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Federal taxes usually due at death have recently grabbed the attention of the living. A number of Republican lawmakers, as well as GOP presidential hopeful George W. Bush, want to do away with the federal estate tax. Bush's plan would phase out the federal tax on large estates over an eight-year period.
Why the drive for repeal? Critics of the tax insist it's unfair. Congress did make some changes to estate tax laws when it passed the Tax Relief Act of 1997. Under the '97 law, the unified credit was raised over a number of years. In 2000, for example, the credit increased to $220,500. As a result, use of the credit now exempts the first $675,000 of an individual's estate from taxes ($1.35 million for married couples). Also, the credit increases over several years with the effective individual exemption reaching $1 million ($2 million for legally married couples) in 2006.
But although the current talk seems to revolve mainly around repeal, few analysts expect Congress to go quite that far. "Wiping out the estate tax is a very hard sell to make," says estate planner Beverly Brooks, who was president of the Society of Financial Service Professionals, and is currently a chartered life underwriter and an accredited estate planner with BrooksBittner & Associates LLP, in Dallas. Instead of a total repeal, tax experts are expecting lawmakers to make some additional adjustments to the existing unified credit.
One of the many tax experts who are predicting that efforts will be made to improve upon the already existing law is Evelyn Capassakis, a partner in charge of the trusts and estates group for PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York City. She says there is a distinct possibility that lawmakers will eventually decide to make the $1 million exempt transfer amount immediately available instead of having to wait until 2006.
Joan Szabo is a writer in Great Falls, Virginia, who has reported on tax issues for more than 13 years.
Planning Takes A Back Seat
Despite these predictions, many entrepreneurs and taxpayers are in a quandary over what estate tax-planning steps to take now. Does it make sense to go ahead with tax-lowering strategies, or to wait for Washington to enact changes?
While they say it may seem self-serving, estate planners recommend taking steps now to do some estate planning rather than waiting for Congress to act. If you're concerned about changes in the law, you'll want to employ strategies that can be undone, says Capassakis.
Terence Stanaland, a CPA and attorney with Johnson Peddrick & Stanaland PLLC, a firm specializing in estate-planning, located in Greensboro, North Carolina, is in agreement that planning shouldn't stop. He recommends making use of strategies that don't result in outlaying money (excluding the transaction costs). "It's always possible to revisit an estate plan and make the necessary alterations if the federal estate tax laws do undergo more changes," he adds.
Regrettably, taxpayers are using the prospect of legislative action as reasoning to halt their estate tax plans, says Brooks. "There's a false sense of security that estate taxes aren't going to be owed," she says. As a result, the heirs of those procrastinating may end up paying more in federal estate taxes than they would normally pay. In addition, "it's unrealistic to expect people to make quick decisions while they are still grieving," she says.
All The Right Moves
That said, who should consider strategies to lower estate taxes? Estate planners say if your investments and the value of your business are on the rise and now total more than the $675,000 exempt transfer amount or will do so in the immediate future, it's time to do some planning. So, although the unified credit is rising and Congress may push it higher, "it won't increase nearly as fast as the value of an individual's business and investments," says Brooks.
In light of anticipated legislative changes, what kind of steps should you take now? Here are some to consider:
- Reconsider the practice of leaving all your assets to your spouse. By law, the federal unlimited marital deduction allows taxpayers to transfer any amount to a spouse during their lifetime or at death free of federal gift and estate taxes. But, by leaving everything to your spouse, you've delayed the necessary planning, and you may have lost a valuable tax benefit.
Here's why: Although there is no tax due at your death, your unified credit, which exempts $675,000 of your estate from federal taxes, disappears when you die. So, when your spouse passes away, only his or her credit is available-so that only $675,000 can pass untaxed to your heirs, rather than the $1.35 million that would go untaxed if both credits were used. As a result, your children and other heirs will be hit with a sizable tax bite. Remember: holdings exceeding $675,000 are subject to federal taxes as high as 55 percent.
To avoid this problem, consider planning steps that will allow you to leave a portion of your estate to your children.
- Use a disclaimer in your planning. If you still want to leave everything to your spouse, it's possible to structure an estate plan that anticipates "the use of disclaimer," says Stanaland. Here's how it works: The husband gives everything to the wife. However, she has the right to disclaim the property passing to her. If this takes place this year, she would be able to disclaim $675,000 in assets. This amount would then go into a trust, reducing the amount of federal taxes owed. Keep in mind that disclaimers must be implemented within a set period of time after death, something you should ask your advisor about.
Stanaland calls this strategy "a wait-and-see estate plan," because it anticipates a possible change in the federal estate tax laws. In this example, he says, "If the estate tax is repealed, the wife can inherit everything the husband has left her with no taxes due. However, if the estate tax is still with us, then she can disclaim the $675,000 exemption."
- Consider establishing a living trust. With a living trust, you and your spouse can become trustees and have full use of, and access to, the assets in the trust. If you establish the trust and for some reason become incapacitated, the co-trustee can manage the assets. In addition, assets in the trust are not subject to probate, which can sometimes be costly. As you know, probate is a legal process designed to protect heirs. A living trust can be set up to continue after your death so that your spouse has access to the assets. At your spouse's death, the assets can be distributed to other heirs without passing through another taxable estate. The net effect of this strategy? You substantially reduce the federal estate tax bite.
- Look into setting up a life insurance trust. Why? Because it will allow you to place insurance in the trust and exclude the policy from your estate. You fund the trust, which pays premiums on the policy. With this strategy, the policy's proceeds pass to the intended beneficiaries free of all federal estate and income tax burdens and can be used to pay estate taxes on other assets. A life insurance trust may be funded with most types of life insurance policies, including group or individual term, survivorship or whole life.
- Check out the special deduction for family-owned businesses. If you have a family business, you'll want to see if you qualify for a special federal estate tax deduction established for family-owned firms. Up to $675,000 of the adjusted value of the business may be deductible, and the deduction, together with the annual exclusion amount, may protect up to $1.3 million of family business assets from estate taxes. The adjusted value of the family-owned business interests typically must exceed 50 percent of the descendant's adjusted gross estate.
There are a number of other requirements as well, so check with your advisor to determine whether you qualify. Stanaland says very few of his clients actually qualify for the deduction because of the various requirements that must be met.
But Wait, There's More
If you take advantage of some of these planning steps, don't assume you'll never have to do it again. Estate planners say you should periodically review your plan and consider changes in your financial situation, your business holdings and events such as birth, death, marriage or divorce.
Devising individual estate plans to trim federal taxes is no simple matter. Make sure you sit down with your lawyer and tax advisor to get the job done. It provides more than peace of mind; the relatives you leave behind will surely appreciate the effort.
