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Good news: Expired tax breaks are back. Bad news: Filing might have to wait
Posted 1/15/2007
LOST AND FOUND DEDUCTIONS
These deductions expired at the end of 2005, but Congress voted in December to extend them through 2007.
• State and local sales-tax deduction: Allows taxpayers who itemize to deduct either state and local income taxes or state and local sales taxes. This deduction is particularly popular among residents of states with no income tax. Taxpayers can claim their actual sales taxes, based on receipts saved during the year, or use the state sales-tax tables in IRS Publication 600.
• Tuition tax deduction: Taxpayers can deduct up to $4,000 in college tuition and fees. This deduction is popular with families who earn too much to qualify for the Hope and Lifetime Learning credits. This is an above-the-line deduction, so taxpayers don't have to itemize to claim it.
• Classroom expense deduction. Teachers who use their own money to buy classroom supplies can deduct up to $250. This is also an above-the-line deduction.
Here's an exercise to try tonight while you're watching TV: Sit cross-legged on the floor. Wrap your right ankle behind your neck. Do the same with your left ankle. Now count to 30. In French.
Too difficult? If you prepare your taxes the old-fashioned way, filing your return this year could be even harder.
In December, Congress voted to extend deductions for state and local sales taxes, college tuition and teachers' out-of-pocket costs for classroom supplies. These deductions had expired at the end of 2005 (see box for details). But by Dec. 20, when President Bush signed the bill into law, the IRS had already sent 2006 tax forms and instructions to the printer.
As a result, the 17 million tax packages mailed this month to taxpayers who previously filed on paper don't include any space to claim these deductions.
The IRS has instructions on its website, www.irs.gov, for paper filers who want to claim the deductions. To claim the tuition deduction, you'll need to use Line 35 on Form 1040, the line ordinarily used to claim the "domestic production activities deduction" (a deduction for small businesses that engage in manufacturing or other production activities). Enter "T" on the dotted line, or "B" if you're claiming both the tuition and the domestic production activities deductions.
The educator expense deduction must be claimed on Line 23 of Form 1040, the line for the Archer MSA (medical savings account) deduction. Enter "E" for the educator deduction, or "B" if claiming both the educator and the MSA deductions.
And the sales-tax deduction? That's claimed on Line 5 of Form 1040, the state and local income taxes deduction. Enter "ST" on the dotted line to indicate you're claiming the sales-tax deduction.
An easier way
Filing your taxes is rarely easy, but it doesn't have to be this hard. If you've been considering using tax-preparation software, this is the year to leap into the 21st century. When you use tax software, you're less likely to miss money-saving tax breaks because software makers have updated their programs to reflect changes in the law, says David Bergstein, analyst for CCH CompleteTax, an online tax-preparation program.
Tax software programs come in two flavors, desktop and online. Online programs are typically updated automatically to reflect changes in the tax laws. Desktop programs can be updated by linking to the manufacturer's website. Checking for updates before you file your return is always a good idea; this year, it's critical.
If your 2006 adjusted gross income was $52,000 or less, you can prepare and e-file your federal tax returns for free through the IRS Free File program. Free File is a partnership between the IRS and tax software providers that's designed to encourage more taxpayers to file electronically. You can find more information about Free File at www.irs.gov.
Filing delays
Many taxpayers who are expecting a refund file their taxes as soon as they receive their W-2 at the end of January. But if you're planning to claim the tuition, sales-tax or educator's deduction, you'll have to wait a little longer to file.
The IRS says it needs time to update its computers to accommodate the deductions enacted in December. As a result, it won't process returns claiming those deductions until Feb. 3. If you mail in a paper return that claims any of these deductions before that date, the IRS will set it aside until Feb. 3. E-filed returns won't be accepted at all until Feb. 3.
Tax software companies have added features to their programs to prevent customers from e-filing before the deadline. TurboTax customers who claim the deductions will receive a message telling them that the IRS won't accept their return until Feb. 3, says spokeswoman Julie Miller. H&R Block's TaxCut software programs will also advise e-filers that returns claiming the deductions won't be accepted until Feb. 3.
Getting help
Another alternative is to hire a professional to do your taxes for you. A competent preparer will know about recent changes in the law and claim all the tax breaks available to you.
In most states, anyone is allowed to prepare tax returns, so exercise vigilance when selecting a preparer. One option is to use a licensed preparer, such as an enrolled agent or a certified public accountant, says Judith Akin, an enrolled agent in Oklahoma City.
Enrolled agents must have at least five years of work experience at the IRS or pass an IRS-administered two-day exam. CPAs have a college degree and must pass an exam to be licensed in their state. Both enrolled agents and CPAs are authorized to represent taxpayers before the IRS.
For more information on choosing a tax preparer, go to www.irs.gov and click on the link to 1040 Central.
Sandra Block covers personal finance for USA TODAY. Her Your Money column appears Tuesdays. Click here for an index of Your Money columns. E-mail her at: sblock@usatoday.com.
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Fire official: Man's cell phone apparently sets him ablaze
POSTED: 8:45 p.m. EST, January 15, 2007
VALLEJO, California (AP) -- A cell phone apparently ignited in a man's pocket and started a fire that burned his hotel room and caused severe burns over half his body, fire department officials said.
Luis Picaso, 59, was in stable condition Monday with second- and third-degree burns to his upper body, back, right arm and right leg, Vallejo Fire Department assistant chief Kurt Henke said.
Firefighters arrived at the residential hotel Saturday night to find Picaso lying on the bathroom floor after a malfunctioning cell phone in his pants pocket set fire to his nylon and polyester clothes, Henke said.
The flames spread to a plastic chair, setting off a sprinkler that held the fire in check, he said.
Authorities declined to name the phone's manufacturer and model.
The fire and water caused $75,000 (euro57,955) damage to the room and a business on the ground floor, Henke said.
