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101 Critical Days of Summer: Annual safety campaign kicks off Memorial Day
101 Critical Days of Summer: Annual safety campaign kicks off Memorial Day
Posted 5/26/2011 Updated 5/26/2011
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by Brian Schroeder
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5/26/2011 -
TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla.
-- It is tornado season in Oklahoma, which means spring is quickly spinning toward summer, leaving a path of summer activities in its wake. In order to raise awareness of the potential safety issues involved with summer activities, the Tinker Safety Office is announcing the 101 Critical Days of Summer Campaign, from May 30 to June 5.
The safety campaign, which is technically 102 days, is meant to increase the knowledge and understanding of the dangers involved with recreational activities, as well as common summer tasks. The campaign, in conjunction with the Joint Service Safety Campaign, has been promoting safety awareness to military personnel for more than 30 years.
"People undertake different activities during the summer verses the basic stay-indoor activities you participate in during the winter, so this is the time when most military off-duty mishaps occur," said Emily Wolfgeher, acting chief of ground safety with the 72nd Air Base Wing Safety Office. "We want to give the whole workforce something to think about in their off-duty time, so we make an effort to produce additional safety-related packages, briefings and training.
"As we go through the summer we want to keep reminding people this is a more hazardous time of the year," she said. "The common denominator in most mishaps is alcohol, with motor vehicle and boating accidents accounting for the majority of fatality-associated activities. There are a lot of sports-related accidents during this time also, but injuries are usually less severe in nature."
This year's campaign will begin by focusing on alcohol use and motor vehicle safety. However, throughout the summer, themes will address various topics, including watercraft, grilling and lawn maintenance safety, to remind recently thawed, summer-activity goers to take it easy on their first time out and to not play beyond their capabilities, Ms. Wolfgeher said.
"We not only try to address the fun aspects of summer, but also the necessary activities, like mowing the lawn because that has to get done too," she said. "They have not played all winter and they want to go out jet skiing, boating or some other activity and they haven't had any recent practice. They play at the level they were playing at the end of last summer and think 'I can do this.' That's why we have a lot of our minor injuries. If you try and play basketball at top level and you have not played in six months, mishaps are likely to happen."
Summer Bash on June 4 will enable the Safety Office to reach more people on base than any other event. It will utilize demonstrations and hands-on safety-training tools for children and adults. Teaching children about the importance of safety at a young age will hopefully carry over to their adult life, Ms. Wolfgeher added.
"We bring out motorcycles and safety items that kids can use so they know how to protect themselves," she said. "We get to talk to the people who live on base but don't necessarily work on base. A lot of our information gets to the people who work on base really well, but we want it to get to the people who live here as well. We are always delighted to talk to the little kids, so we can encourage a safe lifestyle."
Summer Bash activities run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 4 on the east side of Bldg. 6001. It is open to all base ID card holders and invited guests.
The Safety Office also provides briefings to commanders to use in their commander's calls, as well as additional safety information accessible on the Safety Office webpage. The Safety Office also provides beginner, experienced, sport bike and advanced riding courses for those wanting to ride various types of motorbikes at various skill levels. Motorcycle training classes are required for all military personnel who ride a motorcycle, and for civilians riding on base.
Although the Safety Office does not provide boating courses, Ms. Wolfgeher said that free safe boating classes are listed online for those wanting more information.
"We want people to pay more attention to risk management during their off-duty activities and to think things through before they start," Ms. Wolfgeher said. "We encourage them to review what they are doing and think about what the hazards are and what they can do to prevent a mishap.
"Our goal is zero fatalities across Tinker, including tenant units," she added. "I hope when September comes around, we can say we met our goal."
For more information about safe recreational practices and everyday tasks, visit the Safety page on Tinker's internal website.
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Pakistan today is a complete mess, a sad example of what can happen when a once-favored "frontline state" is reduced to the status of a cold war orphan.
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Desktop 3D printing [2] is about to get very popular thanks to a new merger between leading 3D printing company MakerBot [3] and Israeli 3D printer and additive manufacturer Stratasys [4]. MakerBot [5], which recently opened a 50,000 square foot factory in Brooklyn [6], has sold 22,000 3D printers since it was first opened in 2009, and the $403 million stock-for-stock transaction is expected to widen the Stratasys market.
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"Bre Pettis and his team at MakerBot have built the strongest brand in the desktop 3D printer category by delivering an exceptional user experience. MakerBot has impressive products, and we believe that the company's strategy of making 3D printing accessible and affordable will continue to drive adoption."
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Article Date: 8/1/2011
Since graduating from optometry school, I have been fitting young children with contact lenses, in spite of common wisdom and the perceived difficulties of the maturity level and the challenges of working with younger patients. Through bitter experience I learned that 10-year-olds were better than younger patients to fit with hard lenses—all that was available at that time. This held true even when GP lenses became available; although improved in oxygen permeability, they were still a rigid material with all of the attendant discomfort and irritation, in addition to the issues inherent with learning lens removal techniques as a young child.
With the advent of soft contact lenses, the ease of fitting young children improved immensely. No longer were there the problems of discomfort and irritation nor the process of building up wearing time by adding hours per day to the wearing schedule to avoid contact lens overwear.
Imagine that you are 10 again and wearing your first pair of glasses. The world looks differently at kids who wear glasses, and the kids themselves look differently at the world. We as practitioners look at children who wear glasses differently, and they look at us differently. Based on the tears shed in my exam room, they look none too kindly at us, either, for rocking their world.
Imagine that you are a 10-year-old young man, a great baseball player—at least last year, this year not so much. You had a healthy self image, at least until this visit to the eye doctor when you were told that you need to wear glasses, all the time. Your life, as you know it, has ended. You fight back tears because you are a tough kid and only sissies cry, especially in public.
This was my young patient. I could see him shrivel in my chair, self esteem leaking out in puddles. How many patients have you had like this? Completely devastated that they need glasses, although knowing full well that they can't hit the ball so well this year. "Oh, but I hit it out of the park when I connect," he says. I reply, "Sure you do, but how often has that been this year?"
We are obligated to care for the complete patient in fitting young children with contact lenses just as we do in our care of our diabetic and hypertensive patients. I realize that the last two diagnoses are potentially life and sight threatening, but fitting a young child with contact lenses may have a positive long-term impact, which I view as just as important.
The Adolescent and Child Health Initiative to Encourage Vision Empowerment (ACHIEVE) study, published in 2006, validated all of my clinical impressions since graduation. Interesting to me was that the young children's perception of their improvements in peer perception was slightly higher compared to the teens'. Young children do care about and are as aware of how they look to others long before we thought. Perhaps fitting young children with contact lenses will have a larger impact on their lives than we might suppose.
Let's get back to my baseball-playing patient. He was so convinced that he didn't need either glasses or contact lenses that I bet him $1 that if he wore his contact lenses, his batting average would improve. So, a month later he walks in with his mom, dollar bill in hand! I graciously accepted it—a bet is a bet! CLS
For references, please visit www.clspectrum.com/references.asp and click on document #189.
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Filed May 9, 2008
In re David Mark Laz
Commission No. 05 CH 114
Synopsis of Review Board Report and Recommendation
(May 2008)
The Administrator filed a four-count complaint against Laz, charging him with neglecting a client's appeal, forging a child support agreement and other court documents, and engaging in criminal conduct consisting of attempt obstruction of justice and attempt forgery. Laz admitted most of the factual allegations and most of the allegations of misconduct.
The Hearing Board found that the Administrator proved the charges against Laz and recommended that his license be suspended for two years, with the suspension stayed after one year by probation.
The Administrator filed exceptions to the Hearing Board's Report and Recommendation. He argued before the Review Board that Laz should receive a three-year suspension without probation because Laz's misconduct was not the type that could be monitored or prevented by probation, his misconduct was not caused by his mental condition, and his mental condition has been stable for several years.
