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Patricia Brown Holmes
Patricia Brown Holmes is a founding partner at Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP. A trial attorney whose practice focuses on white-collar criminal investigations, she is a former federal, state and local prosecutor and state court judge.
Her criminal and civil litigation experience includes handling matters involving financial and accounting fraud, mail and wire fraud, corporate whistle-blower allegations and hot-line calls, contract disputes and other complex commercial litigation. She has also lectured on and completed internal investigations involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
Judge Holmes also has extensive experience conducting internal investigations at public and private entities and has conducted many highly sensitive and confidential investigations involving high-level executives. She has represented special committees and boards of directors in a variety of internal investigations.
During her career, she has often been tasked by government officials to assist in investigating sensitive matters. She was appointed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to chair the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission; the investigation of the City of Chicago's fire commissioner for sexual harassment; the alleged cover up by the executive director of the Office of Compliance; and the 2010 investigation of the Burr Oak Cemetery scandal as chair of the governor's Cemetery Oversight Task Force. That investigation led to new legislation regarding cemetery oversight and the funeral industry. She is also a member of Senator Dick Durbin's judicial commission to investigate backgrounds and select federal judges and the U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of Illinois.
She is a frequent commentator and widely published legal writer and an active member of several Bar Associations. She is an adjunct professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law, Loyola Institute for Paralegal Studies, and an instructor at the Attorney General's Advocacy Institute Criminal Trial Advocacy Section of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Her many awards include the Visionary Award from the Black Women Lawyers Association; the Illinois Judicial Council Distinguished Service Award; the National Bar Association's
Judicial Council Special Chair Award;
the University of Illinois
Seaberry Award for Service to the Legal Community and the University's Outstanding Alumni Award for Public Service;
a peer review award from Illinois Leading Lawyers Network; and the
Award for Excellence in Pro Bono Service
from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois/Federal Bar Association, Chicago Chapter.
She has also been named by several publications and organizations to their lists of outstanding attorneys in the commercial litigation, white collar and criminal defense practices. In 2011, the National Diversity Council named her "One of the Most Powerful and Influential Women of Illinois."
Judge Holmes earned her Bachelor's degree and her J. D. from the University of Illinois.
First Vice President
Daniel M. Kotin
Daniel M. Kotin is a founding member of Tomasik Kotin Kasserman, LLC. He is an experienced personal injury, wrongful death and medical malpractice attorney.
Within the Chicago Bar Association (CBA), he serves on the Association's Finance Committee. Over the years, he has chaired multiple committees of the CBA and served as a director of the Young Lawyers Section. He is also involved in the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, where he is a member of the Board of Managers and was previously the Chairman of the Association's Seminar Planning Committee. In addition, he is currently the President of The Society of Trial Lawyers.
He is on the faculty at Loyola University School of Law. He also is the President of the Board of Governors for the law school and serves as a Co-Chair of its Circle of Advocates. He is on the faculty at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy where he teaches trial skills to lawyers in an annual program. He has been appointed by the Supreme Court of Illinois and serves on the Hearing Board of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.
In 2002, he was recognized and profiled by Chicago's Law Bulletin Publishing Company as one of "40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch". He was honored by the Lawdragon as one of "500 New Stars, New World," in 2006. He is a member of The National Trial Lawyers, an organization comprised of the top 100 trial lawyers from each state. He is currently profiled as one of the Top 5% of Civil Trial Lawyers in Illinois by the Leading Lawyers Network, has been designated an "Illinois Super Lawyer" and maintains an AV rating - the highest possible rating for any attorney - from the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.
Second Vice President
Hon. Thomas R. Mulroy
Hon. Thomas R. Mulroy has been on the bench since 2007 and sits in the Law Division, Commercial Section. Prior to becoming a judge, he was an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago and then a partner at Jenner & Block. He was a commercial trial lawyer with a national practice representing clients in complex litigation in the state and federal courts. He has written and taught on trial practice issues, including evidence, expert witnesses and discovery. He is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and a member of the Board of Governors of Loyola University School of Law and a Member Board of Managers, Chicago Bar Association. In addition, Judge Mulroy was
Special Counsel, Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission -
Chairman, ABA Civil Procedure & Evidence Committee -
Director, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education -
Director and Life Member, Illinois Bar Foundation -
Chicago Bar Association: Committee on Evaluation of Judicial Candidates; Committee to Evaluate Federal Judges -
Adjunct Professor of Law, trial practice: Loyola University, Northwestern University and DePaul University -
Lecturer: Northwestern School of Law,
Scientific Evidence
Steven M. Elrod
Steven M. Elrod, a partner at Holland & Knight, represents private and public sector clients on land use, zoning and real estate matters. He is chairman of the firm's National Land Use and Government Team and is the executive partner of the firm's Chicago office. He also served on Holland & Knight's national directors committee for two consecutive terms.
He is the corporation counsel for the City of Highland Park, Ill., and the village attorney for the Villages of Northbrook, Glencoe, Lincolnwood and Carpentersville, Ill. He is also actively involved in the general representation of the firm's more than two dozen Chicago area local government clients.
He has extensive experience in the litigation of land use issues, including eminent domain; regulatory taking and inverse condemnation; RLUIPA; the First Amendment and the Second Amendment. He successfully argued a religious land use case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
His many charitable and civic efforts include currently serving on the board of the Chicago Bar Foundation, which funds pro bono legal services organizations, and serving as chairman of the board of directors of the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing law-related and civic education to elementary and high school students.
A frequent speaker and author, his topics are usually land use and local government issues. He is an adjunct law professor at Northwestern University School of Law, where he teaches Local Government and Land Use Law. In 2013, he received the Outstanding Adjunct Professor Award. He is consistently ranked among the best lawyers in the nation by the legal guides Chambers USA and Best Lawyers in America. His many honors and awards include the Tree of Life Award for Civic Service from the Jewish National Fund in 2007, and the Lecturer of Merit Award from the National College of District Attorneys.
Steven Elrod earned his bachelors degree from Tulane University, magna cum laude, and his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, J.D.
Jesse H. Ruiz
Jesse H. Ruiz is a partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath, where he serves as Marketing Partner, and is a member of the firm's Client Service Committee. He practices in the Corporate and Securities Group and focuses on business transactions. In addition, he counsels clients on corporate finance issues; negotiation of consulting and other commercial agreements; reorganizations; corporate compliance; corporate governance issues; employment matters; and the formation of business entities in the United States, Latin America and Europe.
He also serves as legal counsel to the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus and the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus Foundation. In 2003, and again in 2009, he received the Foundation's Leadership Award for providing legal counsel to both the Foundation and the Caucus, and assisting in the formation of both organizations.
For many years, he has focused his civic involvement in public education. Currently, he serves as Vice President of the Chicago Board of Education and as a member of the U.S. Department of Education Equity and Excellence Commission. He has previously served as chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education and on the Chicago Public Schools Desegregation Monitoring Commission.
His involvement in the legal community includes serving on the American Bar Association's Commission on Hispanic Legal Rights and Responsibilities. He is a past president of the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois and past chairman of the Hispanic Lawyers Scholarship Fund of Illinois. He is also past chairman of the Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms. He taught corporate law as an Adjunct Professor of Corporate Law at John Marshall Law School. He also serves on several other civic and charitable boards and committees.
His many awards and honors include the 2002 Barristers Philanthropic Award from Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth for his work in education advocacy and youth mentoring; the 2007 Education Excellence Award from El Valor; the 2005 Education Award from Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White; and the 2005 Vanguard Award from the Chicago Bar Association. In 2003, he was named in the Crain's Chicago Business list of "40 Under 40 Rising Stars in Chicago Business." That same year, he was recognized by Chicago Lawyer magazine as one of the "40 Attorneys Under 40 in Illinois to Watch" and was selected by Chicago United to be featured in its first "Business Leaders of Color" publication, featured in the October 13, 2003 issue of Crain's Chicago Business.
