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Candidates for the local seats have until Monday, March 5 to file for a place on the ballot for each election. For a listing of those who have already registered, see the February 16 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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1. To qualify for the special ad valorem tax classification and accompanying 12% assessment rate under K.S.A. 79-1439(b)(1)(D), real estate must be both owned and operated by an organization which is exempt from federal income taxation under a specifically listed subsection of Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code; subsection IRC 501(c)(3) is specifically listed for special classification.
2. An IRC 501(c)(3) organization does not operate its owned real estate, as required under K.S.A. 79-1439(b)(1)(D), by entering into a passive, triple-net commercial lease with a for-profit, non-tax-exempt entity which then exclusively occupies and uses the real estate to conduct activities for profit.
Appeal from Reno District Court; RICHARD J. ROME, judge. Opinion filed October 1, 2004. Affirmed.
Robert J. O'Connor and Geron J. Bird, of Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP, of Wichita, for appellant.
Richard A. Benjes, of Hutchinson, for appellee.
Before JOHNSON, P.J., MALONE and HILL, JJ.
JOHNSON, J.: Main Line, Inc., appeals the district court's affirmation of the Board of Tax Appeals' (BOTA) classification of Main Line's rental real estate as commercial, rather than as property owned and operated by a not-for-profit corporation. Specifically, Main Line contends that BOTA erred in finding that Main Line did not operate the real property and erred in refusing to grant relief retroactively. We affirm.
Main Line was a for-profit corporation that held rental property, generating total revenues in 1997 of approximately 2.5 million dollars. In June 1998, Main Line's depreciable property was valued in excess of 10 million dollars. Health Care, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation, purchased a 100% interest in Main Line and converted it into a tax-exempt not-for-profit organization. Main Line's application for tax exempt status was dated November 27, 1998. Main Line's brief supports many of its factual contentions by citing to its entries in the tax exempt application. Based upon the information in that application, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a letter ruling, determining Main Line to be exempt from federal income tax as an organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3) (2000).
Main Line owns medical equipment, land, and buildings, all of which are leased to Hutchinson Clinic, P.A. (Clinic), a Kansas for-profit corporation. Main Line's only source of operating revenue is the rental income from the Clinic, albeit the tax exempt application asserts that, if needed, potential cash infusions are available from Health Care, Inc. The rental agreement is governed by a 30-year Master Facilities Lease (lease), which contains provisions effecting a common commercial lease arrangement, known as a triple-net lease, whereby the tenant is responsible for paying the insurance, taxes, and repairs. Specifically, the Clinic is obligated to pay "all taxes and assessments, general and special, which may be lawfully taxed, charged, levied, assessed or imposed upon or against or payable for or in respect of the Leased Property or any part thereof." If the Clinic fails to perform any of its duties under the lease, then Main Line has the option, but not the obligation, to perform the duties.
The lease included three parcels of real estate in Reno County and one parcel in Rice County. In mid-2001, Main Line commenced the process to challenge the rate at which ad valorem taxes were assessed against its real estate. Specifically, in June 2001, Main Line filed an equalization appeal on the Reno County parcels, challenging the 2001 assessment. Two months later, Main Line filed applications protesting payment of the 2000 ad valorem taxes on the three Reno County parcels, and on September 25, 2001, it applied for relief on the same parcels for the 1999 tax year. With respect to the Rice County parcel, Main Line filed a protest on August 7, 2001, challenging the 2000 tax assessment, and a month later applied for relief for the 1999 tax.
Before BOTA, Main Line filed for summary judgment, and the Counties filed a motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. BOTA dismissed the appeals for the 1999 tax year, as well as the 2000 appeal on one parcel for which Main Line had previously filed and then dismissed an equalization appeal. Main Line's remaining claims were denied on the merits.
After Main Line's motion for reconsideration was denied, it filed a timely petition for judicial review in Reno County. The Kansas Supreme Court ordered the consolidation of the Rice County and Reno County cases. After hearing oral arguments and reviewing the evidence, the district court sustained BOTA's findings.
The core issue presented is whether Main Line operated the land, as required by K.S.A. 79-1439(b)(1)(D) to receive a favorable 12% tax rate. To resolve the question, we must interpret the statute. We give weight and consideration to BOTA's interpretation of a statute, but the final construction of a statute rests with the courts. See Lario Enterprises, Inc. v. State Bd. of Tax Appeals, 22 Kan. App. 2d 857, 860, 925 P.2d 440, rev. denied 261 Kan. 1085 (1996). Courts construe statutes imposing a tax strictly in favor of the taxpayer. In re Tax Appeal of Harbour Brothers Constr. Co., 256 Kan. 216, 223, 883 P.2d 1194 (1994). On the other hand, tax exemption statutes are construed strictly in favor of imposing the tax and against allowing the exemption for one who does not clearly qualify. Presbyterian Manors, Inc. v. Douglas County, 268 Kan. 488, 492, 998 P.2d 88 (2000).
The assessed valuation of Main Line's real estate for ad valorem tax purposes was computed at 25% of its value, which is the assessment rate for commercial property. K.S.A. 79-1439(b)(1)(F). Main Line argues that it fit within a special classification applicable to certain tax-exempt organizations pursuant to K.S.A. 79-1439(b)(1)(D). That provision is the enabling statute for Kan. Const. art. 11, § 1(a)(4) (2003 Supp.), and provides, in pertinent part:
"(b) Property shall be classified into the following classes and assessed at the percentage of value prescribed therefor:
"(1) Real property shall be assessed as to sub-class at the following percentages of value:
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(D) real property which is owned and operated by a not-for-profit organization not subject to federal income taxation pursuant to section 501 of the federal internal revenue code and included herein pursuant to K.S.A. 79-1439a, and amendments thereto, at 12%." K.S.A. 79-1439.
K.S.A. 79-1439a limits the 12% tax rate to organizations that are granted tax-exempt status under six of the 27 subsections of IRC 501(c); IRC 501(c)(3) is one of the six subsections listed for special treatment. Main Line is, at least for purposes of this opinion, an IRC 501(c)(3) organization. IRC 501(c)(3) provides:
"Corporations, and any community chest, fund, or foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, or educational purposes, or to foster national or international amateur sports competition (but only if no part of its activities involve the provision of athletic facilities or equipment), or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual, no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting, to influence legislation (except as otherwise provided in subsection (h)), and which does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office." 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3).