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Saddam aides hanged, anger at beheading "mishap" By Mariam Karouny and Alastair Macdonald
1 hour, 19 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two of Saddam Hussein's aides were hanged before dawn on Monday, the Iraqi government said, admitting that the head of his half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti was also ripped from his body during the execution.
On the defensive after international uproar over sectarian taunts during the illicitly filmed hanging of the ousted president two weeks ago, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh insisted there was "no violation of procedure" during the executions of Barzan and former judge Awad Hamed al-Bander.
But defense lawyers and politicians from Saddam's once dominant Sunni Arab minority expressed fury at the fate of Barzan, Saddam's once feared intelligence chief, and there was also skepticism and condemnation of Iraq's Shi'ite-dominated government across the mostly Sunni-ruled Arab world.
"The convicts were not subjected to any mistreatment," Dabbagh said describing the beheading by the rope as a rare mishap. "Their rights were not violated. There was no chanting."
Government adviser Bassam al-Husseini said the damage to the body was "an act of God." During his trial for crimes against humanity over the killings of 148 Shi'ites from Dujail, a witness said Barzan's agents put people in a meat grinder.
The treatment of corpses is a particularly sensitive issue in Muslim culture. Video footage of Saddam's body lying on a trolley showed what appeared to be a wound on his throat.
Hangmen gauge the length of rope needed to snap the neck of the condemned but not to create enough force to sever the head.
Saleem al-Jibouri, a senior Sunni Arab member of parliament, told Reuters Barzan's body may have been weakened by the cancer he was suffering: "But we have doubts and we want to ask experts and doctors if it's possible the head can come off," he said.
Barzan's son-in-law hurled a sectarian insult at the government on pan-Arab Al Jazeera television: "As for ripping off his head, this is the grudge of the Safavids," he said -- a historical term referring to Shi'ite ties to non-Arab Iran.
"They have only came to Iraq for revenge," Azzam Salih Abdullah said from Yemen. "May God curse this democracy."
The hangings took place at 3 a.m. (00:00 GMT) at the same former secret police base where Saddam was hanged on December 30, an adviser to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said. Officials tried to impose a media blackout for some hours but word leaked out.
APPEALS
After Saddam was hanged amid sectarian taunts captured on film, the United Nations urged Iraq to reconsider further death sentences and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, an opponent of capital punishment, said last week he thought there should be a delay in executing the other two condemned men.
Talabani left the country on Sunday to visit Syria.
The emergence of illicit mobile phone video showing Saddam being taunted by Shi'ite observers at his execution, four days after his appeal failed, angered many Sunni Arabs, embarrassed the Shi'ite-led government and the U.S. administration and raised sectarian tensions in a nation on the brink of civil war.
Shi'ites again celebrated in the streets of Baghdad's Sadr City slum, a bastion of the cleric and militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr. His name was heard being chanted at Saddam on the gallows. A unnamed guard faces legal proceedings following a government inquiry into the circumstances of Saddam's execution.
After Barzan's hanging, Moussa Jabor in Sadr City said: "This is the least he should get. He should have been handed over to the people. Execution is a blessing for him."
Barzan was a feared figure in Iraq at the head of the intelligence service in the 1980s, at a time when the Shi'ite majority was harshly oppressed, some like those from Dujail due to suspected links to Shi'ite Iran, then at war with Iraq.
Bander presided over the Revolutionary Court which sentenced 148 Shi'ite men and youths to death after an assassination attempt on Saddam in the town in 1982. With Saddam, they were convicted on November 5 and their appeals rejected on December 26.
Barzan is to be buried in the village of Awja, near the northern city of Tikrit, where Saddam was born and where he was buried two weeks ago, the provincial governor told Reuters.
Muslim tradition dictates he be interred within a day.
Barzan would lie close to Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay, who were killed by U.S. troops in 2003, not in the building that has become Saddam's mausoleum, visited by thousands of mourners.
Barzan, 55, ran the Mukhabarat intelligence service from 1979 to 1983. Witnesses in the trial said he personally oversaw torture, eating grapes as he watched on one occasion.
He was Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva from 1988 to 1997, where he is remembered as an elegantly suited man dubbed "Saddam's banker in the West."
Prosecutors said Bander sentenced some of the men from Dujail after they had already been killed and that among those sentenced were under-18s who could not legally be executed.
(Additional reporting by Claudia Parsons, Aseel Kami and Ahmed Rasheed in Baghdad and Inal Ersan and Diala Saadeh in Dubai)
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Saddam aides hanged By Mariam Karouny
55 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's half-brother and a former judge were hanged at dawn on Monday, 16 days after the ousted Iraqi president was executed, senior officials said as the government tried to maintain a media blackout.
"It's true. The government will confirm it," one official source told Reuters, adding Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government was trying to control the flow of information after illicit video of Saddam's death prompted international uproar.
A government spokesman is expected to announce at a news conference scheduled for 10:30 a.m. (7:30 GMT) that Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam's half-brother and former head of intelligence, and Awad al-Bander, former judge of his Revolutionary Court, were hanged for crimes against humanity.
Iraqiya state television said the White House had confirmed the deaths.
In Washington, a source close to the U.S. administration confirmed the executions.
A lawyer for Bander, Badia Aref, said the family had been told by U.S. officials to arrange for Bander's body to be collected. Barzan's daughter told Al Arabiya television she had not been informed of her father's death.
After Saddam was hanged amid sectarian taunts captured on film, the United Nations urged Iraq to reconsider further death sentences and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, an opponent of capital punishment, said last week he thought there should be a delay in executing the other two condemned men.
Talabani left the country on Sunday to visit Syria.
Highlighting official attempts to control the announcement, a senior state prosecutor, Munkith al-Faroon, was quoted by one news organization as announcing the executions. He then denied saying so when contacted by other reporters.
The chief prosecutor in the case, Jaafar al-Moussawi, told Reuters he was unaware of an execution. A representative of the prosecutor must be present at any hanging, by law.
Controversy over Saddam's hanging has made Iraqi officials reluctant to speak on the record about some elements of it and some have previously made contradictory remarks in public.
