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A verdict has been reached in the trial of a politically connected Chicago businessman accused of corrupting the political process by attempting to pay off two sitting state legislators to pass a bill beneficial to his sweepstakes gaming company.James T. Weiss, 44, who is the son-in-law of former Cook County Democratic boss Joseph Berrios, is charged in a superseding indictment filed in October 2020 with bribery, wire fraud, mail fraud and lying to the FBI.

A federal jury on Thursday began deliberating the fate of a politically connected Chicago businessman accused of corrupting the political process by attempting to pay off two sitting state legislators to pass a bill beneficial to his sweepstakes gaming company.James T. Weiss, 44, who is the son-in-law of former Cook County Democratic boss Joseph Berrios, is charged in a superseding indictment filed in October 2020 with bribery, wire fraud, mail fraud and lying to the FBI.

Chicago firefighters, who risk their lives to keep us safe, deserve a decent living and a secure retirement.So, don't get us wrong when we call out irresponsible legislation moving through Springfield that would add an estimated $3 billion to Chicago's out-of-control pension obligations over the next three decades.

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Borough President Antonio Reynoso made sure to bring the cheer to his office's celebration of LGBTQIA+ Pride Month on Monday night at Borough Hall.

A nurse from Devon has fended off competition from more than 50,000 medical colleagues across the world to win a 250,000 cash prize for her work in improving diabetes care.Margaret Shepherd, from Exeter, said she was left shaking after winning the Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award 2023 on International Nurses Day on Friday evening.

The Home Office will soon publish data on the number of people in the UK who are being granted leave to remain but are subject to no recourse to public funds (NRPF), the immigration minister has said.Robert Jenrick told MPs the data will be released when the new immigration case-working system is up and running, which will be over the course of the coming months.

The rainbow flag has become a globally recognized icon, but before it was a symbol, it was a physical object-or more accurately two objects-created by a group of artists in 1978, right here in San Francisco.These are the two original eight-color rainbow flags that flew at United Nations Plaza during San Francisco Gay Freedom Day 1978.

New figures showing net migration to the UK last year increased to a record level of more than 600,000 have been seized on as the latest example of broken Tory pledges in an area where PMs come under relentless rightwing pressure.David Cameron, May 2010 Heading into the 2010 general election, the opposition leader promised to limit net immigration to tens of thousands' per year rather than the hundreds of thousands.

1. Sprees is an open source project created by the Scala Center that provides an easy-to-use framework to quickly create and deploy web applications using the Scala programming language.
2. Sprees makes use of popular web frameworks such as Play and Akka, and allows developers to quickly create web

Macy's is taking the next step with its ad business.On Monday, Macy's, the largest department store chain in the US, announced a partnership with The Trade Desk for off-site advertising powered by Macy's data.The Macy's Media Network was formed in 2020, almost three years ago.But the only ad sales until now had been on its owned-and-operated media, including its sites (Macy's also owns Bloomingdale's), apps and miscellaneous retail placements, such as package inserts and screens in stores.

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Golf as a professional sport now has completely lost its way.The Professional Golf Association and Saudi-funded LIV Golf announced they are merging.The controversial Saudi Public Investment Fund will make an investment into the new merged company "to facilitate its growth and success."

Following pressure from MPs and borough leaders in his own party, the Mayor has announced that he is expanding the eligibility criteria for the scheme.The funding pot has currently only been open to Londoners on certain low income or disability benefits, as well as charities, sole traders and businesses of fewer than 10 people.

The disparity between men and women honoured by the London blue plaques scheme is so great that it would take 300 years, at current rates, to reach equality between the sexes, English Heritage has said, as it called for people to continue nominating more women.Despite significant progress having been made in recent years in recognising more notable women from history, Anna Eavis, the charity's curatorial director, said the scheme would welcome many more diverse nominations, to fully recognise the capital's extraordinarily rich history.

Hundreds of people are expected to attend the funeral of a World War Two RAF airman from London.Flt Sgt Peter Brown, originally from Jamaica, was one the last so-called "pilots of the Caribbean", a group of Afro-Caribbean volunteer personnel who served in the RAF in the world wars.He died in at his home in Maida Vale, north London, in December, aged 96.

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Hundreds of Dodger Stadium game-day workers could go on strike as early as next month if the Dodgers do not meet their contract demands by the end of June, the union representing the employees said after more than 80 people gathered to protest outside the ballpark Saturday.

