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Mason served time behind bars from September 2015 through June 2016.
Then, he was hired for a $45,000 per year job as Minority Business Development Administrator in the city's Office of Equal Opportunity. Fifteen other candidates applied for the position. Mason began working for the city on August 28, 2017.
Mason's application does not indicate his criminal record, and the city in 2011 eliminated a box on its applications to be checked by those convicted of crimes.
In the past, Mayor Frank Jackson has said he believes in offering people second chances.
City spokesperson Latoya Hunter said a Fair Hiring Policy went into effect in 2011 to provide a second chance to those with a criminal record by removing the conviction history during the interview process an delaying a background check until later in the hiring process.
In an email, Hunter said a background check is run on everyone after an offer has been made and accepted.
"We give every candidate a fair opportunity to be part of the hiring process. The decision to hire/not hire is never based on their criminal history," Hunter said.
She said Jackson was not involved in the hiring and only participates in the hiring of personnel who are members of his cabinet or direct reports.
PNC General Secretary Bernard Monah says the overwhelming victory of NPP flagbearer aspirant, Nana Akufo-Addo, in the party’s mini congress confirms claims that the former attorney general induced delegates with gifts.
Mornah said he is privy to reports that suggest the Akufo-Addo campaign team promised to offer television sets to regional branches of the party that gave him a hundred percent votes in the congress that reduced the number of aspirants from seven to five.
“I heard that when they were going for the elections, Nitiwul came to the Upper West with Nana Addo and said that any region that delivered a hundred percent for Nana Addo will be rewarded and am told the plasma TV was the prize that was offered and so they are happy that something was coming to the region” he alleged.
According to him, the offer influenced delegates of the Upper West region to give a hundred percent vote to the former foreign affairs minister.
“What it brings to the fore is that, the Upper West region took up the challenge and delivered a hundred percent. So does that mean that materialism is what characterized this election and is that what our politics has become?” the PNC Secretary fumed on Radio Gold Saturday.
Anyone who considers themselves a no-nonsense Christmas-lover is completely aware that the anticipation leading up to the big day is half the battle. Other than decorating your home with garland and making sure every ornament is in place, all you've left to do is wait for Santa to come cruising down the chimney. Thankf...
Created by a company called Give Them Beer — how fitting, we know — each Advent calendar comes with 12 days of full-size craft beers that include selections like Dirtwolf Double IPA, Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA, and Racer 5 IPA. Read through to get a look at the product, and pro tip: you'll want to order yours ASAP sinc...
There's an Adults-Only Advent Calendar That Gives You a Glass of Wine Per Day — Sign Us Up!
EK Water Blocks, the Slovenia based water cooling gear manufacturer, is introducing its new generation of high-performance water blocks for the newly announced NVIDIA GeForce RTX series graphics cards, based on Turing TU104 and Turing TU102 graphics processor.
The EK Vector RTX water block is specially designed for multiple NVIDIA GeForce RTX Turing based reference design graphics cards. The water block itself uses the signature EK single slot slim look, and it covers the entire PCB length. This sophisticated cooling solution will transform your beefy graphics card into a mi...
The water block comes in eight different variations and each of them directly cools the GPU, VRAM and the VRM (voltage regulation module) as cooling liquid is channeled directly over these critical areas. This allows the graphics card to remain stable at high overclocks, intensive workloads and also enables it to run a...
The eight variations include combinations of materials like bare electrolytic copper, nickel plated electrolytic copper, black POM Acetal, Acrylics with some of them having added standard 12V LED strips. Performance-wise all variants of the block are the same, the only difference being the overall aesthetics of them.
The newly developed water blocks feature a redesigned cooling engine that has a larger footprint compared to the previous generation of full cover water blocks. This results in a larger surface area for heat transfer which allows the increase of thermal performance of these water blocks.
The EK Vector Series water blocks use an Open Split-Flow cooling engine design which proved to be a superior solution for GPU water blocks. It is characterized by low hydraulic flow restrictions, meaning it can be used with weaker water pumps, or pumps running on low-speed settings and still achieve top performance. Th...
With the help of countless flow simulations, the coolant path has been revised over several iterations to ensure each surface and feature is optimally placed. Consequently, we were able to achieve excellent flow distribution with a design that embodies high thermal performance and the precise simplicity of the latest g...
