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The hurdle in finding contractors, Moyd said, is largely because JCNU is non-profit and it can't pay contractors immediately following completion of the work. Contractors, he said, are paid within a month of completing the work. He said the organization does work in Jasper, Hampton, Beaufort and Colleton counties, with...
Since 2007, Moyd said JCNU has repaired 75 to 100 Jasper County homes.
Moyd thanked the city of Hardeeville and Jasper County for their support. He said annually the city provides JCNU with $15,000 to $25,000 and the county has given the organization about $30,000 since 2009.
Hardeeville Mayor Harry Williams said Monday the city always supports JCNU because it provides a valuable service to the community. He noted competition has increased.
"There is a lot of activity in our area, increasing competition for the resources available," Williams said.
One of Moyd’s main concerns is that some homeowners might be persuaded to sell their homes in their current conditions for a small price and seek other homes outside of their own county.
Moyd said he has made every attempt to contact several contractors, however he has not heard back. He said JCNU is willing to work with a contractor, if needed, to pay for licensing and fees.
Neil Patrick Harris hosts the 2015 Oscars: This was his least funny awards show—what went wrong?
This Was Neil Patrick Harris’ Least Funny Hosting Gig. What Went Wrong?
Is being an Oscar host a thankless task or the most thankless task in all of entertainment? Best-case scenario for host: You don’t irrevocably scorch your reputation. Worst-to-regular case scenario: You do. But going into tonight’s oversized Oscar telecast, Neil Patrick Harris seemed to be above this particular Catch-2...
To be fair to Harris, he wasn’t working with very good material. This was one of the least funny Oscars in recent memory. (The head writer, for what it’s worth, was not a comedy guy.) The show opened with a musical number earnestly celebrating “moving pictures.” Jack Black made a sonic cameo as the voice of cynicism, d...
Given the so-called one-liners that followed—puns on puns—it may have been wise to largely eschew humor in the opener. The endless Nakamura about Harris’s Oscar predictions, locked in a briefcase, was doomed to fail from the start. (Also, how ill-conceived is a magic trick at the Oscars to begin with? People who make m...
Harris is a consummate professional. Out of breath after performing an involved song and dance number, he still seems fully, elegantly in control. His Birdman send-up, in which he walked on stage in his very tightie whities, was a good demonstration of his ability to make anything seem basically appropriate and in good...
As the show dragged on and the jokes kept dying, Harris and his writers started to stumble over race. The first joke of the night was a crack about the Oscars’ lack of diversity. “We celebrate the best and the whitest … sorry brightest,” Harris said, before launching into the musical number. Harris is not responsible f...
And yet despite the mediocrity, and worse, of so much of the scripted portion of the show, hours and hours into it, it did begin to develop its own kind of momentum—a kind that didn’t come from Harris at all, but from the speeches. So many of the speeches at this year’s Oscars were engaged with issues. From Patricia Ar...
There's more to the city than the Roman Baths.
Have you ever been on the receiving end of one these corkers?
Because you never grow out of your love of water slides.
It's not just about the beaches.
Would India’s northeast be better off with China?
Every time Beijing lays claim to the whole of Arunachal Pradesh as being part of its national territory, New Delhi’s hackles rise. Arunachal, as indeed all the northeastern states, are indisputably part of the Indian Union.
Or are they? While political India claims sovereignty over them, so-called ‘mainstream’ India – another, and misleading, word for the Hindi-Hindu belt – treats them like foreigners.
The tragic case of Nido Tania, the young student from Arunachal Pradesh, who was beaten to death in New Delhi after he got into an altercation with ruffians who had cast a racial slur at him is just one of a long list of hate crimes against people from the northeast when they come to the Indian heartland.
Because Nido was the son of a Congress MLA, his case has drawn VVIP attention: Rahul Gandhi has publicly expressed his support and sympathy for all those from the northeast, and home minister Shinde has told the police to expedite their investigations.
Just four days before Nido was fatally attacked, two women from Manipur were assaulted by a bunch of goons, barely a few kilometres from where the young student from Arunachal was fatally beaten up.
In both these cases – and in all the countless such incidents that go unreported and unrecorded, precisely because they are so common that no one bothers to take note of them – the only provocation was that the victims looked ‘different’ from what Indians are ‘meant’ to look like – whatever that might mean.
People from the northeast are routinely labelled ‘Chinki’. They are frequently asked if they eat dogs, and are presumed by many so-called ‘mainstream’ Indians to be sexually promiscuous, particularly in the case of women who are made to suffer offensive physical and verbal advances.
Days after Nido’s death, newly-appointed Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal promised a number of measures to help fight such racist discrimination, including making a study of the history of the northeast mandatory in schools and the appointing of a special panel comprising people from the region to look into cases o...