"We should draw a timely lesson from HIP v. Hormel .... Let's allow the courts to consider individual cases about who owns patents and copyrights to which AI contributed."Bacon is delightful.And the similarly savory subject of who must be named inventor on a bacon patent was the issue in the recent case of HIP, Inc. v. Hormel Foods Corp., No. 2022-1696 (Fed.

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If you walk down the streets of Brooklyn long enough, one thing will remain clear - the abundance of litter and garbage strewn about on sidewalks is inescapable.Despite the efforts of the city's sanitation department and dedicated residents, trash is ubiquitous and the amount of garbage is just something many people have become accustomed to.

Architecture studio SOM has worked with Princeton University's Form Finding Lab for its contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale - a self-balancing brick arch that was built using augmented reality.The Angelus Novus Vault forms the entrance to the Time Space Existence group show, organised by the European Cultural Centre around the theme of the climate emergency.

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We're used to being able to customize the UI on our phones and other devices as well as on individual apps, but our experience of the internet remains pretty standardised.With a few exceptions like dark mode and the ability to change sizes, we tend to all view websites in the same way.

Although it wasn't part of the plan, 2022 was a big year for D.C. Looney and Lisa Costa, the couple and owners behind Oakland's the Punchdown.Not only was their natural wine bar and bottle shop nominated for Outstanding Wine Program by the James Beard Foundation in February 2022, but a move from Oakland to Sebastopol with their newborn at the start of 2022 led to another big event: the opening of their second location of the Punchdown in May, this time at the Barlow market district in their new town.

Following Manchester United's 2-1 win over Fulham on Sunday, Erik ten Hag delivered the traditional final game of the season speech from the manager, thanking the fans for our support this season and roaring us on to the FA Cup final ahead.Only Manchester City enjoyed better home form than United this season, with us winning 15 of the 19 Premier League games we've played at Old Trafford this season.

Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has confirmed head coach Luciano Spalletti will step down at the end of the season and take a one year sabbatical.Spalletti, 64, has been in charge at Napoli since July 2021 and still has one more year on his contract after guiding the club to their first Serie A title in 33 years this season.

New Washington Commanders uniforms were on display at a press event when the team revealed its name change in February 2022.(Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)When the Washington Commanders unveiled their new name and uniforms in February 2022, team executives detailed the lengthy rebranding process that had included months of sifting through trademark registrations.

Editor's note: The authors are speakers for ODSC Europe this June.Be sure to check out their talk, "Generative NLP models in customer service.How to evaluate them?Challenges and lessons learned in a real use case in bankingThe challenge of evaluation: the need for human criteria ," there!With the increasing use of digital communication, daily interactions between customer service agents and clients have shifted from traditional phone calls to chat and text messages.

The numbers tell a story.On Saturday evening Meredith Axelrod and Craig Ventresco present their 1000 th livestream, a practice they launched in the days after the initial March 2020 pandemic lockdown left the couple without their regular rotation of gigs.Performing nearly nightly from the kitchen of their North Beach apartment they've delivered some 2,500 different songs, occasionally repeating pieces by request or inclination.

Russia's ally signals a desire to broker peace, but few are convinced of Beijing's power or motivations in Kyiv.Kyiv, Ukraine Volodymyr, a gaunt 44-year-old, recently returned from the front lines of eastern Ukraine and now needs psychological help for his post-traumatic stress disorder.A contusion makes him slightly stutter.

Terrible pitches can't stop Bayern Munich from being Bayern Munich, and today was truly testament to that.The Rekordmeister faced Schalke at home and sealed the deal with a 6-0 win.It was certainly a walk in the park for the Bavarians, who stay top of the table, ahead of second-placed Borussia Dortmund by four points (for now).

Sir Keir Starmer is thought to be considering plans to allow millions of EU citizens to vote in general elections under a Labour government.Labour is mulling whether to expand the vote to 16 and 17-year olds and around 3.4 million EU nationals who have settled status in the UK after Brexit.The Tories quickly lashed out at the prospect of change accusing Sir Keir of trying to rig elections by handing votes to those more likely to vote Labour.

Church leaders from Scotland played their part in the coronation of the King on Saturday.The Right Rev Dr Iain Greenshields represented the Church of Scotland, presenting Charles with his first gift, and the Most Rev Mark Strange, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, presented the Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross to the Archbishop of Canterbury.