Pistorius plans his own service for Steenkamp

JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? Oscar Pistorius planned a personal memorial service on Tuesday for Reeva Steenkamp, the 29-year-old model he shot at his home on Valentine's Day.

The evening service would be at the Pretoria home of his uncle Arnold, where the Olympic athlete has been staying since he was released on bail awaiting trial on a premeditated murder charge.

Pistorius' reputation management firm said Pistorius had specifically requested the service "as he remains in deep mourning for the loss of his partner Reeva," whom he says he shot by accident assuming an intruder had entered his home on Feb. 14.

"Oscar has asked for a private service with people who share his loss, including his family members who knew and loved Reeva as one of their own," Vuma Reputation Management said in a statement.

Exactly a week ago, a memorial service was held for Steenkamp in the southern coast city of Port Elizabeth, where her body was cremated following a private service.

That same day, the bail hearing for Pistorius started in the nation's capital Pretoria.

It was unclear exactly what Pistorius' service would consist of or how many people would attend.

Prosecutors say the pair had an argument before Steenkamp was killed. Vuma said that Pistorius "continues to grieve" for her. Vuma spokeswoman Janice Hills would not give any further details about the ceremony, saying it is "a private matter for the family."

Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair set bail for Pistorius at 1 million rand ($113,000). The 26-year-old track star was also ordered to hand over his passports, turn in any guns he owns and keep away from his upscale home in a gated community in Pretoria, the scene of the crime.

He cannot leave the district of Pretoria without his probation officer's permission and is not allowed to consume drugs or alcohol.

Nair himself was in private mourning on Tuesday. He confirmed that he is related to a woman suspected of killing her two children and committing suicide on the weekend.

The revelation was the latest twist in the saga of Pistorius and prominent figures linked to the case against the double-amputee athlete.

The bodies of a woman and her two sons were found Sunday evening at their Johannesburg home by her ex-husband, police Warrant Officer Balan Muthan said. Authorities suspect the woman administered a substance that killed her children, and took her own life by ingesting it as well.

"I can confirm the deceased is my first cousin," Nair told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

The woman's brother, Vishal Maharaj, identified her as Anusha Maharaj. Police said Maharaj was her family name before she married. South African media identified her as Anusha Mooljee.

Muthan said police suspect "she took her own life by ingesting a substance that killed her," and that she "most probably" gave the same substance to her children. Autopsies were conducted Monday and toxicologists were analyzing the substance believed to have killed the three family members.

Suicide notes were found and a murder investigation was underway, Muthan said. He said copies of the notes were admitted as evidence in the probe and declined to comment on the contents.

Eyewitness News, a South African media outlet, said the boys who died were 12 and 17 years old and cited neighbor Claire Osment as saying she rushed outside after hearing screams coming from the townhouse where they lived.

"We asked what happened. The dad just said, 'She has killed my boys.' He was just crying," Eyewitness News quoted her as saying. "He couldn't believe it, he couldn't believe that his sons are gone."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pistorius-plans-own-steenkamp-161548041--oly.html

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Legislation Governing Lifetime Gift & Estate Tax Exclusions has ...

Although The Tax Relief Act of 2012 provides permanent lifetime gift and estate exclusions of $5.25 million, legislation governing exclusions has changed seven times in the last ten years. Consequently, persons with sizeable estates who did not take advantage of their entire exclusion prior to December 31, 2012 should sit down with their professional advisors in 2013.

Below are a few estate planning tools and strategies presently being recommended by estate planners, accountants, and financial planners.

1.?Incorporating a protection provision in your trust documents which facilitates amendments to comply with any type of new legislation in the future.

2.?Lock in the ?Dynasty? planning options in your trust documents that enable wealth to be insulated from taxes and other hazards over multiple generations.? Non-tax issues like divorce, substance abuse, litigation, medical disasters, and business failure destroy as much wealth as taxes.

3.?Be aware and prepared should legislators adopt devices to increase taxes in order to avoid bankruptcy of the U.S. such as:

• Phasing out more exemptions;
• Implementing means testing for retirement plan withdrawals;
• Placing caps on deductions such as charitable giving;
• Limiting the duration of grantor retained annuity trusts;
• Limiting the number of years a trust can skip generations without transfer taxes;
• Implementing carry-forward cost basis at death enabling the IRS to collect more? capital gains taxes;
• Eliminating grantor status for trusts resulting in taxes at the higher trust rate;
• Including ?grantor trusts? in the taxable estate which would make many life insurance trusts taxable; and
• Eliminating installment payments of estate taxes.?