Contact Sources
- BrooksBrittner & Associates LLP, 5956 Sherry Ln.,
#615, Dallas, TX 75225, (214) 363-7188
- Johnson Peddrick & Stanaland, (336) 574-9720, fax:
(336) 574-9734
- PricewaterhouseCoopers, (212) 259-2363


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The HotelTonight app matches "hotel procrastinators" who wait until the last minute to book a room with hotels that are looking to quickly fill rooms that would otherwise be vacant for the weekend. The hotels list rooms at a discount on the app as an incentive to fill the rooms quickly. Guests looking to book can use the app to find rooms according to city, style and price, and browse beautiful images to find the ideal room at a steal.
It seems as if there are a number of hotel procrastinators because HotelTonight has reached the three-million app download mark across its iOS and Android apps. To thank users, the service has announced that it has expanded to ten new cities across the U.S. and the U.K. Now, HotelTonight users can find deals in cities like Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Liverpool in the U.K., and St. Louis, Charlotte, Pittsburgh and Nashville in the U.S.
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Who Is this Other W?2008.December.8
[ETA: MSNBC is airing something about GM tonight, but I can't find the details. It may be an article in a longer program (my guess would be 1600 Pennsylvania) or a special that bumps something else. If anyone knows more, drop me a line.]
When you're thinking about who should be clearing his desk out in January, there's one other W to keep in mind: General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner (no, really, he was born with that name). This clever fellow worked his way up to the top job at GM from posts in finance and operations outside the US. He came in young, fresh out of grad school, and had only a few years of domestic experience when he became CEO in 2000 at the age of 47. Between this and previous executive positions with the company, Wagoner oversaw the peak years of the SUV craze, the rise and fall of GMAC, and a 96% fall in the company's stock value over less than three years (see a thorough bio from better days here). Despite spiking fuel prices over the last three years and the image backlash against SUVs, Wagoner continued to steer his company to depend upon the highly profitable SUVs, which could fetch as much as $10-$15,000 profit per vehicle. (In case you're curious, the industry average is about $800, but some compact cars are even sold at a loss of several hundred dollars)
Despite the golden goose that laid the Hummer, GM continues to suffer financial woes new and old, some of which predate Wagoner's taking of the helm; but not even Robert C. Stempel saw such a decline when he was CEO. But he never indicated government funds might be pursued until very recently; as recently as October, GM swore up and down it wasn't facing bankruptcy.
Now, Wagoner is insisting that if GM doesn't get an influx of cash this month, that GM will not make it to 2009. They're even asking their employees, retirees, and car-owners to help lobby on their behalf.
I can't help wondering if he isn't rushing the matter, because he knows that under Obama and the next Congress, there is likely to be much more oversight and stipulation attached to any welfare checks (that's right, I said it–Richard Wagoner is a corporate welfare queen!). Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) is already calling for Wagoner to be replaced at GM, with others calling for the rest of the board to go as well.
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I'm a fan of the saying "it's better to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow." It's so true. On public roads, driving a McLaren at 45 is an exercise in boredom. My Miata or other cars like the new Fiesta ST or Mazda2 are just little boxes of fun you can fling around all day and never break the law.
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Pretty badass car, but I can't seem to open that link you have. It gives me an error
Hi All,
Thought i would start a thread for my AE71 Build, or should i say re-work of the car.
Here is the build thread for the first rendition of this car featuring a 7AGTE 20v Turbo engine
Which has been a true joy to drive over the last few years, however
I have missed the memories and joys of a screaming N/A engine under the hood from many years ago..
And it is time to build an N/A engine for this car, lose some weight in the car in an attempt to
regain the nimble nature of a light corolla which was noticeably diminished with the heavy Hilux diff, w58 box and
and the bolt ons that are required for a turbo engine such as manifolds intercooler ect ect.
Also a nice and linear power curve would improve the overall driveability of the car particular at the tighter circuits such as Winton.
With the 7AGTE engine/gearbox sold off, as well as the hilux diff setup, I can move on building the new driveline.
The new differential: (in progress)
Mark 2 Corona F series Diff
JDI Fabrications AE71 Mount kit welded on
Tarago oil baffles (Samq)
Skyline r33 disks
Duel r33 caliper setup
Altezza Cusco 1.5 way LSD
4.56 gears
The Engine:
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Built by Cave Hill Engines
thus far:
TRD Inlet and exhaust 296 camshafts
TODA cam gears and TODA cambelt
TRD billet Inlet adaptor for throttles
HKS Super header
new OEM Oil Pump
new OEM water pump
OEM 3sge Gasket set
ARP Headstuds
ARP Main studs
Cave Hill engines full head port and polish, matching the
inlet and exhaust manifoltd in this process
And the Glenn Booth collection:
Billet Crankshaft (45mm big end)
Valve Springs
Oversize stainless valves
Titanium retainers
CP 13.5:1 forged pistons 86.5mm(sent these off for Teflon coated skirts and ceramic coated crowns)
Forged longer rods, 45mm big end
Yet to be purchased are the booth 50mm throttles and outboard TODA style injection system.
Standard altezza J160
SAMQ Shifter relecation Kit
Custom Made TILTON Twin Plate Race clutch/flywheel
Engine management by ADAPTRONIC
Modular M2000
So that is where i am at so far, Engine is being built over the next few weeks,
as you can see in the photos, a torque plate has been made prior to bore and hone.
Pretty badass car, but I can't seem to open that link you have. It gives me an error
Will you be going to dry sump at all
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That link has been fixed Normand cheers.
I dont think i will go dry sump josh, however i am looking at an accusump for a bit off safety.
Thats a torque plate Matt, its used to mimic the force of the cylinder head clamping to the block while its bored/honed,
some engine blocks actually twist or warp a little bit when the head is bolted on, so to ensure the bores are perfectly aligned even when the head
is put on later, the torque plate has it covered.
A bit of progress on the weekend,
Started working on the Corona diff
Stripped the diff down and removed all the corona brackets, still more grinding to do before
its ready to receive the corolla mounts
Pulled the Altezza housing apart and put the 4.56 gears and cusco LSD into the corona housing.
Wes at viking automotive is setting the diff up for me with a solid pinion spacer.
shouldnt be too long before i can start working out caliper brackets for it.
Very nice! The same as the rally car we seem to be forever building, but you've poured a lot more dollars into the motor.
What are you going to use it for? Still mainly road use so no cage?
..and what are you setting the suspension up as? Keeping paralell arms with the same lengths and angles?