VIDEO
The emergence of illicit mobile phone video showing Saddam being taunted by Shi'ite observers at his execution, four days after his appeal failed, angered many in his Sunni Arab minority, embarrassed the Shi'ite-led government and the U.S. administration and raised sectarian tensions.
Barzan was a feared figure in Iraq at the head of the intelligence service in the 1980s. Bander presided over the Revolutionary Court which sentenced 148 Shi'ite men and youths to death after an assassination attempt on Saddam in the town of Dujail in 1982. With Saddam, they were convicted on November 5.
The governor of Saddam's home province, Salahaddin, told Reuters Barzan would be buried in the cemetery at Awja, near Tikrit, where Saddam was born and buried two weeks ago.
Barzan would lie close to Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay, who were killed by U.S. troops in 2003, not in the building that has become Saddam's mausoleum, visited by thousands of mourners.
Barzan, 55, ran the Mukhabarat intelligence service from 1979 to 1983. Witnesses in the trial said he personally oversaw torture, eating grapes as he watched on one occasion, and had a meat grinder for human flesh at his interrogation facility.
He was Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva from 1988 to 1997, where he is remembered as an elegantly suited man dubbed "Saddam's banker in the West."
Barzan was captured by U.S. special forces in Baghdad in April 2003. He was the five of clubs in a U.S. deck of playing cards representing the most wanted men in Iraq.
Prosecutors said Bander sentenced some of the men from Dujail after they had already been killed and that among those sentenced were under-18s who could not legally be executed.
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U.S. warns about Canadian spy coins By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer
Thu Jan 11, 4:16 AM ET
WASHINGTON - Money talks, but can it also follow your movements?
In a U.S. government warning high on the creepiness scale, the Defense Department cautioned its American contractors over what it described as a new espionage threat: Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside.
The government said the mysterious coins were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances on at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 as the contractors traveled through Canada.
Intelligence and technology experts said such transmitters, if they exist, could be used to surreptitiously track the movements of people carrying the spy coins.
The U.S. report doesn't suggest who might be tracking American defense contractors or why. It also doesn't describe how the Pentagon discovered the ruse, how the transmitters might function or even which Canadian currency contained them.
Further details were secret, according to the U.S. Defense Security Service, which issued the warning to the Pentagon's classified contractors. The government insists the incidents happened, and the risk was genuine.
"What's in the report is true," said Martha Deutscher, a spokeswoman for the security service. "This is indeed a sanitized version, which leaves a lot of questions."
Top suspects, according to outside experts: China, Russia or even France — all said to actively run espionage operations inside Canada with enough sophistication to produce such technology.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service said it knew nothing about the coins.
"This issue has just come to our attention," CSIS spokeswoman Barbara Campion said. "At this point, we don't know of any basis for these claims." She said Canada's intelligence service works closely with its U.S. counterparts and will seek more information if necessary.
Experts were astonished about the disclosure and the novel tracking technique, but they rejected suggestions Canada's government might be spying on American contractors. The intelligence services of the two countries are extraordinarily close and routinely share sensitive secrets.
"It would seem unthinkable," said David Harris, former chief of strategic planning for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. "I wouldn't expect to see any offensive operation against the Americans."
Harris said likely candidates include foreign spies who targeted Americans abroad or businesses engaged in corporate espionage. "There are certainly a lot of mysterious aspects to this," Harris said.
Experts said such tiny transmitters would almost certainly have limited range to communicate with sensors no more than a few feet away, such as ones hidden inside a doorway. The metal in the coins also could interfere with any signals emitted.
"I'm not aware of any (transmitter) that would fit inside a coin and broadcast for kilometers," said Katherine Albrecht, an activist who believes such technology carries serious privacy risks. "Whoever did this obviously has access to some pretty advanced technology."
Experts said hiding tracking technology inside coins is fraught with risks because the spy's target might inadvertently give away the coin or spend it buying coffee or a newspaper. They agreed, however, that a coin with a hidden tracking device might not arouse suspicion if it were discovered in a pocket or briefcase.
"It wouldn't seem to be the best place to put something like that; you'd want to put it in something that wouldn't be left behind or spent," said Jeff Richelson, a researcher and author of books about the CIA and its gadgets. "It doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense."
Canada's largest coins include its $2 "Toonie," which is more than 1-inch across and thick enough to hide a tiny transmitter. The CIA has acknowledged its own spies have used hollow, U.S. silver-dollar coins to hide messages and film.
The government's 29-page report was filled with other espionage warnings. It described unrelated hacker attacks, eavesdropping with miniature pen recorders and the case of a female foreign spy who seduced her American boyfriend to steal his computer passwords.
In another case, a film processing company called the FBI after it developed pictures for a contractor that contained classified images of U.S. satellites and their blueprints. The photo was taken from an adjoining office window.
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On the Web:
CIA hollow coin: https://http://www.cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/dollar.htm
U.S. warns about Canadian spy coins By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer
Thu Jan 11, 4:16 AM ET
WASHINGTON - Money talks, but can it also follow your movements?
In a U.S. government warning high on the creepiness scale, the Defense Department cautioned its American contractors over what it described as a new espionage threat: Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside.
The government said the mysterious coins were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances on at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 as the contractors traveled through Canada.
Intelligence and technology experts said such transmitters, if they exist, could be used to surreptitiously track the movements of people carrying the spy coins.
The U.S. report doesn't suggest who might be tracking American defense contractors or why. It also doesn't describe how the Pentagon discovered the ruse, how the transmitters might function or even which Canadian currency contained them.
Further details were secret, according to the U.S. Defense Security Service, which issued the warning to the Pentagon's classified contractors. The government insists the incidents happened, and the risk was genuine.
"What's in the report is true," said Martha Deutscher, a spokeswoman for the security service. "This is indeed a sanitized version, which leaves a lot of questions."
Top suspects, according to outside experts: China, Russia or even France — all said to actively run espionage operations inside Canada with enough sophistication to produce such technology.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service said it knew nothing about the coins.