All EK Vector RTX 2080 water blocks are compatible with reference design NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 graphics cards based on Turing TU104 graphics processors. This includes graphics cards from vendors that have a custom cooler over a reference design PCB.
All EK Vector RTX 2080 Ti water blocks are compatible with reference design NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards based on Turing TU102 graphics processors. This includes graphics cards from vendors that have a custom cooler over a reference design PCB.
As always, we recommend that you refer to the EK Cooling Configurator for a precise compatibility match! EK is updating the compatibility list with newly released hardware from various manufacturers to theEK Cooling Configuratordatabase so that compatible graphics cards are being added to the list on daily basis.
The new EK Vector series water blocks are not compatible with factory backplates, but the available new redesigned EK Vector backplates passively cool the graphics chip and VRM from the back side of the PCB.
One of the key features of the EK Vector RTX 2080 RGB water blocks is their simplicity as they use a standard 4-pin 12V RGB LED strip. Meaning, they can be used with any standard 4-pin 12V RGB controller with or any of the popular RGB sync technologies from major motherboard manufacturers.
The Vector RTX 2080 series water blocks are made in Slovenia, Europe and are available for pre-order through theEK Webshop. All pre-orders are expected to start shipping on the20th of September, 2018! Pre-orders for the EK-Vector RTX Backplate - Nickel are expected to start shipping on the 5th of October, 2018!
About 27 vehicles were involved in the crash on Route 222.
READING, Pa. (AP) — More than two dozen vehicles have been involved in a chain-reaction crash on a central Pennsylvania highway after a snow squall caused whiteout conditions.
About 27 vehicles were involved in the crash just after 1 p.m. Wednesday on Route 222, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) west of Philadelphia, Wyomissing Police Chief Jeffrey Biehl said. Some cars, however, were just stuck at the crash site and not damaged. Biehl said all vehicles were cleared by 4 p.m.
About nine injured motorists were taken to a hospital. Biehl didn't know their conditions.
Footage from the scene shows jackknifed big rigs and some cars off the roadway and down embankments.
About an hour later, a second pileup was reported on Interstate 78 near Hamburg, roughly 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of the Wyomissing crash. About 14 vehicles were involved and injuries are minor.
There was also a 20-car pileup Wednesday in New York on the state's thruway. About 20 cars were involved in the crash between Buffalo and Rochester, state police said. A trooper suffered non-life threatening injuries in the crash, police said. The number and extent of other injuries wasn't immediately known.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — George Gruhn's guitar shop in Nashville is a kind of mecca for fine, vintage musical instruments, but even Gruhn is blown away by the latest addition to his inventory. He says it's the very first production model Fender Stratocaster ever made.
You can own it for a cool quarter million dollars.
"This is special," Gruhn told The Associated Press. "It's not special as memorabilia because it was owned by anybody special. But it is special because this is effectively like having the right Rembrandt or Van Gogh or Da Vinci . It's special because of what it is and who did this. Not because of who owned it."
The sunburst-finish Strat bears the serial number 0100. Although some Strats have lower numbers that begin with 0001, Gruhn says they actually were manufactured later in that first year of production. He says the number-one Strat was sold to an amateur who evidently took good care of it.
"This one didn't go to a famous performer," he said. "It actually went to Joe Blow Public . But it stayed in good condition, hardly used. And then, a bit over 30 years ago, Richard Smith , who is a curator today at the museum of the city of Fullerton, Calif., where this guitar was made, bought this guitar."
Smith purchased the guitar from the original owner. Gruhn said the record-keeping on the guitar is superb because Smith is considered one of the foremost experts on Stratocasters. Smith is selling it on consignment through Gruhn's Guitars.
The Fender Stratocaster, first produced in 1954, has been described as a guitar that changed the world. When it first arrived, its streamlined, space-age contours seemed strange and perplexing to some. But the kids knew what to do with it. Buddy Holly played one. So did Jimi Hendrix , when he transformed the psychedeli...
And 60 years after it was created, the much copied design of the Stratocaster has hardly changed.
According to Gruhn, Stratocasters are the single most popular, best-selling electric guitars on the planet.
Over the years, a fair number of vintage Strats have sold for $100,000-plus, with some approaching $1 million. Eric Clapton's "Blackie" sold for $959,500 in 2004 and recently the Stratocaster that Dylan played at Newport sold for a record $965,000.
