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Baker Mayfield mocks Tommy DeVito's celebration as the Bucs embarrass the Giants 30-7(The Center Square) – Prosecutors introduced secretly recorded audio and video along with a troubled star witness at the public corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. Former Chicago Alderman Daniel Solis returned to the Everett McKinley U.S. Courthouse Monday. Solis is facing one federal count of bribery under a deferred prosecution agreement. The ex-alderman began cooperating with federal investigators in 2016. U.S. government attorney Diane MacArthur first introduced a recording of Madigan and Solis nearly two years before the alderman started cooperating with the government. The recording involved a conversation with Chinese developer, See Wong, who wanted to build a hotel on a parcel of land in Chicago’s Chinatown neighborhood. The land was owned by the state of Illinois at the time, but Solis said a zoning change would be required from the city in order for a hotel to be built. At Madigan’s request, Solis said he facilitated the meeting on Aug. 8, 2014, at Madigan’s law firm, Madigan and Getzendanner, about the land along Wentworth Avenue between Archer Avenue and Cermak Road. Madigan’s law partner, Bud Getzendanner, discussed how successful the firm had been in working with hotels to make sure they were not taxed more than necessary. ”A large component of your expense for hotels is real estate taxes,” Getzendanner said during the recorded meeting. Getzendanner said the firm charged 12.5% of the tax savings obtained. Madigan told Wong and an interpreter about the quality of service his firm provided. “We don’t take a second seat to anybody,” Madigan said. The developer then asked for a picture with Madigan and Solis. Solis told the group that Wong would benefit from working with Madigan. “If he works with the Speaker, he will get anything he needs for that hotel,” Solis said on the recording. Solis testified that he meant the city would provide the zoning change the developer needed from the city if the developer hired Madigan’s law firm. Solis said the zoning change was approved, but the proposed hotel was never built. MacArthur asked Solis about the bribery charge he is still facing, which Solis said involved the redevelopment of a property in Chicago from a restaurant to a residential building in 2015. Solis said two problems prevented the project from moving forward: labor unions’ perceived lack of representation in the development and residents' concerns in the ward. The former alderman admitted that he solicited a campaign contribution from the developer or from one or more of the developer’s vendors while the project’s zoning change was still under consideration. Solis said he believed the developer was on board and that he would be getting donations from the developers’ vendors. The zoning change was approved by the city council, Solis said. He testified he solicited and accepted campaign contributions from other developers who had matters pending before the city council’s zoning committee. Solis then testified about about a variety of things like massages that turned sexual, trips to Las Vegas, tickets to professional sporting events, no-paperwork six-figure loans he'd paid back. He even admitted to an extramarital affair he had with an interpreter. Solis said he was separated from his wife for about five years and their house went into foreclosure. He also confessed that he lied to a collection agency by saying he was out of work. MacArthur asked Solis about his sister, Patti Solis Doyle, who worked on campaigns for former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, former President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton, D-New York. Solis Doyle also managed Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2008. Solis said his sister was involved in a hotel project in which the developer offered her $100,000. Solis said his sister offered to split the sum with her brother. As chairman of the city’s zoning committee, Solis said he told his sister he could not accept money regarding a hotel development. Solis said his sister told him there would be another way she could compensate him. The former alderman said he did receive funds from his sister for referring her to his friend Brian Hynes’ state vendor assistance program. Monday afternoon, Solis testified that FBI agents visited his home on June 1, 2016, and played audio and video recordings. After considering an attorney, Solis said he decided to cooperate with the FBI a few days later and agreed to let investigators tap his phone. Solis also said he told an attorney friend that he was cooperating with the FBI in regard to an investigation of an organization he was involved in. Solis said he made recordings for several investigations he was involved in as part of his deferred prosecution agreement. He began communicating with Madigan after receiving a voicemail message on June 12, 2017. Solis said he discussed the Chinatown land deal, his interest in getting a state board appointment, and referring clients to Madigan’s law firm while cooperating with the government from June 2016 to December 2017. Solis admitted that he was not really interested in a state board