He earned his J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School, where he served as an editor of the
University of Chicago Law School Roundtable
, and his B.A. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
CBA Board of Managers
Immediate Past President
Daniel Cotter
Daniel Cotter is Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Fidelity Life Association, A Legal Reserve Life Insurance Company. Prior to joining Fidelity Life in April 2013, he was a founding partner of Korey Cotter Heather & Richardson, LLC. Previously, he was Chair of the Corporate, Transactional and Regulatory Group at Lindemann LLC, Downers Grove. Other experience includes serving as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Argo Group U.S., Inc. and Senior Counsel with Unitrin Inc. A certified CPA, he has also worked as an accountant at the insurance giant, C N A.
He is the 2nd Vice President of the John Marshall Law School Alumni Association and serves on the Board of Trustees of Monmouth College, the John Marshall Law School Board of Visitors, the Chicago Bar Foundation, and the Advisory Council for Alliant Credit Union. He is an adjunct professor at John Marshall School of Law.
Mr. Cotter's community service includes serving as Chair of the Edgebrook School District for seven years and currently as vice chair, a Boy Scouts Eagle Board of Review Chair, and fundraising annually for the CBA's Lend A Hand-to-Youth program. He is a champion weight lifter in his spare time and often uses his competitive events to raise money for charitable causes, including Lend A-Hand-to-Youth. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Monmouth College, where he earned his Bachelor's degree in Accounting, and earned his law degree from The John Marshall Law School, graduating first in his class. At John Marshall, he competed in the John Marshall/ABA National Criminal Defense Lawyers National Mock Trial Competition and was an Editor for the Law Review, while working full-time at CNA as an accountant.
His awards include Monmouth's Distinguished Young Alumnus Award (2001) and induction into the MClub (sports) Hall of Fame (2002).
Karina Ayala Bermejo
Karina Ayala Bermejo is currently the General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Human Resources for Metropolitan Family Services (MFS). MFS is the oldest and largest non-profit in Illinois. As GC and EVP of HR, she is responsible for all legal matters and aspects of human resources for MFS.
Prior to MFS, she worked for the City of Chicago in Mayor Daley's administration as Acting Commissioner, First Deputy Commissioner and Managing Deputy Commissioner for the Department of Human Resources. Prior to working for the City of Chicago, she spent seven years as the Director of Community Services for the Chicago Bar Association where she encouraged attorneys to take on pro bono work and collaborated with the bar and various divisions of the Circuit Court of Cook County on initiatives to improve the justice system. She also served as the first Executive Director of the Sun Times Judge Marovitz Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth Program, a foundation that mobilizes the legal profession around mentoring youth. She was instrumental in securing a $2 million dollar cy pres award, the largest in Cook County's history for Lawyers Lend-A-Hand. Ms. Ayala-Bermejo legal career began as an attorney in the Litigation Division of the Chicago Board of Education handling labor and employment matters.
She was recently appointed Commissioner for the Cook County Human Rights Commission, where she serves as its Vice-Chair. She was appointed a Commissioner for the American Bar Association Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession; serves on the Board of Trustees for the Hispanic Lawyers Scholarship Fund; Dean's Advisory Council for the DePaul University College of Law; Board of the Chicago Legal Clinic; and Executive Board for Illinois Partners for Human Services.
She is the former President of the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois where she founded its mentoring program, JD Mentors, now in its 11th year. She served in numerous positions for the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) including General Counsel; National Vice President of Programs; National Vice President of Regions; and Commissioner, Commission of the Status of Latinas in the Legal Profession; and Regional President (Wis., Ill., Mich., Ind.).
She is an in-demand keynote speaker and over the years has served on numerous boards and task forces, including serving three terms as a member of the U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois Magistrate Judge Selection Committee; Board Director for the Jane Addams Juvenile Court Foundation; Member of the Diversity Pipeline Subcommittee of the ISBA Task Force on Diversity; Planning Committee of the Women Everywhere Service Project; Founding Member of Illinois Legal Aid Online; Coordinating Committee Member for The Equal Justice Illinois Campaign; Advisory Board Member for Centro Comunitario Juan Diego; Board Member for Southeast Chicago Development Commission; Board Secretary for Our Children in the Courts Foundation; and Member of The Illinois Task Force on Unaccompanied Immigrant Children.
Her many honors include the CBA Alliance for Women's Alta May Hewlett Award; Seton Academy Alumni of Distinction Honoree; Chicago Commission of Human Relations: Advisory Council on Latino Affairs Award; Cook County State's Attorney Richard A. Devine, El Humanitario Award; Mayor Daley Leadership 2000 Award; DePaul College of Law, Latino Law Student Association Distinguished Alumnus Award; and DePaul College of Law, Outstanding Service as a Young Alumnus Award.
Born in Jalisco, Mexico, she resides in Chicago with her husband Frank, and three children (Liam 11, Elijah 9 and Abbey Rose 7). She is a graduate of Loyola University-Chicago and her JD is from DePaul University College of Law.
Ashly Iacullo Boesche
Ashly Iacullo Boesche is a partner at Pattishall McAuliffe where she practices intellectual property law. She concentrates her practice on trademark, copyright, and domain name cases. Before coming to Pattishall, she worked for many years as a law clerk and litigation specialist.
While she handles all facets of non-patent intellectual property law, she has a strong background litigating in federal courts across the country and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. She has handled cases involving trademark and trade dress infringement, false advertising, copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets. She has extensive experience with discovery of electronically stored information.
She is an Adjunct Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, teaching a course on trademarks and unfair competition. She also coaches the Chicago-Kent College of Law teams that compete annually in the International Trademark Association's Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition. In her debut year, 2014, one of her teams won First Place and Best Brief at regionals and won Fourth Place at the national championship.
Her many honors and professional awards include the 2010 David C. Hilliard Award for Outstanding Committee Chair of the Young Lawyers Section of the CBA. She was recognized in 2010, 2012 and 2014 as an Illinois "Rising Star" by Illinois Super Lawyers Magazine. In 2011, she was invited to attend the American College of Trial Lawyers' annual meeting in La Quinta, California, at which the Pattishall firm was honored "for representing the College with Honor and Distinction"; she had served as counsel for the College in an important domain name case.
At the CBA, she has served as both Chair and Vice Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee. She has also served the CBA's Young Lawyers Section as both Secretary and Treasurer.
In law school, she served as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Intellectual Property, and received the 2005 Bar and Gavel Award, which honors graduating students who have given outstanding service to the law school, the community and the law profession. She also won the 2003 CALI Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy.
She holds a B.A. from DePaul University and received her J.D. from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Thomas F. Boleky
Thomas F. Boleky is a partner with Beutel Hurst Boleky LLC, and concentrates his practice in personal injury, wrongful death and medical malpractice litigation. He has tried numerous cases to a successful verdict throughout Illinois and had handled legal matters in both state and federal court in a variety of jurisdictions throughout the country. He has served on the Chicago Bar Association's Judicial Evaluation Committee for the past 12 years, including chairing its Investigation Division, its Hearing Division and as General Chair in 2012-2013. He also served as co-chair of the Chicago Bar Association's Appellate Review Committee in 2011-2012. In May 2014, he was the recipient of the William J. White Award of Excellence, which was given to him by the Chicago Bar Association for his leadership and service on the Judicial Evaluation Committee and his many years sitting on its Executive Committee.
