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Christopher Jawon Collins, 25, 1040 Main St., Oct. 4, driving while license revoked, brake or stop light equipment violation. Officer: D.L. Mewborn.
Jemsey Elizabeth Knight, 29, 3235 Brunswick Ave., New Bern, Oct. 16, driving while license revoked, expired registration card, expired or no inspection. Officer: J.C. Lovick.
Andrea Josephine Falcone, 25, 380 N. Phillips Road, Oct. 14, driving while license revoked. Officer: J.L. Jenkins Jr.
Clarence Edward Fisher, 21, 244 Hillary Lane, Chocowinity, Oct. 9, obtaining property by false pretense. Officer: J. Lovick.
Mark Griffin Lindsey, 47, 1318 Santa Lucia Road, Oct. 3, simple possession of schedule VI controlled substance. Officer: J. Lovick.
Sean Michael Lee, 19, 114 Quail Woods Drive, New Bern, Oct. 16, possession of marijuana up to 1/2 ounce, possession of drug paraphernalia. Officer: R. Barney.
Christian Brice Rose, 21, 170 Two Lakes Trail, New Bern, Oct. 16, possession of marijuana up to 1/2 ounce, possession of drug paraphernalia. Officer: R. Barney.
Miquan Sean-Pierre Johnson, 26, 1816 Northbrook Drive, Charlotte, Oct. 14, possession of marijuana up to 1/2 ounce. Officer: R. Barney.
Clifton Rivenbark, 30, 109 Shadow Brook Lane, Oct. 10, driving while license revoked. Officer: J.E. Detwiler.
Valerie Nicole Irwin, 33, 1306 Goldsboro St., New Bern, Oct. 18, shoplifting or concealment of goods, fictitious information to officer, fugitive from other state. Officer: A. Swearer.
Alex Horne Powell, 54, 806 Queen St., Oct. 18, possession of stolen goods or property. Officer: D. Upchurch.
Michael Bryant, 41, 404 Cottonwood Court, Havelock, Oct. 15, driving while license revoked, unsafe movement. Officer: M. Lavoie.
Jason Crihfield, 36, 72A Stallion Circle, Havelock, Oct. 15, assault on a female. Officer: D. Chamberlain.
Kathryn Snyder, 41, 72A Stallion Circle, Havelock, Oct. 15, simple assault. Officer: D. Chamberlain.
Trevonne Kajem Myrick, 17, Club Foot Creek MHP, Lot 67, Havelock, Oct. 14, resisting public officer. Officer: G.E. LeBlanc IV.
Charles Kendrick Cannon, 19, 608 College Court, Vanceboro, Oct. 5, possession of marijuana up to 1/2 ounce, possession of drug paraphernalia. Officer: C. York.
Kevin Grant Barnes, 50, 515 Tom Mann Road, Newport, Oct. 18, driving while license revoked. Deputy: C.P. Desmarais.
Gregory Simmons-Bey, 50, 722 Oakwood Ave., Raleigh, Oct. 18, driving while license revoked. Deputy: C.K. Drake.
Michael Drew Rutt, 19, 808 Susan Drive, Oct. 15, simple assault. Deputy: B. Peluso.
Jessica Lee Henries, 21, 183 Old Vanceboro Road, Oct. 15, conspiracy to obtain property by false pretense. Deputy: J. Bernard.
Brandon Richard Cuozzo, 25, 220 Old Brick Road, Vanceboro, Oct. 14, assault on a female. Deputy: D. Jones.
Kevin Lane Wiggins, 31, 4221 Hudson Cross Road, Greenville, Oct. 8, obtaining property by false pretense. Officer: D. Moore.
Richard Lee Laughinghouse, 60, 1225 Maul Swamp Road, Vanceboro, Oct. 16, driving while impaired. Trooper: R. Woods.
Robert Michael Kelly, 32, 1085 Temples Point Road, Havelock, Oct. 16, driving while license revoked. Trooper: J.A. Magana.
Bobby Randall Manning Jr., 41, 5225 U.S. 17 North, Vanceboro, Oct. 15, driving while license revoked, window tinting violation. Trooper: J.H. Midgette.
Lisa Marie Dickensheets, 40, 420 St. Delights Church Road, Oct. 14, driving while license revoked. Trooper: S.M. Casner.
Company officials are on the defensive again this week, releasing figures saying that overall, its cloud platform runs on 25% renewable energy, with a goal of using 40% renewable energy by 2016, and eventually 100% green power.
Amazon Web Services has been under fire in recent weeks from a group of activist customers who are calling for the company to be more transparent in its usage of renewable energy.
In response, rather than divulge additional details about the source of power for its massive cloud infrastructure, the company has argued that using the cloud is much more energy efficient than customers powering their own data center operations.
But the whole discussion has raised the question: How green is the cloud?