4.?Make sure you confer with all of your professional advisors before amending your estate planning documents.? Too many so-called estate plans leave gaps in the protection because there is little or no connection between the business and property structures and the estate structures, or because the accounting, legal, investment and insurance advisers are each doing their own thing without coordinating with each other.? Effective planning is a team event that covers the whole field for the entire game.? One star player making one good shot may look good for the moment, but it won?t win the game.? Don?t ever forget that you are the quarterback regardless of your level of knowledge.? Keep your advisors in the game.

Gary Ringel, CGREA

Source: http://www.hhcpa.com/blogs/business-valuation-litigation-blog/legislation-governing-lifetime-gift-estate-tax-exclusions-has-changed-seven-times-in-last-ten-years/

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U.S. Supreme Court ruling affects many immigrant convicts in South Florida

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling Wednesday shuts the door on appeals for hundreds of Floridians convicted in the past of crimes for which they could be deported.

The high court, in Chaidez v. United States, ruled that immigrants convicted of certain crimes before 2010 cannot appeal their cases if their criminal defense lawyer did not properly warn them of deportation.

Wednesday?s decision followed up on the court?s 2010 ruling throwing out the conviction of military veteran Jose Padilla, whose lawyer failed to warn him he faced deportation to his native Honduras when pleading guilty to marijuana smuggling in Kentucky.

After the ruling in Padilla v. Kentucky, thousands of convicted immigrants ? fearing deportation, or some ordered deported ? asked lower courts across the country to throw out their convictions. That included Roselva Chaidez, a longtime U.S. resident from Mexico convicted in Chicago of auto insurance fraud.

But seven of nine justices said Wednesday that the Padilla ruling established ?new law? and was not legally ?retroactive.? Under federal law, non-citizens convicted of an ?aggravated felony? can be deported.

The U.S. Attorney General?s Office had also argued that applying Padilla retroactively ?would be overwhelming to the administration of justice? ? flooding the courts with thousands of cases, most of them so old that witnesses or evidence in the cases have disappeared.

South Florida defense attorneys greeted Wednesday?s ruling with dismay.

?There will be an increase in voluntary departures, only the ?voluntariness? will be based on the fact that there is no recourse if the person?s case pre-dated Padilla ... an increase in orders of deportations and in increase in money spent to supervise people who cannot be deported to countries such as Cuba,? said defense attorney Maggie Arias, who along with Benji Waxman argued the issue before Miami?s appeals court.

?They?ve cut the legs out of anyone who would have recourse in criminal court based on bad advice ? or no advice ? from a criminal defense lawyer.?

Two Supreme Court justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, dissented.

The issue of ?retroactivity? had been particularly vexing in immigrant-rich South Florida, and several Miami cases had made their way through the appellate courts.

One such case: Gabriel Hernandez, who arrived in the United States from Nicaragua when he was 2 years old. Now 30 and a legal resident, he boasts a bachelor?s degree and works as a successful computer network administrator for a Miami bank group.

His one blemish occurred when he was 19 years old. He was arrested on charges of selling LSD.

In an outcome typical for first-time offenders, Hernandez pleaded guilty and accepted a year of probation in return for a promise that no felony conviction would appear on his record. But Hernandez insists he never understood that the plea deal could wind up getting him deported to Nicaragua.

Miami?s Third District Court of Appeals denied Hernandez?s bid to throw out the conviction based on the Padilla case. The Florida Supreme Court, in November, upheld the ruling.

Hernandez?s lawyer, Michael Vastine, was chagrined by Wednesday?s court decision.

?From here on out, Florida immigration judges are going to be deporting people for crimes that are constitutionally suspect,? Vastine said. ?I find that a little bit galling.?

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/20/3244718/us-supreme-court-ruling-affects.html

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Bionic Hand Wired To Nerves Can "Feel" When Touched

An anonymous reader writes in with a breakthrough in prosthetics. "The first bionic hand that allows an amputee to feel what they are touching will be transplanted later this year in a pioneering operation that could introduce a new generation of artificial limbs with sensory perception. The patient is an unnamed man in his 20s living in Rome who lost the lower part of his arm following an accident, said Silvestro Micera of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. The wiring of his new bionic hand will be connected to the patient?s nervous system with the hope that the man will be able to control the movements of the hand as well as receiving touch signals from the hand?s skin sensors."