He has frequently served as a moderator and judge for the DePaul College of Law's Moot Court Society and the American Association for Justice's Student Trial Advocacy Competition. He is a frequent contributor for many civic, community and legal organizations and has planned, conducted, taught or served as moderator at over 40 different legal seminars throughout his career. For the past two years, he has served as a Mentor in Northern Illinois University - College of Law's 1L Mentor Program. He also devotes a substantial amount of time to the Les Turner ALS Foundation, where he is a member of its Board of Directors and Chair of its Strategic Planning Implementation Committee.
He is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, limited to attorneys who have won million and multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements, and has an AV rating - the highest level awarded for professional excellence - by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. He is also recognized as a "Top Illinois Lawyer" by SuperLawyers.com.
He earned his B.S. from Spring Hill College and his J.D. from DePaul University.
Chasity Boyce
Chasity Boyce is Associate General Counsel to Governor Bruce Rauner, where she oversees the Governor's clemency process and serves as the Governor's legal liaison to the Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, Prisoner Review Board, Department of Human Rights, Department of Children and Family Services, State Board of Education and all related boards and commissions. Prior to joining the Governor's legal team, she was a senior associate at O'Hagan LLC, specializing in premises and products liability.
She currently serves on the board of the Black Women Lawyers' Association of Greater Chicago, Inc. as the ex-officio (immediate past president) and the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism's Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board. Her awards include being named to the Lawyers of Color Inaugural Hot List for the Midwest Region, which recognizes early- to mid-career attorneys under the age of 40, and The National Black Lawyers-Top 100, an invitation-only professional honorary organization.
Over the past few years, she has served as a panelist for the CBA Young Lawyers' Section, as well as a judge for the CBA Moot Court Competition.
She earned her B.A. in Public Policy and a certificate in Markets and Management from Duke University and her J.D. from the Howard University School of Law.
Maureen E. Connors
Justice Maureen E. Connors has served in the First District of the Illinois Appellate Court since 2010. Prior to her election to the Appellate Court, she served since 1988 as a judge. In the Cook County Circuit Court Probate Division, she heard the Adult Disabled Calendar; she also sat in the Domestic Violence and Traffic Courts and handled a variety of court calls in the Fifth Municipal District of the Circuit Court.
Active in the legal community, she has served many law related organizations. She currently mentors and trains new judges for the Circuit Court. She has also served the CBA Probate Bar Committee and Young Lawyers Section and its Elder Law Committee. She has served as Chair of the Illinois Judicial Conference Committee on Discovery and is a member of its Committee on Education. She has lectured extensively on topics related to guardianship issues, including for the National Guardianship Association National Conference; the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys; and for the Chicago Bar Association. She has also lectured on Illinois' new e-discovery rules.
While in the Probate Division, Justice Connors was instrumental, along with the Chicago Bar Foundation and Chicago Volunteer Legal Services, in establishing the first formal pro bono Guardian ad Litem (GAL) program. This program allowed attorneys to provide free legal services to respondents for Guardianship who were unable to provide the funds to pay Court-appointed Guardian ad Litem fees. This program served a great function in providing that pro se parents of disabled children often would not have to bring their 18 year-old child downtown to the Daley Center to be questioned by the Court. Instead, the pro bono GAL would visit the respondent at his or her home and provide the alleged disabled person with the reading of their rights; the GAL would then advise the Court of any problems they observed and any objection from the respondent. The program was a great success and still is up and running in the Probate Division.
Justice Connors' community involvement includes serving on the Queen of Peace High School Board, and as President and Chair of the Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago Board. She was a member of the Task Force on the Illinois Domestic Violence Act and served as a tutor for Chicago's Mercy Home for Boys and Girls. Her many honors and awards include the 2009 Court of Honor Award from the Chicago Volunteer Legal Services and the Constance Morris House Domestic Violence Service Award in 1991, 1992, and 1993.
She earned her B.A. from Loyola University Chicago and her J.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago Kent College of Law.
Mary K. Curry
Mary K. Curry received her B.A. from the University of Iowa in 1999 and graduated from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2005. Immediately following law school she clerked for the Honorable Patrick E. McGann followed by a clerkship with James F. Henry in the Chancery Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County for two years. In 2007, Mary began clerking for the Honorable Susan E. Cox, a United States Magistrate Judge in the Northern District of Illinois, where she is currently.
Mary's involvement in The Chicago Bar Association began in 2005 when she served as the Young Lawyers Division Chair for the Mental Health & Disability Law Committee for two years. Following that position, Mary joined the Young Lawyers Division's board serving as Secretary, Special Project Coordinator, Project Officer, and as Vice-Chair.
James R. FortCamp
James R. FortCamp is a partner in the firm of Seyfarth Shaw LLP where he concentrates on real estate taxation matters. He has over 23 years of experience in handling real estate tax assessment issues and appeals for industrial, commercial, multi-family and residential properties in Cook County and the surrounding collar counties. He handles matters with local Assessors, Boards of Review, in the Circuit Court and before the State of Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board. Additionally, he handles real estate tax exemption matters before various Boards of Review and before the Illinois Department of Revenue.
He has been an active member in the Chicago Bar Association for approximately 27 years and has handled pro bono matters for the CBA for approximately 23 years. He earned his BS in Finance from the University of Illinois in 1984 and his JD degree from the University of Illinois in 1987.
Matthew T. Jenkins
Matthew T. Jenkins joined the Chicago law firm of Corboy & Demetrio as a personal injury lawyer in 2008. He practices personal injury law in all areas including cases arising from automobile collisions, construction negligence, premises liability and product liability.
Before returning to Corboy & Demetrio, where he clerked while attending law school, he practiced plaintiffs' civil rights law at Loevy & Loevy in Chicago. While at Loevy, he assisted in obtaining a $4 million verdict in a significant civil rights case on his very first trial.
In 2013, he was named to "40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch," by the Law Bulletin publishing Company. He heads Corboy & Demetrio's Pro Bono department.
As a student at IIT Chicago- Kent College of Law, he was recognized for both his academic achievements and his commitment to public service. In 2013, he was honored with the law school's Young Alumni Award. And in 2005, Chicago-Kent honored him for his personal dedication to public service by naming him a Public Interest Law Initiative Scholar.
He is an active member of the American Bar Association, the American Association for Justice and the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association where he currently serves as Co-Chair of the Young Lawyers Committee. He also sits on the Illinois State Bar Association's Judicial Evaluation Committee.
He is Past President and current Member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Disability & Elder Law. In 2012, at the age of 30, he was the youngest Board President in CDEL's history. He is a Co-Chair of the Young Alumni Committee of the Alumni Board at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. In 2010, he was selected as the Illinois Pro Bono Attorney of the Month by Illinois Legal Aid Online (ILAO) for the volunteer legal work he has done.
He currently serves as Member Service Manager after previously serving as Public Service Manager in the Chicago Bar Association's Young Lawyer Division, also sitting on its Executive Committee. In addition, he sits on the CBA's Auxiliary Board of Lawyer's Lend-a-Hand to Youth.
He holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Eileen M. O'Connor
Eileen M. O'Connor has been handling plaintiff's personal injury cases since her graduation from law school in 2006. She joined O'Connor Law Group, LLC with her brother and her father in 2010. She has tried multiple cases to jury verdict, including cases involving motor vehicle collisions, premises liability, railroad negligence, police misconduct, and medical negligence. She has secured substantial settlements in wrongful death, medical malpractice, automobile, and nursing home litigation cases.
Prior to joining the firm, she worked for Ambrose & Cushing, P.C. As an associate, she handled all types of personal injury matters; including, medical negligence and nursing home neglect, construction negligence and premises liability, products liability, automobile collisions, and wrongful death matters.