With so much travel needed and a gravel-only use, we're looking at a Watts linkage & equal-length arms, but if you're lowered with little travel you can use a Bex linkage.
Got any pics of the rear brake set up. i'm build up a MkII corona diff too
Only just saw this, plans look sick! Beams should make very good power with the throttles and cams. Id say around 155rwkw mark?
RT142 Estate.
Vlad, yes it seems the building never ends!
this has a full cage is is primarily used for circuit. yes i use standard diff arms with different position brackets on the diff itself to adjust the roll centre to some degree.
I can image it is much more important for you with alot of travel to have equal length arms, but for me with very little travel it seems to be ok.
No pictures yet of the brake setup Stuart, however this is what i am working on at the moment, ill post when i have something to show.
Cheers Henry, should be fun!
yes i am not sure what power it will make, somewhere in that ball park i would imagine.
Very clean build! Do you do auto cross? Any track footage?


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jteJSMltjfeAMft^ Artur Rubinstein once phoned New York from Buenos Aires to have a Stein-way piano flown down. The Steinway he had brought with him was tied up in the harbor by a shipping strike. The substitute Steinway would have to be flown 6,000 miles, but no other piano would do. That was just after World War II. Today Rubinstein would find a Steinway on hand almost anywhere he had an engagement, but before that time it was customary for concert pianists of major rank to travel not only with a Steinway but also with a "piano man." William Hupfer is a piano man extraordinary employed for fifty years by Steinway & Sons, an H&S client served by our New York Office. He traveled with Sergei Rachmaninoff for thirteen years, regulating the piano's tone before each concert for variations so subtle the pianist himself claimed he couldn't detect them. Then he stationed himself in the wings during the performance. "I was always standing there ready, for all those years," he once said, "and I never had a thing to do except listen. But my client could say to himself, 'Now, if there's one thing I don't have to worry about, it's the piano.' " Today, aged 70, Mr. Hupfer does most of his regulating—or "voicing," as they say—in the basement of Steinway Hall on 57th Street in New York, surrounded by dozens of concert grands from which artists may choose for their New York appearance. They prefer to pay around $150 cartage and service charge for a Steinway, although other manufacturers will let them use their pianos free in an effort to break their loyalty to Steinway pianos. Some pianists run up annual charges of $5,000 or $6,000 for Steinway service of one sort or another. "It's fascinating to come across signatures of the Van Cliburns and Horowitzes on our confirmations," says Jim Begley, senior accountant in charge on the engagement. Karl A. Herrhammer, supervising partner, remembers that back in the Depression days many of the great pianists were being carried on the books as Steinway tided them over hard times. He had first taken the engagement in 1936 as a New York staff accountant while riding in the ring at the Squadron A Armory with his commanding officer, Major Frederick A. Vietor, whose mother was a Steinway. Steinway accounts for only four per cent of the pianos sold in this country, but its $12 million annual sales represent 12 per cent of the industry's total. In fact, however, the company doesn't consider itself in the same business with other piano manufacturers. "They are just volume people who know how to buy lumber and shave costs," says Henry Steinway, the president, whose great grandfather began his musical career as a bugler at Waterloo and made the first Steinway in the kitchen of his house in Seesen, a village in Germany's Harz mountains. The immense Steinway prestige is best understood when one realizes that almost all pianos used in concerts and recitals in this country are Stein ways. But that is not all. This American product, which has its roots in European culture, has completely captured the Bushings for piano-key actions are assembled by hand at the H&S client's factory. 4 Steinway's William Hupfer lends sharp ear to concert-grand test by pianist Gary Graffman.
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Exceptions are the customary way in Java to indicate to a calling method that an abnormal condition has occurred. This article is a companion piece to this month's Design Techniques installment, which discusses how to use exceptions appropriately in your programs and designs. Look to this companion article for a tutorial on the nuts and bolts of what exceptions are and how they work in the Java language and virtual machine.
When a method encounters an abnormal condition (an exception condition) that it can't handle itself, it may throw an exception. Throwing an exception is like throwing a beeping, flashing red ball to indicate there is a problem that can't be handled where it occurred. Somewhere, you hope, this ball will be caught and the problem will be dealt with. Exceptions are caught by handlers positioned along the thread's method invocation stack. If the calling method isn't prepared to catch the exception, it throws the exception up to its calling method, and so on. If one of the threads of your program throws an exception that isn't caught by any method along the method invocation stack, that thread will expire. When you program in Java, you must position catchers (the exception handlers) strategically, so your program will catch and handle all exceptions from which you want your program to recover.
Exception classes
In Java, exceptions are objects. When you throw an exception, you throw an object. You can't throw just any object as an exception, however -- only those objects whose classes descend from
Throwable serves as the base class for an entire family of classes, declared in
java.lang, that your program can instantiate and throw. A small part of this family is shown in Figure 1.
As you can see in Figure 1,
Throwable has two direct subclasses,
Exception and
Error. Exceptions (members of the
Exception family) are thrown to signal abnormal conditions that can often be handled by some catcher, though it's possible they may not be caught and therefore could result in a dead thread. Errors (members of the
Error family) are usually thrown for more serious problems, such as
OutOfMemoryError, that may not be so easy to handle. In general, code you write should throw only exceptions, not errors. Errors are usually thrown by the methods of the Java API, or by the Java virtual machine itself.
In addition to throwing objects whose classes are declared in
java.lang, you can throw objects of your own design. To create your own class of throwable objects, you need only declare it as a subclass of some member of the
Throwable family. In general, however, the throwable classes you define should extend class
Exception. They should be "exceptions." The reasoning behind this rule will be explained later in this article.
Whether you use an existing exception class from
java.lang or create one of your own depends upon the situation. In some cases, a class from
java.lang will do just fine. For example, if one of your methods is invoked with an invalid argument, you could throw
IllegalArgumentException, a subclass of
RuntimeException in
Other times, however, you will want to convey more information about the abnormal condition than a class from
java.lang will allow. Usually, the class of the exception object itself indicates the type of abnormal condition that was encountered. For example, if a thrown exception object has class
IllegalArgumentException, that indicates someone passed an illegal argument to a method. Sometimes you will want to indicate that a method encountered an abnormal condition that isn't represented by a class in the
Throwable family of
As an example, imagine you are writing a Java program that simulates a customer of a virtual café drinking a cup of coffee. Consider the exceptional conditions that might occur while the customer sips. The class hierarchy of exceptions shown in Figure 2 represents a few possibilities.