"This issue has just come to our attention," CSIS spokeswoman Barbara Campion said. "At this point, we don't know of any basis for these claims." She said Canada's intelligence service works closely with its U.S. counterparts and will seek more information if necessary.
Experts were astonished about the disclosure and the novel tracking technique, but they rejected suggestions Canada's government might be spying on American contractors. The intelligence services of the two countries are extraordinarily close and routinely share sensitive secrets.
"It would seem unthinkable," said David Harris, former chief of strategic planning for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. "I wouldn't expect to see any offensive operation against the Americans."
Harris said likely candidates include foreign spies who targeted Americans abroad or businesses engaged in corporate espionage. "There are certainly a lot of mysterious aspects to this," Harris said.
Experts said such tiny transmitters would almost certainly have limited range to communicate with sensors no more than a few feet away, such as ones hidden inside a doorway. The metal in the coins also could interfere with any signals emitted.
"I'm not aware of any (transmitter) that would fit inside a coin and broadcast for kilometers," said Katherine Albrecht, an activist who believes such technology carries serious privacy risks. "Whoever did this obviously has access to some pretty advanced technology."
Experts said hiding tracking technology inside coins is fraught with risks because the spy's target might inadvertently give away the coin or spend it buying coffee or a newspaper. They agreed, however, that a coin with a hidden tracking device might not arouse suspicion if it were discovered in a pocket or briefcase.
"It wouldn't seem to be the best place to put something like that; you'd want to put it in something that wouldn't be left behind or spent," said Jeff Richelson, a researcher and author of books about the CIA and its gadgets. "It doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense."
Canada's largest coins include its $2 "Toonie," which is more than 1-inch across and thick enough to hide a tiny transmitter. The CIA has acknowledged its own spies have used hollow, U.S. silver-dollar coins to hide messages and film.
The government's 29-page report was filled with other espionage warnings. It described unrelated hacker attacks, eavesdropping with miniature pen recorders and the case of a female foreign spy who seduced her American boyfriend to steal his computer passwords.
In another case, a film processing company called the FBI after it developed pictures for a contractor that contained classified images of U.S. satellites and their blueprints. The photo was taken from an adjoining office window.
___
On the Web:
CIA hollow coin: https://http://www.cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/dollar.htm
Form 8-K for MODERN TECHNOLOGY CORP
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11-Jan-2007
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Financial Statements and Exhib
Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On January 8, 2007, the Company entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with Boveran, LLC, a private limited liability company engaged in the development of cancer detection technology and equipment technologies and related systems. Under the terms of the Agreement, the Company will acquire all of Boveran's right, title and interest in Boveran's assets, including but not limited to inventory, accounts receivable, contracts, intellectual property and permits. Company will pay to Boveran $500,000 in the form of Convertible Preferred Stock. Closing date of the Agreement is January 9, 2007.
Section 9 - Financial Statements and Exhibits
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
Attached hereto as Exhibit 10 is the Asset Purchase Agreement between Modern Technology Corp. and Boveran, LLC.
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Yvonne De Carlo, 'Munsters' star, dead
POSTED: 3:40 p.m. EST, January 10, 2007
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments" but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's "The Munsters," has died. She was 84.
De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday.
De Carlo, whose shapely figure helped launch her career in B-movie desert adventures and Westerns, rose to more important roles in the 1950s. Later, she had a key role in a landmark Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim's "Follies."
But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-1966 slapstick horror-movie spoof "The Munsters." The series (the name allegedly derived from "fun-monsters") offered a gallery of Universal Pictures grotesques, including Dracula and Frankenstein's monster, in a cobwebbed gothic setting.
Lily, vampire-like in a black gown, presided over the faux scary household and was a rock for her gentle but often bumbling husband, Herman, played by 6-foot-5-inch character actor Fred Gwynne (decked out as the Frankenstein monster).
While it lasted only two years, the series had a long life in syndication and resulted in two feature movies, "Munster Go Home!" (1966) and "The Munsters' Revenge" (1981, for TV).
At the series' end, De Carlo commented: "It meant security. It gave me a new, young audience I wouldn't have had otherwise. It made me 'hot' again, which I wasn't for a while."
"I think she will best remembered as the definitive Lily Munster. She was the vampire mom to millions of baby boomers. In that sense, she's iconic," Burns said Wednesday.
"But it would be a shame if that's the only way she is remembered. She was also one of the biggest beauty queens of the '40s and '50s, one of the most beautiful women in the world. This was one of the great glamour queens of Hollywood, one of the last ones."
De Carlo was able to sustain a long career by repeatedly reinventing herself. A longtime student of voice, she sang opera at the Hollywood Bowl. When movie roles became scarce, she ventured into stage musicals.
Her greatest stage triumph came on Broadway in 1971 with "Follies," which won the 1972 Tony award for best original musical score. She belted out Sondheim's showstopping number, "I'm Still Here," a former star's defiant recounting of the highs and lows of her life and career.
Much romance
Over the years, De Carlo augmented her stardom by shrewd use of publicity. Gossip columnists reported her dates with famous men. In her 1987 book, "Yvonne: An Autobiography," she listed 22 of her lovers, who included Howard Hughes, Burt Lancaster, Robert Stack, Robert Taylor, Billy Wilder, Aly Khan and an Iranian prince.
The Canadian-born De Carlo began her career with a parade of bit parts in films of the early 1940s, then emerged as a star in 1945 with "Salome -- Where She Danced," a routine movie about a dancer from Vienna who becomes a spy in the wild West.
She recalled her entrance in the film: "I came through these beaded curtains, wearing a Japanese kimono and a Japanese headpiece, and then performed a Siamese dance. Nobody seemed to know quite why."
Universal Pictures exploited her slightly exotic looks and a shape that looked ideal in a harem dress in such "sex-and-sand" programmers as "Song of Scheherazade," "Slave Girl," "Casbah" and "Desert Hawk."