While in law school, she externed for Judge James Flannery, Circuit Court of Cook County. Additionally, she worked as a law clerk at Hofeld & Schafner from 2003 - 2006.
She is extremely active in the legal community, serving as Chair and Vice Chair of the CBA's Tort Litigation Committee. She was also selected to serve on the CBA's Judicial Evaluation Committee, which interviews and investigates all judicial candidates running for vacancies in Cook County.
She also gives her professional time and expertise to represent clients in pro bono litigation matters. Two memorable pro bono cases were representation of a criminal juvenile defendant in an aggravated assault case, and representing a 5-year-old boy who sustained burns on over 85% of his body in an auto accident.
A frequent presenter at MCLE seminars, she speaks most often in the areas of tort law and Medicare related issues. Apart from her work with the CBA, she is also an active member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) and currently serves on the ISBA Assembly.
She earned her bachelors degree from the University of Illinois, cum laude, and her J.D. from Chicago Kent College of Law, cum laude.
Matthew Passen
Matthew A. Passen, partner with Passen Law Group, focuses his practice on personal injury and wrongful death cases. In 2014, he was named one of the "Top 40 Litigation Lawyers Under 40" in the state of Illinois by the Americnn Society of Legal Advocates, and has consistently been named a "Rising Star" by
Super Lawyers
magazine in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Prior to joining Passen Law Group, he was an associate at Jenner & Block LLP. During law school, he was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Ronald A. Guzman, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He also interned with the United States Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois.
Active in both local and national bar associations, he currently chairs the CBA Young Lawyers Section (YLS) and serves on the Chicago Bar Foundation's Young Professionals Board (YPB) which he served as President in 2014. He is also Vice-Chair of the Trial Techniques Committee and Automobile Law Committee for the American Bar Association, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS).
He is a member of the Board of Managers of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, as well as the Board of Governors of the American Association for Justice, New Lawyers Division. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Chicago, and serves on the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago's Associate Board and Illinois Legal Aid Online's Young Professionals Board.
He graduated with high honors (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in Economics from the University of Michigan, where he played four years of hockey as a member of the University of Michigan Club Hockey Team.
He earned his J.D. (summa cum laude, Order of the Coif) from DePaul University College of Law.
Meredith Ritchie
Meredith Ritchie is Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer for Alliant Credit Union in Chicago. Alliant, the largest credit union in Illinois, has more than $8 billion in assets. She oversees the Legal and Compliance Department, the Ethics Program and is a member of the Senior Leadership Team.
A Chicago area native, she graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY and obtained her JD from DePaul College of Law in Chicago. During college, she studied at La Sorbonne and L'institut d'etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris. She has had a diverse legal career in Chicago starting out in private practice where she litigated tort actions. A large portion of her litigation included defending a Fortune 100 petroleum company.
She then served as an Assistant State's Attorney for Cook County, Illinois in both the civil and criminal divisions before taking her experience to the State of Illinois where she contributed to the Illinois Department of Public Aid and then served as Deputy General Counsel to the Department of Central Management Services. She has served as in-house counsel for Accenture, an international technology consulting firm.
She chaired the Standing Committee on Women and the Law of the Illinois State Bar Association as well as the Young Lawyers Division. She served on the Board of the Illinois Bar Foundation and Chicago Volunteer Legal Services. Currently, she is Vice chair of the Operations Sub-committee of the American Bar Association Credit Union Committee and is on the Board of Directors of the Coalition of Women's Initiatives in Law as well as the Alliant Credit Union Foundation.
David J. Scriven-Young
David J. Scriven-Young is a senior associate in the Chicago office of Peckar & Abramson, P.C. and concentrates in the areas of commercial litigation, construction law, and environmental law. Before joining Peckar & Abramson, he was an associate at Jenner & Block and at McDermott Will & Emery.
He has been very active in the Chicago Bar Association, having served as a Director of the CBA Young Lawyers Section (YLS) and as co-chair of the YLS Environmental Law Committee. He is the current Chair of the CBA Environmental Law Committee.
During the 2014-2015 bar year, he will serve as the Assembly Speaker of the American Bar Association (ABA) Young Lawyers Division (YLD). In that capacity, he will be the YLD's Chief Legislative Officer, chair the Resolutions Team and Elections Committee, and preside over the Assembly, which is the 250-member policy-making body of the YLD. He previously served the YLD as Assembly Clerk, Chair of the Truth in Law School Education Task Force, Committee & Liaison Director, liaison to the ABA Standing Committee on Environmental Law, and Chair of the Law Practice Management Committee and the Environment, Energy, and Resources Committee. He was recently appointed by the incoming ABA President to serve as a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Technology and Information Services. He has also served as Vice President and Secretary of the Fenwick High School Bar Association.
In addition to his bar association involvement, he maintains an active pro bono practice and donates his time to various pro bono causes. He is a Director of the Alumni Network Leadership Council of the Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI), previously served as the Council's Program Planning Team Leader, and was a PILI Fellow.
His awards include the David C. Hilliard Award for Outstanding Committee Service from the CBA YLS and the Star of the Quarter Award from the ABA YLD. He was also named as an Illinois Super Lawyer, an Illinois "Rising Star", and to the "14 Under 40" list of outstanding alumni from DePaul University. He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Law.
He is a frequent lecturer and author on legal topics. He graduated magna cum laude from Marquette University with a B.A. in history and political science, and summa cum laude and Order of the Coif from DePaul University College of Law with a J.D., where he was on Law Review.
Amy J. St. Eve
Amy J. St. Eve was appointed as a United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of Illinois in 2002. At 36, St. Eve was one of the youngest judges ever appointed in the Northern District of Illinois. Since her appointment, St. Eve has presided over a significant number of civil and criminal trials, including high profile trials in United States v. Tony Rezko, United States v. Conrad Black, et al., and United States v. Mohammed Salah, et al. Judge St. Eve has also sat with the Seventh Circuit, Ninth Circuit and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals as a visiting judge. In 2002, St. Eve received Crain's Chicago Business' Top Forty Under Forty Award.
Judge St. Eve serves as an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern Law School where she teaches trial advocacy. St. Eve is the co-author of"More From the Jury Box: The Latest on Juries and Social Media," 12 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 64 (2014); "The Forgotten Pleading," Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 152 (2012); "Ensuring A Fair Trial in the Age of Social Media," 11 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 1 (2012); and "The Fault Allocation Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995" A Roadmap for Litigants and Courts," 3 NYU. J. L. & Bus. 187 (Fall 2006). She is also a co-author of Federal Employment Litigation (The Rutter Group Practice Guide).
Judge St. Eve serves as a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure (2013-present), a member of the Seventh Circuit Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions Committee, and a member of the Northern District of Illinois Patent Local Rules Committee. Judge St. Eve previously served as a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (2006-13) and as the Seventh Circuit Representative to the Federal Judges Association (2007-13). She is on the Board of Directors of the Chicago branch of the Federal Bar Association, a member of the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, and the Chicago Women's Bar Association. St. Eve is on the Chicago Bar Association's Board of Managers. She also is the Chair of the ABA's White Collar Crime's Subcommittee on Ethics and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Judge St. Eve is a member of the Cornell Law School Advisory Council, the Cornell College of Arts and Sciences' Advisory Council, the President's Council of Cornell Women, and the Loyola Academy Board of Trustees. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Chicago Posse and is a member of the Museum of Science and Industry's Youth Science Engagement Advisory Committee.
Judge St. Eve graduated from Cornell University in May 1987 with a B.A. in history. During the summer of 1986, Judge St. Eve attended Oriel College at Oxford University in England. In 1990, Judge St. Eve graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from Cornell Law School where she had been first in her class. She was a member of the Cornell Law Review and served as an Articles' Editor.