Welcome as these and similar proposals are, the question that arises is: Why are such special protective measures necessary at all? Why is Indian society so hostile to anyone who doesn’t in appearance or custom fit into a cookie-cutter stereotype of what being an ‘Indian’ means?
Despite the national mantra of ‘Unity in diversity’, India is increasingly becoming more and more intolerant of any form of difference from the ‘mainstream’, whether that difference is of ethnic appearance or that of sexual preference, as shown by the Supreme Court’s recent ‘recriminalising’ of homosexuality.
Minorities of any kind – ethnic, religious or sexual – feel increasingly unsafe in an India which seems growingly allergic to any kind of heterogeneousness, any kind of diversity or difference.
Political India insists that the northeast is part of the Indian republic, ‘mainstream’ India rejects – often with extreme violence – all ‘foreign-looking’ northeasterners.
So, would our northeastern states be better off with China, or at least better off independent of India?
Nido Tania might have had an answer to that question. And he might have been alive today to answer it if he hadn’t been compelled to be part of a country whose self-appointed ‘mainstream’ hates all people like him.
Amgen keeps adding to the layoffs, the governor of Washington has a lot to say to Xconomy about his state’s life sciences industry, and San Francisco’s Fibrogen hopes to crank up the IPO engine. Let’s get to the roundup.
—Under hedge fund pressure to break itself up, Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) of Thousand Oaks, CA, instead said Tuesday it would lay off up to 1,100 more employees than it had previously announced in late July. The restructuring, which will hit Seattle particularly hard, will now encompass up to 4,000 layoffs, and Amgen will ta...
—The Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association released its annual economic impact report Wednesday for the life science sector, which added $11.4 billion to the state’s gross domestic product in fiscal 2013. At a life sciences summit in Seattle, Xconomy sat down to interview Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (picture...
—Although biotech IPOs are no longer arriving at the breakneck pace we saw earlier this year, San Francisco’s Fibrogen set terms for a Nasdaq debut that could give the biotech a $1 billion market cap. It is aiming to sell 7.1 million shares in the $16 to $19 per-share range. Its most advanced drugs are in Phase 3 and P...
—San Diego’s Zogenix (NASDAQ: ZGNX), a maker of treatments for pain-related and central nervous system disorders, acquired U.K.-based Brabant Pharma for $20 million in cash and $15 million in stock, plus potential future milestone and royalty payments. The deal gives Zogenix fenfluramine, Brabant’s experimental drug wh...
—Receptos (NASDAQ: RCPT) of San Diego reported Monday positive Phase 2 data in ulcerative colitis for its drug RPC1063 and said it plans to push it into Phase 3 in 2015.
—Vida, a San Francisco company with a health-coaching app, raised $5 million in Series A funding from Khosla Ventures, Aspect Ventures, and others.
—San Diego-based Synthetic Genomics named Oliver Fetzer to succeed J. Craig Venter as CEO. Venter will remain executive chairman and co-chief scientist, along with the Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith. Fetzer also joined the company’s board.
—Menlo Park, CA-based Topera, a maker of a catheter to diagnose and treat atrial fibrillation, announced Wednesday it was acquired by medical device giant Abbott (NYSE: ABT) of Abbott Park, IL, for $250 million up front and potential future milestones.
—Five Prime Therapeutics (NASDAQ: FPRX) of South San Francisco, CA, said on October 23 it has expanded its two-year-old respiratory disease collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline, triggering a $2 million payment to Five Prime.
—Amgen and Xencor (NASDAQ: XNCR) of Monrovia, CA, said Tuesday that Amgen has returned to Xencor all rights to a Phase 1/2 therapeutic antibody the companies were developing for rheumatoid arthritis.
—San Diego-based Trovagene (NASDAQ: TROV) published a study in the journal Cancer Discovery that showed its diagnostics technology was used to successfully monitor whether patients with histiocytic disease—an overproduction of white blood cells—were responding to BRAF inhibitor therapy.
—The San Francisco-based Giants baseball club won its third World Series title in five years, beating the Kansas City Royals 3-2.
Xconomy San Diego editor Bruce Bigelow contributed to this post.
The Plantation Course on Maui has shut down for a nine-month, tee-to-green renovation project.
I visited Kapalua, Maui, for the first time back in 1992 on a family trip and remember being awestruck by the tropical beauty: the beaches, the mountains, the ocean… and the golf. It was like heaven on earth.
I was barely 20 years old and had just started playing golf only five or six years earlier, mostly hacking it around my local munis with friends unless I was playing somewhere while on vacation. I recall thinking the par-3 fifth hole at Kapalua’s Bay Course – with its heroic carry over a rocky bay – was the coolest hol...
There were three courses in Kapalua at the time: the Bay, the Village (now closed) and the Plantation, which had opened just a year earlier.