The studio also employed her to add zest to Westerns, usually as a dance-hall girl or a gun-toting sharpshooter. Among the titles: "Frontier Gal," "Black Bart" (as Lola Montez), "River Lady," "Calamity Jane and Sam Bass" (as Calamity Jane) and "The Gal Who Took the West."
In 1956 she veered from her former image when Cecil B. DeMille chose her to play Sephora, wife to Charlton Heston's Moses in "The Ten Commandments." The following year she co-starred with Clark Gable and Sidney Poitier in "Band of Angels" as Gable's upper-class sweetheart who learns of her black forebears.
Among her later films: "McClintock" (starring John Wayne), "A Global Affair" (Bob Hope), "Hostile Guns" (George Montgomery), "The Power" (George Hamilton), "American Gothic" (Rod Steiger) and "Oscar" (Sylvester Stallone).
De Carlo was born Peggy Yvonne Middleton in Vancouver, British Columbia, on September 1, 1922 (some sources say 1924). Abandoned by her father, she was raised by her mother in poor circumstances. The girl took dancing lessons and dropped out of high school to work in night clubs and local theaters. She continued dancing in clubs when she and her mother moved to Los Angeles.
Paramount Pictures signed her to a contract in 1942, and she adopted her middle name and her mother's middle name. Dropped by Paramount after 20 minor roles, she landed at Universal, which cast her as the B-picture version of the studio's sultry star Maria Montez.
In 1955, De Carlo married Bob Morgan, a topflight stunt man, and the marriage produced two sons, Bruce and Michael, as well as much-publicized separations and reconciliations.
During a stunt aboard a moving log train for "How the West Was Won," Morgan was thrown underneath the wheels. The accident cost him a leg, and for a time De Carlo abandoned her career to care for him. They later divorced.
In her late years, De Carlo lived in semiretirement near Solvang, north of Santa Barbara. Her son Michael died in 1997, and she suffered a stroke the following year.
USSE New Communications Agency to Head Official USSEC Information Bureau
Market Wire "US Press Releases "
NATCHEZ, MS -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 01/09/07 -- U.S. Sustainable Energy Corp. (PINKSHEETS: USSE) has today announced the formal assignment and creation of Maximus Communications, a full service information agency appointed to manage and maintain group communications on behalf of all USSEC holdings. Headquartered in Chicago with offices in Boston, New York and San Francisco, Maximus Communications (www.maximuscommunications.com) will operate exclusively to support USSEC under the leadership of experienced media relations veteran Robert Davis.
"Our primary focus will be in assisting USSEC through all stages and transitions of their continued growth," states Davis, "with priority on ensuring that the vast amount of inbound communications they receive daily is best managed and utilized to enhance their operations. Since announcing their energy discovery in 2006, USSEC has averaged more than two thousand inbound information requests every week, a significant testament to the impact of their technology and what it means for the future."
John Rivera, CEO of USSEC, states, "We are extremely pleased to have Robert and his team active and involved as front runners for our company, and look forward to their ability to help maximize media visibility, support our investment community, and improve all of our global communication capabilities and policies. They are an exciting team with great vision and the perfect match for USSEC and our subsidiaries."
Maximus Communications will work closely with both USSEC and investment relations group Redwood Consultants, as well as oversee the production of technical white papers and marketing collaterals to be utilized for the Sustainable Power Corp. launch planned for later this month.
About U.S. Sustainable Energy Corp.
U.S. Sustainable Energy offers a revolutionary and patent pending new energy process that creates over three times more fuel per feedstock unit than any other biofuel process. The company has engineered the first bio-renewable fuel able to serve as a permanent replacement to diesel -- with none of the negative traits associated with traditional biodiesel or other green fuel alternatives.
The USSEC biofuel is furthermore created at a nominal cost as the byproduct of producing organic fertilizer from recycled waste products, a discovery made during research into agricultural biomass now known as the "Rivera Process." The technology offers a solution for foreign oil dependence and the eventual reversal of global greenhouse gas emissions, and can be further utilized to produce ethanol for 30 to 35 percent less than anyone else in the world.
Management and current operations are focused on leveraging the superior performance and low cost of the carbon, fertilizer and biofuel within bundled plant operations, turnkey energy contracts, ethanol production, and other critical applications that rely on energy as a major cost component.
Please visit our website: www.ussec.us.
INVESTOR CONTACT:
Redwood Consultants, LLC
415-884-0348
MEDIA CONTACT:
Kevin A. Mercuri
917-346-9386
kevin@5wpr.com
Prisoner probably ate parts of cellmate Mon Jan 8, 8:07 AM ET
PARIS, Jan 5 (Reuters Life!) - A French prisoner who killed his cellmate "very probably" ate some of the victim's body parts, a prosecutor in the northern town of Rouen said on Friday.
The victim's body was discovered in a prison cell on Wednesday, with a large wound to the chest. The alleged killer, who shared the cell, told investigators he had removed and eaten his victim's heart.
Investigators initially discounted the possibility of cannibalism after the victim's heart was "found intact in its usual place and in its membrane which was also intact," Rouen state prosecutor Joseph Schmit said in a statement.
However an autopsy revealed that pieces of muscle from the victim's rib area and part of his lung were missing.
"The absence of these anatomic elements, which have not been found on the scene of the crime, render the confessions of cannibalism by the presumed perpetrator of the crime very probable," Schmit said.
The case comes less than a year after a court in Germany sentenced Armin Meiwes, the cannibal who killed and ate a willing victim, to life in prison.
The alleged Rouen killer and another cellmate who admitted he had not been asleep at the time of the crime, were in temporary custody and would be placed under formal investigation for premeditated murder, Schmit said.
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Press Release Source: Modern Technology Corp
Modern Technology Corp. Announces Completion of AnuCyte Cancer Detection System Acquisition, Executes Definitive Agreement
Monday January 8, 5:43 pm ET
OXFORD, Miss., Jan. 8, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Modern Technology Corp. (Other OTC:MODC.PK - News), a bioscience technology development and acquisition company, announced today the completion of the acquisition of Boveran's assets and its cancer detection technology for our new bioscience operations unit, Insight Medical Group. The definitive agreement has been executed. All material terms are identical to the those agreed to in the original Letter of Intent. The entire Definitive Agreement will be timely filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under a Form 8-K.