From 1990-1994, St. Eve worked as a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, New York. St. Eve served as an Associate Independent Counsel for the Whitewater Independent Counsel in Little Rock, Arkansas from 1994-1996 where she second chaired the successful prosecution of former Governor Jim Guy Tucker, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal for fraud. From August 1996 through April 2001, St. Eve served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Illinois. In 2001, St. Eve became Senior Counsel in Litigation at Abbott Laboratories.
Howard S. Suskin
Howard S. Suskin is a partner in Jenner & Block's Litigation department and Co-Chair of the firm's Securities Litigation practice and its Class Action practice. He represents both individuals and business entities in civil and criminal securities matters, including class actions alleging securities fraud and misrepresentation claims, derivative actions claiming breach of fiduciary duty, contests for corporate control, insider trading investigations, and broker-dealer issues.
He also serves as an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association, and for self-regulatory organizations including the Chicago Board Options Exchange, FINRA and the National Futures Association. He is an active member of the American Bar Association Securities Law Committee, including serving as Co-Chair of the Class and Derivative Actions Subcommittee.
A past member of the CBA Board, he currently serves as the CBA's General Counsel. He has also served the CBA as chairman of the Class Action Committee, Bench & Bar Committee, Financial & Investment Services Committee, and the Securities Law Committee. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Board IQ, a Financial Times publication, and The Deal. He has also served as a member of the Securities Editorial Advisory Board of Law360, and serves on the faculty of the Practicing Law Institute.
He has lectured extensively and has published numerous treatises and articles on issues relating to arbitrations, class actions and securities law, including serving as editor and co-author of the West Publishing Illinois Civil Litigation Guide, Moore's Federal Civil Motion Practice and Pretrial Civil Litigation, the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education Treatise on Class Actions, and the ABA's Annual Survey of State Class Action Litigation.
Members of the Leading Lawyers Network have consistently recognized his work in several areas including class actions, commercial litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and securities and venture financing law. He has been named one of the "Best Lawyers in America" for commercial litigation, Illinois Super Lawyers has five times named him a "Top 100 Illinois Super Lawyer" and he was named a "Top 10 Illinois Super Lawyer" in 2015.
He earned his bachelors degree from Northwestern University with distinction, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D. with honors from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a member of the Michigan Law Review.
Nigel F. Telman
Nigel F. Telman is a partner at Proskauer Rose LLP where he leads the employment practice and is co-head of the Employment Litigation & Arbitration Group.
He concentrates his practice on litigating single and class action disputes arising out of claims of workplace harassment and employment discrimination. He also represents employers in collective and class actions involving allegations of wage and hour violations under federal and state law. In addition, he has significant experience defending and enforcing Restrictive Covenant Agreements, as well as protecting employers' trade secrets and other confidential information from misappropriation by former employees through the institution of emergency litigation seeking temporary and permanent injunctive relief. He uses his experience litigating employment-related disputes to counsel clients on effective ways to avoid such litigation. His counseling practice focuses on training and advising clients on ways to improve all aspects of the employment relationship, including techniques on how to make effective hiring decisions; reviewing and revising employment policies, practices and procedures; and advising on employee disciplinary matters, reductions in force and termination decisions.
His awards and honors include being ranked by Chambers USA in Illinois for Labor & Employment; by US Legal 500 for Labor & Employment; named one of the "Nations Most Powerful Employment Attorneys - Top 100" by the Human Resources Executive, Lawdragon and named an Illinois Super Lawyer in 2015.
He volunteers his free time on the Leadership Board of the Art Institute of Chicago and has been named a Distinguished Fellow by the civic organization, Leadership Greater Chicago.
He earned his B.S. from Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations and his J.D. from Boston University School of Law.
John T. Theis
John T. Theis is an attorney in private practice with over 40 years' experience in criminal defense in Federal and State Court. He has tried over 200 felony cases, including more than 30 federal jury trials. He began his legal career in 1974 as a Cook County Assistant State's Attorney, before founding his own firm in 1979. In addition to his extensive trial experience, he frequently represents individuals in Grand Jury investigations and administrative proceedings.
A member of the CBA since 1974, he chaired the Defense of Prisoners Committee, was appointed to chair a Special CBA Committee on the Criminal Courts and has served on several other Special Committees. He also serves on the Board of the Chicago Bar Foundation, and is a former chair of the Illinois State Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section. For 10 years he chaired the ISBA's Special Committee on Cable TV. For over 20 years, he served as a member of the panel attorney selection committee of the Federal Defender Program.
For many years, he has taught Trial Advocacy as an adjunct professor at DePaul University Law School, and has lectured at Northwestern and Loyola University law schools. He has been admitted to practice in California and in federal districts in Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Minnesota, and has been appointed to represent defendants in more than ten federal death penalty prosecutions.
A 1969 graduate of Loyola University Chicago, he earned his J.D. in 1973 from the University Of San Francisco School Of Law. The native Chicagoan is married to Illinois Supreme Court Justice Mary Jane Theis.
Frank G. Tuzzolino
Frank G. Tuzzolino is a sole practitioner with an office on the northwest side of Chicago where he concentrates in Social Security disability law. He currently serves on the Federal Bar Association's Social Security Section Board and is a member of the National Organization of Social Security Representatives and the Illinois State Bar Association. He previously chaired the CBA's Social Security Law Committee and discussed Social Security law as a guest on the CBA's "You and the Law" talk show webcast as part of the CBA's annual Law Day Live celebration. He has also been a frequent guest on several radio programs discussing Social Security law.
He earned his B.A., cum laude, from DePaul University and his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago. While at DePaul, he studied Political Science at the University of Florence's Cesare Alfieri School of Political Science.
Allison L. Wood
Allison L. Wood is Principal of Legal Ethics Consulting, P.C. in Chicago. She is a former Hearing Board Chair and former Litigation Counsel with the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC). Her firm represents lawyers who face disciplinary investigations or complaints; law students who face Character & Fitness challenges; and she provides ethics evaluations and opinions for legal malpractice cases. Prior to her service with the ARDC, she was a Partner at a boutique law firm where she handled commercial litigation and employment matters. She also worked as an in-house litigation counsel with a public utility. She has extensive trial experience in State and Federal courts, as well as administrative tribunals.
For more then a decade, she has served as an adjunct professor and lecturer at University of Chicago, DePaul University College of Law, and The John Marshall Law School. She has taught pre-trial skills, trial skills and professional responsibility courses.
She is a current member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility; a Board Member of the Center for Conflict Resolution; and the Chair of the Law Practice Committee of the Cook County Bar Association. She is a former member of the Illinois Bar Association's Standing Committee on Professional Conduct and a former member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Lawyers' Professional Liability. A Certified MCLE Ethics Provider, she has presented ethics CLE courses to several bar associations including the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois Bar Association, Hispanic Bar Association, the Decalogue Society, the Cook County Bar Association, the Black Women's Bar Association, the DuPage County Bar Association, and the Lake County Bar Association. She also writes a monthly ethics column, "WoodWiseEthics", for
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She earned her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law.
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The Rock Solid scope mount showed up. It's a substantially beefier piece than the pictures imply. The only problem is the large CNC'd advertising on the side. Not as bad as the Texas Weapons System AK scope mount, but big enough that "fill it with Bondo and then Duracoat it" just went on the Mosin to-do list.
Next step is to order a new firing pin and cocking piece. I'm going to skeletonize them to reduce the lock time, and discard the safety knob entirely, which will mean coming up with some other safety arrangement.
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For as long as people have had cameras, they've stored photographs in shoeboxes and stuffed them in the closet. These days, shoeboxes have been replaced by computers, which provide an opportunity to organize your pictures so that they're always easy to find and ready to use.