In early June a pact of 19 AWS customers including Hootsuite, Change.org and Tumblr - wrote Amazon Senior Vice President Andy Jassy requesting increased transparency in the company's efforts to use clean energy.
The letter was in response to a report from environmental activist group Greenpeace, which singled out Amazon Web Services, saying "no company could do more" to help tech companies be more energy friendly than AWS. The company's cloud platform hosts so many popular websites that any steps it takes to increase efficiency would benefit many other companies.
"Amazon Web Services is holding many of our favorite sites hostage to dirty energy," the report notes. Specifically, it says AWS's US East region, located in Virginia, houses 60% of the company's servers and uses a mix of about one-third coal, one-third nuclear, one-fifth gas and only 2% renewable energy.
In response, the next week AWS announced plans to build an 80 megawatt solar farm in Virginia. Company officials are on the defensive again this week, releasing figures saying that overall, its cloud platform runs on 25% renewable energy, with a goal of using 40% renewable energy by 2016, and eventually 100% green power.
Greenpeace says that's not enough. "It remains impossible for its customers or the public to benchmark any progress toward that goal, since the company refuses to disclose any of its energy data," the report states.
AWS officials argue that the simple fact that so many customers use the company's cloud is saving energy. AWS is more efficient at running data centers compared to its customers, even if it uses fossil fuels to power those data centers, AWS Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton contends in a blog post.
AWS says customers use 77% fewer servers and 84% less power by running their workloads in its cloud compared to their own data centers. That creates an 88% reduction in carbon emissions for customers who use Amazon's cloud, AWS Evangelist Jeff Barr's blog post says.
Furthermore, the company's US-West location in Oregon, its EU region in Frankfurt and its GovCloud region in the U.S. are what the company calls "carbon-neutral" which refers to the practice of offsetting the amount of carbon the site is responsible for with the purchase of a corresponding number of carbon credits that fund green projects. And AWS is building a 150 megawatt wind farm in Indiana.
AWS isn't alone in having work to do to become more environmentally-friendly. Competitor Google received higher grades from Greenpeace the report gives Google a grade of B, while AWS got a D. Google has also committed to using 100% renewable energy too, although with no specific timeline. Google says about 35% of its operations are currently powered from green sources.
Microsoft, meanwhile stands somewhere in the middle between AWS and Google, receiving a C grade from Greenpeace. The company has committed to being 100% carbon-neutral.
"We know that 100% renewable energy is an ambitious goal that won't be possible overnight," the group of Amazon customers wrote. "While you pursue this journey, we would suggest some steps that will give us full confidence in AWS' commitment to renewable energy." Now there is more pressure than ever for the cloud to be green.
The new North Garden at the Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum is going to be many things to many people.
I toured the space for the first time during Friday's formal dedication and am looking forward to many more trips, especially for music under the covered, open-air pavilion with room for 500 or so seats.
There was plenty of praise on Friday for the vision of the late scholar and philanthropist Mills B. Lane IV, "a driving force" for culture in the city according to Ships of the Sea board chair Dr. John Hardman.
Joining Hardman on the dais were executive director Tony Pizzo, architect Daniel Snyder, landscape designer John McEllen and Mayor Edna Jackson, who spoke passionately about the great new addition to "West Broad Street."
The pavilion's openness and amenities will no doubt make it a choice location for all types of public and private events, but I'd encourage residents to spend some time looking at the layout of the garden on their own.
As McEllen explained, the garden has five separate "rooms" that transition smoothly from one to the other.
A relatively small group of plantings near the entrance on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard gives way quickly to a dense maple grove reminiscent of Paris. The pavilion is flanked by a small citrus grove and a more casual garden of native plants.
One of the goals, McEllen noted, was eventually to achieve the "almost overgrown" effect that Mills B. Lane loved.
The garden will be open to the public throughout the day and offers free wireless.
Urban planner Christian Sottile, now dean of SCAD's School of Building Arts, was among those taking in the space after Friday's ceremony.
"It's time to bring our west boundary back to West Boundary," Sottile told me as we stood atop the North Garden's belvedere, with the maple grove to one side and a long view of the bridge in the distance.
Sottile was referring to a variety of recent efforts to bring the historic areas between MLK (formerly West Broad Street) and West Boundary Street into more active interplay with the rest of the Historic District.
Despite relatively recent attempts at revitalization, MLK in recent decades has been treated more as a dividing line than as a historic corridor uniting various land uses to the east and west.
I don't know if the North Garden will change the public's perceptions about the corridor itself, but the new space will enrich the life of the city in myriad ways.
City Talk appears every Sunday and Tuesday. Bill Dawers can be reached via billdawers@comcast.net and http://www.billdawers.com. Send mail to 10 East 32nd St., Savannah, GA 31401.