The materials terms are as follows:
* 100% of the existing physical assets, intellectual property
rights, and current value of Boveran's assets
* Purchase Price: $500,000 paid in Convertible Preferred Stock to
Boveran.
* Purchase Terms: $500,000 Paid to Boveran's stockholders in the
Form of a Convertible Preferred Stock with conversion terms and
schedules to be agreed upon by the Parties within a reasonable
time and with reasonable terms concurrently to or subsequent to
the execution of the contemplated Definitive Asset Purchase
Agreement.
* Formal relationship with Duesberg Cancer Lab: The acquisition of
Boveran contemplates the support of Peter Duesberg's cancer
research. Insight Medical Group will provide ongoing financial
support to Peter Duesberg's lab as reasonably determined by
Insight Medical Group and Duesberg. Peter Duesberg's lab agrees
to work closely with Insight Medical Group to improve products
and technology.
Anthony Welch, Chairman, said: ``Today we formalize the acquisition and move forward in our plans as promised. Stockholders should note we acquired this asset without incurring debt or using cash. We anticipate several updates in the near future for stockholders. Not the least of which will be a business summary containing our industry assumptions, industry data, sales projections and related risk factors. We have previously discussed revenue projections and we want all stockholders and prospective stockholders to fully understand our model and assumptions. Stockholders should also look forward to the release of our new web site for Insight Medical and a White Paper describing the science and showing all stockholders why our claims are based in fact and are not opinion.'
About the AnuCyte Cancer Detection System
The AnuCyte Cancer Detection System is an automated machine that can rapidly detect any form of cancer. The system accurately identifies cancer at any stage in its development and also identifies healthy cancer-free cells in the same test within the same sample. The system eliminates heretofore unreliable, subjective, and error-prone pathology detection of cancer and delivers an automated and objective measurement of the presence or absence of cancer. The AnuCyte system is the first and only system in the world that uses the measurement of advanced chromosomal imbalance as the primary or sole means of detecting cancer. The company is not aware of any automated system in the world more accurate, or even close to AnuCyte's accuracy.
About AnuCyte's Inventors:
The inventor of the AnuCyte system, Dr. David Rasnick, Ph.D and his scientific research collaborator, Dr. Peter Duesberg, Ph.D, have been prominent names internationally for many years for their research and publications. On many occasions both have appeared internationally on television, in magazines, newspapers and scientific publications. Peter Duesberg is author of the widely available book: ``Inventing the AIDS Virus'. Investors may wish to read a recent article in Newsweek concerning the cancer research of Peter Duesberg: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14757547/site/newsweek/
In 1970, Peter Duesberg isolated the first cancer gene through his work on retroviruses and mapped the genetic structure of these viruses. This and his subsequent work in the same field resulted in his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1986. He was also the recipient of a seven-year Outstanding Investigator Grant from the National Institute of Health. He has been invited to become an Honorary Member of the World Innovation Foundation alongside 91 Nobel Laureates. (http://www.thewif.org.uk)
About Insight Medical Group
Insight Medical Group is a specialized biosciences development company whose mission is to bring world-changing medical technology and research to market in the areas of cancer and AIDS. The AnuCyte Cancer Detection System was invented by Dr. David Rasnick, Ph.D. The technology behind AnuCyte and the chromosomal imbalance theory is the result of 45 years of combined cancer research by Dr. David Rasnick, Ph.D and Dr. Peter Duesberg, Ph.D, who continues his studies on cancer research at the University of California, Berkeley.
About Modern Technology Corp.
Modern Technology Corp., a bioscience technology development and acquisition company, builds revenues through a model of continuous growth, strategic acquisitions, and commercialization of nascent technology. MODC improves operating efficiencies through the elimination of cost redundancies and realized synergy between subsidiaries. MODC is a fully-reporting public company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. For more information on the company's SEC filings, visit http://www.sec.gov. The company's web address is: http://www.moderntechnologycorp.com
Safe-Harbor Statement
This press release contains statements (such as projections regarding future performance) that are forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those projected as a result of certain risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to those detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Contact:
Modern Technology Corp.
Investor Relations:
Anthony Welch
(601) 213-3629
ir@moderntechnologycorp.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Source: Modern Technology Corp
MODC Press Release Source: Modern Technology Corp
Modern Technology Corp. Announces Completion of AnuCyte Cancer Detection System Acquisition, Executes Definitive Agreement
Monday January 8, 5:43 pm ET
OXFORD, Miss., Jan. 8, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Modern Technology Corp. (Other OTC:MODC.PK - News), a bioscience technology development and acquisition company, announced today the completion of the acquisition of Boveran's assets and its cancer detection technology for our new bioscience operations unit, Insight Medical Group. The definitive agreement has been executed. All material terms are identical to the those agreed to in the original Letter of Intent. The entire Definitive Agreement will be timely filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under a Form 8-K.
The materials terms are as follows:
* 100% of the existing physical assets, intellectual property
rights, and current value of Boveran's assets
* Purchase Price: $500,000 paid in Convertible Preferred Stock to
Boveran.
* Purchase Terms: $500,000 Paid to Boveran's stockholders in the
Form of a Convertible Preferred Stock with conversion terms and
schedules to be agreed upon by the Parties within a reasonable
time and with reasonable terms concurrently to or subsequent to
the execution of the contemplated Definitive Asset Purchase
Agreement.
* Formal relationship with Duesberg Cancer Lab: The acquisition of
Boveran contemplates the support of Peter Duesberg's cancer
research. Insight Medical Group will provide ongoing financial
support to Peter Duesberg's lab as reasonably determined by
Insight Medical Group and Duesberg. Peter Duesberg's lab agrees
to work closely with Insight Medical Group to improve products
and technology.