For all of its virtues, your digital camera isn't smart enough to give your pictures file names that are likely to be meaningful to you. That means your pictures arrive on your computer with names like DSC00234.JPG and P0000234.JPG. It's time-consuming and tedious to rename each picture on your computer. If you want to eliminate all of those meaningless file names, there's a better solution.
Using the same word or phrase, you can rename an entire group of pictures at once. Here's how:
Open Windows Photo Gallery by clicking the Start button , clicking All Programs, and then clicking Windows Photo Gallery.
Hold down the CTRL key, and then click the pictures that you want to rename.
Right-click the pictures, and then click Rename.
In the Info pane, type the new name for that group of pictures in the name box.
Each picture will be given the new name with a different sequential number, like this:
Summer vacation 2005 (1), Summer vacation 2005 (2), Summer vacation 2005 (3), and so on.
Giving your pictures meaningful file names is the traditional way to organize them, but we don't usually think of pictures by name—we think of them by who is in the picture, where it was taken, or what we were doing at the time. Now you can attach tags to pictures to keep track of that kind of information. Tags are pieces of information that describe your pictures. You can create tags and add them to your pictures at any time, but we recommend adding them as soon as you have imported your pictures from your camera to your computer. Not only will you be more likely to tag your pictures if you do it right away, but the information about the pictures is still fresh in your mind, so you can tag them more accurately.
You can add your first tag to your pictures when you copy them to your computer by using the Importing Pictures and Videos dialog box. For example, if you are importing your summer vacation pictures, you can add a "Vacation 2006" tag. Then, when the pictures appear in Photo Gallery, each picture will contain that tag. You can always add more tags later.
You can add tags to your pictures any time you have a few minutes and you're in the mood to organize your pictures.
Click the picture that you want to add a tag to.
In the Info pane, click Add Tags.
Type the new tag, and then press ENTER.
You don't have to keep typing the same tags over and over whenever you get new pictures. To apply an existing tag to a picture, click the picture, and then drag it to the tag in the Navigation pane.
Not only does this save you a lot of extra typing, but seeing all of your tags in the Navigation pane makes it easy to remember the names of your tags so you avoid adding slightly different tags to some of your pictures. If you accidentally create three slightly different tags for the same kind of picture ("flower," "flowers," and "plants," for example) it is more difficult to see all of your related pictures with a single search.
If you have pictures that you want to print, send in e‑mail, or edit later, you can use tags as temporary reminders.
Once you have added tags to your pictures, you can use the Search box to find them. If you want to find a picture you took at a birthday two years ago, for example, and you know that you added tags called "Birthday" and "Party" to those pictures, type Birthday in the Search box. All of the pictures that have the word "Birthday" in the file name or in a tag will then be displayed. Or, click the Birthday tag in the Navigation pane to see only those files that have the Birthday tag applied to them.
Here's another tip: If you click the Birthday tag and there are still too many pictures to sort through, type Party in the Search box. Now you'll only see the birthday pictures that also have the Party tag applied to them, which will reduce the number of pictures displayed.
Tags are not the only way to attach information to your pictures. You can also add captions using the Add Caption box at the bottom of the Info pane. When you search for pictures using the Search box, you can find pictures using caption text in exactly the same way that you can find pictures using file names and tags.


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The college will waive 100% of the appropriate instructional fees for all full-time employees who take degree-credit classes. Part-time employees will receive a waiver at a percentage paid in proportion to the degree of their full-time employment. Adjunct employees' instructional fees will be waived on a prorated basis based on the number of contact hours taught in the previous quarter. Dependents of full-time employees are eligible for 75% waiver. Read more.
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These are some answers to frequently asked questions about pancreatic cancer.
Q: What is the pancreas?
A: The pancreas is a glandular organ, located deep in your abdomen (belly). It is located behind your stomach and in front of your spine. Your pancreas is about 6 inches long. It has a wide head with a body that tapers to a narrow tail. Your pancreas makes enzymes and hormones. The enzymes mix with bile to help with the digestion of food, especially fats, sugars, and proteins. Your pancreas makes the hormones insulin and glucagon. These hormones help your body control the level of sugar in your blood. Both of these hormones help your body use and store the energy it gets from food.
Q: What is cancer of the pancreas?
A: Pancreatic cancer is cancer that starts in your pancreas. No one is entirely sure why people get this type of cancer. Experts think that normal cells undergo a series of changes, leading to permanent cell changes, and eventually cancer.
Q: What are the different types of pancreatic cancer?
A: Most cancers of the pancreas start in the ducts that carry pancreatic juices. They are called adenocarcinomas. These are some of the less common types of pancreatic cancer.
Mucinous cystadenocarcinomas
Acinar cell carcinomas
Giant cell carcinomas
Pancreatic lymphoma
These types are named after the way they look under the microscope. A rare type of pancreatic cancer starts in the cells of the pancreas that make insulin and other hormones. These cells are called islet cells. Cancers that begin in these cells are called islet cell cancers, or endocrine tumors of the pancreas. (PNET)
Q: What are the symptoms of pancreatic cancer?
A: Pancreatic cancer can grow inside a person's body for a long time before symptoms appear. These are the most common symptoms.
Yellow eyes, skin, or nails (jaundice)
Pain in the abdomen or back
Weight loss over several months that is unexpected
Fatigue (extreme tiredness)
An enlarged abdomen, from a swollen gallbladder
Digestive problems often happen if the tumor blocks the release of pancreatic juices into your intestines. If this happens, you can have problems digesting fatty foods. This can cause your stools to be pale, greasy, bulky, and foul smelling. The stools may also float in the toilet.
Q: What is the treatment for pancreatic cancer?
A: Doctors treat pancreatic cancer in these three ways.
Radiation therapy
You may have these treatments alone or combined.
Q: What is a pancreaticoduodenectomy?
A: This is the most common type of surgery used to remove tumors from the pancreas. It is also called the Whipple procedure. The surgeon removes all of these during the procedure.
The head of the pancreas (the body of the pancreas may also be removed)
Distal common bile duct
Duodenum (the first part of your small intestine)
Part of the stomach (possibly)
Lymph nodes near the pancreas
After surgery, bile from your liver, food from your stomach, and digestive juices from the remaining part of your pancreas all enter the small intestine through a new connection.
Q: Should everyone get a second opinion for a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer?
A: Many people with cancer get a second opinion from another doctor. There are many reasons to get a second opinion. These are some of the reasons.
The person is not comfortable with the treatment decision.
The type of cancer is rare.
There are different ways to treat the cancer.
The person is not able to see a cancer expert.
Q: How can you get a second opinion?
A: These are some ways to get a second opinion.
Talk with your primary care doctor. He or she may be able to recommend a specialist. This might include a surgeon, medical oncologist, or radiation oncologist. Sometimes these doctors work together at cancer centers or programs.
Ask the Cancer Information Service (800-4-CANCER) for help. It can provide information on treatment facilities, cancer centers, and other programs supported by the National Cancer Institute.
Get names of doctors from other sources. Check with a local medical society, a nearby hospital, a medical school, local cancer advocacy groups, or other people who have had pancreatic cancer.
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The Miracle League concept was developed in Conyers, GA in 2000 to help children with special needs play the game of baseball. Most Miracle Leagues play on custom-designed fields that feature cushioned, rubberized surfaces to help prevent injuries, accessible dugouts and completely flat surfaces (no raised bases or pitching mounds) to eliminate any barriers to wheel-chair bound or visually impaired players.
The game itself is played in a unique way. Each player bats once each inning; all batters are "safe" and score a run before the inning is over. Games are two innings long and each team and each player always wins.