After considering the nature of Laz's misconduct, the evidence pertaining to his mental condition, the factors in aggravation and mitigation, the pertinent case law, and all of the relevant circumstances, the Review Board determined that a term of probation would be appropriate and agreed with the Hearing Board's recommendation that Laz be suspended for two years with the suspension stayed after one year by probation.
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No. 6182860.
Commission No. 05 CH 114
This matter comes before the Review Board on the exceptions of the Administrator-Appellant to the sanction recommended by the Hearing Board for Respondent-Appellee, David Mark Laz. The Administrator charged Laz in a four-count complaint with neglecting a client's appeal, forging a child support agreement and other court documents, and engaging in criminal conduct consisting of attempt obstruction of justice and attempt forgery. Laz admitted most of the factual allegations and most of the allegations of misconduct.
The Hearing Board found that the Administrator proved all of the charges against Laz. It recommended that Laz be suspended for two years, with his suspension stayed after one year by probation.
The Administrator contends that probation is not appropriate and Laz should receive a three-year suspension. The Hearing Board's factual findings and findings of misconduct are not at issue.
The following evidence was adduced at the hearing.
Laz received his license to practice law in 1982. His practice focuses primarily on matrimonial law.
Laz represented Kenneth Brooks in a post-decree matter and filed on his behalf two notices of appeal from orders pertaining to custody issues. Both appeals were dismissed for want of prosecution. Laz did not inform Brooks that his appeal had been dismissed. Brooks testified that Laz owed him $4500 in unearned fees. Laz admitted that he owed Brooks at least $2500. Laz went to Brooks's home two days prior to the hearing below and offered him a check for $2500, which Brooks refused. The Hearing Board found that Laz should refund at least $2500 to Brooks.
The Hearing Board found that Laz failed to act with reasonable diligence in representing Brooks, in violation of Rule 1.3 of the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct;1 failed to keep Brooks reasonably informed about the status of his case and to respond to Brooks's requests for information, in violation of Rule 1.4(a); failed to return unearned fees to Brooks, in violation of Rule 1.16(e); and engaged in conduct that was prejudicial to the administration of justice and that tended to defeat the administration of justice and bring the legal profession into disrepute, in violation of Rule 8.4(a)(5) and Supreme Court Rule 770.
Laz represented Samuel Bowes in a post-decree child support matter. Laz and opposing counsel Emily R. Carrara negotiated an agreement to reduce Bowes's monthly support payment. On February 26, 2003, Carrara gave Laz a copy of an agreed order signed by Bowes's ex-wife, Lora Kendrick. Before he had the agreed order entered on November 14, 2003, Laz made handwritten revisions that reduced his client's monthly support payment and the arrearage he owed Kendrick. Laz made these changes without the knowledge or consent of Carrara or Kendrick and represented to the court that the revised order was an agreed order. Laz also told that court that the case was on its call, when in fact it was not.
The Hearing Board found that Laz knowingly and intentionally changed the terms of the agreed order, thereby committing the criminal act of forgery (720 ILCS 5/17-3 (West 2006)) and violating Rule 8.4(a)(3). The Hearing Board did not believe Laz's testimony that Bowes told him that Kendrick agreed to the changes.
The Hearing Board further found that Laz made a false statement of material fact to the court in violation of Rule 3.3(a) when he told the court that the matter was on the court call and that the order was agreed; engaged in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation in violation of Rule 8.4(a)(4); and engaged in conduct that was prejudicial to the administration of
justice and that tended to defeat the administration of justice and bring the legal profession into disrepute, in violation of Rule 8.4(a)(5) and Supreme Court Rule 770.
Laz filed a petition for dissolution on marriage on behalf of Chad Shiffer against his wife, Shelly. Chad and Shelly executed a settlement agreement without their attorneys. Shortly thereafter, Shelly's attorney withdrew. After Shelly's attorney had withdrawn, Laz signed Shelly's name to and filed documents indicating that Shelly would appear pro se, that she waived the statutory period for entering judgment, and that she was ready to proceed with an uncontested prove-up. Shelly was not present when Laz signed these documents and had not reviewed them. Laz admitted that his conduct was "very inappropriate."
The Hearing Board found that Laz committed forgery, thereby committing a criminal act that reflects adversely on his honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer, in violation of Rule 8.4(a)(3); made a false statement of material fact to the court, in violation of Rule 3.3(a); engaged in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation, in violation of Rule 8.4(a)(4); and engaged in conduct that was prejudicial to the administration of
justice and that tended to defeat the administration of justice and bring the legal profession into disrepute, in violation of Rule 8.4(a)(5) and Supreme Court Rule 770.
Laz was convicted of attempt obstruction of justice and attempt forgery in two separate cases. In June 2003, Laz agreed to represent Daniel Romano, who was charged with tendering an insufficient funds check for $783.69 to Sav-Way Liquors. On June 20, 2003, Laz presented a Sav-Way employee with a check for $783.72. Laz was charged with attempting to pay the witness in order to prevent him from testifying against Romano.
In October 2003, Romano gave Laz a check for $45,000 payable to Laz. The check was written on the account of Donald Boscamp, who was a business associate of both Romano and Laz. Laz knew that Boscamp's account was closed, but signed Boscamp's name to the check and deposited it into his business account. Laz testified that he owed $45,000 to his neighbor, Larry Miller, and he deposited the bad check so he could show Miller that he had the funds to repay him. Laz was charged with attempt forgery for knowingly signing Boscamp's name to the check without his authority and depositing the check into his business account.
Laz pleaded guilty to both charges and was sentenced to 300 hours of community service with conditional discharge after two years. Laz later moved to withdraw his guilty plea, but eventually withdrew that motion.
The Hearing Board found that Laz's convictions for attempt forgery and attempt obstruction of justice constituted criminal acts that reflect adversely on his honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer, in violation of Rule 8.4(a)(3). The Hearing Board further found that Laz engaged in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation, in violation of Rule 8.4(a)(4); offered a prohibited inducement to a witness, in violation of Rule 3.4(a)(2); and engaged in conduct that was prejudicial to the administration of justice and that
tended to defeat the administration of justice and bring the legal profession into disrepute, in violation of Rule 8.4(a)(5) and Supreme Court Rule 770.
Laz testified that his wife has a history of mental illness. In September 2002, she set the family home on fire. She was then placed in residential treatment, where she stayed until June 2004. Laz and his two sons lived with Laz's mother while their home was being rebuilt. One of Laz's sons has required psychiatric treatment since the fire.
Laz testified that he sought treatment for anxiety and depression in the late 1990s. These problems worsened after the fire because of the stress he was experiencing. Laz testified that his judgment was impaired by his psychiatric condition and the events in his personal life.
Laz continues to receive psychiatric treatment and his condition is stable. His wife returned to the family in 2004, and her mental condition is under control.
Laz further testified that he occasionally represents clients pro bono and is involved in religious and charitable activities. Two judges and an attorney testified that Laz has a good reputation in the legal community.
Stafford Henry, M.D., a board-certified forensic psychiatrist, examined Laz at the Administrator's request. Dr. Henry diagnosed Laz with a history of panic disorder and personality disorder not otherwise specified. He determined that Laz's anxiety symptoms were in remission and he was free of symptoms of major psychiatric illness. He gave the opinion that Laz's misconduct was volitional and within his conscious control. Dr. Henry recommended that Laz would benefit from continuing his psychiatric treatment, being assigned a mentor to monitor his practice, and attending ARDC-sponsored seminars.
Neither party challenges the Hearing Board's findings of fact or findings of misconduct. Therefore, we recommend that those findings be affirmed in their entirety.
The Administrator challenges the propriety of the Hearing Board's recommended sanction of a two-year suspension with the suspension stayed after one year subject to probation. The Administrator contends that probation is not appropriate in this matter because (1) Laz engaged in intentional, dishonest conduct, (2) Laz's misconduct was not caused by his mental condition, and (3) probation would serve no purpose because Laz's mental condition has been under control for the past several years.