Anthony Welch, Chairman, said: ``Today we formalize the acquisition and move forward in our plans as promised. Stockholders should note we acquired this asset without incurring debt or using cash. We anticipate several updates in the near future for stockholders. Not the least of which will be a business summary containing our industry assumptions, industry data, sales projections and related risk factors. We have previously discussed revenue projections and we want all stockholders and prospective stockholders to fully understand our model and assumptions. Stockholders should also look forward to the release of our new web site for Insight Medical and a White Paper describing the science and showing all stockholders why our claims are based in fact and are not opinion.''
About the AnuCyte Cancer Detection System
The AnuCyte Cancer Detection System is an automated machine that can rapidly detect any form of cancer. The system accurately identifies cancer at any stage in its development and also identifies healthy cancer-free cells in the same test within the same sample. The system eliminates heretofore unreliable, subjective, and error-prone pathology detection of cancer and delivers an automated and objective measurement of the presence or absence of cancer. The AnuCyte system is the first and only system in the world that uses the measurement of advanced chromosomal imbalance as the primary or sole means of detecting cancer. The company is not aware of any automated system in the world more accurate, or even close to AnuCyte's accuracy.
About AnuCyte's Inventors:
The inventor of the AnuCyte system, Dr. David Rasnick, Ph.D and his scientific research collaborator, Dr. Peter Duesberg, Ph.D, have been prominent names internationally for many years for their research and publications. On many occasions both have appeared internationally on television, in magazines, newspapers and scientific publications. Peter Duesberg is author of the widely available book: ``Inventing the AIDS Virus''. Investors may wish to read a recent article in Newsweek concerning the cancer research of Peter Duesberg: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14757547/site/newsweek/
In 1970, Peter Duesberg isolated the first cancer gene through his work on retroviruses and mapped the genetic structure of these viruses. This and his subsequent work in the same field resulted in his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1986. He was also the recipient of a seven-year Outstanding Investigator Grant from the National Institute of Health. He has been invited to become an Honorary Member of the World Innovation Foundation alongside 91 Nobel Laureates. (http://www.thewif.org.uk)
About Insight Medical Group
Insight Medical Group is a specialized biosciences development company whose mission is to bring world-changing medical technology and research to market in the areas of cancer and AIDS. The AnuCyte Cancer Detection System was invented by Dr. David Rasnick, Ph.D. The technology behind AnuCyte and the chromosomal imbalance theory is the result of 45 years of combined cancer research by Dr. David Rasnick, Ph.D and Dr. Peter Duesberg, Ph.D, who continues his studies on cancer research at the University of California, Berkeley.
About Modern Technology Corp.
Modern Technology Corp., a bioscience technology development and acquisition company, builds revenues through a model of continuous growth, strategic acquisitions, and commercialization of nascent technology. MODC improves operating efficiencies through the elimination of cost redundancies and realized synergy between subsidiaries. MODC is a fully-reporting public company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. For more information on the company's SEC filings, visit http://www.sec.gov. The company's web address is: http://www.moderntechnologycorp.com
Safe-Harbor Statement
This press release contains statements (such as projections regarding future performance) that are forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those projected as a result of certain risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to those detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Contact:
Modern Technology Corp.
Investor Relations:
Anthony Welch
(601) 213-3629
ir@moderntechnologycorp.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Source: Modern Technology Corp
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Thanks for posting that
AND GO BUCKEYES
Talk about snail mail
Pa. man gets letter postmarked 1954 Sun Jan 7, 11:29 PM ET
FERNDALE, Pa. - A western Pennsylvania man is trying to solve a mystery that recently landed in his mailbox: a letter mailed more than 50 years ago and addressed to a Frederick Zane Yost.
The letter, with a 3-cent stamp and postmarked Oct. 26, 1954, was encased in a large Postal Service window envelope. There is a return address — in nearby Richland Township — but no sender's name.
Brian McAteer said that the letter appears to be sealed and has not been damaged, and that he will not open it. However, he hasn't had any luck finding Yost. Among his efforts have been to contact Yosts in the area, speak with longtime residents and search on the Internet.
"I haven't given up trying to find him," McAteer, a road foreman, told the Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown.
The newspaper reported that its archives show Yost's parents, both of whom are dead, lived in Ferndale in 1954. His father was a sports editor at the newspaper, which reported that the younger Yost had moved to Florida.
Tad Kelley, a spokesman for the Postal Service in Pittsburgh, said he could not comment specifically on the letter without investigating.
"Sometimes pieces of mail do get lost behind equipment or transporting equipment. ... It is infrequent, but every once in a blue moon, it does happen," Kelley said. "No matter how old it is, we will deliver it."
Ferndale is about 65 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
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Israel has plans for nuclear strike on Iran: paper
LONDON (Reuters) - Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper said.
Citing what it said were several Israeli military sources, the paper said two Israeli air force squadrons had been training to blow up an enrichment plant in Natanz using low-yield nuclear "bunker busters."
Two other sites, a heavy water plant at Arak and a uranium conversion plant at Isfahan, would be targeted with conventional bombs, the Sunday Times said.
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously last month to slap sanctions on Iran to try to stop uranium enrichment that Western powers fear could lead to making bombs. Tehran insists its plans are peaceful and says it will continue enrichment.
Israel has refused to rule out pre-emptive military action against Iran along the lines of its 1981 air strike against an atomic reactor in Iraq, though many analysts believe Iran's nuclear facilities are too much for Israel to take on alone.
The newspaper said the Israeli plan envisaged conventional laser-guided bombs opening "tunnels" into the targets. Nuclear warheads would then be used fired into the plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce radioactive fallout.
Israeli pilots have flown to Gibraltar in recent weeks to train for the 2,000 mile round-trip to the Iranian targets, the Sunday Times said, and three possible routes to Iran have been mapped out including one over Turkey.