appointment, but he raised the issue with Madigan at the direction of law enforcement. Solis said he began communicating with Madigan codefendant Michael McClain about the Chinatown parcel in the fall of 2017. He said he had to continue to perform his duties as an alderman while cooperating with the FBI because of “the farce” that he was involved in. Solis discussed a 2017 redevelopment project that required a zoning change involving a Union West development in Chicago’s West Loop. MacArthur played a recording, dated June 12, 2017, of Madigan asking Solis about the development. During the call, Solis told the speaker he would try to arrange an introduction for Madigan with the developers. In a subsequent call, Solis promised to arrange a meeting and said, “I think these guys get it, the quid pro quo and how it works.” When MacArthur asked Solis why he said that, Solis said he didn’t know and said it was “dumb.” MacArthur asked Solis if he used the words “quid pro quo” at the direction of law enforcement. “No,” Solis said. Union West developer Andrew Cretal agreed to meet with Madigan and told Solis, “confidentially,” that his company was working with Goldman Sachs as an equity partner and that he would “circle back” with Solis. MacArthur played a recording of Madigan privately telling Solis not to use the words, “quid quo pro.” The conversation immediately preceded the meeting Cretal and the Union West group had at Madigan's and Getzendanner’s law office. During the meeting, Madigan repeated to Cretal’s group what he had said to See Wong. “We don’t take a second seat to anybody,” Madigan said. Solis said he met with Madigan again privately after the meeting with the intention of discussing the Chinatown parcel. Solis said he had been having frequent meetings about the land with potential developers. During the recording, Solis said that nothing could really happen until the state transferred the land. Connie Mixon, professor of Political Science and director of the Urban Studies Program at Elmhurst University, served as an expert witness at the corruption trial of longtime Chicago Democrat Ed Burke, who served on the city council from 1969 to 2023. A jury convicted Burke in December 2023 on 18 counts of racketeering, bribery, attempted extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion and using interstate commerce to facilitate an unlawful activity. Mixon said that Solis also testified as a cooperating witness during Burke’s trial. “It seemed as if, in the sentencing for the Burke trial, the judge did take a bit of exception to the fact that Solis, who also had potential criminal charges, was essentially getting away without any sort of repercussions,” Mixon told The Center Square. Mixon described Solis as a damaged witness. “He’s absolutely damaged, but as much as he’s damaged, you have the words on the wiretap. Having the defendants’ words played in the courtroom, they are really the witness against themselves when you have those wiretaps,” Mixon explained. Before the jury was seated Monday morning, prosecutors said they would provide the court with revised jury instructions by Dec. 3. Judge John Robert Blakey said he could deny admittance of new materials after that date if he deemed them to be untimely. Madigan and McClain are charged with 23 counts of bribery, racketeering and official misconduct. The trial is scheduled to resume Tuesday morning in Chicago.mnl68 。

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Ottawa police say advances in DNA technology helped them find, arrest and charge a suspect in a 1996 stabbing death on the Portage Bridge. At a news conference Monday, Deputy Chief Trish Ferguson said 73-year-old Lawrence Diehl, who was living in Vancouver, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder last week for the death of Christopher Smith. The victim was crossing the Portage Bridge between Ottawa and Gatineau, Que., early on April 12, 1996, with a cousin when he got into an altercation and was stabbed, police said. Smith was later pronounced dead at a Gatineau hospital. Ferguson said advances in genetic genealogy , or building potential family trees using DNA, helped lead investigators to the breakthrough. She declined to share more details. While this is the first time Ottawa police say they have found relatives using the technology, it's also been used to help identify Jewell Parchman Langford as the "Nation River Lady ." Genetic genealogy is cracking cases once thought unsolvable. Not all police forces can afford to use it Ottawa police thanked police in Toronto and Vancouver and the RCMP. They're also asking the public for any additional information about what Diehl was doing in Ottawa around that time, saying only that he was there for work. Ottawa police said they're regularly reviewing more than 60 unsolved homicides. In 2012 , they put up a $50,000 reward for information related to his death. Ottawa police, then known as the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Police Service, investigate a stabbing on the Portage Bridge in 1996. (Ottawa Police Service)Blowout loss to Packers leaves the 49ers on the playoff brinkA friend of mine used to say that the first question we ask when we’re introduced to a new piece of technology is, “How can I use this to