After four days of testimony, a Washington County Circuit Court judge last week acquitted a Washington, D.C., couple accused of misusing employee health-premium contributions two years ago while working at the Hagerstown Hotel and Conference Center.
Yasaman Rowhani and Hassan Mohammadi were indicted in 2011 on one count each of theft scheme of more than $500 and conspiracy to commit theft of more than $500.
The indictments alleged the misuse of approximately $18,000 in employee contributions between January and June 2009 that were to have paid the health care premiums of the employees at the hotel and conference center on Dual Highway, according to an Aug. 4, 2011, news release from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration.
The jury trial began Monday, with the prosecution concluding its case Thursday.
Defense attorneys Douglas R. Sparks and Bernard W. Semler II then introduced the motion for a judgment of acquittal.
Washington County Circuit Judge Daniel P. Dwyer granted it, saying he did not find evidence of criminal intent to commit theft and, because there was no intent to commit theft, there was no conspiracy.
Although the case began as a federal investigation, Mohammadi and Rowhani were indicted by a state grand jury and prosecuted by the Washington County State’s Attorney’s Office.
In his opening statement on Monday, Deputy State’s Attorney Joseph Michael described the case as one of theft by deception.
The employees “were working there expecting they would have insurance coverage,” Michael said.
Instead, the coverage was canceled because the premiums were not paid, he said.
“We’re not alleging they took the money themselves,” Michael said of the defendants.
But the money for the premiums was used for other purposes, and Rowhani and Mohammadi were essentially in charge of the business, he said.
In their opening statements, Sparks and Semler stressed that the convention center was owned by Watchwood LLC, which was owned by Rowhani’s brother.
They said that the center’s former comptroller, who was recently granted immunity for her testimony for the state, was the person responsible for writing the checks, billing and enrollment in the medical plan.
“It’s the age-old tale of why businesses fail,” Semler said.
Watchwood took over in 2007, and by early 2009, the recession hit the business hard.
The hotel eventually went into receivership and was sold, according to previous reports in The Herald-Mail.
“I recognize people suffered harm,” Sparks said of the employees whose coverage was canceled.
However, it was not due to any actions by Rowhani and Mohammadi, he said.
A number of the victims enrolled in the medical plan had wages deducted even though they did not work enough hours to qualify for health insurance, he said.
“The biggest victims in this case were the ones who were charged and jailed,” Sparks said.
The couple was arrested last year outside their home and were detained several days before posting bail.
Michael said it was right to prosecute the case because the employees had been victimized and not fully reimbursed for the money deducted from their pay.
Their medical coverage was canceled without them being told, and “they were left with the bill,” he said.
Is it any wonder that American news consumers are at the end of their ropes of patience with the "mainstream media"?
Three weeks ago, when I first documented troubling questions, contradictions and doubts about Trump-hating, attention-craving actor Jussie Smollett's absurd hate crime claims, few in the "professional" journalism herd paid heed. Now, with a grand jury investigation on the horizon, everyone's a Johnny-come-lately debunker.
And everyone's making excuses: How could we have known? Why would anyone lie about racism? What could have possibly prepared us for such a scandalous swindle?
I'm especially looking at you, Robin Roberts. You and ABC's "Good Morning America" willingly played public relations agents for Smollett last week while his story was already falling apart and he refused to be fully transparent with investigators. Now, you defend yourselves by hiding behind a veil of ignorance about hate crimes hoaxes.
—Columbia University, 2007. Remember black psychology professor Madonna Constantine? She made the rounds on none other than ABC's "Good Morning America," claiming she found a "degrading" noose (made of hand-tied twine) hanging from her office door. Constantine led fist-waving protests, decried "systematic racism," and prompted a nationwide uproar, as I reported at the time in the New York Post. Things didn't add up when Columbia initially blocked investigators from obtaining 56 hours of surveillance video. No culprits could be found on the militantly progressive campus obsessed with diversity and multiculturalism. It turned out that Constantine was desperately trying to distract from a brewing internal probe of her serial plagiarism, for which she was eventually fired. The hate crime probe hit a dead end and Constantine faced no criminal charges over the Fake Noose incident.
—Baltimore Fire Department, 2007. Another manufactured outrage erupted when black firefighter-paramedic apprentice Donald Maynard claimed he found a knotted rope and threatening note with a noose drawing on it at his stationhouse. A federal civil rights investigation ensued and the NAACP cried racism — until Maynard confessed to the noose nonsense amid a department-wide cheating scandal. A top official revealed that Maynard admitted "conducting a scheme meant to create the perception that members within our department were acting in a discriminatory and unprofessional manner." Maynard faced no criminal charges over the Fake Noose incident.