Over the past three years, Pirates Charities has identified the support of Miracle League programs in our community as one of its signature projects. Currently, Pirates Charities is working with five individual Miracle League programs that will all provide children and young adults with special needs the opportunity to participate in the great game of baseball. Four of these programs are located in the greater Pittsburgh region, and the fifth is in the Pirates Spring Training Home of Bradenton, Florida.
There are currently more than 240 Miracle League organizations across the world, including Puerto Rico, Canada and Australia. More than 200,000 special needs children and young adults participate in these programs.
Pirates Charities, the philanthropic arm of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is partnering with the Indiana County YMCA to build Indiana County's first Miracle League Baseball field, which is being constructed specifically for children and adults with special needs. The new field, located on the grounds of the YMCA of Indiana County, will be called the Pirates Charities Miracle League Field - Indiana County, and will be home to the Miracle League of Indiana County (MLOIC). The MLOIC is a charitable organization that provides the opportunity for children with mental and/or physical disabilities a chance to experience playing baseball in a league-based environment.
Pirates Charities to partner with Indiana County YMCA For Miracle League Field - 7/2/13 »
On October 3, 2011, Easter Seals, Pirates Charities, and other Wheeling-based partners including the J.B. Chambers Foundation, the City of Wheeling, Ogden Newspapers and the Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley, broke ground on the Miracle League Field of the Ohio Valley in Wheeling, West Virginia. Located in the J.B. Chambers Complex, the Miracle League Field will bring a completely new dynamic to not only the Wheeling community, but also the 15 surrounding counties in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania that will also participate in the Miracle League of The Ohio Valley.
On May 18, 2013, Pirates Charities along with the Miracle League of the Ohio Valley officially opened the JB Chambers Miracle League Field. Bob Nutting, Pirates and Pirates Charities Chairman, was joined at the event by Pirates President Frank Coonelly and other Pirates representatives. Pirates broadcaster Greg Brown emceed the event and nationally known recording artist B.E. Taylor performed the National Anthem. Immediately following the event was the inaugural game on the J.B. Chambers field.
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Easter Seals, Pirates Charities and Wheeling-based partners break ground on Miracle League Field - 10/3/11 »
Pirates Charities partners to open the JB Chambers Miracle League Field - 5/18/13 »
Opening Ceremonies Video - 5/18/13
Miracle League of the Ohio Valley Photo Gallery - 5/18/13
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Miracle League Fantasy Camp Photo Gallery - 8/9/14
On June 9, 2011, former MLB and Pirates alum Sean Casey and his wife Mandi, along with Pirates Chairman Bob Nutting, participated in the groundbreaking ceremony for the Pirates Charities Miracle League Field of the South Hills, located adjacent to the Community & Recreation Center at Boyce Mayview Park in Upper St. Clair. The field was completed in the spring of 2012 with the Opening Ceremonies taking place on Saturday, May 26. For more information, please visit www.caseysclubhouse.org.
Casey's charity breaks ground on Pirates Charities Miracle League Field - 6/9/11 »
Groundbreaking Photo Gallery - 6/9/11
Opening Ceremonies Video - 5/26/12
Opening Ceremonies Photo Gallery - 5/26/12
Casey's Clubhouse and Pirates Charities celebrate Opening Day - 5/26/12 »
Bucs proud to open Miracle League Field - 5/26/12 »
Special Event Photo Gallery - 7/12/14
In 2009, Pirates Charities partnered with the Miracle League of Southwestern Pennsylvania in Cranberry Township to build the first Miracle League field in our region - the Pirates Charities Miracle League Field at Dick's Sportsplex at Graham Park. For more information about MLSWPA, please visit www.miracleleagueofsouthwesternpa.org.
Pirates and Miracle League to build field - 7/9/08 »
Pirates Charities partners with Miracle League of SWPA to open first field in Pittsburgh - 5/16/09 »
Miracle League Field Grand Opening Video - 5/16/09
Miracle League Field Grand Opening Photo Gallery - 5/16/09
2009 Pirates Charities Miracle League Holiday Party Video
Pirates Charities, along with the Rotary Club of Murrysville-Export and the Municipality of Murrysville, officially opened the Rotary Miracle Sports Complex of Murrysville during a ceremony on Saturday, September 15 at the Murrysville Community Park in Murrysville. The centerpiece of the Murrysville Complex is the Bill Mazeroski Miracle Field, named after Pirates' Hall of Famer and Westmoreland County resident Bill Mazeroski, and is the home of the new Miracle League of Western Pennsylvania. Bob Nutting, Pirates and Pirates Charities Chairman, was joined at the event by Mazeroski, Pirates President Frank Coonelly, Pirates broadcaster Steve Blass, former Pirates pitcher Kent Tekulve, along with local officials, including Murrysville Mayor Bob Brooks. The Bill Mazeroski Miracle Field, which is the fourth in the greater Pittsburgh region in which Pirates Charities has played a vital role in constructing, allows children and adults with special needs to realize their dream of playing baseball, many of them for the very first time. The new field is made of a synthetic surface making it possible for children and adults in wheelchairs, walkers and with other special needs to safely move about the field. For more information and to find out how you can get involved, please visit www.miracleleaguewpa.org.
Rotary Miracle Sports Complex of Murrysville Grand Opening Video - 9/15/12
Miracle Sports Complex of Murrysville Photo Gallery - 9/15/12
"Manasota" is a combination of Manatee and Sarasota Counties in Florida. The Miracle League of Manasota, presented by the Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates, opened in the spring of 2012. This special field serves children and adults with special needs in both of these counties. The first game took place on March 17th, 2012, in Longwood Park, just off University Parkway in Sarasota. Pirates Charities has provided funding support to this project. For more information, please visit www.miracleleaguemanasota.org.
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On his album Africa For Africa, released today, Femi Kuti articulates a raw and forceful call to the long tradition of Afrobeat. Recorded in the same studio where he produced his first recordings with his father Fela Kuti and his breakthrough solo album No Cause For Alarm?, Africa for Africa is in several ways a return to Femi's roots. Deliberately less-produced than its predecessor Day by Day, it aims to present Afrobeat in its roughest, purest form. Femi continues to develop his activist voice on the new album, with the lyrics addressing government oppression and other modern problems in Africa, but the music retains a visceral power.
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On April 4, 2009, the red carpet was rolled out in Cleveland, literally and figuratively, for the first-ever induction ceremony open to the public. In addition to the exclusive guest list comprised of artists, recording industry insiders, and the inductees and their family and friends, five thousand tickets were snatched up by the fans. The induction was held at Cleveland's venerable Public Hall, where the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Jimi Hendrix Experience performed in the sixties. To celebrate the induction returning to the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, special musical events took place all week in Cleveland, leading up to the big night.
Having three tiers of seats filled with enthusiastic fans greatly increased the emotional power of the evening. Throughout the night, applause and cheers ringing from the rafters brought even more excitement to those artists taking the stage. The event was simulcast inside the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and other locations in Cleveland, and broadcast nationally on the FUSE television network.
More than half of the artists inducted had spent a half-century making music: Little Anthony & the Imperials, rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson, sidemen D.J. Fontana and the late Bill Black, soulful keyboardist and songwriter Spooner Oldham, and Cleveland-born Bobby Womack.Tremendous performances by the Imperials, Jackson, and Womack proved that these vocalists could deliver.
Emotional speeches inspired by deceased inductees also in evidence: Both Metallica and Run DMC had lost founding members to tragic early deaths: bassist Cliff Burton died in a van accident in 1986 and Jam Master Jay, a.k.a. Jason Mizell, was shot to death in 2002. Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea gave a moving eulogy to Burton. Eminem gave profuse thanks to Mizell for discovering his close friend, 50 Cent. Bill Black's son tearfully remembered his father who died in 1965, and "Little" Anthony Gourdine dedicated the night to his recently departed son.