The Hearing Board's sanction recommendation is advisory. In re Hopper, 85 Ill.2d 318, 323, 423 N.E.2d 900 (1981). When considering our sanction recommendation, we bear in mind the purposes of the disciplinary system: safeguarding the public, maintaining the integrity of the profession, and protecting the administration of justice from reproach. See In re Timpone, 157 Ill.2d 178, 623 N.E.2d 300 (1993). We strive to recommend similar discipline for similar misconduct, but must evaluate each case on its own circumstances. In re Bell, 147 Ill.2d 15, 37, 588 N.E.2d 1093 (1992). Those circumstances include the nature of the misconduct and any aggravating or mitigating factors. In re Witt, 145 Ill.2d 380, 583 N.E.2d 526 (1991).
The Administrator is correct that in some cases the Review Board has rejected requests for probation when an attorney has engaged in a course of intentional, dishonest conduct, under the reasoning that such behavior is not the type that may be monitored or prevented by probation. See In re Olton, 05 SH 27 (Review Board, Feb. 14, 2007), approved and confirmed, No. M.R. 21597 (May 18, 2007). However, a finding or admission of intentional, dishonest conduct does not always preclude probation. There is precedent for recommending a suspension partially stayed by probation for an attorney who has engaged in dishonest conduct and who had a mental condition that contributed to his misconduct.
In In re Bazer, No. 97 CH 65, petition to impose discipline upon consent allowed, No. M.R. 15634 (March 24, 1999), the attorney converted funds, neglected several cases, made false statements about the status of some of those cases and failed to respond to the Commission's requests for information. He suffered from major depressive disorder, which contributed to his misconduct. His license was suspended for two years, with the second year stayed subject to probation.
Similarly, in In re Cooper, No. 06 SH 82, petition to impose discipline upon consent allowed, No. M.R. 21767 (Sept. 18, 2007) an attorney who suffered from bipolar disorder was given a one-year suspension, stayed after 30 days in favor of a two-year period of probation, for misconduct that included conversion, neglecting three clients' cases, making misrepresentations to a client, and failing to return an unearned fee.
Moreover, the Administrator's argument that Laz's misconduct is not of a type that can be monitored or prevented by probation seems to focus solely on the probation portion of the Hearing Board's recommendation while ignoring the rest of the recommendation, namely, that Laz's license would be suspended for a period of time before the probationary period would begin. We determine that a period of actual suspension followed by probation adequately addresses the severity and nature of Laz's misconduct as well as the need for further assistance to prevent future misconduct. In reaching our determination, we are guided by the supreme court's instruction in In re Jordan, 157 Ill. 2d 266, 274 623 N.E.2d 1372 (1993):
Our ultimate objective in attorney discipline is not to be harsh or to punish the respondent, but to impose a sanction that is uniquely tailored to the precise facts of each particular case. (See, e.g., In re Owens (1991), 144 Ill.2d 372, 380, 163 Ill.Dec. 479, 581 N.E.2d 633 (per curiam)). To this end we must retain a degree of flexibility in disciplining unprofessional conduct, so that we are guided by the spirit of our rules, not merely by a strict or technical interpretation of terminology.
Based on the Hearing Board's finding that Laz's mental condition contributed to his misconduct and the precedent cited supra, we reject the Administrator's argument that Laz is not a candidate for probation because he engaged in dishonest conduct.
Next, the Administrator argues that the Hearing Board's finding that there was no causal connection between Laz's mental condition and his misconduct precludes the imposition of probation. We disagree. Probation was ordered in Bazer and Cooper, where experts opined that the attorneys' mental conditions contributed to their misconduct. In neither case did the expert opine that the attorney's mental condition caused their misconduct. Bazer, No. 97 CH 65, petition to impose discipline upon consent allowed, No. M.R. 15634 (March 24, 1999), Cooper, No. 06 SH 82 at 4, petition to impose discipline upon consent allowed, No. M.R. 21767 (Sept. 18, 2007).
The Administrator further argues that probation would serve no purpose because Laz's mental condition has remained stable for the past several years. This is a curious argument for several reasons. First, the Administrator's expert, Dr. Henry, opined that Laz would benefit from continued mentoring and treatment, which are required by the terms of probation, and that his recommendations would hopefully reduce the likelihood of future misconduct. The Administrator has not explained why we should accept his opinion as to whether probation would be helpful over Dr. Henry's. Furthermore, we conclude that Laz's stable mental condition weighs in favor of allowing him to return to practice while under probation. If we were to adopt the Administrator's position, Laz would be penalized for doing the things he is supposed to do—getting help for his problems and following the treatment recommendations of medical professionals. It is unclear, under the Administrator's rationale, when probation would ever be appropriate for attorneys who are diagnosed with mental disorders. Probation would "serve no purpose" for those who are stable, and, presumably, those who are unstable should not be
eligible because allowing them to practice could put the public at risk. The appropriate question is not whether an attorney's mental condition is stable, but whether a term of probation will "protect the public and assist the attorney with problems that contributed to his misconduct." See Smith, No. 04 CH 78, Hearing Board Report and Recommendation at 32, citing In re Jordan, 157 Ill. 2d 266, 623 N.E.2d 1372 (1993). We determine that these purposes will be served here by a term of probation. For all of the foregoing reasons, we disagree with the Administrator that probation is inappropriate in the instant case.
The Administrator further contends that Laz's misconduct warrants a three-year suspension. Laz appears to argue that his sanction should be limited to probation, without any actual suspension. We reject Laz's contention. His misconduct was egregious and warrants a period of suspension. In addition, his misconduct is aggravated by his lack of remorse for his misconduct and the harm he caused to his clients.
The Hearing Board relied on In re Thebeau, 111 Ill.2d 251, 489 N.E.2d 877 (1986), as support for its recommendation of a two-year suspension. It recognized that Laz's misconduct was more extensive than that in In re Thebeau, but concluded that Thebeau was sufficiently similar to support its recommendation. The Administrator contends that the circumstances in Thebeau differ significantly from those in the instant case.
Thebeau made false statements to the probate court and assisted a client in forging his brothers' names on documents so that the client could obtain the deed to his deceased mother's home from her estate. The court indicated that a two-year suspension was appropriate for Thebeau's misconduct, but because Thebeau already had voluntarily stopped practicing law, he would be given credit for that time and would be suspended for only one year. The court noted that Thebeau's fraudulent acts were "of a more aggravated character than found in fraud
for monetary gain" because they were practiced upon the judicial system. Thebeau, 111 Ill.2d at 256, 489 N.E.2d 877.
We agree with the Hearing Board that Thebeau supports a two-year suspension in this matter. We find further support in the numerous additional cases in which attorneys who have committed forgeries have received two-year suspensions. See In re Altman, 128 Ill.2d 206, 538 N.E.2d 1105 (1989), two-year suspension for forging an endorsement on a check and using the funds for personal purposes for three months before repaying them; In re Costigan, 63 Ill.2d 230, 347 N.E.2d 129 (1976), two year suspension for forging trustees' names onto documents used to obtain a loan and using the loan proceeds to pay personal debts; In re Williams, No. 06 SH 88, petition to impose discipline upon consent allowed, No. M.R. 21629 (May 18, 2007), two year-suspension imposed for fabricating false bank correspondence and false auto insurance cards that were given to attorney's ex-wife and for practicing law after attorney had been removed from the Master Roll; In re O'Neill, No. 94 CH 685, petition to impose discipline upon consent allowed, No. M.R. 10658 (Jan. 25, 1995), two-year suspension for neglecting an estate, making misrepresentations to the probate court, and forging a signature on a receipt filed with the court.
Laz's misconduct was serious, but we also consider the evidence in mitigation, including the lack of prior discipline, favorable testimony about Laz's character from two respected judges and an attorney, and the Hearing Board's finding that personal gain was not the motivation for Laz's misconduct. After considering these and all of the relevant circumstances, we recommend that Laz's license to practice law be suspended for two years, with the suspension stayed after one year subject to conditional probation.