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Big Interest in (Ugly) Small-Truck Auction - PickupTrucks.com News

Posted by Mark Williams | February 15, 2013

By Larry Edsall

Photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Auctions

Some of the world's most unusual - and smallest - pickups will get new owners when The Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum auctions its collection today and tomorrow in Madison, Ga.

How small are they? Well, most of them are small enough to fit into the bed of a modern half-ton truck.

"They're definitely a small segment," said Alain Squindo, an automotive specialist for RM Auctions, the company handling the auction.

Microcars were popular in postwar Europe, where the tiny vehicles designed to hold from two to four people helped get countries back on their self-propelled wheels after the devastation of World War II.

"They were mainly commuter cars," Squindo said, "but there also were some trucks made for very light duty."

Microcars and delivery vehicles - some had three wheels, some four - are powered by motorcycle engines and also were popular in Japan.

A few microcars were imported to the U.S., where the best-known is the BMW Isetta, one of which was featured in the 1989-98 television series "Family Matters" and was driven by the Steve "Did I do that?" Urkel character.

The Isettas from the 1950s and early '60s had wheelbases of less than 60 inches, were about 90 inches long overall, 48 inches wide (about the dimensions of a modern Polaris all-terrain vehicle) and rode on 10-inch wheels. Single- or twin-cylinder engines could propel them up to 65 mph.

Bruce Weiner, for whom the museum is named, is a longtime collector of various items, including automobiles. When he became fascinated with microcars some 20 years ago, he found a reference book and used it as a field guide to create his collection.

Squindo said that Weiner has traveled around the world searching - even digging out snowed-in barns and tearing down a brick wall - to find a microcar that someone hid away. He ended up with what many consider to be the world's best collection, which he is selling to fulfill another of his collecting pursuits.

Because the vehicles are so unusual, the auction is drawing unusual interest, not only from microcar collectors but from those who usually collect only exotic vehicles and realize this is a one-time opportunity to obtain some of the last best examples of a breed, Squindo said.

The auction will include more than 200 microcars - among them nearly a dozen pickups - as well as microcar memorabilia.

For more information, visit the RM Auction by clicking here.?You can also check out this video below:

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Italian motorcycle manufacturer Iso launched the postwar "bubble car" in 1951. In 1955, Iso sold rights to the Isetta to BMW, which switched the Isetta's engine from an Italian motorcycle engine to the 245-cubic-centimeter single-cylinder power plant it used on its R27 bikes. Later, a 298-cc version of the BMW engine was used.

In addition to a factory in Germany, BMW built the Isetta in England, which is where this factory-built prototype pickup version was developed and provided the basis for a small production run used by the Royal Air Force on its bases. The pickup bed, which was mounted above the four-stroke engine, could carry as much as 165 pounds of gear or ordinance.

RM estimates this prototype will sell for $35,000 to $45,000 at auction.

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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1959 Goggomobil TL-400 Transporter Pickup

This 1959 Goggomobil TL-400 Transporter Pickup was part of a series of microcars produced in southern Germany by Glas, which began making farm equipment in the 19th century and the Goggo motor scooter in 1951. Goggomobil microcars began in 1955 with German production later supported by a facility in Spain.

The largest customer for the Transporter Pickup was the German postal service, though the trucks also were used by towns and tradesmen as service and delivery vehicles.

This example, done in a Coca-Cola livery paint job, employs the largest 20-horsepower, 398-cc vertical twin two-stroke engine.

Expectations are that this TL-400 will fetch between $100,000 and $120,000 at auction.

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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?1958 Eshelman Sportabout Coupe

Cheston Eshelman of Baltimore got into the microcar business in 1953, producing fiberglass-bodied versions for adults and children. This unrestored Sportsabout Coupe can carry three people. Eshelman also produced coupe and van versions.

Its power - 18 hp - comes from a 67.3-cubic-inch-displacement Wisconsin THD vertical twin engine.

RM estimates a sales price at auction of $3,000 to $5,000.

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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1957 Iso Isettacarro

Renzo Rivolta had been manufacturing refrigerators under his Isothermo brand but switched to motor scooters and then to microcars with the Isetta, or "little Iso."