have sex?” To that end, here’s how to use a Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, Quest 3S, Apple Vision Pro, PSVR, Vive, or other VR headset to have sex...or watch virtual porn, anyway. (If you're wondering what else you can do with your Quest 3 or 3S, here's a guide to the must-have apps for both.) How to watch VR Porn with a Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, Quest 3S or other VR headset It’s almost comically easy to have an “entry-level” VR porn experience in virtual reality with any headset that isn't manufactured by Apple. (More on that below.) Entry level porn VR porn viewing, step-by-step Lock the door. Put on your headset. Click on your web-browser-of-choice Navigate to a site that hosts VR porn. Free video megasites like Youporn have a VR section, or just use Google to search something out. Clicking on a video should launch you into VR—but "should" is doing a lot of work. These are random files hosted on janky free porn sites, so don't be surprised if you need to do a little trial-and-error to find one that works right. That’s all you need to know to get a taste of the VR porn thing, but because of the massive file sizes of VR video, streaming is likely to be choppy, and free movies are usually not in the highest resolution—again, janky but free. To get a better experience, you’re going to have to (gasp) pay to watch it. Suggested headsets for VR porn-viewing: Valve Index VR Full Kit Meta Quest 2 Meta Quest 3 HTC Vive Pro 2 How to watch VR porn with a Meta Quest 3 and 3S The above instructions for streaming "regular" VR porn work on Meta Quest 3 and 3S headsets, but the "3 series" has front-facing pass-through camera arrays that add a new wrinkle to "adult content": augmented reality. Getting your pass-through-porn on can be fairly complicated, so here's a separate post that goes into detail about how to get augmented reality porn to work on your Meta Quest 3 and 3S . How to watch Porn with an Apple Vision Pro Apple's Vision Pro can stream, download, and play “normal” videos (both adult and "mainstream") on gigantic virtual reality screens easily through its web browser, but immersive, 3D videos produced specifically for virtual or augmented reality will not work on your Apple Vision Pro's browser. Part of the issue is that WebXR, the programming interface for accessing augmented reality and virtual reality devices, is not automatically enabled in the Vision Pro's browser. Not having WebXR enabled means no VR porn, but it also means you won't have access to a slew of non-adult VR and AR content like web-based games, tours, productivity apps, etc. Here's how to turn WebXR on: Open Settings. Select Apps. Select Safari. Scroll to the bottom of the window and select Advanced. Scroll to the bottom of the window and select Feature Flags. Under Experimental XR Features, enable WebXR Device API and WebXR Hand Input Module. Under WebKit Feature Flags, enable WebXR Augmented Reality Module and WebXR GamePads Module. Exit Settings. Open Safari, or if it's already open, refresh a WebXR-enabled page to check it is working. But even with WebXR enabled, you still can't launch full VR porn videos on an Apple Vision Pro—yet. I spoke to Alex Novac, of VR Porn site SexLikeReal, and he said, "a lot has been done on our end to make things work with AVP. It's a great tool for videos. Will be making a huge update soon." Advanced VR porn viewing Pick a VR website. Because VR porn is relatively new, more costly to produce, and has a smaller audience than “normal” adult videos, there aren’t an overwhelming number of sites dedicated to it. Most of them have sample videos to view, and some provide single-day access for very cheap so you can see if you dig it. Check out this list of the most well-known producers, and make a choice. Did you lock the door? Open the browser, navigate to your newly chosen site and enter your credit card digits. Membership fees vary from site to site, but expect a range of $20 to $30 a month. From here, you can stream full-length videos at very high quality, but the streaming might still be choppy. If so... Download and save video to your device — These videos can be over 10 gigs, so it might take a little bit. Play the video —Major VR headsets come with great video browsers, but if you want advanced features, download Skybox for 10 bucks. That way you can save video to your PC and stream from your computer easily. Get the right player : Some adult VR sites are configured to work best with specific browsers or video players, and you should be directed as to what to install. If you want to get really advanced, you can delve into the world of ( link is NSFW ) virtual reality sex toys . These are devices designed to vibrate and oscillated in sync with videos. I have no idea how well these work and I'm not super anxious to find out. Is virtual reality porn any good? Now that you know how to view porn in virtual reality, you have to ask yourself if you should . Virtual reality’s “you are there” immersion provides an experience that is markedly different from traditional porn, but it’s not necessarily better. Like all things of this nature, it comes down to personal taste. I checked out a little bit of the stuff (for research purposes only, of course), and, without going into