Last, we note that counsel for the Administrator argues for the first time in her reply brief that the Review Board should take judicial notice of the fact that a new disciplinary
complaint has been filed against Laz (In re Laz, No. 07 CH 121, complaint filed Dec. 12, 2007) as evidence of a propensity to commit further misconduct. While we may take judicial notice of the public records of the Commission (In re Owen, 144 Ill.2d 372, 378-79, 581 N.E.2d 633 (1991)), it would be unfair to give any consideration to the newly filed complaint because the issue was not raised until the reply brief, and Laz has had no opportunity to respond. Moreover, there has been no proof of the new charges. We will not use unproven allegations as a basis for our sanction recommendation.
Accordingly, we recommend that Hearing Board's factual findings and findings of misconduct be affirmed. We recommend that the license of Respondent, David Mark Laz, be suspended for two years, with the suspension stayed after one year by probation subject to the following conditions set forth by the Hearing Board, which we adopt:
1. Laz shall pay restitution to Kenneth Brooks in the amount of $2500.
2. Laz shall attend and successfully complete the course conducted by the Illinois Professional Responsibility Institute.
3. Laz shall reimburse the Commission for the costs of this proceeding as defined in Supreme Court Rule 773 and shall reimburse the Commission for any further costs incurred during the period of probation.
After the initial one-year period suspension, and after Laz complies with the above listed conditions, the probationary period can begin with Laz complying with the following conditions:
4. Laz shall remain under the care of a psychiatrist and shall comply with all treatment recommendations of the mental health care professional(s), including the taking of prescribed medications;
5. Laz shall provide to his treating mental health care professional(s) an appropriate release as required under the Confidentiality Act of the Mental Health Code, 740 ILCS 110/1 et seq., authorizing the treating professional(s) to: (a) disclose to the Administrator on at least a quarterly basis information pertaining to the nature of Laz's compliance with his treatment plan; (b) promptly report to the Administrator Laz's failure to comply with any part of the established treatment plan; and (c) respond to any inquiries by the Administrator regarding Laz's mental or emotional state or compliance with any established treatment plans.
6. Laz shall notify the Administrator of the name and business address of his mental health care professional(s) and shall notify the Administrator within 14 days of any change in treatment providers and professionals.
7. Laz's practice of law shall be supervised by a licensed attorney acceptable to the Administrator.Laz shall notify the Administrator of the name and address of any and all attorneys with whom he establishes a supervisory relationship.Laz shall authorize the supervising attorney to provide a report in writing to the Administrator no less than every three months, regarding the nature of Laz's work, the number of cases being handled by Laz and the supervisor's general appraisal of Laz's continued fitness to practice law.
8. Laz shall attend meetings scheduled by the Commission probation officer as requested by the Administrator.Laz shall submit quarterly written reports to the Administrator concerning the status of his practice of law and the nature and extent of compliance with the conditions of probation.
9. Laz shall notify the Administrator within 14 days of any change of address.
10. Laz shall comply with the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct and shall timely cooperate with the Administrator in providing information regarding any investigations relating to his conduct.
11. Probation shall be revoked if Laz is found to have violated any of the terms of probation. The remaining period of suspension shall commence from the date of the determination that any term of probation has been violated.
Date Entered: 9 May 2008
|Respectfully Submitted,
Bruce J. Meachum
1 Unless otherwise specified, all citations to Rules are to the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct.


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But Doc, the Dog's Already Dead!
How to say no to your vet.
Recently, my friend A's vigorous 10-year-old laika (a Russian breed whose name means "barker") woke up wheezing. She seemed fine the next morning when he went to work, but that afternoon he got a call from his mother, who had come over to let the dog out, telling him the dog seemed disoriented. He left work, arriving home about an hour later, to discover his pet on the floor of the bedroom, eyes open and fixed, body stiff. He picked the dog up, put her in the car, and drove to the vet. He ran in with the rigid dog over his shoulder and announced, "I think my dog is dead!" Everything stopped in the waiting room as the techs whisked the dog away.
Soon an employee emerged to explain it looked as if the dog had suffered a cardiac arrest. He also had a question: "Do you want us to do CPR?" All eyes turned to A, including those of the woman who had begun weeping in sympathy when A announced his dog had died. He realized he couldn't bring himself to say what he was thinking: "How much are you going to charge me to do CPR on my dead dog?" Instead, he told them to go ahead, and took a seat. Techs came out with periodic reports—neither heart massage nor drug infusion was generating any vital signs. "I wanted to say, 'That's because she's been dead for an hour,' " says A. Finally, they suggested the treatments should stop, and A agreed. They presented him with the bill. It turns out it costs $250 to try to revive a dead dog.
Two trends are making a visit to your veterinarian an opportunity for endless guilt. One is the increasing acceptance of the notion that pets are family members (thus the movement to change the word owner to guardian). The other is the convergence of veterinary and human medicine—pets can get chemotherapy, dialysis, organ transplants, hip replacement, and braces for their teeth. In 2004, Americans spent $18 billion to treat the country's 164 million dogs and cats. Sure, you may have a health-care directive that begs your loved one to pull the plug. Grandpa's hospital bed may have a flashing "Do Not Resuscitate" order. But how can anyone be heartless enough to refuse to treat their dead dog?
In Sicko, Michael Moore indicts America's human health care, painting a portrait of a system so callous that the loss of life and limb is a matter of simple economic calculation. But in my experience, it's almost impossible to find a callous vet when you need one. Take what happened with my cat Sabra. At age 21—the equivalent of a 100-year-old human—Sabra was fading. She had stopped grooming and was barely eating. She spent her days curled in a chair, hissing occasionally like a deflating whoopee cushion. Instead of letting her go gently, of course I took her to the vet. The vet shook her head at Sabra's condition. She likely had cancer, kidney disease, multiple organ failure. All this would have to be sorted out through several days of rigorous testing. Instead of saying, "I'm going to take her home and let her deflate in peace," I handed her over.
As I left, I thought of my dear, departed grandmother. When she was 90, still lucid but in the hospital and facing the end, the doctors thought perhaps she had an undetected cancer. To confirm, the biopsy would have required anesthesia and a painful recovery. Everyone agreed to let it go. Sabra had no such luck. Two days and $800 worth of tests later, the vet couldn't find out what was wrong (besides the fact that she was 21) and said she was arranging a transport to a facility where Sabra could get an MRI. When I said I was coming to pick her up, the vet became hostile. "She might have a cancer we haven't found! She's not in good health!" said the vet. I returned Sabra to her chair, and she died a few months later.
I was left feeling the whole exercise was a way of shaming me into covering the overhead. But when I described what happened to Dr. Gerald Snyder, a Charlotte-based veterinary practice management consultant, he clarified the miscommunication for me. "The veterinarian is on the cat's side, not yours," he explained.
Dr. James Busby, a 67-year-old veterinarian in Bemidji, Minn., sees things differently. He's the kind of curmudgeonly realist of a vet you don't find in the hyper-attentive yuppie neighborhood where I live. Busby has become so fed up with his profession the he has self-published a book, How To Afford Veterinary Care Without Mortgaging the Kids. He writes that he has had a satisfying 40-year career, "but sadly, I would never enter the profession today, if I had to practice the way things are currently done." He sees too many vets who try to "push as many procedures and services … as the pet owner will tolerate, in order to generate as large a cash return as possible."


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Local colleges: Wesleyan defeats UC men 73-64
Chris Dewberry came off the bench to score 16 points and lead host West Virginia Wesleyan to a 73-64 win over the University of Charleston in men's basketball Saturday in Buckhannon.
Alexsandar Djordjevic chipped in 11 points for the Bobcats (8-5, 3-2 Mountain East Conference). Xavier Humphrey paced the Golden Eagles (5-4, 2-3) with 19 points and seven rebounds while Aleksander Kesic posted 11 points and six boards.