If the customer discovers, with dismay, that the coffee is cold, your program could throw a
TooColdException. On the other hand, if the customer discovers that the coffee is overly hot, your program could throw a
TooHotException. These conditions could be exceptions because they are (hopefully) not the normal situation in your café. (Exceptional conditions are not necessarily rare, just outside the normal flow of events.) The code for your new exception classes might look like this:
// In Source Packet in file except/ex1/TemperatureException.java class TemperatureException extends Exception { } // In Source Packet in file except/ex1/TooColdException.java class TooColdException extends TemperatureException { } // In Source Packet in file except/ex1/TooHotException.java class TooHotException extends TemperatureException { }
This family of classes, the
TemperatureException family, declares three new types of exceptions for your program to throw. Note that each exception indicates by its class the kind of abnormal condition that would cause it to be thrown:
TemperatureException indicates some kind of problem with temperature;
TooColdException indicates something was too cold; and
TooHotException indicates something was too hot. Note also that
TemperatureException extends
Exception -- not
Error, or any other class declared in
Throwing exceptions
To throw an exception, you simply use the
throw keyword with an object reference, as in:
throw new TooColdException();
The type of the reference must be
Throwable or one of its subclasses.
The following code shows how a class that represents the customer, class
VirtualPerson, might throw exceptions if the coffee didn't meet the customer's temperature preferences. Note that Java also has a
throws keyword in addition to the
throw keyword. Only
throw can be used to throw an exception. The meaning of
throws will be explained later in this article.
// In Source Packet in file except/ex1/VirtualPerson.java class VirtualPerson { private static final int tooCold = 65; private static final int tooHot = 85; public void drinkCoffee(CoffeeCup cup) throws TooColdException, TooHotException { int temperature = cup.getTemperature(); if (temperature <= tooCold) { throw new TooColdException(); } else if (temperature >= tooHot) { throw new TooHotException(); } //... } //... } // In Source Packet in file except/ex1/CoffeeCup.java class CoffeeCup { // 75 degrees Celsius: the best temperature for coffee private int temperature = 75; public void setTemperature(int val) { temperature = val; } public int getTemperature() { return temperature; } //... }
Catching exceptions
To catch an exception in Java, you write a
try block with one or more
catch clauses. Each
catch clause specifies one exception type that it is prepared to handle. The
try block places a fence around a bit of code that is under the watchful eye of the associated catchers. If the bit of code delimited by the
try block throws an exception, the associated
catch clauses will be examined by the Java virtual machine. If the virtual machine finds a
catch clause that is prepared to handle the thrown exception, the program continues execution starting with the first statement of that
catch clause.
As an example, consider a program that requires one argument on the command line, a string that can be parsed into an integer. When you have a
String and want an
int, you can invoke the
parseInt() method of the
Integer class. If the string you pass represents an integer,
parseInt() will return the value. If the string doesn't represent an integer,
parseInt() throws
NumberFormatException. Here is how you might parse an
int from a command-line argument:
// In Source Packet in file except/ex1/Example1.java class Example1 { public static void main(String[] args) { int temperature = 0; if (args.length > 0) { try { temperature = Integer.parseInt(args[0]); } catch(NumberFormatException e) { System.out.println( "Must enter integer as first argument."); return; } } else { System.out.println( "Must enter temperature as first argument."); return; } // Create a new coffee cup and set the temperature of // its coffee. CoffeeCup cup = new CoffeeCup(); cup.setTemperature(temperature); // Create and serve a virtual customer. VirtualPerson cust = new VirtualPerson(); VirtualCafe.serveCustomer(cust, cup); } }
Here, the invocation of
parseInt() sits inside a
try block. Attached to the
try block is a
catch clause that catches
catch(NumberFormatException e) { System.out.println( "Must enter integer as first argument."); return; }
The lowercase character
e is a reference to the thrown (and caught)
NumberFormatException object. This reference could have been used inside the
catch clause, although in this case it isn't. (Examples of
catch clauses that use the reference are shown later in this article.)
If the user types
Harumph as the first argument to the
Example1 program,
parseInt() will throw a
NumberFormatException exception and the
catch clause will catch it. The program will print:
Must enter integer as first argument.
Although the above example had only one
catch clause, you can have many
catch clauses associated with a single
try block. Here's an example:
// In Source Packet in file except/ex1/VirtualCafe.java class VirtualCafe { public static void serveCustomer(VirtualPerson cust, CoffeeCup cup) { try { cust.drinkCoffee(cup); System.out.println("Coffee is just right."); } catch (TooColdException e) { System.out.println("Coffee is too cold."); // Deal with an irate customer... } catch (TooHotException e) { System.out.println("Coffee is too hot."); // Deal with an irate customer... } } }
If any code inside a
try block throws an exception, its
catch clauses are examined in their order of appearance in the source file. For example, if the
try block in the above example throws an exception, the
catch clause for
TooColdException will be examined first, then the
catch clause for
TooHotException. During this examination process, the first
catch clause encountered that handles the thrown object's class gets to "catch" the exception. The ordering of
catch-clause examination matters because it is possible that multiple
catch clauses of a
try block could handle the same exception.
catch clauses indicate the type of abnormal condition they handle by the type of exception reference they declare. In the example above, the
catch clauses declare exception type
TooColdException and
TooHotException. Had a single
catch clause declared a
TemperatureException, a thrown
TooColdException or
TooHotException still would have been caught, because
TemperatureException is the superclass of both these classes. In the object-oriented way of thinking, a
TooColdException is a
TemperatureException, therefore, a
catch clause for
TemperatureException also will catch a thrown
TooColdException. An example of this is shown below:
// In Source Packet in file except/ex2/VirtualCafe.java class VirtualCafe { public static void serveCustomer(VirtualPerson cust, CoffeeCup cup) { try { cust.drinkCoffee(cup); System.out.println("Coffee is just right."); } catch (TemperatureException e) { // This catches TooColdException, TooHotException, // as well as TemperatureException. System.out.println("Coffee is too cold or too hot."); // Deal with an irate customer... } } }
catch clauses could handle the same exception because you may, for example, declare two
catch clauses, one for
TooColdException and another for
TemperatureException. In this case, however, you must place the
catch clause for
TooColdException above the one for
TemperatureException, or the source file won't compile. If a
catch clause for
TemperatureException could be declared before a
catch clause for
TooColdException, the first
catch clause would catch all
TooColdExceptions, leaving nothing for the second
catch clause to do. The second
catch clause would never be reached. The general rule is: subclass
catch clauses must precede superclass
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Nigeria remains a viable investment destination among leading global corporates despite a number of challenges that Africa's largest economy continues to grapple with. The sheer size of its constantly growing population, its expanding middle class and vast human and natural resources mean that many corporates the world over continue to cast their eyes upon the nation in search of ways to tap into its vast investment potential.