I hadn’t realized the provenance of the Plantation Course. I had no idea it was the first design collaboration by the team of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. I didn’t know that broadcaster Mark Rolfing, who worked for the Kapalua Resort at the time, helped make the course a reality with visions of one day bringing the PGA...
But I did know the Plantation Course was supposed to be the best of the three layouts, built high up on the side of a mountain and boasting wide fairways that seemed to flow downhill like ski slopes.
Now, 28 years after it opened, the Plantation Course has closed.
Not for good, mind you, but to undergo a comprehensive, tee-to-green renovation for the next nine months. It’s a project that is expected to cost between $11 million and $12 million and will make a special course that much better. The last day of play was Feb. 10 and the Plantation isn’t scheduled to open again until D...
After being lucky enough to play the course in the Pro-Am event ahead of this year’s Tournament of Champions, I can’t wait to see the restoration, which fittingly is being overseen by Coore and Crenshaw.
Although I teed it up at the Plantation Course a couple times during those family vacations years ago, it wasn’t until this latest trip in January that I got a true appreciation for the Kapalua gem that is unquestionably one of the stars in a deep portfolio of resort courses operated by Troon Golf, the world’s biggest ...
The writer and his daughter with Pro-Am partner Matt Kuchar at the 2019 Sentry Tournament of Champions at Kapalua.
In addition to the wide fairways and dramatic elevation changes, there are deep ravines, fun angles, massive undulating greens and spectacular views of the ocean and neighboring island of Molokai. It’s sometimes hard to conceive that a course was built on the rugged land that was a former pineapple plantation. Back on ...
Every part of the 28-year-old course will be re-worked during the overhaul, from tee boxes and fairways to greens, bunkers, approaches and new drainage. Even the clubhouse will get a facelift.
While the course is on TV each January, hosting the PGA TOUR’s best, the chief intent of the renovation is to cater to the resort players who visit Maui the other 51 weeks of the year. The Plantation will be rejuvenated and refined, and most importantly be restored to the way it played in its early years, when I first ...
“Anyone who was here in those years knows, the golf course played much firmer, much faster than it does and has in the last decade,” Bill Coore said.
Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, the original designers of the Plantation Course, are overseeing the renovation.
I was a relatively new player the first time I took on the Plantation Course. I have no recollection whatsoever which tees I was playing, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is I remember standing atop the 17th tee, looking down on what seemed like all of Maui spread out below, and hitting a drive toward the ocean th...
There’s a reason the Plantation Course is widely regarded as the No. 1 layout on Maui. It generates about 38,000 rounds a year and during its heyday had in the neighborhood of 45,000 to 48,000. The visibility the property (and Maui) gets from the Tournament of Champions is also significant and that was a leading driver...
The renovation at Kapalua's Plantation Course comes after previous work at the property's Bay Course.
Alex Nakajima, the General Manager of Kapalua Golf, says that if the Plantation Course wasn’t improved and lost the Tournament of Champions, then the Sony Open in Hawaii might no longer be played on neighboring Oahu the following week because the world’s top golfers might not make the trip for just one week.
The work that will be done on the Plantation Course over the next nine months is significant, even if the results might not be that readily apparent to the average golfer.
Kapalua's Plantation Course has consistently been the top-rated course on Maui and is one of the leading properties in the deep Troon Golf portfolio.
I might not have fully appreciated playing the Plantation Course during the early 1990’s, but I'm glad I got another chance to recognize the property’s history, design characteristics, overall quality and impact on Maui as a whole. I can’t wait to get back and see the renovation results.
Because what hasn't changed in the 25 years or so since I'd been there last is that Maui is still heaven on earth.
On the enchantingly experimental new album The Invisible Comes to Us, Anna & Elizabeth balance folklorist obsession with avant-garde sonic exploration, resulting in a deeply immersive and enriching opportunity for the ears.
Fans of both experimental music and folk sounds often experience a dearth of options. That cross-section can be scant; it's a certain sliver of the Venn diagram. Sometimes it's challenging to find simultaneously intelligent and approachable music in that space between polarizing weirdness and mundane twang.
The boundary-pushing act Anna & Elizabeth does not always hit that sweet spot, as the new album The Invisible Comes to Us forces the listener into a near-uncomfortable sonic strangeness at times. Still, the duo's penchant for risk and discovery -- even when it lands the pair in noise purgatory -- ultimately is refreshi...
Let's go back: Anna & Elizabeth is the pairing of Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle, who hail respectively from Vermont and Virginia. The act's 2015 self-titled album, on Free Dirt Records, was focused down to an essence, with a folk purity that honored the past without challenging tradition. The record was ex...
Roberts-Gevalt and LaPrelle share an insatiable hunger to find little wonders of folk music past. They've scoured various collections of old-time recordings and historical documents to mine for objects of inspiration. The songs of The Invisible Comes to Us were adapted from treasures they came across at archives like t...