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ECS GTX 460 Black Review
Reviewed by: ccokeman
Reviewed on: September 9, 2010
Price: $239
The GF 104 based GTX 460 is the card that has really, really saved the mid range for NVIDIA. These cards are typically priced in the $200 to $250 range that is the meat and potatoes of the GPU market. It's the card the GTX 465 should have been! The release of new games that leverage NVIDIA's Fermi Architecture are coming fast and furious of late with Mafia II, Starcraft II and Lost Planet 2. With these games, the GTX 460 fits right into the high value price point and delivers performance above expectations and above its price point in the 1280 x 1024 to 1680 x 1050 market. Usually in the case of video cards, the overclocked and non-factory cooled cards come out well after the initial introduction. However, the time frame for tweaked GTX 460s was well.... fast! At launch we saw the Palit GTX 460 Sonic Platinum. ECS as well has now brought out their factory hot rod, the Black Series GTX 460. This card comes with a pretty substantial 90Mhz speed bump over the reference clocks on the CUDA cores and a 25Mhz bump on the 1GB of GDDR5 memory clocks to 925Mhz. If that's not enough, ECS has installed a massive heat pipe cooling solution from Arctic Cooling on the Black Series card to make sure heat is not going to be the limiting factor when it comes time to put the screws to it and work some overclocking magic. Let's see how this new addition to ECS's ELITEGROUP Black Series lineup performs and see if the good looks and massive cooling are just for show or if it really helps in the "Go" department.
Closer Look:
The packaging of the ECS ELITEGROUP Black Series GTX 460 has a dark theme with a large battle axe on the front panel of the box. The front panel also has a wealth of information about the capabilities of this video card. Starting on the right hand side you have all the NVIDIA technologies this card comes equipped with (or are able to be used) including CUDA, 3D Vision readiness, PhysX and SLI. Under this is a disk that lists the amount of GDDR5 (1024MB) memory and the 256 bit interface while along the bottom, additional capabilities are listed including PCIe 2.0 , DirectX 11, Open GL 4.0, mini HDMI and Dual Link DVI connectivity and HDCP support. The back panel goes into some detail as to why technologies like PhysX, 3D Vision and CUDA are the way to go for your gaming needs. The side lists key features such as NVIDIA PureVideo HD and 3D Vision Surround technology as well as some minimum system requirements.
Inside the outer sleeve is a plain cardboard box that houses the ECS Black GTX 460 and its accessory package. The accessories are housed in a slim box on top of the dedicated packaging for the video card. The first glimpse of this video card suggests that the cooling solution is much more than what comes from the factory on a reference card.
The accessory bundle is a little slim but does however include something that you normally do not see with an NVIDIA based video card. The SLI bridge connection. If you pay attention to details you will notice that this bridge connection cable is slightly longer than this piece is traditionally. When you pull the card out of the box you immediately see why, this card is three inches thick with the custom cooling solution. In addition to that you get an eight pin PCIe to six pin PCIe power adapter, driver disk and DVI to d-sub adapter. Unfortunately there is not a mini HDMI to HDMI adapter with the Black GTX 460.
The first glimpse of the video card suggests that the Arctic Cooling based cooling solution will be much better than the reference design. Hopefully this will lead to some serious overclocking.
Closer Look:
The first thing that stands out when you look at the ECS Black Series GTX 460 is the massive heat pipe-based cooling solution used to control the heat generated by the 336 CUDA cores on this GF 104 based video card. ECS has equipped this card with the Arctic Cooling Twin Turbo Pro in lieu of the reference cooling solution. The black PCB fits the "Black Series" designation for this card which is the moniker ECS uses to distinguish its enthusiast grade product lineups. The GTX 460 is designed for use in a PCIe 16x PCIe 2.0 slot. It is however, backwards compatible. To take advantage of the benefits of this high-end cooling solution, this card sees a healthy increase in clock speeds on the CUDA cores (675Mhz reference vs. 765Mhz) and the 1GB of GDDR5 memory (900Mhz reference vs. 925Mhz). General features shared by the GTX 460 lineup include a 40nm build process, two GPC clusters housing seven streaming multiprocessors, 336 CUDA cores, 56 texture units and either 32 or 24 ROP units depending on how much memory is on board. The GTX 460 only supports two-way SLI so you only see a single SLI bridge connection for use if you employ this technology with a second card. In this case, there is 1 GB of GDDR5 running through a 256 bit bus. The width of the Accelero Twin Turbo Pro heatsink/fan combination makes this card a three-slot solution.
For connectivity on the ECS Black Series GTX 460 you have a pair of Dual Link DVI ports and a single mini HDMI 1.4 port that supports bit streaming support for Dolby True HD and DTS HD Master Audio over HDMI. To use NVIDIA's latest latest Multi monitor technologies 3D Vision Surround you will need two cards to run the three 120Hz monitors for that stereoscopic 3D experience. If you want to just run the three monitor setup without the use of the 3D Vision setup then this option is available as well (and is even supported back to the the 2 series GPUs). 3D Vision, NVIDIAs 3D offering (requires 3D glasses) can also be used standalone with a compatible 120Hz monitor. On the rear of the ECS GTX 460, the only real items of mention are the two six pin PCIe power connections to feed the required auxiliary power to the card.
The cooling solution used on the ECS Black GTX 460 comes by way of Arctic Cooling and is an off-the-shelf model that features GTX 460 compatibility although, this is not specifically listed. The Accelero Twin Turbo Pro uses two 92mm, PWM, Fluid Dynamic Bearing equipped fans that push 54 CFM through the aluminum fin array. This cooling solution is rated to cool 120 watts worth of thermal load with its copper base and four large copper heatpipes. The base was smooth and did not have any ridges or machining marks but I did notice that the base is not large enough to cover the entire IHS on the GPU. Even so, the cooling abilities of this cooler dropped the load tempratures down to 62 Degrees Celsius under load when overclocked.
Underneath the large functional Arctic cooler you get to the GF104 Fermi architecture based GPU. This Fermi derivative is built using a 40nm manufacturing process and contains 1.95 billion transistors in two GPU clusters. Each GPU cluster contains a total of four streaming multiprocessors but one is disabled for a total of seven in use with each SM housing one Polymorph unit to handle the tessellation duties. In these two GPU clusters you have a total of 336 CUDA cores, 56 texture units, 32ROP's with the 1GB of GDDR5 memory running through a 256bit memory bus. The memory used on this card is from Samsung and carries part number K4G10325FE-HC05 rated for operation at 1000Mhz. There are a total of eight memory modules that make up the 1024MB frame buffer.
Seeing how this is a factory overclocked card, let's see if it can deliver an exceptional level of performance above its targeted $239 price point.
Direct X
DirectX 11
Processor Cores
336 Cores
Memory Amount
Memory Interface
256 bit
Graphics Clock
Processor Clock
Memory Clock
DRAM Type
Video Support
Dual DVI/VGA/HDMI
- Microsoft® DirectX® 11 Support: DirextX 11 GPU with Shader Model 5.0 support designed for ultra high performance in the new API's key graphics feature, GPU-accelerated tessellation.
- NVIDIA PhysX® Technology: Full support for NVIDIA PhysX technology, enabling a totally new class of physical gaming interaction for a more dynamic and realistic experience with GeForce.
- NVIDIA 3D Vision™ Ready: GeForce GPU support for NVIDIA 3D Vision, bringing a fully immersive stereoscopic 3D experience to the PC. A combination of high-tech wireless glasses and advanced software, 3D Vision transforms hundreds of PC games into full stereoscopic 3D.
- NVIDIA 3D Vision™ Surround Ready: Expand your games across three displays in full stereoscopic 3D for the ultimate "inside the game" experience with the power of NVIDIA 3D Vision and SLI technologies. NVIDIA Surround also supports triple screen gaming with non-stereo displays.
- NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology: CUDA™ technology unlocks the power of the GPU's processor cores to accelerate the most demanding system tasks such as video transcoding, physics simulation, ray tracing, and more, delivering incredible performance improvements over traditional CPUs.
- NVIDIA SLI™ Technology: Industry leading NVIDIA SLI technology offers amazing performance scaling for the world's premier gaming solution.
- 32x Anti-aliasing Technology: Lightning fast, high-quality anti-aliasing at up to 32x sample rates obliterates jagged edges.
- Microsoft Windows 7 Support: Windows 7 is the next generation operating system that will mark a dramatic improvement in the way the OS takes advantage of the graphics processing unit (GPU) to provide a more compelling user experience.
- DirectCompute Support: Full support for DirectCompute, Microsoft's GPU computing API.
- OpenCL Support: Full support for OpenCL GPU computing API.
- OpenGL 4.0 Optimization and Support: Ensures top-notch compatibility and performance for OpenGL applications.
- PCI Express 2.0 Support: Designed to work perfectly with the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, offering a future-proofing bridge to tomorrow's most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications by maximizing the 5GT/s PCI Express 2.0 bandwidth.
- Dual-link DVI Support: Able to drive the industry's largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560 x 1600 and with support for HDCP.
- HDMI support: Fully integrated support for HDMI 1.3a including deep color, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD 7.1 digital surround sound. A future NVIDIA driver will enable HDMI 1.4a support for Blue-ray 3D playback.
All information courtesy of ECS @ http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Product/Product_Detail.aspx?DetailID=1170&CategoryID=5&DetailName=Feature&MenuID=25&LanID=9
Testing of the ECS Black Series GTX 460 will consist of running the card through the OverclockersClub.com suite of games and synthetic benchmarks. This will test the performance against many popular competitors. Comparisons will be made to cards of equal and greater capabilities to show where it falls on the performance ladder. The games used are some of today's newest and most popular titles to give you an idea on how the cards perform relative to each other. The system specifications will remain the same throughout the testing. No adjustment will be made to the respective control panels during the testing with the exception of the 3DMark Vantage testing where PhysX will be disabled in the NVIDIA control panel. I will test the card at stock speeds, then overclocked in order to see how much additional performance is available and to determine if it can run with the current fastest single GPU cards on the market. The drivers used in this test will be the 10.4 Catalyst drivers for ATI and 258.96 Forceware drivers from NVIDIA for the GTX 480, 470, 465 and GTX 460. Tests will be conducted at both stock and overclocked settings to gauge performance when an increase in clock speed is applied.
- Processor: Intel Core I7 920 200x18 3.6Ghz
- Cooling: Noctua NH-U12P SE 1366
- Motherboard: MSI X58 Eclipse SLI
- Memory: Mushkin 996805 Redline PC312800 6-8-6-24 1600MHz
- Video Card(s): ECS Black GTX 460 1GB
- Power Supply: Mushkin 800 watt Modular power supply
- Hard Drive: 1 x Seagate 1TB SATA
- Optical Drive: LG DVD-RW
- OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
- Case: Cooler Master Stacker 810
Comparison Video Cards:
- Palit GTX 460 Sonic Platinum
- Inno3D GTX 470 Hawk
- Sapphire HD 5970 2GB stock 735/1010MHz and OC to 890/1245MHz
- Sapphire HD 5870
- Sapphire HD 5850 Toxic 2GB
Overclocked settings:
- ECS Black Series GTX 460 885/1770/1078MHz
I was pleasantly surprised that the ECS Black series GTX 460 had some overclocking chops. While it fell a little short of the 900/1800Mhz core clock speeds that the last two GTX 460 cards reviewed by OCC have reached (885/1770Mhz). It did however blow them away on the memory side with the highest memory overclock on one of NVIDIA's FERMI variants that I have been able to reach at 1078Mhz (2156Mhz effective). The core speed increase of 120Mhz is close to a 16% improvement over the factory default clock speed of 765Mhz while the memory makes a huge 153Mhz jump over the stock 925Mhz. This equates to a 16.5% increase in speed. To reach these results I used MSI's Afterburner utility and used a voltage increase to 1087mv on the "core". This did not necessarily help the memory but did help out with stability on the CUDA cores. While your overclock on this card may vary either higher or lower, this was what was achievable on this specific card. The Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo Pro cooling does not hurt the situation as it delivered load temperatures of only 62 degrees Celsius with no noise. A plus in this world of exceptionally loud reference cooling solutions! Even so, all of this boils down to an increase in performance for just a modest time commitment on your part.
Maximum Clock Speeds:
Each card has been tested for its maximum stable clock speeds using MSI's Kombuster utility. So far my testing has shown that higher clock speeds may be stable in games where GPU usage does not reach 100%, but will crash within a few minutes using this utility. The reported clock speeds are those that proved stable over a 15 minute test at 1920 x 1200 and 8x AA.
- Gaming Tests:
- Far Cry 2
- Metro 2033
- Crysis Warhead
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
- Darkest of Days
- Bioshock 2
- Just Cause 2
- Unigine Heaven Benchmark 2.0
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Resident Evil 5
- 3DMark 06 Professional
- 3DMark Vantage
- Usage:
- Temperature
- Power Consumption
Featuring a new game engine named Dunia, this game looks to be another one to stress your video card. Built especially for Far Cry 2, this engine allows for real time effects and damage. This next generation first person shooter comes to us from Ubisoft surprisingly - not from Crytek. The game is set in a war-torn region of Africa where there is a non-existent central government and the chaos that surrounds this type of social environment. If you have seen the movie Blood Diamond, you know the setting. Ubisoft puts the main storyline of the game into focus with these statements: "Caught between two rival factions in war-torn Africa, you are sent to take out "The Jackal," a mysterious character who has rekindled the conflict between the warlords, jeopardizing thousands of lives. In order to fulfill your mission you will have to play the factions against each other, identify and exploit their weaknesses, and neutralize their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion, cunning and, of course, brute force." In this version of the game, you don't have the beautiful water, but instead the beauty and harshness of the African continent to contend with. Most games give you a set area that can be played through, while Ubisoft has given the gamer the equivalent of 50 square kilometers of the vast African continent to explore while in pursuit of your goals. The settings used are just a few steps below the maximum in-game settings and offer a good blend of performance vs. visual quality.
- 4x AA
- 16xAF
- Ranch Small
- Global Setting = High
Higher = Better
The lower clock speeds of the ECS GTX 460 show in this benchmark as slightly lower performance than that of the Palit variant of the GTX 460. When overclocked, the performance numbers are almost identical.
Part first person shooter, part survival horror, Metro 2033 is based on the novel of the same name, written by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. You play as Artyom in a post-apocalyptic Moscow, where you'll spend most of your time traversing the metro system, with occasional trips to the surface. Despite the dark atmosphere and bleak future for mankind, the visuals are anything but bleak. Powered by the 4A Engine, with support for DirectX 11, NVIDIA Physx and NVIDIA 3D Vision, the tunnels are extremely varied - in your travels, you'll come across human outposts, bandit settlements, and even half-eaten corpses. Ensuring you feel all the tension, there is no map and no health meter. Get lost without enough gas mask filters and adrenaline shots and you may soon wind up as one of those half-eaten corpses - chewed up by some horrifying manner of irradiated beast that hides in the shadows just waiting for some hapless soul to wander by.
- 16xAF
- Global settings = High
- Physx = off
Higher = Better
The higher memory overclock on the ECS Black GTX 460 pays off in this game with higher scores than the Palit and allowing performance to come in right behind that of a GTX 470!
Crysis Warhead is a standalone expansion pack situated in time with the story line of the original Crysis. As Sergeant "Psycho" Sykes, you have a secret mission to accomplish on the far side of the island. Along the way there are EMP blasts and aliens to contend with, as you hunt down the KPA chief. This game uses an enhanced version of the CryEngine 2.