While most sectors have been directly or indirectly affected by the decline in oil revenues, other sectors have continued to thrive, though perhaps more sluggishly in the past few months.
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Another technology company making its way onto the Nigerian landscape is PayPal. The worldwide online payments system launched in Nigerian in June 2014, allowing Nigerians to make online payments for products and services globally. In research conducted by Ipsos in November 2014 on behalf of PayPal in Nigeria, PayPal was noted as the second most often used online payment system among Nigerian online shoppers (after Google Wallet/ Google Checkout which is likely mostly used to purchase apps from Google Play). It was also found that PayPal's popularity and usage was growing, to the extent that 72% of online shoppers in Nigeria who were aware of PayPal agreed it was the safest online payment method. Consumers also agreed PayPal was fast, convenient and a safe way to pay online. Although users in Nigeria are currently unable to receive payments and create merchant accounts, the company has made assurances that it is looking into this and other offerings for the Nigerian market.
Another successful story is Netflix. The global provider of streaming films and television series recently opened up its service to the Nigerian audience. Netflix has reportedly added 1.3 million customers within its first few months of operations in Nigeria. The vast array of viewing content on the Netflix platform is now available with the promise of local content to be featured in the near future. Netflix has also been subsidised on major Nigerian telecoms networks in order to make the streaming service more affordable, given the data usage requirements.
These technology companies continue to make waves in Nigeria in spite of the economic issues the country is facing. Nigeria's current problems are well documented but the country has experienced some relief, especially with the recent currency devaluation. The pegging of the Naira to the US Dollar at a rate which was not reflective of market indicators led to much uncertainty. Investors were unclear about the actual currency value for goods and services and adopted a cautious approach. Now, with the devaluation, the expectation is to see improved business activity in the Nigerian market.
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Allergic Rhinitis
by Todd A. Hoover, MD, DHt
Allergic rhinitis is an allergic reaction to airborne particles (allergens) that primarily affect the nose and eyes. There are two types of allergic rhinitis: seasonal allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and perennial allergic rhinitis, which occurs year-round. Outdoor allergens such as pollen cause hay fever and indoor allergens such as dust or animal dander cause perennial allergic rhinitis.
The symptoms of allergic rhinitis include stuffy or runny nose, sneezing, irritation of the eyes, sore throat, post-nasal drip, cough, headache, fatigue and dark circles under the eyes. At least 35.9 million people in the United States have seasonal allergic rhinitis (hay fever)1, accounting for approximately 14.1 million visits to physician offices each year.2 In 1996, the overall costs of allergic rhinitis in the United States totaled $6 billion.3
Homeopathic treatment of allergic rhinitis has been well documented in scientific research. A study by Taylor et al, published in the British Medical Journal in 2000 showed a statistically significant improvement in objectively measured nasal air flow for patients treated with homeopathy compared to placebo.4 Taylor and colleagues have completed a total of 4 studies looking at the effectiveness of homeopathy for allergic rhinitis treatment. A meta-analysis review of these and other studies by Jonas et al. for the Annals of Internal Medicine reported that these studies were high-quality, double-blind, placebo controlled trials significantly better than placebo on both subjective (reported) and objective (measurable) outcomes.5
Studies testing individual homeopathic remedies for allergic rhinitis include Wiesenauer's 8 randomized controlled trials of Galphimia for pollinosis which were reported to show significantly more effectiveness of Galphimia than placebo when reviewed in a meta-analysis by Linde in 2001.6,7 Similarly, Nobel published a placebo controlled randomized trial of Zicam in 2000 that showed a statistically significant better result for the homeopathic treatment when compared to placebo.8
The effect of homeopathic treatment has been demonstrated through repeated controlled trials. While homeopathic remedies were used in all of these trials, in some cases "isopathic" types of homeopathy (medicines made from the allergens) were used.
Allergic rhinitis involves over-responsiveness of the immune system, and is therefore not limited to a local problem with the nose, but a system issue. Homeopathic treatment of allergies is best carried out by an experienced clinician. As with any other medical condition, homeopathic medicine is not used to treat diseases but to treat patients; any successful, long term, treatment will likely require a complete medical history, evaluation and determination of the particular "constitutional" medicine, suited for the patient, and provided by a clinician specialized in homeopathic treatment.
This Article was written for placement on the American Institute of Homeopathy Website. The AIH is the oldest extant United States Medical Society. Established in 1844, the AIH is comprised of Physicians and Dentists and other allied health care providers that incorporate homeopathic medicine as a modality in their practice. Dr. Hoover is the current president of the AIH from 2009-2012. Further information is available online at the AIH website: www.homeopathyusa.org.
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- Ray, N.F., Baraniuk, J.N., Thamer, M., et al: Healthcare expenditures for sinusitis in 1996: contributions or asthma, rhinitis and other airway disorders. J. of Allergy Clin. Immunology, 103 (3 Pt 1): 408-514, 1999.
- Taylor, M. A., Reilly, D., et al: Randomised controlled trial of homoeopathy versus placebo in perennial allergic rhinitis with overview of four trial series. BMJ, 321: 471-476, 2000.
- Jonas, W.B. et al: A Critical Overview of Homeopathy, Annals of Internal Medicine, 138:5, 393-400, 2003.
- Wiesenauer M, Lüdtke R: A meta-analysis of the homeopathic treatment of pollinosis with Galphimia glauca, Forsch Komplementärmed, 3:230-236, 1996.
- Linde, K. et al, Systematic reviews of complementary therapies - an annotated bibliography. Part 3: Homeopathy, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 1:4, 2001.
- Sion Nobel: Daily Application Of The Homeopathic Remedy Zicam Allergy Relief Significantly Improves The Quality Of Life And Impairment In Patients With Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis: The Internet Journal of Family Practice. 1:1, 2000.


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TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Police in Florida said they arrested an injured man accused of stealing an ambulance while it was on a call to drive himself to the hospital.
Tampa police said medical personnel from ambulance #41, which belongs to Transcare Ambulance Co., were in a home on a call shortly before 10:30 p.m. Thursday when they heard a vehicle's engine start and looked outside to see a man drive away in the ambulance, the Tampa Bay Tribune reported Friday.
Police tracked the vehicle via its GPS system and stopped the ambulance at North Tampa Street and East 26th Avenue. The man, Hubert Lee Credit, 39, was arrested on charges of auto burglary and grand theft auto.
"I got beat up by four guys," a police report quotes Credit as saying. "I saw the ambulance and I was going to drive myself to the hospital."