If K.S.A. 79-1439(b)(1)(D) simply applied the 12% assessment rate to real property owned by a qualifying tax-exempt organization, our analysis would be complete; Main Line would qualify for the rate. However, the statute makes the additional requirement that the real property must be operated by the qualifying not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization.
In a vacuum, one would intuit that a tax-exempt organization is not operating the property. A professional association of medical care providers has possession of the real estate and is actively utilizing it to generate income, presumably with the goal of earning profits for the Clinic's beneficial owners. Main Line's role in the real estate's operation is simply to receive passive income from the property in the form of rents. It is difficult to perceive how Main Line's rental of its assets to a for-profit enterprise is in furtherance of the tax-exempt IRC 501(c)(3) purpose for which Main Line is ostensibly organized and exclusively operating. Accordingly, the arrangement does not comport with the spirit of our state's legislation designed to foster the religious, charitable, etc. activities contemplated in IRC 501(c)(3).
However, language in prior cases dealing with distinguishable fact patterns and often addressing different statutory provisions has provided Main Line with fuel to drive its arguments that it should be deemed to have operated the subject real property. Main Line contends that the statutory operation requirement can be met in more than one way. We perceive Main Line's arguments to be that its leasing of the property can fulfill the "operated" requirement; that through the relationship between Main Line and the Clinic, the Clinic can perform the operation requirement on behalf of Main Line; and that the Clinic's independent operations fulfill the statutory requirement.
BOTA found that Main Line's leasing of the land to the Clinic did not constitute an operation of the land. The agency noted that the lease required the Clinic to pay the taxes and opined that Main Line's discretion to enforce the lease provisions was not tantamount to operating the land. BOTA observed that the triple-net lease provision would give the benefit of the lower tax rate to the Clinic, which was responsible for paying the property taxes but which was not tax-exempt under IRC 501(c)(3). BOTA found this situation contravened legislative intent. See Most Worshipful Grand Lodge v. Board of Shawnee County Comm'rs, 259 Kan. 510, 518-19, 912 P.2d 708 (1996) (stating that legislative history of Kan. Const. art. 11, § 1[a][4] indicates intent to give tax relief to certain not-for-profits organized under section 501[c] of the Internal Revenue Code).
Main Line apparently concurs with BOTA's findings that the term "operated" is not specifically defined in either the Kansas Constitution or in K.S.A. 79-1439(b)(1)(D); that words in common usage should be given their natural and ordinary meanings; and that Black's Law Dictionary 1091 (6th ed. 1990) defines "operate" as "[t]o perform a function, or operation, or produce an effect." The disagreement focuses on whether Main Line performed a function or operation, or produced an effect by entering into a lease agreement.
Main Line cites to Lario for support that leasing is equivalent to operating. That case is readily distinguishable. The case involved a tax exemption under K.S.A. 79-201a Second, and the question presented was whether the real estate was "used exclusively" by the State or any municipality or political subdivision of the state. Lario, 22 Kan. App. 2d at 860. Main Line did not seek a tax exemption but rather contends that its real estate was misclassified. Further, the arrangement analyzed by the Lario court was an agreement for Lario Enterprises to manage and operate Heartland Park Topeka for and on behalf of the City of Topeka. The Clinic did not contract to manage and operate the business or trade conducted on the property for the benefit of Main Line. Indeed, one would suspect that, if Main Line had endeavored to manage and operate a for-profit trade or business on the property, independently or through a contract with the Clinic, it would have run afoul of its permitted activities as a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, IRC 501(c)(3) organization. Lario is neither controlling nor particularly persuasive.
Main Line also relies on League of Kansas Municipalities v. Board of Shawnee County Comm'rs, 24 Kan. App. 2d 294, 944 P.2d 172 (1997), another tax exemption controversy under K.S.A. 79-201a Second. In upholding the tax exemption for the League, our court found that the League was an instrumentality of the cities and held that it was the use of the land, rather than its ownership, which is of primary importance. 24 Kan. App. 2d at 302. Obviously, the Clinic is operating on its own behalf for profit, rather than as a tool or agent for Main Line. Again, this case is neither controlling nor persuasive.
Main Line asserts that In re Tax Appeal of Univ. of Kan. School of Medicine, 266 Kan. 737, 973 P.2d 176 (1999), teaches us two things: (1) that absent a statutory provision to the contrary, statutory "ownership" and "operation" do not have to be by the same entity; and (2) that the leasing of property, standing alone, is a "use" of that property and, therefore, fulfills the operated requirement. Again, the court was interpreting and applying a tax exemption provision, K.S.A. 79-201 Ninth. The University of Kansas School of Medicine--Wichita Medical Practice Association (WMPA), an IRC 501(c)(3) charitable organization, owned and leased real estate to the Wichita Primary Care Center (Center), also a tax-exempt not-for-profit organization.
Main Line focuses on opinion language suggesting that a property owner who leases the property is using it and that a lessor and lessee are simultaneously using the same property. Main Line's own brief, however, provides us with a quote of the court's controlling holding: "[W]here the property for which exemption is claimed is owned and leased by a corporation fulfilling all requirements of K.S.A. 79-201 Ninth to another separate corporation that operates the property and also fulfills all statutory requirements of K.S.A. 79-201 Ninth, exemption is appropriate." 266 Kan. at 769. Even if we were to buy into the argument that the subject property was being simultaneously operated by Main Line and the Clinic, the fact that the Clinic did not fulfill the statutory requirements of K.S.A. 79-1439(b)(1)(D) negates the applicability of School of Medicine. After noting that the 1989 amendment to K.S.A. 70-201 Ninth replaced "operated" with "owned and operated," the Kansas Supreme Court found that the amendment was "designed as part of a comprehensive attempt to prevent a situation wherein an entity that was not tax exempt would lease property to a tax exempt entity for a profit and thereby gain a tax benefit." 266 Kan. at 759. We suspect our Supreme Court would likewise look askance at a situation wherein an entity that was not tax exempt could gain a tax benefit by leasing from a tax exempt entity.