However it also quoted sources as saying a nuclear strike would only be used if a conventional attack was ruled out and if the United States declined to intervene. Disclosure of the plans could be intended to put pressure on Tehran to halt enrichment, the paper added.
Washington has said military force remains an option while insisting that its priority is to reach a diplomatic solution.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map." Israel, widely believed to have the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal, has said it will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons
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Texas Rabbits Rule
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Danelo dead
USC kicker found at bottom of cliff outside L.A.
Posted: Sunday January 7, 2007 12:03AM; Updated: Sunday January 7, 2007 2:34AM
Mario Danelo was 15-for-16 on field goals this season and made 44 of 48 PATs, leading the team in scoring with 89 points.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Southern California kicker Mario Danelo was found dead Saturday about 120 feet down a rocky cliff near Point Fermin lighthouse in the city's San Pedro section.
The body was reported by a passer-by at about 4:30 p.m., said Martha Garcia of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Danelo, the 21-year-old son of former NFL kicker Joe Danelo, made 15 of 16 field goals this season and led the Trojans in scoring with 89 points. The junior made two field goals in the Rose Bowl on Monday to help USC beat Michigan 32-18.
Speaking on behalf of Trojans coach Pete Carroll, USC spokesman Tim Tessalone said: "We were stunned to hear about this tragedy. This is a great loss. Mario was a wonderful young man of high character.
"He was one heck of a kicker. He was a key ingredient in our success the past two years. The thoughts and prayers of the entire Trojan family go out to the Danelo family on this sad, sad day."
The family declined to comment.
A former San Pedro High School linebacker and soccer player, Danelo made the Trojans as a walk-on in 2003. In 2005, he received a scholarship and earned the starting kicking job.
He only missed two field goals in his career, going 26-for-28, and was 127-of-134 on extra points. In 2005, he set NCAA single-season records with 83 extra points and 86 attempts.
Israel has plans for nuclear strike on Iran: paper
LONDON (Reuters) - Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper said.
Citing what it said were several Israeli military sources, the paper said two Israeli air force squadrons had been training to blow up an enrichment plant in Natanz using low-yield nuclear "bunker busters."
Two other sites, a heavy water plant at Arak and a uranium conversion plant at Isfahan, would be targeted with conventional bombs, the Sunday Times said.
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously last month to slap sanctions on Iran to try to stop uranium enrichment that Western powers fear could lead to making bombs. Tehran insists its plans are peaceful and says it will continue enrichment.
Israel has refused to rule out pre-emptive military action against Iran along the lines of its 1981 air strike against an atomic reactor in Iraq, though many analysts believe Iran's nuclear facilities are too much for Israel to take on alone.
The newspaper said the Israeli plan envisaged conventional laser-guided bombs opening "tunnels" into the targets. Nuclear warheads would then be used fired into the plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce radioactive fallout.
Israeli pilots have flown to Gibraltar in recent weeks to train for the 2,000 mile round-trip to the Iranian targets, the Sunday Times said, and three possible routes to Iran have been mapped out including one over Turkey.
However it also quoted sources as saying a nuclear strike would only be used if a conventional attack was ruled out and if the United States declined to intervene. Disclosure of the plans could be intended to put pressure on Tehran to halt enrichment, the paper added.
Washington has said military force remains an option while insisting that its priority is to reach a diplomatic solution.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map." Israel, widely believed to have the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal, has said it will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons
Another Hogzilla caught near Atlanta Fri Jan 5, 9:28 PM ET
FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. - A giant wild hog boasted to be bigger than the near-mythical "Hogzilla" caught in southern Georgia a few years ago has been killed in a suburban Atlanta neighborhood.
The hog hung snout down from a tree Friday in William Coursey's front yard, not far from where the avid hunter said he shot the beast. He said he hauled it to a truck weight station, which recorded the hairy hog at 1,100 pounds.
The Department of Natural Resources did not know whether the hog was a record for the state. "We don't keep records on hogs," said Melissa Cummings of the DNR's public affairs department.
But Coursey believes his behemoth surpasses the famed super swine shot and killed in 2004 that weighed in at half a ton on the farm's scales. A team of National Geographic experts later confirmed "Hogzilla" didn't quite live up to the 1,000-pound, 12-foot hype, saying the beast was probably 7 1/2 to 8 feet long, and weighed about 800 pounds.
The news of Coursey's kill got people are talking about the enormous beasts that roam the state.
"Nobody keeps official records," said Daryl Kirby, an editor with Georgia Outdoor News. "But it's one heck of a hog."
'Croc Hunter' Steve Irwin's final show finished
POSTED: 12:31 p.m. EST, January 6, 2007
Story Highlights• Irwin was filming for the show when he died
• Documentary will not show fatal encounter with stingray
• Video of death given to Irwin's widow and all copies destroyed
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin's final program is complete, but the show about the sea's deadliest creatures will not include footage from the day he was killed by a stingray, his manager said Saturday.
Irwin died September 4, minutes after a poisonous barb from a stingray's tail pierced his chest while he was snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef in northern Australia shooting footage for two projects, including one titled "Ocean's Deadliest."
Irwin's final moments were caught on video tape, and were used in a police investigation and coroner's examination of the death.
The original tape was returned to Irwin's widow, Terri, and all copies were destroyed, Queensland state Coroner Michael Barnes said earlier this week.
Terri Irwin and close family friend and Irwin's manager John Stainton, one of few to have seen the footage, have both said it will never be shown publicly.
Stainton on Saturday said "Ocean's Deadliest" had been completed in line with Irwin's contract with the Discovery Channel, and would be shown for the first time in the U.S. on January 21.
The show includes footage taken in the week and days before Irwin's death.
"Anything to do with the day that he died, that film is not available," Stainton said.
Finishing the program together was especially difficult because of Irwin's death, Stainton said.
"The documentary was commissioned, we finished it and it's going to air," Stainton said. "It's been a long and arduous saga ... an emotionally charged time to do an edit on a documentary that did have a deadline, and we did have to honor the deadline," he said.