A pickup version was introduced as the Isettacarro and was so popular the company sold as many of small-delivery vehicles as passenger cars.

This Isettacarro was built in Spain. It's 11.5 feet long and has a 9.5-hp, 236-cc twin-piston two-stroke engine.

The museum obtained this pickup from the family of the original owner. It is expected to sell for $45,000 to $55,000 at auction.

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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1952 Mochet CM-125 Commerciale

Mochet was a French company that began making cars in 1924. Some were powered by motorcycle engines, others by pedals turned by the feet of the driver and passenger. At the end of World War II, Mochet resumed production, at first with vehicles that had bicycle wheels propelled by small engines but supplemented with foot pedals.

In 1952, Mochet introduced two new models, including the CM-125 Commerciale (commercial vehicle) with a 3.5-liter, 125-cc single-cylinder two-stroke Zurcher engine. The Commerciale could carry two people and 330 pounds of cargo in its canvas-covered bed.

This one is expected to sell for $30,000 to $40,000 at auction.

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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1958 New Map Solyto

New Map of Lyon, France, produced small roadsters powered by motorcycle engines before World War II. Production resumed after the war, but in 1952 the company introduced a small truck.

The engine was kick-started but the truck had a steering wheel instead of handlebars.

The Solyto, powered by a 4.5-hp, 125-cc Ydral one-cylinder two-stroke engine, was popular with farmers.

This example is expected to bring $15,000 to $20,000 at auction.

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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1960 Mazda K360

Europe wasn't the only microcar habitat. They also were popular in Japan, where the Daihatsu Midget, Mitsubishi Pet and Giant, and three-wheeled Kurogane cars were joined in 1960 by the Mazda K360.

The Mazda version featured independent dual mechanical and hydraulic brake systems, a "self-starting" motor (the 11-hp, 356-cc, two-cylinder engine was located just behind the seats), safety glass windshield and a steering wheel instead of the typical handlebars, as well as a roomy cabin for two and sliding windows.

RM anticipates this example being bid at $15,000 to $20,000.

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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1970 Subaru 360 Sambar Pickup

Subaru produced microvan and pickup versions of its 360 Sambar (sambar is the name of a deer native to India and domesticated for use carrying packs).

The 360 Sambar had a 25-hp, 356-cc two-cycle two-stroke engine mounted at the rear that powered the rear wheels.

This model, with drop-down bed sides, is expected to sell at auction for $15,000 to $25,000.

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Source: http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2013/02/big-interest-in-ugly-small-truck-auction.html

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World's largest baseball card unveiled

Published: Feb. 13, 2013 at 5:28 PM

LAKELAND, Fla., Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Trading card company Topps unveiled the world's largest baseball card, measuring 60 feet by 90 feet, in a Florida city.

Detroit Tigers first baseman Prince Fielder, who is pictured on the card, attended the unveiling ceremony Tuesday in Lakeland, where the Tigers have held their spring training for the past 77 seasons, WFLA-TV, Tampa, Fla., reported Wednesday.

"You know obviously Detroit has a good relationship here cause you know their spring training's been here forever, and also the fans love Detroit, so it's a mutual love I think," Fielder said.

Source: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2013/02/13/Worlds-largest-baseball-card-unveiled/UPI-30081360794492/

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Genderswapped Fairy Tales: Artist Yudi Chen's Illustration Series Subverts Traditional Gender Roles

What if Cinderella was Cinderfella, and Tarzan and Jane were Tarzana and John? Subverting the traditional gender roles of classic Grimm's Borthers tales, artist Yudi Chen turned classic children's stories on their head in with a viral illustration series of "genderswapped fairy tales."

Chen, a senior illustration student at Rhode Island School of Design with a focus on silkscreen and animation work, posted the illustrations to her Tumblr, where they quickly went viral. Check out some our favorite images from the collection in the slideshow below. For more from Yudi, head over to her Tumblr and click here to order prints.

How do you feel about the idea of "genderswapping" fairy tales? Which illustration is your favorite? Share your thoughts in the comments below or tweet @HuffPostTeen!

(H/T The Mary Sue).

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Beliefs: Seeing Darwin Through Christians? Eyes

[unable to retrieve full-text content]For the religious, evolution continues to divide more than 150 years after ?On the Origin of Species.?

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