"These are songs we first heard in small archives in our home states, Virginia and Vermont -- recordings made in living rooms and kitchens -- songs the singers learned in their childhoods," they write in the album's packaging. "The characters and the landscapes they occupied grew rich in our minds. This record grew out...
Few young folk artists today show such reverence and such overwhelming love for the primary sources. And when Anna & Elizabeth apply effects -- the hissing, buzzing and droning -- that push the songs out of a comfort zone, they still show incredible respect for the original songs. Noise does not signal distance. If any...
All is not pushing the sonic envelope on The Invisible Comes to Us. "John of Hazelgreen" contains a captivating old-time folk core, as Roberts-Gevalt and LaPrelle fuse their voices in a simple melodic accord that's devoid of the noise that permeates much of the other tunes on the album.
But most of the time, Anna & Elizabeth do challenge themselves to seek the outer limits of Americana, of folk, or whatever you call this music. Roberts-Gevalt, LaPrelle and their many collaborators (10 other musicians receive credits on The Invisible Comes to Us) play with the Mellotron, Moog bass, pump organ, euphoniu...
Kudos to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings for signing this act. The label -- linked to the federal Smithsonian Institution -- mostly repackages older songs from American and world music traditionalists. It's encouraging -- that the outfit has embraced a pair that is embracing the past while darting fully forward into an...
Mr. Emanuel T. Apple, of Williamsport, Md., went home to be with the Lord on Monday, Nov. 7, 2011, at Meritus Medical Center after a courageous struggle with cancer.
Born Jan. 25, 1927, in Bethel, Pa., Emanuel, known as "Big A," was the son of the late Durward Grafton and Mary Katherine Mills Apple.
He and his wife, Ruth Marie Holland Apple, were married Jan. 30, 1948. He was a loving husband and father who will be sadly missed.
"Big A" retired from Cushwa Brick Co., going into his own auto business, known as Apple's Garage, until he retired due to health issues.
He served his country in the U.S. Army and was honorably discharged in 1945.
He was a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Greencastle, Pa., a lifetime member of Dixon-Troxell American Legion Post 211, Funkstown, Md., and a member of Conococheague Tribe 84, Improved Order of Red Men, Williamsport, Md.
In addition to his wife of 63 years, Ruth Marie "Little A" Holland Apple, he is survived by one daughter, Joyce Apple Hose and husband, Doug Sr., of Williamsport; two sisters, Catharine E. Burleson of Halfway, Md., and Rita Williamson of Hagerstown; two grandchildren, Douglas E. Hose Jr. and Julie Hose Billman and her ...
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one brother, D. Grafton Apple, and one sister, Anna M. Baker.
The family will receive friends at the Osborne Funeral Home, 425 S. Conococheague St., Williamsport, on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, from 6 to 8 p.m. The funeral home will be open after 9 a.m. Thursday for the convenience of family and friends.
Graveside services will be held at Greenlawn Memorial Park, Williamsport, on Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, at 11 a.m., with the Rev. Ernest E. Witmer officiating. Military graveside services will be provided by AMVETS Post 10 and the Marine Corps League of Hagerstown.
Memorial donations may be made to Ruth Apple, 16760 Edward Doub Road, Williamsport, MD 21795, to assist with medical expenses.
Online condolences may be made to family at: www.osbornefuneralhome.net.
OTTAWA — Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc. (YFI; TSX.V) (OTCQB: KPIFF), the industry leader in innovative WiFi Multi-Channel Single Radio (MCSR™) technology for residential and commercial markets, announced today that it has been issued a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for its Automatic G...
The company has more than 24 patents in its intellectual property portfolio, created to protect its unique MCSR approach to solving the problems of substandard WiFi and wireless performance in high-density residential and commercial environments. Edgewater’s patented techniques mitigate interference and result in reduc...
Edgewater Wireless (www.edgewaterwireless.com) is the industry leader in innovative WiFi technology for residential and commercial markets. We deliver advanced silicon solutions designed to meet the high-density and high quality-of-service needs of service providers and their customers. With 24+ patents, Edgewater’s Mu...
The best solution for High-Density WiFi networks, Edgewater provides reference designs for easy OEM integration, enabling service providers to plan, build and deploy reliable, high-capacity services to meet data demand in any environment, while fewer access points means lower deployment costs.
This news release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws. The use of any of the words “expect”, “anticipate”, “continue”, “estimate”, “objective”, “ongoing”, “may”, “will”, “project”, “should”, “believe”, “plans”, “intends” and similar expres...
A returning, old Scottish football favourite, Hibernian’s top man from Sunday, and Scotland’s top goalscorer appear in this week’s top five.

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