It was also a night of homages: Jeff Beck was visibly moved by the speech made by his former Yardbird colleague Jimmy Page; former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted, previously estranged from the group, earnestly thanked his band mates; and Metallica's founders Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield hugged each other like brothers.
There to give support was Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, whose band collaborated with Run DMC on teh groundbreaking rock-rap hit "Walk This Way." Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian shoed up for Metallica.
Later, Hetfield said "This is living proof that it is possible to make a dream come true!" And for many of those 6,200 people in attendance, dreams did come true that night.


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ZF-11384: Zend_Config_Yaml comment should allow indented comments
When commenting lines in yaml-config, comments can be started only from 0-position of string, to be processed correctly (to be ignored). Otherwise, by yaml-specification, comment can be started from any position of string, and text after comment should be ignored.
The patch is only replace {quote} if ($line[0] == '#') { // comment continue; } {quote} in Zend_Config_Yaml to {quote} $line = rtrim(preg_replace("/#.*$/", "", $line)); {quote}
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YAML specification indicates that comments can indeed be indented (see http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2780069, Example 6.10). I've committed a fix and unit test to resolve this issue in r24090 and r24091
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digressing, someone find a good online iq test and lets all take it
digressing, someone find a good online iq test and lets all take it
you could provide god stiff competition for pds lowest iq scoreyour
well whats the point of having an iq test if you dont take it
youre not going to brag to people 'hey guys look at my iq test'
perhaps i have the intellect to realize that first thing's first. i can want to TAKE an iq test all i want, but before i do that i must find one.
"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.
> implying online iq tests are in any way valid or accurate
Well, I open my eyes and I see things. I've seen spirits moving through the walls. I've seen a vortex coming through the wall. I've seen amorphous little balls of light bouncing all around in the front yard through the window. I've seen giant bugs on the floor. I was in a hotel room in Amarillo, Texas, and all I remember is standing on the bed and seeing the whole wall in front of me filled with lights that were [makes popping sound] popping like popcorn out of the wall. Then I'll wake up and I go "Wow, I was standing on my bed and staring at this wall."
i hate those fuckers. you have to pay for the results. i took the test like twice and was scammed both times.
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Princeton Completes Regular Season, Eyes Ivy Championship Weekend
Victories by Jillian Altenburger and Randi Brown were among the highlights for the Princeton women's swimming and diving team during Friday's regular season finale at Uris Pool in Columbia.
The Columbia Lions won the meet 194-104 to cap its Senior Day, though Princeton remains confident in its march towards the Ivy League Championships, which will return to Denunzio Pool Feb. 28-March 2. After all, the Lions won this dual meet over Princeton last season, and the Tigers ultimately defeated Columbia by more than 250 points at the 2012 championship meet.
Altenburger continues her hot stretch, as she followed a win during H-Y-P weekend with a Friday victory in the 200 free. The Tiger senior took the event in 1:51.12, more than one second faster than anybody in the field.
Junior Randi Brown also got a victory in the one-meter diving competition, scoring 277.95 points to top Columbia's Alyssa Menz by more than four points.
Princeton will now focus on competing for its 21st Ivy League championship, as well as its 11th in a 14-year stretch. The last time the league championship meet was held at Denunzio was 2011, when the Tigers defeated Harvard by 66 points.


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Gardening Articles: Care :: Pests & Problems
Planting Roses
by National Gardening Association Editors
A Hybrid Tea Rose Garden
Get your roses off to the best possible start by choosing their growing site carefully and then planting them using the techniques most suitable for your climate. Bare-root rose plants--those sold without soil--offer the best value and grow quickly after planting.
Tools and Materials
- Bare-root rose plant
- Measuring tape
- Shovel or spade
- Wheelbarrow or tarp
- Soil amendments, see text
- Water source, hose or bucket
- Organic mulch, such as shredded bark
Choose the Planting Site
Roses need at least 6 hours of direct sun each day, although some afternoon shade is best in hot climates. Plant them in a spot where air can circulate and dry their leaves soon after a rain, and give them fertile soil that drains quickly.
Determine the Depth to Plant.
Most rose plants consist of two parts: the rootstock and the flowering canes. The bulge where the parts join, called the graft union, gets planted just at or below ground level, depending on your climate. Where winter temperatures drop to -10F or colder, plant the graft union 4 to 6 inches deep. In warmer climates, place it just at or slightly above the soil surface.
Dig the Hole
Keep the roots cool and moist while you dig the planting hole. The hole should be deep enough to set the graft union at the proper depth and at least wide enough to allow the roots to extend without bending. Put the removed soil in a wheelbarrow or on a tarp.
Amend the Soil
Very sandy or heavy clay soils benefit from the addition of organic material. Mix the soil from the planting hole with 25 percent compost and 25 percent composted bark plus a few handfuls of composted manure. Mix well. Get your roses off to the best possible start by choosing their growing site carefully and then planting them using the techniques most suitable for your climate. Bare-root rose plants--those sold without soil--offer the best value and grow quickly after planting.
Partially fill the hole with the soil mix, making a cone or mound in the center over which to drape the roots.
Set the Rose in the Hole
Planting Bare Root Roses
Adjust the height of the cone so that the graft union is at the right level, as determined using the guidelines above. Spread the roots evenly around the cone.
Backfill and Water
Holding the rose at the right planting depth, fill the hole with soil, working it carefully around the roots. When the hole is nearly full, water thoroughly to settle the soil. Finish filling the hole and create a low ring of soil around the perimeter of the hole. Water again. Apply a 2- to 3-inch layer of organic mulch in a circle around the plant, taking care to keep the mulch 3 to 4 inches away from the canes. Water as necessary to keep the soil evenly moist until the rose resumes vigorous growth.


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Research is a cornerstone of the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta mission to enhance the lives of children. In conjunction with Emory University School of Medicine, Georgia Tech and Morehouse, Children's seeks answers to the most challenging childhood medical conditions through teaching and research.
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At Strong4Life, created by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, our doctors, nutritionists and wellness experts create fun, easy ways to help your kids eat, move and live healthier. From picky eaters to passionate gamers, we have a slew of simple tips by experts who understand, because we're parents, too.
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Author-illustrator Rosalyn Schanzer takes a unique and lively approach to the story of the American Revolution by weaving the tale around two quite similar leadersGeorge Washington and King George IIIwith two very different viewpoints. In contrast to many American history books, George vs. George allows kids to view the events from both sideswith a pinch of humor. Impeccably researched narrative and detailed full-color paintings show glimpses of life in both England and Colonial America and present a broad view of the events leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
Loads of primary source quotes presented in speech bubbles help provide a full account of the birth of the United States, offering insights into the actions and convictions of participants on both sides of the Atlantic. Children have a rare opportunity to observe the inner workings of the British government and the British military. The last part of the book describes the aftermath of the war and what happened to both Georges, followed by a bibliography, source notes, and an index.
Rosalyn Schanzer is the award-winning author and illustrator of over 13 books for young people. An avid photographer and masters swimmer, she has swam with sharks in Belize, hiked through the jungles of Ecuador and in the rain forests of the Amazon River basin, investigated Inca history at Machu Picchu, climbed the Andes, and helped sail a famous boat from Bermuda to Boston. She lives in Virginia with her husband.
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This inspirational book showcases 500 of the world's most powerful and spiritual placesand guides modern-day travelers to and around them. From prehistoric burial chambers to modern monuments and sanctuaries, each site's history, lore, and appeal is evocatively detailed.
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