However, Gruhn says the very first production model Strat is something like a national treasure.
"I consider this to be one of the most important pieces of American, truly iconic industrial design, as well as musical instrument design, that we can find today," he said. "It's a piece of art, it's a piece of industrial design, it's a piece of musical history. And it's part of our national heritage."
He added, "I think it belongs in a museum ultimately. On the other hand, I don't like to see them put in a museum setting where they will never again be touched without white gloves. Even for the Stradivari quartet at the Library of Congress, it does get played. They don't play those instruments every day, but they are...
This is a Great 1.57 Acre Lot for a reasonable price with Great Views of the Tusquittee Valley. Homesite and Driveway already in place. Some Nice Homes Built in the Subdivision in the past few years. Close to Town, USFS Land and Horse Stables. Paved Roads & Underground Utilities. Good Acreage and So Much More.
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Watch a Westminster Abbey official perform cartwheels down the aisle after the royal wedding.
A Westminster Abbey official jumped for joy following the royal wedding today.
The verger was caught on video performing a cartwheel along the red carpet aisle where Prince William and Kate Middleton took their vows earlier in the day.
Dressed in a traditional black cassock, the unidentified man smiled as he stuck the landing, and walked off, seemingly proud of his acrobatic accomplishment.
A spokesman for the Abbey said that the verger was simply expressing his joy following the wedding.
They said: "Vergers are people who assist and prepare for the clergy in their services. Our view is that the verger was simply reflecting what we all feel about a very successful service. It is a general reflection of the mood of the Abbey and a job well done."
The spokesman added: "It was long after the congregation had departed and we were all reflecting on what we had achieved."
Global venture capitalist investment in the financial technology (fintech) sector increased by about 11% to reach $17.4bn last year, but there was a 33.7% drop in the UK.
The UK retained its place as recipient of the third-largest amount of fintech investment, with China ($7.7bn) and the US ($6.2bn) way out ahead.
The findings, from research commissioned by Innovate Finance, the fintech trade body, showed $783m was invested in UK fintech in 2016 compared with $1.2bn in 2015.
In July 2015, about a year before the UK’s Brexit vote, Innovate Finance said the sector was worth £20bn in annual revenues to the UK, employed 135,000 people and had attracted 42% of all European fintech investment in 2014. It said the sector was targeting the creation of 100,000 jobs and $8bn of investment by 2020.
Lawrence Wintermeyer, CEO of Innovate Finance, said the 2016 slump was “largely attributed to the uncertainty of Brexit and geopolitical/macro economic factors”. But funding rebounded at the end of the year, he said.
“The loss of passporting rights will hit fintech payments firms if special provisions to the single market are not negotiated upon leaving the EU,” said Wintermeyer.
The Nordic region is a hotspot for IT startups and Sweden is a country punching above its weight in financial technology.
Copenhagen gets a financial technology startup co-working venue as the city attracts more digital entrepreneurs.
Unlike other European startup hubs, Berlin is not associated with one particular industry. Due to its history, the city feels much newer when it comes to business and lacks an industry identity.
This is a problem shared by IT startups in other sectors that use developers from across Europe. Countries that can offer fintech and other startups access to the right skills will be increasingly attractive.
Speaking at an event before the Brexit referendum last June, Tugce Bulut, CEO and founder of global intelligence platform Streetbees, said when she chose to set up the company in London, its EU membership was an important factor. “If the UK leaves the EU, it will be hard for us to get the right staff and we will have t...
grew up in Wesley, MA. He is survived by his wife Kathy Cox and his three children, Ann, Ted and Mike, and four Grandchildren Dylan, Akaila, Nathan and Ryan. Ed spent years in Newport Beach as a yacht broker and was the owner of Cox Yacht Insurance Agency. He spent 15 years as the West coast representative for Hinckley...
BBC World News - Click, 31/05/2014 GMT, Could this robot improve empathy?
Could this robot improve empathy?
A robot developed by the IDC Herzliya Media Innovation Lab in Israel could change the way we behave with each other.
The machine has three emotional states: "curious", "calm" and "scared" and will react depending on the volume and tone of the conversation. Loud or aggressive sounds will make the robot shake and become "scared".
It is hoped that by interacting with the robot in a gentle way it will improve people's empathy for each other.
BBC Click's Jen Copestake finds out more.
Could ambulance drones appear on the battlefield?
Could the way we move be a password?