Credit was treated for a puncture wound to the head at Tampa General Hospital.


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The apparatus used to convert the film to slides. It says Camtech on the film reel on the right, the name of a local Hamilton-based photography company. You can almost read the text on the film frames.
RASC Hamilton Centre—1932 Eclipse
Scanned by Colin Haig
These slides are from the August 31st, 1932 solar eclipse expedition in Acton Vale, Quebec. There was an 8mm film that somebody (no idea who) transferred key frames to 35mm slides. I am not sure when actually that transfer was done or when the slides were developed. I scanned these (2006-02-11 through 2006-04-06) using a NIKON Coolscan V ED at highest resolution.


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Friday, April 13, 2012
Derek Cardigan glasses...to giveaway
41 comments:
- Despina T. said...
this giveaway is amazing.perefct for me.well i have been wearing geeky glasses since i was 8 and of course contacts for years now.but i never had a pair that looked fashionable and i could actually wear proudly outside.i love these http://www.clearlycontacts.co.nz/glasses/frames/derek-cardigan-7015-shadow/prod27069.html?rsView=1&ga=F|M|K
they look so stylish!
- April 13, 2012 at 12:24 AM
- A Fine Balance said...
I love these glasses!
- April 13, 2012 at 6:38 AM
- Tracy said...
I really need new glasses - the clear ones are ACE.
- April 13, 2012 at 8:24 AM
- Museumman said...
As the Director of a group of museums in wellington the Derek Cardigan glasses would help me to ptrrovide the approprite air for my role. Already owning a rather nice blue cardigan all I woudl have to do is dash out and gather up a bow tie. So my promise to you is if I win I will forward you a photo of me just so sartorially suited...
- April 13, 2012 at 8:51 AM
Oh boy! I would love to win a pair of Derek Cardigan glasses as it's my birthday on 21 April, and, as my current pair of specs have become very sad and tired over the years, I couldn't dream of a better birthday present! Thank you!
- April 13, 2012 at 9:18 AM
Oh boy! I would love to win a pair of Derek Cardigan glasses as it's my birthday on 21 April, and, as my current pair of specs have become very sad and tired over the years, I couldn't dream of a better birthday present! Thank you! ...Alice(email@example.com)
- April 13, 2012 at 9:19 AM
I desperately need a fashionable pair of glasses. Would actually make me wear my glasses more so my eyesight doesn't get worse. Just can't afford a new pair. These are beautiful! email@example.com
- April 13, 2012 at 9:19 AM
Ooh, those specs look gorgeous. I'm loving the current inspiration from the 60s/70s; people just knew how to make fabulous glasses back then. Uni makes it hard to splurge on a decent pair but even if I don't win I may have to make an exception for these.
Don't mind me, I'll just be in the corner watching them madly...
- April 13, 2012 at 9:57 AM
- KingSoph said...
I've been living in denial for a few months but I think I'm finally ready to admit that I need glasses. Badly. The deterioration of my eyesight is gutting but a pair of specs from Derek Caridgan would be the push in the right direction for me to see clearly again! Even if I don't win, I think I've found the glasses for me - thanks for the post!
- April 13, 2012 at 10:46 AM
- Jo said...
Wallace, you should just get some with plano lenses in!
- April 13, 2012 at 11:27 AM
- owlinalarkworld said...
When I am an eccentric 60 year old writing a novel I shall wear glasses like this.
- April 13, 2012 at 2:15 PM
- CK said...
Spectacularly Bespectacled!
They would look super fly while I sing The Chills' song Love My Leather Jacket with new lyrics "love my Derek glasses". I can follow up with The Gordons' song Just Can't Stop starting with "Sometimes, when I look in your (newly bespectaled Derek Cardigan) eyes. Oh yeah, sing it!
- April 13, 2012 at 3:21 PM
I would love to win this because my Ray Bans got lost 2 weeks ago :( and I have no money to buy a new one. It was my 18th bday on the 11th and this will be a nice replacement! :)
- April 13, 2012 at 4:13 PM
- Wallace Chapman said...
Some really awesome responses here...keep them coming :)
- April 13, 2012 at 4:32 PM
- 99 said...
I'm dying to win! I left my current glasses at a pals house who subsequently lost them, rats. I have had a pair of Derek Cardigan 7004 in green tortoiseshell in my 'basket' on Clearly Contacts forever but for various reasons I can never seems to be able to afford them!
Fingers crossed...
- April 13, 2012 at 5:36 PM
- Caitlin said...
I love the 7004 Rootbeer and Birch, and all of the tortoiseshell ones, too, of course :)
- April 13, 2012 at 8:30 PM
Why didn't I keep those retro glasses I hated to wear when I was seven!?!? ... At least Derek Cardigan knows how to make 'em like they did in the good ol' days. What I wouldn't do for a pair of the 7012's or 7011's in ANY colour! Hook me up and aid in my childhood nostalgia! Cheers. email@example.com
- April 14, 2012 at 12:35 AM
- JT said...
Just wanna make NZ look better :-)
- April 14, 2012 at 9:36 AM
- Unknown said...
my man needs glasses would be a great plaace to start
- April 14, 2012 at 10:22 AM
- Mallory Xavier said...
Awesome giveaway! I would love to win this because my daughter very happily pulled the arms off my glasses some months back. I attempt to glue them but every now and then they fall to pieces and I am without eyes for a period of time. *crossing fingers*
- April 14, 2012 at 10:29 AM
- Jessie.W said...
I just need new ones and I love this retro style <3
- April 14, 2012 at 10:35 AM
- Jessie.W said...
I just need new ones and I love this retro style <3
- April 14, 2012 at 10:35 AM
- Rachel said...
I love, love, love Derek Cardigan specs - I'm wearing a pair right now, but really want another pair to add to my glasses stash.
My eyesight is atrocious, so I figure why not make the most out of a bad deal and rock cute specs?
That saying, "boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses" is COMPLETELY untrue in my experience!
- April 14, 2012 at 10:38 AM
- Recyclette said...
Cardigan, Cardigan, cardigan glasses. My eyes are deteriorating as time passes. My life needs a bit of style. I would love to be able to see my gals smile. So throw some tortishell on my face and I shall wear Derak's glasses with grace!
- April 14, 2012 at 10:48 AM
- Xana said...
I love Derek Cardigan's range! I've always hated wearing glasses because they're in the way and such an inconvienence. But this range is amazing and I think I'd want to wear them more often than contacts!
- April 14, 2012 at 11:04 AM
After wearing my frames for 5 years, I need to update them!!