Finally, Main Line contends a prior BOTA decision, In the Matter of the Equalization Appeal of Menorah Medical Center, Inc., No. 1998-5976-EQ (1999), mandates a finding that it operated the real property and BOTA erred in disregarding its own precedent. Main Line complains of the cursory manner in which BOTA disregarded the Menorah findings. However, notwithstanding Main Line's arguments to the contrary, the doctrine of stare decisis is not applicable to decisions of administrative tribunals. See In re Appeal of K-Mart Corp., 238 Kan. 393, 396, 710 P.2d 1304 (1985). The court in K-Mart, went on to state, "[t]here is no rule in Kansas that an administrative agency must explain its actions in refusing to follow a ruling of a predecessor board in a different case or that it must articulate in detail why the earlier ruling is not being followed." 238 Kan. at 396. Main Line argues that the factual differences between K-Mart and the present case indicate that BOTA should have followed the Menorah ruling in the present case. However, the factual differences do not negate the general rule that BOTA is not bound by its previous decisions and is not required to explain its departure from its previous decisions.
Further, after recognizing the K-Mart rule, BOTA noted that the facts in Menorah were "significantly different" from the facts in the present case. There, the owner occupied a portion of the building, which was used as a hospital, and provided for maintenance of common areas. Utilities for the rental offices and the hospital were provided from a common source. Granted, the factual differences do not totally explain the findings in Menorah. Nevertheless, we do not find Menorah to be persuasive.
Main Line, pointing to its tax exempt application, also suggests that it "perform(s) a function, or operation or produces an effect" by insuring the availability of health care facilities and services in the community through the subject property. In its application, Main Line told the IRS that it would be using its assets as follows: "Fixed Assets and Land are utilized in such a manner to ensure the availability of health care facilities and services to be utilized by certain exempt members of the Health Care, Inc. group including Hutchinson Hospital and Community Health Center, which caters towards the indigent and medically underserved." (Emphasis added.)
We confess to being unsettled by our perception that the application misdirects attention away from the fact that virtually all of Main Line's assets would be leased to a for-profit, non-exempt Clinic. Nevertheless, the propriety of Main Line's tax-exempt status is not before us. However, our confusion as to how the lease to the Clinic insures the availability of facilities and services for the exempt members of Health Care, Inc., leads us to disregard this argument.
As alluded to earlier, appellate courts are to defer to BOTA's expertise when interpreting taxation statutes. See In re Appeal of Intercard, Inc., 270 Kan. 346, 349, 14 P.3d 1111 (2000) (BOTA is specialized agency whose decisions are given great weight and deference when acting in its area of expertise). Therefore, we will not attempt to propound a bright line definition of "operated," as that term is employed in K.S.A. 79-1439(b)(1)(D). We do find, however, that an organization granted tax-exempt status under IRC 501(c)(3) does not operate real property by entering into a passive, triple-net commercial lease with a for-profit, non-tax-exempt entity which exclusively occupies and uses the property to conduct activities for profit.
Our decision that Main Line would lose on the merits renders insignificant its complaint that BOTA should not have dismissed a portion of its claims. However, we do state that we would reject Main Line's creative argument that K.S.A. 79-1439(b)(1)(D) is a partial exemption statute; its function is to classify property. Further, we would find that nothing in K.S.A. 2003 Supp. 79-213 would excuse Main Line's failure to file an initial request for exemption. All other jurisdictional issues have been abandoned on appeal.
1REPORTER'S NOTE: Previously filed as an unpublished opinion, the Supreme Court granted a motion to publish pursuant to Rule 7.04 (2004 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 47). The published version was filed with the Clerk of the Appellate Courts on May 17, 2005.


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Nintendo's head honcho Satoru Iwata has come under fire recently from industry analyst Michael Pachter, with the analyst claiming that the executive has overstayed his welcome as an employee at Nintendo, as reported by Gamepolitics. However, Pachter must feel awfully silly given that Play.com, which is owned by Rakuten, has revealed that the Wii U has seen a sales spike of 75% in October, and the system has proven to be the most popular device amongst kids, along with the iPad, beating out the Xbox One and PS4.
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Both Japan and the Philippines are attempting to engage China in new ways to settle sovereignty disputes in the South China Sea.
The Associated Press reports a Japanese envoy has arrived in China to deliver a letter from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Chinese leader-to-be Xi Jinping.
The AP also reports that on Tuesday the Philippines took a "desperate legal step against China's claims to virtually the entire South China Sea" as it seeks an international declaration that Beijing's moves in the resource-rich waters are "unlawful."
The visit of Natsuo Yamaguchi, who is not in Japan's government, is described as a type of "quiet diplomacy that could allow for a franker exchange of views than official talks might." Chinese state media welcomed the politician, signaling that it is willing to tone down the verbal attacks it has heaped on Japan in weeks.
Nevertheless, the Japan Coast Guard said that on Monday and Tuesday a Chinese fisheries patrol vessel repeatedly sailed on the periphery of Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. When warned by the Japanese to leave the area, the Chinese ships broadcast messages over loudspeakers in Japanese and Chinese stating, "This is historically Chinese territory."
There has been little official dialogue and several flare-ups since Japan's government bought the uninhabited islands, known in Chinese as Diaoyu and Japanese as Senkaku, from their private Japanese owners in September.
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The Philippines is taking its case to a tribunal operating under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea because, as Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said, the country "has exhausted almost all political and diplomatic avenues for a peaceful negotiated settlement of its maritime disputes with China."
In response to the move, Chinese Ambassador Ma Keqing released a statement saying that "China has indisputable sovereignty over the islands in the South China Sea and its adjacent waters."
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MCADCafe e_Magazine: ZW3D 2012 Premium Software Review
July 9th, 2012 by Jeff Rowe
There are many choices in the engineering software space for CAD and CAM. However, there are relatively few choices that have both capabilities in one package, but ZW3D offers both in one well-integrated package. ZW3D 2012 Premium, with its ability to handle both CAD and CAM has several advantages. The biggest advantage is probably the common user interface, so you can easily move between the CAD and CAM environments for a smoother and more efficient design, engineering, and manufacturing workflow that can provide better end results.
ZW3D 2012 is available in five versions – Standard, Professional, Premium, 2X machining and 3X machining. Each version offers features for users with different needs and workflows, and includes:
The most significant improvements to ZW3D 2012 Premium include:
ZW3D 2012 Premium will be the version covered in this evaluation/review. Note also, that although ZW3D Premium has a wide range of CAD and CAM capabilities, we will focus primarily on the CAD side of its features and capabilities. Because there is so much to cover on the CAM side, we will largely leave that for a future evaluation/review. We will, however, cover the new turning operations on the CAM side .
User Interface and Experience
ZW3D 2012 has a new user interface which looks and feels somewhat familiar and can be customized. In ZW3D 2012, the user interface has the following components: Menu, Quick Access Toolbar, Ribbon Tabs, Toolbar, and Data Manager.