too much detail, here are the pros and cons: Locked-in perspective: The idea of putting the viewer right up in the action means the camera is locked to your perspective. If you like that kind of thing, it’s gravy for you, but if you don’t ... well, you gave it a shot. The performance: The camera/you feel very close to the performers in VR porn videos and the illusion is fairly convincing, but actually selling that kind of intimacy requires acting talent. It’s a different kind of performing than film or stage altogether, and, at the risk of being negative, many pornographic performers don’t have the chops to really pull it off, so it can just feel weird, and not sexy-weird. Again, your mileage may vary. Limited content: Because it is more expensive and more difficult to shoot VR video, and there is a smaller audience, it seems like almost all VR porn is geared toward a mainstream porn audience. If you share the tastes of the majority of porn viewers, you’ll be happy. If you’re into something more esoteric, you might find it difficult or impossible to find what you like, at least until more pervs join the virtual world. Gender-bending: Most virtual reality porn is designed for heterosexual men, but not all of it. There is VR porn from the point of view of queer people, which provides maybe the most unique possibility of VR porn: putting yourself in the skin of someone else. Looking down at yourself and seeing a different body (one that doesn’t skip ab day) is strange enough, but looking down and seeing a differently gendered body is positively freaky in the best possible way. I can only assume this will lead to a new age of empathy and the end of sexism and homophobia. For couples? Realistically, most porn is going to be consumed solo, but some couples are strapping on headsets (and maybe other devices) and incorporating the virtual into their shared real sex lives. I think a real experience while wearing a headset would be a little ridiculous, but maybe I'm just old-fashioned.

RTE Fair City viewers were all left with the same complaint about Jacinta as she made a "disrespectful" remark. In tonight's episode, Erica enjoyed winding Ray up after he joked about Nikki fancying Doug. Georgie realised where Fergal’s insecurities came from when Jacinta made a homophobic remark. Gar was disgusted when Jacinta suggested that Georgie is trying to turn Fergal gay. Fergal was relieved when Gar called Jacinta out for her ridiculous and prejudiced views. Gar broached the idea that Jacinta’s homophobia was due to the fact her deceased brother, Des, was gay. Jacinta flipped out when Gar and Fergal brought up Des again, throwing them out of the house and banning them from ever mentioning him again. Georgie told Fergal that Jacinta was a huge part of his problems and advised him to break ties with her. Nikki and Erica decided to team up and have some fun with Ray. RTE Fair City viewers all raced to social media to share their opinions on Jacinta. One fan said: "Jacinta is being disrespectful & disgusting but the way the actress delivers the lines she has me in stitches." Thomas wrote: "Jacinta will think to be gay is inherited when she finds out Fergal is gay, now we know about her brother Des." Another added: "Jacinta needs to wash her mouth out." Mairead reassured Dean that she can stomach a weekly lunch with Tyler if it keeps Damien safe. Mairead struggled to hide her true feelings when Tyler made a public show of their cordiality in front of Sash and Sean. Mairead suffered through lunch with Tyler, but when she suggested they drop the facade, he reminded her who has the upper hand. Tyler was delighted in Mairead’s shock when he revealed he’s living in The Pod. Sash teased Dean about settling down and having kids but he insisted he’s content. Sean planted a seed of doubt in Sash’s mind about Tyler’s guilt. Mairead accepted her new reality when Tyler rocked up at McCoys. Nora gave Carol a good luck charm - Robbie’s silver chain - as she prepared to leave for hospital. Tommy tried to calm an anxious Carol before her surgery. Nora imagined the worst when Tommy revealed that Carol made him executor of his will. Tommy and Ray were stunned when Nora refused to leave for America. Ray convinced Nora that visiting Jack was the best thing she could do to help Carol. Tommy tried to be strong as a terrified Carol was taken down to theatre. Ray and Tommy were on edge when Carol was late back from surgery, but their fears were unfounded when Dr. Greenwell revealed that everything went according to plan. Erica enjoyed winding Ray up after he joked about Nikki fancying Doug. Georgie realised where Fergal’s insecurities came from when Jacinta made a homophobic remark. Gar was disgusted when Jacinta suggested that Georgie is trying to turn Fergal gay. Fergal was relieved when Gar called Jacinta out for her ridiculous and prejudiced views. Gar broached the idea that Jacinta’s homophobia was due to the fact her deceased brother, Des, was gay. Jacinta flipped out when Gar and Fergal brought up Des again, throwing them out of the house and banning them from ever mentioning him again. Georgie told Fergal that Jacinta was a huge part of his problems and advised him to break ties with her. Nikki and Erica decided to team up and have some fun with Ray.