- April 14, 2012 at 11:20 AM
Wow, I would look so professional in my job wearing these fantastic Derek Cardigan specs. No need for raised voices, one look through these and respect would be gauranteed.
- April 14, 2012 at 11:41 AM
- sarah walklin said...
Yes Please !!!!!!!
Sarah email@example.com
- April 14, 2012 at 1:28 PM
- Anami said...
Because im blind as a bat and i refuse to wear my really ugly glasses! would love to feel more confident in nice glasses :)
- April 14, 2012 at 3:35 PM
- sophiejoy said...
I've been needing to get glasses for a while now... I can barely see 5 metres in front of me which is becoming a slight issue. Specsavers were trying to convince me to buy, not one, but TWO pairs of their shitty, shitty frames for a bargain of $60. I kindly refused and I said "These are fucking hideous" and walked out. But these Derek Cardigan frames have definitely taken my fancy. And I also love cardigans which is an added bonus. Make my first pair of glasses the best pair of glasses I'll ever have. LOVE.
- April 14, 2012 at 11:47 PM
- Anna said...
oooh could this make the leaves in the trees crisp and clear again?
- April 14, 2012 at 11:49 PM
- Anna said...
oooh could this make the leaves in the trees crisp and clear again?
- April 14, 2012 at 11:49 PM
- mytoasterisbroken said...
GLASSES? Hello. Yes please.
Excellent excellent excellent specs on toast.
- April 15, 2012 at 4:47 PM
- Richylicious said...
As a performing violinist and youth advisor to the Ministries of Health, I'm constantly meeting new people all over the country and my glasses are a big part of my image. I've always wanted to try 7013 tortiseshell specs to add a splash of vintage colour to my look. Do you think they'd suit me?
- April 16, 2012 at 11:14 AM
I've worn specs since the early 80s when they definitely weren't fashionable and 'four-eyes' was a pretty mean insult to a 10-year-old. Despite this, I've been wearing glasses for almost 30 years. I can remember pretty much every pair I've owned since those first ones (obviously the trauma was too great). In the late 80s I wore some frames with 'upside down' arms a la Deidre Barlow; alternative black cat's eye frames in the late 90s; some skinny rectangular black frames in the 2000s (which I recently pulled out when my Dutch-designed tortise-shell ever skinnier and more rectangular frames(2007-2011) fell apart; now I'm wearing some rounder tortise-shell Oliver Peoples frames that more than nod to the ones I wore in the early 90s.
I'd love to have more than one pair to put on - think about it, do you have more than one of anything else you have to wear everyday - and feel like I've done my bit towards the cause (well, maybe not the Deirdre Barlows), casting aside nasty words from my contemporaries in the pursuit of making wearing glasses something a person'd choose to do.
- April 16, 2012 at 6:54 PM
- CK said...
Feijoa preserves look better in Derek Cardigan glasses! Would a jar or 2 do the trick? Photos of available jars await you!
- April 17, 2012 at 8:13 PM
- Emma said...
Would love some new, gorgeous glasses to wear. Completely sick of my old frames and contacts are super boring!
- April 18, 2012 at 2:13 PM
- Gina said...
I've been eyeing up the Derek Cardigan glasses on ClearlyContacts for the last month or so now; how ridiculously gorgeous are the 7012 style in tortoiseshell? Absolute eye candy :)
- April 19, 2012 at 10:32 AM
- Toni Bee said...
OH YEAH! These are perfect! Im having a check up exam on my prescription on monday and these would be a GREAT update to my glasses........pleeeease!
- April 20, 2012 at 2:23 PM
Argh my old guccis are in desperate need of replacing and the 7004s in brown tortoiseshell would be perfect!
- April 21, 2012 at 10:06 PM
- M said...
Wow, great glasses! My dog chewed the arms of mine about three years ago, but they still cute so I just put up with them, now I can't afford to change them cos I've started Uni, so I guess if I don't win any, I'll just keep putting up with them :-) Mind you the pricing on this range is fantastic!
- April 25, 2012 at 8:41 PM


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Probing Andrew Leavitt's Story of Gen. Washington
Yesterday I quoted how a recent study of George Washington's military experiences depicted him introducing himself to the Continental Army troops at Cambridge by reading the 101st Psalm from his psalm-book. I traced that unsourced anecdote back to a biography of Washington's predecessor, Artemas Ward, which presented it with unmistakable skepticism. (I also couldn't resist quoting another historian who called the tale "the maunderings of a nonagenarian"; we just don't see that sort of language in scholarship anymore.)
That biography of Ward in turn cited an earlier source as the first print appearance of this tale: Daniel F. Secomb's History of the Town of Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, published in 1883.
Capt. [Josiah] Crosby's company was present when Washington took command of the army, 2 July, 1775, of which Andrew Leavitt, one of the survivors, gave the following account to the writer many years since:There are some historical glitches here. Washington reviewed troops at Cambridge on 3 July, not 2 July. "Rifles" were very rare, possibly non-existent, in the New England army in mid-1775. But we might expect such discrepancies to crop up after many years.The officers placed their men in as good shape as they could, but they were a motley looking set, no two dressed alike. Some were armed with fowling pieces, some with rifles, others with muskets without bayonets. When all was in readiness, Washington and his staff advanced to the square prepared for their reception. He was a large, noble looking man, in the prime of life, and was mounted on a powerful black horse over which he seemed to have perfect control.
After a short address to the soldiers, he took from his pocket a Psalm book, from which he read the one hundred and first Psalm (another account says it was then sung by the soldiers to the tune of Old Hundred).
And it was many years—about half a century—between Washington's arrival at Cambridge and when Secomb was old enough to have heard that story from Leavitt. There were also at least thirty-seven years between the last time Leavitt could have told the story, given his death in 1846, and Secomb's publication. The phrase "many years since" shows that Secomb actually didn't remember how long it had been.
George Allen Ramsdell's History of Milford, New Hampshire, published in 1901, offers a parallel statement with a little more information:
Andrew Leavitt, at this time of Amherst, but a member of Captain Crosby's company, repeatedly stated in his lifetime that after Washington had made a short address he read the one hundred and first Psalm. There is a tradition in the Wallace family, then represented by the soldier, Joseph Wallace, that when Washington had finished reading the psalm the company took up the matter and sang or chanted it to an appropriate tune.Ramsdell (1834-1900, shown above courtesy of the Milford Historical Society) was a native of Milford, where most of Crosby's company came from. He seems to have relied on family and local traditions rather than hearing the two veterans themselves, and probably also knew of Secomb's book.