I feel the Data Manager is one of the most unique features of ZW3D's UI. It is used to control several aspects of parts, drawings, the CAM Plan, etc. through Levels.
Figure 1: ZW3D 2012 User Interface
The Data Manager can be used at the following ZW3D Levels:
The Layer Manager is accessed from the ZW3D Data Manager. Select this icon from the Toolbar and then select the Layer Manager tab. Entities can be assigned to different layers to help manage design data. For example, reference geometry can be assigned to a different layer than part geometry. Layers can be created, edited, deleted, blanked, activated, and frozen. You can set default line and face attributes for a layer and new entities will be assigned those attributes automatically.
The Input Manager provides a non-linear method of entering required and optional inputs. Options Forms are displayed in the ZW3D Data Manager if it is enabled. You can use the ZW3D Configuration Form to have forms displayed automatically. The forms complement the command prompt sequence. When the forms are not displayed, this is referred to as "streamlined mode" verses "play mode" when they are displayed. In "streamlined mode" optional inputs are assigned default values and only the required inputs are prompted.
For new and even experienced users, the place to start learning ZW3D 2012 are its Show-n-Tell tutorials. ZW3D 2012 also has a series of helpful CAD and CAM tips for just about all aspects of the design and manufacturing processes.
A good user interface is vital for new users and minimizing the learning curve, and ZW3D 2012 has made some significant strides in this area. However, the documentation that comes with the product is incomplete and will leave some users at a loss on how to perform some functions without trial and error.
Getting Started
Files created with ZW3D can contain as many parts, assemblies, drawings, and CAM plans as required, each being known as an object. You can store an entire project of objects in one file or multiple files. With this in mind, a good strategy is to store commonly used parts in one file and create part objects specific to an assembly in another project file.
Another good strategy for beginning a design with ZW3D is to create template objects for modeling, 2D drawing, and machining. All template objects are stored in the Templates file. You can edit previous template objects, as well as copying and pasting to create a new one. Templates can be customized to set such things as colors and line styles, layer schemes, and machining operations and parameters. A template can be selected and used when starting, for example, a new part, drawing sheet, or CAM plan. When using templates, be sure to properly save and close the Templates file when you have finished editing to ensure the integrity of your work.
ZW3D 2012 has hints and prompts as design aids that most users will appreciate. First, there is Show Hints that provides context sensitive, continuous tips. Second, at the bottom of the graphics window is the Prompt/Status Line that displays the current command and the next logical step ZW3D wants you to perform. This latter feature is not perfect, but is usually quite helpful.
With ZW3D 2012 you can work with any geometry and solids are not necessarily required. Once imported you can manipulate solids, surfaces, wireframe, and scanned point cloud data. Geometry healing is useful for correcting gaps in imported model geometry. Healing functions make it relatively easy to analyze surface topology, sew surfaces together, fill gaps with new surfaces, and specify tolerances for creating closed solids.
Part Modeling
From the beginning ZW3D has been built on the company's proprietary Overdrive Modeling Kernel, which is a good thing for mathematical modeling efficiency, and optimization.
Like virtually all CAD systems, including ZW3D, most new designs start with sketches. However, ZW3D simplifies sketching using a proprietary capability called ReadySketch with several pre-defined commonly used, dimensioned geometric sketch shapes that can be quickly edited to a size required for a design.
Sketching in ZW3D is easy and straightforward. Clicking on a line and right clicking displays several context sensitive options, such as copy, move, mirror, cut, etc. Geometric constraints, such as perpendicular, parallel, etc. are automatically displayed and usable during sketching. Clicking on a constraint displays options for changing it which is a time saver in the early stages of a design. Like most other CAD applications, save and exit the sketch to start creating features.
Figure 2: Sketching a Part in 2D
The most common way that 2D sketches become 3D shapes for further modeling is by extruding the 2D sketch. Extruding and adding additional features, such as fillets and chamfers is easy with several options available as they are added for creating the shape you want.
Figure 3: Extruded Part Sketch with Features Applied
At the 2D level, there are several dimensioning modes available, including:
For 3D, with ZW3D's dynamic dimensions you can pick and drag 3D dimensions for modifying shapes with simultaneous visual feedback. This ability lets you construct 3D geometry with parametric dimensions because they are automatically created during the design process.
Next, constraints can be applied in both 2D and 3D design environments.
In 2D, there are several commands available for adding constraints to an active sketch, such as anchor, parallel, perpendicular, co-tangent, etc. Like it or not, constraints force conditions on geometry as a sketch is modified. You can choose commands to analyze and solve the constraint system of a sketch. 2D constraints (and dimensions) can also be applied automatically to sketch geometry on the fly by using the Constraint toolbar and selecting a base point.
In 3D, the constraints most commonly applied are assembly alignment constraints. For assemblies, inserting component parts and adding alignment constraints are considered individual steps in parametric history. This is a good feature because constraints can be added in any order since they are not bundled with components or replayed sequentially during a history replay. When a 3D constraint is applied, a short animation shows the parts aligning and moving into place in the assembly. Alignment constraints can be added, deleted, solved, edited, dragged, and investigated. Alignment constraints can also be applied to anchor components in a fixed position. Applying 3D constraints can be time consuming, however, because in most cases, multiple constraints are required to properly align a component.
Before leaving basic part modeling, I want to briefly discuss the sheet metal features and capabilities in ZW3D 2012 Premium.
The Sheet Metal tooltab has commands for unfolding and refolding the axial bends in a 3D sheet metal part. Unfolding the part shows the size and shape of the flat pattern. The part can also be detailed on a drawing sheet in its unfolded state. Also included here is a command to set the stationary face (a face that remains flat and is not bent) that governs how a part will unfold. Features that can be added to sheet metal parts include flanges, dimples, louvers, and extrusions.
Figure 4. Unfolded Sheet Metal Part
Direct Editing
Although these capabilities are not new anymore, since many CAD vendors offer it, direct editing continues to be a hot topic. ZW3D actually provides two different modeling methods – history-based and direct – that together provide a hybrid approach for modeling. History-based modeling employs a History Manager, or what other parametric system vendors call a history/feature tree.
ZW3D' SmoothFlow Direct Editing combines the best of both worlds – the speed and flexibility of direct modeling with the precision of dimension-driven modeling, while still maintaining the functionality of history-based modeling. Using SmoothFlow, you can directly modify model geometry without editing history – a real time saver, since creating and editing history-based geometry can be a challenge.