—University of Delaware, 2015. Black Lives Matter agitators and campus activists triggered a full alert when a student spotted a "racist display" of three "noose-like objects" hanging from trees. The UD president called it "deplorable;" protesters wept that they were not being taken seriously. After investigating, police discovered the "nooses" were metal "remnants of paper lanterns" hung as decorations during an alumni weekend celebration.
—Salisbury State University, 2016. Students, faculty and administrators were horrified when a stick figure hanging from a noose on a whiteboard was discovered at the school's library. The N-word and hashtag #WhitePower also appeared in the menacing graffiti. Campus authorities immediately launched an investigation, which exposed two black students as the perpetrators. Prosecutors declined to file criminal charges against the Fake Noosers.
—Kansas State University, 2017. A paroxysm of protest struck K-State after someone reported a noose hanging from a tree on campus. Black students lambasted authorities for not acting quickly enough. They stoked anger online with the hashtag #DontLeaveUsHanging and demanded increased security. But the "noose" was made of cut pieces of nylon parachute cord, which police believed had been discarded by someone who "may have simply been practicing tying different kinds of knots."
—Michigan State University, 2017. When a student reported a noose hanging outside her dorm room, MSU administrators went into full freakout mode over the racial incident. Cops and the Office of Institutional Equity were immediately notified. "A noose is a symbol of intimidation and threat that has a horrendous history in America," the university president bemoaned. But it turned out the "noose" was a "packaged leather shoelace" that someone had dropped accidentally.
—Smithsonian museums, 2017. NPR called the discovery of "nooses" lying on the grounds of two Smithsonian Institute museums the "latest in a string of hate incidents" after Trump's election. The African-American museum director called them a "reminder of America's dark history." But the museums refused to release surveillance video and my public records request filed last November yielded zero corroboration of any hate crime. The Washington Post, New York Times and ABC's "Good Morning America," which all splashed the story front and center, have yet to follow up.
—Mississippi State Capitol, 2018. ABC, CBS, CNN and Yahoo were among the media outlets that blared headlines about seven nooses and "hate signs" found hanging in trees by the capitol building before a special runoff election for U.S. Senate. The stories created an unmistakable impression that the nooses were left by GOP racists intending to intimidate black voters. In truth, the nooses were a publicity stunt perpetrated by Democrats.
When you've seen one social justice huckster, you've seen 'em all.
Michelle Malkin's email address is writemalkin@gmail.com.
Some plants need something to help them establish initial roots as they begin to grow from seeds; other plants need to develop a sturdier root structure that supports them as they grow. Although you can apply strong root stimulators to your garden's soil for quick fixes, a smarter option is a fertilizer with nutrients that naturally encourage root growth.
Phosphorus and potassium are the two main nutrients that support root growth in plants. Specifically, they encourage plants to put down a dense collection of new roots and strengthen existing roots as they develop. This means that fertilizers high in phosphorus and potassium are especially helpful during the active growing season. But before you dose your garden with these nutrients, keep in mind that phosphorus also stimulates flower and fruit production -- a bonus if you're hoping for a colorful garden.
Commercial fertilizers typically display an N-P-K ratio that indicates the percentage of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, respectively; if you want a fertilizer that supports root growth, ensure the second and third numbers are larger than the first. For example, a 3-20-20 fertilizer that contains 3 percent nitrogen, 20 percent phosphorus and 20 percent potassium encourages roots to grow strong and healthy. Keep the nitrogen content low, as it promotes leggy green growth at the expense of rooting, flowering and fruiting.
Natural sources of phosphorus and potassium are well-suited to an organic garden, and because they usually release their nutrients gradually, they're considered slow-release fertilizers. This means they'll continue releasing phosphorus and potassium to encourage root development for several weeks without causing overdose. Bone meal and rock phosphate are high in phosphorus, and they typically don't include nitrogen or potassium. Meanwhile, kelp, granite meal, greensand and wood ashes are excellent sources of potassium. Some of these organic ingredients also contain trace elements such as iron and magnesium that are beneficial to plants.
If you want to encourage roots development without forcing flowering and fruiting, apply phosphorus and potassium is before planting. Work the fertilizer several inches into the soil where developing roots will be able to reach them. Whenever you apply phosphorus and potassium later, after the first growths appear, the nutrients will stimulate the growth of flower and fruits as well.
Vitamin B1 and plant hormones called auxins, such as indole butyric acid and naphthylacetic acid, are considered to be root stimulators. However, B1 doesn't stimulate root growth on its own; the only reason some gardeners believe it works is because root stimulators that contain B1 often contain auxins, too. Auxins stunt crown growth in favor of lateral root development. This is not a problem for established plants, but it is poisonous to seedlings that need less lateral root development -- meaning horizontal rooting that secures them in the soil -- and more primary root growth, which means deep, strong roots. For these reasons, phosphorus and potassium are usually safer options in the garden, especially for young plants.