- Frost Map
- Gamer
Higher = Better
At stock speeds, the Palit 460 offes higher performance due to its higher clock speeds but the ECS 460 delivers equal performance when they are both overclocked.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the latest iteration of the venerable first person shooter series, Call of Duty. Despite its long, successful pedigree, the game is not without substantial criticism and controversy, especially on the PC. Aside from the extremely short campaign and lack of innovation, the PC version's reception was also marred by its lack of support for user-run dedicated servers, which means no user-created maps, no mods, and no customized game modes. You're also limited to 18-player matches instead of the 64-player matches that were possible in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Despite all this, the game has been well received and the in-house IW 4.0 engine renders the maps in gorgeous detail, making it a perfect candidate for OCC benchmarking. You start off the single player missions playing as Private Allen and jump right into a serious firefight. This is the point where testing will begin. Testing will be done using actual game play with FPS measured by Fraps.
- In Game settings to Maximum
- 4xAA
- 16xAF
- Fraps measured Gameplay
Higher = Better
When the ECS and Palit GTX 460s are compared, there is not a large discrepancy in performance. What is surprising is how close the ECS GTX 460 comes to the performance of the HD 5870 when overclocked.
What would testing be if we did not show both sides of the fence? In this test, PhysX was set to low, while leaving the remaining settings intact. You have seen time and again where the ATI cards suffer when PhysX is enabled. Mirror's Edge and Cryostasis are two prime examples. Darkest of Days is no different. What happens in this test shows that although the game can be played by cards from the red team, the video effects and quality are diminished.
- 4xAA
- 16xAF
- Global Settings = High
- Physx Low
- Ambient Occlusion On
Higher = Better
Darkest of Days seems to be an Achilles heel for the ECS GTX 460 as its performance was lower than the Palit's throughout the testing.
Just Cause 2 is a third-person shooter that takes place on the fictional island of Panau in Southeast Asia. In this sequel to 2006's Just Cause, you return as Agent Rico Rodriguez to overthrow an evil dictator and confront your former boss. When you don't feel like following the main story line, you're free to roam the island, pulling off crazy stunts and causing massive destruction in your wake, all beautifully rendered by the Avalanche Engine 2.0. In the end, that's what the game basically boils down to; crazy stunts and blowing things up. In fact, blowing things up and wreaking havoc is actually necessary to unlock new missions and items.
- 4xAA
- 16xAF
- Global Settings = High
- Water Detail = Medium
- Dark Tower Time Demo
Higher = Better
At stock speeds from 1920 x 1200 and below, the ECS GTX 460 is faster than the HD 5850 in this game. The tables turn when the HD 5850 is overclocked. Again, the Palit is a bit faster in this game!
Unigine Heaven Benchmark 2.0 is a DirectX 11 GPU benchmark based on the Unigine engine. What sets the Heaven Benchmark apart is the addition of hardware tessellation, available in three modes. Moderate, Normal and Extreme. Although tessellation requires a video card with DirectX 11 support and Windows Vista/7, the Heaven Benchmark also supports DirectX 9, DirectX 10 and OpenGL. Visually, it features beautiful floating islands that contain a tiny village and extremely detailed architecture.
- 4xAA
- 16xAF
- Shaders = High
- Tesselation = Normal
- Measurement = FPS
Higher = Better
The performance of the ECS GTX 460 matches up well with the other GTX 460 in this comparison. When compared to ATI's offerings, the performance compares well with the more expensive HD 5850.
Batman: Arkham Asylum is a new game that brings together two bitter foes, The Joker and Batman. The Joker has taken over Arkham Asylum, Gotham's home for the criminally insane. Your task is to rein in the Joker and restore order. This game makes use of PhysX technology to create a rich environment for you to ply your trade.
- 4xAA in CP
- 16xAF in CP
- Global settings = High
- Ambient Occlusion = On
Higher = Better
The GTX 460 from ECS delivers performance that exceeds that of the HD 5870 in this game!
Resident Evil 5 is the sequel to one of the best selling video games of all time. You play the game as Chris Redfield a survivor of the events at Raccoon City who now works for the BSAA. Sent to Africa to find the genesis of the latest Bio Organic agents, you meet up with another BSAA operative and work together to solve the problem. The game offers incredible 3D effects and a co-op gaming style.
- 4xAA
- 16xAF in CP
- Global settings = high
Higher = Better
The ECS Black GTX 460 flirts with the performance of the Palit Sonic edition in all eight tests. At 1280 x 1024, it delivers FPS comparable to the HD 5850.
3DMark06 is one of the benchmarks that always comes up when a bragging contest has begun. 3DMark06 presents a severe test for many of today's hardware components. Let's see how this setup fares. The settings we will use are listed below.
- Default test settings
- Resolutiions 1280-1024-2560x1600
- SM2.0 Graphics Tests: GT1- Return to Proxycon, GT2- Firefly Forest
- CPU Tests: CPU1- Red Valley, CPU2- Red Valley
- HDR/SM3.0 Graphics Tests: HDR1- Canyon Flight, HDR2- Deep Freeze
Higher = Better
When overclocked, the Black GTX 460 compares favorably with the HD 5850 up to 1920 x 1200.
Featuring all-new game tests, this benchmark is for use with Vista based systems. "There are two all-new CPU tests that have been designed around a new 'Physics and Artificial Intelligence-related computation.' CPU test two offers support for physics related hardware." There are four preset levels that correspond to specific resolutions. 'Entry' is 1024 x 768 progressing to 'Extreme' at 1920 x 1200. Of course, each preset can be modified to arrange any number of user designed testing. For our testing, I will use the four presets at all default settings.
- Settings (each preset): Default Testing
- Entry: 1024 x 768
- Performance: 1280 x 1024
- High: 1680 x 1050
- Extreme: 1920 x 1200
Higher = Better
In all four resolutions the ECS GTX 460 just does not surpass the Palit but does deliver results that are reasonably close and still near those of the HD 5850.
Temperature testing will be accomplished by loading the video card to 100% using MSI Kombuster which is paired with MSI's afterburner overclocking utility for temperature monitoring. I will be using the stability test set to a resolution of 1920 x 1200 using 8xAA. I will use a 15 minute time frame to run the test ensuring, that the maximum thermal threshold is reached. The fan speed will be left in the control of the driver package and video card's BIOS for the first test, with the fan moved to 100% to see the best possible cooling scenario for overclocking. The idle test will be a 20 minute cool down with the fan speeds left on automatic.
- Monitoring with MSI Afterburner
- GPU Stability test in MSI Kombuster
- 15 minute load duration
- 15 minute idle duration
- Temperature measured in degrees Celsius
Lower = Better
The idle temperatures on the ECS are within a degree of the idle numbers on the Palit Sonic. That's where the similarity in temperatures ends as the load temperatures of the ECS Black are an amazing 7 degrees cooler under an overclocked, over volted testing cycle. The aftermarket cooling solution that is included with the ECS Black pays dividends much like the results delivered by the Inno3D GTX 470. This lower temperature should bring some peace of mind in a cramped case. Although, you will need good ventilation to prevent the heat dump from impacting your system temps.
Power Consumption of the system will be measured in both idle states and loaded states and will take into account the peak voltage of the system with each video card installed. I will use MSI Kombuster to load the GPU for a 15 minute test and use the peak load of the system as my result for the maximum load. The idle results will be measured after 15 minutes of inactivity on the system.
- MSI Kombuster Stability test
- 1920x1200 Resolution
- 15 minute load test
- 15 minute idle test
- Measurement is in Watts
Lower = Better
The power consumed by the ECS Black GTX 460 is lower than the Palit Sonic in this test. One reason in the overclocked test is that the additional current needed to run the maximum overclocked speeds is lower than that of the Sonic. However, this also means that the ECS has a lower overclock as well!