QuickEdit is a ZW3D technique that streamlines creating and editing shapes. With QuickEdit you don't have to pre-select an editing tool. Instead, you touch a part's face or edge, right click the mouse, and choose a tool, such as fillet, offset, or move. SnapPick is a ZW3D option that takes a point pick and automatically drives it from intersections, critical points, and axis directions. You can think of SnapPick as an assistant for helping create 3D sketches, features, and parts.
The Direct Editing (DE) approach provided by ZW3D is unique because of the way it employs a feature tree. While some competitors have abandoned the feature tree with their direct approaches, it does make for a workflow that is easier to track and understand. Direct model editing lets you pick directly on geometry for quick modifications. You also have different options for viewing how the model was created with the ability to display the history of modeling operations, a list of parent and/or child operations, as well as the ability to replay and step through a model's history.
DE(Direct-Edit) is a method for ensuring "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG). The supported object types are Edge, Face, and Freeform Surface. The Face can be flat, cylinder, core, sphere, and ellipsoid. Four commands can be invoked in Direct Edit – Fillet, Chamfer, Draft, Extrude, and OffsetFace.
Direct edit is fairly straightforward to perform:
Figure 5: Removing a Face and Closing Gaps
Admittedly, Direct Edit is still somewhat limited in ZW3D 2012, but is getting more comprehensive with each new release.
Important for ZW3D users who are involved with both CAD and CAM, regardless of whether you model parametrically or directly, any changes made to geometry automatically updates associated CNC program output.
Creating Assemblies
ZW3D 2012 Premium supports efficient assembly definition, manipulation, and management, and was a fundamental consideration when the ZW3D architecture was conceived and designed. For example, ZW3D's Object Manager loads only display data for an object into memory if that object is active for edit, minimizing an assembly's memory footprint while maximizing the size of an assembly that can be worked with. The Object Manager also lets you decide how assemblies are distributed into files – ranging from each component in a separate file, an entire assembly in one file, or anything in between.
ZW3D Premium supports the two main assembly creation approaches – bottom-up and top-down.
Figure 6: Saw Assembly in ZW3D 2012
Finally, ZW3D supports its proprietary lightweight Burst technology that lets you manipulate large assemblies without memory constraints. The tree structure for assemblies allows individual component parts to be graphically highlighted for identification and modification purposes.
For drawings, ZW3D 2012 has a number of improvements, including:
ZW3D automatically creates 2D associative detail drawings directly from 3D models from which they are created, so the process is pretty streamlined. The production drawing and detailing process are assisted by ZW3D's unique object server architecture that lets you decide whether drawings will be saved in the same file as the 3D data from the master model or in separate files.
Drawings provide an insight into ZW3D's architecture that is a multi-level object-oriented system with access to its various integrated modules, including CAM, through a common user interface. Rather than launching separate applications for drafting or CAM, you just open a ZW3D file and proceed to the level you want; in this instance the Drawing Level for creating and editing drawing packets and drawing sheets. The Drawing Packet Level contains functions that are used to create drawing packets, while the Drawing Sheet Level is used to create drawing sheets. In ZW3D, a drawing packet is a collection of one or more drawing sheets. A drawing sheet is where model geometry is actually located.
Figure 7: A ZW3D 2012 Drawing with a BOM
In drawings, there is a useful command for bills of material that lets you synchronize a BOM with part attributes for updating a 3D part by making changes to the BOM table on a 2D drawing , so you don't have to drill down to the part level.
Mold Design
ZW3D 2012 Premium lets you create mold geometry that includes core and cavity, parting surfaces, draft angles and material shutoffs. The core and cavity can be created at the same time in one operation. Also available is a comprehensive library of standard mold base components that includes slides, lifters, ejector pins, cooling channels, and electrodes for producing molds. One of the most significant features of ZW3D's mold capabilities is the way it is organized into a logical sequence that walks you through the mold creation process.
Figure 8: 3D Mold Design in ZW3D 2012
Before getting to the mold design phase, you can interrogate, analyze, and animate a plastic part's design to ensure that it is manufacturable. ZW3D also generates so-called intelligent workflow. For example, it employs auto-feature milling with machining strategy based on a part's features.
One of the most unique aspects of ZW3D Premium CAD process is its association with the manufacturing process. For example, ZW3D recognizes and machines geometric design features (up to 5 axes), and has the ability to directly manipulate and machine from STL or mesh scan files.
One of the new machining options that has been added to ZW3D 2012 Premium CAM is 2-axis turning. The turning capabilities can be used to machine 3D parts or 2D sketches. This time around there are seven operations available for turning operations, including:
Drilling: Drilling operations can be used to machine drill, ream, and tap holes. Parameters include drill type, tap type, depth, and others.
Face: This operation is used to machine the face of a work piece. The face operation includes parameters and a tool path can be generated without modifying any parameters. Parameters include path tolerance, step size, and allowance.
Rough Turning: Rough Turning operation is mainly used for removing superfluous materials. It currently supports outside-diameter(OD) and inside-diameter(ID) machining. The available cutting strategies include Horizontal, Vertical, and Pattern Repeat. Parameters include speeds, feeds, tolerances, and cut direction.
Finish Turning: Use the finish turning command to cut allowances left by a rough turning operation. This command can be used as either a semi-finishing or finishing operation. Parameters include speeds, feeds, tolerances, and cut direction.
Grooving: Grooves can be classified as external groove, internal groove, and face groove according to its location. The turn grooving operation provides three cut directions to machine these grooves for rough grooving and finish grooving to finish it.
Threading: For making various types of threads, like external/internal straight thread or tapered thread with single-start or multi-start. It is easy to pick a point for the thread location. Parameters include threading inside or outside diameter, thread pitch, and right-hand or left-hand thread.
Part Off: The Part Off operation is mainly used to separate an object from the workpiece. In this operation, you can generate a toolpath with just defining a Cut Off Point. Parameters include toolpath tolerance, cutoff point, and corner geometry (chamfer or fillet).
Figure 9: New 2X Turning in ZW3D 2012
The CAM and Tactics Managers in ZW3D Premium provide assistance during the manufacturing phase. These management tools help you develop intelligent and efficient milling and drilling operations. You do this by defining rules that ZW3D CAM will use when analyzing CAM features. The rules that are defined form a rule set that will help select the best machining tools from your library and calculate the best tool paths. For example, if a drilling operation is required and a good match from available drill tools cannot be located in the library, ZW3D CAM searches existing reaming or boring tools for a better match for the given operation. The suggested tooling operations can then be organized, verified, and output just as manually created operations would be.