Published: February 1, 2018 11:30 pm Updated: Feb. 1, 2018 11:34 p.m.
Dixie State catcher Jessica Gonzalez connects for a solo home run in the first game of a doubleheader sweep of Northwest Nazarene on Thursday.
The Dixie State softball team opened its 2018 season with a doubleheader sweep of Northwest Nazarene on Thursday at Karl Brooks Field, taking game one by a 13-5 count before wrapping up the day with a 7-0 victory in game two.
The Trailblazers (2-0) shined in all facets in the doubleheader sweep, combining for 20 runs on 16 hits, including three home runs, while limiting the Nighthawks to a combined five runs on seven hits.
Northwest Nazarene opened the scoring in the top of the first inning with a sacrifice fly to right field to build a 1-0 lead. The Nighthawks moved runners to second and third on the scoring play and looked to add to the lead. But, DSU pitcher Alexandria Melendez struck out the next NNU batter to end the inning.
Dixie State wasted no time regaining the lead in the bottom half of the first. After Janessa Bassett and Dani Bartholf each drew a walk, Riley Tyteca blasted the payoff pitch of a seven-pitch at-bat over the center field fence for a three-run home run to give the Trailblazers a 3-1 lead.
NNU pulled a run back in the top of the second when a wild pitch and an errant throw from home plate allowed Nighthawks center fielder Lauren Bassett to score from third base to cut the lead to 3-2.
Northwest Nazarene took its second lead of the game in the third inning when an RBI single down the right field line and a sacrifice fly to left field gave the Nighthawks a 4-3 advantage.
Dixie State wrestled the lead back in the bottom of the fourth, scoring two runs on three hits to build a 5-4 lead. Jessica Gonzalez belted a leadoff solo home run to left field for the first DSU run of the inning, while Kaitlyn Delange scored Kenzie Sawyer from third with a sacrifice fly later in the frame. The Trailb...
The Nighthawks trimmed the lead to 6-5 in the top of the sixth with a leadoff solo home run to left field. DSU pitcher Kaycie Jensen entered the game following the blast and dashed all NNU hopes of tying or taking the lead. Jensen retired the next three batters, including a four-pitch strikeout, to get out of the innin...
The Trailblazers ended the game in the bottom of the sixth inning, scoring seven runs on one hit and one NNU error to clinch the 13-5 triumph.
Gonzalez led the way at the plate, recording two hits and a hit-by-pitch in three at-bats with a home run and three RBIs. Gaffin added two hits and two RBIs, while Tyteca racked up three RBIs with her first-inning home run. Melendez (1-0) earned the win in the pitcher’s circle, allowing four hits with three strikeouts ...
Dixie State opened the scoring in the first frame of game two when Kori Gahn doubled to right field to score Brenna Hinck from second to give the home team a 1-0 advantage. The Trailblazers added two more runs in the second inning when, after a Gonzalez leadoff single, Sawyer crushed a two-run home run to right center ...
DSU scored three runs on two hits and two NNU errors in the fourth inning to push the lead to 6-0 before putting the finishing touches on the scoring with a run in the bottom of the fifth to push the score to the final tally of 7-0.
Meanwhile, the Trailblazers went to work defensively as Cambrie Hazel (1-0) earned her first career win in her first collegiate start. Hazel allowed just three hits to go with three strikeouts in six innings of work. Additionally, Hazel and the DSU defense retired the NNU side in order during the third, fourth and fift...
Gahn led the way at the plate in game two, recording three RBIs on two hits, while Sawyer added a two-run home run and drew a walk in three appearances at the plate.
Dixie State now prepares to host the 2018 Easton Classic and will play six games in four days next Thursday through Sunday.
Until Heater moves into her new role, Janelle Goodrich will continue to serve as primary contact for University City Partners. Goodrich, who worked with Hopper at the organization, will be staying on to work with Heater. Goodrich can be reached at jgoodrich@universitycitypartners.org.
Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+, which offer a high-end processor, big screens and next-generation designs, are sure to be big sellers when they go sale from major carriers starting April 21. They could put pressure on other major handset makers to respond with major new enhancements to their own models. Google ...
High-end handsets are now launching with curved, OLED screens, small bezels and sophisticated designs. Google Pixel looks old-fashioned, with a traditional design that includes large bezels above and below the display and no curves. Google must update its design this year.

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