Documents from 1775 confirm that Andrew Leavitt and "Joseph Wallis" were members of Crosby's company as early as June. There's no contemporaneous record that their company was on the parade when Washington (and Gen. Charles Lee) first reviewed troops in Cambridge, nor have I found any evidence to contradict that belief. As twentieth-century scholars have pointed out, the army didn't make that much of Washington's arrival in 1775, so there's very little documentation about it.
I think the biggest problem with accepting Secomb's apparent quotation as a reliable first-person account of a Revolutionary event lies in the words themselves. A veteran describing an event he had personally witnessed would not have added, "another account says...," at least not without stating whether that rival account squared with his own recollection. Indeed, what Secomb presented as Leavitt's story is notable for being entirely in the third person: it calls the soldiers "they" instead of "we." Rather than treat those paragraphs as a direct quotation from Andrew Leavitt, I think we must take these words as Secomb's own description, written "many years" later, of what he recalled hearing Leavitt describe to him as a child or youth, along with Secomb's note on "another account" he had heard.
This anecdote is therefore equivalent to us now learning new details about a notable public event involving hundreds of people in 1899, and a very notable public personage, based on a secondhand account committed to paper years after the storytelling. Those details have never been in the record before, are based on oral transmission and memory, and conform to many people's beliefs about how the past should be. I think the account therefore needs strong supporting evidence to be credible.
One possible source for such support would be Leavitt's pension application, if one survives. In 1840, at the age of 87, Leavitt was receiving a federal pension while living in the home of his son William. To receive that pension, he would have filed a deposition with the federal government, relating his Revolutionary War experiences with notable memories to add verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. Did Leavitt describe parading for the new commander-in-chief when he applied for a pension, perhaps half a century before Secomb wrote? Did he then describe Washington reading the 101st Psalm?
Otherwise, we're in the difficult position of assessing the authenticity of oral traditions. According to Ramsdell, people remembered Andrew Leavitt telling his story on multiple occasions. Another family in a nearby town told a similar (though not identical) story. Those traditions may not really be independent of each other, but they do strengthen each other; I think it would be unlikely for two families to come up with such similar tales without a common source.
TOMORROW: A common source—in popular fiction? [ADDENDUM: Change of plans.]


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The satellite lies in pieces, strewn across the table. It doesn't remotely look like a spacecraft.
"We keep building it, and taking it apart, and tweaking it a little bit…and building it up again, finding an interesting feature, then taking it apart," says Shaun Kenyon an engineer at Surrey Satellite Technology Limited, a satellite manufacturer based in the southern English town of Guildford.
"We have all the bits," he laughs, his voice bordering on mild hysteria. "Excitement is a good word to use about how the team's feeling at the moment. Sheer panic might be another phrase."
Kenyon is the joint leader of the Strand-1 satellite team, a group of volunteers hoping to fly the first smartphone satellite in orbit. Strand, incidentally, stands for Surrey Training Research and Nanosatellite Demonstration – joining a long list of torturous space acronyms. After many months of development, the group is close to finalising a launch for later this year.
At first the idea of putting a phone in space sounds like a stunt. But when you think about it, a smartphone is a remarkable piece of technology.
"You've got this thing in your pocket which has the same computing capability as a supercomputer did in the 1970s," says Kenyon. "All of that electronics has got billions and billions of dollars of R and D in it, so we're just trying to make use of all that research and see if those electronics will work in space."
"It's got sensors on it we all use for gaming, it's got the comms, it's got the camera," Kenyon's colleague, Chris Bridges, adds. "Apart from solar panels, this thing pretty much is a satellite."
And it's not only the computing capabilities of mobile phones that make them good candidates for spaceflight. Mobiles are remarkably robust, capable of surviving everything – from the extreme heat of a car dashboard in Africa to the cold of an Alaskan winter. They can be dropped on concrete, left in the rain and even survive the washing machine (although not, as I discovered, the tumble drier). In comparison, space should be a doddle.
"We've stuck it in a vacuum chamber and we've stuck it in an oven – literally, my oven at home," says Kenyon. "We've also stuck it in my freezer, it was absolutely fine."
Engaged for launch
The phone will sit at the heart of the 30cm- (11in-) long Strand-1 satellite, which will have a hole cut in the side for the camera. Apps include one designed to capture "postcards from space", another will hope to prove conclusively whether it's true that in space no-one can hear you scream. To do this, the phone will play screams and attempt to record them on its inbuilt microphone. Other apps will exploit the phone's inbuilt magnetometer – used for its compass – to measure the magnetic field around the satellite. It will even use the wi-fi capability.
"We've got another bit of electronics inside the satellite that will pick up the wi-fi signal. So it'll be a wireless intra-satellite link," explains Kenyon. "That'll be quite an interesting experiment in terms of much larger satellites where the weight of all the cables is not insignificant. So if you could use wi-fi in big satellites, then you're saving a lot of mass."
When it comes to putting smartphones in space, Strand-1 isn't unique. Phones have already been flown on high-altitude weather balloons and even on rockets. And, last year, an attempt was made to send a phone on a suborbital flight. Unfortunately, a rocket failure resulted in it returning to Earth in pieces. As for orbital flights, Strand-1 has some serious competition from a US project: PhoneSat. Backed by Nasa, and packed with apps, PhoneSat is due for launch early next year.
What's exciting about all these projects is that they involve highly motivated teams of skilled enthusiasts. Often volunteers, they give up their time and share their designs, code and results. However, the big issue they all face is the cost of launch. Builders of these small satellites have to beg, borrow and negotiate "piggyback" launches from the big launcher companies and space agencies. Nasa has a scheme to get US academic projects into orbit, but Strand-1 will be launched with a large commercial satellite. The team won't yet reveal the details but the launch should be ahead of PhoneSat.
Another project hoping to hitch a ride into space soon is KickSat. This small satellite will release a fleet of tiny 'sprite' satellites, each around the size of a couple of postage stamps. Regular readers will know this is a project we have been following closely ever since we decided to buy one of the sprites that will be blasted onto orbit. The latest news is that the student behind the project, Zac Manchester from Cornell University New York, has secured lab space at Nasa. I hope to visit Zac at Nasa Ames in September, where I'm assured our own sprite is starting to take shape. I also plan to get a look at PhoneSat and see how it compares to the UK effort.
Meanwhile, back at the University of Surrey, work on assembling Strand-1 for the final time is about to get underway. This may be a volunteer project but, if it's successful, the potential of mobile phone technology, and the implications for the future design and cost of commercial satellites, is enormous.
It strikes me that the only thing they're not using the smartphone for is as an actual phone. But, says Kenyon, "the roaming charges from space are a bit high."
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