Do you immediately get on hold with the Office 365 support line? It's probably not even a Microsoft problem.
Speed to resolution is key. You want to be notified before users are impacted and when an issue is identified you want to isolate it and get it resolved as quickly as possible.
6. "Moving to the cloud means monitoring is someone else's problem, right?"
The cloud provides many CapEx and OpEx benefits for IT, e.g., fewer servers and apps to directly manage and house. It also provides built-in world-class features, service, and security, regardless of budget and staffing. However, local IT is still on the hook for the quality of service realized by users. When a user has an issue they will call you, not Microsoft.
Moving to the cloud, doesn't mean monitoring goes away, but it does fundamentally change the requirements. You need to monitor these solutions, but you need to look at different approaches, ones that are designed to meet the needs of the cloud. You have to be able to monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure you cannot touch - the end-to-end service delivery chain from your premises, through the various Internet service providers, to the application provider and back. To do this you need to take a global view of the cloud service, tracking performance measurements from multiple access points. By comparing these measurements, you have the ability to quickly detect, isolate, and resolve issues affecting cloud application performance before they negatively impact your users and your organization. The more monitoring points you have the better your ability to do this. It's difficult for smaller organizations to accomplish this level of visibility on their own, but as adoption of cloud applications grows, you'll begin to see new solutions that pool resources across multiple customers, and provide this level of visibility to any SaaS consumer.
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Always unschooled (except for K) dd, age 16 has just been accepted into Bard College at Simon's Rock on a merit scholarship!!
She is the 7th unschooled child we know personally who has made it to college/university. (And we know zero who wanted to go but couldn't.) Not bad. :)
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So, um, can I add my own brag? 'Cause I was kinda coming to post about Rain's acceptance to American University - she's also unschooled except for kindergarten, except for her junior year in Russia. She got a Dean's Scholarship. She also applied to 6 other places that we haven't heard from yet, so I don't know yet that she's going to American... but it was a good fit for her interests and it's nice to have an acceptance, at a cost we can afford.
More anecdata, I know... but now you can up your total to 8.
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Congratulations to two awesome young women (and their families)!
Congrats to Rain and SagMom's dd!
I'll add another bit of anecdata ...
My eldest (newly 17) has attended school part-time the past couple of years but was unschooled from the get-go until then and still does the vast majority of her learning in an unschooled fashion. She's just been accepted into Canada's "National Youth Orchestra" program for youth 16-28, an amazing intensive fully-funded summer program that trains the majority of our professional orchestral instrumentalists in this country. And she's been told by the head of strings performance at her first-choice university that she's virtually assured a spot in the program next year when she auditions and she should focus on trying to win one of the two big entrance scholarships. Not bad for a girl from the boonies who is lucky these days to get a violin lesson a month, and only gets orchestra and chamber music experience a couple of times a year.
Mountain mama to two great kids and two great grown-ups
Congratulations to all these marvelous young women. Not only acceptance but a scholarship as well! That is indeed cause for celebration. We've a long way to go before college but it really excites me to see these stories. Best wishes to all of them in their scholastic and musical adventures!!!
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CONGRATS to Rain and Miranda's dd--such great opportunities!!
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Being addicted to my scale you can imagine my horror when I stepped on one morning and the message came up, low battery. No numbers, just that annoying message that tells me I need to go to the store. Except I kept forgetting why I was going to the store.
For the past 3 weeks I've forgotten day after day to buy a battery. For the first few days I was a mess. I know I over ate and slowly I stopped tracking. No scale to hold me accountable so who was going to know. The first morning I woke up and I wasn't hungry for breakfast was a quick wake up call. Scale or no scale I needed to hold myself accountable. I decided not to buy a battery until May and prove to myself that I can do this without seeing numbers.
By not having a scale I find that I'm holding myself even more accountable, fear of the unknown. I couldn't let fluctuating water weight make me falsely believe I was losing or gaining weight. I had to rely on measurements, exercise and how my clothes were fitting. Each day I see the scale I do miss watching the numbers drop but I'm pushing myself outside my comfort zone and that will empower me in the long run.
Will I step on the scale tomorrow. Probably, as long as I remember to buy the battery tonight but I know now that I own the responsibility of holding myself accountable. An inanimate object can't change my eating habits or how I work out. All it can do it confirm what I should already know.
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Perry Newburn, 59, is attempting to break the record for the fastest coast-to-coast run across the United States, which stands at 46 days, 8 hours and 36 minutes.
He was starting from the steps of New York's City Hall.
His 5000-kilometre journey will take him through the Gateway to the West (St Louis), across the flat terrain of the Great Plains in the American Midwest and into American Indian reservations in New Mexico, before reaching Los Angeles' City Hall.
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In that run he averaged about 75km a day.
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A prosecution witness has given vivid testimony about seeing a prominent investment banker "run down" another man in an alleged Auckland road-rage incident.
Forsyth Barr investment banker Guy Hallwright is on trial at Auckland District Court charged with causing grievous bodily harm to Song-jin Kim in September 2010 and an alternative charge of recklessly causing harm. He has pleaded not guilty.
Kim, driving a Mercedes Benz, was behind Hallwright, in a soft-top Saab convertible, when Kim tooted Hallwright to move on a green light. Evidence has been given that Hallwright swore and then gave the fingers as they moved off. Kim has denied tooting his horn.
Hallwright, who was with his 18-year-old daughter Isabel, then stopped on Mt Eden Road.
A witness in a car, Kitt McGregor-MacDonald, told the court today that he saw Kim suddenly stop in the inside lane. He described it as a screeching, panicked stop.
Kim then "stormed out of the car....I saw him marching back, obviously there was a problem."
McGregor-MacDonald said Kim looked to be an angry man.
He told the court Kim was in front of Hallwright's car, over the right headlight.
"Then I saw the other car lurch into this guy and run him down," the witness said.
"[The] guy got his legs completely crunched by another guy's car."
He said Kim was thrown backward and under the car which was moving slowly.
"(Kim) was under the car...I saw the car creeping past until the driver decided to take-off."
McGregor-MacDonald said he believed Hallwright's car was going to stop: "You would think any decent person would stop."
Hallwright's car continued moving slowly and McGregor-MacDonald was able to take down its licence plate number on his cell phone.
"I saw the car creeping past until the driver decided to take off."
There was no doubt Kim had been hurt, he said.
"He was in agony... everybody was well aware there was a major injury."
If Hallwright is found guilty of the first charge, intent to cause grievous bodily harm, he faces a maximum imprisonment of 10 years. The alternative lesser charge, causing injury with reckless disregard, carries a maximum penalty of five years in jail.
The court had earlier heard that Hallwright took his daughter to a recording studio and called 111 and told police he would return later.
Hallwright's lawyer Paul Davison QC challenged the witness as to how much he actually saw.
"I saw a man getting run down ... the car leapt at him.... I saw him hit by the car, and I saw him get dragged under the car," McGregor-MacDonald said.
His evidence about Kim's demeanour in getting out of the Mercedes varies with that of the victim himself.
Yesterday Kim told the court he had varicose veins, could only move slowly, and had stumbled in front of the Saab.
One of Kim's legs was broken as the car went over and as he was treated and was convulsing when ambulance staff accidentally broke the other leg.
The trial is into its third day of a scheduled five day sitting before Judge Raoul Neave and a jury.
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