Going into this review I had some trepidation and was concerned about just how well this video card from ECS would overclock. Stock testing would not be a concern because the card will perform within its envelope based on the clock speeds it is delivered with. As a card that is factory overclocked, you get an increase in performance right out of the box when compared to the many reference clocked cards that come with clock speeds of 675Mhz on the cores versus the 765Mhz clock on the Black Series from ECS. The concerns I had quickly vanished once the clock speeds started creeping upwards to the final clock speeds of 885Mhz on the CUDA cores and 2156Mhz on the GDDR5 memory. While the 885Mhz on the cores is less than what I have been able to squeeze out of other cards by about 15Mhz, the memory speeds just flew on up past what I have been able to gain on other cards. This equates to a 120Mhz jump on the cores and 153Mhz on the memory or a roughly 16% increase in clock speeds between the two settings. The question you have to ask then is did I see a 16% jump in performance? Not quite at the lower resolutions where other factors contribute to performance but at 2560 x 1600 - yes I did. That makes it all worth the effort. When performance and clock speeds go up, temperatures usually follow suit, especially when you are increasing the voltage of the components to get there.
ECS stepped back and made the decision to equip the Black series GTX 460 with a high end cooling solution to make sure that temperatures will not be a limiting factor for your overclocking endeavors. They slapped on an Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo Pro heatpipe based cooling solution. Did it work? Was it quiet? Yes on both counts. The temperatures delivered in both the stock and overclocked testing were better than the cooling solution used on the comparison Palit card by four degrees Celsius at stock speeds and by seven degrees Celsius when overclocked and over volted. The one thing I do not like about the Arctic Cooling Accelero is that the majority of the thermal load will get dumped back into the chassis instead of being sent out the back of the case. If your case is well ventilated this should not be a concern. If not, add some fans! The other concern with this offering from ECS is that while the cooling solution does its job very well it is big. By big, I mean the whole assembly is close to three inches wide. This helps for cooling but can raise some concerns when you want to run this card as part of an SLI setup with another card. It may well block all the access you have on your board to install an add-in card. But, you really have to make the choice. Me, I take the cooling!.
Adding the Accelero Twin Turbo Pro increases the cost to this card but really, at the pricing quoted from the manufacturer, the Black GTX 460 from ECS comes in at a very competitive $239. If you look at the pricing of just the cooling solution alone, it goes for almost $50 so you really have some added value with a card that fits price wise right in the middle of the GTX 460 pricing structure. So, when comparing GTX 460 cards you get top end cooling for a very small price premium with the ECS Black Series GTX 460. The GTX 460 is targeted towards the largest sector of the gaming market and it hits the mark.The vast majority of gamers play in the 1280 x 1024 to 1680 x 1050 pool at the $200 to $250 price point right where the GTX 460 is priced. With new games like Mafia II, Lost Planet II and the massively popular Starcraft II all making use of the strengths of the GTX 460 and NVIDIA's latest technologies such as PhysX, 3D Vision and 3Dvision Surround, you get the full package for total immersion into your game. ECS has hit a homer with the Black Series GTX 460. You get excellent performance, great cooling, a low noise signature and all for a price that just seems right. If that's not enough then it just looks good through the side window of your case!
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Lakewood-based FirstBank is closing 15 branch locations, a dozen of them inside King Soopers stores along the Front Range, because the tellers mostly stand around waiting for someone — anyone — to come by.
The other three are stand-alone operations, one each in Avon, Vail and Colorado Springs.
It's not that the branches are losing business, bank officials say. Far from it. Customers are relying more on electronic banking, ATMs and other forms of impersonal transactions that simply mean there's not a need for actual human contact.
"What's driving it is a decline in traffic, nothing to do with the bank's financial stability," FirstBank Vice President Jim Reuter said. "We just don't need the density we have today considering the change in customer behavior in online banking."
The closures are to begin in October and coincide with FirstBank plans to open other three other branches in areas that need them, including the first in Glenwood Springs, Reuter said, and one in Chandler, Ariz.
FirstBank ATM cash machines are not affected by the closures, King Soopers spokeswoman Kelli McGannon said.
FirstBank will buy out some leases in order to accommodate the change, Reuter said. Affected employees will be offered positions at nearby locations.
Each grocery-store branch employed between four and six people and collectively held $10 million to $20 million in deposits.
FirstBank has approximately 125 branches in Colorado, Arizona and California and held $10.88 billion in deposits as of June 30, a 9 percent increase from the same period a year before.
While FirstBank saw fewer customers using in-store branches, McGannon said the grocery chain is doing fine.
"We're pleased with the customer traffic there and see a trend in it continuing," she said.
Plans for the emptied space would be handled store-by-store, she said, noting that some might "expand a vitamin shop ... or showcase items of value ... or The Little Clinic affiliated with the University of Colorado where there could be an advantage as well."
FirstBank will retain 7 in-store branches — 5 in King Soopers — while looking to expand in other areas of Colorado. The affected branches each have another location within three miles, Reuter said.
The banking industry embraced the trend of in-store branches in the early 1990s and it wasn't long before hundreds were opening within months.
Today there are between 8,000 and 9,000 in-store banking locations nationwide, according to National Commerce Bank Services in Memphis, Tenn., which created the first such branch in 1985 and is now an industry consultant.
"If anything, the trend is going the other way, with more banks committing to in-store service," NCBS executive vice president Dave Martin said. "In-store branches, with customers gravitating to electronic channels, actually see it as a big plus."
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BENTON, Ark. (KTHV) -- The Benton Police Department would like to warn citizens about the potential dangers of a scam that has been reported. Two reports were recently taken where suspects attempted to scam a subject out of personal information involving an alleged contest.
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For the Sake of the Image investigated the reciprocal relationship between moving image and sound, considering sound not merely as an accompaniment to the moving image but exploring how the force of one multiplies the power of the other. It featured the work of emerging artists Asnat Austerlitz, Richard Bevan, Juan Fontanive, Paul O'Kane, Mark Raidpere and Dan Walwin as well as exhibition curator, Suki Chan.
"The use of sound defines space. It constructs places and narratives that are not necessarily seen. Combined with moving images, sound initiates a particular kind of encounter between the audience and the artwork. From the use of emotive sounds that assist to transport the viewer to a personal space, to incidental sounds which grounds the experience, sound exposes the physicality of the medium or the framework in which the artwork is presented."
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Continued lack of significant rainfall heading into the winter months has done no favors for Lake Olney, which stood at 1,124 feet elevation heading into Thanksgiving. With concern growing about the availability of local water, and the continued decline of the level of Wichita Falls' Lake Kickapoo, Olney's primary water source for many months, City Administrator Danny Parker said now is not the time to stop conserving water.
"(Lake Cooper) is at about 24 percent," he said on Thursday, Nov. 21. "We dug out around the intake and deepened that area. If the water will continue to come into that area, we'll be ok for a while."
If a silt bank or other obstruction blocks water from flowing to the intake structure, he said a local contractor has already agreed to go in and knock it down. However, there is no real estimate, at this time, regarding how long the water will still be able to be collected by the structure.
The middle of the final gate on the intake structure is at 1,117.75 feet, just 6.25 feet from the lake's current elevation.
"We don't know how much water there is in Lake Olney, but we still have that to fall back on and try to treat or pump over," Parker said.
The problem with treating water from Lake Olney is that it contains far more silt than Lake Cooper, and will be more difficult and more expensive to treat.
That leads Olney to continue to rely on Lake Kickapoo for its main water source. As of now, Olney cannot be cut back to fewer than 300,000 gallons per day from the emergency pipeline laid between the city's water treatment plant and the lake in the late 1970s. However, Parker said that does not mean the city of Wichita Falls, which went into Stage 4 drought restrictions on Saturday, Nov. 16, with its combined lake levels at less than 30 percent, cannot request that Olney cut its usage. Olney has been in its most restrictive drought phase since the first part of 2013.
"They've asked we abide by their water conservation efforts," Parker said. "But our Phase 4 of the drought contingency plan is stricter than theirs to begin with. They're asking all the communities that get their water to reduce."
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