Final Thoughts
While ZW3D 2012 Premium has several strong capabilities in part and assembly design, drawing creation, and data management, its greatest strength and differentiator is the fact that in one package, you have all the tools necessary for going from design through manufacturing (machining). In effect, ZW3D 2012 Premium can handle the entire product development process – from concept through manufacturing. This comprehensive ability really sets it apart compared with its competitors, many of whom require optional or add-in products to achieve this level of functionality, especially for manufacturing.
Having all workflow capabilities available in one package ensures a similar user experience throughout the design and manufacturing process. Dealing with one comprehensive software application, such as ZW3D 2012 Premium will benefit many potential customers, especially those directly or indirectly involved with design and manufacturing operations.
The parent company, ZWSOFT, continues to evolve and appears to have shaken up its worldwide sales channel. Technical support in the U.S. is available through a knowledge base, instant messaging, email, and channel partners. The relative lack of real "live" support, however, is improving.
Although it's a competitive market, ZW3D 2012 Premium is a unique design/engineering/manufacturing software application because it can cover all the CAD and CAM bases and should be given serious consideration.
ZW3D 2012 Premium
Pluses: Wide range of capabilities from design through manufacturing; CAD/CAM workflow; hybrid modeling with direct editing; modest system requirements.
Minuses: Technical support; product education/documentation content.
Overall: B+
Price: $7,000 (US). Upgrade $1,500 (US). Free 30-day trial download available.
The pricing for the ZW3D 2012 product line is as follows:
ZW3D Standard $2,500
ZW3D Professional $4,000
ZW3D Premium: $7,000
ZW3D 2X Machining: $1,500
ZW3D 3X Machining: $4,000
ZW3D 4&5-Axis Machining (add-on): $5,000
For More Information: ZW3D 2012 Premium
Jeffrey Rowe is the editor of MCADCafé and MCAD Weekly Review. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 719.221.1867.
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: Every four years, my husband and I have hosted a large party for the World Cup. We save for four years (my husband works manual labor and I am a public schoolteacher) so we can treat our friends, neighbors, teammates (we both play on adult leagues and coach as well) and their families to catered food, drinks, mariachis and a bounce house for their children.
Watching it takes two hours, and it is fun to share the excitement with other soccer fans. However, past World Cup parties have been ruined for me by spouses of soccer fans who do not enjoy the original "football."
One time, a lady constantly reported "skirmishes" between her 5-year-old child and other kids and wanted me to intervene. Another time, a spouse complained about how much she hated soccer, grabbed one of my fashion magazines, and wanted me to view and comment on photos with her during the game.
I spend hundreds of dollars planning this party and hiring people to cater to guests' wishes during the game, and I wish I could be left to watch and enjoy it for two 45-minute halves with the rest of the group.
Is this asking too much, Miss Manners? Is there something I could put in the invitation to make it clear that the game is the reason for the party and that hosting duties will be suspended during the match? Or am I mistaken in thinking that I could enjoy 90 minutes every four years if I invite guests to my house?
GENTLE READER: You could provide a separate bounce house for people who make nuisances of themselves by sabotaging the terms of an engagement they have accepted. Or ask a game-averse friend to do substitute hosting while you watch.
But you could also include in the invitation the timing of both the overall party and the actual game (adding an hour or so before and after) and suggest that guests who do not enjoy watching come late or arrive early to socialize with you.
After that, Miss Manners is afraid you must take it on a case-by-case basis: "Oh, I'm so sorry, but I'm really enjoying watching the game. Perhaps we can talk about fashion afterward — or at an Oscar party." If they are perceptive — and award-show enthusiasts — they will understand that they wouldn't want you to talk sports while they are reviewing the red carpet.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: What is the rule for standing around talking in the gym locker room naked?
GENTLE READER: Please don't.
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GENTLE READER: Considering that weddings often feature rose decorations made out of sugar, Miss Manners would consider this a dangerous idea.
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Analysis by Bill Berkowitz
(IPS) -- If you thought that a global conflagration on the order of a World War was more the stuff of Biblical prophecy, science fiction and apocalyptic end-times novels, think again.
For years, neo-conservatives have been ratcheting up the rhetoric -- mostly in small gatherings and on partisan web sites -- claiming that terrorist activities around the world constituted the initial stages of a new world war.
But during the past week or so, with the Israeli/Hezbollah crisis in full swing, Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the United States House of Representatives, is using any platform available to him to convince the public that the U.S. is engaged in World War III.
Gingrich made national headlines when he claimed -- while discussing the situation in the Middle East during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" on July 16 -- that the U.S. should be "helping the Lebanese government have the strength to eliminate Hezbollah as a military force."
A day earlier, the Seattle Times reported that during a fundraising trip to the state of Washington, Gingrich mixed a little partisan politics -- acknowledging his concern about the Republican Party's prospects in the fall elections -- while once again using the term World War III.
"This is World War III," Gingrich said. "Israel wouldn't leave southern Lebanon as long as there was a single missile there. I would go in and clean them all out and I would announce that any Iranian airplane trying to bring missiles to re-supply them would be shot down. This idea that we have this one-sided war where the other team gets to plan how to kill us and we get to talk, is nuts."
Gingrich also maintained that the use of the term "World War III" could re-energize the base of the Republican Party. He pointed out that public opinion can change "the minute you use the language" of World War III. The message then, he said, is "okay, if we're in the third world war, which side do you think should win?"
On Monday, Gingrich appeared on the Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" program, and restated his World War III contention.
While Gingrich's media tour definitely thrust him back into the national political spotlight, it may have also given the public a sneak peek into the Republican Party's political/marketing strategy for the November congressional elections: If the war on terrorism doesn't create a fearful enough climate amongst voters, why not ratchet it up by mentioning the spectre of a World War III?
Gingrich, who has also been testing the waters for a 2008 run at the presidency, was not the first conservative to use the phrase World War III. Media Matters for America, a website devoted to "monitoring, analysing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media," recently documented a number of World War III references by a gaggle of cable television's conservative talking heads.
On the July 13 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly said "World War III ... I think we're in it."
On the same day's edition of MSNBC's Tucker, a graphic read: "On the verge of World War III?"
"CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck began his program on Jul. 12 with a discussion with former CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) officer Robert Baer by saying 'We've got World War III to fight,' while also warning of 'the impending apocalypse,'" Media Matters for America noted.
"Beck and Baer had a similar discussion on Jul. 13, in which Beck said: 'I absolutely know that we need to prepare ourselves for World War III. It is here.'"
Back in May, even President Bush made mention of World War III. Bush told the CNBC cable television network that the action taken by the passengers on the hijacked flight 93 on Sep. 11, 2001 was the "first counter-attack to World War III."
Bush said that he agreed with the description by David Beamer, whose son Todd died in the crash, in an April Wall Street Journal commentary that the act was "our first successful counter-attack in our homeland in this new global war -- World War III."
Hyping World War III isn't new to conservatives. Some have even argued that the real World War III was the Cold War against the Soviet Union, and that now the U.S. is engaged in World War IV.
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a neo-conservative think tank that in the late 1990s advocated regime change in Iraq and consistently promoted a muscular U.S. foreign policy, was one of the groups that used the term World War III to describe the Cold War.
In April 2003, at a teach-in at the University of California, Los Angeles sponsored by Americans for Victory Over Terrorism, R. James Woolsey, a former CIA director and founding member of PNAC, told the audience that "This fourth world war, I think, will last considerably longer than either World Wars I or II did for us; hopefully not the full four-plus decades of the Cold War."
Woolsey pointed out that the religious rulers of Iran, the "fascists" of Iraq and Syria, and terrorist groups like al Qaeda were the main targets of the new war.
But PNAC and Woolsey's labeling of the Cold War as World War III and the current war against terrorism World War IV may have been more a case of premature elocution than a precise reading of the times. That construct "might sell well inside the Beltway, but out in the countryside where the younger generation can't recall the Cold War it doesn't do much," John Stauber, the founder and executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy and the author of the forthcoming book, "The Best War Ever," told IPS in an email.
"The Cold War was the best thing that ever happened to American capitalism, and the collapse of the Soviet Union was a disaster for the Eisenhower-named military-industrial complex," Stauber pointed out.
"The strategists among the pro-war right jumped all over 9/11; an endless, secret, war against a foreign enemy bent on terrorism and acquiring weapons of mass destruction is an even better scenario for American militarists than the Cold War."
"Calling it World War III is sound packaging," he said. "You've got to call it something and five years after 9/11 with Osama [bin Laden] still roaming free and Iraq an American quagmire, and the Republican Party in danger of losing control of Congress, this ploy makes marketing sense."
If the Republican Party brain-trust -- read, Karl Rove -- determines that labeling the Democrats "cut and runners," "weak on terrorism," or that they are incapable of understanding the reality of the dangerous world we live in, does not appear to be resonating with voters, look out for World War III to be put in play.
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She has pulled out of several performances so she could support the movie at various prizegivings, including the recent Golden Globe Awards where she landed a best actress trophy, and now she has confirmed her play will close early so she can fly to London to attend the BAFTA awards.
The Heiress, which also stars former Downton Abbey actor Dan Stevens, was due to close on 10 February (13), the day of the movie event, but will now shut down a day early, according to the Daily Mail newspaper.
Chastain tells the publication, "They've made special arrangements for people with tickets (to the cancelled show)."
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Martine Padilla has been named the new executive director of the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP), the non-profit organization that certifies printing facilities' sustainability best practices.
Padilla's background includes 30 years of print sales and operations, including agency and corporate purchasing of printed materials. Most recently, Padilla served as president of print-procurement consultancy Sophizio, a business unit of Callahan Creek. She also has held the title of print director with Callahan Creek, and served as Toyota's authorized print director. Throughout her career, Padilla has worked with various notable clientele including Wal-Mart, Colgate, Russell Stover Candies, Avery Dennison, Payless ShoeSource, The Upper Deck Company, Konami, Topps, and The Walt Disney Company.
"I look forward to expanding the SGP community," says Padilla. "I am aggressively seeking new SGP partnerships with printers and patrons, but also with elite corporate print buyers and NGO leaders. Being a print buyer myself, I know SGP printers can help print buyers who are being challenged to bring more sustainable print solutions to their organization toward achieving CSR and specific sustainability goals.
"Ensuring that we are addressing all of our sustainability challenges with a holistic approach, we are seeking alliances with NGOs who are interested in sharing their global insights and influence within our community. Printers, suppliers, print buyers, and NGO leaders who are interested in engaging in forward-thinking sustainability conversations should contact me directly," she says.
In mid-2013, Padilla contributed to The Big Picture's special report, "Establishing a Green Identity," and provided five critical steps a print shop can take toward garnering sustainability-driven partnership with its clients. Read the article, "Sustainability: The Print Buyer's Perspective," here.


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Southland Museum and Art Gallery has attracted much comment after a letter to the Editor of the Southland Times calling an exhibition of Ralph Hotere drawings 'trash' and 'not appropriate for young adults'. It's good to see people taking an interest in their local museums and galleries, and that the letter drew extremely supportive responses from other readers! You can read these and other news stories in the members' area of our website here (you need to be an MA member to log in).
Activity around the country
Around the country everyone is gearing up for – or hiding away from – that sporting event which will overtake us from 9 September. Museums and galleries have been making special efforts to put on great shows such as the inspiring and wide-ranging 2-part exhibition exploring currents of art throughout the Pacific, Oceania at Te Papa and City Gallery Wellington. And there is a flurry of activity as opening dates loom for Auckland Art Gallery, Rotorua Museum, the relocated Whangarei Art Museum, and the NZ Rugby Museum in its new home at the redeveloped Te Manawa.
You can check out these and all the other cultural activities being promoted to our rugby visitors as part of the REAL New Zealand Festival.
Mix and Mash is here again – Digital NZ has opened a competition with $40,000 in cash and prizes for the best mashup and remix of NZ content and data. There is online information and tutorials, and you are encouraged to take part in the discussions. There was also an actual launch event in Auckland on 4 August. The competition is open until 15 September, with winners to be annouced on 3 October. Visit the Digital NZ mixandmash website for details.
People in the news
We all know that museum and gallery people are interesting, although we don't always know about the things that our colleagues do outside of work time. One such person is Jennie McCormick, customer services officer at Te Tuhi. Jennie's alter ego is an amateur astronomer, and was the subject of Radio NZ's Spectrum documentary last week, which you can listen to here.
Also on the radio was Tina Barton, Director of the Adam Art Gallery, talking about their current show Behind Closed Doors, which brings artworks from private collectors' homes into the gallery. You can listen to Tina on The Arts on Sunday, 31 July. Other recent Radio NZ interviews have been with Scott Pothan (Whangarei Art Museum), Douglas Lloyd Jenkins (Hawke's Bay Museum & Art Gallery) and Bill Macnaught (National Library, ex-Puke Ariki).
Diversity in focus
And a reminder about the museums and galleries session which is part of the Diversity Forum in Hamilton on 22 August. This is a great opportunity to spend some time focussing on professional practice with interested colleagues. You can download the flyer and registration information here. I'm looking forward to seeing many of you there.
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Ohio's Miami University has the booziest, pukiest, poopiest sororities in America. First Pi Beta Phi trashed a lake lodge. Now Alpha Xi Delta members are in trouble for "urinating on artifacts" and otherwise destroying the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
The AXDs rented the Cincinnati museum's event room for their spring formal—and trashed the place. Now event coordinator Rhonda Miller has written an epic letter recounting the sisters' myriad disgusting wrongs. It's the same PR gambit that a nearby lodge Lake Lyndsay used to shame Miami U's Pi Beta Phis. Just like Pi Phi memo, the AXD Underground Railroad memo has now been made public.
Miller writes that the ladies of Alpha Xi Delta began puking on themselves, their dates, and the museum as soon as they arrived. Click any image to enlarge.
Their dates "relieved themselves all over the walls" and "caused one urinal to overflow for about twenty minutes." It was around this time that Miller saw a "priceless and sanctified artifact," an antique slave pen. (How far that "priceless and sanctified" slave pen has come in the intervening centuries…)
One party goer threated to "fuck up" event staff when they tried to stop him. The Freedom Center staff spent 24 hours cleaning up and "was still finding hidden bottles of alcohol and new places where students had vomited." Rhonda Miller concludes,


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Mike Tenay, Todd Keneley and Tazz welcome us to Impact Wrestling from Manchester, England. Christopher Daniels and Kazarian make their way out wearing kilts and Braveheart-style war paint. Kazarian pumps up the crowd and tells them to pay tribute to the real warriors of the UK…the Scotts! Daniels takes the mic and continutes to run down the crowd, until Magnus interrupts and makes his way to the ring to a huge ovation from the hometown crowd.
Magnus tells Daniels he's not the world champion because Jeff Hardy beat him 1-2-3 in the middle of the ring. He calls them both a couple of muppets that need to be taught respect. He aks them, if they want to fight an Englishman, if they'll fight him. The heels attack but Magnus fights off the double team and clotheslines Kazarian from the ring. Daniels takes a dropkick and joins Kaz on the outside, and they retreat up the ramp. Magnus grabs a mic and says that it's an honor to compete in front of any crowd, but that honor was taken away from him by the Aces & Eights. He calls out Devon for the first match of tonight's Open Fight Night.
(1) Magnus vs. Devon
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Devon runs the ropes but Magnus explodes out of nowhere with a huge clothesline. A falcon arrow finds its mark as the Aces & Eights surround the ring. The ref calls for the bell as the Eights hit the ring, but Magnus somehow throws them all over the top rope! He celebrates his DQ victory as the crowd goes crazy for him and the Aces & Eights leave through the back.
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February 12, 2018, 10:47 pm, Mon Feb 12 22:47:15 UTC 2018 #1
Peter Hofstrom Has Died
Alex Hunter's second in command at the time JBR was murdered has died. Some of you may remember his famous, "We can't ransom the body," remark. He was also the ADA that handed over police investigative reports and let them see other evidence such as the garrotte BEFORE the Ramseys would agree to be interviewed four months after JBR was murdered. He also had Patsy do a handwriting sample at his dining room table.
He also rubbed Fleet and Priscilla White the wrong way by lecturing them about his time spend at San Quintin as a guard.
Here is the link to his obituary.
The above is just my opinion, right or wrong, but please leave it at FFJ.
February 15, 2018, 5:23 am, Thu Feb 15 5:23:56 UTC 2018 #2It's probably too late to get justice for JonBenét. Maybe it always was. But knowing where things went wrong is the first step to not going there again. **-- Alan Prendergast-Dec 21, 2006--**
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A number of persons affiliated with the case have passed away. I may have missed some in this list.
Dr. Francesco Beuf: May 13, 1933 May 11, 2017
Ollie Gray: Mar 30, 1936 Apr 6, 2017
Bill Wise: Nov 30, 1937 Nov 29, 2016
Rev. Rol Holverstock: Sept. 12, 1942 October 1, 2015
Bruce Levin: July 20, 1952 - July 27, 2015
Lou Smit: Apr 14, 1935 Aug 11, 2010
Without calling out names, it may be noted that the list is a mixed bag of expertise. That said, it appears to me that among the legal professionals one of the most impressive was the attorney Bruce Levin. Levins skill is apparent in the year 2000 interviews.
From the Denver Post a tribute to Levin included a couple of memories regarding his stature within the legal profession. Robert Fuller, a former investigator for the Adams County Sheriffs Office, recalled Levins closing argument in the prosecution of Daniel Melina (accused in the witness slaying of Paul Bueno) was so powerful it left Fuller in tears.
Bruce was a man who always wanted to do the right thing, and the right thing was not always the easy thing. And it wasnt always the thing that made people comfortable, said Colorado Appeals Court Judge Steve Bernard, who worked with Levin in Adams County as a prosecutor. Sometimes doing the right thing involved a level of personal sacrifice, but he always, always did the right thing.My posts are my opinion, protected under the Freedom of Speech Amendment


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We administered the California English Language Development Test over the last two days. Blecch.
Basically, it's a test designed to evluate the progress which "Limited English Proficient" students are (not) making.
There are several parts, like reading and writing, but we administered the speaking part. We provide prompts, and the students have to provide a specific reply.
There's a section where they identify objects using visual clues. It's amazing how many students say "lawyer" when shown a picture of a judge. It is also amazing how many students cannot identify a beaker from science class.
It was really repetitive. I could recite the script by heart.
I had a sub for the two days I was doing testing. The sub yesterday was OK. The sub today lacked classroom management and "somehow" two of my graphing calculators turned up missing in second period. Ooh, I am going to tear into them tomorrow.
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